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Masonic And General Tidings.
Masonic and General Tidings .
"THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY " was presented by Mr . Weedon Grossmith at the Avenue Theatre on Wednesday , the 25 th instant , for the 150 th time . EIGHT GIRLS and 16 " boys will be admitted to the benefits of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum at the election to be held at the Cannon-street Hotel on Monday next . FROM AMONGST 69 candidates , 22 boys and eight girls will be admitted to the benefits of the Orphan Working School at the election to be held at the Cannon-street Motel on the 30 th prox .
IN MEMORY of the late Mr . John Deacon , his father , Mr . J . F . W . Deacon has promised to contribute ^ 1000 towards the £ . 30 , 000 required for th ? new Home and Colonial Training College . THE MEETING for the installation of Bro . Edward J . Mills , S . W ., as W . M . of the Rothesay Lodge , No . 16 S 7 , is to be held at the Frascati Restaurant on the 2 nd prox ., and will be full of interest , as the meetings of the Rothesay Lodge always are .
BRO . ROOSEVELT , the new President of the United States , declares that he entertains an " old country-cousin feeling "for London . " I like , " he says , " its size , the swing and rush of its life , and the importance of the interests of which it is the centre . " THE NOTTINGHAM GOOSE FAIR . —In connection with the Voluntary Early Closing Association , 64 , Cheapside , there will be a day trip on the Great Central Railway on Thursday , the 3 rd prox ., to Nottingham ( for the Goose Fair ) , Loughborough , and Leicester .
A MEETING of the Committee of the Devon Masonic Educational Fund was held on the 20 th instant at the Freemasons' Hall , Plymouth , to decide whether there should be an election in October , and also to make arrangements tor the annual conceit in aid of the Funds ot the Institution . Bro . F . B . Westlake presided . THE GOLDEN LETTER of the present year is certainly " P " as far as the chiefs of the City are concerned , not only the Lord Mayor , but each of the Sheriffs , being closely associated with papers and printing . The coming year will have
" B " as its golden letter . The incoming Lord Mayor is a banker , the senior Sheriff a brewer , ar . d his colleague a bookseller . —City Press . THE SIR JOHN CASS INSTITUTE . —Three more workshops are to be added to the Sir John Cass Technical Institute , South Hackney , the Technical Education Board having allocated the sum of . C 3000 for this purpose . The creation of the central branch of the institute will soon be proceeded with on the site of the existing North-East London Institute , Dalston-lane . The cost will be about £ 50 , 000 .
ON THE OCCASION of the visit paid on the 21 st instant by the members of the Garden City Aficciaticn ( 0 Bournville , the model village founded by Messrs . Cadbury , and recently ceded to a body ot trustees for the people , Mr . Matthew Wallace , CC , J . P ., the Mayor of Camberwell , proposed thc resolution that was passed thanking Mr . Cadbury for his hospitality , and expressed the meeting ' s intention to follow , as far as possible , the example he had set at Bournville .
MASONIC DISTINCTION . —Bro . the Rev . Dr . CheUvynu Atkinson , a Mason well known in Cheshire circles , has just been elected by the Supreme Council of the 33 to the 31 " , ot which the number is limited to go . Dr . Atkinson has received high honours in other branches of Masonry , having served as Grand Chaplain of England in Mark Masonry , Great High Prelate of England in the Knights Templar Degree , and GrandChaplain of the Allied Degrees , besides holding Past Provincial rank in all the Masonic bodies .
THE WRECK OF THE COBRA . —Bro . the Lord Mayor is in negotiation with the Admiralty on thc subject of the proposed raising of a Mansion House fund for the relief ol the sufferers through the loss of II , M . S . Cobra . The Admiralty have pointed out tohis lordship that the dependent relatives will be assisted with pensions and gratuities according to the scale . They suggest the making of an inquiry as to thc contractors' men . Tf . it is the state of affairs at present , and it is probable that no fund will be established .
