Proposed Central Masonic Hall For Glasgow.

have anv heart in Freemasonry to come forward and put their hands to the work , in the formation of a central committee , and to write to him direct that he may be able at once to make the necessary arrangements . If the brethren decline to adopt the scheme , the property referred to will be sold , the P . G . Master bearing any loss tbat ~ . v result from the transaction ; and , with great regret ,

he says he will be obliged to abandon all hopes of his fond expectations being realised —of seeing Freemasonry in Glasgow elevated to the honourable position it holds elsewhere . On receipt of the communication embodying the scheme of which the above is an outline , a special meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge was summoned r Ifc / -nnsideratinn . Ihe result heinsr thc formation of a

committee for the furtherance of the object , said committee consisting of all the Masters of lodges within the province , together with the Prov . Grand Depute and Subsiitute Masters , P . G . Senior and Junior Wardens , and the P . G . Secretary , Bro . John Baird , P . G . S . M ., being

appointed convener . Meantime the committee have instructed the Masters of the various lodges in the province to bring the matter at once before the members , and endeavour to obtain an expression of their feeling on the subject , so that the same may be fully reported at the next meeting of the committee .

Arrangements For The Visit Of The Prince Of Wales To Glasgow.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO GLASGOW .

A meeting of the Lord Provost and Magistrates was held on the 26 th inst . in the City Chambers for the purpose of making final arrangements for the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . The meeting was nrivate , but we understand that a complete scheme of the

arrangements was agreed to . As no communication has been received from His Royal Highness to the contrary , it was taken for granted that the date or the visit would be Tuesday , the 17 th October . On the previous evening the Prince and Princess , with two cf the Royal children , will be the guests of Bro . Col . Campbell , M . P ., at . Blythswood . Leaving Blythswood on Tuesday morning , their Royal

Highnesses will come by train to St . Enoch Station ofthe Union Railway , arriving there at a quarter-past ten o'clock . Previous to that lime St . Enoch-square , and the approach to it from Argyle-street , will be lined by the Hussars and the 26 th Cameronians . Their Royal Highnesses will be received at the station by the Lord Provost and Sir Edward Colebrooke , Lord-Lieutenant of the county ,

along with Sheriff Dickson . The Lord Provost and Mag istrates will wear their official robes , and his Lordship will present the Magistrates to their Royal Hi ghnesses . The Prince of Wales' charger is to be brought from London to bear his Royal Highness , but we understand it will be suggested to thc Prince that he should enter the Royal carriage at the station with the Princess and their

children , and drive to the Green , where the review of the Y ' olunteers will immediately take place , His Royal Highness , in the dress of a Field-Marshal , there mounting his charger , and reviewing the troops , while the Princess will , it is expected , be accommodated on a portion of a grand stand' to be erected , where seats will also be provided for a select company . After the review their Royal

Highnesses , accompanied by their suite and thc L _ rd Provost , will proceed along Argyle-street , Main-street , Anderston , and Elderslie-strctt to th ? residence of the Lord Provost , where they will partake of luncheon . In the meantime the Grand Lodge of Freemasons will open the lodge in Bumbank Hall , and dressed in the icgalia of the Order , will proceed to his lordshio ' s residence

and accompany the Prince and Princess of Wales and suite and the Lord Provost along Woodside Crescent , Sauchichall-str'ct , and St . George's Square . Entering the tquare by St . Vincent Place , the Royal party will then proceed along Queen-street and Gcorge-slreet , to thenortheast corner cf the square . From this point a platform covered with an awnine , and ha vine a stand en either side

lor spectators , will run along the whole east side of the square to that pari of thc new Post Oflice where the foundation stone is to be laid . At the George-street end of the platform , His Royal Highness will be received by the Lord Provost , and conducted along the covered way to the Post Office , where thc Freemasons will already have taken up their position , it having been

arranged that they shall leave the . procession ai the corner of St . Vincent-place and Queen-street , and march along St . Vincent-street to the Post Oflice . Immediatel y on the Prince ' s arrival there , he will be presented by the Lord Provost , in name of the Corporation , with a loyal and dutiful address , and thereafter His Royal Highness will ] ay the foundation stone with Masonic honours .

