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Masonic And General Tidings.
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS .
The Duke of Connaught visited the Oueen and the Prince and Princess of Wales at Osborne on Sunday , and remained to lunch , returning to Portsmouth in the afternoon . Bro . Earl and Countess Cosvper , after entertaining sundry house and shooting parties at their Bedfordshire seat , Wrest Park , will leave England for a two months' sojourn abroad .
It is denied that Bro . the Earl of Kintore , Governor of South Australia , has accepted the Governorship of Nesv Zealand , rendered vacant by the resignation of Bro . the Earl of Onslosv . The remains of the late Bro . Sir Morell Mackenzie svere interred in Wargrave Churchyard on Monday , some 20 mourners being present . Lady Mackenzie has received letters of sympathy from the Empress Frederick of Germany and the Prince of Wales .
Mr . Alderman Cotton svas ssvorn in as City Chamberlain at the Court of Aldermen , on Monday , and at once resigned his gosvn as Alderman for the Ward of Bridge Without , for which , accordingly , unless there is an exchange of svards , there is nosv a s'acar . cy .
We regret to record the death on the 30 th ult . of Bro . William Groves , P . M . of the Belgrave Lodge , No . 749 . Our deceased brother was initiated in April , 1 S 72 , and remained a subscribing member till his death . He svas also a Royal Arch Mason , having been exalted in the United Pilgrims
Chapter , No . 507 , in 1 SS 2 , of svhich he svas J . at the time of his death . The follosving members of the Belgrave Lodge attended at Kensal Green Cemetery on the 4 th inst . to pay the last sad tribute of respect : Bros . E . E . Austin , W . M . ; H . Garrod , Sec ; Coltart , Titley , F . Kedge , VV . Kedge , Alford , and Calvert .
Bro . Lord Mayor Evans , accompanied by the Lady Mayoress , and Bros . Alderman and Sheriff Tyler and Sheriff Foster visited the Electrical Exhibition at the Crystal Palace on Saturday last . At the banquet on the occasion there svere present Bros . Sir Frederick Abel , Sir John B . Monckton , and Sir E . M . Shasv ,
Among those present at the marriage of the Hon . Walter Bagot , Grenadier Guards , and Margaret , youngest daughter of the late Hon . Frederick and Lady Adelaide Cadogan , at St . Paul ' s , Knightsbridge , on Saturday last svere Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar , Bro . Sir William and Lady Hart-Dyke , Bro . and Mrs . Hatnar Bass , and Bro . Montague J . Guest .
Bro . Sir Charles Hall , O . C , M . P ., has been elected Recorder of London , in place of the late Sir Thomas Chambers . He svas born in 1 S 43 ; educated at Harrosv and Trinity College , Cambridge ; and for the last 14 years has held the office of Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales and Duchy of Cornsvall .
The many Masonic friends of Bro . VV . F . Lamonby svill be glad to learn that he has settled down in the Metropolis . For upsvards of 15 years before his departure for Australia , Bro . I-amonby was on the staff of the Field nesvspaper , and a vacancy having recently occurred , the appointment was offered to him and accepted . VVe wish him all success .
A panic occurred at the Prince ' s Theatre , Blackburn , on Saturday evening last , svhen the house svas crammed to suffocation by an audience composed moslly of the working class . The actors and orchestra , however , svent on svith the performance , and the terror rapidly subsided , but not till some benches , & c , had been smashed and many people had had their clothes torn to rags . But for thiscoolne . 's on the part of the company , a terrible catastrophe must have happened .
The funeral of Bro . S . Paige , Secretary of the Savage Club Lodge , svho died on Saturday last , took place at Highgate Cemetery yesterday ( Thursday ) . It svas the wish of the deceased that the funeral arrangements should be of a simple nature , otherwise his brethren would have been present in greater numbers to pay their
last tribute ol respect and regard to his memory—but both the Savage Club and Savage Club Lodge svere represented . Bro . Paige svas a victim to the influenza , svhich a somesvhat weak constitution prevented his rallying from . He svill be much missed in Masonic circles , especially in the Savage Club Lodge , svhere his sterling svorth and genial qualities svere much appreciated .
We are glad to hear that Bro . F . Dixon Bramald , of " 755 i who svas obliged to leave this country a fesv months ago , in consequence of repeated attacks of influenza , has arrived at Wellington , Nesv Zealand , in improved health . He has visited the Waterloo Lodge , No . 1 G 6 , under the Scotch Constitution , and has been most cordiall y received
with that loving kindness which is so characteristic of the Fraternity . We shall be glad to hear from our Colonial brother svith items of Masonic intelligence from time to time , and to learn of his svelfare in the new country . Bro . Bramald , svho svas established as a chemist in the West of England till his health gave svay , is now manager for the New Zealand Drug Company at Wellington , N . Z .
