Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

BRO . ALDERMAN AND SHERIFF-ELECT VAUGHAN MORGAN has appointed Bro . the Rev . R . Lee , the Head Master of Christ's Hospital , as his Chaplain . BRO . THE LORD MAYOR will unveil a bust of the Queen at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest , Victoria Park , on Monday , the iGth inst . BRO . THE ARCHDEACON OF LONDOV , P . G . Chap ., is Canon-Residentiary at St . Paul's Cathedral during July , and preaches there on Sunday afternoons at the 3 . 15 service .

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE will attend a general meeting of governors of Queen Charlotte ' s Lying-in Hospital , Matylebone-road , at 22 , Portman-square , on the 20 th instant . MR . HAROLD HAYDN GREEN , who is the third son of Bro . Alderman Frank Green , and has been educated at Merchant Taylors' School , has gained the Mansel Exhibition at St . John's College , Oxford .

THE INSTALLATION DINNER of the Tin Plate Workers' Company was held at Ironmongers' Hall , Fenchurch-street , on Friday , the 29 th ult . The Master , Bto . A . J . Hollington , C . C , presided , over loo . guests being present . THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND . —October 13 th will be observed as Hospital Saturday . A statement just issued shows that the receipts from the workshops and business houses from January to June 16 th amounted to £ 55 68 19 s . sd .

BRO . ALDERMAN AND SHERIFF SIR WILLIAM TRELOAR was amongst those who received ' Princess Christian and party on Saturday last on the occasion of the opening by her Royal Highness of tbe new wing of the Croydon General Hospital . On the recommendation of the Secretary for Scotland , H . M . the Queen has been pleasedito appoint Professor McCall Anderson , Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Glasgow , to the Chair of Systematic Medicine in that University vacant by the resignation of SirW . Gairdner .

BRO . ALDERMAN SIR DAVID EVANS reports that , in spite of the recent death of Professor Jones , the principal surgeon , the Welsh Hospital is in a flourishing condition . For some time past the hospital has been stationed at Springfontein , and it is now attached to the large military hospital at that place . The committee have decided , if necessary , to send out further reinforcements of the staff .

ROYAL GARDEN PARTY . —H . M . the Queen has intimated her intention to be present for a short time at the garden party which her Majesty will give at Buckingham Palace on the nth instant . Her Majesty will travel from Windsor to Paddington by special train , arriving at the Palace about five p . m ., and will later return to Windsor .

WITH HER USUAL THOUGHTFULNESS her Majesty the Queen is making provision as far as possible for the widows of ofiicers who have fallen in the war . Mrs . Sherston , widow of the gallant colonel who lost his life at Colenso , has now gone into residence at Hampton Court Palace , and Mrs . Dick-Cunyngham , whose husband was , it will be remembered , picked off by a stray bullet during the siege of Ladysmith , has just been made Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess Christian .

THE UNDER-SHERIFFS . —Bro . I . D . Langton , of 12 , New-inn , Strand , who is serving as under-sheriff to Bro . Sheriff Sir Alfred Bevan , has consented to act in a like capacity for Bro . ( Alderman and Sheriff elect Vaughan Morgan . Mr . Sheriff elect Lawrence has appointed Bro . T . H . Gardiner , barsister , of S , Lincoln ' s Inn-fields , as his under-sheriff for the shrieval vear ensuing . Bro . Gardiner , it may be remembered , served as under-sheriff to Bro . Alderman Frank Green two years ago .

SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA , R . A ., Mr . Val Prinsep , R . A ., Mr . Frank Dicksee , R . A ., and Mr . M . II . Spielmann waited upon Bro . the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House on Saturday , and presented to his lordship a cheque for £ 10 , 51 ) 3 ns . gd . as the result of the recent exhibiticn and sales of works of art organised under the name of the Artists' War Fund . This sum was the gross amount collected , no working expenses having been deducted . Bro . the Lord Mayar expressed his congratulations to the committee for the splendid results of their efforts , and requested them to convey his grateful acknowledgments to all who had assisted .

