Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

The Lebanon . Chapter , No . 1326 , which has hitherto met at the Red Lion Hotel , Hampton , have removed to the Greyhound Hotel , Hampton Court , and will hold their next meeting in July under Bro . Mella ' s roof . Bro . Lieutenant Dan Godfrey , bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards , has been presented by her Majesty with the silver Jubilee commemoration medal .

the Princess of Wales will pay an inaugural visit to the Cheyne Hospital for Sick and Incurable Children , Cheynewalk , Chelsea , on Wednesday next , the 25 th inst . The Duke of Devonshire has lent Devonshire House ; Piccadilly , on the afternoon of Thursday next , the 26 th inst ., for a meeting in aid of the Nurses' Convalescent Home .

The Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Bro . W . Burdett-Coutts , M . P ., have taken up their residence at Holly Lodge , Highgate , for the summer . Bro . Burdett-Coutts has recently sold some of his horses to an American breeder . The annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society was held at the London University , Burlington Gardens , on Monday , under the presidency of Sir M . E . Grant-Duff . The founder ' s medal was presented to Lieut . F . E .

Younghusband for his journey across Central Asia in 1 SS 6—7 . Bro . Sir John Puleston , who has represented the Borough of Devonport since 1874 , has intimated that he does not intend to again seek election . He has been induced to take this step for reasons of health and because of the increasing responsibility attaching to the representation of a dockyard constituency .

The Duke and Duchess of Connaught will arrive at Liverpool to-morrow ( Saturday ) by the Sardinian . On reaching London their Royal Highnesses will proceed to Buckingham Palace , and afterwards go to Windsor Castle for the purpose of visiting her Majesty . Colonel Egerton , Equerry , and the Queen ' s representative will receive the Duke and Duchess on landing .

Bros . Lord Hothfield , K . Lawson , Justice Straight , F . W . Maclean , S . B . Bancroft , Montague Williams , O . C , Charles Wyndham , Lionel Brough , J . C . Parkinson , E . Ledger , and H . Beerbohm Tree were among the guests at the supper given at the Garrick Club on Sa ' urdaylast in celebration of Mr . John Hare ' s 25 th anniversary of his first appearance on the stage .

Bro . the Marquis of Hartington gave a garden party at Devonshire House , Piccadilly , on Friday , the 13 th instant , when a large company assembled , among whom were the Prince and Princess of Wales and their daughters , the Princesses Victoria and Maud , the Prince and Prin-ess Christian and their daughters , many representatives of the diplomatic body , and others .

The Royal Military Tournament at the Royal Agricultural Hall , Islington , in aid of the funds of the Military Charities , was opened by the Duchess of Albany on Wednesday , and will remain open till towards the close of next week . The attractions of past yea s will be included in the programme , and there will be introduced also , for the first time , four new features , the capture of a mountain pass , an electric wagon ,

a railway in operation , and the working of a French ambulance wagon . Among those present on Tuesday in the Royal enclosure at Ascot were the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Clarence and Avondale , the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh , Prince and Princess Christian and their

daughters , the Duke of Cambridge , Bro . the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn , Bro . the Duke of St . Albans , Bros , the Earl of Clonmell and the Earl of Faversham , Bro . the Marquis of Hartington , Bro . the Marl and Countess of Dunraven , Bro . Lord and Lady Greville , Bro . the Earl of Hardwicke , Bro . the Earl and Countess Granville , and Bro . Viscount Valentia .

Miss Mary Anderson was very quietly married to Mr . F . Antonio de Navarro on Tuesday morning ' , at the small Roman Catholic Chapel in Holly-place , Hampstead . The wedding party was confined to the relatives of the bride and bridegroom , no one else being admitted to the chapel . The bridegroom arrived shortly before n o ' clock , accompanied

by his brother , who acted as " best man . " The bride came with her stepsister . Miss' Blanche Griffin , the only bridesmaid ; and was given away by her brother , Mr . Joseph Anderson . Canon Purcell performed the ceremony . After luncheon at Mrs . Griffin ' s residence in Frognal-road Mr . and Mrs . Navarro left on their way to Venice .