At the full-dress Parliamentary dinner given by the Marquis of Salisbury as Prime Minister at his residence in Arlington-street on Monday there svere present , among others , Bros . Lord Halsbury ( Lord Chancellor ) , the Dukes of Athole and Portland , the Marquis of Hertford , the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe , Albermarle , Hardwicke , Limerick , Amherst , Yarborough , FeversYiam , Wharncliffe , and
Londesborough , and Lords Windsor , Balfour , Ilrnniker , Churchill , and Egerton of Tatton . At that of the First Lord of the Treasury in Dosvning-street the guests included Bros . Lord George Hamilton . Lord Arthur Hill , Sir James Furgusson , Bart ., Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., the Hon . D . Plunket , Sir VV . Hart-Dyke , Bart ., Sir VV . T . Marriott , Q . C , Baron H . de Worms , Sir John E . Gorst ,
Q . C , the Uight Hon . VV . L . Jackson , the Right Hon . A . Akers-Dous-las , Sir VV . H . VValrond , Sir E . Clarke . Q . C , and C . B . Stuart-Wortley . Bros . Lord Herschell , SirTieo . Trevelyan , Bart ., and J . G . Shasv-Lefevre dined vvith Mr . Campbell-Bannerman , and Bros , the Marquis of Tweeddale , Earl Cosvper , the Earl of Arran , and Lord Monk Bretton svith the Earl of Derby .
Masonic And General Tidings.
By the death of the Rev . C . H . Spurgeon the Accident Insurance Company Limited , of St . Swithin ' s-lane , loses one of its oldest policy-holders . The Grand Lodge of Canada , at its recent meeting in Toronto , defeated , by a vote of 616 to 404 , a motion to prohibit the use of spiritous liquors as beverages at Masonic banquets .
The Commander-in-Chief has sanctioned the programme submitted to him in respect of the mobilisation of the London Volunteers at Easter , Dover and Chatham being the points of assembly . A marriage has been arranged-, and svill shortly take place , betsveen the Hon . William F . J . Dundas , brother of the Earl of Zetland , and Mary Maud , youngest daughter of Mrs . Prinsep , of 10 , Ovington-square .
According to a telegram from Port Said of the Sth inst . a collision occurred in the Suez Canal on that day between her Majesty's troopship Euphrates and the German steamer Guten . fels , by svhich the latter received considerable damage . The Duke of Cambridge , svho will shortly return to England , has expressed his intention of presiding at the svinter meeting of the National Rifle A- sociation , svhich svill
beheld at the Royal United Service Institution on Wednesday , the 24 th inst . At Covent Garden on VVednesday the third carnival ball of the season svas held , and by comparison svith its predecessors evidenced the grossing popularity of these entertainments . There svas a keen rivalry for the prizes ass-arded to the best and most effective costumes .
It has been decided by the Royal Commission appointed to consider the question that the Raphael Cartoons , svhich svere removed from Hampton Court Palace to South Kensington in 1 S 65 , shall remain at the latter place , chiefly , it is believed , on the ground of its comparative immunity from fire .
In acknosvledgment of his arch . eological labours , the Society of Antiquaries , at [ a meeting held on Thursday , the 4 th inst ., conferred upon Bro . Brackstone Baker , P . G . D ., the honourable distinction of F . S . A . This designation is much sought after , and one that can only be obtained by merit .
The Princess Christian was present at a meeting of the Council of the . Royal British Nurses' Association , svhich svas held at the rooms of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society , Hanover-square , on Monday , svhen it svas resolved to adopt the recommendation of the General Committee and authorise it to take such steps as may be advisable to obtain the grant of a Royal Charter .
At a sitting of the Academy of Sciences at Paris on Monday , M . Darboux presented to his colleagues , Jacques I naudi , a calculator , svho exhibited such marvellous readiness in solving the most difficult problems that a Committee svas formed at the close of the sitting to deliberate upon the best use to svhich the extraordinary faculty of J acques 1 naudi can be put .
