Lodges And Chapters Of Instruction.

CHICHESTER . —LODGE oi- UNION ( No . 3 S ) . —Ameet-• „ f the above lodge of instruction was held on Thurs-T \ the 24 th ult ., at the Dolphin Hotel , Chichester , when K- ' e were present Bros . C . F . Charge , W . M . ; J . St . nZ P . M . 38 , Preceptor , S . W . ; E . F . A . Gower , J . W . ; S ard Kind , Sec ; C . R . B . Knight , S . . ; H . H . \ Ioore , J . D . J A . Raven , I . G . ; R . E . Browne , the Rev . ¦

. p . Hilton , D . VVaddington , S . Baker , C . Brassfield , ' J VV . Beatson , Tyler . The lodge was opened in due form , and the minutes of ¦ l ie previous meeting were read and confirmed . The ceremony of initiation was rehearsed , Bro . Brassfield Lr sonating the candidate . The W . M . rose for the first and second times . The following brethren were re-elected to fill the respective offices : Bros . J . St . Clair , P . M ., p . p . J . G . W ., Preceptor ; H . H . Moore , Treas . ; Edward i / wSec . ; and Beatson , Tyler . The General Purposes

, C ommittee , consisting of Bros . Hawes , Doman , Raven , and VVaddington were likewise re-elected . Bro . J . H . Hawes , P . M ., P . P . G . Standard Bearer , was unanimously elected VV . M . for the next meeting , and his officers were a ppointed in rotation . A vote of condolence and sympath y mas p assed with the widow of the late Bro . VV . N . Malley , whose death occurred so suddenly . Nothing further off ering for the good of Freemasonry , the lodge was closed .

Obituary.

Obituary .

BRO . WILLIAM HERBAGE , F . S . S ., F . R . H . S . We record with deep regret the loss to the banking world in the decease of Bro . William Herbage , F . S . S ., F . R . H . S ., & c , joint general manager of the London and South-Western Bank , which took place at his residence at Sydenham on the 19 th ult . , after a short , but severe , illness , at the age of 60 years . Bro .

Herbage ' s banking career was commenced as a clerk in the London Joint Stock Bank , head office , and it is worth y of note that while in this post he attended some of the first Gilbert Lectures , and , in company with Bro . Sir Edward Clarke , the late Solicitor-General , carried off the first and second prizes . Bro . Herbage afterwards took appointment in the City Bank , and was for 11

ye ars manager of the Ludgate Hill Branch . In 1 S 75 he was appointed joint general manager of the London and South-Western Bank , a position which he held until his death . The directors of that Bank and his brother officers , as , indeed , all the staff , lose in him a loyal and conscientious friend and counsellor . Bro . Herbage was an active member of the Committee of

the Bank Clerks' Orphanage from its establishment till quite recentl y , when he resigned in consequence of other pressing engagements , and he ever took the deepest interest in that excellent institution . He was a distinguished member of the Craft , being at the time of his death Treasurer and P . M . ot the Brooke Lodge , No . 2005 ; H . in Brooke Chapter ; P . M . Domatic

Lodge , No . 177 ; and P . P . G . R . of Essex . He was also a Ireeman of the Spectaclemakers' Company . The funeral took place at Norwood Cemetery on the 24 th ult ., in the presence of upwards of 200 friends , amongst which were some of the Bank directors and many of his brother officers , and amidst tokens of the sincere esteem and regard in which he was universally held . '

The Story Of Leicester Square.

THE STORY OF LEICESTER SQUARE .

We commend this book to the notice of our readers as one of the most entertaining it has been our good fortune to » me across . Leicester-square and the neighbourhood constitute one of the most interesting localities . For as long « it has been in existence it has been the residence or resort 01 personages more or less famous or notorious in London

annals . Princes and nobles have lived in it , philosophers , ws , and ortisls have been among its denizens , while during tne pre sent century it has been the home of almost every ranety of show that could be thought of , from Miss Lin" ° w s Art Needlework , Panoramas , the Panopticon , the wobe , Sic , down to the Alhambra and the Empire of the P"sent cay . It is almost needless to say that the informau » n which Mr . Hollingshead has unearthed from all kinds

Ire coids and chronicles , and as regards what has happened e "' n he last quarter of a century , has given from his own trill , . u 8 "" and the t !( P " en < : e " e has acquired in connection m « t A 1 t ? ' > & c- has bc < = n strung together into a , ° rcadable story , uhile the numerous illustrations which t , scatte'ed throughout the book add greatly to the pleasure ° « derived from the letterpress . Here , for instance , is a r J X < - in which Hogatth and Sir loshua Reynolds are

