Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

The other evening , at Ihe Savoy Hotel ( the Globe says ) Baron Hirsch entertained Go guests , who were wo'th on an average a million each . The bill amounted to £ 1200 . Dr . Conan Doyle , author of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . " is to write a scries of articles for Great Thoughts . The first of the . articles will appear in the issue of Great Thong / its dated May 5 th . Mr . Geoffrey E . Gardiner and Air . II . K . Palmer , of St . Bartholomew's Hospital , have respectively passed in anatomy and physiology the second examination of the Royal CoTecc of Physicians and Surgeons .

The Laistner Choir will give a concert on Wednesday , the g'h prox ., at St . James's Hall , when Max Bruch ' s setting of Schiller's " Lay of the Bell " will be performed for the first time in biidon . Bro . Lockwocd is now revising for publication by the Roxburghe Press his witty lecture on " The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick . " An original " Buzfuz " has been sketched by Bro . Lock wood for the frontispiece .

'The Duchess of York has graciously accepted copies ol the new "Chimes" waltz by Algernon Rose , which was recently played with much success under the direction of the composer , at the Covcnt Garden fancy dress balls . The Prince of Wales , Colonel in Chief of the Household Cavalry , and the officers of the Royal Horse Guards have placed a handsome memorial of the late Colonel the Hen . Oliver Alontague in Holy Trinity Church , Windsor .

Bro . C W . Carrell , who has just recently been installed as M . E . Z . of the Old Kings' Arms Chapter , will be installed in the chair of the Old Kings' Arms Lodge on Monday next , the 23 rd inst ., at Freemasons' Tavern , when a large gathering of distinguished brethren will take place .

The San h rancisco Masors have been victimised by an impostor , who induced them to believe in a spurious cerf monial which he termed the " Royal Alasnnic rite , " claiming for it 05 degrees . It is really the Memphis rite , suppressed in France long ago , and revivrd since in England and the United Stales only to suffer the same fate . —¦ Rough Ashlar .

The Duchess of Albany , who had promised to visit the bazaar being held on behalf cf thc Great Northern Central Hospital , kindly performed the opening ceremony at the second day's sale , and also inspected the various wards of the institution . 'The Brrontss Burdett-Coutts—to whore exeitiors , as President of the Ladies'Committee , much of the success cf the undertaking is due—was again present , and most cf the ether stall-holders were at their posts .

Bro . Howell's "Masonic History uf No . 257 , Portsmouth , " & c , is now cut of the printer's hands , and now only awaits polishing off by tie hind- rs . Proofs have been received from pp . 2 t t to 27 . 1 ,, including also the . Preface , & c , so now the great work is virtually completed . The proofs just to hand cover the remaining history of No . 3 ( now ^ 57 ) Royal Arch ch .-ptcr , and the Royal Naval

Preceptory frcm 176 9 and 1791 , resptctively , besides other matters , and including an index , ric . The work is really in three parts , though in one volume-, and so great is its importarce , that we have taken the- unusual c < urse of informing cur rc-adeis as each batch of proefs sheets came to hand . The illustrations are valuable ar . d some exceedingly curious , and as soon as possible we hepe that the grand volume will be duly reviewed in our paves by a " master-hand . "

The Duke cf Cambridge presided , on Thursday afternoon , in the United Service Institution , at the annual general meeting ef the Royal School for Daughters of OfT ' cersof the Army . The object of the society , whose scholastic buildings aresit Lnnsdown , Ball ) , is fcr providing at the _ lowest poss He cost gord rr-ctica ! and religious education for the drughtrrs of officers Among those present were Sir Tl . ein .-. s Crawford , l . ieur .-Genernl Sir VV .

Diysdale , Sir Gerrge lT ' gginsrn , Sir Julius Raines , and the Rev . J . C . F . dgehiil , CV-plain-General of thc Forces . The report having been read , the Duke of Cambridge said there was little to r . cid to what had been set cut therein . In general terms the st-. le of mt-ttcrs sos most satisfactory . Unfortunately , there had been p . slight falling off in the subscriptions receive . ! , hut that vtns not exceptional this year with many inrlitutions . The report wis adopted , and a vote cf thanks to the Chr- ' tr' -. n w » s pass . ed by acclamation .