We have received a communication from the joint Secretaries , Bros . J . Kilvington , P . M . 1790 , and W . J . Russell , 4 63 , that in consequence of the recent lamented death of H . R . H . the Duke of Clarence and Avondale , the Masonic ball svhich svas to have been held at the Greyhound Hotel , Croydon , this month , is postponed si ' uc die . The brethren svho have given their patronage and influential support svill
kindly accept this intimation . One cf the most enjoyable balls of the season svas given in the Adelphi Hotel , Liverpool , on Thursday , the 4 th inst ., upsvards of uo people paiticipating . Amongst those who attended were Bros . E . R . Lathom , P . M . ; VV . Allenby , VV . M . ; D . Dunkel , I . P . M . 594 ; J . Phelan , S . W . ; J . Horley , S . D . ; C . A . Gabnelson , J . S . Buck , and U .
M'Cleave , Stsvds . ; E . Jcffns , I . G . ; and E . Smart , J . VV . The music svas provided by Bro . E . Clayton , and the programme included 20 dances . On the night of the 2 nd inst ., the annuil soiree and ball in connection svith the St . Bede Lodge , No . 1119 , Jarro-v—Bro . J . W . Lhaytor , W . M . —vvere held in the large hall of the Mechanics' Institute , which svas profusely and tastefully
decorated . Over 05 c uples occupied tbe spacious iloir . The M . C . ' s svere Bros . . Thos . Robinson , J . T . Douglas , James Robinson , and H . M . Smellie ; McDougall , D . C . ; and H . Soderberg , J . Taylor , A . J . Prince , J . Rigby , and VV . F . Renton , Stewards . The music was supplied by Mr . Amers , the refreshments by Mrs . TuVhill and by Mr , Vasey .
A special mcelingof the Committee of the Throat Hospital , Golden- ; ej'iare , was held on Tuesday , Mr . Welch , Chairman , presiding . Lord Londesborough was am mg those present . A resolution of condolence svith Lady Mackenzie and her family was passed , as was also a further resolution in the follosving terms : " 'That the Committee desire to record their sense of the irreparable loss
svhich this charity has sustained by the lamented death of Sir Morell Mackenzie , the founder of the institution , to the interestsof which , during a period of nearly eight-and-t * enty years he devoteel the greater part of his time , the best of his energies , and the svhole of his heart . " The latest victim to influenza is Sir James Caird , svho had reachi d the age of 7 ; . The son of a Wigtonshire laird , he
was educated at Edintiurgh University and then for a time devoted him-e f tn Ugh farming . He lirst came into notice soon after the abolition of the Corn Laws , as ihe water of a volume on high farming as a substitute for Protection , and then visited every county in England as the Times Sp «* i . el Commissioner on Agriculture . He sat in Parliament from 1 S 57 to 1865 , but his chief public seivices svere of an
administrative character . He has served on various Commissions , such as those on Sea Fisheiies , the Indian Famine , and th ¦ ¦ Iri ^ h Land Law . Not the least of his services when in Parliament vvas to obtain a grant for the collection and publication of Agricultural Stalistics . He svas made a K . C . B . in 1 SS 2 , at svhich time he svas Chairman of the Reform Club .
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diseases , and e * ery kind of siiperhcial inflammation , svliich soon lose tlieir angry and painful character under this invaluable Ointment . The Tills have never been administered cither by hospital or private practitioner in dyspepsia or liver complaints without producing the desired result .
Masonic And General Tidings.
The Queen , according to present arrangements , svill leave Osborne on the 17 th March , and svill arrive at Hyeres on the 19 th . The Committee has reported favourably on the Bill presented in the United States Senate appropriating 300 , 000 dollars for a monument to General Grant in Washington .
A National Museum of Commerce and Industry is about to be created in Paris , and it is estimated that it svill cost 2 , 000 , 000 fr . The Paris Chamber of Commerce has agreed to supply 1 , 000 , 000 fr ., and the Minister of Commerce has undertaken to ask Parliament to furnish the remainder .
Net fishing on the Tay opened on Thursday under most favourable circumstances . The liver is teeming svith fish , and on some stations as many fish has'e been already caught as will pay the rent for the year . On Stanley waters two and a half tons of salmon svere secured in a fesv hours .
The Prince and Princess of Wales , svith Prince George and Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales and Colonel Stanley Clarke , left Victoria Station on Thursday b y special train for Eastbourne , svhere they svill remain at Comp'on House , belonging to the Duke of Devonshire , for several sveeks .
The Princess of Wales has granted permission for the cot in the Victoria Hospital for Children , svhich has been endowed by the members of the Children ' s Salon connecteel svith the Gentlewoman , to be named the " Albert Victor Edward " in memory of her son , the late Duke of Clarence and Avondale .
