Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

Comp . H . I ' . Storr xx-as pi-escnled xvith a ninssive gold jexvel by the Lion and Lamb Chapter of Royal Arch Masons on AVednesday last at thc Cannon-street Hotel . At the I'liix-crs .-il Lodge , No . iSr , on Thursday last , at Freemasons' Hall , Bro . VV . R . Norris xvas installed into the chair of K . S . xvith great eclat . We shall give a full account of the proceedings in our next issue .

The Prince of Wales arrived at Tring- Station at seven o ' clock on Tuesday evening en route for Halton Mansion , the residence of Mr . Alfred de Rothschild , xvhere he is expected to remain till to-day ( Friday ) enjoying the shooting of the district .

A marble statue of the late William Wilberforce xvas presented to the toxvn of Hull on Tuesday by Air . H . Briggs , xvho xvas the sheriff of the toxvn and county last year . The statue xvas unveiled by Bishop Wilberforce , of Newcastle , grandson of the liberator , in the presence of thc mayor , toxvn councillors , and a large company .

The brethren attending the services at St . Alban s Abbey have recently made a great improvement to thc pulpit , xvhich xvas presented by the Freemasons of ICngland , by the addition of a pair of handsome three-light brass standards for candles , designed by John Oldred Scott , Esq ., and manufactured by Alessrs . Henry Alarloxv and Co ., 127 , Regent street , W .

The sixth annual ball of the Jiccleston Lodge , No . 1 G 24 , in conjunction with the chapter , xvas held on thc irth inst ., at the Westminster Town Hall , under the presidency of Bro . C . Tayler , VV . AL About 150 ladies and gentlemen xvere present . Bro . Seaton ' s band xvas fully appreciated . Bro . McKenzie , piper Scots Guards , in Highland costume , played on thc bagpipes to the Highland schottische .

The Keystone says : -Is this Masonic progress ? Grand AIaster Van t loose , of Arkansas , said that xvhen he became a Alason , tu-enty-nine years ago , there xverc only two lodges in bis county , and they xvere always xvell atlemWd , although many olxl Masons had to ride fronx ten to fifteen miles to attend lodge meetings . Noxv there are txventy lodges in the same county , and it is sometimes a hard matter to get a quorum at a regular meeting 1

The folloxving dinners have been held during the past week at F ' reemasons' Tavern * . Jan . 14 th—London Society Ball ; St . George ' s and Corner Stone Lodge . Jan . 15 th—Old Paulines' Club , Salisbury Lodge , Cadogan Lodge . Jan . 16 th—Grand Stewards' Lodge , Oak Lodge , Noviomagus , Alessrs . Spreckley . Whitc , Lexvis , and Co . ' s Complimentary Dinner . Jan . 17 th—Universal I . odgc , Great

Northern Lodge , St . Alary ' s Lodge , Globe Lodge , Linncan Club . Jan . iSth—Nelcus Club Ball , Aletropolitan Dairy mens' Association , Jordan Lodge , I ' niversity Lodge . A great deal of nonsense has been xvritten at various times about the right of various regiments to march thtouch the City of 1-ondon with bayonets fixed and

colours Hying , and xve are now asked by a correspondent for information on thc same subject "to settle a wager betxveen two Bristol gentlemen . " Wc cannot accept thc duty of settling wagers on any subject , but there is no harm in 'our stating that the East Kent Regiment enjoys the privilege of marching through the City with drums beating and colours Hying . —llroad Arrota .

liro . li . Dresser-Rogers , CC , was last week elected chairman of a committee of freeholders and others , at Great Ilookham , Surrey , appointed for the purpose of settling xvith the London and South Western Railway Company thc compensation to be paid hy thc company for

common rights over a portion of Hookham Common , and also to consider improvements contemplated in regard to approach roads , Sic , to the nexv station . The railxvay is rapidly approaching completion , and it is expected xvill open up this beautiful part of Surrey for residential

purposes . Thc Tilbury Lodge , No . 2006 , xvas consecrated on Wednesday , at the offices of thc contractors for the 'Tilbury Docks , at the Docks Works . Thc lodge xvas to have been consecrated by Lord Brooke , thc Prov . Grand Alaster for Essex , but at the last moment his lordship xvas unable to be present , and thc ceremony xvas performed by

