Dinner Of Prince Ibrahim Hilmey To The Officers Of The Drury Lane Lodge.

The who ' c of the guests then adjourned to the Drawing o » m where songs and recitations by Bros . Lionel Brough , K , rv Nicholls , Herbert Campbell , Col . Hughes-Hallett , MP T . H . Bolton , J . Fernandez , and Richard Eve filled coup le ' of hours , which will always be pleasantly remembered by those who were present at this interest ng gathering . . r

Board Of Benevolence.

BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE .

The monthly meeting of the Board of Benevolence was , i j Wednesday evening at the Freemasons' Hall . Bro . Tames Brett , P . G . P ., Senior Vice-President , took the President ' s chair . Bro . C . A . Cottebrune , P . G . P ., Junior Vice-President , occupied the chair of Senior Vice-President , •md Bro . VV . H . Perryman , G . P ., was in the chair of

Tunior Vice-President . Bros . Lol bhadwell H Uerke , < j . Sec . ; A . A . Pendlebury , W . Dodd , and W . H . Lee , also attended . There were also present Bros . David D . Mercer , \ V P Brown , F . R . Spaull , Henry Garrod , G . P . Britten , k ' nree Burt , P . A . G . D . C ; George Read , A . C Woodwardf J . E . Le Feuvre , J . G . D . ; C . F . Hogard , Charles Dairy , R . J . Taylor , Thos . Cull , James Kench , P . G . P . ;

L C Haslip , W . Greenwood , T . Duffield , W . Sanderson , VV . Silver Hall , H . Naime , John Whaley , W . M . 172 ; Alphon ce Hardy , A . Barfield , W . Radcliffe , R . W . Eden , R . Barham , F . S . Graham-Moon , Edward Terry , J . H , Wood , Baron D . Barnett , Chas . Graham , C . H . Webb , G , S . Woodwark , Geo . VV . Latter , Chas . Cooper , ^ L . R . Walker , T . W . Whitmarsh , Thomas John Zell , Stephen

Richardson , F . Silverton , Fred . W . Potter , H . Massey , G . Skudder , VV . H . Baker , S . E . Fountaine , James Stevens , and H . Sadler , G . T . The brethren first confirmed recommendations made at the February meeting to the extent of £ 230 . There were 44 cases on the new list , from the following localities : — London , Cape Town , Hyde , Sunderland , Exeter , Worthing , Brigg , Lichfield , Jersey , Dover , Halifax , N . S ., Derby ,

Huddersfield , Alnwick , Warwick , Lucknow , Boston , Harro gate , Bungay , Woikington , Bridlington , Lynn , Woodbridge , Fast Grinstead , Malton , Ashton-under-Lyne , and Liverpool . Two of these cases were dismissed and five were deferred . The total amount awarded to the remainder was £ 1125 . There was one recommendation of £ ' 5 ° ) two for £ 75 each , two for £ 50 each , six for £ 40 each , and seven for £ 30 each . Nine grants were made of £ 20 each , one of £ 15 seven of £ 10 eachand two of £ 5 each .

Empire Lodge, No. 2108.

EMPIRE LODGE , No . 2108 .

At the ordinary meeting of this lodge held on Tuesday , the 22 nd inst ., Bro . Lennox Browne , W . M ., a handsome illuminated commemorative diploma of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition was presented to the lodge . It was similar to those presented to the Commissioners , but bore a

special inscription that it was sent as an acknowledgment of the hosoitality shown by the lodge to the Colonial and Indian Masons last June , at which it will be remembered the guests included one or more representatives of every colony and dependency of the British Empire . The I . P . M ., Bro . Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-OWEN , reported that it was at the especial and unsolcited

suggestion of his Royal Highness , the Grand Master , that this interesting and gratifying souvenir was accorded . At the same meeting the I . P . M . received a P . M . jewel ; it consists of a handsome enamel medallion of St . George and the Dragon , with the P . M . emblem appended , and the ribbon is similar to that of the Colonial Order of St . Michael and St . George . The WORSHIPFUL MASTER announced that either in

May or at an emergency meeting in April the lodge proposed to entertain so many of the distinguished delegates and representatives of the colonies at the forthcoming conference , as might be Masons , and the S . W ., Bro . TRENDELL , C . M . G ., reported that Bro . the Earl of Onslow , Under Secretary for the Colonies , had promised to attend and otherwise to assist in the success of the gathering .

