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THE FREEMASONS' TAVERN , G-BEAT QUEEN STBEET , LONDON . W . C . The atfmfrab ' e and unt- 'valfcrt accommodation provided at this Establishment for IIVLA-SOILTXC B ^ ISrQTJIETS , PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DINNERS , WEDDING BREAKFASTS , BALLS , & t . Is too well known to need comment . The entire management has been changed , and the Establishment in all its branches thoroughly re-organised . The attention of tho Masonio Body is directed to the many advantages otemf . CUISI ] N"JK OF THE HIGHEST CHARACTER . VTOtBS PERFECT IN CONDITIO * AJT » QUAIilTV . N . B .-D 1 NNERS PROVIDED FROM 3 / -. RESTAURANT , WINE , SMOKING & RETIR NO ROOMS . The fullest measure of public confidence and support ensured . ALFRED BEST , PROPRIETOR .

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SAWYER'S ( LATE STATION ) RESTAURANT , 5 EAILWAY PLAGE , FENCHUItCH STREET , E . C . ENGLISH , FRENCH & GERMAN CUISINE . Hot and . Colcl Luncheons on the Ground Floor ; This Room will accommodate 100 persons . CHOPS , STEAKS , & c , FROM THE GRILL ; The Grill Room will . sent 130 iiersouv . REID'S TREBLE STOUT . WORTHINGTON'S ALES , BERLIN TIVOLI BEER . TEA AND COFFEE ALWAYS READY . CHAMPAGNES OP THK BEST BRANDS . OLD BOTTLED PORTS . SHERRIES AND OTHER WINES OF THE BEST Ql'ATATY Bro . F . J . SAWYER , Proprietor . Lato of Pimm ' s , nnd the Crystal Palace .

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VITKTJVIAN LODGE , No . 87 . BEO . ISAAC , who has for somo time past provided for the requirements of this Lodge , begs to announce tint ho has obtained permission for tho removal of his license to the Bel vedt re-road , and that he is about to erect commodious premises there . These will comprise . A . SIP-A-CIOTTS HVCA-SOnSTIC ZECA-XiUl . TV 1 T 1 I ASTK BOOMS , LARGE BANQUETTJNC" HALL , Together with every convenience for Masonic gatherings . Applications from Secretaries and others for accommodation to ho addressed G . ISAAC , " WHITE HART , " COLLEGE Siitiiiir , LAMBST ' , LOXDOIT , S . E .

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NOW READY , Price 2 s , Grown Svo , stiff paper covers ; 2 s fid cloth lettered , %Mvxmlty®fpnwir§itmlm&M$mmmf MIBBACIJTG THE CORRESPONDENCE UNDER THE RESPECTIVE HEADINGS OP PAST MASTEBS AS PBECEPTOBS , UHIFOBMITY OF WORKING , and WHICH IS COBBEOT ? "With extracts from tlie Masonic Publications and MSS . letters of distinguished Masons ; Masonic 1 ' ocutt , and other interesting information , iiy BRO . JAMES STEVENS P . M . P . Z ., & c . Sent by post on receipt of stamps by Bro . JAMES STEVENS , 113 High Street , Clapham , S . W ., or by Bro . W . W . MOK & A . V , t *? Barbican , London , E . C .

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LONDON MASONIC CHARITY ASSOCIATION . OCTOBER ELECTIONS , 1879 . The Committee have selected the following Candidates , and request the votes of the London Brethren ou thoir behalf : — •BO VS . tf IBM . No . 15 . W . Tracy Xo . 17 . 0 . A . Fellows „ »» . o . O . WagstalT ti ¦> 7 . jr . A . A . Wyatt „ IB . W . H . Bazley „ j ,-, . A . M . Dawson „ 7 Ji . A . A . ( ice a . j . g . jr . J'riestW „ 7 ,- . . 1 . Ii . . I ' rast M . K . K . Williams „ lit ) . . 1 . U . Johnso n „ 17 . J . M . Harvey . Proxies to lie sent , to Bro . A . Ttsir . Y , Hon . Secretary- L . M . O . A ., 1 Clifford ' s Inn , fleet-street , London , E . C .

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67 BAEBIOAN , E . O .

"Il Tegame," Or A Mason's Holiday.

"IL TEGAME , " OR A MASON'S HOLIDAY .

