Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise ( Duchess of Fife ) and Bro . his Grace the Duke of Fife have given their special patronage to Mrs . Baskcomb ' s annual musical and dramatic matinee , to be given in June at St . James's Hall , on which occasion Mrs . Baskcomb will be supported by many artistes eminent in the worlds of music , the drama , and Masonry .

Bro . Matthew R . Webb , J . P ., has been re-elected Solicitor to the Parish of St . Botolphs , Aldersgate-street . Bro . Arthur B . Hudson , C . C , has been re-elected Surveyor to the Parish of St . Botolphs , Aldersgate-street . Bro . Harry S . Foster has been admitted to the Livery of the Patten Makers' Company .

Bro . Deputy Rose-Innes is suffering from an acuteattack of pneumonia , for which his doctors advise him to seek the warmer climate of Algeria . Bro . the Rev . J . Jackson Wray is to be presented with a testimonial by the congregation of Whitfield Tabernacle upon the occasion of his resignation through continued illhealth .

The Merchant Taylors' Company have contributed the sum of 200 guineas to the Building Completion Fund of the Royal Free Hospital , Gray's Inn-road . Bro . Lord Mayor Savory will preside at the anniversary festival of the King's College Hospital , which will be held at the Hotel Metropole this ( Friday ) evening .

There will be a matinee of "The Bookmaker" at the Crystal Palace on the 14 th inst . with the company from the Globe Theatre . The company will return to town in time for the usual evening performance . The 2 ( 5 th annual benefit of Bro . G . W . Moore took place in St . James ' s Grand Hall on Tuesday , when an immense audience was present and testified their appreciation of the excellent programme provided by frequent applause .

The Empress Frederick of Germany and her daughter , the Princess Margaret of Prussia , left England on Wednesday , travelling to Sheerness and embarking there on board the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert for Flushing . Bro . T . W . Ockenden , P . M ., announces a concert by the

"Scarlet Runner Lady Minstrels " on Monday next at the Gaskell-street Schoolroom , Clapham , on behalf of the funds of the St . John ' s Schools , of which schools he is the Treasurer . Bro . Dr . Coryndon Baker will take the chair at 8 o'clock .

The 35 th show of sporting and other dogs by the Kennel Club was opened at the Royal Agriculturial Hall , Islington , on Tuesday . The number of exhibitors is over 700 , and the number of exhibits 1377 , the quality of the latter , especially in the Great Dane , bloodhound , old English mastiff , and St . Bernard classes , being quite up to the average .

By permission of Lord and Lady Wimborne , a morning concert will be held at Wimborne House , Arlington-street " on Friday , the ist May , in aid of the Trinity College Mission , in St . George's , Camberwell , under the patronage of the Princess of Wales , the Duke of Clarence and Avondale , the Duchesses of Buccleugh , Leeds , and Abercorn , the Marchioness of Headfort , and other ladies .

The pictures at the Royal Naval Exhibition , Chelsea , will be arranged in three galleries , which will be named the Blake , Benbow , and Nelson Galleries , and will illustrate the leading incidentsof Great Britain ' s naval supremacy during the last three centuries . Many of the works will be from

Greenwich or lent by her Majesty and private owners . The collection of portraits of the admirals and captains of the British navy will be very complete , and most of the great seafights will be represented . Bro . Admiral Sir E . A . Inglefieldis president of this section of the exhibition .

According to a report issued by the Committee of " The Light Brigade Relief Fund , " of which Bros , the Marquis of Hartington , Lord Wolseley , and others were members , the total contributed by the public in response to the appeal made in behalf of the survivors of the celebrated Charge amounted to

£ 6753 . Of this sum about one-half has been expended in grants varying from £ 10 to £ 60 , while as regards the remainder , the Committee propose to ask the Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund to dispose of it in pensions of a few shillings a week to a certain number of the oldest and most destitute of the men .

The Minnehaha Amateur Minstrel Troupe are giving an entertainment at the Free Trade Hall , Manchester , tomorrow ( Saturday ) , in aid of the funds of the East Lancashire Systematic Masonic Educational and Benevolent Institution , and the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys .

This talented troupe has alread y handed over to the various local Charities nearly ^ , 6000 , and as dispensations have been granted for the brethren to appear in Craft and Royal Arch regalia , a strong muster is expected . The entertainment is under the patronage of Bros , the Earl of Lathom Dep . G . M , and Col . Le Gendre N . Starkie , P . G . M . East Lancashire .

