Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

The usual New Year's Entertainmpnt to the inmates of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution will take place on Wednesday , the 2 nd prox ., when , for the convenience cf visitors , a special second-class saloon carriage will be reserved by the 12 . 57 P lram ^ Charing Crissorthe 1 . 9 p . m . train from Cannon street for East

Croydon , at a fare of is . 6 d . We have no doubt the visitors , the members of the Committee of Management , who may be able to attend , and Bio . James Terry , the worthy and indefatigable Secretary , will succeed in gladdening the hearts of our Old Folks , as they have done on all former occasions .

The annual festival in connection with the North York Lodge , No . 602 , was held in the Masonic Hall , Marton-road , Middlesbrough , on Friday , the 14 th inst ., when Bro . Charles Evers Morton was duly installed W . M . for the ensuing year . At a meeting of the Zetland Lodge , No . 561 , held at Guisborougb , on Thursday , the 13 th inst ., Bro .

Wm . Bramley , S . W ., was unanimously elected W . M . for the ensuing year . Bro . Bywater , P . G . S . B ., presided at the dinner . of the Pattern Makers' Company , of which he is this year the Master , at the Ship and Turtle Tavern , Leadenhallstreet , on Monday last . It was regretable that the Lord Mayor , who had accepted an invitation , was unable to be present through illness . About i 25 satdown .

On Wednesday , the 12 th inst ., the members of the Rutland Lodge , No . 1179 , gave a ball in the Town Hall , Ilkeston , which was splendidly decorated for the occasion . There was a large attendance of ladies and gentlemen , the Masons all appearing in their varhd

regalia , so that the scene in the balroom was of the most animated and picturesque character . Nearly all the leading Masons in the town and district attended with their families , and the ball was a great success . Mr . T . Wardle's Quadrille Band supplied the music .

HOSPITAL OF ST . J OHN OF J ERUSALEM IN ENGLAND . —Prince Albert Victor , Sub-Prior , presided recently at a Chapter General of Ihe Order , held at St . John ' s Gate , Clerkenwell , when his Royal Highness Prince George of Wales , K . G ., was formally received as a Knight of Justice of the Order . The Empress Frederick of Germany has also joined the Order , and has accepted

the badge of a Lady of Justice . The Prince and Princess of Wales , with Prince George and the three Princesses , will leave Marlborough House to-day ( Fiiday ) for Sandringham , where they will spend Christmas , returning to town about the third week in January . Prince Albert Victor of Wales has consented to

preside at the 83 rd anniversary festival of the Society of the Friends of Foreigners in Distress , the day appointed for the festival being the 2 nd March . At a meeting of the- Committee of the Royal Humane Society , on Wednesday , a bronze medal was awarded to Bro . the Marquis of Breadalbane for his gal antry _ in saving the 1 fe ot a man who had been upset in the river Tay , at Taymouih , and , being unable to

swim , was in imminent danger of being drowned . Bro . Sir Gdrge Trevelyan , Bart ., M . P ., accompanied by Lady Trevelyan and family , arrived atStratfordon-Avon from London on Wednesday , and proceeded to Welcombe House , the residence of R . N . Philips , with whom the right honourable gentleman will spend Christmas . Bro . Childers , M . P ., has also left London to spend some three weeks in the South of France .

The Prime Minister left Hatfield House on Wednesday for Scarborough , where he was received by Bro . the Earl and Countess of Londesborough , Bro . Viscount and Viscountess Raincliffe , by whom he was conducted to Londesborough House , where he will remain as guest during his visit , Bro . Sir Charles and Lady Legard and Bro . the Earl of Feversham being present to welcome the distinguished visitor .

Mr . Surrey , of 13 , Great Queen-street , has issued his Almanack and price list for 18 S 9 . The former contains the customary useful information in a small and easil y portable compass , while , considering the excellent quality of the cigars , tobaccos , pipes , and other commodities , the prices are extremely moderate . " The Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar" is a

neatly arranged pocket book , giving diary for 1 SS 9 , and embracing a list of Masonic lodges , and many other details of all the Masonic bodies throughout the world . To members of the Order it forms a mo =, t useful and handy means of reference . The publisher is Mr . G . Kenning , Great Queen-street , Lincoln's Inn Fields . — Western Daily Press ( Bristol ) .

