Provincial Grand Lodge Of Hampshire And The Isle Of Wight.

PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT .

A SPECIAL mooting of tho Provincial Grand Lodgo Jl \_ of Hampshire and tho Isle of Wight was held on the 24 th inst ., in the Hall of the Masonic Club , Commercial-road , Portsmouth . The Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., presided ,

and most of the Lodges iu tho Province were represented , thoso present including the Depnty Provincial Grand Master Bro . J . E . Lo Fouvro , E . Goble P . G . Secretary , J . W . Gieve P . G . Treasurer , R . Eve Past G . Treasurer England , Rev . J . N , Palmer Past Grand Chaplain of

England , Major VV . Campbell S . W ., H . Cawte P . P . G . W ., Rev . J . Scott Ramsay P . G . Chaplain , Rov . T . P . Morton P . G . Chaplain , G . Davies P . G . D ., J . H . McQueen P . G . D ., G . Farney Brown P . G . D ., F . P . Anslo P . G . D ., J . E . Buck Supt . of Works , P . Cooper Dir . of Cers ., H . J .

Long Assist . Dir . of Cers ., C . V . Birch Sword Bearer , E . Sharland A . P ., I * . T . Wilkins P . G . S ., G . F . Lancaster P . G . Registrar ( Hon . Sec . Hampshire and Isle of Wight Masonic Benevolent and Educational Institution ) , & c . On the motion of Bro . Eve , seconded by Bro . Major

Campbell , a sum was voted from the funds of the Province towards the amount agreed to be given to Bro . F . Binckes on his retiring from tho post of Secretary to the

Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . It was also agreed that a window , bearing the arms of the Province , should be placed in the Jubilee Hall of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls .

Easter Railway Facilities.

EASTER RAILWAY FACILITIES .

THE London and North Western Railway Company announce that the ticket offices at Euston , Broad-street , Kensington , and Willesden Junction will be open throughout the day , from Monday , 31 st March , to Monday , 7 th April , inclusive , so that passengers wishing to obtain tickets for any destination on the London and North Western Railway can do so at any timo of the day prior to the

starting of the trains . The tickets will be dated to suit the convenience of passengers . Tickets for all the principal stations on the London and North Western system and its connections can be obtained at any time ( Sundays and Bank Holidays excepted ) ai tho following Town Receiving offices of the Company : —15 Queen-stroot , E . C . ; Spread Eagle , 3 Whittington Avenue , Leadenhall Market , E . C . ;

Swan-with-Twc-Neeks , Gresham-street ; 13 Eastcheap ; Cross Keys , Wood-street , Choapside ; 22 Aldersgate-street , 65 Aldgate , li . ; 30 West Smithfield , 8 and 9 Clerkenwell Groon , Bolt-in-Tun , Fleetstreet ; 11 G Llolborn , George ami Blue Boar , High Holborn ; 43 Now Oxford-street , Universal Office , Spread Eaglo , Piccadilly Circus ; Golden Cross , Charing Cross ; 3 ' 1 Parliament-street ( corner of

iiridgostreet ) , Hotol Windsor ( late Army and Navy Hotel ) , Victoria-street ; 231 Edgware Itoad , Atlas Office , 167 Tottenham Court Road ; 70 St . Martin's Lane , Lion , 108 New Bond-street ; < 19 G Oxford-street , Griffin ' s Green Man and Still , 241 Oxford-street ; 33 Hereford Road Bayswater ; Knightsbridge , 34 Albert Gate : Kensington , 33 High , street ; 117 Borough , 233 and 234 Blackfriars Road , Surrey Railway

