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Masonic And General Tidings
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
The Prince of Wales has expressed his desire to drive thc last bolt into the Forth Bridge on the 4 th of March . The Fifteen Sections were worked at the Duke of Cornwall Lodge of Instruction , held at the Queen's Anns , Oueen-street , Cheapside , on Tuesday last . Bro . Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr . and Mrs . D'Oyly Carte left Southampton , on Thursday for New York , in order to superintend in person future performances of " The Gondoliers " in America .
Mr . Issac Pitman says that thousands of shorthand communications , "both in the hand of business and in private correspondence , pass through the post every week , and are read by the recipients as easily as ordinary longhand . " ¦ Mr . J . M . McAlery , of 73 , Royal-avenue , Belfast , has brought out a specialty in Irish Frieze Ulster Coats , which are ingeniously contrived to defy both wet and cold . They are stylish in appearance , and the well-known material leaves nothing to be desired in the way of wear .
Bro . Lord Mayor Sir H . A . Iseacs was prevented by an attack of the prevailing influenza from presiding at the annual banquet which takes place at the Mansion House on Plow-Mouday , his place being occupied by Bro . Alderman Sir James Whitehead , Bart ., bis immediate predecessor in the civic chair .
I he members of the Mansfield Lodge held their annual ball in the Town Hall , on Friday night , the 10 th inst . The room was very prettily decorated for the occasion . A numerous company assembled , and dancing was kept up until an early hour in the morning . The catering ol" Mr . Alton , of the Midland Hotel , was most satisfactory .
At tbe annual installation meeting 01 the Derwent Lodge , No . 40 , Hastings , on the 15 th inst ., the Rev . J . Pii'tick , Provincial Grand Chaplain . VV . M ., presided , and there was a large attendance of distinguished brethren of the province and others . After the transaction of the annual business , the most important feature of which was the ins allation of Brother W . S . Allen as W . M . for the ensuing year , the annual banquet was held .
On Wednesday , the Sth inst ., the remains of Bro . John M'Leish , aged Si , and one of the oldest Freemasons in Dumbartonshire , were interred with Masonic honours in Bonhill Churchyard . Deceased was initiated in 1 S 27 , and had been for years R . W . M . of the Royal Arch Lodgeof Bonhill and Alexandria Lodge . He was also an active member of tbe P . G . Lodge . About 100 brethren attended the funeral , and Bonhill Band played the "Dead March in Saul . "
Mr . R . T . Baxter ( son of Bro . Wynne E . Baxter , J . P . ) , has been elected by competitive examination to a Mathematical Sizarship of £ 30 a year at Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . Mr . Baxter i . s at present one of thc monitors of Merchant Taylors' School . Sizarships Here formerly awarded to persons of limited means , but , under recent regulations , are now given in conjunction with scholarships as rewards for proficiency in classics , mathematics , or natural science .
The centenary of the death of John Howard falling on Monday next , the 20 th inst ., it is proposed to commemorate the event by the erection of a statue in bronze in Bedford , where much of his time was spent , and where his house is still to be seen . The cost of the statue is estimated to be
£ 3 , 000 . A powerful committee , consisting of about a hundred of the most notable of Bedford and tlie district , has been formed , the President being Lord Cowper , Lord-Lieutenant of the county ; the Vice-President , Mr . Samuel Whithred M . P . ; and the Treasurer , the Mayor of Bedford .
Bro . Chas . Greenwood , A . Prov . G . Sec . for Surrey , is organising an entertainment in aid of the fund of the baths and wash-houses connected with the Albert Institute , at the I Westminster Town Hall , on the 30 th inst . Bro . Greenwood has been fortunate enough to secure the services of such
prominent ladies and gentlemen as Miss Mary Collette , Aliss Verna Galbraith , Miss McGarvan , Aliss Maud Millett , Miss Norreys , Miss Kate Phillips , and Miss Helen Vicary , 1 Messrs . Charles Allan , Charles Collette , Adrian Pollock , < XV . Graham Robertson , Ben Webster , and others . With such an array of talent success is assured . '
We announce with regret the death on Tuesday , in the Soth year of his age , of Field-Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala . The deceased officer entered the service of the late East India Company as an engineer in 1 S 27 , and took part in the first and second Sikh wars , the Indian Mutiny , and the expedition to China , which resulted in the capture
of Pekin . In 1 S 6 S he was appointed tn the commander-inchief of the expeditionary force sent to punish King Theodore of Abyssinia for his seizure of certain British subjects , and in recognition of his brilliant services in the conduct of the expedition , her Alajesty was pleased to confer on him a peerage , with an annuity of £ 2000 for life , and for the life of his successor in the title . 1
The funeral of the late Empress Augusta of Germany toolplace in Berlin , on Saturday last , the streets through which , the mournful cortege passed being thronged with people ' wearing the ensigns of mourning . The Queen was specially ' represented by General Lynadoch Gardiner , one of her [ Majesty's Equerries , and the Duke and Duchess of Con-
naught by Col . Egerton , while our Ambassador in Berlin , ' Bro . Sir E . B . Malet , placed the wreaths of white roses and violets sent by the Prince and Princess of Wales at the ' foot of the coffin . The Duke of Edinburgh was also pre- ' sent , and so too were the Crown Prince of Sweden and re- j presentatives from the various States in Europe .
