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Reviews.
Reviews .
AMONG THE WELSH HILLS . By M . C . HALIFAX . Groombridge and Sons . We have read this one-volumed story with much pleaurc It is well and gracefully written , and will , we think , s . " many of our readers , who often wish to hear of a J ! j and sound-teaching work of imagination .
Unfortunatel y just now such an " outcome " of trash is rvading tne market , and astounding innocent minds that it becomes often a task of no little delicacy and difficulty to recommend to any one some of the passing and Dressing works of the day , or to commend them to the notice and approval of the serious and the intelligent . But wc have no hesitation in recommending " Among tbe Welsh Hills " to our readers .
REMINISCENCES OF THE WORCESTER LODGE OF FREEMASONS . By . C . C . WHITNEY GRIFFITHS , P . G . S . W . Worcestershire . Published by the Worcester Lodge for presentation only . Wc have read this interesting little work and its supplement , thanks to the kind intermediation of a very worthy brother , with much pleasure . We wish all lodges could
find so intelligent and careful an historian as Bro . Griffiths . It seems that an " Ancient" lodge existed at Worcester about i ? 57 » meeting at the Stonemasons' Arms , but it appears to have become defunct , and the Worcester Lodge , 280 ( modern ) dates from 1790 only . There is in the records of the old Athol Grand
Lodge , at Freemasons' Hal ) , a list of thirty-nine Masons , orig inally belonging to the Ancient Lodge in 1757 , and the lodge is also mentioned in the Athol roll of 1813 , though it is apparently certain lhat the lodge had ceased to meet , and Bro . Griffiths says that there is great difficulty in tracing those thirty-nine names at Worcester . The history of Lodge 280 is the usual normal chequered
history of lodge life and condition in England from 1790 ; and though it has had its times of depression and exaltation it has managed to survive the " encroaching hand of time , " and is now , we understand , a most flourishing lodge . We wish it all success , and we thank Bro . Griffiths for thc very simple yet effective account of lodge beginning and lodge progress which he has tersely and truly told .
A GUIDE TO THE MATRICULATION EXAMINATION . Groombridge and Sons . This is a very useful little Guide Book for those who are seeking admission to or to study at the London University , lt gives them a great deal of valuable information in a condensed form , and at a cheap rate , and we can confidently call the attention of all who arc interested in the subject to it .
MAXIMS AND MISCELLANIES FOR MERCHANTS ANDMEN OFBUSINESS . By HENRY TURNER . Wm . Tegg and Co ., Pancras-lane . Second Edition . We do not wonder that this well written pamphlet has reached a second edition , as it is both very interesting and very readable . The advice it tenders may be perused and digested by all engaged in business with advantage to
themselves , to thc due and honest course of trade , and , above all , to their customers . All may profit by it , old and young , employer and employed , the mature man of business aud the young clerk , and we have no hesitation in commending it to the favourable consideration of all of our brethren occupied with commerce , or devoted to business and trade .
MASONIC MUSIC . BEHOLD HOW GOOD A THING IT IS . A Masonic Anthem . By Bro . EDWIN J . CROW . George Kenning , 198 , Fleet-street . We call the attention of the musical brethren of our lodges to this new Masonic anthem . V / e arc all by this time favourable to the introduction of Masonic music in our ceremonies . This anthem tends to supply a want and deserves all encouragement .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .
The general Committee of this Institution was held last Saturday , at Freemasons' Hall , Bro . W . Roebuck in the chair . There were also present Bros . H . Browse , John Boyd , Herbeit Dicketts , J . G . Chancellor , W . F . C . Moutrie , Don .
M . Dewar , Geo . J . Row , A Durrant , C G . Rushworth , W , Hyde-Pullen , Charles Horsley , S . Rosenthal , F . Adlard , George Motion , and F . Binckes , Secretary , H . Massey , ( Freemason ) . I he minutes of the previous meetings of thc various Committees were first read and confirmed . In the House Committee ' s minutes was the report that there was not a
single case of illness in the institution . The Audit Committee ' s report was accepted , and the chairman was authorised to sign cheques for accounts . It was referred to the House Committee to recommend the admission of a boy of the late Bro . Charles Jardine on the payment of 170 guineas by the Mansion House Princess Alice Committee . I hree petitions were received and the candidates placed the
° n list for election in -pril . One outfit was granted to a boy who had left the Institution and obtained a situation , and £ 250 was ordered to be transferred from the general to thc sustentation account . A vote 0 f thanks was passed to Bro . John Caldwell for is donation of £ 100 to this Institution on his resignation of health "' BUr"S L '" IS' * ' "' ' ° n account o £ failing The Committee then adjourned .