The follosving is the list of new Oueen ' s Council : Messrs . David Lindo Alexander , Edsvarrf Ridley , Archie Kirkman Loyd , Henry Gordon Shee , Albert Childers , Meysey Thompson , Alfred Hopkinson , Ernest Pollock , and Henry Fielding Dickens , the Hon . Bernard Coleridge , Lionel Edward Pyke , and William Snowdon Robson .
Mr . Freake , son of Sir Thomas Freake , Bart ., svas hunting on Thursday svith the Vale of White Horse Hounds near Ssvindon , svhen , in jumping a gate , he svas thrown from his horse . His neck svas broken by the fall and he died immediately . The body vvas conveyed to his residence , Eastcourt House , Wilts ., Mr . Miller , the Master , stopped the hunt at once .
A curious shooting accident occurred at Whale Island on Wednesday afternoon . The men of the Naval Gunnery School were being exercised in lield movements , and svere advancing in line svhen one of them dropped a pebble into his rille , and aimed at a flosver in front of him . Just then a seaman from the gun shed ran across in front of the line and received the pebble in the base of the back . The missile has not yet been extracted .
The late Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte has left to the nation his valuable collection of metals , svhich is now in course of arrangement at the Science Museum , South Kensington . •' The collection , " says Nature , " is rich in specimens of the rarer metals . " This bequest is the result of a promise made to Professor Roberts-Austen , the Prince having been much interested in the Percy Collection at South Kensington .
Royal Arch Masons coming from Europe cannot visit any Royal Arch chapters in the United States . The reason is that the Koyal Arch Degree is given in foreign countries as the . fourth in order , or next to the Master Mason ' s , svhile here it is conferred as the seventh . A foreign brother must apply for and receive the intermediate Degrees of Mark M ., P . M ., and M . E . M ., and be legally healed as to the R . A . before he can be permitted to enter a chapter of
Royal Arch Masons . —American Mason . A special meeting of the Dundee To . vn Council svas held on Thursday , svhen a letter was read from her Majesty the Oueen announcing that the Chief Magistrate of Dundee and his successors in ollice were authorised , in all time coming , to use the style and title of Lord Provost . Much gratification svas expressed by the Councillors at this second recognition of the loyalty of Dandee by her Majesty , the town having only recently been elevated to the rank of a city .
Bro . Lord Ashbourne ( Lord Chancellor of Ireland ) has been elected President of ihe Benevolent Society of St . Patrick in succession to Bro . the Earl of Arran , svhose term of ollice has expired . At the recent annual meeting addresses of condolence svere passed to the CJueen and the Prince and Princess of VVales on the death ot the Duke of Clarence and Avondale , svho svas also Earl of Athlone . Bro . General Viscount Wolseley vvas also elected a member of the Committee .
Tivo French Professors —Cornil and Chantemesse—have informed the Paris Academy of Medicine that they hast actually caught some of the influenza bacilli , and are cultivating them in bouillon , alter the Pasteur method . The organisms are formed like the figure ••eight , " and the
largest of tnem are barely the size of the 20 th part of the dumeter of a drop of blood . Experiments were made 0 : 1 rabbits and monkeys ; the animals inoculated shovvinv ; every symptom of influenza soon after they had been injected with the preparation obtained by the professors from thc cultivation 01 the microbe .
The religious but unsecurian character of Freemasonry is practically demonstrated by the fact that 703 ordained ministers are devoted members of lodges in the Masonic ju'isdiction of the State of Nesv York , giving in the average one clergyman to each lodge . The denominations and creeds represented are the following : the Methodist , Episcopalian , Baptist , Presbyterian , Universalis ! ,
Congrcgationalist , Dutch Reformed , Chiistian , Lutheran , Jewialb Unitaiian , and Keforinsd Jewish , of svhich the Methodist furnished 28 S , and the Episcopalians 14 O . All these kneel around the Masonic altar to offer up their adoration to the Great Being in svhom they all believe , thus presenting the
sublime spectacle of the Fatherhood of Cjd and the Brotherhood of Man . It is the mission of Freemasonry tu bridge over and heal the differences existing between the various cieeds , in order to unite those in a bond of com mon brotherhood svho othersvisc svould have remained at perpetual distance from one another . —Hebrew Standard .
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Masonic And General Tidings.
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS .
The Duke of Connaught visited the Oueen and the Prince and Princess of Wales at Osborne on Sunday , and remained to lunch , returning to Portsmouth in the afternoon . Bro . Earl and Countess Cosvper , after entertaining sundry house and shooting parties at their Bedfordshire seat , Wrest Park , will leave England for a two months' sojourn abroad .
