Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

The General Committee of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys svill hold their regular monthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall , to-morrosv ( Saturday ) , at the usual hour of 4 p . m . The Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution will hold their regular monthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday next , the r > th instant .

By command of the Provincial Grand Master of Cumberland and Westmorland , the annual Provincial Grand Mark Lodge svill be held at Whitehaven , under the banner of the Fletcher Mark Lodge , No . 213 , on the 16 th inst . The distribution of prizes at the AVarehousemen , Clerks , and Drapers' Schools will take place to-morrosv ( Saturday ) . Mr . B . S . Olding , Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management , will preside , and Mrs . Olding has consented to distribute the prizes .

The Duke of Fife is one of the largest owners of founders ' shares in London , and is intimately associated svith the 'Trustees' and Executors' Insurance Company , svhose founders' shares , originally sold for £ 30 each , are now svorth £ 9000 each .

To a crosvded and enthusiastic audience at Exeter Hall , on Friday , the 27 th ult ., Mr . Stanley gave a graphic lecture on the Emin Pasha Expedition . The company present included the Baroness and Bro . Burdett-Coutts ( the latter of svhom occupied the chair ) , Mr . George AVilliams , and Lord Kinnaird .

Bro . Alderman Sir R . N . Fosvler , Bart ., M . P ., presided at the Annual Public Examination of the children of the senior branch of the Orphan AVorking School , Maitland Park , Haverstock Hill , on the 26 th ult . The prizes svere aftersvards distributed , and in the afternoon there svas a display of calisthenics and ssvimming by the children .

The British Archaeological Association svill next sveek hold their 47 th annual congress at Oxford , meetings being held each evening , from Tuesday till Saturday , at the schools . The proceedings svill he opened by the Earl of Winchilsea , vvho has taken the place that svas to have been filled by the late Earl of Carnarvon .

The Empress Frederick of Germany on Wednesday afternoon paid a visit to the Bond-street Gallery , svhere Mr . Burne Jones ' s picture of the Briar Rose is on viesv . She also visited Messrs . William Doig and Co . ' s galleries in Waterloo House , Pall Mall , to viesv the picture of "The Jubilee Celebration in AVestminster Abbey , painted by W . E . Lockhart , R . S . A .

A meeting of Old Haileyburians svill take place on Monday , the 7 th inst ., at five p . m ., in the Church House , Dean ' s-yard , Westminster , to svelcome the Hon . and Rev . E . Lyttelton , lately appointed Head Master . A proposition svill be made , by the express desire of Mr . Lyttelton , that a union of Old Haileyburians be formed for the purpose of affording lay help to clergy in our big cities . All Old Haileyburians are earnestly invited to be present .

Bro . Augustus Harris , Grand 'Treasurer , svas , as sve anticipated , elected as one of the Sheriffs of London on Tuesday . The liveliest interest svas manifested in the proceedings , and the supporters of the rival candidates svere most enthusiastic in their advocacy of their claims on the livery . The total number of votes recorded svas 344 G , and they were distributed as follows : —Mr . Farmer , 1309 ; Bro . Augustus Harris 1139 ; and Capt . Roper Parkington , 926 . The tsvo first-named svere elected .

The Princess Christian presided at a numerously attended meeting held at Devonshire House , Piccadilly , on the 26 th ult ., in aid of the Convalescent and Holiday Fund for Nurses , the Duchess of Abercorn and Bro . the Bishop of Peterborough being among those present . It is in contemplation to purchase a Home at Brighton for the purpose , but it is said a sum of £ 15 , 000 will be required | to buy , furnish , and endow . A vote of thanks to her Royal Highness for presiding svas passed by acclamation .

The remains of Lord Magheramorne , vvho died on 1 'nday , the 27 th ult ., svere interred at Brompton Cemetery on Thursday . The Bishop of Truro , assisted by the Rev . J . Storrs , of St . Peter ' s , Katon-square , officiated , and the choir of that church sang several hymns . Many distinguished persons svere present at the grave , among svhom svere Viscount Cranbrook , Lord Trevor , Lord Penrhyn , and Lord Sudeley . 'The coffin svas covered svith svreaths , and the grave svas lined svith moss and svhite flosvers .

A new lodge of Royal Ark Mariners , attached to the l ' urness Lodge of Mark Masters , No . 36 , was constituted at Barrosv on Saturday , the 21 st ult . Bro . J . D . Murray , in the absence of Bro . Col . Le Gendre Starkie , performed the ceremony , naming the l .. Jge the Mount Sinai . Bro . AV . Harry Gordon Smith , AV . M . of the Jubilee Mark Lodge ,

No . 375 , svas installed W . M . He appointed his officers as follosvs : Bros . Dr . P . L . Booth , S . VV . ; Dr .- ] . Murray , J . AV . ; E . Hinks , Treas . ; C . P . Richards , Scribe ; B . Willans , S . D . ; C . W . Hunter , J . D . ; Dr . Settle , D . C . ; AV . Turvey , Guardian ; H . F . AVright , jun ., Stesvard ; and Jas . Artis , Warden .

