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before the R . W . the Prov . G . Master and Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India under Scotland . I am also directed particularly to call your attention to the second of the said resolutions , and to inform you that , if the reparation therein referred to be not made " within the period specified , I have positive orders to send home the whole case to the Grand Lodge of England by the mail following . I remain , V . W . Sir and Brother ,

Tours fraternally , ( Signed ) ALERED KING . Prov . G . Secretary of Bombay and its Territories . District Grand Lodge of Bombay and its

Territories under England . Bombay , 25 th February , 1864 . W . G . Clarke , Esq . Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of England . Freemasons' BallGreat Queen-streetLondon .

, , VEST WORSHIPFUL SIE AND BEOTHEE , —I have the honour to forward herewith a copy of the proceedings of the District Grand Lodge at a communication held on the 2 nd December last , and beg especially to direct your attention to the resolution . "That , if the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western

India under Scotland , do not , within three weeks after this resolution is communicated to them , make the reparation demanded by R . W . Bro . G . S . Judge in his letter of the 25 th November last , the whole correspondence , together with these resolutions , be sent to the Grand Lodge of England with a request that the matter may be laid before the Grand Lodge of Scotland . "

With reference to that resolution I also beg to hand you a copy of my letter , dated the 10 th December last , to the address of the Prov . G . Secretary of Western India under Scotland ( receipt of which is acknowledged ) requesting him to lay it before the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India under Scotlandand I also beg to state that up to this date

, no reply has been received thereto . By the command of the R . W . the Prov . G . Master of Bombay and its Territories under England , I now beg most respectfully to request you to have the goodness to lay the matter before the Most Worship ful the Grand Master and Grand Lodge of

England with this application from the 11 . W . tho Prov . G . Master and the District Grand Lodgo of Bombay , that the W . M . the Grand Master aud Graud Lodge of England will be pleased to communicate with the W-M- the Grand Master and Grand Lodge of Scotland , and ask them to take such notice of the

im-Masonic conduct of Prov . G . Master aud Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India under Scotland , as to them may seem proper . I have the honour to be , V . W . Sir aud Brother , Tours respectfully and fraternally , ( Signed ) ALE EED KING , P . M . 757 , Prov . Graud Secretary .

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HAVE you made one happy heart to-day ? Envied privilege ! How calmly you can seek your pillow , IIOAV sweetly sleep , In all this world ' there is nothing so sweet as giving comfort to the distressed , us getting a sun-ray into a gloomy heart .

Vandyck In England.

VANDYCK IN ENGLAND .

" This is King Charles his day . Speak it , thou ToAver , Unto the ships , aud they from tier to tier . " Ben Jonson , 19 th Nov ., 1632 . King Charles evinced his appreciation of the genius and services of Vandyck by more than mere approbation . On the 5 th July , 1632 , he

kni ghted his favoui-ite painter at St . James ' s ; on the 20 th of April , 1633 , he presented him with a chain and medal of £ 110 value j * and on the 17 th of October of the same year , conferred upon him an annuity of £ 200 . Another and a rarer honour awaited him—an honour without parallel

in the history of art . "With singular deli g ht , " says Walpole , folloiving in the wake of Vertue , " Charles went by water to the Blackfriars to view Vandyck's performances , frequently sitting to him himself , and bespeaking p ictures of the queen , his children ,

and his courtiers . " Of the truth of this pleasant tradition I am enabled to produce ( and for the first time ) the amplest testimony . In the Works accounts of the Crown for the

year 1635 , a payment occurs of £ 20 ( £ 200 of our present currencj' ) for works and reparations done and performed at the Blackfriars , in the months of June and July , 1635 , in making a new cawsey way and a new pair of stairs for the king ' s majesty " to land to goe to Sir Anthony

V ' audyck ' s house to see his paintings . " Of so marked an instance of the king ' s appreciation of Sir Anthony , the very words of the entry , from ivhieh I derive my information , deserve transcription : — " Allowed said Accomptante for money by him

yssvied andpaidfor Workes aud Repairacons donne and p erformed within the tyme of this Accompte at the Blackfryers in making a new CaAvsey Way and a new paire of Staires for the King ' s Majesty to land to goe to S . Anthoney Vandike ' s house there to see his Paiutinss in the monethes of June

and Jul y 1635 xxli . "t The causeway , as I gather from the same account , was 10 ft . in breadth ; that piles were driven for the purpose into the Thames , and that stores ivere taken from the Crown stores in

Scotlandyard for this graceful act of kingly courtesy and good sense . Among the earliest who went by water from Whitehall to the Croivn Stairs at the Blackfriars , were the tivo sons of the Queen of Bohemia , King Charles ' s nepheAVs , —the fiery Prince Rupert