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Masonic And General Tidings
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
Bro . Lord Yarborough has again made a return of 15 percent , to his tenantry upon the rents paid by them . Bro . YV . II . R . Saunders svas installed as W . M . of the Benevolent Lodge , No . 303 , Teignmouth , on thc nth ult .
At the installation meeting of the Westbourne Lodge , No . 733 , at Lord ' s Hotel , St . John's Wood , on the 21 st ult ., Bro . Samuel R . Walker svas installed into the chair of K . S . by Bro . Kershasv , the retiring AIaster . A handsome Parian marble bust of the Prince of VVales , AI . W . G . AI . Grand Lodge of England , has been presented to the city lodges of London , Canada , by VV . l ? ro . Brunton . It has been placed in position in the lodge
room , and proves very attractive . The Fifteen Sections svill be svorked at the Excelsior Lodge of Instruction , No . 1155 , on Tuesday evening next , the 4 th inst ., at seven o ' clock p . m ., at the Commercial Dock Tavern , Plough-road , Rotherhithe . Bro . Walter Martin , J . VV . Southsvark Lodge , S 79 , will preside , and thc attendance of brethren svill be cordially svelcomed . Bro . Sir Moses Montefiore is about to receis'e
a mark of thc esteem in svhich he is held by his coreligionists of Nesv York , a meeting of deputations from the congregations , svith their ministers and presidents of the chief communal institutions of Nesv York , having been held to take steps to becomingly mark the approaching centennial anniversary of Sir Aloscs ' s birthday . Opinion seemed to be most sveighty in favour of cither a Home for Incurables or an Industrial Home for Jesvish Children .
A statement of thc receipts and disbursements in connection svith the late Alusical Festival at Leeds has just been issued . The total amount received from the concerts svas £ < j , GGG os . 7 d ., svhich svas increased by the sale of music , programmes , books , donations , and bankers' interest to £ 10 , 307 15 s . fd . The surplus amounted to £ 2 , 078 7 s . 7 d ., svhich ss'as disposed of as follows : £ 1 , 050 to the Leeds General Infirmary , £ 525 to thc Leeds Public Dispensary ,
and £ 375 ' ° 'he Hospital for svomen and Children , the £ 728 7 s . 7 d . remaining being added to the reserve fund , svhich nosv amounts to £ 1 , 072 15 s . Sd . The follosving are the dinners , & rc , held at the Freemasons' Tavern during the present sveek : Alonday , Fel > . 25 th—Westbourne Lodge Ball , Old King ' s Arms Lodge , Royal Somerset House Lodge installation . Tuesday , 2 Gth—Royal Alasonic Benevolent Institution Festival ,
'Tuscan Lodge Ball , Royal York Chapter , St . James ' s Union Chapter , Industry Lodge , Royal Savoy Lodge . Wednesday , 29 th . —Dramatic Ball , Lodge of Antiquity , Smeatonian Society , Evening Star Lodge . Thursday , 28 th—Linen and Woollen Drapers' Benevolent Institution , Grenadier ' s Lodge , Alount Aloriah Lodge , Girls' School Club . Friday , 29 th—Alagpic Rosving Club Ball . Saturday , Alarch 1—St . James ' s Soiree , Phcenix Chapter .
The Royal Navy is about to lose an officer of great practical experience , in the person of Air . A . . Morcom ( Bro . A . Alorcom ) , chief engineer at Sheerness Dockyard . This officer , svho since his appointment at Sheerness has rendered valuable services to the Admiralty , has accepted an appointment in a private engineering firm . Air . Alorcom svill carry with him from the service the svell-svishcs
ot his many friends in this locality , svhere he svas svell knosvn , having held thc post of First Assistant to thc Chief Engineer of Portsmouth Dockyard . By this gentleman ' s resignation thc Government has lost a tried and efficient officer , and private enterprise has added to the roll of meritorious ollicers svho have been induced to leave her Alajesty ' s service to better their prospects in Mc—Portsjnonth Times .
Masonic authorities generally condemn thcinfliction of severe penalties for non-payment of dues . 'The practice of suspension for that offence is , it seems , a modern regulation growing out of our present system of lodge government , and svhile our edicts authorise the suspension of those in arrears , and even their expulsion , it should be remembered that thc latter is thc severest penalty knosvn
to our code , and corresponds svith capital punishment in our civil government . It should therefore only be resorted to in extreme cases , svhere the ability to pay is undoubted , and the refusal amounts to absolute contumacy . To suspend , much more to expel , a Alason for non-payment svho is too poor to pay his dues is in conflict svith the charitable features of our institution , and an outrage upon those principles of humanity on svhich the Order is founded . —Texas
Freemason . Health y I Iomcs . —Pure Airand Water . —Perfect drainage , ventilation , and temperature are nosv happily recognised as essentials in every dsvelling . Unfortunatel y busy City men are very ill-informed upon both the theoretical and practical conditions necessary to secure healthy homes , and fortunately this deficiency can be supplied by private enterprise and special knosvledge . Bro . VVm .
