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SCOTLAND BY THE WEST COAST BOYAL MAIL ROUTE , T ONDON AND NORTH WESTERN AND xJ CALEDONIAN RAILWAY S . — The SUMMER SERVICE ol PASSENGER TRAINS from LONDON to SCOTLAND is now in operation , WEEK DATS . A B a . m . a . m . a . m . a . m . p . m . p . m . p . m . London ( Euston Station ) dep . 515 7 15 10 0 11 0 8 0 8 50 9 ( l Edinburgh arr . 110 5 50 7 55 10 0 0 20 6 15 7 50 Glasgow * 20 6 0 8 0 10 15 6 35 6 55 SO Greenock „ 5 50 7 15 9 5 11 13 7 50 7 50 0 IS Oban 9 43 — — -1 15 12 15 W 15 2 31 Perth „ « 50 — 9 35 1150 8 0 8 15 9 55 Dundee ., 7 30 — 10 30 10 9 0 0 0 12 0 v _ , . ^* Aberdeen „ 1010 — — 3 20 1110 2 15 Inverness „ — — — 8 0 130 8 20 The HIGHLAND EXPRESS ( 8 . 0 p . m . ) leaves Huston evorv night ( Saturdays excepted ) , and is duo nt Greenock in time to enable passengers t " join tho steamers to the Western Const of Scotland . It also arrive ? nt Perth in time to enable passengers to breakfast there before proceeding northwards . From tho 11 th Jnly to the 11 th August ( Saturdays and Sundays excepted ) an additional express train will leave Euston Station nt 7 . 30 p . m . for Kdinburirh , Glasgow , and all parts of Scotland . This train will convey special parties , horses , and carriages . A Does not run to Greenock or Oban on Sunday movninsjs . B Does not run beyond Edinburgh and Glasgow on Sunday mornings . Day saloons fitted wi ' . n lavatory accommodation are attached to the 10 . 0 a . m . down express train from Euston to Edinburgh and Glasgow , Ac , without extra charge . IMPROVED SLEEPING SALOONS , accompanied by an attendant , are run on the night trains between London , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Greenock , Stranraer , and Perth . Extra charge , 5 s for each berth . Callander and Oban Line . The line to Oban affords the quickest and most comfortable route to the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland . For particulars of up train service from Scotland to London , see the Companies' time bills . G . FINDLAY , General Manager , L . A N . W . Railway . J . THOMPSON , General Manager , July 1881 . Caledonian Railway .

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LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . NORTH WALES AND LAKE DISTRICT . —The Summer Service of Trains in the Lake District , and on the North Wales Coast is now in operation . The Express leaving Euston at 10 ' 30 a . m . wi'l he found the most convenient for Llandudno , Rhyl , Penmaenmawr , Abevystwith , Barmonth , Dolgelly , Ac , as well as for the English Lake District . 1 ST , 2 nd , and 3 rd Class Tourist Tickets , available for two months , are issued at all the Principal Stations on the London and North Western Railway .. For full particulars , see Tourist Guide ( 130 pages with Maps , price One Penny ) , which can be obtained at the Stations , or on application to Mr . G . P . NEBLE , Superintendent of the Line . G . FINDLAY , General Manager . Euston Station , July 188-1 .