The Jubilee Celebration At York.

THE JUBILEE CELEBRATION AT YORK .

A meeting of the Committee appointed to make preparations for the Masonic celebration of the Queen ' s Jubilee at York met on Monday afternoon , the 14 th inst . There were present the Deputy Prov . Grand Master , Bro . the Hon . W . T . Orde-Powlett , Bros . W . Reynolds , Prov . G . Ireas . ; M . C . Peck , Prov . G . Sec .,- T . B . Whytehead , P

. P . G . W . ; J . Todd , P . P . G . R . ; G . Kirby , Prov . G . "•C . j Major MacGachen , Prov . A . G . D . C j and T . G . Reynolds , W . M . 236 . Bro . REYNOLDS read a draft of the proposed scheme and regulations by which it was proposed to hold the Provincial Grand Lodge of North and East Yorkshire on the 14 th 1 July , in the Fine Art Exhibition , and there to receive

tnV f 0 vmce ° f West Yorkshire as visitors . A procession 0 De formed , to proceed thence by way of the Philosophical ii , p ' y , Gardens , Museum-street and Duncombe-place , tc e , Latn edraI , where a special service will be held at 3 p . m ., . . a sermon preached by Bro . the Dean of York . an offertory le

ofM ° ^ t ' Prov ' ' ' Fund for the education of orphans . 1 ons ' return of the procession by way of Dunand •fu reet and St ' Le ° nard ' s-place to the Exhibition , thp p u-L e evenm 8 T a grand conversazione and concert in wert 7 rY building . The details of the arrangement ; Q'scussed , and it was decided to hold another meetantic - f , Committee on tne 6 th May . at York . It is e'pated that from 1500 to 2000 Masons will be present .

Lectures By Bro. Rob Morris.

LECTURES BY BRO . ROB MORRIS .

Mnrr ? ° and res P ected friend and brother , Dr . Rob •ecture ' * 3 Rain 0 n the " war P - " Tm ' s t ! me ! t 'S 9 " Thj s is '" ° days ' ' n ihe satne numDer of towns , & c . Tne f 0 ii . " Eood work for one close on 70 years of age . c . . OUOWWfr skptrhpc will cpnw In r !^ c / -riV » A fli » r-Y . i ™~* a *

P L addr esses . Under the new character of the crowned of Keni ? ? ° •Freemasonry . and as Past Grand Master doubties ^ - f •h ! s rece P tion should be most hearty , as "The M wl " be , wherever he sojourns . ° f subieri SOnic Memories ol Forty Years . " —Programme Why hg L —tst . His Masonic initiation in March , 1846 j subject nf C ^ s Mason ! his extravagant notions upon the the quare »' Sonry ' ' recitation of P oem > " The Level and

Lectures By Bro. Rob Morris.

"We meet upon the Level , and we part upon the Square , What words sublimely beautiful those words Masonic are . " 2 nd . His consecration for life work as a Masonic teacher ; the ten designs upon his Trestle-Board ; recitation of poem , "Our Vows . " ( This production is strictly esoteric . ) 3 rd . His Masonic discoveries in Holy Land ; cordial reception in Europe , Asia , and Africa ; grand gatherings

at Smyrna ; greetings by Bro . Mohammed Reschid , Governor-General of Syria ; the seven Masonic localities of Holy Land ; tomb of King Hiram ; foundation walls of King Solomon ' s Temple ; midnight initiation into Oriental forms of Masonry j exhibition of coins , specimens , and his Masonic flag , which has kissed the breezes of the

Syrian hills in four successive expeditions j recitation of poem , "The Five Points of Fellowship "" Listen , Craftsmen , while I tell you , — Write it on your memory now . " 4 th . The Morgan affair , - who was William Morgan j what he attempted to do , and what was done to him j recitation of poem , " Tyling the Heart "—

"Tyle the door carefully , brothers of skill , Vigilant workers in valley and hill . " 5 th . Freemasonry during the war j the Masonic pledge of fidelity ; recitation of poem , "The Unbloodied Apron . " 6 th . The poetry of Freemasonry j bis early attachment to the Muse j themes of Masonic verse j sketch of labours in this department j his coronation as Poet Laureate in December , 1 SS 4 j recitation of poem , " Symbolisms of the Apron "—

