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Masonic And General Tidings
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
the General Committee of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys will hold their usual monthly meeting to-morrow ( Saturday ) , at Freemasons' Hall , at 4 p . m . Thescholars at Christ ' s Hospital will re-assemble after the summer vacation on Monday , the 10 th inst . Bro . VV . Kuhe , P . G . Organist of England , has been appointed a professor of the pianoforte at the Royal
Academy of Music . Bro . Lord Stanley , who has just been raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Stanley , of Preston , was to take his seat in the House of Peers on Thursday evening . According to the Texas Freemason , there were 1 S 7 lodges in America in 17 S 3 ; in 18 S 4 , there we . e nearly
10 , 000 lodges , with an aggregate membership of upwards of 550 , 000 brethren . The monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution will take place at Freemasons' Hall , at 4 p . m ., on
Wednesday next , the Sth instant . Bros , the Right Hon . G . C . Bentinck , Sir A . Borthwick , Sir ] . McGarel Hogg , Bart ., the Earl of March , H . Eaton , and Sir B . Samuelson are among the members of the House of Commons who have paired for the Session .
Bro . the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn , accompanied by Miss Maynard , Lord Loughborough , and the Ladies St . Clair Erskine , left town for Easton Lodge , Dunmow , on Saturday last , on a visit to Bro . Lord and Lady Brooke . It is understood that H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , Prov . Grand Master of Sussex , will leave Balmoral
for Buckingham' Palace to-morrow ( Saturday ) , and will leave London for India , to take over his new command on Tuesday next . The new piece produced at Drury Lane Theatre on Saturday evening last , and entitled " A Run of Luck , " was very enthusiastically received , the authors , Bros . A . Harris and H . Pettitt , being called before the curtain at
the close of the performance and most heartily acclaimed . We learn from one of our exchanges that the Grand Lodge of California recently voted the sum of 1200 dollars to be appropriated to the use of one of its Past Grand Masters , who , in his old age , has been overtaken by misfortune , and paid him in monthly installments of 100 dollars each .
The Ancient Order of Foresters held their annual gathering at theCrystal Palace on Monday . Though the Society is more numerous and flourishing than at any previous period , the muster was considerably below tl-c average , there being an attendance on this occasion of only about 25 , 000 at the outside . However , there was an admirable programme for the day , and evcrthing passed off
most satisfactorily , notwithstanding the intense heat . At a meeting of the Board of Delegates of the Hospital Saturday Fund , held at the central office , Mitrecourt , Temple , on Saturday night , the Secretary reported that there was now standing to the credit of the fund at the bank £ 3000 , proceeds of the last street colkction .
after payment of £ 700 expenses . About £ 300 remained in the hands of local committees , and a considirable amount in bronze coin was at the central office . Altogether about £ iSoo would accrue to the fund from last Hospital Saturday— £ 500 less than in the preceding year . This was attributed to unfavourable weather .
Mr . J ohn hurley , Deputy Chairman and Hon . Director of Stores of the St . John Ambulance Association , has received from the German Samariterverein a diploma , illuminated on vellum , appointing him an honorary member of the latter Society , " in acknowledgment of his services in the universal extension of the knowledge of first
aid to the injured , more especially in recognition of the encouragement and assistance given by him towards the establishment of the German Sanitarian Society . " The diploma bears the signatures of his Imperial Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia , Privy Councillor ; Professor Esmarch , and Consul von Bremen .
The annual excursion in connection with the lodges of Kilsyth , took place on Saturday , 21 st ult . The members of the Craft met in their lodge room in the afternoon , and , accompanied by a band , they marched through the town , thence to a field kindly granted for their use by Mr . Cullen , of Barr . A number of their wives and
sweethearts visited the field in the course of the afternoon , and dancing was engaged in until seven o ' clock , when a return was made to the town . Before leaving the field the members walked to Mr . Cullen ' s house and thanked him for the use of his field , and for other kindness they had received from him .
