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Money Market And City News.
again been purchased , the latest quotation showing an advance in both stocks . Colonial and Foreign railways engage but very little fresh business . In the American Telegraph and miscellaneous markets , there are no special features . Anglo-American cable shares have been dealt
in at a decline , bnt Imperial Ottoman Bank and Hudson ' s Bay are quoted fractionally higher . The directors of Milner's Safe Company have just decided on the payment of an ad interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent , per annum , on the amount of capital paid up to the 31 st December last .
The London and North Western Railway Company announces that sleeping saloons are now attached to the Irish mail train between London and Holyhead . A general court of the proprietors of the Bank of England will be held on the 11 th instant to declare a dividend . A meeting is also
called for the 6 th of April , for the election of a governor and deputygovernor for the year ensuing , and on the following day two directors will be elected . It is announced that an International Horticultural Exhibition will be held at Cologne , between the 25 th of August and the 26 th
September next , under the patronage of the Imperial family . At the half-yearly meeting of the London Tramway ' s Company this week the directors' report was adopted , and a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent , per annum was declared . Had it not been for certain exceptional changes , the profits would have been sufficient to
pay a dividend at the rate of 7-J per cent , per annum . Tho number of passengers carried during the half-year was 6 , 728 , 242 , and the miles run were 996 , 336 . From the recently issued report of the Inland Revenue Commissioners it appears that out of 60 samples of beer examined 52 were
found genuine and 8 adulterated , in these last sugar , liquorice , flonr and common salt had been added . An Extradition Treaty containing the usual provisions , has just been concluded with tho Swiss Confederation , and has been presented to both Houses of Parliament .
The following statement shows the receipts for traffic on the undermentioned railways for the past week , as compared with the corresponding week in 1874 ;—Miles open . Receipts . Railway . 1875 1875 1874
Caledonian 737 Glasgow and South Western . . 315 ^ 15 , 720 15 , 136 Great Eastern .... 763 42 , 215 42 , 181 Great Northern .... 517 49 , 247 49 , 108 Great Western .... 1 , 525 89 , 900 95 , 401 Lancashire and Yorkshire . . 430 60 , 370 60 , 032
London and Brighton ... 376 21 , 428 21 , 435 London , Chatham and Dover . . 1534 13 , 845 13 , 049 London and North Western . . 1 , 5822 157 , 226 154 , 380 London and South Western . . — 26 , 649 27 , 923 London , Tilbury and Southend . 45 1 , 357 1 , 331 Manchester and Sheffield . . 259 i 29 , 705 28 , 055
Midland 944 * 110 , 052 103 , 375 Metropolitan 8 8 , 777 8 , 292 „ „ District .. . 8 5 , 081 4 , 210 „ „ St . John's Wood . . H 459 417 North British 839 37 , 293 35 , 926
North Eastern .... 1 , 379 117 , 309 116 , 750 North London .... 12 6 , 611 6 , 552 North Staffordshire Railway . . 190 9 , 867 9 , 997 Canal . . 118 1 , 668 1 , 779 South Eastern .... 350 24 , 766 26 , 132
PLAYHOUSE PKICES —The cost of admission to the theatres in the days of Elizabeth was very moderate . " Let mo never live to look so high as the two-penny room again , " says Ben Jonson , in his prologue to Every Man out of his Humour , acted for the first time at the Globe , on Bankside , in 1599 . The price of tho " best rooms , " or
boxes , was a shilling ; of the lower places two-pence ; and iu somo places only a penny . The two-penny room above-mentioned was the gallery . Thus Decker : — " Pay your tivo-pence to a player , and you may sit in the gallery . " — Belman ' s Night Walk . And Middleton , " One of them is a nip ; I took him once into the
two-2 yenny gallery at the Fortune . " The place , however , seems to have been very discreditable , for it is commonly described as the resort of pickpockets and prostitutes . In Every Man ont of his Humour , there is also mention of " the lords room over the
stage . " The Lords rooms answered to the present stage boxes . The price of admission to them appears to have been originally a shilling . Thus Decker , in his Gul's Horn-book , 1609;— " At a new play yon take up the twelve penny-room , next the stage , because the Lords and you may seem to be hail fellow well met . "
DE LA RUE ' S TxiEBSAitos-xt , PLAYING G ' AKDS . —Portraits of the Roviilfv of Sttiops , Post tree , 8 a ea . ¥ » W , Morgan , ( 27 Barbican , London , B . C .
Innovations.
INNOVATIONS .