It is denied that Bro . the Earl of Kintore , Governor of South Australia , has accepted the Governorship of Nesv Zealand , rendered vacant by the resignation of Bro . the Earl of Onslosv . The remains of the late Bro . Sir Morell Mackenzie svere interred in Wargrave Churchyard on Monday , some 20 mourners being present . Lady Mackenzie has received letters of sympathy from the Empress Frederick of Germany and the Prince of Wales .
Mr . Alderman Cotton svas ssvorn in as City Chamberlain at the Court of Aldermen , on Monday , and at once resigned his gosvn as Alderman for the Ward of Bridge Without , for which , accordingly , unless there is an exchange of svards , there is nosv a s'acar . cy .
We regret to record the death on the 30 th ult . of Bro . William Groves , P . M . of the Belgrave Lodge , No . 749 . Our deceased brother was initiated in April , 1 S 72 , and remained a subscribing member till his death . He svas also a Royal Arch Mason , having been exalted in the United Pilgrims
Chapter , No . 507 , in 1 SS 2 , of svhich he svas J . at the time of his death . The follosving members of the Belgrave Lodge attended at Kensal Green Cemetery on the 4 th inst . to pay the last sad tribute of respect : Bros . E . E . Austin , W . M . ; H . Garrod , Sec ; Coltart , Titley , F . Kedge , VV . Kedge , Alford , and Calvert .
Bro . Lord Mayor Evans , accompanied by the Lady Mayoress , and Bros . Alderman and Sheriff Tyler and Sheriff Foster visited the Electrical Exhibition at the Crystal Palace on Saturday last . At the banquet on the occasion there svere present Bros . Sir Frederick Abel , Sir John B . Monckton , and Sir E . M . Shasv ,
Among those present at the marriage of the Hon . Walter Bagot , Grenadier Guards , and Margaret , youngest daughter of the late Hon . Frederick and Lady Adelaide Cadogan , at St . Paul ' s , Knightsbridge , on Saturday last svere Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar , Bro . Sir William and Lady Hart-Dyke , Bro . and Mrs . Hatnar Bass , and Bro . Montague J . Guest .
Bro . Sir Charles Hall , O . C , M . P ., has been elected Recorder of London , in place of the late Sir Thomas Chambers . He svas born in 1 S 43 ; educated at Harrosv and Trinity College , Cambridge ; and for the last 14 years has held the office of Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales and Duchy of Cornsvall .
The many Masonic friends of Bro . VV . F . Lamonby svill be glad to learn that he has settled down in the Metropolis . For upsvards of 15 years before his departure for Australia , Bro . I-amonby was on the staff of the Field nesvspaper , and a vacancy having recently occurred , the appointment was offered to him and accepted . VVe wish him all success .
A panic occurred at the Prince ' s Theatre , Blackburn , on Saturday evening last , svhen the house svas crammed to suffocation by an audience composed moslly of the working class . The actors and orchestra , however , svent on svith the performance , and the terror rapidly subsided , but not till some benches , & c , had been smashed and many people had had their clothes torn to rags . But for thiscoolne . 's on the part of the company , a terrible catastrophe must have happened .
The funeral of Bro . S . Paige , Secretary of the Savage Club Lodge , svho died on Saturday last , took place at Highgate Cemetery yesterday ( Thursday ) . It svas the wish of the deceased that the funeral arrangements should be of a simple nature , otherwise his brethren would have been present in greater numbers to pay their
last tribute ol respect and regard to his memory—but both the Savage Club and Savage Club Lodge svere represented . Bro . Paige svas a victim to the influenza , svhich a somesvhat weak constitution prevented his rallying from . He svill be much missed in Masonic circles , especially in the Savage Club Lodge , svhere his sterling svorth and genial qualities svere much appreciated .
We are glad to hear that Bro . F . Dixon Bramald , of " 755 i who svas obliged to leave this country a fesv months ago , in consequence of repeated attacks of influenza , has arrived at Wellington , Nesv Zealand , in improved health . He has visited the Waterloo Lodge , No . 1 G 6 , under the Scotch Constitution , and has been most cordiall y received
with that loving kindness which is so characteristic of the Fraternity . We shall be glad to hear from our Colonial brother svith items of Masonic intelligence from time to time , and to learn of his svelfare in the new country . Bro . Bramald , svho svas established as a chemist in the West of England till his health gave svay , is now manager for the New Zealand Drug Company at Wellington , N . Z .
