Masonic And General Tidings

MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS

Bro . Sir Moses Montefiore has sent to the Lord Alayor a cheque for £ 99 for the funds of the Alansion House poor-box . The Grand Chapter of the Province of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight svill meet on Friday , the ist prox ., at the Alasonic Hall , no , High-st ., Portsmouth , at 2 . 30

p . m . The Godson Mark Lodge , named in honour of VV . Bro . A . F . Godson , the Craft D . P . G . AI . for Worcestershire , svill be consecrated at Kidderminster in February next . Hro . the Dukeof Portland celebrated his tsventyfifth birthday at Welbeck Abbey on the nth inst . by a merry gathering . Nearly three hundred persons ss-ere

present . Bro . \ V . B . Fendick svas installed W . M . of the Emblematic Lodge , No . 1321 , at the Horns Assembly Rooms , Kennington Park , on Thursday , the 17 th inst . A report svill appear next ss-eek . Bro . Lord Carnarvon , Pro G . M ., has offered the important and valuable rectory of Bingham to the Rev .

Henry White , chaplain to the Chapel Royal , Savoy , and chaplain in ordinary to the Queen , but the appointment has been declined . Bro . the Duke of St . Albans , R . W . Pros-. G . M . Nottinghamshire , presided on Saturday last at a banquet of agricultural societies in Nottingham , Lord Galsvay , Lord Belper , and several members of parliament being also

present . Bro . General Lord Wolseley lias been offered , and has accepted , thc Senior Wardenship of the Wolseley Lodge , No . 1993 , Alanchestcr , svhich svas named in honour of our distinguished brother , ancl svas consecrated in Alarch last year . Lord Wolseley svill visit the city duiing thc spring to be invested .

Hornblotton , a little village in the county of Somerset—thc parish only numbering 113 people—has the honour of possessing the first electric clock in the kingdom that has been made svith a striking apparatus . The pendulum , with the batteries svhich give the motion , are situated in the rectory , about 130 yards distant from the church , in thc tosver of svhich the main svorks arc placed .

A Masonic ball svill take place on the 7 th prox ., at Sayes Court , Deptford , under the patronage of Bro . Baron Henry dc Worms , ALP ., Bro . T . VV . Boord , ALP ., Bro . VV . G . Evelyn , F . R . G . S ., and many other gentlemen of influence . B y special permission of thc AI . W . G . AI ., Masonic Craft clothing and jesvels svill be svorn . The proceeds are to be given to thc Royal Alasonic Institution for Boys .

The Keystone says there ss * ill soon be no distinction , in location , between the corner-stone nnd the capstone , corner-stones being sometimes laid in very curious places . The Grand Master of Missouri says he granted a dispensation to lay a corner-stone " upon the top of a second story . " Our contemporary believes thc corner-stone of Washington ' s Headquarters at Valley Forge svas laid " up there somcsvhere . "

Our Portsmouth correspondent informs us , relative to a paragraph svhich appeared in the Freemason ol last sveek announcing that the Governors of thc Portsmouth Grammar School had accepted a legacy of £ 2 , 000 from a solicitor for a scholarship , svith thc condition attached that no Jcsv or son of a Freemason should be eligible for the same , is not correct . 'The Governors , a large number oi

svhom sve are glad to say arc Alasons , svill not accept the bequest on such conditions , but arc endeavouring to obtain it on different terms . On Monday afternoon thc Prince and Princess of VVales opened the newly-erected triumphal arch at the top of Constitution-hill , Hyde Park Corner . His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge , as Ranger ; thc Right Hon .

George Shasv Lefevre , ALP ., First Commissioner of Works ; and others , were present to meet their Royal Highnesses . Precisely at a quarter to tsvo the gates sverc thrown open , and the Prince and Princess of VVales drove through in an open carriage , and passed dosvn Grosvenor-place to Nine Elms Station , svhere a special train svas in waiting to convey them to Crichel House , their Royal Highnesses having arranged to spend thc sveek svith Lord and Lady Alington .