Smeaton has secured the most central position in the City at Leadenhall-buildings , Gracechurch-street , and is there prepared to exhibit and suggest the essentials of a healthy home in its leading requisites of temperature , ventilation , perfect drainage , and purity of svater supply . As no reason exists beyond ignorance and cupidity svhy life should not be robust and abundant , and death a remote or removed
possibility , society is deeply indebted to sanitarians like Bro . Smeaton for his enterprise in such a central position . We have his authority for saying that he svill gladly advise members of the Craft upon all sanitary matters , and leave the execution of his suggestions to others , if desired , only sve cannot too often urge upon our readers the inverted maxim , rendered famous by Lord Beaconsfield , " Sanitas sanitatum omnia sanitas . "
" Rui-ruuF . * ,. "—WHITE ' S MUI :-M . SIS LEVER TRUSS is the mnst effective iuveiitiiiii fur the treatment of Hernia . The "se of a tic-el spring , so hurtful in its cllccts , is avoided , a soft bandage being worn round the bode , while the requisite resisting posver is supplied hy Ihe Moc-. Main '|> ad and l ' alent Leser , lilting w-ith so much ease and clo * ene * s that it cannot he detected . Send for descriptive circular , with testimonials ami prices , to J . White and Co . ( Limited ) 2- > H , I'icc .-ulidy , London . Oo not buv ' of Chemist ** , who oflen sell an iMirvrio * . of our Moc-Main . J . ' White ancl Co . have not anyagents . —[ ADVT . J
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Bro . J . D . Barford , P . M . 34 2 , svas installed W . AL of the Southampton Lodge , No . 394 , last sveek . We understand that Dr . Laylor , of Kentish Tosvn , the discoverer of phosphodine , svill remove in March next to Hampstead , svhere he is building enlarged premises and extended laboratory .
Thc Camden Chapter of Instruction , held at the Boston Hotel , Junction-road , on Wednesday , at eight o ' clock p . m ., of svhich Comp . Edsvards is the Preceptor , svill on and after the 4 th inst . be held on Tuesdays , instead of VVednesday , as at present .
The annual supper of the Covent Garden Lodge of Instruction svill take place at the Criterion , Piccadilly , on Thursday evening , 13 th inst ., at 7 . 30 p . m . Bro . Geo . Coleman , VV . AI . 1614 , in the chair , supported by Bro . VV . H . Gulliford , P . AL 1017 , 1614 , in the vice-chair .
The Prince of Wales , attended by Col . Stanley Clarke , honoured Bro . Lord Carrington and the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms svith his presence at dinner at their mess in St . James ' s Palace on Friday evening last sveek .
The third of the series of annual exhibitions of Sporting appliances , commonly knosvn as the Sportsman ' s Exhibition , svill be held in the Agricultural Hall , from Thursday next , the Gth , to Saturday ,-the 15 inst ., under most distinguished patronage . Full particulars svill be found in another column .
At the meeting of the Great Northern Lod ge , on Thursday , thc Wardens and Past Masters present acquiesced in thc suggestion of the VVorshi pfuI Master that they should attend Grand Lodge in a body , and support the principle of the annual election of Grand Treasurer by voting for Bro . Horace Brooks Alarshall .
Bro . W . H . Baker , S . W . designate of the Abbey Lodge , Westminster , svas the recipient of a very gratifying testimonial , consisting of a purse of one hundred guineas , on Tuesday evening last , at the Westminster Tosvn Hall , subscribed for by members of vestries and district boards . The Baroness Burdett Coutts and the Right Hon . VV . H . Smith , ALP ., svere present .
The steamship Alert , which svas especially constructed to svithstand the rigour of an Arctic winter , and , our readers svill remember , svas employed in the last British Arctic expedition under Sir Georfjc Nares , has been presented by the Admiralty to thc United States Government , who are organising an Arctic expedition in search of some missing ships . She svill be handed over completely equipped
for sea . Ihe United States Congress have unanimously thanked the English Government tor the gift . An accident , fortunately not of a vcry serious nature , though a contrary result might have been the case , occurred to Bro . Alderman and Ex-Sheriff de Keyser on Tuesday last , during the progress of a trial at the Central Criminal Court . In the Old Court a large sheathed sword , the " Sword of Justice , " is placed in a receotacle oreoared
for it behind the scat usually occupied by the Lord Alayor . The fastenings of this sword appear to have given way , and the sveapon and its sheath fell with some force upon the head of Bro . Dc Keyser , svho was at the moment sitting beneath it . He left the court , but it appeared that , fortunately , thc onl y injury sustained was a slight abrasion of the skin of the forehead , and in the course of a few minutes he again took his seat on the bench .
