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The Charities.
THE CHARITIES .
BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE , June . —A . Dobie , as Master . July . —H . R . Lewis , as Master . August . —J . Lee , AV . M ., No . 3 , as Master . * THE BOYS' SCHOOL . —EXCURSION TO THE MEDWAY IN AID OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL . —On Tuesday , the 17 th of July , the fourteenth excursion
to the Nore ancl Medway took place , in aid of this Royal Masonic Institution ; and was rendered quite a day of enjoyment by the good humour that prevailed , combined with the auspicious fineness of the weather . The company , which might have been more numerous , consisting of a goodly number of ladies and gentlemen , friends ancl supporters of the Institution , assembled about eight o ' clock ; and , at half-past , the Royal Sovereign steam yacht started with her living freight from London
Bridge , under a salute , and amidst the gratulations of a concourse of spectators , who lined the adjacent wharfs and bridge . That all hacl set out with a determination to make a merry jaunt of it soon became evident ; albeit the modes of enjoyment were as varied as the most fanciful lover of contrast could desire ; and that those within eye-shot and gunsound should be perfectly cognizant that this crew of happy creatures were floating down the Thames , or rather skimming over her undulating bosom , streaming pennons caught the glances ' of the former , and the latter were ever and anon greeted with a cannonade salute , startling the river gods , and making " the welkin ring . " Thus the
many from London Bridge were made continuously more by additions from Deptford , Greenwich , and Blackwall , yet still not so numerous as on former occasions . Breakfast having contributed the requisite quotient of animal sustainment to each , Brother M . O . AA ray , the Master of the Ceremonies , opened the programme of amusement , and gave those who delighted in " the concord of sweet sounds "—those who ranged themselves among the votaries of Terpsichoreunder his own immediate auspices—and the
, more universal mass , to whom comicality is always welcome , enough , and we had almost said " and to spare , " of music , dance , and laughter . The orchestral ancl quadrille bands engaged by him were more than usually excellent ; and the sentimental ditties of Mr . Caulfield , and the comic songs ancl recitations of Mr . T . Jones , left nothing to be wished for in those departments . Of his own exertions to please , we may briefl y say , that they were unwearied , and perfectly successful . AVe who report
this for the Freemasons' Quarterly are of staid and somewhat grave appearance . " Time has not thinned our flowing locks , " it is true , ( there would have been some difficulty in that , by the way , as the covering of our caput comes more properly under the denomination of thatch than curl ) , but " care , age , or pain , that frosts the hair with grey , " may be discovered to have been busy with us ; and yet we contrived to escape scoldingfrom a pretty and youthful partner , and literally danced round the Nore Light as jocundly as if the thoughts of other clays hacl made us juvenile again , and wc were once more footing it round a May-pole .
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The Charities.
THE CHARITIES .
BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE , June . —A . Dobie , as Master . July . —H . R . Lewis , as Master . August . —J . Lee , AV . M ., No . 3 , as Master . * THE BOYS' SCHOOL . —EXCURSION TO THE MEDWAY IN AID OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL . —On Tuesday , the 17 th of July , the fourteenth excursion
to the Nore ancl Medway took place , in aid of this Royal Masonic Institution ; and was rendered quite a day of enjoyment by the good humour that prevailed , combined with the auspicious fineness of the weather . The company , which might have been more numerous , consisting of a goodly number of ladies and gentlemen , friends ancl supporters of the Institution , assembled about eight o ' clock ; and , at half-past , the Royal Sovereign steam yacht started with her living freight from London
Bridge , under a salute , and amidst the gratulations of a concourse of spectators , who lined the adjacent wharfs and bridge . That all hacl set out with a determination to make a merry jaunt of it soon became evident ; albeit the modes of enjoyment were as varied as the most fanciful lover of contrast could desire ; and that those within eye-shot and gunsound should be perfectly cognizant that this crew of happy creatures were floating down the Thames , or rather skimming over her undulating bosom , streaming pennons caught the glances ' of the former , and the latter were ever and anon greeted with a cannonade salute , startling the river gods , and making " the welkin ring . " Thus the
many from London Bridge were made continuously more by additions from Deptford , Greenwich , and Blackwall , yet still not so numerous as on former occasions . Breakfast having contributed the requisite quotient of animal sustainment to each , Brother M . O . AA ray , the Master of the Ceremonies , opened the programme of amusement , and gave those who delighted in " the concord of sweet sounds "—those who ranged themselves among the votaries of Terpsichoreunder his own immediate auspices—and the
, more universal mass , to whom comicality is always welcome , enough , and we had almost said " and to spare , " of music , dance , and laughter . The orchestral ancl quadrille bands engaged by him were more than usually excellent ; and the sentimental ditties of Mr . Caulfield , and the comic songs ancl recitations of Mr . T . Jones , left nothing to be wished for in those departments . Of his own exertions to please , we may briefl y say , that they were unwearied , and perfectly successful . AVe who report
this for the Freemasons' Quarterly are of staid and somewhat grave appearance . " Time has not thinned our flowing locks , " it is true , ( there would have been some difficulty in that , by the way , as the covering of our caput comes more properly under the denomination of thatch than curl ) , but " care , age , or pain , that frosts the hair with grey , " may be discovered to have been busy with us ; and yet we contrived to escape scoldingfrom a pretty and youthful partner , and literally danced round the Nore Light as jocundly as if the thoughts of other clays hacl made us juvenile again , and wc were once more footing it round a May-pole .