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Masonic And General Tidings
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
The Queen has subscribed £ 200 to the Mansion House Fund for the relief of the distress occasioned by the cholera in Egypt . Lord Harrington , Prov . G . M . Derbyshire , accepted the invitation of the Master Cutler of Sheffield to be present at the banquet on Thursday last . Mrs . Horace Marshall , wife of Bro . H . B .
Marshall , C . C ., will on Monday next lay the memorialstone of a new Wesleyan Chapel , at Plaistow ( London over-the-horder ) . The Duke and Duchess of Connaught , with their children , left London on Tuesday morning for Dover on their way to Berlin , on a visit to the Crown Princess oi Germany .
The meetings of the Langton Lodge of Instruction , No . 16 73 , were resumed on Thursday evening last , at the Mansion House Station Restaurant , when the ceremony of initiation was worked by Bro . Sudlow , P . M ., Preceptor of the lodge , and the Fourth Section of the First Lecture by Bro . Tanqueray . A royal warrant of some interest to our " citizen
soldiers " has just been issued , it specifying the changes that have been carried out with respect to the names of the Volunteer battalions that have now been attached to the line regiments of the regular army . By command of the Right Hon . Lord De Tabley , R . W . P . G . Master Cheshire , the annual meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge will be held at the Mechanics '
Institute , Stalybridge , at 12 , 30 p . m . on Wednesday , the 26 th inst ., under the presidency of the Right Hon . Lord Egerron of Tatton , D . P . G . Master . The brethren will walk in procession to St . Paul ' s Church , and afterwards dine together at the Town Hall . Nothing has yet been determined with regard to the removal or restoration of the Queen Anne statue , which
has so long disfigured the front of St . Paul ' s . The question of its restoration and preservation has , however , been submitted to theCityArchitect , Bro . Horace Jones , P . G . S . of VV ., who will report upon it in due course . If any such scheme should be adopted , the expense will probably have to be paid out of the City ' s cash . Prince Albert Victor of Wales arrived at
Balmoral Castle on Tuesday , attended by Lieut . F . B . Henderson , R . N . Bro . Sir Albert Woods , G . D . C ., Garter King of Arms , also arrived , and the Queen afterwards conferred the Order of the Garter on the Prince . Her Majesty received the insignia from Sir Albert Woods , and having delivered the Garter to his Royal Highness invested him with the Ribbon and George . Princess Beatrice was
present at the investiture . The Province of Victoria , Australia , or rather certain Masonic lodges therein , are ambitious to have a Giand Lodge ; but there is considerable opposition . Already rival Masonic sheets have been started to further the rival causes . 1 his is not healthy Masonry . A copy of
the Victorian Masonic Journal , of Juneyth , the organ of the opposition to the proposed Grand Lodge , is before us . The brethren of the so-called Grand Lodge of New South Wales are doing what they can to aid the new movement , which does not dignify it in the eyes of conservative Freemasons . —Keystone .
" The Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar , Diary , and Pocket-Book " for 1 SS 4 is in course of preparation for publication on the ist of November next . Forms for collecting the necessary information have been sent to Secretaries and Scribes E , and the publisher will feel obliged by their being returned to him at the office of the Freemason at the earliest possible moment after receipt . Also , in the event
of such forms not reaching the officers of those lodges or chapters whose arrangements for meetings have been altered since the last issue , a memorandum enclosing particulars is respectfully solicited . Bro . Sir M ichael Costa , P . G . O ., has presented to the Naples Royal College of Music the manuscript score of four operas and four ballets . The operas are f . 'Imagine
Il . Sospctte Funesto , It Delitto Punito , and Don Carlos , of which the first was performed for the first time in 1 S 25 and the second in 1826 by the pupils of the College of St . Sebastian . The ballets are ft Castelto di Kennihuorth , Un ' ora a Nafioli , Sir Huon . and Almo . On the first oaec
of each score Sir Michael has written : " To the famous archives of the Naples Royal College of Music . In memory of M . Costa . London , August 15 th , 18 S 3 . " At the same time the illustrious director presented the baton used by him for 10 years . It is of ebony with a coral pommel , and at the tip an effigy of Garibaldi , also in coral .
