Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

Bro . Dr . Richardson , of the London School Board , contributes a paper on " Intoxicant Dreaming" to the current number of "Modern Thought . " Bro . Captain H . Bedford Pirn writes to the Globe with reference to the recent exhibits by thc

Entomological Society , which he praises for its energy during the " holiday " season . Bro . Alderman Knight , who is now in America , had a very serious attack of colic whilst staying at New York , and at one time the symptons were of a very serious character . He is now pronounced to be convalescent .

Bro . Sir Henry G . Thayer , Past Grand Commander of Indiana , met with quite a serious accident while driving from Maxinkuckee Lake to Plymouth , some three weeks since , by the running away of a spirited pair of horses he was driving . Although disabled for a time , we believe he has recovered , and is again attending to business .

The W . M . of the Montague Guest Lodge , Bro . Dean , calls our attention to an error in reporting the remarks made by him at the last meeting . In referring to the P . G . M . for Dorsetshire , R . VV . Brei . Montague Guest , he said that he was most regular in attendance at Grand Lodge , being present two meetings out of three , at least , but did not refer to his attendance at Prov . Grand Lodge

at all , as it is well known that the R . W . Brother is always present on those occasions . Bro . H . Baldwin , Secretary of the Royal Hanover Lodge , 1777 , asks us to announce that the installation of Bro . Harry Clark , of Colcford , Gloucester ( W . M . elect ) , will take place at the Albany Hotel , 'Twickenham , to-day ( Saturday ) , at three o ' clock . Thc ceremony will be performed by the retiring W . M ., Bro . George Clark , jun .

Bro . A . Spears , P . M . 6 , P . P . G . S . W . Kent , and P . G . D . Eng ., installed Bro . Crichton Walker as VV . M . of thc Unitecf Service Mark Lodge , Cj , Brompton , Chatham , on the 4 th inst . Bro . H . J . Stark will be installed W . M . of the Trinity College Lodge , No . 176 ^ , on Thursday , November 3 rd , at 13 , Mandcville-place , VV .

Bro . Grantham R . Dodd read a paper on "The Rights or Claims of Women " at thc recent annual provincial meeting of thc Incorporated Law Society , held at the Pavilion , lirighton . The Royal Handbell Ringers and . Glee Singers , Bro . Duncan S . Miller , conductor , sailed in the Cunard Mail steamer Parthia , from Liverpool to New York-, on

Saturday , for a few months' tour in Canada and the United States . At the last meeting of the Scarborough Town Council it ivas agreed , on the motion of the Mayor , that a congratulatory address should be presented to Bro . Lord Derwent on his elevation to the peerage . Bro . Alderman Ellis , the Lord Mayor elect , will

be presented and sworn into office under the new Act ( 44 and 45 Vict . c . 6 S ) in the Court of Queen ' s Bench Division , and not , as heretofore , from the reign of George II ., in the Court of Exchequer , Commander Cheync is about to proceed to America for the purpose of organizing an Anglo-American Expedition to the North Pole .

Thc Southern Star Lodge of Instruction has removed from thc Crown Hotel to the Pheasant , Stangate , at the rear of Astley ' s Theatre . On Tuesday , at thc City Police Summons Court , Guildhall , on Mr . Alderman Nottage taking his scat , he apologised to those present for having kept them waiting . He said it was Bro . Alderman Stone ' s duty to have

presided , but there was a good scriptural excuse for his absence , inasmuch as he had that morning " taken unto himself a wife , and could not come . " BRO . H . R . H . THE C ROWN PRIXCE OF GERMANY . —Tuesday was the fiftieth anniversary of the birth

of Bro . His Royal and Imperial Highness Frederick William , Crown Prince of Germany , who was born on October iSth , 1831 . He is the only son of the Emperor William and the Empress Augusta , and married , on January 25 th , 1 S 5 S , Victoria , Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland , the issue of this union being seven children , of whom six

survive . Bro . Thomas Beard , who on two former occasions served the ofiice of Under-Sheriff , has ordered a banner of his arms for the procession on Lord Mayor's day . The Lord Mayor h'lect ( Bro . Alderman Kllis ) , Bro . Alderman and ' Sheriff Hanson , and Bro . Sheriff Ogg

have accepted the invitation of thc master and wardens of the Tallow-chandlers' Company to dinner at thc hall on Thursday , November 17 th . The Prince and Princess of Wales opened a new dock at Swansea on Tuesday . Three addresses were presented to them during the proceedings , one by the Corporation , another by thc Freemasons of South Wales , and

a third by thc Chairman anil Trustees of the Harbour , to all of which the Prince briefly replied . Bro . the Karl of Roscbury was on Wednesday electel president of the Scottish Liberal Association for the ensuing year . Bro . Dr . 13 . W . Richardson , as recentlyappointed President of the St . Pancras Total Abstinence

