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TOL. IY. (NEW SEEIES) JANUABY TO JUNE , 1861.

LONDON : PEINTED AND PUBLISHED EOE THE PEOPEIETOE, BEO. ¥M, SMITH, AT THE OEPICE, No. 5, SALISBTJEY STEEET, STEAND, "W.C. 1361. OUJDON:

HUNTED AT THE SCIENTIFIC MESS, SALISBURY STREET, STRAND, Vf.C- THE FEBBMASONS MAGAZINE

AND MASONIC M I E E O E.

ADDRESS TO OUR READERS.

WITH our present number Ave close the Eirst Volume of THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE for 1861, covering a period of the year always peculiarly interesting the members of the Craft , as it is that in which the Festivals of our Masonic Charities are held, and the neAV Grand Officers appointed. As regards the Charities, Ave need only observe that the appeals to the brethren have, in every instance, been liberally responded to, and that a bright future apj>ears to await all our institutions ; though, from the lingering illness of our respected Bro. Crew, the Secretary of the Girls' School, and the alterations in the management of the Boys' School now in progress, they haAre been partially overshadowed by a dark cloud, which, hoAvever, Ave rejoice to feel has not been Avithout its silver lining ; and, indeed, Ave believe that never had either of the schools a fairer prospect before them. Of the Benevolent Institution for Aged Masons and their Widows, we may observe that its claims to support are becoming more and more understood and appreciated, and the poorer members of the Craft reaping a corresponding benefit , its festival being IIOAV equally popular with that of either of the other institutions, and the subscriptions and donations yearly increasing in amount. Of the neAv Grand Officers Ave have no necessity to speak at any length, as Ave have, in the course of our weekly labours, already described their antecedents in Freemasonry, and fairly introduced then to our readers ; but we cannot review the past sis months without expressing our regret that the Earl of Dalhousie, P.D.G.M., should have felt, from ill health, constrained to resign the Chair he so ably and Avorthily filled, notwithstanding the acknowledged talents, the business habits, and courtesy of the gifted young nobleman who succeeds him. There is, hoAvever, another officer, no less important than the D.G.M., not to say even the G.M. himself, who has retired from office , almost Avithout remark. We allude to the late President of the Board of General Purposes, and whose place it will be difficult efficientl y to fill . Bro. Havers, a P.G.D., took the office about four years since, at a time when great distraction prevailed in the Craft, at a time Avhen the disputes Avith Canada Avere at the highest, and when the brethren were naturally dissatisfied at the manner in .which their affairs had been for some time conducted ; and it is not too much to say that it is mainly owing to the firmness, the courtesy, and the conciliatory spirit displayed by that brother, under someivhat difficult circumstances, that xve OAA< 6 the quiet Avhich now exists in the Craft ; and that he has gr adually Avon the esteem and respect of the large majority of the members of Grand Lodge, by many of whom, when he first assumed the office , he was regarded Avith distrust and suspicion. We—though Ave have frequently disagreed with Bro. Havers in opinion, and shall probably, should he, as we hope he may, continue to take an actiAre part in the discussions of Grand Lodge, do so again—cannot but feel that in his retirement the Craft have lost a most able officer, and the G.M. a fearless and conscientious minister. Of his successor, Bro. Mclntyre, Ave desire to speak Avith all respect, as Ave know him to be a gentleman of great ability, and one Avhose elevation to office confers an honour upon the Craft ; but though as a debater in Grand Lodge he Avill prove a worthy successor to Bro. Havers, he will excuse us if Ave express an opinion that there are other qualities required in the President of the Board of General Purposes, and which xve axe fearful a legal education is not the best calculated to develope—a too close regard to technicalities, and, if we may use- the term without offence, " reel tapeism " being almost insensibly wound up with a lawyer's studies. There are yet subjects of deep interest to the welfare of the Craft to be brought before the Board of General Purposes, and its President should be a man of untiring industry, comprehensive grasp of mind, facilit y of adaptation, and, in short, a man of the world, free from all prejudices and partialities. We do not mean to say that Bro. Havers possessed no prejudices, because there are feAv men without them—but he certainly possessed the other qualities Ave have named in an eminent degree ; and Ave sincerely hope that Ms successor may prove himself not only worthy of the position from his acknOAvledged talents and ability, but SIIOAV that he possesses other qualities for the office which he has not hitherto had an opportunity of exhibiting in Freemasonry. Having spoken of others, we can only, as regards ourselves, again refer to what Ave have done in the past as an earnest of what we shall endeavour to do in the future ; and whilst thanking the brethren for their support, remind them that all have an oppor- tunity of assisting us in our labours by adding to our subscription list, by canvassing their friends, by sending us any item of Masonic intelligence that may come under their notice, or by friendly hints relative to the journal, all of which kindnesses Avould be duly appreciated by the Managers of THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE. In conclusion, Ave have great pleasure in announcing that AAre have IIOAV in the hands of the engraver a beautiful portrait of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie in his Masonic costume as P.D. Grand Master, Avliich will be presented to our subscribers early in October, and Avhich ought alone be a sufficient inducement for the brethren to exert themselves to double our circulation. The engraving AA'ill be executed on steel, in the highest style of art, and will, Ave trust, meet Avith the approbation of our subscribers. INDEX.

PA (3-1! PAOE PAGE Additional Grand Stewards 311 CoiUlKSrOXDETCE :— CIIAFT MASOSET—Continued. AMERICA :— Appeal to Freemasons, reply to 472 Honour and Generosity, No. 194 51 Illinois 30, 198 Asvlvim for Aged M»SOA\S and their Israel, No. 247 S)2 Indiana 219 AVidoAi-s 373 Jordan, No. 237 72, 153, 232, 433 257 Australia 505 li»™ .loppa, No. 223 216, 474 Michigan 197 Berks and Lucks, Prov. G. Master of... 150 Merchant Navy, No. 1083 312 Nebraska 197 Brahmin Masons 393 Neptune, No. 22 107 Xeii' Jersey 218 Pro. Peter and a Lover of Regularity 473 NeAv Concord No. 1115 ...73 154 „" , , , 232, 414 Ohio 197 Burns' Mother Lodge 450 Oak, No. 225 52 Rhode Island 218 Candidates under Age 505 Old Concord, No. 201 31, 118 , 133, 272 Wisconsin 1!)7 Ceremonv of Installation, the 30, 18S Old Kings Arms, No. 30 91 Vermont 219 Channel Islands 269 Panmure, No. 1317 412 .A>"CIE>"T ASD AcCErTED KlTE :— Charity 209 Peace and Harmony, No. 72 91, 271 Supreme Council 317 Consecration of St. Mark's Lodge 293 Percy, No. 234 ;... 273 Birmingham 458 Distress, a Case of...331, 350, 372, 410, 450, Phrcnix, No. 202 133, 216, 394 Metropolitan Chapter of Rose Croix ... 50 474 Prince Frederick AVilliam, No. 1050 ... 433 Newcastle 174 Ferrers and Ivanhoa Lodge, (No. 1081) 109 Prudent Brethren , No. 109 71 Portsmouth 7S, 397 Freemasons' Remembrancer 31 Ranelagh, No. 1136 154, 274, 493 Hyde, Isle of Wight 398 Grand Lodge 230 Regularity, No. 108 51 Woolwich 15, 157, 337 Grand Master of Canada, the 30 Robert Burns, No. 25 31 Ancient and Modem Masonry 03 High Grades, the ...151 , 109, 331', 431, 450 Royal Jubilee, No. So 271 ABCinlECTUEE AND AnCUJF.OLOKY:— Initiation trader Dispensation 492 St. George' s, No. 104 91, 132 Appliu'.itiorioftliel5e'.u\tifi.