Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

BRO . STANLEY C I . ABKE will shortly relieve Commander the Hon . Seymour Fortescue as Equeiry in attendance on H . R . H . the Prince of Wales . THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND , Bro . Gerald Balfour , M . P ., arrived in Dublin on Tuesday and was engaged during the day at the Castle transacting officiil business . BRO . EARI . AND C OUNTESS CARRINGTON and Lady Marjorie Carrington have left Daws Hill , High Wycombe , Bucks , on a visit to Mr . C . H . Wilson , Warter Priory , Pocklington , Yorkshire .

IT IS stated that the Committee which is to consider the means of providing bearskins for the Foot Guards' headdress , the supply of which has latterly been decreasing , is to meet at Jhe War Office on September 13 . WITH A POPULATION of 5 , 500 , 000 , London entertains every day 120 , 000 strangers Some may remain a week , some a month ; but all the year round there is a daily average of 120 , 000 visitors within the metropolitan boundaries .

PRINCESS CHRISTIAN OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN and her daughter , Princess Victoria , terminated their visit to the Oueen on Wednesday , and , attended by Major E . Martin , crossed to Flushing in the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert . H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES has intimated his intention of visiting Sir Archibald and Lady Edmonstone , at Duntreath Castle , Stirlingshire , during the first week of October . His Royal Highness previous to that will visit Dieside .

BLACKHEATH LODGE OK INSTRUCTION , NO . 1320 . —The duties of the above will be resumed at the Stirling Castle Hotel , Church-street , Camberwell , S . E ., on Monday , the 4 th prox ., at S p . m ., under the able Preceptor , Bro . Wm . Dawson , P . M . 7 SS and 1 G 22 . THE ROSE LODGE OF INSTRUCTION , NO . 1 G 22 . —The duties of the above will be resumed ' on Thursday , the 7 th prox ., at eight p . m ., at the Stirling Castle Hotel , Churchstreet , Camberwell , S . E ., under the able Preceptorship of Bro . David Rose , P . M . 73 and 1622 .

H . R . H . THE PRINCESS OF WALES IS expected to arrive at Copenhagen tomorrow ( Saturday ) . Admiral Stephenson left London on Wednesday evening for the Continent , to relieve Bro . Major-Gen . Sir Stanley Clarke as Equerry in attendance on her Royal Highness . BY THE KINDNESS of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales the Sandringham Park and grounds were thrown open on Wednesday to the public . A . large company availed themselves of the opptrtunity afforded , and many visitors staying at Hunstanton , Heacham , and Snettisham drove over .

STAR CHAPTER OF INSTRUCTION , NO . 1275 . —The weekly convocations of the above will be resumed at the Stirling Castle Hotel , Church-street , Camberwell , S . E ., on Friday , the ist prox ., at S p . m . Comp . Thos . Grummant , P . Z ., Preceptor . R . A . Masons will be most cordially welcomed .

THE QUEEN , according to present arrangements , will probably leave the Isle of Wight on or about the 31 st instant for Scotland . Her Majesty and suite cross from East Cowes to Gosport , and travel by special train over the London and South-Western , Great Western , North-Western , Caledonian , and Great North of Scotland Railways to Ballater , where they arrive early in the afternoon following their depirture from the South . Thence her Majesty will drive to Balmoral .

THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL summer band performances in the metropolitan parks closed on Sunday last . The Council ' s band and those subsidised by it have given 929 performances during the season . A special autumn programme has , however , been arranged , by which there will be four extra performances on Tuesdays at the Embankment Gardens , on Saturdays at Waterlow and Clissold Parks , and on Sundays at Battersea , Brockwell , Finsbury , Southwark , and Victoria Parks , Parliament-hill , Clapham-common , & c , & c . These will all be given by Volunteer and local bands .

BRO . VICTOR CAVENDISH , M . P ., has come to the front as the possessor of one of the finest studs of Shire horses in the country . At Lancaster Show , noted for its strong Shire classes , he secured on Wednesday three firsts and two seconds against some of the leading winners . He also won the Shire Horse Society ' s silver medal and valuible special for the best Shire filly—seven prizes altogether . Mr . Lees Knowles , M . P ., carried off the Hackney Horse Society ' s silver medal .

