Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

R OYAL M ASONIC B ENEVOLENT I NSTITUTION FESTIVAL . —Wednesday , Feb . 22 nd , 1 SS 2 , being Ash-Wednesday , the above festival will he held on the preceding day , viz ., Tuesday , Feb . 21 st . A very successful meeting of the Metropolitan Lodge , No . 1507 , was held at Anderton's Hotel , Fleetstreet , on the 16 th ult ., the three ceremonies being well

rendered by the W . AL , Bro . W . Al . Stiles , and his officers . Bro . Sir \ V . Watkin Wynn , Bart ., M . P ., firesided at the annual dinner of the Vale of Clwyd Chamber of Agriculture , at the Crown Hotel , Denbigh , on Friday , the 25 th ult . Bro . the Marquis of Hartington has requested to have the county meeting at Nelson , Lancashire , fixed

for to-day , put off a fortnight , in consequence of the death of a near relative . The meeting will accordingly be postponed . Bro . Lord Richard Grosvenor presided at the annual distribution of prizes to the membe .-s of the Alold Volunteer Corps for shooting and attendance . _ Lady Grosvenor distributed the prizes , at the dose of which she vvas loudly cheered .

T he ceremony of installation will be worked in the St . Ambrose Lodge of Instruction , No . 1 S 91 , at the Baron's Court Hotel , " West Kensington , on Alonday , the 5 th inst ., at 7 . 30 p . m ., by Bro . IT . C . Francis , P . P . G . D . Surrev . This lodee is rapidly increasing in members since

Bro . Francis took the Preceptorship , and a large attendance is expected . Airemergency meeting of the Mozart Lodge , No . 1929 , will be held this day ( Saturday ) , at the Croydon Alasonic Hall , ios , High-street , Croydon , at five o ' clock .

Bro . Alderman Knight , the newly-elected Master of the Loriners' Company , although , as wc stated last vveel ** , is progressing rapidly from his illness , vvas unable to be present at the outgoing banquet of the Alaster , Bro . II . A . Isaacs , C . C . Amongst the numerous company present at the livery dinner , which was held last week at the Cannon-street Hotel , were Bros . Sir John Bennett , who

proposed the toast of "The Houses of Parliament ;" W . H . Pannell , C . C ; J . K . Walford , C . C , P . M . 177 ; Barrow Emmanuel , 1 S 27 ; I . M . Burt ; Alajor J . Davies Sewell , P . G .. ] ., Clerk of the Company ; VVm . Willey ; George Kenning ; Henry Wright , 1 S 27 , who responded for the toast of " The Ladies ; " Capt . A . Key , Sword Bearer to th Lord Alavor ; IT . Walford ; and F . Dodswell , C . C .

Bro . Sir Frederick Perkins sent a letter of regret at not being able to be present , and offered prizes of £ 25 , £ 15 , and £ 10 for competition for hoisc-bils . Bru . Henry Parker presided at the pianoforte . Bro . the Hon . T . C . Agar-Robarls , M . P ., has been elected as a vice-president of the newly-constituted Cornwall Beekeepers' Association .

His Excellency W . Bro . Lieut .-Col . J . T . H . O'Brien , C . M . G . 30 , P . AI . 10 G 6 & 1535 , Sic , Sic , Governor of Heligoland , is at present in London , en route irutn . Mau ritius to his new appointment . Lady Caroline Lasceiles , aunt to Bro . the Marquis of Hartington , died on Alonday morning . Bro . Henry Irving vvas presented on Saturday ,

at Edinburgh , with a gold watch , said to have belonged to Kemblc , in acknowledgement of the services he has rendered to the dramatic art . Thc proceeds of his visit to that city have been £ 4300 in thirteen nights . Bro . Byron is translating , in conjunction with Mr . Farnie , a new piece to be produced by Bro . Bancroft at the Haymarket , It is now being played in Paris under the title of "Jour ct Nuit . "

Bro . Sir Watkin W . Wynn , Bart ., M . P ., Prov . G . AL N . Wales and Shropshire , is about to present the Rev . Arthur Robins with some exceedingly handsome carved oak choir stalls , for the pansh church of Holy Trinity , Windsor , in memory of Air . Wynn , of the Scots Guards , vvho was accidentally dro . vncd at Windsor last year . Air . Wynn was the nephew and heir of Bro . Sir Watkin Wynn . The death is announced of the wife of Bro .