An International Smokers' Exhibition will be held during the National Exhibition and Market which opens at the Agricultural Hall on the 15 th prox . The exhibition will be small but very interesting to those concerned , and will comprise a collection of tobacco , tobacco machinery , pipes , and all the appliances of smoking , and will be held in the King Edward ' s Hall , an annexe of the
Great Hall . Arrangements have been made by which visitors will be admitted to both exhibitions on payment of the same fee , or with the same tickets . It is anticipated t yatseveral of theforeign tobacco regies will avail themselves of this opportunity of placing their manufactures on a firm footing in the English market , and contributions of importance are expected from the meerchaum and amber
indus'riesof Vienna and Paris , the briar-root pipe manufactories of Paris , the Jura , Nuremberg , and Fiirth , and the tobacconists' sundrymen of Ruhla-bei-Eisenach , Sic . HOIXOWAY ' S PILLS . —When the nerves are strained and overwrought , disease may eventuate , unless some restorative , such as .. . Punfyiuc Pills , be found lo correct the disordering tendencv .
lh ° , if" medicine Rives potency to the nervous system , which is ,. '"'' "rce of all vital movements , and presides over every action "inch maintains the growth and well bring of the body . No otic an over-estimate die necessity ¦>( keeping the nerves well strung , ML cas < : witn which these Pills accomplish that end . They are „! , . most unfailing antidotes to indigestion , irregular circulation , ^ ll ^ l ! . . " , sick heahache , and costiveness , and have therefore "named the largest sale and highest reputation . —LAnvr . ]
Masonic And General Tidings
Princess Beatrice has consented to open the Duthie Park , Aberdeen . Her Majesty the Queen had been asked to perform the ceremony , but declined . Bros . Thos . Renton , P . M ., was installed into the chair of K . S . in the St . Bede Lodge , No . n 19 , Jarrow , on the 29 th ult . A sub-committee appointed by the Joint
Committees of the Masonic bodies of Philadelphia have prepared a plan for the organization of a Masonic Home in that jurisdiction . Bro . H . R . H . Prince Frederick , Hereditary Prince of Denmark and brother of the King of Greece , was nominated during his recent stay at Athens Past Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Greece .
Advices from Quebec state that her Majesty ' s ship Canada , with Prince George of Wales on boaid , has arrived in Quebec Harbour . Prince George is now visiting Princess Louise , Marchioness of Lome . At an International Firework competition , which took place at Boston on Saturday , and at which the leading American pyrotechnists were represented , the judges unanimously awarded the first prize to Bro . James Pain , of
London . Mr . Cromwell Fleetwood Varley , F . R . S ., M . l . C . E ., & c , the eminent electrician , who it will be remembered , as the electrician of the Electric and International Telegraph Company , was the first to successfully lay a cable across the Atlantic , died unexpectedly at his
residence , Cromwell House , Bexley-heath , on Sunday last . Bro . Sir Moses Montefiore , Bart , ( who served the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex in the year 1 S 37 ) , , v '" , at the end of next month , enter his hundredth year , having been born in 17 S 4 . The idea has been mooted that the event might be made the occasion for an expression of the respect in which he is held .
The great vine at Hampton Court , which was planted in 17 CS from a slip off a vine at Valentines , in the parish of Ilford , Essex , has this year produced 1300 bunches of grapes or 130 in excess of last year . This is not the greatest yield , however , as it has been known to produce as many as 2200 bunches in one year .
The opposition in the United States to the heavy duty on imported books , ostensibly levied for the protection of the American author , but in reality in the interests of American publishers issuing reprints of English works , is steadily gaining ground . The American Library Association at a recent meeting passed a resolution condemning the present law upon the subject as " anomalous , unnecessary , and unjust . "
A total number of 2 , 200 trains leave London railway stations every 24 hours , whilst every hour between 10 a . m . and 11 p . m ., 1600 trains start for the metropolitan termini , this being at the rate of two per minute . Of this number , 1750 are suburban trains , the remainder comprising the country and continental service . From Broad-street Station 395 trains daily start , and 312 leave Liverpoolstreet Station per diem . —City Press .
