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Masonic Tidings.
Masonic Tidings .
We are informed that the next meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Cornwall will take place at Liskeard some time in December . Bro . W . T . Buck was installed W . M . of the Sub-Urban Lodge , 1 7 , on Friday , the 10 th inst ., at the Abercorn Arms Hotel , Great Stanmorc . Her Imperial Highness the Duchcssof Edinburgh ,
accompanying her husband on his tour of inspection as Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserve , visited Fowey last week . The Duchess was shown over Place Castle and the grand old parish church of St . Fimbarrus , which she told the vicar was the most interesting edifice she had seen on her tour . Her Imperial Highness has been graciously pleased to accept a copy of Bro . Emra Holmes' pamphlet
on Fowey : " An Unknown Watering Place , and also a copy of " Amabel Vaughan . " A sketch of Bro . Holmes appears in the coming number of the "Biograph . " The members of the Percy Lodge of Instruction have accepted an invitation from the members of the West Smithfield Lodge of Instruction to work the Fifteen Sections at the Cathedral Hotel , St . Paul ' s , E . C , on
Monday , the 27 th inst . The Montague Guest Lodge , No . 1900 , will be consecrated by the V . W . Bro . Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Sec , on Wednesday , the Gth of July next , at the Inns of Court Hotel , Lincoln ' s-Inn-Fields , W . C . Bro . Sir Thomas Brasse } ' , M . P ., the Commandant of the Liverpool Brigade of the Naval Artillery
Volunteers , presented a challenge cup which was sailed for by the cutters of the brigade in the Menai States , on Tuesday last , Bogr . or , Liverpool , Carnarvon , and Southport sending crews . The Bognor crew won the cup . Bro . the Earl of Donoughmore will preside at the annual dinner of the Oxford Canning Club , which will be held at Oxford , on Saturday , the iSth inst .
Bro . James H . Windrim , the architect of Philadelphia ' s magnificent Masonic Temple , and P . M . of Philadelphia Lodge , No . 72 , is President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects . Bro . A . Akers-Douglas , M . P ., P . Prov . G . S . W . Kent , P . Prov . Reg . Oxon , P . M . 47 S , 1063 , 150 G , and 172 s ; , P . Z . 111 S , presided at the annual festival of the
Broadstairs Lodge of Instruction , held at the Railway Tavern , Broadstairs , on Tuesday , the 24 th ult . The Prince of Wales , as the highest officer in Templarism , intends , according to the "Masonic Review , " to confer on President Garfield the Grand Cross of the Temple . Only one Knight in the United States is known to have that Order , namely , M . Em . Sir John Q . A . Fcllowcs , of New Orleans , who was Grand Master of the
United States at the time it was conferred . The Grand Lodge of Utah , at its organization in 1 S 72 , had a membership of 125 , confined to threelodges . Now it has seven lodges and 392 members , with a large and valuable library . A new lodge has been created at Naples , under the title Giuseppe Mazzoni ; another , called Essenica , has been formed at Volterra .
Bro . H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught will open the new wing of the Royal Hospital for Incurables , West Hill , Putney Heath , on Saturday , July iGth , instead of July 9 th , as originally stated , it being postponed in consequence of the Royal Volunteer Review being fixed for that
date . The Grand Orient of Flaly has opened a subscription to erect , in the cemetery at Rome , a monument designed to perpetuate the memory of its former Grand Masters .
