Obituary.

n a friendly manner , in no way bearing a Masonic character . Yours fraternally , —L . BURGOYNE PILLIN , W . M ., 180 . " The lodge will be in mourning till October ioth . Bro . Bubb was also W . M . of Maidenhead Lodge , J . W . of Londesborough , and P . S . St . James ' s Union Chapter .

In Memoriam Sir Gilbert Scott.

IN MEMORIAM SIR GILBERT SCOTT .

On Sunday afternoon Dean Stanley preached a funeral sermon in Westminster Abbey . There was a very large attendance . Choosing as his text the words of the Psalmist , "The house of Gotl , " the Dean began by observing that our idea of the Invisible almost inevitably made for itself a shell or husk for the visible , and that was the

germ of religious architecture . That was the reason why the most splendid buildings in the world had been temples or churches ; that was the reason why the most spiritual , even the most Puritanical religion , clothetl itself with the drapery not only of wortls and sounds and pictures but of wood and stone and marble . The Friends ' meetinghouse was as really a house of God , antl , therefore , a

decisive testimony to the sacredness of architecture as the most magnificent cathedral . Hc proceeded to say that he tlesired to bring before them the religious aspect of the noble science and art of the architect . On the previous day there was laid within those walls the most famous builder of his generation . Others might have soared to loftier flights , or produced special works of more

commanding power , but no name within the last 30 years had been so widely impressed on the edifices of Great Britain , past and present , as that of Gilbert Scott . It was the singular fortune of his career that it coincided with one of thc most memorable revolutions of taste that the world had witnessed . That peculiar conception of architectural beauty called Gothic was altogether unknown to Pagan

or Christian antiquity . Born partly of Saracenic and partly of German parentage , it worked its way into per fection by the mysterious instinct which travelled through Europe in the Middle Ages . It flourished for four centuries , and then dietl as completely as if it had never existed . Another style took its place . By Catholic and Protestant it was alike repudiated . By the hands of French and

Italian prelates , no less than of English and Scottish Reformers , its traces were obliterated . Suddenly , in the first half of this century a new eye was given to the mind of man . Gradually , through various channels—in this country through the minute observations nf a Quaker student—the vision of the past rose before thc world . Thc glory antl the grace of our soaring arches antl of our

stained windows were seen as they never had been to mortal eyes since the time of their erection . To imita te , to preserve this ancient style in all its marvellous beauty was the inevitable consequence , hc might almost say the overwhelming temptation , of this new discovery . The hour had come when the ecclesiastical architecture ol the past was to be roused from its slumber , and with the hour .

came thc man , who became the incarnation of thc taste of the age . Those who knew Gilbert Scott anel valued him , who leanctl upon him as a tower of strength in their difficulties , who honoured his indefatigable industry , his childlike humility , antl his unvarying courtesy , felt that in him they had lost one of those gentle guileless , upright souls who in their memories might still elevate , their own souls heavenward .

Oxford And Cambridge Boat Race.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE .

The following are the crews , with their latest weights : — OXFORD . St . lb . 1 . W . A . Ellison , University ; .. ... ... 10 12

2 . D . J . Cowles , St . John ' s 11 3 3 . H . B . Southwell , Pembroke .. ; ... ... 12 7 4 . W . H . Grcnfell , Balliol 12 9 5 . H . Pelham , Magdalen 12 10 to . G . F . Burgess , Keble ... ... ... 13 2 7 . T . C . Edwards-Moss , Brasenose .. ; ... 12 2 11 . P . Marriott , Brasenose ( stroke ) ... ... 12 o

F . M . Beaumont , New ( cox ) 7 4

CAMBRIDGE . St . lb . i . H . R . Jones , Jesus 10 11 2 . J . Watson-Taylor , Magdalene ... ; .. 11 8 3 . T . W . Barker , First Trinity 12 7 4 . R . J . Spurrell , Trinity Hall 12 1 5 . L . G . Pike , Caius 12 8 6 . C . Gurdon , J esus ... ... ... ... 13 o 7 . T . E . Hockin , Jesus 12 7

E . H . Prest , Jesus ( stroke ) .. - 16 13 G . L . Davis , Clare ( cox ) .. ; .. ; ... 7 6

The Court Circular announces from Osborne that her Majesty and Princess Beatrice witnessed on Tuesday the funeral of her Majesty ' s much-regretted head gamekeeper , Mr . Land , who had been seven years in the Queen ' s service . GRAND CHAPTER or PRINCE MASONS OF IRELAND . —The triennial convocation of the Princes Grand

Rose Croix of Ireland will be held at Freemasons' Hall , Dublin , on Thursday , the 25 th April , 1878 , at six o ' clock p . m ., when the Hon . Judge Townshend , LL . D ., President of the Order , will preside , anel present to Grand Chapter bis report as to the progress and present position of the Rose Croix Order in Ireland . The banquet will take place at seven o'clock . American Art at the Paris Exhibition will be

representetl by some 105 pictures , including a dozen watercolours . The greater number of paintings are by New York artists , there being only five from Boston and three from Philadelphia , while about twenty-five will be contributed by American artists abroad , i

Notes On Art, &C.

