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of Commerce aud . other bodies have petitioned against it . An act has been passed enabling the Governor General to leave Calcutta for the north west , retaining full powers , for seven months . The clause in the Criminal Procedure Bill rendering Europeans liable to preliminary investigation before native magistrates , has been successfully . resisted . The rebels on the Nepaul frontier are still troublesome . Some of the discharged Eurojieans have already sailed from Calcutta . The behaviour of all has been good . There is neivs from China to the 10 th
August . The Peiho and Grancl Canal are blockaded by the British aucl French ships of Avar . Captain Vansittart , of the Magieiennc . died on the 17 th July ; Admiral Hope is in a precarious state , and ivill havo to be invalided . The American minister ivas still negotiating about proceeding to Pekin . Ching-Kiug-Ivang , the celebrated leader of the rebels , has been killed by his OAAUI people . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The Social Science Conference has
commenced its sittings at Bradford .. The Bishop of Ripon preached the preliminary sermon , aucl Lords Shaftesbury aud Brougham delivered addresses . The preliminary meeting of the International Association was also held . This body is presided over by M . Chevalier , member of the council of state of France . In tho sections papers have been read on legal and social reform , one of these by Alee- Chancellor Page AA ' ood , and another , on chancery reform , by Air . Daniel , Q . C . The statistics of intemperance have alsoof coursereceived a large share of attention
, , . AA e ivere in hopes that to-day we should have been enabled to announce a settlement of the dispute in the building trades ; but as the masters' meeting was strictly secret , and as we ivere unable to ascertain the result of their deliberations , ifc is not in our poiver to state whether the emjiloyers decided upon AvithdraAviug the "declaration . " The deaths last week ivere nearly a hundred below the average rate . The mortality from diarrheea declined to 34 , bufc there AA-ere 95 fatal cases
of scarlatina aucl 11 of diphtheria ; 22 children and 6 adults died from small pox . The total of deaths was 990 , and of births 1757 . The mortality returns for tho week for the city are above the average of the last four years , the number of deaths having been 58 . Tho City Commissioners of Sewers sat this week at Guildhall . A report was agreed to for granting £ 700 for fixing charcoal purifiers in the air shafts of the principal city seivers , to be carried up above the houses . The attention of the court was called to the alleged irregularity in clearing away blood
and offal from the slaughter-houses in Newgate-market , and the inspector of the district Avas ordered to summon in future all offending parties . Jleasures were also ordered to be taken to get rid of the e-dsting nuisances in Leadenhall-market . Some conversation then took pla : e respecting fche difference between tho mode of visiting common lodging-houses in the city and that iu the metropolitan districts ; but the chairman ( Air . Deputy Christie ) reminded the court that there was no motion before itand the matter chopped . The Great Eastern
, arrived at Holyhead a littic before four on Monday afternoon . She is reported to have behaved well during tho passage . Jiulgiug from her performances , sho ivould , it is thought , occupy thirtysix days to Melbourne . The vessel will , it is saiel , be at her present anchorage on Christinas Day . Her majesty will pay a A'isit to tho great ship on the 17 th or 19 th inst . The official inquiry respecting tho loss of the Peninsular and Oriental steam ship Alma-, in the Reel Sea , was proceeded ivith at Greenwich on Tuesday . Sir John Bowriugivho was
, a passenger on board at the time of tiie wreck , gave it as his opinion that from the clearness of tho night the reef on ivhich the vessel struck ought to have been descried at a distance of at least two hundred yards . Opposed to Sir John ' s evidence , hoivever , was that of Air . Gisborno , C . E ., also a passenger , who thought tho reef could not have been visible at that distance . A reexamination of tho officers of the Alma ivas also
