Royal Arch.

Duff , J . ; James Ellershaw , S . Z . ; Jos . J . Croskell , S . N . ; E . Simpson , P . P . G . P ., P . Z ., and Treas . ; W . Hall , P . Z . ; Comp . R . Stanton , P . S . ; and many other companions . The chapter having been opened in due form , and the minutes of last chapter confirmed , Bro . Arthur Edwin Brayshay , of the Morecambe Lodge , 1561 , was balloted for , and this being unanimous , he was duly exalted to the Sublime Degree of a Royal Arch Companion by the AI . E . Z ., the ceremony being very impressively gone through . The chanter was then closed .

Amusements.

Amusements .

CHILDREN'S PINAFORE COMPANY . —After a most enthusiastic reception at Glasgow to over-flowing houses of Mr . D'Oyley Carte's Children's Pinafore Company , under the able conductorship of Bro . G . Jenkinson , to whom great credit is due for his careful musical training , they opened on Alonday last at the Theatre Royal , Edinburgh , to a crowded and appreciative audience ; thc performance throughout being a decided success .

MANCHESTER . —QUEEN'S THEATRE . —A rather sensational drama was produced at this theatre on Alonday last , entitled " Life ' s Battle , " in which Bro . J . A . Cave , of MaryleboneandVictoriafame , performed the principal part . The drama abounds in startling incidents , and Bro . Cave

proved himself an able exponent of "Job Rawson , " producing and deserving great applause in his own song "When the world goes merrily round , " and in a well executed hornpipe . The rest of the characters were fairly represented , notably Miss Ethel Arden ' s " Honor Rawson , " and Air . Chippendale ' s " Dr . Dempster . "

Literary, Art, And Antiquarian Notes.

Literary , Art , and Antiquarian Notes .

O Diaro Popular , of Lisbon , speaks in enthusiastic terms of a recently published poem , entitled " Catharina de Athayde , " by Senhor Antonio de Macedo Papanca . The Athenceum announces the early appearance of the Life and Letters of Cicero , by the Rev . G . E .

Jeans . A bust of the late Mr . John Curwen , the founder of the tonic sol-fa system , is being executed by Air . George Holding . The Athenamm states that a complete edition of the works of Franz Liszt is announced .

Mr . Murray will shortl y publish a book on the Power of Alovemcnt in Plants , by Dr . Charles Darwin , who has been assisted in the work by Air . F . Darwin . It is reported that Sir Evelyn Wood , during his recent visit to Zululand , collected some additional materials for a work on the Zulu war , which he is now engaged in writing .

A life of Mr . J . T . Dclane , the late editor of the Times , is in preparation by Sir George W . Dasent . A work on the earl y life of Charles James Fox will appear from the pen of ' Mr . G . O . Trcvelyan , M . P . Dr . Adolf Erman has recentl y brought before lhe Royal Society of Gottingcn [ some fragments of a Sahidic translation of the Old Testament . These are from AISS .

mTattams collection , and from a MS . in the Bodleian Library . Additional antiquities excavated by Mr . Rassam have arrived at the British Aluseum . Ihey principally come from Kouyunjik . Among them are three terra-cotta cylinders of Sennacherib and an Assyrian bronze helmet . Amongst thc latest additions lo the Musec du Louvre is a portrait of Soufilot , the architect of thc

Pantheon . The picture was painted by Vanloo . Rosa Bonheur is understood to bc at work upon a painting of two lions . The creatures who are acting as her "models" were bought from a travelling menagerie , and are now installed at her studio at By ( Seine et Marnc ) . It is said that she is about to leave this locality for Nice , where a villa is being built fur her . The picture is intended for the next salon .