Bro . P . do Keyser , C . C ., will preside at the annual dinner of the London Coffee and Eating House Keepers' Benevolent Association , at the Cannon-street Hotel , on Tuesday , June 14 th . Bro . Diehl , Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Utah , was , on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday , presented with a handsome gold watch and chain by some of
the brethren . Bro . Emerson , the Grand Master , made the presentation in an assembly of brethren and ladies . The appearance of a second edition of "The Cosmopolitan ; or , Masonic Calendar , Diary , and Pocket Book " for 1 SS 1 , just issued by George Kenning , of Great Queen-street , affords perhaps a sufficient indication that this little remembrancer is appreciated by the Fraternity
for whose use it is specially designed . It comprises , besides the usual pocket book information , lists cf odges , with dates ( ancient and modern ) , chapters , K . T . Preceptories , names of officers at home and abroad , and particilars of every grand Masonic body throughout the globe . —Daily A ' cws . Bro . John W . Brown , the talented editor of the
"Voiceof Masonry , " has received the appointment from the M . W . Grand blaster of Chairman of the Committceon Masonic Correspondence for the Grand Lodge of Illinois . The compliment is worthily bestowed , and we congratulate Bro . Brown upon his preferment . A bazaar will be held in Bagshot Park , the residence of Bro . the Duke of Connaught , on the nth and
13 th inst ., under the immediate patronage of Her Majesty the Queen , in aid of the restoration of Bagshot Church . Bro . Count Louis Pianciam has been appointed Lieutenant Grand Commander ol the Supreme Council of Italy , in the place of Bro . Mauro Macchi .
Bro . J . D . Allcroft ( Treasurer ) attended a Court of Assistants of the Sons of the Clergy held on Saturday last at the Corporation House , Uloomsbury-place . Pennsylvania will celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniveisary of its Grand Lodge on St . John ' s Day , 1 SS 2 .
Bro . J . B . Martin , M . P ., presided at amccling of Confederate bondholders , held at the Cannon-street Hotel . In the United Stales of America there are nearly Go , ooo Knights Templar . Massachusetts has a Grand Lodge library with 2250 bound volumes and 2000 pamphlets .
Masonic Tidings.
The Grand Lodge of Sweden has had two lithographic views of the Masonic Temple—exterior and interior—at Stockholm , printed , and copies of them , and also of a chromo-lithographic portrait of His Majesty Oscar II ., Grand Master of Sweden , presented to the Grand
Lodge of Scotland and other Grand Lodges with which it is in fraternal intercourse . Bro . Col . Sir Francis Burdett , Bart ., Prov . G . Master of Middlesex , will be away from his residence at Richmond until the commencement of next month .
Bro . His Royal Highness Prince Leopold has contributed £ 5 to the funds of the Hackney and Homerton Working Men ' s Club and Reading Room . Bros . Sir Julius Benedict and Sir Michael Costa conducted at the last concert of the season of the Sacred
Harmonic Society last night , at St . James ' s Hall , when Benedict ' s cantata , "St . Cecilia , " and Rossini's "Stabat Mater " were given . Bro . Sir Knight Hodg kin will be installed Eminent Preceptor of the Black Prince Preceptory , at the Masonic Hall , Canterbury , on Tuesday next .
Bro . H . R . H . Prince Leopold will take his seat in the House ol Lords on the 20 th inst . Bro . T . Beard , C . C ., Mrs . Beard , and family are amongst the latest arrivals at Bournemouth . Comp . T . C . Chapman was installed First Principal of the Duke of Connaught Chapter on Wednesday last .
The Corporation of London has just erected the stone-work of the east window of St . Albans Cathedral , which is of an elegant device , and in which they are about to insert a painted window , full of strictly Scriptural subjects . Bro . John Bevan was installed District Grand Master of Westland , New Zealand , on the 10 th March , at the Masonic Hall , Hokitika .
Bro . T . S . Graham was installed District Grand Mark Master of New Zealand South at the Temperance Hall , Dunedin , on Wednesday , April Gth . A Provincial Grand Lodge of the Province of Surrey will be held on Saturday , the 25 th inst ., at one o ' clock p m ., at the Public Hall , Rcigate . The R . W . P . G . Master requests the attendance of the brethren at Divine
service at the parish church , at 2 . 15 p . rn ., when a sermon will be preached by the W . Bro . the Provincial Grand Chaplain . Bro . Alderman Hanson ( Messrs . S . Hanson , Son , Evison , and Barter ) , 47 , Botolph-lane , has been added to the council of the National Chamber of Trade . Bro . Major - General Sir Frederick Roberts ,
Bart ., G . C . B ., presided at the dinner of ofiicerswho served in the Afghan war on Tuesday night last , at the Albion , Aldersgate-street . Bro . Thomas Beard , C . C ., has been elected a member of the local board of the Wandsworth district , as a representative of the parish of Clapham . M . E . Comp . Viscount Ebrington was on
Saturday last , installed Prov . Grand Superintendent of Devonshire in succession to the Rev . John Huyshe , M . A . The ceremony was performed by M . E . Comp . L . P . Metham . Bro . Thomas Blanc was installed W . M . of the Blackpool Lodge , No . 147 G , Blackpool , on the 17 th ult . Bro . Richard Wilson was installed W . M . of the Arlccdon Lodge , No . 1 GG 0 , Frizington , on the 1 st inst .