At the full-dress Parliamentary dinner given by the Marquis of Salisbury as Prime Minister at his residence in Arlington-street on Monday there svere present , among others , Bros . Lord Halsbury ( Lord Chancellor ) , the Dukes of Athole and Portland , the Marquis of Hertford , the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe , Albermarle , Hardwicke , Limerick , Amherst , Yarborough , FeversYiam , Wharncliffe , and
Londesborough , and Lords Windsor , Balfour , Ilrnniker , Churchill , and Egerton of Tatton . At that of the First Lord of the Treasury in Dosvning-street the guests included Bros . Lord George Hamilton . Lord Arthur Hill , Sir James Furgusson , Bart ., Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., the Hon . D . Plunket , Sir VV . Hart-Dyke , Bart ., Sir VV . T . Marriott , Q . C , Baron H . de Worms , Sir John E . Gorst ,
Q . C , the Uight Hon . VV . L . Jackson , the Right Hon . A . Akers-Dous-las , Sir VV . H . VValrond , Sir E . Clarke . Q . C , and C . B . Stuart-Wortley . Bros . Lord Herschell , SirTieo . Trevelyan , Bart ., and J . G . Shasv-Lefevre dined vvith Mr . Campbell-Bannerman , and Bros , the Marquis of Tweeddale , Earl Cosvper , the Earl of Arran , and Lord Monk Bretton svith the Earl of Derby .
Masonic And General Tidings.
By the death of the Rev . C . H . Spurgeon the Accident Insurance Company Limited , of St . Swithin ' s-lane , loses one of its oldest policy-holders . The Grand Lodge of Canada , at its recent meeting in Toronto , defeated , by a vote of 616 to 404 , a motion to prohibit the use of spiritous liquors as beverages at Masonic banquets .
The Commander-in-Chief has sanctioned the programme submitted to him in respect of the mobilisation of the London Volunteers at Easter , Dover and Chatham being the points of assembly . A marriage has been arranged-, and svill shortly take place , betsveen the Hon . William F . J . Dundas , brother of the Earl of Zetland , and Mary Maud , youngest daughter of Mrs . Prinsep , of 10 , Ovington-square .
According to a telegram from Port Said of the Sth inst . a collision occurred in the Suez Canal on that day between her Majesty's troopship Euphrates and the German steamer Guten . fels , by svhich the latter received considerable damage . The Duke of Cambridge , svho will shortly return to England , has expressed his intention of presiding at the svinter meeting of the National Rifle A- sociation , svhich svill
beheld at the Royal United Service Institution on Wednesday , the 24 th inst . At Covent Garden on VVednesday the third carnival ball of the season svas held , and by comparison svith its predecessors evidenced the grossing popularity of these entertainments . There svas a keen rivalry for the prizes ass-arded to the best and most effective costumes .
It has been decided by the Royal Commission appointed to consider the question that the Raphael Cartoons , svhich svere removed from Hampton Court Palace to South Kensington in 1 S 65 , shall remain at the latter place , chiefly , it is believed , on the ground of its comparative immunity from fire .
In acknosvledgment of his arch . eological labours , the Society of Antiquaries , at [ a meeting held on Thursday , the 4 th inst ., conferred upon Bro . Brackstone Baker , P . G . D ., the honourable distinction of F . S . A . This designation is much sought after , and one that can only be obtained by merit .
The Princess Christian was present at a meeting of the Council of the . Royal British Nurses' Association , svhich svas held at the rooms of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society , Hanover-square , on Monday , svhen it svas resolved to adopt the recommendation of the General Committee and authorise it to take such steps as may be advisable to obtain the grant of a Royal Charter .
At a sitting of the Academy of Sciences at Paris on Monday , M . Darboux presented to his colleagues , Jacques I naudi , a calculator , svho exhibited such marvellous readiness in solving the most difficult problems that a Committee svas formed at the close of the sitting to deliberate upon the best use to svhich the extraordinary faculty of J acques 1 naudi can be put .
We have received a communication from the joint Secretaries , Bros . J . Kilvington , P . M . 1790 , and W . J . Russell , 4 63 , that in consequence of the recent lamented death of H . R . H . the Duke of Clarence and Avondale , the Masonic ball svhich svas to have been held at the Greyhound Hotel , Croydon , this month , is postponed si ' uc die . The brethren svho have given their patronage and influential support svill
kindly accept this intimation . One cf the most enjoyable balls of the season svas given in the Adelphi Hotel , Liverpool , on Thursday , the 4 th inst ., upsvards of uo people paiticipating . Amongst those who attended were Bros . E . R . Lathom , P . M . ; VV . Allenby , VV . M . ; D . Dunkel , I . P . M . 594 ; J . Phelan , S . W . ; J . Horley , S . D . ; C . A . Gabnelson , J . S . Buck , and U .