1 HE UNEMPLOYED IN EAST LONDON . —At a time when \ much thought is being * given to this matter , a practical suggestion may be of service . Last year more than £ 300 , 000 worth of foreign matches were purchased by inconsiderate consumers in this country , to the great injury
of our own working people , so true is it that "evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart . " If all consumers would purchase Bryant and Afay ' s Matches , ! that firm would be enabled to pay £ 1000 a week more in j wages . —ADVT .
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The Princess of Wales has sent a present of 30 pheasants for the use of the patients in the Brompton Hospital . "Grand Day" at Gray ' s Inn , will be held on Thursday next , the 23 rd inst ., when among other notable guests , the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone will be present . The National Pension for Nurses has received a New Year's Gift of £ 10 , 000 , contributed by about too gentlemen . The bonus fund of the association , apart from contributions given by nurses , now amount to £ 3 6 , 000 .
At the meeting of the Finsbury Park Lodge of Instruction on tbe 25 th inst ., it is intended to rehearse the ceremony of raising with complete musical service , rendered by an efficient choir , with organ accompaniment . The lodge meets at the Old Castle Tavern , Highbury .
Mr . Edmund Yates is a better editor than he was a postal servant . His first chief was Colonel Alaberley , and that gallant ifficer—so the World ' s editor says—impressed upon him the necessity of never overworking himself . " 1 gave the Colonel the pledge that I would not , and I solemnly adhered to that sacred obligation . "—Echo .
On Saturday last , Bro . Lord Brassey presided at a large gathering in the Royal Albert Hall , in aid of the Homes for Little Boys at Farningham and Swanley in Kent . There is an urgent need of funds to carry on the Charity , and two of the homes at Farningham have been temporarily closed . The proceedings included an excellent concert by the lads , and a display of drill and gymnastics .
A public meeting , at which Bro . Lord Randolph Churchill , M . P ., presided , was held in St . Jamees's Hall , on Friday evening , the 10 th instant , for the purpose of supporting a project for establishing a Polytechnic for North-west London , comprehending the district between Notting Hill and Highgate . The proceedings passed off satisfactorily , and it was announced that subscriptions amounting to £ 3000 had been already promised , including a sum of £ 500 from Bro . John Aird , M . P .
It is said that of the 380 , 000 , 000 in China , 1 in 10 is engaged in agriculture , 1 in 100 in the building trades , 1 in 120 in tailoring , while 1 in 9 is a washerman . But perhaps the most remarkable fact commented on is the reflex influence of emigration . This has ( it is asserted in a Chinese
paper ) "led to an increase in the population in a remarkable degree . " The places of those who leave are soon filled up , and when the emigrants return with their wealth , they react upon the general prospei ity by putting their capital into local enterprises , and thus adding to the wealth of the nation .
On Monday evening - a subscript ' on dinner in aid of the National Leprosy Fund was held at the Hotel Metropole . H . R . H . the Prince of Wales occupied the chair , and among the principal guests were the Archbishop of Canterbury , and Bros , the Duke of Fife , Lord Suffield , Sir Algernon Borthwick , M . P ., G . Lawson , Sir John Pender , Bart .,
M . P ., Sir Roper Lethbridge , M . P ., Sir F . Abel , Sir Oscar Clayton , Sir Somers Vine , and F . D . Dixon Hartland , AI . P ., the Duke of Norfolk , and the Bishop of London . The amount of subscriptions announced in the course of the evening was some £ 2500 , which raises the Fund to £ 7000 .
