Western India.

recorded , and that a copy of his likeness be purchased and suspended'in the Prov . Grand Lodge as a memorial . The Acting E . AV . Prov . G . M . seconded the proposition , which ivas unanimously carried . The Prov . G . Treas . here produced his account current closed up t < , date , showing a balance in hand of Es . 14 G-1-7 , which amount included Intrant fees received from lodges Perseverance , Bombay ; FelixAdenand St . PaulMhow .

, ; , The Prov . G . See . was requested to write to those lodges which have not sent up their return of Intrants , & c , requesting them to explain the cause of delay , and a compliance with the resolution of the Prov . Grand Lodge of the quarterly communication held on the 19 th January , 1859 . There being no further business before the Prov . Grand Lodge , it was closed in harmony and with solemn prayer .

Australia.

AUSTRALIA .

PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE . In consequence of the resignation as Prov . G . M . for South Australia , Bro . B . A . Kent , it has pleased the M . AV . G . M . to confer that high and important appointment upon an old colonist and much respected and well-beloved brother , Arthur Hardy , who was duly installed according to ancient custom , at the Masonic Hall , AVhite ' s Rooms , Adelaide , on AVednesday , the 22 nd May , inst .

The ceremony was performed in a very imposing manner hy the R . AA . Past Prov . G . M ., Bro . Henry Mildred , M . P . ; Bro . P . AVells acting on the occasion by request as Dir . of Cers . The ceremony of installation being completed , the R . W . Prov . G . M . proceeded to appoint his officers for the current year , who were accordingly invested ancl conducted to their respective positions as follows : —Bro . Wm . Gosse , D . Prov . G . M . ; Charles S . Poole , Prov . G . S . W . ; R , W . Moore , Prov . G . J . W . ; G . S . KingstonProv . G . Treas . ; the Hon . Sir James Hartle

, Fisher , Prov . G . Reg . ; B . J . Price , Prov . G . Sec . ; J . C . Hawker , Prov . G-. S . D . ; H . Stoddart , Prov . G . J . D . ; G . Earnest Hamilton , Prov . G . Supt . of Works ; F . C . Bayer , Prov . G . D . C . ; T . AVorsnop , Prov . G . Assist . D . C ; Aulay Macaulay , Prov . G . S . B . ; J . S . Cope , Prov . G . Organist ; Alfred Hardy , Prov . G . Purst . ; E . AA . Andrews , R . D . Hanson , AV . G . D . Beresford , ancl H . Aylwin , Stewards . The business being completed , the R . AA . Prov . G . Lodge was duly closed in harmony and prayer .

It being the evening of the regular meeting of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship ( No . 613 ) , the R . AV . Prov . G . M ., the Prov . G-. Treas . ; Thomas Robinson , Prov . G . Heg . ; Thomas . D . Prov . G . M ., and several other Prov . G . Lodge Officers honoured this lodge with their presence on the occasion in their several capacities , where having witnessed the initiation of four candidates Tjerformecl by the AV . M ., Bro . B . J . Price , they returned from the lodge room with accustomed honours . The lodge shortly

afterwards was closed in harmony , and the brethren repaired to the dining room , where they sat down to an excellent repast , supplied by ancl under the direction of the host , Bro . Florence Darling , which did him much credit . A most agreeable evening was spent , ancl about eleven o'clock , the AV . M . gave the loyal toast of the evening , when the B . W . Prov . G . M . ancl his deputy , having expressed themselves much gratified with their visit to the parent lodge , retired with usual Masonic honours . They all having devoted an interesting and profitable evening , retired shortly afterwards .

ANCIENT LIBERALITY . —AVhen Hugh le Loup found himself installed as Earl of Chester , but surrounded on all sides by implacable foes , he naturally felt desirous of having some of his countrymen at hand to share his fortunes . AA ith this view he sent to Normandy for an old friend , named Nigel , who brought with him five brothers , to whom Hugh granted lauds in the earldom of Chester . Besides appointing Nigel Constable and Hereditary Marshal of Chester , Hugh granted Mm the town of Halton , near