Bro . James Willing , jun ., is a candidate for the County Council for the Hendon Division of Middlesex . Bro . Willing has addressed several meetings in the district , and has been very well received . His well known energy and business experience should eminently fit him for the duties , and we commend him most heartily to the constituency .

Owing to his short stay in England , Prince George of Wales has caused a letter to be addressed to the Corporation of London , requesting that the honou . " of the freedom of the City , which it is proposed to confer on his Royal Highness , may be postponed till nextsummer , when he hopes to have the pleasure of attending at the Guildhall to receive it .

I he Electric Light in its vast superiority to gas and all other forms of artificial light , is an apt illustration of the position which " Grant ' s Morella Cherry Brandy " maintains in comparison with all other Liqueurs , in its perfection of rich fruity flavour . Comforting in cold weather . Sold everywhere . Be sure and ask for Grant ' s . T . Grant and Sons , Maidstone . Makers also of the nonalcoholic wine "Morella , " and of the delicious "Morella Marmalade . " Sold by Grocers .

Masonic And General Tidings

At the last monthly meeting of Kenlis Lodge , No . 1267 , Egremont , On the nth inst ., Bro . J . Nelson . W . M ., in the chair , 10 guineas was voted to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution on behalf ot tiro . Dalrymple ' s Stewardship . The annual installation in connection with the Madoc Lodge , took place on the 5 'h inst ., at Portmadoc ,

Bro . W . Jones being ins'alled W . M . Bro . Dr . Jones Morris was the Installing Officer , and was assisted b y Bro . Cornelius Davies , P . S . G . W . of North Wales . A similar ceremony took place on the 5 th inst ., at the Masonic Hall , Llandudno , Bro . Burton being installed W . M . of the bt . Tudno Lodge . The banquet was served at the Imperial Hotel .

The next meeting of the Shadwell Clerke Chapter , Rose Croix , will be held at 33 , Golden-square , on Wednesday , the snd January . The M . W . S . is Ex . Bro . H . H . Shirley , M . A . ; the Treasurer , III . Bro . H . Lovegrove , P . M . W . S . ; and the Recorder , 111 . Bro . John Read , P . M . W . S .

Another oldest Freemason , Bro . William Neilson Allan Bank , celebrated his diamond wedding recently . He has been 67 years a member of the Craft . The installation of Bro . E . Mainprize as W . Mof the Londesborough Lodge , No . 734 , took place at the Masonic Hall , St . John ' s . avenue , Bridlington , on Wednesday , the 5 th inst . The ceremony was performed by Bro .

F . Creaser , P . M ., P . G . Std . Br . In the evening the banquet was held at the Britannia Hotel , and was well attended , several visiting brethren being present . The installation meeting of the Duke of Athole Lodge , No . 2 io , took place at the Bowling Green Hotel , Denton , on Wednesday , the 19 th inst ., when Bro . 1 . D . Foreman was installed W . M . We hope to give a report in

our next . The newly-installed W . M . of the St . Leonard Lodge , No . 1766 , is Bro . J . Cox , proprietor of the Hackney Express . Ihe lodge meetings are held at the Snoreditch Town Hall .

The Prince of Wales and Bro . the Duke of Portland have resigned their commissions as Colonel and Captain-General and Lieutenant-Colonel respectively of the Honourable Artillery of London . The 43 rd Anniversary Festival of the

Commercial Travellers' Schools was held at the Hotel Metropole on Tuesday , Bros , the Lord Mayor and Edward Terry being among the principal guests . The subscriptions announced in the course of the evening amounted to £ 2200 .