Greenhouses , not many years ago , svere considered quite expensive luxuries ; even many of the well-to-do suburban residents in villas or good houses svere fain to be content svithout them , but nosv those of very modest means and living in the ordinary terraces or cottages , to be found round all large tosvns , can boast of " my little greenhouse . " AVe svere at the svorks of Messrs . Overend and Co ., of

West Green , Tottenham , and sasv some excellent specimens of their work , especially constructed for portability and transit by rail or otherwise . They make every style and at every price , from the simple cottagers' to those suited for the lordly man Jon . We saw a pretty little one

prepared in the rough wood one morning , and on the second day after it vvas put together , painted , taken apart again , and all packed ready for delivery . We inspected a file of testimonials from all parts , speaking very highly of the giods supplied , and sve feel great confidence in recommending this firm ,

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The annual distribution of prizes and visit of Festival Stewards to the Boys' School at Wood Green took place on Tuesday last , and proved a successful and pleasant gathering . AVe shall give a report next week . Mr . Edsvard Marston , the close and intimate friend of Mr . Stanley , has written for the August number of Scribner ' s Magazine an article on " Hosv Stanley Wrote His Book . " '

Sir Edsvin Arnold , svho has been spending many months in Japan , and is at present keeping house vvith his daughter in 'Tokyo , has promised to write for Scribner's Magazine three articles upon Japan and Japanese life . Bro . W . Burdett-Coutts , M . P ., presided at a meeting at AVestminster on AVednesday evening on behalf of the Westminster Spiritual Aid Fund , and ss * as supported by Mr . J . G . Talbot , M . P ., Mr . G . A . Spottissvoode , and others .

The annual soiree of the Royal Academy of Arts took place on Wednesday evening , and svas attended by a very large and distinguished company . The guests were received by the President , Sir Frederick Leighton . The Royal Botanic Society on AVednesday night gave the annual summer evening fete , svhich svas very numerously attended . Prince and Princess | Henry of Battenberg , the Duke and Duchess of Teck , and Princess Victoria svere among the visitors .

"The Art of Silhouetting" is the subject of a very interesting article that Mr . A . AA ' . Tuer , of Leadenhallstreet , publishes in the current part of the English Illustrated Magazine . In the article he gives brief sketches of the careers of several of the pioneers of the art .

A large contingent of the London County Council inspected , on Saturday , the area proposed for the extension of Peckham Rye . The site is to cost £ 51 , 000 , and the local vestry have resolved to contribute £ 20 , 000 , the Charity Commissioners £ 12 , 000 , and the County Council are asked to make up the balance .

On Wednesday , the 25 th ult ., the annual picnic in connection with the Falcon Lodge , No . 1416 , svas held , svhen a goodly number of members and friends visited the Hambleton range of hills , and spent an enjoyable day , starting at 9 . 30 from Thirsk . Hreakfast vvas partaken of at Brook House , Sutton , the residence of the W . M , Bro . F . R . Hansell , after svhich the party journeyed in svaggonettes to Rievaulx ,

had dinner at Hasvnley , and returned to Thirsk via Arden and Kepsvick . On AVednesday , 25 th ult ., the members of Lodge No . 17 S , of svhich Bro . Rosvland Savage is the popular AV . M ., together svith a number of tlieir friends , proceeded to Crasvfordsburn . Afterspendingsometimein thebeautifulgrounds

, the party sat dosvn in the hotel to an excellent dinner . The cloth has'ing been removed , sentiments svere given , and these elicited interesting speeches . The day svas spent in the pleasantest manner , and the excursionists returned home in good time , nothing having occurred to mar one of the most enjoyable days on record .

AVe regret to record the death , quite suddenly , on Monday last , of Bro . AV . Crasvford , M . P . for Mid-Durham . He had been ailing for some time , but svas able to attend to his duties as Secretary of the Durham Miners' Association and the Miners' National Union , and on Monday vvas

present at a meeting of the joint Committee at Newcastle . Besides his long-continued and prominent connection svith the Miners' Union , the deceased svas an Alderman of the Durham County Council , and a prominent Freemason . He svas 57 years of age , svas tsvice married , and leaves a widow and three sons and one daughter .