\\to'BA\ikAiAAgs 245 Knights Templar ...371, 3»3, 409, 450, 473 St. James's Union, No. 211 51, 118 Archaeology in France 125 Lodge Almoners 131 St. Mark's, No. HS/.fe-?. 254 Architectural Photographic Society ... 40 Lodges of Instruction 252, 294 St. Paul's, No. 229.„.. * ¦ ¦ 153 Architecture of the Eleventh Century, 280, Clothing at 351 South Middlesex, No. 1160 335 305, 320, 346 Lost Charter, a 309 Strong Man, No. 53 215 Arrangement of Churches, on the 5, 21 Masonic Balls 170 Temperance, No.198 71 Chichester Cathedral, Fall of Toiver of 20S Hall at Brighton 231, 350 Temple, No. 118 132 , 137 , 210 Colour in Churches 490 Ritual 310 Tranquillity, No. 218 152, 232 Colour on Statues 344, 363, 387 Masonry in France 50, 410 Tuscan, No. 14 „.„'. '. 93 Destruction of Scotch Antiquities 125 in India 12 United Mariners, No. 33 70 Durability of Ancient Buildings 253 thc Voice of. 50, 87 United Pilgrims, No. 745 273 General Architectural Intelligence, 4(5, 27, Returns to thc Cleri of the Peace, 310, 330, United Strength, No. 270 133 216 ' , 84, 125, 225, 263, 287, 347, 3(57, 389, 427, 371. 393 AVestbourne, No. 1035 172, 337 445. 409. 487 ' Royal Arch Degree, tho 107, 151 AVhittington, No. 1104 434 Guildhall, the, and St. Paul's Cathedral 5 Eoyal Benevolent Institution for Aged Yarborough , No. 812 32 Houses of Parliament, the Stonoof. S4 Masons, &c. _ 474 Metropolitan Lodges of Instruction .-— ' International Exhibition of 1S(52 ...185 , 224, Secretary 's Position, the :.. 188 Albion, No. 9 90 409 Sliakespere, I IOAV to spell 231, 252 Caledonian , No. 156 394 Masterpieces of Architecture 105, 202 Strange proceeding at Rath, a ...50, 09, 87 Fidelity, No. 3 23 1 National Gallery, Alterations in 210 Suffering Ribbon AVcavevs 13 Neiv Concord , No. 1115 434 Newcastle,Ai\t-i q\«VA-ian Society 4(5 AV est Lancashire "Ball , the 151 Stability, No. 264 351 Ne«' Exhibition of Sculpture Oi AVest Yorkshire, Pro v. G.M. of ...170, 252, Provincial Lodges :—¦ Remains of Ancient Eoinaii Baths 367 209, 450 Berks and Bucks :— Revival of Styles 466, 485, 502 Correspondents, to, 20, 40, 00, SO, 100, 120, 140, Aylesbury, No. 801 435 Wren, Sir Christopher, iviid Lis Ti5r.es, 403, 100, 180, 200, 220, 210, 200, 280, 300, 320, 340, Maidenhead, No. 1097 295 425, 443 300, 330, 400, 420, 4M), 400, 480, 500, 512 Newbury, No. 839 33, 191 Assistance 257 CKAFT AIASOXEY :— Stony Stratford , No. 1142 191 , 455 Books, neAv (see Ifeviews). Grand Lodge, 171, 181, 189, 321, 331, 411, AVindsor, No. 252 03 Stray Thoughts about, 244, 285, 386, 4G5 431, 441, 451 Cambridgeshire -.— Brii7.il 124 Metropolitan Lodges :— Cambridge, No. 1161 414 Canada, the Grand Master of 1 Albion, No. 9 271 Channel Islands .-— Ceylon, Masonry in 385 Belgrave,No. l051 413 Guernsey, No. 829 55 Charities, our 301 British Oak, No. 1133 172, 506 Jersey, No. 306 357 Charity 81 Camden, No. 1000 52 No. 722 357 Chaplain, the, and the Nuncio 45 Canonbury, No. 955 232, 395 No. 811 279 CHINA :— Crystal Palace, No. 1044 295, 493 No. 860 134, 218, 279, 359, 457 Hong-Kong 298 DalhoAisie, No. 1102 311 NOAV Masonic Hall 297 Tien-Tsin 358 Domatic, No. 200 71, 133 , 216, 294 Cheshire :— Classical Theology 3, 101 , 204, 324, 402 Eastern Star, No. 112 51, 152, 232 Birkenhead, No. 782 93 CoiOSl.il: Egyptian, No. 29 294 Cornwall :— Antigua 177, 338 Emulation, No. 21 70 Prov. Grand Lodge 455 Australia 257, 509 Enoch, No. 11 51, 152, 312 ChacCAvater , No. 1000 107 Canada 30, 117 , 134 Euphrates, No. 257 216 Launceston, No. 1091 313 Gibraltar 15, 10, 117 , 134, 158, 170 Felicity, No. CO 71, 232, 412 Truro, No. 415 107 .Tamaica 357 FinsAmry, No. 1103 434 Derbyshire :— Mauritius 374 Fitzroy, No. 830 93, 273, 352 Derby, No. 1033 234 N OAV South AVales 57 Friendship, No. 2 IS 73 Repton, No. 446 93 St. Christopher's 157 Globe, No. 23 90 Devonshire:— 'Trinidad 197 G rand Stewards' 51, 152, 270 Devonport, No. 230 33, 107 PACT PAGE PAGE CE APT MASONEY—Continued, CEAPT MASONEX— Continued. KNIGHTS TEJIPIAE—Continued. Plymouth, No. 83 275 Surrey :— Cheshire, Prov. G. ConclaA-e 317 Dorsetshire :— EAvell, No. 593 435 Dewsbury 239 Weymouth, No. 190 S3 Sussex :— Gibraltar 15, 136, 196, 317 Durham :— Brighton, No. 33S 155 HandsAvorth 457 Darlington, No. 12S 13 No. 394 113, 193, 310 India 356 Gateshead, No. 56 191, 275, 353, 455 No. 1034 238 Kent, Prov. G. Conclave 481 Hartlepool, No. 774 13, 395, 474 Brighton, No. 1113 238 Liverpool 116 South Shields, No. 292 313 Chichester, No. 45 134. 296 London 77, 279, 507 " AVest Hartlepool, No. .1060 395 AVorthing, No. 1153 ... 238 Newcastle 56, 278 , Essex:— AArales, North ,— Oxford 157, 457 ^*' Colchester, No. 59 313 Rhyl—Laying a Foundation Stone ... 472 Plymouth 157, 279, 507 ¦ ¦ No. 99S 13 AVales, South :— Sheffield 376, 397 Hampshire :— Aberavon , No. 1135 75 Southampton 116 Aldershot, No. 1025 14, 172 SAvansea, No, 288 75 AVatford 116 Bournemouth , No. 230 94 AVai'Avickshive :— Woohvich 77, 256, 375 Lymiiigtoii, No. 401 493 Birmingham, No. 51 113 LasAA'arrie 423 Southampton, No. 152 33 Nuneaton, No. 025 450 Legend, a Delightful 3 No. 402 191 Stratford-on-Avon , No. 1080 173 Literature and Art (See Notes on). No. 555 73 AViltshire -.— MAKK MASONRY :— AArinchester, No. 90 10S, 275, 353, 435 Colne, No. 909 134 Grand Lodge 507 Herefordshire :—• Corsham, No. 420 4-94 Basingstoke 296 Dep. Prov. G.M —Portrait of 255 TroAvbridge , No.915 277 Birkenhead 156 Hereford , No. 141 14, 21G Yorkshire, North and East :—¦ Key Stonc 296, 338 Ross—Laying a Foundation Stone 234 HoAvden , 913 507 Leicester 196 Hertfordshire :— Hull, No. 05 77, 114 NeAVcastle-on-Tyne 298, 350 Berkhampstead, No. 742 35, 313 Aliddlesbro', No. 7S0 76, 173 Sheffield 218, 318 , 398 AValtham, 1171 500 Rinon. No. 1139 54 Thistle 296 AVatford, No. 580 172, 313 Stokesley, No. 795 114 Winchester 438 Huntingdonshire :— Yorkshire—AA'est Riding :— AVoolwieh 218 Huntingdon, No. 511 94 " ' Provincial Grand Lodge 310, 330 MASONIC FESTIVITIES :— Kent :— Huddersfield, 305 509 Baildon 197 Ashford, No. 1011 192, 474 Installation Prov. G.M 416, 430 Blackpool 58 Deal, No. 1086 52 Baildon , No. 543 98, 195 Bury, Lancashire 137 Dover, No. 235 191, 314 BatleyCarr,No,1129..,54, 114, 173, 194, 450, Gibraltar 158 Gravesend, No. 91 95 507 Liverpool 118 Ramsgate, No. 621 36, 314 Bradford , No. 379 114, 194, 255, 336 London 118 , 137 Isle of AVight-.— Dewsbury, No. 1129 418 Nuneaton 118 CoAi-es, No. 41 13 Doncaster, No. 298 195, 354 Sheffield 118 Neivport, No. 176 52 Holnifirth, No. 937 277 Alasonic Dedication 253 Ryde, No. 204 395 Leeds, No. 382 217, 255, 374, 456 ——— Adi'enture .... 243 No. 999 295 Sheffield , No. 162 15, 54, 155, 234, 316, Instruction, On Symbols, applied Ventnor, No. 809 52 418, 495 to 422, 487 Lancashire, East :¦—¦ No. 373 15 Jewels 290 Prov. Grand Lodge 217 AVakefield , No. 727 54 Mems, 13, 51, 70, SS, 107, 132, 152, 171, Bury, No. 50 95, 270 Delig-htfnl Legend, a g ISO, 214. 231, 254. 