At the annual meeting of thc Liverpool Masonic Club , held at head-quarters , in Hope-street , on Friday evening , thc 1 Sth inst ., under thc chairmanship of Bro . Colonel 'Turner , P . P . G . Treas ., President , the sums of 20 guineas svere voted to the Lathom Testimonial Portrait Fund , 20 guineas to thc West Lancashire Alasonic Educational Institution , and £ 20 to the Hamer Benevolent Fund . Bro .

Colonel 'Turner svas re-elected President for thc ensuing year ; Bro . G . Alorgan , P . AI . 1 , 035 , Vice-President ; Bro . J . T . Callosv , P . P . G . 'Treas ., Sec ; Bro . G . Broadbridge , P . P . G . D . C , Treas . ; and Bros , Dr . J . Kellett-Smith , P . P . G . R ., H . H . Smith , P . M . 1 , 505 , and J . Beesley , P . AI . S 23 , svere chosen members of the Club Committee . We are glad to note that a more liberal rendering is given by many leaders in the Craft to the so-called physical qualification test . The thing is really a remnant of barbarism . The idea that a man deprived of an eye is

unfit to participate in our mysteries , or that a Brother who has broken his nose or lost a tooth cannot proceed , is a little " too-too . " Actually one brotherwrites that somebody worked svell although he only had one arm . Mother of mysteries ! svhy shouldn ' t he ? Is a man to turn fool , have softening of the brain , or lose his intellect because a cannonball carries off a leg or an arm ? To hear these " stiict

iron-clad physical disqualificationists discant , one svould suppose that the chopping off of a toe instantaneously produced paralysis of the intellect . The sooner Alasons learn to test their svork by the square of virtue , and less by the perfections of the physical man , the better svill it be for Freemasonry . We fancy the Supreme Grand Master will never keep a man out of His Grand Lodge because he is minus a finger or an ear . Those who are fit for Him should not be rejected by us .- 'Masonic Chronicle , U . S . A .

Masonic And General Tidings

Bro . Alderman Sir H . E . Knight has forsvarded a donation of tsventy guineas to the nesv building fund of the City of London College . H . R . H . the Duke of Albany last sveek paid a visit to the City to inspect Bro . Sir John Bennett ' s collection of clocks , from svhich he svas pleased to make a selection for her Alajesty the Oueen .

Bro . the Right Hon . Lord Egerton of Tatton , R . W . P . G . M . M . M . Cheshire , consecrated a new Mark Lodge called the Sincerity Lodge , at Northsvich , last sveek , and Bro . T . E . Skidmore svas aftersvards installed W . AL A report svill appear in our next .

Mr . Bancroft presided at the second annual meeting of the Actors' Benevolent Fund , svhich svas held on the stage of the Lyceum Theatre . It svas reported that the number of applications last year increased to G 12 . The subscriptions reached £ i 6 oS , and £ 555 svas derived from a benefit at Drury-lane Theatre .

At the installation meeting of the Prudent Brethren Lodge , No 145 , at Freemasons' Hall on Tuesday , Bro . Reid svas installed as Alaster by his predecessor , Bro . W . D . Kerrell . Relief svas granted to a distressed brother , and a gold Past Master ' s jesvel was presented to the outgoing Alaster . We call the attention of our readers svho are

seeking a good source of ins-estment to an announcement in another column of the issue of £ 200 , 000 Debenture Stock by the Corporation of the flourishing Yorkshire tosvn of Aliddlesbrough . The lists svill be shortly closed , and sve understand the Stock is being rapidly taken up . A " smart " scoundrel tried recently to lighten his sentence in a Philadelphia court by makinir an

ostentatious display of a Alasonic emblem , but the judge svas equal to the emergency , and gave the culprit the full benefit of the lasv , together svith a svholesome rebuke for disgracing the emblem , saying , " If you svere a good Alason you svould not be hereto-day . " —Keystone , A Masonic ball in aid of the Charities will take

place at Southport on Friday next , the ist February , under thc distinguished patronage of the Rt . Hon . the Earl of Lathom , Deputy Grand Alaster , R . W . Prov . G . AL West Lancashire ; Col . Lc Gendre N . Starkie , R . W . Prov . G . AL West Lancashire ; Col . Stanley , VV . Deputy P . G . AI . West Lancashire ; and other brethren of high Alasonic rank .