The lighting of the reading-room of the British Museum by electricity for the autumn and winter season commenced this week , when the closing hour for readers was extended till S p . m . Mr . Barrett , the electrical engineer of the establishment , has been able to make considerable improvement on the lighting of previous ' years . It has been found that , from the great height of the dome
and the large circumference of the room , four lights are not sufficient , and it has been considered necessary to add a fifth . Additional lights have also been placed in several of the galleries , and in the new or" White" newspaper reading-room , and the number of incandescent lamps throughout the building has been largely increased . It does not appear to be generally known to readers that the first gallery in the reading-room now contains an excellent
selection of the books most in demand , which will be available till 7 . 30 p . m . An excellent catalogue of this new department has been prepared by Mr , G . W . Porter , senior assistant-keeper of the Department of Printed Books , and printed by order of the trustees . It is a volume of upwards of Coo pages , and as every book mentioned in it is " press marked , " its usefulness to readers will be apparent .
Masonic And General Tidings
Prince Albert Victor of Wales presided at a meeting held at the Church of England Soldiers' Institute on Monday evening in aid of the funds of the Gordon Boys ' Home . The annual Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham will be held at Jarrow , on Tuesday , October 26 th , under the presidency of R . W . Bro . Sir Hedworth Williamson , Bart ., P . G . M .
Her Majesty the Queen has expressed her readiness to open the Metropolitan Free Hospital , Kingsland-road , but the date to be appointed for the ceremony has not yet been fixed . Telegraphic addresses ( Inland ) for the Freemason Printing and Publishing Works— "Freemason ,
London . " For Jewels , Clothing , Furniture , Banners , & c , & c . — " Kenning , London . " Bros . Lord Randolph Churchill , M . P ., and Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., M . P ., left town on Saturday last for a brief sojourn in the country , but returned in time to be in their places in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon .
The Duchess of Albany dined with the Queen at Balmoral on Friday , the 27 th ult ., Bro . Sir Robert Collins , K . C . B ., having the honour to be invited . The Duke of Connaught went out deer-stalking both on Saturday last and the day previous . The Guardians of the Poor of the Holborn Union require the services of a person to fill the office of nieht nurse at their workhouse , Shepherdess-walk ,
Citvroad . Three nurses are also required at the Baker ' s-row Infirmary , Whitechapel . Bro . Major-General Sir R . Buller left London for Dublin by the Irish Mail on the 2 < Jth ult ., arriving in Kingstown the following morning . Later in the day he had interviews with the heads of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Commander of the forces . On Monday he started from Dublin for Tralee .
The Princess of Wales and her daughters the Princesses Louise , Victoria , and Maud , are expected to arrive in Copenhagen on a visit to the King and Queen of Denmark on Sunday next , the Royal yacht Danneborg being under orders to proceed to Lubeck to convey the Royal visitors to their destination . Thursday , the 26 th ult ., being the anniversary of the late Prince Consort ' s birthday , H . R . H . the Duke of
Connaught , the gentlemen in attendance on the Queen , and the servants and tenants on the Estates of Balmoral , & c , assembled at the Obelisk at noon on that day and drank to the memory of the deceased Prince . At the regular meeting of the Londonderry Lodge , No . 2039 , heId at tne Y M-C . A ., John-street , Sunderland , on Friday , 27 th ult ., Bro . J . C . Moor , W . M ., presiding , Bro . John Deans , S . W ., was elected the W . M .