294, 311 , 331, 351, 372, • No. 226 95 Druses, the, and the Scotch 62 394, 411, 431, 451, 493, 506 Fermvorth, No. 976 74 Earnestness in Freemasonry 343 Notes 83 Rochdale, No. 62 14 Egyptian Custom, an 188 MASONIC NOTES AND QUEBIES : Lancashire, A\rest :—¦ Egypt, some Observations on 165, 205 Addison, Quotation from 289 Liverpool, No. 294 154 Emplovroent, tho Search for 70 American Lodge, Charter of a 427 _ No. S64 475 Fine Arts 127, 390, 47S • Masons, the first Grand Mas- Leicestershire :— On thc Origin and progress of 23, ter of 349 Leicester, No. 348 36 41, G2, 102^123, 163, 203 ¦ ¦ Naval JIasons 80 No. 786 74, 173, 415 France 410 ¦ Paraphrase of the 133rd Ma rket Harborough 192 Freemasons Magazine, the, and tho Aroice of Psalm 146 Middlesex :— Masonry 01 Ancient and Accepted Rite, Secret HoivnsloAA-, No. 1167 416 Freemasonry, Earnestness in 343 Constitution of the 250 TAvirikcnham , No. 1090 217 Influence of 124 Anderson, Bro 250 Uxbridge, No. 530 90, 192, 270, 314, 493 in Franco 421 Architector 129 Monmouthshire :—• ¦ in Naples, 121 , 141, 101, 182, 201, Armorial Bearings 250 Abergavenny, No. 1120 14, 193, 435 241, 201, 282, 301, 322, 341, 361, Anns in Lodges 212 Non-port, No. 093 14, 395, 475 383, 401, 422, 442, 464, 483, 501 Astrea, the 85 No. 983 53 in the United States 401 Asyium, EngriiA'ing of the 308 Norfolk :— Origin and Mission of 489 Author, AVho was the 86 Great Yarmouth, No. 117 155 Popularity of 4 BaldAvin Encampment, the, and the King's Lynn, No. 124 113 The goorl effect of 100 Duke of Sussex 107 Norwich, No. GO 53 German Precept 2S4 Bank of England Lodge Portraits S5 No. 110 58 Goorl Effects of Freemasonry 160 Beimchamp Chapel, AVarivick 489 No. 258 74 Grand Master of Canada, the 1 BelloAVS Blower degree 47 No. 1109 53, 112, 193, 255 Grand Officers , the 381 Benevolent Institution Jewel, the 24!) Northamptonshire:— Graves of Bros . Jackson and Polk 145 BveAvstev, Bro. Rev. John,M.A., ...211 , 225- Northampton, No. 403 14, 217, 315 Influence of Freemasonry 124 British Lodge, No. 8, Privileges of 211 Northumberland:— INDIA :— Blucher, AVUS the Field Marshal, a Prow Grand Lodge 236 Bombay 135 Mason ? 363 Neivcastle, No. 580 353 Calcutta 350, 377 Bon Accord Mark Lodge, the 249 Instruction ;sg4 Lucknow 17 Book of Constitutions, "the First 488 North Shields, No. G24 296 Madras 170 Brother, Use of the AVord 103 Oxfordshire :— IRELAND :— Burke, Edmund—Was he a Mason ... 308 Proi'. Grand Lodge 455 Cork 78 Byron, Lord 20 Banbury, No. 873 193 Dublin 495 Caligraphic Query SO Oxford, No. 425 14 Female Masonic Asylum 174 Catch Questions 47 No. 400 155 Skihhercon 30, 490 Cambaccres, Prince 408 Somersetshire :— International Exhibition of 1802... 1S5, 224, 409 Canvassing Cards 129 Pirn-. Grand Lodge 395 Jackson and Polk , Graves of Bros 145 Caution 408 Bath . No. IS 90 Jack of AH Trades 498 Centenary JeAvels 390 ¦ ¦ No. 61 133 Jewels', the, a Tradition of the Rabbins 389 Chart-lev Lodge of Fortitude 107 Huntspill, No. 307 14, 330, 354, 450 KXIG-IITS TEM PI.A11 :— Chesterfield , the Earl of 48 Staffordshire :—¦ Supreme Grand ConchiA-e 115 Clairvoyance and Masonry 329 llauilsAVorth , No. 707 396, 450 . Instnllationof Cleaning Aprons 7 lianley, No. 000 97, 238, 354 Grand Muster 397 Coloured Masons 211 AVolvcriiampton , No. 007...30, 53, 155, 315, Birmingham 356 Confirmation , AYarrant of 28 397, 475 Bradford 116, 256 Coppendal e, Bro. Henry 207 No. 709 397, 505 Canada AVest 36 Consecration of Lodges in 1813 211 PAGE PAGE PAGE MASONIC NOTES AND QUEKIES—Continued. MASONIC NOTES AND QUEEIES—Continued. MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES—Continued. Contradictory Degrees 103 Lodge Banquets, Lady Vocalists at ... 47 Rosicrucians and Mystics 387 Council of Rites S6 Books 249, 267 Royal Arch Cypher 187 ¦ ¦ Coventry Mysteries, the 289 Collars 308 Early History cf 130 Cowan, the Avord 47 Most and least Numerous 7 Jewel, Old 225 Craft Aprons lined Avith blue 471 of Perfection 167, 391 St. John of Jerusalem, Order of 67 —^- Button, the 290 on Board Ship '. 250 St. Mary-le-Strand Church 471 Crimea, Tombstones in the 8 Opening 103 St. Paul, Gahii. 9 350 Cross Bones 103 Plate 28, 146 Sayer, Bro. Anthony, G.M. 350 DalhoAAsio, the Marquis of 428 Records, the earliest extant 290 Schaxler 4S Daniel, Bro. F. C 145 Seals 369 Scotland, Royal Order of 103 Daivney, the Hon. and Rev. Godfrey ... 471 No. 11 in 1735 369, 391 the Grand Lodge Colour 103 Dee, AA'as Dr. John a Brother 489 Old 103, 308 Scottish Templars, Excommunication De Lintot, Bro. Peter Lambert ... 449, 471 London Lodge Furniture, the 186 of the 390 Dcsagnlcers, Dr 67 Maut, Bro. Archdeacon 129 Senior Grand AVarden, the Neiv 34S Dumas the Novelist 290 Mark Degree, the 290 Sermon against Masonry 391 Dunkerly, Bro lOS,***, W] • in Canada 471 Serpent Worship 249 Dimdas, Bro. LaiA'rencc, Second Baron 471 7 I Master, the Degree of 7, 145 SeA-en Steps, Ladder of 9 Dyer, Bro. G 8 ¦ Mark Jewel 308 Shakspere—AVas ho a Alason 369 Edinburgh, Freemason's Hall 129 Old 85 Shedden, Bro. Alexander 8 Ellis, Bro. Hercules 47 Men and MarK Masters 489 Shocking Caligraphy 328 Encyclopaedia Metropolitana 290, 348 Masonic Arclueology 249 Sir Knight 369, 428 Essenes, the, and Knights Templar ... 390 Bed-quilt 47 Sister Grand Lodges, Representations Faith of Fidelity, Conclave of ..7 8 Biography 250, 348 at 129 Fift y-three Degrees, the 167 Book, old 289 SorroAV Lodges 167 First and Second Temples, the 187 Books, rare 67 Soult, Bro. Marshal, and his Diploma 328 Foreign Notes 368 Convention S Supreme Grand Council 369 Foundation Stone 8 Date 47 Surplices in Lodge 369 Freemason, derivation of 103 Dignities 129, 140 Symbolic Masons, Lodge of 8 Freemasonry Among the Natii-es of Expulsions 309 Sterne, the Rev. LaAvrence 308 Australia 168 Gift to a Sweetheart 47 Stone's, Nicholas, MSS 471 and the Assassins 85 Jewel 187 ,211, 249, 328 Templars, Crimes of the 86 ¦ ¦ Curiosities of 348 Marriage 308 Temple, Doors of the 391 History of 430 Matrimony 211, 225 Gates of the 167 in Egj-pt, Mrs. Belzonia ... 186 Monument in LodgeLaC sareo 391 Order of the 249, 264, 288, 308 in France and England ... 348 Murder, another 390 Ten Brocke, Bro 427 Freemason's AVife, A 145 Observer, the 129 Thomson, Bro. Peter 86 French Certificate, Old 489 Periodical 68 Triple Cross of Salem, the 370 Lodge, A, 80 years since 429 Public-house Stations 4S9 Tracing Boards 47, 408 GaAvthorn George 7 Rings '. 489 Travelling Freemasons 103 Goodacre, Bro 48 Signs in Plays 308 Unrecognised Degrees 369 GoAver, Peter 471 Token 47, 129, 146, 168, 211 Vexillum Belli 289, 328 Grand Gr.-wer 103 Volunteers 9 AVages at the Temple 7 Lodge Papers 290 Masonry dissected 368 AVarren, Charles 103 Lodge Seal, the Cherubim on 9 in Herculaueum 250, 266 AVashington's Initiation 86 Master, the M.AV., and the m the 18lli Century 103 Wellington, Evidence of the Duke's Lodge of Antiquity 103 in the United States, Sta- Initiation 489 Orient de France 129 tistics of 103 AVestmacott, Sir Richard 407 Principles, Number of the 8 theAroice of 129 AVeymoutli Bridge, Sermon on Opening 8 • Secretary in Grand Lodge 267 AAHiat constitutes a Degree in ¦ ¦ AVilliam 111., Death of Bro 329 Steward's public thank s 427 250, 308 Woodford , Bro., the Lecture of 390 Grea t Exhibition of 1802 211 Alason, AVhat's the use of being a 187 Wren , Portrait of Bro. Sir Chris 48 Northern Templar, the 4S9 [ Mason's Alphabet, the 47 " Yours Prater-Masonically " 14S Ham and the Ark and Mark Degree ... 369 Clothed in AVhite 309 A'ours Fraternally 103, 249 Harding, Bro. Sylvester 308 Hereditary Marks of 369 Zerubbabel 8 Healing a Alason 309 Largest Assembly of 308 Masonry a Science 186 HcaA'y Initiation Fee 47 Marks 47, 86 Masonic Symbolism 21, 81 Hele, Conceal, and Never Reveal 370 Mecca , the Pilgrimage to 368 Masonry, Ancient and Modern 63 or Hail 145 Medal, Tracing of a Curious 369 Masonry in Ceylon 385 Helena , the Empress 47 Melmoth the Wanderer 9 Masterpieces of Architecture 105, 257 High Grades, Balance-sheet of the ... 289 Moody, Bro. II., Particulars wanted ... 289 Memoirs of the Freemasons of Naples, 121, 141, Hills and Low- Allies 249 Morgan Investigator, the 369 161 182 201 241 322 . , , , , 201, 282, 301, , 341, T AVCI A-O and LOAV TAvelve 391, 407 Morgan's AVife 428 361, 383, 401, 422, 442, 464, 483 Hiram Abif and Dionysian Artificers ¦ ¦ 350 Moses's Deputy G.M 427 Michael Angelo and Pope Julius 451 n-as he married ? 