Princess Chris-liar , aco-mpr-iikd by Pi incites Victoria , of Schlesivig-IIulstein , . and attended iiv P . aroness vnn Egloffstein , opened , at the K 0 y . 1 l Albert Hail , the annual , winter sale of wo'k frcm the various ii . dustrial and benevolent institutions which aio ; : ! Tili ? t > . d as ihe Society fur Promoting Female Welfare . Bouquets were accepted by both the Princesses fiorn ihe Laeiies Bernard , who held a flower sttall

in front of the plalfoim , in v . hich pumrosc-s . we-: : a prominent feature . 'lie- Ec-il if I larrowby , as president of the organisaticn , described its scope and purpose , anil mentioned tbf't 25 different lxdi-s were represented . Among these were the- Factory Helpers . ' Union , with Lady Kinnaird at its stall : the Church of Kii-J .-ind ' / . ' nana . Mission , with

Ihe Dowager Laciy Dy never presiding ; ( lit I allies' Hibernian School Society , under Viscountess Mid . 'cton ; the Mildmay Deaconess ' , in chari / e of Ali .-s Purler ; the Cripples' Home , under Louis-a Lady Ashburton ; and the Connc-iiara Orphans' Nuis-cry , direr ted by thc Dowager Lady Loigliton : while ihe Ciiin ' cs -f Harrowby had undertaken the c ::: \ : of one furniahed by thrs -tcio'y .

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Masonic And General Tidings

Musical tableaux , telling the well-known story of "Uncle Tom ' s Cabin , " music by Ivan Caryl ! , and lyrics by George R . Sims , was produced at the A'loore and Burgess Minstrels last Wednesday . Large crowd * will certainly flock lo the St . James ' s Hall to see this undoubted success .

The constitution of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky has this provision , which constitutes Article XV : "Electioneering in any way for office in the Grand Lodge is positively prohibited , and any member guilty of the offence shall be ineligible to office , and , if an officer , shall forfeit the office held by him ; and the same rule shall apply to subordinate lodges . " —Keystone .

Ihe Leathersellers Company have granted the use of their hall , St . Helen ' s-place , for the annual meeting of the Children ' s Fresh Air Mission . Sir Gainsford Bruce will preside , and the speakers announced include the Rev . VV . Hardy Harwood , the Hon . Alassey Mainwaring , Air . G . Benson Clough , and Aliss Ada Heather Bigg .

The Alusical Union which expired 14 years is about to be started again by AI . Johannes Wolff , the eminent violinist . The opening concert will take place on the 21 st prox ., when M . Widor , the distinguished Parisian composer will introduce his new compositions . Several concerts are to be given , and the first season is likely to prove successful .

IMPORTS OF CHAMPAGNE . —Messrs . J . R . Parkmgton and Co . state that the total quantity of champagne forwarded from the champagne districts for the twelve months ending March 31 st last amounted to 22 , 235 , 86 7 bottles , against 2 i , oSS , 2 i 3 bottles last year . The stocks in casks and bottles equal 1 , 355 , 520 hectolitres ( about 163 , 440 , 000 bottles ) , which , ov . ing to the abundant yield of 1 S 93 , is the largest quantity on record .

The Ancient and Accepted . Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in the v ' alley of Cincinnati held its 42 nd annual re-union in the Cathedral of the Rite , beginning on Tuesday , February 20 th . These re-unions have become the most notable Alasonic events in the Central States . The ritual of the rite is carried out with the most painstaking care , and embellished with all that art and science can add to the beauty of language or the impressiveness of ceremonial .

At a meeting of the Fskdale Kilwinning Lodge , No . 107 , S . C , at l . anghnlme , on Friday , the 6 th inst . —Bro . Connel , VV . M ., presiding—the subject of building a Masonic hall was discussed , and the project was most favourably received , Masonry having made great advances in the town recently . Subscriptions amounting to £ 150 was intimated at the

meeting , and the following were appointed a Committee to forward the scheme : Mr . Scott , of Ashley Bank ; Mr . Scott , of Erkingholme ; Mr . Graham , of Holmwoud : Mr . Bell , of Hillside , and Air . VV . A . Connel , Alihitown . It was decided to approach the Duke cf Buccleuch with the view of getting a site granted .

It is not charitable to encourage laziness by affording professional beggars a better income than they could obtain by honest labour ; it is not charitable to encourage vice by confirming a class in the notion that it is right and proper to prey on society , and who direct their efforts linally to force when fraud ceases to pay ; it is not chaiitable to lessen the

chances of the really deserving poor for the relief on which they have a just claim . With two many of this soft-hearted disposition , repeated deception has a hardening effect , and all poor arc indiscriminately classed as impostors . System and organisation are the means by which the most good will be accomplished ; in short , charity should be bestowed as a duly , rathtr than a pleasure . —Ex .