Hoir L 0 ' " cl 1 , vi " convev an excellent idea of Mr . IheH ads P , easant mode of treatment , as well as of Clas s of matter with which the comp ilation abounds : hone t arth ' born ln the U , d lial ' ey '" l 6 97 > of P 0- '"" hut Ver s : } arents—his fathir uas a schoolmaster , who conhisa r ' hly in Latin '—set up in business himself after <> r . ^"''' ceship had expired , in Little Cranbouine alley , lor ¦[ 1 s ? ' ? s ¦ ' w : is semetimes called , where he stayed surrL 1 ' , ¦ " '> 'eavinff his sisters , so it is supposed , to ,. „ Sctu him !! ....- « 00 I ....... * -.. „ r - t r _ „ i . . 1 .. * , ,:

"PDrin . - ° . , place' old Gamble ' s house , where he was Haw ,-, , 1 ' -, ut ! t was l , roDab | y on < he spot where Mr . at , '"' eiilicrsmith and pawnbroker ' s house now stands , c laim = , !" of Charing Cross-road—a business which o | Sir 1 te 1 , ack , 0 | C 9 ° - Ho £ ' married the daughter Witer f"S ' " '"« w ,, ° liml then in the rival «'« n c ° vent Garden , and ( amongst other artistic 1 . " ' Paintcrl il ,,. ,. „; i ;„„ .. .. 1 u .. iu . u n e . .-tnigT laiiuuiinigii nir

Jdrnt-c 1- i-i , ......... .. uuuse . to stt 1 , 1 d tre marriage , but hel p ed the young couple 'Go 'd "' ,, ouseon the eat side of Leicester Fields , at the Hotel a 1 d ' ' wllicn l ) ccame afterwards the Sahloniere The t ; , " . ' ? , now the site of Archbishop ' s Tenison ' s school , das , \ T w n'ere Hotel in its later days was of the tavern

C 'unri \> ? . C the ' Crown and Anchor ' the Strand , and halian l . „ ° vent Garden . It wassupported by French , ! ne other 1 ' t man v's , ' tors « '' the Hotel de Provence , at Stone ' s '' n the eai , t iide ol tlle SQ . uare an < 1 was unlike ifBlish h '" anton-itreet , a time-honoured and essentially ' Gra „ * , e favourite haunt of Thackeray , the late "ves , Buckstone , Webster , Albert Smith , and a

The Story Of Leicester Square.

hundred others . Mirabeau , Kosciusko , the Polish patriot ( and ' Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell' ) , and one of the Pope ' s ( I forget which ) , ' put up ' at the Sahloniere . Leicester-square in Hogarth's time ( he died in 1764 ) was described in Seymour ' s Survey as ' a very handsome open square , railed round and gravelled within . The buildings are very good and well inhabited , and frequented by the gentry . ' Lisle-street , at this time , was a short turning

running out of Prince ' s-street , and ending at Leicester Garden Wall . There is no gettingaway from Nell Gwynne . She had a cottage which stood just where Prince ' s-street joins Wardour-street , and this old and decayed building was pulled down for the new street—Shaftesbury-avenue . " Towards the close of Hogarth's career , J oshua Reynolds took possession of a large house on the west side of Leicester-square ( No . 47 ) , where he died in 1702 . He saw

Hogarth ' s funeral , the proclamation of George the Third at the front of Savile House , and the gutting of that mansion by the ' No Popery ' rioters . Volumes might be written about Reynolds in Leicester-square , and volumes about Hogarth in the same locality . Sir Isaac Newton , in St . Martin ' s-street , just off the square , would take another book , and John Hunter , the great anatomist ( 17 S 3 ) another . Hunter ' s Museum , the father of the Royal College of

Surgeons in Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , was not pulled down to build the Alhambra , as stated in many articles and records , but the building still remains as part of the great music warehouse occupied by Riviere and Co ., and forms the backpart leading into Castle-street , now called Charing Crossroad . This house was next door to Hogarth ' s . 'Sir J oshua Reynolds ' s house ( No . 47 ) is now in possession of Messrs . Puttick and Simpson , the well-known auctioneers .