THE CORPORATE VACANCY IN BISHOPSGATE . —The wardmote for the election of a represeitative to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr . Deputy Dadswell will be held at the Schoolroom , Bishopsgate-churchyard , on Monday at noon . The following candidates are seeking thc suffrages of the electorate : Mr . E . Ardley , 17 , Great St . Helen ' s ; Mr . G . J . Hunt , 10 , Bishopsgate-strcet Within ; Mr . G . Noah Johnson , 34 , Bishopsgate-strect , who was unexpectedly defeated last St . Thomas's Day ; and Bro . Horatio Saqui , of 2 S , 20 , and 31 , Liverpool-street .
THE NEW PALACE STEAMERS successfully concluded their sailings between London and Southend , Margate , Rams ^ atc , Calais , Boulogne , and Ostcnd , for this season on Monday last , and the La Marguerite , Royal Sovereign , and Koh-i-noor , will now lay in Tilbury Dock to be thoroughly overhauled before commencing another season ' s sailings . During the past season the steamers have carried 323 , 050 passengers ,
being an excess over the previous year of 25 , 000 , and in view of thc present depression of trade and traffic , the Company have every reason to be satisfied with the season ' s result . La Marguerite's Thursdays' trips to Calais and back h ^ vj be- > n extri : n ; ly will patronised , and have , no doubt , helped considerably to bring that historic to . vn , with its countless attractions to the English visitor , more prominently beiore thc holiday public .
THE SHRIEVALTY is often regarded as the stepping-stone to Mayoral oflice . In the case of Colonel Probyn , the further honours will probably be conferred in connection with the borough of Westminster . The Duke of Norfolk , it is understood , is not desirous of serving a further term as Mayor , and in these circumstances it is likely that Colonel Probyn , who is the senior Alderman on the Council , will bi returnsi
unanimously on November 9 th next . Such a choice will certainly be an admirable one . The colonel is a past master in municipal work , and , further , through his year of oflice as one of the Sheriffs for the City of London , is thoroughly conversant with ceremonial duties . That the coming year will be a notable one goes without saying . All the more necessary , therefore , is it for Westminster to elect as its chief so genial and experienced a gentleman as the colonel . —City Press .
BRO . THOMAS SEWARD GREEN has been appointed ass i stant manager , Royal Gun Factories , in the place of Mr . 11 . W . Jones , retired . He will remain in special charge of the Torpedo Factory , of which he has been principal foreman since iSSS . Bro . Green entered the Royal Arsenal as a lad , and his gradual rise to his present high position has been due to a combination of intellectual ability with a continual study of the technicalities of his profession . His attainments , indeed , though mainly devoted to the Government service , have something to spare for other walks of
life , and his advancement is a matter of congratulation no less outside than inside the Royal Arsenal , for Bro . Green has served Ihe public as a vestryman of Plumstead , and is at present a sidesman at St . Margaret's Church , and manager of the Central Schools . Nor do w « forget the part he took when a member of the Plumstead Burial Board in getting the cemetery opened on Sunday mornings . He is also W . M . of the Capper Lodge , No . 107 C , and president of the Torpedo Factory Chrysanthemum Society , which indeed owes in a large measure its popularity and success to his fostering hand .
AS FREEMASONRY has the King as its patron , gives Ihe Bible the place of honoui in its lodges , and goes to chuich and hears sermons such as that preached by Canon Southwell at Bodmin on the 17 th instant , it is difficult to understand why here in England it should be condemned in such unmeasured terms by the Roman Church . At the Roman Cathedral , at Plymouth , Canon Courtenay allnlcd to "Anarchists , Socialists , Freemasons , and all such , under whatever guise they conceal their real aims , " which he claimed to be subverting obedience , respect , and loyalty dii 2 to the
authority appointed by God . No one who has the smallest acquaintance with English Freemasonry cculd evtr have given expression to such a sweeping statemmt . There is no body , not even the Roman Church itself , in which loyalty to G id and to la vfullyconstitutcd authority is more strongly inculcated than in the Masonic body , and to class them with Anarchists and subverters of social order is simply absurd to anyone who has any knowledge on the subject at all . It is a pity Canon Courtenay did not make some little inquiry before indulging in such a sweeping accusation against Freemasons . — Western Morniiur News .
Masonic And General Tidings.
