The Gathering Of The Knights Templar At Chicago.

of Sir'John Lubbock should be extended to include anything that is of antiquarian , historical , or architectural interest . In France this is the case ; any old building that is considered of public interest is scheduled from destruction and purchased by the State . It would be as well that such a

bill should be passed in England as soon as possible , or else we shall have no old buildings to preserve , for the desire rtow-a-days to perpetrate acts of Vandalism is truly distressing ; the " refined taste" of the period seems to be to demolish any and every thing that savours of the past . I am , Sir , your obedient servant ,

NEWMAN MARKS . Office of the Society for Preservation of Public Buildings , 9 , Buckingham-street , Strand .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

The meetings of the St . Luke s Lodge , iNo . 144 , are now held at Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street . Tlie Most Worship ful Grand Master of Ireland , His Grace the Duke of Abercorn , accompanied by Lady Georgiana Hamilton , left Green-street , Grosvenor-square , on Wednesday for Barons' Court .

Bro . tlie Rev . Brooke Lambert , who last week was inducted to the living of Greenwich , read himself in at the morning service on Sunday last at the parish church in the presence of a large congregation . Bro . Dr . J . Lawrence Hamilton is a candidate for the post of Medical Officer of Health for Marylebone , vacant by the death of Dr . Whitmore . Bro . Hamilton is well-known as an able writer on sanitary science .

The meetings of the Islington Lodge of Instruction , No . 1471 , are held on Tuesday evenings , at 7 o'clock , at the Moorgate Tavern , 15 , Finsbury Pavement . Brethren are invited to attend . liro . J . I . Mather , P . P . G . D . C . Herts , Preceptor ; Bro . C . G . Sparrow , S . D . 1743 , Hon . Secretary . We understand thai , at the usual monthly

meeting of the council of the Printers Pension Corporation , held last Tuesday evening , the opinion was very generally expressed that the council should not take the initiative in any future discussion of the unit vote . If the executive maintain this position in regard to this mischievous agitation they will be studying the interests of the institution , and earn the approval of its well wishers . —Paper and

Print . A NOVEL DINNER . —Under the auspices of the British Goat Society it is intended to have a kid dinner on the third day of the Goat Show , which opened at the Alexandra Palace on Friday last . The viands are to consist solely of the flesh of the kid at different ages , dressed in various ways to represent fowl , mutton , lamb , veal , and

fawn . The object is to bring this article of food into more general consumption . DUKE OP CORNWALL LODGE , No . 1839 . —The installation meeting of this young lodge , which was consecrated in August , 1 S 79 , by our esteemed Grand Secretary , Bro . Lieut .-Col . S . H . Clerke , will take place on Thursuay , the 30 th inst ., at Freemasons' Hall , Great Oueen-street .

The ceremonies will be performed by the out-going W . M ., Bro . J . W . Brooke . A full report will appear in our columns . A DEAF AND DUMB WEDDING . —At the parish church of Foleshill , Warwickshire , on Wednesday , the Sth inst ., a deaf and dumb couple named Arthur Davis and Hannah Ellis were married . They made the responses on

their hands , following the service from a book placed before them . The plan of saving small sums in postage-stamps lately mentioned by Mr . Fawcett is to be tried as an experiment in different parts of the country . After Monday next in Cardigan , Cumberland , Kent , Leicester , Norfolk , and Somerset in England and Wales ; Down and Waterford in

Ireland ; and Aberdeen and Ayr in Scotland ; post offices will supply free a form , to which twelve stamps are to be affixed , and these forms will subsequently be received as deposits of is . at any post office in these counties at which there is a savings' -bank . Talking of postal innovations , the post offices of all the chief Swiss towns are to be furnished with private pigeon-holes for the benefit of

business men , who can hire one of these compartments for £ 1 ss . yearly , and send a messenger to obtain their letters directly the mail comes in , thus avoiding a considerable delay in the delivery . METROPOLITAN * MASONIC BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION . —The usual monthly meeting of this Association was held at the Portugal Hotel , Fleet-street , on Friday evening , the 10 th inst ., under the presidency of Bro . J . li .