Bro . F . A . Philbrick , O . C , thc Dep . Prov . Grand Alaster . Bro . Donald S . Haynes " , thc engineer of the Docks , xvas installed as the first AIaster of the lodge ; Bro . Augustus Manning , as S . VV . ; Uros . Alexander Dudgeon , J . W . ; Frank Kirk , as Treas . ; Joseph Randall , as Sec ; J . M . Ross , as S . D . ; Porter , as I . G . and Hamilton , as D . C . A banquet followed at the Nexv Falcon Hotel , Gravesend . A report xvill appear in our next .

The first annual Masonic ball in Lancaster , the proceeds of xvhich xvill be given to the VVest Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution , promises to be a very successful affair , lt xvill be held in thc Aless Rooms of the 3 rd and . | th Battalion of the 4 th King ' s Oxvn ( Royal Lancaster ) Regiment , and is under thc patronage of the Earl of Carnarvon , Pro G . AL , and the Countess of Carnarvon ;

ICarl Lathom , Deputy G . AL , and the Countess of Lathom ; Col . the Hon . F . A . Stanley , D . P . G . AI . West Lancashire , and Lady Constance Stanley ; Earl Bective , Prov . G . AL Cumberland and Westmorland , and the Countess of Bective ; Col . Le Gendre N . Starkie , Prov . G . AI . East Lancashire ; Lord Hartington , Prov . G . AL Derbyshire ; Capt . Garnett , Prov . G . S . W . ; J . Fenton , P . AL , Ex- Alayor of Uncaster ;

and a number of local Masons . 'The duties of Secretary are being carried out by Bro . R . Stanton , S . W . 281 . HOLLOWAY ' OIX I MEST . XXII PILLS xvill be found the best friend to persons alMctud xviilx xilccrations , bad legs , sores , abscesses , hstulas , and oilier painful ami complicated comp laints . Primed and verv plain directions fnrthc application of the Ointment arc xxrapped rou ' wl each pot . Holloway ' s alterative Pills slmnlil lie taken throughill state

out thc progress of thc cure , lo maintain the blood a perfect purity and to prevent thc health of the xvholc body being jeopardised by the local ailments ; bail legs , old age ' s great grievances , arc thus readily cured , without confining thc patient to bed , or uilhdraxving from ' him or her the nutritious diet and generous support so inipcratircly demanded , xxlicn xveakenin ^ iliscase ; . attack advanced years or constitutions evincing premature decrepitude , — [ APVI . ]

Masonic And General Tidings

Bro . T . \ V . C . Bush was on Thursday Installed VV . AL of the Temple Bar Lodge at Anderton's Hotel , Fleetstreet . A report xvill appear in our next . It is said that a proposal xvill be made to confer the freedom of the City of London on Bro . I -ord Shaftesbury on the occasion of the banquet at xvhich he is to be entertained by Bro . the Lord Alayor in the course of the summer .

With a view to encourage the development of art taste among boys attending public elementary schools at Canterbury , several gentlemen have agreed to pay for the instruction of a number of youths at the Sidney Cooper School of Art in that city .

The "Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar and Pocket Book , " published by Air . Kenning , of Great Queenstreet , deserves a xvord of praise . It is a well-compiled and comprehensive book of Alasonic reference , and xvill be much appreciated by all members of the Craft . —Court Circular .

The eldest son of Bro . Lord Methuen , Prov . G . M . Wiltshire , of Corsham Court , Wilts , Colonel the Hon . Paul Sanford Methuen . C . B ., Assistant Adjutant and Quarter-master-General of the Home District , late Alilitary Attache at Berlin , xvas married on the gth inst ., at Nynehead parish church , Somerset , to Alary Ethel Sanford , second daughterof Air . William Ashford Sanford , Nynehead Court , Somerset . The ceremony was performed the Bishop of Bath and Wells , father-in-laiv of Air . Sanford .