The annual Provincial Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire will be held in theOld Hall , Gainsborough , on Monday , the 20 th inst ., on the invitation of the Yarborough Lodge , 422 , at eleven o ' clock at noon punctually . The brethren will proceed to the site of the proposed new church , "St . ] ohn the Divine , " where the foundation stone will be laid with Masonic honours by Bro . W . H . Smyth , Esq ., J . P .,
Deputy Lieut , for Lincolnshire , R . W . Prov . Grand Master . The banquet will be held at 2 p . m . in the Old Hall . The annual meeting of the Provincial Prior ) ' of the Province of Kent and Surrey will be held at the Masonic Hall , Canterbury , on Tuesday , the 21 st inst ., at two o'clock , p . m . Previous to the opening of the preceptory a Priory of the Order of Malta will be held under the
banner of the Black Prince Preceptory . Bro . F . D . Marsden , P . G . Secretary Lincolnshire , will take it as a favour if any brother could supply any old papers or information respecting the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire prior to 1 S 35 , no previous data being in his possession . Bro . Alderman Sir F . W . Truscott qualified 011
Wednesday , at the adjourned quarter sessions , at Newington , as a magistiate for the county of Surrey , and took his seat on the bench . Among the magistrates present were the Chairmen of the first and second courts , Mr . Wm . llardman and Mr . George Somes , the Vice-Chairman , Mr . Yool , and Mr . Ricardo , Mr . Ex-Sheriff Woolloton , Mr . Sassoon , Mr . Hornidgc , and others . The calendar
consisted of nearly sixty prisoners . Bro . Ganz ' s fourth orchestral concert lakes place this afternoon ( Saturday ) , when ' Gluck ' s " Orpheus" is to be given , with . Miss Carlotta Elliot , Miss Agnes Larkcom , and Mdme . Patey as soloists . Bro . Willing ' s " Delilah " occupies the stage this week at Sadler ' s Wells , to be succeeded on Monday :
by the Gaiety company in "The I'orty lmeves . " I We regret to learn that Bro . Alderman Sir W . A . Rose died suddenly on Thursday morning . He was in his carriage at Clapham , on his way to town at the time , and did not seem previously to be suffering from illness . Bro . the Fail of Rosebcry has been unanimously
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Bro . H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught has consented to preside at the Fifty-fourth Anniversary of the Infant Orphan Asylum , Wanstead , on Saturday , the 25 th inst . Bros , the Marquis of Hartinglon and Lord Rosebcry , on the invitation of the committee , have consented to become Vice-Presidents ot the City Liberal Club .
Masonic Tidings.
The Thames Lodge , No . 18 93 , was consecrated at Henley-on-Thames , on Thursday last , the 9 th inst . We hope to give a report of the proceedings in our next . The Princp . of Wales has accepted the position of President of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education , and has expressed his willingness to lay the foundation-stone of the Central Institution , at South Kensington , during July .
The Freemason , of Sydney , South Australia , gives the following bit of English news , which will be news indeed to most English Freemasons : " H . R . H . the Duke of Cambridge , K . G ., Past Grand Warden , of England , presides at the Anniversary Festival of the British Orphan
Asylum , to be held this month at Slough . " Bro . Sir Daniel Gooch , M . P ., Prov . G . M . of Berks and Bucks , will preside at the Provincial Grand Lodge to be held at Aylesbury , on Monday , the 20 th inst . A banquet will take place at the George Hotel at three o ' clock .
