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op inion is , that no brother can be elected to fill the chair of R . W . M ., unless he has filled that of either the S . W . or J . W . I shall be glad that either yourself or any of your correspondents will give me their opinion on this subject . Another matter I wish to

submit . In thc event of a brother being a candidate for the chair , is he entitled to be the proposer of another for the chair ; and in the event of that other member being second highest in the vote , is the proposer entitled to resign and allow his own friend to get the election ? RUSTICUS .

AN APPEAL . ( To the Editor of The Freemason ) . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —Allow- me , through the medium of your very valuable paper , to call thc attention of the brethren to the case of the child Jane Pertwee Pattison , who now applies for the second time as a candidate for the Institution .

I venture to affirm there are few cases so well deserving the sympathies of the subscribers , and am convinced that were relative claims of the different applications submitted to impartial judgement , the uncommon merits of the case which I advocate could not fail to make themselves

conspicuous . John Pattison , the father of the child , then a gentleman of affluent circumstances , was initiated in the Angel Lodge , No . 51 , Colchester , in 1835 , and continued a subscribing member for a period of 33 years , during which time he served all the

offices and eventually was installed W . M . in 1843 . He was then appointed P . G . Treasurer for Essex , which post he honorably held for several years . Positions such as these imply an expenditure of a considerable sum for the benefit of the Craft . Indeed , the fact is well-known in the province ,

that none asked of him in vain , and he always gave freely . But affliction came , two years' suffering from softening of the brain , and he was called to rest , in 1869 , leaving a wife and four little children totally unprovided for . I hope a case like this , where the father of the child has been so practically

useful to , and has taken so active an interest in , the Craft , for a long series of years , will recommend itself to the earnest consideration of the brethren , and any further information will be gladly supplied by Yours fraternally ,

N . GLUCKSTEIN , 141 , P . M . 51 , P . P . S . G . W . Essex . 6 , Minerva-terrace , Brixton-road , S . W . P . S . —Any votes will be thankfully received , as they can be exchanged .

( To the Editor of The Freemason . ) DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I thank you sincerely for your kindness in inserting my appeal on behalf of thc paralysed widow of Bro . Charles Buswell , P . M . of Industry Lodge , 186 .

Will you kindly allow mc to announce that the following subscriptions have been received , and also to hope that the Craft will not overlook this lamentable case : —Proceeds of Concert at Wood-Green , 12 s . ; J . O . ( 861 ) . 10 s . ; W . G ., 5 s . ; J . B . S . ( 538 ) , Ss .

I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , JESSE OWENS , Finsbury Lodge , 861 . 40 , Vorley-road , Junction-road , Upper Holloway .

MASONIC STATIONERY is supplied advantageously by Bro . T . IJEEDI . E , High-street , Weston-super-Mare , Somerset , who executes Relief and Cameo stamping on his own premises . ISro . Becdle ' s Steel Pen is a really good pen , and he sends 12 dozen , per pott , for twenty stamps . —[ Advt . ]

HOLLOWAY ' S OINTMENT AND PILLS . —No False Security . —The diseases threatened by the blighting winds and ever recurrent storms can only be safely met by early and reliable remedies . The treatment invented by Professor Holloway possesses every merit that can he desirable in a medicine for the household . Thev are alike

available for youth , maturity , and age , they extract from the blood and body all that is effete or harmful , they check all irregular or disordered action , and substitute pure blood , from which alone a sound structure can be formed or maintained . Stitches , pains its the side , shortness of breath , palpitation , bronchitis , cironic cough , sore throats , and dipthcrta arc reduced witVin the limits of

safety by these remedies , used according to thc directions . - [ Advt . ] THE BLOOD PURIFIER . —Old Dr . Jacob Townsend ' s Sarsaparilla . Other Medical Testimony .-- -In speaking of the " ISlood Purifier , " old Dr . Jacob Townsend ' s Sarsaparilla , G . C . Kcrnott , M . D ., L . S . A . Loud ., says : "I strongly recommend it in cutaneous diseases and all

impurities of the blood . ' March 24 , 1 S 69 . —In a letter to the proprietors ,, June 6 , 1 S 69 , Dr . Irvine , of Irvine ' s-town , says : " I have been in the habit of ordering your Sarsaparilla for my patients with the best results . Send me six quarts and six mammoth bottles . "—For all skin diseases , for purifying lhe system of mercurial poisons , and building up the broken constitution it is the only safe and certain

remedy . In bottles 2 s . 6 d ., 4 s ., 4 s . 6 d ., 7 s . 6 d ., 11 s . Sold by all Druggists . Pills and Ointment each in boxes , is . Ij ^ d ., 2 s . gd ., 4 s . 6 d . Testimonials also from the Hon . the Dean of Lismore ; General William Gilbert , of the Indian Army ; ordered also by Apothecaries' Hall , London . Caution—Get thc red and blue wrappers , with the old Doctgr ' s head in the centre . No other genuine .

