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THE GENERAL SANITARY REFORM COMPANY ( Limited ) . —Incorporated under the Companies Acts , 1 SG 2 to 1 SS 0 , whereby the liability of each shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares . Capital £ 125 , 000 , in 105 , 000 shares of £ 1 each ,

payable 5 s . on application , 5 s . on allotment , and the balance as required ; and 2000 shares of £ 10 each . Asa large subscription is expected in France , it has been decided to issue 2000 shares of £ 10 each , payable £ 2 10 s . on application , £ 2 10 s . on allotment , and the balance as required .

DIRECTORS . H . A . Herbert , Esq ., of Muckross ( Vice-Chairman Limerick and Kerry Railway ) , Muckross Abbey , Killarney , Ireland . Major-General W . W . Anderson , late Political Department , Bombaj' , Bearnock Lodge , Glen Urquhart , Inverness .

W . J . Denton , Esq ., cx-officio member of the Thames valley Sewerage Board , Crofton House , Kew . Eugene Hattat ( President of the Paris Company ) , G 6 , Boulevard Magenta , Paris . Ernest Jaunaux ( Director of the Paris Company ) , Chalonssur-Maine , France . Captain Maude-Roxby , Blackwood Hall , Yorkshire . J . Tatham , Esq ., M . D ., 12 , George-street , Hanover-square

W . Ringland , Esq . ( Director Linoleum Company ) , Stamford Brook Lodge , Chiswick . Consulting Sanitary Officer—T . O . Dudfield , Esq ., M . D ., Medical Officer of Health for Kensington . Surveyors—Messrs . Davis and Emanuel , 2 , Finsbury-circus , Bankers—Messrs . Martin and Co ., 6 S , Lombard-street . Solicitors—Messrs . Gush and Phillips , 3 , Finsbury-circus Auditors—Messrs . C . F . Kemp , Ford , and Co ., S . Walbrook , Secretary ( pro tern . )—J . Mackenzie , Esq . Temporary Offices—10 , Great St . Helen's .

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS . This company is formed to purchase patents for inventions connected with the reform of sanitary works , and as a commencement , arrangements have been made to acquire the exclusive right to use in Great Britain and Ireland three patents , Nos . 5 , 102 , 5 , 103 , and 5 , 227 , dated December , 1 S 80 , granted to N . Talard , of Paris . One of these patents

refers to a system of inodorous emptying of all receptacles for sewage , and does away with all dirt , annoyance , and the unhealthy mode at present in use . This system has been at work in France for some considerable time , and in Paris for the last nine months , and has proved a very great success , both in a sanitary and financial point of view . In the prospectuses of the Paris

Company , it was stated that with a given quantity of work the profits would be equal to 27 per cent . The Company are actually doing about 25 percent , more work than was expected , and though the machines are working day and night continuously , they arc not able to keep pace with the demand . Licences to use the system have been sold for large sums to various cities and towns ; amongst others ,

to—Reims \ liroutjlH forward .... 624 , 000 Epcrnay Klucui ... } for Fr . Chalons surMarne Rouen ... $ 35 , 000 1400 Vitry le Franrais ... Paris 300 , 000 12 , 000 Soissons For Versailles ... 95 , 000 3 K 00 Sedan 5 Jo , oool- ' r . ; £ ' 22 , ooo St . Denis ... 210 , 000 3400 Me / . ierea Tours 35 , ooo 1400 Charleville Met / . 2 * 0 . 000 10 . 00 a

Chateau Thierry ... I Strasbourg .. 30 , 000 1200 St . Qucntin ' Carlsruhe ... 10 , 000 400 Lille \ Mulhonsc ... 5 000 200 Kouhaix ! * Rennes ... *) Tourcoing \ For * Toulousc > 57 , 000 22 S 0 Douai I 5 o , oooFr . 2000 * Nice ...... ) Valenciennes / Arras / Carried forward £ . ' 24 , 000 Total . 46 < , oSc

* iooo Fr . per Rccvr . In all of the above towns the system is in successful operation , and the Companies are making large profits , both from payments for the work of emptying and sale of the manure . Negotiations are also continually being entered into for concessions to other towns . The process requires but to be seen to be appreciated .

Its simplicity , cleanliness , and absence of all danger from the emission of noxious gases are at once apparent , and it strikes the spectator with surprise that such a process should have remained so long undiscovered . In Paris the price paid for extraction is regulated by the Municipality at 5 francs per cubic metre , or about 3 s . gd . per cubic yard , whilst the cost here by the present mode of

emptying is seldom less than 10 s . per cubic yard , and generall y very much more . The success of the Paris Company has been fully equal to the expectations of the promoters . At the half-yearly meeting just held the shareholders were so thoroughly satisfied with the result of the working that they are about to extend their operations and provide further sets of

apparatus , Sic , From the fact that there are so many towns in England still entirely dependent on thcprescntsystem . it is estimated that the revenue which the Company would derive would be considerably more than that obtained by the Paris Company . The price to be paid to the vendor is £ 75 , , of which one-third will be taken in fully paid-up shares of the

Company , the vendor paying all expenses up to allotment . The only agreement entered into is one between T . Lawrie on the one part , and J . Mackenzie of the other part , as Trustee for the Company , dated 25 th July , 1 SS 1 . The usual application will he made to the Stock Exchange for an official quotation . In the event of no allotment being made the amount

paid on application will be returned in full . The agreement , together with the memorandum and articles of association , can he seen at the offices of the Solicitor .- ; to the Company . Prospectuses and forms of application for shares can lie obtained at Ihe offices of the Company , and from the Bankers , Solicitors , or Auditors .

