Literary, Art, And Antiquarian Notes.

TEMPLE-BAR . —The A inerican A rei nfect suggests that Temple-Bar might possibly be obtained and rebuilt in the Central Park , New York . —Builder . The new number of Leisure , a brig ht little quarterly magazine , contains some excellent contributions , both in prose and poetry . As especially worthy of commendation , we would mention a storiette entitled Within the

Sound of Crookten Bells , " b y Horace Weir ( " L'Alle . gro' ) , and a poem by Air . E . W . G . Packer , full of fine feeling and graceful imagination . Bro . Trowsdale is announced to contribute an article on "Old Time Terrors of Termagant Women " to the new volume of The Antiquary . The Academy says that the portrait of Cardinal

Newman , by Air . Ouless , A . R . A ., which was exhibited at the last Academy , and of which a replica , with slight modifications , has been made for Oriel College , is about to be etched by AL Rajou . The Athenceum says that the first results of admitting the public to the National Gallery dnring- students' davs took the form of 154 sixpences on the first

day last week , and 157 sixpences on the second day . No inconvenience was experienced by anybody in the Gallery in consequence of these admissions . Polar exploration is again being discussed b the Royal Geographical Society . An Arctic Committee is to be appointed to collect and arrange all the information accumulated since the return of the "Alert" and "

Discovery , " and on the report of the Committee will depend the further action of the society . Should a fresh expedition be decided on , Government will probably be applied to for assistance . Talking of Arctic affairs , Professor Nordenskiold ' s account of the North-East Passage— " The Voyage of thc ' Vega' "—is now being printed at Stockholm—the Athenceum tells us—and an English translation

by Air . A . Leslie will shortly follow . The work will also be brought out in eight other languages . Professor Giuseppe Novi has discovered , not far from Herculaneum , the ruins of some ancient baths , covered over with ashes and lava to the depth of 10 m . The explorations so far made show it to have been a sumptuous

establishment , with mosaics and other artistic decorations . The Athenceum says that the " New Gleanings from Gladstone , " which appeared last Christmas , and had a sale of nearly 70 , 000 copies , is to be followed this season by " Afore Gleanings from Gladstone , " by thc same artist and author .

The King of Portugal has conferred upon Air . Henry IT . Howorth , the author of the " History of the Alongols , " the cross of the Order of St . James . The Academy states that Herr Alakart is at present engaged on an immense picture , which is likel y to create a great sensation next spring . It represents the interior of an Italian bath house , ornamented in the richest style of the Renaissance . In the bath a number of beautiful women and

childi en disport themselves delightfully , whilst others sit or lie about in various stages of undress . Near the centre one fair dame lies extended on soft cushions without any pretence of covering , while a number of charming little naked children play around her . Thc Athenteum states thafc among Air . E . B . Jones ' s contributions to the Grosvenor Gallery Exhibition will be a scries of superbly designed and exquisitely coloured cartoons for thc stained glass in several churches .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

Her Grace the Duchess of Westminster expired at fifty minutes past four o ' clock on Sunday morning last at Branksomc Towers , near Bournemouth . Bro . Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart , M . W . G . M . of Scotland , and famil y arc placed in mourning , in consequence of the death of Her Grace . Bro . Lord Leigh , R . W . G . M . Warwickshire , and family are also in mourning through the same cause .

H . R . H . the Prince of Wales has graciously signified his pleasure of becoming an honorary member of the Albert lidward Rose Croix Chapter , No . S 7 , meeting at thc Alasonic Hall , King ' s Lynn . Bro . Ferdinand Rothschild gave a ball on Friday week , the 17 th inst ., to present Aldlle . Perugia , thc fiancee of Air . Leopold de Rothschild , to London society . Aliss Perugia is a younger sister of Airs . Arthur Sassoon .

Bro . the Hon . James Gibbs , C . S . I ., Past District Grand Alaster of Bombay , has been entrusted , h y the Viceroy of India , with thc management of the Ecclesiastical Department of thc State . Bro . Gibbs is a memb « r of the Government of India , and an English Churchman . His brother is the Rev . Prebendary Gibbs , Vicar of Christ Church , and Proctor in Convocation for the Diocese of London .