made . Air . Macqucen , the revising barrister , has held a second court for the revision of the fists of voters for tho city of AVcstminster , ivhich brought the proceeding : ! to a close . A considerable number of objections and new claims were made by the radicals , but none on behalf of the conservatives . The total gain in thc conservative interest up to this time on the West Kent lists is tivo hundred and twenty-one . At the Court of Bankruptcy , the case of J . E . Buller , money scrivener , of Lincoln ' s-inu-Fields , was brought under consideration , anel an
adjournment was ordered for tivo months , protection being afforded to the bankrupt , who surrendered in the course of the proceedings . His debts and liabilities are extremely heavy ; but , according to his own estimate , the assets ivill eventually liquidate the whole of the claims that can bo sustained against him . From Leeds ive have a painful narrative of an attempted ivife murder . Tho husband has been apprehended . Another of thoso colliery explosions ivhich are noiv becoming so common has occurred . A poor fellow , Avhose carelessness apparently was the
cause of the accident , has been killed by the explosion . A horrible narrative of drunkenness and murder comes from the Potteries district . A number of pothouse scamps , not being able any longer to chink in a public house , got drunk in a field , and a brutal quarrel was the result , one of the drunken brutes being mortally stabbed by one of his companions . . John Norris , of De Beauvoir road , Kingsland , was charged before Air . D'Eyncourfc , at "Worship Street , with forging aucl uttering certain receipts for the payment of money . Evidence Avas adduced to show that
the alleged frauds had been committed on an estate of ivhich the prisoner was sole executor . The prisoner was committed for trial . An operative engineer named Robert Ritsou ivas fined 25 s ., by Mr . Elliott , at Lambeth police court , for assaulting a fellow workman , the reason for such asuaull . beins ; ( hat . ( he complainant had pivMiiiied t <> do rather
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j more work than Mr . " Robert ltitsou himself felt inclined to do .- . Outrages on machinery employed in productive industry have been but too common in the neighbourhood of Sheffield of late . Another , ivhich it- is to be feared must be placed in this class , ivas perpetrated at an early hour on Tuesday morning in the little village of Eckington , when the scythe manufactory of Mr . Keeton ivas shattered to pieces by the explosion of a barrel of gunpowder , Avhich had been conveyed into the premises . It is to be hoped that speeddetection and condipunishment
y gn will follow the perpetrators of this atrocity . Yesterday transactions in the funds created a partial rise , bufc it ivas not supported , and Consols eventually left off 95 } -J for money and account . During the hou * s of business , however , bargains were effected at 96 . Lower prices from Paris , aucl the apprehension of fresh difficulties between Louis Napoleon aud the King of Sardinia caused speculative sales to be freely supported just before the close of the market .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
¥ . SPECIAL NOTICE . —A few proofs ofthe portrait of the Earl of Zetland ( presented ivith our number of this day ) , ou large paper , for framing , may be had , price 3 a . each , India proofs 5 s . each . " II . D . "—Put nofc your trust in books . " G . C . "—Your question shall be answered in cxtenso . "A G ' OBBESPONDENT , " York . —Next AA-eek .
"J . 0 . E . "—It is not imperative for the first Master of a Lodge to be a Past Alaster or even a Past AVarden . The M . AA " . Grancl Alaster can appoint , by the warrant constituting the Lodge , any Master Mason as the first AA ' orshipful Alaster .
" O . P . Q . "—Everything being done in due form , Ave should say a warrant for a new Lodge might be obtained in a fortnight or three lveeks at farthest , it depending in some measure upon what part of tho kingdom the Grand Alaster and the Deputy Grand Alaster may be in , the warrant requiring their signatures .
" J . AA' . '—Ihe advertisement in the Manchester Examiner , " AA ' anted to purchase a Craft AVarraut , " is illegal and unmasonic . Brethren would not be allowed to Avork under a Avarrant so obtained if it came to the knowledge of tho Board of General Purposes , and it must do so if the returns are properly examined in the Grancl Secretary ' s office .
