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Provincial Grand Lodge Of Northants And Hunts.
of the principles of Masonry to tho outer world . The remaining toasts were the Ladies—proposed by Bro . Bird , and acknowledged by Bro . Preece , both of the Chicheley Lodge—and that of the Tyler . A conversazione took place in the evening nt tho Town Hall , which was open to the friends of the brethren , both ladies and gentlemen .
Dispensations having been obtained for wearing the clothing of the several degrees , tho brethren entitled to honour in that respect , together with the srny dresses of tlm ladies , presenting a very pretty tout ensemlle . Bro . tho Rev . S . Wathen Wi > g , tho W . M ., annonnced the several items on the programme , and opened the
proceedings with the following address of welcome to tho company : — Worshipful brethren , brethren , ladies and centlemen , —On behalf of the brethren of the Eleanor Cross Lodtre , No . 1761 on the Register of the Grand Lodge of England , I bid you welcome . The brethren are deeply sensible of tho honour which his Grace the Right Wor .
shipful Provincial Grand Master has done them in consenting this yenr to hold his Grand Lodge undor the banner of the Eleanor Cross . We can claim neither the experience nor tho antiquity of many Lodges in this Province ; we cannot hope to rival them in anything bnt our zeal for Masonry and our desire to entertain our brethren
with hearty pood will . We have ventured , notwithstanding onr youth and inexperience ( for we are only seven years old—the seventh unworthy Master stands before you ) , in fear and trembling , bat with all the audacity of early childhood , to throw open our doors to that part of tho population which , certainly since the days
of Solomrn King of Israol , has been carefnlly excluded from onr gatherings and denied admission to our Fraternity ; I mean the Indies . But to-ni < jht not only have wo invited ladies to be present , to see ns arrayed in blno and crimson , in purple and gold , bnt we are prepared to let them into all onr secrets ( all , at
least , which we think they may be trusted to keep ) . Before yon leave this hall , fair ladies , to adopt the usual words of a professor of legerdemain , we shall inform you " exactly how it ' s done , " and shall trust yon to keep these secrets in the same faithful manner as you have kept those which we have already confided to you .
Masonry has many great and valued privileges , bnt none we prize more than the interest onr aucient and honourable Fraternity always excites in the breasts of the ladies and the confidence they repose in ns . The brethren of the Eleanor Cross Lodgo especially claim to bo yonr devoted servants . There is not a single brother in the
Lodeeif they are single when they join , we insist on their getting married immediately—and I can offer yon no greater proof of our devotion and attachment . Farther than that we have placed upon our banner , and bear upon onr breasts , the memorial of that noble and gracious
lady , Queen Eleanor , as an example of self-devotion and a tribute to her heroio courage . We venture to hope that the simple entertainment which we have provided this evening will be agreeable to you , and , if it is , I am snre the brethren whose speeches we have so mercilessly curtailed at the banquet will forgive us , for
" No mortal can more the ladies adore Than a free and an accepted Mason . " A concert then followed , which afforded considerable pleasure . The card , containing a list of the songs , ducts , & o ., was tastefully got np , and was studded with appropriate Shakesperian mottoes , selected by
Bro . H . Brown . Tho programme was as follows : —Grand March ( on the great organ ) , Bro . Brooke Sampson ; dnet , " When the wind blows in from the sea , " Bro . and Mrs . Myers ; song , " The message , " Bro . W . Hart ; song "The Mariner , " Bro . Myers ; song , " 0 haste , ye birds , " Mrs . Myers ; song , " The harbour bar , " Miss Florence
Wilkins ; duet , I've wandered in dreams , " Bro . and Mrs . Myers ; song , "Down deep within the cellar cool , " Bro . S . Gongh ; song , " Bid me discourse , " Mrs . Myers ; recitation , " At the ringing of the curfew , " Mi-s Hope Wilkins ; song , " I fear no foe , " Bro . Myers . Bro . T . P . Dorman then gave an exhibition of fine dissolving views ,
