Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

The Grand Master ' s Lodge , No . I , has forsvarded the sum of 40 guineas to the fund in aid of the Royal College of Music . , Bro . J . C . Parkinson , P . G . D ., has been elected a Governor of Christ ' s Hospital . At a meeting of the Lodgeof Amity , No . 171 , held at the Ship , Greenwich , on Tuesday last , Bro . KG . D . Fenn ( of the firm of H . W . Davis , C . E ., 3 S , New Broad-street ) , svas unanimously elected VV . AI . for the

ensuing year . The installation meeting of the Panmure Royal Arch Chapter , No . 720 , will beheld at the Horns Tavern , Kennington , on Alonday next , when Comps . B . R . . Bryant , I . S . Terry , and J . W . Watts , svill be severally installed as / .., H ., and J . respectively by Ex . Comp . James Stevens , P . M . an Scribe E . of the chapter .

Bro . G . H . Stephens has been invited to work the Fifteen Sections at the Corinthian Lodge ot Instruction , No . 13 S 2 , at the George Hotel , Cubitt Tosvn . The Old Blues , members of the Craft , will be glad to know that the athletic sports of Christ ' s Hospital will take place on the 30 th inst . The installation meeting of the Samson Lodge ,

No . 166 S , svas held on Tuesday . Bro . H . Aarons svas installed into the chair by Bro . W . T . Lover , P . AI . A report svill appear in our next issue . Four open scholarships for boys under thirteen years of age svill be competed for at tbe Grocers' Company Schools , Hackney Downs , on Alonday , June 4 th . It is understood that in future the concerts of the

students of the Guildhall School of Music svill be held at the City of London School , on the Embankment . On Saturday , the 26 th inst ., a grand concert will be given in the Guildhall . Bro . Sir John Bennett has consented to deliver a lecture on Lord Brougham and his svork , at the Birkbeck Institution . Bro . Rev . Dr . P . H . Ernest Brette , P . M . 1460 ,

16 57 , P . G . Chaplain Middlesex , has been reappointed examiner at Eton College , Harrow School , St . Paul s School , and the Koyal Naval College , Greenwich . It is a coincidence worth noting that the opening and closing events connected svith the history of our Temple destroyed on Thursday last all occurred in the month of May . The foundation stone was laid by Lord Petre , AI . W . G . AI ., on 1 st . May , 1775 . the building svas

solemnly consecrated by the same Grand Master , on the 22 nd May , 177 6 , and it svas destroyed by fire on the night of the 3-4 May , 1 SS 3 . The Duchess of Albany has fixed Tuesday , luly ioth , for the ceremony of opening the new building for the Chelsea Hospital for Women in the Fulham-road , the foundation-stone of which svas laid by the Princess of Wales three years since . The Duchess , who will be

accompanied by the Duke of Albany , the patron of the hospital , has consented to receive purses containing contributions of 10 guineas . We are reminded by a correspondent that our list of lodges in the province established since the appointment of ; R . W . Bro . Beach as P . G . AI ., did not contain the Hamj ' shire Lodge of Emulation which svas constituted on the 7 th of last month .

Several excellent p hotographs of the fire have been taken by Bro . Bedford Lemere , of 147 , Strand . Mr . W . G Parker , of 40 , High Holborn , has also operated svith good results . Bro . Dr . Spark , the Leeds Borough Organist , brought a very successful season to a close on Saturday week , svhen a large audience assembled in the Town Hall to listen to a recital on une grand organ of selections from the svorks of Jewish composers .

The Prince of Wales , accompanied by the Princess and the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales , opened the Royal College of Music on Alonday svith simple , but impressive , ceremonial . The Archbishop of Canterbury having offered up a brief prayer , Mr . Grove , the Director of the Collegedelivered an address , svhich his Royal

High-, ness acknosvledged at considerable length , eulogising on the measure of success which had attended the efforts of the promoters , and congratulating them on the commencement they had been able to makethat day . The number of those present svas limited , but all of them svere representative Englishmen .