Association , took the chair at the fourth annual demonstration of that body in St . Pancras Vcstry-hall . In the course of his inaugural address he suggested that the teetotallers of the metropolis should secure the disused Polytechnic , and make it the centre and temple of the activity of the movement . Bro . Dr . Spark and the St . Cecilia Quartet ,

from Leeds , will gave an entertainment at the Bow and Bromley Institute em Monday . Bio . John Hollingshcad has returned to London after a tour in Russia . | . E . SHAND & f ' n ., Wine Merchants ( Experts ami Valuers ) . VVell fermented Old Wines and matured . Spirits . 3 , Albert Alanions , Victoria Street , London , S . VV .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Bro . the Karl of Roscbcry has consented to preside at the annual banquet of thc St . Andrew ' s Society , of Manchester , on St . Andrew ' s Day , November 30 th . His lordship is President of the Society for the current year . More than 160 prize essays on " Life Assurance " have been received , and are no-. v in thc hands of thc adjudicators for their decision as to who shall receive the

prize of £ 100 f ° t ' best essay , £ 25 for the second , and £ 10 for thc third , offered by the Equitable Life Assurance Society . We gather lhc following from thc Public Ltdger of Philadelphia : " Expression of English Sympathy . — The following despatch by a cable was received by Bro . Charles E . Meyer , of this citv , yesterday : 'Meyer , 1717 ,

Chestnut-street , Philadelphia , Pa . — lhc Masons of York mourn with their American brethren the loss of their late brother , the President . —Whytehead , York . ' " THE BOSTON EXHIBITION . — The Committee appointed to consider the feasibility of holding a world's fair have decided in favour of thc project , provided that a sum of 5 , 000 , 000 dollars can be raised .

The fifteen Sections will be worked at thc Southern Star Lodge of Instruction , at the Pheasant , Stangate , S . W ., on ' Thursday , the 27 th' inst ., at 7 p . m . The chair will be taken by Bro . C . Wise , P . M . 115 S , Preceptor , supported by Bros . Pulsford anel Earwig . Bro . Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen is in Stockholm , where he has gone to make arrangements in connection

with the exhibition to be held in that capital next year . J ORDAN NO . 1402 , TORHUAY . —At a meeting of this lodge held on the nth inst ., under the presidency of the VV . M . Bio . A . T . Blarney , a Past Master ' s jewel wa ; presented to VV . Bro . Dr . S . S . Noakes , I . P . M ., for valuable services rendered to the lodge during his year of office , and appropriately acknowledged . A sum of ten

guineas was also unanimously voted by thc brethren in aid of the " Huyshe Memorial Fund . " The elm of largest girlh , the hollow old tree on the Epping Forest waste , by Chingford Low-street , during the gale on Friday afternoon week , had its entire green head blown off into the road . 'The tree written about affectionately by William llowitt , "The giant elms , in the

hollow hole of one of which thc old cat has made her abode with her kittens , " opposite Queen Elizabeth's Lodge , has also been wind-spoiled and robbed of its branches . Both arc now mere stumps and shells . Two of the Lombardy poplars were levelled on Warren . Numberless limbs anel branches were wrenched from the

spear oaks and pollards , and the green with the drying leaves were torn from the trees and eddied into heaps . The Chingford booths soon fell before the gale , and the Forest Hotel losta chimney . In thc country around scarce a haystack retains its thatch , a hedge its complete elm trees , or a house its ornamental timber . —Citv Press .

The lodge at Fredericksburg , Virginia , in which Bro . George Washington was initiated in 1752 , on the payment of £ 2 3 s ., has determined to erect a Washington Memorial Masonic Temple . The proposal has received the approval of the Grand Lodge of Virginia .

Bro . thc Hon . I . C . Agar-Robartes , of ianfield-court , Temple , M . P . for East Cornwall , was with his colleague , Bro . W . C . Borlase , M . P ., F . S . A ., entertained at dinner at Fowey on 'Thursday . On Wednesday both gentlemen spoke at Truro in support of the Farmers ' Alliance .

