Bro.The Rev. H. A.Pickard, Grand Chaplain.

BRO . THE REV . H . A . PICKARD , GRAND CHAPLAIN .

On entering the University in 1851 , Bro . Pickard at once signified his wish to become a member of the Craft , so that in November of the same year he was initiated , the Rev . R . St . John Tyrwhitt being then Worshipful Master . After serving as Deacon and Warden , he was elected as

W . Master for the year i 8 jb , and re-elected for 1857 . During these two years of office , Bro . Pickard initiated among other distinguished brethren , the Deputy Grand Master , Lord Skelmersdale , Bro . Talbot , late Provincial Grand Master for the Eastern Division of South Wales ; Bro . Victor Williamson , Junior Grand Warden in 1865 j and the Marquis of Hamilton . During the second year of

Mastership , the Pro Grand Master , Lord Carnarvon , became a joining member of the lodge . It is well worthy of notice that Bro . Pickard made such rapid progress in Masonry that before he had been a Mason two years the Provincial Giand Master conferred upon him the Office of Provincial Grand Steward , and after passing through another minor office he was appointed Prov . Grand

Senior Warden in 1857 , during which year Lord Zetland ' s memorable visit to the Province of Oxford took place . For nearly ten years Bro . Pickard was compelled by his duties as H . M . Inspector of Schools to be absent from Oxford , but shortly after his return he had the honour of being Chaplain to the lodge when H . R H . the Prince of Wales was Worshipful Master in 1873 . That Bro .

Pickard ' s popularity amongst the members of his lodge was great is evident from the fact that he received the extraordinary honour of being elected for the third time Worshipful Master , and during his year of office was appointed to represent the province as Steward at the Installation of the Most Worshipful the Grand Master in the Alhert Hall .

On quitting office Bro . Pickard installed as his successor H . R . H . Prince Leopold , and took a prominent part the next day in the installation of H . R . H . as Provincial Grand Master . In addition to gaining distinction in lodge Bro . Pickard

also became First Principal of the Alfred Chapter in 1859 , and of the Apollo University Chapter in 1875 , and has also served as Steward for all the Masonic Charities . He is also joint editor of the Bye-laws of the Apollo University Lodge . We heartily congratulate our rev . brother on his appointment .

Royal Masonic Boys' School.

ROYAL MASONIC BOYS' SCHOOL .

MASONIC F . C ., V . HIGH CROSS COLLECE . On Wednesday last , in drizzling rain , which continued ( luting the whole of the game , thtscclubs met for the first time this season on the ground of the latter , at Tottenham , The High Cioss , having won the toss , gave the Masonic the choice of goals , preferring to kick off . Price started

the ball at 3 . 25 . Altera few scrimmages , in which the Masonic gained ground , one of the High Cross men ran with the ball behind the Masonic goal linr , and securer ) a try , which resulted in a goal . Some more scrimmage-s and several good runs on berth sides having taken place , Mr . Gardner , by a splendid run , succeeded in getting a try , which , however , he failed to convert into a goal .

Shortly afterwards the ball was scrimmaged behind the High Cross goal-line by the Masonic forwards , and touched down by Ellis . Before " half-time " two other tries and and three touch-downs were obtained by the Masonic team , and one try by the College , but the ball was in no case kicked over the cross-bar , it being scarcelyjpossible to kick owing to the wretchetl state of the ground . During the

second half-time , four more tries and a touch-down were obtained by the Masonians , Scurr succeeding in kicking one goal . For the visitors Messrs . Gardner , Godsmark , Parker , Ellis , and Sparkes , and for the College Messrs . Price , Puggy , Barker , and E . Dacent distinguished themselves . Time being called at 4 . 35 , the Masonic were the victors by one goal , seven tries , and four touch-downs , to a tjoal and a try .