Metropolitan Masonic Meetings

METROPOLITAN MASONIC MEETINGS

For the Week ending April 2 , 1870 . MONDAY , MARCH 28 . Lodge 4 , Royal Somerset House and Inverness , Freemasons' Hall . ,, 26 , Castle of Harmony , Willis ' s Rooms , Kingstreet , St . James s .

,, 28 , Old King s Arms , Freemasons Hall . >> 79 > Pythagorean , Ship Hotel , Greenwich . ,, 1 S 1 , Universal , Freemasons' Hall .

,, 1 S 3 , Unity , London Tavern , Bishopsgatc-strcct . ,, S 31 , British Oak , Bank of Friendship Tavern , Bancroft-place , Mile-end . ,, 902 , Burgoyne , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street . Chap . 25 , Robert Bums , Freemasons' Hall . Kent Mark Masters' Lodge of Instruction , Lyceum Tav .,

354 , Strand , at 7 . 30 ; Bro . C . Swan , Preceptor . Sincerity Lodge of Instruction ( 174 ) , Railway Tavern , Fenchurch-street Station , at 7 . Wellington Lodge of Instruction , White Swan Tavern , Deptford , at S . Camden Lodge of Instruction ( 704 ) , Adelaide Tavern , Haverstock-hill , at 8 ; Bro . T . A . Adams , Preceptor . Eastern Star Lodge of Instruction ( 95 ) , Royal Hotel ,

Mileend-road , at 7 . 30 ; Bro . E . Gottheil , Preceptor . British Oak Lodge of Instrnction , Bank of Friendship Tavern , Mile End , at 7 for 8 .

IUESDAY , MARCH 29 . Audit Committee Girls' School , at 2 . 30 . Lodge 141 , Faith , Anderton's Hotel , Fleet-street . Metropolitan Chapter of Instruction , George Hotel , Aldermanbury , at 7 ; Comp . Brett , Preceptor .

Domatic Lodgeof Instruction , Palnierstoii'lav ., Grosvenorpark , Camberwell , at 7 . 30 . Royal Union Lodge of Instruction ( 382 ) , Hotel de Cologne , 60 and 61 , Haymarket , at 8 ; Bro . T . A . Adams , Preceptor . Faith Lodgeof Instruction , Metropolitan Railway , Victoria

Station , at S ; Bro . C . A . Cottebrune , Preceptor . Yarborough Lodgeof Instruction , Green Dragon , Stepney , at S ; Bro . Isaac Saqui , Preceptor . Prince Fredk . William Lodge of Instruction ( 753 ) Knights of St . John ' s Tavern , St . John's-wood ; Bro . F . G . Baker , Preceptor . Prestonian Club of Instruction ( for M . M . ' s only ) , Lyceum Tavern , Strand .

WEDNESDAY , MARCH 30 . Festival of the Royal Mnsonic Institution for Boys ( see advertisement ) . Lodge 898 , Temperance in the East , private Assembly Rooms , Newby-place , Poplar . Pythagorean Lodge of Instruction ( 79 ) , Prince of Orange , Greenwich , at 8 .

United Strength Lodge of Instruction ( 228 ) , Bull & Gate , Kentish Town-road , at 8 ; Bro . J . N . Frost , Preceptor . Israel Lodge of Instruction , Rising Sun Tavern , Globeroad , at 7 . 30 ; Bro . Isaac Saqui , Preceptor . Confidence Lodge of Instruction ( 193 ) , Railway Tavern , Railway-place , Fenchurch-street , at 7 . Strong Man Lodge of Instruction , The Grapes Tavern ,

Duke-street , Manchester-square , at S ; Bro . T . A . Adams , P . G . P ., Preceptor . New Concord Lodge of Instruction , Rosemary Branch Tavern , lloxton , at 8 ; Bro . C . II . Pedler , Preceptor . Sydney Lodge of Instruction ( S 29 ) , Cambridge Hotel , Upper Norwood , at 7 . 30 . Peckham Lodge of Instruction , Maismore Arms , Parkroad , Peckham ; Bro . David Rose , Preceptor .

