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THEALEXMDRIHCIGARETTECO.'S NEW BRAND . DRAGOUMIS. PREPARED OF THE PUREST TURKISH TOBACCOS . The highest classes of tobacco , however , are converted into the well-known " Dragoumis , " for which the Alexandria Cigarette Company have gained a deservedly high reputation , and we have no hesitation in saying , after a practical test so far as our taste and judgment permit , that they are superior to any we have yet tried , either imported or otherwise . — Whitehall Review . Their latest brand , " Dragoumis , " made of a skilful blend of fine Egyptian tobaccos , is full of flavour , yet delicately fragrant enough to please the most fastidious palate . We shall be surprised if "Dragoumis " do not prove the cigarette of the season . —Pump Court .

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APPRENTICE ( out-door ) WANTED for SHIRT MANUFACTORY and HOSIERY TRADE . Small Premium . Progressive Wages at once . Business practically taught . —Bro . H . J . CHAPMAN , 7 , Railway Approach , London Bridge , S . E .

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CHAPEL ROYAL , WHITEHALLPreachers Sunday next , 16 th inst ., u a . m ., Rev . Charles J . Martyn , M . A . j 3 . 30 p . m ., Rev . Arthur R . Godson , M . A . The offertories at both Services vvill , by kind permission of the Subdean , be given in aid of the Funds of the Universal Beneficent Society , 15 , Sohosquare , W . —G . STORMONT MURPHY .

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London & North Western Railway

LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS , 1888 . TICKETS for all the principal places on the London and North Western system , available from either Euston or Kensington ( Addison Road ) , and dated to suit the convenience of passengers , can be obtained at the Spread Eagle office , Piccadilly Circus , and other principal Town Receiving offices of the Company , and at Messrs . Gaze and Sons' office , 142 , Strand , VV . C , as well as at the Railway Stations .

ON SATURDAY , DECEMBER 22 nd , Special Ex presses will leave Euston at 2 . 50 p . m . for Bletchley , North ampton , Rugby , Trent Valley , and Stafford ; at 4 . 20 p . m for Birmingham , calling at Willesden Junction , Rugby . Coventry , and Stechford , arriving at Birmingham ( Newstreet ) at 7 . 5 p . m . ; and at 6 . 50 p . m . for Rugby .

On CHRISTMAS EVE , MONDAY , DECEMBER 24 th , the Night Irish Mail , due to leave Euston at S . 20 p . m ., will not leave until g . 15 p . m . Passengers from Birmingham , Liverpool , and Manchester for Holyhead and Ireland will leave at the usual hours , and will be taken forward to Holyhead in advance of the London train . The Mail Packet for Kingstown will not leave Holyhead until the passengers from London are on board .

The 12 . 0 night Tram from London ( Euston ) , due at Warrington at 5 . 15 a . m . on Christmas Day , will be extended from Warrington to Carlisle , Edinburgh , and Glasgow . The Train will call at Wigan , Preston , Lancaster , Carnf . irth , Windermere , Oxenholme , Tebay , Penrith , and Carlisle . CHRISTMAS DAY . —On Christmas Day the usual

Sunday service of trains vvill be run , with the following additions : —The 5 . 15 a . m . Newspaper Express Train Irom London will run to Northampton , Birmingham , Stafford , Shrewsbury , Liverpool , Manchester , Warrington , Wigan , Preston , Lancaster , Carnforth , Kendal , Windermere , Penrith , Carlisle , Edinburgh , and Glasgow , but will have no connection to Chester and Noith Wales . The 7 . 15 a . m . Down Day Irish Mail from Euston to Holyhead , and the

11 . 30 a . m . Up Day Irish Mail from Holyhead to Euston , will be run on Christmas Day the same as on week-days , and will also call at Bangor , the Down Mail at 12 . 45 p . m ., and the Up Mail at 12 . 3 noon . . For further particulars see Special Notices issued by the Company . G . FINDLAY , General Manager . Euston Station , December , 18 S 8 .

Great Western Railway.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY .

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS .

ON December 18 th , and during the week , CHEAP THIRO CLASS RETUR . V TICKETS , available on forward journey from Dec . 21 st to 25 th , and for return up to December 28 th inclusive , will be issued as well as ordinary tickets at PADDINGTON , Victoria , Battersea , Cht-l > ea , West Brompton , Kensington ( Addison-road ) , Uxbridge-rd ., Hammersmith , Shepherd ' s Bush , and Wes * -

bourne Park , and at the Company ' s Receiving Offices , viz .: 193 and 407 , Oxford-street , 23 , New Oxford-street , Holborncircus ( Bartlett ' s-buildings ) , 26 , Kegent-street , 29 , Charing Cross , 5 , Atthur-street East , London Bridge , 8 * , Queen Victoria-street , 43 and 44 , Crutched Friars , 67 , Greshamstreet , and 4 , Cheapside , to Bath , Bristol , Taunton , BarnstapleIlfracombe , Exeter , Toiquay , Plymouth , Falmouth ,

, Penzance , & c . ; also to the Yeovil and Weymouth districts , and to most of the STATIONS BELOW BRISTOL , lhe tickets will be available by all trains from Paddington , except the 11 . 45 a - - a"d 3 . 0 p . m ., and the 9 . 45 p . m . Special on Christmas Eve . Ordinary tickets issued in London between December

18 th and 24 th will be available for use any day between ( and including ) those dates . On Saturday , December 22 nd , the 6 . 20 p . m . from Paddington to Bristol will run to Exeter , calling at Weston-Super-Mare , Bridgwater , Taunton ( lor Barnstaple ) , and Tiverton Junction , reaching Exeter at 11 . 40 p . m .

On December 22 nd and 24 th , the 11 . 45 a - - from Paddington will carry passengers to the Minehead Branch . The 1 . 0 and 5 . 0 p . m . trains ( 1 , 2 , and 3 class ) , from Paddington to Plymouth will be extended to Falmouth and Penzance . On December 24 th , the 5 . 0 p . m . train vvill convey passengers to the Barnstaple Branch . The * i-4 S P-m- from Paddington to Weymouth will call

at Witham , whence a Special train will run to Wells . A SPECIAL F AST TRAIN ( 1 , 2 , and 3 class ) vvill leave Paddington at Midnight on December 22 nd and 24 th , for Reading , Swindon , Bath , Bristol , Bridgwater , Taunton , Exeter , Dawlish , Teignmouth , Newton Abbot ( for Torquay and Kingswear ) , Totnes , Kingsbridge Road , Plymouth , and all Stations thence to Penzance , The cheap tickets will be available by this train .

On Christmas Eve , specials will leave Paddington at g . 45 and 10 . 0 p . m . for Penzance and New Milford , calling at the same Stations as the 9 . 0 and 9 . 15 p . m . ordinary trains . The 10 . 0 p . m . Special will also convey passengers to Carmarthen and Stations to Llandyssil . A special will leave Oxford at 10 . 0 p . m ., Abingdon , 9-55 >_ Radley , 10 . 10 , and Culham , at 10 . 18 p . m ., in connection with these trains , returning from Didcot after arrival of the 10 . 0 p . m . Special

Mail . On Christmas Day the usual Sunday service of trains will be run , but the 5 30 a . m . Newspaper Train will run as on week days to Oxford , Weston Super Mare , and Swansea . The train will be five minutes earlier than usual between

Didcot and Oxford , so as to connect at Oxford vvith thi 7 . 40 a . m . train , thence to Worcester , Malvern , Kidderminster , Wolverhampton , & c . For further particulars see special bills , obtainable at the Company ' s Stations and Offices . HY . LAMBERT , General Manager .

