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LONDONANDNORTHWESTERNRAILWAY. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR EXCURSIONS FROM LONDON ( EUSTON , BROAD STREET , AND KENSINGTON ) . ON 19 th December , to Dublin , Cork , Killarney , Limerick , Thurles , Galway , Sligo , and other places in the South and West of Ireland . To return within 16 days . On 20 th December , to Belfast , Londonderry , Portrush , Enniskillen , Warrenpojnt , Dundalk , Newry , and other places in the North of Ireland . To return within 16 days . On 21 st December , to Londonderry , via Fleetwood , Liverpool , or Morecambe , and thence by Steamer direct . To return within 16 days . On 24 th December ( evening ) , » to Carlisle , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Greenock , Aberdeen , Perth , Dundee , Arbroath , Callander , Stirling , Inverness , & o . For 3 and 7 days . To Birmingham , Coventry , Leamington , Warwick , Wolverhampton , and South Staffordshire Stations , Holyhead , Bangor , Carnarvon , Llandudno Junction , Rhyl , Chester , Hereford , Leominster , Ludlow , Shrewsbury , Oswestry , and the Cambrian Line , Rugby , Nuneaton , Leicester , Tamworth , Lichfield , Stafford , Crewe , Macclesfield , Stoke , Ashton , Manchester , Oldham , Staleybridge , Stockport , Liverpool , Warrington , Preston , Lancaster , Camforth , Windermere , the English Lake District , and the Furness Line , & c . For 3 and 5 days . On 31 st December , * to Carlisle , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Greenock , Aberdeen , Perth , Dundee , Arbroath , Callander , Stirling , Inverness , & c . For 3 and 8 days . •By the Excursion Trains to Carlisle , Edinburgh , and Glasgow , and the North of Scotland on 24 th and 31 st December , Passengers can also obtain Third Class Tickets at a Single Ordinary Fare for the Double Journey , available to return by one fixed Ordinary Train on any day up to 8 th and 15 th January respectively . On 24 th and Slat December , to Leamington , Warwick , Konilworth , Stratford-on-Avon , Malvern , Church Stretton , Llandrindod , Llangammarch , and Llanwrtyd Wells . For 3 or 4 days . For times , fares and full particulars see bills , which can be obtained at the Stations , Parcels Beceiving Offices , and of Messrs . Gaze & Son , Limited , 142 Strand . FEED . HARRISON , General Manager . London , December 1895 .

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PHOTOGRAPHY. HOCKETT&WHITE, PhotographicPrinters, POTTERS ROAD , NEW BARNET . NEGATIVES sent to us by Parcels Post , securely packed , receive prompt attention , and Prints in SILVEB , PLATINOTYPE , P . O . P ., giving best obtainable results , forwarded without delay . We are also pleased to answer inquiries , and give information and advice , for which our largo experience fully qualifies us . Price Lists on application .

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TheFreemason'sChronicle. A Weekly Record of Masonic Intelligence . — : o : — Published every Saturday , Price 3 d . — : o : — THE FREEMASON'S CHRONICLE will be forwarded direct from the Office , Fleet Works , Bulwer Road , New Barnet , on receipt of remittance for the amount . Intending Subscribers should forward their full address , to prevent mistakes . The Terms of Subscription ( payable in advance ) are—Twelve Months , post free ... ... £ 0 13 6 Six Months ditto ... 0 7 0 Three Months ditto . ... ... ... 0 3 6 Postal Orders to be made payable to W . W . MORGAN , at the New Barnet Office . Cheques crossed " London and South Western Bank . " Scale of Charges for Advertisements . Per Page £ 8 8 0 Back Page 10 10 0 Births , Marriages , and Deaths , Is per line . General Advertisements , Trade Announcements , Sec , single column , 5 s per inch . Double column Advertisements Is per line . Special terms for a series of insertions or special positions on application . Agents , from whom copies can always be had : — Mr . W . F . MOBGAN , Belvidere Works , Pentonville . Mr . RITCHIE , 7 Red Lion Court , E . C . Mr . EDWABD ROBEBTS , 19 Warmer Place , Manchester . Messrs . W . H . SMITH and Son , 183 Strand .

