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Masonic And General Tidings
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
Our readers will be glad to learn that the Right Hon . Viscount Holmcsdalc , R . W . Prov . Grand Master of Kent , has consented to preside at the next anniversary festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , to be held in June next year . Our brethren of Kent will thus be afforded an opportunity of showing their loyalty to their Grand Master and sympathy with the Institution , which we predict they will not he slow to avail themselves of .
It is with the greatest regret that we announce the death of Bro . the Rev . VV . J . Mills Ellison , the chaplain to the Royal . Masonic Institution for Girls . The rev . gentleman had long been in ill-health , which last year necessitated his takinir some relaxation from his clerical duties at
Clapham , but he never recovered his health . As a parochial minister he secured the affection of all his Hock , but in no place was he more loved than at the Girls' School , where his solicitude on behalf of the pupils rendered him a most valuable assistant to the committees in the training of the children .
The Installation Ceremony will be rehearsed by Bro , James Stevens , on Friday , the 29 th inst ., in the United Pilgrims Lodge of Instruction , No . 507 , at the Surrey Masonic Hall , Camberwell . The members and their friends will afterwards sup together . Bro . Lord Wolseley has accepted the invitation to become President of the North London Rifle Club .
The Empress of Austria is expected to arrive at Combermere Abbey , Cheshire , the seat of Viscount Combermere , for the hunting season , about the third week in January , and the preparations against her arrival are being rapidly pushed forward in consequence . It is understood that Bro . G . Shaw-Lefevre , M . P ., has , at the Prime Minister ' s request , agreed to undertake the duties of the Postmaster-General during the illness of Mr . Fawcett .
At the Court of Common Council , on Thursday last , Bro . the Lord Mayor in the chair , it was stated that the coal dues levied annually by the Corporation had increased from £ 177 , 000 , in 1 S 57 , to £ 5 14 , 777 last year . At a meeting of the Chapter House , St . George ' s Chapel , Windsor , on Thursday week last , the Prince of Wales , who presided , proposed that the memorial to the
late Hon . and Very Rev . Gerald Wellesley should take the form of a recumbent marble figure , to be placed in the north aisle of St . George's Chapel , in the vicinity of the organ loft . The proposition was accepted . The Malagasy ambassadors were entertained at a grand banquet by the Fishmongers' Company on Thursday week , the chair being taken by the Prime Warden ,
and among those present were Bros , the Lord Mayor and Alderman and Sheriff Keyser , Sheriff Savory , Bro . Sir John B . Monckton , Bro . Sir J . McGarel Hogg , Bart ., M . P ., and others . Bro . A . B . Truefitt , 1 S 0 , P . P . G . Mark Sec . of Malta and Tunis , has been elected to the chair of the Zetland Lodge , No . 515 , Malta . Bro . Truefitt was not
long since presented with a handsome jewel by the Prov . Grand Mark Lodge , in recognition of his zeal as Prov . Grand Secretary . A charming and instructive entertainment in aid of the Hedley Memorial Fund was given in the Artillery Drill Hall , Hebburn-on-Tyne , on the nth inst ., under the auspices of the Perseverance Lodge ( No . 1643 ) . With the
aid of numerous photographs , brilliantly illuminated and enlarged to ten feet square by meanslof the oxy-hydrogen light , under the direction of Bro . J . Fleming Stark ; appropriate vocal and instrumental music , under the conductorship of Bro . Walter South ; with Bro . James McCulloch , P . P . J . G . W ., as cicerone , a large and appreciative audience were taken on a " Ramble through Scotland , while between
each view appropriate music was rendered . The entertainment was most successful throughout , and too much cannot be said in praise of all concerned . The entertainment realised a handsome sum towards the fund being raised by the brethren of the Perseverance Lodge for the purpose of erecting a stained glass window in Hebburn Church to the memory of the Bro . Rev . VV . Hedley , who was , at the time
of , his lamented and sudden death was Chaplain of the lodge . The entertainment was repeated with equal success at Jarrow on Monday evening last . Bro . VV . H . Wallington , PM . of the Dalhousie Lodge , No . S 60 , was the recipient of a very flattering mark of respect at an influential gathering of the members of the Lodge of Instruction on the Sth inst ., at