BRO . EMRA HOLMES , Staff Paymaster R . N . R ., has received the thanks of the King , " by command , " for his poem on the death of the Empress Frederick , which recently appeared in our columns . MR . WEEDON GROSSMITH has postponed until Tuesday next , the ist prox ., the production at the Avenue Theatre of the new one act play " Between the Dances , " which is to precede "The Night of the Party . "
THE FOUNDATION STONE of the Freemasons' Hall , Oswestry , will be laid by Bro . Sir Ofiley Wakeman , Bart ., the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master for Shropshire , on the 17 th prox . The Provincial Grand Lod ? e will meet at the Victoria Room , Oswestry , at 12 . 30 o ' clock . OWING TO bad weather , it is btlieved tbat thek villi be a great shortage in the world ' s supply of tea this year . In all probability , their will bo a decrease of at least 20 , 000 , 000 lb . in the production . Shipments from India to London already show a deficit of 5 , 000 , 000 lb . Consequently , the price is rising .
" INTERVIEWS IN HELL " is the title of a new satire from the pen of " Greaves Molyneux , " which will be published by Messrs , Dean and Son . Limited , 1 C 0 A , Fleet-street , E . C . The work is uniquely illustrated by the late Mr . Irving Montague , so many years associated with the Illustrated London News .
THE FOUNDER OF LONDON'S MUNICIPAL LIFE . —At the luncheon at Winchester in connection with the celebration of the millenary of Kinpj Alfred , Bro . the Lord Mayor , in acknowledging the toast of "Alfred and English Civic and Municipal Life , " said he found from the City records that King Alfred was practically the founder of the municipal life of London .
BRO . ALDERMAN SIR JOSEPH DIMSDALE , who to-morrow ( Saturday ) will be elected Lord Mayor of London for the year ensuing , presided at a wardmote of his ward of Cornhill on the 26 th instart , when Mr . T . Goldney and Mr . M . R . Sewill were returned unopposed to the Court of Common Council . Bro . Sir Joseph also appointed as his deputy Mr . Millar Wilkinson .
AFTER ENTERTAINING some friends at luncheon at the hall of the ? 4 ercers ' Company , of which he is a liveryman , Major-Genera ! Haden-Poivell , on the 26 th inst , visited the Charterhouse , where he took tea with the Principal , Dr . Hiigh-Brown , and Mrs . Haigh-Brown . At the time the General was a pupil at Charterhouse the school had not been removed from the City .
PRINCESS HENRY OF BATTENBERG has been entertaining the Maharanee of Kooch Behar at Osborne Cottage . The distinguished visitor concluded her visit to her Royal Highness on the 26 th instant , and the Princess accompanied her to Portsmouth in the Sheila . Prince Maurice of Battenberg has left the Isle of Wight to comrrence his first term at Wellington College Preparstory School .
THE MANAGEMENT of the Court Theatre wishing to provide an attraction of a more varied nature for the early patrons ot the theatre than the usual one-act play , have decided on Monday next , in addition to Mr . Robert Ganthony in his laughable recitals , to introduce Colby and Way in their venttiloquial and dancing doll act , and the celebrated Chanieuse Parisiane Mdlle . Eugene Pougere . These attractions will appear each evening in front of " The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown . "
SHAMROCK II . failed on the aGth instant to realise the hopes which had been entertained . The contest was exciting , but indecisive . O . ving to the light airs the race could not be finished within the time limit , but nevertheless the challenger sufhred what may be termed a moral defeat . At 10 minutes past 11 the Columbia crossed the line , being first by 12 seconds . The beat out to the mark-boat was made in a saven-knot breeze , which was puffy and uncertain . The American boat turned six minutes and a half ahead of her rival , though the latter had led for a time . On the run home , however , the Herreshoft craft to draw away from the English yacht . At 20 minutes to five she was about three miles from victory , when the encounter was declared off .