The follosving dinners are fixed to take place at Limmer's Hotel , Nesv Bond-street , W .: ioth Hussars , H . R . H . the Prince of Wales presiding , May 24 th ; 15 th Hussars , May 21 st ; 14 th Hussars , Alay 24 th ; 4 th Hussars , May 29 th ; 7 th Hussars , June 16 th ; 12 th Lancers , May 22 nd ; Scots Guards , June nth ; sGth Regiment , Alay 22 nd ; Black Watch ( 3 rd Battalion ) Alay 24 th ; 5 th

Fusiliers , May 25 th ; 51 st Regiment , May 25 th ; 85 th Regiment , June 2 nd ; Scots Fusiliers , June 4 th ; 3 Gth Regiment , June 5 th ; Hampshire Regiment ( 2 nd Battalion ) June 6 th ; Sth King's Regiment , June Gth ; Oxford Falstaff Club , Juue 27 th ; Welingtoniad Dinner , July 3 rd ; The Worshipful Company of Brodcrcrs Livery DinnerMay 21 st ; Defence of Lucknow Residency

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Masonic And General Tidings

Notice is given in the Gazette that the Prince of Wales will hold a Levee at St . James ' s Palace , on behalf of her Alajesty , on Monday , the 2 Sth inst ., at tsvo o ' clock . Bro . the Earl of Carnarvon is announced to preside at a meeting to-day at the Cannon-street Hotel , to hear some details svith respect to the Transvaal and its resources from a recent traveller in that country .

Her Majesty has forsvarded ^ 15 the svidosvs of two of the men svho svere lately killed by the explosion at Pridd ' y d Hard , Portsmouth , for the purpose of purchasing mourning . Bro . the Lord Mayor has received a sum of seven guineas tosvards the fund for the relief of the famines of the fishermen svho were drowned in the great gale in Alarch , from the Southgate Lodge .

Ihe Duchess of Edinburg h visited the Duke and Duchess of Connaught , at Bagshot , on Saturday afternoon last , and ss * as joined by his Royal Highness the Duke after the Royal Academy of Arts dinner . According to Truth , the Prince of Wales svill entertain some 40 members of the Jockey Club at dinner at Alarlborough House on the evening of the Derby Day .

The bifteen Sections svere svorked at the Upton Lodge of Instruction by the brethren of the Percy Lodge of Instruction , No . 19 S ( by special invitation ) on Thursday evening . Mrs . Langtry during 2 4 sveeks' tour in America is declared to have realised 329 , 633 dols ., or something like £ . 45 ,

933-Bro . George Lambert ( member of the court of Goldsmiths' Company ) , F . S . A ., svill read a paper on the " Early History of the Founding of the Charter House , " at a meeting of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society , 4 , St . Alartin ' s-place , Trafalgar-square , on

Monday , the 21 st . Bro . Shaw Lefevre , M . P ., H . M . ' s First Commissioner of Works , has appointed Air . E . de M . Rodolf to be his private secretary in place of Air . R . S . Gosvlland , promoted to be principal clerk .

Bro . G . R . Sims ( of the Re fe ree ) , author of the "Dagonet Ballads , " "The Lights o' London , " and s-arious dramas , is engaged to furnish a series of chapters on tosvn life to the Pictorial World . The installation meeting of the East Sussex

Lodge of Alark Alaster Masons , No . 166 , svill be held at the Castle Hotel , Hastings , on Tuesday , the 15 th inst ., svhen Bro . the Rev . E . F . Cave-Brosvne-Cave , ALA ., P . Prov . G . Mark Chap ., svill be installed by Bro . Thomas Trollope , AI . D ,, R . W . Prov . G . M . A 1 . Sussex .

** - Bro . the Duke of Manchester , Prov . G . M ., Norths and Hants , the Alarquis of Headfort , G . S . Warden of Ireland , Baron Henry de Worms , M . P ., and Richardson-Gardner . ALP ., svere present at the dinner g iven by the Beaconsfield Club on VVednesday evening , to the Alarquis of Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcote , Bart ., ALP .

