Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

BRO . THE EARL OF DERBY on Saturday last left town for Witherslack Hall , Grange-over-Sands , Lancashire . WK ARE PLEASED to hear that Bro . J . Aird , M . P ., has so far recovered from his recent illness that he takes carriage exercise . DOVER H ARBOUR BoARDhave received the H . R . H . Prince of Wales's consent to their proposal to name the newly-fined Eastern Pier of the Commercial Harbour the Prince of Wales Pier .

BY THE RECENT DE . VTH O ? Lord Watson , one ot the four Lords at Appeal h m Ordinary , the Lord Chancellor ( Bro . the Earl of Halsbury ) has an appointment worth £ 6000 a year a ( his disposal . PRINCESS C HRISTIAN OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN , accompanied by Princess Aribert of Anhalt , is expected to arrive at Buckingham Palace early next month from the Continent , where her Royal Highness has been staying .

CROMWELL ' STATUE at Westminster is to be unveiled on the 31 st prox . A committee is being formed to make preparations for a national demonstration on the sam ; evening . The Earl of Rosebery has consented to speak on this occasion . THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Worcestershire will be held at the Ttwn Hall , Stourbridge , en Tuesday , the 26 th instant , at J-45 P-m- > under the 1 residency of Bio . Sir A . F . Godson , M . P ., Prov . Grand Master . There is a tolerably full paper cf agenda , and when business is done , there will be a banquet at 5 .-50 p . m .

WITH the end of September many of the arrangements necessitated by the summer flow of tourists over the Midland Railway come to an end , and the company announces the discontinuance of a number of trains on and after October 1 st . There are several additions to the London suburban service . BRO . LORD AND L ADY GEORGE HAMILTON , Bro . the Right Hon . C T . Ritchie , Sir Charles and Lady Fremantle , and Sir H . Walpole witnessed a series of successful experiments in wireless telegraphy at the South Foreland Lighthouse on Saturday last . During the demonstration a heavy thunderstorm passed over the district , but the sharpness and distinctness of the record were not affected .

ON M ONDAY MORNING , after being closed for two months to admit of extensive improvements being made , King ' s College Hospital was re-opened for the treatment of out patients , and a week hence the 14 wards , containing 220 beds , will be ready for the reception of in-patients . All the wards have been re-floored , and each bed is supplied with a separate electric lamp and also a movable light . The cost of the improvements has been £ 3000 , and the Committee urgently appeal to the charitable public for funds .

SAVOY THEATRE . —The kind courtesy of Mr , p'Oyly Carte afforded a pleasant evening this week . We renewed acquaintance with our old favourites , " H . M . S . Pinafoie " and "The Trial by Jury . " How the delightful melodies and beautiful harmonised music came back to our remembrance and how they seemed to be appreciated by the audience . Where all the artistes worked so loyally together it would be invidious to single any one for special praise , they , as we , enjoyed their work .

A RRANGEMENTS FOR receiving the Church Congress are now complete . Bro . the Lord Mayor will welcome the Bishop of London , the president , and the members of the Congress at Guildhall , on Tuesday , the 10 th prox ., at 10 o ' clock . The Bishop and those witb him will then go to St . Paul ' s Cathedral to robe , and to receive the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs and the other civic dignitaries at the west door . At half-past 10 o ' clock the Archbishop of Canterbury will arrive , and then the procession will go to the choir and the service will begin . On Thursday evening , the 12 th prox ., the Corporation will give a reception in the Guildhall to 3000 guests .

THE LORD MAYOR ( Bro . Alderman Sir J . V . Moore ) has received from Mr . Chamberlain a copy of a telegram from the oflicer administering the Government of the Leeward Islands reporting the occurrence of a second hurricane on the Sth instant , which had caused further damage in Antigua , and destroyed many houses in Barbuda and Anguilla . About Soo perso . is in Anguilla were homeless , and at least £ 0 oo would be required to rebuild their huts , and Mr . Chambeilain suggested that his lordship should apportion to Anguilla a small part of the Mansion House Fund , if it could be spared from purposes of relief in the islands visited by the hurricane of August 7 th ; to this the Lord Mayor has consented .

