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Masonic Chit Chat.
dicular handle , eight inches in diameter ; two spoons , and five liguUe ( spoons and forks in one piece ) . This discovery is the richest treasure of the kind that has yet been met with in Pompeii , and all the vessels are in excellent preservation . A table-napkin was found between two of the plates . The apartment in which these vessels were found , as also the one adjoining , above alluded to , were excavated by the ancients , it appearsfrom a hole in the walland the sashes being much turned up
, , ; but the persons who made this search cannot have been the owners , as they never would have left treasures of such value . The sixty-four silver vessels were taken on the 14 th of October to the Royal Museum , where they have been subsequently exposed to public view . —Literary Gazette .
HAPPY ILLUSTRATION OF SOME MASONIC TOOLS . —At the laying of the Foundation-stone of Mr . Pearson ' s Chambers in Bird-cage walk , on December 5 th , at which ceremony the Lord Mayor officiated ; Mr . P . ( is he a Brother ?) thus aptly alluded to the tools made use of on the occasion . He " presented the mallet and level to the Lord Mayor , as a memorial of the day ' s occurrences ; the square to be kept undivided between himself and Mrs . Pearson ; the rule to his daughter as a guide ,
whereby to regulate her future conduct ; and handed the compass ( to dispose of which , he at first did not seem to have his mind quite made up , ) to his builder , with the hope that " it would remind him to keep his bill within compass . "
Obituary.
Obituary .
Lord Viscount FORBES , eldest son of the Earl of Granard , died on Sunday , the 13 th November . His lordship was Lord Lieutenant and M . P . for the county of Longford , which he has represented since 1806 , with a very slight interruption , when Messrs . Halpin and Rorke sat for the county , but were turned out on petition . He was also Gustos Rotulorum and Colonel of Militia . He was in his 52 nd year , having been hern in May , 1785 . He married , about five years ago , Frances ,
daughter of the late Dr . Territt , formerly Judge of the Admiralty Court , at Bermuda , by whom he has left two sons , the eldest of whom , George Arthur , now Viscount Forbes , is in his fourth year . He died at Noel House , Kensington Gore , the residence of his aunt , the Dowager Marchioness of Hastings . His lordship , as our readers will remember , was found insane by an inquisition , a few months since , the determining cause of which unhappy visitation of Providence was an unfortunate
accident that befel him about fifteen months ago , when he had an apoplectic attack , which eventuated in aberration of intellect . From the first attack to the moment of his death , he was assiduously attended , night and day , by his disconsolate widow , on whom the finger of God has been heavily laid within the last few weeks , her father also having died in that time . His mortal remains have been conveyed for interment in the familvault in the county of which the regretted
nobley man was so long the representative . His lordship was a major-general in the army . He entered the service June 21 , 1794 , as a lieutenant in the 108 th foot , and was appointed one of the aides-de-camp to George III ., in Feb . 1811 . His lordship was provincial Grand Master for Oxfordshire , and Senior Grand W . of the Grand Lodge of Ireland .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Chit Chat.
dicular handle , eight inches in diameter ; two spoons , and five liguUe ( spoons and forks in one piece ) . This discovery is the richest treasure of the kind that has yet been met with in Pompeii , and all the vessels are in excellent preservation . A table-napkin was found between two of the plates . The apartment in which these vessels were found , as also the one adjoining , above alluded to , were excavated by the ancients , it appearsfrom a hole in the walland the sashes being much turned up
, , ; but the persons who made this search cannot have been the owners , as they never would have left treasures of such value . The sixty-four silver vessels were taken on the 14 th of October to the Royal Museum , where they have been subsequently exposed to public view . —Literary Gazette .
HAPPY ILLUSTRATION OF SOME MASONIC TOOLS . —At the laying of the Foundation-stone of Mr . Pearson ' s Chambers in Bird-cage walk , on December 5 th , at which ceremony the Lord Mayor officiated ; Mr . P . ( is he a Brother ?) thus aptly alluded to the tools made use of on the occasion . He " presented the mallet and level to the Lord Mayor , as a memorial of the day ' s occurrences ; the square to be kept undivided between himself and Mrs . Pearson ; the rule to his daughter as a guide ,
whereby to regulate her future conduct ; and handed the compass ( to dispose of which , he at first did not seem to have his mind quite made up , ) to his builder , with the hope that " it would remind him to keep his bill within compass . "
Obituary.
Obituary .
Lord Viscount FORBES , eldest son of the Earl of Granard , died on Sunday , the 13 th November . His lordship was Lord Lieutenant and M . P . for the county of Longford , which he has represented since 1806 , with a very slight interruption , when Messrs . Halpin and Rorke sat for the county , but were turned out on petition . He was also Gustos Rotulorum and Colonel of Militia . He was in his 52 nd year , having been hern in May , 1785 . He married , about five years ago , Frances ,
daughter of the late Dr . Territt , formerly Judge of the Admiralty Court , at Bermuda , by whom he has left two sons , the eldest of whom , George Arthur , now Viscount Forbes , is in his fourth year . He died at Noel House , Kensington Gore , the residence of his aunt , the Dowager Marchioness of Hastings . His lordship , as our readers will remember , was found insane by an inquisition , a few months since , the determining cause of which unhappy visitation of Providence was an unfortunate
accident that befel him about fifteen months ago , when he had an apoplectic attack , which eventuated in aberration of intellect . From the first attack to the moment of his death , he was assiduously attended , night and day , by his disconsolate widow , on whom the finger of God has been heavily laid within the last few weeks , her father also having died in that time . His mortal remains have been conveyed for interment in the familvault in the county of which the regretted
nobley man was so long the representative . His lordship was a major-general in the army . He entered the service June 21 , 1794 , as a lieutenant in the 108 th foot , and was appointed one of the aides-de-camp to George III ., in Feb . 1811 . His lordship was provincial Grand Master for Oxfordshire , and Senior Grand W . of the Grand Lodge of Ireland .