( Continued from page 116 . ) I AM about to commit—yes , commit—an anachronism , and attribute to my holiday of last year episodes of a previous ono ; yet I trust to be pardoned . Having already crossed tho Alps , wo will for a time retrace our stops , like Ctesar , " summa diligentia , " visit Lake Leman , tho Aliobrogi , and their town , the modern Geneva , retrograding also our

thoughts to the year 1865 . The journey from Paris to Geneva seems long , dull , and flat , as is nearly all central France , until you arrive at the Valley of tho Ehone and Chamberry , when suddenly ono gets among tho mountains , and all is changed , —the valleys , often divided into fields , give it a homo aspect abounding in fine views .

Here many English people havo summer residences ; the guard of tbo train pointed oat to me one of thoso , overlooking the Ycran , which a hermit or a lover of taste might alike havo envied ; and a gentleman of the neighbourhood assured mo that to any one watching the opportunity , a reasonable chateau and property might often be obtained on quite moderate terms ; the land , although light , is

good , and tho wine good and strong . However , my object was not Chamberry , with its images of the Virgin on every hill , but Geneva , in what was once good old Protestant Switzerland , where I set my foot ou 20 th August ;; compelling , as it docs , recollections of its glorious lake , its William Toll , its Calvin , and all the other things , false ancl true , they tell of it ;

arid , above all , it shonld be described as a glorious part of that land which the sun of the South endows with beauty , and tho breezes of the North with liberty . One soon finds that ono is no longer in France , although tho langnage is tho same ; for , going to chnrch next morning , tho first illustration of the subject , which was Faith , was drawn from what

the preacher called the glorious English army , and its heroic defence against the modern . Ingurtha , Nana Saib , when ho described tho well-known story of the soldier ' s wife hearing in faith , rather than iu reality , tho pibroch's music of tho "Campbell ' s are coming . " In France they only know the English army as the fellows who were running away at Waterloo when Bluchcr with his host luckily

compelled them , in spite of themselves , to gain a victory . I am very sorry to say that Crimean glory they claim all for themselves . It was , however , Waterloo which freed Geneva from France , and next week will bo the 50 th anniversary of tho return of hho Swiss army and the abolition of French sway . But Franco is a great countrynearly five hundred miles have I journeyed , and yefc in fifteen minutes

can get into 1 rench territory , in consequence of the recent annexation of Savoy , from whose huge ramparts of rocks the French eagles seem ready to pounce on the much coveted Canton . I have talked with many of the Swiss officers , soldiers ancl others , and they really look with a friendly feeling to England , and declare ifc was nofc tho Prussians , but Wellington with his British soldiers who

fought , aud died , and conquered at Waterloo ; and if you want to hear of tho glories , alas departed , of Nelson , Trafalgar , ancl Aboukir , come and talk with Switz soldiers ancl old Swifczmeu . Fortunately there are many glories , ancl we may celebrate our own without envying those of Fiance .

Sunday , the day after my arrival , came off an Election , strongly contested . The Eadicals are now , and havo , since the Eevolution of 1817 , been in a majority , when the last traces of the old Protestant supremacy , established by Calvin , disappeared , and a pure Endical democracy reigned in its stead . A Conservative was however returned .

The elections are by ballot , aud the suffrage much as in English boroughs ; when , however , the poll is closed , the urn is sealed up and left all night iu the midst of the Hall , so that no tampering can take place as lias been imputed in France . At six o ' clock next morning the first arriving have the right to unlock the box and break the seals thereof . On this occasion they were all Eadicals , who had kept their

stations the night through . Tho counting being ended , aud finding tho majority against thom , they declared the Election void , find refused to make the legal declaration of the numbers . The Conservatives , however , had been able to obtain sufficient proof of the numbers , and claimed the victory . Great altercation followed . The Conservatives almost

unconsciously mustered together , and headed by a few banners and music , formed a procession down the Hue Mont Blanc . In the meantime tho Radicals stormed a "Caserne" or barrack in the Rue des Ceudricrs , a small street running at right angles near the lower end of tho Euo Mont Blanc , seized some muskets , erected a kind of

barricade , and as tbe Conservative procossiou approached , iiretl deliberately into it . It was a disquieting scene . As I had joined in tho procession , I . heard the firing aud screams , tho cries to arms , aud even the " que sc sauvo qui pent , " and saw the alternate swaying , aud the running and rallying of a day of battle . Tho drums beat to arms for the battallions of the quarter , bufc thoy