NOTES ON ART , & c .

Says a correspondent in the Graphic , it was our good fortune to receive an invitation to a " studio warming" in fancy dress from an artist well known as one of the strongest of the Graphic staff , and a member of thc Institute of Painters in Water Colours . It must beconfes-ed that ordinary fancy balls are rather dismal affairs , and , if

you do note an effective costume , you may feel sure that some artist has had the arrangement of it . Now , in thc present case—that of Mr . Charles Green ' s party at Charlecote—the studio itself , with its gallery , the quaint staircase , the attendants in costume , and the 150 guests , nearly all artists ; who looked thoroughly at ease in their dresses , helped to produce a most brilliant effect , and to give an

extraordinary reality to the scene . Many of our readers will recollect , in our last Christmas Number , thc coloured print ot the ; charming procession of the Children ' s Calico Ball , drawn by our host , who may be considered an authority on costume . It was this feeling , we imagine , on the part of the visitors that caused them to take especial pains with their appearance . Among those costumes which struck

us as being particularly effective were Maximilian , who looked as if he had just been stantling for one of Albert Outer ' s drawings ; an admirable make-up as Irving in Hamlet , a capital Henry the Eighth , and Charles the First , a charming but too cheerful-looking " Alsace , " a regular homely-looking Dutch couple ; oue > oung lady in white satin , with an enormous poke bonnet as worn by our grandmothers ; the two Elizabethan figures in Mr . Pettie's

last year ' s Academy picture of " The Duel , " one in black satin and the other in white ; a Venetian Senator to the very life ; two Cavalier Brothers , James the First's period ; an admirable Huguenot in white , a burly Austrian officer , etc . ; but we find it a vcry difficult task to only mention a few of the costumes when nearly every one may be considered to have been a ' success . A relic of Conventual London has been found

at Kilburn during some alterations on the North-Western Railway . It is a brass plate and effigy of thc time of Edward III ., supposed to have belonged to the coffin of an abbess of Kilburn Priory , which was once attached to Old Westminster Abbey . The Whitehall Revivw notes that a dramatic recital will be given by Mrs . Monckton and Sir Charles

L . Young , on Wednesday evening , May Sth , at the Steinway Hall , in aid of the St . John and St . Elizabeth Hospital , Great Ormoud-street , for the reception of female patients suffering from incurable or long-standing disease . The entertainment will be under thc patronage of the Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry , Lady Alice Garsford , Lady Harriet Wegg-Prosser , Lady Georgiana

Fullerton , Lady Constance Bellmgham , the Lady Beaumont , thc Lady Herbert of Lea , the Lady OTIagan , Hon . Mrs . Pereira , Hon . Mrs . A . Fraser , Mrs . Russell , of Allen , and Mrs . Bertram W . Currie . The programme will include selections from the works of John Tobin , Miss Procter , Lord Lytton , Sheridan Knowles , Leigh Hunt , T . Hood , C . Swain , & c . For the benefit of thnse who have

never seen these accomplished amateurs , I may say that Mrs . Monckton and Sir Charles Young are not merely " rep . tlers " but appear in dialogues and scenes . BETHNAL GREEN BRANCH MUSEUM . — The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education have directed that a special Loan Exhibition of furniture , cabinet work , and ornamental wood work used in the interior of

dwellings shall be held in the Bethnal-green Museum during the summer months , commencing on the 1 st of May . This will occupy the space rendered available on tlie ground floor of the museum by the removal to Paris of the Prince of Wales ' s Indian presents till lately shown there . Their Lordships understand that the manufacture of household furniture is largely carried on in the East of London ; hence

they believe that the proposed Exhibition will be of special interest in that district . Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to direct that a selection from the furniture of the Royal Palaces shall be included in this Exibhition . The National Gallery has acquired a picture by Gian Girolamo Savoldo , the Brcscian painter , and which

until lately was hanging in the Casa Fenaroli , Brescia , as a Zingara by Titian . The painting , however , is believed to be the same picture seen by Ridolfi in thc Casa Averolda at Brescia , and described by him as a Magdalen going to the Sepulchre , particularly as the Berlin Museum contains a nearly similar painting done by Savoldo , antl bearing his signature . The picture in thc National Gallery is a half-length of a young woman with her head enveloped

in a white silk veil , while in the background are ruined buildings , and a vase set on a stone . In the distance are shores like those of the Venetian lagoons , and the day is just breaking . WELSH LITERATURE . —The Archbishop of Canterbury has conferreel the degree of Bachelor in Divinity on the Rev . David Howell , vicar of Wrexham , North Wales , for his services in the promotion of Welsh literature and the intellectual culture of the people of Wales .

Our Contemporary the Graphic , generally so admirably edited and illustrated , is we think , with all deference , making a mistake in its reproduction of the "Historic d ' une Crime , " and above all in the unwelcome and painful illustration which accompanies it this last week . We say this in all friendliness to and liking for the Graphic . The Nottingham Museum , which has been in

course of formation for some time past , is to be openeel in June by the Prince and Princess of Wales . Loans have been promised from several important collections , and owners of works of art are asked to contribute . An Exhibition of Drawings of the Isle of Wight by Mr . Elijah Walton is now being held at thc Burlington Gallery ;

Masonic Nad General Tidings.