THE FIRST regular railway ever constructed to carry passengers and goods , the old Stockton and Darlington line , was on this day , in 1825 , opened for public use . Itis amusing to read of the excitement , alarm , and astonishment the first journey created ; but the directors seem to have anticipated this , for , in frot . t of the engine , they had men riding on horseback with red ( lags , to give notice that the locomotive was approaching . The inaugural train consisted of some 33 " wagons , " weighing Sotons , and the whole
was drawn in some places at a speed of 10 miles an hour . It took the train , however , three hours and seven minutes to go from Darlington to Stockton , a distanc : of only 12 miles , but the time includes stoppages , of which there were several long ones . Some of the directors of the railway were the Peases and Backhouses , and , in consequence , it was locally known as the "Quakers' line . " As engineer , Stevenson got j £ , GGo a year , with which he tvas expected to pay his assistants' salaries and expenses . —Daily Telegraph .
CORN CARNIVALS . —In "Cassell's Magazine " for October Mr . D . A . Willey describes a species of harvest festival on a large scale which is becoming increasingly popular in the corn-growinj States : Weeks before harvest time preparations are made for the festivities . The prominent citizens of the town contribute to a fund for decoration , music , and usually the entertainment of town-people and guests at a banquet . The services of some leading orator are secured , and the President of the United States and his Cabinet and the State Governor in invited to attend with other notables . _ A special week is set apart at a time when the farmers have finished gathering the grain ,
and have leisure to a tend . Their presence is very desirable , as they take occasion to make their purchases for the winter , and spend their money in other ways , nearly all of which benefit the tradespeople , hotel-keepers , and the town in general . The railroad companies ate induced to offer special rates of transportation , and with others offer prizes for the best designs and decorations of buildings , and in other ways encourage the display of emblems . A programme is arranged consisting of processions , public meetings , concerts , and other attractions , which will interest the townspeople and visitors . Generally a committee of leading citizens , headed by the mayor , takes charge of the event , and large sums ot money are expended in arranging the carnival .
"NO ROAD WITHOUT ITS THORN . "—In September the cyclist finds wild country life rather aggressive , and his path a thorny one . Every gleam of the watery sun , especially at morning and evening , fills the vista of the highway hedgerows with dancing swarms of liny Hying things . There is poetry , perhaps , in the multitudinous farewell of insect life to summer , and they shimmer in the sunlight pleasingly ; but they have an exasperating habit of getting into the cyclist's eye , ani one of them , a little elongated beetleexudes an essence which stings like a drop of vitriol . With one of
, these infinitesimal anarchists in his eye , the cyclist finds it no easy matter to watch carefully where he is gcing ; and , since September is also the season which the farmers select for hedge-cutting , he has every facility for getting a thorn into his tyre . The cyclist then , with agony in the eye and a puncture in the bicycle , may be excused , as he sits by the roadside five miles from anywhere , if he takes a gloomy vie * of the country life amid which he is spending a fins autumn afternoon . The Pretty Side of Thorns and Flies . —To the philosophic mind and the unstung eye , however , an
interesting parallel appears between the flies that fill ths air and the thorn , that [ litter the road in fine September weather . Nature seems to know that her lingering favourites among the insect-eating birds , the swallows and the lly-catchers , must soon start upon their long and perilous journey to the South , and so she goes out of her way to P " them with food before they start . They have come from afar to reap her superabundant harvest of summer insect life , and in the September sivarms of tiny-winged things she seems to be deliberatelv orovidinc- them with a sumptuous banqret before they go . in wtio
the same way the farmer , whose harvest has been reaped with the aid of labourers , have come many of them from distant towns , finds men lingering after the harvest in the hope of further work , and for these he provides the makeshift employment or tidying up the hedges , a job which may as well be done now as at any other time , anu that provides employment for hands that the slack time which follows a finished harv " j would otherwise leave idle . The beauty of this parallel might be more fjeae ™" / appreciated if the men thus employed did not liave the thorns in the road , tor west , tempt the cyclist to draw a different parallel , and compare the farmer to one who linu * some inischinf still for idle " hands " to do . —Co itntry Life .