The nexv Roman Catholic Cathedral at Westminster is to be built immediately , on plans borroxved from the designs of the Votivkirche in Vienna , drawn by the late Baron von Ferstel . It is to form the centre of the extensive quadrangle comprising the site of Tothill-fields Prison , xvhich is acquired at a cost of £ 103 , 01 x 1 . The Cathedral xvill be 570 ft . long and 350 ft . wide at the nave , and is estimated to cost £ 500 , 000 .

A meeting xvas held on the ioth inst ., at which it was decided to found a Lodge for members of the University , London , to be called the University of London Lodge . 'The meeting stands adjourned to Wednesday , 23 rd inst ., to complete the necessary preliminaries . A xvish xvas strongly expressed that the Lord . Mayor of London , xvho is a distinguished graduate of the University , xvould

consent to be the first Worshipful AIaster . H . R . H . the Dukeof Albany has accepted the office of W . AL of * thc Royal Clarence Lodge , No . 1 S 21 , Clare , Suffolk , to xvhich his Royal Highness has been duly elected fur thc ensuing year . It is understood that thc Duke has intimated his intention to appoint Bro . Major-General Cecil Ives , of Aloynes Park , as Deputy , and that the

installation ceremony xvill be performed shortly by thc Deputy Provincial Grand Alaster , Bro . the Rev . C . J . Alartyn , P . G . C The honour conferred on this lodge is attributable to thc fact that Prince Leopold takes his title of ICarl of Clarence from the ancient toxvn of Clare , and has heen an honorary member for the past txvo years . During the week ending December 22 nd in 28

cities of thc United States , having an aggregate population of » > 557 » 5 o ° < there died 2632 persons , xvhich is equivalent loan annual death-rate of 21 . 0 per 1000 . For the North Atlantic cities thc rate xvas 19 . 0 ; for thc Eastern cities , 32 . 3 j forthe Lake cities , 17 . 4 ; fiir the River cities , 1 C . 8 ; and in the Southern cities , for the xvhitcs 24 . 2 , and for thc coloured . 18 . 7 per 1000 . 33 . 7 per cent , ot all thc deaths xvcre of children under five years of age .

The feature of emigration from Great Britain in iSS , ; is the fact that , though its volume is smaller than that of the years immediately preceding , thu numbers proceeding to the Colonics shoxv an extraordinary increase ; and that the figures in connection xvith the United States shoxv an actual decrease for the eleven months ending November 30 th last , as compared xvith the returns of thc same period in 1882 .

The total number of actual settlers xvho located in Canada during the ten months ending October 3 ist last , is returned at 99 , 842 , as against 82 , 482 in the corresponding period last year . AU the arrivals have cither settled on the land or havc found employment in connection xvith thc expanding industries of thc country , thc many railxvay and other public xvorks in course of construction . There is

practically , an illimitable extent of good land still unoccupied , and the demand for labour during the coming season is expected to exceed that of any previous year . Thc xvant of female domestic servants is much felt , and any number of this class could lind immediate employment at all seasons of thc year , Thc financial position of the

Dominion has materially improved since xve last had the pleasure of calling attention to its rapid development , and after a close study of all the conditions obtaining in that country , xve see no reason xvhy the era of p rosperity , inaugurated four years ago , should not be sustained for a long time to come . .

Bro . Wilkinson , Secretary of tne York College of the Rosicrucian Society of England , has issued the folloxving circular : — _ "C . Vrater , — The Chief Adept of thc Province is anxious that the next Annual Alccting of thc College , xvhich xvill be summoned in February , 1 SS 4 , at York , should be made thc occasion of a scientific Alasonic gathering , at xvhich papers may be read on Alasonic subjects and an exhibition held of Masonic curiosities of alt kinds .