Stacey . In the course of the proceedings , Bro . W . W . Snelling , the honorary Secretary of the Association , announced that the subscriptions paid to the Association had now amounted to upwards of £ 1000 , and that the whole of the expenses of the Association had been met by the entrance fees . The amount received for subscriptions to the end of August was £ 1002 19 s ., and nearly 200

members had through the medium of this Association become Life Subscribers or Life Governors of the Royal Masonic Charities . As the Benevolent Association is now a permanent onc , and brethren may become members at any time without payment of back subscriptions , we trust that the Association will continue to flourish , and that the Masonic Charities will largely benefit by the exertions of

the Committee and honorary Secretary . 'The entrance fee of the Association is is ., the monthly subscription 4 s ., and brethren are enrolled at the Portugal every Friday evening at seven o ' clock . Prospectus will be forwarded gratis on application to Bro . Snelling , the honorary Secretary . THE RIGHT HON . BRO . THE EARL OF KINTORE . —We have just received from the well-known firm of

Mackintosh and Co ., Kelso , photographers lo their Royal Hi ghnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales , abeautifullyhnished and life-like " promenade" portrait of Bro . the Right Hon . the Earl of Kintore , S . G . Warden of Scotland , P . G . M . of Kincardineshire , & c , taken the other day when he

was in Kelso installing Bro . the Right Hon . the Earl of Haddington as P . G . M . of Berwick and Roxburghshires . As his lordship will succeed to the throne of Scottish Freemasonry , these portraits are sure to have , as they deserve , a large sale . We trust the photographers will kindly send us a portrait of Lord Haddington to add to our album of Masonic celebrities .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Bro . Sheriff Woolloton during his stay at Sheffield in connexion with the Cutler ' s Feast was entertained by Mr . C . H . Firth , at his beautiful residence , Riverdale , in the neighbourhood of the town . The members of the Abercorn Lodge , No . 1549 , propose holding an assembly with ladies on the afternoon of Wednesday , the 22 nd inst . Dancing to commence at 7 o'clock .

I he meetings of the Stanmore Royal Arch Chapter , No . 1549 , are held on the second Wednesdays in May , July , and September , at the Abercorn Hotel , Great Stanmore . A meeting of the Temple Bar Lodge , No . 1728 , was held-at Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street , on Thursday last , the iGth inst . A report of thc proceedings will

appear in our next . We are asked to state that the meetings of the Peckham Lodge of Instruction will in future be held at the Lord Wellington Hotel , 516 , Old Kent-road , S . E . The first meeting of the season is to be held on Wednesday next , the 22 nd inst ., and will be continued every Wednesday evening at S o ' clock throughout the winter months .

Bro . the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor , who , with the Lady Mayoress and Mr . Henry Truscott , is now staying at the Hotel Continental , Paris , will return to the Mansion House to-day ( Saturday ) . Her Royal Hi g hness the Princess of Wales ,

accompanied by her sons , Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales , and also by Prince John of Glucksburg and Prince Battenburg , visited the Royal Aquarium on Monday last , and after *\ vitnessing Miss Beckwith swimming they paid a visit to the ourang outang , who was served with an extra meal during this visit .

THE REVENUE OF THE CORPORATION . —In 1 S 50 a volume of ninety-eight pages sufficed for the production of the statistics of the produce and expenditure of the City's estate , but the Chamberlain now finds it necessary to employ 171 pages of equal size for the same purpose . In 1 S 51 the receipts of the Corporation were £ 257 , 400 ios . iojd ., and the expenditure amounted to 2 * 247 , 931 14 s . 2 f d . ; in 1 S 79 the receipts were

£ 553 , 337 , os - ; i d - » and the expenditure £ 532 , 353 9 s - 3 f d . In 1 S 50 the City's coal duty of 4 d . per ton produced £ 72 , 944 2 s . iojd ., less £ 11 , 004 2 s . 2 : ' r d . metage duty on imported corn , and £ 1280 14 s . Gd . from profits of one fruit meter's place ; in 1 S 79 the duty realised £ 147 , 907 ios . 4 d . In 1 S 51 the charges on the income arising from the markets amounted to £ 909 1 14 s . 4 d . ; in 1 S 79 to £ 134 , 497 6 s . Sd .

