Provincial.

YORKSHIRE ( NORTH AND EAST RIDINGS ) . STOKESLET . —Cleveland Lodge ( No . 795 ) . —An adjourned lodge was held at the Golden Lion Inn , Stokesley , on Monday evening , August 19 th , when Bro . George Markham Tweddell , ( late J . AV . of the Lodge of Relief No . 50 , held at the Hare ancl Hounds Inn , Bury , Lancashire ) , was unanimously elected as a joining member ; andMr . George Shirley Terry , and Mr . Francis Wrightson ,

Stokesley , were both initiated into ancient Freemasonry , the ceremony being ably performed by the AV . M ., Bro . J . H . Handy side , P . M ., P . Prov . G . S . AV . The Cleveland Lodge is held in high estimation by all who know it , for the careful manner in which it is conducted ; and as an almost necessary consequence it is in a prosperous condition . " AVorkers , " like Bros . Marwood , Haudyside , Hunter , Weatherhill , Martin , and others , are what every lodge ought to possess , but , unhappily , do not . To take office without preparing ourselves for the duties therof , is alike an injury to the Royal Craft and to ourselves ; and one or two real good workers in a lodge often have a marvellous effect upon the other members for good .

Poetry.

Poetry .

THE GARDEN OF THE HEART . Leaf by leaf the roses fall , Drop by drop the spring runs dry ; One by one , beyond recall , Summer beauties fade and die ; But the roses bloom again ,

And the spring will gush anew , In the pleasant April rain , And the summer sun and dew . So in hours of deepest gloom AVhen the springs of gladness fail , And the roses in the bloom ,

Droop like maidens wan and pale ; We shall find some hope that lies Like a silent gem apart , Hidden far from careless eyes In the garden of the heart . M . M .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COURT . —Her Majesty and family arrived in Ireland on Friday morning , and on Saturday the camp at the Cui-ragh presented a gay and stirring scene , when a grand military review took place in presence of her Majesty . The , royal party arrived on' the ground about eleven o ' clock , and met with an enthusiastic reception—a genuine , warm-hearted Irish welcome . Altogether there were present between 60 , 000 and 70 , 000 persons , the troops numbering 20 , 000 . All passed off without a contretemps worth mentioning . On Sunday the royal family remained in close

privacy ; and on Monday afternoon tbey were to set out for Killarney . On Tuesday her Majesty spent several hours on the magnificent lakes , which , from the large flotilla of boats which followed in the wake of the royal barge , must have presented a scene of remarkable gaiety and animation . The Queen and royal party bade farewell to Lord Castlerosse , at whose residence she had been staying , in the evening , and proceeded to Muckross Abbey , the seat of Mr . Henry Herbert . On Thursday her Majesty left Ireland for Balmoral , having been everywhere most enthusiastically received . The younger members of the familare alreadat

y y Balmoral . Prince Leopold , it is stated , is to spend the winter in Italy under the advice of his medical attendants . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —Last week there was an important decrease in the rate of mortality upon that of the week preceding—the number of deaths in the metropolis being 1159 , or a falling off of 98 . In the same period there were 1753 births recorded—909 boys and 844 girls . The mean height of the barometer was 29 . 943 inches , and the average temperature ofthe air 61 . 2 degrees . The obituary records the decease

of the lamented Marchioness of Breadalbane , who died yesterday in her 59 th year . The installation of Lord Palmerston as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports took place at Dover on Wednesday . The event excited great interest , the town being crowded with thousands of visitors . There was a review of volunteers , and a procession , comprising the Lord AVarden , the civic dignitaries and other officials , and various rifle corps , passed through thc town to the Court of Shepway , by which body the ceremony was performed . There was a grand banquet in the evening , ivhich was attended by a large and brilliant company . The AVar Office has paid a high compliment to the Metropolitan volunteers . One of the assistant

inspectors of the metropolis has received the appointment of fort-major at Guernsey , and Sir G . C . Lewis—so we are informed by the Army and Navy Gazette—has declined to name a successor to the gallant officer on the ground that " the volunteers have now arrived at such a state of organisation in and around London , that they require less supervision . " The new AVar Office regulations with reference to the appointment of sergeant instructors to volunteer corps have been issued . " Light horse , mounted rifle , aud rifle volunteer corps " will be provided—at the public expense—with instructors " in the proportion of one to each corps of

