Round And About.

to re-arrange the Register when the number of blanks in the list appeared to justify such a proceeding , but there no no longer exists any excuse for putting the Lodge to the trouble and humiliation of changing their numerical significance .

Oxfordshire is to bid farewell to Lord Jersey , P . G . M ., Oxfordshire , at a dinner which takes place at Banbury , where the future Governor of New South Wales is specially revered as High Steward . The date is fixed , according to Atlas , for the 24 th prox . The Mayor presides , and amongst

the county magnates expected to be present are Bros . Lord North and Lord Valentine ( P . G . M ., M . M ., Oxfordshire ) , Sir George Dashwood , Albert Brassey , and Mr . Allec Hall , M . P .

" Business on tour enormous . Broke the record here last night , " from Bro . Edward Terry , P . G . T ., Scarboro ' , where he has been playing to big houses all the week . « * * The Lord Mayor is with his wife and family completing

his holiday at Brighton , and the benign countenance of the W . M . of the Drury Lane Lodge may be seen any morning about twelve , when his speculating Lordship walks along the sea front . The unstinting tongue of scandal has pointed its venom in the direction of the Mansion Llouse , and an

anonymous contributor has sent me a well-written article " cutting up" the connection of the Lord Mayor and Bro . Horatio Bottomley of the Hansard Union .

Now , it happens that I am perfectly acquainted with some of the recesses of the Hansard Union , and many more are public knowledge ; but whatever my anonymous contributor thinks , or whatever object he may have to gain , I am about the last man in the world to make use of matter which comes

to me surreptitiously . Mr . Bottomley is a shrewd and clever man , and his success is great , and if he has numberless enemies at the present moment , he has perhaps as many friends . I remember when poor * * * committed suicide after having used and lost his sister ' s trust

money to further his newspaper schemes . I remember a great number of startling facts since then ; but if my impudent contributor dares to send any more such matter to me as the editor of a Masonic journal , I will use what power I may possess to find him out and have him thrashed .

There are signs of the coming theatrical season . Bro . Henry Irving is hard at work with the production of his new play at the Lyceum . Edward Terry tried the opening piece of his London season in the North the other day , and found it came up to his well-expressed expectations . The

Vaudeville , fresh from the hands of Bro . Phipps and his merry crew , will open with a revival of old comedy , with Bro . Conway as the leading man .

The play of the ( last ) month was , I suppose , The English Rose at the Adelphi , where , strange to relate , every actor holding a part of any prominence is a Mason , now that Abingdon has been put through his facings by "Jimmy " Beveridge at the Lodge of Asaph . But of the play . The first act brilliant and strong , the last miserable and weak , and between them the same old wheezes , the same old situations .

the same old scenes , the same old warders , the same old false accusations , the same old platitudes , the same old actions , the same old rubbish . Beveridge , as an Irish aristocrat fallen upon evil days , plays well ; but Leonard Boyne plays better . Abingdon—when in years to come he

discards that leering , dragging stage-walk of his , will make a very fine villain—has a strong part ; and Bro . Rignold was born to play a big plaidcd , welching bookmaker , out of which he drags a lot of fun and plenty of applause . The English Rose will blossom at the Adelphi for months to

come . Bro . Stage-manager Sidney went away for a long spell of rest directly the production was complete ; but the successful author , George R . Sims , stayed at the theatre hours after the curtain had descended on the initial performance , and our cabs passed each other in Oxford-street

the following morning , when he was quietly snoring on his journey to that fine house of his overlooking the Regent's Park . Sic transit gloria mundi .

It will be news to most people to hear that Bro . Brickwell , the acting manager of Terry ' s Theatre , is building himself a theatre at Paisley , but it is not his intention of appearing

upon the boards again . The house will be capable of holding nearly 2 , 000 persons . Bro . H . T . Brickwell was initiated , and passed in the Isca

Lodge ( 683 ) at Newport , Monmouthshire , in 18 S 3 , and was raised in the Dramatic at Liverpool in the following year . For close upon twelve years he has been the friend and right hand man of that very excellent Mason the last Grand Treasurer , Bro . Edward Terry . Brickwell is never tired of

singing the praises of the " boss , " whose name and interest he brings in , no matter what the topic of conversation may be . He is of mixed nationality , and , like all men who own to nothing purer than a Britain , is a sterling good fellow , of indomitable energy and tact . He was intended for the

surgery , but he cut away and joined the 12 th Lancers , with which he cultivated that military bearing which makes him the most handsome acting - manager in London . Brickwell is now a much - respected member of a "Bohemian" Lodge , and belongs to several smart clubs ,

where he is generally known as "Brick "—a very good soubriquet for such a sound Mason . Lie lives in a charming little snuggery at Brixton , but , as he has managed to produce four little bricks with which to build a bigger house , his intentions are wandering to the neig hbourhood