Notes On Art.

Notes on Art .

ACCORDING TO THE FRENCH CENSUS OF iS / O the foreigners resident in France numbered 801 , 700 , of whom 30 , 000 were English , lt is cuiious to note the occupations of the French people , of whom 18 , 968 , 000 , or 33 per cent ., are engaged in agriculture , 9 , 274 , , or 26 per cent , in manufacturing and similar industries , 3 , 8 37 , or 14 per cent ., in trade , and 1 , 231 , 000 , or 4 per cent ., in

liberal professions . Of the agricultural population , 10 , 620 , 000 , cultivated their own property , 5 , 708 , 000 , were farmers , and 2 , 6 39 , 000 labourers and gardeneis . DIAMOND LACE has been the most fashionable New Year ' s gift among Transatlantic millionaires this season . The lace is an imitation of old point , made in the finest filigree silver , with diamonds set in the pattern , and

costs £ 1 , 000 per yard . A set of lace consists of three pieces , about 4 m . long . Diamonds just now , however , are not as fashionable as usual in America , as they have dcclir . ed in price , and pearls have taken their place . Intelligence has been received that Professor Nordei ? skjulil ' s steamer " Vega , " engaged in Arctic exploration , is ice-bound on the Siberian coast . The writer of " New Solutions of Homeric

Problems , " in The Month , contends , in a carefully written paper on the Structure of the Iliad , against the views of Grote and Professor Geddes , and pleads that— " The man who could compose the Iliad must have been very much more than a mete adapter of old materials—must have been , in fact , very much what the popular conception supposes Homer to have been . "

Ihe Paris stage during the past year is stated by a French critic to have been particularly unproductive in the way of novelties . Managers depended mainly on the revival of old successes during the Exhibition , and only cigty-three new pieces were brought out at the twenty-two principal Paris theatres during 1878 . The Gymnase heads the lis-s with nine new productions , the Opera and the

Theatre Francais only brought out two novelties apiece , the Opera Comique five , the lively little Palais Royal anel the Ode-oil each produced eight , the Varieties and the Vaudeville respectively four and three , and the Gaite only one new work . The theatres are making up for lost time this ycur , however . M . Lecocq's latest production , " Le

Giand Casimir , " is to be played this week at the Varieties , and the same composer has another piece ready fcr the Renaissance-, " La Petite Mademoiselle . " while MM . Erckniann-Chatrian will produce a drama at the Gaitd this spring . —La Guerre . T IIK P ARIS L UXEMBOURG has been rinsed for

several weeks for the annual alteration of the pictures . Kven paintings—including Rosa Bonheur's "Haymaking " —have been taken down and added to the reserve collection of the Louvre , their place being filled by a similar number of works bought by the Government at recent Salons . Six fresh pieces of statuary have been added to the Sculpture Room—M . Aime' Millet ' s "Cassandra" being

amongst the addition ; . There has been an eruption of mud at Salinella , at the foot of Mount Etna , which is regarded as an epilogue to numerous shocks of earthquake recently felt in Catania . Several craters were formed , which discharged torrents

of thick and heated mud propelled by gases formed of carbonic acid , hy drogen , carbon , carburetted hydrogen , and sulphuric acid . Particles of hydro—carburets , constituting a kind of petroleum , were also observed . A smoking lake of increasing dimensions has also been formed .

Metropolitan Masonic Meetings

METROPOLITAN MASONIC MEETINGS

Foi the Week ending Friday , January 31 , 1879 . The Editor will be glad to receive notice from Secretaries ofCraft Lodges , Royal Arch Chapters , Mark Lodges , Encampments , Conclaves , & c , of any change in place , day , or months of meeting .

SATURDAY , JANUARY 2 $ . Board of Stewards R . M . B . I ., at 4 . Audit Cum ., Boys' School . Lodge 1293 , Burdett , Mitre Hut ., Hampton ct . 1 . 1 297 . W ( - ' st Kcnt > forest Hill Hot .,

„ 1672 , Henry Muggcrnlge , Pnnce George , Park-rd . E . „ 1706 , Orpheus , F . M . H . Chap . 1329 , Sphinx , S . M . H . Camberwell . Red Cros Con . 6 , Roman Kagle , Anderton ' s Hot ., Flect-st

LODGES OP INSTRUCTION . Lily , Greyhound , Richmond . Manchester , 77 , London-st ., Fitzroy-sq . Star , Marquis of Granby , New Cross-rd . Eccleston , King's Head , Ebury Bridge , Pimlico . Percy , 115 , Southgate-road , N . MONDAY , JANUARY 27 . Lodge 4 , U . Somerset Ho . and Inverness , F . M . H . „ 28 , Old King ' s Arms , F . M . H .