As sve mentioned last sveek , the R . W . the Prov . Grand Alaster of Durham , Bro . the Most Hon . the Alarquess of Londonderry , K . P ., has approved and signed a petition , svhich has been dul y signed and recommended , for the formation of a nesv lod ge to be established on temperance principles , at Sunderland , on similar lines to thc Wolseley Lodge at Manchester . The proposed new lodge svill , svhen duly warranted , be named , by thc
permission of the Pray . Grand Master , "Thc Londonderry Lodge , " and mec < at thj / Lecture Hall of the Young Alcn ' s Christian AssociatioTTtn Sunderland . 'The Prov . G . Secretary , Bro . R . Hudson , is proposed and recommended as thc first W . AL ; Bro . J . C . Moor , VV . AI . 97 , as thc first S . VV . ; and Bro . J . Deans , J . VV . 80 , as thc first J . VV . Bro . Aloor is acting as the provisional Secretary until the lodge is formed . His address is Central Hall , John-street , Sunderland .
Ihe annual meeting of shareholders of the Southampton Alasonic Hall Company was held on Tuesday evening at the Alasonic Hall , Albion-place , when Bro . Weston presided , in the absence of the D . P . G . AI ., and there svas a numerous attendance of directors and brethren . The report shosved a balance of £ 21755 . 7 d ., from svhich thc directors recommended a dividend of five per cent , per
annum , carrying forsvard to next year ' s account £ 63 3 s . 7 d . 'The Chairman congratulated thc brethren on the position of the Company , and moved the adoption of the report , svhich Bro . Thomas seconded , and after a brief discussion thc proposition svas carried . To fill the vacancy created by thc retirement of Bro . Payne from the directorate , there svere three nominations , Bros . Cole , VV . Berry , and Henry
Lashmore , and on a shosv of hands being taken the lastnamed was declared elected , and returned thanks for the compliment . The retiring directors , Bros . AL Miles , J . B . Thomas , J . R . Weston , J . Robson , and J . E . Le Feuvre , sverc moved for re-election by Bros . Cole , Adams , Tilling , Dymott , and Thomas , seconded respectively by Bros . Jellicoe , Robertson , Cross , Dyer , and W . J . Hickman , and
all the propositions svere agreed to . Bros . Cole and Cross svere re-elected auditors , and votes of thanks svere accorded them , as svell as to the Chairman and Board of Directors ; the honorary solicitor , Bro . VV . J . Hickman ; the honorary treasurer , Bro . Waters ; and secretary , Bro . R . Sharpe , and after the discussion of some questions of interest to the lodges , thanks svere voted to the Chairman for
presiding , and the meeting ended . HOLLOSVAY ' S PILLS . —Nervous IX-bility . —No part of thc human machine requires more ssatching than Ihe nervous system ; upon it hangs health and life itself . These Pills arc the best regulators anil slrengthcncrs of the nerves , and tbe safest general purifiers , Nausea , headache , giddiness , numbness , and menial apathy yield toIhcm They dispatch in a summary manner those distressing
; dyspeptic i-y-n--t- > nis , stomachic pains , fullness at the pit of the stomal h , abdominal di .-tension , aud overcome both capricious appetites and conlineil bowels—tbe commonly accompanying signs of defective or deranged nervous power . Hollowas ' s I'ills arc particularly recommended to persons of studious and sedentary habits , who gradually sink into a nervous and debilitated slate unless some such restorative be occasionally taken , —[ ADVI . !
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Bro . Lord Tollemache has offered his Cheshire tenantry to construct silos on every farm , and to take the financial responsibility . Bro . J . Aronsberg , J . P ., of Manchester , has been furnished by H . R . H . the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt svith a copy of the letters of the late Princess Alice .
Thc body of Bro . John Brosvn , SS years of age , svas found in almost a nude state in a yard off Bridge-st ., Richmond , Yorkshire , on Friday morning last sveek , svith his clothes lying around him . He was last seen alive on Thursday night , after attending a lodge . Handel ' s Italian oratorio , " La Resurrezione , " svas heard for the first time in England on Tuesday evening last at St . James ' s Hall , the svork being rendered by Past
tjrand Organist Bro . C E . Willing ' s choir , with the original accompaniments in their integrity . The ceremony of installation of Principals svill be rehearsed on Tuesday next , by Comp . Brosvn , S . E . and Preceptor , at the Metropolitan Chapter of Improvement , Jamaica Coffee House , St . Michael ' s Alley , Cornhill , at half-past 5 o ' clock . The usual exaltation ceremony svill be rehearsed at half-past 6 o ' clock .
We are nosv arriving at the most healthful and pleasant season of the year , and to all of our readers svho are preparing for the stocking of their gardens sve should advise a perusal of the revised edition of " Hoopers * Gardening Guide" ( price 2 s . 6 d ., / rom Hooper ' s , Covent Garden , VV . C . ) This svork contains over 500 illustrations and about 300 pages of descriptive and instructive matter , and includes particulars of all novelties and introductions in the floral and vegetable svorld to end of season 1 SS 3 .