The front part of the house ( barring tho stucco ) , the staircase , and the corridor remain as in Reynolds ' s time , but the studio gave place many years ago to the present auction room , which was used for three or four of the various ' shows' which have always had an affectionate regard for Leicester-square . The iron balustrades of the grand staircase , with the much-admired curve at the bottom , owe that curve to the necessity of providing room for the hooped

petticoats of the last century . The gossip of the square during the best part of that century is ' ancient history . ' We have Hogarth acting as bottle-holder when the boys in ' Dirty-lane' took to street fighting . ' Dirty-lane' was eventually called Green-street , a title it retains at the present hour . Then as to sundry later worthies we have the following : " Sir Thomas Lawrence is another worthy who resided in the Square at No . 4 , and the houses round are , so to speak ,

* haunted , ' as my dear old dead friend , Walter Thornbury , put it , with Henry Fielding ( who lived in St . Martin ' s-street ) Monsieur Texier , who read French comedies in Old Lislestreet , and started a social club called the Pic-Nic ; Michael Kelly , the Irish musical composer , and his friend , J ack Palmer , the actor ; Flaxman , the sculptor ; Josiah Wedgwood , the great potter ( his employer ) , whose warehouse was in York-street , St . J ames ' s-square , in a room which

was afterwards used as a Roman Catholic Chapel connected with the Spanish Embassy ; then by a leading Noncomformist minister , and now is the ball-room of tne ' Corinthian Club . ' Hazhtt turns up , before he moved to Jeremy Bentham ' shouse , which was lormerly J ohn Milton ' s house , in York-street , Westminster ( another York-street ) , now swallowed by that hideous ' perpendicular Huusc of Correction , called Queen Anne ' s Mansions , Number Two . Wilson ,

the landscape painter , must not be iorgotten , nor i > cott , the marine painter , Luke Sullivan , the miniature painter , and Harlowe , the historical painter . The grandold carpenter , Chippendale , is entitled toa place , and we can see „ him with his tie-wig and square-cut coat , smoking his pipe in the Square , or watching the unpacking of a cartload of his immortal chairs at the door of one of the quality residents . He lived and worked in St . Martin ' s-lane . "

Lastly , we give the passage in wlrch the Alhambra under the present regime is described : '• The present Alhambra Company has been in existence since the year ib'OG . I he Directors are Mr . Henry Sutton , the Chairman . Mr . Nagle , Mr . Bathe , Mr . Charles Coute , and General VVorthain . Mr . Charles Coote is a gentleman well and honourably known in the musical worid , and is not only . 1 distinguished practical musician and coniuuscr ,

but an experienced theatrical man ot business . Mr . Bathe is qualified as a Director of the Alhambra , not onl y by business training , but as a Director of similar lar ^ e enterp rises in Brighton and Vienna . Mr . Nagle , who is one of the oldest , and now one of the largest suareholdeis of the Company , for some time filled the oneious post ot Acting Manager and Treasurer . General VVortham has a large exp-renceof public companies , and a knowledge of tne

organisation ntcessary for successful clubs and co-operative stores . The senior Diiector is Mr . Henry Sutton , the Chairman , who was elected by the shareholders in general meeting in March , iS ; o , has acted at various times as Managing Director , and has survived the whole of the then Board of Directors . He has during these . n odd years had the supervision and control of the finances—a work requiring great tact and financial skill , as the Alhambra , with all its

great and continued prosperit ) , has passed through several financial crises , bad seasons , and licensing difficulties . Owing to one or two seriuus administrative mistakes made by the Managing Director of the old board , against the advice of his best friends , the Alhambra incurred the displeasure ot the licensing authorities—at that time the Middlesex magistrates—and the music and dancing license was withdrawn , and the Directois had to get a

dramatic license from the Lord Chamberlain , whicn was granted immediately . The Doily Telegraph on Uctober nth , 1 SS 4 , when the magistrates' license was again applied for , and restored by a considerable majority , wrote stiongly on the subject . ' There was really no more valid reason , ' it said , ' for depriving the Alhambra of its music-hall license in 1 S 70 than there is now for granting it in iSo ' 4 . Only fourteen \ ears ago the Middlesex magistrates were suffering

from a hot fit ot Puiiianism , and at present they are enjoying the benefits of a cool fit of common tense . ' " tt remains lor us to add that the art editor , Mons . Charles Alias—who has fulfilled his part most creditably—has had the advantage of being able to draw freely upon Uro . T . R . Beaulort ' s rare collecuon of prints and trade cards of the iSth century , Bro . Beaufort ' s kindness in placing these at the set vice of Mons . Alias being lully recognised by Mr . John Hollingshead himself in his short preface totheuook .

The regular monthly meeting of the Council of the Royal Masonic Institution lor Boys will be held at Freemasons ' Hall to-morrow ( Saturday ) at 3 p . m .