for the ensuing year ; Bro . J . R . Pattison , VV . M . 97 , was elected Treasurer ; and Bro . J . W . Brown , Tyler . W HAT IS M ASONRY ?—Masonry has no secrets that can injure the world . All its secrets , as an Order , tend to promote the universal good . It is said that an Emperor once built a palace of glass , and placed it on rising ground so that his subjects might see him in his private life . Masonry does not require this outward
display . It takes the simplest of the heart ' s expressions of secret faith ; this is the secret of Masonic strength . The Masonic structure can never die , based as it is on Faith , Hope , and Charity . —New Zealand Mail . A return , prepared at the instance of Mr . Whitley , is issued as a Parliamentary paper , showing the number of accounts of depositors in Post Office savings banks in the United Kingdom remaining open on December 31 st ,
1 SS 5 , together with the amount ( inclusive of interest ) standing to the credit of those accounts . In England the number of accounts open was 3 , 142 , 59 6 , and the amount £ 42 , 741 , 028 ; in Wales , 121 , S 38 accounts , and the amount £ ' . 43 S , 530 ; in Scotland , i 2 7 , i 72 accounts , with £ 969 , 790 ; in Ireland , 135 , 777 accounts , with ^ . 2 , 438 , 171 ; and in islands in the British seas , S 267 accounts , with , { , 110 , 315 . Amongst other deifiers of the palate whose
extraordinary doings give them a right to be placed amongst wonders stands one named Rogerson , whom Meg Dodd , in her amusing book on cookery , calls " a martyr . " He was a native of Gloucestershire ; received his education at one of the universities , made " the Grand Tour " after the fashion of his day , and concentrated the whole of hisattention upon gastronomical art . His father's death placed a large fortune in his possession , and he
devoted it to the palate ; keeping no one in his house who was not an accomplished cook : butler , footman , housekeeper , coachmen , grooms , all were cooks ; while for cooks proper , he had three whom he brought from Italyeach a famous one—one who came from Florence , another from Sienna , and a third from Viterbo , whose duty was confined to the preparing of one special dish , the dolce piccante of Florence . He had a messenger constantly on
the road between Brittany and London to bring him the eggs of a particular kind of plover found near St . Malo . It is recorded that one dinner which was prepared exclusively for himself , and consisted of but two dishes , cost fiftyeight pounds . In nine years he dissipated his fortune of £ 150 , 000 , and was found starving by one of his friends , who gave him a guinea ; and going soon after to the wretched garret in which the ruined epicure had found
refuge , discovered him roasting an ortolan ! a few days after wards he shot himself . —From "The World of Wonders" for September . TOUACCON'ISTS COMMENTING . —An Illustrated Guide of no pages *' How to open respectably from £ 10 to _? 20 oo ; " three stamps . H . Myers & Co ., 10 9 , Euston-rd ., London . Telephone No . 7541 . —[ AnvT , ] MORTGAGES . —Messrs . J AMES are in a position to Supply Money
to ANY EXTENT on the . following Securities : —Landed Estates , Houses , Shops , and Olfices , Warehouses and Wharves , Life Interests , Sec , Reversions , Borough Kates , Sec , at the lowest current rates of interest . Prompt Settlement , JI , Staple Inn , London , W . C— [ ADVT . ] HOLLOWAY ' S PILLS . —The stomach and its troubles cause more discomfort and bring more unhappiness than is commonly sup . posed . The thousand ills that settle there may he prevented or
dislodged by the judicious nse 01 these purifying Pills , which act as a sure , gentle , anti-acid aperient , without annoying the nerves of the most susceptible or irritating the most delicate organisation . Holloway ' s Pills will bestow comfort and confer relief on every headachy , dyspeptic , and sickly sufferer , whose tortures make him a burden to himself and a bugbear to his friends . These Pills have long been the popular remedy for a weak stomach , for a disordered liver , or a paralysed digestion , which yield without dilliculty to their regulating , purifying , and tonic qualities .
Masonic And General Tidings
The Masonic Advocate announces that Bros . M . L . Young , Grand Lecturer , and J . VV . Lafiin , Grand Sec . of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin , are co-editors of the Masonic Tidings , of Milwaukee . Bro . Lord Randol ph Churchill ' s visit to Oakfield-park , Dartford , has been fixed for Saturday , the iSth inst ., when it is expected that most of the representatives
of Kentish constituents will be present , Bro . Sir John E . Gorst , Q . C , being of the number . Among the guests to be entertained at the usual Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield on Thursday Bros . Lord George Hamilton , M . P ., First Lord of the Admiralty , Marriott , Q . C , M . P ., Judge Advocate General , and Stuart Wortley ,
M . P ., were expected to be present . Bro . Sir James Fergusson , Bart ., M . P ., Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , received a deputation of Lancashire Hat Manufacturers on Tuesday on the subject of the heavy duties levied by the Roumanian Government on the importation of cheap felt hats .
Brc . the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress , as they were passing through Manchester on Friday morning , the 27 th ult ., paid a visit to the Mayor of Manchester , Alderman Goldschmidt , at the Town Hall . The visitors were entertained at lunch , and taken round the works of Sir Elkanah Armitage , at Salford . The annual show of the Warwickshire A
gricultural Society was opened at iNuneaton , on Tuesday , in the presence of Bro . Lord Leigh , Lord Lieutenant of the county , and other of the local gentry , and , as the weather was splendid , there was a very large muster of visitors . Bros . Lord Northwick and Lord Wantage were among the successful competitors , the former in the sheep and the latter in the horse classes .
