Masonic And General Tidings.

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS .

Bro . Baron de Ferrieres , M . P ., Bro . the Lord Alayor , Bro . Sir Thomas Brassey , Bro . Sir G . Wolseley , Bro . the Marquis of Hamilton , and Bro . the Earl of Derby were amongst the very large company at the Countess of Granville ' s reception on Saturday at the Foreign Ofiice .

The Prince of VVales , M . W . G . M ., after dining xvith Mr . Gladstone , honoured Lady Granville xvith his company ' . Bro . the Duke of St . Alban ' s yacht Ceres , in entering Milford Haven Harbour to land Bro . the Earl of Caxvdor , ran foul of the pier head .

Bro . the Earl of Suftield xvas in waiting on the M . W . G . M ., H . R . H . the Prince of VVales , during his stay at Yarmouth last xveek to open the Alunicipal Buildings . Bro . Capt . Fully xvill take part in the forthcoming camp at Wimbledon . Bro . the Rex * . Main S . A . Walrond , rector of St . Laurence Jexvry , preached a fexv Sunday evenings ago at St . Mary Magdalene , Alunster-square .

Bro . Hodges , of St . Paul ' s Cathedral choir , is VV . M . elect of ' the Orpheus Lodge . Bro . the Rev . Wm . Stainer , brother of the Cathedral organist , is a member of this lodge . Bro . the Rev . J . Harris was on the Committee of the St . John ' s foundation School Festival , celebrated on Wednesday , at Willis ' s rooms , when Sir Stafford Northcote presided .

Bros . Sir John Monckton , President of the Board of General Purposes ; Viscount Holmersdale , P . G . AI . Kent ; and Sir John Ellis , G . J . VV . ; xvere on the platform at a meeting held at Alaidstone , in the Corn Exchange , on the 2 nd inst ., for the purpose of founding a scholarship for the county of Kent , and forxvarding generally the scheme of the Royal College of Alusic . H . R . H . the Duke of Edinburgh , xvho lives near the toxvn , took an active part in the meeting . Nearly £ 1000 xvas promised in the room .

Bro . the Earl of Lathom presented a petition on the first day of the re-assembling of the House of Lords , after the Whitsuntide recess , in favour of the Sunday Closing Bill . Bro . the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe presided on Friday at a meeting of the Conservatives at Alount

Edgcumbe . Bro His Grace the Dukeof St . Albans has spent the Whitsuntide recess , xvith the Duchess , at Bestxvood Lodge , near Nottingham . Arrangements had been made for the ducal party to visit the Duchess ' s seat at Clommel , Ireland , but oxving to the Dublin assassinations these were cancelled .

Bro . Alderman Fowler , M . P ., has gix'en notice in the House of Commons that he xvill ask a question relative to the Transvaal on an early date . Bro . Sir Thomas Brassey , K . C . B ., will probably not seek re-election , as member for Hastings , at the next dissolution of Parliament . Bro . Sir Moses Montefiore gax'e an entertainment to 1000 Jexvish children , in honour of the Queen's

birthday . Bro . Sir Charles Whetham atttended a meeting at Bridport , and spoke in opposition to a proposed line of railxvay to the toxvn . The Home Secretary entertained Bro . the Lord Alayor , Sir John Ellis , G . J . VV . ; Bro . Alderman Fowler , Bro . Sir James Al'Garel Hogg , Bro . Sheriff Sir A . Hanson , f \ nA R .... Tncf , / ... Co \ . t . P fi XV nt thr » ditiinof . rnnm nf fti .. IM \ t \ \ -- ~

.... _ ...., JMa ... V-, * .,., - .. J . -- ., — .. *„ - — __ , .-- * .. House of Commons . Bros , the Duke of Connaught and Lieut .-Gen . Sir Garnet Wolseley xvere amongst the guests of the Secretary of State for War . Bro . A . J . Mclntyre , Q . C , Grand Registrar , and Bro . Sir Thos . Charley xvere the guests of the Attorney-General at the Albion . Bro . Viscount Ebrington , M . P ., was one of the

dinner party at the Duke of Bedford ' s , Eaton-square , on Saturday . The Duchess being Alistress of the Robes , the dinner xvas in honour of the Queen ' s birthday . Bro . Sir Edmund Lechmere , Bart ., M . P ., distributed the prizes in connection xvith St . John's Ambulance Society , at Worcester , last xveek . Bro . the Earl of Rosslyn , P . G . M . Scotland , has arrived at Hamilton-place from Euston Lodge .