It you hnd a Mason in distress , you may extend to him such relief as you think proper , but it should be given in a manner not likely to humiliate him , and certainly not to the extent of impoverishing yourself or family . It is a great mistake to suppose that Alasonry requires you to rob yourself to assist another . True , Alasonic Charity is said to know no bounds , but there are bounds to your ability to

give , and those bounds should be respected , for if you go beyond them , giving ceases to be Charity . * It may be Charity to divide with your brother , but when you give him more than half your store , oil . er things being equal , you become the object of Charity , and should be the recipient , rather than thc dispenser . Here sentiment ceases to be the

governing power of Alasonry , and cold facts stare you in the face . There may be no bounds lo that " Charity which extends beyond the grave , " but there are very well-defined bcunds where you lay aside the abstract and consider only the Charity that prevents starvation and physical suffering . —Ex .

Primrose Day was honoured in London by all classes and In every district . From an early hour in the morning until late at night large crowds gathered round the statue of the late Lord Btaconsfield in Parliament-square , to view the lavish llor't ! decorations by means of which admirers of thc depaited statesman honour his memory . In no previous year have the garlands of primroses and violets adorning

the monument been more numerous or more beautiful . Under the direction of the Oflice of Works the pedestal was tastefully draped with blue and yellow silk , and from its base to its summit were arranged tier upon tier of Lord Beaconsfield ' s favourite flower . In letters of gold were e-rnblazoned on the panels the phrases which have now become household words : "Peace with Honour" and

"Irnpeioumet Libertas . " Huge tre-stles were provided for the hotter display of the wreaths , one of which hail been sent by a distant admirer—the Hon . M . Belillios , of Hong Kongrnl the ground immediately surrounding the statue was literally covered with contributions from far and near . The Constitutional Club ' s tribute was striking and elaborate , consisting of a huge garland of primroses , bearing , in

addition to the words "Empire and Liberty , the representation of an Earl's coronet , two crossed swords , and the letters " C . C . " deftly worked in two shades of violets . Alost of the Conservative institutions in the West-end and the suburbs decorated their premises in commemoration ol

the ( Tension . Conspicuous ; amongst these was the Chelsea Club ( of which Earl Cadogan is piesident ) , whose whole frontage was outlined with primroses ; and foiget-me-nots . 'The Oiiexn ht-nt lo Air . Coningsby Disraeli a huge wreath , which was p ' accd upon Lord Bejcor . slicTd ' s grave at Hughendcn .

Tvelfth Annual Edition of Explanatory Book , sent gratis and post free , gives reliable information how to make money quickly by Stocks and Shares . Highest and lowest prices for past years . —Address , G . Evans and Co ., Stockbrokers , 11 , Poultry , London , E . C

Masonic And General Tidings

Princess Christian came from Windsor on Thursday to the Albert Hall , South Kensington , and opened a sale of work made at some of the _ Benevolent Institutions and Industrial Homes connected with the Society for Promoting Female Welfare . B

The fruit growers of Cambridgeshire are waging a war of extermination against queen wasps . In one district men have been paid one penny each for every wasp killed in the months of March , April , and May , as many as 252 being killed by one man .

Miss Helen Thornycroft is showing at her studio , 2 A Alelbury-road , a collection of over 200 pictures , comprising flowers , landscapes , and various subjects . Miss Thorny , croft ' s work is well known , _ but special attention may be called to her admirable specimens of flower painting .

The late rector of Lawrenny , Pembrokeshire , was recentl y buried under the branches of a willow which is known as the grandson of Napoleon ' s willow . Its parent ( says the Welshman ) was a twig broken off the willow in St . Helena , under whose shadow Napoleon used to spend a great deal of his time when a prisoner after the battle of Waterloo .

Mr . Brock , R . A ., has just completed a small clay model of his statue of Sir Richard Owen . The distinguished palaeontologist wears the professional gown in which he delivered the Hunterian Lectures . In his left hand he holds the fragment of a femur of one of those gigantic extinct birds of New Zealand which he was the first to describe .