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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . "Die Bauhutte , " "South African Freemason , " "Liberal Freemason , " " New Zealand Masonic Journal , " " Voice of Alasonry , " " Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Scottish Freemasonry in India , " " The Tyler , " and " La Chaine d'Union . "

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3 J | W . l ! --- » -jr ~ -T ^^ p- * r > i ^ y ii * mT Tw-wi ^^ SATURDAY , DECEMBER 15 , 1888 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

" BRO . WOODWARD'S MOTIONS . " To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In reply to Bro . Pope , my proposed amendments to Rule 210 involved three , not two issues , as he states : Fiist , That a lodge should not enter on a question of exclusion until it was in possession of evidenceviz .: a

, Post Office receipt for the registered letter , showing that the lodge Secretary had sent the requisite notice to the brother . Second , That there should be * some finality as to a lodge ' s respinsibility as regards service of the notice , which should be accepted by the Board of General Purposes in case of appeal . The statement by a Secretary that he had sent a notice

is not evidence . The Post Olfice receipt for the registered letter is evidence . I find in 6 and 7 Vic , cap . S < 5 , sec . 41 , which also includes 16 and 17 Vic , " That every summons or other notice required by this Act shall be deemed to be duly served , provided the same or a copy of thereof be either personally served or left at the usual place of abode of the

party to whom it is directed . " It is left at the usual place of abode , when the postman gets the receipt for the delivery of the registered letter . Third , My contention most ceitainlyis , tnat only brethren who vote should be counted . I now ask Bro . Pope to tell me if theie is any law in England which can compel a man to vote when he does not wish to do so ? I funher contend

that the Master of a lodge , when putting any question from the chair , is bound to put b * th the alfinridtive and the negative , and ascertain the numbers , both of those who vote for and of those who vote against the motion , and have them entered in the minute book . Then any brother who did not wish to vote vvould not be compelled to do so by being counted against his will , as he is at present ,

under Rule 2 to . As long as this rule is in force unaltered a broiher is neither a free man or a Freemason . Bro . Pope has most certainly fallen into an error when he states , " If the brother never appears , the lodge need do nothing , lor he excludes himself , and his name without much strain of legality may reasonably drop out of the list of members . "

The Grand Secretary has always refused to remove the names of brethren from Grand Lodge register simply because they have been dropped out from the returns by the Secretary , as Bro . Pope now suggests may be done ; and in all cases he has required the bro : hers' names to be restored to the lodge roll . A brother remains a member until either he resigns or is lawfully excluded—this is Bro .

Philbrick s ruling . If Bro . ropes method of exclusion becomes Masonic law , viz ., the lodge Secretary droppingout the members' names from the lodge returns , there would not beany necessity for Rule 210 at all . My first amendment was to prevent a brothet being excluded until every precaution had been taken to ensure his receiving the notice . 1 he second , the assertion of the

principle that every Freemason has a right to vote or abstain from voting , as he chooses . Rule 210 does not provide for the first , and ignores the second .. Owing to the M . W . G . M . putting the amendment so quickly Irom the chair , I had not the opportunity of reply , which I was entitled to , and the brethren allowed themselves to be carried away by the eloquence of Bros . Philbrick and

Fenn , and the authority their distinguished services to the Crait most deservedly command in Grand Lodge . I must confess I was surprised neither of them attempted to show that either of my proposed amendments were wrong , or impracticable . I have just been informed several brethren voted for Bro .

Philbrick ' s amendment thinking the M . W . G . M . vvas putting my motion . This is not the first time such a mistake has occurred in Grand Lodge . The Parliamentary mode of putting a motion is certainly not generally understood by thebrethren . Cannot a simpler method be adopted * — Yours fraternally

, J . F . H . WOODWARD , P . G . S . B . December ioth .

THE "ANTIENTS" AND THE KNIGHT TEMPLARS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I have just read Bro . Hughan ' s interesting article in your issue of the 29 th of September , under the heading of " The Humber Lodge , No . 57 , Hull , " and I note a

reference to the presumed connnection ot the Knight Templars vvith the "Antient , " or Athole Masons . It is something of a coincidence that a similar leference appears more than once in the minutes of the second oldest lodge in my mother province of Cumberland and Westmorland , viz ., Sun , Square , and Compasses , No . 119 , Whitehaven . This Iodge holds its warrant from the