The Old Chancery Courts in Lincoln s-inn are in course of demolition , and it is expected that the whole of the ground will be cleared by the end of next month . The Chancery Appeal Court close by , which was at one time used as the dining hall by the students and members of Lincoln's-inn , will not be pulled down . When the two courts opposite Lincoln's-inn gateway are removed , a very 01 01 mis 01 tneoio
gooa view nan ana uncom s-mn cnapei , which has recently been restored , will then be obtainable from Chancery-lane . At a meeting of the General Committee of the West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution , to be held at the Masonic Hall , Hope-street , Liverpool , this ( Friday ) evening , there will be taken into consideration
applications for assistance in the education of three children of a late brother of Antient Union Lodge , 203 , Liverpool ; two children of a late brother of Concord Lodge , 343 , Preston ; two children of a brother of Mariners Lodge , 249 , Liverpool ; and also applications for grants for advancement for children now on the foundation of the institution .
From the report of the German Royal Meteorological Institute we learn that there are now 16 9 meteorological stations spread over the whole kingdom of Prussia , of which the Schneekoppen Station , elevated 517 6 feet above the level of the sea , is the most interesting , particularly since observations have been made there in winter .
At that height the greatest cold recorded last winter was 0 . 4 deg . Fahrenheit , the greatest heat 71 deg . Fahr . The downfall was 15 G 5 millemetres ( in Berlin it was only 751 millcmetres ) , while there were 277 foggy and 131 stormy days . The two next most elevated stations , Schneegrubenbaude , at 4470 feet , and Glatzer Schneeberg , at 3630 feet , have only begun to work since last November .
A Pre-historic Master Mason . —The Builder says that among the statues now in the Louvre which were discovered by M . dc Sarzec is one of King Gudea in his office of chief architect . This remarkable figure , cut out of hard dioritc with all the ornaments of the richly-embroidered robe and the fringes cut with the greatest care and attention to detail , with inscriptions as clear and sharp as the day
they were graven , may be regarded as the earliest statue of an architect . Before the time when semi-mythical Memes ( D . C . 3 S 93 ) had laid the foundation-stones of the temple of Phtah , and more than 20 centuries before Setna , the chief architect of the "man queen " and lavish patron of the architect and builder , Queen Hatsu , had been rewarded by
his royal mistress with a statue , there had been placed in the temple of the Thunder God a votive figure of the royal architect , who holds on his knee the tablet on which he has drawn the plan of the sacred edifice , which now yields up its buried ticasures to the explorer . This we may now certainly regard as the most ancient plan of an edifice which is preserved in the annals of architecture .
" R UPTURES , "—WHITE S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS IS the most effective invention for the treatment of Hernia , The use of a steel spring , so hurtful in its ett ' ects , is avoided , a soft bandage being worn round the body , while the requisite resisting power is supplied hy the Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever , titling with so much case and closeness that it cannot be detected . Send for descriptive circular , with testimonials and prices , to J . White and Co . ( Limited ) 328 , Picc ' ididy , London . Do not buy of Chemists , who often sell an l . \ n IATION of our Moc-Main . J . White and Co . have not any agents . —[ ADVT . 1
Masonic And General Tidings
lhc late Dante Gabriel Rossetti ' s house , 16 , Chcyne-walk , has passed into the hands of the Rev . H . Hawcis , on a long lease . Messrs . S piers and Pond intend , it is reported , to build a bijou theatre on a portion of the site when
they reconstruct the Cock Tavern , Fleet-street . Mr . James Russell Lowell , the United States Minister to this country , unveiled a memorial bust to bidding , the novelist , at Taunt on on Tuesday , and delivered an address upon the works of that writer .
Bro . Alderman and Sheriff De Keyserwill preside at the 54 th anniversary dinner in aid ol the Butchers ' Charitable Institution , which will take place on Tuesday , the 25 th inst . D-iring the absence of the Queen and Court in Scotland , several alterations and improvements are being carried out at Windsor Castle . Prominent amono- these are the extensive works at the North Terrace . °
The Newcastle-upon-T yne City Council have decided to appoint a committee to confer with the River Tyne Commissioners respecting the practicability of making a ship canal from the Tyne to Solway Firth , with deep cuttings or locks near ilexham .
Lord Bective , M . P ., Prov . G . M . Cumberland and Westmorland , and Lady Bective , signified their intention of being present at a public banquet to Mr . Alderman Whitehead and Mrs . Whitehead at Kendal on Thursday .