MASONIC—Hart ( back ) j Gardner and Scurr ( half , backs ); Parker and Ellis ( quarter-backs ); Godsmark ( capt ) j W . Sparkes , Davies , Howard , Eastland , H . and E . Wood , C . Sage , Dancy , and Hanson ( Forwards ) . HIGH CROSS . —Mr . Poggy ( back ); Price ( capt ) and Friar ( half-backs ) ; Messrs . E . and M . Dacent ( half , backs ) j Messrs . Barker , Lombard , H . and E , Woodman , Macintosh , Bankham , Planze , Thomas , Crier , and Fisher ( forwards ) .

The Duchess of Marlborough , accompanied by Lady Blandford , visited the Rotunda Hospital , Dublin , last week . Her ladyship was conducted round the wards by Dr . Atthill , the Master , and Dr . Smyly , assistantphysician to the institution , and expressed herself much gratified and interested in the patients . TUB COSMOPOLITAN MASONIC CALENDAR , DIARV , AND

POCKET BOOK FOR 1878 . —Wc acknowledge with thanks the receipt of this Calendar , which cannot fail to prove of great service to brethren for purposes of reference . First comes a list of Grand Lodge , England , with its subordinate lodges , then Grand Chapter , with its subordinate chapters , and then the Grand Mark Lodge , and the Orders of Masonic Knighthood , & c , and the Supreme Council of the A . and A . Rite . Similar particulars are furnished for

IrelaneJ and Scotland . Lastly , we have a mass of infor-•nation respecting foreign Grand Lodges and Orients to . gether with the Charge at Initiation and the E . A . P . song , This will , of course , suffice to show its value . At the same time , the compilation of a work of this kind is necessarily a severe task , and it would be singular indeed if there were not some errors of omission and commission . —Touchstone —Adyt .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

A warrant has been granted to the Hammersmith Lodge of Mark Masters to hold a lodge at the Windsor Castle Hotel , King-street , West Hammersmith . Bros . John Mason , P . G . S . D ., Middlesex , W . M . ' designate ; J . W . Baldwin , S . W . designate ; T . C . Walls , J . W . designate ; F . Walters , Sec . pro tem . BRO . SIR W . " W . "WYNN , BART . M . P . —At a

recent meeting of the Provincial Grand Officers and W . M's . of North Wales and Shropshire to consider what form the commemoration of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn ' s reign over the province for a quarter of a century should take , it was resolved " That he should be presented with an illuminated address congratulating him on the event , and that a life presentation to the Boy ' s School should be

purchased , to be called " The Sir Watkin Presentation . " The meetings of the Mount Edgcumbe Lodge of Instruction , 144 6 , will for the future be held on Tuesday evenings at eight o ' clock . The telegraph announces the death in Abyssinia of Bro . the Marchesc Antinori , chief of the Ita'ian Expedition of Discovery in Shva . The Marchesr , who

latterly chiefly resieled at Rome , was a distinguished naturalist , and in this capacity hael made journeys in the Nile valley . He was Hon . Sec . of the Italian Geographical Society , and promoted the formation of the expedition which has been attended with such difficulties , and in which he has lost his life . He was a devoted Mason , and for some time held the honorary post of G .

Sec . of the Grand Orient of Italy . The statue which is to be erected by public subscription in the Pavilion Grounds , Brighton , in memory of the late Bro . Sir Cordy Burrows , is now completed . The ceremony of unveiling has been fixed for the month of February next . At a committee meeting of the Henry

Muggtndge Testimonial Fund , it was proposed and carried , that the subscription list should close on Thursday , the 31 st of January , 1878 . The Fifteen Sections will be worked in the Confidence Lodge of Instruction , on Wednesday next , the 28 th inst ., at the Railway Tavern , Railway-place , Fenchurch-street , Bro . Webb will pre .-ide . Lodge will be

opened at 6 . 45 , After Mr . Baron Pollock , had concluded his summing-up in the case of the four detectives and Edward Froggalt , solicitor , on Tuesday , the jury , at twenty-five minutes past three o ' clock , retired to consider their verdict , and returned into court at seventeen minutes past four , when they pronounced the prisoners Mciklejohn ,