Bro . J . M . Clabon , the President , and the Metropolitan members of the Incorporated Law Society entertained a large number of provincial law students at a banquet on Thursday evening , the 2 nd inst ., in the hall of the Society , Chancery-lane .
General Tidings.
General Tidings .
Mrs . Frederick Corficld has forwarded forty pounds to the Royal Hospital for Incurables , being the proceeds of the bazaar held at her residence , Ravenswood , Clapham Park . The annual meeting of the London and Middlesex Archreological Society willbeheldat the Guildhall on the 22 nd inst ., when the Lord Mayor is expected to preside .
Various papers will be read , and antiquities and other objects of interest exhibited . It is twenty-one years since this society held their meeting in the Guildhall , and an influential gathering is expected . The Bethnal-grecn Free Library , which embraces news rooms , occupies premises near to the junction on the Great Eastern Railway , erected in 1 S 75 at a cost of JCTOOO .
About 7000 volumes have been collected , and the committee have commenced a " People's Contribution Fund " to raise £ 300 , the cost of additional furniture and fittings , and increased accommodation for readers . Subscriptions have been received from those who avail themselves of the advantages offered , and also from some of the City companies , and from gentlemen interested in the mental welfare of the inhabitants of the East-End . The library is
supported entirely by voluntary contributions . At the request of the Metropolitan Asylums Board , a second shi p is to be prepared for the reception of small-pox patients , it having already been found that the Atlas will not be equal to the demands upon it . .. It is understood that there is no immediate intention on the part of the Government to take measures to " authorise" the use of the Revised Version of the New Testament .
The Merchants Lectures at King ' s Weigh House Chapel will be delivered on Tucsdaj-s during this month by the Rev . Dr . Avcling . On Tuesday last Mr . S . Morley , M . P ., laid tho memorial stone of a new Congregational church , for the ministry of the Rev . L . Parkyn , in Canning-road , Addiscombe , Croydon . The total estimated cost of the structure
is ^ 7 Soo . Mr . Morley gave an impetus to additional subscriptions by promising £ 400 , conditionally upon a further £ 2000 being raised . Colonel R . J . Tilney , of the Liverpool Rifle Volunteer Brigade , has generously subscribed the sum ot J CIOO to the scheme for providing coffee taverns to the Army and Auxiliary Forces .
The Grocers' Compaq' have forwarded a donation of £ 200 to the funds of the St . George's Hospital , Hyde Park-corner . The members of the Royal Naval Club of 1765 dined together to commemorate Lord Howe's victory of June 1 , 1794 , at Willis ' s Rooms , King-street , St . James ' s , on Tuesday evening . Rear-Admiral Richard May-no , C . B .,
occupied the chair . Mr . S . J . Bennett , well-known in the mercantile world , and who was the founder of the Mercantile Association and of the Commercial Gazelle , died on the 23 rd ult ., at his residence , The Firs , Staplecross , Sussex , and was buried at the cemetery at Ore , near Hastings , on Saturday last .
A Leather I rades Exhibition , the first of the kind ever held in Glasgow , was opened on Wednesday . The manufacture of leather from its initial stage to the finest morocco is exhibited ; also saddlery , machine belting , and all the apparatus used in the shoe trade . A scheme is on foot for draining the Regent ' s Canal , and constructing in its bed a railway , with docks at
the entrance , near L 11 nel 10 u . se Basin . WHAT SHALL WE DRINK ?—No summer beverage so refreshing , so wholesome , none so delicious and grateful to the taste , when hot , tired , and thirsty , as a glass of Grant's Morella Cherry Brandy taken with aerated
waters or lemonade . Ask pointedly for it by name , as substitutes and mixtures abound , report adulterations to the manufacturer , Thomas Grant , Distiller , Maidstone . Sold at the Crystal Palace , and by Bertram and Roberts everywhere , also at the clubs , the hotels , and all noted places of refreshment .