,. 79 , Pythagorean , Ship Hot ., Greenwich . „ 183 , Unity , Ship and Turtle , Leadenhall-st . „ 902 , llurgoyne , Anderton ' s Hot ., Fleet-st . „ 1 ) 03 , De Grey and Ripon , F . M . H . 1608 , Kilburn , Queen ' s Aims Hot ., Kilburn-Gate .

„ 1615 , Bayard , 33 , Golden-sq . W . „ ifM _ i , Stuart , Surrey M . H . Camberwell . „ 1 745 , Farringdon Without , Viaduct Hot ., Holborn . Chap . 21 , Hubert Burns , F . M . V 1 . ,, iSS , Joppa , Albion Tav ., Aldersgate-st . „ 1 201 , lCcleclic , F . M . H . Mail ; Lodge- 3 , . Mallet and Chisel , Bridge House Hot . L 01 ' : s or INSTRUCTION . Wellington , \ Vhil' . .. tn Hot ., High-st ., Deptford .

Metropolitan Masonic Meetings

St . JJohn , Gun Hot ., ^ Wapping , 8 till 10 . Prince Leopold , Lord Stanley Tav ., Kingsland . Strong Man , Old Rodney ' s Head , Old-st ., E . Sincerity , Railway Tav ., Fenchurch-st . Station . Camden , 174 , High-st ., Camden Town , at 8 . Tredegar , Royal Hot ., Mile-end-road . St . James ' s Union , Union Tav ., Air-st .

Perfect Ashlar , Victoria Tav ., Lower-rd ., Rotherhithe . Upper Norwood , White Hart Hot ., Church-rd . Marquis of Ripon , Pembury Tav ., Amherst-rd ., Hackney . Loughborough , Warrior Hot ., Brixton . West Smithfield , New Market Hot ., West Smithfield . St . George's , Globe Tav ., Greenwich . Doric Chapter , 248 , Globe-rd ., Mile End-rd ., at 8 .

TUESDAY , JANUARY 28 . Lodge 14 , Tuscan , F . M . H . „ 92 , Moira , The Criterion , Piccadilly . „ 141 , Faith , Anderton ' s Hot ., Fleet-st . „ 145 , Prudent Brethren , F . M . H . ,, 165 , Honour and Generosity , Inns of Court Hot . ,, 186 , Industry , M . H ., Basinghall-st . „ 20 s , Israel , Cannon-st . Hot .

„ 1348 , Ebury , 12 , Ponsonby-st ., Millbank . „ 1 744 , Royal Savoy , Ashley ' s Hot ., Covent Garden . Chap . 2 i , Cyrus , Ship and Turtle , Leadenhall-st . „ 228 , United Strength , Guildhall Tav . „ 126 9 , Stanhope , Thicket Hot ., Anerley . „ 1275 , Star , Ship Hot ., Greenwich . „ 1339 , Stockwell , Crystal Palace . Rose Croix Chapter , Palestine , 35 , Golden-sq .

LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . Metropolitan , 269 , Pentonville-rd . Yarborough , Green Dragon , Stepney . Domatic , Surrey M . H ., Camberwell New-road . Faith , 2 , Westminster Chambers , Victoria-st . Prince Fredk . Wm ., Lord's Hot ., St . John's Wood . Prosperity , Hercules Tav ., Leadenhall-st .

Dalhousie , The Sisters' Tav ., Pownall-rd ., E . Florence Nightingale , F . M . H ., William-st ., Woolwich . Constitutional , Bedford Hot ., Southampton Bdgs ., at 7 . Israel , Rising Sun Tav ., Globe Road . Royal Arthur , Prince ' s Head , York-road , Battersea . Beacontree , Red Lion , Leytonstone . Excelsior , Commercial Dock Tav ., Rotherhithe . St . John of Wapping , Gu 1 Hot ., High-st ., Wapping .

Islington , Three Bucks , 23 , Gresham-st ., at 7 p . m . Leopold , Woolpack Tavern , Bermondsey-st . Metropolitan Chapter , Jamaica Coffee Ho ., Cornhiil . Mount Edgcumbe , 19 , Jermyn-st ., St . James's . Sir Hugh Myddelton , 162 , St . fohn ' s-st .-rd . WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 29 . Lodge 8 9 8 , Temperance-in-the-East , 6 , Newby-pl ., Poplar . „ 176 S , Progress , F . M . H . Chap . 435 , Mount Lebanon , Ship & Turtle , Leadenhall-st .

LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . Confidence , Railway Tavern , Fenchurch-st ., at 7 till 9 . Urban , 23 , Gresham-street , City , E . G ., at 6 . 30 . New Concord , Jolly Farmers , Southgate-rd ., N . Mt . Lebanon , Horse Shoe Tav ., Stones-End , E . Pythagorean , Portland Hot ., London-st ., Greenwich . La Tolerance , 2 , Maddox-st ., W ., at 7 . 4 s .