W . Bro . J . Alarch Case , P . G . D ., P . G . S ., P . M ., had the honour of being elected on Alonday , tbe 20 th inst ., as W . M . of the Grand Masters' Lodge , No . 1 , for the ensuing year . Bro . U . Knell , W . M . 1471 , is Hon . Secretary of the

Cri pplegatc Pension Society ' s Ball , which will be held on Tuesday , February ist , 1 SS 1 , at the Cannon-street Hotel , under the patronage of Bro . H . E . Knight , P . AL 34 , Alderman of the Ward of Cripplegatc , and Bros . Alderman R . N . Fowler , ALP ., and Herbert J . VVaterlow , Sheriffs of London and Aliddlesex .

Bro . John Williams , R . W . District Grand Master for New South Wales , has had the pleasure of initiating his youngest son into the mysteries of Freemasonry . Thc Australian Freemason , in recording the fact , says , "Wc sincerely trust and pray that the Initiate tread

may zealously in the footsteps of his worthy sire , and be as great an ornament to the Order as ' the old (?) man eloquent ' lias been . When youth has been brought so early under Hiramic influence , it would be kept safe and secure in a variety of ways , though

' Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyr blows . ' It seems that during the last twenty years our D . Grand master has initiated only three candidates—his own son being the third , but we hope not the last . "

Masonic And General Tidings.

The Queen and Princess Beatrice , attended by General Viscount Bridport , the Alarchioness of Ely , the Hon . Harriet Lcpel Phipps , and Colonel J . C . M'Neill , left Windsor Castle on Saturday morning for Osborne . Her Alajesty and Court will pass Christmas in the Isle of Wight , and are expected to return to Windsor about the latter end of next month or the beginning of February " .

His Royal Hig hness the Prince of Wales , Most Worshipful Grand Alaster , was on Monday last unanimously elected an honorary member of the Grand Masters ' Lodge , No . 1 . Bro . the Earl of Limerick's " tenants " was the subject of a letter from his lordship in a contemporary on Monday last . Bro . Sir John Bennett has promised to give a lecture on " Endymion " at Lewisham , on the nth proximo .

THE TEMPLE BAR MEMORIAL . —The cost of this statue is announced definitively as £ 10 , 780 , provided the Commissioners of Sewers pay for the paving . In the event of their not doing so , the outlay will be £ 11 , 040 . The Prov . Grand Chapter of W . Lancashire held its

annual meeting at the Alasonic Hall , Liverpool , on Wednesday afternoon . A report of the proceedings will appear next week . The annual ball of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum is to be held at Cannon-street Hotel , on January the 13 th .

Bro . James A . Perkins , VV . AI . 756 , asks us to state that the meetings of the St . J ames's Lodge , No . 765 , are held at the Bridge House Hotel , London Bridge , having left the White Hart Hotel , High-street , Boro ' , some six or eight months . A telegram from the special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph , at Paris , states that Colonel Riu will

preas damages in his action against two Pans papers , to the sent the sum of money awarded him on Wednesday week , Freemasons' Orphanage Fund . Bro . H . A . Isaacs , CC , has been elected Master of the Loriners' Company . The annual dinner takes place at the Albion , on the 24 th of January . A most interesting sketch of Bro . R . F . Gould , under

the heading of " A Distinguished Alason , " appears in the Australian Freemason of Nov . ist . Bro . Richard Stubington ' s ( late of 1 , Well-street , Cripplegatc ) will was proved on the gth inst . by Airs . Jane Caroline Stubington , the widow and executrix , the personal estate being sworn under £ 3000 . The testator gives £ 100 to each of his children , and the residue of his property to his wife .

Bro . James Harvey , CC , P . M . 177 , has been unanimously elected President of the Honourable Society of the Court of Judges . Bro . John Osborne , S . E ., informs us that the North London Chapter of Improvement , No . 1471 , will not meet again until Thursday , the 6 th of January , the lodge room being renovated in the meantime . Thc place of meeting is the Jolly Farmers ( Bro . Fysh's ) , Southgate-road , N .

The second annual ball ( not restricted to brcthre n ) in connection with the Dalhousie Lodge , No . SGo , will be held at the Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street , on Tuesday , the iSth proximo . Godfrey's band will be present , and will perform under the direction of Bro . Dan Godfrey . The Hon . Sec . is Bro . W . G . Dickins , 16 , Norfolkstreet , Strand , of whom tickets may be obtained .

