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Mark Masonry.
Mark Masonry .
BRIXTON LODGE ( No 234 ) . —An emergency meeting of this lodge was held at the Surrey Masonic Hall Saturday , the 14 th inst . The lodge was opened in due °° " VV . Bro . Thos . Poole P . G . I . G ., P . M ., the W . M ., Assisted by Bros . C . P . McKay , S . W . ; H . Lovegrove , J . H Baldwin , Sec . ; Pitts , ( W . M . elect 163 ) , as M . O . ; J . Curtis S . D . ; Dr . Pearce , S . D . j Larlham , as I . P . M . j
Potter Ty ler ; G . Moss , S . D . Eclectic 1201 ; G . W . Evans , Organist , Stuart , 1263 ; and G . J . Dunkley , Organist 1343 , t > - »» having been approved by ballot were duly advanced , the ceremony being petformed with the W . M's . well-known skill •and at the conclusion of the ceremony of
advancement he favoured the brethren by giving the lecture on the Tracing Board . This new lodge offers opportunity to Masons in South London to join this interesting musical degree . Before the close of the proceedings the newly aelvanced brethren were invested , Bros . Moss , as J . D . ; Evans , as I G . and Dunkley , as Organist .
Reviews.
Reviews .
CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND PERIODICALS : — "The Christmas Graphic ; " "Arrows From the Bow ;" "Christmas Number of the Quiver ; " "Christmas Illustrated London News j " " Christmas Masonic Magazine j" " Baby Bell j " " Excelsior j" " Robinson Crusoe j " " St . Nicholas . "
We are deluged this year with Christmas books , but no doubt to good effect . If our forefathers could rise from their graves , how they would rub their eyes and stare at this p lethora of Christmas literature , so different from the dull dingy volumes of their own good time . And who can doubt but what it is for thc best for us all ? The vouthful mind , ( and thc adult mind , for that ) , requires to
be stirred up and gratified , as well as " talked at and " preached to . " " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy , " and so in this undogmatic age , the dogmatic and slightly dull performances of earlier years cannot "hold their own . " Whether for good or for evil , Time , that shows all things alone can decide . We leave the matter confessedly " sub
judice . " Like Captain Cuttle , of careful memory , we simply " make a note of it . " The Christmas Graphic is very interesting , and the story of a " Romance Upon Wheels" inimitable . We are much p leased with " Arrows from the Bow , " the Christmas number of the Quiver , ( Cassell , Petter , and Galpin ) , as the stories are good , and the moral most healthy .
The Christmas Illustrated London News is as usual very effective . The Christmas Masonic Magazine comes out most brilliantly , and right genially for the Christmas season . We commend it to all our readers , alike old ami young . But our own innate modesty forbids special laudation of a publication , ( which needs no puff ) , in these veracious
columns . Baby Bell , Excelsior , and Robinson Crusoe , all three published by Routledge , deserve our admiration and gratitude , as both seasonable and most profitable readings . St . Nicholas , Sampson and Low , is one of thc best magazines out .
THE ROSICRUCIAN . George Kenning , 198 , Fleet-street . This valuable quarterly comes before us with renewed vigour under fresh editorship . We like it much , the more so as it will no doubt eventually become more and more critical , and less and less confiding in its acceptation of "ye mystic traditions of the past , " not wrong , per se , be it noted ; but ending often , as all mental excess ends , sooner or later , in a sort of Masonic " Fetish . "
We should like to know , as it is a fact of history , on what authority thc editors declare of a Masonic song ( page 460 ) , that it was written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . The archaisms of the song are not the archaisms" tempore Elizabethan Reginoe . " The story of Sir Thomas Sackville is a myth . Where , then , do these verses come from ? We commend the " Rosicrucian " heartily , especially to Rosicrucians .