The Corporation of London last year expended on educational works £ 15 , 53 1 , viz .: City of London School , £ 3605 ; Freemen ' s Orphan School , £ 5048 ; Technical Kducation , £ 3050 ; Royal College of Music , £ 1000 ; School of Music , £ 2 S 2 S . The Guildhall Library and Museum cost the Corporation £ 6076 ; the new School of Music ( part of the cost ) , £ 3064 ; and the new London Almshouses , £ 10 , 584 . —City Press .
The Sheriffs-elect of London and Middlesex—Bro . Alderman Isaacs and Lieut .-Coloncl Kirby—will be inducted into office on Tuesday , the 2 Sth inst ., or ¦ ' Sheriffs ' Day . " A procession will be formed in Aldersgate-street , and will make its way thence to the Guildhall , where the ceremony of induction will be carried out , the Loriners , Spectaclemakers , Fanmakers , and Shipwrights' Companies taking a part in the display . The usual banquet will follow .
The Masonic Advocate for last month reports a suggestion by Bro . Charles Spalding , Editor of the Light , Topeka , Kansas , that a convention of the Editors of the different Masonic periodicals in America should be held at St . Louis during the approaching meeting of the Grand
Encampment of Knights Templars of the United States , for the purpose of forming a permanent organisation , the nature and objects of which , however , are not stated . The Masonic Advocate favours the proposal , and promises to try and be there and meet Bro . Spalding .
The Southampton Masonic Benevolent Association has issued its eleventh annual report to the 10 th August . It records that £ 50 has been added to the amount invested in 3 per cent , reduced annuities . The balance sheet shows that the investments have now reached £ 1250 , with some £ So odd in the bankers' hands . The receipt is acknowledged of a donation of ten guideas from
the Lodge of Peace and Harmony , No . 359 , and onother of five guineas from the Royal Gloucester Lodge , No . 130 . Three Benevolent grants have been awarded during the past year—two of £ 10 each , and one of £ 5 to the widows of brethren of Lodge 359 . His a striking comment on our legal methods to find that legal charges for the appointment of trustees to a small Benevolent Association like this
reached £ 20 3 s . 4 d . At Bonn the English visitors attended the inauguration of the Beethoven statue , and were serenaded by an enormous orchestra , consisting of 60 military bands . At four o ' clock on the same day , a grand banquet was given at the Palace , on which occasion the Prussian King made a speech , in which he said : "Gentlemen ,. fill your glasses ' .
There is a word of inexpressible sweetness to British as well as to German hearts . Thirty years ago it echoed on the heights of Waterloo from British and German tongues , after days of hot and desperate fighting , to mark the glorious triumph of our brotherhood in arms . Now it resounds on the banks of our fair Rhine , amid the blessings of that
peace which was the hallowed fruit of the great conflict . That word is Victoria ! " His Majesty then drank to the health of the Queen and Prince Albert ; and the former , who was much affected , rose , bent towards the King , and kissed his cheek . —From " The Life and Times of Queen Victoria" tor September . The skill of British sailors and naval architects
has produced a type of life-boat which well fulfils its purpose , and is not likely to be soon replaced . The liberality of the British public enables the Life-boat Institution to prosecute its noble and humane work on a grand scale ; but without the services of the gallent men who form the crews , all these preparations would be of no avail . It is true , no doubt , that these men receive payment for their
services ; but who would venture to assert that the small payments made to the boatmen in any sense compensate them for the risks they have to run , or are the real attraction of those who volunteer for the service ? lhese humble heroes " are mostly resident boatmen , fishermen , or coastguard-men , " all familiar with the sea , and all hardy , skilful oarsmen . This circumstance makes it important that
the life-boats should be propelled by oars or sails , with the management of which all seamen are familiar . But , apart from this fact , theie would be obvious dangers in attempting to fit steam-generating apparatus and propelling machinery in boats liable to be tossed about or capsized by heavy seas . It may perhaps be possible hereafter
to introduce some other description of propelling machinery , by the use of which the number ot men embarked in a boat may be reduced and the risk of losing valuable lives diminished . As yet , however , this problem is unsolved , and those most familiar with the service are not hopeful that a solution will be found . —From " Great Industries of Great Britain " for September ,
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Masonic And General Tidings
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
the General Committee of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys will hold their usual monthly meeting to-morrow ( Saturday ) , at Freemasons' Hall , at 4 p . m . Thescholars at Christ ' s Hospital will re-assemble after the summer vacation on Monday , the 10 th inst . Bro . VV . Kuhe , P . G . Organist of England , has been appointed a professor of the pianoforte at the Royal
Academy of Music . Bro . Lord Stanley , who has just been raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Stanley , of Preston , was to take his seat in the House of Peers on Thursday evening . According to the Texas Freemason , there were 1 S 7 lodges in America in 17 S 3 ; in 18 S 4 , there we . e nearly
10 , 000 lodges , with an aggregate membership of upwards of 550 , 000 brethren . The monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution will take place at Freemasons' Hall , at 4 p . m ., on
Wednesday next , the Sth instant . Bros , the Right Hon . G . C . Bentinck , Sir A . Borthwick , Sir ] . McGarel Hogg , Bart ., the Earl of March , H . Eaton , and Sir B . Samuelson are among the members of the House of Commons who have paired for the Session .