from 1 to 3 companies , two to each corps of from 4 to 7 companies , three to each corps of from 8 to 12 companies , or upwards . Second or subsequent battalions will receive sergeant instructors in the same proportion as corps of the same number of companies . " Mounted corps not entitled to the services of an adjutant will receive one Serjeant for each troop . A frightful accident occurred on Sunday morning on the London and Brighton Railway , which , it is to be feared , will prove the most disastrous in respect of the destruction of human life that has yet been recorded in this country . At an early hour in the morning an excursion

train , with between 300 and 400 passengers , from Brighton , had reached and entered the Clayton tunnel , when its progress was arrested by the signal man . AA'hile in that position the ordinary passenger train came up , and also entered the tunnel , when a collision of course ensued . There , with darkness to heighten the horror , a carnage took place amongst the hapless occupants of the carriages of an awful character . Twenty-two were brought out dead , and upwards of 30 with injuries of various degrees . On . Saturday afternoon John Stocker was brought before the

magistrates at Marlborough , charged with cutting the throat of Ann Hill , who was wife of the head gamekeeper to a gentleman at Everleigh . Several circumstances of suspicion having come to the knowledge of the police as tending to implicate the prisoner in this horrible murder , be was first placed under surveillance aud ultimately taken into custody . On hearing the evidence offered , the magistrates , considering it sufficient for the purpose , remanded the accused , who offered no objection . Two cases of death , apparently by poisoning , are undergoing

investigation at Coventry . There is living in that town a weaver , named William Beamish , whose wife and four children had been on several occasions lately seized with violent sickness after eating . One of the children eventually died , and subsequently , on Tuesday last , the mother also . From the suspicious circumstances under which these deaths took place inquiries were set on foot , resulting in the arrest of the husband and two women , Emma Strathern and Jane Stokes , who resided in the house . All three prisoners have been examined before the magistrates and remanded . Tho unusual spectacle of an execution for attempted

murder was witnessed at Chester , on Tuesday , the convict being a young man named Doyle , who made a frightful attack upon a woman who had been travelling about the country with him . At the Central Criminal Court on Saturday , a girl , named Phillipa Eastcott , was charged with setting fire to a dwelling-house . The prisoner had been servant to a gentleman in Kentish Town , and one day last month was left alone in the house , when on the return of the family it was found that the place was on fire , a quantity of property missing , and the girl had absconded . The jury acquitted her . To a second indictment , charging her with

robbery , the prisoner pleaded guilty , and she was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour . On the previous day , Peter Mastersen , a private in the Royal Artillery , was indicted for the wilful murder of Martin Murphy , a serjeant iu the same branch of the service . The crime was committed on the Sth July at AA ' oolwich , when the prisoner , who had been brought into the guard-room by the picket in a state of intoxication , seized a heavy poker , and struck the deceased a violent blow on the head as he was writing at a desk . The unfortunate man lingered a few days and then expired . A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury ,

accompanied by a recommendation to mercy . He was sentencedtodeath . The Baron de A * idil was found guilty of feloniously assaulting his son , and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment with hard labour . The son , refusing to give evidence , was committed to prison for one month for contempt of court . Two men , named AVilliams and Roberts , and two others , brothers , named Coopey , have been examined before the magistrates of Little Dean , on a charge of murdering Samuel Beard , a Serjeant of police . The four prisoners had been caught in the act of sheep-stealing bthe deceasedand finding themselves detectedthey commenced a

y , , savage assault upon the officer , inflicting such injuries that he died a few days after . Before his death , however , the men were all apprehended , brought to his bedside , and identified . They will all be committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder . Miss Johnstone , of Twickenham , was examined at the Maiiborough-street Police Court , on Monday , in support of the charge preferred against an Italian named Collucci , of having defrauded her of a sum of £ 1900 . Her evidence bore out the statement already made on her behalf , that . she had carried ou a voluptuous correspondence with the prisonerwho had obtained considerable

, sums of money from her ; that , owing to some quarrel , the origin of which remains for the present a mystery , she desired to bring their acquaintance to a close ; and that she paid him £ 1900 on his handing her a parcel which , he said , contained the whole of her letters , while its contents proved to be nothing more than a bundle of old newspapers . Several threatening letters addressed to Miss Johnstone by the prisoner on his being remonstrated with after this discovery was made , were read in Court . The case was again adjourned .

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Mr . Roebuck's speech at Sheffield has caused the French Government to publish in the Mmxteatr a contradiction to the assertion that there existed a " convention" for the ultimate cession by Victor Emmanuel of the Island of Sardinia to France . The Moniieur declares—and the declaration would be satisfactory , if everyone did not remember similar disclaimers that events have falsifiedthat " not only does such a convention not exist , but even the thought