many of them of a local character , with a powerful oxy-hydrogen lantern . The last view was a portrait of the Prince of Wales , and the company sang " God bless the Prince of Wales . " The concert , like everything else that had preceded it , was a success , and without
wishing to be invidious , we may mention the reading of Miss Hope Wilkins as being specially worthy of commendation . Praise , too , is due to Bro . Myers , of Birmingham , and to his talented wife , both of whom contributed very much to the pleasure of the evening . Bro . Dorman accompanied his views with some happy illnstrative remarks ,
which would have borne amplification , but his modesty and his desire to set his audience free for the dancing t ' at followed constrained him . He nevertheless proved his capacity to amuse , as was shown by the applause he received . Soon after ten o ' clock the room was cleared , and the lovers of Terpsichore enjoyed themselves until the early hours
of the following morning . To show how thoronghly the Eleanor Cross Lodge had entered into their dnties as hosts and entertainers , it should be mentioned that the managing committee madearrangements with the Committee of the Northampton Fine Art Enhibition to throw open the corridors
and gallery , containing their loan collection of pictures , during tho evening . This exhibition is well arranged , and contains some fine works of art , anions them being several productions of Mr . Harris Brown , son of Bro . Henry Brown . Tin ' s rising artist is only twenty years of age , and has already distinguished him-elf . His exhibits
include two sets of water colour ? , one of Barry Sullivan ' s characters , and the other of the company that accompanied him on t-vo visits to Northampton . There is another woik of his , entitled "Eighty Summers ; " a painting of Mrs . Holdings ; also the head of a local Irishman , with the title " Luck to Ould Ireland . "
We should say that Mr . Harris Brown has a bright career before him . At any rate , he is honoured in hia own town , and has the satisfaction of knowing that his abilities have received a wider , aud we mav truthfully add , a wcll-cavnetl rocog .
nition . We cannot take leave of our Noithampton brethren without expressing our obligations to our confrere the Northampton Mercury , to whom we are indebted for information , and to whom we hero make our grateful acknowledgments .
The Theatres.
THE THEATRES .
Drury Lane . —Bro . Augustus Harris , ever victorious , challenges envious fate with a Summer season , trnsting that tho cool corridors and lofty domes of the National Theatre may bo able to compete with Strauss and tho " ten thousand additional lamps " of culture at Kensington . " The True Story , " told by Mr . Galer , will owe little of
any snecess it may achieve to its author . Mr . Harris , however , has done everything in his power to make this venture worthy his other trinmphs . The scenery is fine , especially tho view of Mont Valerian , with the desperate sortie of tho French garrison . Nothing so realistic in the way of stage battle- !—the thunder of cannon and the
flash and flams of flying shells—has ever been achieved on the stage . A mo ^ t beautiful winter scene is that of the German trenohes , with the snow falling in the winter night , whilst dead and dying , tended by sisters of charity , strew the ground . Then there are some clever reproductions of our own slnms , with costermongers , roughs and
females of tho specif , ns trno to nature as if just caught in Clare Market . Whether such realization serves any art end might be questioned . The great Crummies prophetically beheld the coming glories of the now school when he introduced the real pnmp aud washing tnb upon the stage . The story of the play , which is in foar
acts and a sequel , is rather complicated . In the course of its ramifications several of the wicked or embarrassing personages who are supposed to have died re-appear , as their own children , or have washed their faces , taken the pledge and devoted themselves to a realization of the domestic virtues . In the first act a wicked nobleman
Lord Cholmondeley ( Mr . Marshall ) has two sons , the virtuous heir ( Reginald ) , and the villain ( Frederick ) , a younger brother . Both love the same lady , Edith Veto . She has jnst , accepted the elder son , when his father tells him he is illegitimate . Then the wicked broth ; r offers his hand , which she rejects in defiance of her mamma's
