Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

We are asked to state that the Brixton Lodge of Instruction will not hold their meeting on Tuesday next . The Royal Alfred Lodge ofTnstruction , No . 780 . is adjourned for the usual summer vacation , until Friday , September 19 th , 1 SS 4 ( officers' night ) . By a fire in Xenia , Ohio , the Masons lost their Lodge Room , entailing a damage of 3500 dols ., with only

1000 dols . worth of insurance . —Masonic Token . ¦ The Crown Prince and Princess of Germany were on Saturday morning last conducted over the International Health Exhibition by the Duke of Buckingham and Sir P . C . Owen . Bro . George Kenning supplied the banner which obtained the first prize for the City of London Lodge of the

Order of the Phoenix * at the recent fdte at the International Health Exhibition . . ; Bros , the Duke of Abercorn , W . G . M . Ireland ; General Lord Wolseley , and the Earl of Jersey have been amongst the number attending the religious meetings of Moody and Sankey on the Thames Embankment . The Ancasta Chapter , No . 14 . 61 , was

consecrated on Tuesday last at the Masonic Hall , Woolston , Hants , by Bro . VV . VV . B . Beach , M . P ., Grand Superintendent . The chapter is attached to the Clausentum Lodge . The Hon . Bro . Sir J . Burford Hancock , Chief Justice of Gibraltar , has been _ appointed Provincial Grand Mark Master of Gibraltar . He will be installed in his office in the course of next month .

A grand council of the Allied Degrees will be held on Saturday , the 9 h of August , at Sa , Red Lionsquare , the Rt-v . Canon Portal , M . A ., Grand Master , and C . F . Matier , Past Deputy Grand Master , Grand Sec . Her Majesty the Queen , Grand Patron of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , has , through Sir H . Ponsonby , presented a copy of " More Leaves from the

Highlands" to the library of the Institution at Wood Green . Bro . General Reilly , C . B ., will be installed , at five o ' clock p . m ., on Wednesday , the 13 th inst ., W . M . of the Army and Navy Lodge , No . 1971 , at the Masonic Roo ' ms , Imperial Hotel , Aldershot ,. by W . Bro . Capt . R . Croisdale , P . M ., P . P . G . S . B . Hants and Isle of Wight .

The Archdeacon of Middlesex on Monday evening , on behalf of the parishioners of Christ Church , Lancastt r-gate , presented the Bishop of Ripon with a cheque for £ 500 , and intimated that some plate would be sent to Ripon . The Rev . Samuel Bickersteth , the bishops ' chaplain , has been presented with a gold watch and £ ' 7 o . Bro . Lieutenant . Henry Wright , T . H . R . B .,

J . W . and W . M . elect 1827 , was presented at the levee on the 14 th ult . by the Earl of Devon . Bros , the Marquis of Hartington , Earl of Hardwicke , Lord Suffield , the Duke of Abercorn , Revs . Dr . Cox , P . G . Chap ., and Dr . Finch , . and Lord Charles Beresford were amongst the large number who attended the levee . Bro . \ V . W . B . Beach , M . P ., Prov . Grand

Master Hants and Isle of Wight , has convened the annual Provincial Grand Lodge fur Friday , the Sth inst ., the town of Aldershot being the place of meeting on this occasion . The Provincial Grand Lodge will be opened at 2 . 15 p . m . in the Assembly Rooms , and at the close of the business there will be a banquet at the Imperial Hotel . The twenty-seventh season of the . Monday

Popular Concerts will begin October 27 th . The concerts will be suspended for the Christmas recess on December 15 th , and , being resumed on January 5 th , will end March 30 th . The usual series of 20 Saturday Afternoon Popular Concerts ' will also be given between November itt and December 20 th , January 10 th and March 2 Sth . A new Bible Christian Chapel has just been

completed at Forest Hill , at a cost of / V . Soo . The architects are Messrs . James Folley and Son , of 63 , Cannonstreet , and the builders Messrs . J . M . Macey and Son , of Battersea . The airangcments for lighting and heating are most complete . The gas fitting having been supplied by Bro . Dodson , of Fetter Lane , and the heating and boiling apparatus by the . XEolus Waterspray and General

Ventilating Company , 235 , High Holborn . The Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald is responsible for the following : Rev . D . W . Bull , of Transfer , Mercer County , has some interesting relics of John Wesley , the founder of Methodism . They consist of a Royal Arch Masonic apron , receipts of the lodge dues paid by Wesley ¦ to the lodge of which he was a member , extending over a

period of some fifteen years , and a number of books from Wesley's private library containing his autograph . The Masonic apron is 153 years old . These relics were purchased by Rev . Mr . Bull ' s grandfather at the public auction of Wesley ' s personal effects after his death . The East is Masonically styled the place of light , a figure that is too obvious to require illustration . It is in the East that " the golden doors of sunrise" open .