H . R . H . the Prince of VVales , M . W . G . M ., at the trooping of the colours on Saturday last—the celebration of the Queen ' s birthday—wore the uniform of the Honourable Artillery Company , of xvhich corps His Royal Highness is Captain-General ; the Duke of Cambridge xvas dressed in the Grenadier Guards , as Colonel ; H . S . H . the Dukeof Teck xvore the uniform of the Post Office Rifles ;

and H . R . H . the Duke of Edinburgh that of the Colonel of 'he First Surrey Artillery Volunteers . Bro . Lieut .-General Sir Garnet VVolseley , Adjutant-General , and Sir A . Herbert , the Quartermaster-General , xvere on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief . The ceremony xvas even more fully attended than usual , oxving , no doubt , to its being the first since the attempt on Her Majesty ' s life . H . R . H . the

Princess of VVales and her three daughters , and the Duchess of Edinburgh and children , xvatched the proceedings from a xvindoxv of the Horse Guards . HOLLOWAY ' PILLS . —Nervous Irritability . —Nopartof the human rnachine requires more constant supervision than the nervous system , ' <» upon it our health — and even life — ilcpenils . These Pills strengthen the nerves , and are the safest general purifers of the

blood , Naxisca , headache , giddiness , numbness , and mental apath y yl . ld to them . They dispatch in a summary manner 'nose distressing dyspeptic symptoms , stomadiic pains , fulness at "ie pit of the stomach , abdominal distension , and regulate alike capricious appetites and confined hoxx-cls—the commonly accompanying signs of defectix-eor diminished nerve tone . Holloxxay ' s rills are particularly recommended to persons of studious and sedentary habits , who gradually fall into a nervous and irritable Nate , unless some such restorative be occasionally taken , —[ ADXT . ]

Masonic And General Tidings.

On I hursday afternoon Bro . J . P . Bryan , a local musical brother of much popularity , xvas installed VV . AI . of the Prince of VVales Lodge , No . 1035 , at the Skelmersdale Hall , Liverpool . Bro . Sir Thomas Charley , Q . C , attended the funeral of the late Lord Justice Holker , at Lytbaro , on Tuesday of last xveek . H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , M . W . G . M ., Bros .

the Duke of St . Albans , the Alarquis of Tweeddale , the Earl of Derby , the Earl of Fife , the Viscount Powerscourt , and Lord Leigh , P . G . AI . Warwickshire , xvere at the State dinner given by the Premier at Doivning-street in honour of the Queen's birthday . Bros , the Marquis of Hamilton , the Earl of Breadalbane , and Lord Kensington , ALP ., P . G . W ., xvcre at the Lord Stewards' State dinner .

Bro . Jas . Batting xx'as , on Saturdav , the 27 th ult ., installed as M . E . Z . of the Koyal Union Chapter , 3 R 2 , at Uxbridge . At a numerously attended meeting of the Langton Lodge of Instruction , 107 , 5 , held at the Alansion House

Restaurant , on Thursday , the ist inst ., a discussion took place as to xvhether the meetings should be adjourned during the summer months , but it xvas ultimately unanimously agreed that the meetings should be held as usual throughout the year .

At the next meeting of the Lix'erpool City Council a proposal xvill be made to accept a tender for the extension of the Walker Art Gallery , at a cost of £ 10 , 307 It is intended to make such arrangements as will prevent the necessity for moving the permanent collection to make room for the autumn exhibitions .

The plants in the Rhododendron Walk , one of the most beautiful retreats in Windsor Great Park , are noxv in full bloom . Lord and Lady Carnarvon hax'e returned to their toxvn house , 43 , Portman-square , from Highclere Castle

A Provincial Grand Lodge of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire xvill be held at Reading on Alonday next , xvhen the appointment and investiture of Provincial Grand Officers xvill take place , and other important business be transacted .

CORRECTION . —In our report of the consecration of the St . Bede's Chapter , at Jarroxv , last xveek , xve stated that Capt . Alalcolm xvas appointed Janitor . It should have been Comp . John Thompson , Janitor , and Comp . VV . A . Alalcolm as S . N . Bro . Arthur B . Hudson , of the Aldersgate Lodge , is one of the three candidates for the appointment

of surveyor to the Court of Lieutenancy , chosen by the committee to be submitted to the Court for final selection . Bro . Hudson is a citizen of the City of London and a liveryman of the Sadlers' Company . Bro . E . Dresser Rogers , C . C , presided on Thursday evening / the ist inst ., at a dinner given by about sixty members of the Cambcnvell Vestry to Air . Fromer , ex-churchwarden .