The committee of Ways and Means of the Alary Commandery of Knights Templars , Philadelphia , having in charge the Pilgrimage to Erie in Alay , 1 SS 4 , contemplate a tri p in connection theresvith to Niagara Falls , through the oil regions of Pennsylvania , to Bradford , to thc Kinzua Viaduct , the highest railroad bridge in the svorld , Sic . The sir knights of Bradford svill arrange special trains for visits to the oil svells , for the torpedoing
of one or more svells , & c . The oil regions , to many of the sir knights , will be a real curiosity . Arrangements will , as usual , be made for ladies to accompany them . It is expected to leave Philadelphia on Monday , Alay 26 th , 1 SS 4 , reaching Erie on Tuesday , 27 th , on which day the parade will take p lace . Visit Niagara Falls on Wednesday Thursday and Friday will be spent at Bradford and in the oil regions , reaching Philadelphia on Saturday , May
31 st . The total cost of trip , including ( sight-seeing at Niagara not included ) , svill be about forty dollars . The achievement of Freemasonry in inventing an alphabet that is as easy of acquisition by the German as by _ the Englishman , by the Arab as by the Indian , is one that is worthy of remark . Before thc advent of the Craft the dream of a universal language svas akin in character and issue to the dream of universal dominion , vainly
indulged in by so many warlike potentates . The attempt to frame a tongue that should be acquired by all men svas a failure—a Utopian dream . Many have been the enthusiasts who , all through thc centuries , have striven to svin the honour of inventing the svorld ' s language . Dalgarno in his " Ars Signorum , " Bishop Wilkins in his " Philosophical Language , " and the famous genius , Liebnitz , are among those who aspired thus to master speech . But speech is
incapable of such mastery . It svould seem that even if all the nations of thc earth svere combined under one government , the different peoples would each continue to speak their own language . We sometimes flatter ourselves that the English tongue will ultimately be the world ' s tongue , but this is more than doubtful . It would seem that only Freemasonry can thus make the conquest of the peoples of the svorld , or rather of those representative men among all
peoples svho shall be found worthy of initiation in the Craft . This universal language is not a tongue , but a Masonic alphabet , a sign language , exemplifying " a beautiful system of morality , veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols . "—Keystone . The business to be transacted at Grand Lodge on Wednesday , Alarch 5 th , bids fair in one respect to be of a more exciting character than usual . There are two
brethren proposed for the office of Grand Treasurer , viz ., Bro . John Derb y Allcroft and Bro . Horace Brooks Alarshall . The idea of many at the election of Bro . Allcroft in March , 1 SS 3 , svas that at an annual change should be made , and not the same brother be elected from year to year as formerly . On thc other hand there are a large number who object to such frequent changes in the personnel of thatoffice . The latter have , with ,
questionable taste , secured a long array of signatures to a resolution pledging such brethren to vote for Bro . Allcroft , and during the last few sveeks a number of letters have been appearing in the Freemason advocating the claims of the two brethren , so that if those svho have to vote arc not unbiassed by improper solicitation , they , at all events , are svell informed as to the merits of the tsvo candidates , Masonically and generally . Never svere there two
such brethren proposed before , and never likely to be so again . The attendance of the Craft is expected to be exceptionally large , and " overflow meetings" svill have to be arranged for . The M . W . Grand Alaster the Prince of VVales has given notice of his intention to move that fifty guineas be granted to each of the families of two of the crew of the Alasonic " Albert Edsvard " lifeboat at Clacton-on-Sea , svho were drowned
on 23 rd January while endeavouring to rescue the crew of a vessel in distress . One of the men had assisted in saving 1 iG lives , and the other 33 lives . Various ^ appeals have to be considered , and thc election of the Prince of Wales as Grand Alaster , it should be mentioned , will commence the proceedings . Since the last Grand Lodge 13 nesv lodges nave been warranted , thc last number being 2035 , including the Lodge of St . George , No . 2025 , Stonehouse , the
charter of svhich has been received by the Secretary , and the brethren are waiting its consecration . The revised llook of Constitutions in the tsvo sizes svill be ready for issue early in Alarch . — Western Morning News . UNTAILIMI RSMEIIV FOIC WINTER Cour . ns AND BRONCHITIS . — " My elderly customers find no better medicine for their Winter
Coughs , ami each year I get renewed testimony to the value and good effects that Uu . LOCOCK ' S PULMONIC SVAKERS never fail to produce in ihe mostserinus cases , as well as in slight bronchial attacks . " —( Signed ) VV . II . TURNER , M . P . S ., Totterdosvn , Bristol . January a ; th , 1882 . They instantly relieve , rapidly cure , and taste plcanantly . Soldat is . ijd . and as . od . per box , of all druggists , — [ ADVT . ]
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Masonic And General Tidings
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
Bro . Lord Yarborough has again made a return of 15 percent , to his tenantry upon the rents paid by them . Bro . YV . II . R . Saunders svas installed as W . M . of the Benevolent Lodge , No . 303 , Teignmouth , on thc nth ult .