the Mersey , and all four-legged beasts of more than one colour taken from the AA elsh , besides other privileges ; ancl the five brothers were all provided for . One was gifted with the office of Constable of Halton , and the lands of Weston and Ashton , with all the bulls taken from the AA elsh , and the best ox for the man-at ¦ arms , who carried his banner ; the second of the brothers received as much land as an ox could plough in two days ; the third , who was a priest , was gifted with the church of Runcorn ; and two others became lords of a domain in that village . —Boy ' s Own Magazine ( July ) .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE Cour . T . —Her Majesty and family remain at the Isle of Wight . The visit to Ireland is expected to take place the first week in August . IOTEEIAL PARLIAMENT . —In the HOUSE or LORDS on Thursday , the 11 th inst ., Lord St . Leonards proposed a series of resolutions , of which he had given notice , in relation to the misappropriation of the collection of pictures bequeathed to the nation by Mr . Turner , and moved for the will and codicil of that gentleman , and of the correspondence connected

with the subject . Lord Ovcrstono expressed a hope that no unnecessai-y delay wouid be allowed to interfere , and that the question would he settled as soon as possible . Earl Granville , in assenting to the motion , suggested that until the papers were produced further discussion would be uiuidviso-ulc . On Friday , Lord Carnarvon called attention to the inconvenience and loss sustained by Canadian merchants from the vexatious delays occasioned by the Morrill Tariff , as ji-egavdcd goods

landed at Portland , in the State of Maine , for transmission to Canada . The Duke of Newcastle , however , stated that no representation had been made to the Home Government on the subject . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe again urged the Government to insist upon the execution of

financial and administrative reforms in Turkey ; hut Lord AVodeliouse , pointing to tho liberal professions of AbdukAziz , said it would be unwise to interfere at a moment when there was every reason to believe that the Sultan would spontaneously carry out those improvements to which the Porte is pledged . Several bills were advanced a stage . On Monday , Lord Stratheclen moved a resolution in favour of the appointment of an English Consul at Mozambique ; but , after some discussion , and in

response to an appeal from Lord Granville , the noble lord withdrew his motion . On Tuesday , a long debate took place on the India Council Bill , which ultimately passed through committee . The remaining business was unimportant . In the HOUSE OP COJUIONS on Thursday , the 11 th inst ., Sir John Pakington brought forward the subject of education . He called attention to the report of the Education Commissioners , of whoso opinions and recommendations he expressed his warm approval- ; and asked whether it had been determined by her Majesty ' s Government to what extent they intended to act upon that report , Mr . Henley , in a somewhat elaborate speech , commented upon various parts of the

Commissioners' report , and expressed his strong conviction that in the schools which received grants of tho public money too little attention was paid to the elementary branches of knowledge . The House then went into Committee of Supply , and Mr . Lowe explained the intentions of the Government with regard to the subject . The right hon . gentleman then referred to the criticisms of the Commissioners upon the existing system , and observed that , notwithstanding the exception taken to it , no

suggestion had been made that another should be set up in its stead . It was , however , the intention to carry oat some of the recommendations of the Commissioners , a portion of which would be embodied in a minute of the Privy Council , and the remainder in the draft of a bill to be laid on the table of the House . On Friday , the House held a morningsitting , the whole of which was devoted to the Scotch Parochial Schools-Bill . At the evening sitting it was announced that Mr . Cross would not persevere this session with his Church Rates Bill . Mr . AV . E . Forster

pointed out the serious injustice inflicted upon the manufacturers of this country by the delay of the Belgian government in applying their new tariff arrangements with France to the United Kingdom . He complained that this was a most unfriendly proceeding , considering the important services which England had rendered to Belgium . Mr . Paget ancl Mr . Egerton spoke in a similar spirit ; and Lord John Russell felt himself bound to admit that the Belgian Government had committed an

unfriendly act ' , in permitting tlie Chambers to separate without inviting them to ratify the extension to England of the concessions made to France . On Monday , the Under Secretary for AA ar , admitted , in reply to Mr . Coninghani , that a number of men belonging to the Engineer Corps had been placed at the disposal of the contractor for the erection of the Chelsea barracks . It was important , said the hon . gentleman , that these works should be proceeded with , and the employment

of a body of Sappers had become necessary in consequence of the dispute in the building trade . A long debate took place on a resolution , moved by Mr . Isaac Butt , declaring it to be "inexpedient , in distributing the grant for the purposes of Irish education , to enforce the rule of refusing aid to all schools in which religious teaching is made part of the general instruction of the school . " This proposition , which involved an entire revolution of the existing system , was , of course , stoutly opposed by the