Multum In Parbo; Or Masonic Notes And Queries.
Multum in Parbo ; or Masonic Notes and Queries .
THE YORK RITE . I have read a letter of Bro . Mackey in relation to some remarks of Bro . W . J . Hughan , anent this " vexata qusestio , " in the Masonic Newspaper of October 19 th , and I am glad to have the opportunity of supporting Bro . Hughan ' s views on thc subject . Like to himself , I am unable to say w ! iat is the " York Rite ; " as the name is
claimed by two conflicting systems—a High Grade system , and a Craft system . All that we know of thc " York " Grand Lodge is that it had a system of Three Degrees and the Royal Arch , and that late on in the last century the Grand Secretary seems to have added to it , sanctioned no doubt by the Grand Lodge itself , a Templar Grade ! But I know of no
real authority for the term " York Rite " 111 either category , and the Athol Masons , whatever Dermott might choi-si to say , had nothing to do with York I I confess that 1 am astonished , at this period of discussion and investigation , to find my very able Bro . Mackey ignoring what the researches of Bro . Hughan and others have made clear as to the position and history of the four Grand Lodges , of nearly ,
at one time , " concurrent jurisdiction . " Bro . Mackey ' s statement that the name of the " York Rite " is given to the system of the Grand Lodge of 1717 is certainly very startling in its " naked simplicity , " and it is quite new to me , as it-must be to Bro . Hughan . That a so-called " York Rite" did exist , and was imported into America , and that Masonic writers have loosely talked of the
" York Rite" I do not deny , but like Bro . Hughan I do not profess to know what it " is . " With respect to the hard words Bro . Mackey uses in respect of Bros . Desaguliers and Anderson , I cannot agree either in their justice or their accuracy . It is quite clear to me that the Third Degree existed anterior to Desagulicr's and Anderson ' s time , and that all they did , was to methodize ancient
formulae 1 It is true that we find no trace of the Third Degree , " nominatim , " in the earlier records , quoted by Bro . D . Murray Lyon for instance , but that fact by itself does not necessarily disprove the existence of the Third Degree for the following reasons . Firstly , the brevity of the minutes . Secondly , the objection to publish the " aporreta , " and thirdly the fact , that not only was the Third Degree alone given at York in the annual
grand assembly or Grand Lodge , but that " Master Masons Lodges . " until a comparatively late period in the list century , were a separate institution and probably kept no minutes at all . I then quite agre j with Bro . Hughan in refusing to give fo our English . system ti- name of the " York Rite , " but prefer to call it , simply the " English Rite , " if it is needful to use such an appellation . Properly it is simply the system of the English Grand Lodge . MASONIC STUDENT .
Metropolitan Masonic Benevolent Association.
METROPOLITAN MASONIC BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION .
The usual meeting of the Metropolitan Lodge of Instruction , No . 1056 , was held at the Portugal Hotel , 155 , Fleet-street , E . C , on Friday , the ist instant . After the closing of the lodge of instruction , the members of the Metropolitan Masonic Benevolent Association , which was formed about three years since , by the members of the
lodge , held their third annual meeting , when Bro . J . R . Stacey , the Preceptor of the lodge , was re-appointed President of the Association , Bro . While , Vice-President and Treas . ; Bro . W . W . Snelling , Hon . Sec ; and Bros . Squirrell , Skelton , Webb , Abell , Denison , Larchin , Brock , Gush , Caton , and Rowlands , the Committee . The Association during the three years of its existence
had received thc sum of £ 573 13 s . 6 d ., which had been expended in purchasing for its members 112 Life Subscriberships or Life Governorships of the three Masonic Charities . Forty-two members had become Life Governors of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Association , Male Fund , twenty-four Life Governors of the Widow's Fund , fifteen Life Subscribers of the Boys' School , and nineteen Life
Subscribers of the Girls' Scbool , and twelve members had not yet determined to which fund they would subscribe The expenses of printing , postages , Ire ., during the three years amounted to £ 9 4 s . 2 d . The balance-sheet of the Association having been read , Bros . Leggott , Morgan , Daniel , and Garratt were appointed Auditors , and a vote of thanks was passed to the officers for their services during the year .