M'Cleave , Stsvds . ; E . Jcffns , I . G . ; and E . Smart , J . VV . The music svas provided by Bro . E . Clayton , and the programme included 20 dances . On the night of the 2 nd inst ., the annuil soiree and ball in connection svith the St . Bede Lodge , No . 1119 , Jarro-v—Bro . J . W . Lhaytor , W . M . —vvere held in the large hall of the Mechanics' Institute , which svas profusely and tastefully
decorated . Over 05 c uples occupied tbe spacious iloir . The M . C . ' s svere Bros . . Thos . Robinson , J . T . Douglas , James Robinson , and H . M . Smellie ; McDougall , D . C . ; and H . Soderberg , J . Taylor , A . J . Prince , J . Rigby , and VV . F . Renton , Stewards . The music was supplied by Mr . Amers , the refreshments by Mrs . TuVhill and by Mr , Vasey .
A special mcelingof the Committee of the Throat Hospital , Golden- ; ej'iare , was held on Tuesday , Mr . Welch , Chairman , presiding . Lord Londesborough was am mg those present . A resolution of condolence svith Lady Mackenzie and her family was passed , as was also a further resolution in the follosving terms : " 'That the Committee desire to record their sense of the irreparable loss
svhich this charity has sustained by the lamented death of Sir Morell Mackenzie , the founder of the institution , to the interestsof which , during a period of nearly eight-and-t * enty years he devoteel the greater part of his time , the best of his energies , and the svhole of his heart . " The latest victim to influenza is Sir James Caird , svho had reachi d the age of 7 ; . The son of a Wigtonshire laird , he
was educated at Edintiurgh University and then for a time devoted him-e f tn Ugh farming . He lirst came into notice soon after the abolition of the Corn Laws , as ihe water of a volume on high farming as a substitute for Protection , and then visited every county in England as the Times Sp «* i . el Commissioner on Agriculture . He sat in Parliament from 1 S 57 to 1865 , but his chief public seivices svere of an
administrative character . He has served on various Commissions , such as those on Sea Fisheiies , the Indian Famine , and th ¦ ¦ Iri ^ h Land Law . Not the least of his services when in Parliament vvas to obtain a grant for the collection and publication of Agricultural Stalistics . He svas made a K . C . B . in 1 SS 2 , at svhich time he svas Chairman of the Reform Club .
HIILLOSVAV ' S (_) l \ TM 6 Xi AND I ' l ¦ l . s . —fllamhilar swellings in thc throat , neuralgia , licileilurs-ux , ihciiiu . 'itism , gout , lumbago , ami i . tlicr disea > es allee-ting th' : glands , muscles , and nerve . - of sensation are permanently ur . iclic . ited liy this healing anti-fel ) Ue and walling preparation , 'tis also a perfect remedy for all skin
diseases , and e * ery kind of siiperhcial inflammation , svliich soon lose tlieir angry and painful character under this invaluable Ointment . The Tills have never been administered cither by hospital or private practitioner in dyspepsia or liver complaints without producing the desired result .
Masonic And General Tidings.
The Queen , according to present arrangements , svill leave Osborne on the 17 th March , and svill arrive at Hyeres on the 19 th . The Committee has reported favourably on the Bill presented in the United States Senate appropriating 300 , 000 dollars for a monument to General Grant in Washington .
A National Museum of Commerce and Industry is about to be created in Paris , and it is estimated that it svill cost 2 , 000 , 000 fr . The Paris Chamber of Commerce has agreed to supply 1 , 000 , 000 fr ., and the Minister of Commerce has undertaken to ask Parliament to furnish the remainder .
Net fishing on the Tay opened on Thursday under most favourable circumstances . The liver is teeming svith fish , and on some stations as many fish has'e been already caught as will pay the rent for the year . On Stanley waters two and a half tons of salmon svere secured in a fesv hours .
The Prince and Princess of Wales , svith Prince George and Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales and Colonel Stanley Clarke , left Victoria Station on Thursday b y special train for Eastbourne , svhere they svill remain at Comp'on House , belonging to the Duke of Devonshire , for several sveeks .
The Princess of Wales has granted permission for the cot in the Victoria Hospital for Children , svhich has been endowed by the members of the Children ' s Salon connecteel svith the Gentlewoman , to be named the " Albert Victor Edward " in memory of her son , the late Duke of Clarence and Avondale .