Bro . Lord Claud Hamilton , M . P ., P . G . W ., presided ! at the anniversary dinner of the Railway Benevolent Institution held on VVednesday evening , at the City Terminus Hotel , Cannon-street . The Duke of Abercorn , Grand Master of Ireland , svas one of his lordship ' s supporters . The subscriptions and donations announced amounted to . £ 5 , 900 . An immense bed of superior red marl 64 yards

deep has been recently discovered at Ruabon , and sve believe secured by the firm of Messrs . Monk and Nesvell , Liverpool , svho commence the _ manufacture of terra cotta , & c , upon a large scale forthwith . We also learn the firm has taken into partnership the svell-knosvn manager of the Penybout Works , "the originator of Ruabon ( deep red ) Terra Cotta , " svho undertakes the practical management of the business . We believe the svorks svill prove a great boon to the country generally .

All good Masons svill regret deeply the loss of their beautiful hall , so rich in historic associations , and all will be anxious for its reconstruction and for its security as far as possible from a repitition of the disaster . Buildings of so great intrinsic and historic value should not be left at the mercy of the all-devouring element one atom more than is inevitable . Fortunately the means of obtaining security are greater than they were . The buildings of the

International Fisheries Exhibition have just been rendered fireproof b y the use of Asbestos fireproof paint , a remarkable invention introduced by the United Asbestos Company , of Queen Victoria-street . The fire repelling qualities of this substance have been proved beyond all question , and it might perhaps be svell if the authorities were to consider the advisability of its adoption in the reconstruction of our beautiful hall . It should , at all events , be svorth inquiry .

At a meeting of the Southgate Lodge , No . 1950 , on the 3 rd inst ., Bro . Forge , the LP . AL , made a very urgent appeal to the members on behalf of the Widows and Orphan Fund of the poor fishermen who lost their lives in the North Sea in the fearful gale of the Gth March . The Senior Warden proposed that the lodge gave £ 2 2 s ., and in his remards said he alsvays noticed that the British

public never took up anything which occurred in their midst as they did foreign affairs . He said that if there had been a flood in Germany , an earthquake in Italy , or a famine in Ireland , the public money svould have rolled in , whilst hardly any notice svas taken of this fearful catastrophe . The proposition svas seconded , and aftersvards

carried unanimously . After the banquet Bro . Forge went round the table and collected an additional £ 5 5 s . Both sums have been sent to the Lord Mayor . We think this praisesvorthy of so young a lodge , and think other lodges should follow the good example for alleviating the distress cased by this serious loss of life .

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Masonic And General Tidings

Bro . F . Kent , solicitor , has removed from 9 , Bucklersbury , to 2 S , Queen-street , Cannon-street . Bros . Shaw Lefevre , M . P . ; Earl Percy , M . P ., P . G . AI . Northumberland ; and Sir P . Dyke Acland , Bart ., M . P ., are among the members of the Committee on the Parochial Charities ( London ) Bill . The late Bro . W . G . Harrison , Q . C , has been succeeded as a Bericher of the Inner Temple by Air . L . Field .

The Prince of Wales and other members of the Royal Family have accepted invitations to a banquet to be given to-morrow ( Saturday ) evening , by the Fishermen ' s Company , in honour cf the opening of the Ir . tirnational Fisheries Exhibition , South Kensington . On Wednesday evening , at Exeter Hall , the Band of Hope Union celebrated the eight anniversary of its foundation under the presidency of Bro . Dr . B . VV . Richardson .

Ihe Prince of VVales presided at a meeting held on VVednesday in the Jerusalem Chamber , Westminster Abbey , of the Dean Stanley Alemo-. a " . Fund Committee . Bro . Sir Joseph Bailey , Bart ., M . P ., P . G . M ., Hertfordshire , presided at tbe meeting on Wednesday of the Committee of the House of Commons on thc Alanchestcr Ship Canal Bill .