By means of this Association any brother , lady , or lewis may become a Life Governor of any of our Masonic Charities by payment of the small sum of is . per week . Members may join at any time without payment of back subscriptions , and the honorary Secretary , Bro . W . W . Snelling , will forward a prospectus of the Association , post free to any one applying for same at the offices of the Association , 15 s , Fleet-street , E . C .
The Sydney International Exhibition is to be held next August under the auspices of the New South Wales Agricultural Society , and will take place in the hall at Prince Alfred Paik . Medals and certificates are to be awarded in nine sections , including the fine arts ,
apparatus of the liberal arts , furniture and domestic articles , clothing , products of mining industry , forestry , chemicals , & c-, apparatus and processes of the common arts , food , artisans' sections , and school work . Melbourne follows suit with an International Exhibition in 1880 , and a similar display is projected by Queensland in 1881 .
According to recently published statistics there are more deaf mutes , idiots , and lunatics in Switzerland , in proportion to the population , and fewer people are afflicted with blindness , than in any other European country
Notes On Art &C,
NOTES ON ART & c ,
The Queen , in recognition ot the set vices of the late Sir Thomas Biddulph , has decided to erect a statue to his memory at the west of Balmoral Castle . A Statue is to be erected to Lord Beaconsfield at Hong Kong . Falissy , the Potter , is to be commemorated by
a statue to be erected near the Bois de Boulogne , at the expense of the Municipality of Paris . Palissy lived in the Rue Taranne during bis residence in the French capital , but the reason for the present site for the statue being chosen is that he is supposed to have worked at the decorations of the Ch & teau de Madrid , constructed in the vicinity by Francis I .
The Liverpool Autumn Art Exhibition has proved very successful this year . Up to the end ofthe first fortnight in October , 27 , 527 persons had visited the Exhibition against 25 , 937 at the same period of last year , while 171 pictures had been sold , realising a sum of £ 3 , 028 . THE AMEER . —It is said that Shere Ali has some pretensions to be a man of letters , as he has translated
" Robinson Crusoe" from the Urdu into Persian . — Academy . Paris letters announce the death there of the Australian sculptor , Summers . Dr . Robert Blakey , the author of several works on metaphysical and other subjects , and nf some volumes on angling and sporting topics , has died in his eighty-fourth
year . He was a contributor to the Encyclopedia Bntannica . In 18 35 he was appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in Queen ' s College , Belfast , but relinquished this post on account of ill-health . Dr . Blakey was thirty years ago editor of the Northern Liberator , published at Newcastle-on-Tyne . MAI . Erckmann-Chatrian have written the
libretto of an opera , La Tavcrne des Trabans , ( or the Paris Lyrique . M . Henri Marechal furnishes the music . M . Gounod is also busy with his new opera , Maitre Pierre , founded on the story of Abelard and Heloise . The members of the Badsworth Hunt have recently placed a stained glass window at the cast end of of" Darrington Church , " Yorkshire , in memory of the late
Mr . Barton , of Stapleton Park , in that parish , who was master of the hunt from 186 9 until his sudden death in the hunting field on March 20 , 1876 . The window , which is a five-light one iu the Perpendicular style , has been execute il from designs by Mr . A . N . Bodlcy . The inscription below is : — "To the glory of God and in memory of John Hope Barton , this window is placed , in the year ef our Lord i 8 ; 8 , by the members of the Bosworth Hunt , of
which he was master . " Sanskrit is in future to be accepted instead of Greek for ihe Previous Examination at Cambridge in the case of undergraduates from Eastern countries . These have hitherto lost much time in learning Greek after coming to Cambridge , and so have hindered their University course only to acquire the rudiments of a language far less useful to them subsequently than Sanskrit . —Athenoeum .