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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . "DB . OAD GAUGE Route to the West of England . —Continuous rnihvAv com-J ) munication , without change of carnage , between PADDINGTON ond EXETER , Dawlish , Teignmonth , Torquay , Kingswear ( for Dartmouth ) , Plymonth , Devonport , Truro , Penzance , and other favourite resort in the West of England . Tourist . Tickets , aviulab ' e for two months ( first , second , and third class ) , are issued in London at Paddington , Westhonrne Park , Nittin" Hill Hammersmith , Shepherd's Bush , Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Uxbridge Road nnd certain stations on the Metropolitan and District Railways , to the West of England , including th following sea-side and other places of attraction vi « Clevedon , Weston-super-Mare , Minehead , Lvnton , Barnstaple , l ' rae- > mhe Lxeter , Dawlish , Teignmouth , Torquay , Dartmouth , Plymouth , Devonnort ' Newquay , Fowey , Truro , Faun > uth , St . Ives , Penzance , Scilly Islands Ac Passengers holding first and second class tourist tickets con travel bv the 11 . 15 a . m . and 3 . 0 p m . fast trains from Paddington , which reach Exeter nt -1 . 0 and 7 . 11 p . m ., Torquay at 5 . 9 and 8 . 12 p . m ., nnd Plymouth "t 5 . 55 ancl 8 . 5 o p . m . respectively . See programmes ancl time bills issued by tho Company . J . GRIBRSON , General Manager .

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PROVINCE OF WORCESTER . MASONIC SOIREE ^ AND EXHIBITION . Worcester , 27 th August 1884 . BRETHREN having Masonio Curios of any kind , by way of Old Medals , Jewels , Cups , Glasses , Seals , Charters , Certificates , Aprons togravings , Minute Boobs , Ac , Ac , are earnestly invited to correspond with tne Prov . Grand Secretary , Bro . Goo . Taylor , Summerdyne , Kidderminster w . »> will be grateful fa- theloau of such . Guarantees for safe custody "iven ai .. any espouse defrayed . A catalogue is being prepared which will serve as » standard referenco to all ¦ mores'ted in Masonic Autiqnities . All individuals and Lodges possessing such , should take care to bo rem-osowed m thi 3 catalogue .

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"D ROTHIIRLY LOVE .-Will any charitable Mason lend £ 150 . nt a ff 8 n > all premium , until the second week in January , to a Brother . Adverser can offer no other security than his Masonic word . Apply uv ' i ottev to G' -od ' eS ° '' ' ° " W ' Kent ' VVholesale stationor > Newman Street , corner of

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T ^ RO . R . HIRST engages to provide , at short notice , an efficient w „ f » nd 10 r Annual Banquets , Dinners , Excursions and Quadrillo Parti ** JOr terms apply to " B . Hirst , The Three Crowns , 237 Mile End Road , E . "

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r nESTIJIONIALS , VOTES of THANKS , & C , beautifull y ILIUMLVATFD - o » VELLVM , and FRAMED , ready for Presentation , by T . "WOODS , GO Chancery-Lane , London , "W . C Names Illuminated on Stewards' Certificates at a reasonable charge ,

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Masonic Centennial In New Brunswick.

MASONIC CENTENNIAL IN NEW BRUNSWICK .

FROM Tin : KEYSTONE . THE Craft in Now Brunswick hel 1 its Cnntennhl Celebration at St . John , H . B ., on 1 st July 1881 . It b ^ gan ( as we learn from Rro . Charles K . Pierce , of Boston ) with tho opening of Gnrirl Lodge in the Masonio Temple , Grand M ister Ellis presiding . Grand Master Major General Lanrie , of the Grind Lodge of Nova Scotia , and other distinguished visitors were present , and several addresses were

delivered . At 1-30 p . m . there was a grand procession of the Craft . This was followed by a large and enthusiastic ! Masonio gathering at the Institnte , where Bro . John V . Ellis Most Worshipful Grand Master of New Brunswick , delivered a lonajthy and deeply interesting Masonio address . We qnoto from its opening as follows : — Many of the loyalists were Masons . An inside history of the

Revolutionary war wonld show that in it Freemasonry played an important part . In the army of the revolted Colonies , from Washington down , there were many Masons , as th' < re were among their French auxiliaries , who , as opportunity offered , not only interested themselves in the ordinary work of the Craft , but fonnd solace and

comfort in tho precepfca and nvixims of the society ; who followed with much satisfaction speculations on human brotherhood ; who , amid the horrors of civil war , could meditate upon the pleasures of peace , and who , moreover , were sometimes benefitted by the operations of a society in which the feelings of haman brotherhood tended to mitigate the miseries of an auhappy fratricidal war . As the war went on ,