369 Mozley, Henry 369 Mission of Masonry 224. Hogarth aud the Grand Lodge JeAvel..! 103 Musical Brethren S3 Music and the Drama (See Notes on Music Illumiuati, Degrees of the T. 8, 103 NcAA-castle, the Duke of 29 and the Drama). Installation , the Ceremony of 9 Odd FelloAA's and Masons 489 Notes on Literature, Science, and Art, 9, 29, 48, Irish Freemasonry 140, 10S Old Concord Lodge (202) 7 6S, 80, 105, 130, 149, 1GS. ISO, 212, 230, • Rite 7 Order of Harodim 449 250, 208, 290, 30S, 330, 349, 370, 391, 408, Isaacson, the late Rev. Stephen 329 Pamphlet sent us 289 427, 447, 470, 491, 504 Israel Shout, the 211 Parry, John, Is he a Alason ? 328 Notes on Music and the Dram a , 40, 58, 100, 120, Italian Lod ' ges ' ' 489 Past Master s Champagne 68 140, 151, 175, 200, 200, 300, 380, 398, 1-58= Kent, the Duke of . . S6 Perpendicular 103 497 Key-stone Emblems, the 489 Persian Rite 350 Netherlands—the Hague r 478 King AVilliam IA ., Initiation of 103 Phallic AVorship, the 187 OBITUAKY :— Knee Buckles and Shoe Buckles 308 Preston , Bro., and the Lodge of Anti- Bell , Bro.Thos 38 Knightly Expulsion 9 quity 391 CraAvford , Bro. Gibbs 458 Knights of Constantinople 8, 379 ProA-. G. Commander, Installation of... 34S , CoAvan, Bro. AVm 257 of the Holy Sepulchre ¦ ¦ 369 Lodge Banners 290 Dawes, Bro. Matthew' IS, 79 of the Ninth Arch 47 Master 471 Littledale, Bro. Thos 298 of the Swords ¦ ¦ 250 Superintendents G7 MexlroroAigh, liro. the Earl of IS Templar 8, 249, 2S9, 328, 428 Queen Elizabeth and Masonry 129 Morris, Bro. John 298 — Appointments 428 ¦ of Sheba, the 9, 47, 146, 211 Moultrie, Bro. Clias 178 " can be a Knight of 249 Ross, Bro. Jno 257 Malta 370 and King Solomon,211, 267 Rowe, Bro. Dr 99, 118 " — Case, curious 107 Quotation , AVanted a Aerification 267 Skelton, Bro. AVm 219 ' Installation of the RaAA'linson, Bro. Dr 471 Smithers, Bro. the Rev. It. B 99 S.GA1 220 Richmond, Bro. the late Duke of 7 Tappolct, Bro. liicharil 280 — Medallions 129 Ring of Possession, the 250,.42S A'crnon liro. Genera l ~ ¦ , 318 the, and the Jesuits 07 Rising Star Lodge, Medal of the ...309, 407 AViison] Bro. R. Lea 318 Lamb-skin, the 08 Rite of Mizraim 47 Origin and Mission of Freemasonry Lectures 489 and the Sections 289 Roman Catholic Clergy 207, 289 POETEY :— Lodge Almoner 146 Rose Croix Cypher 145 Bonif'azio 1G9 PAGE PAGE PAGE REVIEWS— Continued. ROYAL AECH—Continued. roETKY— Continued. No. 624 37S the Poor 339 First and Last 104 North bhields, Blind Girl, No. 25S 255 to a Favourite 252 Morality of Freemasonry compared Norwich, Canary, No. 224 317 Drink and AAA-ay 251 with that of Christianity 229 Plymouth, 104 Sheffield No. 162 77, 239 Dying Heroes, the 12 Mountain Prophet, and other Poems... , r 228 No. 373 258 Dying i ear, the 11 Mysteries of Life, Death, and Futurity 104 South Shields, No. 292 356 Fragment, a 109 Poems, by M. S. Hall 's Dream a 104 Southampton, No. 152 57S First Rose of Summer, the 339 Spring Morning , ¦ Three AVeeks in Japan 446 No. 555 4/8 Game of Life, tho 292 338 30 AVorks of Virgil 227 Uxbridge, No. 536 Gratitude 4o7 l ROYAL AECTI :— Watford, No. 580 I'm Growing Old p° Institution for Aged In Memoriam—In Future 430 Supreme Grand Chapter 98, 114, 354 Roval Benevolent 150 Metropolitan- Chapters: — Masons, &c. ...31, 88, 294, 311 , 331, 351, 374, Lament, a 394, 411 Love Charm the 251 Domatic, No. 206 27S , Freemason s'Charity for Girls, 31, 294, 372 Lupracaun the 78 Instruction 457 , Masonic Institution for Boys 181, 201, ' the 292 Hope, No. 248 77 Maiden s Love, 214, 270, 281, 311 Masonic Ode 131 Iris, No. 317 174 Botanic Gardens, Keiv 05 Masonry's Seven Ages 188 Mount Sion, No. 169 50, 130, 317 Royal Old King's Arms, No. 30 50 SCOTLAND :— Masonrv. to 'S 156 213 Robert Burns, No. 25 277 Aberdeen Night's'Rest, the 376 Peter Pindar 49S St. James's, No. 2 217, 375, 478 Ayr ' Mother Lodge 50S Poet's Plea, the .... 188 St. James's Union, No. 211 ...136, 195, 438 Burns Union of AVaterloo, No.13 174 Maybole 376 Rain in September 292 441 Rapid, the, St. Laivrence 458 Yarborough, No. 812 173 Sensible LaAvs -j Observations in Egypt 165, 205 Right to Disdain, the 150 Provincial Chap ters .-— Some Prov. Grand Chapter, Yorkshire West... 398 Stratford-on-Avon, Visit to ...42, 142, 221, 302 Sonnets 392 386 405 land 11 Baildon, Yorkshire, No. 543 ;¦¦ 339 Stray Thoughts about Books, 214, 285, , Victoria (Australia) to Eng 41 62 102, 4 Bradford, Yorkshire, No. 379...196, 298, 396 Stray Thoughts on the Fine Arts, 23, , , Popularity of Freemasonry 123 163, 203 40 58, 120, 139, 180, Chatham, No. 20 156 , Public Amusements ...19, , Alasonic Instruction, 462,4S1 200 220 360, 497 Gateshead, No. 614 355 Symbols applied to , , "18, 338 R EVIEAVS :— Gosport, No. 387 4-95 Turkey 229 Hereford , No. 141 174 United States, Freemasonry in the 461 Address delivered at Hai'AA'ich 221 302 447 Huddersfield, No. 342 390 Visit to Stratford-on-Avon 42, 142, , Boys' Own Library 231 - Magazine 447 Huntspill, Somerset, No. 367 6S AVatson Testimonial 132 , 119 137 159, 178, Economy of Steam Poiver on Common Leicester, No. 348 98, 156 Week, the, IS, 38, 59, 79, 99, , , 280 299 319, 339, 35S, Roads 140 Liverpool, No. 35 339 193, 219, 239, 258, , , 439 459 479, 493, 511 EnglisliAVomnn's Magazine 447 Lymiugton, No. 401 478 378, 398, 419, , , LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1801. 10 THE EDITOR OF THE FREEH.YSOXS 3rAGAZIXE AXD MASONIC MIUKOH. Silt AND BROTHER,—AVitli reference to your uncalled- TO OUR READERS. for, and Arcry un-Masonic feading article of the 29th September last, headed, " The Prince of Wales and the We this -week publish, a supplement, containing the Freemasons of Canada," jierhaps you Avilf be so good as to appointments for the month, in a convenient form for compare it with the documents hereunto annexed, and then give this note, and the " Masonic " account of Avhat really reference, it being our intention, in future, to present a cfid occur, a place in your MAGAZINE . I do not address you similar supplement to our subscribers on the last at all in any official capacity; but as ono Broth er Freemason Saturday in each month ; and hare to request the as- Avoufd another. All I desire, as you have indirectly charged me Avitli 'the crime of disloyalty to my Sovereign and her sistance of the brethren in making it as perfect as possible son, H.E.H. the Prince of AVales, is that my brethren on —and a reference to it wil! show how much Ave stand in your side of thc Atlantic may haA'e an opportunity of judging need of that assistance. mc on my own merits. I shall feet it incumbent on me to submit your remarks to the Grand Lodge of Canada at its Brethren, not being' subscribers to the l£xtiMssm¦wjsfc meeting. ¦wishing to have the "Remembrancer " may do sofl^-far 3{ J1K * in London under distinguished auspices. If " S. S." will send his address, and Ave know anything of him, AA-e shall haA'e great pleasure in appointing a meeting, to exchange such matters as AVO are in possession of] CONCLAA'E OE 1'AITII AND FIDELITY. OS [The copy of tho statutes, Avhich AVO haA'e, of tho Conclave BENJAMIN PUEDT, of Faith and Fidelity, makes no allusion to Avhat you ask ? MASTER You know our motto—" Audi, vide, tace."] OF TUB ILLUMINATI. THE TRANSPOBT NO. 173, What popular works treat of the IUuminati, or Secret " MACK BOY," Tribunals of Germany ?—X. A. X.