Druscovich , Palmer , and Froggatt guilty , and acquited Inspector Clarke ; Drus-iovitcti and Palmer they strongly recommended to mercy . The convicted prisoners pleaded for the infliction of as light a punishment as the Court could pronounce , and they were each sentenced to two yfais ' imprisonment , with hard labour . Claike , against whom there is another charge , which it is uncertain whether the Crown will prosecute , was liberated on his own

recognisances . We are very pleased to announce that H . R . H . the Prince of Wales has appointed the Rev . H . A . Pickard , Grand Chaplain to the Grand Lodge of England , in the room of the late Bro . the Rev . Like Onslow . BIRTHDAY OV THB CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA AT WINDSOR . —At Windsor , on Wednesday , the

37 th birthday of the Princess Royal ( Crown Princess of Prussia ) was celebrated with considerable rejoicing , tbe belli of the Chapel Royal , of St . George ' s , and St . John ' s Church pealing merrily at intervals throughout the day . Salutes of 21 guns were also fired from the artillery in the Long Walk , and from Fort Belvedere and the Royal Adelaide frigate , Virginia Water . Princess Frederick William

of Prussia was born on the 21 st November , 1840 . THE QUEEN ' RETURN TO WINDSOR . —Her Majesty the Queen and Princess Beatrice are expected to return to Windsor on Friday next . There was considerable rejoicing at and near Sheffield on Wedneslay , the occasion of the Duke of Norfolk's marriage , the Duke being the owner of most of

the land m the district . The parish chuich and . Catholic chapel bells were rung all day ; flags were displayed ; all the labourers of the Duke ' s tenants in Yoikshire and Derbyshire had money gifts of ten shillings for married and five shillings for single . men , and there was a dinner in the Cutlers' Hall for all tbe local employe ' s . A series of banquets for the townspeople will be given next month , when the Duke visits Sheffield .

LIVERPOOL . —In answer to the numerous letters that the publisher has received from brethren in Liverpool , wc beg to state that the Freemason is to be obtained in Liverpool on Friday afternoon at 5 o ' clock , at the office , 2 , Monument-place ; at the Masonic Hall , Hopestreet ; and at the Landing Stage . MARK MASONRY . —Bro . Matthews , the W . M . of the Lodge of Independence , Chester , has been appointed Master of the newly-formed Mark Lodge in that city .

In consequence of the Scottish Corporation Hall being burnt down , the Society of Medical Officers of Health held its meeting on Friday last in the Cannonstreet Hotel . A committee has been formed of gentlemen

residing in Sydenham and its vicinity for the purpose of recognising in some substantial form the services rendered by Bro . the Rev . Vv " . Taylor Jones , in obtaining a public recreation ground . An appeal has been issued for subscriptions in aid of thi 9 object . It is proposed that the testimonial shall be in the form of a drinking fountain .

Masonic And General Tidings.

As an instance of the unfortunate errors that will creep into print , we would refer our readers to the description of our Grand Secretary in Tuesday ' s Times . In the case of Swann v Vines our distinguished brother , who was subpoenaed as a witness by the plaintiff is described as John Henry , and is reported to have said ' that he was " Paid " instead of " Grand " Secretary .

The Prince of Wales , who is on a visit to Lord Londesborough , at Londesborough House , in the East Riding of Yorkshire , paid a visit on Wednesday to Selby , on his way to Lord Londesborough's estate at Thorpe where his Royal Highness had some capital shooting . The inhabitants of Selby had gone to some expense and trouble to give the Prince a good re-ception , but the

weather was so unfavourable that the programme had to be given up . ALEXANDRA PALACE . —The first of a series of Saturday evening Handel concerts by the Alexandra Palace choir of 1000 voices takes place this day ( Saturday ) , when the programme will consist of selections from Judas Maccabeus . The solo vocalists are Miss Annie Sinclair ,