John Hervey Memorial Fund.

JOHN HERVEY MEMORIAL FUND .

Amount acknowledged , 6 th August £ 7 ' 7 9 ° SUBSEQUENT RECEIPTS : — i s . d . Lindsey Lodge , 712 310 Pelham Pillar Lodge , 792 330 Oliver Chapter , 702 1 1 o

Franklin Lodge , S 3 S 130 Hereward Lodge , 1232 1 16 o Hamilton Lodge , 1600 o 10 6 Duke of Connaught Lodge , 1524 ; 1 1 o Hyde Park Lodge , 1 4 2 5 220 St . John the Evangelist Lodge , 14 S 3 , India ... 1 1 o Walter Adlard , W . M . 14 S 3 1 1 o

I 7337 6 Remittances , and all communications in regard to the above-named fund should be addressed to the Honorary Secretary , Bro . R . R . DAVIS , P . M . 256 , Melvill Lodge , Wallington , Surrey . Cheques to be crossed " London and Westminster Bank , " account of "John Hervey Memorial Fund . "

To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

TVLER . —Usually in rotation . BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . "Hull Packet , " "The Freemason , " "The Australian Freemason , " "The Sunday Times , " "The Jewish Chronicle , " "Allocution of the Great Prior of Canada , " "The New Zealand Freemason , " "The Citizen , " " Broad Arrow" " New York Dispatch , " " Letts' Popular Atlas , "

, "The Masonic Herald , " "The North China Herald , " "The Peoples of the World , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " "Hebrew Leader , " "Notes on St . Botolph Without , Aldersgate , " " Retton Reggs , " "The Thirty-sixth Report of the Young Men ' s Christian Association , " "The Blue , " " Boletin Masonico . "

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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , SEI ' THMBEK 3 , 1 S 81 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

[ Wc do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , theopinions expressed by ourcorrespondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ]

NEW LODGES . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — It is , I know , not the thing to write letters referring to editorial comments , but as I happen to know a good deal about new lodges , I should like to briefly refer to your

comments of a few weeks since . It is somewhat difficult to understand why some petitions are rejected and others granted , but I am bound to admit that most of the new lodges have been successful . There is one great iault to he found with many new lodges , and that is the hasty admission of candidates ; too

often a necessity from one point of view , for the banquets must be paid for , and it is impossible to cover the cost by the subscriptions , as new members are sure to attend very regularly . As a consequence , each regular meeting brings four or five candidates , and there are usually two or three emergency meetings . It would be interesting and useful

for the Board of General Purposes to have prepared a tabulated statement of the number of initiates during twelve months of the London lodges from 1 C 00 to 1 S 00 , and I am mistaken if in some cases upwards of thirty will have been admitted in a year . Yours fraternally , OBSERVER .

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE FREEMASONRY . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — When I saw the query of " Novocastrian " in your edition of the 20 th ult ., I thought that the writer of the "Annals of the Northern Counties " was in error when he wrote about Freemasons in the reign of King John .

I cannot find any record amongst our northern lore to indicate that there was a lodge in existence ; and suppose that the paragraph should have been free men , or free merchants , both of which bodies being in ancient times established , in point of fact there are ^ several guilds at the present , the members being freemen , without so many privileges , which were curtailed a few years ago . Yours fraternally , ROBT . WHITFIELD .

Reviews.

Reviews .

DICTIONNAIRE GENERAL DE L'ARCHEOLOGIE ET DES ANTIQUITES . Par ERNEST BOSC , Architecte . Firmin Didot , Paris , 5 6 , Rue Jacob . This is a very well printed and compact work , of 57 G pages , illustrated by 450 engravings . M . Ernest Bosc is well known as the writer of the work " Dictionnaire

Raisonne d'Architecture et des Sciences et Arts qui s ' y Kattachent . " The present work is evidently very carefully done , though we think we note a little want of fulness and research in respect of early authorities and medi .-cval customs . Thus , for instance , though he gives " Maceria , " he omits " Macon " and " Maconner , " and so when he comes to " Tcgula , " a Tile , hence our Tiler , Tegulator , he

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does not seem to remember the Norman French Thuile , Thuillier , but merely mentions " Tuile , " the more modern form . And yet he had " Roquefort ' s " invaluable " Vocabulaire" to study and fallback upon—a mine of information . An idea has occurred to us while looking over this useful little work whether "Macon " may not after all come from "Maceria , " rather than from

" Mansio , " inasmuch as "Maceria" seems to have represented what we call " rubble work , " and seems to point to Roman work—the " Romanum opus " perceptibly . But Roquefort seems to prefer Mansio as the " root" of Macon and Maconner , and his authority is so high , especially as regards " Low Latin , " from which Norman French came , that , though we mention the idea , we lay no stress on it .

