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expires , a modest gold-mine to a proprietor ; for does not every amateur in the kingdom think he or she was born for cither of its principal characters ? Mr . French snaps up these unconsidered trifles , and I wonder now how much he wants for his investment of fourteen pounds . * # # A blushing young gent of fifty was united in the bonds of holy wedlock , the

other day , to a modest workhouse maiden of eighty-six , and all the villagers of Eaton Bray turned out with bags of rice and old slippers to welcome the happy pair . Poor old lady ! Fancy falling a victim to man's persuasions after eighty-six years of calm celibacy .

* * * Boxing is a glorious pastime , which expands the chest and the animalism of human nature . When I was a young lad , and had nothing better to do , 1 indulged in a scries of sparring lessons from a " Professor " Kelly , who was by occupation a railway official , and , " geographically , " a low person . Kelly was a very good fellow , however , and pocketed his fees without scruple , for he

always allowed me to believe I was a match for him . When the scries came to an end , and I fancied myself well grounded in the art of self-defence , I dropped boxing much as a child would a hot poker . Since then pugilismpure and impure— has taken a wonderful turn in public favor , so that very big blackguards are enabled to associate with men who are presumed to be elevated above the common herd . I really don ' t see why any interference

should be allowed with rational enjoyment—as we must believe boxing to be —but if the police refuse to " assist" at such enjoyment they must have a ve > y half-hearted opinion as to its legality . Why not countenance it or stop it ?

The Junior Constitutional Club will , some time in the future , carry its members to new premises at the further end of Piccadilly , opposite the Green Park , which is a fatal error of the executive . The J . C . C . does not presume to be much above a found social institution possessing constitutional opinions . Its members are not of the crutch-and-toothpick order , and yellow-wheeled hansoms do not stand at its doors . The premises in Regent-street which the Club inhabits is absolutely the most convenient spot for a club in London—in

fact , it is in the very heart of clubland—so that to transfer the bag-andbaggage a mile or so further west is somewhat of a fraud imposed upon the majority of its members . Fifly per cent , of the members are " City men , " and City men will never travel to the end of the world—Piccadilly—for their luncheon .

* * Mr . Hamilton Usshcr presides over the staff of the Junior Constitutional with a firm and careful hand , and the committee is beautifully impressed with the honor it confers upon gentlemen when it elects them members of the club . The Riot Act has been read more than once to offenders who have been guilty of yawning in the smoking-room , the penalty for which is a mild

suggestion that the gentleman had better resign . The cigars of the house are as vi ' e as the coffee is good . There is no place in town which can turn out muffins as they do here ; and peihaps theie is no club in London where the service is so imperfect . Mr . Ussher ivill alter these things , no doubt , when the opportunity serves , and might favorably impress upon the active committee the absurdity of admitting all sorts and conditions of men into a club-house whilst endeavoring to impress upon it the hall-mark of refinement .

* ? # There is raging during the present and succeeding months a perfect epidemic of new journals , the most ambitious being the Daily Graphic , a preliminary number of which is before me . Let it be known that of this specimen number a million copies were printed for gratuitous circulation , and that it contains £ 1 , worth of advertisements . The paper is to be the same

size as the weekly Graphic , and sixteen pages in bulk , and is to be illustrated by rapid sketches from the hands of the cleverest artists ; but photography will be the great aid in this department . The whole scheme is quite unique in the world ' s journalism , and an enormous capital is at the back of the undertaking . One thing is quite certain—that , in the event of the Daily Graphic being a success , the weekly penny illustrated papers must prepare for the tomb .

* * * Bro . Lawson , the sub-editor of the Financial News , is also ambitious , and not content with his two thousand a year which he has been drawing for the past two years , he started a few months back a weekly journal known as The Rialto , which has very justly met with some success in the City . He leaves Mr . Harry Marks this month to give his whole attention to his own

journal , which lie is converting into a daily paper . And oblivion is before it . The whole town is surfeited with daily and weekly papers . Because the Financial News has made a phenomenal hit , a hundred-and-one parasites spring up to live like mushrooms . There is the Citizen , which as a weeklywas a valuable properly , publishes a daily sheet to supply a want which does not exist . * * *

Bro . William Drew wielded the gavel of the Westbourne Lodge for the last time on Thursday the 21 st ult . at the Holborn Restaurant , when a very excellent menu was discussiel in the usual manner among Masons—and a very gorgeous programme printed in blue and gold was provided for the use of everybodv . Bro . Drew has had a most successful year of office , and ,

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although a restaurateur himself , is a great lover of Masonry . The Mitre Tavern , in Chancery-lane , is well-known of newspaper men , and men of letters generally ; and the luncheon hour usually discloses the features of Bro . Allison , the editor of the Sportsman , Villiers , of the Graphic , and Melton Prior , the well-known artist , besides dozens of the followers of Bohemia . Bro . Drew himself was made about fourteen years since , and is a founder of the Viator Lodge and the Albion Chapter . He has a passion for pictures ,

of which , curious to say , he is a judge ; for his walls are crowded with beautiful specimens , amongst others of Stacy Marks , Sydney Cooper , Stansfield , and Beverley , the intrinsic value of which may be counted by hundreds of pounds . There is no establishment in the neighborhood more suited for the holding of Lodges of Instruction than the Mitre , in Chancerylane , a fact which prcreptors and others may be glad to know . KING MOB .

