Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

BRO . THE E ARL OF DUNRAVEN has left for Adare Manor , county Limerick . BRO . THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF KINTORE have taken 55 , Hans-place , till Easter , and have arrived in town from Keith HaU , Scotland . H . R . H . THE P RINCE OF WALES , attended by Bro . Major-General Sir Stanley Clarke , arrived at Marlborough House on Monday afternoon from Norfolk . TO-DAY ( Friday ) Princess Christian will arrive at Osborne on a visit to the Queen , and to-morrow ( Saturday ) her Majesty will hold an investiture at Osborne .

LADV CHARLES BERESFORD has arrived at Parkgate House , Ham Common , from Paris . Bro . Lord Charles Beresford will return to England at the end of February . THE COUNTESS OF J ERSEY gave a ball at Middleton Park , Bicester , on Tuesday evening , for which a large number of invitations were issued , all the neighbouring houses being filled with guests for the occasion . PRINCESS C HRISTIAN OF SCHL ' ESWIQ-HOLSTEIN has undertaken to distribute the prizes won last season by the members of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps ( London Companies ) on Friday , the 27 th inst .

BRO . THE E ARL OF WARWICK has been advised to leave England for Biarritz , a diphtheric attack from which he suffered two years ago having left his throat rather weak , and a change to a finer climate is thought desirable . BRO . THE D UKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND returned to Alnwick Castle on Tuesday evening , after attending the funeral of his father at Westminster Abbey on Monday , His Grace was accompanied by his daughters , the Ladies Percy .

THE I NFANTA EULALIA OF S PAIN arrived at Hertford on Monday evening on a visit to Sir George and Lady Faudel-Phillips , Balls Park . A number of guests were invited to meet her Royal Highness , and a ball was given in her honour on Tuesday night . THE C OMMANDER-IN-C HIEF ( Bro . Lord Wolseley ) has approved of the following race meetings being held at Aldershot , namely , the Cavalry Brigade Meeting , March 20 th and 21 st j Royal Artillery Meeting , April Sth ; Aldershot Spring Meeting , May 12 th and 13 th .

LORD TENNYSON ' memorial at Haslemere Church will take the form of a window , after a design by the late Sir Edward Burne-Jones ( oneof the last of a series illustrating the story of the Holy Grail ) representing the vision which came to Sir Galahad in the little chapel . It will cost about £ 100 . THE QUEEN held a dinner party at Osborne on Tuesday night , preceding the leave taking of the Empress Frederic , who crossed from Trinity Wharf on Wednesday in the Royal yacht Alberta to Portsmouth , en route for London . The Empress left Buckingham Palace on Thursday for the Continent .

THE ANNIVERSARY of the death of Napoleon the Third was observed on Monday by a Requiem service at the Imperial Mausoleum , Farnborough , celebrated by the Prior ( Rev . Father Cabrol ) and the brethren of the Monastery of Solesmes . The Empress Eugenie , who is at Cap Martin , her residence in France , _ was represented by M . Uhlmann , who was the body-servant of the Prince Imperial , and accompanied him to Zululand .

HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPRESS FREDERIC left Osborne on Monday and embarked at Trinity Warf , East Cowes , in the Royal yacht Alberta , in which , accompanied by Captain Prince Louis of Battenberg , she crossed to Portsmouth . On leaving the yacht at . the southern railway jetty of the dockyard the Empress was received by Admiral Sir Mich '; - ! Culme-Seymour , Commander-in-Chief , who was attended by

Flag-Lieutenant Sinclair . Her Imperial Majesty was conducted on board the Majestic , flagship of the Channel Squadron , which was lying alongside the jetty . The officers were on the quater-deck and the crew " manned ship . " Prince Louis conducted the Empress over the vessel , after which her Majesty took luncheon with Prince Louis of Battenberg , and subsequently returned to Cowes in the Alberta .

THE QUEEN on Monday decorated with the Distinguished Conduct Medal the following non-commissioned officers and men , all of whom took part in the recent expedition in the Soudan and were mentioned in despatches by Bro . Major-General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum , G . C . B ., Sirdar of the Egytian Army , for their distinguished services during the operations : Lance-Sergeant W . Chalmers and Private W .

Bushell , 21 st Lancers ; Quartermaster-Sergeant J . E . C . Chamberlain and Sergeant-Master-Cook J . M . Brooke , Grenadier Guards ; Colour-Sergeant | J . M . Mclver , Seaforth Highlanders ; Staff-Quartermaster-Sergeant G . M . Osborne , Army Service Corps ; Sergeant A . T . Mears , Royal Army Medical Corps ; and Second-Class Armourer-Sergeant Woollam , Army Ordnance Corps . Her Royal Highness Princess Henry of Battenberg was present with her Majesty .