Within the last few days the cope stone of a Roman tomb , of pure white Italian marble , and of about the date of the fourth century , has been discovered on the north side of the churchyard of St . Helen ' s , Bishopsgate , about 4 ft . below the surface . Within this structure there is a place for a cinerary urn , and near to it a Roman coin was found . It is said this remarkable relic will be
presented to the Guildhall Museum . Professor Nordenskiold has succeeded in the first part of his attempt to sail round Siberia to China and Japan . He has doubled Cape Choljuskin , which has hitherto proved an insurmountable obstacle to Arctic travel , lers , and when last heard of was well on his way towards Behring Straits , hoping to make the passage without
being obliged to winter in the Arctic regions . Diamond digging at the Dutoitspan fields has been unusually successful of late , and , besides several beautiful stones of 50 carats each , a large diamond , weighing 244 carats , was recently picked upon a claim belonging to a Captain Jones . The " water" of the stone is not of the first quality , being of a light " off-colour , " but the
gem is free from flaw , and will cut very full . This is the second largest diamond ever found in South Africa , the " Spalding" diamond , found in the river diggings some years ago , and weighing 288 J carats , being the largest . The Bavarian Government has decided on establishing a central meteorological bureau at Munich , and 34 observation stations at various points all over the
kingdom . Besides attending to matters connected with the general advancement of meteorological science , the observers in charge of those stations will be directed to pay particular attention to the phenomena likely to have a special interest for agriculture , forestry , and hygiene . The central station at Munich , is already in operation , and has been placed under the direction of Dr . Wilhelm Bezold , the
Professor of Physics at the Royal Technical School . The selection of the provincial stations and observers is almost completed , and will be very shortly announced . It is intended that experimental observation's should be made at all the stations during November and Decemherin order to accustom the observers to their work . With the New Year the regular work of systematic observations will
commence . On the site of the lacustrine village near Estavayer , laid bare by the lowering of the waters of the lak e of NeufchAtel , have been found amber ornaments belonging to the age of stone and a beautiful golden buckle of th age of bronze . Four canoes , besides the one feund last week , are visible .
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Reviews.
Reviews .
AMONG THE WELSH HILLS . By M . C . HALIFAX . Groombridge and Sons . We have read this one-volumed story with much pleaurc It is well and gracefully written , and will , we think , s . " many of our readers , who often wish to hear of a J ! j and sound-teaching work of imagination .
Unfortunatel y just now such an " outcome " of trash is rvading tne market , and astounding innocent minds that it becomes often a task of no little delicacy and difficulty to recommend to any one some of the passing and Dressing works of the day , or to commend them to the notice and approval of the serious and the intelligent . But wc have no hesitation in recommending " Among tbe Welsh Hills " to our readers .
REMINISCENCES OF THE WORCESTER LODGE OF FREEMASONS . By . C . C . WHITNEY GRIFFITHS , P . G . S . W . Worcestershire . Published by the Worcester Lodge for presentation only . Wc have read this interesting little work and its supplement , thanks to the kind intermediation of a very worthy brother , with much pleasure . We wish all lodges could
find so intelligent and careful an historian as Bro . Griffiths . It seems that an " Ancient" lodge existed at Worcester about i ? 57 » meeting at the Stonemasons' Arms , but it appears to have become defunct , and the Worcester Lodge , 280 ( modern ) dates from 1790 only . There is in the records of the old Athol Grand
Lodge , at Freemasons' Hal ) , a list of thirty-nine Masons , orig inally belonging to the Ancient Lodge in 1757 , and the lodge is also mentioned in the Athol roll of 1813 , though it is apparently certain lhat the lodge had ceased to meet , and Bro . Griffiths says that there is great difficulty in tracing those thirty-nine names at Worcester . The history of Lodge 280 is the usual normal chequered
history of lodge life and condition in England from 1790 ; and though it has had its times of depression and exaltation it has managed to survive the " encroaching hand of time , " and is now , we understand , a most flourishing lodge . We wish it all success , and we thank Bro . Griffiths for thc very simple yet effective account of lodge beginning and lodge progress which he has tersely and truly told .
