London Masonic Charity Association.

Bro . Newton supposed that every memb would have an opportunity of inspecting the register . The Chairman said yes . Bro . Woodford said that Bye-law 2 dealt with the subject of giving the votes as delicately as it could . The Association s aid , "We think you ought to give in your votes , but we cannot force you , we ask you . We invite you by a friendly

circular , to place your vote m the hands of a Committee who select t ?? o or three of the strongest cases to support . " Col . Creaton was then appointed Chairman of the Association , Bros . Erasmus Wilson and the Rev . Dr . Brette as Vicc-Chairmen , Bros . C . J . Perceval as Treasurer , and the ! Bev . A . F . A . Woodford and A . Tisley as joint Secretaries . Thc following brethren were appointed as

Committeemen , with power to add to their number : —Bros . Rosenthal , Southwood , Dr . Ramsay , Letchworth , Newton , Lacey , Hyde Pullen , 'Marsh , Faulkner , Murlis , Baldwin , Massa , J . A . Farnfield , John White , G . Bolton , Dr . Jabez Hogg , Hubbuck , Willing , andMallett . Bros . Gladwell and Watts were appointed Auditors . Bro . Perceval wished to draw attention to one subject .

The provinces subscribed £ 15 , 232 to the Masonic Institutions , and London £ 16 , 400 . In exchange for this the provinces got 394 candidates elected , and London 230 . London did not get more simply because the London brethren did not combine . He would try to put these facts in a letter , to be published , stating the grievance and the remedy . It was very simple . The brethren had only to

see how the provinces worked . There were several minor lodges and one or two Grand Lodges . The minor lodges sent to the centre lodges when they got a candidate to return , and they felt morally certain they would be returned either at first or second election . If not , they sent to a neighboring province to assist . That was all very well up to a certain point , but it became un-Masonic when the

merits of the individual cases were not considered—when the child or widow of a brother Mason , who had borne the burden and heat of the day , was passed over for those of a brother of yesterday . It was the case also sometimes that a brother who had paid for years to his lodge , and had benefitted all the Institutions , was passed over for a brother who thought that when he had paid his fees for

entrance hc hail finished his Masonic duties . These were considerations that required the particular attention of thc Asstciation . Bro . Woodford said that it was proposed at the end of this meeting to have a Committee meeting , for thc subject

Bin . Perceval was mentioning was more properly a subject for a Committee . A vote of thanks to Col . Creaton for presiding was then passed , and the brethren resolved themselves into a Committee meeting , which , after transacting some business , adjourned .

A monument in memory of the late Lord Ljttleton has just been comjolcted , and will shortly be removed from the studio of Bro . J . Forsyth , the sculptor , to its destination in the nave of Worcester Cathedral . Soon after the death of the lamented nobleman a number of his friends antl neighbours , headed by the Earl of Dudley , Bro . SirE . Lechmere , M . P ., Lord Hampton , and Canon Melville ,

formed themselves into a committee for the purpose of raising a suitable memorial , and the present work is the result , of the friendly subscrijitions thus obtained . The design , by the late Sir G . Scott , is that of an altar tomb , in the manner of early 14 th Century Gothic , on which rejioses a recumbent statue of the deceased in white marble . The figure , draped in the robes of a peer , is suggestive of

perfect repose , and bears on the countenance an artistic , and at the same time truthful resemblance to the lineaments of the depaitcd . The head inclines slightly to the left side ; thc left arm lies full length by the side j the right hand rests upon the breast , holding a scroll or parchment with seal attached , in token of his office nf eustos reitularurn of Worcestershire . Four

kneeling angels ornament the corners of monumental marble . The tomb is executed in alabaster and different coloured marbles , and is enriched with a series of arch-headed panels , supjiorted by Rose-antique marble columns and carved capitals . Shields emblazoned with armorial bearings illustrating the genealogy ofthe Lyttelton family , arranged by Mr . Tucker , Rouge Croix , of the Herald's College ,