" T . G . "—Trust not in printed rituals . ' ' G . F . " —•] .. It is most irregular to pass a strange brother without notice , and without a request from the AV . AI . of his mother Lodge . 2 . The Lodge having been regularly opened in the various degrees , can bo resumed as convenience may require without the ceremony of closing and reopening . At least that is the practice . 3 . A brother may be proposed as a joining ' member whilst only a FeiloAV Grnffc .
4 . An Entered Apprentice should not sit on the dais timing Lodge business ; bufc there is no absolute laiv against ifc . 5 . Ifc is not proper to confer a . degree on a brother from another Lodgo Avithout a , request from the AV . AI ., unless indeed he has been initiated iu a distant part of the ivorld , with which it may be difficult to communicate , and ho hold a Grand Lodge certificate . 0 . If reports of the proceedings at your Lodge do not appear in the
Freemasons' Magazine it is because they are not supplied to us , and it ivould be impossible for us to send reporters to private Lodge meetings a distance of 200 miles or more . 7 . AA ' e do not make up our list of country appointments from tiro Calendar , but from returns made lo us by the Lodges . Those which have not made returns are not noticed .
"J . Af . " is thanked for his photograph of the Alasonic Hall , Newport , Afonmouthshiro . Ifc is certainly a very elegant building . THE PHOA ' INOIAL GEAND LODOE OP AVEST YOBKSHIBE . —In consequence of the pressure upon our columns , and the A-ery imperfect report we have received , AVC postpone our account of the laying of the foundation stone of the Aiechanics' Institution at Huddersfield .
' ' P . AI ., No . 055 . "—AVe can only imagine that the Lodge had been duly expunged before any attempt n-as made to resuscitate it by the brethren who ivere prepared to pay the foes . AA'hen a Lodge is once removed from the roll , it caunot be replaced . The Lodge was expunged in 1853 , anel the new Avarrant ( No . 1073 ) for a Lodge of the same name , only obtained in the past year ; and it was not expunged until the- brethren had been repeatedly urged io make a return to Grand Lodge , and work it .
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of Commerce aud . other bodies have petitioned against it . An act has been passed enabling the Governor General to leave Calcutta for the north west , retaining full powers , for seven months . The clause in the Criminal Procedure Bill rendering Europeans liable to preliminary investigation before native magistrates , has been successfully . resisted . The rebels on the Nepaul frontier are still troublesome . Some of the discharged Eurojieans have already sailed from Calcutta . The behaviour of all has been good . There is neivs from China to the 10 th
August . The Peiho and Grancl Canal are blockaded by the British aucl French ships of Avar . Captain Vansittart , of the Magieiennc . died on the 17 th July ; Admiral Hope is in a precarious state , and ivill havo to be invalided . The American minister ivas still negotiating about proceeding to Pekin . Ching-Kiug-Ivang , the celebrated leader of the rebels , has been killed by his OAAUI people . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The Social Science Conference has
commenced its sittings at Bradford .. The Bishop of Ripon preached the preliminary sermon , aucl Lords Shaftesbury aud Brougham delivered addresses . The preliminary meeting of the International Association was also held . This body is presided over by M . Chevalier , member of the council of state of France . In tho sections papers have been read on legal and social reform , one of these by Alee- Chancellor Page AA ' ood , and another , on chancery reform , by Air . Daniel , Q . C . The statistics of intemperance have alsoof coursereceived a large share of attention
, , . AA e ivere in hopes that to-day we should have been enabled to announce a settlement of the dispute in the building trades ; but as the masters' meeting was strictly secret , and as we ivere unable to ascertain the result of their deliberations , ifc is not in our poiver to state whether the emjiloyers decided upon AvithdraAviug the "declaration . " The deaths last week ivere nearly a hundred below the average rate . The mortality from diarrheea declined to 34 , bufc there AA-ere 95 fatal cases
of scarlatina aucl 11 of diphtheria ; 22 children and 6 adults died from small pox . The total of deaths was 990 , and of births 1757 . The mortality returns for tho week for the city are above the average of the last four years , the number of deaths having been 58 . Tho City Commissioners of Sewers sat this week at Guildhall . A report was agreed to for granting £ 700 for fixing charcoal purifiers in the air shafts of the principal city seivers , to be carried up above the houses . The attention of the court was called to the alleged irregularity in clearing away blood