At the installation meeting of the Westbourne Lodge , No . 733 , at Lord ' s Hotel , St . John's Wood , on the 21 st ult ., Bro . Samuel R . Walker svas installed into the chair of K . S . by Bro . Kershasv , the retiring AIaster . A handsome Parian marble bust of the Prince of VVales , AI . W . G . AI . Grand Lodge of England , has been presented to the city lodges of London , Canada , by VV . l ? ro . Brunton . It has been placed in position in the lodge
room , and proves very attractive . The Fifteen Sections svill be svorked at the Excelsior Lodge of Instruction , No . 1155 , on Tuesday evening next , the 4 th inst ., at seven o ' clock p . m ., at the Commercial Dock Tavern , Plough-road , Rotherhithe . Bro . Walter Martin , J . VV . Southsvark Lodge , S 79 , will preside , and thc attendance of brethren svill be cordially svelcomed . Bro . Sir Moses Montefiore is about to receis'e
a mark of thc esteem in svhich he is held by his coreligionists of Nesv York , a meeting of deputations from the congregations , svith their ministers and presidents of the chief communal institutions of Nesv York , having been held to take steps to becomingly mark the approaching centennial anniversary of Sir Aloscs ' s birthday . Opinion seemed to be most sveighty in favour of cither a Home for Incurables or an Industrial Home for Jesvish Children .
A statement of thc receipts and disbursements in connection svith the late Alusical Festival at Leeds has just been issued . The total amount received from the concerts svas £ < j , GGG os . 7 d ., svhich svas increased by the sale of music , programmes , books , donations , and bankers' interest to £ 10 , 307 15 s . fd . The surplus amounted to £ 2 , 078 7 s . 7 d ., svhich ss'as disposed of as follows : £ 1 , 050 to the Leeds General Infirmary , £ 525 to thc Leeds Public Dispensary ,
and £ 375 ' ° 'he Hospital for svomen and Children , the £ 728 7 s . 7 d . remaining being added to the reserve fund , svhich nosv amounts to £ 1 , 072 15 s . Sd . The follosving are the dinners , & rc , held at the Freemasons' Tavern during the present sveek : Alonday , Fel > . 25 th—Westbourne Lodge Ball , Old King ' s Arms Lodge , Royal Somerset House Lodge installation . Tuesday , 2 Gth—Royal Alasonic Benevolent Institution Festival ,
'Tuscan Lodge Ball , Royal York Chapter , St . James ' s Union Chapter , Industry Lodge , Royal Savoy Lodge . Wednesday , 29 th . —Dramatic Ball , Lodge of Antiquity , Smeatonian Society , Evening Star Lodge . Thursday , 28 th—Linen and Woollen Drapers' Benevolent Institution , Grenadier ' s Lodge , Alount Aloriah Lodge , Girls' School Club . Friday , 29 th—Alagpic Rosving Club Ball . Saturday , Alarch 1—St . James ' s Soiree , Phcenix Chapter .
The Royal Navy is about to lose an officer of great practical experience , in the person of Air . A . . Morcom ( Bro . A . Alorcom ) , chief engineer at Sheerness Dockyard . This officer , svho since his appointment at Sheerness has rendered valuable services to the Admiralty , has accepted an appointment in a private engineering firm . Air . Alorcom svill carry with him from the service the svell-svishcs
ot his many friends in this locality , svhere he svas svell knosvn , having held thc post of First Assistant to thc Chief Engineer of Portsmouth Dockyard . By this gentleman ' s resignation thc Government has lost a tried and efficient officer , and private enterprise has added to the roll of meritorious ollicers svho have been induced to leave her Alajesty ' s service to better their prospects in Mc—Portsjnonth Times .
Masonic authorities generally condemn thcinfliction of severe penalties for non-payment of dues . 'The practice of suspension for that offence is , it seems , a modern regulation growing out of our present system of lodge government , and svhile our edicts authorise the suspension of those in arrears , and even their expulsion , it should be remembered that thc latter is thc severest penalty knosvn
to our code , and corresponds svith capital punishment in our civil government . It should therefore only be resorted to in extreme cases , svhere the ability to pay is undoubted , and the refusal amounts to absolute contumacy . To suspend , much more to expel , a Alason for non-payment svho is too poor to pay his dues is in conflict svith the charitable features of our institution , and an outrage upon those principles of humanity on svhich the Order is founded . —Texas
Freemason . Health y I Iomcs . —Pure Airand Water . —Perfect drainage , ventilation , and temperature are nosv happily recognised as essentials in every dsvelling . Unfortunatel y busy City men are very ill-informed upon both the theoretical and practical conditions necessary to secure healthy homes , and fortunately this deficiency can be supplied by private enterprise and special knosvledge . Bro . VVm .