occujiy the panels . On cither side is a crisped panel deeply moulded , filled with bas reliefs , illustrative of the Entombment and the Resurrection . A Latin inscriplion , borne on a brass band extending round the tomb , gives the name , titles , antl official position of the deceased , with dates of his birth and death . The monument is 9 ft . long , 4 ft . wide , and 6 ft . hig h . It is intended to harmonise with

the beautiful pulpit presented to Worcester Cathedral by thc Earl of Dudley , executed by thc same sculptor as the jiresent statue , Bro . J . Forsyth , of Baker-streef The Exhibition of Works entered for the National Art Competition was opened on Tuesday week in thc Exhibition Galleries , South Kensington . They number about 1400 , which have been selected from 138 , 045 ,

sent up from 142 Schools of Art throughout the kingdom . The subjects of tho competition are figure drawing and modelling , painting in oil and water colours , antl disign especially as njijilied to manufactures . The jirizes awarded are gold medals , silver medals , bronze medals , prizes of boolis , and thc Princess of Wales' Scholarships , which are awarded to two female students who take the highest prizes of the year in the national competition .

We are requested to state that by a curious error , thc article that appeared in the Daily Telegraph , on thc Installation of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , is credited to Bio , W . J . Hughan , in thc Masonic Rcviewlot August , published in Cincinnati , Ohio . Bro . Hughan merely forwarded the article lo the Editor , Bro . thc Rev . Thos . J . Mulish , and suggested its being reprinted in the pages of that excellent paper .

Reviews.

Reviews .

SIXTY-E 1 GHTH REPORT OF THE RWENDENBORG SOCIETY , BRITISH AND FOREIGN . Depository , 3 6 , Bloomsbury-stteet , W . C . This is the Sixty-eig hth Report of a Society , instituted in 1810 , for the purposes of disseminating thc peculiar doctrines and views of Emanuel Swedenborg . Some of our readers may be aware that there is a so-called Masonic

Swendenborgianism , which professes , as we understand , to deal with the mystical reveries of birn , whom some one has termed " a dreamer of dreams , " and after whom it is named . That Swedenborg was a Freemason is more than doubtful , indeed , it is jiretiy certain that he was not , but that his aspirations after and panoramic representations of a new Jerusalem—" cadestis Jerusalem , "—found favour

with the mystic school of Martinism , in France , in thc last century , and was thence introduced into England , as a soi-disant Masonic-Swcdenborgian system , is a matter of history . The peculiar views of the Swedenborgians are , of course , " forbidden fruit" for our neutral pages , and in so far as they can be understood by the uninitiated , they represent , under any circumstances , a phase of mental

philosophy which it is beyond our power , as Freemasons , to notice or discuss . Bound up with this Report , we find " A Hindoo Gentleman ' s IjLeflections respecting the Works of Swedenborg and the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church , " which as the woik of a cultivated and educated Hindoo , will have a special interest to the members of the Society . We

Masonically can only allude to them that they—" are . " We doubt , as we have often said before , the propriety of mixing up Freemasonry , " simple in its simjilicity , " alike in its teachings and its views , with the abstruse reveries of the mystics , or the fancies and dreams of metaphysical abstractions . Mysticism has always played a part , alike in the old

Hermetic sodalities , and the Theosophic school of Masons of the latter part of the last century—wisely or unwisely , is not the question here . We arc only dealing with facts and whether we go back to Swedenborg or St . Martin , to , " Bot-hme" or Meyer , we find undoubtedly a " mysticism " of teaching whicii has by some been claimctl as

Masonic , though clearly without warrant or reality . We are not going further than this , as we by no means ever desiderate what is called " dogmatism , " in matters in which freedom of thought andlibeity of conscience properly prevail . But let us not forget that subjective theories do not and never can constitute objective truth to men or Masons .

