Knights Templar.

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .

LANCASHIRE . M ANCHESTEK . —Jerusalem , or Farly Grand Encampment of Lancashire .- —A meeting of this ancient encampment was held on Wednesday , the 18 th inst ., at the Masonic-rooms , Manchester . Present : Sir Knts . John Yarker , jun ., 18 ° , E . G . ; B . St . John B . Joule , 30 ° , Prelate and Past 1 st C . ; S . P . Leather , 18 ° , 1 st C ; Jhs . Lancaster Hine , Treas . ; Stephen Smith , 30 " , P . E . C . Visitors , Sir Knts . W . H . Wright , 18 ° , P . E . C , -J . H . P . Laresche ,

Thomas Lonsdale Bold , P . E . C . Comp . John Bolderson , jun ., Rose Croix , who had been exalted in the Chapter of Virtue , to qualify him for installation , was introduced and admitted to the chivalric degrees of the Order . Several communications were then read , and a list of members of the encampment sworn before a justice of the peace for the city of Manchester , ordered to be forwarded to the clerk of the peace for the county . Some months ago attention was called to the fact of this encampment

having been originally constituted in the old York rite . Itmay interest W . Bro . H . B . White , of No . 173 , to know that all the old encampments had new warrants on the election of Bro . Dunkerley , as Grand Master , in 1791 , so that none date beyond that time . The warrant , of which he has so kindly forwarded to THE M AGAZINE a copy , is the original warrant of this Manchester encampment , which was apparently the only one existing in Lancashire at the time when a new constitution was granted .

W . Bro . White , will please the members of the Jerusalem much , and render the Order generally a service , if he will trace out the connection formerly existing between old Lodge 173 , and the Manchester Encampment . It is considered that according to the old constitution of this encampment that none but Rose Croix Masons are eligible for installation . The Northern steps to this degree having apparently beeu Sword of Babylon ancl

Heredom , the secrets being even yet delivered by some old members ; but as the authority over these degrees has been surrendered to the Supreme Council , tbe Palatine Chapter of Rose Croix , being established chiefly by members of this encampment , it is doubtful whether any other aro legally entitled to receive installation , as Knights of the Chivalric ancl Masonic Order of the Temple . [ The warrant to which allusion is made is evidently more fitted to be in the archives of tbe Jerusalem Encampment than in a lodge of tbe craft , and we shall be glad to hear that it has been surrendered to them . !

Ancient And Accepted Rite.

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE .

METROPOLITAN . INVICTA CHAPTER OF SOVEREIGN PRINCES , ROSE CROIX . — A meeting of this chapter took place at tbe Freemasons' Hall , William-street , Woolwich , on Friday , the 20 th inst . Present : Col . Clerk , 33 ° , as M . W . S . ; Rev . " Dr . Richards , 18 ° , Prol . j Carter , 18 ° , First Gen . ; Figs , 30 ° , Reg . ; Dr . Hinxman , 31 ° ; P . Laird , 18 ° , Treas ., Raphael ; Binckes , 18 ° ; Dr . Normandy , 18 ° ; Mulliner 30 ° ; Roofe 18 ° Gumbleton 18 ° GiubeleiIS ;

, , ; , ; , Hodge , 18 ° ; Martin , 18 "; Salting , 18 ° ; Lyons , 18 ° ; and Matthew Cooke , 30 ° . The business consisted in installing Bros . Giubelei . aud . Salting , and electing tbe ex-Bxo . Gumbleton a joining member . The chapter was then closed , and tbe brethren adjourned to Bro . De Grey ' s , the Freemasons' Tavern , to dinner , and the evening was spent in love and harmony .

Obituary.

Obituary .

BRO . GEORGE GENGE . _ On Tuesday last , the 24 th instant , our well known brother , tbe vocalist , George Genge , departed this life . In his youth he was one ofthe children ofthe King's Chapels Royal , and , on leaving that school , became a well known public singer , celebrated for a very pure and pretty alto voice . Of late years , however , it became thin in quality , but no one supposed it was through so early a decay in nature as his decease lias

proved . Still , to the last , he sang delightfully , and his latest effort was made at the installation meeting ofthe Globe bod ge ( No . 23 ) , where , suffering from illness , he yet charmed 'he brethren by bis vocal efforts . Bro . Genge was initiated , we believe , in the Old King's Arms Lodge , ancl exalted in that chapter . He never took office , but was much attached to the waft . We regret to hear he died in greatly reduced circumstances , and leaves a widow , in ill health , totally unprovided for .

