Obituary.

He also founded the Royal Arch chapter in connection with the lodge , and in the year 1840 had committed to him a warrant from H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex , for the encampment of Knights Templar , now designated , in compliment to the Jl . E . Supreme Grand Master , the Stuart Encampment . Bro . Ward's active services in the cause of Masonry were well knoivn in the province , and on many occasions the Prov . G . AI ., Bro . Stuart , bore testimony of the hih esteem in which he held his father

g in Masonry . Bro . Ward for some years exercised the office of Grand Secretary ofthe province , and was afterwards the Deputy of Bro . Stuart , which office failing health compelled him to resign in 1861 . The esteem in which Bro . AVard was held by the brethren of the AVatford Lodge , has been manifested in a very life-like portrait , painted by Bro . Philip AVcstcott , which now ornaments their noble hall .

Princess's Theatre.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE .

To all who are wise enough to relish a hearty laugh , Mr . Lindus , the lessee of this theatre , has rendered an important service by the production of a very irrational , but at the same time a very amusing , comedietta ingeniously adapted from the French by Mr . Maddison Morton , and hearing the good natin-ed title of "One Good Turn Deserves Another . " It were a profitless task to collect the disjecta membra of this ludilcrous little

piece with a view to frame out of them a symmetrical and consecutive narrative . It were only to worry aiid distract the reader to concoct for his perusal a serious and logical description of a plot which appears to have been constructed in heroic defiance of all the laws of probability . Touch it with the aquafortis of common sense , and such a play as this is reduced to ashes ; hut take it in the jovial spirit in which it is offered , and it may do you good . It belongs to that happy-go-lucky class ot

productions which , illumed with random flashes of wit and humour , and abounding in comic incidents , that have little or no relation one to the other , exact no effort of thought from the spectator , and can therefore be best relished hy people of thatenviable temperament who , without inquiring too nicely into the reasonableness of their mirth , are good-humoiiredly content to " take the goods the gods provide , " and he thankful . " I would go fifty miles on foot , for I have not a horse worth riding on , " observes Laurence Sterne , " to kiss the hand of that man

whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands , and be pleased he knows not why , and cares not wherefore . " Persons thus happily constituted will find abundant matter of merriment in Mr . Morton's little play , in which a number of comic characters , droll scenes , and preposterous incidents are all jumbled together in a wild farrago of fun , such as the author of " Box and Cox" has the peculiar facultfor producing . Of the general vraisemblance of the

y story some idea may lie formed when it is stated that tho most important personage of the scene is a journeyman blacksmith , wdio proves in the result to be no son of vulcan after all , but a dashing young guardsman , who is known at the West-end clubs as Captain FTtz-Fritterly . This delectable individual finds a most efficient representative in the person of Mr . George Alning , who plays the part admirably . Another character of more mark

than "likelihood" is Mrs . Trooper , a blacksmith ' s wife , to whose abundant drolleries Miss Amy Sedgwick does full justice . Mrs . Mai-ston also has a part well suited to her powers , and thus cleverly acted the comedietta passes oil' very merrily , and g ives entire satisfaction to the audience . The entertainments at this theatre are now of a more attractive charactet than at the commencement of the

present management . Miss Constance Ayhner acts spiritedly in the pleasant little comedy of "Time Tries All , " and Miss AI . Oliver is seen to advantage in the favourite old farce of " A Bohiud for an Oliver . "

The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COUET . —If the coming of age of the Prince of AVales , who is at present in Italy , was not celebrated with imposingdemonstrations of loyalty throughout the country , the circumstance arose not from any indifference to an event of so much interest and importance , but from a just appreciation of the feelings of the Queen herself . The prince's majority has been marked by several promotions in the army and navy , and a limited distribution of decorations . The prince himself has been

made a general , while the Duke of Cambridge , Lord Clyde , Lord Gough , and Sir E . Blakeuey have been promoted to the rank of field-marshal . The Princess Alexandra of Denmark and her father have arrived at Osborne , on a visit to Her Majesty . GENERAL HOWE NEWS . —The mortality of London took a serious upward spring last week " . The deaths amounted to 1307 ' which was 123 more than in the week before , and 68 more thanwas yielded hy the average of the last ten years . The principal '