NEW MASONIC HALL , LF . EDS . —The corner stone of the proposed handsome and commodious hall , which the Freemasons of Leeds are about to erect , will b : laid on Wednesday , the iSth inst . The brethren will assemble at 3 p . m . at the Mechanics ' Institute , which is close by , will there clothe and walk in procession to the site . The R . W . the Dep . Grand Master , the Earl of Warwick , has kindly consented to perform the ceremony . He will be assisted by the Prov . Grand Master for West Yorkshire , the Right Hon . W . L . Jackson , M . P ., and the Dip . Prov . Grand Master , Bro . Richard Wilson , and will doubtless be accompanied by other Grand Ofiicers . Some account of the new building will appear in our next week ' s issue .

ONE OF THE OLDEST OFFICERS at tbe Guildhall—oldest , that is , in point of service , though happily not in years—and one , moreover , who has had the good fortune to make a host of friends in every branch of City life , commercial as well as civic , intends shortly to sever his connection with the grand old Corporation , in whose service he has spent some of the best years of his life . Rest and ease are not his objects , for he will retire simply in order to take up a > , active partnership in an old-established undertaking in which he has had a considerable pecuniary interest for some years , and which happens —strange though it may seem—to be quite as congenial to his tastes as the work he is

about to relinquish . This officer , whose name we withhold for the present , belongs to the third generation of a family that has served the Corporation in conspicuous and responsible positions . The fourth generation , perhaps with equal abilities , has other ambitions , which have led its members to wider and bolder , and , as we hope , still more successful spheres of enterprise . In leaving the Guildhall , the officer to whom we refer will by no means cut himself adrift from City life , wherein he will continue to figure as a ratepayer in three wards , and in many other relations . Nor will he relinquish his interest in Masonry , where he figures as a P . M .

MIDLAND RAILWAY ( Summer Train Services , ' iyoo ) . —The Midland Railway Company's summer service will come into force in July . The most notable features , which call for attention , are the new corridor trains , which the company will run between London and Glasgow , and London and Edinburgh . The trains will be composed of new corridor trains of the latest pattern , including first and third class dining carriages on the day trains , and lirst class sleeping carriages on the night trains to and from Edinburgh . Through carriages of the same type will be run from and to liristol .

Birmingham , ar . d other points in the West of England , Liverpool , Manchester , Bolton , Blackburn , 81 c , in connection with these trains . The usual summer "daylight " service will be given to Rothesay during July and August , whereby passengers may leave St . Pancras at 10 . 30 a . m ., and Leicester , Nottingham , Bristol , Birmingham , Derby , Sheffield , Leeds , Bradford , Manchester , and Liverpool , at corresponding times , and reach Rothesay at g . 45 the same evening . A through carriage will be attached to the 10 p . m . express from St . Pancras for Greenock ( Princes' Pier ) to accommodate the

tourist traffic for the steamers for the Firth of Clyde , and the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland . New luxurious sleeping saloon cars will be attached to the night expresses between London ( St . Pancras ) and Glasgow and Edinburgh in each direction . The improved services to Ireland , inaugurated in June , via Barrow-in-Furness ( the picturesque route via the borders of the Lake district ) , and via Stranraer and Larne ( the shoitest sea route ) , will be continued . The fast steamer Duchess of Devonshire will be placed on the Isle of Man service , via Barrow , until September 29 th , and an

additional service will be given on Saturday , August 4 th , in connection with the train leaving London ( St . Pancras ) at 10 . 30 a . m . New through express trains will be run to and from Sheringham , Cromer , Yarmouth , and the Norfolk Broads . Material improvements , both in point of time occupied on the journey and comfort en route will bcintroduced into the services to the "Peak" District of Derbyshire , the English Lake District , and the watciing-places of Lancashire and Yorkshire . Other alterations of a

minor character will be made in the train service , affecting the various parts of the system , lull particulars of which will be found in the Midland Company's July Time Tables and special bills . Holiday travellers should obtain copies of the company's new illustrated guide , " Country and Seaside Holidays , " which contains a list of furnished apartments in country and sea-side districts , on , and adjacent to , the Midland line . The book may be had , together with English and Scotch Tourist Programmes , and other publications at the various Midland stations and agencies .