ANGLO-INDIANS AND OTHERS seeking- genuine Indian-manufactured condiments , currie stuffs , chutnees , preserves , poppidums , Bombay ducks , Nep > pepper , & c , send to the ' original linn . C . Stembridge and Co ., iS , Green-stre 1 Leicester-square , London ; and ] Calcutta . Established 1 S 21 . Write for price »*¦• ( Removed from 33 , Leicester-square ) .
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Masonic And General Tidings.
Masonic and General Tidings .
"THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY " was presented by Mr . Weedon Grossmith at the Avenue Theatre on Wednesday , the 25 th instant , for the 150 th time . EIGHT GIRLS and 16 " boys will be admitted to the benefits of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum at the election to be held at the Cannon-street Hotel on Monday next . FROM AMONGST 69 candidates , 22 boys and eight girls will be admitted to the benefits of the Orphan Working School at the election to be held at the Cannon-street Motel on the 30 th prox .
IN MEMORY of the late Mr . John Deacon , his father , Mr . J . F . W . Deacon has promised to contribute ^ 1000 towards the £ . 30 , 000 required for th ? new Home and Colonial Training College . THE MEETING for the installation of Bro . Edward J . Mills , S . W ., as W . M . of the Rothesay Lodge , No . 16 S 7 , is to be held at the Frascati Restaurant on the 2 nd prox ., and will be full of interest , as the meetings of the Rothesay Lodge always are .
BRO . ROOSEVELT , the new President of the United States , declares that he entertains an " old country-cousin feeling "for London . " I like , " he says , " its size , the swing and rush of its life , and the importance of the interests of which it is the centre . " THE NOTTINGHAM GOOSE FAIR . —In connection with the Voluntary Early Closing Association , 64 , Cheapside , there will be a day trip on the Great Central Railway on Thursday , the 3 rd prox ., to Nottingham ( for the Goose Fair ) , Loughborough , and Leicester .
A MEETING of the Committee of the Devon Masonic Educational Fund was held on the 20 th instant at the Freemasons' Hall , Plymouth , to decide whether there should be an election in October , and also to make arrangements tor the annual conceit in aid of the Funds ot the Institution . Bro . F . B . Westlake presided . THE GOLDEN LETTER of the present year is certainly " P " as far as the chiefs of the City are concerned , not only the Lord Mayor , but each of the Sheriffs , being closely associated with papers and printing . The coming year will have
" B " as its golden letter . The incoming Lord Mayor is a banker , the senior Sheriff a brewer , ar . d his colleague a bookseller . —City Press . THE SIR JOHN CASS INSTITUTE . —Three more workshops are to be added to the Sir John Cass Technical Institute , South Hackney , the Technical Education Board having allocated the sum of . C 3000 for this purpose . The creation of the central branch of the institute will soon be proceeded with on the site of the existing North-East London Institute , Dalston-lane . The cost will be about £ 50 , 000 .
ON THE OCCASION of the visit paid on the 21 st instant by the members of the Garden City Aficciaticn ( 0 Bournville , the model village founded by Messrs . Cadbury , and recently ceded to a body ot trustees for the people , Mr . Matthew Wallace , CC , J . P ., the Mayor of Camberwell , proposed thc resolution that was passed thanking Mr . Cadbury for his hospitality , and expressed the meeting ' s intention to follow , as far as possible , the example he had set at Bournville .
MASONIC DISTINCTION . —Bro . the Rev . Dr . CheUvynu Atkinson , a Mason well known in Cheshire circles , has just been elected by the Supreme Council of the 33 to the 31 " , ot which the number is limited to go . Dr . Atkinson has received high honours in other branches of Masonry , having served as Grand Chaplain of England in Mark Masonry , Great High Prelate of England in the Knights Templar Degree , and GrandChaplain of the Allied Degrees , besides holding Past Provincial rank in all the Masonic bodies .
THE WRECK OF THE COBRA . —Bro . the Lord Mayor is in negotiation with the Admiralty on thc subject of the proposed raising of a Mansion House fund for the relief ol the sufferers through the loss of II , M . S . Cobra . The Admiralty have pointed out tohis lordship that the dependent relatives will be assisted with pensions and gratuities according to the scale . They suggest the making of an inquiry as to thc contractors' men . Tf . it is the state of affairs at present , and it is probable that no fund will be established .