Thtnce the yod if dsy cimts forth to banish the silence , coldness and darkness of night . The benighted wanderer , chilled with night dews and melancholy with its ghostly stillness , turns his eyes longingly toward ^ he East , and impatiently anticipates the dawn . So with those who feel the intellectual loneliness and darkness of their nature ; they turn wishfully to the moral East , the heavenly East , the source of mental illumination . —Morris .

¦ HULLO WAV ' PILLS . —In the complaints ' peculiar to females the = e I'ills are umivalleil . I heir use by the fair sex has become so constant for the removal of their ailments that rare is the toilet that is ' without them . Amongst all classes , from the domestic servant to the peeress , uiiversal favour Is accorded to these

renovating Pills ; their invUorating and purifying properties rentier them -afe anil invaluable in all cases ; they may be taken by fema . es of all ages for any disorganization or irregularity of the system , si . tedily removing the cause and restoring the snllerer tn robust lualth . As a family medicine they arc unupproacnable for subduing the maladies of young and old .

Masonic And General Tidings

Mdme . Sainton-Dolby , on Saturday , distributed the prizes to students of the Royal Academy of Music . We understand that Sir Edmund Lechmere Bart ., M . P ., Prov . Grand Master for Worcestershire , will entertain a distinguished company at the approaching Masonic gathering at "The Rhydd . " In the report of the Sir Francis Burdett Chapter

in our issue of the 19 th ult ., we should have stated that Bro . J . Faulkner , the retiring M . E . Z ., was accorded a vote of thanks for his gift of £ 5 towards the furniture of the chapter . The g rand work ot showing the feeling held b y the Amencan Grand Bodies in regard to the conduct of the G . M . M . M . Lodge of England in the Quebec matter , is

going bravely on . The Grand Chapters of Connecticut and Vermont have recently declared for non-intercourse . Let the good work go on . —Masonic Chronicle ( Ohio ) . ¦ The prizes at the Surrey County School Cranleigh , were distributed by the Archbishop of Canterbury , on Wednesday . One of the p rizes , given by sir Walter Farquhar , was for the best boy in the school in the opinion

of -his fellows . ' It was won easily by O Halloran , and Sir Walter started the boy in life by giving him asituation . Mr . Walter Goodman has had the honour of submitting his portrait of his Royal Highness the late Duke of Albany to the inspection of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House . This picture , which is the only one for which the late Prince Leopold sat to an artist , is at present being

exhibited at the Guildhall gallery . TEMPERANCE-IN-THE-EAST LODGE , N O . 898 . — A new Masonic Charitable Association has just been started under the auspices of the above old and charitable lodge at the regular meeting on Wednesday last . •We hope to give a report of the meeting in our next issue . A large accession of members was made . We wish the . Temperance brethren every success in their meritorious undertaking .

The corner-stone of the new Masonic Temple at Providence , R . I ., was laid , on June 6 th , with Masonic ceremonies ' , by the Grand Master of Rhode Island . The edifice will be five stories in height , of English Renaissance architecture . The lot contains 7800 square feet , and is situated on Dorrance , Pine and Eddy streets , and cost 40 , 000 dols . The temple will cost 100 , 000 dols ., and be completed in 1885 . —Keystone .

The summer festival of the Corinthian Lod ge , No . 1382 , announced in our last issue to take place on Thursday last , was unavoidably postponed , owing to the sad death of Bro . W . Stapleton , W . M . of the lodge , which event took place on Sunday evening , the 27 th ult ., after only a brief illness . Our worthy and deceased brother was to be buried at Nunhead cemetery to-day ( Friday ) , and we

hope to give particulars of the ceremony in our next issue . When you hear a man calling himself a Mason boldly assert . that everything connected with Masonry is a deception , a fraud and a failure , don ' t be too hasty in contradicting the declaration ; a little investigation will prove to your entire satisfaction that he must have practised

deception himself , otherwise he never would have succeeded in perpetrating a fraud upon the brethren to the extent of being admitted into their society ; and then , having ascertained his true character , he utterly failed to impress them with the idea that it was a _ duty incumbent on them to recognise him as a man entitled to respect or worthy of confidence . —Florida Herald .