Masonic nad General Tidings .

The Provincial Grand Craft Lodge of Cumberland and Westmorland , will hold its half yearly meeting on Friday the 26 th inst ., at Keswick , under the banner of Greta Lodge , No . 1073 . We believe we are correct in stating that the Grantl Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England , will hold a meeting at Keswick , on Friday , the 26 th inst .

THE TELEPHONE . —One of the most interesting antl valuable applications of Professor Bell ' s telephone in the United States was seen in a recent railway disaster near Hartford , ^ Connecticut . An excursion train , returning from Moody and Sankey ' s revival meetings , plunged through a bridge , killing or wounding many passengers . Brought by telegraph wires to Hartfortl , the news was

taken up by a system of telephone wires connecting a chemist's shop with the residences of twe « ty-one physicians . So prompt was the summons that in half an hour the physicians , fully equipped , were at the railway station , where a wrecking train conveyed them to the scene of death and suffering . Thirteen thousand telephones are now in ope ' - ration in the United States .

WIGAN INFIRMARY . —The Wigan Infirmary will receive at least £ 150 as the result of the exhibition of pictures painted by Captain Charles Mercier , which consisted of between 60 and 70 of his works . Bro . P . G . M . John W . Simons , Masonic Editor cf the N . Y . Dispatch , has just been presented by

some of his admiring friends and brethren with a magnificent gold chronometer , in heavy gold hunting case . We are always glad to note a case of this kind . True , virtue is its own reward , but virtue plus a chronometer nicely encased , guarantees down weight in the balance . —Keystone .

A new Mark Lodge is about to be opened at Whitehaven , making the fifth , in the Province of Cumberland and Westmorland . The National Gallery will be closed , for cleaning , from Monelay , the 15 th inst ., to Srturtlay , the 210 th inst . inclusive , but will be re-opened to thc public on Easter Monday ann during the whole of the Easter week , including Thursday and Friday , days ordinarily reserved for students .

The Committee of the Free Library , The Hall , London-stieet , Beihnal-grecn , have received a donation of twenty volumes from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the above institution . The quarterly convocation of the Metropolitan

College of the Rosicrncian Society took place on Thursday last . A report will appear in our next . The Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education has appointed Mr . Bryant to be his private secretary .

ECLECTIC CHATTER ( NO . 1201 ) . —Monday , the 29 th inst ., is the day fixed upon for the consecration of this chapter , which ceremony will take place at the Heolborn Restaurant , at 5 p . m . All Royal Arch companions are fraternally inviictl to be present . The banquet , whioh wc arc informed , will be of a recherche nature , one of the best of the season , will be served in the Prince ' s saloon , at 6 . 30 p . m . Thc tickets for the banquet ( oricc 21 s . ) maybe obtained of Comp . John Mason , 17 , Miltbank-street , S . W .

Public Amusements.

Public Amusements .

OLYMPIC THEATRE . —It was a courageous thing on the part of Mr . Gilbert when his Comedy " The Ne ' er do Weel ** was pronounced a failure , to undertake to re-write and re-construct ir , but " The Vagabond " as the piece is now called , displays nothing beyond the author ' s courage . The first ac , which is by far the best of the three , would not be unworthy of a promising beginner , but " certes " is not

worthy of thc author of " Pygmalion and Galatea "—and the second and third acts are simply absurd . The story is just the kind of story that a schoolboy would tell , presuming hc had the knowledge to put it into dramatic form—it displays unqualified ignorance of human nature ; the men are absolute prigs , and the women something worse , both are the creations of an author who has utterly discarded

Pope ' s axiom— The proper study of mankind is man " for the men would not be tolerated in society , antl the women would never be found there . Both as a writer of fairy comedy , and of modern comedy , Mr . Gilbert has no rival ; no one can write as well as he in the one , none so bad in the other . Bro . Neville as " The Vagabond" in the first act displays the rich advantage of his marvellous

power of acting . FOLLY THEATRE . — "Les Cloches de Corneville'' is a bright , merry and tuneful comic opera , and will certainly hold the boards for many a week to come . As the miser , Gaspard , Mr . Shiel Barry fairly electrifies his audience in the second act . No such true tragic form has been seen on the stage since the death of the elder Kean . Playgoers in

search of excitement will find their best hopes realised by a visit to the Folly . ALHAMBRA . —Ever since Mr . Charles Morton has had the management of this house it has " flourished exceeding well . " " The Grand Duchess , " produced here for the first time on Monday last , was a " palpable hit , " and is , in

truth , a worthy successor to " Maelame Angot . " The songs and tunes are too well known to need comment , but never since its introduction to London has this comic opera of Offenbach ' s been so well mounted , so well playeel , and withal so well received . From among the London sights at this season commenil us to " The Alhambra . '

Owing to the great pressure on our columns , the report oi the grand concert at Manchester is unavoidably postporied until next week ;