Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

The regular monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution vvill be held at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday next , the 13 th inst . Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to honour Bro . and Mrs . Bancroft by accepting , through Lord Rovvton , a copy of their " Book of Reminiscences . "

The Grocers' Company has contributed - £ 100 and the Mercers' Company £ 105 towards the support of the Royal National Hospital for Consumption , situated at Ventnor , Isle of Wight . The 56 th anniversary festival of the United Law Clerks' Society will be held at the Freemasons ' Tavern on Wednesday next , the 13 th inst ., when the

chair will be taken by the Attorney General . The Flag Officer ' s Good Service Pension of £ z ° o , vacant by the death of Bro . Vice-Admiral Sir W . N . W . Hewett , V . C , K . C . B ., has been conferred by the Lords of the Admiralty on Admiral Sir Reginald Macdonald , K . C . B . Bro . Lord Stanley of Preston , with Lady Stanley

and the members of his family and staff , left the Mersey , on board the Allan steamer Sarmatian , for Canada , in order to assume the duties of the Governor-Generalship to which he has been appointed , An exhibition of work by members of the Recreative School Association was opened by the Princess Louise , Marchioness of Lome , on the 31 st ult ., at Survey

House , Hyde Park-place , vvhich was lent for the occasion by Mrs . Cyril Flower , and remained open till the evening of the following day . The delegation from the Honourable Artillery Company visited Gettysburg , where the Federal and Confederate Armies fought so tremendous an engagement on the ist to 3 rd July , 1 S 63 , and were conducted over the

battlefield by Colonel Walker and other members of the Ancient and Honourable Aitillery Company of Boston . The annual meeting and half-yearly election of the Infant Orphan Asylum , Wanstead , was held at the Cannon-street Hotel on the 31 st ult ., when the report for the past year was adopted , and , the Committee for the ensuing year having been elected , the Governors proceeded

to the election of 15 boys and 15 girls from the approved lists of candidates . The entries for the Queen ' s Prize at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association , which will be held this year for the last time at Wimbledon , are 2272 , or 122 less than they were last year , but the number may be increased by post entries . The prize consists of the Gold

Medal , the Gold Badge , and £ 250 . Bro . Lord Magheramorne presided at the usual weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works on Friday , the ist instant , when a deputation from Hammersmith was introduced by Bro . Major-General Goldsworthy , M . P ., for the purpose of memorialising the Board to erect a steamboat pier at Hammersmith Bridge . The memorial

was referred to the Works Committee , with instructions to carry out the work . Bro . Earl Granville presided at a meeting held at the Charing Cross Hotel on the 31 st ult . for the purpose of considering the probable effect on the ancient

Corporation of the Cinque Ports by the operation of the Local Government Bill now before the House of Commons , and a resolution in accordance with the views of the meeting was passed , and vvill be at once acted upon . Bro . Sir Edward Watkin , Bart ., M . P ., took part in the proceedings , which terminated vvith a vote of thanks to the Chairman .

A Committee was formed towards the close of last week for the purpose of organising a fund for the relief cf Ihe sufferers by the terrible fire in the Edgware-road , when five of the inmates vvere burned to death and five others vvere seriously injured , while almost all the assistants

lost the vvhole of their property . Bros . Lord Randolph Churchill , M . P ., Lord Charles Beresford , M . P ., F . Seager Hunt , M . P ., and John Aird , M . P ., are members of the Committee . The Daily Telegraph has also opened in its columns a subscription for the same purpose , the proprietors heading the list with the handsome contribution of Xioo .

The usual ceremony of trooping the Colours in honour of her Majesty ' s birthday took place on the Horse Guards Parade on Saturday last , ten companies of the various Guards' regiments taking part in it . The Commander-in-Chief , with the Piince of Wales , Prince Albert Victor of Wales , Bro . General Lord Wolseley , and other members of the Headquarters' Staff , vvith several foreign officers of distinction , were present on the ground , and the

Princess of Wales and her daughters viewed the spectacle from the windows of the Commander-in-Chief's room , the Princess Mary , Duchess of Teck , and her daughter , the Princess Victoria of Teck , being present in an adjoining room . As the weather vvas exceptionally fine , the crowds of people assembled were enormous , the reception given to the members of the Royal Family being most enthusiastic .

A concert was given in the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday , the 31 st ult ., by Bro . Wilhelm Kuhe , Past G . Organist , the occasion being especially attractive as it was the first of the two farewell appearances which vvill be made by the celebrated Swedish songstress , Madame Christine Nilsson , on her retirement from the lyric stage . There was consequently a very large audience , from whom the great artiste received a most enthusiastic greeting .