The employes of Bro . Boord and Son , distillers Bartholomexv-close , celebrated their annual holiday on Saturday , by a dinner at the Old Prince of Orange , Gravesend . Bro . the Rt . Hon . the Lord Mayor xvill preside at the txvelfth annual meeting of the Cabdrivers' Benevolent Association , to be held at the Guildhall Tavern , on Friday evening , the 30 th inst .

The Right Hon . the Iiarl of Clarendon has consented to preside at the annual prize-giving to the Children of the London Orphan Asylum , " to take place on Saturday , July ist next . The installation meeting of the Amity Lodo-e , 171 , xvas held on Tuesday evening , at the Ship , Greenxvich , xvhen Bro . G . T . Goodinge xvas installed W . AL VVe hope to give a full report of the proceedings in our next .

At a meeting of the Mansion House Committee of the Jexvish Sufferers' Relief Fund on Wednesday , it xxas stated that 4310 Jexvish emigrants had been sent to America , and there xvere some 13 , 000 still xvaiting for relief at Brody . Bro . J . D . Allcroft , the patron , has just appointed the Rev . Filmer Sulivan , of Frant ( formerly of Brighton ) , to the living of St . Alattheiv , Baysxvater , the nexv church

having recently been consecrated by the Bishop of London . The old church xvas much decayed and out of repair ; additional land has been bought , and a large , handsome church erected from the design of Air . Johnson , of 9 , Queen Victoria-street / . the xvork being xvell carried out by Messrs . Dove Brothers . The late vicar , Dr . Hunter , xvith xvhom the nexv building originated , did not live to sec it finished and occupy its pulpit , but the xvork xvill be carried on by the nexv vicar . —City Press .

We are asked to state that the Brixton Lodge of Instruction , No . 1049 , meets every Tuesday evening at eight o ' clock , at Bro . Monk's , Prince Regent , Dulwichroad , East Brixton . Hon . Preceptors , Bros . E . A . Francis , 1658 , and Thos . Poore , P . M . and P . / ..

Vice-ChanceHor Hall , who was attacked with paralysis on Friday afternoon , lies at his residence , Baysxvater-hill , in a xveak condition , but , according to the latest reports , is improving . Masonic Gatherings , Wedding Groups , Social Reunions , and Out-door Photography of every kind expeditiously carried out in any part of the country , by Bros . Bedford Lemere , and Co ., Architectural Photographers to

the Queen , 147 , Strand , London . A large collection of photographs on viexv . Catalogues and lists of prices free . —[ ADVT . ] "Spring ' s delights " can only be actually realised by those xvho live in healthy houses , and xvho combine knoxvn sanitary measures for the prevention of such infectious diseases as small pox , scarlet fever , and measles The remedy actually becomes a luxury , xvhen the washing of toilet , bath , and nursery is conducted xvith WRIGHT ' ^ COAL TAR SOAP . Refuse all imitations , xvhich are but dangerous counterfeits . —[ ADVT . 1

Masonic And General Tidings.

The attack of fly xvhich set in last week among the hop plantations in Ken t has abated , though very slightly , The hops continue , however , to groxx-, and the foliage preserves a healthy hue . Miss E . A . Ormerod , F . M . S ., consulting entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society ; has been appointed Special Lecturer on Economic Entomology at the Royal Agricultural College , Cirencester .

The Baroness Burdett Coutts had her first garden party at Holly Lodge this season , on Alonday last , when her ladyship xvas " at home " from four to 7 . 30 . About 500 friends ax-ailed themselves of her ladyship's invitations .

Ihe Chester Musical Festival coninier .: cd in the Cathedral of that city on Wednesday last , when the proceedings opened xvith a performance of Mendelssohn ' s oratoria "Elijah . " The Church Standard gives a portrait , of Bro . the Right Hon . the Lord Alayor , Sir J . XV . Ellis , Bart ., ancl quotes thc article entitled the " Daily Life cf the Lord Alayor . "

Sir Henry Parkes left for Belgium on Fridax-, xvhere a series of public receptions xx ' ill be gix * en in liis honour . He xvill return to London in a few days , but wil ! leave for Australia sooner than he had ori « ina ! lv intended .

Lord Harewood has set on foot a movement to open Hanover-square for the recreation of the children of the district . A preliminary meeting to further this object xvas held at his house in the square on Saturday . We regret to announce the death of the xvife of Bro . the Rev . C . J . Alartyn , Past Grand Chaplain .