[^ TOTHING more offensive Mason any luuova-- ^ tions on tho ancient usages and customs of tho Order . It is in consequence of this conservative principle that Masonry , notwithstanding many attempts havo been made to alter , or , as it was supposed , to amend it , still remains unchanged now , as it has always been .
The middle of the eighteenth century was tho most prominent era of those attempted innovations . After the downfall of the House of Stnart , and tho defeat of tho Pretender ' s hopes iu 1715 , his adherents vainly endeavoured to enlist Freemasonry as a powerful adjunct to his cause . For tins purpose
it was declared by those who had enlisted in this design , that tho great legend of Masonry alluded to the violent death of Charles I ., and Cromwell and his companions in rebellion were execrated as the arch traitors whom tho Lodges were to condemn . To carry out these views , now degrees were now for tho first time
manufactured , under tho titles of Irish Master , Perfect Irish Master , Puissant Irish Master , and others of similar appellation . The Chevalier Ramsay , BO well known , in Masonic history , soon after made his appearance in the political world , and having attached himself to thehonso of Stuart , he endeavoured more effectually to
carryout those views , by reducing the whole system to perfect order , and giving to it the appearance of plausibility . For this purpose ho invented a new theory on tho subject of the origin of Freemasonry . He declared that it wus instituted hi tho Holy Land at tho time of the Crusades , where the Knights Templars had associated themselves
together for the purpose of rebuilding those churches and other sacred edifices which had been destroyed by tho Saracens . These latter , however , having discovered this holy design , aud being determined to thwart it , had employed emissaries who , secretly mingling with tho Christian workmen , materially impeded and often entirely
paralyzed their labours . Tho Christians , as a security agaiusfc this species of treason , then found it necessary to invent signs aud other modes of recognition , by which intruders might be detected . When compelled , by the failure of tho Crusaders , to leave the Holy Land , those pious as well as warlike Knights were invited by a King
of England to retire to his dominions , where they devoted themselves to the cultivation of architecture and the fine arts . Ramsay protended that tho degrees originally established by the Templars wore those of Scotch Master , Novice and Knight of the Temple ; aud ho oven had the audacity to propose , iu 1728 , to tho
Grand Lodgo of England , to substitute thorn for tho throe primitive degrees of symbolical Masonry , a proposition which mot with no more success that it deserved . In Paris , however , he was more fortunate ; for there his degrees were adopted , not , indeed as a substitute for , but as au addition to
Ancient Craft Masonry . These degrees became popular on the Continent , and iu a short time gave birth to innumerable others , which attempted to compensate for their waut of consistency with the history , the traditions and tho principles of the ancient institution , by splendour of external
decorations and gorgcousness of cevenioiuea . Happily , however , tho existence of these innovations has been but ephemeral . They are no longer worked as degrees , but remain only in the library of the Masonic student as subjects of curious inquiry . The hautes grades of the French , and tho Philosophic degrees of the
ancient and accepted Scotch rite , aro not innovations on , but illustrations of pure symbolic Masonry , and as such will be found to be the depositories of many interesting traditions and instructive speculations , which are eminently useful in shedding li ght upon tho character and objects of the institution . —Mackey .
On Thursday evening , at the rooms of tho Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals , Jeriuyn-sfcroefc , Piccadilly , the third annual distribution of prizes for " Essays ou Kindness to Animals" took place , tho recipients being certain of tho children of the Hanover-square Church District Sunday School .
Mrs . Ellicott ( wife of tho Bishop of Gloucester and iinstoi ) distributed the prizes . Mr . Oolam ( secretary to tho society ) , took the chair , aud explained that tho above school was tho onl y Sunday school in tho metropolis which had treated of the duty of kindness to animals . The prizes were given by tho
teachers of the school , and tho ladies' committee of tlio society had granted the nso of tho room for the purpose of the prize distribution . The successful competitors were , in the Jir . jt class . John Mayo , Frederick Gntteridgo and Emily Djw . In tho second Jessie Fennimore , Fanny Athorotu , Edward Allaway and Alfred
Long ; and in tho third , Ada Elliott aud Herbert Man-soil . So . no of the essays were read by their juvuuilo authors , a ; id wore oiinpio bui , earnest little composition ;; , ail breathing the spirit oil Uinduois t < j dumb animals . Mrs . Ellicott , iu distributing the prizes , which con . sisteel principally of bjoks of natural iii . Uury , iiccuinpauicd tli ; : presentations with a kindly word of oucimriyciiont to ili <> K'oin .-iiis ,
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Money Market And City News.
again been purchased , the latest quotation showing an advance in both stocks . Colonial and Foreign railways engage but very little fresh business . In the American Telegraph and miscellaneous markets , there are no special features . Anglo-American cable shares have been dealt
in at a decline , bnt Imperial Ottoman Bank and Hudson ' s Bay are quoted fractionally higher . The directors of Milner's Safe Company have just decided on the payment of an ad interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent , per annum , on the amount of capital paid up to the 31 st December last .