A GUIDE TO THE MATRICULATION EXAMINATION . Groombridge and Sons . This is a very useful little Guide Book for those who are seeking admission to or to study at the London University , lt gives them a great deal of valuable information in a condensed form , and at a cheap rate , and we can confidently call the attention of all who arc interested in the subject to it .
MAXIMS AND MISCELLANIES FOR MERCHANTS ANDMEN OFBUSINESS . By HENRY TURNER . Wm . Tegg and Co ., Pancras-lane . Second Edition . We do not wonder that this well written pamphlet has reached a second edition , as it is both very interesting and very readable . The advice it tenders may be perused and digested by all engaged in business with advantage to
themselves , to thc due and honest course of trade , and , above all , to their customers . All may profit by it , old and young , employer and employed , the mature man of business aud the young clerk , and we have no hesitation in commending it to the favourable consideration of all of our brethren occupied with commerce , or devoted to business and trade .
MASONIC MUSIC . BEHOLD HOW GOOD A THING IT IS . A Masonic Anthem . By Bro . EDWIN J . CROW . George Kenning , 198 , Fleet-street . We call the attention of the musical brethren of our lodges to this new Masonic anthem . V / e arc all by this time favourable to the introduction of Masonic music in our ceremonies . This anthem tends to supply a want and deserves all encouragement .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .
The general Committee of this Institution was held last Saturday , at Freemasons' Hall , Bro . W . Roebuck in the chair . There were also present Bros . H . Browse , John Boyd , Herbeit Dicketts , J . G . Chancellor , W . F . C . Moutrie , Don .
M . Dewar , Geo . J . Row , A Durrant , C G . Rushworth , W , Hyde-Pullen , Charles Horsley , S . Rosenthal , F . Adlard , George Motion , and F . Binckes , Secretary , H . Massey , ( Freemason ) . I he minutes of the previous meetings of thc various Committees were first read and confirmed . In the House Committee ' s minutes was the report that there was not a
single case of illness in the institution . The Audit Committee ' s report was accepted , and the chairman was authorised to sign cheques for accounts . It was referred to the House Committee to recommend the admission of a boy of the late Bro . Charles Jardine on the payment of 170 guineas by the Mansion House Princess Alice Committee . I hree petitions were received and the candidates placed the
° n list for election in -pril . One outfit was granted to a boy who had left the Institution and obtained a situation , and £ 250 was ordered to be transferred from the general to thc sustentation account . A vote 0 f thanks was passed to Bro . John Caldwell for is donation of £ 100 to this Institution on his resignation of health "' BUr"S L '" IS' * ' "' ' ° n account o £ failing The Committee then adjourned .
Multum In Parbo; Or Masonic Notes And Queries.
Multum in Parbo ; or Masonic Notes and Queries .
THE YORK RITE . I have read a letter of Bro . Mackey in relation to some remarks of Bro . W . J . Hughan , anent this " vexata qusestio , " in the Masonic Newspaper of October 19 th , and I am glad to have the opportunity of supporting Bro . Hughan ' s views on thc subject . Like to himself , I am unable to say w ! iat is the " York Rite ; " as the name is
claimed by two conflicting systems—a High Grade system , and a Craft system . All that we know of thc " York " Grand Lodge is that it had a system of Three Degrees and the Royal Arch , and that late on in the last century the Grand Secretary seems to have added to it , sanctioned no doubt by the Grand Lodge itself , a Templar Grade ! But I know of no
real authority for the term " York Rite " 111 either category , and the Athol Masons , whatever Dermott might choi-si to say , had nothing to do with York I I confess that 1 am astonished , at this period of discussion and investigation , to find my very able Bro . Mackey ignoring what the researches of Bro . Hughan and others have made clear as to the position and history of the four Grand Lodges , of nearly ,
at one time , " concurrent jurisdiction . " Bro . Mackey ' s statement that the name of the " York Rite " is given to the system of the Grand Lodge of 1717 is certainly very startling in its " naked simplicity , " and it is quite new to me , as it-must be to Bro . Hughan . That a so-called " York Rite" did exist , and was imported into America , and that Masonic writers have loosely talked of the
" York Rite" I do not deny , but like Bro . Hughan I do not profess to know what it " is . " With respect to the hard words Bro . Mackey uses in respect of Bros . Desaguliers and Anderson , I cannot agree either in their justice or their accuracy . It is quite clear to me that the Third Degree existed anterior to Desagulicr's and Anderson ' s time , and that all they did , was to methodize ancient
formulae 1 It is true that we find no trace of the Third Degree , " nominatim , " in the earlier records , quoted by Bro . D . Murray Lyon for instance , but that fact by itself does not necessarily disprove the existence of the Third Degree for the following reasons . Firstly , the brevity of the minutes . Secondly , the objection to publish the " aporreta , " and thirdly the fact , that not only was the Third Degree alone given at York in the annual
grand assembly or Grand Lodge , but that " Master Masons Lodges . " until a comparatively late period in the list century , were a separate institution and probably kept no minutes at all . I then quite agre j with Bro . Hughan in refusing to give fo our English . system ti- name of the " York Rite , " but prefer to call it , simply the " English Rite , " if it is needful to use such an appellation . Properly it is simply the system of the English Grand Lodge . MASONIC STUDENT .