The Prince of Wales , on behalf of the Queen , held a Levee at St . James's Palace , on Monday , when presentations to his Royal Highness were regarded as equivalent to presentations to her Majesty . Previously the Prince and about 30 officers of the 10 th Hussars , of which his Royal Highness is Colonel , were grouped together and photographed in the garden to rne rear of Marlborough House . In the

evening the Prince , accompanied by the Princess of Wales , the Duke of Clarence and Avondale , and the Princesses Victoria and Maud , left Marlborough House for Sunningdale Park , where they have been residing during their visit to the Ascot Race Meeting . Previous to this , however , his Royal Highness presided at a meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall at the offices , Buckingham-gate .

MASONIC SIGNS FROM THE LEBANITES . —After a sojourn of many months among the Druses of Lebanon , the Rev . Haskett Smith , rector of Brauncewell , Lincolnshire , is about to return with an important discovery concerning that mysterious people , who are supposed to be lineal descendants of the Hittites . Mr . Smith was admitted to the most secret intimacy with the Druses through having saved the life of a popular young man by sucking the venom

of a deadly snake-bite from his body . He was initiated into a number of mysterious rites , hitherto unknown to any foreigner , and among these the natives startled him , as a Freemason , by passing the most characteristic of Masonic signs . Hence Mr . Smith augurs that the Druses are none other than a branch of the great Phoenician race , whose ancestors supplied the Lebanon cedars to the Builders of King Solomon ' s temple .

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The money for the purchase of Brockwell Park , Heme Hill , has been subscribed for some time past , but the gates are still closed to the public . Bros . Lord Halsbury ( Lord High Chancellor ) , Lord George Hamilton , and Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., attended the Cabinet Council held at the Foreign Office on Tuesday .

The Royal Arthur Lodge of Instruction , No . 1360 , meeting at the Prince of Wales Hotel , Wimbledon , will not renew its meetings until the first Thursday in September , as usual . We learn with pleasure that Bro . Gulio Festa , who was initiated in the Montague Guest Lodg'e on the eve of his departure for Brazil , ha ; arrived safely at Monte Video , and will enter on his duties forthwith .

We regret to hear that , though the accounts of his health are greatly exaggerated , B o . Viscount Ebrington , M . P ., has found it necessary to go abroad for a time in order to obtain rest and a change of air . The Bishop of Winchester ' s golden wedding was celebrated quietly at Farnham Castle on Wednesday . His lordship was able to leave his room to attend the celebration of Holy Communion in the Library . A large number of presents were received .

We understand that a biacelet will to-day ( Friday ) be presented to Mrs . Woodward , at Norwood , by Bros . R . H . Thrupp , Dep . Prov . G . M . Middx ., and II . H . Room , Prov . G . Sec , on behalf of the subscribers to the testimonial presented to Bro . I . F . H . Woodward , P . G . S . B .

A Provincial Grand Lodge of London and Metropolitan Counties of the Royal Order of Scotland will be held at 33 , Golden-square , on Friday , July 4 , at 4 . 30 , and a banquet will subsequently take place at the Cafe Royal . Bro . Colonel Shadwell H . Clerke will preside as Prov . G . M .

The marriage of the Hon . Victoria Sackville-West , daughter of Lord Sackville , with her cousin Mr . L . E . Sackville-West , eldest son of Bro . Colonel the Hon . VV . E . Sackville-West , P . G . W ., heir presumptive to the barony of Sackville , was solemnised in the private chapel at Knole Park , Sevenoaks , on Tuesday . The wedding party was confined to the immediate relatives .

A movement is on foot in the City for the removal of the Church of Allhallows , London Wall , which , it is said , forms a serious obstruction to public traffic in that busy locality . The recent death of the rector of the parish at a patriarchal age has brought the question to the front just now , and the advocates of the demolition suggest that the living might be united with some other City benefice . At

a meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers on Tuesday the Improvement Committee were instructed to report on the subject . Miss Minnie Palmer is playing this week at Bradford , where she has been heartily welcomed . Next week she goes to the Court Theatre , Liverpool , and on the last night

but one of her stay , June 27 th , w 11 give a parting- supper to her company . After the performance on June 2 Sth she and her husband ( Mr . John R . Rogers ) will at once start for Queenstown , there to join the s . s . Servia , due at New York on July 6 th . Miss Palmer ' s next appearance in London will be in " My Brother ' s Sister . "

The funeral of Bro . WalterH . Hehl , P . M . of the Camden Lodge , No . 704 , took place on Tuesday at Hrompton Cemetery . The lodge had been summoned to attend , and many did so . They also sent a wreath . Of other Freemasons and friends we noticed Bros . Edwin Styles and j .