A meeting of the Grand Masters' Council , No . 1 , of Royal and Select Alasters will be held in the Masonic Rooms , 2 , Red Lion-square , on Friday next . The Great City Lodge of Instruction , No . 1426 , will not meet on Thursday next , Dec . 30 th . The meetings will bc resumed as usual on thc following Thursday , Jan . Gth , at half-past six .

OLU ENGLAND LODGE , NO . 1790 . —We are asked to state that the meetings of this lodge will , in future , be held on thc second Alonday in each month throughout the year , at the Alasonic Hall , Thornton Heath , West Croydon . WILLIAM OF WYKEIIAM LODGE , NO . ' 18 S 0 . —A few errors unfortunately crept into our report of the consecration of this lodge which appeared in last week's Freemason .

lhe names of the W . AL , Ireasurcr , and Secretary , should be respectively as follows : Bros . S . R . Everitt , VV . H . Jacob , and J . T . Burchctt . THE POST OFFICE AND CHRISTMAS EVE . —With the view of preventing delay to the ordinary correspondence , and to the Christmas cards which are now sent in such large quantities , it is desirable that circulars should not be posted

on Christinas Eve and New Year ' s Eve . The Post Ofiice is empowered to detain circulars , and the pressure at this season is so great that such a course may prove necessary . SAVING LIFE . —From an official statement of thc services rendered by thc Life Saving ( Rocket ) Apparatus on the coasts of the United Kingdom during the gales , October 27 to 30 , 1 SS 0 , it appears that the total number of lives saved amounted to no less than 2 G 4 .

Our readers will notice an announcement in our columns of a new specific introduced by the old established firm of Allen and Hanburys . The name of these noted Pharmaceutists , who have been established for more than one hundred years , and who occupy the position of leading dispensers in the City of London , will be a guarantee for merit in any announcement they may choose to make public . VVe are not all , fortunately , lsubjcct ' to neuralgic pains , but

by intercourse with those of our afflicted friends who are , we can well understand that many a household will be brightened b y a remedy that will diminish pain so intense as that known under the term of neuralgia . The public must expect from the rapid progress in the discovery of medical herbs and chemical processes that new remedies will constantly be coming to the front . We shall always have pleasure in drawing attention to specialities possessing intrinsic merit of high class firms such as Alessrs . Allen and Hanburys , of Plough-court , Lombard-street , E . C .

The 19 th of June is announced as the date of thc next Hospital Sunday . A SUITABLE CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR ' GIFT . — The Cosmopolitan Alasonic Pocket Book , for 1881 , price , post free , 2 s . id . Office , 198 , Fleet-street , London . — IADVT . 1

Masonic And General Tidings.

Bro . Alderman Ellis entertained the members ol the Ward of Broad-street , at his residence in Wcstboi-roeterrace , on Tuesday last , ( St . Thomas ' s Day ) . Bros . George Conquest and W . Holland are the writers of thc Pantomime produced at thc Surrey Theatre , on Friday night . Bro . Alderman and Sheriff Fowler , M . P ., introduced

a deputation representing various shipping associations and seamen ' s societies throughout thc country to Air . Chamberlain at thc Board of Trade on Thursday week , for the purpose of urging upon thc Government tbe necessity ol making some alteration in the present system of granting seamen ' s certificates and discharge notes . The Royal York Lodgeof Instruction , No . 315 , is held

at the Unicorn Hotel , North-street , Brighton , every Monday evening at S . 30 during the winter months , and on the Monday before the first Tuesday during the summer . Bro . E . Storr writes that the Aletropolitan Lodge of Instruction , No . 1507 , is adjourned over Alonday . next , but will meet as usual on Alonday , Jan . 3 rd .

Bro . Colonel Francis Burdett , Bart , is , we regret to say , in mourning for the death of his brother , Lieut .-Col . Charles Sedley Burdett . The sad event took place at Shrubhurst , Godstone , in Surrey , on the 12 th inst . The M . W . Pro G . M ., the Earl of Carnarvon , and thc Countess and children , were , wc are pleased to learn , in excellent health when the last letters left Aladeira .