increase was among children , and the most fatal diseases were , scarlatina and measles . The births were 1832 , which was slightly below the average . —•—Three other districts—theFylde , Gavstang , and Saddleworth—are now included in Air . Farnall ' s-. reports as to the condition of the cotton workers . Iu the whole twenty-seven districts there are now 224 , 712 persons in receipt of parochial relief , —an increase of 361 per cent , as compared " , with tlie corresponding period of last year . The average

percentage of pauperism iu the unions affected hy the cotton famine is 11-3 against 2-4 in the corresponding week of 1861 The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol , who was raised to the episcopate only last year , is to be translated to the vacant archbishopric of York . It is rumoured that Dr . . Teune , Master of Pembroke College , Oxford , " the only -member of the Oxford ; University Reform Commission who has not yet received his reward in the way of promotion , " will be succeed Dr . Thomson ,

as Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol . Lady Elgin is about to leave this country for Calcutta—a circumstance which would seem to dispose of the statement that Lord Elgin is about to retire from the governor-generalship . Indeed , shortly after the publication of the rumour adverted to , we received Indian papers , in which it was stated that excellency was about to proceed tothe hills to recruit his strength . Another member of Parliament has been cut off suddenlyand under most painful

circum-, stances . Jlr . Thomas Mills , the member for Totnes , was out hunting on Monday , when he was seized with au apoplectic attack , and soon died . The lion , gentleman , who was 68 years of age , bad represented Totnes since 1852 . The JIarquis of Breadalbane died in Switzerland on Saturday night . Tlie deceased nobleman leaves no issue ; and , as he was the only son of the first Marqnis , the marqnisate becomes extinct . The Scottish title of Earl of Breadalbane , however ,

descends to Jlr . J . A . G . Campbell , of Glenfalloch , Perthshire . Mr . Edward Francis JIaitland , the Solicitor-General for Scotland , has been appointed a judge in the Court of Session , in the room of Lord Ivory , who has resigned . Jlr . Young , sheriff of Haddington and Berwickshire , the barrister who was entrusted with the investigation into the Glasgow murder case , has been appointed Solicitor-General in place of Mr . Jfaitland . Her Majesty ' s Government has under its consideration the question

recently raised respecting the destruction of the British property wliich formed part of the cargoes of two of the American vessels destroyed by the Confederate war steamer Alabama , At a , meeting of the Juridieial Society , on Jlonday night , Lord Stanley part in a discussion on the proposed alterations in the law of blockade . The noble lord pointed out the extreme difficulty of this important subject , and suggested three questions for the consideration of those who share the views of Mr .

Cobden-These were , first , whether the effect of the practical application of their doctrine would not be to equalise the powers of the combatants , and enable them to continue the contest ; secondly , whether they would not take away the inducements to neutrals to bring about a peace ; and thirdly , whether they would not diminish the interest of the people of the belligerent countries in asking for a cessation of hostilities . It was also , he said , desirable to consider whether it would be well to make laws

which could not be enforced if , in a death struggle , one of the belligerents chose , as a matter of self-interest , to set them aside . Afc the last meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works , Jlr . Bazalgette laid two important reports before the members . One of these detailed the progress made in the various branches of the great sewer scheme , which appears , from his statement , to be making rapid progress towards completion . The other report related to the embankment of the southern shore of fche

Thames . It may be remembered that the body to whom the examination of the question was referred recommended that the embankment shoultl he carried from Westminster Bridge to Chelsea , which they thought might he done for £ 1 , 100 , 000 . Jlr . Bazalgefcte proposes a scheme to begin the embankment on the south side of London Bridge , and carry it up ou that side as far as the Pimlico Railway Station , which he believes would not cost more , compensations included , than the committee set apart for the more limited scheme . The report was ordered to be