Masonic Meetings (Metropolitan)

MASONIC MEETINGS ( Metropolitan )

For th ; week ending Saturday , Oe'tober , 8 , 189 a . I he Editor will be glad to receive notice from Secretaries for Craft Lodges , Royal Arch Chapters , Mark Lodges , Rose Croix Chapters , Preceptories , Conclaves , & cl , ot any chi . ige in place , day , or month of meeting . SATURDAY . OCTOBER 1 . Council R . M . I . B ., at Freemasons' Hall , at 3 .

CRATT LODGES . 1572 , Carnarvon , Albion Tavern . 1621 , Rose , Surrey Mas > nic Hall . 1949 , Brixton , Horns Tavern . 220 ; , Regent ' s Park , York and Albany Motel . LODGES AND CHAFTBRS OF INSTRUCTION . Alexandra Palace , Station Hotel , Camberwell New-road , at 7 . 30 . Chiswick , Windsor Castle Hot ., King-st ., Hammersmith , at 7 . 30 . Duke of Connaught , Navarino Tavern , Navarino-road , Dalston , at 8 .

Iceleston , Bro . Dickie ' s , 13 , Cambridge-street , Pimlico , at 7 . Finsbury Park , Cock Tavern , at 8 . ting Harold , Four Swans , Waltham Cross , at 7 . Manchester , Old King's Arms , Poland-street , \ V ., at 8 . Percy , Jolly Farmers , Southgate-road , N ., at 8 . Star , Dover Castle , Broadway , Deptford , S . E ., at 7 . Urban , Freemasons' Hall . Vitruvian , Duke of Albany Hotel , Kitto-road , St . Kathcrine ' spark , Hatcham , S . E ., at 7 . 30 . Mount Sinai Chapter , Red Lion Ho ., 14 , King-st ., Regent-st .. W ., 8

MONDAY . OCTOBER 3 . CRAFT LODGES . 25 , Robert Burns , Freemasons' Hall . 69 , Unity , Inns of Court Hotel . 72 , Royal lubilee , Anderton ' s Iloti'l . IJJ , St . Luke ' s , Anderton ' s Hotel .

18 S , Joppa , Freemasons' Tavern . 1625 , Tredegar , ondon Tavern . 1 I 69 , Royal Leopold , Surrey Masonii' Hall . 1853 , Caxton , Freemasons' Hall . 2010 , St . Botolph ' s , Albion Tavern . 2098 , Harlesden , National Schools , Harlesde'n .

LUDUXS AND CHAPTKRS OF INSTRUCTION . LSlackheath , Milkwood Tavern , Milkwood-road , Heme Hill , at 8 . Carnarvon , Salutation Tavern , Newgate-street , at 6 . 30 . Looorn , Eagle Hotel , Snaresbrook , at 8 . Cripplegate , Goldsmiths * Arms , Gutter-lane , at 6 . 30 . Egyptian , Atlantic Tavern , Atlantic-road , Brixton , at 8 . Eleanor , Rose and Crown , High Cross , Tottenham , at 8 . Hyde Park , Prince of Wales Hotel , Eastbourne-terr ., Bishop ' s-rd „

Paddington , at 8 . < n gsland , Cock Tavern , Highbury , N ., at 8 . 30 . vlarqueis of Ripon , Lord Stanley , Paragon-road , Mare-st ., at 8 . Metropolitan , Moorgate Tavern , 15 , Finsbury-pavement , at 7 . 30 , Neptune , Gauden Hotel , Clapham , S . W ., at 7 . 30 . Perseverance , Ye Old Cheshire Cheese , 33 , Addle-street , Wood . street , E . C ., a . t 7 . Rose of Denmark , L . & S . VV . R . Institute , Wandsworth-rd ., 7 . 30 . Royal Arthur , Prince of Wales Hotel ( opposite Wimbledon

Kailway Station ) , at 7 . 30 . . toyal Commemoration , Railway Hotel , Putney , at 8 . St . Ambrose , Scarsdale Arms Hotel , Edwardes-square , Kensington , at 8 . St . James ' s Union , St . James ' s Restaurant ( Piccadilly entrance ) , at 8 . St . Luke ' s , Victoria Tavern , Gertrude-s'reet , Chelsea , at 8 . St . Mark ' s , Surrey Masonic Hall , Camberwell New-road .

Savage Club , Albion Tavern , Russell-street , at 8 . Sincerity , Railway Tavern , Fenchurch-street , at 8 . Stockwell , White Hart , Abchurch-lane , E . C , at 6 . Tyssen-Amherst , Amherst club , Amhcrst-road , Hackney , and and 4 th Mon ., at 8 . United Military , Earl of Chatham , Thomas-st ., Woolwich , J . 3 ' . Upper Norwood , White Hart Hot ., Church-rd ., Upper Norwood , * . Upton , Three Nuns Hotel , Aldgate , E ., at 8 .