Masonic And General Tidings.

DOWN TO THE $ TH INST . the Indian Famine Fund at the Mansion House amounted to £ 315 , 000 . THE MANSION HOUSE FUND for the Transvaal War sufferers amounted on the 5 th inst . to ^ 974 , 600 . THE MERCHANT TAYLORS' COMPANY have forwarded their annual subscription of £ 1000 to the Prince of Wales ' s Hospital Fund for London .

BRO . N . FORTESCUE , C . C , J . P ., is acting as marshal in connection with the carnival to be held at Walthamstow on behalf of the Daily Telegraph fund on ' i hursday , the 26 th instant . THE BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION . —Mr . C . J . Longman presided at the last meeting of the board of this charity . A sum of £ 99 is . 4 d . was voted for the relief of 5 S members and widows .

THE Q UARTERLY CONVOCATION of the Metropolitan College ( Societas Rosicru ciana in Anglia ) will be held at the Restaurant Frascati , Oxford-street , on Thursday , t he 12 th instant , at 5 . 30 p . m . precisely . BRO . PROFESSOR GEORGE HARE PHILIPSON , D . C . L ., M . D ., was knighted on Saturday last by her Majesty the Queen . Bro . Philipson is Prov . S . G . W . of Durham , and the first joining member of the / Esculapius Lodge .

H . R . H . THE PRINCESS OF WALES has given her patronage to the British and Foreign Sailors' Society's bazaar , to be held at Great Yarmouth on Septe mber 2 f > th , on behalf of the suite of buildings to be opened for the next fishing season . THE RIGHT HON . J AMES BRYCE , M . P ., suggests that the Government or the London Ccunty Council should institute an ir . quiiy into the whole question of the future needs cf Lotdon traffic .

A GENERAL M EETING of the shareholders of the Aldershot Masonic Hall Company ( Limited ) will be held at the George Hotel , Wellington-street , Aldershot , on the 12 th inst ., at S p . m ., for the purpose of receiving the directors' report regarding the progress of the comp any . IN ADDITION to beinsr presented with his academic robes as Mus . Doc . of the University of Dublin , Bro . W . II . Cummings , the Principal of the Guildhall School of Music , has been given a silver tea service and a barometer by the professors and staff as a mark of esteem .

THE PRINTING of companies' prospectuses , plans , illustrations of industrial works , Masonic work of all description , & c , produced with rapidity . Fast machinery and every modern appliance for the production of large quantities at short notice . Freemason Printing Works , iC and iCa , Great Queen-street , London , W . C . HALF-DAYS AT THE SEASIDE . —Under the auspices of the Voluntary Early Closing Asscciation , 64 , Cheapside , an express will leave Victoria at 12 . 30 every Wednesday afternoon for Brighton , calling at Clapham Junction and East Croydon only . Each Thursday special trains will take excursionists to Colchester , Portsmouth , Bognor , Littlehampton , Brighton , Dover , Folkestone , Hythe , Sandgate , and other places .

THE NEW PALACE STEAMERS , L MITED . —TJIJ Tuesday last the Palace steamer La Marguerite , in addition to having made her opening trips to Boulogne , commenced her season to Ostend and back in a day . This she did in remarkable good time , starting from Tilbury at 7 . 10 , and arriving back at g . 30 , having covered a distance of 2 S 0 miles in 12 hours after allowing her passengers two hours on shore at Oitend . A most enjoyable day was spent by the large number of passengers on board . La Marguerite will repeat this trip every Tuesday throughout the season , and special train will leave Fenchurch-street at 6 . 15 a . m . for Tilbury .

H . R . H . TUB PRINCESS OF WALES IS sending out to the war 20 nurses at once , selected from the nursing staff of the London Hospital . T . R . H . the Prince and Princess of Wales have adapted and fitted up a very pretty farmhouse close to Sandringham for the use of ofiicers invalided from the war who need convalescent help and have nowhere to go . Every detail of the arrangements and the decoration has hid the

personal attention of the Princess herself- Their Royal Highnesses' intention is to offer this heme in the first place to Colonial officers , and have directed that an invitation from them should be given to any such officers to whom the rest and quiet would be beneficial . During their stay the ofiicers will be the guests of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess .

WHERE IS HOT WATER-LANE ?—Strange , indeed , is street nomenclature in the City . In the majority of cases , of course , the origin ot a name is simple enough . Thus , to give two cr three cases , Ducksfoot-lane , in Billingsgate , is a corruption ofthe Duke ' s-foot-lane , signifying the time when his Grace of Buckingham had a mansion in the vicinity : and Moorfields perpetuates the fact that at one time the district was a

marsh and moo « -, around which were fields in which the citizens of farmer days were wont to disport themselves . In some instances , however , the origin of a name remains a mystery . Whence , for example , does Hot Water-court derive its name ? Possibly few , if any , readers , save those whose business takes them thither , have even so much as heard of it . To lighten their darkness , therefore , it may be well to point out that it is a blind alley between Fann-street and Bridgewater-square . —City Press .

Ancient And Accepted Rite.

Ancient and Accepted Rite .

Alfred "Chapter , No . 13 . The ceremony of installation in connection with the above chapter was performed at the Masonic Hall , Taunton , on Thursday , the 2 Sth ult ., when III . Bro . R . Doune Hancock , 31 " , was proclaimed re-elected M . W . S . for the year ensuing by III . Bro . F . T . Elworthy , 31 , P . M . W . S . Bro . Hancock alterwards appointed and invested the

following ofiicers : Bros . R . Knight , Prelate ; J . G . Price , ist General ; Dr . J . A . Macdonald , 2 nd General ; Capt . John Gill , 30 , Treas . ; T . H . Chaffin , P . M . W . S ., Recorder ; G . B . Toms , Marshal ; J . Alder , Raphael ; J . G . Vile , D . C . ; G . Spiller , Capt . of Guard ; Rev . II . N . Dymond , Herald ; C . H . Simson , Org . ; and T . Ttdbury , Janitor . The brethren afterwards sat down to a banquet at the Castle Hotel , presided over by the M . W . S ., and the usual Masonic toasts were proposed .

Royal Arch.

Royal Arch .

Pythagoras Chapter , No . 88 . The half-yearly convocation of the above chapter ( attached to the Scientific Lodge , No . SS ) was held at the Lion Hotel , Cambridge , on Wednesday , the 27 th ultimo . Tne Principals' chairs were occupied by Comps . A . E . Chaplin , P . P . G . Treas ., M . E . Z . ; Frank Piggott , P . Z ., P . G . H ., H . ; and W . Sindall , J . About Co companions were present . Comp . J . M . Harvey , P . Z ., P . P . G . H . Suffolk , was elected as a joining companion . Bros . H . M . Martin , 2107 ; F . E . Apthorpe Webb , SS ; H . Kempton , 2727 ; C .

Laceby , 2727 ; and F . T . McMurray , 2727 , were exalted . The work of the P . S . was ably performed by Comp . A . H . Langridge , in conjunction with Comp . B . Chennell , P . / ,. The sum of 10 guineas was voted to the South Aftican Masonic Relief Fund , and a similar sum to the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , to be placed on the list of Comp . J . IL Moyes . The following Ptincipals and ofiicers for the ensuing year were

elected : Comps . A . E . Chaplin , P . P . G . Treas ., M . E . Z . ; W . Sindall , IL ; John H . Moyes , J . ; J . Gordon Chennell , P . P . G . Std . Br ., I . P . Z . ; O . Papworth , P . Z ., S . E . J A . H . Langridge , S . N . ; T . Hunnybun , P . P . G . S . B ., Treas . ; VV . Purchas , P . P . G . Org ., P . S . ; T . Leader , 1 st A . S . ; J . Bester , 2 nd A . S . ; B . Chennell , P . Z ., P . P . G . H ., D . C . j H . A . ^ Chapman , Org . ; J . , V . Ptyor , P . Z ., P . P . G . S . N ., Steward ; G . A . Allen , Janitor ; and A . R . Hill and C . P . Jones , Auditors . The chapter was then closed . The companions afterwards adjourned to banquet .