—[The Illuminati and OS STJNDERIiAND, the Secret Tribunals of Germany are two entirely distinct WHO DEPARTED THIS LIEE societies. For the former consult Luckefc' s Essai sur la IS KAZATCH BAT Secte lies Hh.mnw.es; for the latter, Professor Kramer's ON THE 27TH JUNE, Hermann of Unna , and the Marquis Grosso's Secret 1855, Mysteries!] AGED 52 YEABS. BBO. G. BVEE. SAOBED Who, and -what, AA-as Bro. O. Dyci; of the Somerset House Lodge, in the last century ? I am induced to ask this, as he AA-as' the author of the Avords of a glee, "Lightly o'er the Yillage Green," set to music by Bro. Reginald, Spofforth , and they are someAvhat above the average of glee poetry.— Musicus. SERAION 03S' Or-EXING AATLAIUIOUTII BRIDGE. TO THE Wearmouth Bridge Avas opened, Avith Masonic honours, MEMOBY in 1796, by his Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester, OS and the ReA'. Bro. BreAVSter preached a sermon from 1 W. P. HOOPEE, Chron., chap. 29, A'crse 13. Was the sermon ever published? MASTEE MAEINEE, —AN OLD DURHAM P.M.—[It Avas, and is to be found at HIED JHNE 1ST., 1855, p. 375 of vol. A'ii. of THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE for 1796. AGED 36 YEAES. Bro. John BreAvster, A.M., Avas Chaplain to the Lodge of Philanthropy, Stockport, then No. 19.J In the Sailors' Burial-ground, above Cossack Bay, Bala- KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. klava Harbour :— I am not a Knight Templar, but I Avish to know some- thing about the Order. Where shall I look for it ?— HENIUCUS,'—[Read the legend of the " Red Cross Knight" in Sjj enser's Faery Queen.]' LODGE OP SYMBOLIC MA SONS. Where was the Lodge of Symbolic Masons formerly held.—C. E. T. HIEB EA5HETINGOTT BRO. ALEXANDER SHEDDUN. , Of AA'hat family Avas Bro. Alexander Shedden, W.M. of CAPTAIN J. E. PACKS, the Union Lodge, held at the Union Punch House, Princes- vs. siaAisAJim, street, Bristol, in 1767?—A . SHEDDEN . JHK» ms&s>w&t POENDATION-STONE. GIST -. DEX 21 APBIL, It is customary at the erection of aif superb and stately 1856. edifices to lay the foundation-stone at tho north-cast corner of the building. Why is it customary ? For Avhat reason is the north-east corner chosen in preference to any other ? MASONIC CONVENTION. It is the age of conventions. We have trade conventions and scientific conventions. When may AVC expect to have a SACEED Masonic convention ? TO THE Gibraltar , 2%th- November, 1860. 3IEMOEY OF THE TOAIBSTONES IN THE CRIMEA. .Tons THOMPSON, A "Military Brother " inquires, in " Notes and Queries," LATE MASTEE OP THE BEIO- " PEACE, for some information about tombstones in the British WHO DIED Cemetery in thc Crimeaoinvhich are foundMasonic emblems. JUNE 6TJ1, 1855, I enclose sketches of jive, copied from a AA'ork entitled Memo- AGED 39 YEARS. THE CHERUBIAt ON GRAND LOD GE SEAL. three staves ?—DEXO.— [The Masonic ladder lias many Is there any peculiar meaning attached to thc fi gure re- rounds or staves. We can well understand a Craft Mason presenting the Cherubim on the seal of our Grand Lodge ? believing only iu three, but Craft Masonry is not the whole —ONE IN SEARCH OI? INFORMATION .— [There is. It is of Masonry.] highly symbolical. Consult Calmet's or Robinson's Dic- " AIKLAKXTK THE Al'AXDEREtl." tionary of the Bible, under the head " Cherubim."] Some years ago, long before I AA-AS a Mason , I read Mehnoth MASONIC VOLUNTEERS. tlie Wan derer, and some one told me it had some connection I send you the followin g note, thinking it may be of in- Avith the Freemasons, and a family of the same name in the terest to many of our brethren AA'IIO so ably support the West of England. I have since hoard that there really is Rifle Volunteer movement.—H. H. a Bro. Mehnoth in the locality spoken of. Has it anything At a meeting of the lodge in Red Lion-street, Wapping, held on to do ivith his family ?—ELTON.—[How should Ave know ? Tuesday, the 24th of April, 1798, Peter Hellish, Esq., in the "We read Mehnoth the Wanderer thirty years since, and forgot chair. Taking into consideration the present situation of all about it. Perhaps the case " Elton " puts may be as public affairs, and animated hy a firm attachment to our king, likely as that of thc "Wizard of the ISforth and Dr. James and lo\'e of our country, and justly sensible of the blessings and Anderson, the author of the first edition of The Booh of privileges Ave enjoy, in common AA'ith our felloAV-subjects, do resolve Constit u tions, being bound by some mystic tie. Certainly to associate, for the purpose of acquainting ourselves with the use the one is a first-rate conjuror , and the other, in his day, but also to of arms, not only to protect ourselves and properties, tuas looked upon as something a tinge Avorsc, although he defend our invaluable Constitution of King, Lords, and Commons, from all the attacks of its avowed and secret Avas a Presbyterian parson. Sames do not ahvays refer to under Avhich Ave live, , of enemies. families more especially those found iu works f iction.] That we Avill at all times he ready to be called out into service, in case of an actual invasion, for the protection of the folloiving parishes, viz., St. John's, of Wapping, St. George's-in-the-East, and NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. St. Paul's, Shadii-ell. Mr. AT. CareAV Ilazlitt, in his recently published History of tlte That Ave will obey such rules and orders as are or shall be agreed Venetian Republic, gives the folloiving pen-picture of the City of on for the government of the said association ; and Ave pledge our- the Sea during mediaeval times :—" Let the mind's eye coneeh'e selves to each other to observe, and strictly adhere to the same ; a rnder Amsterdam, a city permeated by canals, and divided into and also to conduct ourselves, on all occasions, so long as Ave shall deep ivater-streets of IOAV wooden tenements interspersed, even continue members, in such manner as we shall best promote the someAA'hat thickl existence, reputation, y in the leading thoroughfares, with dAvellings of and honour of the associatiou. That this as- greater pretension hiiilt on a better model and of a more - durable sociation do serve Avithout pay, to arm and clothe themselves at material their oivn expense its , and studded in every quarter ivith Christian Temples for , and that this corps shall be commanded by the most part of the plainest architecture, not a few on the other OAA officers, chosen b ballot 'H y , and approved of by the King. hand possessing considerable beaut thoug Several other resolutions for the regulation societ y of structure, h more of the y were remarkable adopted, after ivbich the meeting for the richness of their ornamentat on than for the dissolved. . regularity of their design. Let us present to our fancy a few [We are much obliged for the above interesting note, but it hundred lamps fed Avith olive oil, distributed through the streets cannot now be used as a precedent in face of the declaration and alleys, commencing at the Sacred Jfiche at the corner, and of the Secretary at War's dictum, which last Aveek laid reneived at each third or fourth door, shedding over the surround- down thc law io tho offocb that MO secret, society could form ing' Rpnee a I ig-ii t, a little more powerful indeed, bat far less brilliant, its members into a Rifle corps. This was in reply to the than that Avhich is emitted by the gloAV-AVorm. Imagine thorough- application of the Foresters ; and a doubt may arise whether fares similar to those in the Dutch capital, sometimes finding their such ruling extends to our Order, seeing Freemasonry is termination in the Lagoon, more frequently abutting upon squares acknowledged and tolerated, in special terms, by Act of skirted on three sides by public or private edifices, and on Parliament. Still, so many Masons are to be found in the the remaining side opening from a wharf-lined quay to the movement, enrolled in various corps, that had there not sea. Picture those quays and squares a scene of perpetual hustle and excitement been good , the theatre of an Ymintevrupted procession of men. grounds for the course pursued Ave are AA'ell On one spot a group of sailors satisfied that a Masonic Rifle , loosely dressed in jackets and caps, are Corps AA'ould have been quarrelling, perhaps about their last wager. Within a stone's throw established lon g ago.] of theplace where thesejnien are standing, is a decently attired female, THE QUEEN OP S1IEBA. ivho is kneeling in an attitude of devotion before an image of the What has the Queen of Sheba to do Avith Masonry ?