The London and North Western Railway Company announces that sleeping saloons are now attached to the Irish mail train between London and Holyhead . A general court of the proprietors of the Bank of England will be held on the 11 th instant to declare a dividend . A meeting is also
called for the 6 th of April , for the election of a governor and deputygovernor for the year ensuing , and on the following day two directors will be elected . It is announced that an International Horticultural Exhibition will be held at Cologne , between the 25 th of August and the 26 th
September next , under the patronage of the Imperial family . At the half-yearly meeting of the London Tramway ' s Company this week the directors' report was adopted , and a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent , per annum was declared . Had it not been for certain exceptional changes , the profits would have been sufficient to
pay a dividend at the rate of 7-J per cent , per annum . Tho number of passengers carried during the half-year was 6 , 728 , 242 , and the miles run were 996 , 336 . From the recently issued report of the Inland Revenue Commissioners it appears that out of 60 samples of beer examined 52 were
found genuine and 8 adulterated , in these last sugar , liquorice , flonr and common salt had been added . An Extradition Treaty containing the usual provisions , has just been concluded with tho Swiss Confederation , and has been presented to both Houses of Parliament .
The following statement shows the receipts for traffic on the undermentioned railways for the past week , as compared with the corresponding week in 1874 ;—Miles open . Receipts . Railway . 1875 1875 1874
Caledonian 737 Glasgow and South Western . . 315 ^ 15 , 720 15 , 136 Great Eastern .... 763 42 , 215 42 , 181 Great Northern .... 517 49 , 247 49 , 108 Great Western .... 1 , 525 89 , 900 95 , 401 Lancashire and Yorkshire . . 430 60 , 370 60 , 032
London and Brighton ... 376 21 , 428 21 , 435 London , Chatham and Dover . . 1534 13 , 845 13 , 049 London and North Western . . 1 , 5822 157 , 226 154 , 380 London and South Western . . — 26 , 649 27 , 923 London , Tilbury and Southend . 45 1 , 357 1 , 331 Manchester and Sheffield . . 259 i 29 , 705 28 , 055
Midland 944 * 110 , 052 103 , 375 Metropolitan 8 8 , 777 8 , 292 „ „ District .. . 8 5 , 081 4 , 210 „ „ St . John's Wood . . H 459 417 North British 839 37 , 293 35 , 926
North Eastern .... 1 , 379 117 , 309 116 , 750 North London .... 12 6 , 611 6 , 552 North Staffordshire Railway . . 190 9 , 867 9 , 997 Canal . . 118 1 , 668 1 , 779 South Eastern .... 350 24 , 766 26 , 132
PLAYHOUSE PKICES —The cost of admission to the theatres in the days of Elizabeth was very moderate . " Let mo never live to look so high as the two-penny room again , " says Ben Jonson , in his prologue to Every Man out of his Humour , acted for the first time at the Globe , on Bankside , in 1599 . The price of tho " best rooms , " or
boxes , was a shilling ; of the lower places two-pence ; and iu somo places only a penny . The two-penny room above-mentioned was the gallery . Thus Decker : — " Pay your tivo-pence to a player , and you may sit in the gallery . " — Belman ' s Night Walk . And Middleton , " One of them is a nip ; I took him once into the
two-2 yenny gallery at the Fortune . " The place , however , seems to have been very discreditable , for it is commonly described as the resort of pickpockets and prostitutes . In Every Man ont of his Humour , there is also mention of " the lords room over the
stage . " The Lords rooms answered to the present stage boxes . The price of admission to them appears to have been originally a shilling . Thus Decker , in his Gul's Horn-book , 1609;— " At a new play yon take up the twelve penny-room , next the stage , because the Lords and you may seem to be hail fellow well met . "
DE LA RUE ' S TxiEBSAitos-xt , PLAYING G ' AKDS . —Portraits of the Roviilfv of Sttiops , Post tree , 8 a ea . ¥ » W , Morgan , ( 27 Barbican , London , B . C .
Innovations.
INNOVATIONS .