THE CORPORATE VACANCY IN BISHOPSGATE . —The wardmote for the election of a represeitative to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr . Deputy Dadswell will be held at the Schoolroom , Bishopsgate-churchyard , on Monday at noon . The following candidates are seeking thc suffrages of the electorate : Mr . E . Ardley , 17 , Great St . Helen ' s ; Mr . G . J . Hunt , 10 , Bishopsgate-strcet Within ; Mr . G . Noah Johnson , 34 , Bishopsgate-strect , who was unexpectedly defeated last St . Thomas's Day ; and Bro . Horatio Saqui , of 2 S , 20 , and 31 , Liverpool-street .
THE NEW PALACE STEAMERS successfully concluded their sailings between London and Southend , Margate , Rams ^ atc , Calais , Boulogne , and Ostcnd , for this season on Monday last , and the La Marguerite , Royal Sovereign , and Koh-i-noor , will now lay in Tilbury Dock to be thoroughly overhauled before commencing another season ' s sailings . During the past season the steamers have carried 323 , 050 passengers ,
being an excess over the previous year of 25 , 000 , and in view of thc present depression of trade and traffic , the Company have every reason to be satisfied with the season ' s result . La Marguerite's Thursdays' trips to Calais and back h ^ vj be- > n extri : n ; ly will patronised , and have , no doubt , helped considerably to bring that historic to . vn , with its countless attractions to the English visitor , more prominently beiore thc holiday public .
THE SHRIEVALTY is often regarded as the stepping-stone to Mayoral oflice . In the case of Colonel Probyn , the further honours will probably be conferred in connection with the borough of Westminster . The Duke of Norfolk , it is understood , is not desirous of serving a further term as Mayor , and in these circumstances it is likely that Colonel Probyn , who is the senior Alderman on the Council , will bi returnsi
unanimously on November 9 th next . Such a choice will certainly be an admirable one . The colonel is a past master in municipal work , and , further , through his year of oflice as one of the Sheriffs for the City of London , is thoroughly conversant with ceremonial duties . That the coming year will be a notable one goes without saying . All the more necessary , therefore , is it for Westminster to elect as its chief so genial and experienced a gentleman as the colonel . —City Press .
BRO . THOMAS SEWARD GREEN has been appointed ass i stant manager , Royal Gun Factories , in the place of Mr . 11 . W . Jones , retired . He will remain in special charge of the Torpedo Factory , of which he has been principal foreman since iSSS . Bro . Green entered the Royal Arsenal as a lad , and his gradual rise to his present high position has been due to a combination of intellectual ability with a continual study of the technicalities of his profession . His attainments , indeed , though mainly devoted to the Government service , have something to spare for other walks of
life , and his advancement is a matter of congratulation no less outside than inside the Royal Arsenal , for Bro . Green has served Ihe public as a vestryman of Plumstead , and is at present a sidesman at St . Margaret's Church , and manager of the Central Schools . Nor do w « forget the part he took when a member of the Plumstead Burial Board in getting the cemetery opened on Sunday mornings . He is also W . M . of the Capper Lodge , No . 107 C , and president of the Torpedo Factory Chrysanthemum Society , which indeed owes in a large measure its popularity and success to his fostering hand .
AS FREEMASONRY has the King as its patron , gives Ihe Bible the place of honoui in its lodges , and goes to chuich and hears sermons such as that preached by Canon Southwell at Bodmin on the 17 th instant , it is difficult to understand why here in England it should be condemned in such unmeasured terms by the Roman Church . At the Roman Cathedral , at Plymouth , Canon Courtenay allnlcd to "Anarchists , Socialists , Freemasons , and all such , under whatever guise they conceal their real aims , " which he claimed to be subverting obedience , respect , and loyalty dii 2 to the
authority appointed by God . No one who has the smallest acquaintance with English Freemasonry cculd evtr have given expression to such a sweeping statemmt . There is no body , not even the Roman Church itself , in which loyalty to G id and to la vfullyconstitutcd authority is more strongly inculcated than in the Masonic body , and to class them with Anarchists and subverters of social order is simply absurd to anyone who has any knowledge on the subject at all . It is a pity Canon Courtenay did not make some little inquiry before indulging in such a sweeping accusation against Freemasons . — Western Morniiur News .