VValthams ow , The Lruqiicn ., High-street , Walthamstow , at 8 . A ellington , White Swan Hotel , High-street , Deprrord , at 6 . Zetland , York and Albany , Park-street , Regent ' s Park , at 8 . Doric CAd £ f < r , Uuke ' 6 Head , 79 , Whiteehapcl-road , at t > . Hope Chapttr , Globe Tavern , Royal Hill , Greenwich , at 8 . Israel Chapttr , Tupp ' s Restaurant , 8 , Tottenham Court-road , W . U . Lewis Chapter , King ' s Arms Hotel , Wood Green , N ,, at 8 . North London Chapttr , Grosvenor Hotel , Canonbury , at 7 . 3 c

ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS . aS , Old King ' s Arms , Fiecmasons' Hall . 91 , Regularity , Freemasons' Hall . 105 c , Victoria , Mason ' s Hall , 8 a . singliall-strcet . MARK LODGE . 5 , Mallet and Chisel , . Mark Masons' Hall . TUESDAY , OCTOBER 4 . Colonial Board , at 4 . CRAFT LODGES .

9 , Albion , I'reemasons Hall , ' loi , Temple , Miip and Turtle Tavern . 172 , Old Concord , Freemasons' Hall . 317 , Stability , Anderton ' s Hotel . 25 ; , Harmony , Grcvhoiuid Hotel , Richmond . 795 , St . James ' s , Bridge House Hotel . 1257 , Grosvenor , Frcemaso it , ' Hall . 1259 , Duke of Edinburgh , Cape of Good Hope Tavern , Cnn >

mercial . road , E . 1381 , Kennington , Horns Tavern . 1397 , Anerley , Clarence Hall , Anerley . 1 . 172 , Hen : ey , Three Clowns , North Woolwich . 1 C 93 , Kingsland , Cock Tave-m , Highbury . 20 3 2 , Richmond , Greyhound Hotel , Richmond , auP , United Xoitheni counties , Inns of Court Hotel . 3150 , Tivoli , Tivoli Restaurant , Strand . 2190 , lavage Club . Freemasons' Hall .

LUDOII AND CHAPTIR 9 OF INSTRUCTION , Dniio . i , Prince Regent , Dulwich-road , Heme Hill , S . E ., at 8 . -appcr , City Arms , St . Mary Axe , ai 6 . .. unetitutionai , Bedford Hotel , Southampton Buildings , at 7 . Chaucer , The Old White Hart , High-street , Borough , at 8 . Clarence , IA , Fitzroy-square , at 7 , 30 . . oriutnUn , George Hotel , Cubitt Town , Poplar , at 8 . 'alaouaie , Middleton Arms , corner of ( jueen ' s-road and

Middlevor .-ioai , Dalston , 14 ., at » . L ) jmatic , Surrey Masonic Hall , Camberwell New-road , at 7 . J 0 . Duke of Cornwall , Queen ' s Arms , Queen-street , Cheapside , at 7 . East Surrey Lodge of Concord , Greyhound Hotel , Croydon , at 8 . .... olematic , St . James ' s Restaurant , Piccadilly , at » . latteld , Rose ana Crown , Church-street , Edmonton , at 8 , liicclsior , Commercial Dock Tavern , Plough-rd ,, kotherhithr , 8 . Faith , Victoria Mansions Restaurant , Victoria-streetat 8 .

, FinsDury , The Goose and Uridiron , London House Yard , St . Paul ' s Chuichyard , E . C , at 7 , . iiienee Nightingale , M . H ., William-street , Woolwich , and and 4 th 'Toes ., at ,, jo Friars , The White Horse , 94 , White Horse-lane , Mile End-rd ., E ., at 7 . 30 . , oppa , Boundary lavern , Aldersgate-street , B . C ., at 7 . 30 .

ivenslngton , Scarsdale Arms , Edwardes-square , Kensington , 8 . Lily , L > re > humid Hotel , Richmond , at « . . lu ^ nl edgcumbe , uown Tavern , Lambeth-road , S . E . Mieon , Star and barter , Powis-strcet , Woolwich , at 8 . New Cross , e . hcster Arms , Albany-street , N . W ., at 8 . . Sew finaDury Park , Hornsey Wood Tav ., Finsbury Park , at 8 . Pilgrim ( . German language ) , Guildhall Tavern , Gresham-street , E . C , ist and 3 rd lues ., at 6 . 30 . ( Continued on page u <()