Smeaton has secured the most central position in the City at Leadenhall-buildings , Gracechurch-street , and is there prepared to exhibit and suggest the essentials of a healthy home in its leading requisites of temperature , ventilation , perfect drainage , and purity of svater supply . As no reason exists beyond ignorance and cupidity svhy life should not be robust and abundant , and death a remote or removed
possibility , society is deeply indebted to sanitarians like Bro . Smeaton for his enterprise in such a central position . We have his authority for saying that he svill gladly advise members of the Craft upon all sanitary matters , and leave the execution of his suggestions to others , if desired , only sve cannot too often urge upon our readers the inverted maxim , rendered famous by Lord Beaconsfield , " Sanitas sanitatum omnia sanitas . "
" Rui-ruuF . * ,. "—WHITE ' S MUI :-M . SIS LEVER TRUSS is the mnst effective iuveiitiiiii fur the treatment of Hernia . The "se of a tic-el spring , so hurtful in its cllccts , is avoided , a soft bandage being worn round the bode , while the requisite resisting posver is supplied hy Ihe Moc-. Main '|> ad and l ' alent Leser , lilting w-ith so much ease and clo * ene * s that it cannot he detected . Send for descriptive circular , with testimonials ami prices , to J . White and Co . ( Limited ) 2- > H , I'icc .-ulidy , London . Oo not buv ' of Chemist ** , who oflen sell an iMirvrio * . of our Moc-Main . J . ' White ancl Co . have not anyagents . —[ ADVT . J
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Bro . J . D . Barford , P . M . 34 2 , svas installed W . AL of the Southampton Lodge , No . 394 , last sveek . We understand that Dr . Laylor , of Kentish Tosvn , the discoverer of phosphodine , svill remove in March next to Hampstead , svhere he is building enlarged premises and extended laboratory .
Thc Camden Chapter of Instruction , held at the Boston Hotel , Junction-road , on Wednesday , at eight o ' clock p . m ., of svhich Comp . Edsvards is the Preceptor , svill on and after the 4 th inst . be held on Tuesdays , instead of VVednesday , as at present .
The annual supper of the Covent Garden Lodge of Instruction svill take place at the Criterion , Piccadilly , on Thursday evening , 13 th inst ., at 7 . 30 p . m . Bro . Geo . Coleman , VV . AI . 1614 , in the chair , supported by Bro . VV . H . Gulliford , P . AL 1017 , 1614 , in the vice-chair .
The Prince of Wales , attended by Col . Stanley Clarke , honoured Bro . Lord Carrington and the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms svith his presence at dinner at their mess in St . James ' s Palace on Friday evening last sveek .
The third of the series of annual exhibitions of Sporting appliances , commonly knosvn as the Sportsman ' s Exhibition , svill be held in the Agricultural Hall , from Thursday next , the Gth , to Saturday ,-the 15 inst ., under most distinguished patronage . Full particulars svill be found in another column .
At the meeting of the Great Northern Lod ge , on Thursday , thc Wardens and Past Masters present acquiesced in thc suggestion of the VVorshi pfuI Master that they should attend Grand Lodge in a body , and support the principle of the annual election of Grand Treasurer by voting for Bro . Horace Brooks Alarshall .
Bro . W . H . Baker , S . W . designate of the Abbey Lodge , Westminster , svas the recipient of a very gratifying testimonial , consisting of a purse of one hundred guineas , on Tuesday evening last , at the Westminster Tosvn Hall , subscribed for by members of vestries and district boards . The Baroness Burdett Coutts and the Right Hon . VV . H . Smith , ALP ., svere present .
The steamship Alert , which svas especially constructed to svithstand the rigour of an Arctic winter , and , our readers svill remember , svas employed in the last British Arctic expedition under Sir Georfjc Nares , has been presented by the Admiralty to thc United States Government , who are organising an Arctic expedition in search of some missing ships . She svill be handed over completely equipped
for sea . Ihe United States Congress have unanimously thanked the English Government tor the gift . An accident , fortunately not of a vcry serious nature , though a contrary result might have been the case , occurred to Bro . Alderman and Ex-Sheriff de Keyser on Tuesday last , during the progress of a trial at the Central Criminal Court . In the Old Court a large sheathed sword , the " Sword of Justice , " is placed in a receotacle oreoared
for it behind the scat usually occupied by the Lord Alayor . The fastenings of this sword appear to have given way , and the sveapon and its sheath fell with some force upon the head of Bro . Dc Keyser , svho was at the moment sitting beneath it . He left the court , but it appeared that , fortunately , thc onl y injury sustained was a slight abrasion of the skin of the forehead , and in the course of a few minutes he again took his seat on the bench .