In 1 S 51 the receipts from the markets were £ 20 , 351 17 s . lid . ; in 1 S 79 they were £ 147 , 235 os . gd . In 1 S 50 the expenses of the magistracy of the City and the proportion of police expenses borne by the Corporation aggregated £ 18 , 76 7 2 s . ; in iS 79 the amount was £ 34 , 280 lCs . id . In 1 S 50 the receipts of the Corporation from rents and quit-rents were £ 73 , 754 ? s . Sd . ; in 1 S 79 they amounted to £ 116 , 425 14 s . old .

In 1 S 50 the expenditure on account of the Bridge-house Estates was £ 32 , 681 os . $ d . ; in 1 S 79 it amounted to £ 499 , 389 13 s . 7 id . In the foqner year the rents came to £ 31 , 030 5 s . 4 d ., and in the latter to £ 61 , 4 8 3 11 s . 4 d . In 1 S 50 the expenses of the civil government of the City were £ 30 , 644 12 s . 4 d . ; in 1 S 79 they were £ 50 , 791 17 s . Sd . In 1 S 50 the expenditure on account of charitable donations ,

pensions , and honorary rewards amounted to £ 5885 4 s . ; in 1 S 79 the amount so distributed was £ 11 , 465 11 s . 6 d . — Citisen . COOK ' SCOTTISH TOURS . —Bro . W . E . Franklin , of Newcastle , acting for Messrs . Thomas Cook and Son , of London , has been conducting two large parties of travellers , numbering twenty-six persons in each party ,

over the Royal Route through Scotland , and notwithstanding the difficulties attendant on crowded hotels , has succeeded in passing them contentedly and happily over an extended and very interesting district of 700 miles , comprising Stirling and thc Trossachs , the Clyde , Kylcs of Bute , the Crinan Canal to Oban , thence to Iona and Staffa to Glcncoe , and the Caledonian Canal to Inverness , and

finally over the Highland Railway to Killiecrankie , Pitlochlie , and Dunkeld , returning by the coast of Fife to Edinburgh . On the completion of the tour the following complimentary record ot satisfaction was presented to Bro . Franklin , and signed by the entire party : " Having arrived at the end of a most pleasing and delightful tour in the Highlands of Scotland , conducted by Bro . W . E . Franklin ,

we have great pleasure in testifying our high appreciation of the kindness and urbanity shown by him in conducting us at a period of the year when great tact and ability were required , by reason of the large number of visitors travelling in the Highlands , and the consequent difficulty in obtaining accommodation at the hotels . We feel it incumbent on us to place on record our thanks to Bro . Franklin ,

as expressed by the Rev . T . H . Walthew , M . A ., Christ Church , Richmond , Surrey , at our last gathering to dinner , and in which the whole party cordially agreed . In conclusion , we hope that Bro . Franklin may long enjoy health and strength for his arduous duties , and thus be enabled to give the same pleasure to future tourists which we have experienced under his direction on the present occasion . "

" MASONIC MAGAZINE . "—The September number of this serial contains as usual several well-written papers . The editor , in an interesting article on " The Old Master Masons , " states that "Some difficulty no doubt occurs in the old chronicles as to the exact Latin words employed , and thc difference existing between the ' master of the work , ' the * architect , ' and the ' Master Mason . '

In the early records , the Masons are termed indifferently opifices , operararii , laborantes , crementarii , latomi . In French chronicles we find the words ' tailleurs de pierre , ' the exact rendering of the Greek words which are represented by 'Latomi , ' properly ' Lithotomi or Lupicida * * . ' Later we hear of macons , maconns , masouns , massouns , maysons . The Master Mason is called magister

ccementanus , magister latomus , maistre macon , maystcr massoun . We also read of a ' magister operis , ' ' operarum magister redificans , ' ' solutor open ' s , ' ' supervisor , ' and 'depositor operis , ' one literally who lays a foundation and gives a plan . " Bro . T . B . 'Trowsdale furnishes " A Strange Story of Eastwell , " and Bro . C . T . McClenachan an essay on " French Freemasonry . " The remarks of an old W . M .

on the meaning of the word " Cowan " deserve general attention . The poetical contributions— "A Royal Arch Song , " "Time was , Time is , " "Going Home , " "H . M . S . Eurydice , " "H . M . S . Atalanta , " andTempora Mutantur " form an acceptable feature of this popular sixpenny magazine . —Sunday Times .

