Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

ON SUNDAY MORNING ( the 2 nd inst . ) the Temple Church , which has been closed during the Long Vacation , will be re-opened for service . THE LADY MAYORESS , having recovered from her recent severe illness , is anxious to convey her grateful thanks for the rrany kind expressions of sympathy which she received , and which touched her deeply . GRAY ' S INN CHAPEL , after having been closed during the Long Vacation , will be re-opened for Divine service on Sunday morning next , and the services at Lincoln ' s Inn Chapel resumed on Sunday morning , the 30 th instant .

THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT are going north on the nth instant , en a visit to Bro . the Lord and Lady Tweeddale , and have arranged to visit the Queen at Balmoral for to days on the Saturday following ( the 15 th instant ) . THE CITADEL LODGE OF INSTRUCTION . ^ NO . 1 S 97 , will resume its meetings at the Farleigh Hotel , Amhurst-road , Stoke Newington , on Friday , the 7 th inst . ; Bro . F . Dunstan , P . M ., & c , Preceptor . The Masonic Charities Association meets the last Friday in each month .

BRO . LORD GEORGE HAMILTON , M . P ., Secretary of State for India , has consented to lay the foundation-stone of the new free public library which is being built at Acton at the cost of Bro . Passmore Edwards . The ceremo . y will take place early in November . BARONESS HIRSCH has placed Tudor House , Hampstead Heath , which she purchased at a cost of £ 16 . 000 , in the hands of trustees , to be maintained as a Convalescent Home for Jewish Consumptives . The Baroness has also promised to endow the Institution . The mansion has several interesting features , and is decorated in a most artistic style .

WE ARE GLAD TO HEAR that the health of Bro . Christopher Sykes , who , a few days ago , during a visit to Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar , at North Beiwick , was seized with sudden illness , shows signs of considerable improvement . The Piinre of Wales , at his Royal Highness ' s request , is informed daily of the patient ' s condition .

BRO . THE KARL AND COUNTESS OF HALSBURY , who have been staying at Clandeboye , county Down , as the guests of the Marquis and Marchioness of Dufferin , since Saturday last , paid a visit to Belfast on Tuesday , and lunched with the Right Hon . W . J ; Pirrie . They afterwards left for Portrush , where they have been the guests of Lord and Lady Macnaghten .

THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT will visit Lewes on Friday , the 2 Sth instant , and be received at the Railway Station by the Mayor and Corporation , who will present an address of welcome . His Royal Highness is to be entertained at luncheon at the Municipal Building . " , and subsequently , as Prov . Gand Mister of Sussex , will preside at the annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge .

HER MAJESTY , who was much gratified with the manifestation of loyalty by the people of Guernsey on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee , has through the Home Secretary graciously signified her pleasure that a member of the Royal Family should go Io the island in the spring next yeir and unveil the beautiful bronz ; statu : of her Majesty about to be erected as a memorial of that event .

MAJOR J L . EMERSON , Provost Marshal of the Army , who is about to retire has had a remarkable career , having been an officer in both the Navy and Army . He has served for nearly 40 years , and obtained a commission altaat betore joining the land service . After serving with the cavalry in Egypt , under Bro . Lord Wolseley . he was appointed Assistant Provost-Marshal at the Curragh , and in ISQJ b ; cime Provost-Marshal .

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS CHRISTIAN OF Scm . Eswic-HoLsrEiN , with her daughter , Princess Victoria , concluded her visit to Sir Francis and Lady Jeune , at Arlington Manor , Newbury , on Monday last , and a large number of people congregated at Newbury Station to witness their departure . The Piincesses tr . veiled by Great Western Railway to Reading Junction , and thence by South Eastern Railway to Guildford , where they drove to Monks Hatch , the seat of Mr . Andrew llitchen , where they will make a short stay .

THE LORD MAYJR ' S FUND at the Mansion House for the relief of the sufferers by the hurricane in the West Indies reached £ 15 , 000 on Monday . Replies have been received to the Lord Mayor ' s circular from the Lord Mayors of York , Liverpool , Sheffield , and Belfast , and the Mayors of Grim ; by , Cambridge , Hastings , Djncaster , Newbury , Stockport , Southampton , Hull , Leicester , Poole , Wolverhampton , Hertford , Lewes , and Maidenhead , promising their assistance in raising funds in their respective localities for the distressed people .