E . Shand , P . M ., Sec , who represented the Camden Club , of which our deceased brother was a member , the club having also sent a wreath of regard . Deceased had been many years manager of the Trocadero , so that he was well known and respected in the profession , and many paid his remains the last tribute of respect .

On Thursday , the 3 rd July prox ., Mrs . Baskcomb will give a musical and dramatic matinee in the Banqueting Room , St . James ' s Hall , commencing at 3 p . m . The list of artistes who will give their services is numerous , and includes , among others , Miss Kate Vaughan , Miss Georgina Ganz ,

Bros . Maybnck , Hermann Vezin , Lionel Brough , Jas . Fernandez , and others , while Mrs . Baskcomb herself and Bro . VV . G . Cousins , P . G . Org ., will preside at the pianoforte . We trust the matinee will have the success which such a gathering of dramatic and musical artistes justifies us in looking forward to .

Fine wines seem to find purchasers where fine pictures do —at Messrs . Christie and Manson ' s , the great fine art auctioneers . While the collections ot old masters are bringing their hundreds of guineas one day , the cellars of old wines are drawing their hundreds of shillings per dozen the next . There was quite a festival on Thursday , the 12 th inst ., over the dispersion of the cellars of such celebrity as

those of the late Lord Dacre , the late Lord Wicklow , the late Lord Dalhousie , and several other connoisseurs , and some rather extravagant prices were paid for the wines de fine finer . Champagnes , magnums of Perrier Jouet ' 74 , extra reserve Cuvee from Lord Dalhousie ' s cellar drew 610 s . per dozen from Mr . Pammire Gordon ' s pocket ; and ordinary bottles of Pommery Greno ' 74 , extra vin brut , from

Mr . Evans Freke ' s cellar , fetched from 1 S 5 S . to 200 s . per dozen ; and the same wine from other cellars brought from 225 s . to 235 s per dozen ; and one lot of tl . ree dozen Perrier Jouet , ' 74 , Cuvee G . Brut , drew no less than 310 s ., that is nearly 26 s . a bottle . Madeira , from Lord Dacre ' s cellar at The Hoo , Hertfordshire , laid down in 1 S 54 , brought from 02 s . to oSs . per dozen , while some from the Hon . Edward

Coke ' s , of Longford , Derby , deceased , of unknown age , but bought of the Right Hon . Ed . Ellice in 1 S 43 , brought from cjSs . to 106 s . per dozen . A few dozens of Claret , Chateau Lafitte , 1 S 3 S , sold at from 124 s . to 144 s . per dozen . Three dozen of port , vintage of 1 S 47 , from Mr . Colson Taylor's cellar , of Clifton , sold for 122 s . per dozen ; and three more of the same at 120 s . per dozen .

THE UNEMPLOYED IN LAST 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 May's Matches , that firm would be enabled to pay £ 1000 a week more in wages . —ADVT .

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Bro . the Rev . John Lloyd , M . A ., vicar of Carmarthen , has been appointed Bishop-Suffragan of Swansea , in the diocese of St . David ' s . The Queen has sent £ 50 as a donation towards the restoration of Green ' s Norton Church , near Towcester , for which the Duke of Grafton has also promised ^ , 300 .

The total amount of the offertories received on behalf of the Hospital Sunday Fund , up to the present , amount to nearly £ 33 , , representing a sum of £ 2000 above the amount received at the corresponding period of last year . . We have much pleasure in announcing that the Clarence Lodge of Instruction , No . 263 , which though so newly started has become very popular ¦ — already numbering upwards of 60 members—intends continuing its meetings through the summer .

The P . and O . Company have placed two of their fine steamers at the disposal of the Seamen's Hospital Society Committee for the ceremonial opening of the new branch hospital at the Victoria and Albert Docks by the Prince and Princess of Wales on the 24 th inst .

At the monthly meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society , on Wednesday , a paper was read by Capt . j . P . Maclear , " On the action of lightning during the thunderstorms of June 6 th and 7 th , 1 SS 9 , at Cranleigh . " Mr . Baldwin Latham presided .

Mr . Wilson Barrett concludes his American tour at Sacramento , California , on July 6 th , and journeys with his company direct to New York , sailing thence per City of New York , and arriving in Liverpool 011 Wednesday , July 23 rd . He has arranged a short provincial tour of five weeks .