CHRISTMAS AND THE POST OFFICE . —Anotice issued by the Postmaster-General says : —A severe strain is put upon the Post Office on Christmas and New Year ' s Eve , owing to the large number of Christmas and New Year ' s cards , which it is now the fashion to send at those periods of the year . The Post Office does all in its power
to ensure punctuality , but the due dispatch and delivery of letters arc almost impossible unless the public render assistance by posting their letters , & c , early on the 24 th and , 3 ist December ; and this , it is hoped , they will do . Thc general post , or morning delivery , will be thc only delivery in London and its suburbs on Christmas day .
The death is announced of Mr . W . H . Payne , the head cf the family of that name connected with English pantomime . He was attended in his last hours b y Mrs . Aynsley Cook and his other daughter . Mr . Payne was over 70 years of age . Lord Skelmersdale left Portland-place , W ., ° n Wednesday , for Lathom House , Ormskirk .
Bro . Captain F . R . Sewell , J . P ., has been unanimousl y elected W . M . of Skiddaw Lodge , No . 1102 , Cockermouth . Thc installation festival will he held on luesday , January . Bro . Sewell has beer . S . W . for the past twelve months , and a more regular attender , ot efficient worker , no W . M . could desire . Ihe Cosmopolitan Masonic Pocket Book for ' = 70 is now ready , price , post free , 2 s . 2 d . Office , 198 , Hect-strcet , London . —ADVT .
Obituary.
Obituary .
BRO . COLONEL JOHN BRETT . Lieutenant-Colonc John Brett , whose death on thc 12 th or 13 th ultimo was announced in the London papers , was a native of Leicester . He was the eldest son of thc late Samuel Brett , of Leicester , and enlisted about thirty-six years ago in thc First Battalion of the Rifle Brigade . His splendid penmanship procured him a stoal in the orderl y
office of his regiment—a life not at all to his taste . On the Kaffir war breaking out in the Cape , in 1846-7 , he asked the permission of his Colonel ( Bailer ) to vacate the stool for active service with his company . This at first was denied him , but he still retained his determination to leave the office , and at last his desire was granted . On his first eneasjement with the enemy he and his comrades in the
rifles were ensconced behind a stone wall . The colonel ' s horse was wounded , anil fell with the rider ' s leg" under him . Young Brelt at once saw his position , antHorgiUing thc danger he himself would incur , stepped forth to extricate the Colonel from his perilous position . Iu doing so a ball from the enemy instantly passed through Brett ' s left breast and right through the body , fie was reported to
have been slain , and his friends here at home mourned for him as dead . But a friend unknown wrote to the War Office , and the reply came " not dead , hut severely wounded . " After Brett recovered his promotion was rapid , and he soon arrived at the top of the non-commissioned ladder . On the second outbreak of the Kaffirs in 1852-33 he went once more to thc Cape with thc brave Sir George Cathcart ,
who found young Brett very useful . They had scarcely settled down on their return from the Cape , when the Crimean War began , and thc 1 st Battalion of Rifles was ordered to Varna . Brett had at that time a younger brother named William in the 2 nd Battalion of Rifles , and he asked to be permitted to be with his brother . This wish was complied with , and William accompanied
his brother John . On their arrival at Varna John Brett was presented by his old commander , Sir George Cathcart , with an ensign ' s commission . After the Battle of Alma he was made adjutant , and his knowledge of discipline soon placed him in a prominent position . His duty in the trenches before Sevastopol was very severe , anel yet all his letters were checiful ,
and showed that he deeply sympathised for the poor fellows at work under his command . On ihe morning of the Battle of Inkerman almost the first intelligence he received was that of the death of his young brother , whose body lie never recovered . During thc day he himself was knocked down by a spent ball while conveying ammunition to his men , but sustained no further harm
than a severe shock . Aft . r thb fall of S . bastopol he was made captain . On his return to England he exchanged into the 3 rd Battalion of thc Kitle Brigade , which was ordered to India , for the severe trench work had begun to tell upon his health , and it was thought that a warm climate might be beneficial . On his visit to his friends in Leicester before his embarkation he
married at St . George ' s , the eldest daughter of the late Mrs . Elizibeth Bailey , of Rutland-street , who accompanied him to India , where they remained about seven years . On his return from India hc continued with his regiment , and his mother and friends left Leicester . It is a rare occurence for a young man to enlist as a private soldier , and by good conduct and perseverance , reach the rank of Lieut .-
Colonel j but such was the career of this brave man , who died recently at Tunbridge Wells at the age of 5 8 . The Daily Telegraph , in its obituary notice , says , Lieut .-Col . Brett was awarded the Kaffir war medal , th-: Crimean medal with three clasps , the Turkish medal and the Cross of the Legion of Honour . Bro . Brelt , when a captain , was initiated into Masonry in the John of
Gaunt Lojgi , Leicester , on November 18 , 18 5 8 , after his return from the Crimea , and whilst the sister k dge of St . John's has the honour to number amongst its sons "thc gallant" Major Packe , who so gloriously fell at Waterloo , th ; brethren of thc John of Gaunt Lodge may justl y be proud of the brilliant military career of their townsman and fellow member , Bro . John Brett .