Edwin Booth , thc American tragedian who lately visited England . Bro . ex-Sheriff Burt , J . P ., presided at the fiftysixth election of pensioners of the Builders' Benevolent Institution .

A supplement to Tuesday night ' s Gazette states : Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare her consent to a contract of matrimony between his Royal Highness Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert , Dukeof Albanv , Earl of Clarence , Baron Arklow , Duke of Saxony

and Prince of Saxc Coburg and Gotha , K . G ., K . T ., G . C . S . L , G . C . M . G ., and her Serene Higness the Princess Helene Frederica Augusta , daughter of his Serene Highness thc reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont , which consent Her Majesty has also caused to be signified under the Great Seal .

The inauguration banquet of the Sheriffs of London antl Middlesex ( Bro . Alderman Reginald Hanson and Bro . VV . A . Ogg ) took place on Tuesday at the . Merchant Taylors' Hall , Thrcadneedle Street . Amongst those present were Bros . Alderman Hadley , Alderman Staples , Sir John Bennett , Sir F . Perkins , Alderman Stone , Alderman Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott , and Sir Albert W .

Woods . Bros . J . L . Toole and H . Bancroft , and the Duke of Westminster are amongst the subscribers to the fund being raised in support oi the families oi those actors and actresses who perished in the wreck of the Clan Alacduff . We certainly must say that , next to Freemasons , there is no community of a more charitable

disposition than the stage . Even if thc charge be true they are spendthrifts—no doubt some arc—they give away a great deal in charity while they have it . The list to which we allude includes small subscriptions from even those onl y connected with the stage as sweepers , caretakers , & c . . £ 30 70 ^ .-TOBACCONISTS COMMENCING—A pamphlet : how to open respectably from J £ 20 , post Iree . Address 11 Myers and Co ., lou , liuston-rand , London ; and at Birniint-harr .. I ' -stablislicd iS fs . Wholesale only

Masonic And General Tidings.

The Annual Meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Leicestershire and Rutland will be held at the St . George ' s Hall , Hinckley , on Thursday , December Sth , at four o'clock , under the banner of the Knights of Alalta Lodge , No . 50 . The business before the lodge is the

appointment and investiture of officers for the ensuing year , and the election of two members to represent the Provincial Grand Lodge on the Leicester Alasonic Hall Committee . A banquet will be served at the . George Hotel at five o ' clock .

Bro . Lord Shaftesbury occupied the chair on Alonday at the annual meeting of the King Edward Ragged School and Institute , Spitalfields . The Lord Mayor ( Bro . Alderman Ellis ) , and the Lady Alayoress were present , on Satin day evening , at thc distribution of medals and c rtificates awarded in connection with the St . Pancras Industrial Exhibition , which was

held in October , at the Tolmers-square Institute , Drummond-street , and where also the presentation of awards took place . Bro . A . M . Dockery , M . D ., of Gallatin , has been elected Grand Alaster of Missouri , and our esteemed Bro . the Rev . John D . Vincil , of St . Louis , has been

ree l ected Grand Secretary . Bro , the Dukeof Manchester , P . G . M . Norlhants and Hunts , presided at a meeting of the Colonial Institute ^ and spoke of his recent visits to the Australian colonies , and of the immense resources of those countries in minerals , and the products of wool and wine .

A lodge of instruction working under a warrant from the Joppa Lo ! ge , No . iSS , has been opened at the Champion Hotel , Aldersgate-street , where it meets every Thursday at seven o'clock . Mr . J . Fisher Crosthwaite ' s " Brief Memoir cf Alajor-General Sir John George Woodford , K . C . B ., K . L . H ., " is exactly what such a memoir should be . It

is brief , but the career of the gallant general is described in such a way as to give a capital idea , not only of his own character and services , but of the great events in whicii he took a prominent part , and all this is done in some sixty pages . —Broad Arrow . Bro . Harrison was installed W . M . of the

Shepherd's Bush Lodge , No . 1 S 2 S , at the Athen * = eiun , Shepherd's Bush , on Alonday last . During tlie residence of her Majesty and Princess Beatrice at Windsor Castle the band of the Grenadier Guards , under Bro . Dan Godfrey , will play every morning near tbe palace while ! the guard is being mounted .