Office , 138 Newington Causeway ; 194 Westminster Bridge Road ; Islington , Angel , 5 Pentonville Road ; 15 Queen-street , 8 Grand Hotel Buildings , Charing Cross , Albert and Victoria Docks Office , Poplar . The tickets obtained at these offices will be available from either Euston or Kensington ( Addison Road ) and will be issued at the same fares as are charged at those stations . The tickets will be dated to suit the

convenience of passengers . They cau also be obtained at Gaze and Sons'Tourist Office , 142 Strand , at samo fares as at Euston Station . On Thursday , 3 rd April , a special express will leave Euston at 2 ' 50 p . m . for Bletohley , Northampton , Rugby , Trent Valley Stations , and Stafford ; a special train will leavo Birmingham for Northampton at 4 * 5 p . m ., calling at Stechford , Coventry , aud Rugby , and passengers

for those places will not bo conveyed by the 4 * 0 p . m . express from Birmingham ; the 4 " 10 p . m ., Euston to Kendal , will be extended to Windermere ; a special express train will leave Euston Station at 4 * 20 p . m . for Birmingham , calling at Willesden Junction , Rugby , Coventry , and Stechford , arriving at Birmingham ( New Street ) at 7 * 5 p . m . ; the 12 * 0 midnight train from Euston will be extended from Warrington

to Preston on Good Friday morning . The 105 p . m . from Glasgow to Carlisle , will be extended to Liverpool and Manchester , at tho following times : —Leave Carlisle 1 * 15 a . m . ( Good Friday morning ) , arriva Camlbrth 2 * 48 , Lancaster 2 * 59 , Preston 3 * 30 , Wigan 3 * 58 , Manchester 4 * 45 , and Liverpool 4 ' 45 p . m . This train will not run on Saturday morning , 5 th April ( Good Friday night from Scotland ) On Good

Friday , 4 th April , the 5 * lo a . m . 'newspaper express train irom London ( Euston Station ) will run to Northampton , Rugby , Nuneaton , Tatuwortb , Lichfield , Rugeley , Stafford , Ore wo , Birmingham , Shrewsbury , Warrington , Runcorn , Liverpool , Manchester , Wigan , Preston , Lancaster , Carnforth , Oxenholme ,

Keudal , Windermere , Tebay , Penrith , Carlisle , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Perth , and Aberdeen . A train will leave Manchester ( Exchange ) at 9 * 30 a . m . for Wigan , whero passengers for Preston and tho North can join the newspaper train . Tho 4 * 15 p . m . train , Carlisle to Preston , will bo extended to Wigan , Liverpool , St . Helens , Tyldesloy , aud Manchester . The 10 * 40 a . m ., Crewo to Holyhead , and 11 * 40 a . m .,

Easter Railway Facilities.

Holyhead to Crowe , will not be run . An additional train will leave Workington for Penrith at 9 * 5 a . m . in connection with tho 8 ' 45 a . m . train from Whitehaven . Tho return train will leavo Penrith for Whitehaven at 6 '' 0 p . m . The 10 * 5 p . m . train from Glasgow ( leaving Carlisle at 1 * 15 a . m . on Saturday , 5 th April ) , for Preston , Liverpool , and Manchester , will not be run . A train will leave Whitehaven for

Ccckermouth at 7 * 30 p . m ., returning from Cockormonth at 830 p . m . ( for intermediate times , sso local announcements ) . A service of train >! will also bo run on tho Gleator Joint Line between Whitehaven , Marron Junction , and Sellafiold ( for particulars , soo local announcements ) . With the above exceptions , the trains of the Company on Good Friday , will run as on Sundays . On Friday night and Saturday

morning , 4 th and 5 th April , the 11 * 41 p . m . and 12 * 5 a . m . trains from Oarliso will run as usual ; the 12 * 10 a . m ., Holyhead to Crewe , 4 * 30 a . m ., Uoiyhead to Chester , and 2 * 25 a . m ., Chester to Liverpool , will not be run on Saturday morning , there being no boats from North Wall or Greenore on the evening of Good Friday . Passengers for Belfast ( rid Larno ) and the North of Ireland will leave Euston by the 8 * 50 p . m .

tiain , instead of the 8 " 0 p . m . from Euston . On Bank Holiday , Easter Monday , 7 th April , the express trains to and from the City , St . Albans , Watford , and Kensington , will not be run . Numerous residential trains will bo discontinued on Bank Holiday , Easter Monday , 7 th of April , tho particulars of which will be udvortised lot *' -. lly . Tho Company also announce that they will run excursions to ami from Loudon

and Wolverhampton , Leamington , Coventry , Walsall , Leicester , Burton , Macclesfield , Stoke , Stono , Derby , Liverpool , Manchester , Chester , North Wales , Shrewsbury , Hereford , Oswestry , Preston , Wigan , Blackpool , Morecambe , Carlisle , the Lake District , and other places , aud from London to Edinbnrgh and Glasgow for the Football Match at the latter place on 5 th April .