Bro . James Terry , P . P . G . S . W . Norths and Hunts , Secretary Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , will work the ceremony of consecration at the Percy Lodge of Instruction , No . 19 S , on the 22 nd inst ., at 7 o'clock , at the Jolly Farmer's , Southgate-road , N . All brethren who can attend are cordially invited .
The penny ( or rather two-cent . ) postage system is to be introduced into the United States on the ist of next month , on and after which date letters will be carried any distance within the Union , from New York to San Francisco , for instance , or from Chicago to New Orleans , for the sum answering to our penny .
The many and slow streams of lava lately issuing from the eastern side of the cone of Vesuvius have accumulated in considerble quantities and formed a small hill on that side of the mountain , entirely changing its contour at that part . The new lava is covered with beautiful white alkaline crystals .
H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught has expressed to Bro . Captain the Earl of Yarborough his great approval of the way the members of the 1 st Lincolnshire Light Horse performed their duty as escort , and the smart and soldierly bearing of the troop during the recent opening of the Park at Grimsby .
A ballot for each degree , we see it stated , is still required in the following Grand Jurisdictions : " Alabama , Colorado , Florida , Indian Territory , Louisiana , Marjland , Montana , Nebraska , New Mexico , South Carolina , " Tennessee , Virginia , Wyoming , Missouri , Kentucky , Ohio , and Illinois . " We are inclined to think the list is too large . Certainly the growing and correct custom is to have but a single ballot for the three degrees . —Keystone .
Bro . Jas . Terry , P . M ., Secretary Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , on the 24 th ult . rehearsed the ceremonies of consecration and installation before a very appreciative gathering of the Craft at the Yarborough Lodge , No . 244 , in the Masonic Temple , Jersey , and on
the 29 th ult ., at the Royal Sussex Chapter , meeting in the same place , Bro . Terry favoured the chapter with a splendid rendeting of the ceremony of exaltation , there being two candidates , and at the conclusion of the work Bro . Terry was unanimously elected an honorary member of the Royal Sussex Chapter .
Our esteemed contemporary the Keystone has fallen into the error of calling Lord Carnarvon " Praviniial Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England . " There is no such title , though there are Grand Masters of / rovinccs under the Grand Lodge of England . Lord Carnarvon is Pro Grand Master ( taking the prefix Most Worshi pful , the same as the Giand Master ) , and acts in the absence of the Grand Master , and is not to be confounded with the
Deputy Grand Master . Concerning the title , " Kenning ' s Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry " says : " Pro Grand Master . An office peculiar to the English s \ stem . It was first created in 1782 , and is called into activity when a Prince of the Blood Royal is Grand Master , and only then . " We trust our confrere will pardon our correction of his pardonable mistake . We have known more than one English Mason who has fallen into the same error .
We are glad to publish the following , taken from the columns of an evening contemporary , as another illustration of the spirited management of the "Old Drury " under the Iessecship of Bro . Augustus Harris : " A praiseworthily emphatic announcement has been made by the manager of Drury-lane Theatre , to the effect that the sale of programmes is in future prohib . ted in his establishment .
Hitherto notices to the effect that « No Fees ' are to be inflicted upon visitors to many of the London theatres have been issued ; but , in defiance of this loosely-worded edict , black mail has been generally levied by the attendants who show the audience to their seats and attend them in the cloak room . Mr . Harris has , however , given strict orders that the attendants in the front of his house aie to receive
no donations ; and if the habitues of Drury-lane only second the manager's efforts , the system , which is not on y unfair , but irritating as well , will speedily come to an end . Other managers , it is to be hoped , will follow Mr . Harris ' s energetic example , and let their servants know that any one of them found guilty of accepting gratuities will be dismissed
the service . The managers of theatres , it is to be presumed , pay their employes fair wages for their services , and do not desire the public to contribute thus , as it were , surreptitiously to their support ; and it the repiehmsible habit ceases to exist in the ' National' Theatre , as a matter of precedent it will rapidly cease in other theatres as well . "
MADAME TUSSACD ANn SON ' S IIXIIIIIITIO . V . —Portrait Models of rrince Edward of Saxe-W . imar , the Cointc de Paris , late Comte de Chambord , and M . Waddm t < , n . Cosily I ourt IJr sses from the first Parisian houses . Also Portrait Model of Jamis Carey the Informer . Captain Webb ( taken from lifci . Admission 19 . lixtra rooms fid . Open from 10 till 10 . — [ AUVT , ]
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Masonic And General Tidings
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
The Queen has subscribed £ 200 to the Mansion House Fund for the relief of the distress occasioned by the cholera in Egypt . Lord Harrington , Prov . G . M . Derbyshire , accepted the invitation of the Master Cutler of Sheffield to be present at the banquet on Thursday last . Mrs . Horace Marshall , wife of Bro . H . B .