BRO . WORTHINGTON , P . M . 834 , 8 3 8 , P . M . E . Z . 8 34 . Thc funeral of the late Bro . Worthington , of 111 , Ballstreet , Kensington , who died suddenly in the street , within a few yards of his own dwelling , while in the actual performance of his duties as collector to the Gas Light and Coke Company , took place at the West London Cemetery , Brompton , at 12 o'clock on Thursday , the 1 21 I 1 inst . The
deceased , whose untimely end is \ cry deeply regretted by an unusually large circle of friends and brethren , was ir his 30 th year , and appointed by the Western Gas Company in March , 1839 , since amalgamated with the Chartered , or Gas Light and Coke Company . No officer of this company was more highly esteemed , both from an official and social point of view . His geniil kindheartedness , his
unvarying courtesy to the public , rendered him an universal favourite with all . The cause cf his death was rupture o ! the pericardium . About ninety brethren , biuther officers , and friends met the procession at the entrance , and accompanied the collin to t e chapel , when , as at the grave , the service was most impressively rendered by the Rev . Comp . Vaughan . Two wreaths were deposited by his daughters previously to the bc . ely being lowered to
the grave . He leaves an invalid wife and six young children to deplore his loss . Amongst those who rendered the last triaute to our departed brother we noticed Bros . Hail , 33 ; Turner , 72 j Ward , 3 S 2 ; Read , Cooper , Avery , P . M ' s . j Collings , Barker , Burrow , 311 ; Millis , Burch , Knowlcs , Fisher , Bryctt , Adamson , Lyncs , Alais , Savage , Barker , Watts , P . M ' s . ; Purdue , Fcsta , Tarrant , 834 ; Egan , Kirk , P . M ' s . ; Bird , S . W . ; Heather , Rankin , Till , 838 . The funeral arrange-
Obituary.
ments were ably superintended by Bro . Millis , P . M . 834 , His brother officers were represented by , amongst others , Messrs . Innous , Luff , Ball , Davis , Thatcher , Fitch , Friend , Thompson , Hayman , Dowding , Mortimer , and others .
Notes On Art, &C.
NOTES ON ART , & c .
The following English artists , architects , and sculptors , whose works figured at the Paris Exhibition , have received decorations : —Mr . Millais , Sir F . Leighton , Mr . Barry , Mr . Alma Tadema , and Mr . Gilbert Redgrave have been appointed officers , and Sir John Gilbert , Mr . P " H . Calderoti , Mr . J . Arnoux , Mr . W . P . Frith , Mr . J .
Collier , Mr . Carl Haag , Mr . Street , and Count d'Epinay have been appointed Knights of the Legion of Honour . The appearance of a new work b y M . Gustave Dore is an event in art . Messrs . Hachette have just published a splendid folio ei ' ation , in 6 30 pages , of the " Orlando Furioso , " translated by M . du Pays , with over 300 illustrations by M . Dore ' . Ariosto could not have wished-for a
worthier interpreter , and one rises from the contemplation of the pictures with a feeling of having been coursing over the grandest anil strangest landscapes peopled by beings such as the ardent imagination of Ariosto alone could conceive . This work would have been enough to save Gustave Dore from oblivion , if his preceding productions did not
protect him from the indifference of contemporaries and posterity . The autobiography of the Duke of Grafton , the Prime Minister of George III ., from which Lord Edmonel Fitzmaurice drew so largely in his " Life of Lord Shelburne , " has been placed by the present Duke in the hauels of Lonl Carlingford for publication . —Academy .
