Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

Thc Duke and Duchess of Connaught reached Queenborough Pier , Sheerness , early on Friday morning last on their return home from Berlin . Bro . the Earl ot Kimberley returned to town from Kimberley Hall on Monday ; the Countess and Lady Constance Wodehouse accompanying his lordship . Rro . the Earl and Countess of Granville and family arrived at his residence , Carlton House-terrace , from Waimer Castle on Monday .

On Friday last , Mr . Whitworth , M . P ., and Alderman Connolly , waited on Bro . Lord Wolseley at the War Office and presented his lordship with the freedom of Drogheda . The Duke and Duchess of Albany have

graciously consented to visit the National Orphan Home , Ham-common , Surrey , during the suaimer , on which occasion her Royal Highness will distribute Lady Peek ' s prizes . Bro . C . E . Clemow ( brother to the proprietor of Anderton ' s Hotel ) has taken the Royal Clarence Hotel , llfracombe .

A handsomely illuminated vellum address was presented on Wednesday last , by the VV . M . Bro . J . A . Jones , and brethren of the St . Leonard Lodge , Shoreditch , No . 17 G 6 , to Bro . C . Stevens , P . M ., & c , who has held the position of Treasurer to the lodge since its consecration in 1 S 7 S . Bro . C . Stevens has relinquished the position of Treasurer owing to failing health much to the regret of his brethren by whom he is highly esteemed .

The report of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys shows as the educational results of the ' year that one boy took second class honours in the senior division at the Oxford Local Examination in June , and the iS pupils of the Institution who presented themselves at the Cambridge ( Junior ) Examination in December passed without exception , and of these 12 passed in honours , viz ., four first class , six second class , and two third class .

A very successful meeting was held at St . James ' s Hall on Wednesday evening in view to organise a memorial fund for the family of the late Bro . VV . H . Jones , late lessee of the Alexandra Palace . Upwards of £ 250 was subscribed in the room , and an executive Committee was appointed with Bro . Wm . Tinsley , of Catherine-street , as Treasurer , and Bro . H . T . Thompson , of Clapton , as

Honorary Secretary . The Committee room is at 31 , Villiers-street , Strand . At the last regular meeting of ihe St . John of Wapping Lodge , No . 1306 , at the Moorgate Tavern , Bro . T . J . Tyer was elected W . M . for the ensuing year . The lodge has since adopted a new name , and will be henceforth known as the lodge of St . John , 1306 . In addition the

lodge has removed to more commodious premises , viz ., the City Arms Tavern , St . Mary Axe , where the installation ceremony will take place on the nth inst . What with these changes the lodge seems to have paved the way for a prosperous future . A new Royal Arch Chapter in connection with the Duke of Cornwall Lodge , No . 1 S 39 , is to be consecrated

to-day ( Friday ) at Freemasons' Hall , at four o ' clock p . m . Comp . Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Scribe E ., will be the Consecrating Officer , and he will be assisted by Comps . Capt . N . G . Philips , the Rev . C VV . Arnold , Hugh D . Sandeman , H . S . Somerville-Burney , Dr . J . S . Lavies , and Frank Richardson . The three Principals designate are Bros . Joseph VV . Brooke , P . M . 1 S 39 ; VV . A . Malony , P . M . 25 anil 1839 ; and George F . Smith , jun ., VV . M . 1 S 39 .

Bro . E . Dresser Rogers , C . C , has for the 13 th time been re-elected the representative of Camberwell , at the Metropolitan Board of Works , Mr . Simons remarking that they were proud to have Mr . Rogers as chairman of the vestry and their spokesman at Spring-gardens . In acknowledging the vote Bro . Rogers said he was the only member of the Metroplitan Board of Works who tendered

his resignation every year , and he was proud rather than otherwise to be returned annually , as it did not detract from his influence at the Board . Visitors to the Electric Light Exhibitions at the Crystal Palace and Royal Aquarium , Westminster , cannot fail to be struck with the elegance and taste which characterise Bro . Dick Radclyffe ' s exhibits . The Palace one is on

