Orders Of The Temple And Malta.

E . G . Harwood Conservator , Wm . Fovvest Bailie , J . M . McLeod Turcopolier , Wm . Tyrer Chancellor , W . J . Thorn son Treasurer , Rev . A . B . Beaven Prelate , Cha ? . Eastwood Captain of Outposts . We may mention incidentally that the refreshments

were furnished by Mr . H . T . Isherwood , Castle Hotel , Preston , whoso mode of catering was very much appreciated . The Knights , numbering abont 60 , proceeded to the Park Hotel , where they dined together , under the presidency of the Very Eminent Prior Sir Kt . Capt . C . R . N .

Beswicke-Royds . Much disappointment was expressed at the absence of the Great Sub-Prior the Earl of Euston , foi whose reception preparations had been made ; nevertheless a

very pleasant evening was spent . Loyal and Masonic toasts were honoured , that of the Visitors being responded io by Eminent Sir Knight John Marshall , of Manchester , Prov . Prelate of West Yorkshire .

There were present at the meeting and subs quent banquet : — Sir Knight Capt . C . R . N . B . Royds , Capt . Henry Thoma- > , Wm . Fryer , E . Pike , John Booth , Joseph T . Richutdsoa , James Batterworth , Henry B . Brown , R . T . Sutcliffe , F . W . Lean , Edward B > . rbar ,

W . W . Cottam , G . J . McKay , C . IT . Garnett , John Marshall , Alfred W . Beaver , Mark Newsome , W . G . Thomson , George Galli-way , Alfred Hopkinson , A . W . Siddall , Reg . Young , Joseph Clafton , C . E . Hindley , fl . Holbrook , H . G . Batty , J . W . Kenyon , Rev . C . Hesketh Knowlys , M . A ., Fred . N . Molesworth , C . Forbes Bell , L . R .

Rowbottom , Clnre Edgar Towell , J . Hardwioke Marsh , Edward Taylor , J . W . Patterson , Edward Walker , James Carter , Arthur Brown , Edward Graham , E . G . Harwood , Samuel A . Andrews , G . A . Myers , Abraham Clegg , W . Forrest , R . H . Robinson , Hy . Gardner , James Townsend , Jno . G . Christian , Thomas Hy . Duckworth , W . W .

Elton , C . Eastwood , W . Longbottom , R . B . Preston , Jno . Halliwell , J . C . Sinclair , N . Simpson , George Sam Smith , Jno . Murray , J . T . Booth , Rd . Robinson , Jno . Hatch , S . Fisher , Louis Winglow , Hy . J . Robinson , G . T . Phillips , Thomas W . Bone , William Taylor , Alfred Charlick , Joseph Harling , J . J . Hankin , Edward Pierpoint , Edward Roberts ( FKEKMASON ' S CHRONICLE ) , and others .

Knights Of Constantinople.

KNIGHTS OF CONSTANTINOPLE .

ST . AUBYN COUNCIL .

rpHIS Council held their annual Convocation at the Friendship J Masonic Rooms , Devonport , on Saturday , the 29 th ultimo . Sir Knig ht Shears was elected and installed as LS . for the ensuing year . Past LS . Rev . Dr . Lemon and Hatchings were the Installing Officers , assisted by Past LS . Clemens , Aitken-Davies , Knight , Osborne , Crosley and Bray . The Officers invested were

S . K . ' s Bray I . P . I . S ., Dr . Lemon Prelate , Willcooks C . A ., Somerville M . A ., Hutchins M . F ., Bray M . D ., Trout Senaschal , Harris P . P ., Sandy Marshal , Everett C-G-, Captain Strode Lowe IsfcH . , Parsons 2 nd H-, Tozer S-B ., Santillo Organist , Maddock Pursuivant , Dowstone Almoner , Henderson Sentinel .

The "Old Masonians."

THE "OLD MASONIANS . "

THE second annual concert in aid of the Benevolent and Grant Fund of the above Association took place on Thursday , the 27 th ult ., afc Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street , E . C , when a goodly number of members and friends were present . We regret to say Brother Richard Eve ( P . G . Treasurer ) President , was unable to occupy the chair on account of ill-health ; Bro . R . Harold Williams

ably carried oufc the duties in his absence . A lengthy programme , consisting of pianoforte aolos , songs , recitations , instrumental solos , and conjuring , gave much satisfaction . During the evening donations towards the Fund were announced from Brother Lt .-Colonel George Lambert P . G . S . B , £ 5 5 s ; Bro . R . V . Vassar-Smith £ 1 Is ; and Mr . Elderkin 10 s .

The Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset assembled yesterday ( Friday ) , at Highbridge . The centenary of the Rural Philanthropic Lodge , No . 291 , held in that town , is now completed , and the festival was therefore in commemoration of that event . Bro . T . F . Norn ' s P . M .

and Secretary read the history of the Lodge from 1 / 93 , for which Bro . W . J . Hnghan P . G . S . D . of England had written an introduction relative to the state of the Somerset Craft , then ancl since , by desire of the W . M . Bro . R . C . Else the Deputy Provincial Grand Master .

Death.

DEATH .

WHYMPER . —On the 27 th ult ., at Bombay , HEl-ruy : J . W * II-MP ]* B , 0 . I . K , of iiitwal i'uiclee , Punjab .

Literary Blunders.

LITERARY BLUNDERS .