The largest single manual org-an ever built is now on view at 5 8 , Holborn Viaduct . It is known as the Orchestral Grand Organ , and possesses 15 sets of reeds and 23 stops . The construction is entirely new , all the reeds being above the keys , which gives a greatly increased power , lightness of touch , and a swell effect equal to the pipe organ , rendering it the best instrument of the kind ever produced .

The second conversazione held this year by the Royal Society took place on Wednesday at Burlington House . There was a large and brilliant assembly , and among exhibits which attracted a good deal of attention were Mr . Shelford Bidwell ' s electrification of a steam jet , Mr . W . F . R . Weldon ' s specimens of the living larva ? of certain foodfishes , and the two mummy heads exhibited by Professor A . Macalister .

The School Board Fete was held on Wednesday at the Crystal Palace . In the afternoon Earl Stanhope attended and distributed the prizes awarded for proficiency in Scripture knowledge . Out of a total of 122 S prize takers ( 252 , 302 children this year submitted themselves for voluntary examination ) , S 2 were selected to publicly receive their prizes , inconsequence of their having passed a written examination with marked success .

Wednesday was the 75 th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo . The only surviving officers who took part in the engagement are General George Whichcote , 52 nd Light Infantry , of Meriden , Coventry , born Dec . 21 , 1704 , who received nine clasps for his Peninsular services ; Lieut .-Colonel William Hewett , 14 th Foot , of Southampton , born

July 2 , 1795 ; and General the Earl of Albemarle , 14 th Foot , born June 13 , 1700 . Of the Peninsular veterans surviving who were not at Waterloo there are only two—Lieutenant Frederick Bayly , Royal Artillery , of Bath , born July 14 , 1791 ; and Major Gammell , Rifle Brigade , of Bath , born Jan . 3 , 1797 .

The Prince of Wales has just assisted at the completion of a pretty little episode . When , 28 years ago , he visited the United States , he planted a tree at Mount Vernon , close by the tomb of Washington . The tree , after a moderately prosperous life , died , and was cut down . _ When last year Sir Julian Pauncefote was here , he mentioned the circumstance to the Prince of Wales , who said that he saw no

immediate prospect of revisiting the States , but commissioned the British Minister to act as his deputy in planting another tree . Sir Julian Pauncefote , on his return , took with him a handful of acorns , which were planted and carefully watched . From these a young slip has grown , and Sir Julian Pauncefote reports to Marlborough House that in the name of the Prince of Wales he has planted the oak tree by the tomb of Washington .

St . Paul ' s Church , Knightsbridge , was filled , at 11 o ' clock on Tuesday morning , by a great crowd of mourners , many of them ladies , who had assembled to do honour to the gentle memory of the late Dowager Marchioness of Ely . As the flower-laden coffin advanced up the aisle the scene was most impressive , the procession advancing towards the altar chanting the opening portions of the burial service .

Her Majesty sent a wreath of immortelles , lilies , and roses . On the card were the words " A mark of loving affection and gratitude from her devoted friend Victoria R . I . " Among the other floral tributes being one from Elizabeth Duchess of Wellington , and the Empress Eugenie who had written on the card attached to her memorial "Souvenir de tendreamitie . " Lovely tributes of affection and friendship

came from the Prince and Princess of Wales , and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh . The body was then removed to the four-horsed hearse , which was waiting outside the church to convey the coffin to Kensal Green . So many were the flowers that a carriage was filled with those for which there was no room on the hearse . From first to last the

ceremony was a reverend tribute to the excellent lady who is mourned and regretted far beyond the circle which she was privileged to make her own . The Secretary of the General Cemetery Company , Mr . H . J . Crofts , together with Mr . F . Frank Tupp , very efficiently conducted the proceedings . Messrs . Jarvis and Child were the undertakers .

HOLLOWAY s OINTMENT AND PILLS . —Coughs , Influenza . —The soothing properties of these medicaments render them well worthy of trial in all diseases of the respiratory organs . In common colds and inlluenza the Pills , taken internally , and the Ointment rubbed over the chest and throat , are exceedingly eflicacions . When influenza is epidemic , this treatment is the easiest , safest , and surest . Holloway ' s Pills purify the blood ,

r move all obstacles to its free circulation through the lungs , relieve the engorged air tubes , and render respiration free without reducing the strength , irritating the nerves , or depressing the spirits ; such are the ready means of saving suffering when anyone is afflicted with colds , coughs , bronchitis , and other chest complaints , by which so many persons are seriously and permanently afflicted in most countries . ADVT .