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3 . Apparatus and machines to replace labour in dangerous or unhealthy operations . 4 . Steam boilers , air reservoirs , gasometers , & c . 5 . Safety apparatus : —Valves , manometers , level indicators , gauges , automatic feed apparatus , pressure comptrollers ; special modes of arranging and fixing them . 6 . Means of preventing and removing incrustations in boilers . Section III .

1 . Apparatus , processes , and arrangements for removing or lessening the causes of danger or insalubrity , to workmen or the public in general , from industrial operations and in the stowage of raw materials or goods . 2 . Inoffensive substances substituted for dangerous or

deleterious substances in manufactures or the arts . 3 . Apparatus or arrangements for the protection of workmen from noxious vapours , dust , corrosive liquids , explosions , and the ill effects of stoves , hot air , gas lamps , & -c .

4 . Dresses necessary in certain occupations . 5 . Sanitary instructions and regulations for workmen . 6 . Life saving apparatus and material for immediate aid in case of accidents in mines , quarries , and workshops . CLASS VII . —DOMESTIC AND PRIVATE HYGIENE . Section I . 1 . Plans and models of private houses , exhibiting

sanitary improvements in the art of construction . 2 . Plans and models of special habitations , intended for working classes , presenting improvements as regards propriety , salubrity , and economy , whether executed or onl y projected . 3 . Means and systems of distribution of water in the

interior of houses , and of getting nd of refuse of all kinds . 4 . Heating and lighting by gas or other means , adapted to private houses , with a view principally to salubrity and safety , but also to economy . 5 . Ventilating apparatus for houses , whether adopted or only projected . Section II .

1 . Healthful fabrics : —Clothes suiting various climates and seasons , and various ages and social conditions . 2 . Toilette arrangements of a hygienic character . 3 . Hydropathic anil bathing apparatus and accessories . Section III . t . Improved utensils and apparatus for cooking . 2 . Instruments and means for the easy and practical

dcection of noxious qualities , adulterations or deteriorations in articles of food and drinks in ordinary use . 3 . Preservation of food in private houses . 4 . Systems and apparatus of alimentation for all ages , but specially for children . c ,. Treatises on the preceding subject .

Section IV . 1 . Apparatus , games , and toys for the physical and moral training of children . 2 . Apparatus , means , and general treatises on domestic gymnastics . CLASS VIII . —MEDICINE , SURGERY , AND PHARMACY IN

RELATION TO THE PRECEDING CLASSES . I . Apparatus , means , and materials for saving life from drowning , from the effects of noxious gases , strangulation , falling in of earth , masonry , & c , as electro-galvanic machines , friction brushes , woollen rugs , flannels , clastic tongue bands , equipments , conveyances , & c . 2 . Apparatus and articles of wearing apparel for

protecting engine drivers and stokers of locomotives and guards of railway trains against the accidents and malidies to which their occupations render them liable . 3 . Apparatus for special infirmities : —Artificial limbs , eyes , teeth , ice . ; acoustic instruments , trusses , bandages , belts , sphincters ; and other aids to the infirm and suffering .

4 . Means of transport of lunatics , sick , wounded , and infirm persons , as stretchers , litters , barrows , chairs , and carriages . 5 . Civil Ambulances , floating hospitals , hospital tents , barrack hospitals , asylums , lying-in hospitals ,

arrangements , baths , clothing , accouchement necessaries , and means of preservation and restraint . Cooking utensils especially adapted for hospitals and asylums . 0 . Means of conveying corpses . 7 . Means of protection from sea-sickness . 8 . Practical treatises on the above-named subjects .

CLASS IX . —INSTITUTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE CON - DITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES . 1 . Assurance of life and against accidents of all kinds ; statutes and rules of societies , and other publications . 2 . Mutual aid societies : —Savings banks , pension and benefit societies . Co-operative societies : —Economic butcheries , bakehouses , and restaurants . Measures to be adopted in factories and large establishments to secure

food of good quality , and cheap . 3 . Building societies for the working classes . Economic baths and washhouses ; plans , apparatus , and utensils . 4 . Libraries for the use of artizans and working men . Evening schools ; drawing schools for mechanical and ornamental designs ; public courses of geometry , mechanics , and practical chemistry for the working classes ; industrial female schools ; schools for training girls for

domestic servants . 5 . Protection societies and workshops for apprentices ; schools and protection societies for neglected children . 6 . Convalescent hospitals and wards for persons employed in large establishments , asylums , creches and gardens for infants and children . Refectories in factories , & c . 7 . Means of diminishing the abuse of strong drinks , and of arresting the progress of intemperance .

CLASS X . —HYGIENE AND PROTECTION OF LIFE , AS APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE . 1 . Destruction of noxious insects and animals , and protection of those which are useful ; modes of protection from frost ; the application of lime to seed , < S : c .