Miss Nelly Farren had hoped to appear once more on the Gaiety stage , from which she had been so long absent , on the occasion of Herr Meyer Lutz ' s benefit ( Wednesday next ) , in one of her favourite parts—Nan , in "Good for Nothing ; " but it is to be feared this is outof the question ,

and Miss Farren will probably never be seen behind the footlights again , as the complaint from which she is suffering—chronic gout—has reached a point complete recovery seems entirely out of the question . Meantime her old comrades , Bro . Edward Terry and Miss Vaughan , return to burlesque at Terry ' s to-morrow ( Saturday ) .

At the Principal Probate Registry the will of Mdme . Janet Monach Patey , the great contralto , formerly of Fair View , West Kensington , but lately of Tresilian , Falmouth , who died suddenly on February 2 Sth at the Royal Hotel Victoria , Sheffield , where she was giving a farewell concert ,

has been proved by Mr . John George Patey , of Tresilian , husband of the deceased , and Mr . William Eyre , 26 , Huskisson-street , Liverpool , metal broker ,. the executors ap . pointed therein . The gross value of the testatrix ' s personal estate and effects amounts to £ 4684 14 s . 1 id ., and the net value to £ 3217 163 . 2 d .

Lord Mayor Tyler presided on Thursday night in the Cannon-street Hotel at the 75 th annual festival of the City of London General Pension Society . In proposing the customary loyal toasts , the Mayor said everybody hoped that the Royal wedding celebrated that day might be one which would increase the happiness of those distinguished

personages whose healths they had so enthusiastically honoured . He had that afternoon received the following telegram from Coburg : " To the Lord Mayor , Mansion House , London—I thank your Lordship most heartily for the kind telegram you have sent me , and for the good wishes which have been expressed in the name of the citizens of London . —ALFHED . "

Qualifications for Alasonic office are tar more than moral and ritualistic . They are also thorough acquaintance with Masonic jurisprudence and symbolism in its profound sense . They are the discerning of the whys and wherefores of all that the Institution includes , and the inculcating of the same intelligently and comprehensibly . Proper instruction of candidates requires that the instructor be . in very truth , a

Master in Masonry . This means far more than perfectly memorising and reciting the ritual . It means perfect comprehension and elucidation of all the forms , ceremonies , emblems , symbols , allegories , legends , and teachings of the Institution—the spiritualising of them so that the candidate will make no mistake in his use of them in erecting the temple . —Keystone .

VISIT or THE LOKIJ LIEUTEXAXT OV IRELAND TO THE MASONIC SCHOOLS . —On Tuesday , the io : h instant , the Lord Lieutenant , accompanied by Col . Jekyll , Private Secretary , and attended by Captain Burnes , A . D . C , visited the Masonic Orphan Schools at Dublin . His iixcellency first drove to the Boys' School at Richview , Clonskeagh , where he was received by Lord Justice

Fitzgibbon , Bro . Oliver try , Hon . Sec ; the Rev . Benjamin Gibson , Chap . ; Bro . J . Holdbrook , B . A ., Head Master ; and several of the Governors . His Excellency was first shown the new wing which is in course of erection , under the supervision of Air . Samuel Bolton , and which will afford accommodation to 40 additional boys . It is expected that thc building will be finished by the end of the year ,

when there will be accommodation for 100 boys , there being at present 67 in the School . The Lord Lieutenant was then conducted to the hoard-room , where his Excellency was presented with a copy of the last annual report , in which it was pointed out to him that the education ot the boys during the year reached a very high standard , and that the School had been placed in a most

gratifying position from the fact that at the last Intermediate Examinations 22 boys had enteied , and every one of them had passed , some gaining exhibitions anil honours in classics , mathemitics , and shorthand . His Excellency was next conducted to the dining hall , the dormitories , schoolrooms , and gymnasium . In the latter the boys were exercised on the horizontal bar , and were put

through a number of movements by the drill-sergeant . Air . AI'Naughton . On leaving his Excellency , who expressed himself very much pleased with what he had seen , was loudly cheered by the boys . The Lord Lieutenant then drove to the Girls' School at Ball ' s Bridge and on ardving was received by Bro . Graves Eves , J . P ., Hon . Secretary ; U 10 . F . M . icolt , J . P ., Assistant Secretary ; Miss Neive ,

Alatron ; and Miss T ' riggs . His Excellency was shown over the buildings , and his attention was particularly directed to the new Centtnary Memorial Hall , the Drill Hall , and Library , which are now in course of erection by Mr . S . Bolton . On leaving , the Lord Lieutenant intimated that he was greatly pleased with everything he had seen . His Excellency was loudly cheered by the children on departing .