— Virgin, inclosed in a recess at the angle of the nearest street. At TITUS.—[If you ought to knoAV, ask some of the fathers of another point, tivo persons Avho, if a judgment may be formed from the Craft—William Watson , for instance ; if not, don't be too their exterior, belong to a much higher class of society, are con- inquisitive] versing together in a subdued tone. The elder of the tivo, a THE CEREJIONt 01? INSTALLATION. Venetian, patrician, is drawing the attention of his visitor, a. gen- How do those lodges manage Avh o have only one P.M., tleman of Verona, to a large house of the Loinbarrliu type imme- and no visitors of that rank, Avhen they proceed to install a diately before them on the right hand ; there, said the Venetian, W.M. ?—TITUS.—[Never having heard of such a case, we had lived in former times a celebrated member of his family, and cannot say. To the other portion of tho query, NO !—em- there ivas his memory still cherished hy his descendants. A little phatically, NO !] further onivard to the left, he points out a second building of equal KNIGHTLY EXPULSION. pretension, where tho existence of a terrible plot, lie whispered, had After Suppose a K.T. to disgrace himself and tho Order of late been discovered by the government. :i short pause, , how the passengers proceed on their ivuy, is kni outp—B tAA'o warned of the approach ghtly expulsion carried . J. 0.—[We beg you of the hour of vespers hy the hells of many churches, AA'hich are will not suppose anything of tho kind. Read any text- mingling their chimes in the stillness of a summer evening. A book on chivalry, or look through THE FREEMASONS MAGA- little beyond the busy and croivded metropolis lay a region more ZINE carefully, some five to ten years since, and there you sparsely populated, Avher e the eye is relieved by patches of verdure Avill find a case of expulsion, but not quite so delectable as anil strips of meadoAV-land , as Avell as occasional plots of ground you put it. That to AA'hich we allude Avas a matter of in- laid out in gardens mid planted inclosnres still consecrated to the subordination. You cannot expect us to pioint out the exact vine and olive, and still unaffected hy the increasing demand f or place, for obvious reasons.] building space in a rising city. Here and tiim-e, too, may be LADDER OE SEVEN STEPS. observed fish-ponds (Piscine), stagnant and miasmatic. Such Avas _ Being a visitor to a lodge recently, I saw an old-fashioned the Venice which Avrigo Dandolo kneiv, AA'h ere Marco Polo drew his piece of marble, having various coloured hieroglyphics in- first breath, in which Marino Faliero passed his youth." serted, or let in, on the upper side. They were mostly thc Sir. President Buchanan is preparing, for the New York Ledger, Aisual Masonic symbols and tools; but there Avas a ladder of a sketch of the life of AVilliain Loii'iides, formerly a member of seven steps, the first, third, and uppermost being made four the House of Representatives. or five times as thick as tho other staves. Is there any The Critic says :—"Ivfr. George jtfarkhain TAveililell, of the reason for such a delineation, or Avas it chance, or a nW in the marble that caused the sculptor to thicken these three in Industrial School, Bury, Lancashire, basin the press a second edition, preference to the others ; and why Avere there seven steps ; I enlarged and improved , of his interesting ivork, ' Shakspere, his ahvays thought thc Masonic ladder to be composed but of Times and Co iteiinioraries.' " Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character , endowments appeared only as one of many conditions present that are likely to become as popular in the United States as they have were primarily independent of the volition of the individual. A In England. fashion has recently come over the platform and the pamphlet, for the rich to inculcate In the poor a doctrine which on more than one Our noble Bro,, thc Earl of Carnarvon, thus descibes the scenery occasion in the world's history the poor have signally declined to of the Lebanon, in his recently published volume:—" After accept—that riches and honour are and ought to be synonymous. traversing the plain of Beyvout, with its groves of pine,— "Whatever may he the shortcomings of Mr. Davenport Hill's bio- one of AA-hich IA-MS planted by the famous Emir, Fakreddin , lA'hose graphical collection, he merits applause and gratitude for raising romantic history and boasted lineage from the house of Lorraine his A-oice like a man against this shameless idolatry of Mammon. brings, during the seventeenth century, the Druse emirs of the The ' self-help ' that he admires is not the self-help of the mere Lebanon into connection ivith the royal families of Europe,—the hard man of practice ; the self-help that consists in helping one's road soon ascends the sides of the Lebanon, and winds along the self to the greatest possible quantity of this world's goods, and lace of precipitous hills, where the crumbling soil often gives a leaving as little as possible whereby others may help themselves ; scanty footing to the horse's hoof, then doim into deep valleys and the self-help of the lynx-eyed speculator, who seizes to his own use across mountain streams, and nii-ay through a wilderness of mingled the discovery of a starving inventor ,- nor even the self-help of the rock and wood, AA-hich at every step groAvs more fine and striking. plodding persevering patient workman who, by thrift and scraping, At one moment the hills toivered high aboi'e our heaps, A\-ith dark puts himself in a position that entitles him to the earnings of his grey masses of stone starting from their sides, and shooting up old comrades of the workshop. Amongst Mr. Hill's ' Exemplars ' into strange and ragged forms; at anoth er the landscape softened, are both rich and poor—rich persons who have gloriously exercised mid Ave rode through dense woods of fir or thickets of olive trees. the influence of their wealth—poor persons whose poverty never But the further that you penetrate into the bosom of the mountains goadeo. them into selfishness—poor persens still living who have the mors striking are the signs of human industry and cultivation. proposed nobler work to themseli'es than self-aggrandisement ! "— Man has trinmpheil A\'liere Nature interposes her greatest obstacles, AVell done, Mr. Hepivorth Dixon ! Only Avrifce in this style, and and sometimes where she seems almost to deny access. The scanty every true brother of the Craft, which, through ignorance of its high soil of the valleys has ivith infinite care and labour been conveyed object, you appear to despise, will thank you in his heart for spreading in baskets up and along the hill-sides, as in the Tyrol and the abroad the true principles of -Masonry, albeit you knoiv it not. Yet Mountain Alps, and as been built up into terraces, AA'h i ch rise like the sentiments which alone give value to the foregoing extract are the graduated steps of some large and natural amphitheatre. Thus those ivhieh Masons have taught and practised in all ages and in the parsimony of Nature within these rugged