In a paper read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Dr . H . R . Mill has called attention to some interesting facts regarding the ocean depths . If you take a globe and drasv lines on it to mark svhere the sea is 1700 fathoms deep , these lines divide the svhole surface of the svorld into tsvo equal areas , one half being above that line and the other belosv . Moreover , the hollows are just equal to the

protuberances , the land masses projecting above that depth being just of sufficient bulk to fill up the ocean abysses belosv . It thus appears that if the surface <> f the solid earth svere regular it svould be covered svith an ocean just about tsvo miles deep . Miss Claire ls * anosva had among her audience at the Strand , on Tuesday , the ist inst ., Mr . Hermann A ' ezin ,

Mr . George Alexander , Miss Kate 'Terry , and Miss Wallis ( Mrs . Lancaster ) , of whom the last named has herself played Bianca in the provinces . It svould seem that prior to Tuesday , "Fazio" had not been played in London since 1 S 77 , svhen Miss ^ ateman revived it at the Lyceum .

It svas performed at the Adelphi in 1 S 65 , at the Lyceum ( svith Ristori as Bianca ) in 1 S 57 , and at Sadler AVells ( svith Laura Addison as the heroine ) in 1 S 47 . That Miss Cushman made her English debut as Bianca is familiarly knosvn . Miss Mary Anderson res-ived the play at Liverpool three years ago , but not svith very encouraging results .

The Prince of VVales visited Aldershot on Friday , the 27 th ult , for the purpose of inspecting the nth Hussars , svhich is under orders to relieve the Gth Inniskillen Dragoons , in South Africa . The Prince svas met at Waterloo Station by Bro . Sir D . C . Drury Losve , Inspector General ol Cavalry , and at Aldershot by Bro . Sir Evelyn AVood , commanding the camp . His Royal Highness also inspected

the 16 th Lancers , svhich is under orders for foreign service , and expressed himself ss'cll pleased svith the appearance of both regiments . After luncheon svith the officers , the Prince returned to town . In the evening , svith the Princess of Wales , he honoured the Earl and Countess of Brosvnlosv svith his presence at dinner . Among the guests invited to

meet their Royal Highnesses being the Duke and Duchess of Portland , Bro . the Marquis of Hartington , Bro . the Earl and Counte s of Airlie , Bro . Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild , M . P , and Bro . Sir Frederick Leighton , P . R . A . Aftersvards the Countess of Brosvnlosv held a reception , svhich svas very numerously attended .

THE UNEMPLOYED IN EAST LONDON . —At a time svhen much thought is being given to this matter , a practical suggestion may be of service . Last year more than £ 300 , 000 svorth of foreign matches were purchased by inconsiderate consumers in this country , to the great injury of our osvn svorking people , so true is it that " evil is svrought by svant of thought , as well as svant of heart . " If all

consumers svould purchase Bryant and May's Matches , that firm svould be enabled to pay £ 1000 a sveek more in svages . —ADVT ,

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Mrs Langtry is pro . gressing most favourably after her severe illness , and svas able to leave her bed for the first time on Monday . Bro . Alderman Sir Francis AV . Truscott and Lady Truscott left Oakleigh , East Grinstead , at the end of last week for Carlsbad , where they intend staying for some time .

Bro . Alderman Sir J . Whittaker Ellis , Bart , M . P , has declined nomination as first Mayor of Richmond , but has kindly promised to give a gold chain and badge for the holder of the office . Camden Place and Park , Chislehurst , ' the late residence of the Empress Eugenie , has been purchased by Mr . W . AVillett , the well-known builder of London and Brighton , svho proposes to develope it as a building estate .

The Countess of Rosebery svill distribute the prizes at the annual meeting of the Association for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb at Steinsvay Hall , Losver Seymotir-street , on the 15 th inst . 'The chair svill be taken by Bro . Earl Granville , K . G .

The annual flosver shosv of the Surrey Floricultural Society svill be held in the grounds of Casino House , Heme Hill , by the kind permission of Bro . VV . S . Gover , C . C , on Wednesday and Thursday , 23 rd and 24 th inst . Mrs . Gover has consented to open the exhibition .

. Bro . Charles F . Quicke , svorks manager of the establishment of Messrs . Immisch , electrical- engineers , of Kentish Town , vvas installed Worshipful Master of the Chislehurst Lodge , No . 1531 , at Chislehurst , on Saturday last , in the presence of a large number of metropolitan brethren .

Batley Masonic Hall , registered February 5 th , 1 S 90 . Capital , £ 1000 , in £ 5 shares . Statutory return registered June 24 th , 1 S 90 . Number of members , tsventy-tsvo . Shares taken up , eighty-eight . Calls , £ 2 per share . Amount of calls received , £ 16 S . Calls unpaid , £ 8 . Registered offices , S , Commercial-street , Batley . —Citizen .