The funeral of the late Bro . Earl Granville took place at Stone , Staffordshire , on Saturday last , and was attended by a numerous body of his lordship ' s friends . The coffin containing the body was conveyed from Euston to the place appointed , and was imbedded in wreaths sent by , among others , the Queen , the Duke and Duchess of Connaught , the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh , Prince and Princess

Christian , and the Duke and Duchess of Teck . Amoii" * those present were Lord Leveson-Gower , the present Earl Granville , Bro . the Hon . E . F . Leveson-Gower , brother of the late Earl , and Bro . Lord Suffield , representing the Prince and Princess of Wales . A memorial service wa ° salso held at the Chapel Royal , St . James ' s , at which the Countess

Granville and her daughters and younger son were present , as well as Mr . and Mrs . Gladstone , and representatives o ' f several members of the Royal family , together with Bro . the Hon . H . ancl Lady Elizabeth Byng , Bro . Lord Carrington , Bros . Lord Monk Britton and Lord Kensington , several of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers , and many others . Bro . C . S . Jekyll , P . G . Org , presided at the organ .

Masonic And General Tidings

Bro . Rev . H . C . Shuttleworth , of the Cornish Lodge , preached on Sunday at Lincoln's Inn Chapel . Bro . Rev . Viscount Molesworth , rector of St . Petrock , St . Issey , will shortly arrive in town for a few weeks . The Law Courts were re-opened for the Easter Sittings on Tuesday , and will remain open up to and inclusive of the isth May next , when term ends .

We are glad to hear that Bro . the Earl of Londesborough , who has recently been laid up with a severe attack of gout , has so far recovered as to be able to move about , but up to the close of last week he had been unable to leave the house .

It has been officially notified by the Mayor to the Corporation of Windsor that the marriage of Prince Aribert of Anhalt with the Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein will be solemnised in St . George's Chapel on Monday , the Gth July next .

The Duke of Clarence and Avondale will preside as Chairman at the annual festival , which will be held at the Savoy Hotel , on Wednesday , the 22 nd inst , in aid of the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum for Destitute Children , Bagshot , Surrey .

Bro . Baron Henry de Worms , M . P ., presided at a banquet held at the Hotel MeTropole on Tuesday to celebrate the opening of railway communication between Natal and the South African Republic , the guests being very numerous on the occasion .

I hePnnce of Wales , attended by Rear-Admiral Stephenson and Prince Christian , attended by Colonel Elliot , travelled by the London , Brighton , and South , Coast to Epsom Downs on Tuesday for the purpose of attending the Epsom Spring Meeting .

At the last meeting of the West Lancashire Mark Lodge , No . 65 , held at the Adelphi Hotel , Liverpool , Bro . John C . Robinson , P . P . G . Stwd ., W . M , in the chair , it was resolved that the sum of £ 10 ios . be forwarded to the Grand Mark Benevolent Fund .

It appears from the annual report of the Royal Humane Society that last year the number of bathers in the Serpentine was 175 , 000 , some of them availing themselves of the facilities for bathing even during the protracted frost . Only one fatality , resulting in the death of a boy , occurred .

Bro . Sir J . W . Ellis , Bart , M . P , presided at a meeting held at Buccleugh House , Richmond , on the 2 nd instant , for the purpose of organising a presentation to be made to the Princess Mary of Cambridge , Duchess of Teck , in commemoration of her silver wedding .

By command of her Majesty the Prince of Wales will hold levees at St . James ' s Palace , on Monday , the 20 th inst , and on Friday , the 15 th May . It is the Queen ' s pleasure that presentations to his Royal Highness shall be considered equivalent to presentations to her Majesty .

We regret to hear that Bro . G . A . F . Cavendish-Bentinck , M . P , has been unable to resume his parliamentary duties . He had been getting the better of a protracted indisposition , when , unfortunately , he had a relapse and is confined to his residence on Brownsea Island , Poole , Dorset .

Bro . Sir William Hart-Dyke , Bart , M . P , Vice-President of the Council for Education , spoke at the Conference banquet of the National Union of Teachers , at Cardiff , on Thursday , the 2 nd instant , expressing a hope that they would not be long before they had an Intermediate Education Act for England .

" Olivia , " with Bro . Henry Irving as the Vicar of Wakefield , and Miss Ellen Terry in the title role , will be reproduced at the Lyceum Theatre on Wednesday , the 22 nd inst , and the two following nights , and will thenceforth be continued on the same nights in each week , and will be likewise played at a matinee on the 25 th inst .

