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be sent to the Grand Lodge of England , with a request that the matter may be laid before the Grand Lodge of Scotland . 3 . That the resolutions jnst passed be communicated to the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India under Scotland with a copy of R . W . Bro . G . S . Judge ' s letter of tbe 25 th November last , and that those resolutions and the whole of the correspondence be printed in the form of a pamphlet and distributed ,
and that fche same be sent to the Indian Freemasons' Friend , and THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE for publication therein , in order to counteract any ill effects that may have arisen from the publication of the charges without R . W . Bro . G . S . Judge ' s reply thereto . ( True copies ) ALERED KING , P . M . 757 , Bombay . Provincial Grand Secretary .
Obituary.
Obituary .
BRO . SAMUEL TARDREW . Died lately , at Stevling Park , Carmarthen , Bro . Samuel Tardrew , for nearly fifty years an active and zealous Freemason , whose hand was ever open to the calls of charity , and whose heart was filled with sympathy for the afflictions and losses of all whom Providence had , in his sphere , visited with calamity .
The loss of his son , two years ago , Surgeon of the Second Life Guards , was constantly uppermost iu his mind . It was the pride of bis love for Freemasonry that ho had introduced both his own sous into the Fraternity . May his soul rest in peace !
Poetry.
Poetry .
WINTER BIRDS' . Name me the birds that dare to sing When wintry tempests blow , — AVheu ruffian winds wild challenge fling , And ices to the streamlet cling , And check its merry flow . The robin—with his kindling breast ?
, The thrush , —musician rare ? Tho martin bold and shrill of note ? The blackbird with his tireless note ? Sing they , when trees are bare ? No , no—their favourite haunts are lone—Their warbling strains are still , —
They are all gone , —they might not stay , To meet stern winter's iron sway , — Ah 1 what their place can fill ? Upon their radiant wing we muse Beside our wintry hearth , While dreary snows their banners toss—
-, AVhat can console us for the loss Of melody and mirth ? The unselfiish deed , the gentle word , The smile that lights the eye , — AVarm sympathy for want and pain True friendship invoked in vain , —
Pure love that cannot die : These build a green bower in the heart , Though every branch is riven , — These have no winter in their breast , — But gladly from a lowly nest Strike the soul ' s key-tone , sweet and blest , And sing like birds of heaven . L . II . S
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COURT . —The Queen and junior members of the Royal Family remain at Osborne . The Prince and Princess of Wales have been on a visit to St . Leonards , and the Prince has beea enjoying the sports of the field . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . —In the HOUSE or LORDS on Thursday , the 11 th , in reply to the Earl of Derby , who asked for the production of further correspondence relating to the
Alabama , and for the despatches concerning the seizure of the rams at Liverpool , Earl Russell said he had no doubt tho rams were intended for the service of the Confederate States , and that he could not produce the papers asked for by tbe noble Earl , as ho was informed by the law officers that their production would embarrass the Government in the legal proceedings ,
they were taking . After some discussion on the circumstances connected with tbe death of Lieutenant Tinling in China , which led to no result , their lordships agreed to a joint Committee with the Commons to consider the Metropolitan Railway r Schemes . On Friday Lord Denuian presented a petition from the guardians of the Bakewell Union against the renewal of the
rate in Aid Act . — -The noble lord said the petitioners considered the Act was oppressive so far as they were concerned . Earl Granville thought there was no ground for tho alarm that the petitioners seemed to entertain . The grievance was not so very great , and the noble Earl thought they would not probably be called upon to contribute for more than another year . Oil
Monday Lord Russell reverted to the subject of the Mersey steam rams with the view of correcting a statement made by Lord Derby prevsously . The noble lord said there was no foundation for the assertion that the decision of the Government to seize the . vessels was hastened hy the remonstrances addressed to the Foreign Office by Mr . Adams on fche 4 th and 5 th of September . The fact was that on the 3 rd of that month
the Government had come to the conclusion that the rams ought to be stopped . With regard to Mr . Seward's threat that Confederate cruisers would be followed into British ports , the noble earl stated that the threat , " if ever made , had been entirely withdrawn . " —Lord Campbell called attention at considerable length to the treaties and conventions by which Great Britain has " guaranteed" to Denmark the possession of Schleswig .
The noble Lord argued that ; England is pledged , in conjunction with other powers , to the maintenance of the connection between . Denmark and Schleswig , and that that connection is necessary to the balance of power in Europe . Lord Russell said the Government had come to a distinct understanding on the subject referred to by the noble lord , but he submitted that at the
present moment it would be injudicious to state what that opinion was . If an attempt was made to place the Prince of Augustenburg in . possession of Schleswig , ifc would be necessary for us to consider whether we were , or whether we were not , bound by tho guarantee of 1720 ; but Austria and . Prussia , who must be aware that Schleswig and Holstein could
only be separated from Denmark with the assent and consent of the Great ; Powers , had distinctly declared that they did not contemplate the dismemberment of the Danish monarchy . Thisbeing so , he held that ifc was desirable that everything possible should be done in the way of negociation before any step was taken which might bring some of the Great Powers of
Europeface to face in a hostile attitude . On Tuesday , tho Lord Chancellor referred to the number of benefices which had already changed hands under the Act passed last session , and said he was entitled to affirm that tho operation of the Act "had exceeded his most sanguine expectations . " ¦ —Lord Carnarvon moved for papers relating to the claims which had been made upon the United States
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be sent to the Grand Lodge of England , with a request that the matter may be laid before the Grand Lodge of Scotland . 3 . That the resolutions jnst passed be communicated to the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India under Scotland with a copy of R . W . Bro . G . S . Judge ' s letter of tbe 25 th November last , and that those resolutions and the whole of the correspondence be printed in the form of a pamphlet and distributed ,
and that fche same be sent to the Indian Freemasons' Friend , and THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE for publication therein , in order to counteract any ill effects that may have arisen from the publication of the charges without R . W . Bro . G . S . Judge ' s reply thereto . ( True copies ) ALERED KING , P . M . 757 , Bombay . Provincial Grand Secretary .