CHAMBER'S INDEX TO NEXT OF KIN . Fourth Edition , Edited by EDWARD PRI-STON . Allen , 11 , Avc Maria Lane . This vcry useful work has come before us , and we think it only our duty to our readers and die public to call attention to its undoubted utility and importance . It contains 50 , 000 names tf persons advciti-, ed for , and though

some ot the advertisements ate no doubt " fishing advertisements , " as they are termed , and put in for special purposes ; many , probably the great majority arc " bona fide , " antl represent a vast mass of money unclaimed , because unknown . Mr . Preston states in his preface one fact which will startle others , as it has startled us , the more so as wc have heard of a lower figure , namely , that

the unclaimed funds in the Court ot Chancery amounted in 18 7 6 to £ 70 , 000 , 000 ! Is not 70 a misprint for 7 ? That a large sum of money belongs to families of which they are ignorant is no doubt most true , and therefore wc feel bound to praise , as we believe , an honest effort to afford information on topics so personally interesting and materially impoitant to many .

MASONIC MAGAZINE . —Some pleasing poetry and fiction agreeably relieve thc Masonic matter which is , doubtless , full of interest to the initiated , and will be found acceptable to the general reader . The tone of the periodical is high , and some of the essays are maiked by much thought and acumen . — Brief . ¦& .

FRENCH TECHNICAL EDUCATION . One of the must interesting and instructive departments of the Exposition is that devoted to the illustration of the working and results of the system of French popular education both in Paris antl in the jiroviiices . The foreign visitor who observes with admiration throughout tlie country the evidences of the general artistic and technical skill

of the French workmen of every class will see in this Education Department of the Exposition the key tn the secret of that success . And hc will also , if wise , reatl in it a lesson for his own countrymen . The models of the French schools , thc tables of their statistics , the plans of their buildings , and especially thc abundant technical and artistic products of the pujiils' industry , and thc numerous

series of scholastic apparatus of all kinds—these must strike intelligent foreigners with surprise , if not with humiliaation also , at the comparative imperfection of other countries in this important d -partment . One of the United States Commissioners to the Exhibition remarked , last week , that , in common with hi .-: countrymen generally , ht hatl previously supposed the United States to he fori'iiio-, 1

in the world in its system of pojiulai' instruction , hut ih . it he is now compelled to acknowledge thc great superiority of France , even over America , in this direction . Englishmen will do well to study this portion ot th <; Exposition most carefully . Members of School Boards , heads of collegis and schools , anil members of municipal bodies

specially interested m the improvement of It clinical antl practical education in their own country , may tlerive great advantage fiom the exhibits in this dcjiartnient . When will the corporation of Loudon be able to match the interesting educational results here disjilaycd by the sister municipality of Paris ?—Times .

Notes On Art, &C.

NOTES ON ART , & c .

The German Society for Catching , Breeding , and Preserving Fish are preparing an international exhibition at Berlin for 1880 . A correspondent of the Paris Journal reports the discovery of treasure in the village of Andria , within the territorial district of Naples . According to the account

given , m the village alluded to there exists an ancient ducal palace , which formerly belonged to the noble house of Andria , after whicii it is called . It is owned at present by the Spagnoletti , and the actual possessor just now happened to procure an old plan of the castle . Looking over it curiously , he noticed a door marked where in reality none existed . Not satisfied to leave this fact

uninvestigated , he ordered the wall to he broken through atthe place indicated on the plan , and behind the brickwork an iron door was found . This was forced , and access was immediately gained to a small chapel , in which was deposited an old chest containing the treasure , which is

estimated to be worth about i , 8 oo , ooof . ; ( nearly £ 72 , 000 . ) It consists principally of gold coins of the time of Ferdinand IV . and precious stones . The whole is supposed to have been deposited there for safety by the Duke of Andria when he emigrated to Germany at thc time of the French invasion of Italy .