Mr . Henry Dawson , landscape painter , died last week at Chiswick . Some of Mr . Dawson ' s pictures formed a leading attraction at the recent exhibition in the Art Museum , Nottingham Castle . A New Art Gallery is to be built in Dresden , and the design will be selected from the plans of Dresden architects , who are to send in their works by February . Thc scheme has been long under consideration , the site for the building having been given in 1862 .
tU a poll of the rate-payers of Whitechapel , hehl at St . Mary's School--, a proposal to adopt the Public Libraries Acts was defeated by 49 G votes to 261 , the number of ratepayers being 4000 . About £ 1000 in money and boi / ki li . nl been proiiised to start a public library if the paiUh would pay the statutory penny in the pound to main-aii ) it .
J lie ; Pans Louvre lias acquired the trunk of a new statue of Venus unearthed in the neighbourhood of Vienna . The figure is in a stooping posture , and has unfortunately losi both hands and head , while on the back is a t ny hand evidently belonging to a Cupid which she mint have been bearing on her shoulders . ST . ALBAN ' CATHEDRAL . —A correspondent
writes : — " The Restoration Committee , after hearing a paper by Mr . J . O . Scott on Mr . Street ' s report to the Society of Antiquaries , and their resolution thereon , have resolved , with only two dissentients , to adhere to the former resolutions of themselves and of the meeting of subscribers last August , to replace thc present ruinous low roof , to which Mr . Street assigned even a later date than
had been previously claimed tor it , and the ceiling which he admitted to be worthless and decayed , by a new roof on the visible early English lines , for which a considerable length of paraprt has been rebuilt already . Thc committee were convinced that Mr . Stree t was wrong in saying there ha I he-en no parapet in early English and Decorated and
Perpendicular tunes , and had overlooked several indications of the levels both of walls and roof having been altered when the Norman roof with eaves was replaced by the early English one with parapets , which were almost universal in great church roofs of all periods after the Norman . "
1 he Italian Sculptors who exhibited at the Paris Exhibition have decided [ not to bring back theii works to Italy on account cf their fragility , but intend to sell them by auction iu Paris . The proceeds cf the sale will be equally divided among the sculptors , so that thc minor artists may profit as hi ghly as their more famous brethren .
Tableaux-vivants illustrating the prize pictures in the Paris Exhibition will probably be produced at the Gaiter this winter . The manager of the theatre has already written to Herr Mackart , the painter of the enormous " Entry of Charles V . into Antwerp , " in the Austrian Section for permission to represent his work . It may be remembered that the Metropolitan
B rani ol Woiks lately resolved to test the value of the electric light as a means of street illumination , and the first of a series of experiments designed for this purpose was made on the Thames Embankment , between Charing-cross and Westminster-bridges , shortly after 4 o ' clock on Friday , 13 th in't . 'the engine had been set up on apiece of vacant
ground on thc western sid - of the railway bridge . Arrangements had been made for rvorking 20 lights , but only ten were used . Though somewhat unsteady , they burnt with intense brilliancy , and Sir Joseph Bazalgette , the engineer to the Board of Works , and Mr . Keate , thc consulting chemist , pronounced the result of the experiment in all respects sa ' . isfacloiy .
A Christmas number of Touchstone , will appear on Monday , the 23 rd inst ., containing stories by Annie Thomas , ( Mrs . Pendu Cudlip ) , Captain MayneReid , Jean Middle-mass , Henry S . Lei gh , Ion Cassilis , Edith Stewart Drewry , and several others . The IVItilehuIl Review of this week contains a portrait of the late Prim ess Alice .