The Detroit Free Press offers prizes for stories to the amount of £ 600 , divided as follows : For best serial story , £ 320 ; tor second best serial story , £ iSo ; for third best serial story , £ 100— £ 600 . Besides these prizes , they will purchase all stories ( not prize winners ) that they think suitable for serial publication in the Detroit Free Press . The only important conditions attached to this

offer ( briefly stated ) are : MSS . must consist of not less than sixty thousand woids , eminently suitable for serial publicarion in instalments of 30 J 0 to 4000 words , ending in interesting situations—and reach us on or before May 1 st , 18 S 9 . The conditions in full , with instructions for forwarding MSS . can be seen in any issue of the Detroit Free Press . No entrance fee , and anyone can compete .

The Princess Christian , who was accompanied by her husband , visited Shadwell on Tuesday , for the purpose of opening a sale of work and Christmas fete , in aid of the restoration of Christ Church , Watney-street , It was resolved at a meeting of commercial travellers held at 37 , Milk-street , to present the Lord Mayor during his year of office with a marble bust of

himself , to be subscribed for by commercial travellers . The annual banquet and installation festival of the Peveril of the Peak Lodge was held on the 12 th inst ., at the Crown Hotel , New Mills , when there was a large gathering of members of the Craft from New Mills , Hayfield , Chapel-en-le-Frith , Buxton , Glossop , and other places .

The Fifteen Sections was worked at the New Concord Lodge of Instruction , No . S 13 , on Wednesday , the 19 th inst ., by the members of the Percy Lodge ot Instruction , No . 19 S , at the Jolly Farmers , Southgateroad , N . Bro . Charles Belton , Chairman of the Bisham Footpaths Preservation Society , has , in conjunction with

the Secretary , addressed a letter to the Editor of the Standard , stating that the objects for which the Association had been originally formed had been accomplished , and placing before the publican account of the proceedings adopted by the Association for the preservation of the public rights , and the results obtainable therefrom . Bro . Belton and the members of the Association are to be

congratulated on their spirited action in protecting the rights of the public , and we have no doubt that should their help be again required it will be forthcoming . On Saturday last , the Prince and Princess of Wales , accompanied by the Princes Albert Victor and George and the Princesses Louise and Maud , drove to Ealing , for the purpose of opening the Victoria Hall ,

erected by the inhabitants of the suburb to commemorate the Queen ' s Jubilee . The reception which their Royal Highnesses met with was must enthusias ic . numbers of people assembling along the line of route to cheer the Royal party , and Ealing itself being as gay and fesiive —in spite of the inclemency of the weather—as bunting and floral decorations of every kind could make it . The

Prince and Princess were met by an escort of the 19 th Hussars and a guard of honour of Middlesex Rifles , and when the ceremony had been performed , returned to Marlborough House . In the evening , Bro . Lord George Hamilton , who repsesents the Ealing Division of Middlesex , was present at a banquet held in honour of the occasion . Previous to the visit , their Royal Highnesses received at Marlborough House , at the hands of the Duke of Beaufort ,

who was accompanied by Bros . Alderman Evans and J . C . Parkinson , an offering from the people of South Wales , in the shape of a silver shield , in commemoration of their Royal Highnesses Silver Wedding . To THE DEAF . —A Person cured o £ Deafness and noises in the head of 23 years' standing by a simple remedy , will send a descrip . tionofit FREE to any Person who applies to NICHOLSON , 2 I , Bedford Square , London , W . C .

Masonic And General Tidings

The annual installation meeting in connection with the St . Tudno's Lodge , No . 755 , Llandudno , was to have been held on the 12 th inst . Owing to the illness of Bro . Burton , the W . M . elect , the ceremony was postponed until the next lodge . The Kensington memorial to the Queen in commemoration of the 50 th year of her reign , takes the form

of a statue , to be executed by the Princess Louise . A sketch model of the satue has been shown to the Committee for the memorial , and accepted . It represents the Queen as a young girl at the time of her accession . The site decided on is the east front of Kensington Palace , looking over the Round Pond and the avenue of trees eastward .

Princess Christian , on Thursday morning , visited the Princess Helena College , Ealing , of which institution she is the President , and distributed the prizes won in the past year to the scholars . The chair was taken Mr . G . C . T . Bartley , M . P .