Bro . the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn , accompanied by Miss Maynard , Lord Loughborough , and the Ladies St . Clair Erskine , left town for Easton Lodge , Dunmow , on Saturday last , on a visit to Bro . Lord and Lady Brooke . It is understood that H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , Prov . Grand Master of Sussex , will leave Balmoral
for Buckingham' Palace to-morrow ( Saturday ) , and will leave London for India , to take over his new command on Tuesday next . The new piece produced at Drury Lane Theatre on Saturday evening last , and entitled " A Run of Luck , " was very enthusiastically received , the authors , Bros . A . Harris and H . Pettitt , being called before the curtain at
the close of the performance and most heartily acclaimed . We learn from one of our exchanges that the Grand Lodge of California recently voted the sum of 1200 dollars to be appropriated to the use of one of its Past Grand Masters , who , in his old age , has been overtaken by misfortune , and paid him in monthly installments of 100 dollars each .
The Ancient Order of Foresters held their annual gathering at theCrystal Palace on Monday . Though the Society is more numerous and flourishing than at any previous period , the muster was considerably below tl-c average , there being an attendance on this occasion of only about 25 , 000 at the outside . However , there was an admirable programme for the day , and evcrthing passed off
most satisfactorily , notwithstanding the intense heat . At a meeting of the Board of Delegates of the Hospital Saturday Fund , held at the central office , Mitrecourt , Temple , on Saturday night , the Secretary reported that there was now standing to the credit of the fund at the bank £ 3000 , proceeds of the last street colkction .
after payment of £ 700 expenses . About £ 300 remained in the hands of local committees , and a considirable amount in bronze coin was at the central office . Altogether about £ iSoo would accrue to the fund from last Hospital Saturday— £ 500 less than in the preceding year . This was attributed to unfavourable weather .
Mr . J ohn hurley , Deputy Chairman and Hon . Director of Stores of the St . John Ambulance Association , has received from the German Samariterverein a diploma , illuminated on vellum , appointing him an honorary member of the latter Society , " in acknowledgment of his services in the universal extension of the knowledge of first
aid to the injured , more especially in recognition of the encouragement and assistance given by him towards the establishment of the German Sanitarian Society . " The diploma bears the signatures of his Imperial Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia , Privy Councillor ; Professor Esmarch , and Consul von Bremen .
The annual excursion in connection with the lodges of Kilsyth , took place on Saturday , 21 st ult . The members of the Craft met in their lodge room in the afternoon , and , accompanied by a band , they marched through the town , thence to a field kindly granted for their use by Mr . Cullen , of Barr . A number of their wives and
sweethearts visited the field in the course of the afternoon , and dancing was engaged in until seven o ' clock , when a return was made to the town . Before leaving the field the members walked to Mr . Cullen ' s house and thanked him for the use of his field , and for other kindness they had received from him .