Marshall , C . C ., will on Monday next lay the memorialstone of a new Wesleyan Chapel , at Plaistow ( London over-the-horder ) . The Duke and Duchess of Connaught , with their children , left London on Tuesday morning for Dover on their way to Berlin , on a visit to the Crown Princess oi Germany .
The meetings of the Langton Lodge of Instruction , No . 16 73 , were resumed on Thursday evening last , at the Mansion House Station Restaurant , when the ceremony of initiation was worked by Bro . Sudlow , P . M ., Preceptor of the lodge , and the Fourth Section of the First Lecture by Bro . Tanqueray . A royal warrant of some interest to our " citizen
soldiers " has just been issued , it specifying the changes that have been carried out with respect to the names of the Volunteer battalions that have now been attached to the line regiments of the regular army . By command of the Right Hon . Lord De Tabley , R . W . P . G . Master Cheshire , the annual meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge will be held at the Mechanics '
Institute , Stalybridge , at 12 , 30 p . m . on Wednesday , the 26 th inst ., under the presidency of the Right Hon . Lord Egerron of Tatton , D . P . G . Master . The brethren will walk in procession to St . Paul ' s Church , and afterwards dine together at the Town Hall . Nothing has yet been determined with regard to the removal or restoration of the Queen Anne statue , which
has so long disfigured the front of St . Paul ' s . The question of its restoration and preservation has , however , been submitted to theCityArchitect , Bro . Horace Jones , P . G . S . of VV ., who will report upon it in due course . If any such scheme should be adopted , the expense will probably have to be paid out of the City ' s cash . Prince Albert Victor of Wales arrived at
Balmoral Castle on Tuesday , attended by Lieut . F . B . Henderson , R . N . Bro . Sir Albert Woods , G . D . C ., Garter King of Arms , also arrived , and the Queen afterwards conferred the Order of the Garter on the Prince . Her Majesty received the insignia from Sir Albert Woods , and having delivered the Garter to his Royal Highness invested him with the Ribbon and George . Princess Beatrice was
present at the investiture . The Province of Victoria , Australia , or rather certain Masonic lodges therein , are ambitious to have a Giand Lodge ; but there is considerable opposition . Already rival Masonic sheets have been started to further the rival causes . 1 his is not healthy Masonry . A copy of
the Victorian Masonic Journal , of Juneyth , the organ of the opposition to the proposed Grand Lodge , is before us . The brethren of the so-called Grand Lodge of New South Wales are doing what they can to aid the new movement , which does not dignify it in the eyes of conservative Freemasons . —Keystone .
" The Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar , Diary , and Pocket-Book " for 1 SS 4 is in course of preparation for publication on the ist of November next . Forms for collecting the necessary information have been sent to Secretaries and Scribes E , and the publisher will feel obliged by their being returned to him at the office of the Freemason at the earliest possible moment after receipt . Also , in the event
of such forms not reaching the officers of those lodges or chapters whose arrangements for meetings have been altered since the last issue , a memorandum enclosing particulars is respectfully solicited . Bro . Sir M ichael Costa , P . G . O ., has presented to the Naples Royal College of Music the manuscript score of four operas and four ballets . The operas are f . 'Imagine
Il . Sospctte Funesto , It Delitto Punito , and Don Carlos , of which the first was performed for the first time in 1 S 25 and the second in 1826 by the pupils of the College of St . Sebastian . The ballets are ft Castelto di Kennihuorth , Un ' ora a Nafioli , Sir Huon . and Almo . On the first oaec
of each score Sir Michael has written : " To the famous archives of the Naples Royal College of Music . In memory of M . Costa . London , August 15 th , 18 S 3 . " At the same time the illustrious director presented the baton used by him for 10 years . It is of ebony with a coral pommel , and at the tip an effigy of Garibaldi , also in coral .