Miss GRACE HAWTHORNE , whose courageous efforts in management at the Princess ' s , and whose impersonation of Theodora appealed to the admiration of Madame Sarah Bernhardt , proposes to make her reappearance as the heroine of a stage version of Alphonse Daudet ' s novel , "Sapho , " in which Mesdames Jane Hading and R ( 5 jane on the dramatic , ar . d Madame Calve on the operatic stage , have achieved successful creations . M . Daudet ' s powerful work has received revision of a character to suit it to the Enerlish stage wiihout in any wise diminishing its ethical significance , and

a fine spectacular feature has been made of the operatic ball scene , familiar even to those who have not read the book , in the celebrated picture . This play , which is to be handsomely mounted , will be tentalively produced at the Theatre Royal , Windsor , as the beginning of a provincial tour , on the 16 th instant , after which Miss Hawthorne hopes , on finding a suitable theatre , to bring the play to London . H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES presided at a meeting at Marlborough House of the Executive Committee of the Royal Commission of the Pans Exhibition of igoo , and

afterwards presided at a meeting of the Finance Committee . The members of the Executive present were the Earl of Crewe , Bro . the Earl of Jersey , Earl Spencer , Lord Kelvin , Bro . the Right Hon . C T . Ritchie , Bro . Sir Frederick A . Abel , Sir Edward H . Carbutt , Bro . the Hen . Sir H . Stafford Northcote , Bart ., Sir Andrew Clarke , Sir David Tennant , Sir John Bramston , Sir John F . D . Donnelly , Sir Edward J . Poynter , Bro . Arthur j . R . Trendell , and Colonel Herbert Jekyll ( Secretary ) . The members of the Finance Committe e were : Lord Rothschild , Lord Welby , Sir Edward H . Carbutt , Sir

George Hayter Chubb , Sir Charles W . Freemantle , Sir Robert G . W . Herbert , Bro . Sir Thomas Sutheiland , Bro . Sir Charles Rivers Wilson , Bro . Arthur J . R . Trendell , and the Governor of the Bank of England , ln the evening his Royal Highness , as Colonel-in-Chief of the Gordon Highlanders , was present , attended by Bro . Major-General Sir Stanley Clarke , at a dinner given by the members ofthe Caledonian Club to Lieutenant-Colonel Mathias . C . B ., and some officers of the ist Battalion of the regiment , on their return from India . Bro . the Earl of March was in the chair .

Masonic And General Tidings.

MR . REID , the New South Wales Premfer , has offered the post of Agent-General for the colony in London to Sir Julian Salomons , who , it is believed , will accept the appointment . H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES is to be asked to accept the Royal Order of Scottish Masonry on the occasion of his visit to Edinburgh for the purpose of attending the annual show of the Highland and Agricultural Society .

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND and Countess Cadogan have not left Ireland , but are residing at the Viceregal Lodge , Dublin . Their Excellencies will take up their residence at Dublin Castle . about the 28 th instant , for the season .

T . R . H . THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES , Piincess Victoria , and the Duke and Duchess of York , attended Divine service at the church of St . Mary Magdalene , on Sunday morning last , attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Household . PRINCE ALBERT OF SCHLESWIQ -HOLSTEIN , who has been staying for about a fortnight with Prince and Princess Christian , left Cumberland Lodge , Windsor Park , on Saturday last , upon the conclusion of his visit , for Darmstadt , in order to rejoin his regiment .

BRO . J . H . WHADCOAT , J . P ., P . M . Athelstan Lodge , No . 19 , recently Mayorof Poole , has been unanimously elected on the Court of Assistants of the Spectaclemakers ' Company . Bro . Whadcoat gave £ 1050 to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys at the Centenary Festival last year . AT ST . GEORGE ' S CHAPEL , Windsor Castle , on Sunday evening last , a funeral march was played by Bro . Sir Walter Parratt at the close of the service , as a mark of respect to the memory of the lake Duke of Northumberland , who was a Knight of the Garter , and whose banner and insignia hang above his stall in the choir .

THE MASSEY -MAINWARINO cup for competition among metropolitan corps of the St . John Ambulance Brigade has been won by the Great Northern Railway Corps , who also took it in 18 95 . Last year the cup was held by East Ham , whose team this year ranked third , a team from the South Metropolitan Gasworks being second . THE RIGHT HON . J . CHAMBERLAIN , Secretary of State for the Colonies , will entertain a house party at Highbury , including the Duke of Devonshire , for the annual banquet of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce , to be held on the 23 rd instant . Bro . the Duke of Devonshire and Mr . Chamberlain will be among the speakers at the dinner .