As sve mentioned last sveek , the R . W . the Prov . Grand Alaster of Durham , Bro . the Most Hon . the Alarquess of Londonderry , K . P ., has approved and signed a petition , svhich has been dul y signed and recommended , for the formation of a nesv lod ge to be established on temperance principles , at Sunderland , on similar lines to thc Wolseley Lodge at Manchester . The proposed new lodge svill , svhen duly warranted , be named , by thc
permission of the Pray . Grand Master , "Thc Londonderry Lodge , " and mec < at thj / Lecture Hall of the Young Alcn ' s Christian AssociatioTTtn Sunderland . 'The Prov . G . Secretary , Bro . R . Hudson , is proposed and recommended as thc first W . AL ; Bro . J . C . Moor , VV . AI . 97 , as thc first S . VV . ; and Bro . J . Deans , J . VV . 80 , as thc first J . VV . Bro . Aloor is acting as the provisional Secretary until the lodge is formed . His address is Central Hall , John-street , Sunderland .
Ihe annual meeting of shareholders of the Southampton Alasonic Hall Company was held on Tuesday evening at the Alasonic Hall , Albion-place , when Bro . Weston presided , in the absence of the D . P . G . AI ., and there svas a numerous attendance of directors and brethren . The report shosved a balance of £ 21755 . 7 d ., from svhich thc directors recommended a dividend of five per cent , per
annum , carrying forsvard to next year ' s account £ 63 3 s . 7 d . 'The Chairman congratulated thc brethren on the position of the Company , and moved the adoption of the report , svhich Bro . Thomas seconded , and after a brief discussion thc proposition svas carried . To fill the vacancy created by thc retirement of Bro . Payne from the directorate , there svere three nominations , Bros . Cole , VV . Berry , and Henry
Lashmore , and on a shosv of hands being taken the lastnamed was declared elected , and returned thanks for the compliment . The retiring directors , Bros . AL Miles , J . B . Thomas , J . R . Weston , J . Robson , and J . E . Le Feuvre , sverc moved for re-election by Bros . Cole , Adams , Tilling , Dymott , and Thomas , seconded respectively by Bros . Jellicoe , Robertson , Cross , Dyer , and W . J . Hickman , and
all the propositions svere agreed to . Bros . Cole and Cross svere re-elected auditors , and votes of thanks svere accorded them , as svell as to the Chairman and Board of Directors ; the honorary solicitor , Bro . VV . J . Hickman ; the honorary treasurer , Bro . Waters ; and secretary , Bro . R . Sharpe , and after the discussion of some questions of interest to the lodges , thanks svere voted to the Chairman for
presiding , and the meeting ended . HOLLOSVAY ' S PILLS . —Nervous IX-bility . —No part of thc human machine requires more ssatching than Ihe nervous system ; upon it hangs health and life itself . These Pills arc the best regulators anil slrengthcncrs of the nerves , and tbe safest general purifiers , Nausea , headache , giddiness , numbness , and menial apathy yield toIhcm They dispatch in a summary manner those distressing
; dyspeptic i-y-n--t- > nis , stomachic pains , fullness at the pit of the stomal h , abdominal di .-tension , aud overcome both capricious appetites and conlineil bowels—tbe commonly accompanying signs of defective or deranged nervous power . Hollowas ' s I'ills arc particularly recommended to persons of studious and sedentary habits , who gradually sink into a nervous and debilitated slate unless some such restorative be occasionally taken , —[ ADVI . !
Masonic And General Tidings
Bro . Lord Tollemache has offered his Cheshire tenantry to construct silos on every farm , and to take the financial responsibility . Bro . J . Aronsberg , J . P ., of Manchester , has been furnished by H . R . H . the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt svith a copy of the letters of the late Princess Alice .
Thc body of Bro . John Brosvn , SS years of age , svas found in almost a nude state in a yard off Bridge-st ., Richmond , Yorkshire , on Friday morning last sveek , svith his clothes lying around him . He was last seen alive on Thursday night , after attending a lodge . Handel ' s Italian oratorio , " La Resurrezione , " svas heard for the first time in England on Tuesday evening last at St . James ' s Hall , the svork being rendered by Past
tjrand Organist Bro . C E . Willing ' s choir , with the original accompaniments in their integrity . The ceremony of installation of Principals svill be rehearsed on Tuesday next , by Comp . Brosvn , S . E . and Preceptor , at the Metropolitan Chapter of Improvement , Jamaica Coffee House , St . Michael ' s Alley , Cornhill , at half-past 5 o ' clock . The usual exaltation ceremony svill be rehearsed at half-past 6 o ' clock .
We are nosv arriving at the most healthful and pleasant season of the year , and to all of our readers svho are preparing for the stocking of their gardens sve should advise a perusal of the revised edition of " Hoopers * Gardening Guide" ( price 2 s . 6 d ., / rom Hooper ' s , Covent Garden , VV . C . ) This svork contains over 500 illustrations and about 300 pages of descriptive and instructive matter , and includes particulars of all novelties and introductions in the floral and vegetable svorld to end of season 1 SS 3 .