Bro . Smyth's , Sisters Tavern , Pownall-road , Dalston . Bro . Christian , S . D ., Sfio , presided , and was supported as vice by Bro . Clark , S . W . 117 S ; VV . H . Wallington , P . M . SGo ; Glass , S . W . 453 ; H . Rogers , P . M . S 9 S and 1716 ; Wardell , P . M . 95 ; Brasted , P . M . 1324 ; Allen , P . M . ; Robinson Young , P . M . S 20 ; A . J . Clark , 1607 ; Catling , 1679 ; VV . F . Darnell , W . M . 1 G 79 ; Gray , G . H . Stephens (
Freemason ) and others . After a nice little supper had been disposed of , the usual loyal toasts were honoured , after which Bro . Christian , in the name of the lodge , presented in well chosen and appropriate terms , an address illuminated on vellum as follows : " Dalhousie Lodge of Instruction , No . SGo . Presented to Bro . VV . H . Wallington , P . M . S 60 . This testimonial is intended to convey the very high
appreciation and esteem in which the brother is held by the members of the above lodge for his graceful , indefatigable , and useful efforts during his many years connection with the Lodge of Instruction as its Preceptor . Signed , on behalf of the lodge , Fred . Carr , Secretary . " Bro . Wallington suitably returned thanks , and a very harmonious evening was passed .
How TO S ECURE GOOD HEALTH . — MARTIN ' CURATIVE MAGNETISM . —Health secured , Health restored , and Health promoted by the use of this Natural Agent , now so extensively used . See Press opinions , testimonials , and fullest particulars in 4 S page pamphlet , which is sent gratis to all by John Hugh Martin , Inventor and Maker of the Improved Appliances , 272 , Regent-circus , London , W . —[ ADVT . ]
Masonic And General Tidings
Bro . the Duke and the Duchess of Marlborough has been entertaining a succession of guests at Blenheim Palace . The Bri ghton Town Council on Wedncsday decided to apply for a provisional order for the supply of the electric light within the borough , whilst on the same day the Town Councils of Liverpool and St . Helens
resolved to abandon their applications for provisional orders to supply the light in those boroughs . The medals for the Egyptian campaign are to be given to the officers and men of the 2 nd Battalion Coldstream Guards on the parade ground at Chelsea Barracks to-day ( Friday ) . H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , who commanded the brigade of Guards in Egypt , will be present .
I lie thirty-seventh anniversary of the Commercial Travellers' Orphan Schools was celebrated on Wednesday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern , Mr . R . Hammond presiding . Amongst those present were Bro . Alderman and Sheriff De Keyser , who responded to the
toast of 1 he Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London . " Subscriptions , including 240 guineas from the chairman , were announced to the amount of £ 2 Soi . — Bro . E . K . Storr , P . M . 22 and 16 79 , P . Z . 1044 , 7 .. ig 2 , has been unanimously elected a member of the Cripplegate Ward Club .
Bro . Henry Povey , J . W ., has been unanimousl y elected Worshipful Master of the Neptune Lodge , No . 22 , for the ensuing year . The members of the Great Western Railway Musical Society , of which Bro . Dehane is Secretary , gave a most enjoyable concert on Monday evening last , at Lailbrook Hall , Notting-hill .
The committee , appointed b . 3 ' the Metropolitan Board of VVorks to investigate the condition of the London theatres with a view to the protection of the public against fire , are holding frequent sittings . Numerous plans have been submitted to them for lessening the dangers which have been lately brought into unusual prominence . A neatly-designed purse-calendar for 1883 , with
a representation of the redoubtable griffin at Temple Bar on the cover , has been issued at the offices of the City Press , and may be had gratis on application . Bro . Sir Watkin Williams Wynn , M . P ., Prov . G . M . North Wales and Shropshire , is , we are glad to say , making satisfactory progress , the feverishness having left him , and the acute irritation caused by the old wound in the neck havinc subsided .
H . R . H . the Prince of Wales received the Malagasy Envoys at Marlborough House on Tuesday afternoon . The Envoys , who were accompanied by Mr . Proctor , the Malagasy Consul in London , Mr . Sibree and Mr . Pickersgill , English gentlemen from Madagascar , Mr . Tacchi , the
interpreter for the Envoys , and Andrianisa , their native secretary , were introduced to the Prince by Sir Francis Seymour . Col . the Hon . Edward Bootle-Wilbraham , uncle of Bros , the Earl of Lathom and the Earl of Derby , died suddenly on Sunday last at his residence at Blythe , near Ormskirk .