"Errors , like straws , upon the surface flow : He who woul I search for pearls mist 'live beljw . ' '—Brjden . IT is not to be expected that translators can possibly be familiar with the various forms and signilioations which words and phrases undergo . Hence occur many mistakes whioh , to an ordinary reader who is sharp enough to detect thotr , av . s very amusing . Voltairo translated some of Shakespeare ' s plays . The immortal

bard makes one of his characters renounce all claim to a doubtful inheritance , with a determined resolution toe tr re for himself a fortune with hia own sword . Re-translated from Volfciire ' s French , tho expression reads , " What care I for lauds ? With my sword I will make a fortune cutting meat . " Another , displeasel with such blunders , undertook a more correct translation of the great bard . Coming to the following passage : —

" Even such a man , so faint , so spiritless , So dull , so dead iu look , so ivoe-berjone , " he translated the words in italics to reid , " So grief be off with you . " " In England , " saya a French traveller , ' * what they write ' Greenwich , " they pronounce ' Grinitch , ' and I am not quite sure that when

they set clown 'Solomon , they do not pronounce ifc 'Nebuchadnezzar . ' " A Frenchman , puzzled by the title of Colley Gibber ' s play , " Love ' s Last Shift , or the Fool of Fashion , " translated it " La Derniere Chemise de l'amour . " Another , wishing to speak of the cream of the English poets , forgot the word , and said , "de bntter of poets , " whioh caused the waggish retort that " ho had fairly

churned up the English language . In fche French translation of Paradise Lost , the words , " Hail , horrors , hail ! " are thus rendared : " Comment cous portez vous , les horreus , comment vous portez rous ? " thnfc is , " How d ' ye do , horrors , how dy ' e do ? " The Vicar cf Wakefield has teen translated , perhaps ,

as many as fifty times into French , but always in a blundering manner , in consequence of the ignorance of translators of the meaning of certain phrases . In one case , for instance , a translator has completely misunderstood the msaning of the words , "Moses flayed alive , " and rendered it , "Moses almost devoured alive by fleas . "

In the Curiosities of Literature it is related thafc " one of the mosfc egregious of all literary blunders is that of the edition of the Vulgate , by Sixtus V . His Holiness carefully superintended every sheet as ifc passed throngh the press ; and , to the amazement of the world , the work remained without a rival—it swarmed wifch errata A multitude of scraps were printed to paste over the erroneous

passages , in order to give the trne text . The book makes a whimsical appearance with these patches ; and the heretics exulted in this demonstration of papal infallibility . The copies were called in , and violent attempts made to suppress it ; a few still remain for the raptures of the biblical collectors ; at a late sale the Bible of Sixtus V . fetched above sixty guineas—not too much for a mere book of blunders . "

Coverdales version is called the "Treacle Bible , " from its rendering of Jeremiah viii . 22 . T . eaole , however , seems to have bsen used in the sense of an antidote , so it is not a misnomer . Some passages iu the book aro equally quaint . Tlw dove returned with an olive leaf " in her nebb ; " a woman bruka Abimeleok ' s " brain panne ; " David's " slaveringes" ran down his beard ; the foolish

" bodyes pay there is no God ; though shalfc not be afrayed for any "bugges" by night ( Psalm 91 ); they shall break their swords and spears to make " scythes , sycles , and aawca thereof "; their widows were neglected in tho daily " hand-reachinge j" tho earth shall " gene a great crack ; " and , " waysteth his brayno " about questions . Coverdale's Bible is also called the Due- Bible . Soon after this ,

appeared Matthews ( really John Rogers ) Bible . Then came the Great Bible , or Cranmer ' s Bible of 1510 ; Taverner ' s Bible ; the Bishop ' s Bible of 1568 ; and the Donay Bible of the Roman Catholics iu 16 ' 09 . In this latter work , fche rendering , " Is there no balm in Gilead ? " is translated , "Is there no rosen iu Galaad ? " and this is but one of many mistakes . The Authorised Version was first

printed in 1611 , in the reign of James I . A monkish writer of a work published in 1561—consisting of 172 pages of text and 15 of errata—attributes the mistakes to the wiles of Satan , who caused the printer to commit them . The volume known as the Genevan Bible , having beeu translated at Geneva by certain reformers who fled there during the Marian

persecution , became eventually termed the Breeches Bible , from ita rendering of Genesis iii . 7 , " Then the eyes of them bothe were opened , and they knew that they wore naked , and they sewed fig tree leaves together , and made themselves' breeches , " this word being used instead of " aprons , " which appears in the Authorised Version . The firsfc edition contains two other remarkable

errors—Matt . v . 9 , " Blessed are the place makers , " and Luke , synopsis of chapter xxi ., " Christ condemneth the poor widow . " It was passing throngh the press when news reached the exiles that Elizabeth had come to the English throne , and the reign of Mary Tudor was at an end . It has been estimated that this bible passed throngh at least a hundred and thirty editions , aud that each edition probably

consisted of a thousand copies , so that there is far too large a number in existence to render any one single copy very valuable . Two old copies bearing date 1610 , wore sold by auction in April 1890 , for 50 s each . At the Hopetoun House sale in February 1889 , Mr . Quaritch purchased a Mazirin Bible for the incredible price of £ 2 . 000 .

D'Israeli , in his " Curiosities of Literature , " gives another instance of a blunder . " Thou shalt commit adultery " was printed omitting the negation , which occasioned tho Archbishop to lay one of the heaviest penalties on the Company of Stationers that was ever recorded in the annals of literary history . The printers were summoned before the Court of High Commission , and this not served to bind them in a fine of threa thousand pounds . The mistake earned foe