Air . Henry A . Judd , the third son of Bro . James Judd , J . P ., C . C , was married on the Sth inst ., at St . Andrew ' s , Stoke Newington , to Miss Nellie Davis , the eldest daughter of Mr . W . Davis , of Woodberry-hill , Finsbury Park . In consequence of the illness of the bride ' s mother and the bridegroom ' s father the wedding was a very quiet one , the
guests being confined to members of the two families . The presents were both numerous and valuable . Immediately after the ceremony the young couple left for Hastings , and intend leaving Liverpo I for North Carolina this day ( Saturday ) , where Mr . H . A . Judd is the resident engineer of the Stanley Mines . .
A writer in the Metro / sou tn < r of the 11 th says Sir Henry A . Isaacs is a name well knovvn in Alasonry for many years past , and before other public duties claimed his close attention he vvas a great worker . I recollect once being present at a lodge—I forget its name , but think it was Tranquillity—held at Radley's Hotel , then in Bridge-street Blackfriars , where his lordship was most expert . This lodge had his portrait painted , and very well it was done ; and I was pleased to
see , a few days since , when attending a meeting of the North Borneo Company , at the Cannon-street Hotel , that , although Radley ' s Hotel has been done away with , the portrait of P . M . Isaacs still exists , for , surveying the pleased faces of the shareholders , who so unexpectedly have begun to taste dividends , 1 saw , looking down upon the meeting , the kindly eyes of the present Lord Alayor , with all his Alasonic insignia displaved upon his breast . "
At a tune when the founding of new journals has leapt into fashion , the following autograph letter from Mr . Ruskin is of interest . It vvas apparently addressed to an enterprising person who proposed to found a journal vvith Mr . Ruskin ' s money . He did not get the desired contribution , but was subsequently able to turn an honest penny by sellingr the letter to a well-known collector , in whose
possession the London Correspondent of the Liverpool Post has seen it : — " Nothing can be begun well on borrowed money , and I am the last person to promote any manner of journalism . But if anyone of you will buy a hand-press , and the rest of you will cut out the true news of any good thing done anywhere out of the other newspapers , and set up type , and pull them with your own arms on good paper ,
and pa \ - a newsboy to call , if it be but fifty copies once a month . 'True news of good , ' and you can sell your fifty copies for a penny each , and put the odd 2 d . of the 4 s . 2 d . away for future capital , you may get on and be of use , or if you will hold your tongue and work , till you have money , and then set workmen to print as aforesaid . But don't borrow nor hope for gain , or you are lost—like the rest . "
MOLLOWAY ' S OINTMENT AN ' D PILLS . —hew persons are so favoured by circumstsnees , or so fortilied by nature , as to enable them to pass unscathed * the sore trials of an inclement season . With catarrhs , coughs , and inliuenzss everywhere abounding , it should be universally known that Holioway's Ointment , dili . gentlv rubbed upon the chest , checks the worst assaults of these
maladies , and securely wards oil' more grave and dangerous diseases of the throat and lungs . The truth of this assertion must remain unquestioned in the face of unimpeachable living witnesses , who have personally derived the utmost possible benefits from this treatment when their present sull ' crings were appalling , and their future prospects most disheartening . Both remedies act admirably together .
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Lord Walsingham delivered before the Entomological Society of London , on Wednesday , an interesting address in illustration of tbe practical usefulness of entomological studies , apart from the increased refinement and enjoyment of life which they give .
Admiral Sir F . Leopold M Clinton ( Chairman ) presided on Wednesday over the half-yearly election ofthe Royal Alfred A'lerchant Seamen ' s Institution , and earnestly appealed to the public to help an institution that was doing so much good work among a class of men who , but for the help thus extended to them , must become inmates of the workhouse .
Freemasons all over the world will find abundant uses for Air . George Kenning ' s " Cosmopolitan Masonic Calender , Diary , and Pocket Boole . " It forms a handy guide for 1 S 90 , and a comprehensive book of reference concerning lodges , chapters , preceptories , conclaves , colleges , and grand councils . —Lloyd ' s News
The annual general meeting of the Actors' Benevolent Fund was held at the Lyceum Theatre , on Monday afternoon . Bro . Henry Irving presided , and among those present were Bro- ; . J . L . Toole , S . B . Bancroft ^ and Beerbohm Tree . The report for the past year was adopted , and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman .
At the Lodgeof Perseverance , No . 1 743 , held at Anderton ' s Hotel , on Saturday evening last , the members presented a valuable English-made clock to Bro . C . G . Sparrow , a Past Master and Founder of the lodge , vvith an inscription plate upon it , testifying their hearty good wishes on his leaving England to join his son in Australia .
lhe festival dinner of the Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary , Margate , was held on Wednesday , at the Hotel Afetropole . Mr . Joseph Sebag Alontefiore , J . P-, High Sheriff of Kent , presided , and stated that their expenses last year were £ 9500 and their income £ 6162 , 50 that in order to make both ends meet they had been obliged to spend £ 35 68 of legacies , as well as to borrow £ 1400 . The subscriptions announced amounted to over £ 2000 .
We regret to hear that the Princess of Wales shortly after her arrival from Sandringham at Marlborough House , was taken with a cold , and ; that her medical advisers forbade her Royal Highness to leave home , consequently , the ' Prince of Wales with Prince George left for Canforil Manor i on his long promised visit to Lord Wimbourne . unaccompanied by the Princess , and the rejoicings at Bournemouth and elsewhere will thus be shorn of of half their splendour .
We learn with regret of the very sudden death on the 6 th inst ., of Bro . G . Hollington , brother of Mr . A . Hollington , C . C . Deceased who was born in the year 1 S 47 , was associated with his brother in the firm of Hollington Brothers , wholesale clothiers , Aldgate . In Alasonic circles he was well known . At the time of his death he was a member of the Doric Lodge and Temple Lodge of Mark Alaster A'lasons . The funeral took place at Woodford , on Saturday last .
The will of Pro . the Rev . George Warburton Weldon , P . G . Chap , late of the Vicarage , Bickley , Kent , who died on November 9 th last , was proved on " the 20 th Dec , by George Weldon , AI . D , and Mr . Ed gar Francis Weldon , the sons , the executor the value of the personal estate amounting to over £ 9 , 000 . The testator leaves all his real and personal estate to his daughters , May Elizabeth and Lilias Amy , in equal shares .
1 he Prince of Wales , as President of the Imperial Institute , occupied the chair at a numerous meeting held at the Royal Institution , Albemarle-street , on Saturday evening last , when Professor Max Aliiller delivered an address by way of inaugurating the School for Modern Oriental Languages , which has been established by the institute in connection with University and King ' s Colleges , London . Among those present were Bros . Lord Herschell , the Duke i of Fife , Sir F . B . Alston , Sir F . Abel , and Sir Somers Vine .
FREEMAS INRY . —Mr . George Kenning , of Great Oueen Street , London , has just published the Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar , Diary and Pocket Book for 1 S 90 , this being the twentieth year of publication . The book is a most comprehensive record of the growth ofthe Craft , containing lists of lodges names of officers , and full
information respecting every Alasonic bod y throughout the world . The list of lodges comprises the names of 232 S , including St . Oswyn , North Shields , and Albert Victor , York , the last two consecrated . The book is got up in a neat pocket size style , and forms an invaluable storehouse of references for the Craft . —Newcastle Chronicle .
Many of the admirers of Mrs . Craik will learn for the first time with no little ,-alisfaction , that the author of "John Halifax , Gentleman , " gave her own pension to the late Dr . Westland Marston . It was surprising that so successful an authoress who was also the wife of " a partner in one of the greatest publishing firms , should continue to
draw upon the scanty fund which is mainly intended f r decayed authors and artists , and her action in doing so in order to quietly pass on the money to one whose ° merits should have received recognition by the 'Treasury was just what might have been expected from the woman who drew John Halifax .
The New York Herald ( Paris correspondent ) writes on Jan . 11 , "Good Catholics and Freemasons are at loggerheads at Grenoble . Trouble has been born of the funeral of M . Delatte , Prefect of the Isere Department . Delatte was a Alason , and his brethren of the Lodge proposed to turn out in force at his obsequies . This came to the ears of Monsignor Fava , Bishop of Greeno-. le , who checkmated
the Masons by ordering the Cures not to perform any religious ceremony over the body of the deceased Prefect , should they catch a glinpse of such a thin" - as a Masonic apron . The lodges would not give way . " Monsignor Fava was equally resolute , so Delatte ' s remains were conveyed from the Prefecture to the Greenoble Railway Station without any sprinkling of holy water or the chanting of hymns . "
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MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
The Prince of Wales has expressed his desire to drive thc last bolt into the Forth Bridge on the 4 th of March . The Fifteen Sections were worked at the Duke of Cornwall Lodge of Instruction , held at the Queen's Anns , Oueen-street , Cheapside , on Tuesday last . Bro . Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr . and Mrs . D'Oyly Carte left Southampton , on Thursday for New York , in order to superintend in person future performances of " The Gondoliers " in America .