[^ TOTHING more offensive Mason any luuova-- ^ tions on tho ancient usages and customs of tho Order . It is in consequence of this conservative principle that Masonry , notwithstanding many attempts havo been made to alter , or , as it was supposed , to amend it , still remains unchanged now , as it has always been .
The middle of the eighteenth century was tho most prominent era of those attempted innovations . After the downfall of the House of Stnart , and tho defeat of tho Pretender ' s hopes iu 1715 , his adherents vainly endeavoured to enlist Freemasonry as a powerful adjunct to his cause . For tins purpose
it was declared by those who had enlisted in this design , that tho great legend of Masonry alluded to the violent death of Charles I ., and Cromwell and his companions in rebellion were execrated as the arch traitors whom tho Lodges were to condemn . To carry out these views , now degrees were now for tho first time
manufactured , under tho titles of Irish Master , Perfect Irish Master , Puissant Irish Master , and others of similar appellation . The Chevalier Ramsay , BO well known , in Masonic history , soon after made his appearance in the political world , and having attached himself to thehonso of Stuart , he endeavoured more effectually to
carryout those views , by reducing the whole system to perfect order , and giving to it the appearance of plausibility . For this purpose ho invented a new theory on tho subject of the origin of Freemasonry . He declared that it wus instituted hi tho Holy Land at tho time of the Crusades , where the Knights Templars had associated themselves
together for the purpose of rebuilding those churches and other sacred edifices which had been destroyed by tho Saracens . These latter , however , having discovered this holy design , aud being determined to thwart it , had employed emissaries who , secretly mingling with tho Christian workmen , materially impeded and often entirely
paralyzed their labours . Tho Christians , as a security agaiusfc this species of treason , then found it necessary to invent signs aud other modes of recognition , by which intruders might be detected . When compelled , by the failure of tho Crusaders , to leave the Holy Land , those pious as well as warlike Knights were invited by a King
of England to retire to his dominions , where they devoted themselves to the cultivation of architecture and the fine arts . Ramsay protended that tho degrees originally established by the Templars wore those of Scotch Master , Novice and Knight of the Temple ; aud ho oven had the audacity to propose , iu 1728 , to tho
Grand Lodgo of England , to substitute thorn for tho throe primitive degrees of symbolical Masonry , a proposition which mot with no more success that it deserved . In Paris , however , he was more fortunate ; for there his degrees were adopted , not , indeed as a substitute for , but as au addition to
Ancient Craft Masonry . These degrees became popular on the Continent , and iu a short time gave birth to innumerable others , which attempted to compensate for their waut of consistency with the history , the traditions and tho principles of the ancient institution , by splendour of external
decorations and gorgcousness of cevenioiuea . Happily , however , tho existence of these innovations has been but ephemeral . They are no longer worked as degrees , but remain only in the library of the Masonic student as subjects of curious inquiry . The hautes grades of the French , and tho Philosophic degrees of the
ancient and accepted Scotch rite , aro not innovations on , but illustrations of pure symbolic Masonry , and as such will be found to be the depositories of many interesting traditions and instructive speculations , which are eminently useful in shedding li ght upon tho character and objects of the institution . —Mackey .
On Thursday evening , at the rooms of tho Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals , Jeriuyn-sfcroefc , Piccadilly , the third annual distribution of prizes for " Essays ou Kindness to Animals" took place , tho recipients being certain of tho children of the Hanover-square Church District Sunday School .
Mrs . Ellicott ( wife of tho Bishop of Gloucester and iinstoi ) distributed the prizes . Mr . Oolam ( secretary to tho society ) , took the chair , aud explained that tho above school was tho onl y Sunday school in tho metropolis which had treated of the duty of kindness to animals . The prizes were given by tho
teachers of the school , and tho ladies' committee of tlio society had granted the nso of tho room for the purpose of the prize distribution . The successful competitors were , in the Jir . jt class . John Mayo , Frederick Gntteridgo and Emily Djw . In tho second Jessie Fennimore , Fanny Athorotu , Edward Allaway and Alfred
Long ; and in tho third , Ada Elliott aud Herbert Man-soil . So . no of the essays were read by their juvuuilo authors , a ; id wore oiinpio bui , earnest little composition ;; , ail breathing the spirit oil Uinduois t < j dumb animals . Mrs . Ellicott , iu distributing the prizes , which con . sisteel principally of bjoks of natural iii . Uury , iiccuinpauicd tli ; : presentations with a kindly word of oucimriyciiont to ili <> K'oin .-iiis ,