commands , and elects to embark in the wide world with her disinherited lover . Ere she goes , however , there is a sudden commotion , and in rushes a distraught Polly Smiihers , in humble attire , to sink at tho feet of tho wicked brother and claim him as her husband . The second act takes us to a wretched garret in a slam , where the
deserted wife Polly ( Miss Amy McNeill ) is living with her drunken father , Jack Smithers ( Mr . Harry Jackson ) , and her costermonger brother Sam ( Mr . Harry Nichols ) . Now appears her husband to demand her marriage certificate , evidently under the impression that a two-and-sixpenny copy constitutes the validity of th «
marriage . This denotes singular simple-mindedness on the part of a stage villain . A despprafce scuffle for " the scrap of paper" ensues ; but at the last moment the scoundrel's design is baulked by the arrival of the costermonger , who strips to his striped jersey and gives villainy a dose , straight from tho shoulder . Next we are taken
to Paris ; the disinherited Reginald has enlisted in the French army , and leads the sortie at Mont Valerian , to fall into the hands of the Prussians . The father , the lawyer , and Jack Smithers , are also in Paris ; tho latter has stolen his daughter's child , jnst to oblige the wicked husband , and is living upon the blackmail ho is thus able to
extort . He gets some two hundred pounds from the lawyer , with a full accompaniment of cogniac , and iu due conrso falls asleep ; now the lawyer re-appropriates the money . At this stago Mr . Harry Jackson had his opportunity ; his drunken bewilderment gradually disappears as the certainty of the robbery
forces itself on his conviction . Tho brutal sot rises to almost tragic intensity as he swears vengeance against his confederate . Everyone gets back to England , except the wicked younger son , who is incontinently shot , at tho request of his injured sister-in-law's landlady . This sister-in-law is discovered iu the next Act starving , with her
child , outside a workhonse , and is persuaded by the converted costermonger , old Smithers' son , to seek its sheltor . Then we have a very realistic picture of a workhouse iuflrmary . Poor Edith is dying . Here is the doctor , the nurse , the texts on the walls , and an agonized death scene , very well done , and without exaggeration , by
Miss Brough . Here young Smithers and his sister , the deserted wife of young Cholmondeley , appear to console the dying woman ; they promise to adopt her child . In Act V ., or the epilogue , this child has grown into a girl of eighteen . Yonng Smithers is living in a pretty cottage , and whilst ho nails up the ro 3 es over tho porch his
adopted daughter sketches the landscape—bis sister looks prettier than ever , though her hair is touched with grey ; that sister's unknown son , the future Lord Cholmondeley , the inheritor of all his mother's virtues , is making himself agreeable to his cousin incognita . Mr . Dav , once the late Fredetick , now
personates the virtuous son Walter . Miss Brongb , who died in ( ho workhonse , reappears as the blonde Miss , her orphan child , and from this point the intelligent playgoer will perceive how the curtain will shortly descend on wrongs righted and virtue rewarded . Tho mysterious certificates turn np at tho
proper moment , aud a faithful retainer , weak in tho knees , as all faithful retainers are found to be , produces tho evidence of tho legal union of Reginald ' s mother with Lord Cholmondolcy , and every body is married who ought to be , and to the proper person . This happy result brings down the curtain . Messrs Harry Jackson and Harry
Nichols both work with a will to" win their honours ; Mr . Herbert , as Reginald , is manly and unaffected ; while Mr . Day , as Frederick , deserves much praise for his clever variations on the masher miscreant motif . Misa F . Brough rose well to the pathos of her part in tho difficult dving scene . Miss Amy McNeill , of whom
London will assuredly see more , as she must certainly ere long take a high place among emotional heroines , is greatly to be commended . Her absence of stdf consciousness and wholesome girlishuess is
delightful ; while ( -specially pretty is her bright and tender little scene at the baked potato banquet with brother Sam . Of tho 3 tago management , alike as regards the London crowds and French and German soldiery , we cannot apeak too highly .