Ihe death is announced of the sculptor P . H . Lcmaire , the creator of the statues of Richer and Hoche , and of that ornament of the Madelaine whicli represents Christ pardoning the Magdalen . Al . Lcmaire sat in the Corps Legislatif from 1 S 52 to 1 SG 3 . The Athenamm stales lhat a new work by thc Duke of Argyll , entitled "The Unity of Nature , " will be

published in successive articles in the Contemporary Review , beginning with the September number . The chapters are as follows : —I . The Unity of Nature : What it is and what it is not . II . Alan ' s Place in the Unity of Nature . III . Animal Instinct in its Relation to thc Alind of Man . IV . Thc Limits of Human knowledge , considered with Reference to the Unity of Nature . V . The

Truthfulness of Human Knowledge , considered in the Light of the Unity of Nature . VI . and VII . The Aloral Character of Man , considered in the Light of the Unity of Nature . VIII . and IN . The Origin of Religion , considered in the Light of the Unity of Nature . PNEUMATIC CLOCKS IN PARIS . —Timeisnow supplied to street clocks , public offices , hotels , and private

dwellings in Paris , like gas or water , from a central station , b y means of compressed air conveyed through underground pipes . At thc central station there isa reservoir of compressed air , and for the first 20 seconds of every minute , ns given by a standard time-piece , a current of thecompressed air is allowed to flow through the pipes to the receiving clocks . By means of a small bellows , which is expanded by thc transmitted air , the works of these clocks are kept

going at a practically uniform rate . The street mains are of wrought iron about 1 i-iGin . in diameter , and these are connected to service pipes of lead 3-jin . in diameter , while the different storeys of a building arc supplied by rubber tubes Jin . in diameter . Any number of clocks can be actuated in this wav within a radius of two miles from the central station , and the system has done so well in Paris that a company has been formed to introduce it into New York . —Engineering .

Literary, Art, And Antiquarian Notes.

" Saturday Afternoon with the Best Authors is the last new London periodical . It is edited by Air . B . L . Favjeon , and each issue contains selections from the works of the best known writers . In the first number , amongst other authors laid under contribution , are Charles Dickens , Washington Irving , Shelley , Isaacd'Israeli , and Hans Christian Andersen . TECHNICAL EDUCATION . —Mr . Alfred

Waterhouse A . R . A ., has been appointed architect for the erection of the Central Institution of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education , in Exhibition-road , South Kensington . The cost of the building will be £ 50 , 000 . . The plans for the City and Guilds' Technical College , Finsbury , to be erected in Tabernacle-row , at a cost of £ 20 , , have been approved , and it is expected that the foundation-stone will be laid in October

next . Pending the erection of this building technical instruction has been given in class-rooms rented from the Cowper-strcet Schools Corporation . During thc last term instruction was given in chemistry as applied to fuel , electro-plating , photography , and _ in the application of physics to steam and mechanical

engineering . During the coming winter the laboratory instructions here include photographic chemistry and organic chemistry as preliminary to the chemistry of the coal tar procucts , brewing and spirit distillery , electric lighting , electric instrument making , and motor machinery .

Tire LIVERPOOL AUTUMN EXHIBITION OF PICTURES . —Last Saturday was the last day for receiving works of art for the approaching Corporation exhibition , which will be open to the public on Alonday , the Gth September . Any one taking a peep at the rear of the gallery would have seen the receiving place strewn with hundreds of pictures of all sizes and shapes , and of various degrees of artistic merit , from the huge canvases of the Royal

Academicians to the little water - colour flower picture brought by some little lady student , whose friends , with cruel kindness , have persuaded her to submit her production to the severe ordeal of the critical hanging committee . It was nearly midnight before the staff at the gallery had got the whole of the pictures unpacked and put under cover . We understand that , as usual , more than twice as many works have been sent in that space can be found for

on the walls of the building , and every year shows thc necessity for increased accommodation being provided at thc gallery . Fine as previous exhibitions have been , that for 1 SS 0 bids fair to outdo all its predecessors , many of the leading artists of the United Kingdom and the continent having sent their best productions . The list of artists contributing includes the names of Sir Frederick Leighton , P . R . A ., Alillais , Sant , Goodall , Frith , Hodgson , Wells

Cope , Alorris , Herkomcr , Yeames , Pettie , Poynter , Dobson , Burgess , Crofts , Thorburn , Storey , Schafer , Perugini , Schmalz , Glendoni , Green , Smallficld , Henry , Lucas , Gale , Lawson , Blair Leighton , Schloesscr , Alorgan , Barnard , Alacnab , Waterloo , Sadler , Topham , Haynes Williams , Walton , Cauty , Stocks , Gow , Johnson , Holyoake , Cotman , Aumonier , Chevalier , Dore , Tom Lloyd , Fahey , and many others . Many artists of great note have sent

works never before exhibited , and the examples of the sculptor ' s art will be more numerous and important than usual . The full-length statue of Sir A . B . Walker , formerly Alayor of Liverpool , which is now on its way from Rome , will ' he formally handed over to the . Mayor , as representing the Corporation , on Friday , September 3 rd , at three o ' clock , admission being confined to the members of the Corporation and the testimonial committee .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