A meeting cf the members of the Grand Masters Council , No . 1 , of the Degree of Royal and Select Masters of England , & c , will be held at the Alasonic Hall , Sa , Red Lion-square , on Wednesday , the 2 Cth inst ., at £ . 30 p . m . Bro . E . T . Carlyon having rct red from thc office of Pro \ incial Grand Secretary at the last meeting of the

Provincial Grand Lodge , several of the leading brethren of the Province of Cornwall are of opinion that his long and arduous services should be recognised by the presentation of a testimonial . Subscriptions will be received by Bro . J . H . Ferris , Truro , P . M ., P . G . Reg ., who has consented to act as Secretary , and to whom all commununication should be addressed .

Bro . John Watson , D . P . G . M ., Notts , assisted by the Present and Past officers of the Grand Lodge of Notts , consecrated thc Carnarvon Lodge , No . 1909 , at the Masonic Hall , Nottingham , on Monday last . Bro . J . S . Brown was unanimousl y elected VV . M . of the Whittington Lodge , No . Sfi 2 , on Monday last , and will be installed on Monday , November thc 21 st , bv the retiring VV . M .. Bro . R . P . late .

The Supreme Council of Peru has decreed that no profane shall be initiated in a lodge , and no brother shall be affiliated without having declared by the living voice and in writing that he believes in the existence of God as the G . A . of the Universe , and in tbe resurrection into a future life .

Bro . Baron Henry dc Worms , M . P ., Fellow of King's College , Strand , is gazetted one of thc additional Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund . Bro . John H . Graham , LL . D ., was re-elected Grand Alaster of the Grand Lodge of Quebec , on thc 28 th ult .

I lie consecration of the Fitzroy Chapter takes place at the He-ad Quarters of thc Honourable Artillery Company , Finsbury , to day ( Friday ) . A full report will appear in our next . NOTESCO is a new liniment , which is most valuable as an application for neuralgic diseases , for the cure of rheumatic gout , burns , bruises , and hemorrhage , as well

as for purifying and cleansing the skin . We have pleasure in bearing personal testimony to Ihe immediate relief a member of the writi-r ' s family received by applying it for a very severe attack of neuralgia . 'The cure was immediate , and , what is better still , no re-turn of the distressing malady has yet been experienced . This new liniment—Notesco

appears to be non-poisonous , perfectly inoccuous in any form , and is zn admirable antiseptic . We arc informed that it is a wonderful sleep producer , and secures restless nights for those mites of creation known as "teething infants . " The liniment , we believe , can be supplied by all chemists and dealers in patent medicines , and is certainly worthy of an experiment .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Bro . the Karl of Lathom has announced that there is every probability of the Prince of Wales attending the next Preston Guild , to lay the foundation stone of the new Free Library . Bro . Professor Erasmus Wilson , F . R . S ., has

written an illustrated work on the " Egypt of the Past . " Bro . H . Williams , P . P . G . J . D ., installed Bro . T Dutton , P . G . O ., as VV . M . of the Joppa Mark Lodge , n on Tuesday , the 4 th inst ., at the Masonic Rooms , Hamilton ' , street , Birkenhead .

Bro . H . G . Buss was installed Master of the Temple by Bro . Dr . Woodman , S . M ., at the quarterly convocation of the Metropolitan College of the Rosicrucian Society , at the Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street on the 13 th inst . '

Comp . Sir W . W . Burrell , Bart ., was presented with a P . Z . ' s jewel by the Hova Villa Chapter , 1465 , the 30 th ult ., on the conclusion of his year of ofiice in that chapter . Comp . C . J . Smith was installed Al . E . Z . on the same day .

Bro . Hcapliy was unanimously elected W . M . of thc Faith Lodge on the 2 fith ult ., and Bro . Carter was reelected , for the twenty-third time , as Treasurer . Bro . Chas . E . Power was installed W . M . of the Duke of Connaught Lodge , 155 S , on Thursday , 13 th inst . at the Surrey Alasonic Hall , Camberwell . " ' We regret to notice the death of Bro . John

Johnston , P . AL 192 , anil P . Z . 22 , which sad event took place at his residence , Co , Manslield-road , Haverstockhill , on Friday week , the 14 th inst . At the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Paralysis , Soho-square , the number of patients under treatment for the week ending October the 15 . i 1 ' was 734 . ' '

Bro . C . J . Smith , P . M ., Prov . J . W . Sussex , initiated his son , Air . Charles Aubrey Smith , into the secret mysteries of the Craft , in the Hova Ecclesia Lodge , No . 14 CG , on the ist inst ., at the Old Ship Hotel , Brighton . Br . J . C . Gillman , P . M ., P . P . S . G . D ., installed Bro . D . Johnson VV . AI . of the Trafford . Loelge , No . 141 / 1 , at thc Alexandra Hotel , Moss-side , Alanchestcr , on Alondcy , the ioth inst .