Metropolitan Masonic Meetings

METROPOLITAN MASONIC MEETINGS

For the Week ending Friday , September 24 , i 83 o . The Editor will be glad to receive notice from Secretaries of Craft Lodges , Royal Arch Chapters , Mark Lodges , Encampments , Conclaves , & c , of any change in place , dav , or month of meeting .

SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER iS . Lodge 1329 , Sphinx , S . M . H ., Camberwell . „ 1767 , Kensington , King's Arms 'Tav ., Kensington . Mark 205 , Beaconsfield , Chequers , Walthamstow . LODGES OF INSTRUCTION .

Manchester , 17 , London-st ., Fitzroy-sq ., at S . Star , Marquis of Granby , New Cross-rd ., at 7 . Percy , Jolly Farmers , Southgate-rd ., N ., at S . Eccleston , King's Head , Ebury Bridge , Pimlico . Sphinx , Stirling Castle , Camberwell . Alexandra Palace , Masonic Club , Loughborough , at 7 . 30 .

MONDAY , SEPTEMBER 20 . Lodge 720 , Panmure , Balham Hot ., Balham . „ 901 , City of London , Guildhall Tav ., Gresham-st . LODGES or - INSTRUCTION . Lily , Greyhound , Richmond , at 7 . London Masonic Club , 101 , Queen Victoria-st ., E . C , at 6 . Wellington , White Swan Hot ., High-st ., Deptford , S to 10 .

St . John , Gun Hot ., Wapping , S to 10 . PrinceLeopold , MitfordTav ., Sandringham-rd ., Dalston , 7 . 30 . Sincerity , Railway Tav ., Fenchurch-st . Station , at 7 . Camden , 174 , High-st ., Camden Town , at S . Tredegar , Royal Hot ., Mile End-rd ., at S . St . James ' s Union , Union Tav ., Air-st ., Regent-st ., at S . Perfect Ashlar , Victoria Tav ., Lower-rd ., Rotherhithe , at 8 .

Upper Norwood , White Hart Hot ., Church-rd ., at S . Marquis of Ripon , Pembury Tav ., Aniherst-rd ., Hackney , 8 . Loughborough , Cambria Tav ., Loughborough June , at 7 . 30 . H 3 . de Park , The Westbourne , 1 , Craven-rd ., at S . West Smithfield , New Market Hot ., West Smithfield . St . George's , Globe Tav ., Royal Hill , Greenwich , at 7 . Doric Chapter , 24 S , Globe-rd ., Mile End-rd ., at S . Royal Commemoration , R . Hot ., High-st ., Putney , S til

British Oak , Bank of Friendship Tav ., Mile End . Eastern Star , Royal Hot ., Mile End-rd ., 7 . 30 . St . Mark's , S . M . H ., Camberwell New-rd . lohn Hervey , Albion Hall , London Wall , at S . New Finsbury Park , Plimsoll Arms , St . Thomas-rd ., N ., at 8 . Kilburn , South Molton Hot ., South Molton-st ., W ., at 7 . 30 . Strong Man , George Hot ., Australian Avenue , Barbican , 8 . Metropolitan , White Swan , Coleman-st ., at 7 . 30 .

TUESDAY , SEPTEMBER 21 . Hoard of General Purposes at 4 . Lodge 704 , Camden , Guildhall Tav ., Gresham-st . ,, S 57 , St . Mark's , S . M . H ., Camberwell . „ 1 4 20 , Earl Spencer , Swan Hot ., Battersea Old-Bdge . Chap . 933 , Doric , Anderton ' s Hot ., Fleet-st . „ 1604 , Wanderers' , F . M . H . Mark 23 S , Prince Leopold , Anderton ' s Hot ., Fleet-st .

LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . Pilgrim , F . M . H ., ist and last Tues . Yarborough , Green Dragon , Stepney , at 7 . Domatic , Surrey M . H ., Camberwell New-rd ., at 7 . 30 . Faith , 2 , Westminster Chambers , Victoria-st ., S . W ., at P . Prince Fredk . Win ., Lord ' s Hot ., St . John ' s Wood , at 7 . Prosperity , Hercules Tav ., Leadenhall-st ., at 7 . 30 .

