The Gipsies.

work , Avhich opens up fresh fields of research , and , what is of still more importance , is calculated to produce most beneficial effects on the Gipsies themselves ; who , though dAvelling for so many centuries in our midst , have not had a tithe of that

attention bestoAved on them by the religious and philanthropic world , which has been lavished on the heathen in foreign lands . K .

The Loss Of The "London."

THE LOSS OF THE "LONDON . "

THE LATE BKO . THE REV . DE . WOOLLEY . It will be remembered by our readers that amongst the sufferers by the catastrophe of the London was our esteemed Bro , Dr . Woolley , Prov . G . Ohap . for New South Wales .

Our latest file of Sydney papers gives an account of a general meeting of the brethren , held at Sydney , on the 28 fch March , in the matter of the lamented death of our esteemed and distinguished brother : —The meeting Avas convened by order of

Bro . J . Williams , Prov . G . M ., who presided on the occasion . The brethren appeared in Masonic costume—members of the Craft only being admitted . The Prov . G . M . was supported in the chair by the folknving brethren : —Bros . D . C .

Dalgleish , P . S . G . W . ; R . D . Merrill , the United States' Consul , P . M . ; J . M . May , P . M . ; M . Israel , P . M . 655 ; J . MattheAVS , Prov . G . Sec . ; P . P . AgneAV , Prov . G . Chap . ; J . Simmons , P . Prov . J . G . W . ; Brown , P . M . 817 ; W . B . Bennett ,

P . M . ; and J . A . Bird , W . M . 6 o 5 . Numerous influential members of the Craft occupied seats in the body of the hall , and took part in the proceedings , bufc the numbers present had evidently been someAvhat unfavourably affected by the heavy

and continuous rain . The Prov . G . M ., in opening the proceedings , said that : During the many years Avhich had passed since it had first fallen to his lot to guide the working of the English Constitution in this colony

as its Provincial Grand Master , he did not know that he had ever assembled and presided over a meeting of the Craft on a more melancholy occasion . It was to express their lively son-OAV for the loss of their beloved brother , Dr . Woolley ,

and to manifest their deep sympathy Avith those bereaved ones whom he loved so much , that they , as Masons , met together that evening . At a lai-ge assemblage of their fellow-citizens , the other night , the public services and many high intellectual qualities of the deceased had been

eloquently set forth by several speakers , who Avere thoroughly capable of appreciating all that they , very properly , made the subject of their eulogy ; but he would rather prefer to dAvell on those qualities by which their gifted brother Avas yet

more nobly distinguished—his large-heartedness , and his unaffected love and sympathy Avith all mankind . It could never be forgotten by him that , as a Mason , Bro . Woolley , had stood up in that hall , and manfully owned that he had been in

error with regard to some of the dogmas of Masonic doctrine , in Avhich he ( Bro . Williams ) had felt it his duty to differ from him . As a man made conscious of what was right , and not ashamed to admit that he had been mistaken , Bro . Woolley had made the truthful avoAval , and from that hour

he had been doubly dear to him , as a friend and as a brother in whom implicit confidence might be placed . Since that memorable occasion whenever he had found himself in any position of difficulty he had always sought the advice of their lamented

brother , and had never sought that advice in vain . At all times subsequently he had been enabled readily to avail himself of the benefit of his sound and deliberate opinion—matured , as it was , in the great store-house of his cultivated intellect .

Anticipating- his proximate arrival in this colony he intended to have proposed that the Brotherhood should invite their departed brother to a banquet of welcome in that hall , at which they might jointly manifest their unaffected pleasure at his return to take his place once more amongst them . Little did he think when he first

entertained that idea that it Avas one which would never be realised—that they should see his face no more , —that , ere his return to them , their brother Avould be invited to another banquet amongst the souls above , presided over by the Supreme

Architect of the Universe . They felt his loss as fellowcitizens , but they felt his loss in a more peculiar manner as Freemasons—as members of that great Society Avith which he was pleased to co-operate , and whose principles he had ahvays supported .

Bro . Woolley was , as they all kneAV , a man who was not less remarkable for the kindliness of his disposition than the ready courtesy of his manners —a courtesy which he ever manifested to all , to the rich and to the poor alike . His untimely end

would be a matter of deep regret everywhere , but in no place Avould his loss be more sensibly felt than in fche Masonic body , believing , as he did , in the sublime teachings of the Order , —that all men