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Masonic Tidings.
Masonic Tidings .
We are informed that the next meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Cornwall will take place at Liskeard some time in December . Bro . W . T . Buck was installed W . M . of the Sub-Urban Lodge , 1 7 , on Friday , the 10 th inst ., at the Abercorn Arms Hotel , Great Stanmorc . Her Imperial Highness the Duchcssof Edinburgh ,
accompanying her husband on his tour of inspection as Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserve , visited Fowey last week . The Duchess was shown over Place Castle and the grand old parish church of St . Fimbarrus , which she told the vicar was the most interesting edifice she had seen on her tour . Her Imperial Highness has been graciously pleased to accept a copy of Bro . Emra Holmes' pamphlet
on Fowey : " An Unknown Watering Place , and also a copy of " Amabel Vaughan . " A sketch of Bro . Holmes appears in the coming number of the "Biograph . " The members of the Percy Lodge of Instruction have accepted an invitation from the members of the West Smithfield Lodge of Instruction to work the Fifteen Sections at the Cathedral Hotel , St . Paul ' s , E . C , on
Monday , the 27 th inst . The Montague Guest Lodge , No . 1900 , will be consecrated by the V . W . Bro . Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Sec , on Wednesday , the Gth of July next , at the Inns of Court Hotel , Lincoln ' s-Inn-Fields , W . C . Bro . Sir Thomas Brasse } ' , M . P ., the Commandant of the Liverpool Brigade of the Naval Artillery
Volunteers , presented a challenge cup which was sailed for by the cutters of the brigade in the Menai States , on Tuesday last , Bogr . or , Liverpool , Carnarvon , and Southport sending crews . The Bognor crew won the cup . Bro . the Earl of Donoughmore will preside at the annual dinner of the Oxford Canning Club , which will be held at Oxford , on Saturday , the iSth inst .
Bro . James H . Windrim , the architect of Philadelphia ' s magnificent Masonic Temple , and P . M . of Philadelphia Lodge , No . 72 , is President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects . Bro . A . Akers-Douglas , M . P ., P . Prov . G . S . W . Kent , P . Prov . Reg . Oxon , P . M . 47 S , 1063 , 150 G , and 172 s ; , P . Z . 111 S , presided at the annual festival of the
Broadstairs Lodge of Instruction , held at the Railway Tavern , Broadstairs , on Tuesday , the 24 th ult . The Prince of Wales , as the highest officer in Templarism , intends , according to the "Masonic Review , " to confer on President Garfield the Grand Cross of the Temple . Only one Knight in the United States is known to have that Order , namely , M . Em . Sir John Q . A . Fcllowcs , of New Orleans , who was Grand Master of the
United States at the time it was conferred . The Grand Lodge of Utah , at its organization in 1 S 72 , had a membership of 125 , confined to threelodges . Now it has seven lodges and 392 members , with a large and valuable library . A new lodge has been created at Naples , under the title Giuseppe Mazzoni ; another , called Essenica , has been formed at Volterra .
Bro . H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught will open the new wing of the Royal Hospital for Incurables , West Hill , Putney Heath , on Saturday , July iGth , instead of July 9 th , as originally stated , it being postponed in consequence of the Royal Volunteer Review being fixed for that
date . The Grand Orient of Flaly has opened a subscription to erect , in the cemetery at Rome , a monument designed to perpetuate the memory of its former Grand Masters .
