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the sum of one hundred dollars for the association , from the Boston Encampment of Knights Templar . TRUE CHARITY . —In 1851 , an English lady ( erroneously supposed to be an English brother ) presented $ 250 tojtho Grand Lodge of Kentucky , to be . appropriated to some subordinate Lodge for charitable purposes . This Grand Lodge has appropriated it for the education and support of the orphan children of its Past Grand Master , Bro . John D . JlcClure .
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN . —This gentleman was admitted into the Masonic institution , December 11 , 1816 , passed January 24 , 1817 , and raised January 24 th of the same year . He was elected Master of the Lodge which initiated him—No . 43 , Lancaster , Pa . —in December , 1822 , and presided over its labours one year . May 20 , 1826 , he was made a Royal Arch Mason . March 10 , 1 S 5 S , he was made an honorary or life member of the same Lodge . " His Masonic lessons were well learned and are still remembered . AVithiu the past year his Lodge received a
handsome donation from him to assist them in improving their Hall . " HENRY CLAY . —This distinguished statesman and orator was a Mason , and in 1820 was Grand Alaster of Kentucky . It was mainly through his influence that a convention of Masons was held at Washington in 1822 , to devise a plan for a National Grand Lodge . His political pursuits wore such that he seldom attended to Masonic matters from about that time until the close of his life .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE event of tho week at court has , of course , been the celebration of her Majesty ' s birthday , which was kept throughout the kingdom with the usual honours . The birthday drawing-room was a very crowded and brilliant assemblage , though the pleasure of the spectators was marred by the unfavourable weather . State dinners in honour of tho day were given by the ministers , and the illuminations were very splendid at the west end of the town . On Saturday the Prince and Princess George of Saxony , and the Duke of Oporto , took their leave of the
Queen , aud immediately afterwards her Majesty , with the whole of her family , left town for Osborne . In crossing from Gosport to tho Isle sf AVight , the royal party were overtaken by the Victoria and Albert , with the Princess Frederick AA'illiam ou board , who had come over to spend a week or ten days with her Majesty . The Moniteivr of Tuesday contains a report of the minister of finance respecting the subscriptions made towards the new loan . Tho subscribed capital amounts to 2307000000 f 80000000 f . have been subscribed in sums of lOf . rente . The
,,, . ,, number of subscribers is 525 , 000 . The ministerial report points out tbat such results prove the solidity of the French financial system . It is rumoured that four new marshals of France will soon be nominated , these four will be Prince Napoleon , and Generals de MacMahou , Niel , and Regnaud de Saint Jean d'Angely . A Paris correspondent says that a great sensation was caused by the arrival in hot haste from Alessandria of one of the Emperor ' s own aide-de-camps . This gentleman remained the whole of next day closeted with the minister of war , and set off
again in the same hot haste for Alessandria . Men most versed in these matters declare that the general was dispatched with orders to hurry on to Italy all that can be spared of the French army , particularly artillery , ivhich is still deficient . The Emperor Francis Joseph was to leave for the war in Italy on AVednesday The strength of the seven corpsof the Austrian army in the north of Italy is saicl to be 250 , 000 men , aud it is provided with a magnificent artillery train . The Wiener Zcitimg announces that his imperial majesty has , in compliance with
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the sum of one hundred dollars for the association , from the Boston Encampment of Knights Templar . TRUE CHARITY . —In 1851 , an English lady ( erroneously supposed to be an English brother ) presented $ 250 tojtho Grand Lodge of Kentucky , to be . appropriated to some subordinate Lodge for charitable purposes . This Grand Lodge has appropriated it for the education and support of the orphan children of its Past Grand Master , Bro . John D . JlcClure .
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN . —This gentleman was admitted into the Masonic institution , December 11 , 1816 , passed January 24 , 1817 , and raised January 24 th of the same year . He was elected Master of the Lodge which initiated him—No . 43 , Lancaster , Pa . —in December , 1822 , and presided over its labours one year . May 20 , 1826 , he was made a Royal Arch Mason . March 10 , 1 S 5 S , he was made an honorary or life member of the same Lodge . " His Masonic lessons were well learned and are still remembered . AVithiu the past year his Lodge received a
handsome donation from him to assist them in improving their Hall . " HENRY CLAY . —This distinguished statesman and orator was a Mason , and in 1820 was Grand Alaster of Kentucky . It was mainly through his influence that a convention of Masons was held at Washington in 1822 , to devise a plan for a National Grand Lodge . His political pursuits wore such that he seldom attended to Masonic matters from about that time until the close of his life .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE event of tho week at court has , of course , been the celebration of her Majesty ' s birthday , which was kept throughout the kingdom with the usual honours . The birthday drawing-room was a very crowded and brilliant assemblage , though the pleasure of the spectators was marred by the unfavourable weather . State dinners in honour of tho day were given by the ministers , and the illuminations were very splendid at the west end of the town . On Saturday the Prince and Princess George of Saxony , and the Duke of Oporto , took their leave of the
Queen , aud immediately afterwards her Majesty , with the whole of her family , left town for Osborne . In crossing from Gosport to tho Isle sf AVight , the royal party were overtaken by the Victoria and Albert , with the Princess Frederick AA'illiam ou board , who had come over to spend a week or ten days with her Majesty . The Moniteivr of Tuesday contains a report of the minister of finance respecting the subscriptions made towards the new loan . Tho subscribed capital amounts to 2307000000 f 80000000 f . have been subscribed in sums of lOf . rente . The
,,, . ,, number of subscribers is 525 , 000 . The ministerial report points out tbat such results prove the solidity of the French financial system . It is rumoured that four new marshals of France will soon be nominated , these four will be Prince Napoleon , and Generals de MacMahou , Niel , and Regnaud de Saint Jean d'Angely . A Paris correspondent says that a great sensation was caused by the arrival in hot haste from Alessandria of one of the Emperor ' s own aide-de-camps . This gentleman remained the whole of next day closeted with the minister of war , and set off
again in the same hot haste for Alessandria . Men most versed in these matters declare that the general was dispatched with orders to hurry on to Italy all that can be spared of the French army , particularly artillery , ivhich is still deficient . The Emperor Francis Joseph was to leave for the war in Italy on AVednesday The strength of the seven corpsof the Austrian army in the north of Italy is saicl to be 250 , 000 men , aud it is provided with a magnificent artillery train . The Wiener Zcitimg announces that his imperial majesty has , in compliance with