The Princess and Princess and suite will afterwards return to the residence of the Lord Provost , where they will be tntertained to dinner along with a select party who are to receive invitations . The Lord Provost and Magistrates "aye agreed to recommend thc inhabitants of the locality

«< - ] oining his lordshi p ' s residence ; as well as thc University authorities , to illuminate their buildings in the evening , while their Royal Highnesses take their departure to the train b y which they will leave the city . he Lord Provost and Magistrates also agree to recommend the cilizens to observe the day as a general holiday .

The annual banquet of the Duke of Connaught "dge of Instruction , No . 1524 , will be held at the Have-CK ilav em , AVbion-road , Dal . ton , on Wednesday , 4 th Hr , i . 'i . r L seven P > m * Br 0 - T- - Chapman , P . G . Slwd . H'tts , W . M . , 524 , will preside . KH o " ? ° uncil of [ the Illustrious Knights Sonar - ? . * " * heW at the Masonic Hall , 33 , Golden R . & ~ Wednesday , | Oct . nth week w ™ . 7 ° >' e was installed , on Thursday «•* , W . M . of the Burdett Coutts Lodge , No . , 278 .

Obituary.

Obituary .

BRO . FREDERICK GOODYER , P . P . G . S . W . LEICESTERSHIRE . The sad and unexpected intelligence of thc death of Frederick Goodyer , Esq ., the Chief Constable of Leicestershire , on Tuesday , the 12 th instant , from disease of the heart , was received throughout the county with a feeling of regret at once deep and wide-spread . Only a few weeks have elapsed since this gentleman , -who was so

well-known and deservedly respected , tendered to the county magistrates his resignation of that responsible and important position , which he had filled for nearly forty years with such conspicuous ability ; and intimated his intention to retire from his public duties , in order to gain that rest he had so , well earned ; but before he had been permitted to relieve himself from the labours and

cares inseparable from his high official position it pleased the G . A . O . T . U . to call him to the Grand Lodge above , with a suddenness quite startling . Our deceased brother was in his sixty-eighth year . Bro . Goodyer was of an ancient and respectable family , long seated in the south of England ; his great grandfather , Mr . John Goodyer , having been Mayor of Guildford , in Surrey , about the vear i * -2 Q

Bro . Goodyer ' s grandfather served as a captain in the British army during the American war . This gentleman " got through" much of the family property . His son , Mr . Landera Goodyer ( the late Bro . Goodyer's father ) , held a responsible post in the Phcenix Fire Office . He was the father * of a large family , his youngest son being the subject of this notice ; the eldest held a commission in the

Spanish Legion , and died , in active service , in Spain . The eldest daughter became the second wife of Benjamin Hick , Esq ., of Bolton , whose son , John Hick , Esq ., now sits as one of the members for that town in the House of Commons . The only surviving issue of Bro . Goodyer ' s parents is Mrs . Godfrey , wife of John Godfrey , E $ q ., of Northampton . No male descendant now remains of the once

numerous family of Mr . Landera Goodyer . Our deceased brother was for many years an active and esteemed member of the Craft . Bro . Goodyer was initiated into Masonry ( together with five other candidates , one of them being the present Clerk of the Peace for the county , Bro . W . Napier Reeve ) on the 26 th March , 1846 , at the first meeting ( under dispensation ) of the John of Gaunt Lodge ,

then No . 766 , now 523 , under the Mastership of Bro . Kelly , now P . P . G . Master . After passing through subordinate offices and the Wardens' chairs , Bro , Goodyer was elected W . M . of his lodge in the year 1854 , and performed his duties with zeal and ability . He had also held several offices in the Provincial Grand Lodge . In 1854 he succeeded Bro . Kelly in the Prov . Grand Secretaryship ,

and after discharging the duties most carefully and efficiently for three years , he was promoted to the rank of P . G . S . W . in 1859 . After being exalted in the Chapter of St . Augustine , formerly attached to the John of Gaunt Lodge , on the removal of the warrant to the lodge at Ashby de-la-Zouch he joined the Chapter of Fortitude , No . 279 , in which , in the year 1866 , he

filled the office of Second Principal , but did not proceed to the first chair . In Mark Masonry he was one of the founders of the Fowke Lodge , No . 19 , having , with a few other Leicester brethren , been advanced in the old Newstead Mark lodge , at Nottingham , early in 1838 , and was nominated in the warrant as Senior Warden of the Fowke Lodge , the VV . M . being Bro . Kelly , the Provincial Grand