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2 . Methods and models for the conservation of cereals , and other agricultural and arboricultural products . 3 . Salubrity and economy of stables , cattle-sheds , and other rural buildings ; models of farms ; dwellings for agricultural labourers , with regard to propriety , economy , and salubrity ; models of cattle-sheds , stables , swine-houses , kennels , etc ., with a view to the health of the animals .

4 . Means and arrangements for assuring the greatest possible salubrity in farmyards ; position of dunghills and manure pits ; increase of closets ; multiplication of public places of accommodation in the country . 5 . Houses for agricultural labourers . (> . Furniture , clothing , and utensils , peculiarly fitted for agricultural populations ; clothing for special work .

7 . Food of rural populations best adapted tor the preservation of health and the production of the largest amount of work ; consideration of wholesome drinks during hard work in hot weather . 8 . Preservation and treatment of all kinds of fertilizing matter , and utilisation of excrement ; modes of precaution against the adulteration of seeds and food for cattle .

9 . Influence of trees and plantations ; prevention of sand being carried off by the wind ; fixation of shifting sands . 10 . Hygienic effect of drainage : —reclamation of marshes , and of damp and unwholesome lands . Drainage of land irrigated by means of town sewage . Health of men employed in works of drainage .

11 . Unhealthincss of retting pits ; study of the operations of retting ; unwholesomencss of rivers , and of meadows irrigated with water loaded with mud ; deterioration of streams by waste matters . 12 . The search for water useful in agriculture ; precautions against inundations and overflow of rivers and other

streams . 13 . Agricultural machines suppressing painful and unhealthy labour , such as threshing with the flail , stripping flax , hemp , & c ., which give rise to injurious dust ; means of protecting rural labourers from the dangers of such agricultural apparatus as thrashing machines , portable engines , & c .

14 . Effect of the treatment of animals , considered with regard to their character and health ; modes of securing , managing , dressing antl harnessing ; effects of modes of transport on the health of the animals and on the wholesomeness of the meat ; models of wagons and vessels ' for conveying cattle , Sc . ; traction by dogs ; models of muzzles .

15 . Consideration of contagious diseases of animals , which may be transmitted to man . 16 . General means of precaution against the propagation of contagious diseases , and means for their eventual extinction ; consideration of legislative measures , as to the killing and burying of animals attacked by contagious

diseases . Exposure of offal to the air . Mies which produce carbuncle . 17 . Apparatus of veterinary surgery , txc ., tot farmers ' use , such as sounds and choke tubes . 18 . Societies of assurance against the effects of hail , mortality of cattle , & c . 19 . Rational feeding of domestic animals .

Multum In Parbo; Or Masonic Queries.

Multum in Parbo ; or Masonic Queries .

ROMAN CATHOLIC EXCOMMUNICATIONS . Can any brother give me a reference to the Bull of Benedict XIV ., published May 18 th , 1751 , beginning "Providus Romanum Pontificum , " in an English translation ? I shall also be much obliged by a reference to the published allocution of Pius the Ninth , the present Pope , in which he condemns the Masonic body . 198 , Fleet-street , E . C . THE EDITOR .

ORATOR HENLEY AND MASONRY . John Henley , more commonl y known as " Orator Henley , " was in the early part of the last century the most popular preacher of London . He hatl been admitted to orders in the Church of England , but built for himself an

independent chapel , where he soon became notorious for his eloquence and the eccentricity of his discourses , In 1730 , Samuel Prichard published his " Masonry Dissected , " to which Henley replied , and in the " Daily Post of October ^ 20 , 1730 , appeared the following characteristic advertisement :

" 1 his day at large a new Oration in reply to Masonry Dissected , or the Freemasons' triumph , or hod and trowel , beat the whole field , for wager , against Prichard ' s jaw bone of an ass ; being a defence of Masonry against yelping , braying , burring , snapping , snarling , grinning , barking , growling , huffing , blowing , tearing , staring ,

stuttering , snorting , and petulant clatter of late about it in papers and pamphlets . " Dr . Anderson also replied to Pilchard , but his reply was moderate in style . Henley's , no doubt , was incisive , and in the slashing order of writing . None of the Masonic bibliographies mention this brochure . A copy of it would be a rare treasure to the Masonic collector . ALUERT MACKEY , in the "Voice of Masonry . "

A plot of land in the City , at the corner of Threadneedlestrect and Bishopsgate-street , has been recently let at a ground-rent of £ 2600 per annum , or at the rate of more than £ 31 , 000 per annum per acre . At Liverpool recently the London and North-Western Railway Company were fined £ 20 and costs for having neglected to have some cattle trucks cleaned and disinfected .

It has been found necessary to increase the accommodation for students in the Military College at Sandhurst , and the works are to bc carried out at a cost of £ 35 , 000 .

Masonic And Genaral Tiding.

Masonic and Genaral Tiding .

