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successful ; and as our venerable institution is founded on the heaven-born virtues , Paith , Hope , and Charity , ( so beautifully represented on the testimonial which I have this day had the honour to receive at your hands ) , we may rest assured that amidst all the mutations of time and changes of circumstances it

Avill stand a strong refuge to the worthy Mason in the hour of need or the storms of adversity , and will cheer the heart of the widow and the fatherless Avhen misfortune leads them to feel the need of sympathy and the aid of friends .

I again thank you , my brethren , for these tokens of your esteem ancl regard , and for your kind wishes on behalf of Mrs . Keith and family ; and , in conclusion , allow me to return you the congratulations of the season , and to express my earnest wish that you may , each and all , be spared to enjoy many happy

returns of the same . I have the honour to remain , brethren and companions , Very fraternally yours , A KEITH , P . G . M . A deputation from the Provincial Grand Loclge

ancl blue lodges under Scottish authority was then announced , and , advancing to the east , presented a congratulatory address , to ivhich the Provincial Grand Master returned an appropriate reply . The Grand Lodge then closed in due form and with solemn prayer , and adjourned .

Street Accidents.

STREET ACCIDENTS .

The excitement produced by occurrences which happen to attract our attention is usually disproportionate to the circumstances from ivhich it springs ; this is probably to be accounted for by the partial manner in ivhich the details of such events become knoivn .

A railway accident attracts universal attention , railway directors are immediately abused en masse ancl regarded almost criminally by the unthinking portion of the public , aud this because it usually happens that in such calamities a number of

individuals suffer simultaneously , Avhereas in street accidents it is seldom that more than one or two are victimised by one disaster . In this as in other social matters it is , however , highly requisite all parties should be treated alike , not only for the sake of doing them justice but

iu order to elicit the true condition of affairs and ascertain how far the calamities to which Ave are constantly subject may be mitigated . A careful examination of the statistics referring to the two classes of accidents shows most conclusively

that the number of those ivhich occur in our streets far exceed those on the lines of railway in destructivcness , —of course in relation to the numbers using each

Street Accidents.

mode of travelling , although the general public does not pay much regard to the fact . Seven people run over and killed in seven days seems to be of little importance compared wiih the death of seven people in one railway disaster . The modes of diminishing the [ number of street

accidents which have been proposed are sufficiently simple , but hitherto they have not been receiA'ed with favour . It has frequently been suggested that bridges over , or tunnels under , the main thoroughfrres Avould very materially reduce the number of deaths

and injuries from vehicles , if the foot passengers would avail themselves of the protection thus offered them ; but on the other hand it is argued that in the majority of instances advantage would not be taken of the safe means of crossing , —this , of course , is a matter of opinion and it seems most probable that females and the weak and infirm would rather lose a

feAv minutes in crossing than risk the dangers of a croAvded thoroughfare , and it is to them probably the greater number of accidents occurs . Whether such provisions ivould prove acceptable will doubtless soon be made more clear as it appears that footways will be constructed in connection with

the railway bridge at the foot of Ludgate-hill in the City , and although the crossing at that point is not dangerous in comparison with many others ( such as those at the top of King William-street and by the Eoyal Exchange ) , yet it is sufficiently so to serve

assome guide from the treatment of Avhich the authorities may be enabled to judge of the utility of erecting others where they seem to be more urgently required . The only objection Ave can see to bridges in contradistinction to tunnels consists in the temptation they Avould offer to idlers to lounge about them and thereby obstruct the passage .

Enjoyment Attending The Pursuit Of Knowledge.

ENJOYMENT ATTENDING THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .

Many examples SIIOAV that the Pursuit of KnoAvledge does much more than merely exercise and enrich the intellect . The moral habits which it has a tendency to create ancl foster form one of its chief recommendations . KnoAvledge is , essentially ancl directly , power ; but it is also , indirectly ,,

virtue . And this it is in two ivays . It can hardly be acquired , without the exertion of several moral qualities of high value * and having been acquired , itmurtures tastes , ancl supplies sources of enjoyment , admirably adapted to Avithdraw the mind from unprofitable and corrupting pleasures . Some

distinguished scholars , no doubt , have been bad men but Ave cannot tell IIOAV much Averse they might have been but for thoir love of learning , Avhich , to the extent it did operate upon their characters , could not have been otherAvise than