Master of that degree for Leicestershire . Bro . Goodyer was also one of the founders of St . Peter ' s ( Craft ) Lodge , No . 1330 , at Market Harborough , and a few months ago he joined the Albert Edward Lodge , No . 15 C 0 , lately established at Leicester , but had not been able to be present at any of its meetings . We believe his last attendance in Masonry was at the installation of H . R . H . the Prince of

YVales as G . M . at the Albert Hall . The remains of our lamented brother were interred in the Leicester Cemetery on Monday , the 18 th inst ., a large number of spectators being present both along the streets through which the procession passed , and at the cemetery . The funeral arrangements were simple and unostentatious in character , the mourners wearing neither hat-bands nor scarves . At the

head of the cortege marched seventy-six members of the County Constabulary , four abreast , followed by Deputy Chief Constable Bail , and five superintendents . After the mourning coach containing the chief mourners came a carriage containing four superannuated superintendents of the police force . At thc principal entrance to the cemetery , which was reached in the midst of a drenching

downpour of rain , the procession was joined by a considerable number of members of the Order , headed by the Past Prov . Grand Master , Bro . Kelly , by whom , as before mentioned , the deceased was , thirty years ago , initiated into Masonry . Among many others present were Bros . Toller , P . P . G . S . YV . ; Partridge , P . G . Sec ; Rev . J . Owen Pictor , B . A . ( rector of Desford ) , P . P . G . Chaplain , by whom the funeral

service was peiformed ; Major Freer , P . P . G . S . B . ( who , together with his colleague , T . T . Paget , Esq ., chairman of the Leicester Bench , attended as representing the country magistrates ) ; Rev . C . II . Wood , W . Napier Reeve ( Clerk of the Peace for the county ); Dr . Buck , P . P . G . J . W . ; Charles Morris , P . P . G . S . W . ( clerk to the Leicester Bench ); Joseph Haines , P . P . G . T . ; Edwin Clephan ,

P . P . G . J . YV . ; and others ; also Richard Toller , Esq ., Clerk of the Peace for the ( borough ; G . Harrison , Esq ., Borough Coroner ; many members of the Town Council , and other leading inhabitants both , of the town and county . After the ceremony in thc chapel , the solemn service was completed at the grave in the midst of brilliant sunshine , and a last sad farewell was then taken by his sorrowing

relatives , brcmren , and Inends ( mclucJing the numerous body of police , who had lost in him a kind and considerate chief ) of the earthly remains of the departed . The inscription on the coffin was , " Frederick Goodyer , born 17 th March , 1808 , died 12 th Septembir , " i 876 . " Peace to his remains . ^

Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .

The General Committee of Subscribers to the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls met on Thursday afternoon at Freemasons' Hall , when there were present Bros . H . A . Dubois ( in the chair ) , Lieut .-Col . Creaton , John Boyd , Herbert Dicketts , R . B . Webster , Raynham W . Stewart , Thos . Massa , Henry Venn , F . G . Baker , Hyde Pullen ,