Madame Nilsson was called upon to repeat the first and third of her contributions , and substituted for the first Schubert ' s "Serenade , " and , for the latter , "I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls . " Madame Trebelli and Bros . Sims Reeves and Henschel were among the other vocalists , Bro . Reeves being in excellent voice , and Miss Kuhe was warmly applauded for her solo on the pianoforte . The second concert will take place on Wednesday , the 20 th instant .

Masonic And General Tidings

The Tyssen Amherst Lodge , No . 2242 , will be consecrated at the Amherst Club , Rectory-road , Hackney , to-morrow ( Saturday ) , by the Grand Secretary , Bro . Col . Shadwell H . Clerke . Bro . W . A . Tyssen Amherst , M . P ., P . G . W ., is the W . M . designate , and Bro . Charles Cheston , and Bro . Geo . Lewis the Senior and Junior Wardens . Bro . H . W . Henniker Ranee announces that his

late partnership having recently expired , he is novv practising on his own account at 70 , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields . Bro . Sir M . White Ridley , Bart ., has been selected as Chairman of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Trade during the consideration of the Railway and Canal Traffic Bill . The 25 th annual Horse Show was opened at the

Royal Agricultural Hall , Islington , on Saturday last , the entries being quite as numerous as in any previous year , and of the same excellent quality . Bro . Major Davies , Sheriff of London and Middlesex , presided at the 51 st Annual Festival held at the Holborn Restaurant , on Tuesday evening , in aid of the funds of the Journeyman Tailors' Benevolent Institution .

The subscriptions amounted to £ 84 6 . It has been notified that , on the occasion of the visit to Holloway of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales for the purpose of opening the Great Northern Central Hospital , in the Holloway-road , the route followed by the procession vvill be along the Highstreet , Upper-street , and Holloway-road . It has also been

intimated that the Princess of Wales has expressed her readiness to receive on the occasion purses of not less than five guineas towards the building fund . The Irish Exhibition at Olympia was formally opened on Monday by Bro . Lord Mayor De Keyser , who attended in State vvith Bros . Sheriff Davies and Sheriff

Higgs , and was received by Bro . Lord Arthur Hill , M . P ., the Honorary Secretary , and others , among the principal personages present being Mr . Parnell , M . P ., the Lord Mayor of Dublin , Bros , the Earl of Lathom , Lord Combermere , and Burdett-Coutts , M . P ., the Baroness Burdett-Coutts , the Countess of Bective , and Lady Arthur Hill .

Among the guests at the dinner of the First Lord of the Treasury on Saturday last were Bros , the Marquis of Hertford , the Earl of Jersey , the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres , the Earl of Carnarvon , the Earl of Zetland , the riarl of Ravensworth , the Earl of Londesborough , Lord R . Churchill , M . P ., Lord Harlech , Sir John Mowbray , Bart ., M . P ., Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ..

M . P ., and Sir W . Hart-Dyke , Bart ., M . P . The Prince of Wales dined with the Prime Minister at his residence in Arlington-street , at the full dress dinner given by his lordship , on Saturday last , in honour of the Queen's birthday , whie Prince Albert Victor of Wales dined with the First Lord of the Treasury in Grosvenor-place . The Marchioness of Salisbury later in

the evening held a reception at the Foreign Office , at which the Prince and Princess of _ Wales , with Prince Albert Victor and the Princesses Louise and Victoria , vvere present , the guests being about 2000 in number . Bros . Lord Ashbourne ( Lord Chancellor of Ireland ) , the Lord Mayor , Lord Magheramorne , Justice Mathew , Justice Cave , Sir R . N . Fowler , Bart ., M . P ., Sir

E . Du Cane , Sir Charles Warren , Sheriff Davies , Sheriff Higgs , and W . H . Long , M . P ., were among the guests at the State dinner given by the Home Secretary on Saturday last ; while Bros . Sir Charles Mills , Sir Albert Woods , and Baron H . de Worms , MP ., dined with the Colonial Secretary . Bros . Akers-Douglas , M . P ., Sir R . Welby , the Hon . D . Plunket , M . P ., and Sir C . Rivers Wilson were among the guests of the Chancellor of the Exchequer .