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Provincial Grand Lodge Of Northants And Hunts.
of the principles of Masonry to tho outer world . The remaining toasts were the Ladies—proposed by Bro . Bird , and acknowledged by Bro . Preece , both of the Chicheley Lodge—and that of the Tyler . A conversazione took place in the evening nt tho Town Hall , which was open to the friends of the brethren , both ladies and gentlemen .
Dispensations having been obtained for wearing the clothing of the several degrees , tho brethren entitled to honour in that respect , together with the srny dresses of tlm ladies , presenting a very pretty tout ensemlle . Bro . tho Rev . S . Wathen Wi > g , tho W . M ., annonnced the several items on the programme , and opened the
proceedings with the following address of welcome to tho company : — Worshipful brethren , brethren , ladies and centlemen , —On behalf of the brethren of the Eleanor Cross Lodtre , No . 1761 on the Register of the Grand Lodge of England , I bid you welcome . The brethren are deeply sensible of tho honour which his Grace the Right Wor .
shipful Provincial Grand Master has done them in consenting this yenr to hold his Grand Lodge undor the banner of the Eleanor Cross . We can claim neither the experience nor tho antiquity of many Lodges in this Province ; we cannot hope to rival them in anything bnt our zeal for Masonry and our desire to entertain our brethren
with hearty pood will . We have ventured , notwithstanding onr youth and inexperience ( for we are only seven years old—the seventh unworthy Master stands before you ) , in fear and trembling , bat with all the audacity of early childhood , to throw open our doors to that part of tho population which , certainly since the days
of Solomrn King of Israol , has been carefnlly excluded from onr gatherings and denied admission to our Fraternity ; I mean the Indies . But to-ni < jht not only have wo invited ladies to be present , to see ns arrayed in blno and crimson , in purple and gold , bnt we are prepared to let them into all onr secrets ( all , at
least , which we think they may be trusted to keep ) . Before yon leave this hall , fair ladies , to adopt the usual words of a professor of legerdemain , we shall inform you " exactly how it ' s done , " and shall trust yon to keep these secrets in the same faithful manner as you have kept those which we have already confided to you .
Masonry has many great and valued privileges , bnt none we prize more than the interest onr aucient and honourable Fraternity always excites in the breasts of the ladies and the confidence they repose in ns . The brethren of the Eleanor Cross Lodgo especially claim to bo yonr devoted servants . There is not a single brother in the
Lodeeif they are single when they join , we insist on their getting married immediately—and I can offer yon no greater proof of our devotion and attachment . Farther than that we have placed upon our banner , and bear upon onr breasts , the memorial of that noble and gracious
lady , Queen Eleanor , as an example of self-devotion and a tribute to her heroio courage . We venture to hope that the simple entertainment which we have provided this evening will be agreeable to you , and , if it is , I am snre the brethren whose speeches we have so mercilessly curtailed at the banquet will forgive us , for
" No mortal can more the ladies adore Than a free and an accepted Mason . " A concert then followed , which afforded considerable pleasure . The card , containing a list of the songs , ducts , & o ., was tastefully got np , and was studded with appropriate Shakesperian mottoes , selected by
Bro . H . Brown . Tho programme was as follows : —Grand March ( on the great organ ) , Bro . Brooke Sampson ; dnet , " When the wind blows in from the sea , " Bro . and Mrs . Myers ; song , " The message , " Bro . W . Hart ; song "The Mariner , " Bro . Myers ; song , " 0 haste , ye birds , " Mrs . Myers ; song , " The harbour bar , " Miss Florence
Wilkins ; duet , I've wandered in dreams , " Bro . and Mrs . Myers ; song , "Down deep within the cellar cool , " Bro . S . Gongh ; song , " Bid me discourse , " Mrs . Myers ; recitation , " At the ringing of the curfew , " Mi-s Hope Wilkins ; song , " I fear no foe , " Bro . Myers . Bro . T . P . Dorman then gave an exhibition of fine dissolving views ,