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Mark Masonry.
Mark Masonry .
BRIXTON LODGE ( No 234 ) . —An emergency meeting of this lodge was held at the Surrey Masonic Hall Saturday , the 14 th inst . The lodge was opened in due °° " VV . Bro . Thos . Poole P . G . I . G ., P . M ., the W . M ., Assisted by Bros . C . P . McKay , S . W . ; H . Lovegrove , J . H Baldwin , Sec . ; Pitts , ( W . M . elect 163 ) , as M . O . ; J . Curtis S . D . ; Dr . Pearce , S . D . j Larlham , as I . P . M . j
Potter Ty ler ; G . Moss , S . D . Eclectic 1201 ; G . W . Evans , Organist , Stuart , 1263 ; and G . J . Dunkley , Organist 1343 , t > - »» having been approved by ballot were duly advanced , the ceremony being petformed with the W . M's . well-known skill •and at the conclusion of the ceremony of
advancement he favoured the brethren by giving the lecture on the Tracing Board . This new lodge offers opportunity to Masons in South London to join this interesting musical degree . Before the close of the proceedings the newly aelvanced brethren were invested , Bros . Moss , as J . D . ; Evans , as I G . and Dunkley , as Organist .
Reviews.
Reviews .
CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND PERIODICALS : — "The Christmas Graphic ; " "Arrows From the Bow ;" "Christmas Number of the Quiver ; " "Christmas Illustrated London News j " " Christmas Masonic Magazine j" " Baby Bell j " " Excelsior j" " Robinson Crusoe j " " St . Nicholas . "
We are deluged this year with Christmas books , but no doubt to good effect . If our forefathers could rise from their graves , how they would rub their eyes and stare at this p lethora of Christmas literature , so different from the dull dingy volumes of their own good time . And who can doubt but what it is for thc best for us all ? The vouthful mind , ( and thc adult mind , for that ) , requires to
be stirred up and gratified , as well as " talked at and " preached to . " " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy , " and so in this undogmatic age , the dogmatic and slightly dull performances of earlier years cannot "hold their own . " Whether for good or for evil , Time , that shows all things alone can decide . We leave the matter confessedly " sub
judice . " Like Captain Cuttle , of careful memory , we simply " make a note of it . " The Christmas Graphic is very interesting , and the story of a " Romance Upon Wheels" inimitable . We are much p leased with " Arrows from the Bow , " the Christmas number of the Quiver , ( Cassell , Petter , and Galpin ) , as the stories are good , and the moral most healthy .
The Christmas Illustrated London News is as usual very effective . The Christmas Masonic Magazine comes out most brilliantly , and right genially for the Christmas season . We commend it to all our readers , alike old ami young . But our own innate modesty forbids special laudation of a publication , ( which needs no puff ) , in these veracious
columns . Baby Bell , Excelsior , and Robinson Crusoe , all three published by Routledge , deserve our admiration and gratitude , as both seasonable and most profitable readings . St . Nicholas , Sampson and Low , is one of thc best magazines out .
THE ROSICRUCIAN . George Kenning , 198 , Fleet-street . This valuable quarterly comes before us with renewed vigour under fresh editorship . We like it much , the more so as it will no doubt eventually become more and more critical , and less and less confiding in its acceptation of "ye mystic traditions of the past , " not wrong , per se , be it noted ; but ending often , as all mental excess ends , sooner or later , in a sort of Masonic " Fetish . "
We should like to know , as it is a fact of history , on what authority thc editors declare of a Masonic song ( page 460 ) , that it was written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . The archaisms of the song are not the archaisms" tempore Elizabethan Reginoe . " The story of Sir Thomas Sackville is a myth . Where , then , do these verses come from ? We commend the " Rosicrucian " heartily , especially to Rosicrucians .