Mr . Issac Pitman says that thousands of shorthand communications , "both in the hand of business and in private correspondence , pass through the post every week , and are read by the recipients as easily as ordinary longhand . " ¦ Mr . J . M . McAlery , of 73 , Royal-avenue , Belfast , has brought out a specialty in Irish Frieze Ulster Coats , which are ingeniously contrived to defy both wet and cold . They are stylish in appearance , and the well-known material leaves nothing to be desired in the way of wear .
Bro . Lord Mayor Sir H . A . Iseacs was prevented by an attack of the prevailing influenza from presiding at the annual banquet which takes place at the Mansion House on Plow-Mouday , his place being occupied by Bro . Alderman Sir James Whitehead , Bart ., bis immediate predecessor in the civic chair .
I he members of the Mansfield Lodge held their annual ball in the Town Hall , on Friday night , the 10 th inst . The room was very prettily decorated for the occasion . A numerous company assembled , and dancing was kept up until an early hour in the morning . The catering ol" Mr . Alton , of the Midland Hotel , was most satisfactory .
At tbe annual installation meeting 01 the Derwent Lodge , No . 40 , Hastings , on the 15 th inst ., the Rev . J . Pii'tick , Provincial Grand Chaplain . VV . M ., presided , and there was a large attendance of distinguished brethren of the province and others . After the transaction of the annual business , the most important feature of which was the ins allation of Brother W . S . Allen as W . M . for the ensuing year , the annual banquet was held .
On Wednesday , the Sth inst ., the remains of Bro . John M'Leish , aged Si , and one of the oldest Freemasons in Dumbartonshire , were interred with Masonic honours in Bonhill Churchyard . Deceased was initiated in 1 S 27 , and had been for years R . W . M . of the Royal Arch Lodgeof Bonhill and Alexandria Lodge . He was also an active member of tbe P . G . Lodge . About 100 brethren attended the funeral , and Bonhill Band played the "Dead March in Saul . "
Mr . R . T . Baxter ( son of Bro . Wynne E . Baxter , J . P . ) , has been elected by competitive examination to a Mathematical Sizarship of £ 30 a year at Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . Mr . Baxter i . s at present one of thc monitors of Merchant Taylors' School . Sizarships Here formerly awarded to persons of limited means , but , under recent regulations , are now given in conjunction with scholarships as rewards for proficiency in classics , mathematics , or natural science .
The centenary of the death of John Howard falling on Monday next , the 20 th inst ., it is proposed to commemorate the event by the erection of a statue in bronze in Bedford , where much of his time was spent , and where his house is still to be seen . The cost of the statue is estimated to be
£ 3 , 000 . A powerful committee , consisting of about a hundred of the most notable of Bedford and tlie district , has been formed , the President being Lord Cowper , Lord-Lieutenant of the county ; the Vice-President , Mr . Samuel Whithred M . P . ; and the Treasurer , the Mayor of Bedford .
Bro . Chas . Greenwood , A . Prov . G . Sec . for Surrey , is organising an entertainment in aid of the fund of the baths and wash-houses connected with the Albert Institute , at the I Westminster Town Hall , on the 30 th inst . Bro . Greenwood has been fortunate enough to secure the services of such
prominent ladies and gentlemen as Miss Mary Collette , Aliss Verna Galbraith , Miss McGarvan , Aliss Maud Millett , Miss Norreys , Miss Kate Phillips , and Miss Helen Vicary , 1 Messrs . Charles Allan , Charles Collette , Adrian Pollock , < XV . Graham Robertson , Ben Webster , and others . With such an array of talent success is assured . '
We announce with regret the death on Tuesday , in the Soth year of his age , of Field-Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala . The deceased officer entered the service of the late East India Company as an engineer in 1 S 27 , and took part in the first and second Sikh wars , the Indian Mutiny , and the expedition to China , which resulted in the capture
of Pekin . In 1 S 6 S he was appointed tn the commander-inchief of the expeditionary force sent to punish King Theodore of Abyssinia for his seizure of certain British subjects , and in recognition of his brilliant services in the conduct of the expedition , her Alajesty was pleased to confer on him a peerage , with an annuity of £ 2000 for life , and for the life of his successor in the title . 1
The funeral of the late Empress Augusta of Germany toolplace in Berlin , on Saturday last , the streets through which , the mournful cortege passed being thronged with people ' wearing the ensigns of mourning . The Queen was specially ' represented by General Lynadoch Gardiner , one of her [ Majesty's Equerries , and the Duke and Duchess of Con-
naught by Col . Egerton , while our Ambassador in Berlin , ' Bro . Sir E . B . Malet , placed the wreaths of white roses and violets sent by the Prince and Princess of Wales at the ' foot of the coffin . The Duke of Edinburgh was also pre- ' sent , and so too were the Crown Prince of Sweden and re- j presentatives from the various States in Europe .