A new police station is about to be opened at West-end , Hampstead . Theperilsof a fireman ' s calling , and thedangersto which he is exposed in addition to risk of actual injury at the time of the fire , were never more painfully exemplified than in the case of Engineer Bailey , who had charge of the brigade station at Clapham , and who died on
Wednesday . The deceased was last called to duty at the recent fire in Wood-street , where he was engaged for several hours , and where he got a "hot water" drenching . In that condition he returned to his station on the engine , and caught a chill on the way , from which he never recovered . The unfortunate man was an old member of the brigade , having belonged to the London Fire Establishment , and
his death has occasioned much regret . Some further particulars have transpired with reference to the disastrous fire at Gunton Half , the scat of Bro , Lord Suffield , Prov . Grand Master Norfolk , on MondayTast . The hall had been let for the shooting season to Mr . E . M . Munday , of Shipley Hall , Derbyshire , who had intended to leave the hall during the week , and one of Mr ,
Munday ' s guests had a narrow escape . He had barely quitted his bedroom when the floor sunk into the flames which were raging beneath it . The older portion of the hall is that which the firemen succeeded in saving . It is satisfactory to learn that comparatively little furniture or plate was sacrificed , the greater part of it having been safely removed . Among the articles say , ed was a stuffed bear , brought home
by Bro . Lord bulheld from Russia when he accompanied the Prince of Wales to that country , on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh . Bro . Lord Suffield arrived at Gunton late on Monday evening . H . R . H . the Duke of Albany has written the following letter , which was read by the Mayor cf Salisbury , on Wednesday afternoon , at an influentially attended
meeting in the Council House , when a branch of the Charity Organisation Society for the city and the neighbourhood was formed : "Claremont , December 17 th , 1 SS 2 . —Dear Mr . Mayor , —I learn that you intend holding a meeting in Salisbury on Wednesday next on the subject of Charity Organisation . I venture to beseech your favourable consideration of this matter as being one in which I am greatly
interested , and I am satisfied , too , that the work which is now being carried out by the central society is extremely valuable to the country at large , and would be with very great advantage extended to the principal towns in the provinces . —Believe me , yours truly , LEOPOLD . "—An influential committee was appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting .
MONEY LENT . Advances on Property . Loans Negotiated . — £ 5 to £ 1000 , with and without securities , at moderate Interest upon Promissory Notes , repayable at a fixed period , or by instalments ; also upon Deeds , Life Policies , Furniture , Jewellery , Shares , Warrants , Stocks ,
Sic . Prompt attention , with secrecy . Trade bills discounted . Deposits received . THE LONDON BANK , 71 , Fleet-street , E . C ; SS , High-street , Islington , N . ; and 113 , Church-street , Edgware-road , VV . Open daily Forms gratis . Established 1 S 3 S . E . J . READ , Secretary . — fADVT . l
Masonic And General Tidings
Professor Fawcett , M . P ., continues to improve . The doctors report that he is now fairly convalescent . On Monday night a public meeting was held at Croydon to establish a memorial to Archbishop Tait , and it was resolved that it was desirable to secure the old palace of Croydon , and restore it for the purpose .
Bro . P . L . Simmonds read a paper on "The Utilsation of Waste—a Quarter of a Century ' s Progress , " at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , John-street , Adelphi , W . C , on Wednesday evening last . We regret to announce the the death , on the 13 th inst ., of Mr . H . II . Lamplough , aged forty-two , son of Mr . Henry Lamplough , of 113 , Holborn .
Bro . Sir John Bennett , we arc gratified to be able to announce , has recovered from theshock consequent upon lhe fall which was mentioned in Saturday ' s City Press . Bro . G . II . Mason , of Poppin ' s-court , Fleetstreet , has contributed a donation of live guineas in aid of the funds of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum , through Mrs . Shapcott , of the Old Bailey , and has also made his annual present of tea to each of the inmates of the Printers' Almshouses at Wood Green .