The consecration of the Bishop of Ripon took place on Friday , in Westminster Abbey . The Archbishop of York officiated , assisted by the . Bishop of Durham , London , Liverpool , Lichfield , Rochester , and St . Albans . The Rev . W . B . CaTpenter , D . D ., vicar of Christ Church , Lancaster-gate , the Bishop-elect , was presented by the Bishop of London and the Bishop ot Rochester . The

Queen's mandate was read by Sir E . Beckett , Q . C ., principal registrar of the province of York . The Litany was chanted by Minor Canon Cotton , the Epistoller was the Bishop of Durham , and the Gospeller the Bishop of London . The sermon was preached by the Rev . A . B . Carpenter , M . A ., vicar of St . James ' s , Hull . * TESTIMONIAL TO BRO . H . IJ . LARDNER . —The

Grand Hope Friendly Society , held at the Farnngdon Hotel , have just passed the following resolution : "That a testimonial be presented to our worthy secretary , Bro . H . J . Lardner , in recognition ot the great services he has rendered for many years as secretary and treasurer to this society , and who still spares neither time nor trouble in . promoting the interest of the society and the welfare of its

members , and to whose exertions the great progress and prosperity of the society are greatly due , and that such testimonial be raised by voluntary subscriptions . It is earnestly requested that the brothers will do all that lie in their power to assist the committee . " The subscription list will be closed shortly . All communications should be sent to Mr . J . Townshend , 34 , Hosier-lane .

A conference of the London and Provincial Medical Staff of the St . John Ambulance Association was held on Friday in last week , in the theatre of the Royal United Service Institution , for the purpose of discussing points connected with the instruction and examination of classes . Dr .. Sieveking presided , and was supported by Bro . Sir E . Lechmere , Bart ., M . P . ( chairman of . the

association ) , Mr . J . Furley and Mr . V . B . Kennett ( deputy chairmen ); Capt . R . Dallas ( treasurer ) , Capt . H . C . Perrott ( chief secretary ) , Sir B . Kay , Bart ., Baron de Mundy , General Lowry , C . B ., Col . Paris , Major Gildea , and others . In the evening a dinner was held at the Holborn Restaurant , Bro . Sir E . Lechmere presiding . In addition to nearly all the gentlemen named above , there

were present Loid Egerton of Tatton , Surgeons-General Crawford , C . B ., and Mackinnon , C . B ., Deputy Surgeon-General Bostock , Sir E . Currie , and many well-known medical practitioners . £ SO to £ 800 . —Tobacconists commencing . —A pamphlet . How to open a shop respectably for £ e . o ; post free . H . Myers & Co ., 109 , liuston-rd ., London . Wholesale only . —[ ADVT .

It ought to be generall y known that Rose ' s Lime Juice Cordial supplies a delicious cooling drink in watereffervescing in all mineral waters—wholesome and refreshing in summer . Purchasers should order Rose ' s Cordial . Wholesale Stores , 11 , ¦ -u tain-road , ' London , and Leith , N . B .- [ ADVT . 1

Briton Life Association (Limited).

BRITON LIFE ASSOCIATION ( LIMITED ) .

The annual meeting of the Briton Life Association , Limited , was recently held at the chief offices of the Company . Mr . Francis Webb' presided . Bro . John Messent ^ F . L . A ., the actuary ,-P . G . S . B ., having read the minutes of the last annual meeting , and the report of the Directors , the Chairman rose , and in a lengthened address moved that the said report be received , approved , and adopted :

In the course of his remarks Mr . Webb congratulated the Association on the increased number of premiums , though he candidly admitted that , owing probably to the general depression ^ of trade , and especially of those branches of industry in which the Company more particularly operated , the increase in the annual income had not kept pace with the increased premiums . Bro . Dri Richardson , as Deputy Chairman , very ably seconded

the proposition of Mr . Webb , and it was carried unanimously . The motion that Mr . Francis Webb and Sir James Alexander should be re-elected directors was similarly agreed to , as also was a further proposition , namely , that Bro . P . de Laride Long , P . G . D ., and Messrs . Glinn , Pridham , and J . Christopher Woollacott be elected auditors and be awarded an honorarium in consideration of their valued services during the Dast vear . A dividend of

5 per cent , free of income tax , having been declared on the balance of the capital—an interim dividend having been already paid—Bro . Dr . Richardson announced Mr .- P . J . Thompson , M . R . C . S ., L . R . C . P . London , of Brussels , as winner of the prize of fifty guineas which had been offered by the directors for the' best essay on Life Assurance , a second essay being so highly commended that it was agreed to offer a second prize to the

author . Votes of thanks to the medical and legal officers , the district managers , the chairman , for presiding , and Bro . Messent for the admirable manner in which he had . ulfilled his duties as actuary and secretary brought the proceedings to a close . Among those present were General Sir James Alexander , K . C . B ., Sir Geo . B . Owens , ' M . D ., J . P ., Dublin ; Bro . Sir John B . Monckton , Bro . Dr . B . W . Richardson , F . R . S ., Mr . James Milo Burke , J . P .,