Metropolitan Masonic Benevolent Association.
METROPOLITAN MASONIC BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION .
The usual meeting of the Metropolitan Lodge of Instruction , No . 1056 , was held at the Portugal Hotel , 155 , Fleet-street , E . C , on Friday , the ist instant . After the closing of the lodge of instruction , the members of the Metropolitan Masonic Benevolent Association , which was formed about three years since , by the members of the
lodge , held their third annual meeting , when Bro . J . R . Stacey , the Preceptor of the lodge , was re-appointed President of the Association , Bro . While , Vice-President and Treas . ; Bro . W . W . Snelling , Hon . Sec ; and Bros . Squirrell , Skelton , Webb , Abell , Denison , Larchin , Brock , Gush , Caton , and Rowlands , the Committee . The Association during the three years of its existence
had received thc sum of £ 573 13 s . 6 d ., which had been expended in purchasing for its members 112 Life Subscriberships or Life Governorships of the three Masonic Charities . Forty-two members had become Life Governors of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Association , Male Fund , twenty-four Life Governors of the Widow's Fund , fifteen Life Subscribers of the Boys' School , and nineteen Life
Subscribers of the Girls' Scbool , and twelve members had not yet determined to which fund they would subscribe The expenses of printing , postages , Ire ., during the three years amounted to £ 9 4 s . 2 d . The balance-sheet of the Association having been read , Bros . Leggott , Morgan , Daniel , and Garratt were appointed Auditors , and a vote of thanks was passed to the officers for their services during the year .
By means of this Association any brother , lady , or lewis may become a Life Governor of any of our Masonic Charities by payment of the small sum of is . per week . Members may join at any time without payment of back subscriptions , and the honorary Secretary , Bro . W . W . Snelling , will forward a prospectus of the Association , post free to any one applying for same at the offices of the Association , 15 s , Fleet-street , E . C .
The Sydney International Exhibition is to be held next August under the auspices of the New South Wales Agricultural Society , and will take place in the hall at Prince Alfred Paik . Medals and certificates are to be awarded in nine sections , including the fine arts ,
apparatus of the liberal arts , furniture and domestic articles , clothing , products of mining industry , forestry , chemicals , & c-, apparatus and processes of the common arts , food , artisans' sections , and school work . Melbourne follows suit with an International Exhibition in 1880 , and a similar display is projected by Queensland in 1881 .
According to recently published statistics there are more deaf mutes , idiots , and lunatics in Switzerland , in proportion to the population , and fewer people are afflicted with blindness , than in any other European country
Notes On Art &C,
NOTES ON ART & c ,
The Queen , in recognition ot the set vices of the late Sir Thomas Biddulph , has decided to erect a statue to his memory at the west of Balmoral Castle . A Statue is to be erected to Lord Beaconsfield at Hong Kong . Falissy , the Potter , is to be commemorated by
a statue to be erected near the Bois de Boulogne , at the expense of the Municipality of Paris . Palissy lived in the Rue Taranne during bis residence in the French capital , but the reason for the present site for the statue being chosen is that he is supposed to have worked at the decorations of the Ch & teau de Madrid , constructed in the vicinity by Francis I .