Yielding [ o public opinion in lhe City , the promoters of tlielilackfriars-bridge and IIolborn-valley Tramways have determined not to proceed with their project this year , but it is understood that it will again be brought forward next year . The new Parcels Post will be in active operation within the next two months .
At a meeting held at Grcsham House , in Old IIroad-street , on Thursday , for the purpose of considering the best steps to be adopted for preventing fires in London , a resolution was passed urging the necessity for a judicial inquiry into the cause of every outbreak , whether fatal or otherwise .
lhe annual dinner of the German Society of Benevolence was held on Saturday evening , at Willis ' s Rooms , St . James's , under the presidency of the German Ambassador , Count Munster , about two hundred ladies and gentlemen being present . The sum of £ Soo was subscribed .
It is expected that Her Majesty will visit the invalids of the Naval and Marine I'orces lately employed in Egypt , now located at Hasler Hospital , this day ( Saturday ) . The War Office , on the recommendation of Bro . Lord Wolseley , has , it is said , resolved in granting honours to some of the officers lately employed in Egypt who were unintentionally overlooked in the late distribution of honours .
Bro . John Gibson Youll , P . M . 685 , was , on the 14 th inst ., unanimously elected President for the ensuing year of the Newcastle-upon-T yne Incorporated Law Society , and Bro . Thomas William Thompson was also unanimously elected vice-president . An instance of generosity which , if not unparalled , has but few equals , has just been placed on record
by the ex-Empress Eugenie . In the days of his prosperity the city of Marseilles presented to the late Napoleon III . the park of Pharo , on which His Majesty subsequently erected a chateau . Some time ago the city endeavoured to deprive the Empress ot her property , but the law decided in her favour , both at the trial and the appeal . Her Her Majesty has now presented Marseilles with both the park and chateau , valued at some 3 , 000 , 000 francs .
On Monday the Queen and Princess Beatrice , with the suite in attendance , left Windsor for Osborne , where the Court will remain during the season of Christmas . It is generally understood that Bro . Sir Charles Dilke , Bart ., M . P ., will shortly be offered a place in the Cabinet , but the exact post he is to occupy has not yet been settled .
A Subscription Ball , in connection with the Royal Leopold Lodge , will be held at the Surrey Masonic Hall , on Wednesday , 10 th January next . The Fifth Biennial Aldersgate Ball will take piace on Monday , 29 th January next , at Freemasons ' Hall , Great Queen-street , which has recentl y been entirely redecorated , and with its handsome suite of roomsgives
, every accommodation and comfort for a numerous company . The band of the Honourable Artillery Company will attend , under the direction of Signor Tamplini . Bro . Alderman Staples has consented to preside at the supper . The proceeds of the ball , after payment of the expenses , will be presented to Aldersgate charities . Referring to the Masonic meeting at Bath , a
report of which appears on another page , the Bath Journal of the gth inst . has the following : " The Masonic ceremony which took place on Thursday evening was singular and pleasing . As men and Masons it must have seemed strange to the members that their wives and sisters should be actuall y in the lodge , countenancing that mysterious confraternity which is usually supposed to be the abhorence
of the lemmine mind . A Masonic lodge is the one last retreat which man lias left to him where he may retire trom the sex and feel secure in masculine seclusion . Smoking compartments have long ago lost their exclusiveness ; even the precints of Clubland have been invaded ; but the lodge has still its magic power , and over its portals tae legend may still be read , ' Leave her behind all ye who enter here . ' Woman , from live downwards , has been credited
with a desire for the attainment of the knowled ge of good and evil , and has displayed , too , a tendency for callin" - all knowledge evil which is kept from her . Therefore it is that Freemasonry has generally been considered to be as unpopular with the ladies in general as we know it was with Mrs . Caudle in particular . Chalk we then last Thursday with a red mark , and congratulate the Royal Cumberland Lodge upon the handsomeness of their present and the graceful way inwhich it was made . " '
" Sapo Carbonis Detergens" is a physician ' s name for a remedy prescribed for the past quarter-centurv for every variety of skin disease . The public have also adopted the same as a preventive of smallpox , scarlet fever , and measles . Purchasers should see that the I atin Brand is on every tablet , and WRIGHT'S COAL TAR SOAP on each wrapper , without which none are genuine
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Masonic And General Tidings
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS
Our readers will be glad to learn that the Right Hon . Viscount Holmcsdalc , R . W . Prov . Grand Master of Kent , has consented to preside at the next anniversary festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , to be held in June next year . Our brethren of Kent will thus be afforded an opportunity of showing their loyalty to their Grand Master and sympathy with the Institution , which we predict they will not he slow to avail themselves of .