An International Smokers' Exhibition will be held during the National Exhibition and Market which opens at the Agricultural Hall on the 15 th prox . The exhibition will be small but very interesting to those concerned , and will comprise a collection of tobacco , tobacco machinery , pipes , and all the appliances of smoking , and will be held in the King Edward ' s Hall , an annexe of the
Great Hall . Arrangements have been made by which visitors will be admitted to both exhibitions on payment of the same fee , or with the same tickets . It is anticipated t yatseveral of theforeign tobacco regies will avail themselves of this opportunity of placing their manufactures on a firm footing in the English market , and contributions of importance are expected from the meerchaum and amber
indus'riesof Vienna and Paris , the briar-root pipe manufactories of Paris , the Jura , Nuremberg , and Fiirth , and the tobacconists' sundrymen of Ruhla-bei-Eisenach , Sic . HOIXOWAY ' S PILLS . —When the nerves are strained and overwrought , disease may eventuate , unless some restorative , such as .. . Punfyiuc Pills , be found lo correct the disordering tendencv .
lh ° , if" medicine Rives potency to the nervous system , which is ,. '"'' "rce of all vital movements , and presides over every action "inch maintains the growth and well bring of the body . No otic an over-estimate die necessity ¦>( keeping the nerves well strung , ML cas < : witn which these Pills accomplish that end . They are „! , . most unfailing antidotes to indigestion , irregular circulation , ^ ll ^ l ! . . " , sick heahache , and costiveness , and have therefore "named the largest sale and highest reputation . —LAnvr . ]
Masonic And General Tidings
Princess Beatrice has consented to open the Duthie Park , Aberdeen . Her Majesty the Queen had been asked to perform the ceremony , but declined . Bros . Thos . Renton , P . M ., was installed into the chair of K . S . in the St . Bede Lodge , No . n 19 , Jarrow , on the 29 th ult . A sub-committee appointed by the Joint
Committees of the Masonic bodies of Philadelphia have prepared a plan for the organization of a Masonic Home in that jurisdiction . Bro . H . R . H . Prince Frederick , Hereditary Prince of Denmark and brother of the King of Greece , was nominated during his recent stay at Athens Past Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Greece .
Advices from Quebec state that her Majesty ' s ship Canada , with Prince George of Wales on boaid , has arrived in Quebec Harbour . Prince George is now visiting Princess Louise , Marchioness of Lome . At an International Firework competition , which took place at Boston on Saturday , and at which the leading American pyrotechnists were represented , the judges unanimously awarded the first prize to Bro . James Pain , of
London . Mr . Cromwell Fleetwood Varley , F . R . S ., M . l . C . E ., & c , the eminent electrician , who it will be remembered , as the electrician of the Electric and International Telegraph Company , was the first to successfully lay a cable across the Atlantic , died unexpectedly at his
residence , Cromwell House , Bexley-heath , on Sunday last . Bro . Sir Moses Montefiore , Bart , ( who served the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex in the year 1 S 37 ) , , v '" , at the end of next month , enter his hundredth year , having been born in 17 S 4 . The idea has been mooted that the event might be made the occasion for an expression of the respect in which he is held .
The great vine at Hampton Court , which was planted in 17 CS from a slip off a vine at Valentines , in the parish of Ilford , Essex , has this year produced 1300 bunches of grapes or 130 in excess of last year . This is not the greatest yield , however , as it has been known to produce as many as 2200 bunches in one year .
The opposition in the United States to the heavy duty on imported books , ostensibly levied for the protection of the American author , but in reality in the interests of American publishers issuing reprints of English works , is steadily gaining ground . The American Library Association at a recent meeting passed a resolution condemning the present law upon the subject as " anomalous , unnecessary , and unjust . "
A total number of 2 , 200 trains leave London railway stations every 24 hours , whilst every hour between 10 a . m . and 11 p . m ., 1600 trains start for the metropolitan termini , this being at the rate of two per minute . Of this number , 1750 are suburban trains , the remainder comprising the country and continental service . From Broad-street Station 395 trains daily start , and 312 leave Liverpoolstreet Station per diem . —City Press .