IN order to meet the convenience of the public the Great Western Railway Company have mado arrangements for tho issue of excursion and ordinary tickets at their City and West End Offices , viz ., 193 and 407 Oxford Street , 23 New Oxford Street , Holborn Circus , 29 Charing Cross , 2 G Regent Street , 5 Arthur Street East , London Bridge , 82 Queon Victoria Street , 43 and' 44 Crutched-friars ,

67 Gresham . Street , 4 Gheapsido , and 269 Strand , at any of which places tickets can be obtained during the week preceding Easter . Tickets can also bo obtained at Victoria , Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Aldgate , the Stations on tho Hammersmith and City Line , and at most of the Stations on the Aletropolitan and District Railways . The Booking Office at Paddington Station will be open for the issue

of tickets the whole of tho day on Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday , and Saturday , before Easter . Tickets obtained in London on any day from 31 st March to 5 th April , will bo available for use on either of those days . Cheap tickets at special low fares and , available from 3 rd to 7 th April , will be issued from London to tho Yeovil and Weymouth district ,

aud to the principal Stations in tho VVest of England , and ifc is announced that a fast excursion train will leavo Paddington on Thursday , 3 rd April , reaching Exeter in 5 . j hours , and Plymouth iu 74 hours . Excursions will also be rnn to Leamington , Birmingham , Chester , Cheltenham , Reading , Oxford , Gloucester , Bath , Bristol , aud

other Statious on the Great AVestern System . The newspaper train leaving Paddington at 5 * 30 a . m . will run ou Good Friday as usual as far as Oxford , Exeter , and Swansea , and the usual intermediate Stations . This train will connect at Oxford with trains to the Worcester , Birmingham , and Wolverhampton districts .

The General Steam Navigation Company have made special arrangements for the Easter Holidays , in regard to thoir excursion passenger traffic , wind , weather , aud other circumstances permitting . A special cheap excursion from London to Antwerp and back will leave London on Thursday , 3 rd April , and , iu order to allow intending passengers to remain in London as late as possible , the vessel will

leave Gravesend after tho arrival at Tilbury of the train leaving Fenchurch Street Station at 5 * 15 p . m . Tho magnificent new steamship " Seamew " has beon specially appointed to make this excursion , and it will retnrn from Antwerp on Monday , 7 th April . Other arrangements comprise trips from London to Ostond and back ; and London to Hamburg aud back ( via Thames ) , or via Harwich ( Parkes .

ton Quay ) , Great Eastern Railway and General Steam Navigation Companies' joint service . On Friday , 4 th April , and Monday , 7 ch April , an excursion will be run each day to Margate and back , leaving London Bridge Wharf afc 9 a . m . For further particulars application should bo made to Mr . Richard Cattarns , General Manager , 55 Greafc Tower Street , London , E . C .

Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.

ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .

ri ^ HE adjourned meeting of tho Committee of Manago-X ment of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution vvas held nt Freemasons' Hall on Tuesday . Bro . J . A . Farnfield P . A . G . D . C ., and Treasurer of the Institution , presided during the earlier part of the sitting , aud ou

vacating the chair was succeeded by Bro . Jabez Hogg P . G . D ., while among those present were Bros . C . A . Cottebrune P . G . P ., Charles J . Perceval , 0 . H . Webb , W . B .

DauielJ , G . Boifcou , Charles Lacey , James Brett P . G . P ., A . H . Tattershall , Joseph Freeman , David D . Mercer A . G . P ., James Newton , J . S . Fraaor , A . Mullord , A . Forsyth , S . Brooks , William Smith , Charles G . Hill , Henry Cox ,