It is with the greatest regret that we announce the death of Bro . the Rev . VV . J . Mills Ellison , the chaplain to the Royal . Masonic Institution for Girls . The rev . gentleman had long been in ill-health , which last year necessitated his takinir some relaxation from his clerical duties at
Clapham , but he never recovered his health . As a parochial minister he secured the affection of all his Hock , but in no place was he more loved than at the Girls' School , where his solicitude on behalf of the pupils rendered him a most valuable assistant to the committees in the training of the children .
The Installation Ceremony will be rehearsed by Bro , James Stevens , on Friday , the 29 th inst ., in the United Pilgrims Lodge of Instruction , No . 507 , at the Surrey Masonic Hall , Camberwell . The members and their friends will afterwards sup together . Bro . Lord Wolseley has accepted the invitation to become President of the North London Rifle Club .
The Empress of Austria is expected to arrive at Combermere Abbey , Cheshire , the seat of Viscount Combermere , for the hunting season , about the third week in January , and the preparations against her arrival are being rapidly pushed forward in consequence . It is understood that Bro . G . Shaw-Lefevre , M . P ., has , at the Prime Minister ' s request , agreed to undertake the duties of the Postmaster-General during the illness of Mr . Fawcett .
At the Court of Common Council , on Thursday last , Bro . the Lord Mayor in the chair , it was stated that the coal dues levied annually by the Corporation had increased from £ 177 , 000 , in 1 S 57 , to £ 5 14 , 777 last year . At a meeting of the Chapter House , St . George ' s Chapel , Windsor , on Thursday week last , the Prince of Wales , who presided , proposed that the memorial to the
late Hon . and Very Rev . Gerald Wellesley should take the form of a recumbent marble figure , to be placed in the north aisle of St . George's Chapel , in the vicinity of the organ loft . The proposition was accepted . The Malagasy ambassadors were entertained at a grand banquet by the Fishmongers' Company on Thursday week , the chair being taken by the Prime Warden ,
and among those present were Bros , the Lord Mayor and Alderman and Sheriff Keyser , Sheriff Savory , Bro . Sir John B . Monckton , Bro . Sir J . McGarel Hogg , Bart ., M . P ., and others . Bro . A . B . Truefitt , 1 S 0 , P . P . G . Mark Sec . of Malta and Tunis , has been elected to the chair of the Zetland Lodge , No . 515 , Malta . Bro . Truefitt was not
long since presented with a handsome jewel by the Prov . Grand Mark Lodge , in recognition of his zeal as Prov . Grand Secretary . A charming and instructive entertainment in aid of the Hedley Memorial Fund was given in the Artillery Drill Hall , Hebburn-on-Tyne , on the nth inst ., under the auspices of the Perseverance Lodge ( No . 1643 ) . With the
aid of numerous photographs , brilliantly illuminated and enlarged to ten feet square by meanslof the oxy-hydrogen light , under the direction of Bro . J . Fleming Stark ; appropriate vocal and instrumental music , under the conductorship of Bro . Walter South ; with Bro . James McCulloch , P . P . J . G . W ., as cicerone , a large and appreciative audience were taken on a " Ramble through Scotland , while between
each view appropriate music was rendered . The entertainment was most successful throughout , and too much cannot be said in praise of all concerned . The entertainment realised a handsome sum towards the fund being raised by the brethren of the Perseverance Lodge for the purpose of erecting a stained glass window in Hebburn Church to the memory of the Bro . Rev . VV . Hedley , who was , at the time
of , his lamented and sudden death was Chaplain of the lodge . The entertainment was repeated with equal success at Jarrow on Monday evening last . Bro . VV . H . Wallington , PM . of the Dalhousie Lodge , No . S 60 , was the recipient of a very flattering mark of respect at an influential gathering of the members of the Lodge of Instruction on the Sth inst ., at
Bro . Smyth's , Sisters Tavern , Pownall-road , Dalston . Bro . Christian , S . D ., Sfio , presided , and was supported as vice by Bro . Clark , S . W . 117 S ; VV . H . Wallington , P . M . SGo ; Glass , S . W . 453 ; H . Rogers , P . M . S 9 S and 1716 ; Wardell , P . M . 95 ; Brasted , P . M . 1324 ; Allen , P . M . ; Robinson Young , P . M . S 20 ; A . J . Clark , 1607 ; Catling , 1679 ; VV . F . Darnell , W . M . 1 G 79 ; Gray , G . H . Stephens (