At a mcelingof the council of the Hospital Sunday Fund held at the Alansion House on Alonday , the Distribution Committee , consisting of Bros , the Lord Alayor , Sir Sydney Waterlosv , Bart ., ALP ., and J . D . Allcroft , and Sir W . McArthur , ALP ., Air . Thomson Hankey , ALP .,

Air . S . Morley , ALP ., Dr . Sedgwick Saunders , Air . Jervoisc Smith , and Air . A . Willett was appointed . Vacancies on the Central Purposes Committee were filled by the appointment of Bro . Alderman Sir R . Hanson , Alajor Ross , and the Rev . Dr . Sadler .

Mr . Henry Hucks Gibbs , of Aldenham House Watford , has signified his intention of undertaking at his sole expense the costly svork of restoring the high altar screen at St . Albans Abbey , svhich has for a long time been in a defective condition . Sir Edmund Becket has displayed an even greater munificence in regard to thc restoration ? of thc nave and svest front . After his restoration of the

south front , svhich is nosv in progress , it is the intention of the hon . baronet to proceed svith the removal of the roof of thc north aisle , and to restore it to its original high pitch . After that the condition of the roof of thc south transept svill receive attention . The follosving arc the dinners , & c , held at thc Freemasons' Tavern during the present sveek : —Alonday , Jan . 21 st—Rose Lodge ( Ball ) , Grand Alasters Lodge (

Installation ) , Royal Albert Lodge . Caledonian Society ' s Stesvards , Alount Aloriah Lodge Audit , Furniture Brokers' Festival . Tuesday , 22 nd—Royal Savoy Lodge , 'Tuscan Lodsje , Lodge of Industry , Lodgeof Prudent Brethren , Urban Lodge Audit . Wednesday , 23 rd—Lodge of Antiquity . Thursday , 24 th—London Ross-shire ( Ball ) , St . George ' s Chapter , Grenadiers ' Lodge , Alount Aloriah Lodge , Polish Chapter . Friday , 25 th —Caledonian Society Festival . Jerusalem Lodge , Peace and Harmony Lodge . Saturday , 26 th—Stella Cricket Club

( Ball ) . A mcelingof the Prince Leopold Lodge of Instruction , No . 1445 , svill be held in Bro . Alyers ' s Printing Works , 202 , Whitechapel Road , on Alonday next , the 2 Sth Inst , at 7 . 0 p . m . punctually , on svhich occasion the Fifteen Sections svill be svorked by the follosving brethren : — Bros . VVm . Alusto , P . M . 1349 , W . AL ; B . Cundick , P . M .

1 . 121 , S . W . ; VV . McDonald . W . AL 1445 , J . VV . ; VV . H . Alyers , P . AI . 1445 , LP . AL First Lecture—1 st Section , Bros . Seymour-Clarke , S . D . 1445 ; 2 nd , Kiinbcll , J . W . 1445 ; 3 rd , Hirst , 130 O ; 4 th , C . Robson , 9 60 ; 5 th , West , J . D . 933 ; Gth , Pavitt , S . W . 8 G 0 ; 7 th , AIcDonald , W . AL 1445 . Second Lecture—ist Section , Bros . Dale , 933 ; 2 nd , B . Cundick , P . AL 1421 ; 3 rd , Alusto , jun ., S . D . 1340 ; 4 th ,