Bro . P . do Keyser , C . C ., will preside at the annual dinner of the London Coffee and Eating House Keepers' Benevolent Association , at the Cannon-street Hotel , on Tuesday , June 14 th . Bro . Diehl , Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Utah , was , on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday , presented with a handsome gold watch and chain by some of
the brethren . Bro . Emerson , the Grand Master , made the presentation in an assembly of brethren and ladies . The appearance of a second edition of "The Cosmopolitan ; or , Masonic Calendar , Diary , and Pocket Book " for 1 SS 1 , just issued by George Kenning , of Great Queen-street , affords perhaps a sufficient indication that this little remembrancer is appreciated by the Fraternity
for whose use it is specially designed . It comprises , besides the usual pocket book information , lists cf odges , with dates ( ancient and modern ) , chapters , K . T . Preceptories , names of officers at home and abroad , and particilars of every grand Masonic body throughout the globe . —Daily A ' cws . Bro . John W . Brown , the talented editor of the
"Voiceof Masonry , " has received the appointment from the M . W . Grand blaster of Chairman of the Committceon Masonic Correspondence for the Grand Lodge of Illinois . The compliment is worthily bestowed , and we congratulate Bro . Brown upon his preferment . A bazaar will be held in Bagshot Park , the residence of Bro . the Duke of Connaught , on the nth and
13 th inst ., under the immediate patronage of Her Majesty the Queen , in aid of the restoration of Bagshot Church . Bro . Count Louis Pianciam has been appointed Lieutenant Grand Commander ol the Supreme Council of Italy , in the place of Bro . Mauro Macchi .
Bro . J . D . Allcroft ( Treasurer ) attended a Court of Assistants of the Sons of the Clergy held on Saturday last at the Corporation House , Uloomsbury-place . Pennsylvania will celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniveisary of its Grand Lodge on St . John ' s Day , 1 SS 2 .
Bro . J . B . Martin , M . P ., presided at amccling of Confederate bondholders , held at the Cannon-street Hotel . In the United Stales of America there are nearly Go , ooo Knights Templar . Massachusetts has a Grand Lodge library with 2250 bound volumes and 2000 pamphlets .
Masonic Tidings.
The Grand Lodge of Sweden has had two lithographic views of the Masonic Temple—exterior and interior—at Stockholm , printed , and copies of them , and also of a chromo-lithographic portrait of His Majesty Oscar II ., Grand Master of Sweden , presented to the Grand
Lodge of Scotland and other Grand Lodges with which it is in fraternal intercourse . Bro . Col . Sir Francis Burdett , Bart ., Prov . G . Master of Middlesex , will be away from his residence at Richmond until the commencement of next month .
Bro . His Royal Highness Prince Leopold has contributed £ 5 to the funds of the Hackney and Homerton Working Men ' s Club and Reading Room . Bros . Sir Julius Benedict and Sir Michael Costa conducted at the last concert of the season of the Sacred
Harmonic Society last night , at St . James ' s Hall , when Benedict ' s cantata , "St . Cecilia , " and Rossini's "Stabat Mater " were given . Bro . Sir Knight Hodg kin will be installed Eminent Preceptor of the Black Prince Preceptory , at the Masonic Hall , Canterbury , on Tuesday next .
Bro . H . R . H . Prince Leopold will take his seat in the House ol Lords on the 20 th inst . Bro . T . Beard , C . C ., Mrs . Beard , and family are amongst the latest arrivals at Bournemouth . Comp . T . C . Chapman was installed First Principal of the Duke of Connaught Chapter on Wednesday last .
The Corporation of London has just erected the stone-work of the east window of St . Albans Cathedral , which is of an elegant device , and in which they are about to insert a painted window , full of strictly Scriptural subjects . Bro . John Bevan was installed District Grand Master of Westland , New Zealand , on the 10 th March , at the Masonic Hall , Hokitika .
Bro . T . S . Graham was installed District Grand Mark Master of New Zealand South at the Temperance Hall , Dunedin , on Wednesday , April Gth . A Provincial Grand Lodge of the Province of Surrey will be held on Saturday , the 25 th inst ., at one o ' clock p m ., at the Public Hall , Rcigate . The R . W . P . G . Master requests the attendance of the brethren at Divine
service at the parish church , at 2 . 15 p . rn ., when a sermon will be preached by the W . Bro . the Provincial Grand Chaplain . Bro . Alderman Hanson ( Messrs . S . Hanson , Son , Evison , and Barter ) , 47 , Botolph-lane , has been added to the council of the National Chamber of Trade . Bro . Major - General Sir Frederick Roberts ,
Bart ., G . C . B ., presided at the dinner of ofiicerswho served in the Afghan war on Tuesday night last , at the Albion , Aldersgate-street . Bro . Thomas Beard , C . C ., has been elected a member of the local board of the Wandsworth district , as a representative of the parish of Clapham . M . E . Comp . Viscount Ebrington was on
Saturday last , installed Prov . Grand Superintendent of Devonshire in succession to the Rev . John Huyshe , M . A . The ceremony was performed by M . E . Comp . L . P . Metham . Bro . Thomas Blanc was installed W . M . of the Blackpool Lodge , No . 147 G , Blackpool , on the 17 th ult . Bro . Richard Wilson was installed W . M . of the Arlccdon Lodge , No . 1 GG 0 , Frizington , on the 1 st inst .