Bro . the Rev . Augustus A . Bagshawe , P . P . S . G . W . P . P . G . C . for Derbyshire , has been presented with the In stallation jewel as Provincial Steward of Derb yshire h ~ - his lodge , Phcenix St . Ann , No . 1235 , Buxton . '

A Grand Council of the Illustrious Knights , K . H . _ ° will be held at the Masonic Hall , 33 , Golden S quare ' on Wednesday , the 13 th of October , at 4 . 45 . p . m . Thercare twelve candidates for advancement . The " Masonic Magazine " for October contains a por . trait of His Royal Hi g hness George , Prince of Wales , from the " Sentimental Magazine " of 1792 .

ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN . —The election of an alderman for the ward of Castle Baynard , in the room of Sir Sills John Gibbons , took place on Saturday last , at 10 o ' clock , at the infant school-rooms , St . Andrew-b y-the Wardrobe . Bro . the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor presided supported on his left by Mr . Deputy Farrer , and on his right by Mr . Orton , his lordship's solicitor . The votinsr

was carried on with considerable spirit , Bro . Hadley keep , ing the lead . The state of the poll was at 11 o ' clock Bro . Hadley 74 ; Mr . Cockerell 53 ; and at the close of the poll , Bro . Hadley 121 ; Mr . Cockerell 120 . Mr . Cockerell handed in a notice demanding a scrunity , which was received with hisses , and after a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor for presiding , the wardmote was adjourned to the 14 th of October , at 10 a . m .

The vacant superintendentship of police of the Prescot division , rendered so by the resignation of Bro . Fowler P . M . 86 , P . P . G . A . D . C , has been conferred on Superinten . dent Brenc'le , of the Rochdale division .

THE ROYAL STANDARD LO ' ( NO . 1298 ) . —The meetings of this lodge are now held at the Wellington Club , Upper-street , Islington , in place of the Marquiss Tavern , Canonbury . The next meeting is on Tuesday , the sth inst ., at half-past 6 .

We understand that a very fine portrait of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , as Grand Alaster Mason of England , has been bought by a few of the members of Maryhill Lodge , No . 510 , and is to be presented to that lodge . Bro . R . Shaw , a young and worthy member , and son of the respected Provost of the burgh of Maryhill , has taken the initiative in this matter .

The first ^ annual Lincolnshire Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons met on Thursday last . A report of this meeting will appear in our next . The meetings of the Camden Lodge of Instruction , No . 704 , arc now held every Monday evening at 8 o'clock , at the Stanhope Arms , Upper James ' s-street , Oval-road , Camden Town .

The Holy Palestine Preceptory , Eminent Sir Kni ght Colonel Francis Burdett , Eminent Preceptor , will meet at the Masonic Hall , 33 , Golden Square , on Wednesday next . The names of seven companions have been approved . They will be balloted for and installed .

J EWISH NEW YEAR . —Thursday ( 30 th September ) , the new year in the Jewish Calendar 5636 commenced . An International Potato Show was the special feature at the Alexandra Palace on Wednesday , when many varieties were on view . Prizes were offered b y Messrs . Sutton , Messrs . Hooper anil Co ., and Bro . Coutts , P . G . P .

The annual Court of Governors of the West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution will be held at the Guildhall , Preston , on Wednesday , the Gth inst ., at 12 o ' clock . Bro . Thomas Preston ( 142 C ) , the Secretary of the Albert Assurance Company Arbitration , received last year , when it was thought the arbitration was about to close , a

testimonial from the numerous firms of solicitors engaged in it , which they forwarded to Lord Cairns , the arbitrator , expressing to his lordshi p their satisfaction at the way in which Bro . Preston had discharged the duties of his office , for the magnitude , intricacy , and novelty of which he had proved himself in all respects equal . The Indian business having delayed the issue of the final award , Lord Cairns

deferred his acknowledgment of the receipt of the testimonial ; but on the 12 th of August last his lordship , by his principal secretary , wrote to Bro . Preston , returning his testimonial , and stating that it had given him much p leasure to note such a recognition of his services as secretary of the arbitration , and that he himself was fully cognisant of the diligence and intelligence with which he had discharged the duties of that office .

The marriage of Lady Theresa , eldest daughter of Bro . the Right Hon . Lord Shrewsbury , Prov . Grand Master for Staffordshire , with Lord Castlcreagh , eldest son of Bro . the Marquis of Londonderry , will take place at his lordship's private chapel , in the grounds at Alton Towers , this day ( Saturday ) .

The prospectus has been issued of the Briton Li s * sociation , which is formed for the creation of a ' Nev Series " of the Briton Medical and General Life Association on a perfectly independent basis , and entirely free now any of the existing liabilities or engagements of the pare ; institution . The capital required is £ 500 , 000 , in A shares , of which 100 , 000 are now offered to the put" Shareholders will receive an annual interest of 5 per cent . )