Freemason ) and others . After a nice little supper had been disposed of , the usual loyal toasts were honoured , after which Bro . Christian , in the name of the lodge , presented in well chosen and appropriate terms , an address illuminated on vellum as follows : " Dalhousie Lodge of Instruction , No . SGo . Presented to Bro . VV . H . Wallington , P . M . S 60 . This testimonial is intended to convey the very high
appreciation and esteem in which the brother is held by the members of the above lodge for his graceful , indefatigable , and useful efforts during his many years connection with the Lodge of Instruction as its Preceptor . Signed , on behalf of the lodge , Fred . Carr , Secretary . " Bro . Wallington suitably returned thanks , and a very harmonious evening was passed .
How TO S ECURE GOOD HEALTH . — MARTIN ' CURATIVE MAGNETISM . —Health secured , Health restored , and Health promoted by the use of this Natural Agent , now so extensively used . See Press opinions , testimonials , and fullest particulars in 4 S page pamphlet , which is sent gratis to all by John Hugh Martin , Inventor and Maker of the Improved Appliances , 272 , Regent-circus , London , W . —[ ADVT . ]
Masonic And General Tidings
Bro . the Duke and the Duchess of Marlborough has been entertaining a succession of guests at Blenheim Palace . The Bri ghton Town Council on Wedncsday decided to apply for a provisional order for the supply of the electric light within the borough , whilst on the same day the Town Councils of Liverpool and St . Helens
resolved to abandon their applications for provisional orders to supply the light in those boroughs . The medals for the Egyptian campaign are to be given to the officers and men of the 2 nd Battalion Coldstream Guards on the parade ground at Chelsea Barracks to-day ( Friday ) . H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , who commanded the brigade of Guards in Egypt , will be present .
I lie thirty-seventh anniversary of the Commercial Travellers' Orphan Schools was celebrated on Wednesday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern , Mr . R . Hammond presiding . Amongst those present were Bro . Alderman and Sheriff De Keyser , who responded to the
toast of 1 he Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London . " Subscriptions , including 240 guineas from the chairman , were announced to the amount of £ 2 Soi . — Bro . E . K . Storr , P . M . 22 and 16 79 , P . Z . 1044 , 7 .. ig 2 , has been unanimously elected a member of the Cripplegate Ward Club .
Bro . Henry Povey , J . W ., has been unanimousl y elected Worshipful Master of the Neptune Lodge , No . 22 , for the ensuing year . The members of the Great Western Railway Musical Society , of which Bro . Dehane is Secretary , gave a most enjoyable concert on Monday evening last , at Lailbrook Hall , Notting-hill .
The committee , appointed b . 3 ' the Metropolitan Board of VVorks to investigate the condition of the London theatres with a view to the protection of the public against fire , are holding frequent sittings . Numerous plans have been submitted to them for lessening the dangers which have been lately brought into unusual prominence . A neatly-designed purse-calendar for 1883 , with
a representation of the redoubtable griffin at Temple Bar on the cover , has been issued at the offices of the City Press , and may be had gratis on application . Bro . Sir Watkin Williams Wynn , M . P ., Prov . G . M . North Wales and Shropshire , is , we are glad to say , making satisfactory progress , the feverishness having left him , and the acute irritation caused by the old wound in the neck havinc subsided .
H . R . H . the Prince of Wales received the Malagasy Envoys at Marlborough House on Tuesday afternoon . The Envoys , who were accompanied by Mr . Proctor , the Malagasy Consul in London , Mr . Sibree and Mr . Pickersgill , English gentlemen from Madagascar , Mr . Tacchi , the
interpreter for the Envoys , and Andrianisa , their native secretary , were introduced to the Prince by Sir Francis Seymour . Col . the Hon . Edward Bootle-Wilbraham , uncle of Bros , the Earl of Lathom and the Earl of Derby , died suddenly on Sunday last at his residence at Blythe , near Ormskirk .