The lighting of the reading-room of the British Museum by electricity for the autumn and winter season commenced this week , when the closing hour for readers was extended till S p . m . Mr . Barrett , the electrical engineer of the establishment , has been able to make considerable improvement on the lighting of previous ' years . It has been found that , from the great height of the dome
and the large circumference of the room , four lights are not sufficient , and it has been considered necessary to add a fifth . Additional lights have also been placed in several of the galleries , and in the new or" White" newspaper reading-room , and the number of incandescent lamps throughout the building has been largely increased . It does not appear to be generally known to readers that the first gallery in the reading-room now contains an excellent
selection of the books most in demand , which will be available till 7 . 30 p . m . An excellent catalogue of this new department has been prepared by Mr , G . W . Porter , senior assistant-keeper of the Department of Printed Books , and printed by order of the trustees . It is a volume of upwards of Coo pages , and as every book mentioned in it is " press marked , " its usefulness to readers will be apparent .
Masonic And General Tidings
Prince Albert Victor of Wales presided at a meeting held at the Church of England Soldiers' Institute on Monday evening in aid of the funds of the Gordon Boys ' Home . The annual Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham will be held at Jarrow , on Tuesday , October 26 th , under the presidency of R . W . Bro . Sir Hedworth Williamson , Bart ., P . G . M .
Her Majesty the Queen has expressed her readiness to open the Metropolitan Free Hospital , Kingsland-road , but the date to be appointed for the ceremony has not yet been fixed . Telegraphic addresses ( Inland ) for the Freemason Printing and Publishing Works— "Freemason ,
London . " For Jewels , Clothing , Furniture , Banners , & c , & c . — " Kenning , London . " Bros . Lord Randolph Churchill , M . P ., and Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., M . P ., left town on Saturday last for a brief sojourn in the country , but returned in time to be in their places in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon .
The Duchess of Albany dined with the Queen at Balmoral on Friday , the 27 th ult ., Bro . Sir Robert Collins , K . C . B ., having the honour to be invited . The Duke of Connaught went out deer-stalking both on Saturday last and the day previous . The Guardians of the Poor of the Holborn Union require the services of a person to fill the office of nieht nurse at their workhouse , Shepherdess-walk ,
Citvroad . Three nurses are also required at the Baker ' s-row Infirmary , Whitechapel . Bro . Major-General Sir R . Buller left London for Dublin by the Irish Mail on the 2 < Jth ult ., arriving in Kingstown the following morning . Later in the day he had interviews with the heads of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Commander of the forces . On Monday he started from Dublin for Tralee .
The Princess of Wales and her daughters the Princesses Louise , Victoria , and Maud , are expected to arrive in Copenhagen on a visit to the King and Queen of Denmark on Sunday next , the Royal yacht Danneborg being under orders to proceed to Lubeck to convey the Royal visitors to their destination . Thursday , the 26 th ult ., being the anniversary of the late Prince Consort ' s birthday , H . R . H . the Duke of
Connaught , the gentlemen in attendance on the Queen , and the servants and tenants on the Estates of Balmoral , & c , assembled at the Obelisk at noon on that day and drank to the memory of the deceased Prince . At the regular meeting of the Londonderry Lodge , No . 2039 , heId at tne Y M-C . A ., John-street , Sunderland , on Friday , 27 th ult ., Bro . J . C . Moor , W . M ., presiding , Bro . John Deans , S . W ., was elected the W . M .