I he Chief Adept suggests that the meeting of thc College should be held at an early hour , and that invitations should be issued for a Alasonic conversazione in thc evening to xvhich all Alaster Alasons should be admitted by ticket . As it seems probable that such a gathering xvould conduce largely not only to thc advancement of the College and the Order , but to the intelligent study of Freemasonry uenerally

I shall be glad if you xvill furnish the Chief Adept ( Bro . T . B . Whytehead , York , ) as soon as possible with a list and description of articles you may possess which you consider worthy of inspection , as xvell as xvith the names of Brethren possessing Alasonic rarities who may be induced to lend them . By this means it will be possible to issue a descripcriptive catalogue , as a guide to those who attend the conversazione , il am , yours fraternally , T . J . WILKINSON ,

Secretary . Thirsk , Dec . 27 th , 1 S 83 . " MORE Omss ( this week ) by DR . I . OI . OCK ' S PULMONIC WAFERS . — " I have prescribed lhc Wafers for upwards of thirty years , and can speak highly of their soothing effects upon all the respiratory organ :, giving atmoit instant relief . A gentleman farmer , residing near Liverpool , states : ' 7 hey have saved my life / ' lam nex'er without them . " — ( Signed ) KUWAHII MICKLK , A . P . S ., 48 , Stanley-road , Liverpool . They taste pleasantly , and cllect a rapid cure . Price is , lid , and 2 s . od , per box of all Druggists , —[ AUVT , ]

Masonic And General Tidings

A new Masonic paper has been started at Fort Worth , 'Texas , under thc title of Thc Texas Freemason . The initial number is filled xvith interesting matter . A nexv Masonic hall , one of the finest in the State of Indiana , xvas dedicated at Warsaxv on the 27 th ult ., Bro . E . L . AlcLallen officiating as Grand AIaster . — Masonic Advocate .

Bro . A . Haigh-Brovvn xvas installed W . M . ot the Sincerity Lodge , No . 174 , held at the Guildhall Hotel , ICC , and a handsome jexvel xvas presented to the outgoing VV . M ., Bro . James S . F ' raser . We hope to furnish a report in our next .

Ihe Prince Leopold Lodge of Instruction , No . 1445 , noxv meets on Alonday evenings at seven o ' clock at 202 , Whitechapel-road , xvhere Bro . " W . H . Alyers , P . AL M 45 . P . M . and P . Z . S 20 , has kindly fitted up a room for the purposes of the lodge . Its late place and time of meetings xvere SS , Gracechurch-strcet , on Wednesday evenings . The Lady Mayoress gave a brilliant and largely

attended juvenile ball at the Alansion House on Wednesday evening , xvhen rather more than a thousand guests , for the most part young folks , xvere present . In this instance , though fancy dress xvas not obligatory , there was a great display of taste and artistic blending of colour in the bright costumes worn , the scene in the ball-room xvhen dancing xvas at its height being gay in the extreme .

P . G . M . Bro . Theodore S . Parvin justly condems the too customary practice of permitting defaulting ollicers to escape punishment . Illinois has been negligent in this direction ; but the last steal xvas so indefensible that it turned over the delinquent to the tender care and supervision of the State . It was not a pleasant thing to do , but it xvas a duty that could not be avoided . —Proceedin gs G . L . Illinois ,

The executors of the late Mr . T . Holloway , carrying out the xvishes of the deceased , called together , last week , all the clerks in the ofiice to thc room of the late . Mr . Holloway , in Oxford-street , and presented to the head of each department a cheque for £ 100 , at thc same time giving him an advance of £ 30 per annum in salary . To the other members of the staff they gax-e sums of money and an increase of salaries proportioned to the length of their

service . Bros . Moore and Burgess \* cry kindl y placed forty seats at the disposal of the young people staying at the Institute for Girls during the Holidays . Bro . Eugene Alontennis , P . AL , with equal kindness took them there and back in omnibuses , so that out young ( ttevxtls ixaxl a great treat and thoroughly enjoyed themselves . We think that these acts of kindly consideration deserve a fexv lines of notice in our columns .