EARLY DRAWINGS AND ILLUMINATIONS , & c . By WALTER DE GRAY BIRCH and HENRY J ENNER . Samuel Bagster and Son , 15 , Paternoster-row , London . This work , published in 18 79 , has recently been studied by us , and we , therefore , think it well to call the attention of brother students to it , as it is a most useful handbook of

reference to all who spend earnest hours in the British Museum , seekingforilluminationsand early drawings of various kinds . The well known reputation of the two " experts " who edited the . work are a guarantee both of correctness and care in making such a catalogue ; and we , therefore , think it right to mention the book to many like ourselves who are glad of all helps in archaeological researches .

WORD FOR WORD FROM HORACE . By WM . T . THORNTON , C . B . Macmillan and Co ., London . Our holiday hours have led us to take up our Horace once again . It may be that , were we " up at books , " we should not be able to construe some well-known lines as deftly as we did " favente Riddings " a gocd many years ago , and , therefore , we have not been above trying- to realize how others render our " old familiar friend . " We

have studied Mr . Martin ' s flowing verse ; Mr . Conington ' s skilful versification ; Lord Ravensworth's elaborate rendering ; not even forgetting old Francis , and one or two more ; but we confess we were a little startled with some very close renderings , ' so close as almost to seem poor , bald , and common place ! As an illustration of this , let us take the well-know 35 th Ode of Horace , lib . i ., and see how Mr . Thornton has it : —

" Parcus Dcorum cultor et infrcquens . lnsanientis dum sapicnti .-c Consultus erro ; nunc retrorsum Vela dare , atque iterare cursus Cogor relictos ; namque Diespiter Igni corusco nubila dividens Plerumque , per purum tonantcs Egit equos volucrcmque currum ,

Quobruta tellus , et vaga fiumina guo Styx , et invisi horrida Taenari edes , Atalanteus que finis Concutitur . Valet una summis Mutare , et insignem attenuat deus , Obscura promeus . Hinc apicem rapax Fortuna cum stridorc acuto Sustulit , hie posuisse gaudet . "

" A sparing and infrequent worshipper—While steeped in an insane philosophy—I went astray ; now back again am 1 , Compelled to set my sail , and to recur To my old courses . For the Sire of Heaven , Who the cloud masses with his fiery sheen , Cleaves mostly , has athwart the clear serene , His thundering steeds and flying chariot driven ,

Whereat the stolid earth and torrent streams ; Dark dens of odious Tancerus and Styx And Atlantean limitary peaks Shuddered . That Deity can all extremes Of high and low reverse ; the mean uprear , And the proud humble . With shrill dissonance Rends fortune , snatches off the plume from hence , And joys in having placed it otherwhere . "

Even this assumed word for word rendering shows how difficult it still is to translate old Horace , and all but impossible it is to do justice to the inimitable original .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

THE QUATUOR CORONATI . It may interest Bro . Gould to know that in W . S . O . Okeley's " Development of Christian Architecture in Italy , " ( he was a travelling Bachelor of Cambridge University ) , published by Longmans in 1 S 60 , the church of the "SS . Ouatuor Incoronati " is said to be a " Basilican church , " and to have a " rich angular" tower , or campanile . It is , as Donovan says , a fourth century church .

MASONIC STUDENT . I may also add that there seems to be an illumination of the Four Crowned Martyrs , " I 8 , SSI , f . 48 ^ , B ., which press mark , I fancy , denotes " additional MSS . " My reference comes from "Early 'Drawings and Illuminations , " by Walter Birch and Henry Jenner , a very useful book , 1 S 79 , page 90 . M . S .

MASONIC ARCH / EOLOGICAL SOCIETY . In the " Book-worm , " edited and illustrated by J . Ph . Berjeau , June 1 st , 1 S 6 S , is the following note : " An Archaeological Society has been formed , under the name of the Masonic Archaeological Society , to discuss the antiquities and history of Freemasonry , of the philosophic and

mystic sects , secret , societies , & c . The council consists of the Earl of Dalhousie , Messrs . Glaisher , C . H . Gregory , Hyde Clarke , Leeson , M . D ., J . E . Saunders , W . Smith , W . Bollaert , W . Burges , Col . Clerk , R . E ., Alderman Spiers , and the Rev . Walter F . Short , with Dr . Hy de Pullen as Honorary Secretary . " I shall be obliged by information as to whether this society still exists , and whether it issued any publications . H . R .

THE ROSA MYSTICA . In a recent interesting description of the tomb of an ancient Mason , by Bro . W . II . Kylands , which appears in the September number of the " Masonic Magazine , " and which I happen to have seen in advance , the able and intelligent describer mentions a " curious orna-