and offal from the slaughter-houses in Newgate-market , and the inspector of the district Avas ordered to summon in future all offending parties . Jleasures were also ordered to be taken to get rid of the e-dsting nuisances in Leadenhall-market . Some conversation then took pla : e respecting fche difference between tho mode of visiting common lodging-houses in the city and that iu the metropolitan districts ; but the chairman ( Air . Deputy Christie ) reminded the court that there was no motion before itand the matter chopped . The Great Eastern
, arrived at Holyhead a littic before four on Monday afternoon . She is reported to have behaved well during tho passage . Jiulgiug from her performances , sho ivould , it is thought , occupy thirtysix days to Melbourne . The vessel will , it is saiel , be at her present anchorage on Christinas Day . Her majesty will pay a A'isit to tho great ship on the 17 th or 19 th inst . The official inquiry respecting tho loss of the Peninsular and Oriental steam ship Alma-, in the Reel Sea , was proceeded ivith at Greenwich on Tuesday . Sir John Bowriugivho was
, a passenger on board at the time of tiie wreck , gave it as his opinion that from the clearness of tho night the reef on ivhich the vessel struck ought to have been descried at a distance of at least two hundred yards . Opposed to Sir John ' s evidence , hoivever , was that of Air . Gisborno , C . E ., also a passenger , who thought tho reef could not have been visible at that distance . A reexamination of tho officers of the Alma ivas also
made . Air . Macqucen , the revising barrister , has held a second court for the revision of the fists of voters for tho city of AVcstminster , ivhich brought the proceeding : ! to a close . A considerable number of objections and new claims were made by the radicals , but none on behalf of the conservatives . The total gain in thc conservative interest up to this time on the West Kent lists is tivo hundred and twenty-one . At the Court of Bankruptcy , the case of J . E . Buller , money scrivener , of Lincoln ' s-inu-Fields , was brought under consideration , anel an
adjournment was ordered for tivo months , protection being afforded to the bankrupt , who surrendered in the course of the proceedings . His debts and liabilities are extremely heavy ; but , according to his own estimate , the assets ivill eventually liquidate the whole of the claims that can bo sustained against him . From Leeds ive have a painful narrative of an attempted ivife murder . Tho husband has been apprehended . Another of thoso colliery explosions ivhich are noiv becoming so common has occurred . A poor fellow , Avhose carelessness apparently was the
cause of the accident , has been killed by the explosion . A horrible narrative of drunkenness and murder comes from the Potteries district . A number of pothouse scamps , not being able any longer to chink in a public house , got drunk in a field , and a brutal quarrel was the result , one of the drunken brutes being mortally stabbed by one of his companions . . John Norris , of De Beauvoir road , Kingsland , was charged before Air . D'Eyncourfc , at "Worship Street , with forging aucl uttering certain receipts for the payment of money . Evidence Avas adduced to show that
the alleged frauds had been committed on an estate of ivhich the prisoner was sole executor . The prisoner was committed for trial . An operative engineer named Robert Ritsou ivas fined 25 s ., by Mr . Elliott , at Lambeth police court , for assaulting a fellow workman , the reason for such asuaull . beins ; ( hat . ( he complainant had pivMiiiied t <> do rather
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j more work than Mr . " Robert ltitsou himself felt inclined to do .- . Outrages on machinery employed in productive industry have been but too common in the neighbourhood of Sheffield of late . Another , ivhich it- is to be feared must be placed in this class , ivas perpetrated at an early hour on Tuesday morning in the little village of Eckington , when the scythe manufactory of Mr . Keeton ivas shattered to pieces by the explosion of a barrel of gunpowder , Avhich had been conveyed into the premises . It is to be hoped that speeddetection and condipunishment
y gn will follow the perpetrators of this atrocity . Yesterday transactions in the funds created a partial rise , bufc it ivas not supported , and Consols eventually left off 95 } -J for money and account . During the hou * s of business , however , bargains were effected at 96 . Lower prices from Paris , aucl the apprehension of fresh difficulties between Louis Napoleon aud the King of Sardinia caused speculative sales to be freely supported just before the close of the market .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
¥ . SPECIAL NOTICE . —A few proofs ofthe portrait of the Earl of Zetland ( presented ivith our number of this day ) , ou large paper , for framing , may be had , price 3 a . each , India proofs 5 s . each . " II . D . "—Put nofc your trust in books . " G . C . "—Your question shall be answered in cxtenso . "A G ' OBBESPONDENT , " York . —Next AA-eek .