Mr . Vernon Rigby , and Mr . Lackner . Mr . Smythson is the conductor . Air . Frederick Archer , who is the organist , will play the concerto in F major , No . 1 of set 2 . The Duke of Norfolk was married on Wednesday to Lady Flora Hastings , at the Oratory , Brompton , the presence of a distinguised assemblage . Dr . Danell , B- *> eian Catholic Bishop of Southwark , officiating . The

sotvice was choral . Amongst those present were the P-rjiioess Louise and the Marquis of Lome , the Dowager Ditehess of Norfolk , the Marquis of Bute , and Lord Btaconsfield . The newly-married pair left town early in the afternoon for Arundel Castle , the Duke ' s seat in Sussex . In our report of the " Centenary Celebration

at York , " the name of Bro . R . W . Hollon was eroncously printed " Holden . " RHYL . —We are glad to say that the newlyformed lodge at Rhyl ( the Caradoc ) is progressing satisfactorily . The membership is steadily increasing , and the lodge promises to become one of the best in the

province . The Post Office announces that a mail for al parts of Australia and New Zealand will be made up in I London on the evening of Friday , the 7 th prox ., for despatch by the steamer Lusitania , from Plymouth . A mail for the Australian and New Zealand colonies ' . will be made up for despatch by the steamship Whampoa on Saturday evening , the 24 th inst . Letters should be specially directed per Whsmpoa , ss ., via Plymouth .

The Hon . Gerald Normanby Fitzgibbon authoritatively contradicts , on his own behalf and on the part of his wife , Lady Louisa Fitzgibbon , the rumour relative to Lord Fitzgibbon having reached this country , or that there has been anything whatever heard of him by Lady Louisa Fitzgibbon ( his sister ) , or any member of the family , since the publication of the official return of

casualties at the battle of Balaklava . We regret to learn of the death in Dublin , in his 37 th year , of the Hon . Theobald Fitz .-Walter Butler , second son of Bro . the Right Hon . Lord Dunboyne , R . W . J . G . W . Grand Lodge of Ireland . Miss Knollys is still progressing steadily towards complete convalescence , though not perhaps so

rapidly as could be wished . The improvement has been delayed by no untoward symptom , but there has been shown a great want of recuperative power , doubtless the result of the very severe and prolonged illness through which Miss Knollys has passeel . According to present arrangements , Miss Knollys , still attended by Mr . Oscar Clayton , will leave Abergeldie Castle this morning ,

accompanying Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales to London . —Mtdical Examiner . The Annual Provincial Grand Lodge of Sdmerset will be held at the Shire Hall , Taunton under the banner of the Lodge of Unanimity and Sincerity , No 261 , on Monday next , the 26 th inst . THE FREEMASON ' TAVERN . —This

wellknown Masonic tavern , m Great Queen-street , having recently been taken by Bro . Alfred Best , bids lair under his spirited proprietorship to become one of the most popular establishments in London . For upwards of tbice months , ¦ under the supervision of Mr . John Pugh , Surveyor , Old Jewry , ihe interior has been undergoing a thorough renovation j a removal of all that was useless ,

with a lavish expenditure in decoration and adornment deserving of the highest praise , and warmest acknowledgments to Bro . Best for the taste and selection displayed , not only in the new appointments , but in the retention of old associations , mirrors , cabinets , sideboards , tables , etc ., that harmonised and were in keeping with the rooms . These have been re-gilt and re-polished , and are very

excellent specimens of work . The carpets , brussels and pile ¦¦—supplied by Messrs . Shoolbred—are in harmony with the decorations and furniture . Dinginess has disappeared , and old frequenters will be amazed . Imitation marbles , English and foreign , have been freely introduced with good effect , and the entrance hall , grand staircase , etc ., are well deserving of

notice . The "Crown Room" is a marvel of decoration , and tasteful elegance , and the Grand Banqueting Hall is one of the handsomest and most perfect of its kind . Here the skill and efforts of the artist have had full play , and with the most satisfactory result j the panelling of the walls having designs emblematic of the seasons , Music , Peace ,

Plenty , & c , relieved with exquisite tinting . The comp lete decorations are superb in every sense . Of the many well known attributes of the Freemasons' Tavern and _ its central position there is no need to mention . That it will in no way deteriorate in the hands of Bro . Alfred Best we are fully assured , and we wish every succes $ attendant .