for the ensuing year ; Bro . J . R . Pattison , VV . M . 97 , was elected Treasurer ; and Bro . J . W . Brown , Tyler . W HAT IS M ASONRY ?—Masonry has no secrets that can injure the world . All its secrets , as an Order , tend to promote the universal good . It is said that an Emperor once built a palace of glass , and placed it on rising ground so that his subjects might see him in his private life . Masonry does not require this outward
display . It takes the simplest of the heart ' s expressions of secret faith ; this is the secret of Masonic strength . The Masonic structure can never die , based as it is on Faith , Hope , and Charity . —New Zealand Mail . A return , prepared at the instance of Mr . Whitley , is issued as a Parliamentary paper , showing the number of accounts of depositors in Post Office savings banks in the United Kingdom remaining open on December 31 st ,
1 SS 5 , together with the amount ( inclusive of interest ) standing to the credit of those accounts . In England the number of accounts open was 3 , 142 , 59 6 , and the amount £ 42 , 741 , 028 ; in Wales , 121 , S 38 accounts , and the amount £ ' . 43 S , 530 ; in Scotland , i 2 7 , i 72 accounts , with £ 969 , 790 ; in Ireland , 135 , 777 accounts , with ^ . 2 , 438 , 171 ; and in islands in the British seas , S 267 accounts , with , { , 110 , 315 . Amongst other deifiers of the palate whose
extraordinary doings give them a right to be placed amongst wonders stands one named Rogerson , whom Meg Dodd , in her amusing book on cookery , calls " a martyr . " He was a native of Gloucestershire ; received his education at one of the universities , made " the Grand Tour " after the fashion of his day , and concentrated the whole of hisattention upon gastronomical art . His father's death placed a large fortune in his possession , and he
devoted it to the palate ; keeping no one in his house who was not an accomplished cook : butler , footman , housekeeper , coachmen , grooms , all were cooks ; while for cooks proper , he had three whom he brought from Italyeach a famous one—one who came from Florence , another from Sienna , and a third from Viterbo , whose duty was confined to the preparing of one special dish , the dolce piccante of Florence . He had a messenger constantly on
the road between Brittany and London to bring him the eggs of a particular kind of plover found near St . Malo . It is recorded that one dinner which was prepared exclusively for himself , and consisted of but two dishes , cost fiftyeight pounds . In nine years he dissipated his fortune of £ 150 , 000 , and was found starving by one of his friends , who gave him a guinea ; and going soon after to the wretched garret in which the ruined epicure had found
refuge , discovered him roasting an ortolan ! a few days after wards he shot himself . —From "The World of Wonders" for September . TOUACCON'ISTS COMMENTING . —An Illustrated Guide of no pages *' How to open respectably from £ 10 to _? 20 oo ; " three stamps . H . Myers & Co ., 10 9 , Euston-rd ., London . Telephone No . 7541 . —[ AnvT , ] MORTGAGES . —Messrs . J AMES are in a position to Supply Money
to ANY EXTENT on the . following Securities : —Landed Estates , Houses , Shops , and Olfices , Warehouses and Wharves , Life Interests , Sec , Reversions , Borough Kates , Sec , at the lowest current rates of interest . Prompt Settlement , JI , Staple Inn , London , W . C— [ ADVT . ] HOLLOWAY ' S PILLS . —The stomach and its troubles cause more discomfort and bring more unhappiness than is commonly sup . posed . The thousand ills that settle there may he prevented or
dislodged by the judicious nse 01 these purifying Pills , which act as a sure , gentle , anti-acid aperient , without annoying the nerves of the most susceptible or irritating the most delicate organisation . Holloway ' s Pills will bestow comfort and confer relief on every headachy , dyspeptic , and sickly sufferer , whose tortures make him a burden to himself and a bugbear to his friends . These Pills have long been the popular remedy for a weak stomach , for a disordered liver , or a paralysed digestion , which yield without dilliculty to their regulating , purifying , and tonic qualities .
Masonic And General Tidings
The Masonic Advocate announces that Bros . M . L . Young , Grand Lecturer , and J . VV . Lafiin , Grand Sec . of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin , are co-editors of the Masonic Tidings , of Milwaukee . Bro . Lord Randol ph Churchill ' s visit to Oakfield-park , Dartford , has been fixed for Saturday , the iSth inst ., when it is expected that most of the representatives
of Kentish constituents will be present , Bro . Sir John E . Gorst , Q . C , being of the number . Among the guests to be entertained at the usual Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield on Thursday Bros . Lord George Hamilton , M . P ., First Lord of the Admiralty , Marriott , Q . C , M . P ., Judge Advocate General , and Stuart Wortley ,
M . P ., were expected to be present . Bro . Sir James Fergusson , Bart ., M . P ., Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , received a deputation of Lancashire Hat Manufacturers on Tuesday on the subject of the heavy duties levied by the Roumanian Government on the importation of cheap felt hats .
Brc . the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress , as they were passing through Manchester on Friday morning , the 27 th ult ., paid a visit to the Mayor of Manchester , Alderman Goldschmidt , at the Town Hall . The visitors were entertained at lunch , and taken round the works of Sir Elkanah Armitage , at Salford . The annual show of the Warwickshire A
gricultural Society was opened at iNuneaton , on Tuesday , in the presence of Bro . Lord Leigh , Lord Lieutenant of the county , and other of the local gentry , and , as the weather was splendid , there was a very large muster of visitors . Bros . Lord Northwick and Lord Wantage were among the successful competitors , the former in the sheep and the latter in the horse classes .