THE FOLLOWING telegram received from Bro . Sir Herbert Kitchener , received early on Sunday morning last dated from O . ndurman the previous evening , was at once posted outside the Mansion House : "To Lord Mayor of London . —1 hope your lordship will accept , and convey to the citizens of London , our grateful thanks fjr your cor gratulaioy telegram , which I received to-day , on my return from establishing garrisons at Ftshoda and on the Sobat river . I trust that the opening-up of these extensive cruntrirs will benefit the City of London and British trade and commerce in general . — Sirdar . "

A SOLEMN and impressive service was held last Sunday afternoon at Westminster Abbey , when as many as could possibly be present of officers and men of the original garrison of Lucknow and the gallant force under Havelnck and Outram attended in commemoration of the 41 st anniversary of the relief . The four Chelsea Pensioners , Sergeant Girling ( of the 32 nd ) , in Lurknow during the siege , Sergeant Harding , of the 7 Sth , and one of the first to enter the Residency , and Privates Graff and Driscoll received special notice from officers and old comrades alike . The whole of the space under the Lantern was reserved for those assoc ' aled with the splendid episode , and it was

calculated that in all about 150 attended . Among the officers of the Relief Force present were General Sir W . Olpherts , V . C ., General Oldfield , Gineral Bigge , C . B ., Surgeon-General Sir A . Home , V . C ., General Russell , General Stewart , General Chamier , Inspector-General Dominichetti , General Douglas Hastings , General Cherry Girrar'd , and many more . Of the heroic defenders were General Ruggles , General Hutchinson , General Birch , Colonel Bonham , Mr . L . Martin , and -General Macfarlane . A few of 1 the ladies who endured the privations of the siege were also able to attend , as well as I a Mr . Arthur Dai-hwocd , who was born in the Residency during the siege by the mutineers on the 31 st August , 1857 .

Masonic And General Tidings.

THE EARL OF ROSEIIHRY , who is this year President of the Surrey Agricultural Assoc i ation , has promised to speak at the annual dinner on the 12 th inst ., to be held at the Town Hall , Epsom . BRO . PROF . DRIVER writes us to the effect that some of his ' pieces have been published without his permission in other magazines , and begs to observe that for the future the right of producing any of his works is reserved .

DOWN to last Wednesday evening the Mansion House Fund for the relief of the distress in the West Indies consequent upon the recent hurricane amounted to £ 17 , 000 . Of the last remittance of . £ 5000 , £ 2000 was allotted to Barbados , ^ 2000 to St . Vincent , and £ 1000 to St . Luc a . THE LATE Dr . Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson left a considerable number of unpublished memoirs of leading physicians . These have beencillected into two volumes , and are now announced under the title of " Disciples of / E iculapius . " " { he work cantains a large umber of portraits and illustrations .

THE MANSION HOUSE . —The swearing-in of the Sheriffs-Elect , Mr . Alderman Alliston and Colonel Clifford Probyn . took place at the Guildhall on Thursday morning , the Shrieval breakfast following at Salters' Hall . In the evening the Chief Magistrate dined with the Mayor and Corporation of Chatham . THE NEW PENNY MAGAZINE is the title of Messrs . Cassell and Company's n 2 w weekly periodical , of which the first number is to appear on the 19 th instant . ft will provide a greater amount of reading matter and illustrations than has baen hitherto given for a penny in any magazine . Each issue is to contain 6 4 large pages , fully illustrated .

BIRDS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE . —The first great specialist show of British , hybrid , and foreign birds held by the National British Bird and Mule Club and the Foreign Bird Exhibitors' League will take place at the Crystal Palace next week from Tuesday to Thursday . The entries reach the large number of Soo . Insectivorous birds will be strongly represen ted , one class having Co entries .

SIR CHARI . FS LENNOX PEEL , who has just retired from the position of Clerk to her Majesty ' s Privy Council , has sent to the office-keeper and messengers at the OHice in Whitehall a carriage-clock and silver watches respectively , as mementoes of their long association . The gifts hive suitable inscriptions , recording the date and occasion of their presentation . Sir Charles is a grandson of the first Sir Robert Peel , and is in his 75 th year . He has been Clerk of the Council since 1 S 75 , and was greatly liked by all subordinates .