fastnesses is more than all climes ; and just in proportion to the warmth with which they compensated by tho security which their precipitous sides and have felt, and the zeal ivith which they haA'e followed out such pre- defensible defiles have for generations past afforded against the cepts, has been their fidelity to the principles of the Craft. No, misgovernment and oppression of Turkish rule. From these Mr. Dixon ; Freemasonry has tooholy amission to he merely tolerated. terraces the hardy population of the Lebanon draws the greater Neither persecution nor prosperity can destroy it, for its principles part of its sustenance aud support for the year. The mulberry, actuate every heart that is truly noble. which nurses the silk trade of the entire district, mingles AA'ith the A society has been commenced about Oxford, under the title of long alleys of grey olive trees, and the vines and melons succeed to the slender patches of corn which manual labour has raised on. the " The Literary and Art Guild of St. Nicholas." Its object and or- occasional 'strips of level ground ,- whilst between the intervals of ganisation is remarkably similar to " The Literary Brotherhood," this painful cultivation the mountain streams, clearer than crystal, projected by Bro. Tiveddell, and a feAV other lovers of literature, break from the living' rocli, and are conducted m numberless science, ami art, Mien residing in the neighbourhood of Manchester, channels over and round each declivity, to eke out, by artificial Irrigation, the resources of stony soil. As the traveller Avinds his a feiv years ago, amongst whom we may mention the late Mr. John svay about sunset through these mountain paths, each bend of the Bolton Itogerson. Its objects are stated to be :—"1. For the im- load brings before him some fresh picture of Eastern life and habits provement and diftusion of literary and art knowledge. 2. To pro- —pretty villages and flat-roofed cottages Avith no slight look of vide a fund to publish—subject to certain conditions—the MSS. comfort; Christian convents ivith high Avails, AA'hich speak as much of military defence as of religious seclusion, crowning the heights; of authors (Avhose means are limited) in felloAvship AA'ith the Guild* women drawing water from the Avayside springs, shepherds tending 3. And to establish a fund to relieve the temporary wants of dis- i)v driving their herds of long black-haired goats, or some old tressed literati." villager labouring with his sons on a plot of land AA'hich perhaps The Av.ldbioyrajfliy of the Rev. Dr. Carl le Minister of 2«-. has descended to him in succession from his forefathers. As the y , long train of English travellers, AA'ith their servants aud mules and vereslc (only just published, although he died in August, 18015), horses, scales in single file the mountain road, the old man pauses contains the folloiA-ing interesting reminiscence :—¦" I was in the hi mid-work to see you [lass—for time is not of the same moment coffee-house with Smollett when the neivs of the battle of Culloden to an Eastern as it is to the restless business-loving nature of the arrived, and AA'hen London all over Avas in a perfect uproar of joy. .European—he greets you with some homely salutation, and folloAi-s It ivas then that Jack Stuart, the son of the Provost, behaved in you perhaps ivith ivondering eyes till the cavalcade is hid by the the manner I before mentioned. About nine o'clock I wished to long straggling street of Deil el Kammar—the Convent of the go home to Lyon's, in New Bond-street, as I had promised to sup Moon." Avith hini that night, it being the anniversary of his marriage- The Rev. Thomas Guthrie, D.D., in his Seed-time and Marrest of night, or the birthday of one of his children. I asked Smollett if .Ragged' Schools, says .-—"Before the ragged schools Avere opened he was reiuly to go, as he lived at Mayfair ; he said he Avas, and our city SAvarmed with many hundreds iu a condition as helpless would conduct me. The mob was so riotous, and the squibs so and as hopeless. NOAV the juvenile beggars are all gone. The race numerous and incessant, that we were glad to go into in a narrow is extinct. What has become of them ? They are not mouldering- entry to put our wigs into our pockets, and to take our swords in the grave, the last refuge of wretchedness ; nor are they pining from our belts and Avalk with them in our hands, as everybody in prison cells, turning the weary crank, and cursing those Avho then wore swords ; and after cautioning me against speaking a nave dealt them out nothing but neglect and punishment. They word, lest the mob should discover my country and become insolent, aro off the streets, and in our schools. Once no care ivas taken of ' for John Bull,' says he, ' is as haughty and valiant to-night, as he them, and no provision made for them ; therefore a humane public, was abject and coAvardly on the Black Wednesday, when the High- supplying them ivith money, fostered a system much more ruinous landers were at Derby.' After we got to the head of the Hay- to those AA'ho got than costly to those that gave. Their vocation is market through incessant fire, the Doctor led me by narrow lanes, gone. If any now solicit charity, the answer , is not money, or a where we met nobody but a ICAV boys at a pitiful bonfire, who very rough repulse, or a curse, but—'Go to the ragged school.' There civilly asked us for sixpence, ivhieh I gave them. I saAV not Smollett is no excuse left either for begging or giving. And the consequence again for some time after, AA'hen he showed Smith and me the is, that Ave have done what neither police nor magistrates could manuscript of his Pears of Scotland, Avhich ivas published not long lib. "We have succeeded in thoroughly putting a stop to juvenile affcei , and had such a run of approbation. Smollett, though a Tory, .mendicancy." Avas not a Jacobite, but he had the feelings of a Scotch gentleman The Atheneeum, AA-hich recently sneered at Freemasonry as being on the reported cruelties that ivere said to be exercised after thc only tolerated at present, makes the folloAA'ing really Masonic Battle of Culloden." remarks, in noticing the Recorder of Birmingham's neiv book, Our A writer in the Christian Intelligencer says ot Gray and Patrick's Exemplars, Poor and Mich •—" There has of late been a pernicious large printing establishment, at the corner of Jacob and Frankfort- ami corrupting use made of the lii'es of men who have bettered their social condition through brave exertion, aided by fortunate streets, Neiv York :—"There are printed ivithin it nearly forty circumstances, amongst ivhieh thc possession of rave intellectual perioilicals, Aveekly and monthly, hooks by the thousand and tens of thousands, and every species of thing, big and little, which the But are there none press can supply, employing in all about 200 heads and 400 hands." That bear griefs ivith them A monument to tho memory of the late General Sir Harry On their backward li-ay ? Oh I graceless heart, Smith is about to be erected at Whittlesey, in the Isle of Ely, Returning griefs mar not thy rest. -where lie was born in the year 1781, and where his father was in If joys depart, practice as a surgeon. Dark care fleets by. The Library of Congress at Washington now contains about Time hath a balm to heal thy heart. And, hush ! thy sigh ; 60,000 volumes, and about 50,000 public documents. When the Or, if a sting remains, British burnt it in 1S14, it only contained 2500 volumes. Nine The honey dew years ago it caught five hy accident, when 35,000 volumes were Of memory siveet burnt. The room is now fire-proof , the shelves, &c, being made of Shall soothe thy pains, And