Richardson , 174 ; 5 th , Alyers , P . AL 1445 . 'Third Lecture—ist Section , Bros . Hopkins , 749 ; 2 nd , Job , P . AL 1076 ; 3 rd , Stephens , S . VV . 1 G 23 . Bro . Toombs , 1445 , is Stesvard , and Bro . J . Robson , S . W . 1445 , Secretary . Experts in chemistry have estimated that thc cost of London ' s svinter smoke and fog is 25 , 000 , 000 dollars annually ; that is to say , constituents of heat to this value

escape unconsumed , and assist in forming the sooty vapour . Nosv , 23 , 000 , 000 dollars , say £ 5 , , 000 sterling , represents , at ten shillings per ton , say 10 , 000 , 000 tons of coal , whicii svould give to every one of the 5 , 000 , 000 inhabitants of London tsvo tons per annum , and to each family of five persons ten tons per annum—a pretty liberal suppl y of itself , merely for domestic purposes . Of the tsvo valuable

ingredients of coal for producing heat , carbon and hydrogen , the latter can never escape complete combustion in any ordinary grate or furnace . The result of its combustion is water , svhich at the temperature of the fire is in the form of steam , and at the chimney-top , or at a very short distance above , svatery vapour . A very small quantity of carbon , in the form of an inpalpable posvder , goes off with the mixture

of carbon dioxide , nitrogen , watery vapour , and atmospheric air , called smoke , and gives to this mixture , by diffusion throughout its volume , a dingy colour , quite dark , in masses of considerable thickness . The proportion which this unburned carbon bears to the coal from svhich it is derived is , hosvever , vcry small . It would appear that not far from one-sixth of one per cent , of the carbon of the coal consumed escapes unburned . —Sanitary Engineer ,

Masonic And General Tidings

The Prince of Wales has gii / en a donation of 50 guineas tosvards the funds of the School of Dramatic Art . The debt on the Masonic Temple in Boston has been nearly extinguished . In Nesv York it svas the Temple that svas in danger of being extinguished . — illicit Herald . From the replies received from volunteer commanding officers to the suggestion of the Duke of

Cambrige that , instead of the usual Easter Alonday Reviesv at Brighton the volunteers should be brigaded svith the regular troops at Aldershot , Portsmouth , and Dover , the general opinion appears to favour a continuance of the old form of one large ceviesv . The Standard's Nesv York correspondent is

responsible for the statement that the remains of Bro . Captain Webb , Neptune Lodge , No . 22 , svere found to be so decomposed svhen an attempt svas made ta remove them from their temporary grave , that their final interment at Oaksvood Cemetery , near the Niagara Suspension Bridge , svas resolved upon ; the funeral taking place svith Alasonic

ceremonies . The Citizen states that H . R . H . the Prince of VVales is interesting himself in a movement under svhich Sir Edmund Johnson and other gentlemen have taken a large site in Limehouse , near the West India Docks , for the purpose of assisting the poor in that district . The idea is to establish a kitchen on a large scale , cook dinners for

the labouring classes , and send out the food in carts to the homes and places of svork of those it is intended to help . The svill of the late Sir William Siemens has beep proved , the gross value of the personal estate in the United Kingdom being ssvorn at £ 382 , 423 . Amongst other bequests are £ 2000 to the German Hospital , Dalston ; and £ 1000 each to the German Societv for Benevolence , the

Tunbridge Wells Infirmary , the Scientific Relief Fund of the Royal Society , thc Benevolent Fund ofthe Institution of Civil Engineers , and the Pension Fund of Siemens Brothers and Co . ( Limited ) . The Secretary of the Brixton Lodge of Instruction , No . 1949 , informs us that VV . Bro . James Terry , P . P . G . W . Norths and Hunts , & c , Secretary of the

Royal Alasonic Benevolent Institution , svill be present at the regular meeting of the lodge , on Tuesday evening next , the 29 th inst ., at the Prince Regent Hotel , Dulsvich-road , East Brixton . Bro . Terry has kindly promised to rehearse the ceremony of installation . Lodge svill be opened at 8 p . m . prompt , and the early attendance of the brethren is solicited . Masonic clothing svill be svorn .

