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killed ; but my courageous friend suffered in ill health for some time , from the fright of those few awful moments . The Bury Co-operative Stores vote two and a half per cent ., amounting to upwards of a hundred pounds annually , for books , maps , and newspapers , for their reading-room . Mr . AVilliam Miles , iu his recently-issued General Remarks on

Sialics , and Fxamples of Stable Fittings , is a warm advocate for loose boxes . "To see a goodly row of valuable horses , " says he , " strung up by their beads to the wall , with their clothing arranged upon them with mathematical precision , whilst they themselves are unable to move , excepting from side to side , is but a sorry spectacle for a man who knows what a noble , generous , and social animal the horse is by nature , —rejoicing in company , and anxious to hear and see everything that passes on around ancl about him . "

A memorial drbiking-foiintain has , we are glad to learn , been erected at Scarborough , not far from tbo parish church , in remembrance of our late Brother , Thomas Hinderwell , the historian of that borough , ancl founder of its museum . We arc sorry , however , to bear that tbe principal part of tbe expense has been borne by family connections . Could not the important borough of Scarborough have afforded this useful and tasteful tribute to tbeir historian ' s memory ?

What were the Craft about in that part of the country , that they could not do something in remembrance of an amiable brother !? Tbe entire cost of this elegant memorial fountain was only £ 65 , ancl the family of tbe late gifted brother appear to bave hacl to pay it all , or nearly so . jjiis fact is a disgrace to Scarborough . Mr . Urquhart , in his recent work , The Lebanon ; a History and a Diarythus describes the luxury of a Turkish bath : — "Itwas

, a long way to the bath , ancl we made a circuit , as the Hadji saw I bad need of a barber ; ancl , according to him , there was but one in the town ; he insisted on my taking him with me . The bath was small , but comfortable and hot . Fatigued , ancl in the utmost want of it , with a fortnight of dead skin on me , often travelling in a country destitute not of baths only , but of every idea of , or convenience for , Washing- ; I did enjoy this health-giving ancl strengfchrestoring luxuryas I do not think I ever did before .

Minter-, y preter had gone about from place to find a shelter ; ancl now I was rather incommoded by bis activity . The consul ' s dragoman first arrived with salutations , requesting I should go to him ; an invitation which I accepted as of course . Then came a messenger from the governor ; and , on his finding that I was going to the consul ' s , soon arrived a troop of cavashes , the embrocber , or master of the

horse , and the governor ' s own horse for me to ride , as I must be tired , ancl the consulate was distant . The consequence was that the people of the bath , where I bad entered unattended and in a coarse country costume , began to overwhelm me , and to multiply the hands engaged in pinching ancl cracking joints ; so that they seemed literally to exemplify the Frencb . expression of putting themselves in four . After having my skin renewed , every muscle worked joint crackedand then a fountain of lather opened

, every , upon me , ancl revelling in its soft white-foam , I emerged to a clean life again . The moments that succeeded a successful bath seem to condense years of life—years also seem taken off the score . I had no reason to regret the Hadji ' s resolution to bring the barber , and I fully subscribed to bis commendation of him . The fourteen clays ' beard , which would have cost in our ordinary course excruciation , fell with the ease of a gentle pressure . I hacl intended to allow tbe

bead to remain unshaven , in preparation for my return to Europe , but this success encouraged me to one more shave ; and , without this , I should not have known what it was to havethe bead shaved . After it had been gone over five or six times , I put my hands up and felt a large billiard ball in the place of a human pate . " The Professorship of the French language and literature at University College , London , is now vacant , throush the resignation

of M . Merlet . Somebody who has been making a book , bearing the title of Hints and Helps for Fcery-day Emergencies , gives the following very original piece ] of advice : — " When you observe a person coining towards you at a distance whom you wish to avoid , turn into tbe nearest shop at hand and ask some question , for the purpose of filling the interval until the in question has b

up person gone y . Upon which you may emerge from the shop , and pursue your way . The customary method of brushing close by a person , and ga / . ing intentl y on vacancy , or looking on the other side of the way , is too transparent an artifice , ancl the best actor cannot conceal the consciousness he experiences on such occasions . —Mem . The advice here given may savour of duplicity , but there is , in truth , a class