The Corporation of London last year expended on educational works £ 15 , 53 1 , viz .: City of London School , £ 3605 ; Freemen ' s Orphan School , £ 5048 ; Technical Kducation , £ 3050 ; Royal College of Music , £ 1000 ; School of Music , £ 2 S 2 S . The Guildhall Library and Museum cost the Corporation £ 6076 ; the new School of Music ( part of the cost ) , £ 3064 ; and the new London Almshouses , £ 10 , 584 . —City Press .
The Sheriffs-elect of London and Middlesex—Bro . Alderman Isaacs and Lieut .-Coloncl Kirby—will be inducted into office on Tuesday , the 2 Sth inst ., or ¦ ' Sheriffs ' Day . " A procession will be formed in Aldersgate-street , and will make its way thence to the Guildhall , where the ceremony of induction will be carried out , the Loriners , Spectaclemakers , Fanmakers , and Shipwrights' Companies taking a part in the display . The usual banquet will follow .
The Masonic Advocate for last month reports a suggestion by Bro . Charles Spalding , Editor of the Light , Topeka , Kansas , that a convention of the Editors of the different Masonic periodicals in America should be held at St . Louis during the approaching meeting of the Grand
Encampment of Knights Templars of the United States , for the purpose of forming a permanent organisation , the nature and objects of which , however , are not stated . The Masonic Advocate favours the proposal , and promises to try and be there and meet Bro . Spalding .
The Southampton Masonic Benevolent Association has issued its eleventh annual report to the 10 th August . It records that £ 50 has been added to the amount invested in 3 per cent , reduced annuities . The balance sheet shows that the investments have now reached £ 1250 , with some £ So odd in the bankers' hands . The receipt is acknowledged of a donation of ten guideas from
the Lodge of Peace and Harmony , No . 359 , and onother of five guineas from the Royal Gloucester Lodge , No . 130 . Three Benevolent grants have been awarded during the past year—two of £ 10 each , and one of £ 5 to the widows of brethren of Lodge 359 . His a striking comment on our legal methods to find that legal charges for the appointment of trustees to a small Benevolent Association like this
reached £ 20 3 s . 4 d . At Bonn the English visitors attended the inauguration of the Beethoven statue , and were serenaded by an enormous orchestra , consisting of 60 military bands . At four o ' clock on the same day , a grand banquet was given at the Palace , on which occasion the Prussian King made a speech , in which he said : "Gentlemen ,. fill your glasses ' .
There is a word of inexpressible sweetness to British as well as to German hearts . Thirty years ago it echoed on the heights of Waterloo from British and German tongues , after days of hot and desperate fighting , to mark the glorious triumph of our brotherhood in arms . Now it resounds on the banks of our fair Rhine , amid the blessings of that
peace which was the hallowed fruit of the great conflict . That word is Victoria ! " His Majesty then drank to the health of the Queen and Prince Albert ; and the former , who was much affected , rose , bent towards the King , and kissed his cheek . —From " The Life and Times of Queen Victoria" tor September . The skill of British sailors and naval architects
has produced a type of life-boat which well fulfils its purpose , and is not likely to be soon replaced . The liberality of the British public enables the Life-boat Institution to prosecute its noble and humane work on a grand scale ; but without the services of the gallent men who form the crews , all these preparations would be of no avail . It is true , no doubt , that these men receive payment for their
services ; but who would venture to assert that the small payments made to the boatmen in any sense compensate them for the risks they have to run , or are the real attraction of those who volunteer for the service ? lhese humble heroes " are mostly resident boatmen , fishermen , or coastguard-men , " all familiar with the sea , and all hardy , skilful oarsmen . This circumstance makes it important that
the life-boats should be propelled by oars or sails , with the management of which all seamen are familiar . But , apart from this fact , theie would be obvious dangers in attempting to fit steam-generating apparatus and propelling machinery in boats liable to be tossed about or capsized by heavy seas . It may perhaps be possible hereafter
to introduce some other description of propelling machinery , by the use of which the number ot men embarked in a boat may be reduced and the risk of losing valuable lives diminished . As yet , however , this problem is unsolved , and those most familiar with the service are not hopeful that a solution will be found . —From " Great Industries of Great Britain " for September ,