1 HE UNEMPLOYED IN EAST LONDON . —At a time when \ much thought is being * given to this matter , a practical suggestion may be of service . Last year more than £ 300 , 000 worth of foreign matches were purchased by inconsiderate consumers in this country , to the great injury
of our own working people , so true is it that "evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart . " If all consumers would purchase Bryant and Afay ' s Matches , ! that firm would be enabled to pay £ 1000 a week more in j wages . —ADVT .
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The Princess of Wales has sent a present of 30 pheasants for the use of the patients in the Brompton Hospital . "Grand Day" at Gray ' s Inn , will be held on Thursday next , the 23 rd inst ., when among other notable guests , the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone will be present . The National Pension for Nurses has received a New Year's Gift of £ 10 , 000 , contributed by about too gentlemen . The bonus fund of the association , apart from contributions given by nurses , now amount to £ 3 6 , 000 .
At the meeting of the Finsbury Park Lodge of Instruction on tbe 25 th inst ., it is intended to rehearse the ceremony of raising with complete musical service , rendered by an efficient choir , with organ accompaniment . The lodge meets at the Old Castle Tavern , Highbury .
Mr . Edmund Yates is a better editor than he was a postal servant . His first chief was Colonel Alaberley , and that gallant ifficer—so the World ' s editor says—impressed upon him the necessity of never overworking himself . " 1 gave the Colonel the pledge that I would not , and I solemnly adhered to that sacred obligation . "—Echo .
On Saturday last , Bro . Lord Brassey presided at a large gathering in the Royal Albert Hall , in aid of the Homes for Little Boys at Farningham and Swanley in Kent . There is an urgent need of funds to carry on the Charity , and two of the homes at Farningham have been temporarily closed . The proceedings included an excellent concert by the lads , and a display of drill and gymnastics .
A public meeting , at which Bro . Lord Randolph Churchill , M . P ., presided , was held in St . Jamees's Hall , on Friday evening , the 10 th instant , for the purpose of supporting a project for establishing a Polytechnic for North-west London , comprehending the district between Notting Hill and Highgate . The proceedings passed off satisfactorily , and it was announced that subscriptions amounting to £ 3000 had been already promised , including a sum of £ 500 from Bro . John Aird , M . P .
It is said that of the 380 , 000 , 000 in China , 1 in 10 is engaged in agriculture , 1 in 100 in the building trades , 1 in 120 in tailoring , while 1 in 9 is a washerman . But perhaps the most remarkable fact commented on is the reflex influence of emigration . This has ( it is asserted in a Chinese
paper ) "led to an increase in the population in a remarkable degree . " The places of those who leave are soon filled up , and when the emigrants return with their wealth , they react upon the general prospei ity by putting their capital into local enterprises , and thus adding to the wealth of the nation .
On Monday evening - a subscript ' on dinner in aid of the National Leprosy Fund was held at the Hotel Metropole . H . R . H . the Prince of Wales occupied the chair , and among the principal guests were the Archbishop of Canterbury , and Bros , the Duke of Fife , Lord Suffield , Sir Algernon Borthwick , M . P ., G . Lawson , Sir John Pender , Bart .,
M . P ., Sir Roper Lethbridge , M . P ., Sir F . Abel , Sir Oscar Clayton , Sir Somers Vine , and F . D . Dixon Hartland , AI . P ., the Duke of Norfolk , and the Bishop of London . The amount of subscriptions announced in the course of the evening was some £ 2500 , which raises the Fund to £ 7000 .