Masonic And General Tidings.
BRO . EMRA HOLMES , Staff Paymaster R . N . R ., has received the thanks of the King , " by command , " for his poem on the death of the Empress Frederick , which recently appeared in our columns . MR . WEEDON GROSSMITH has postponed until Tuesday next , the ist prox ., the production at the Avenue Theatre of the new one act play " Between the Dances , " which is to precede "The Night of the Party . "
THE FOUNDATION STONE of the Freemasons' Hall , Oswestry , will be laid by Bro . Sir Ofiley Wakeman , Bart ., the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master for Shropshire , on the 17 th prox . The Provincial Grand Lod ? e will meet at the Victoria Room , Oswestry , at 12 . 30 o ' clock . OWING TO bad weather , it is btlieved tbat thek villi be a great shortage in the world ' s supply of tea this year . In all probability , their will bo a decrease of at least 20 , 000 , 000 lb . in the production . Shipments from India to London already show a deficit of 5 , 000 , 000 lb . Consequently , the price is rising .
" INTERVIEWS IN HELL " is the title of a new satire from the pen of " Greaves Molyneux , " which will be published by Messrs , Dean and Son . Limited , 1 C 0 A , Fleet-street , E . C . The work is uniquely illustrated by the late Mr . Irving Montague , so many years associated with the Illustrated London News .
THE FOUNDER OF LONDON'S MUNICIPAL LIFE . —At the luncheon at Winchester in connection with the celebration of the millenary of Kinpj Alfred , Bro . the Lord Mayor , in acknowledging the toast of "Alfred and English Civic and Municipal Life , " said he found from the City records that King Alfred was practically the founder of the municipal life of London .
BRO . ALDERMAN SIR JOSEPH DIMSDALE , who to-morrow ( Saturday ) will be elected Lord Mayor of London for the year ensuing , presided at a wardmote of his ward of Cornhill on the 26 th instart , when Mr . T . Goldney and Mr . M . R . Sewill were returned unopposed to the Court of Common Council . Bro . Sir Joseph also appointed as his deputy Mr . Millar Wilkinson .
AFTER ENTERTAINING some friends at luncheon at the hall of the ? 4 ercers ' Company , of which he is a liveryman , Major-Genera ! Haden-Poivell , on the 26 th inst , visited the Charterhouse , where he took tea with the Principal , Dr . Hiigh-Brown , and Mrs . Haigh-Brown . At the time the General was a pupil at Charterhouse the school had not been removed from the City .
PRINCESS HENRY OF BATTENBERG has been entertaining the Maharanee of Kooch Behar at Osborne Cottage . The distinguished visitor concluded her visit to her Royal Highness on the 26 th instant , and the Princess accompanied her to Portsmouth in the Sheila . Prince Maurice of Battenberg has left the Isle of Wight to comrrence his first term at Wellington College Preparstory School .
THE MANAGEMENT of the Court Theatre wishing to provide an attraction of a more varied nature for the early patrons ot the theatre than the usual one-act play , have decided on Monday next , in addition to Mr . Robert Ganthony in his laughable recitals , to introduce Colby and Way in their venttiloquial and dancing doll act , and the celebrated Chanieuse Parisiane Mdlle . Eugene Pougere . These attractions will appear each evening in front of " The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown . "
SHAMROCK II . failed on the aGth instant to realise the hopes which had been entertained . The contest was exciting , but indecisive . O . ving to the light airs the race could not be finished within the time limit , but nevertheless the challenger sufhred what may be termed a moral defeat . At 10 minutes past 11 the Columbia crossed the line , being first by 12 seconds . The beat out to the mark-boat was made in a saven-knot breeze , which was puffy and uncertain . The American boat turned six minutes and a half ahead of her rival , though the latter had led for a time . On the run home , however , the Herreshoft craft to draw away from the English yacht . At 20 minutes to five she was about three miles from victory , when the encounter was declared off .