Speaking of thc late Bro . Dr . Edtiard Lasker , the ' Jewish Chronicle says "One fact connected with Lasker ' s stay in England svill be specially interesting to Freemasons . On thc register of the "Tranquillity" Lodge ( one of the so-called Jesvish Lodges ot London ) there is an entry , under date of February iSth , 18 5 0 , of the initiation of " Eduard Lasker , Alerchant , 33 , Cloudslcy Street , Islington

, proposed by Maximilian l-askcr . " 1 le svas " passed " in the following month . All thc officers of thc I-odgc at thc time svere Jesvs . " A handsome headstone has just been erected in Nunhead Cemetery over thc grave stone of the late Bro . John Allen P . AL 1706 , 192 S . Thc inscription , svhich is as ollosvs , is surmounted by a circle wreathed sviih acacia sprigs , antl containing the square and compasses : —* ' In

Memoriam John Allen , many years Sub-editor of The Morning Post . Departed this life on the 4 th January , 1 SS 3 , in his sixtieth year . This stone was erected as a token of the high esteem in svhich he svas held by his brother Freemasons , members of the Orpheus Lodge No . 170 G and of the Gallery Lodge No . 1928 . He svas one of the founders of thc former and first LP . AL of the latter . ' 'The ssveet remembrance of

thc just shall flourish svhen he sleeps in dust . '" Some consternation has been felt amongst those interested gentlemen svho cry for the destruction of old Dukes that they may profit b y the construction of nesv Dukes , from the fact that the Queen has been impressed with the scandal that the statue of the Duke of Wellington is left as lumber near Hyde Park Corner , A corrcsuondcnce .

b y Her Alajesty ' s command , is proceeding with the Board of Works , intimating a desire that Mr . Lefevre and Air . Bertie Mitford svill either remove it or set it up near svhere it now remains , on a proper pedestal . Public opinion svill fully support Her Majesty ' s protest against the conspiracy of which our greatest modern general has been thc subject . —Broad A rrow .

1 here is on vicsv at the Canadian Government Offices a vertical section , 5 feet 2 inches thick , of a scam of coal that is being svorked on the Belly River by the North-Western Coal and Navigation Company . It is svhat is knosvn as hard , dry , bituminous coal , very much resembles Welsh anthracite , makes little smoke , and leaves but a small quantity of cinder . 'The coal from this district is

undoubtedly the best that has yet been discovered in thc Canadian North-West ; it stands exposure , travels svell , and is suitable both for domestic and steam purposes . Upon the opening of the North-West 'Territory , fears svere expressed that the settlement of the country svould be difficult , osving to the limited supply of svood in the fertile belt , but the discovery of this immense coal-field has entirely

disposed of the matter , and it is quite expected that next year coal will be supplied to Winni peg and the tosvns along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway at as cheap a rate as that which prevails in Toronto and in the other eastern cities of the Dominion . It is intended to connect the mines b y a branch line svith the Canadian Pacific Railway at Aledicine Hat , and the necessary powers will be applied for

in the next Session of the Canadian Parliament . The line when made must , in addition to the coal traffic , do a considerable local traffic , as it will open up the district now becoming so svell known in connection with cattle ranching . The railsva y is likel y also to be used largely for the transport of cattle raised in the neighbouring portions of the United States to the Atlantic ports .

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no equals Hollosvay ' s its ability to remove all complaints incidental to the human race . They are a blessing to the afflicted , and a boon to all that labour under internal or external disease . The purification of the blood , removal of all restraint from the secretive organs , and gentle aperitive action are the prolific sources of the extensive curatli-c range of Hullowav'i Fills , —[ ADVT , ] ' '