Colonial And Foreign.

Colonial and Foreign .

PROCLAMATION—THE GRAND LODGE OK QUKIIEC , A . F . AND A . M . Office of the Grand Master , Montreal , P . Q ., October 23 , 1 SS 9 . To all Brethren of obedience to the M . W . the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Province of Quebec , and to all whom the following may c mcern ' . — Whereas—On the first d iy of January 1 SS 5 M . W . Bro . E . R . Johnson

, , , then Grand Master of this GvanA Lodge , issued his proclamation forbidding all brethren acknowledging the authority of the Grand Lodge of Quebec to hold any Masonic intercourse with any member or members of any Lodge existing in this province , enrolled on the register of any foreign Grand Lodge , in so far . is ancient Craft Masonry is conremeil . And Whereas , —On the fv . th day of July , 1886 , M . W . Bro . James Frederick Walker , then Grand M tstcr of this Grand Lodge , issued his proclamation and

edict ordering that all Masonic intercourse be suspended and cease between this Grand Lodge , its subordinate Lodges and brethren in obedience thereto , and commanding all brethren of the Grand Lodge of Quebec to hold no Masonic intercourse with any brother in obeilierr . e to the saiel Grand Lodge of England . And Whereas , —The Grand Lodge of Canada , in the Province of Ontario , at its annual communication , held at the City of Toronto on the 18 th and 19 th days of Ju ' . y , 1 SS 8 , authorised , by resolution , its Grand Master , AI . W . Bro . R . T . Walkem , to offer his mediation to both the said Grand

Lodges of England and Quebec , which mediatorial offer was accepted by the Grand Lodge of Quebec . And Whereas , —The Grand Lodge of Quebec , at its annual communication held at the . City of Montreal , on the 30 th and 31 st flays of Jammry , 1 SS 9 , passed the following resolution : — "That with regard to the withdrawal of the Edicts of tlrs Grand Lodge her U / orc issued ag . Tnst the Grand Lodge of England , and its Lodges in this city adhering thereto , this Grand Lodge fully recognises the nece-sity of strengthening the hands of the Grand Master of

the Grand Lo Ige of Canada in the Province of Ontario , in his mediation between this Grand Lodge and the said Grand Lodge of England and her Lodges , ami hereby authorises the Most Wors ' iipful Grand Master of the Grand L .. dge of Quebec , who may be in office at any time , at the request of M . W " . bro . Walkem , to withdraw the said edict . " Now therefore licit known to you all that I , Isaac Henry Steams , Grand Master of Masons in the Province of Quebecby \ irtue of the power vested

, in me as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Quebec , Ancient Free and accepted Masons , in accordance with the foregoing resolution , and at the request and desire of M . W . Bro . R . T . Walkem , acting in his capacity as mediator as aforesaid , do hereby « undraw the before-mentioned proclamation and edict of non-intercourse and interdict issued by the Grand Master of this Grand Lodge of date of 1 st day of januaiy , 18 S 5 , and also the one issued by the Grand Master of date of 5 th day of July , 1886 , and ihe said proclamations

and edicts are hereby withdrawn . Of all which you and all others , whom the said proclamations and interdicts may in any way concern , will take clue notice and govern yourselves accordingly . Witness my hand and the seal of the Grand Lodge of Quebec , and the attestation of the Grand Secretary there at Montreal , P . Q-, this 23 rd day of October , A . L . 58 S 9 , A . D . 1889 . ISAAC H . STEARNS , Grand Master . [ Attest . ] J H . ISAACSON , Grand Secretary G . L . of Q .

* * * MASONIC VETERANS' ASSOCIATION . —In response to a call issued , by the Pennsylvania Masonic Veterans' Association , representatives from New York , Illinois , the Pacific Coast , Pennsylvania , and the District of Columbia , met at the National Rifles Armory and organised the National Masonic Veteran :. ' Associationto be compised of Masons of twenty-one years' or more sluulmg .

, Resolutions were adopted asking all Masons eligible to membership to organise and send delegates at the next meeting , which will be held at the time and place selected for the next Triennial Conclave . Gen . Albert Pike , of Washington , was elected President of the Association , but he declined , and the honorary title of Past-Presidi nt was conferred upon him .

* * * The annual session of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General , Thirty-third and last degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the United States , w . is closed on October 28 . Dming the proceedings M . P . Sow Gr . Com ., J . J . Gorman , alluded to the death of 111 . C . C . Mason , M . D ., Thirty-third degree of Chico , Cal ., late Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of California . Justice Gorman also reviewed the events of the year in the organisation ,