" This fair and stainless thing I take , To be my badge for virtue's sake . " Following these six numbers a social occasion is now had , in which the veteran Mason , sitting as interlocutor , cudgels his memory for Masonic anecdotes , serious and humorous , drawn from reminiscences of two score years , in which he has visited nearly three thousand lodges , and almost every

Grand Lodge in the world ! " Suggestions—1 . No lodge need be opened , nor Masonic badges assumed , but Master and Tyler will occupy their respective places , and see that none under the grade of Master Mason are admitted . 2 . Bro . Morris has nothing to sell , neither books , coins , nor specimens . 3 . The lecture is free . A collection will be taken at the close . "

Bro. Alexander Meyrick Broadley.

BRO . ALEXANDER MEYRICK BROADLEY .

A recent number of the " Journalist" contains the following sketch of Bro . Broadley ' s career , which we have much p leasure in transferring to our columns : — Mr . Alexander Meyrick Broadley was born nineand-thirty years ago , at Bradp ' ole , in Dorsetshire ( which is also the birthplace of the late Mr . W . E . Forster ) ,

where his father—who is one of the Canons of Salisbury—has been for three-and-forty years the vicar . Mr . Broadley was educated at the Warminster and Marlborough Grammar Schools , and when sixteen years of age went to Vevey , in Switzerland , where he acquired the knowledge of modern languages which has proved

so useful to him . He entered as a student at Lincoln ' s Inn in 1866 , and in Trinity Term , 1869 , was called to the Bar . Three years later he went to Tunis , where at that time a colony of more than ten thousand souls was amenable to the jurisdiction of the British Consular Court . He successfully defended the rights of the

English Railway Company recently established on the shores of North Africa , and speedily acquired a large and lucrative practice , pleading frequently in French and Italian before the tribunals presided over by French and Italian judges . Mr . Broadley ' s beautiful house in Tunis will be

remembered by many people who visited the site of ancient Carthage prior to the stirring events of 1881 , in which Mr . Broadley found his opportunity . In January of that year the conduct of the celebrated Enfida case was entrusted to his care . On arriving in England he published a pamphlet on the . Tunisian

Question , interested influential members of both Houses of Parliament on the side of his clients , and obtained the sending of two ships-of-war to Tunis in order to counteract the preponderating influence of the French Consul-General , the afterwards well-known Mons . Roustan . The political horizon , however , became

darker and darker j the French troops were massed on the Algerian frontier , and Mr . Broadley returned to Tunis as special correspondent of the Times . He immediately interviewed the Bey , with such effect that he became the chosen adviser of the Tunisian Government , assisted at all the cabinet councils , drafted the various

protests which the Bey published in answer to the attacks of the French , and induced the Tunisian Ministers to send his principal communications to the Times , as well as their own appeals to the Courts of Europe , by special steamers to Sicily . Europe was speedily convinced of the justice of the

position taken up by the unfortunate Bey ; but active intervention was difficult , and within a month he was forced to sign the treaty of Kasr-es-Said at the point of the sword . It is now an open secret that if he had held out as Mr . Broadley advised him , he would have been safe , as the remonstrances of England and Italy

had secured a promise from the French not to advance on the capital if the Bey persisted in his refusal to sign the proffered convention . His political functions at an end , Mr . Broadley threw himself , with all the energy and enthusiasm of which he is capable , into his work as a correspondent . Once

more the Times revelled in exclusive information . Its correspondent was the first to entei' the holy , and hitherto unexplored , city of Kairwan after its capture by the French , and his graphic and interesting letters , as well as his articles in Blackwood ' s Magazine , were

read at the time with great interest . He devoted the spring of 1882 to writing the story of the conquest of the Regency , for Messrs . Blackwood , who published in that year his first book , " Tunis , Past and Present ; or the Story of the last Punic | War , "

Bro. Alexander Meyrick Broadley.