The future meetings of the Metropolitan Lodge of Instruction , No . 1507 , will be held at the White Swan , Coleman-street , E . C , every Monday evening at 7 . 30 . "Rogues nnd Vagabonds" ( an advertisement appearing in the daily papers ) is the title of a new tale in the paper with which the name oi Mr . G . R . Sims has become identified , One and All .

Thc death is announced of Miss Neilson , thc actress . It occurred suddenly on Sunday morning , in Paris . . The talented lady had hut recently returned from a successful tour in thc United States . She was aged thirty years . The Queen in Council has granted to Sheffield the right to hold a separate court of quarter sessions . It is rumoured that Air . Wills , O . C ., will probably be the recorder .

The Swanagc Work and Flower Show was held on Tuesday by the kind permission of Bro . Ex-Sheriff Burt , J . P ., in the grounds of Purbeck House , Swanage . Wc arc g lad to hear that the net result of thc sale of tickets for the Alexandra Palace on Saturday last , in aid of the fund of the Wood Green Printers' Almshouses Restoration Fund , is likely to amount to £ 130 .

A new work by Mr . L . Lewis , the writer of thc well-known drama of "The Bells , " will bc published in n few days hy Alessrs . Tinsley Brothers , under the title of "A Peal of . Merry Bells . " At the present time the great gathering of Sir Knights at Chicago during the present month is the allabsorbing topic in Masonic circles . It being the vacation

season , usually taken in the lodges and chapters during hot weather , the Sir Knights are having everything pretty much their own way . From Maine to California come notes of preparation from every State . Every Grand Commandery in the United States will be fully represented in the Grand Encampment , and thirty thousand Sir Knights are said to have reported to take part in the grand parade on the 17 th

inst . While the number , doubtless , has been largely overestimated , it is still evident that it will be more than twice as large as that of any former parade of Sir Knights , while the crowd of spectators will be even more largely increased . The Chicago Committee of Arrangements assert positively

that the number of Sir Knights and ladies accompanying them will exceed forty thousand . Ample preparations are being made at Chicago to entertain that number . There never has been , and probably there will not be again for many years to come , such a grand display of Knight Templarism as will be made at Chicago on the 17 th of August . —Masonic Advocate .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Mr . M . A . Bass , M . P ., speaking on Saturday last at the opening of a free library at Smethwick , strongly insisted on the importance , indeed the necessity , of technical education , if the British working classes were to compete successfully with foreign workmen .

Bro . Commander Cheyne , R . N ., informs the Morning Post that the means adopted for organising a new Arctic expedition in this country not having met with the public sympathy and response expected , the London Central Arctic Committee are adopting new measures .

PRINTERS' SECOND ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEETING . —The above meeting , in aid of the Printers' Pension ,, Almshouse , and Orphan Asylum Corporation , will take place at Lillie Bridge Grounds , West Brompton , on Saturday , the 28 th inst . There will be several walking and running handicaps ( including a volunteers' walking race , review order ) for several prizes , ranging in value front £ 4 to . ss .

MANSION HOUSE TRURO CATHEDRAL FUND . —This fund amounted last evening to a little over £ 1000 , including the following subscriptions : Alessrs . Baring Brothers and Company , £ 250 ; Alessrs . A . Gibbs and Co ., £ 200 ; Alessrs . Gilliat and Co ., £ 100 ; Messrs . F . Huth and Co ., £ 100 ; Alessrs . Barnett , Hoare , and Co ., £ 50 ; Air . E . W . Bond , £$ o , being a first instalment of ^ . 250 . which he desires to spread over five years .

Il is our painful duty lo announce that Bro . George Conquest , the popular comedian , while going through some of his trapeze performance at Wallack's Theatre on the third night of his engagement in Air . Spry ' s burlesque of " Grim Goblin , " either slipped or fell , and by so doing he broke his leg . According to a cablegram , he is now progressing very favourably .