FOR THE annual ploughing match and exhibition next October of the Royal South Bucks Agricultural Association , whose headquarters are at Slough , the Oueen has promised a silver cup of the value of 20 guineas , to be competed f or among the farmers in the root crop classes , and a prize of live guineas for the best ploughman in the field . The Master of the Royal Buckhounds ( the Earl of Coventry ) gives a priz-i of 10 guineas for roots , and the Master of thc Household Brgade Draghounds ( Caotain Algernon Trotter ) one of five guineas . Viscount Curzon , M . P ., Treasurer of the Queen ' s Household , Bro . Sir Edward Lawson , Sir Robert Harvey , Sir Charles Palmer , Ifro . VV . H . Grenfell , Bro . H . E . Allhusen , M . P ., and others also present prizis .

TAKE CARE OF HIM . —Take care of the new member . He has just entered upon a new life . He may have been acquainted with many in the lodge , even with all of them , yet he is still a stranger . Care for him , assist him , nurture him , and he may be made a useful , working member , says an exchange . We do not mean by this that he must be pushed into oflice or that he should be appointed on every Committee , and

caressed and dandled as we would a " first-born , but that he should be treated with all courtesy and kindness , and caused to feel that he is an integral part of the lodge . Give him work , give him encouragement , if he is diffident , and help him along in every proper way . By this means he must be made a useful member . —Stjuan ami Compass .

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND AND COUNTESS CADOGAN have been entertaining a large party of gues ' . s at the Viceregal Lodge , Dublin , during the present week for the horse show and I . Zingari cricket , among them being the Djchess of Abercorn and Ladies Alexandra and Gladys Hamilton , the Eirl and Countes ? of Coventry and Lady Dorothy Coventry , Viscount and Viscountess 1 ) nvn : and the II in . Faith Di-wnay , Lord and Lady Langford , Lady Lurgan , the Hm . A . E . Parker , Sir He-my Edwards , Sir Timothy O'Brien , Lord George Scott , A . D . C , Hon . GenM

Cadogan , AD . C , and Mr . Fetherstonhau ^ h , private secretary , and Captain Cecil Feilden and Lord Athlumney , Aides-de-Camp-in-YVaiting . Tneir Excellencies an 1 their guests were present at Leopardstown Rices on Saturday list , and ajain on Morday . I . Zir . gari played the Gentlemen of Ireland on Monday and Tuerday , and on We-dne-. 'day and Thursday Lord and Lady Cado ^ in visited the horse s ' to . v in state . On Thursday and to-day ( Friday ) there has b ; en another cricket mitch— I . Zingiri v . Na Sr . ulas—and to-day their Excellencies give a garden pirty at the Viceregal Lodge .

Masonic And General Tidings.

LORD AND LADY AI . INGTON left Down Place , Windsor , for Alington House , on the 22 nd inst ., for a few days , before proceeding to Brighton . BRO . SIR W . H . PREECE , K . C . B ., a native of Carnarvon , is to be presented with the freedom of the borough on September 21 . The ceremony , which is to bs followed by a banquet , will take place at the Guildhall . TWENTY-FIVE WORKMEN who are accompanying the material to be us » d in the construction of a viaduct in the Gokteik Gorge , to the west of Mandalay , left New York on the 23 rd instant on board the Majestic . The party have taken with them British and American flags to be unfurled on the completion of the work .

A FEW WEEKS AGO Messrs Ventom , Bull , and Cooper , 35 , Old Jewry , E . G ., offered the renowned Ship and Turtle , in Leadenhall-street , established in the days of Charles I ., for sale by auction . No purchaser came forward at the sale , but the firm have since sold it for £ Co , ooo , exclusive of the valuable cellar of wines . THE SELWYN CHAPTER OF INSTRUCTION is held at the Montpelier Hotel , Choumert-road , Peckham , S . E ., on the first and third Mondays , at S . 30 p . m ., in each month ( Bank Holidays excepted ) , under the able Preceptor , Comp . Thos . Grummant , P . Z . 1275 , Prov . G . P . S . Essex . All R . A . Masons will be heartily welcomed .