Lodges increased . There were many Lodges in the regimenfci on both ^ sides , and on both sides the larger number of these Lodges derived their authority from the division of the English Craft whioh called itself the Anoient Grand Lodge , in which Laurence Dermott was the priucipal power ; and many of the peculiarities of that section of English Masonry , affeoted in some degree ) by transmission

throngh the older colonies , are still stamped on the Craft in thia Province . A number of loyalisrs , who had seen service in the army , came here , and they were soarcely settled in their new home before they a ? ain tnrned their attention to it for what relief it might afford amid the very great trembles by which they were encompassed . In the enjoyment of all that we have . to-day , we enter very little into

the feelings , the disappointments , the struggles of the loyalists . It is easy to praise the patriotism which we ascribe to them , and thus to throw a halo of romance over the first years of our city ' s existence ; it is not so easy to get a true idea of what life here was ; to judge what ideals were realised , what disappointments were encoantered , what hopes were shattered . On a clear understanding of all this we

need not be surprised at the fact that Freemasonry in an organised form , and actively at work , is older here than our province : older than tho civic organisation over which you , Mr . Mayor , preside ; the oldest , indeed , of the p-3 rmanent foundations of a civil or social kind existing in New Brunswick to-day . On 7 th November 1783 , Bro . Jared Betts , of " Hi 3 Majesty ' s

Prince of Wales Regiment , " wrote a letter from St . Ann s , now Fredericton , N ! S ., to Bro . Jos . Peters , Secretary of the Musters ' Lodge , at H ilifax , looking towards the founding of a Lodge at that place . On 6 th March 1734 , " Elms Hardy , W . M . of Lodge 169 , " similarly addressed Worship ful Bro . John George Pike . No . 39 , of the St . John ' s Gazette and Nova Scotia Intelligencer , of Thursday .

9 th September 1784 , contains the following notice : — "At a meeting of a respectable body of Ancient Brethren , the 7 th instmt , it was agreed to give this notice to every Ancient Brother Mason on tho River St . John , that on Tuesday , the 21 st instant , will be held nt Brother Kirk's , a meeting oF Ancient Masons at his new Lodge Room , Lower Cove , for the purpose of preparing and

installing the proper officers for constituting a Lodge , where the attend , ance of every Ancient Brother is earnestly requested . "Parr , September 8 1781 . " Tlie warrant for the Provincial Grand Lodge at Halifax came out in 178-1 , from Lord Antrim , then Graud Master of the Ancieut Grand Lod"e , and the Halifax authorities proceeded to regulate thoir work .

Nino warrants wor . ? issued in 1781 ; five in 1785 , and throe in 1786 . The last of these , No . 17 , was issued Gth December of that year to Hiram Lodge , the regular communications to be held at St . John , New Rrunsvvick , on the first Tuesday of the month , at the house of John Kirk , which house was undoubtedly on Lot No . 123 J , on what is now Britain , bnt which was then St . Andrew ' s Street , commencing

40 feet east of Germain Street . The warrant was signed by Governor Parr , who had succeeded Mr . Pike in tho Graud Mastership . The 51 th Regiment—famous because Wm . Cobbett , grammarian And reformer , was in its ranks—arrived here in Jane , 1785 , and brought with it a regimental Lodge . No doubt many civilians were received into tho Lodge in this regiment . On the anniversary of St .

John tho Evangelist , in 17 SG , this Lodge attended the parish church in a body , and the St . John Gazette , of January 9 , 1787 , editorially announces that there is "now in press , aud will be published on Saturday next , 'The Pleasures and Advantages of Brotherly Uuity ; a sermon prer . ched before the Right Worshipful Master , Wardens and Brethren of tae 54 th Regimental Lodge of Free and Accepted MasonB