The follosving is the list of new Oueen ' s Council : Messrs . David Lindo Alexander , Edsvarrf Ridley , Archie Kirkman Loyd , Henry Gordon Shee , Albert Childers , Meysey Thompson , Alfred Hopkinson , Ernest Pollock , and Henry Fielding Dickens , the Hon . Bernard Coleridge , Lionel Edward Pyke , and William Snowdon Robson .
Mr . Freake , son of Sir Thomas Freake , Bart ., svas hunting on Thursday svith the Vale of White Horse Hounds near Ssvindon , svhen , in jumping a gate , he svas thrown from his horse . His neck svas broken by the fall and he died immediately . The body vvas conveyed to his residence , Eastcourt House , Wilts ., Mr . Miller , the Master , stopped the hunt at once .
A curious shooting accident occurred at Whale Island on Wednesday afternoon . The men of the Naval Gunnery School were being exercised in lield movements , and svere advancing in line svhen one of them dropped a pebble into his rille , and aimed at a flosver in front of him . Just then a seaman from the gun shed ran across in front of the line and received the pebble in the base of the back . The missile has not yet been extracted .
The late Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte has left to the nation his valuable collection of metals , svhich is now in course of arrangement at the Science Museum , South Kensington . •' The collection , " says Nature , " is rich in specimens of the rarer metals . " This bequest is the result of a promise made to Professor Roberts-Austen , the Prince having been much interested in the Percy Collection at South Kensington .
Royal Arch Masons coming from Europe cannot visit any Royal Arch chapters in the United States . The reason is that the Koyal Arch Degree is given in foreign countries as the . fourth in order , or next to the Master Mason ' s , svhile here it is conferred as the seventh . A foreign brother must apply for and receive the intermediate Degrees of Mark M ., P . M ., and M . E . M ., and be legally healed as to the R . A . before he can be permitted to enter a chapter of
Royal Arch Masons . —American Mason . A special meeting of the Dundee To . vn Council svas held on Thursday , svhen a letter was read from her Majesty the Oueen announcing that the Chief Magistrate of Dundee and his successors in ollice were authorised , in all time coming , to use the style and title of Lord Provost . Much gratification svas expressed by the Councillors at this second recognition of the loyalty of Dandee by her Majesty , the town having only recently been elevated to the rank of a city .
Bro . Lord Ashbourne ( Lord Chancellor of Ireland ) has been elected President of ihe Benevolent Society of St . Patrick in succession to Bro . the Earl of Arran , svhose term of ollice has expired . At the recent annual meeting addresses of condolence svere passed to the CJueen and the Prince and Princess of VVales on the death ot the Duke of Clarence and Avondale , svho svas also Earl of Athlone . Bro . General Viscount Wolseley vvas also elected a member of the Committee .
Tivo French Professors —Cornil and Chantemesse—have informed the Paris Academy of Medicine that they hast actually caught some of the influenza bacilli , and are cultivating them in bouillon , alter the Pasteur method . The organisms are formed like the figure ••eight , " and the
largest of tnem are barely the size of the 20 th part of the dumeter of a drop of blood . Experiments were made 0 : 1 rabbits and monkeys ; the animals inoculated shovvinv ; every symptom of influenza soon after they had been injected with the preparation obtained by the professors from thc cultivation 01 the microbe .
The religious but unsecurian character of Freemasonry is practically demonstrated by the fact that 703 ordained ministers are devoted members of lodges in the Masonic ju'isdiction of the State of Nesv York , giving in the average one clergyman to each lodge . The denominations and creeds represented are the following : the Methodist , Episcopalian , Baptist , Presbyterian , Universalis ! ,
Congrcgationalist , Dutch Reformed , Chiistian , Lutheran , Jewialb Unitaiian , and Keforinsd Jewish , of svhich the Methodist furnished 28 S , and the Episcopalians 14 O . All these kneel around the Masonic altar to offer up their adoration to the Great Being in svhom they all believe , thus presenting the
sublime spectacle of the Fatherhood of Cjd and the Brotherhood of Man . It is the mission of Freemasonry tu bridge over and heal the differences existing between the various cieeds , in order to unite those in a bond of com mon brotherhood svho othersvisc svould have remained at perpetual distance from one another . —Hebrew Standard .
INKI . UKNZA TONIC . —Nothing is more effective in keeping up nerve and strength during ihe prevalence of influenza than Grant ' s Murella Cherry Brandy . In cases ol debility its marvellous restorative povscrs , derived from tinpeculiar properties of the Kent Morella , render it of gr ' value in regaining strength after illness . Sold everywhere ,