The Old Chancery Courts in Lincoln s-inn are in course of demolition , and it is expected that the whole of the ground will be cleared by the end of next month . The Chancery Appeal Court close by , which was at one time used as the dining hall by the students and members of Lincoln's-inn , will not be pulled down . When the two courts opposite Lincoln's-inn gateway are removed , a very 01 01 mis 01 tneoio
gooa view nan ana uncom s-mn cnapei , which has recently been restored , will then be obtainable from Chancery-lane . At a meeting of the General Committee of the West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution , to be held at the Masonic Hall , Hope-street , Liverpool , this ( Friday ) evening , there will be taken into consideration
applications for assistance in the education of three children of a late brother of Antient Union Lodge , 203 , Liverpool ; two children of a late brother of Concord Lodge , 343 , Preston ; two children of a brother of Mariners Lodge , 249 , Liverpool ; and also applications for grants for advancement for children now on the foundation of the institution .
From the report of the German Royal Meteorological Institute we learn that there are now 16 9 meteorological stations spread over the whole kingdom of Prussia , of which the Schneekoppen Station , elevated 517 6 feet above the level of the sea , is the most interesting , particularly since observations have been made there in winter .
At that height the greatest cold recorded last winter was 0 . 4 deg . Fahrenheit , the greatest heat 71 deg . Fahr . The downfall was 15 G 5 millemetres ( in Berlin it was only 751 millcmetres ) , while there were 277 foggy and 131 stormy days . The two next most elevated stations , Schneegrubenbaude , at 4470 feet , and Glatzer Schneeberg , at 3630 feet , have only begun to work since last November .
A Pre-historic Master Mason . —The Builder says that among the statues now in the Louvre which were discovered by M . dc Sarzec is one of King Gudea in his office of chief architect . This remarkable figure , cut out of hard dioritc with all the ornaments of the richly-embroidered robe and the fringes cut with the greatest care and attention to detail , with inscriptions as clear and sharp as the day
they were graven , may be regarded as the earliest statue of an architect . Before the time when semi-mythical Memes ( D . C . 3 S 93 ) had laid the foundation-stones of the temple of Phtah , and more than 20 centuries before Setna , the chief architect of the "man queen " and lavish patron of the architect and builder , Queen Hatsu , had been rewarded by
his royal mistress with a statue , there had been placed in the temple of the Thunder God a votive figure of the royal architect , who holds on his knee the tablet on which he has drawn the plan of the sacred edifice , which now yields up its buried ticasures to the explorer . This we may now certainly regard as the most ancient plan of an edifice which is preserved in the annals of architecture .
" R UPTURES , "—WHITE S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS IS the most effective invention for the treatment of Hernia , The use of a steel spring , so hurtful in its ett ' ects , is avoided , a soft bandage being worn round the body , while the requisite resisting power is supplied hy the Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever , titling with so much case and closeness that it cannot be detected . Send for descriptive circular , with testimonials and prices , to J . White and Co . ( Limited ) 328 , Picc ' ididy , London . Do not buy of Chemists , who often sell an l . \ n IATION of our Moc-Main . J . White and Co . have not any agents . —[ ADVT . 1
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lhc late Dante Gabriel Rossetti ' s house , 16 , Chcyne-walk , has passed into the hands of the Rev . H . Hawcis , on a long lease . Messrs . S piers and Pond intend , it is reported , to build a bijou theatre on a portion of the site when
they reconstruct the Cock Tavern , Fleet-street . Mr . James Russell Lowell , the United States Minister to this country , unveiled a memorial bust to bidding , the novelist , at Taunt on on Tuesday , and delivered an address upon the works of that writer .
Bro . Alderman and Sheriff De Keyserwill preside at the 54 th anniversary dinner in aid ol the Butchers ' Charitable Institution , which will take place on Tuesday , the 25 th inst . D-iring the absence of the Queen and Court in Scotland , several alterations and improvements are being carried out at Windsor Castle . Prominent amono- these are the extensive works at the North Terrace . °
The Newcastle-upon-T yne City Council have decided to appoint a committee to confer with the River Tyne Commissioners respecting the practicability of making a ship canal from the Tyne to Solway Firth , with deep cuttings or locks near ilexham .
Lord Bective , M . P ., Prov . G . M . Cumberland and Westmorland , and Lady Bective , signified their intention of being present at a public banquet to Mr . Alderman Whitehead and Mrs . Whitehead at Kendal on Thursday .
Bro . James Terry , P . P . G . S . W . Norths and Hunts , Secretary Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , will work the ceremony of consecration at the Percy Lodge of Instruction , No . 19 S , on the 22 nd inst ., at 7 o'clock , at the Jolly Farmer's , Southgate-road , N . All brethren who can attend are cordially invited .