Bro . Gladxvell , of the firm of Messrs . Gladivell Brothers , announce the publication of txvo remarkably fine engravings , xvhich , together xvith the original draxvings , " The Lady of the Woods " and ' * The Lord of the Glen , " by J . Alac-Whirter , A . R . A ., are noxv on view at their Fine Art Gallery , 20 and 21 , Gracechurch-street .

Bro . the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor has accepted the presidency of a grand French musical festival and competition , to take place at the Royal Albert Hall on the 20 th and 21 st inst . Chatham is to have a nexv p ier , from the designs of Sir Joseph Bazalgette .

Bro . the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor has signified his xvillingness to visit Bradford on Saturday , the 24 th inst ., and take part in the proceedings in connection xvith the opening of the Technical School . Mr . D . Sherwill has been appointed superintendent of the Royal Forest Hotel , Chingford .

The Annual Printers' Festival is announced lo be held at the Alexandra Palace , on Saturday , the 24 th inst . A good programme of sports has been arranged , the various events being open to anyone employed in a printing , office .

Bro . W . C . Meam xvill be installed' VV . M . of the Royal Forest of Dean Lodge , at Nexvnam , on Wednesday next . The Southgate Lodge of Instruction , No . 19- . 0 , meets at the Railway Hotel , Nexv Southgate , N ., every Tuesday , at 7 . 30 p . m . Bro . H . Sadler , P . AL , is the Instructor .

At Southport on Wednesday Mr . Bamum , the American shoxvman , who has just arrived in England , delivered an address concerning Jumbo . Had he knoxvn , he said , that there xvas such a deep-rooted desire for the creature to remain in England he xvould not have bought it , but he only became axvare of the fact when too late , and xvhen fifty millions of people in America xvere looking for his arrival . Jumbo , however , xvas as happy across the Atlantic

as he was in Regent's Park . No attempt had been made to train it for the ring . It marched at the head of the processions and shoxved no signs of viciousness , but xvas on the contrary , as docile as a lamb . As to the assertion that Jumbo had taken to xvhisky , it xvas utterly ' untrue , not a drop having been given it since it landed . The purchase of the animal had proved abig financial success , and he hoped to be able to make arrangements to bring it in his menagerie next winter .

, in the hot weather the demand for cooling drinks is very great , but it is pleasant to knoxv that the Wenham Lake Ice Company now supply to households , hotels , travelling cars , and steamboats a nexv iced xvater fountain , xvhich , xvhen fitted to a main service filter and charged xvith a fexv pounds of ice daily , xvill keep the household or clubs , or reading-rooms , supplied for a xvhole day xvith pure filtered xvater iced .

PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS . —Pennsylvania Masons are indignant and surprised at the custom in other States of installing officers in public English and French Alasons have the same objections . VVe had supposed it to be an old practice in the East , but Bro . John VV . Simmons , of Nexv York , says he inaugurated it in 1 S 44 , and it seems to have been but rarely practised here before 1 S 57 from xvhich

, we thmk he may be correct . Still , as Bro . Drummond shoxvs , a form of public installations has been given in Alonitor ' s , since Webb ' s of 1 S 05 , and the officers ot the Grand Lodge of Alame xvere installed in public by the Grand Lodn-e of New Hampshire as far bark as 1 S 20 . He also points out that in 1776 , a Alasonic Hall xvas dedicated in London by the Grand Lodof land

ge Eng , in the presence of 160 ladies . But it is xvell to consider if xve may not be in the xvrong . Social meetings may be held in lodge halls xvithout dragging in lod ge ceremonials . The ancient Persians xvere disgusted at seeing the Greeks strip for xvrestling , but the Greeks could not understand their fastidiousness . Perhaps xve should agree xvith the Persians . —Masouic Token .

GREAT J EWEL ROBBERIES . —The public are becomin . ' so accus turned to reading reports of jewel robberies that numbers of the nobility are taking steps to secure llieir valuables from the attack of the modem burglar , and the demand for IXIilner ' s , | cxxtilery Safes is largely on the increase . These ate made to lit in cabinets tu suit

am- kind of xvnod , and are the best and cheapest safeguard agaiixi-t lire ami il . iives . Milner ' s Safe Company ( Limited ., 28 , l- 'iusbury Pavement , li . C , have some hundreds of testimonials from gentlemen xvho have ixlilncr's Jewellery Safes in their possession , and in no inst .. nee have burglars succeeded in opening them . Safes are made sutciallv for Masonic Jewellery , Records . & c . * '