ON SATURDAY , the 17 th ult ., on the occasion of the celebration of the jubilee birthday of Bro . J . C . Hayes , P . M . 619 and 170 S , I . G . 1657 ( of the firm of Hayes , Candy , and Co ., foreign warehou emen , of Friday-street ) , the whole of the staff were taken by special train to Richmond and entertained at dinner . In the course of the proceedings Bro . Hayes was presented with an illuminated address and a handsome service of silver plate . The post-prandial proceedings were of a very felicitous character , the speeches indicating the existence of the utmost good feeling between the firm and its numerous workers .

THE CAMDEN SCHOOL OF ART , Dalmeny-avenue , Camden-road , re-opened on the 2 . Sth ult . The classes are for male and female students , and are taught by teachers of both sexes , under the direction of Mr . Francis Black , R . B . A ., A . R . C . A . Prosoectus and full particulars at the school . The increased accommodation just completed gives ' every faci'ity for taking drawing , painting , design , modelling , and all the South

Kensington art certificates ; also wood-carving , Repousse , Gesso , book illustration , and in the female class , art needlework . Over 2200 awards have been wan during the past five years from Government and the Technical Education Board of the London County Council ; £ 1000 worth of scholarships are now in hand won in free competition with other institutions . The Inspector of the Technical Board reported in July that" This School of Art retains its place at the head of the Art Schools of London . "

MEDICAL SERVICE IN STATE AT ST . PAUL ' S . —On Wednesday , the 19 th inst ., at 7 . 30 p . m ., the Bishop of London will preach at St . Paul ' s Cathedral to the numbers of the medical profession . The service , which is an annual one , is organised by the Guild of St . Luke , and will be , as in past years , a brilliant ceremony , as all doctors who are graduates and Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons are asked to attenl in

academical robe « . At the corresponding service last year upwards of 1200 medical men were present , and the space under the dome of the Cathedral was largely filled with those in academical dress . The music wjll be rendered by a choir of over 201 voices , provided by the London Gregorian Association , so that the whole service is likely to be mist solemn , brilliant , and impressive . Admission to the space under the dome will b : by ticket only .

A BENEFIT MATINEE ( by kind permission of Messrs . Williamson an 1 Musgrove ) to the widow of Charles Riley ( late of the Gaiety , Ga-rick , Lyric , Prince of Wales ' , Savoy , and Shaftesbury Theatres ) , will take place on Monday , th " . io . h instant , at 2 p . m . The programme will include the Second Act of the " Belle of New York , " by kind courtesy of George W . Lederer , Esq . The entire company of the Shaftesbury Theatre have

kindly volunteered their services . Scenes from " Her Royal Highness , " extravaganza by Basil Hood and Walter Slaughter ; "Papa ' s Wife , " comedietta in one act by Seymour Hicks and H . Phillips ; also a miscellaneous entertainment . Tickets , which can be obtained either from the Hon . Secretaries or from the Box Office , Shaftesbury Theatre , Boxes ( from £ 2 25 . to £ 5 55 . ; Stalls , £ \ is . and ios . 6 J . ; Bilcony Stalls , 7 s . 6 d . j Upper Circle , 4 s . ; Pit , 2 s . 6 d . ; and Gallery , is .

FAREWELL BANQUET TO BRO . SIR CHARLES WARREN . —The Mayor of Chatham ( Mr . G . H . De la Cour ) on Monday evening gave a farewell banquet to Bro . Lieut .-General Sir Charles Warren on his relinquishing the command of the Thames district . Among the guests were the Lord Mayor , who was present in his capacity of Member for the Borough of Chatham ; Major-General T . Fraser , Commandant of the School of Military Engineering ; Colonel Bird , Commanding the Chatham Division of Royal Marines j Colonel Goldsmid , chief Staff officer ; and the commanding officers of other corps in garrison . " The Health of Lieut .-General Sir Charles Warren " was proposed

by the Mayor . His worship , on behalf of the Corporation , presented Sir Charles with a silver shield , enclosed in a morocco case , as a souvenir of his sojourn at Chatham . The shield bore an inscription , of which this sentence formed part : " While we much regret that we are losing _ from our midst the presence of one so distinguished as a scholar , scientist , and soldier , we rejoice that , whilst here , you greatly promoted cordial relations between the military and the civic authorities , and took great interest in the ¦ moral and intellectual welfare of the inhabitants . " Bro . Sir Charles Warren suitably expressed his acknowledgments . " The Health of the Mayor " was proposed by the Lord Mayor .

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