The penny ( or rather two-cent . ) postage system is to be introduced into the United States on the ist of next month , on and after which date letters will be carried any distance within the Union , from New York to San Francisco , for instance , or from Chicago to New Orleans , for the sum answering to our penny .
The many and slow streams of lava lately issuing from the eastern side of the cone of Vesuvius have accumulated in considerble quantities and formed a small hill on that side of the mountain , entirely changing its contour at that part . The new lava is covered with beautiful white alkaline crystals .
H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught has expressed to Bro . Captain the Earl of Yarborough his great approval of the way the members of the 1 st Lincolnshire Light Horse performed their duty as escort , and the smart and soldierly bearing of the troop during the recent opening of the Park at Grimsby .
A ballot for each degree , we see it stated , is still required in the following Grand Jurisdictions : " Alabama , Colorado , Florida , Indian Territory , Louisiana , Marjland , Montana , Nebraska , New Mexico , South Carolina , " Tennessee , Virginia , Wyoming , Missouri , Kentucky , Ohio , and Illinois . " We are inclined to think the list is too large . Certainly the growing and correct custom is to have but a single ballot for the three degrees . —Keystone .
Bro . Jas . Terry , P . M ., Secretary Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , on the 24 th ult . rehearsed the ceremonies of consecration and installation before a very appreciative gathering of the Craft at the Yarborough Lodge , No . 244 , in the Masonic Temple , Jersey , and on
the 29 th ult ., at the Royal Sussex Chapter , meeting in the same place , Bro . Terry favoured the chapter with a splendid rendeting of the ceremony of exaltation , there being two candidates , and at the conclusion of the work Bro . Terry was unanimously elected an honorary member of the Royal Sussex Chapter .
Our esteemed contemporary the Keystone has fallen into the error of calling Lord Carnarvon " Praviniial Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England . " There is no such title , though there are Grand Masters of / rovinccs under the Grand Lodge of England . Lord Carnarvon is Pro Grand Master ( taking the prefix Most Worshi pful , the same as the Giand Master ) , and acts in the absence of the Grand Master , and is not to be confounded with the
Deputy Grand Master . Concerning the title , " Kenning ' s Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry " says : " Pro Grand Master . An office peculiar to the English s \ stem . It was first created in 1782 , and is called into activity when a Prince of the Blood Royal is Grand Master , and only then . " We trust our confrere will pardon our correction of his pardonable mistake . We have known more than one English Mason who has fallen into the same error .
We are glad to publish the following , taken from the columns of an evening contemporary , as another illustration of the spirited management of the "Old Drury " under the Iessecship of Bro . Augustus Harris : " A praiseworthily emphatic announcement has been made by the manager of Drury-lane Theatre , to the effect that the sale of programmes is in future prohib . ted in his establishment .
Hitherto notices to the effect that « No Fees ' are to be inflicted upon visitors to many of the London theatres have been issued ; but , in defiance of this loosely-worded edict , black mail has been generally levied by the attendants who show the audience to their seats and attend them in the cloak room . Mr . Harris has , however , given strict orders that the attendants in the front of his house aie to receive
no donations ; and if the habitues of Drury-lane only second the manager's efforts , the system , which is not on y unfair , but irritating as well , will speedily come to an end . Other managers , it is to be hoped , will follow Mr . Harris ' s energetic example , and let their servants know that any one of them found guilty of accepting gratuities will be dismissed
the service . The managers of theatres , it is to be presumed , pay their employes fair wages for their services , and do not desire the public to contribute thus , as it were , surreptitiously to their support ; and it the repiehmsible habit ceases to exist in the ' National' Theatre , as a matter of precedent it will rapidly cease in other theatres as well . "
MADAME TUSSACD ANn SON ' S IIXIIIIIITIO . V . —Portrait Models of rrince Edward of Saxe-W . imar , the Cointc de Paris , late Comte de Chambord , and M . Waddm t < , n . Cosily I ourt IJr sses from the first Parisian houses . Also Portrait Model of Jamis Carey the Informer . Captain Webb ( taken from lifci . Admission 19 . lixtra rooms fid . Open from 10 till 10 . — [ AUVT , ]