CHRISTMAS AND THE POST OFFICE . —Anotice issued by the Postmaster-General says : —A severe strain is put upon the Post Office on Christmas and New Year ' s Eve , owing to the large number of Christmas and New Year ' s cards , which it is now the fashion to send at those periods of the year . The Post Office does all in its power
to ensure punctuality , but the due dispatch and delivery of letters arc almost impossible unless the public render assistance by posting their letters , & c , early on the 24 th and , 3 ist December ; and this , it is hoped , they will do . Thc general post , or morning delivery , will be thc only delivery in London and its suburbs on Christmas day .
The death is announced of Mr . W . H . Payne , the head cf the family of that name connected with English pantomime . He was attended in his last hours b y Mrs . Aynsley Cook and his other daughter . Mr . Payne was over 70 years of age . Lord Skelmersdale left Portland-place , W ., ° n Wednesday , for Lathom House , Ormskirk .
Bro . Captain F . R . Sewell , J . P ., has been unanimousl y elected W . M . of Skiddaw Lodge , No . 1102 , Cockermouth . Thc installation festival will he held on luesday , January . Bro . Sewell has beer . S . W . for the past twelve months , and a more regular attender , ot efficient worker , no W . M . could desire . Ihe Cosmopolitan Masonic Pocket Book for ' = 70 is now ready , price , post free , 2 s . 2 d . Office , 198 , Hect-strcet , London . —ADVT .
Obituary.
Obituary .
BRO . COLONEL JOHN BRETT . Lieutenant-Colonc John Brett , whose death on thc 12 th or 13 th ultimo was announced in the London papers , was a native of Leicester . He was the eldest son of thc late Samuel Brett , of Leicester , and enlisted about thirty-six years ago in thc First Battalion of the Rifle Brigade . His splendid penmanship procured him a stoal in the orderl y
office of his regiment—a life not at all to his taste . On the Kaffir war breaking out in the Cape , in 1846-7 , he asked the permission of his Colonel ( Bailer ) to vacate the stool for active service with his company . This at first was denied him , but he still retained his determination to leave the office , and at last his desire was granted . On his first eneasjement with the enemy he and his comrades in the
rifles were ensconced behind a stone wall . The colonel ' s horse was wounded , anil fell with the rider ' s leg" under him . Young Brelt at once saw his position , antHorgiUing thc danger he himself would incur , stepped forth to extricate the Colonel from his perilous position . Iu doing so a ball from the enemy instantly passed through Brett ' s left breast and right through the body , fie was reported to
have been slain , and his friends here at home mourned for him as dead . But a friend unknown wrote to the War Office , and the reply came " not dead , hut severely wounded . " After Brett recovered his promotion was rapid , and he soon arrived at the top of the non-commissioned ladder . On the second outbreak of the Kaffirs in 1852-33 he went once more to thc Cape with thc brave Sir George Cathcart ,
who found young Brett very useful . They had scarcely settled down on their return from the Cape , when the Crimean War began , and thc 1 st Battalion of Rifles was ordered to Varna . Brett had at that time a younger brother named William in the 2 nd Battalion of Rifles , and he asked to be permitted to be with his brother . This wish was complied with , and William accompanied
his brother John . On their arrival at Varna John Brett was presented by his old commander , Sir George Cathcart , with an ensign ' s commission . After the Battle of Alma he was made adjutant , and his knowledge of discipline soon placed him in a prominent position . His duty in the trenches before Sevastopol was very severe , anel yet all his letters were checiful ,
and showed that he deeply sympathised for the poor fellows at work under his command . On ihe morning of the Battle of Inkerman almost the first intelligence he received was that of the death of his young brother , whose body lie never recovered . During thc day he himself was knocked down by a spent ball while conveying ammunition to his men , but sustained no further harm
than a severe shock . Aft . r thb fall of S . bastopol he was made captain . On his return to England he exchanged into the 3 rd Battalion of thc Kitle Brigade , which was ordered to India , for the severe trench work had begun to tell upon his health , and it was thought that a warm climate might be beneficial . On his visit to his friends in Leicester before his embarkation he
married at St . George ' s , the eldest daughter of the late Mrs . Elizibeth Bailey , of Rutland-street , who accompanied him to India , where they remained about seven years . On his return from India hc continued with his regiment , and his mother and friends left Leicester . It is a rare occurence for a young man to enlist as a private soldier , and by good conduct and perseverance , reach the rank of Lieut .-
Colonel j but such was the career of this brave man , who died recently at Tunbridge Wells at the age of 5 8 . The Daily Telegraph , in its obituary notice , says , Lieut .-Col . Brett was awarded the Kaffir war medal , th-: Crimean medal with three clasps , the Turkish medal and the Cross of the Legion of Honour . Bro . Brelt , when a captain , was initiated into Masonry in the John of
Gaunt Lojgi , Leicester , on November 18 , 18 5 8 , after his return from the Crimea , and whilst the sister k dge of St . John's has the honour to number amongst its sons "thc gallant" Major Packe , who so gloriously fell at Waterloo , th ; brethren of thc John of Gaunt Lodge may justl y be proud of the brilliant military career of their townsman and fellow member , Bro . John Brett .