Obituary.
Obituary .
BRO . SAMUEL TARDREW . Died lately , at Stevling Park , Carmarthen , Bro . Samuel Tardrew , for nearly fifty years an active and zealous Freemason , whose hand was ever open to the calls of charity , and whose heart was filled with sympathy for the afflictions and losses of all whom Providence had , in his sphere , visited with calamity .
The loss of his son , two years ago , Surgeon of the Second Life Guards , was constantly uppermost iu his mind . It was the pride of bis love for Freemasonry that ho had introduced both his own sous into the Fraternity . May his soul rest in peace !
Poetry.
Poetry .
WINTER BIRDS' . Name me the birds that dare to sing When wintry tempests blow , — AVheu ruffian winds wild challenge fling , And ices to the streamlet cling , And check its merry flow . The robin—with his kindling breast ?
, The thrush , —musician rare ? Tho martin bold and shrill of note ? The blackbird with his tireless note ? Sing they , when trees are bare ? No , no—their favourite haunts are lone—Their warbling strains are still , —
They are all gone , —they might not stay , To meet stern winter's iron sway , — Ah 1 what their place can fill ? Upon their radiant wing we muse Beside our wintry hearth , While dreary snows their banners toss—
-, AVhat can console us for the loss Of melody and mirth ? The unselfiish deed , the gentle word , The smile that lights the eye , — AVarm sympathy for want and pain True friendship invoked in vain , —
Pure love that cannot die : These build a green bower in the heart , Though every branch is riven , — These have no winter in their breast , — But gladly from a lowly nest Strike the soul ' s key-tone , sweet and blest , And sing like birds of heaven . L . II . S
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COURT . —The Queen and junior members of the Royal Family remain at Osborne . The Prince and Princess of Wales have been on a visit to St . Leonards , and the Prince has beea enjoying the sports of the field . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . —In the HOUSE or LORDS on Thursday , the 11 th , in reply to the Earl of Derby , who asked for the production of further correspondence relating to the
Alabama , and for the despatches concerning the seizure of the rams at Liverpool , Earl Russell said he had no doubt tho rams were intended for the service of the Confederate States , and that he could not produce the papers asked for by tbe noble Earl , as ho was informed by the law officers that their production would embarrass the Government in the legal proceedings ,
they were taking . After some discussion on the circumstances connected with tbe death of Lieutenant Tinling in China , which led to no result , their lordships agreed to a joint Committee with the Commons to consider the Metropolitan Railway r Schemes . On Friday Lord Denuian presented a petition from the guardians of the Bakewell Union against the renewal of the
rate in Aid Act . — -The noble lord said the petitioners considered the Act was oppressive so far as they were concerned . Earl Granville thought there was no ground for tho alarm that the petitioners seemed to entertain . The grievance was not so very great , and the noble Earl thought they would not probably be called upon to contribute for more than another year . Oil
Monday Lord Russell reverted to the subject of the Mersey steam rams with the view of correcting a statement made by Lord Derby prevsously . The noble lord said there was no foundation for the assertion that the decision of the Government to seize the . vessels was hastened hy the remonstrances addressed to the Foreign Office by Mr . Adams on fche 4 th and 5 th of September . The fact was that on the 3 rd of that month
the Government had come to the conclusion that the rams ought to be stopped . With regard to Mr . Seward's threat that Confederate cruisers would be followed into British ports , the noble earl stated that the threat , " if ever made , had been entirely withdrawn . " —Lord Campbell called attention at considerable length to the treaties and conventions by which Great Britain has " guaranteed" to Denmark the possession of Schleswig .
The noble Lord argued that ; England is pledged , in conjunction with other powers , to the maintenance of the connection between . Denmark and Schleswig , and that that connection is necessary to the balance of power in Europe . Lord Russell said the Government had come to a distinct understanding on the subject referred to by the noble lord , but he submitted that at the
present moment it would be injudicious to state what that opinion was . If an attempt was made to place the Prince of Augustenburg in . possession of Schleswig , ifc would be necessary for us to consider whether we were , or whether we were not , bound by tho guarantee of 1720 ; but Austria and . Prussia , who must be aware that Schleswig and Holstein could
only be separated from Denmark with the assent and consent of the Great ; Powers , had distinctly declared that they did not contemplate the dismemberment of the Danish monarchy . Thisbeing so , he held that ifc was desirable that everything possible should be done in the way of negociation before any step was taken which might bring some of the Great Powers of
Europeface to face in a hostile attitude . On Tuesday , tho Lord Chancellor referred to the number of benefices which had already changed hands under the Act passed last session , and said he was entitled to affirm that tho operation of the Act "had exceeded his most sanguine expectations . " ¦ —Lord Carnarvon moved for papers relating to the claims which had been made upon the United States