Bro . Frank William Ramsay , M . D ., P . M ., P . Z ., P . P . S . G . W . Aliddlesex , will be installed W . M . of the St . Ambrose Lodge , No . 1 S 91 . at the Baron ' s Court Hotel , West Kensington , on Alondav , the 12 th inst . Bro . the Rev . Ambrose VV . HaU , ALA' . ' , P . M ., G . Chap ., P . Prov . S . G . W . Surrey , is the retiring VV . AI . A National Great Priory of the United Religious

and Alihtary Orders of the Temple and of St . John of Jerusalem , Palestine , Rhodes , and Malta in England and Wales and the Dependencies thereof , will be held at the Cannon-street Hotel , on the 9 th inst ., at half-past three . At the conclusion of thc Great Priory , should a sufficient

number of knights signify to the Alarshall their desire to be installed , the Great Prior will hold , under the banner of the New Temple Preceptory , a priory of the Order of Alalta , into which any Knight Templar , vvho shall have so signified his desire , shall be admitted . The banquet will take place at the Cannon-street Hotel , at six o ' clock .

Ireland being the topic of the time , Bro . Bassano has not let it slip past without bringing his art of photography to bear upon it to illustrate the beauty of Ireland . In a photo just published , entitled "Ireland , 1 SS 1 , " we have not only a specimen of good photography , but a line type of face of what can be seen in the country districts in Ireland . It is the head of a young girl , an undoubted type

of one of Ireland ' s lovely daughters , wearing a sad but hopeful expression depicted in the face and large uplifted eyes . The following appropriate lines are printed underneath : — " Sweet Erin , no more shall thy heart heave with pain ,

No more shall misfortune thy bosom oppress ; Tbe word has been spoken , the cloud now is broken , And Justice unfettered shall heal thy distress . " We have ourselves seen in Co . Antrim and Co . Dublin young peasant girls of this type of beauty . No doubt at this opportune moment the picture will be well received .

At the Worship-street Police-court , on Monday last , Richard Barnes , GG years of age , who had been out on bail , was charged on remand with the unlawful possession of certain articles of Masonic jewellery , and not giving a satisfactory account of the same . The evidence of a pawnbroker ' s assistant , given on the previous hearing , showed that the prisoner had offered in pledge a Alasonic

badge and jewel , the badge bring of solid silver . His replies to the assistant ' s questions being unsatisfactory , a constable was called . Prisoner now protested before the Court that the jewels had been left with him to repair , and while admitting that he had done wrong in offering them in pledge , . said that he had intended to redeem them intimefor their owner . He was , it appeared , a working jeweller , but

in straitened circumstances , ln the interval of remand , however , it had been discovered that the prisoner had been employed as doorkeeper at a Frccmasjns' lodge held at the Cannon-street Hotel , that the things had been kept in a box of whicii the prisoner _ had a key , and that they were safe on the consecration night , when the prisoner was in attendance . That box had been plundered of * a great deal

of its contents , among which was the property produced . Pawn-tickets had been found in the prisoner ' s possession relating to other Alasonic articles , jewellery , and clothing , and another pawnbroker produced nine collars , a sword , and some small articles pawned by the prisoner . A further remand was asked for , and was granted j but Mr . Hannay refused to allow bail on this occasion .

Bro . His Royal Hi g hness the Duke of Albany presided at the 217 th anniversary festival of the Scottish Corporation , on Wednesday , at the Freemasons' Tavern , Great Oueen-strect . He was supported by H . R . H . the Duke oFEdinburgh , Lord Elcho , the Lord Alayor , amongst others . The subscriptions announced in aid of the charity amounted to a total of £ 3250 .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Our contemporary , the Citizen , is happy even in the errors it occasionally is guilty ot . Last week it converted the "Domatic" Lodge into a "Domestic " Lodge , which , we presume , is a sort of family gathering , and should hardly , therefore , find a place in a series of Alasonic

lod ge notices . However , the " Domatics , " if we may familiarly describe as such the members of the lodge intended , have survived the Citisen ' s error . Indeed , we should not wonder , after all , if they do not take it as a compliment to the many "Domestic" virtues . by which they are severally distinguished .

One of the warrants issued during the period which has elapsed since the last meeting of Grand Lodge , is for a lodge to meet at Brixton Hall , Acre-lane , Brixton , during the winter months . The want of a local lodge has long been felt , and the efforts of some well-known residents

have proved to be successful . The Lodge will be known as the Brixton Lodge , No . 1949 , the officers designate being Bro . IT . Lovegrove , P . AL , P . P . G . S . of VV . Middx ., W . M . j Bro . H . B . Alarshall , C . C , F . R . G . S ., S . W . ; and VV . E . Farrington , J . W . The consecration by the Grand - Secretary will take place early in the new year .

