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Hon . George Brudenell Bruce , Major Hamilton Finney , Oswell , Thompson , Don Viclal Garcia , John James Andrews , ancl Henry James Sparkes , and were duly installed as Knights of the Pelican and Eagle , ancl Soverigu Princess Rose Croix . The music of the ceremony was conducted by Bro . Dyson , of St . George's Chapel , Windsor . The AV . M . Sov ., before closing the Chapter , referred to the annual necessity of emergency meetings , and suggested that the b-law on the subject should be revisedDr . Gooldenthe

y , , Treas . ; spoke on the subject ancl in favour of meeting four times in the year , Dr . Jones , the Sec , said that the subject could not be entered upon at an emergency meeting , therefore the 111 . AV . Sov . announced his intention of bringing the motion in legal form before the convocation iu January . The Chapter was closed , ancl several oftihe members assembled at the banquet , at which all the mewly admtted brethren were present . Dr . Harcourt presided .

AVOOEWICH . —Invicta Chapter of S . P . R . & J 4 . —The members of the Invicta Chapter held their first meeting for the season at the Masonic Hall , William street , AA oolwich , on Friday the 18 th insfc . The visitors were Dr . Goolden , 32 ° , and Hen . Geo . AVarren , 18 ° , H . R . M . and R . S . Y . C . S . The members present were the Ex . and Perf . S . P . R . » J ( . AV . Carter , M . AV . S . Figg , 30 ° , AVm . Smith , CF ! ., 30 ° , -Gen . Tulloh , 30 ° , Col . Clerk , 31 ° , Dr . Hinxman , 31 ° , Capt . King , 30 ° . Carey , 30 ° , M . Cooke , 18 ° , Laird , 18 ° , Lyons , 18 ° , and Cockcraft ,

18 ° . The business of the evening consisted in perfecting Bro . AV . Press , who is about to leave for Australia , and in electing the M . W . S . ancl ] Treasurer , for the ensuing year , the unanimous choice having fallen on the 111 . Bro . Figg , for the first of those offices and the Ex . Bro . Laird for the latter . After the business was concluded and the chapter closed those present adjourned to Bro . De . Grey's to dinner . Upon the removal of the cloth , the M . AV . S . gave the loyal and proper toasts peculiar to this degree , following them with

that of "The Visitors , "in the course of which he took occasion to say that the more visitors they saw the more the chapter was gratified , hut they were particularly fortunate in having two standing sohigh in the order . —Dr . GOOLDEN , in the name of both , returned thanks for the cordial greeting they hacl received on that , their first visit to the Invicta Chapter . He had never seen the R , > J ( degree so perfectly worked before , and the Metropolitan Chapter , to which he belonged , though it strove hard to become perfect , might learn a

great deal from the Invicta Chapter . After thanking them again he resumed his seat . —The M . AA ' - . S . said it was at all times very pleasant to receive an accession of numerical strength in the persons of new members . They had that day perfected one , the Ex . Bro . Press , who was going to Australia very soon , and he was sure that in proposing his health every one present would heartily hid him God speed . —The Ex . and Perf . Bro . PRESS was at a loss how to address them , but would say just what he thought . In taking that degree he had met with an agreable surprise . For 15 years' he had been a Mason , but le found there was yet much to learn . Although he hacl nassed

the chair , owing to his professional avocation , he had been for years moving about ; but the degree with which he had been honoured that day had given him the utmost satisfaction . In it the most sublime truths and hopes were inculcated , ancl he felt that it must benefit him both here and hereafter . He was , in one sense , sorry he was about to leave them , but they might rest assured he should hear abroad with him the remembrance of that day ancl a warm attachment to the Invicta chapter . For their kindness he begged

to express his thanks . —Colonel CLERK hacl received permission to propose a toast , " The Health of their M . AV . S ., the 111 . Bro . Carter . " As this was the last meeting at which he would preside , owing to his tenure of office expiring , they would readily admit the excellent manner in -which he had done his duty , ancl he ( Col . Clerk ) , hoped they would join him in cordially drinking " Health and Prosperity to their M . AV . S . " —The 111 . Bro . CARTER ,

M . W . S ., returned thanks for the kind way in which the 111 . Bro . Colonel Clerk had proposed his health , ancl they had received it . He hoped they were all satisfied that during his tenure of office he hacl tried to do his duty , and when he went out of that office he should be happy to give place to the 111 . Bro . Figg , knowing that under his rule the Chapter would lose none of its prestige . He had anotherancl the lasttoast of that evening to