The annual communication of the Provincial Grand Alark Lodge of Cumberland and Westmorland will be held at Cockermouth , on Tuesday , the . 31 st inst ., under the banner of the Faithfull Lodge , No . 229 . On the same day Bro . Capt . Sewell , P . G . Reg ., W . M . elect of Lodge 220 , will be installed .

In the general race for the Presidency this year , one candidate has been generally overlooked . He is General John W . Phelps , of Brattleboro ' , Vermont , who has written a letter formally accepting' the nomination for President by the National Anti-Masonic Society . It is a good tiling that this year there is no pronounced opposition to the " soldier element , " for , with live candidates to choose

from , the next President is sure to be a general . The people cannot escape this doom , even by turning to the Greenbacker , who has more nominations than he knows wdiat to do with , or to General Phelps , the leader of the new party in national politics . " I Love the Military " mi g ht be turned into a sort of combination campaign song , with an

adjustable chorus to suit the several candidates . —Public Ledger , Philadelphia . The bust of thc Bishop of Manchester , in heroic size , is to be executed in marble by Air . Warrington Wood , and , when completed , will bc placed in the Manchester Town Hall .

A Verdict for ^ 16 , 500 was awarded on Wednesday by a jury in the Lord Mayor ' s Court to Air . Wilkinson , the proprietor of several alamode beef houses in the City . as compensation for certain freehold business premises in Graccchurch-street belonging to him , and required by the Corporation for the improvement of Leadenhall . Market .

The annual meeting of thc Provincial Grand Alark Lodge of Tunis and Malta will be held at the Alasonic Hallj Strada Stretta , Malta , on Thursday , 14 th October , at seven p . m ., when the R . W . Bro . A . M . Broadley , barrister-at-law , P . G . AL , will consecrate the Union of Malta Mavk Ijjdgc , No . 2 G 2 .

THE NATIONAL ROSE SHOW . — 'lhe National Rose Society has just intimated , through its Secretary , the Rev . H . II . de Ombrian , that it will hold its next sho . v in Sheffield . The exhibition will take place in the Botanical Gardens , and £ 150 will be offered in prizes , jt , 100 of which will be provided by the Botanical Gardens Society . The provincial exhibition has hitherto been held in Alanchester .

We regret to stale lhat Bro . lid ward Cox , P . M ., P . Z ., P . KG . W . Norths and Hunts , is lying dangerously ill , and but little hopes are entertained of his recovery . We trust , however , that our worthy brother may soon again be seen amongst us .

THE CROPS IN AUSTRIA . —A Reuters Telegram , dated Vienna , August iSth , says : fn the statistics of the Austro-Hungarian crop , published on the lGth inst ., thc figure of G , ooo , ooo centals should represent the quantity of barley , not rye , available for export , there being no surplus of rye , unless the consumption of that cereal should be abnormally low this year .

ROMAN REMAINS . —During thc last few weeks workmen have been employed in laying down drainage pipes throughout thc cathedral enclosure at Winchester , and some interesting relics of Roman handiwork have been discovered . In Canon Warburton'sgarden , situated on the north side of Dome-alley , was found a portion of a Roman pavement , which was slightly damaged in its removal to the

Deanery ; and a subsequent search revealed a further portion of the remains , which were embedded about six feet below the surface , a short distance to the east from the first discovery . The pavement represented a border turning at right angles , but the centre portion was missing , itsabsencc being accounted for by the fact that a tree had been planted over it . The remains , however , do not extend sufficiently

for any correct idea to be formed of the design , ihe colours are clear and bright , and present their original appearance . The spot in which this relic was discovered is situated about 120 yards south-east of the Roman pavement discovered in 1 S 7 S in Alinster-street , and which now occupies a conspicuous position in the public museum

of the city . The grounds of the Rev . Canon Ernest Wilberforcc also contained a small metallic figure , extremely well modelled , and in good preservation . It is supposed that it formed one of a group , as there is one arm missing , and no signs of fracture at the shoulder were noticeable . The features are extremely well delineated . The figure is in the possession ofthe Dean ( the Rev . J . T . Bramston ) .