Obituary.

Dungannon ; Viscountess Bangor ; Lady Camoys ; Lady Waterlow ; Lad y Victoria Villiers ; M . Granier de Cassagnac ; Miss Gladstone ; the Countess Hahn-Hahn ; the Dowager Countess of Longford ; Lord Henry Loftus ; Mr . George Grossmith ; Mr . Daniel Gurney , F . S . A , ; William Perry , alias "the Tipton Slasher , " pugilist ; William Thompson , alias "Bencligo , " another pugilist ; and lastnot leastMadame Rachel .

, , And even to this long list we may add a small supplemental one for 1880 : The Grand Duchess of Mecklenbnrg-Strelitz ; Mr . Herbert Taylor ; Mr . Usher ; Major John Godson ; Major Erancis Haviland : Colonel Thomas E . Briggs ; Alfred Prentice , M . D . ; Clement Upton ; Cottrell Darner , Esq . ; John Stenhouse , LL . D ., F . R . S . ; ancl Canon Clark .

Prejudice Against Freemasonry.*

PREJUDICE AGAINST FREEMASONRY . *

WE take the following admirable discourse , or Masonic sermon , unknown , we fancy , to most of our readers , as we never remember seeing it quoted , from an old volume , published in 1801 , of " Discourses , " practically sermons , delivered b y our American brother , Thaddeus Mason Harris , P . G . C . tothe Grand Lodge of Massachusetts . It was printed at Charlestown , by Samuel Etheridge , in 1801 , as we said before , ancl contains much that is very eloquent in words and forcible in sense and sound Masonic teaching . The remarks of that

excellent ancl able old writer seem very seasonable just now , when , as we note , that " cavillers " are very many , and peculiar prejudices against Masonry exist unaccountably in many minds . Let us hope that they will be dispelled by these sensible words of an older teacher . " We be slanderously reportedand some affirm that ive say let ns do evil

, that good may come . "—Romans x ., 3 . WHEN partiality is so busily endeavouring to render suspicious the best actions , ancl prejudice so artful in throwing out insinuations to the disadvantage of the worthiest characters , who can expect to escape " the strife of tongues ? " Especially ns the ignorant and the evil-minded are ever ready to adopt the surmisehowever improbableancl to give currency to the

imputa-, , tion , however unjust . Even our blessed Lord , the holy and immaculate Jesus , " was despised ancl rejected of men . " Not all the wonderful works that distinguished His ministry , not the divinity of His preaching , the disinterestedness of His conduct , nor the sanctity of His morals , could secure him from the opposition of party ancl the rage of malignity . He forewarned His disciples of a similar

treatment , and told them that they must expect to meet with unkind usage , bitter re ] 3 roach , ancl violent persecution , as well as He . f Accordingly " in every city they hacl trial of cruel mockings , ancl sconrgings , yea , moreover of bonds , ancl imprisonments , and tortures . J They were " a sect everywhere spoken against . " The apostles were reproached as being pestilent , factions , turbulent , and seditious fellows . § They were not only accused of conspiring