many of them of a local character , with a powerful oxy-hydrogen lantern . The last view was a portrait of the Prince of Wales , and the company sang " God bless the Prince of Wales . " The concert , like everything else that had preceded it , was a success , and without
wishing to be invidious , we may mention the reading of Miss Hope Wilkins as being specially worthy of commendation . Praise , too , is due to Bro . Myers , of Birmingham , and to his talented wife , both of whom contributed very much to the pleasure of the evening . Bro . Dorman accompanied his views with some happy illnstrative remarks ,
which would have borne amplification , but his modesty and his desire to set his audience free for the dancing t ' at followed constrained him . He nevertheless proved his capacity to amuse , as was shown by the applause he received . Soon after ten o ' clock the room was cleared , and the lovers of Terpsichore enjoyed themselves until the early hours
of the following morning . To show how thoronghly the Eleanor Cross Lodge had entered into their dnties as hosts and entertainers , it should be mentioned that the managing committee madearrangements with the Committee of the Northampton Fine Art Enhibition to throw open the corridors
and gallery , containing their loan collection of pictures , during tho evening . This exhibition is well arranged , and contains some fine works of art , anions them being several productions of Mr . Harris Brown , son of Bro . Henry Brown . Tin ' s rising artist is only twenty years of age , and has already distinguished him-elf . His exhibits
include two sets of water colour ? , one of Barry Sullivan ' s characters , and the other of the company that accompanied him on t-vo visits to Northampton . There is another woik of his , entitled "Eighty Summers ; " a painting of Mrs . Holdings ; also the head of a local Irishman , with the title " Luck to Ould Ireland . "
We should say that Mr . Harris Brown has a bright career before him . At any rate , he is honoured in hia own town , and has the satisfaction of knowing that his abilities have received a wider , aud we mav truthfully add , a wcll-cavnetl rocog .
nition . We cannot take leave of our Noithampton brethren without expressing our obligations to our confrere the Northampton Mercury , to whom we are indebted for information , and to whom we hero make our grateful acknowledgments .
The Theatres.
THE THEATRES .
Drury Lane . —Bro . Augustus Harris , ever victorious , challenges envious fate with a Summer season , trnsting that tho cool corridors and lofty domes of the National Theatre may bo able to compete with Strauss and tho " ten thousand additional lamps " of culture at Kensington . " The True Story , " told by Mr . Galer , will owe little of
any snecess it may achieve to its author . Mr . Harris , however , has done everything in his power to make this venture worthy his other trinmphs . The scenery is fine , especially tho view of Mont Valerian , with the desperate sortie of tho French garrison . Nothing so realistic in the way of stage battle- !—the thunder of cannon and the
flash and flams of flying shells—has ever been achieved on the stage . A mo ^ t beautiful winter scene is that of the German trenohes , with the snow falling in the winter night , whilst dead and dying , tended by sisters of charity , strew the ground . Then there are some clever reproductions of our own slnms , with costermongers , roughs and
females of tho specif , ns trno to nature as if just caught in Clare Market . Whether such realization serves any art end might be questioned . The great Crummies prophetically beheld the coming glories of the now school when he introduced the real pnmp aud washing tnb upon the stage . The story of the play , which is in foar
acts and a sequel , is rather complicated . In the course of its ramifications several of the wicked or embarrassing personages who are supposed to have died re-appear , as their own children , or have washed their faces , taken the pledge and devoted themselves to a realization of the domestic virtues . In the first act a wicked nobleman
Lord Cholmondeley ( Mr . Marshall ) has two sons , the virtuous heir ( Reginald ) , and the villain ( Frederick ) , a younger brother . Both love the same lady , Edith Veto . She has jnst , accepted the elder son , when his father tells him he is illegitimate . Then the wicked broth ; r offers his hand , which she rejects in defiance of her mamma's