THE OUEEN went out at Balmoral on Saturday morning last , accompanied by Princess rienry of Battenberg . In the afternoon her Majesty drove with her Royal Highness , attended by the Honourable Harriet Phipps , and in the course of the drive met H . R . H . the Prince of Wales en route for Balmoral . His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , attended by Bro . Major-General Sir Stanley Clarke , arrived at the

Castle . Lieut .-Col . A . Davidson , Equerry to the Queen , received his Royal Highness at Ball ' ater Station , where a guard of honour of the 1 st Battalion Gordon Highlanders was mounted , under the command of Captain V . W . Kerr , D . S . O . During the Queen ' s drive at " Bridge ot Muick , " her Majesty met the detachment of the 1 st Battalion Gordon Highlanders , under the command of Lieut .-Col . G . T . Downman , which is marching through the district .

THE H EREDITARY P RINCE AND PRINCESS OF HOHENLOHE-LANGENRURG , son-in-law and daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg , reached Victoria Station by the Calais express at 5-5 ° , ast evening , having crossed from the Continent on their way to visit the Oueen at Balmoral . Several of the Queen ' s carriages were in waiting at the station , ~ and the Prince and Princess were driven to Buckingham Palace . when continued

1 he distinguished visi tots remained in town till Monday evening , they the journey to Balmoral . A serious accident , however , occurred to the train by which they travelled and the royal travellers had a narrow escape . But nothing more befel them ( ban a severe . shakirg , and as soon as possible they bravely continued their j > urney to Ballater and thence to Balmoral .

ROYAL A OUARIUM . —Edwin Fulton Morrison , known throughout America as the Ameiican Hercules , is of Scotch and North American-Indian origin . He was born in Washington , B . C ., the 27 th February , 1 S 75 . His mother was the daughter of Settingbull the great American chief , who was killed in the Sioux Rising of iSyi by the Unite ;! States soldiers . The ( American Hercules was educated at the Harvard University , where he took the Degree of M . A . At nine years of age he won distinction as an athlete - hewas captain for three sessions of the Harvard Bass ; Ball team ; he holds the for and numbers of medals and boxer

Haivatd-Yale Football medal 1 SS 7 , prizes as a , wrestler and is an expert in running and cycling , and was dubbed by the students whilst he was training for the medical profession as the Hercules of the College . After being two years in the medical profession , he made a first professional appeavanci February , 1 SS 0 as a S trong Man at the Lyceum , Washington , and has recently appeared at the Circus Flagan , Rotterdam , Circus Laurence , Amsterdam , Casino , Hague , at which town he was also presented by M . Burgmar , President , with the Havre Cycling Club medal as winner of the 77 mile cycle race .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Miss FLORENCE MARRYAT , the novelist ; is , we regret to learn , lying dangerously ill at Brighton , where she took up her residence recently . THE EARL OF ROSEBERY ' S speech upon Oliver Cromwell will be delivered at the Queen ' s Hall on Tuesday , October 31 st , after the unveiling of the statue at Westminster . SIR LOUIS H . DAVIES , [ Dominion Minister of Marine and Fisheries , has arrived in London on a mission in connection with the Alaska boundary question and has visited the Colonial Office .

THE NEW PALACE STEAMERS closed their sailings on Monday last for the present season with a full complement of passengers to Margate by the Royal Sovereign . The steamers will now go into dock until next spring . THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER ( Bro . Sir H . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., M . P . ) has accepted an invitation to be present at the Mayor of Gloucester ' s official banquet on the 12 th prox . The right hon . baronet is High Steward of the city .

ACCORDING TO A Reuter's telegram from The Hague , the Netherlands Women ' s League on International Disarmament have forwarded a petition to the British Government in view of the threatened disturbance of peace in South Africa . IN THE HUNTERS ( LOCAL ) CLASS al East Berks Horse Show , held at Maiden Erleigh , Reading , H . R . H . the Piince of Wales took the first prize with Toynbee , a mare with a nice bay foal at foot , Sir Rob ert Wilmot ' s Golden Love being second .

THE LONDON , BRIGHTON , AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY COMPANY announce that the main line train seivice will be revised for October . The Pullman Limited to Brighton will run on October 1 st and every subsequent Sunday until further notice , at 11 a . m . A CHEAP EDITION , in 6 d . weekly parts , Sis about to be issued of "Cassell ' s Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland . " The work is very fully illustrated from authentic photographs , and will contain 60 maps in colours . Part I will be ready on October 4 th .

AN INTERESTING Crystal Palace souvenir has just been issued in the form of a Guide abridged and edited by Mr . Henry Gillman . It gives a clear account of the great glass house and the numerous art treasures it contains . Sixteen large coloured photographs of the palace and grounds are included in the publication , the price of which is one shillling .