, , propose . The Ex . ancl Perf . Bro . AVarren hacl visited them for the first time that evening , and they all hoped to see him again often . In Masonry , as in every other pursuit , the press was very useful , and Bro . AVarren was always highly honoured , for he had carried on their publication , unfortunately not to his profit , but with great credit , skill , and honour . They had two other brethren there connected with the sameBros . AY . SmithC . F . ancl Matthew Cooke

, , , , but as they were members of the Invicta Chapter , he should couple the toast of " Prosperity to the FREEMASON ' S MAGAZINE , with the name of the Ex . ancl Perf . Bro . AVarren , its Conductor . " — The Ex . and Perf . Bro . H . G . AA ' ABREN acknowledged , assuring the companions that if he did not visit at Woolwich oftener , knowing as he did that the FREEMASON ' S MAGA-

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ZINE had many valuable friends amongst the AVoolwich brethren , it solely arose from his professional engagements . He had been especially pleased by the very excellent manner ia which the ceremony of that evening had been performed , and though he admired the universality of Craft Masonry , he was equally alive to the beauties of the Christian degrees , which went far to explain points , otherwise somewhat obscure , in their earlier ceremonies . He thanked them for the compliment paid himand trusted he

, should ere long have other opportunities of visiting AVoolwich , the brethren of which were to be congratulated on having secured so elegant and commodious a hall as that in which the ceremonies were performed . The lt . ^ -1 . Princes then entered into those pleasant topics of intercourse which throw such a charm over the meetings of the Invicta Chapter , and the evening was brought to a happy conclusion .

Turkey.

TURKEY .

SMYRNA . —Homer Lodge ( No . 1108 ) . — The monthly meeting was held in the Masonic Hall , Bro . Hyde Clarke , AV . M . one brother was passed , and another raised . A letter was received from R . W . Bro . Sir H . L . Bulwer , P . G . M ., announcing that he had appointed the AV . M . as D . Prov . G . M . for Turkey and Greece . An address of congratulation "' was voted to the R . W . Prov . G . M ., and V . AV . Bro . Hyde Clarke and W . Bro . G . Laurie , P . M . ( No . 988 ) , ancl representative of ( No . 1108 ) were appointed a deputation to

, present the address to His Excellency at Constantinople . Bro . Malpassuto , proceeding to Alexandria , was commissioned to assist in promoting an English lodge there . The petition of Lodge La Victoire , for a warrant of re-constitution , was approved by the lodge for recommendation to the M . AA . G . M .

Public Amusements.

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .

ROYAL PRINCESS'S , THEATRE . The Othello of Mr . Fechter certainly is not so good as his Hamlet . There is visible no lack of mind , but simply a deficient command over the agencies of matter . His conception of the character is not only poetically true , and dramatically effective ; it is also , in the strictest sense , ethnologieally correct . His Othello is

indelibly stamped with the strongly-marked idiosyncracy of the race , and he portrays wifch as much minute fidelity the workings of the African as he has heretofore delineated those of the Scandinavian mind . Physical force is the only element needed to raise his performance of Othello to the level of absolute perfection . In this , it must be owned , he is deficient . In the wild outbursts of

passion in which this part abounds , the bodily powers of the artist are inadequate to the full realisation of his ever apparent and faithful conception . Mr . Feehter has introduced some new readingsa bold experiment , generally leading to disastrous consequences , but

in this case entirely triumphant . The sudden flush of self-contempt when he has suggested to Iago , " Set on thy wife to observe , " prompting him to turn aside and hide his head abashed—the momentary outburst of joy when Desdemona hands him her handkerchief in obedience to his request , succeeded by as instantaneous a revulsion when he finds that it is not the one of which he is in

search—the passionate embrace in which he clasps his wife when she tells him of this same handkerchief , " It is not lost , " though his delight is at once crushed by her equivocation—the gush of returning tenderness with which he weeps over her in the fourth act , when , advancing towards her in fury , he finds his rage overpowered b y the recollections awakened by her aspect , and sobs over her heartbroken

—are all marvellous evidences of deep thought and keen knowledge of humanity . The speech to the senate was spoken with easy grace without the slig htest attempt at elocutionary display—that is to say , precisely as it ought to be but never is spoken ; and the pathetic farewell was given with overflowing pathos . The English stage