a somewhat circumscribed scale—that is as regards the space available—but the grouping is admirable and speaks well for our worthy brother ' s reputation as a connoisseur in floral harmonies . At the Aquarium he has been successful in obtaining room to make a more extensive display , and the effect is if possible still more satisfactory . There are not a few , and we reckon ourselves as being of the number ,

who are inclined to pronounce Bro . Radclyffe ' s as about the best of this kind to be seen at the rival Exhibitions . We have been favoured with a copy of the first report of the Tottenham and Enfield Masonic Charitable Association , and are pleased to note the progress it has made . The statement of account shows that in the year ended 28 th February , 1 S 83 , subscriptions were received to the amount of £ 113 gs . Out of this sum were provided

six Life Governorships for the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , representing £ 63 . The expenses of printing , postage , & c , absorb the trifling sum of £ 3 Gs . 2 d ., so that there remained a balance in the Treasurer ' s hands of £ 47 2 s . iod ., the greater portion of which has , no doubt , been appropriated to one or other of our Charities . This is certainly a subject for congratulation to the members of the High Cross Lodge of Instruction , No . 754 , with which the Association is connected .

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much case and closeness that . descriptive circular , with testimonials and prices , to J . White and Co . ( Limited ) 228 , Piccadilly , London . Do not buy of Chemist" , who often sell an IMITATION of our Moc-Main . J . White and Co . have not any agents , —[ ADVT . ]

Masonic And General Tidings

Bro . Larl Granville has accepted the oflice of President of the British Archaeological Association for the forthcoming congress at Dover and for the ensuing session . Bro . Lord Wolseley will visit Ireland in June , when he will be entertained at a public banquet and receive a presentation from ' the citizens of Dublin and others in recognition of his services in Egypt .

Bro . the Marquis of Hartington paid his first official visit as Secretary of War to Woolwich on Wednesday , accompanied by Mr . Brand , M . P ., Surveyor-General of . the Ordnance , and General Rcilly , Director General of Artillery and Stores . The visit had special reference to the study of practical artillery and the process of manufacturing guns .

The Prince and Princess of Wales will visit Redhill during the summer on the occasion of the laying by her Royal Highness of the foundat on-stone of the new schools of the Royal Asylum of St . Anne ' s Society . Bro . the Earl and the Countess of Derb y returned to town on Tuesday from their residence at Fairhill .

Bro . the Marquis of Hartington , M . P ., reached Devonshire House on Sunday evening from the continent , where his lordship has been spending the Easter recess . On Tuesday evening at the Mansion House Bro . the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave the

customary Easter banquet in connection with the Royal Hospitals . Among the guests were the Duke of Cambridge , the United States and Roumanian Ministers , the Bishop of Rochester , Lord Strathnairn , Bro . Alderman Stone , P . G . J . Warden , Admiral Sir A . Cooper Key , and others .

Bro . Sir P . Cunliffe Owen , K . C . M . G ., p resided on Saturday last in the theatre of the South Kensington Museum or . the occasion of a highly interesting lecture given by Mr . Gordon Hake on the antiquarian discoveries recently made by him in Cyprus .

H . R . H . the Duke of Albany , P . G . J . W ., has consented to lay the foundation stone of the new building of the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution , Bream ' sbuildings , Chancery-lane , on Monday , the 23 rd inst . The Archbishop of Canterbury , Bros , the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs , and several noblemen , members of Parliament , and distinguished friends of education will be present on the occasion .

The Queen on the petition of the Prince of Wales has been pleased to grant incorporation to the Royal College of Music The Chevalier Bladon Ruspini , late of the Exchequer and Audit Department , Somerset House

, whose death at the ripe age of Si was recently announced in the papers , was a grandson of Bro . Bartolomeo Ruspini , surgeon-dentist to George III ., who was for many years Grand Sword Bearer of England and founded the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls .

Ihe following dinners have recently taken place at Limmer ' s Hotel : The Blue Seal Club , on Sunday evening ; the Civil Service Volunteers ( Col . Lord Bury ) , on Monday last ; and the Studholme Lodge , on Tuesday last .

Girls who enter the English postal service get two dollars fifty cents per week at first . If they are real good girls after a few years they get fifty cents or one dollar more . They can hardly support a husband on these wages . —Philadelphia Keystone .

The members of the Percy Lodge of Instruction , No . 19 S , haveaccepted invitations to work the Fifteen Sections at the Royal Standard Lodge of Instruction on the 27 th inst ., and at the Upton Lodge of Instruction on the second Thursday in May .

On the invitation of the directors of the General Gas Heating and Lighting Apparatus Company , about 90 persons , representing gas manufacture , engineering , architecture , & c , assembled on Wednesday evening last at the Crystal Palace to partake of a dinner cooked entirel y by gas , the apparatus used being Leoni ' s patent , in the manufacture of which the company is engaged . Bro . James

Glaisher occupied the chair , and among those present were Mr . G . Livesey , deputy chairman of the South Metropolitan Gas Company ; Mr . Paterson , president of the Gas Institute ; and representatives of the Smoke Abatement Society , the Rational Health Society , and other kindred societies . The chairman , in the course of his remarks , referred to the benefits conferred on the public generally by

the gas exhibition at the Crystal Palace in bringing to their knowledge those great improvements that had been made of late in gas apparatus , by which the use of gas was rendered much more cleanly and economical . Reference was also made during the evening to the immense advantages that would arise from the use of gas not only for lighting , but for cooking , the cost of preparing the dinnerfor go

persons , including the roasting of a large baron of beef , being only 3 s . 9 d . —the consumption of gas , at 3 s . id . per thousand feet , having been certified by the gas inspector at 1200 feet , it was predicted , too , that the general use of gas for cooking , to which some speakers looked forward hopefully , would serve to diminish in a marked degree the plague of fogs which afflicts the metropolis , and the opinion was

generally expressed that in the direction of cooking and heating gas had a great future before it . How TO SECURE Goon HEALTH . — MARTIN ' S CURATIVE MAGNETISM . —Health secured , Health restored , and Health promoted by the use of this Natural Agent , now so extensively used . See Press opinions , testimonials , and fullest particulars in 4 S page

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certain means of preventing or checking and curing both outward ailments and inward maladies . Ample plainly printed and very intelligible directions accompany every package of both Ointment and Pills , which only require attentive study to enable even- invalid to be his or her own medical adviser . The earlier these powerful remedies are employed after discovery of the disease , the more rapid will be their action in expelling from the system all noxious matter and restoring health , —[ ADVT . J

Masonic And General Tidings

Ihe annual dinner of the Great Western Railway Enginemen and Firemen ' s Mutual Assurance Society was held on Wednesday evening , in thc library of Paddington Station . The Queen has been able to resume her usual carriage exercise since her recent severe accident , and on Saturday last , accompanied by the Princess Beatrice , drove through Datchat in an open carriage .

Ihe Premier and Mrs . Gladstone left town on Friday last for Sandringham , on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and " Princess of Wales . Or . Monday the distinguished visitors returned to their res ! ; nce in Downinsr-street .

It is said that Bro . Justice Field will be appointed a Lord Justice of Appea ' l in place of Lord Justice Brett , who succeeds the late Sir George Jessel , as Master of the Rolls . On Saturday last , at the Brentford Town Hall , five men , charged with having stolen a quantity of lead and solder from Osterley Park , the residence ' of Bro . the Earl of Jersey , Past G . Warden , were coir . ~ : tted for trial , bail being refused .

R . W . Bro . Sir Michael Hicks-Beach , Bart ., M . P ., will preside at the anniversary festival , to be held on Wednesday next , the nth inst ., at Willis's Rooms , St . James ' s , of the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormondstreet , Bloomsbury .