"J . 0 . E . "—It is not imperative for the first Master of a Lodge to be a Past Alaster or even a Past AVarden . The M . AA " . Grancl Alaster can appoint , by the warrant constituting the Lodge , any Master Mason as the first AA ' orshipful Alaster .
" O . P . Q . "—Everything being done in due form , Ave should say a warrant for a new Lodge might be obtained in a fortnight or three lveeks at farthest , it depending in some measure upon what part of tho kingdom the Grand Alaster and the Deputy Grand Alaster may be in , the warrant requiring their signatures .
" J . AA' . '—Ihe advertisement in the Manchester Examiner , " AA ' anted to purchase a Craft AVarraut , " is illegal and unmasonic . Brethren would not be allowed to Avork under a Avarrant so obtained if it came to the knowledge of tho Board of General Purposes , and it must do so if the returns are properly examined in the Grancl Secretary ' s office .
" T . G . "—Trust not in printed rituals . ' ' G . F . " —•] .. It is most irregular to pass a strange brother without notice , and without a request from the AV . AI . of his mother Lodge . 2 . The Lodge having been regularly opened in the various degrees , can bo resumed as convenience may require without the ceremony of closing and reopening . At least that is the practice . 3 . A brother may be proposed as a joining ' member whilst only a FeiloAV Grnffc .
4 . An Entered Apprentice should not sit on the dais timing Lodge business ; bufc there is no absolute laiv against ifc . 5 . Ifc is not proper to confer a . degree on a brother from another Lodgo Avithout a , request from the AV . AI ., unless indeed he has been initiated iu a distant part of the ivorld , with which it may be difficult to communicate , and ho hold a Grand Lodge certificate . 0 . If reports of the proceedings at your Lodge do not appear in the
Freemasons' Magazine it is because they are not supplied to us , and it ivould be impossible for us to send reporters to private Lodge meetings a distance of 200 miles or more . 7 . AA ' e do not make up our list of country appointments from tiro Calendar , but from returns made lo us by the Lodges . Those which have not made returns are not noticed .
"J . Af . " is thanked for his photograph of the Alasonic Hall , Newport , Afonmouthshiro . Ifc is certainly a very elegant building . THE PHOA ' INOIAL GEAND LODOE OP AVEST YOBKSHIBE . —In consequence of the pressure upon our columns , and the A-ery imperfect report we have received , AVC postpone our account of the laying of the foundation stone of the Aiechanics' Institution at Huddersfield .
' ' P . AI ., No . 055 . "—AVe can only imagine that the Lodge had been duly expunged before any attempt n-as made to resuscitate it by the brethren who ivere prepared to pay the foes . AA'hen a Lodge is once removed from the roll , it caunot be replaced . The Lodge was expunged in 1853 , anel the new Avarrant ( No . 1073 ) for a Lodge of the same name , only obtained in the past year ; and it was not expunged until the- brethren had been repeatedly urged io make a return to Grand Lodge , and work it .