ST . ALBAN ' ABBEY . —The Rev . Scott F . Surtees , wri'ing from the Rectory , Sprotbrough , Doncaster , to the Times , sends the following extract from Dr . Lubke's " Ecclesiasti cal Art in Germany , " tianslated from the fifto edition by L . A . Wheatley : — " The system of the vaulted Basilica came into use in Germany , as it appears , for the first time towards the end of the 12 th century , and it is in Rhenish buildings that the vaulting of the whole nave is

first found . The cathedral at Mentz was apparently vaulted after the burning in the year io 8 r A . D . The cathedrals at Spires and Worms followed . About the same time ( 1093-1156 ) arose the Abbey Church at Laach . The rest of Germany , for the most part , persisted in the flat roofed Basilica . . . . After these new discoveries has been made in architecture everything was prepared for a new style , antl this was the Gothic . "

Mr . R . Wiuslow , of 15 , Strand , showed three supers of Loiul-jn honey , from a hive in a room 60 ft ., from the ground , at the exhibition of the British Bee Keepers ' Association held last week at South Kensington . The hive was workcel at the address given , and Mr . Winslow terms the produce " chimney-put honey . "—City Press . Sir . J . T . Lawrence has given notice in thc

House of Commons of his intention to move next Session that it is desirable , in the opinion of the 1 louse , that the whole or joart nf Kew Gardens should be opened to the public at 10 a . m . on week-days , and that there is nothing in the work of mai-itenance or in the special objects of the Gardens to justif y the exclusion of the public from them ui . lil 1 p . m .

In a narrow street close to Bedford-row many a jiasser-by who , in his youth , bad a " stool" in one of thc legal funis in thc neighbourhood , has observed an oldfashioned shop with many choice engravings in the window , and has longed for the time— " looming in thc future "— -when his imjirovcd position in the office should enable him to enter the dingy portals—always closed , its

owner being absent for the past 12 years—and make himself famous in the eyes of thc collectors by becoming the possessor of some of the rare things therein . But the youth has arrivetl at maturity , lias become possessor ofthe means to purchase , but his efforts to do so have been fruitless . The same choice prints have remained in the window . As an answer was required for rejieated inquiries ,

all were told , " Nothing will be sold until the owner returns . " Two collectors of prints , whose homes are on the oilier side ot thc Atlantic , finding that there were in this collection prints they coveted , took the long journey across in the hope of acquiring them , but without success . Thc same answer met their inquiries . A wealthy man in London sc : it £ 10 , 000 for two paintings in the collection .

That was refused . Other pictures equally valuable arc there—rare works , whose pedigrees are well known , and whose qualities are not questioned . The owner has not come back . He has gone , it is to be hoped , where he will find beauty in perfection , not in the abstract , as in his

possessions here . The gems of art that hc has so strangely accumulated will be reset . It is believed that , after the labour nf cataloguing the property has been accomplished , t will be placed , about January next , before the public in the rooms through which it seems thc late of most works of art to jiass at some jicriod or other . —Builder .

On Wednesday a tri-. il of self-delivery reapers anil self-binders came off at Penrith . Rain having fallen all the jirevious night and the crop being a heavy piece of oats , the qualities of thc machines werc put to a severe test . The binders of Mr . M'Cormick and Mr . Walter A . Wood were tested by thc dynamometer , the draught being 3 cwt . 3 jrs ., and ,-jcwr . iqr . respectively . The prize was awarded to the machine of the heavier draught , M'Cnrmick ' s .

Iu Ihe class for self-delivery reapers eight machines comjieled . The " Simplex" of Messrs . Howard , Bedford , took ti draught of lent . 3 qr ** . only , ami after asecond trial with lb .: ivell-kiKi-vn Amine-nt machine of Walter A . Wood , was ,-r . vaided the lirst prize in its class , thc three next to it in point of draught being W . Anson Wood ; Picksley , Sims , and Co ., antl W . A . Wood , whose machines all took a draught of 2 cwt , iqr ., thc heaviest being Messrs . Brigham ' s " Excelsior , " 3 C « 't .

The Duke and Duchess of Abercorn and Lady Georgian 1 Hamilton have returned tn Hampton House . Grcen-strcct , from Eastbourne .