At the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Paralysis , Soho-square , the number of patients under treatment for the week ending November the 26 th was 944 . Among the new limited liability companies recently registered is that entitled , " Aylesbury Alasonic Hall Company , " having for its object the erection of buildings

for the use of the Buckingham Lodge of Freemasons No . 591 ( to which a Royal Arch Chapter is attached ) , and for other purposes . The capital is ^ 2000 . in £ 1 shares . The following ( all of Aylesbury ) are the signatories : H . A . P . Cooper , T . Horwood , J . Lauson , F . B . Parrott , L . Smeathman , L . Poulton , and J . Williams . BRO . FRANCIS G . FAITHFULL . —We have on

previous occasions had the pleasure of calling the attention of our readers to the admirable lithographic portraits produced by Air . G . Pickworth , of 6 , Queen Anne ' s-gate , St . James ' s-park , and we have now before us one of the well-known a > -d estsemed Clerk of the Merchant Taylors ' Company , Bro . Francis G . Faithful . The likeness is an excellent one , and we are sure that his many friends , both

in private life and in Masonry , will value this " counterfeit presentment " of so worthy a brother . C REATON L ODGE , No . 1791 . —The election meeting of this successful lodge will be held on Thursday next , when it is expected that a large number of brethren will be present . A most interesting ceremony will take place during the meeting , as we understand it is the

intention of the brethren to present their esteemed P . H . and Sec , Bro . J . Ion Cantle , with another pledge of their esteem , in the shape of a portrait of himself in oil , he , on a former occasion having had a proof of their regard . I The installation of Bro . J . H . Leech , as W . M . of No . 97 , Palatine Lodge . Sunderland , will take place on Thursday next , December the Sth .

Bro . Robert Morris , 33 , the Masonic poet and traveller , whose name is familiar fo every lodge household , is visiting in this city , and has paid his fraternal compliments to many organisations of the brotherhood j among them the Lodge of Perfection of New York City on Saturday evening last , when he entertained and instructed those

present by narrating a number of interesting episodes and personal incidents . Bro . Morris at present hails from " The Apricot , " as he is pleased to term his domicil at La Grange , Kentucky . On Sunday evening last he delivered , at Christ Church , Bedford Avenue , Brooklyn , a lecture on the subject of "The Holy Land ; a Testimony to the Holy Scriptures . "—Hebrew Leader . November iSth .

A new Royal Arch chapter was consecrated at the Masonic Hall , G 8 , Regent-street , by Bro . Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Secretary , who was assisted by Bros . Sir John B . Alonckton , the Rev . C . VV . Arnold , Peter de Lande Long , Col . Creaton , G . Treas . j General Brownrigg , C . B ., P . G . M . Surrey j R . H . Giddy , D . G . AI . Griqualand ; J . Bevan , D . G . AI . Westland , New Zealand ; Buszard , O . C , ALP . ; Capt . N . G . Philips , P . G . D . ; J . Sampson Peirce .

K . Warden Wheeler , and several other brethren . The new chapter is styled the Castle Chapter of Harmony , and is attached to the old Castle Lodge of Harmony , No . 26 , the warrant for the holding of which dates as far back as the year 1725 . After the ceremony of consecration Bros . William Coppard Beaumont , Dr . G . B . Brodie , and Edwd . Alilner were installed as the three Principals of the new chapter . A full report appears elsewhere .

I he installation meeting of the Sincerity Chapter , No . 174 , vvas held on Thursday evening , at the London Tavern , Fenchurch-street . A full report will appear in our next . Our readers will remember that we called

attention some time since to the testimonial about to be presented to Bro . Pierpont , the courteous station-master of the Brighton railway station at London Bridge . It has now been decided to close the fund on the 12 th inst ., and the executive committee desire intending contributors to forward their contributions before that date .

Bro . the Earl of Rosebery presided on Wednesday at the annual dinner of the St . Andrew ' s Societv of Alanchestcr . 3 The ballot for tlie election of a Secretary to the Scottish Corporation in the place of the late Bro . Macrae Aloir , took place at the Hall , Crane Court , on Monday , when Air . G . Henderson was elected .

Bro . Dr . B . W . Richard-. on , LL . D ., of the London School Board , as president of the Brighton Health Congress , will deliver an opening address on Tuesday . December 13 th . HOLLOW-AY ' S PILLS —Hale Constitutions . —When the human frame has become debilitated from the effect-- of exposure excesses , or neglect , then these Mils work wonders . If they be taken according to the lucid instructions wrapped round each

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