The Liverpool Autumn Art Exhibition has proved very successful this year . Up to the end ofthe first fortnight in October , 27 , 527 persons had visited the Exhibition against 25 , 937 at the same period of last year , while 171 pictures had been sold , realising a sum of £ 3 , 028 . THE AMEER . —It is said that Shere Ali has some pretensions to be a man of letters , as he has translated
" Robinson Crusoe" from the Urdu into Persian . — Academy . Paris letters announce the death there of the Australian sculptor , Summers . Dr . Robert Blakey , the author of several works on metaphysical and other subjects , and nf some volumes on angling and sporting topics , has died in his eighty-fourth
year . He was a contributor to the Encyclopedia Bntannica . In 18 35 he was appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in Queen ' s College , Belfast , but relinquished this post on account of ill-health . Dr . Blakey was thirty years ago editor of the Northern Liberator , published at Newcastle-on-Tyne . MAI . Erckmann-Chatrian have written the
libretto of an opera , La Tavcrne des Trabans , ( or the Paris Lyrique . M . Henri Marechal furnishes the music . M . Gounod is also busy with his new opera , Maitre Pierre , founded on the story of Abelard and Heloise . The members of the Badsworth Hunt have recently placed a stained glass window at the cast end of of" Darrington Church , " Yorkshire , in memory of the late
Mr . Barton , of Stapleton Park , in that parish , who was master of the hunt from 186 9 until his sudden death in the hunting field on March 20 , 1876 . The window , which is a five-light one iu the Perpendicular style , has been execute il from designs by Mr . A . N . Bodlcy . The inscription below is : — "To the glory of God and in memory of John Hope Barton , this window is placed , in the year ef our Lord i 8 ; 8 , by the members of the Bosworth Hunt , of
which he was master . " Sanskrit is in future to be accepted instead of Greek for ihe Previous Examination at Cambridge in the case of undergraduates from Eastern countries . These have hitherto lost much time in learning Greek after coming to Cambridge , and so have hindered their University course only to acquire the rudiments of a language far less useful to them subsequently than Sanskrit . —Athenoeum .
Within the last few days the cope stone of a Roman tomb , of pure white Italian marble , and of about the date of the fourth century , has been discovered on the north side of the churchyard of St . Helen ' s , Bishopsgate , about 4 ft . below the surface . Within this structure there is a place for a cinerary urn , and near to it a Roman coin was found . It is said this remarkable relic will be
presented to the Guildhall Museum . Professor Nordenskiold has succeeded in the first part of his attempt to sail round Siberia to China and Japan . He has doubled Cape Choljuskin , which has hitherto proved an insurmountable obstacle to Arctic travel , lers , and when last heard of was well on his way towards Behring Straits , hoping to make the passage without
being obliged to winter in the Arctic regions . Diamond digging at the Dutoitspan fields has been unusually successful of late , and , besides several beautiful stones of 50 carats each , a large diamond , weighing 244 carats , was recently picked upon a claim belonging to a Captain Jones . The " water" of the stone is not of the first quality , being of a light " off-colour , " but the
gem is free from flaw , and will cut very full . This is the second largest diamond ever found in South Africa , the " Spalding" diamond , found in the river diggings some years ago , and weighing 288 J carats , being the largest . The Bavarian Government has decided on establishing a central meteorological bureau at Munich , and 34 observation stations at various points all over the
kingdom . Besides attending to matters connected with the general advancement of meteorological science , the observers in charge of those stations will be directed to pay particular attention to the phenomena likely to have a special interest for agriculture , forestry , and hygiene . The central station at Munich , is already in operation , and has been placed under the direction of Dr . Wilhelm Bezold , the
Professor of Physics at the Royal Technical School . The selection of the provincial stations and observers is almost completed , and will be very shortly announced . It is intended that experimental observation's should be made at all the stations during November and Decemherin order to accustom the observers to their work . With the New Year the regular work of systematic observations will
commence . On the site of the lacustrine village near Estavayer , laid bare by the lowering of the waters of the lak e of NeufchAtel , have been found amber ornaments belonging to the age of stone and a beautiful golden buckle of th age of bronze . Four canoes , besides the one feund last week , are visible .