India.

The Senior Warden in charge then said it was known to all that the brethren of Lodge Concord were always glad to see visitors . He would ask them to come oftener , and he would now propose " The Health of the Visiting Brethren , " which was drunk with Masonic honours . Bro . Teasdale and another visiting brother returned thanks in speeches of some length . The final toast was then proposed , and the brethren separated at 10 p . m ., after having spent a very agreeable evening .

Masonic Festivities.

MASONIC FESTIVITIES .

. AMERICA . There is no feature of the Masonic institution more susceptible of demoustration thaji its peculiar excellencies as a social institution . Its generous inclinations expand the heart , incline those who were strangers to become friends , and cement the bonds of union between the sons

of light . Under their influence , the desire to enjoy the amenities of social intercourse , apart from the chilling formalities of . the world , makes itself Celt , and brethren meet brethren at a Masonic sociable , under the same impulses and feelings that the members of a large family gather from time to time beneath the paternal roofto renew the pleasant memories of childhoodaud

, , to pass an hour with the loved ones that seems like a gleam of sunshine piercing a storm-cloud . Of such a character was the festival given by the various bodies , the Ancient and Accepted Rite , in honour of the completion of their new hall in Thirteenth-street , New York . Beauty and . fashion conjoined seemed to give the hall , which was tastefully draped witli Masonic colours and

replete with symbols or the Craft , a most attractive appearance . Bros . M'Clenahan , Gibson , Ward , Gardner , Davis , Biggs , Satterlee , Carpenter , Draper , Barney , Jones , Isley , Prothars , and Swift , formed an efficient committee of arrangements . Ihe programme ivas commenced by the overture to Rossini ' s ' ' William Tell" performed on the b

, organ y Professor Morgan . Itis hardly necessary to say that this , perhaps the most difficult of operatic overtures , was rendered with vigour by this talented performer . The duet , " We are fairies from the sea , " was warbled with much sweetness hy two young ladies—Miss Sarah Latly and

Miss L . Eustace—whose assertion as regards their identity was fully sustained by their sylph-like appearance . Miss Mina and Mr . Gustavus Geary fully sustained their high reputation as artists in the duet , " Quel male qual terra , " from Verdi ' s " Masnadiere . " During the evening there was an opportunity afforded to the audience of comparing the powers of the two distinguished pianists , '

Messrs . James N . Wehli and Harry Sanderson . To give either the pre-eminence , would require the presence of a more partial judge than ourselves ; each is a master of the instrument ; both deservedly received the hearty plaudits of those present . In the second part of the programme , the principal featureswere Bishop ' s " Homesweet home" " Bid me

, , , discourse , " by Miss Gibson , aud an organ solo , by Professor Morgan . The first of these was sung by Miss Miiia Geary , with a sweetness and pathos peculiarly her own . Were it not for the programme stating that no encores would be allowed , we are satisfied there would be no limit to the demands which would have been made throughout the evening .

At the conclusion of the programme , the company partook of a petit souper , at which the hospitable character of the Masonic Order was really brought into play . Terpsichore reigned through the night till an early hornon Wednesday morning , and amid the whirl of the mazy dance , " bright eyes looked love to eyes which spoke again . " Prom the nature of the opening , we are satisfied the new hall will be devoted to brotherhood and good fellowshi p , which form the corner stone of the Masonic structure . —New Yorh Dispatch .

Obituary.

Obituary .

BRO . ARMAND F . DE BURGH . This brother died of cholera at Smyrna , in Asia Minor , on the 20 th July . He wasiuifciated into Masonry and passed at Liverpool , and became at that early period an assiduous attendant on the lodges of instruction there . Having proceeded to Smyrna in a responsible commercial

capacity , he had profited so well at Liverpool that being raised in the Homer Lodge , at Smyrna , he applied himself assiduously to improve himself under an eminent instruefcer Bro . C . Green . In consequence of his Masonic knowledge and his fluency in the Erench language , he was early appointed a Warden of the Erench Lodge of St .

John , under the English Constitution , and this year S . W . of the English lodge , the Homer , the chairs of which have generally been filled by men of standing and reputation . He conscientiously applied himself to improve the working of the lodges . Ho was zealous in the discharge of his duties , and acted for some time as

Treasurer for all the Smyrna lodges . Under such circumstances , being a member of the District Grand Lodge , ho was offered promotion , which his modesty induced him to decline . He was much respected and beloved . On the 13 th ult . he was attacked with cholera in a

severe form , and as a superstitious dread of cholera at present prevails iu Smyrna he was threatened with abandonment . The brethren , however , rallied around him , and , beginning with the D . Prov . G . M ., watched his bedside in turns . The ablest medical assistance was of no avail , and after throe clays' illness he succumbed . Nor

were the circumstances of his burial without trial to his brethren and friends . On the da } 'before a dangerous riot had taken place on the occasion of the burial of a child of Bro . Jones , Prov . G . S . B ., and it was considered desirable not to provoke a contest , but to bury Bro . De Burgh in the English

cemetery in Smyrna . Bigotry and superstition rendered aMasonic funeral impossible in Smyrna in ordinary times , but the funeral was Masonic in spirit . Whereas he would have by others , at this period of visitation , been left unattended to the grave , every member of the Masonic body who was able made it a matter of solemn obligation to attendthey constituting the chief assistantsand

, , consequently Bro . De Burgh was interred with every demonstration of respect , offering a dignified moral lesson to the demoralised community , who knowing well that the mourners were Ereemasons , learned that the abused

and excommunicated Ereemasons do not , like others , abandon their friends in tho hour of peril , and that religious men of all religions joined in the solemn offices of the dead . There were recognised the Greek , Roman Catholic , the Armenian , the Lutheran , the Anglican , the Calvinist , the Mussulman , ancl tho despised Jew . It is tho intention of the brethren at an early period

to hold a Masonic service for the deceased ; and on the clay of the funeral , by way of example to others in this hour of peril , a subscription was begun , to give an extra remuneration to the attendants who had faithfully and zealously discharged their duty to the deceased . Bro . De Burgh was tbe son of tho Rev . Robert Do Burghand a cadet of the ancient and patrician familof

, y that name . In a foreign land , absent from his family , tho hand of brotherhood grasped him in the valley of the shadow of death , which he had first sought iu the quiet and prosperity of England aud in the hour of his trial and his need .