VVe arc informed that a Portsmouth solicitor , recently deceased , has bequeathed thc sum of £ 2000 to the Portsmouth Grammar School , forthe purpose of founding a scholarship , a condition , however , being attached to thc effect that no Jciv or son of a Freemason shall be allowed to participate in the benefits of the bequest . It has been decided b y thc governors of the school to accept the bequest on the condition named .

A students concert of the Highbury and Islington Organ School and College of Alusic xvas given on Tuesday last , at 13 , Doxvnham-road , N ., under the direction of thc talented principal , Aliss Berrie Stephens , R . A . AI . The programme included many numbers of thoroughly high class music , and the various performers acquitted themselves admirabl y . . We noticed several of- thc executants onl

xvcre y in their lirst term , and congratulate Aliss Stephens upon their proficiency . Thc accompanists xvcre Aliss F . Smith , Air . Gray , and Aliss Berrie Stephens . Diss ' s Household Fire Escape . —There is no doubt that very many of the lives that are annually lost through lire xvould bo saved , were there at hand appliances for coping with the flames in the carlv states of thc

conllagration , and it is equally clear that similar beneficial results xvould folloiv , if in the attempt to arrest thc fire at its outset proving ineffectual , there were means instantly available by xvhich the inmates of a house on fire might contrive their escape from the premises . It is no infrequent occurrence for a life or lives to be sacrificed because the fire escape xvas not broucht to the snot with siiflirionr

promptitude or xvas stationed too far off to be turned to a useful account . Mr . Diss ' s invention is likely to prove most valuable . It is intended to be kept on the premises and may be affixed to any xvindoxv frame in a house . Owing to thc simplicity of its construction , there is little danger in the excitement of thc moment of its getting out of gear . Air . Diss ' s Fire Escape , xvhich goes by the appropriate

name of " The Rescue , " consists of a hollow iron arm pr bracket ; in this arc inserted three pulleys , through which is passed a rope tested to any required strength . The pulleys are arranged and hungon bolts in such a manner that the rope may pass over them at quick speed , so that the person using it may steady—or if need be , stop—any weight and lower it to the ground xvith perfect care and

safety . An ornamental iron socket—to secure thc arm or bracket—is screwed to thc inside of the window frame , and there is also a small catch-plate on the outside of thc xvindoxv frame to keep the arm in a fixed position when in use . The escape consists of the best tested rope and leather belt complete for use and is so compact that it may easilbe carried in carpet

y a bag . It is guaranteed to carry any xveight up to a quarter of a ton and may be put into use at once . Air . Diss very recently gave an exhibition of his Escape at a house in Princes-street , Ipsxvich . "The Rescue ' xvas fixed to a third floor window and some 30 or 40 people ranging in weight from about three to 15 or 16 stone were loivercd to the ground xvith the greatest case imaginable in tho

presence ot a large number of people , among xvhom xvas the Superintendent of the Ipswich Fire Brigade , who let himself down by ) t and expressed his great satisfaction with the ease , simplicity , and speed with xvhich it xvas xvorked . Indeed , everyone who has had an opportunity of witnessing experiments with or personally testing Air . Diss S Escape xvill come to the conclusion that it is a most

important invention , and , as it is the reverse of costly householders xvill do xvell to have one on their promises . MADAM * TUSFAUD ' S EXHIBITION . —Special attractions , including Portrait Models of the Dukeof KDINIiUlU'll , Sir Evelyn Wood «! . it ? . ¦; h ' ' '•i ! ala'r 1 ? sha ' and M - Ferdinand dc Lessens . Captain Webb ( taken Irom lite ) . Costly Court Dresses . Also Marwood taken from sittings ) and lamcs . Carcy , the informer . —Admission is txtra rooms , Od , Open from 10 till 10 , [ ADVT . ]