Bro . Lord George Hamilton gave a State banquet at the Admiralty , Whitehall , on Saturday last , vvhich was attended by , among others , Bros . Sir H . Keppel , Lord Alcester , Sir L . McClintock , and A Staveley Hill , Q . C , M . P . ; while the guests at the dinner given by the Secretary of State for War included the Duke of Cambridge , Bros . General Viscount Wolseley , Sir Redvers

Buller , and Sir VV . T . Marriott , Q . C , M . P . Bro . the Earl of Lathom ' s guests included Bros , the Earls of Rosslyn and Limerick , Lord Balfour of Burleigh , the Hon . A . Yorke , Sir Robert Collins , and Sir F . Knollys . Bros . Lord A . Hill , M . P ., the Earl of Kintore , Lord Suffield , and Capt . N . G . Philips dined with the Lord Steward , Bro . the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe .

Bro . P . De Keyser ( the Lord Mayor ) privatel y celebrated his election as W . Master of the Emulation Lodge , No . 21 , and his appointment as Grand Steward for the current year representing that Iodge , by entertaining the members to a banquet at the Mansion House on Friday , the 25 th ult . With his accustomed geniality , the Lord Mayor desired the gathering to be , as he said " a family

, party , " without any Masonic observances , and , to render it more so , he requested each brother to invite a private , personal friend to accompany him , and partake of the hospitality of the Lord Mayor as his guest , which permission vvas largely availed of . The toasts were accordingly of a non-Masonic character , but a very pleasant evening was passed .

COACHING IN EPPING FOREST . —We are glad to learn that the Royal Forest Hotel Coach , which commenced running last year , and was so well patronised , is again placed on the road for its second season . The fourin-hand , as before , leaves Chingford Railway Station at 11 . 10 in the morning and 3 . 6 in the afternoon , and at 10 . 58 a . m . and 3 . 30 p . m . on Sundays , in connection with ( G . E . R . )

trains from London and Suburban stations , for one of the various delightful drives through Epping Forest and the charming country on its borders . The fares for the trip are 4 s ., box seats 5 s . The coach table d'hote luncheon or dinner in readiness at the Royal Forest Hotel on returning forms an additional feature of attraction to these forest drives .

HOLLOWAV s PILLS . —Invalids detracted by indigestion and discouraged in their search for its remedy should make a trial of this never-tailing medicine . A lady , long a martyr to dyspeptic torture , writes that Holloway ' s Pills made her feel as if a burden had been taken off her . Her spirits , formerly low , have greatly improved ; her capricious appetite has given place to a healthy hunger : her

dull , sick headache has departed , and gradually so marvellous a change has been effected , that she is altogether a new creature , and again fit for her duties . These Pills may be administered with safety to the most delicate . They never act harshly , nor do they ever induce weakness ; they rightly direct deranged , and control excessive action . —ADVT .

Masonic And General Tidings

Bro . Viscount Bury presided on Tuesday ai . 1 anniversary dinner of the St . George ' s Club , Hann square , Bros . Sir Robert Peel , Batt ., and Sir Cha f " Mills being among the principal guests . es Bro . the Marquis of Hartington , M . P , an . Lord Herschel were among the principal guests at tl annual dinner , on Saturday last , of the members of ft Palmerston Club in the University of Oxford . ™

Bro . General Lord Wolseley will unveil th memorial erected in the Crypt of St . Paul ' s Cathedral ! the memory of the War Correspondents who lost their Hv in the Soudan campaigns , on Saturday , the 16 th inst . The Emperor Frederick , who has removed from Charlottenburg to Potsdam , has suffered nothing hevn « j

a certain amount of fatigue in consequence of the removal the favourable state of his health being well maintained Bro . the Lord Mayor presided at a banquet organised by the Belgian and Dutch residents in London and held at the Albion Tavern , Aldersgate-street on Tuesday evening , in aid of the Netherlands Benevolent Institution . '

Bros . Lord Ravensworth , Admiral Lord Alcester Lord Charles Beresford , M . P ., SirR . N . Fowler , M . P . anj the Earl of Fife attended a large and influential meetin ? held at the Cannon-street Hotel , on Tuesday , on the sub . ject of the national defences .

The Queen ' s Bod y Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard underwent their annual inspection in the <** arden of St . James ' s Palace on Monday , the inspecting ' officer being the captain of the corps , Bro . the Earl of Kintore who complimented the men on their appearance ami service .

Bro . the Lord Mayor has invited the Forei gn Ambassadors and Foreign Ministers ancl a distinguished party to a grand banquet at the Mansion House on Thursday , the 28 th inst ., in commemoration of the 50 th anniversary of the Queen ' s Coronation , which tool ; place on the 28 th June , 183 S .

The Prince of Wales presided at the annual regimental dinner at the H 6 tel Metropole , on the 31 st ult ., of the ioth ( Prince of Wales ' s Own Royal ) Hussars , his eldest son , Prince Albert Victor of Wales , being also present .

