Visit Of The Female Children To The Crystal Palace.

v VISIT OF THE FEMALE CHILDKEN TO THE CKYSTAL PALACE .

We ha < $ not an opportunity in -our last number of alluding to the very gratifying visit of the children of this institution to the Crystal Palace on Thursday , the 7 th August , through the kind liberality of the last Board of Stewards for the festival , as they did the previous year by the generosity of the then Board of Stewards ; and we trust , from the experience of the last two years , that the overplus from the

deposits paid by future boards will enable the House Committee to take the children to an exhibition so useful and instructive . It is impossible to conceive a sight more gratifying to the members of the Craft than that presented to those who were present upon this occasion . It appeared that the admiration of the company was divided between the exquisite beauty of the scene around them and the appearance of the children of this school . Freemasons may indeed congratulate themselves upon having an establishment where the female children of their

less fortunate Brethren appear so happy and so well conducted as the orphans and other girls in this admirably-appointed school . It was most gratifying to see the governesses walking hand-in-hand with their proteges and to hear them pointing out the objects most likely to be useful and instructive . It was no less delightful to see the attention paid by the children to their kind friends ; and their modest and respectful behaviour , their clean and neat appearance , their intelligent and happy faces , called forth the praise of all who saw them ; and Masons may well be proud of the remarks made by the hundreds of strangers who were present .

The children were conveyed from the school in omnibuses , and reached the Palace sufficiently early to see much before the company arrived . At one o ' clock they were provided with an excellent dinner , and at six o ' clock with tea . The singing of the grace before and after these meals called forth the admiration of the Brethren and their families who chanced to hear them . It is impossible to describe the delight of the children , or to find words to express their gratitude for the great treat afforded them , and the attention they received from the various Brethren and their friends who were present .

At six o ' clock about eighty ladies and gentlemen , mostly subscribers to the Institution , sat down to an elegant dinner , provided with the usual good taste and liberality of Messrs . Staples . Benjamin Bond Cabbell , Esq ., M . P ., Treasurer to the Institution , heading one table , and J . S . S . Hopwood , Esq ., Deputy Chairman of the Board of Stewards , another . At the conclusion of the repast , the children were admitted to the saloon , and sang most delightfully the beautiful

grace , " For these and all Thy mercies . This again called forth the praise of the numerous and elegant audience . It is said Freemasons are proverbial for good eating and drinking ; however true the proverb may be , it is equally true that they do not confine it to themselves ; but that they diffuse it amongst the aged , the widow , and the orphan . Of this great truth the sight afforded this day gave a glorious example .

Mystery.

MYSTEBY .

In the beauty of form , or of moral character , or of the material creation , it is that which is most veiled which is most beautiful . The mysteries of the heart and of nature are the delight of the intellect , the soul and eyes . It seems as if the Creator had drawn a shadow over whatever he has made delicate and most divine , to heighten our aspirations after it by its secrecy , and to soften its lustre from our gaze ; as he placed lids over our eyes to temper the impression of light upon them ,

and night over the stars to incite us to follow and seek them in their air-ocean , and measure his power and greatness by those studs of fire which his fingers , as they touch the vault of heaven , have stamped on the firmament . Valleys are the mysteries of landscapes . The more we long to penetrate them , the more they try to wind , bury , and hide themselves . Mist is to mountains what illusion is to love—it elevates them . Mystery hovers over every thing here below , and solemnizes all things to the eyes and heart . —Zamartinc .