Bro . Lord Burton , we are glad to say , has entirely recovered from his recent severe illness , and has enjoyed excellent health during the past week . His lordship and Lady Burton are at present at Rangemore , Derbyshire , but will visit London next month for a few weeks previous to leaving England for some continental watering-place .

Bro . J . C . Dimsdale presided at the 78 th Anniversary Festival held at the Hotel Metropole , on Tuesday , in aid of the London Orphan Asylum , Watford , when the subscriptions and donations were announced as amounting to £ 4 692 , including her Majesty ' s annual donation of X * 2 C £ 525 from the Grocers' Company , and £ 210 collected trom former pupils .

The Princess Mary Duchess of Teck , the Duke of Teck , and the Princess Mary and Prince Francis of Teck , were present in Chelsea Barracks , on the 2 nd inst , and witnessed a ^ performance of the Guards' Burlesque of " Robinson Crusoe , " which went exceedingly well throughout . The audience included the Marchioness of Londonderry . Bro . Lord and Lady Hothfield , and Bro . Lord Cheylesmore .

_ Lord Lathom is to take the chair at the anniversary festival of the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain on the 29 th instant . The dinner will be held at the Whitehall Rooms in the Hotel Metropole . The Royal Society of Musicians is more than 150 years old , and its Royal Charter was received more than a century back . It bears the date of 17 S 0 , the year of the National Thanksgiving for George the Third ' s recovery from thatserious illness which involved

Pitt in the troublesome question of the Regency . Handel bequeathed to this society a thousand pounds , and its history is full of other interesting links with the past . These are told annually to the guests at the festival dinner in what may be called the Book of the Feast . The institution last year was the means of distributing £ 4000 for the maintenance and relief of old and indigent musicians or of musicians' widows and orphans .

HOI . LOWAV ' S Pius . —Any dyspeptic sufferer aware of the purifying , regulating * , and gently aperient powers of iliese Pills , should permit no one to cloud his judgment or to warp his course . V \ ith a box of HoIIoway's Pills , and attention to its accompanying " Directions , " he niav feel thoroughly sacislied that he can safely ancl ell ' ectiially' release himself From his miseries without impairing his appetite or weakening his digestion

, lhis most excellent medicine acts as a nervine and bodily tonic by aiding nutrition , and banishes a thousand annojing forms of nervous complaints . An occasional resort to Holloway ' s remedy will prove highly salutary to all persons , whether well or ill , whose digestion is slow or imperfect , a condition usually evidenced by weariness , langour , listlessness , and despondency , —ADVT ,

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The Queen , on the invitation of the Prince of Wal es has been graciously pleased to become Patron of -j . - * Hackney Horse Society . The Ballad Singers had a very successful Soiree Musical e at the Suffolk-street Galleries on Wednesday evening under the direction of Bro . Wilhelm Ganz , Past G . Organist .

Bro . Viscountand Viscountess Sherbrooke have been spend ing Easter at Sherbrooke , Warlingham , Surrey , n ; satisfactory to know that his lordship has passed well through the late severe winter . The foundation-stone of the church at Strathpeffer , wliid , is to be raised as a memorial to the late Duchess of Suther . land , Countess of Cromartie , was laid with Masonic honours by Sir Hector Munro , of Foulis Castle .

There are very good grounds for believing that the R 0 y | Commission on Labour will include , among others , Bros , the Marquis of Hartington ( president ) , Sir M . E . Hicks Beach , Bart , M . P ., and Sir John E . Gorst , Q . C , M . P .

There will be a meeting of the Order of Knights of Malta on Thursday , the 16 th inst , when approved candidates will be admitted after the meeting of the Shadwell Clerke Pre . ceptory of Knights Templar . The Recorder is Sir Kni ght H . Lovegrove , 26 , Budge-row , E . C .

His Royal Highness , the Duke of Cambridge , presided at the 133 rd anniversary festival held at the Hotel Metropole , on Wednesday , in aid of the Orphan Working School . The subscriptions and donations announced in the course of the evening amounted to about £ 1500 . The ceremony of consecrating the Hornsey Lodge of Instruction , No . S 90 , at the Masonic Rooms , adjoining the

White Hart , High-street , Lewisham , originally announced for the gth inst , will take place on Thursday , the 16 th , at 7 p . m . precisely . The ceremonies of consecration and installation will be performed by Bro . James Terry , P . G . S . B . England , & c . Secretary of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution .

The annual dinner of the Institution of Civil Engineers was , by the courtesy of the Company , held in the hall ol the Merchant Taylors' Company , Threadneedle-street , on Wednesday evening . The chair was occupied by Sir John Coode , K . C . M . G ., and among the principal guests were the Duke of Teck , and Bros . Sir Redvers Buller , V . C , Sir Frederick Abel , Sir Charles Hutton Gregory , Sir Albert W . Woods , John Aird , M . P , and others .

At the meeting of the Denison Royal Arch Chapter , No . 124 S , held at the Masonic Hall , Scarborough , on the ist instant , Comp . Chambers , M . E . Z , in the chair , Comp . T . Dawes Savony was installed as H . ; the chapter Comp , T . H . Dunn , was installed as Z . ; and Comp . R . Hamper as J . of 200 . The companions , together with Craft Masons , afterwards assembled at Bro . J . H . Reas ' s , Brunswick Hotel , and partook of an excellent supper .

Those who , having seen Mr . E . J . Lonnen in burlesque , would like to see him in comedy , should wend their way on the afternoon of Tuesday next to the Queen ' s Gate Hall , South Kensington , where Mr . Frank M'Donnell is to give a dramatic and musical matinee , of which the screen scene from "The School for Scandal" is to form a

prominent item . In that scene Mr . Lonnen is set down to play Charles Surface , with Mr . M Donnell as Joseph and Mr . W . Farren , jun , as Sir Peter . The tableaux which are to be given at the Duke of York ' school on the 16 th and 17 th inst , are already causing much interest in London society , as several of those who assisted

in Mrs . Frederick Beer ' s tableaux have promised to take part in these . The Commander-in-Chief has signified his intention of being present to witness what will certainly be a most artistic as well . as novel entertainment . The programme will include representations of well-known military pictures , portraying the leading events of a soldier ' s life in peace and war from enlistment till he becomes a pensioner

in Old Chelsea Hospital . A report having been circulated to the effect that the Grand Master of Maine had recommended the use of the phonograph in order to obtain uniformity of ritual , Bro . Stephen Berry , Assistant Grand Secretary of that jurisdiction , has written to say that the Grand Master never made

any such recommendation , but in the course of some remarks had jocularly said that absolute perfection in ritual could not be looked for until such an instrument had been purchased , and the brethren who wished to be good workers must study the full meaning of our symbols , and whateacn of them is intended to represent .

An announcement of the resuscitati m of the High'' " ' clans will doubtless be received by some as only a joke-There is , however , really a movement on foot with the obje of at least bringing about some sort of practical union among Highlanders of the same name , though the aims the union may , like those of Masonic lodges , be for tn present rather of a benevolent than of a political characte . The Dukeof Arp * vll natrnnises the movement on the pa

of the Campbells , and various other Highland chiefs a-f been mentioned as more or less favourable tothe moveme among men of their respective names . —Court Jourim ¦ The Royal Military Tournament will be held at the Royal Agricultural Hall , Islington , from the 26 th May to tne " ^ June inclusive , and this year several new features wi introduced . A detachment of the Victorian Mounre Rifles , which left Melbourne on the 28 th ult , will be presen ^ as well as a representative nartv of the fencing instruc

of the French Army , who will attend by permission 91 French Government . There will also be riding ana J ^ ing competitions for both officers and men . 1 he yue Patron , and the Duke of Cambridge President . 01 ^ Tournament , _ which , since its establishment in 1 J > f > 4 > contributed , ( , ' 24 , 500 to the military charities .

On Friday evening last , the 3 rd inst , an e "l ' eve ! . Masonic social in . connection with the Lodge 0 r le au * c ance , No . 345 , and in aid of the East Lancashire by 5 ' . Masonic Educational and Benevolent Institution , t 0 ° gjaCkin the Exchange Assembly Rooms , Town Hall-street , , mciuu

burn . There was a very good gathering , | t W . M . of the lodge , Bro . Robert Parkinson . An e- ~ . | I ) ter . programme of dances had been arranged , and ™ ; , j es 6 rs . spersed with songs by Miss Baron , Miss Pickering * & tl _ V . M . Kisielowski , J . H . Bury , Hartley , T . Sharp s ¦ ^ J . Birch . A duet was also given by Bros . Haru . . ^ " Clough , and a violin solo by Mr . James Southwo"" * . M . C . was Bro . S . Goldstone , P . M , who was assisteu efficient staff of Stewards .