The annual Provincial Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire will be held in theOld Hall , Gainsborough , on Monday , the 20 th inst ., on the invitation of the Yarborough Lodge , 422 , at eleven o ' clock at noon punctually . The brethren will proceed to the site of the proposed new church , "St . ] ohn the Divine , " where the foundation stone will be laid with Masonic honours by Bro . W . H . Smyth , Esq ., J . P .,
Deputy Lieut , for Lincolnshire , R . W . Prov . Grand Master . The banquet will be held at 2 p . m . in the Old Hall . The annual meeting of the Provincial Prior ) ' of the Province of Kent and Surrey will be held at the Masonic Hall , Canterbury , on Tuesday , the 21 st inst ., at two o'clock , p . m . Previous to the opening of the preceptory a Priory of the Order of Malta will be held under the
banner of the Black Prince Preceptory . Bro . F . D . Marsden , P . G . Secretary Lincolnshire , will take it as a favour if any brother could supply any old papers or information respecting the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire prior to 1 S 35 , no previous data being in his possession . Bro . Alderman Sir F . W . Truscott qualified 011
Wednesday , at the adjourned quarter sessions , at Newington , as a magistiate for the county of Surrey , and took his seat on the bench . Among the magistrates present were the Chairmen of the first and second courts , Mr . Wm . llardman and Mr . George Somes , the Vice-Chairman , Mr . Yool , and Mr . Ricardo , Mr . Ex-Sheriff Woolloton , Mr . Sassoon , Mr . Hornidgc , and others . The calendar
consisted of nearly sixty prisoners . Bro . Ganz ' s fourth orchestral concert lakes place this afternoon ( Saturday ) , when ' Gluck ' s " Orpheus" is to be given , with . Miss Carlotta Elliot , Miss Agnes Larkcom , and Mdme . Patey as soloists . Bro . Willing ' s " Delilah " occupies the stage this week at Sadler ' s Wells , to be succeeded on Monday :
by the Gaiety company in "The I'orty lmeves . " I We regret to learn that Bro . Alderman Sir W . A . Rose died suddenly on Thursday morning . He was in his carriage at Clapham , on his way to town at the time , and did not seem previously to be suffering from illness . Bro . the Fail of Rosebcry has been unanimously
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Bro . H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught has consented to preside at the Fifty-fourth Anniversary of the Infant Orphan Asylum , Wanstead , on Saturday , the 25 th inst . Bros , the Marquis of Hartinglon and Lord Rosebcry , on the invitation of the committee , have consented to become Vice-Presidents ot the City Liberal Club .
Masonic Tidings.
The Thames Lodge , No . 18 93 , was consecrated at Henley-on-Thames , on Thursday last , the 9 th inst . We hope to give a report of the proceedings in our next . The Princp . of Wales has accepted the position of President of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education , and has expressed his willingness to lay the foundation-stone of the Central Institution , at South Kensington , during July .
The Freemason , of Sydney , South Australia , gives the following bit of English news , which will be news indeed to most English Freemasons : " H . R . H . the Duke of Cambridge , K . G ., Past Grand Warden , of England , presides at the Anniversary Festival of the British Orphan
Asylum , to be held this month at Slough . " Bro . Sir Daniel Gooch , M . P ., Prov . G . M . of Berks and Bucks , will preside at the Provincial Grand Lodge to be held at Aylesbury , on Monday , the 20 th inst . A banquet will take place at the George Hotel at three o ' clock .
