Channel Islands.

masonry veiled in allegory , on the general aim and tendency of our institution in disseminating the notions of our duty towards the Great Architect of tlie Universe , and our fellow creatures , that we may thereby render ourselves worthy of our vocation of universal brotherhood , by our virtuous deportment and constant study and application of our sublime tenets to all our dealings with mankind . It need not be observed , that the

W . M . ' s discourse was listened to with the utmost attention , and its deliverer was cordially congratulated on , and thanked for such an intellectual and moral treat . Our next report will , very likely , contain the oration translated into English . After some routine and a heavy night ' s business , the lodge broke up at ten o'clock in love and harmony .

"THE NATIONAL FREEMASON . "—The plain spokenness of our contemporary in some of its notices to the Masonic reader , is eminently characteristic of our American cousins . We find the following terse but telling paragraphs in a recent issue : "Will you act promptly in the support of the Masonic Weekly , aiding to make it worthy of our Craft and country ? Send

your own subscription without delay . Then get the brethren of your lodge to do likewise . Under the call for remarks for the good of the Order , call attention to this enterprise , getting your Masonic body to take several copies . Don't wait for agents . See your news agent , and ask him to keep himself supplied . " AVe are afraid we must take a leaf out of the book of our contemporary , which is decidedly ahead of us in this method of appealing to the Craft for support .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COURT . —The Queen went out on the 26 th ult ., accompanied by Princess Louise and Pr ' nce Arthur , and attended by the Hon . Miss Cathcart . The Queen went out on the morning of the 27 th ult ., accompanied by Princess Christian , and drove in the afternoon , accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian , to the Lynn of Dee . The Queen went out on the 28 th ult ., accompanied by Princess Louise , and attended by the

Marchioness Ely . The Queen went out on the morning of tho 29 th ult ., with Princess Louise , and drove in the afternoon with Princess Christian to Alt-iia-Gnithasacli . The Queen went out on the morning of the 30 th ult ., attended by the Marchioness of Ely , and rode up Glen fielder in the afternoon , accompanied by Princess Christian . The Queen , Princess Louise , and Prince

Arthur , with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting , attended Divine service in the parish church at Crathio on the 30 th ult . The Rev . John MacLeod officiated . Prince and Princess Christian drove on the afternoon of the 1 st inst . GENERAT , HOIIE NEWS . — 'J'he Registrar-General ' s "

weeklyreturn of births and deaths in Loudon" states that the mortality exceeds the estimated average for the week by 179 ; and , hy a singular coincidence , the deaths from cholera are within 2 of that number ? being 177 . The deaths registered from diarrhoea were 07 , which is probably rather below than above the number usnal at this season of the year . During the last 13 weeks 4 , 714 persons have fallen victims to cholera , and

2 , 298 to diarrhoea . The Registrar-General says that "the cholera matter ( cholrine ) is now diffused very equally all over London . " The annual rates of mortality per 1 , 000 in the week ending September 22 , for the metropolis and other cities and towns , were—Birmingham and Sheffield , IS ; Bristol , 22 ; Edinburgh , 23 ; London , 24 ; Glasgow , 25 ; Sulford and Hull ,

26 ; Manchester , 2 S ; Leeds , 29 ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne , 36 ; Dublin , 44 ; Liverpool , 47 ; and Vienna , 55 . In Liverpool the fatality from cholera was steadily declining ; the deaths in the last four weeks from that disease being respectively 225 , 145 , 182 , and 159 . In Dublin , on the contrary , the number of fatal

cases was increasing , the cholera deaths for the last four weeks being 52 , 55 , 65 , and OS . In Manchester and Salford tho pestilence had appeared , 14 out of 243 deaths there being attributed to cholera . In Vienna the epidemic is raging with increased violence , the deaths for the four weeks ending with the 22 nd September being 64 , 107 , 201 , and 274 . The " blue mist" was

observed at Greenwich during five days of tho past week . A meeting of the shareholders of the Atlantic Telepraph Company was held at the London Tavern on the 27 th ult . The directors in their report naturally took a very encouraging view of their position . They recommended that measures should be taken to extinguish the preferential claims of the

Anglo-American Telegraph Company , and that an application should be made to Parliament for power to increase the nominal capital of the company to a total not exceeding five millions sterling-. Mr . James Stuart Wort ' . cy , the chairman of the company , paid a hig h tribute to the successful efforts of the men who have now laid two cables across the Atlantic . The only name he

mentioned was that of Captain Anderson , who , as commander of the Great Eastern , has rendered services which his countrymen will gladly see recognised in the most honourable manner . But there were some omissions in his speech , which , to those who are acquainted with the share taken by the principal persons employed in the great work , will appear somewhat

remarkable . Mr . Glass , who superintended the whole of the arrangements and sacrificed his health by his too arduous labours ; Mr . Canning , the chief engineer , by whoso skill ths mechanical difficulties connected with the laying of the one cable and the picking up of the other were mainly overcome ; Captain Mori-arty , R . N ., the able assistant navigator ; Mr . Willoughby Smith and Professor Thomson , the accomplished electricians : and though last not least Captain Commarrel of

the Terrible , who was a volunteer , all deserve the special thanks of those who arc interested in Atlantic telegraphy . The services of these gentlemen an . ! others form the most conspicuous feature in the history of the great undertaking . On the 27 th ult . some further proceedings in the case of Overend , Guruey , and Co . took place before the Chief Clerk in

Vice-Chancellor Stuart ' s Court . An order to enforce the payment of calls was suspended for a wee ! :, in order to enable the parties petitioning to make an application to the court , based upon an affidavit which , for certain reasons stated in our report , pleaded non-liability , on the part of the petitioners . At the Guildhall Charles May hew has been re-examined on the extraordinary

charges of perjury which have been preferred against him . Evidence was given to show that he had made false affidavits to exempt grand jurors from fines for their non-attendance in various other courts besides the Central Criminal . In again remanding the prisoner , Alderman AbbUs satirically commented on the illness which appeared to prevail among some of the

principal witnesses concerned in the inquiry . The grand jury at the Middlesex Sessions have made a rather awkward mistake . They ignored a bill against a prisoner named Louisa Wright , who was charged with theft ; hut as the foreman neglected to run his pen through her name , according to the practice at this court , she was put upon her trial and pleaded

guilty . After the sentence was passed the mistake was discovered , and Mr . Payne actually had to liberate the prisoner , although she stood self-convicted of the offence with which she was charged . Gram ! juries will soon lay themselves open to the imputation of being incompetent as well as unnecessary . The Lords of the Admiralty made their annual inspection of

Woolwich Dockyard , on the 2811 ; inst . It was believed that they would order the Sejiuhe , ivbich was laid down in 1859 , and only partially built , to be converted into an ironclad steam