Bro . W . Kuhe , P . G . O ., gave his annud English ballad concert at the Dome , Royal Pavilion , Brighton , on Friday last , the pianoforte solos of Madam SophU Menter and the singing of the Misses Robertson being among the principal attractions . The accompaniments were played by Bro . and Miss Kuhe .

Professor Schliemann ' s house is one of the sights of Athens . It is built of white marble and ademed with numerous statues of the same material . He and his wife talk ancient Greek together , and have called their two children Andromache and Agamemnon . Around the professor circulates a large body of erudite Germans . The Teutonic element is omnipotent in the Hellenic capital .

On Monday next the Duke and Duchess of Connaught will lay trie foundation-stone of St . Ann ' s Church , Bagshot . The Duke and Duchess of Albany left Windsor Castle for Claremont House , Esher , where for a time their Royal Highnesses purpose taking up their residence . Bro . the Duke of Marlboroug h has reached Cannes in his yacht Francisca , accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh .

Ihe game of Russian Gossip is quite as interesting , and , perhaps , a little more modern than any of those that have been so long established . First of all , the young people take their seats next each other in a circle . The one at the end then relates to his nei ghbour some little incident , a piece of news he has heard , an anecdote , or anything else that may occur to him . The neighbour then

relates it to the next person , who relates it to his neighbour , and so on until every one of the party has heard the story . The last person who has been communicated with then repeats what has been told him , and very amusing it generally is to find how totally unlike the original the incident has become , after being cropped and added to by the different narrators . —From " CasselTs Booh of Sports and Pastimes" for April .

The annual dinner of the London General Porters' Benevolent Association was held at the Albion Hotel , Aldersgate-street , on Wednesday evening under the presidency of the Lord Mayor ( the Right Hon . Henry E . Knight ) , who was supported by Mr . Sheriff Savory , Mr . G . 1 ' . Leaf , Mr . F . T . Esitr , Mr . James C . Marshall , Mr . Fredk . Gorringe , Mr . E . R . Porter , Mr . F . WardMr . F .

, Debenham , Mr . T . H . Devonshire , Dr . Sansom , and others . After dinner the loyal and patriotic toasts were proposed from the chair and duly honoured . In proposing the toast of the evening , " Prosperity to the London General Porters' Benevolent Association , " the Lord Mayor mentioned that , during the twenty-three or tiventyfour years the institution had been in active operation 211

pensioners had been placed upon the funds , the payments to whom had amounted to upwards of £ 20 , 000 , and of this number many , but for the aid afforded by this institution , would have been reduced to , or ended their days in a state of pauperism , 'i At the present time there were 11 G pensioners ( not including children ) upon the funds , to whom upwards of £ 2 , 300 per annum

were distributed , in addition to which the disbursements incidental lo management increased the total expenditure to between £ 2 Soo and 2900 . To meet this the only reliable income was about £ 650 , derived from interest on investments , and the annual subscriptions averaged £ 850 a year . The deficiency , amounting to over £ 1300 , had to be

supplied by special eltort , and he earnestly appealed not only to dry goods merchants—who were the largest supporters of the association—but to all other trades in the City to support this most excellent charity . The toast was enthusiastically responded to , and the Secretary ( Mr . VV . T . Rickford . ) announced subscriptions to the amount of £ iSS 3 . The announcement was received with loud cheers

It is certain the Queen ' s Physician , Dr . Fairbank , has written strongly recommending LENTILLA , or TON IC DAILY FOOD . It cures Indigestion , Heartburn , Constipation , Liver and Stomach Complaints , & c , besides having such wondrous nourishing properties . Makes Soups , Porridge , Custards , Puddings , Biscuits , & c . Tins , lib . is . 6 d . ; ilb ., iod . Barrels , 2 Slb ., 30 s . ; 141 b ., iGs . Of all Chemists . —Proprietor , H . J . Deacon , Beckenham , Kent . —[ ADVT .

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