THURSDAY , MARCH 31 . General Committee of the Girls' School , at Freemasons ' Hall , at 4 . Chapter of Prudent Brethren , public night for R . A . Masons ( see advertisement ) , Lo . lge 22 , Neptune , Radley ' s Hotel , Blackfriars . Fidelity Lodge of Instruction ( 3 ) , Goat and Compasses , Euston-road , at S ; Bro . T . A . Adams , Preceptor .

Finsbury Club of Instruction , Jolly Anglers Tavern , 42 , Bath-street , City-road . United Mariners' Bodge of Instruction , Three Cranes , Milc-end-road , at 8 ; Bro . T . J . Barnes , Preceptor . St . George ' s Lodgeof Instruction ( 140 ) , Globe Tavern , Royal Hill , Greenwich , at S . Burdett Coutts Lodge of instruction ( 127 S ) , Approach Tavern , Approach-road , Victoria-park , at 7 . 30 ; Bro . J . Terrv , Preceptor .

FRIDAY , APRIL I . Lodge 890 , Hornsey , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street , ,, 1275 , Star , Marquis of Granby Tav ., New-cross-rd . Chap . 259 , Prince of Wales , Willis' Rooms , St . James ' s . St . Luke ' s Lodge of Instruction ( 144 ) , Pier Htl ., Chelsea . Stability Lodge of Instruction , Guildhall Coffee House , Gresliam-slrcel , at 6 .

Unions Emulation Lodge of Improvement for M . M . ' s , Freemasons' Hall , at 7 . Metropolitan Lodge of Instruction , George Hotel , Aldermaiibury , at 7 ; Bro . Brett , Preceptor . United Pilgrims' Lodge of Instruction , Horns Tavern , Kennington , at 7 . Belgrave Lodge of Instruction , Duke of Wellington lit ! .,

Spring-gardens , Clianng-cross ; Br . Pnlsford , Preceptor Doric Lodge of Instruction , Three Cranes Tavern , Mileend-road , al S * , Bro . Isaac Saqui , Preceptor . Duke of Edinburgh Lodge of Instruction , Silver Lion , Penny-fields , Poplar , at 7 ; Br . 1 ) . S . Pot Is , Preceptor . Temperance Lodge of Instruction , Victoria Tav ., Victoriaroad , Deptford , at < S .

SATURDAY , APRIL 2 . General Committee Boys' School , Freemasons' Hall , at 4 . Lodge 1194 , Villiers , Northumberland Hotel , Islcworth . Star Lodge of Instruction ( 1275 ) , Marquis of Granby , New Cross-road , at 7 .

A Beautiful Extract.

A BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT .

The following waif , afloat on the "sea of reading , " we cull from an exchange . We do not know its paternity , but it contains some wholesome truths beautifully set forth : — " Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadow falls across their own path , hiding

for ever from their eyes the traces of the loved ones whose living smiles were the sunlight of their existence . Death is the great antagonist of life , and the cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts . Wo do not want to go through the dark valley , although its passages may lead to paradise ; and ,

with Charles Lamb , we do not want to lie down in the muddy grave , even with kings and princes for our bed-fellows . " But the fiat of nature is inexorable . There is no appeal of relief from the great law which dooms us to dust . We flourish and we fade as the leaves

of the forest , and the flower that blooms and withers in a day has not a frailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his footsteps . Generations of men appear and vanish as the grass , and the countless multitude that throngs the world to-day will to-morrow

disappear as the footsteps on the shore . " In the beautiful drama of Ion , the instinct of immortality , so eloquently uttered by the deathdevoted Greek , finds a deep response in every thoughtful soul . When about to yield his young existence asasacrifice to fate , his beloved Clemanthe asks if they shall not meet again , to which he

replies : ' I have asked that dreadful question of the hills that look eternal—of the clear streams that flow for ever—of the stars among whose fields of azure my raised spirit hath walked in glory . All were dumb . But while I gaze upon the living face , I feel that there is something in the love that mantles through its beauty that can not wholly perish . We shall meet again , Clemanthe . ' "

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