Peckham , Maismore Arms , Park-road , Peckham . Stanhope , Thicket Hot ., Anerley . Finsbury Park , Earl Russell , Isledon-road , Holloway , at 8 . Southwark , Southwark Park Tav ., Southwark Park . Duke of Connaught , Havelock Tav ., Dalston , E . Duke of Connaught , Fauuce Arms , Faunce-pl , Kenngtnat 8 .

United Strength , Hope and Anchor , Crowndale-id , N . W . Whittington , Red Lion , Poppin ' s-court , Fleet-st ., at 8 . Lewis , King ' s Arms Hot ., Wood Green . Royal Jubilee , 81 , Long Acre . Langthorne , Swan Hot ., Stratford . Temperance in theEast . George the 4 th , Ida-st ., Poplar , 7 . 30 .

THURSDAY , JANUARY 30 . Gen . Com . Girls' School , at 4 . Lodge 1524 , Duke of Connaught , Havelock Tav ., E . LODGES OP INSTRUCTION . Union Waterloo , Chatham Arms , Thomas-st ., Woolwich . Egyptian , Hercules Tav ., Leadenhall-st . Fidelity , Yorkshire Grey , London-st ., W .

Fii . sbury , Jolly Anglers' Tav ., Bath-st ., City-road . Ebury , 12 , Ponsonby-st ., Millbank . Highgate , Bull and Gate , Kentish-town . The Great City , M . H ., Masons' Avenue . High Cross , Coach & Horses , High-road , Tottenham . Salisbury , Union Tav ., Air-st ., Regent-st .

Southern Star , Crown Hot ., Blackfriars-rd . Great Northern , Berwick Arms , Berners-st ., Oxford-st . Rose , Walmer Castle Hot ., Peckham-road , at 8 . Covent Garden , Ashley ' s Hot ., Covent Garden , at 8 . Prince Frederick William Chapter , St . John ' s Wood . Crusaders , St . John's Gate , Cletkenwell , at 9 .

FRIDAY , JANUARY 31 . K . T . 26 , Faith and Fidelity , Cannon-st . Hot . LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . London Masonic Club , 101 , Queen Victoria-st ., E . C . Stability , Guildhall Tav ., Gresham-st ., 6 to 8 p . m . Robert Burns , Union Tav ., Air-st ., Regent-st . Belgrave , Harp Tav ., Jermyn-st ., W .

Unions Emulation ( for 'M . M . 's ) , F . M . H . Temperance , Victoria Tav ., Victoria-road , Deptford . Metropolitan , Portugal Hot ., Fleet-st ., at 7 . St . Marylebome , British Stores Tav ., St . John's Wood . Westbourne , Lord ' s Hotel , St . John ' s Wood . United Pilgrims , Surrey M . H ., Camberwell New-road . St . James's , Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-road , S . E .

Duke of Edinburgh , Silver Lion , Penny-fields , Poplar . Doric , 79 , Whitechapel-road , at 8 . Burgoyne , The Red Cap , Camden Town , N . W . St . Luke's , White Hart , King ' s-rd ., Chelsea . Chigwell , Prince ' s Hall , Buckhurst-hill . Royal Standard , The Alwyne Castle , St . Paul ' s-rd ., N . Ranelagh , Bell and Anchor , Hammersmith-id .

Metropolitan Masonic Meetings

Finsbury Park , Earl Russell , Isledon-road , Holloway , at 8 . William Preston , FeathersTav ., Up . George-st ., Edgware-rd . Hervey , 99 , Fleet-street , at 8 . Earl of Carnarvon , Mitre Hot ., Goulbourne-rd ., Notting-hill . Pythagorean Chapter , Portland Hot . London-st ., Greenwich .

Masonic Meetings In West Lancashire And Cheshire.

MASONIC MEETINGS IN WEST LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE .

For the Week ending Saturday , February 1 , 1879 . MONDAY , JANUARY 27 . Lodge 148 , Lights , M . R ., Warrington . Chap . 241 , Friendship , M . H ., Liverpool . Derby L . of I ., M . H ., Liverpool .

TUESDAY JANUARY , 28 . Lodge 1609 , Dramatic , M . H ., Liverpool . „ 1675 , Antient Briton , M . H ., Liverpool . Chap . 1094 , Temple , M . H ., Liverpool . Merchants L . of I ., M . H ., Liverpool . Prince Arthur L . of I ., 80 , N . Hill-st ., Liverpool . WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 29 . Lodge 730 , Ellesmere , Royal Oak Hot ., Chorley .

THURSDAY , JANUARY 30 . Lodge 1313 , Fermor , M . H ., Southport . Mariners L . of I ., M . H ., Liverpool . I | For Masonic Meetings throughout Scotland see Scottish Freemason , which can be obtained at the Office of this paper , 198 , Fleet-street , London .

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