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BOOKBINDING in all its branches . Price list on application . Morgan , Fleet Works , Bulwer Road , New Barnet .

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GREATWESTERNRAILWAY. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS . ON 18 th December , and during the week preceding Christmas day , Cheap Third Class Return Tickets available on 21 st , 22 nd , 23 rd , 24 th or 25 th December , and for return up to 30 tb December inclusive , will bo issued from Paddington , Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Hammersmith , & c , to Bath , Bristol , Taunton , Barnstaple , llfracombe , Exeter , Torquay , Plymouth , Falmouth , Penzance , Yeovil , Dorchester , Weymouth , Sea . ; and on 23 rd and 24 th December only , to Guernsey and Jersey , to return within 14 days . Fare 25 s . The tickets will be available by all trains . Cheap Excursions will leave Paddington Station , asunder : — Tuesday Night , 24 th December , 11-10 p . m . for Bath and Bristol , returning Thursday Night , 26 th December . 11-35 p . m . for Oxford , Chipping Norton , Evesham , Worcester , Malvern , Hereford , Banbury , Leamington , Birmingham , Wolverhampton , Shrewsbury , Chester , Liverpool , & c , returning Thursday Night , 26 th December , or Saturday , 28 th December . 12-30 midnight for Cardiff , Swansea , Llanelly , Llandilo , Carmarthen Junction , Haverfordwest , New Milford , & c , returning Thursday Night , 26 th December . 12-40 midnight for Cirencester , Stroud , Stonehouse , Gloucester and Cheltenham , returning Thursday Night , 2 Gth December . Tickets , Pamphlets , and full particulars of alterations in ordinary train arrangements can bo obtained at the Company ' s Stations and usual Beceiving Offices . HY . LAMBERT , General Manager .

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^¦ vgragggga ^^ m^^^^a feare ^ 'Zi ^^ SATUEDAY , 14 TH DECEMBEE 1895 .

Irish Benevolence.

IRISH BENEVOLENCE .

AT the monthly meeting of the Governors of the Masonic Female Orphan School five children were declared elected from a list of fourteen candidates . The highest on the list was the daughter of a Brother who was an official of the Central Argentine Eailway , and was killed last May in a railway accident .

Knight Templar Re-Organisation.

KNIGHT TEMPLAR RE-ORGANISATION .

THEEE is every probability of many remarkable changes being made in the regulations governing the " United Orders of fche Temple and Malta . " Ever since the inauguration of the " Convent General " there has been nothing but unrest and lack of interest in the society generally . Evidently there must be

something wrong in the management or in the constitution of the Order in this country to account for the reduction in membership , the painful apathy of the members , and its loss of influence throughout Great Britain and Ireland . In America the Masonic Knights Templar may be counted by tens of thousands , there

being over 100 , 000 contributing members in the United States alone , whereas in England and Scotland the number can scarcely be said to run into thousands , possibly not 3 , 000 all told in these two countries and Ireland combined . The idea was that in starting the " Convent General , " composed of the Great Priories

of English-speaking Countries ( with Her Majesty the Queen as Patroness and H . E . H . the Prince of Wales as Grand Master ) , the Order would be united throughout the empire , at least , whilst local self-government would be assured , and there would be " no possibity of one part of the Order being subjected or swamped by

another portion . " This union has not been attained . England has kept to the conditions laid down after several sweeping alterations in the statutes , and so has Ireland ; but Scotland , almost from the first , declined to be absorbed in the new scheme , and Canada petitioned in 1872 to be relieved from the bond , its

prayer being virtually granted three years later , and the knights in that Dominion were absolved from obedience in 1883 . So that now the " all-embracing" Convent General has simply England and Ireland Great Priories , under the Earl of Lathom

and H . E . H . the Duke of Connaught respectively . The former body has petitioned H . E . H . the Prince of Wales to dissolve the Convent General , and it is understood the fraters of Ireland are also wishful for such a decision .

A meeting of the Chapter General of Scotland was held in due course , at which delegates from England and Ireland were present , when a scheme was formulated providing for the