commands , and elects to embark in the wide world with her disinherited lover . Ere she goes , however , there is a sudden commotion , and in rushes a distraught Polly Smiihers , in humble attire , to sink at tho feet of tho wicked brother and claim him as her husband . The second act takes us to a wretched garret in a slam , where the
deserted wife Polly ( Miss Amy McNeill ) is living with her drunken father , Jack Smithers ( Mr . Harry Jackson ) , and her costermonger brother Sam ( Mr . Harry Nichols ) . Now appears her husband to demand her marriage certificate , evidently under the impression that a two-and-sixpenny copy constitutes the validity of th «
marriage . This denotes singular simple-mindedness on the part of a stage villain . A despprafce scuffle for " the scrap of paper" ensues ; but at the last moment the scoundrel's design is baulked by the arrival of the costermonger , who strips to his striped jersey and gives villainy a dose , straight from tho shoulder . Next we are taken
to Paris ; the disinherited Reginald has enlisted in the French army , and leads the sortie at Mont Valerian , to fall into the hands of the Prussians . The father , the lawyer , and Jack Smithers , are also in Paris ; tho latter has stolen his daughter's child , jnst to oblige the wicked husband , and is living upon the blackmail ho is thus able to
extort . He gets some two hundred pounds from the lawyer , with a full accompaniment of cogniac , and iu due conrso falls asleep ; now the lawyer re-appropriates the money . At this stago Mr . Harry Jackson had his opportunity ; his drunken bewilderment gradually disappears as the certainty of the robbery
forces itself on his conviction . Tho brutal sot rises to almost tragic intensity as he swears vengeance against his confederate . Everyone gets back to England , except the wicked younger son , who is incontinently shot , at tho request of his injured sister-in-law's landlady . This sister-in-law is discovered iu the next Act starving , with her
child , outside a workhonse , and is persuaded by the converted costermonger , old Smithers' son , to seek its sheltor . Then we have a very realistic picture of a workhouse iuflrmary . Poor Edith is dying . Here is the doctor , the nurse , the texts on the walls , and an agonized death scene , very well done , and without exaggeration , by
Miss Brough . Here young Smithers and his sister , the deserted wife of young Cholmondeley , appear to console the dying woman ; they promise to adopt her child . In Act V ., or the epilogue , this child has grown into a girl of eighteen . Yonng Smithers is living in a pretty cottage , and whilst ho nails up the ro 3 es over tho porch his
adopted daughter sketches the landscape—bis sister looks prettier than ever , though her hair is touched with grey ; that sister's unknown son , the future Lord Cholmondeley , the inheritor of all his mother's virtues , is making himself agreeable to his cousin incognita . Mr . Dav , once the late Fredetick , now
personates the virtuous son Walter . Miss Brongb , who died in ( ho workhonse , reappears as the blonde Miss , her orphan child , and from this point the intelligent playgoer will perceive how the curtain will shortly descend on wrongs righted and virtue rewarded . Tho mysterious certificates turn np at tho
proper moment , aud a faithful retainer , weak in tho knees , as all faithful retainers are found to be , produces tho evidence of tho legal union of Reginald ' s mother with Lord Cholmondolcy , and every body is married who ought to be , and to the proper person . This happy result brings down the curtain . Messrs Harry Jackson and Harry
Nichols both work with a will to" win their honours ; Mr . Herbert , as Reginald , is manly and unaffected ; while Mr . Day , as Frederick , deserves much praise for his clever variations on the masher miscreant motif . Misa F . Brough rose well to the pathos of her part in tho difficult dving scene . Miss Amy McNeill , of whom
London will assuredly see more , as she must certainly ere long take a high place among emotional heroines , is greatly to be commended . Her absence of stdf consciousness and wholesome girlishuess is
delightful ; while ( -specially pretty is her bright and tender little scene at the baked potato banquet with brother Sam . Of tho 3 tago management , alike as regards the London crowds and French and German soldiery , we cannot apeak too highly .