which was very favourably received by the press , and brought its author into communication with Mr . Wilfred Blunt , as well as others who were interested in the Egyptian question . Tel-el-Kebir was fought , Arabi Pasha surrendered , and when Mr . Blunt determined to defend him his

choice very naturall y lighted on the zealous correspondent of the limes at Tunis . Mr . Broadley ' s adventures in Egypt are a matter of history . He succeeded in saving the lives of his clients by a compromise , which was at the time warmly commended by the whole of the press , and which was generally regarded as

displaying a rare combination of wise discretion and forensic skill . In Egypt Mr . Broadley strengthened his relations with the press , and found time to write an article in defence of the fallen Nationalist chief for the Nineteenth Century . No sooner had Mr , Broadley returned to Tunis than

the ex-Khedive of Egypt , whom he had interviewed a few months previously on behalf of the Times , asked him to become his legal adviser . Mr . Broadley accepted the invitation , and finally quitted Tunis , where he had just been nominated b y the decree of the President of the French Republic to the rank of Advocat

Defenseur . On his return to England , after another brief visit to Egypt in defence of his new client , Mr . Broadley took up his residence in the Temple , and just three years ago figured as a celebrit y " at home" in the pages of the World . At Christmas , 1883 , he published his second

book , " How we defended Arabi , " which went through two editions in England , and one in America , and was perhaps more successful even than his volumes on Tunis . In this book Mr . Broadley gives proof of that brilliant power of description and keen sense of humour which he has since shown in his numerous contributions

to contemporary literature . In 1884 he wrote two articles for the Fortnightly Review , and early in 1885 he became a member of the staff of Mr . Edmund Yates , who found in the defender and historian of Arabi Pasha a devoted collaborateur after his own heart . During the last two years Mr .

Broadley has won his spurs as an accomplished and amusing paragraphist in the columns of the World , and is commonly supposed to have contributed almost the whole of the striking and widely-read "Celebrity " articles which have for so long been one of the most attractive features of that bri ght and entertaining

journal . The descriptive pen of Mr . Broadley is uniformly successful in dealing with subjects of the most varied nature . The Duke of Abercorn , Lord Malraesbury , and Lord Lathom have been painted " at home " quite as graphically as Madam Katti Lanner and Mr . E . L . Blanchard . He has passed in rapid succession ,

with the same power and happy appreciation of individual character , from Mr . Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Abbe Liszt—from Mr . Henry Chaplin to Madame Marie Rose ; and from the Master of Trinity to Anton Rubenstien . He is still the confidential adviser in legal matters of Ismail Pasha , and , moreover , he has been

for two years the close friend and secretary of Mr . Augustus Harris , and Mr . Broadley ' s skilful hand is clearly traceable in the Soudan exhibition , the Colonial reception , and many other of the pleasantest gatherings which have lately taken place within the walls of Old Drury . He is also an ardent Freemason . Ten years

ago he founded two English lodges in Tunis , became Deputy District Grand Master of Malta—found leisure during the Arabi trial to revive the Bulwer Lodge . in Cairo , and was for three years District Grand Mark Master of the Mediterranean . He has also held the office of Grand Chamberlain of England , and Provincial

Grand Prior of Canada in the Kni ghts Templars ; and he has written a most readable history of " Freema . sonry in Malta . " Twelve months since he assisted Mr . Augustus Harris in founding the popular Drury Lane Lodge , and may fairly claim a certain amount of credit for the splendid meeting of last week , which has

been pronounced on all hands to be the most imposing ceremonial ever attempted by a private lodge . Mr . Broadley is endowed with an amount of activity and eneigy which few men can lay claim to . He is to be seen everywhere ; and he devotes himself from the earliest hour in the morning to the latest hour of night

to the varied and arduous occupations which engross every minute of his time . He never takes a holiday ; his house , overlooking Hyde Park , is full of striking mementoes of his career , and his drawing-room , which is hung with Cairo and Kairwan tapestry , is during the season often the scene of very pleasant " Musical

Afternoon gatherings . The last instalment of the " Encyclopredia Britannica" contains an excellent signed article by Mr . Broadley , on the subject ot " ¦ The Knights of St . John and Jerusalem , " and he has also agreed to furnish chapters on Tripoli and Tunis in the

forthcoming volume . Some day or other it is probable he will compile an exhaustive history of Drury Lane Theatre , in the welfare of which , he seems to feel almost as much interest as he does in the complicated claims of the ex-Khedive Ismail , and the continued prosperity of the World newspaper .

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