BRO . WORTHINGTON , P . M . 834 , 8 3 8 , P . M . E . Z . 8 34 . Thc funeral of the late Bro . Worthington , of 111 , Ballstreet , Kensington , who died suddenly in the street , within a few yards of his own dwelling , while in the actual performance of his duties as collector to the Gas Light and Coke Company , took place at the West London Cemetery , Brompton , at 12 o'clock on Thursday , the 1 21 I 1 inst . The
deceased , whose untimely end is \ cry deeply regretted by an unusually large circle of friends and brethren , was ir his 30 th year , and appointed by the Western Gas Company in March , 1839 , since amalgamated with the Chartered , or Gas Light and Coke Company . No officer of this company was more highly esteemed , both from an official and social point of view . His geniil kindheartedness , his
unvarying courtesy to the public , rendered him an universal favourite with all . The cause cf his death was rupture o ! the pericardium . About ninety brethren , biuther officers , and friends met the procession at the entrance , and accompanied the collin to t e chapel , when , as at the grave , the service was most impressively rendered by the Rev . Comp . Vaughan . Two wreaths were deposited by his daughters previously to the bc . ely being lowered to
the grave . He leaves an invalid wife and six young children to deplore his loss . Amongst those who rendered the last triaute to our departed brother we noticed Bros . Hail , 33 ; Turner , 72 j Ward , 3 S 2 ; Read , Cooper , Avery , P . M ' s . j Collings , Barker , Burrow , 311 ; Millis , Burch , Knowlcs , Fisher , Bryctt , Adamson , Lyncs , Alais , Savage , Barker , Watts , P . M ' s . ; Purdue , Fcsta , Tarrant , 834 ; Egan , Kirk , P . M ' s . ; Bird , S . W . ; Heather , Rankin , Till , 838 . The funeral arrange-
Obituary.
ments were ably superintended by Bro . Millis , P . M . 834 , His brother officers were represented by , amongst others , Messrs . Innous , Luff , Ball , Davis , Thatcher , Fitch , Friend , Thompson , Hayman , Dowding , Mortimer , and others .
Notes On Art, &C.
NOTES ON ART , & c .
The following English artists , architects , and sculptors , whose works figured at the Paris Exhibition , have received decorations : —Mr . Millais , Sir F . Leighton , Mr . Barry , Mr . Alma Tadema , and Mr . Gilbert Redgrave have been appointed officers , and Sir John Gilbert , Mr . P " H . Calderoti , Mr . J . Arnoux , Mr . W . P . Frith , Mr . J .
Collier , Mr . Carl Haag , Mr . Street , and Count d'Epinay have been appointed Knights of the Legion of Honour . The appearance of a new work b y M . Gustave Dore is an event in art . Messrs . Hachette have just published a splendid folio ei ' ation , in 6 30 pages , of the " Orlando Furioso , " translated by M . du Pays , with over 300 illustrations by M . Dore ' . Ariosto could not have wished-for a
worthier interpreter , and one rises from the contemplation of the pictures with a feeling of having been coursing over the grandest anil strangest landscapes peopled by beings such as the ardent imagination of Ariosto alone could conceive . This work would have been enough to save Gustave Dore from oblivion , if his preceding productions did not
protect him from the indifference of contemporaries and posterity . The autobiography of the Duke of Grafton , the Prime Minister of George III ., from which Lord Edmonel Fitzmaurice drew so largely in his " Life of Lord Shelburne , " has been placed by the present Duke in the hauels of Lonl Carlingford for publication . —Academy .