Dublin ; Mr . Edward Fox , J . P ., Dublin ; Mr . Thomas Chamberlain , J . P ., Windsor ; Mr . H . J . Parnall , J . P ., Newport ( Mon . ); Dr . J . Wright Baker , Derby ; Mr . Jas . H . Clarke , Nottingham ; Mr . J . J . Fairfax Scott , Mount Sorrel ; Mr . William Smith , Goole ; Mr . G . R . Tennenr , Edinburgh ; Mr . George Chapman , Nottingham ; Mr . P . B . Cow , Streatham ; and a number of other share and policyholders .

Over The Sunshine Of Existence Hangs A Black Cloud.

OVER THE SUNSHINE OF EXISTENCE HANGS A BLACK CLOUD .

WITH the uncertainty of Life is mingled the dark mystery of Death ! While , on the one hand , we catch the welcome sound of a new breath of life that tells of an addition to our species , on the other we shudder as we hear , the rushing wings of the Destroying Angel ! The mighty voice of the

Great Influence which rules the Universe has pronounced our fate ; the dread _ fiat has gone forth , and every mortal - man is doomed to die ! But though we cannot prevent , can we postpone -Death ? The question is momentous , even if it concern the prolongation of Life but by a single hour , inasmuch as every instinct prompts us to fight the boldest : battle we can for this glorious boon of Existence . ' The

promptings of Instinct are but the spontaneous voice of Nature , and it is our duty to obey . But there still remains the question ; can Death be postponed by a single hour ? Yes , for the world works in obedience to certain laws , and a ' study of these proves that those who have the judgment

and the will to buckle on the shield , which Nature places . ready to their grasp , may ward off the insidious attacks of the implacable enemy to Life , until , in a ripe old age , the vital faculties gradually decay , and the Angel of Peace glides softly into our presence , leading us , as it were , in a fentle slumber to the regions beyond . the shadow of the omb .

The Fell Destroyer makes his first approaches in many forms , but none are more favoured by him than that of a deadly foe now preying upon the very vitals of Modern Society . What is this foe ? There are few among us who have not been , or are not now to some extent , its victims . Would the reader know if he , too , is under the ban of this frightful scourge ! Let him ask himself whether he

experiences any of the following symptoms : There are pains about the chest and sides , and sometimes in the back . The mouth has a bad taste , especially 10 the morning ; and there are feelings of dulness and drowsiness . The appetite is poor , a sort of sticky slime collects about the teeth , there is a' feeling as of a heavy load on the stomach , and sometimes a faint all-gone sensation at the

pit ot the stomach , which food does not satisfy . The eyes are sunken ,, the hands and feet become cold and feel clammy . After a while a cough sets in , at first dry , but attended' in the course of a few months with expectoration of a greenish colour . The sufferer feels constantly tired , and sleep seems to afford him no rest . Nervousness , irritability , and evil forebodings follow . When rising suddenly there

is a giddiness , a sort of whirling sensation in the head . The bowels become costive ; the skin is dry and hot at times ; the blood becomes thick and stagnant ; the whites of the eyes are tinged with yellow ; the urine is scanty and high coloured , depositing a sediment after standing . There is frequently a spitting up of the food—at times with a sour taste , and at others with a sweetish taste . This is often

attended with palpitation of the heart , or impaired vision ¦ with spots before the eyes , accompanied by great prostration and weakness . All of these symptoms are in , turn present . It is thought that nearly one-third of our population- has this disease in some of its varied forms . Medical men have mistaken the nature of the malady . Its true .

name is Dyspepsia or Indigestion ; for which a certain remedy is to be found in Mother Seigel ' s Curative Syrup , a medicine which has won in both hemispheres a confidence founded only on its great virtues . The Syrup can be ' obtained from any chemist or medicine vendor , or . from the proprietors , A . J . White , Limited , -1 7 , Farrington Road ,, London , E . G . '

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The Prince of Wales hopes that India will take part in the British Colonial Exhibition , to be held in Londontwo years hence . Bro . the Lord-Mayor , M . P ., who will be accompanied by the Lady Mayoress , has promised to distribute : the prizes , including those to nursing probationers , at the : London Hospital on October 1 st .