The committee of Ways and Means of the Alary Commandery of Knights Templars , Philadelphia , having in charge the Pilgrimage to Erie in Alay , 1 SS 4 , contemplate a tri p in connection theresvith to Niagara Falls , through the oil regions of Pennsylvania , to Bradford , to thc Kinzua Viaduct , the highest railroad bridge in the svorld , Sic . The sir knights of Bradford svill arrange special trains for visits to the oil svells , for the torpedoing
of one or more svells , & c . The oil regions , to many of the sir knights , will be a real curiosity . Arrangements will , as usual , be made for ladies to accompany them . It is expected to leave Philadelphia on Monday , Alay 26 th , 1 SS 4 , reaching Erie on Tuesday , 27 th , on which day the parade will take p lace . Visit Niagara Falls on Wednesday Thursday and Friday will be spent at Bradford and in the oil regions , reaching Philadelphia on Saturday , May
31 st . The total cost of trip , including ( sight-seeing at Niagara not included ) , svill be about forty dollars . The achievement of Freemasonry in inventing an alphabet that is as easy of acquisition by the German as by _ the Englishman , by the Arab as by the Indian , is one that is worthy of remark . Before thc advent of the Craft the dream of a universal language svas akin in character and issue to the dream of universal dominion , vainly
indulged in by so many warlike potentates . The attempt to frame a tongue that should be acquired by all men svas a failure—a Utopian dream . Many have been the enthusiasts who , all through thc centuries , have striven to svin the honour of inventing the svorld ' s language . Dalgarno in his " Ars Signorum , " Bishop Wilkins in his " Philosophical Language , " and the famous genius , Liebnitz , are among those who aspired thus to master speech . But speech is
incapable of such mastery . It svould seem that even if all the nations of thc earth svere combined under one government , the different peoples would each continue to speak their own language . We sometimes flatter ourselves that the English tongue will ultimately be the world ' s tongue , but this is more than doubtful . It would seem that only Freemasonry can thus make the conquest of the peoples of the svorld , or rather of those representative men among all
peoples svho shall be found worthy of initiation in the Craft . This universal language is not a tongue , but a Masonic alphabet , a sign language , exemplifying " a beautiful system of morality , veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols . "—Keystone . The business to be transacted at Grand Lodge on Wednesday , Alarch 5 th , bids fair in one respect to be of a more exciting character than usual . There are two
brethren proposed for the office of Grand Treasurer , viz ., Bro . John Derb y Allcroft and Bro . Horace Brooks Alarshall . The idea of many at the election of Bro . Allcroft in March , 1 SS 3 , svas that at an annual change should be made , and not the same brother be elected from year to year as formerly . On thc other hand there are a large number who object to such frequent changes in the personnel of thatoffice . The latter have , with ,
questionable taste , secured a long array of signatures to a resolution pledging such brethren to vote for Bro . Allcroft , and during the last few sveeks a number of letters have been appearing in the Freemason advocating the claims of the two brethren , so that if those svho have to vote arc not unbiassed by improper solicitation , they , at all events , are svell informed as to the merits of the tsvo candidates , Masonically and generally . Never svere there two
such brethren proposed before , and never likely to be so again . The attendance of the Craft is expected to be exceptionally large , and " overflow meetings" svill have to be arranged for . The M . W . Grand Alaster the Prince of VVales has given notice of his intention to move that fifty guineas be granted to each of the families of two of the crew of the Alasonic " Albert Edsvard " lifeboat at Clacton-on-Sea , svho were drowned
on 23 rd January while endeavouring to rescue the crew of a vessel in distress . One of the men had assisted in saving 1 iG lives , and the other 33 lives . Various ^ appeals have to be considered , and thc election of the Prince of Wales as Grand Alaster , it should be mentioned , will commence the proceedings . Since the last Grand Lodge 13 nesv lodges nave been warranted , thc last number being 2035 , including the Lodge of St . George , No . 2025 , Stonehouse , the
charter of svhich has been received by the Secretary , and the brethren are waiting its consecration . The revised llook of Constitutions in the tsvo sizes svill be ready for issue early in Alarch . — Western Morning News . UNTAILIMI RSMEIIV FOIC WINTER Cour . ns AND BRONCHITIS . — " My elderly customers find no better medicine for their Winter
Coughs , ami each year I get renewed testimony to the value and good effects that Uu . LOCOCK ' S PULMONIC SVAKERS never fail to produce in ihe mostserinus cases , as well as in slight bronchial attacks . " —( Signed ) VV . II . TURNER , M . P . S ., Totterdosvn , Bristol . January a ; th , 1882 . They instantly relieve , rapidly cure , and taste plcanantly . Soldat is . ijd . and as . od . per box , of all druggists , — [ ADVT . ]