Public Amusements

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

DRURY LANE THEATRE . It is only as a spectacle that Mr . Edmund Falconer ' s new drama of Bonnie Dundee ; or , tlip . Gathering of the Glans , can obtain the patronage of the public . The play itself is one of theweakest an author of unquestionable talent has ever yet produced . That Mr . Falconer is a man of refined taste and genuine ability his previous works abundantly testify . The skill which

on many occasions he has displayed in the composition of dialogue , in the portraiture of character , and in the dramatic development of incidents , forbids the idea that the absurdities of the present drama are to be ascribed to want either of capacity or of experience in the dramatist . Remote epochs may not be brought together to suit the pictorial purposes even of Mr . Grieve and Mr . Telbin ; distant and irrelative events may not be amalgamated even for so commendable an object as the affording ,

to Mr . Oscar Byrne an opportunity for the exhibition of his" picturesque and characteristic groupings ; " nor is it fair to demand of tbe gods that they should " annihilate both time ancl space to make two lovers happy . " These considerations , however , obvious though they are , have been unaccountably overlooked in the manufacture of ' Bonnie Dundee . All that can safely be affirmed of it is that its scene is laid mainly in the Scottish Highlands ; that its most prominent

personages aro Grahame of Claverhouse , the fearless Viscount Dundee of " Old Mortality , " a certain Alister Macdonald , who is always getting into hot water with every one , and a certain Helen Cameron , who appears to have lost her way ( and mind ) in the mountains , and to be unable to recover either ; that the other characters are for the most part Highland Cavaliers or Lowland Whigs , or fanatical Covenanters—all of whom act , to use a phrase of the day" on their own books" and with

little-, , or no regard to dramatic dependency ; ancl that the story , which opens in Argyllshire , closes—why or wherefore it is impossible to conjecture—in the pass of Giencoe , " on the night or morning" —for though the moon is shining , the playbill leaves you , to select which time you prefer—of the infamous massacre-Most of the characters endeavour to speak in the Scottish dialect , but as there is only one of them , he whom Mr . J . Graham impersonates , who succeeds in the operation , the general

result of the experiment is unsatisfactory , and only tends to make the dialogue more difficult of comprehension . We now pass to those parts of the performance of which we can speak in terms of unqualified praise . The scenery , by Mr . T . Grieve and Messrs . T . and H . Telbin , is exceedingly beautiful ; tbe costumes , which are from the designs of Logan and M'lan ' s " Scottish Clans , " are picturesque and fanciful ; the decorations are brilliant vvnd costly ; and tbe whole muse en scene is extremely

creditable to the good taste and liberality of tho manager , under whose superintendence the piece bas been produced . The opening scene , showing a road-side pass and the cottage of Alec Campbell in Perthshire , is one of the finest of Mr . T . Griove ' a mountain landscapes ; and Messrs . Telbin have seldom , if ever , produced a stage-picture more graceful in design or more masterly in execution than that at the close of the play giving a view of the cliffs

, cataracts , and mountain fastnesses of Giencoe , as seen by moonlight on a winter night , while the untrodden snow lies thick , trackless , and sparkling upon the hills . The most magnificent scenic display in the drama , however , is that in the second act , representing the multitudinous gathering of the clans , who at daybreak have assembled in a romantic spot , " high up in the mountainsto rallaround the standard of King James

, y , and to show their fealty and love to " Bonnie Dundee . " This splendid scene is not only the grandest in the play , but one of the most brilliant and striking ever exhibited on the London stage . It is full of life , animation , and character , and presents a most exciting and impressive picture of the carousing of the Cameron , the arrival of Dundee , his reception hy tbe chiefs , aiid the martial approach of the various clanswhoall " laided and

, , p plumed in their tartan array , " are seen marching along to the strains of the pibroch , and come swarming through the passes and defiles of the mountains in numbers so prodigious that the stage resembles a camp densely populated with a kilted army ready to do or die . After the unfurling of the royal standard ,, and a clamourous execution of the ballad and Highland chorus , " Up wi' the bonnets o ' jj Bonnie Dundee , " some old Scottish

games and pastimes are introduced with excellent effect , and tbe audience is entertained with a vivid representation of certain feudal customs and ceremonies . The groupings by Mr . Oscar Byrne are highly effective , and the whole spectacle is little , if