Mr . Henry Dawson , landscape painter , died last week at Chiswick . Some of Mr . Dawson ' s pictures formed a leading attraction at the recent exhibition in the Art Museum , Nottingham Castle . A New Art Gallery is to be built in Dresden , and the design will be selected from the plans of Dresden architects , who are to send in their works by February . Thc scheme has been long under consideration , the site for the building having been given in 1862 .
tU a poll of the rate-payers of Whitechapel , hehl at St . Mary's School--, a proposal to adopt the Public Libraries Acts was defeated by 49 G votes to 261 , the number of ratepayers being 4000 . About £ 1000 in money and boi / ki li . nl been proiiised to start a public library if the paiUh would pay the statutory penny in the pound to main-aii ) it .
J lie ; Pans Louvre lias acquired the trunk of a new statue of Venus unearthed in the neighbourhood of Vienna . The figure is in a stooping posture , and has unfortunately losi both hands and head , while on the back is a t ny hand evidently belonging to a Cupid which she mint have been bearing on her shoulders . ST . ALBAN ' CATHEDRAL . —A correspondent
writes : — " The Restoration Committee , after hearing a paper by Mr . J . O . Scott on Mr . Street ' s report to the Society of Antiquaries , and their resolution thereon , have resolved , with only two dissentients , to adhere to the former resolutions of themselves and of the meeting of subscribers last August , to replace thc present ruinous low roof , to which Mr . Street assigned even a later date than
had been previously claimed tor it , and the ceiling which he admitted to be worthless and decayed , by a new roof on the visible early English lines , for which a considerable length of paraprt has been rebuilt already . Thc committee were convinced that Mr . Stree t was wrong in saying there ha I he-en no parapet in early English and Decorated and
Perpendicular tunes , and had overlooked several indications of the levels both of walls and roof having been altered when the Norman roof with eaves was replaced by the early English one with parapets , which were almost universal in great church roofs of all periods after the Norman . "
1 he Italian Sculptors who exhibited at the Paris Exhibition have decided [ not to bring back theii works to Italy on account cf their fragility , but intend to sell them by auction iu Paris . The proceeds cf the sale will be equally divided among the sculptors , so that thc minor artists may profit as hi ghly as their more famous brethren .
Tableaux-vivants illustrating the prize pictures in the Paris Exhibition will probably be produced at the Gaiter this winter . The manager of the theatre has already written to Herr Mackart , the painter of the enormous " Entry of Charles V . into Antwerp , " in the Austrian Section for permission to represent his work . It may be remembered that the Metropolitan
B rani ol Woiks lately resolved to test the value of the electric light as a means of street illumination , and the first of a series of experiments designed for this purpose was made on the Thames Embankment , between Charing-cross and Westminster-bridges , shortly after 4 o ' clock on Friday , 13 th in't . 'the engine had been set up on apiece of vacant
ground on thc western sid - of the railway bridge . Arrangements had been made for rvorking 20 lights , but only ten were used . Though somewhat unsteady , they burnt with intense brilliancy , and Sir Joseph Bazalgette , the engineer to the Board of Works , and Mr . Keate , thc consulting chemist , pronounced the result of the experiment in all respects sa ' . isfacloiy .
A Christmas number of Touchstone , will appear on Monday , the 23 rd inst ., containing stories by Annie Thomas , ( Mrs . Pendu Cudlip ) , Captain MayneReid , Jean Middle-mass , Henry S . Lei gh , Ion Cassilis , Edith Stewart Drewry , and several others . The IVItilehuIl Review of this week contains a portrait of the late Prim ess Alice .