Dalhousie , The Sisters'Tav ., Pownall-rd ., Dalston , E ., 7 . 30 . Florence Nightingale , M . H ., William-st ., Woolwich , 7 . 30 . Constitutional , Bedford Hot ., Southampton Bdgs ., at 7 . Israel , Rising Sun 'Tav ., Globe-rd . Wandsworth , Star and Garter Hot ., Wandsworth , at 7 . Royal Arthur , Prince ' s Head , York-rd ., Battersea , at S . Beacontree , Red Lion , Leytonstone , at S . Excelsior , Commercial Dock Tav ., Rotherhithe , at S .

St . John of Wapping , Gun Hot ., High-st ., Wapping , at S . Islington , Moorgate Station Restaurant , at 7 . Leopold , Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-rd ., Bermondsey , at 8 . Mount Edgcumbe , 19 , Jermyn-st ., St . James's , at S . Duke of Connaught , Palmerston Arms , Grosvenor Park , S . Sir Hugh Myddelton , 162 , St . Iohn ' s-st .-rd ., at S .

St . Marylebone , Eyre Arms , Finchley-rd ., at S . Corinthian , George Hot ., Millwall Docks , at 7 . Henley , Three Crowns , North Woolwich , at 7 . 30 . Royal Naval College , Greenwich Hospital Schools , at S . Eleanor , Angel Hot ,, Edmonton . Metropolitan Chapter , Jamaica Coffee Hot ., Cornhill . Islington , Moorgate Tavern , is , Finsbury Pavement , at 7 . WEDNESDAY . SEPTEMBER 22 .

Lodge of Benevolence at 6 . „ 507 , United Pilgrims , S . M . H ., Camberwell . 753 , Prince Frederick William , Lord's Hot ., St . John's Wood . „ 754 , High Cross , Seven Sisters' Tav ., Page Green , Tottenham .

LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . Confidence , Railway Tavern , Fenchurch-st ., 7 till 9 . New Concord , Jolly Farmers , Southgate-rd ., N ., at 8 . Mt . Lebanon , Horse Shoe Tav ., Newington Causeway , 8 . Pythagorean , Portland Hot ., Greenwich , at S . Burdett Coutts , Salmon & Ball , Bethnal Green-rd ., at S . 30 . La Tolerance , 2 , Maddox-st ., W ., at 7 . 45 . Peckham , Maismore Arms , Park-rd ., Peckham , at 8 .

Finsbury Park , Alwyne Castle , St . Paul ' s-rd ., N . Southwark , Southwark Park Tav ., Southwark Park , at 8 . Dukeof Connaught , Ryl . Edwd . Hot ., Mare-st ., Hackney , 8 . United Strength , Hope & Anchor , Crowndale-rd ., N . W ., 8 . Whittington , Red Lion , Poppin's-court , Fleet-st ., at 8 . Royal Jubilee , 81 , Long Acre , at S . Langthorne , Swan Hot ., Stratford , at S .

Temperance in the East , Geo . the hourth , Ida-st ., E ., at 7 . 30 . Thistle , M . M . M ., The Haro Tav . at 8 . Eleanor , 'Trocadero Hot ., Liverpool-st ., Edmonton . Zetland , King ' s Arms Hot ., High-st ., Kensington , at S . Merchant Navy , Silver Tav ., Burdett-rd ., Limehouse , 7 . 30 . Creaton , Prince Albeit 'Tav ., Portobello-ter ., Notting-hlll , S . Stockwell , Crown , Albert Embankment , at 7 . Panmure , Balham Hot ., Balham , 7 . 30 .

THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 23 . House Com . Girls' School , at 4 . Lodge 7 66 , William Preston , Cannon-st . Hot . „ 1 4 21 , Langthorne , Swan Hot ., Stratford . „ 1563 , City of Westminster , Regent M . H ., Air-st ., W . „ 1658 , Skelmersdale , S . M . H ., Camberwell . „ 1816 , Victoria Park , Queen's Hot ., Victoria Park . Mark 11 S , Northumberland ! M . H . Tav ., Basinghall-st . LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . Union Waterloo , Earl of Chatham , Thomas-st ., Woolwich .