It is announced in New York that such eminent actors as Messrs . Booth , Jefferson , Barrett , and Boucicault had formally joined the movement to secure the exclusion of foreign stock actors from the United States . About 20 other actors of second rank also favour the movement .

Bro . Lord Brooke , P . G . M . Essex , was on Tuesday returned as member of Parliament for the borough of Colchester , in place of its late representative , Colonel Trotter , who died last week from injuries received while out hunting . Messrs . Garden and Co ., Aberdeen , have just completed a monument to be erected in London to the

memory of Jenny Lind by her husband . It is in the form of a capitally finished cross of polished Swedish granite , measuring altogether about 10 feet in height . In the centre is a handsome marble medallion , beneath which is the following inscription : "In loving memory of Jenny Maria Lind , wife of Otto Goldschmiat ; born at Stockholm , October 6 th , 1820 ; died at Wynds Point , Malvern , November 2 nd , 1887 . "

LIFEBOAT RESCUE . — The schooner Hay and Catherine , of Arbroath , bound from Sunderland , with coal , while entering Arbroath Harbour , at two o'clock on Thursday morning , during stormy weather and a rough sea , drove eastward of the channel owing to a sudden

shitt of the wind , and grounded amongst the rocks at the back of the East Breakwater . The lifeboat William Souter , belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution , and stationed at Arbroath , was launched to the assistance of the vessel , and rescued the crew of five men .

The funeral of Bro . Sir William Pearce has been arranged to take place at 2 o ' clock , on Saturday , at ( jillingham Cemetery , near Chatham , in which neighbourhood Sir William owned a large estate . A special train will leave Victoria Station at noon for New Bro npton , for the convenience of friends , returning to town at 3 o ' clock . A large number of members of Parliament have expressed their intention of attending the funeral , and a deputation from Govan is expected to be present .

Bro . Joseph Jefferson was born in Philadelphia , in February , 1829 , in the house that still stands at the south-east corner of Sixth and Spruce-streets . He has been on the stage for no less than five and fifty years , for it was when he was but tour years of age when he made his first bow across the footlighis . Bro . Jefferson is now ,

in the autumn of his life , one of the gentlest and most kindly of men , without a particle of that swagger which now and again appears to creep into the manners of the theatrical male being , and he is as loveable a gentleman off the stage as is his immortal " Rip " upon the boards . —Keystone .

Bro . Ed . Macbean , S . of 2076 , London , is rapidly developing into the foremost Masonic Lecturer in Scotland . As M . E . Z . of the Glasgow Chapter , No . 50 , he has already done good service , his inaugural address being of especial interest , and promotive of the true interest of the Fraternity . On the 13 th inst . Comp . Macbean delivered a lecture in that chapter on "The Mark Custom and

Degree , to an appreciative audience . The sutject was ably treated , both historically and ritualistically , and it is to be hoped that ere long our energetic brother will bring out an authoritative and exhaustive treatise on this important question , or deliver a lengthy address , in which will be embodied the chief points of value , so that the many who are deeply interested may be duly informed on the facts ,

as well as \\ vt fancies relating to Mark Masonry . We are pleased to report , that at the Provincial Grand Chapter of Glasgow , held on the following day ( 14 th ) Comp . Macbean was elected to the office of Prov . Grand Treasurer . This special compliment was well deserved , and proves how much his services are being appreciated in his own city , as well as in London and elsewhere .

"Or LAWFUL AGE . " —Our Indianapolis ( Ind . ) contemporary , the Masonic Advocate , in its issue for December 1 st instant ., presents its readers with a manly greeting . The Advocate is 21 years of age , and we congratulate its distinguished and able editor , Past Grand its

Master Bro . Martin H . Rice , upon the attainment of majority . The Masonic Advocate has been voted by Freemasons an excellent Masonic monthly , by a large majority , and The Keystone ( itself a veteran ) takes pleasure in welcoming it to the ranks of the Masonic veterans among the newspaper craft . —Keystone .

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