" Your AVife " is drasving good houses at the St . James ' s , and is received nightly svith roars of laughter ; " but Mr . Bourchier has not yet decided svhether to prolong its run through the autumn . Mrs . Langtry is so much better in health that she contemplates appearing at the St . James ' s in October , prior 10 her Continental tour ; and , that being so , Mr . Bourchier has to consider svhether it svould be worth while to transfer " Your Wife " to another theatre .

The Queen , accompanied by Princess Beatrice , left Windsor Castle on Friday , the 27 th ult , for the purpose of visiting the tomb of the late Marchioness of Ely , in Kensal Green Cemetery , for the purpose of placing wreaths and a bouquet upon it . Having fulfilled this object , the Queen returned to Windsor , while the Princess Beatrice joined her husband , Prince Henry of Battenberg , at Buckingham Palace .

Every year , by invitation of the Civil Lord of the Admiralty , a party proceeds by special steamer from the House of Commons stairs to Greensvich , for the annual inspection of the Royal Hospital School and the distribution of prizes to the boys . This year the ceremony , alsvays interesting and attractive , svill be honoured by the presence

of the Prince and Princess of AVales . The steamer leaves for Greensvich at half-past eleven in the morning , returning at live p . m . Luncheon will be served in the Painted Hall of the Royal Hospital at half-past one , and the inspection of boys and the distribution of prizes takes place an hour later .

At the Duke and Duchess of Rutland ' s garden party on AA'ednesday , at Bute House , Campden-hill , the Princess Louise ( Marchioness of Lome ) and Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg svere present . Among the company svere also Prince and Princess Camille de Polignac , Princess Malcom Khan and Princess Sultane Malcom , the Italian Ambassador and Countess Tornielli and Mdlle . Lazzari , the

Belgian Minister , the Duchess of Cleveland , the Marchioness of Bristol and Lady Mary Hervey , Countess Granville and Lady \' . Leveson Gower , Viscount Cross , A'iscount and A'iscountess Cranbrook , Lord Rosvton , Lord and Lady Eustace Cecil , Ladv Lucy Hicks-Beach , the Right Hon . Sir Clare Ford , Mrs . VV . H . Smith and Miss Smith , and Mr . and Mrs . Disraeli .

Playgoers svill be interested to hear that Miss Lilian Hingston , svho made so great a success last sveek in Mr . Calmoiir ' s "Cyrene , " is a daughter of the late Mr . E . P . Hingston , so svell knosvn at one time in connection svith Artemus AVard and the " Wizard of the North , " and aftersvards as a theatrical lessee and manager . Miss Hingston is nosv " under-studying" at the Avenue . She has had a

very varied and useful experience , having , young though she is , played many parts in tosvn aud country—parts ranging from Lydia Languish to Claire Ffolliott , from Pauline Deschapelles to Esther Eccles , from Mrs . Singleton Bliss in " Cyril ' s Success" to Lilian in "The Old Love and the New . " She had only tsvo rehearsals in " Cyrene , " and yet svas letter-perfect at performance .

The arrangements are nosv complete for the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of VVales and Duke of Cambridge to the Paddington Recreation Ground to-morrosv ( Saturday ) . Great preparations are being made , and the occasion is likely to be a memorable one , as an address is to be presented by Lord R . Churchill , setting forth the scheme for acquiring the groundand it

, has been intimated that H . R . H . svill graciously reply to it from a raised dais , about being constructed . The scheme is to acquire the ground , svhich has been laid out at a very great expense as a recreation ground , by Mr . Melvill Beachcroft , L . C . C , on the security of a mere yearly

tenancy , terminable this year , and seeing the vast use to svhich the ground is put , it svould be little short of a disaster if it svere not secured as a permanent possession of the Metropolis , and yet this is svhat may happen , and the ground itself be closed and built on , if the final effort to be made on Saturday fail .

HOLI . OSV . W ' OINTMENT . —Sores , svounds , ulcerations , and other diseases allccting the skin are capable of speedy * amendment by this cooliiifr and healing Ointment , svhich has c died forth the loudest praise from persons svho had sullered for years from bad legs , bad breasts , piles , abscesses , and chronic ulcers . None but those vvho have experienced the soothing elVect of it can form an

idea of the comfort it bestosvs hy restraining inflammation and allaying pain . Whenever Hollosvay ' s Ointment lias been once used it lias estab islied its osvn svorth , and again been eagerly sought for as the easiest and safest remedy for all such complaints . In neuralgia , rheumatism , and gout the same application , properly used , gives wonderful relief .