A NEW weekly magazine will be issued early next month by Messrs . Cassell and Company under the title of " Sunday Chimes . " It will be very fully illustrated , and will aim at supplying for the day of rest matter as high in quality and as attractive in character as that provided for the weekday by their very successful publication " The New Penny Afagazine . "

WEDNESDAY , NOVEMBER 15 th , has been definitely fixed by the Queen as the date of her visit to Bristol to open the Royal Jubilee Convalescent Home at Redland . The institution has been erected and endowed at a cost of nearly £ 100 , 000 , raised by public subscription in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee . ' The streets are to be decorated and will be illuminated at night .

A FURTHER remittance of £ . 750 has been made by the Lord Mayor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies from the Mansion House Fund for the relief of the West Indian sufferers . Up to the present £ 5500 has been remitted to the distressed people . Among recent donations received were : The Corporation of London , £ 105 ; "Anonymous , " £ 200 . The fund now amounts to about £ " 6000 .

THE FRHNCH FREEMASONS represented at the Assembly of 1 S 99 have adopted a declaration submitted in the name of ! he Council of the Order of the Grand Orient , stigmatising as criminal and odious the campaign pursued under the pretext of race or creed against a certain class of citizens . They assure the Government of their entire confidence and devotion of their support for the frustration of the clerical , militarist , Imperalist , and Monarchist conspiracy .

THE MARQUIS OF LORNE presided on Thursday at the opening of the Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health , at Blackpool . Over a thousand delegates were present . Bro . Sir Matthew White Ridley , the Home Secretary , spoke of the supreme importance of such congresses in educating not only the people but Governments , and in introducing legislati in for the benefit of the people at large . In the afternoon the Health Exhibition was opened .

THE Era , in a notice of Bro . Strachan ' s work on "Northumbrian Masonry , " says : " Mr . Strachan has very ably performed his allotted task ot ' tracing the Freemasonry of to-day from the first operative bands of Gaul and Rome , who revived in the Northern Province the well-nigh forgotten knowledge of Masonry and Architecture . ' Freemasons all over the country will lind these historical peeps into the Masonic Borderland instructive and interesting . The volume is published by Bro . George Kenning , of 16 , Great Queen-street , W . C . "

MESSRS . SAMUEL BROTHERS , of Ludgate Hill , are now showing the liveries which they have just completed for the Sheriffs elect , Bros . Alderman Treloar and Alfred H . Bevan . The Alderman ' s State liveries are embroidered with an elegant design of "Great White Heath" and " Osmuda Regalis Fern , " both of which are indigenous to Cornwall , his native county ; and Bro . Bevan , in the embroidery of his liveries , displays the leek , in honour of his Welsh descent . Bro . Alderman I ' reloar ' s liveries are of Royal blue , and those of Bro . Bevan are green .

THE ANNUAL exhibition of work in connection with St . Martin ' s School of Art is now on view . Ample evidence of the improvement made by the students is afforded by a really excellent collection ot drawings and designs . There was a large attendance on Wednesday evening at the school , which is situated off Endell-street , W . C , when a . design bv Miss Thomassin of a trold nresentatinn run wasreirardwl < r „ n » rall ,. *?>!<« . « m

of the show . It is wotth mentioning that St . Martin ' s is one of the few schools in which a class is held for road-carriage construction under a practical master , an advantage which is greatly appreciated by the youthful mechanics ot Long Acre . A part from the drawings and designs by students , the exhibition is rendered specially attractive this year by a display of artistic posters , the property of Mr . J . E . Allen , the headmaster . I he classes recommence on Afonday next .

GREAT ART DISCOVERY . —Mural Paintings of the 13 th Century at Ashmansworth . —Several series of wall pair . tings of great antiquarian interest have been discovered during the process of restoring the Early Norman church of Ashmansworth , which for many centuries has stood high up on the North Hampshire hills , a few miles south of Highclere Park , the seat of Lord Carnarvon . The most ancient series of paintings probably dates from about the year 1200 , and represents the descent of Our Lord into hell . 1 his painting is on the wall of the nave . Other scriptural subjects are . . . . . i ~™ u .. "an . "ecu cxumiucu great care

-.---. w . . »» wan ana by Bro . Charles b .. Kcyser , who is likely to report upon the discovery to the Society of Antiquaries , ot which he is a fellow . Bro . Keyser is a great authority on church architecture , and has made a special study of Norman doorways , still preserved in churches in different parts of the country . Ashmansworth is a scattered village quite off the beaten track , and seldom visited by strangers .

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