Air . Henry A . Judd , the third son of Bro . James Judd , J . P ., C . C , was married on the Sth inst ., at St . Andrew ' s , Stoke Newington , to Miss Nellie Davis , the eldest daughter of Mr . W . Davis , of Woodberry-hill , Finsbury Park . In consequence of the illness of the bride ' s mother and the bridegroom ' s father the wedding was a very quiet one , the
guests being confined to members of the two families . The presents were both numerous and valuable . Immediately after the ceremony the young couple left for Hastings , and intend leaving Liverpo I for North Carolina this day ( Saturday ) , where Mr . H . A . Judd is the resident engineer of the Stanley Mines . .
A writer in the Metro / sou tn < r of the 11 th says Sir Henry A . Isaacs is a name well knovvn in Alasonry for many years past , and before other public duties claimed his close attention he vvas a great worker . I recollect once being present at a lodge—I forget its name , but think it was Tranquillity—held at Radley's Hotel , then in Bridge-street Blackfriars , where his lordship was most expert . This lodge had his portrait painted , and very well it was done ; and I was pleased to
see , a few days since , when attending a meeting of the North Borneo Company , at the Cannon-street Hotel , that , although Radley ' s Hotel has been done away with , the portrait of P . M . Isaacs still exists , for , surveying the pleased faces of the shareholders , who so unexpectedly have begun to taste dividends , 1 saw , looking down upon the meeting , the kindly eyes of the present Lord Alayor , with all his Alasonic insignia displaved upon his breast . "
At a tune when the founding of new journals has leapt into fashion , the following autograph letter from Mr . Ruskin is of interest . It vvas apparently addressed to an enterprising person who proposed to found a journal vvith Mr . Ruskin ' s money . He did not get the desired contribution , but was subsequently able to turn an honest penny by sellingr the letter to a well-known collector , in whose
possession the London Correspondent of the Liverpool Post has seen it : — " Nothing can be begun well on borrowed money , and I am the last person to promote any manner of journalism . But if anyone of you will buy a hand-press , and the rest of you will cut out the true news of any good thing done anywhere out of the other newspapers , and set up type , and pull them with your own arms on good paper ,
and pa \ - a newsboy to call , if it be but fifty copies once a month . 'True news of good , ' and you can sell your fifty copies for a penny each , and put the odd 2 d . of the 4 s . 2 d . away for future capital , you may get on and be of use , or if you will hold your tongue and work , till you have money , and then set workmen to print as aforesaid . But don't borrow nor hope for gain , or you are lost—like the rest . "
MOLLOWAY ' S OINTMENT AN ' D PILLS . —hew persons are so favoured by circumstsnees , or so fortilied by nature , as to enable them to pass unscathed * the sore trials of an inclement season . With catarrhs , coughs , and inliuenzss everywhere abounding , it should be universally known that Holioway's Ointment , dili . gentlv rubbed upon the chest , checks the worst assaults of these
maladies , and securely wards oil' more grave and dangerous diseases of the throat and lungs . The truth of this assertion must remain unquestioned in the face of unimpeachable living witnesses , who have personally derived the utmost possible benefits from this treatment when their present sull ' crings were appalling , and their future prospects most disheartening . Both remedies act admirably together .
Masonic And General Tidings
Lord Walsingham delivered before the Entomological Society of London , on Wednesday , an interesting address in illustration of tbe practical usefulness of entomological studies , apart from the increased refinement and enjoyment of life which they give .
Admiral Sir F . Leopold M Clinton ( Chairman ) presided on Wednesday over the half-yearly election ofthe Royal Alfred A'lerchant Seamen ' s Institution , and earnestly appealed to the public to help an institution that was doing so much good work among a class of men who , but for the help thus extended to them , must become inmates of the workhouse .
Freemasons all over the world will find abundant uses for Air . George Kenning ' s " Cosmopolitan Masonic Calender , Diary , and Pocket Boole . " It forms a handy guide for 1 S 90 , and a comprehensive book of reference concerning lodges , chapters , preceptories , conclaves , colleges , and grand councils . —Lloyd ' s News
The annual general meeting of the Actors' Benevolent Fund was held at the Lyceum Theatre , on Monday afternoon . Bro . Henry Irving presided , and among those present were Bro- ; . J . L . Toole , S . B . Bancroft ^ and Beerbohm Tree . The report for the past year was adopted , and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman .
At the Lodgeof Perseverance , No . 1 743 , held at Anderton ' s Hotel , on Saturday evening last , the members presented a valuable English-made clock to Bro . C . G . Sparrow , a Past Master and Founder of the lodge , vvith an inscription plate upon it , testifying their hearty good wishes on his leaving England to join his son in Australia .
lhe festival dinner of the Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary , Margate , was held on Wednesday , at the Hotel Afetropole . Mr . Joseph Sebag Alontefiore , J . P-, High Sheriff of Kent , presided , and stated that their expenses last year were £ 9500 and their income £ 6162 , 50 that in order to make both ends meet they had been obliged to spend £ 35 68 of legacies , as well as to borrow £ 1400 . The subscriptions announced amounted to over £ 2000 .
We regret to hear that the Princess of Wales shortly after her arrival from Sandringham at Marlborough House , was taken with a cold , and ; that her medical advisers forbade her Royal Highness to leave home , consequently , the ' Prince of Wales with Prince George left for Canforil Manor i on his long promised visit to Lord Wimbourne . unaccompanied by the Princess , and the rejoicings at Bournemouth and elsewhere will thus be shorn of of half their splendour .
We learn with regret of the very sudden death on the 6 th inst ., of Bro . G . Hollington , brother of Mr . A . Hollington , C . C . Deceased who was born in the year 1 S 47 , was associated with his brother in the firm of Hollington Brothers , wholesale clothiers , Aldgate . In Alasonic circles he was well known . At the time of his death he was a member of the Doric Lodge and Temple Lodge of Mark Alaster A'lasons . The funeral took place at Woodford , on Saturday last .
The will of Pro . the Rev . George Warburton Weldon , P . G . Chap , late of the Vicarage , Bickley , Kent , who died on November 9 th last , was proved on " the 20 th Dec , by George Weldon , AI . D , and Mr . Ed gar Francis Weldon , the sons , the executor the value of the personal estate amounting to over £ 9 , 000 . The testator leaves all his real and personal estate to his daughters , May Elizabeth and Lilias Amy , in equal shares .
1 he Prince of Wales , as President of the Imperial Institute , occupied the chair at a numerous meeting held at the Royal Institution , Albemarle-street , on Saturday evening last , when Professor Max Aliiller delivered an address by way of inaugurating the School for Modern Oriental Languages , which has been established by the institute in connection with University and King ' s Colleges , London . Among those present were Bros . Lord Herschell , the Duke i of Fife , Sir F . B . Alston , Sir F . Abel , and Sir Somers Vine .
FREEMAS INRY . —Mr . George Kenning , of Great Oueen Street , London , has just published the Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar , Diary and Pocket Book for 1 S 90 , this being the twentieth year of publication . The book is a most comprehensive record of the growth ofthe Craft , containing lists of lodges names of officers , and full
information respecting every Alasonic bod y throughout the world . The list of lodges comprises the names of 232 S , including St . Oswyn , North Shields , and Albert Victor , York , the last two consecrated . The book is got up in a neat pocket size style , and forms an invaluable storehouse of references for the Craft . —Newcastle Chronicle .
Many of the admirers of Mrs . Craik will learn for the first time with no little ,-alisfaction , that the author of "John Halifax , Gentleman , " gave her own pension to the late Dr . Westland Marston . It was surprising that so successful an authoress who was also the wife of " a partner in one of the greatest publishing firms , should continue to
draw upon the scanty fund which is mainly intended f r decayed authors and artists , and her action in doing so in order to quietly pass on the money to one whose ° merits should have received recognition by the 'Treasury was just what might have been expected from the woman who drew John Halifax .
The New York Herald ( Paris correspondent ) writes on Jan . 11 , "Good Catholics and Freemasons are at loggerheads at Grenoble . Trouble has been born of the funeral of M . Delatte , Prefect of the Isere Department . Delatte was a Alason , and his brethren of the Lodge proposed to turn out in force at his obsequies . This came to the ears of Monsignor Fava , Bishop of Greeno-. le , who checkmated
the Masons by ordering the Cures not to perform any religious ceremony over the body of the deceased Prefect , should they catch a glinpse of such a thin" - as a Masonic apron . The lodges would not give way . " Monsignor Fava was equally resolute , so Delatte ' s remains were conveyed from the Prefecture to the Greenoble Railway Station without any sprinkling of holy water or the chanting of hymns . "
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