THE FIRST regular railway ever constructed to carry passengers and goods , the old Stockton and Darlington line , was on this day , in 1825 , opened for public use . Itis amusing to read of the excitement , alarm , and astonishment the first journey created ; but the directors seem to have anticipated this , for , in frot . t of the engine , they had men riding on horseback with red ( lags , to give notice that the locomotive was approaching . The inaugural train consisted of some 33 " wagons , " weighing Sotons , and the whole
was drawn in some places at a speed of 10 miles an hour . It took the train , however , three hours and seven minutes to go from Darlington to Stockton , a distanc : of only 12 miles , but the time includes stoppages , of which there were several long ones . Some of the directors of the railway were the Peases and Backhouses , and , in consequence , it was locally known as the "Quakers' line . " As engineer , Stevenson got j £ , GGo a year , with which he tvas expected to pay his assistants' salaries and expenses . —Daily Telegraph .
CORN CARNIVALS . —In "Cassell's Magazine " for October Mr . D . A . Willey describes a species of harvest festival on a large scale which is becoming increasingly popular in the corn-growinj States : Weeks before harvest time preparations are made for the festivities . The prominent citizens of the town contribute to a fund for decoration , music , and usually the entertainment of town-people and guests at a banquet . The services of some leading orator are secured , and the President of the United States and his Cabinet and the State Governor in invited to attend with other notables . _ A special week is set apart at a time when the farmers have finished gathering the grain ,
and have leisure to a tend . Their presence is very desirable , as they take occasion to make their purchases for the winter , and spend their money in other ways , nearly all of which benefit the tradespeople , hotel-keepers , and the town in general . The railroad companies ate induced to offer special rates of transportation , and with others offer prizes for the best designs and decorations of buildings , and in other ways encourage the display of emblems . A programme is arranged consisting of processions , public meetings , concerts , and other attractions , which will interest the townspeople and visitors . Generally a committee of leading citizens , headed by the mayor , takes charge of the event , and large sums ot money are expended in arranging the carnival .
"NO ROAD WITHOUT ITS THORN . "—In September the cyclist finds wild country life rather aggressive , and his path a thorny one . Every gleam of the watery sun , especially at morning and evening , fills the vista of the highway hedgerows with dancing swarms of liny Hying things . There is poetry , perhaps , in the multitudinous farewell of insect life to summer , and they shimmer in the sunlight pleasingly ; but they have an exasperating habit of getting into the cyclist's eye , ani one of them , a little elongated beetleexudes an essence which stings like a drop of vitriol . With one of
, these infinitesimal anarchists in his eye , the cyclist finds it no easy matter to watch carefully where he is gcing ; and , since September is also the season which the farmers select for hedge-cutting , he has every facility for getting a thorn into his tyre . The cyclist then , with agony in the eye and a puncture in the bicycle , may be excused , as he sits by the roadside five miles from anywhere , if he takes a gloomy vie * of the country life amid which he is spending a fins autumn afternoon . The Pretty Side of Thorns and Flies . —To the philosophic mind and the unstung eye , however , an
interesting parallel appears between the flies that fill ths air and the thorn , that [ litter the road in fine September weather . Nature seems to know that her lingering favourites among the insect-eating birds , the swallows and the lly-catchers , must soon start upon their long and perilous journey to the South , and so she goes out of her way to P " them with food before they start . They have come from afar to reap her superabundant harvest of summer insect life , and in the September sivarms of tiny-winged things she seems to be deliberatelv orovidinc- them with a sumptuous banqret before they go . in wtio
the same way the farmer , whose harvest has been reaped with the aid of labourers , have come many of them from distant towns , finds men lingering after the harvest in the hope of further work , and for these he provides the makeshift employment or tidying up the hedges , a job which may as well be done now as at any other time , anu that provides employment for hands that the slack time which follows a finished harv " j would otherwise leave idle . The beauty of this parallel might be more fjeae ™" / appreciated if the men thus employed did not liave the thorns in the road , tor west , tempt the cyclist to draw a different parallel , and compare the farmer to one who linu * some inischinf still for idle " hands " to do . —Co itntry Life .
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