I he Princess of Wales and her tsvo sons , the Princes Albert Victor and George , visited tht- Royal Comedy Theatre on VVednesday evening and witnessed the performance of " Rip Van Winkle . " The Duke and Duchess of Connaught svere at St . James ' s Theatre on Wednesday evening and svitnessed the performance of " Impulse . "

Bro . Earl Granville , as Chancellor cf the University of London , at svhat is known as Presentation Day , presided at the meeting in the theatre of Burlington House on VVednesday , and distributed the diplomas , prizes , and certificates to the successful candidates for the various degrees granted by the University . H . R . H . the Prince of Wales presided at a

meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Music , svhich svas held at Marlborough House , on Thursday last . The banquet annuall y given by the Royal Academy took place on Saturday last . Sir F . Leighton , President , was in the chair , and among the principal guests svere the Prince of Wales , the Dukes of Edinburgh and Cambridge , Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar , the Duke of Teck , the Turkish , German , and Russian Ambassadors ,

the Lord Chancellor , Bros . Earl Granville , Earl of Shaftesbury , Lord Alcester , Lord Wolseley , Earl of Wharncliffe , Earl of Alount Edgcumbe , P . G . AI . Cornwall ; Lord Suffield , P . G . M . Norfolk : Shaw-Lefevre , M . P . ; Dodson , ALP ., P . G . J . W . ; Col . Stanley , ALP ., G . J . W . ; G . O . Trevelyan , ALP . ; Sir Farrer Herschell , O . C , M . P . j Sir Al . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., ALP ., P . G . AI . Gloucestershire ; and the Lord Mayor of London .

Among those present at the Marchioness of Salisbury ' s reception on Saturday night last were Bro . the Duke and Duchess of Alarlborough , Bro . the Duke and Duchess of Alanchestcr , the Duchess of Richmond and Gordon , Bro . the Marquis and Alarchioness of Waterford

, Bro . the Alarquis and Alarchioness of Headfort . Bro . the Earl of Alount Edgcumbe , Bro . the Earl and Countess of Gallosvay , Bro . the Earl of Wharncliffe , the Countess of Rossly and Aliss Alaynard , Bro . Lord and Lady Balfour of Burlock , and others .

Royal Arch Masonry is making rapid progress in the metropolis , and no recently formed chapter has done more to he'p forward the movement than the Aletropolitan Chapter , No . 1507 , which has been , and is being , largely recruited from the Savoy Lodge . The popularity of the Aletropolitan Chapter is due undoubtedly to the great discrimination shosvn in the selection of the Principals , and certainly few Masonic bodies have been so successful in the

election of their officers . In succession to Comps . James Willing , Stacey , Fergusson , VV . Al . Stiles , and Hudson , Comp . Henry Stiles ( Master of the Aletropolitan Lodge ) has been called upon to rule the destinies of the chapter , and he may safely be trusted to exercise the duties of the exalted position of First Principal svith credit to himself and honour to the companions . Comps . James Willing , Sides , and T . C Edmonds have been elected to important offices in the chapter .

On Monday afternoon their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of VVales , svith their sons and daughters , and accompanied by the Duchess of Edinburgh , H . R . H . the Princess Alary , Duchess and the Dukeof Teck , visited Hengler ' s Circus , and witnessed the opening games of the grand Military Chess Tournament , held in aid of the funds of the Royal Hospital for Women and Children ,

Westminster Bridge-road , and the West-end Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System , Welbeck-street . In these games the pieces svere represented by non-commissioned officers and men of the Household Brigade , appropriately costumed , svhile drummer-boys , attired as medireval pages , acted as the pasvns . All carried red or svhite bannerets , so that the opposing forces , as they moved about the board ,

svhich svas of painted oil-skin , might be distinguishable from each other . The games were actually played on a usual chessboard by Alessrs . Hoffer ( red ) and Hirschfield ( white ) , the moves as they were made being called by Lieut .-Colonel Sterling , of the Coldstream Guards , to tsvo sergeant-majors placed at the entrance to the . building in which the tournament svas held , svho repeated them to the pieces within .

But fesv mistakes occurred on the part of the living chessmen , and the svhole svas conducted svith staid , yet quaint , ceremonial . Air . Hirschfield svon both the games that svere played . The performance svas repeated in the evening , and again on Tuesday and VVednesday afternoons and evenings . A trumpet sounded at tbe call of " check , " and a loud fanfare indicated the " check-mate , " svhich brought each game to a close .

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