AT A SPECIAL MEETING ot the managers of the Royal Institution , held on Saturday afternoon last , it was resolved that the Royal Institution be closed on Monday , the day of the funeralof his Grace the Duke of Northumberland , K . G ., the President of the Institution , which post he had held since the year 1873 . He had been a member ever since 1851 .

THE CRIPPLEGATE LODGE , NO . 1613 , will hold its annual ball in the King's Hall of the Holborn Restaurant , on Tuesday , the 17 th instant . A strong committee has been formed under Bro . B . Garner , W . M ., with Bro . W . Medwin , P . M ., 143 , Grahamroad , N . E ., as Secretary , of whom tickets and all necessary particulars can be obtained . The services of Bro . Dan Godfrey , jun . 's , band have been secured for the occasion .

THEIR MAJESTIES THE QUEEN AND THE EMPRESS FREDERIC drove out on Saturday afternoon Iast , _ attended by the Hon . Aline Majendie . His Serene Highness and her Grand Ducal Highness Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg , with Prince George and the Princesses Alice and Louise , arrived at Osborne , having crossed over from Portsmouth on board her Majesty's yacht Alberta , Rear-Admiral Fullerton , A . D . C

WE REGRET to ' state that the death of Lady Edith Cecil Bootle-Wilbraham , the youngest daughter of Bro . the late Lord Lathom , took place on Thursday , after much suffering , at Gloucester-place , Portman-square . The remains of the deceased will be conveyed by train from Euston Station on Sunday next to Lathom House , Ormskirk , Lancashire , and the funeral is fixed for Monday at 12 o ' clock . The deceased will be buried in the family vault wherein lies the remains of Bro . the late Lord Lathom .

THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDON , K . G ., who is now at Goodwood , has quite recovered from the effects of the severe chill which seized him while travelling from Scotland to the South . His Grace honoured the annuil servants' ball at Goodwood with his presence , as did also Bro . the Earl of March and other members of the family , Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox opening the ball in a country dance with Mr . Cheesman , the house steward .

AT A MEETING of thc General Council of the Gordon Memorial College Fund to be held on Wednesday , the iSth inst ., at the Bank of England , a statement of the accounts of the fund will be submitted and subsequently published . It is requested that the amount of the subscriptions received up to date on the lists opened in various parts of the country be communicated to the honorary secretary , 67 , Lombard-street , London , on or before to-morrow . ( Saturday ) .

THE FIRST NUMBER of the new weekly [ ournal which is to wage War Against War ( the title thereof ) makes its appearance to-day ( Friday ) . The editor , Mr . Stead , sounds the " clarion call of duty" in no uncertain tone . Mr . Rudyard Kipling's famous " Recessional " is republished in a niche which is to be devoted to poetry , and which is somewhat curiously named " The Crusade Psalter . " Then there are " Views from many standpoints , " including those of Mr . Balfour , Lord Northbrook , Lord Ashbourne , and the Duke of Argyll . Mark Twain , in an article he has written lor the second number of War Against War , says— "The Czar is in favour of disarmament . So am I . There ought to be no difficulty about the rest ot the world . "

AT THE RETFORD POLICE COURT on the 9 th inst ., before the Mayor ( Mr . Peatfield ) , Mr . J . A . H . Hirst , Mr . P . Tomlinson , and Mr . G . Cutts , a man giving the name of James Warburton was brought up in custody charged with obtaining alms by fraudulently representing himself to be a Freemason . Captain Thomas , superintendent of the Retford police , said the prisoner called upon him on Saturday night about nine o ' clock and asked him , as the Almoner for the Retford Lodge of Freemasons , to give him relief . He challenged his statement as to his being a Freemason , and he said he was a member of the Blagdon Lodge , Blythe , Northumberland , No . 659 and hid been

, for 28 years . He tested this statement , and the prisoner admitted that he was not a member of the Blagdon Lodge . He found a letter in his pocket purporting to be from the Secretary of the Blagdon Lodge , enclosing him £ 3 on the 4 th November , 1 S 9 S , and signed Wm . Smithson . There was no secretary of that name , the Secretary being Mr . Malkensrose , who had telegraphed to say that Jas . Warburton was not and never had been a member . Prisoner admitted he wrote the letter himself , and he now

said he was guilty . He was further charged with being the man who , at Cheadle , in Staffordshire , under the name of Bradburn , was convicted ot a similar offence and sent to gaol for seven days with hard labour . The superintendent of police slid there was so much of this thing going on that he had been instructed to prosecute everyone of the impostors who came round . _ Prisoner pleaded guilty and said he knew he had done wrong . Sentenced to 14 days imprisonment with hard labour . —Sheffield Telegraph .

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