Bro . H . Dehane will be installed as W . M . of the Rosslyn Lodge , No . 1543 , at llie ancient Hitch of bacon town of Dunmow , on Tuesday next . Mr . C . H . Lake , B . A ., is announced to read , 1 paper at the next meeting of the " Personal Liberty Club , " to be held at 3 ( 1 , Great Queen Street , on Tuesday eveninj next , on " Freemasonry initsrelation to Personal Liberty . " Air . Mark H . Judge will take the chair at eight o'clock

, and a discussion will follow the reading of the paoer . Bro . C . A . Cottebrune , P . M ., ' P . G . P ., will preside at the inauguration banquet of the Emblematic Lodge of Instruction , on Wednesday next , at seven o ' clock , at the Goat and Star , Swallow-street , Piccadilly . Bro . Cottebrune will be supported by Bro . J . li . Shand , W . M . City of Westminster Lodge , as S . VV ., and Bro . J . B . Docker , P . M . Rothesay , as J . VV .

Bro . John Gait Fisher was installed W . M . of the Eccleston Lodge , No . 1 ( 124 , by Bro . P . AL Vincent , on Wednesday last , at the Criterion , Piccadilly . The Klcho Challenge Shield , which is competed for annually at the mecetings of the National Rifle Asociation by thc picked shots of England , Scotland , and Ireland ,

and which was won this year by England , will be handed over to the safe keeping of the Lord Mayor on Saturday , the 29 th inst ., when his lordship , with the sheriffs , will attend in state at the Guildhall , at three p . m ., to receive the shield , which will be accompanied to its destination by the members of the successful team and a military escort .

Bro . Thomas George Seymour will be installed VV . AI . of the Tyndall Lodge , No . 13 G 3 , on Wednesday , November 2 nd , at the Town Hall , Chipping Sodbury , on which occasion Bro . the Right Hon . Sir Alichael Hicks , Beach , Bart ., M . P ., Provincial Grand Master for Gloucestershire , and the Provincial Grand Ofiicers will be present .

On Wednesday the Countess of Bective opened a bazaar at Bradford . Bro . Lord Bective and Lady Olivia Taylor were also present . Mr . Mitchell , ex-president of the Chamber of Commerce , who introduced the countess , said her ladyship's efforts had mainly tended to benefit agriculturists , but of course the operative classes in the woollen industry were also benefited . The whole of tbe stall-keepers and a great many of the visitors were attired in materials of Bradford manufacture .

HOSPITAL roit DISEASES OF THE T HROAT AND CHEST , 32 , GOLDEN SQUARE , VV . —During H week ended October 15 th , 519 patients were under treatment . Bro . Thomas Fenn , P . G . D ., assisted by Bro . thc Rev . Ambrose VV . HaU ,, M . A ., P . G . Chap ., will consecrate thc Wickham Lodge , No . 1924 , thisday ( Saturday )) at the St . Peter's Hall , Brockley , at three o ' clock p . <"' The officers designate are : Bros . Wilmcr HoIIingwortn ,

P . M . 63 , as W . AL ; Charles A . Murton , P . G . W ., f S . VV . ; and Bro . VV . Frceth Dennant , VV . AI . 140 , as J . W'The banquet will be at thc Bridge House Hotel , London Bridge , at 6 . 30 . At a meeting of the Scottish Corporation "i Wednesday , Sir J . Heron-Maxwell , Bart ., presiding , '' was resolved that the salary of the Secretary to be appointed in the room of the late Bro . Macrae Aloir shew

commence at £ 300 a year , and that he be required to dcviwthe whole of his time to the duties of his ollirc . It i sC ^ pected that the appointment will be made before the a" ' nual festival on St . Andrew ' s Day . A hitherto unknown specimen of Caxton ' s prj ' incr has lately come to litrht at Cambridge in Trinity Co "" - ' ?'

library . It is a letter of indulgence issued in the <*'¦} part of the year 1480 by John Kendale , the Turcopohc -r ° Rhodes , in order to encourage contributions to carry ° the war against the Turks . The type is that used m ' Chronicle of England , printed in June , 14 S 0 ; whilst 1 only edition of this indulgence already described is print ea the larger type used in thc illustrated edition of the " C " Book" which has been reproduced by Messrs . Figg " '