A new police station is about to be opened at West-end , Hampstead . Theperilsof a fireman ' s calling , and thedangersto which he is exposed in addition to risk of actual injury at the time of the fire , were never more painfully exemplified than in the case of Engineer Bailey , who had charge of the brigade station at Clapham , and who died on
Wednesday . The deceased was last called to duty at the recent fire in Wood-street , where he was engaged for several hours , and where he got a "hot water" drenching . In that condition he returned to his station on the engine , and caught a chill on the way , from which he never recovered . The unfortunate man was an old member of the brigade , having belonged to the London Fire Establishment , and
his death has occasioned much regret . Some further particulars have transpired with reference to the disastrous fire at Gunton Half , the scat of Bro , Lord Suffield , Prov . Grand Master Norfolk , on MondayTast . The hall had been let for the shooting season to Mr . E . M . Munday , of Shipley Hall , Derbyshire , who had intended to leave the hall during the week , and one of Mr ,
Munday ' s guests had a narrow escape . He had barely quitted his bedroom when the floor sunk into the flames which were raging beneath it . The older portion of the hall is that which the firemen succeeded in saving . It is satisfactory to learn that comparatively little furniture or plate was sacrificed , the greater part of it having been safely removed . Among the articles say , ed was a stuffed bear , brought home
by Bro . Lord bulheld from Russia when he accompanied the Prince of Wales to that country , on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh . Bro . Lord Suffield arrived at Gunton late on Monday evening . H . R . H . the Duke of Albany has written the following letter , which was read by the Mayor cf Salisbury , on Wednesday afternoon , at an influentially attended
meeting in the Council House , when a branch of the Charity Organisation Society for the city and the neighbourhood was formed : "Claremont , December 17 th , 1 SS 2 . —Dear Mr . Mayor , —I learn that you intend holding a meeting in Salisbury on Wednesday next on the subject of Charity Organisation . I venture to beseech your favourable consideration of this matter as being one in which I am greatly
interested , and I am satisfied , too , that the work which is now being carried out by the central society is extremely valuable to the country at large , and would be with very great advantage extended to the principal towns in the provinces . —Believe me , yours truly , LEOPOLD . "—An influential committee was appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting .
MONEY LENT . Advances on Property . Loans Negotiated . — £ 5 to £ 1000 , with and without securities , at moderate Interest upon Promissory Notes , repayable at a fixed period , or by instalments ; also upon Deeds , Life Policies , Furniture , Jewellery , Shares , Warrants , Stocks ,
Sic . Prompt attention , with secrecy . Trade bills discounted . Deposits received . THE LONDON BANK , 71 , Fleet-street , E . C ; SS , High-street , Islington , N . ; and 113 , Church-street , Edgware-road , VV . Open daily Forms gratis . Established 1 S 3 S . E . J . READ , Secretary . — fADVT . l
Masonic And General Tidings
Professor Fawcett , M . P ., continues to improve . The doctors report that he is now fairly convalescent . On Monday night a public meeting was held at Croydon to establish a memorial to Archbishop Tait , and it was resolved that it was desirable to secure the old palace of Croydon , and restore it for the purpose .
Bro . P . L . Simmonds read a paper on "The Utilsation of Waste—a Quarter of a Century ' s Progress , " at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , John-street , Adelphi , W . C , on Wednesday evening last . We regret to announce the the death , on the 13 th inst ., of Mr . H . II . Lamplough , aged forty-two , son of Mr . Henry Lamplough , of 113 , Holborn .
Bro . Sir John Bennett , we arc gratified to be able to announce , has recovered from theshock consequent upon lhe fall which was mentioned in Saturday ' s City Press . Bro . G . II . Mason , of Poppin ' s-court , Fleetstreet , has contributed a donation of live guineas in aid of the funds of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum , through Mrs . Shapcott , of the Old Bailey , and has also made his annual present of tea to each of the inmates of the Printers' Almshouses at Wood Green .