Bro . the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a dinner in the Egyptian Hall , at the Mansion House , on Monday , on the occasion of the election of Mr . Faudel Phillips as Alderman in succession to his father , Bro . Sir B . S . Phillips . The new Alderman and Mrs . Phillips eceived a hearty welcome from his lordship .

Bro . the Marquis of Hartington , M . P ., presided , and Bros , the Earl of Fife , Lord Stalbridge , Lord Suffield , Viscount Ebrington , M . P ., ; Storey-Maskelyne , M . P ., R . J . More , M ; P ., and Sir T . Fowell-Buxton , were present , among others , at a political banquet given to Mr , Jesse Collings , M . P ., at Willis ' s Rooms , on Tuesday .

The Prince of Wales , who was accompanied by the Princess of Wales and the Princesses Louise , Victoria , and Maud , unveiled the statue erected on the Thames Embankment to the memory of the late Sir Bartle Frere on l ' uesday , and in the afternoon they visited the Horse Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall . In the evening his

Royal Highness was present at the annual regimental dinner of the Prince Consort ' s Own Rifle Brigade . At the last meeting of the Covent Garden Lodge of Instruction , No . 1614 , it vvas proposed by Bro . George Reynolds , Sec , seconded by Bro . VV . Brindley , and cariied unanimously , that Bro . W . C . SmithPreceptor , be

, requested to work the ceremony of installation on Thursday evening , the 14 th June , that being the last time he would act as Preceptor to that lodge of instruction . Bro . VV . C . Smith has kindly consented to do so . Bro . John Allen , of London , England , oi the Inman Line of Steamers , a resident of London , and a

member of the Anglo-American Lodge , No . 2191 , we understand , has just reached New York , on a brief visit to our country . He is the bearer of an illuminated address to the American brethren who visited the Ang lo-American Lodge last year in London , and is expected in this city within a few days , when he will receive a cordial welcome .

—Philadelphia Keystone , May 12 , THE LATE BRO . DR . ALFRED MEADOWS . —The many Masonic friends of the late Bro . Meadows will be glad to learn that a collection is now being made for a Meadows Memorial . About £ 216 has been already collected , and it is proposed to erect a carved wooden

pulpit in the parish church of Colnbrook , where Dr . Meadows had his country seat , and to found a biennial or triennial prize for students of St . Mary ' s Hospital , with which Dr . Meadows was for many years connected . J > ut * » scriptions for the latter object may be sent either to tne London and County Bank , Slough , or to James Watson ,

38 , Purtman-square . NORTH-WEST LONDON DENTAL INSTITUTE , — Extract fro Kentish fa-wn Magazine , for April , 1886 . —" The above-name Instirute , under the special patronage of the Clergy , J" ™' ,, Men , Gentlemen and Ladies of the N . and N . W . dlst "' * . ' affords in its daily and extensive practice , wondrous " rience rication of the great progress that has been made in the scie of dentistry during quite modern davs . and also proves in

putably the great boon which the above-named "' J'" * ' * : ters daily upon numerous sufferers . Defective teeth and g lin £ . well known to be the foundation of the most painful co '"!"" that afflict mankind , and that the several ailments of the w need the skilled attention of eminent scientists , if they are 11 cured , or even alleviated , and in order that such skilled atre might be within the reach of ali grades , the NOBIH-W * - "• ^ DENTAL INSTITUTE was established . Situated at 80 , 1 'ortesslunction-road . Kentish Town , under the superintendence ,

A . W . FURBER , L . D . S ., Royal College of Surgeons of **»| mite assisted hy a stall of skilled and qualified gentlemen , this '"» cts supplied artificia . teeth ; latest scientific improvements ; j * ^ teeth , and perforr-ss . all other necessary operations Pf ' . „ Jin of bestows benefits that cannot be over-estimated upon '"'* £ " j of our largely-populateu suburbs that would not seek " } . hat jjr Hospitals and Charities in the Metropolis . We may add in ... A . W . FURBER , L . D . S ., R . C . S . E ., has had 20 years * «^ " £ ' p < I hospitals and private practice , is of a very kindly dl ^ I " r' earoe < J eminently fitted for the position that he holds , where " ^ p uES the golden opinions of all who have consulted him . m f' 0 i his ten

is also a well-known benefactor , having devoted > , |_ tlltore'l early practice to serve the poor , during which periodhisw l 0 flt > , and able hand relieved [ free of cost ! no less a numb . ;! yi an d suffering patients . " —Fees at this Institute are moneio Free to '' the Unemployed , "