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of persons whom one is either compelled to avoid , or , on the other baiid , to submit to annoyance , irritation , ancl considerable inconvenience , which their twaddle or impertinence occasions . " JSTo one can doubt its savouring of duplicity . Such low morality as the foregoing ivould sap tbe foundations of every state in ivhich it became common . Why have persons guilty of " twaddle or impertinence " in one's list of acquaintance . Better to tell them at once that we

regard our lives as too sacred to bo frittered away with them , the writer ive have quoted included , as from him no struggling so . ul is likely to obtain either useful " Hints or Helps . " The series of letters from Florence , ivhich have recently appeared in tbo Athenainm , signed " Th . ' ! ' ., " are about to be published in a collected form , under the title of Social- Aspects of Revolution , by Tlieodosia Trallaue .

Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

[ THE EDITOR does not hold , himself responsible for any opinion entertained by Correspondents . " ] THE MASONIC INCIDENT AT BATH , TO THE HDIIOi : OF THE FllEliMASOXS 3 UGAZIXE . 1 X 1 ) MASOXIC MIRK 05 . DEAR SIE AND BUOTHEK , —I am unable to discern clearly

the motives by which Bro . Higg inson was actuated in sending to you the communication ivhich appears in your last number . If the worthy brother seeks to attain the dignity of martyrdom , I fear in this instance he will not succeed , seeing that I and Bro . Ashley distinctly informed him that no lodge having been duly . summoned , none could be held . This little fact Bro- Hiinson carefully conceals

gg —as he does also the fact that be wrote both to myself and Bro . Ashlej : —that he was determined to attend , and open the lodge in defiance of my commands to the contrary . If , on the other baud , the worthy P . M . adopted the pretext of a i ^ ersonal grievance to publish the documents relating ^ to the question of dispute ia the lodge , bo should have included the circular herewith enclosed * ivhich throws a

little light on the subject . The " suppressio veri" is too palpable , and needs no comment . I very much regret the differences which have arisen in the lodge , but I still more regret that a brother should have promulgated documents , in themselves constituting no data from which a just inference can be drawn , and which may lead to a long and angry correspondence from ivhich

mischief alone can result . Bro . Higg inson has been betrayed into a lamentable indiscretion " in the course he has taken . In his answer to me he expressed his determination to come to Bath and usurp the functions of the "W . M . at all hazards . Finding that I would not shrink from the position ivhich I and the Past Masters of the lodge had assumed , Bro . Higginson seems to

have lost his judgment and his temper at tho same time . I will only add that a lodge has since been regularly convened , and the TOL elect will bo duly and regularly installed .

I am , clear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , THOMAS ' WILTON , W . M . 48 . L / dhcid-Lcc / ory , 22 nd Jan ., 18 ( 51 . "To the Members of the ' Royal Cumberland Lodge { No . -IS ) . " BHJETiiP . ror , —As a member of Xo . IS , 1 beg to address to you a few words of soberness and truth . I . would endeavour to calm the

present excitement by pointing out as el early as I can tbe consequences to which the present state , of ihhsg . i must lead ; and I . beseech you to pause before you plunge the lodge into irretrievable ruin and disgrace . The W . M . is ( irmly persuaded that tbe lodge proposed to be held on Wednesday , the llkh instant , biis not been legally convened ; and in that opinion every brother acquainted in the smallest degree with Masonic law must concur . The protest is founded on tho certainty , that to hold a lodge so convened woulcl be a flagrant violation of the B . of C . ; and , therefore , no . alternative is left to the W . M . but to refuse to hold the lodge in question . This being tbe case , is it right , with the i ' nll knowledge of this fact