Yielding [ o public opinion in lhe City , the promoters of tlielilackfriars-bridge and IIolborn-valley Tramways have determined not to proceed with their project this year , but it is understood that it will again be brought forward next year . The new Parcels Post will be in active operation within the next two months .
At a meeting held at Grcsham House , in Old IIroad-street , on Thursday , for the purpose of considering the best steps to be adopted for preventing fires in London , a resolution was passed urging the necessity for a judicial inquiry into the cause of every outbreak , whether fatal or otherwise .
lhe annual dinner of the German Society of Benevolence was held on Saturday evening , at Willis ' s Rooms , St . James's , under the presidency of the German Ambassador , Count Munster , about two hundred ladies and gentlemen being present . The sum of £ Soo was subscribed .
It is expected that Her Majesty will visit the invalids of the Naval and Marine I'orces lately employed in Egypt , now located at Hasler Hospital , this day ( Saturday ) . The War Office , on the recommendation of Bro . Lord Wolseley , has , it is said , resolved in granting honours to some of the officers lately employed in Egypt who were unintentionally overlooked in the late distribution of honours .
Bro . John Gibson Youll , P . M . 685 , was , on the 14 th inst ., unanimously elected President for the ensuing year of the Newcastle-upon-T yne Incorporated Law Society , and Bro . Thomas William Thompson was also unanimously elected vice-president . An instance of generosity which , if not unparalled , has but few equals , has just been placed on record
by the ex-Empress Eugenie . In the days of his prosperity the city of Marseilles presented to the late Napoleon III . the park of Pharo , on which His Majesty subsequently erected a chateau . Some time ago the city endeavoured to deprive the Empress ot her property , but the law decided in her favour , both at the trial and the appeal . Her Her Majesty has now presented Marseilles with both the park and chateau , valued at some 3 , 000 , 000 francs .
On Monday the Queen and Princess Beatrice , with the suite in attendance , left Windsor for Osborne , where the Court will remain during the season of Christmas . It is generally understood that Bro . Sir Charles Dilke , Bart ., M . P ., will shortly be offered a place in the Cabinet , but the exact post he is to occupy has not yet been settled .
A Subscription Ball , in connection with the Royal Leopold Lodge , will be held at the Surrey Masonic Hall , on Wednesday , 10 th January next . The Fifth Biennial Aldersgate Ball will take piace on Monday , 29 th January next , at Freemasons ' Hall , Great Queen-street , which has recentl y been entirely redecorated , and with its handsome suite of roomsgives
, every accommodation and comfort for a numerous company . The band of the Honourable Artillery Company will attend , under the direction of Signor Tamplini . Bro . Alderman Staples has consented to preside at the supper . The proceeds of the ball , after payment of the expenses , will be presented to Aldersgate charities . Referring to the Masonic meeting at Bath , a
report of which appears on another page , the Bath Journal of the gth inst . has the following : " The Masonic ceremony which took place on Thursday evening was singular and pleasing . As men and Masons it must have seemed strange to the members that their wives and sisters should be actuall y in the lodge , countenancing that mysterious confraternity which is usually supposed to be the abhorence
of the lemmine mind . A Masonic lodge is the one last retreat which man lias left to him where he may retire trom the sex and feel secure in masculine seclusion . Smoking compartments have long ago lost their exclusiveness ; even the precints of Clubland have been invaded ; but the lodge has still its magic power , and over its portals tae legend may still be read , ' Leave her behind all ye who enter here . ' Woman , from live downwards , has been credited
with a desire for the attainment of the knowled ge of good and evil , and has displayed , too , a tendency for callin" - all knowledge evil which is kept from her . Therefore it is that Freemasonry has generally been considered to be as unpopular with the ladies in general as we know it was with Mrs . Caudle in particular . Chalk we then last Thursday with a red mark , and congratulate the Royal Cumberland Lodge upon the handsomeness of their present and the graceful way inwhich it was made . " '
" Sapo Carbonis Detergens" is a physician ' s name for a remedy prescribed for the past quarter-centurv for every variety of skin disease . The public have also adopted the same as a preventive of smallpox , scarlet fever , and measles . Purchasers should see that the I atin Brand is on every tablet , and WRIGHT'S COAL TAR SOAP on each wrapper , without which none are genuine