H . Massey ( "Freemason" ) , Peter De L . Long , and R , Wentworth Little ; Sec . Colonel Creaton gave notice of motion for the next Quarterly Court that the Chairman of . the Building Committee should sign cheques for the works in progress at the school . This arose out of the circumstance that the House Committee had lately signed a cheque for £ rooo for the

builder , and the House Committee has no power to deal with the funds of the institution except for servants' wages , A third Assistant Governess was then appointed , on account of the increased number of the children in the school . Col . Creaton moved that Bro . Muggeridge , who has resigned his office of collector to the institution , should

receive a pension of £ 1 t ; o a year from the ist January next . Bro . Raynham W . Stewart seconded the motion , which was put and carried unanimously . Bro . Raynham W . Stewart gave notice of motion for next Quarterly Court that the office of collector be abolished and an additional clerk be appointed in tbe Secretary ' s office . He also gave notice of motion for next General Committee that the salary of the Secretary be

increased by £ 100 a year . The brethren then proceeded to consider the petitions of candidates for election , and placed two cases on the list . Authority was given to the Chairman to sign cheques for salaries , & c , to the amount of £ 354 . The House Committee was appointed as the committee to enquire into the office and duties of collector , and a vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the proceedings .

Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

PRINCE LEOPOLD ' VISIT TO ST . ANDREWS —Bro . H . R . H . Prince Leopold arrived on Tuesday at Mount Melville , near St . Andrews , the residence of Bro . John Whyte Melville . The Prince , who since Monday has been the guest of Mr . W . B . Skene , of Pitlourjourney . d by way of Cupar in a carriage and four , with two postilions The day was observed as a holiday , and the Roval visitor

was accorded a cordial welcome . The streets were lined by the Volunteers and Fife Light-Horse while His Royal Highniss was passing through . The annual banquet of the Constitutional Lodge of [ Instruction , No . 55 , will be held at the Wheatsheaf Hotel , Hand-court , Holborn , on Tuesday , 3 rd Oct ., at seven p . m . Bro . A . J . Melhuish , S . W . of the mother

lodge , will preside . Bro . the Right Hon . the Earl of Zetland , R . W . P . G . M . North and East Riding , of Yorkshire , laid the memorial stone of the Public Institute at Grangemouth on Tuesday last . We learn that the Earl of Limerick , M . W . G . M . M . M ., has fixed to hold a movable meeting of the

Grand Lodge of Mark Masters ( for the second time ) at Leicester , on Wednesday , October 25 th , on which occasion a new Mark Lodge , the Simon de Montford , No . 194 , will be consecrated , and the Mayor of Leicester , Bro . Barfoot , installed as the first W . M . The R . W . Prov . G . Mark Master , Bro . Kelly , summoned a meeting of the Provincial Grand Mark Lodge for the 28 th inst ., to make the

necessary arrangements . The ceremony of consecration will be rehearsed on Monday evening , Oct . 9 th , by Bro . Terry , at seven o ' clock , at the Marquis of Ripon Lodge of Instruction , Pembury Tavern , Amhurst Road , Hackney . Bro . Win . Stephens , P . M ., will perform the Installation ceremony on this occasion . Brethren are requested to appear in full Masonic clothing .

Bro . S . C . Hall , in a preface to a new edition of his " Book of Afemories , " states that he is occupied in preparing a volume of " Recollections of a Long Life . " He published a book so long ago as 1820 , was intimately acquainted with Ireland so far back as 1816 ; and commenced the " Art Journal " in 1839 ; having been an editor upwards of 53 years . THE VATICAN . —The " Berlin Post " states

that the Pope has determined to solemnize the anniversary of the humiliating punishment inflicted centuries ago upon the German Emperor Henry IV . at Canossa . The "Masonic Magazine , " containing the dedication to " Long Livers , " and a reference to some Herd mctic Grades , is out , and can be obtained at 198 ,

Fleetstreet . RE-OPENING O _ THE ABERDEEN MASONIC HALL . —The decorations of the Aberdeen Masonic Institute , in Exchange-street , for whicha considerable sum was raised by means of a bazaar some months ago , is now completed and the re-opening of the rooms for the use 'of the

brethren of the Craft for club and meeting purposes , was inaugurated last evening by an appropriate ceremony , in which the several city lodges took part . A report of the proceedings will appear next week . The students of the Islington School of Science and Art on Wednesday evening received the Queen ' s prizes at the hands of Bro . Sir John Bennett .

DAYLIGHT reflected in dark rooms . Gas superseded in day time . Health , comfort , and economy piomotcd by adopting Chappuis' Patent Daylight Reflectors , — Manufactory , 69 , Fleet-street , London .