Bro . J . M . Clabon , the President , and the Metropolitan members of the Incorporated Law Society entertained a large number of provincial law students at a banquet on Thursday evening , the 2 nd inst ., in the hall of the Society , Chancery-lane .
General Tidings.
General Tidings .
Mrs . Frederick Corficld has forwarded forty pounds to the Royal Hospital for Incurables , being the proceeds of the bazaar held at her residence , Ravenswood , Clapham Park . The annual meeting of the London and Middlesex Archreological Society willbeheldat the Guildhall on the 22 nd inst ., when the Lord Mayor is expected to preside .
Various papers will be read , and antiquities and other objects of interest exhibited . It is twenty-one years since this society held their meeting in the Guildhall , and an influential gathering is expected . The Bethnal-grecn Free Library , which embraces news rooms , occupies premises near to the junction on the Great Eastern Railway , erected in 1 S 75 at a cost of JCTOOO .
About 7000 volumes have been collected , and the committee have commenced a " People's Contribution Fund " to raise £ 300 , the cost of additional furniture and fittings , and increased accommodation for readers . Subscriptions have been received from those who avail themselves of the advantages offered , and also from some of the City companies , and from gentlemen interested in the mental welfare of the inhabitants of the East-End . The library is
supported entirely by voluntary contributions . At the request of the Metropolitan Asylums Board , a second shi p is to be prepared for the reception of small-pox patients , it having already been found that the Atlas will not be equal to the demands upon it . .. It is understood that there is no immediate intention on the part of the Government to take measures to " authorise" the use of the Revised Version of the New Testament .
The Merchants Lectures at King ' s Weigh House Chapel will be delivered on Tucsdaj-s during this month by the Rev . Dr . Avcling . On Tuesday last Mr . S . Morley , M . P ., laid tho memorial stone of a new Congregational church , for the ministry of the Rev . L . Parkyn , in Canning-road , Addiscombe , Croydon . The total estimated cost of the structure
is ^ 7 Soo . Mr . Morley gave an impetus to additional subscriptions by promising £ 400 , conditionally upon a further £ 2000 being raised . Colonel R . J . Tilney , of the Liverpool Rifle Volunteer Brigade , has generously subscribed the sum ot J CIOO to the scheme for providing coffee taverns to the Army and Auxiliary Forces .
The Grocers' Compaq' have forwarded a donation of £ 200 to the funds of the St . George's Hospital , Hyde Park-corner . The members of the Royal Naval Club of 1765 dined together to commemorate Lord Howe's victory of June 1 , 1794 , at Willis ' s Rooms , King-street , St . James ' s , on Tuesday evening . Rear-Admiral Richard May-no , C . B .,
occupied the chair . Mr . S . J . Bennett , well-known in the mercantile world , and who was the founder of the Mercantile Association and of the Commercial Gazelle , died on the 23 rd ult ., at his residence , The Firs , Staplecross , Sussex , and was buried at the cemetery at Ore , near Hastings , on Saturday last .
A Leather I rades Exhibition , the first of the kind ever held in Glasgow , was opened on Wednesday . The manufacture of leather from its initial stage to the finest morocco is exhibited ; also saddlery , machine belting , and all the apparatus used in the shoe trade . A scheme is on foot for draining the Regent ' s Canal , and constructing in its bed a railway , with docks at
the entrance , near L 11 nel 10 u . se Basin . WHAT SHALL WE DRINK ?—No summer beverage so refreshing , so wholesome , none so delicious and grateful to the taste , when hot , tired , and thirsty , as a glass of Grant's Morella Cherry Brandy taken with aerated
waters or lemonade . Ask pointedly for it by name , as substitutes and mixtures abound , report adulterations to the manufacturer , Thomas Grant , Distiller , Maidstone . Sold at the Crystal Palace , and by Bertram and Roberts everywhere , also at the clubs , the hotels , and all noted places of refreshment .
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