THE FOLLOWING were among the donations received on the 23 rd instant in aid of the Mansion House fund for the relief of the distress caused by the hurricane in the West Indies : Messrs . Wernher , Beit , and Co ., £ . 105 , * Messrs . Coutts and Co ., £ 100 ; Miss H . Scott , , £ 25 , * Sir Nevill Lubbock , £ 10 ios . ; the Duke of Rutland , £ 10 j Sir Francis Fleming , £ 10 ; D . J ., £ 10 ; and Lady Fleming , £ 5 .

HER MAJESTY went out on Tuesday morning , accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Connaught , Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein , and Princess Henry of Battenberg . Subsequently the Duke and Duchess of Connaught , Prince Arthur , and the Princesses Margaret and Victoria Patricia left Osborne for Bagshot , crossing over to Portsmouth on board her Majesty's yacht Alberta , Vice-Admiral Sir John Fullerton , A . D . C . Mr . Hansell ( tutor to Prince Arthur ) was in attendance .

THE PATRIOTIC DINNER , which has been held at High Wycombe in recent years on the anniversary of the Battle of the Alma , will not , it is stated , take place this year ; and in consequence some 150 old soldiers and sailors from Buckinghamshire and neighbouring counties will be deprived of what has in previous years been looked forward to as a most happy reunion . Although the dinner had the patronage of Lord Wolseley ,

Lord Roberts , Sir Francis Grenfell , and General Sir George Higginson , and the Commander-in-Chief sent a handsome donation out of the Tournament Patriotic Fund , the executive do not feel justified , with the meagre monetary support which comes from other sources , to continue the annual function , which , therefore , for one yeir at least , will not be held .

THE Shields Daily Gazette , in a review of the Grand Registrar ' s recent work on the Craft , says : " The author of this latest addition to Masonic literature is well-known on Tyneside . A South Shieldsman by birth , Mr . Strachan is now one of the leading leg * al luminaries of London . In the course ot a busy career he has found time to write a most interesting and valuable history of the Masonic Craft in Northumberland . . .

Too much praise cannot be bestowed on Mr . Strachan for the way in which he has accomplished his self-imposed task , and it is not too much to say that he has rendered local history an inestimable benefit , while on the dark places of the story of ancient Freemasonry , not only in Northumberland but throughout the country genera'ly , much wished-for light has been thrown . "

THE DUCHESS OF YORK visited the Royal Castle Glass Works , at Hatton , and subsequently the Photo Decorative Tile Company adjoining . At the first-named place her Royal Highness ordered a number of articles to be made , and herself assisted in the process . At the Tile Works she sat for her photograph , to be reproduced in photo models . Her Royal Highness was accompanied by Lady Katharine Coke , Bro . the

Earl and Countess of Lathom , Hon . A . N . Hood , Mrs . Crutchley , and Mr . Reginald Coke , and the entire party were photographed for reproduction in a group on the glazed tiles . From the works the party drove to the Old Castle at Tulbury , when John of Gaunt ' s Gateway and the dungeon in which Mary Queen of Scots was a temporary p risoner were inspected , and the visitors partook of team the castle before returning to Longford .

ROUGH ON THE COUNSEL . —Many a bar mess in the United States has been enlivened by a story circulated by the AV ™ York Tribune : " A youthful graduate of the Harvard Law School went out VVest and opened an ollice in a small frontier town . His first client was a man accused of stealing a horse . The case came to trial before an old judge and a jury composed of bewhiskered ranchers , and , though there was no doubt of lhe guilt of the defendant , he had a regiment of friends who swore he was 40 miles

away when the horse was stolen . This evidence the prosecution was unable to break down , and the young lawyer plumed himself on a certain acquittal . The jury retired , and live minntes later came back into court . ' Have you agreed on a verdict ? ' asked Ihe judge . ' VVe have , ' answered the foreman , as he shifted a gun he carried on his hip . * We find the defendent not guilty , an' recommend the defendant ' s lawyer , owin ' to his yputh an' innocence , to the mercy of the court . ' "

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