Bro . Capt . T . Davies Sewell has received from the Court of Assistants of the Glass-Sellers' Company , a resolution of condolence on the bereavement he has recently sustained in the loss of his wife . Thc resolution , which was unanimously agreed to , ran as follows : " That this Court desire to express their sincere sympathy with their valued friend and former colleague , Capt . T . Davies Sewell , on his recent sad and severe affliction . "

Notice is given in Tuesday ' s Gazette that the State apartments of Windsor Castle will be open to the public on and after Thursday , the 23 rd i nst . Bro . J . L . Toole appeared on Tuesday afternoon at an entertainment given in aid of several parochial charities at the schools attached to St . Agnes's Church , Kennington Park .

Bro . I ' radelle s National Photo-Mezzo Tint Gallery is making progress in a Alasonic direction . We have just had submitted to us a portrait of the esteemed Prov . G . Alaster of Aliddlesex , Bro . Sir Francis Burdett , which is a most admirable specimen of the p hotographers art , and a speaking likeness . We are now informed that Bros , the Rev . C . VV . Spencer-Stanhope , Grand Chaplain ,

R . F . Gould , Senior Grand Deacon , J . H . Scott , Junior Grand Deacon , and P . G . AL Sussex , have favoured Bro . Fradclle with sittings . Alderman Jenkins ( Mayor of Swansea ) , it is reported , has received communications with respect to the proposed visit of the Prince of Wales to that town from various distinguished persons immediately associated with His Rojal

Highness . From the contents of these letters it may , we learn , now be regarded as a certainty that thc Prince of Wales will accept the invitation of the Town Council to visit Swansea , and open the new docks in October next . H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , P . G . W ., and H . R . H . the Duchess will visit Dorset on ; Monday week , the 3 rd proximo , on the occasion of Lord and Lady Alington ' s son

and heir attaining his majority . The town of Wimbornehas been decorated , but the visit will be of a private character . At this season of good cheer , when benevolence is so nobly exerted that some sham philanthropists arc heard to whisper that thc poor should pray for blessings to bc further showered on thc rich , I never hear one of these beings indulge in their inanities without thinking of an

incident which took place before the battle of Trafalgar , and which is too good to sink into obscurity . The first lieutenant of the Revenge was going round the ship to see that all hands were at quarters , as the British vessels were bearing down to attack the combined licet , when he

observed a tar kneeling at the side of his gun . Surprised and curious , he asked the man if he was afraid . "Afraid I " answered Jack with disdain , " No ! I was only praying that thc enemy's shot may be distributed in thc same proportion as prize money—the greatest part among the officers . "—The World .

A meeting of the Prince Leopold Lodgeof Instruction was held on Monday last . The First , Second , and Third Sections ot the Lecture were ! worked by Bro . AIcDonald , assisted by the brethren . Bro . Robson was elected W . M . for Alonday week , January 3 rd , as no meeting will be held on thc 27 th inst . ,

A Mason's Christmas Greeting.

A MASON'S CHRISTMAS GREETING .

Alerry may thy Christmas bc—Jew or Christian Brother , free I Happiness to thee and thine , On this good day , at any shrine ! Where ' er thou art may God bless thee , On foreign land or English sea ;

Alay kindest words be ever found , And universal joy abound . Long may the good our Craft inspires Give holy thoughts at Christmas fires ; Peace to thy Lodge , and Peace to thee ' . And Faith , antl Hope , and Charity . G . T .

HOLLOWAY ' OIN-T . MENT AND PILLS . —A cure for Abscesses , Piles , Fistuln , anil'Sores . —The many satisfactory cures result ini ; from the use of this invaluable Oinlment in eases whe-c patients have heeti sull ' cring from these complaints , have induced imnv medical practitioners to introduce them into tlie hospitals and their private practice ; and in many instances where the sull ' ercr was considered

incurable , Holloway ' s Ointment , in conjunction with his Pills , healed thc most desperate wounds . These . medicaments are 1111 equalled for the cure of scrofula ami iH . se . ises of the skin , ill all cutaneous affections incidental to children , from the simple red gum to the complicated scorbutic disease , Holloway ' s Ointment exercises a remarkably beneficial influence , cooling inflammation , relieving irritation , and giving [ ease to the impatient little sufferer . —[ ADVT . ]