hope renew 1 cast-iron. Yes, years roll on— A re-issue of M. Guizot's translation of the complete works of See that ye send not f orth Shakspere is now taking place in Paris, the first volume of ivhieh Dark and sad records has already appeared. We trust that our Gallic neighbours will be To be borne on high,. able to appreciate the great poet of humanity differentl to ivhat But noble thoughts y And deed of worth, they have been taught to do by the false taste of Voltaire, AVIIO To swell the annals of eternity 1 wondered " IIOAV men's minds could have been elevated so as to December 31, I860 look at these plays with transport ; and hoiv they are still folloived after in a century which has produced Addison's " Cato ! " We VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA) TO ENGLAND. wonder what the philosopher of Ferney would have said now, to see the ivorks of Shakspere more popular than ever they were AN OPE SOS THESE TIMES. before throughout the British dominions, the United States, and By the Author of " Bernard." even threatening to become denizens of France. A mutual love of Land of my birth, Britannia's Isle, Where liberty and order smile, Shakspere would be no slight bond of alliance betiveen the tivo Still, though a southern clime I roam, peoples. I fondly call thee " mother,-" " home," The Royal Geographical Society and the Foreign Office have each And proudly hang upon thy hreast, In th given the sum of £100 towards the expense of furnishing an armed y wide-circling arms caressed. Land of the ivise, the good, the brave, force to protect Captain Speke from the hostile tribes in the North Who for thy gifts thy glory gave, of Africa, in his present endeavours to reach the sources of the Nile, Long may'st thou boast a numerous seed. Eugene Verboeckhoven, the Flemish painter of animals ¦ and To emulate each noble deed, amlscapes, we regret tu hear, hna loob hia cj-oei By their illustrious virtue done, glit—almost tbo By their undaunted courage Avon. Igreatest loss an artist can suffer. Such service as I can pay, Worthier, perchance, some future day. In Counsel, may thy senators be wise, And strong, what wisdom dictates to fulfil ; fjaetrjv For thee, not for themselves, their schemes devise, The good maturing, and uprooting ill ; THE DYING YEAR. Making truth, freedom, right, The basis of th laws By DIAGOEAS. y , Fareivell I old year. Ignoring monied mi ght Hark, the bells, with merry din, When justice claims the cause ; Ring the old year out Holding the balance o'er the land And the neAV year in. With an impartial, steady hand. When old friends part, In teaching, let it be thy aim Hope lurks in their adieu, The moral sense to cultivate, And the fondly loving heart That as authority may claim, Trusts the friendship to renew. The conscience may adjudicate. But though, old year, In Commerce, may freedom and fairness prevail, Ar 'fc passing from our sight, And breezes propitious fill each spreading sail, Thy SOITOAVS and thy joys Thy products impelling to realms o'er the sea, NOAV are o'er; Or from them conveying their products to thee. Thy trials and thy triumphs May kind Heaven be near thee, With time take their fli ght, With prosperity cheer thee, And, like old Father Time, Thy dominion ever uphold ; Beturn no more. And while true to your charter, Thy hours of bliss have flown— With all n ations you barter, Swiftly stealing— Seek their profit as AVCII as their gold. Away, aivay, on pinions bright In peace, may all its blessings prove, And pure. And to the olive-bearing dove And heavenly joys ever in their fli ght A due submission pay ; Revealing, That, unprovoked by any slight, Too bright to last, too loi'ely - She may not take a hasty fli ght, To endure. But long protract her stay. And though, with hearts quick beating, In arms (for war's rough work the world And arms extended, Has not yet finished We court thy stay, Its flags, no more to be unfurled, Thou, onward fleeting, And engines to oblivion hurled, With memories blended, From lust diminished), Still haste aivay. Let every fi ght Thus years roll on, Be for the right: And each that passeth Yet, in a cause that's just, Some treasured happiness Haste not its fate to tell ; Doth snatch away. Fight not, till fi ght you must, Yes, years roll on— And when you fi ght, fi ght Avell. Weighing, before you seek the strife, SVEX . ' The value and the risk of life, " 0 father ! woe's me that in youth I fall Bid all unworthy fear good-bye; At Noma's call! Hoping to live, shrink not to die. No deeds of daring valour in the field If thy own thou defend,. Shine on my shield. Th y freedom maintain,, The Twelve dread Judges AVIIO sifc throned on hi h Or hel g , p others who bend. The Feast of Heroes will to me deny." Under tyranny's chain ,. Unflinching tread the held ULI. And bloody weapons ivielcV, " One deed outweighs all others upon earth ; With sword and shot, They prize its worth : Cold and red hot, For Fatherland a hero's death to die— Solid and hollow-,. For Liberty ! The battle follow. But lo! the foeman flee ! lift up thine eyes, Meet your foes- Heaven gleams above ; thither our path now lies." And oppose, CATEII. Till victory or death the conflict close- And if a trying hour should rise, When thou shalt need, command our aid ; COEXESPONDENCE. ¦ We'll one and all "'~" ~ """' Obey the call, [THE EDITOE does not hold himself responsible for any opinion And to the foeman's maddened eyes, entertained hy Correspondents!] Each fi ghting till he wins or dies, Show of what stuff we have been made. FREEMASONRY IN INDIA. Victoria ! shall our watchword be> A trinity in unity; TO THE EDITOR 01? THE ET.EEitASONS MAGAZINE A2vD 3S1S0XIC KIBH0E, Our Queen, our Country, Victory, DEAR SIB AND BROTHER,-—After such a long silence, I One word to designate the three. can. hardly expect the name of "A Correspondent ; " "but , VICTOBIA I as the old maxim says, "Better late than never." Since writing myfast—in which I gave yon a slight account of the Bombay lodges—I have left the army, and am now Sen-ice The fol- THE DYING HEROES. in the Oivif , hut as great rambler as ever. lowing observations, made by me while travelling, will give TEAK-SLATED I-EOIT THE GEBITAS OP VKhASD. you an idea of the ruin of several of our fine lodges, most The narrative of this Ballad illustrates the essential belief of the of AA'hich AA'ere in a flourishing condition previous to the mutiny : now the blackened walls only remain to mark the- Norsemen, that Odin (the chief God in their Mythology) demanded spot where our good brethren assembled to work, the most Valour as the first virtue in those who Avould merit his favour, and of Avhom are now cold beneath the turf, or—God only that he would admit none but brave men to the Feast of Heroes. knows Avhere 1 For, as Carlyle finely expresses it, the "Norse religion ivas a rude Well, I pnrteA mth tkc kind brethren of Bombay last but earnest, sternly impressive Consecration of Valour. " March, proceeded by railway to Shapoor—about seventy miles—thence by " mail " cart, tearing along, at about ten 'Fore Danish swords the hosts of SiA-eden flee miles an hour, OA'er ghauts, through jungle, and shallow To the wild sea ; rivers (bridges being a rare sight in Bombay Presidency), War chariots clatter ; polished armour gleams passing on through Maligaum, Dholid, and Hhow._ The In moonshine's beams ; latter place bears striking evidence of the mutiny with its And dying on the field of death there lay blackened and broken Avails, &c. The lodge, the number of The fair youth Sven, and Ulf the hero gray. AA'hich I forget, raised after the mutiny is working pretty SA'EK-. ¦well. The brethren are numerous, chiefly military. Passing "0 Father ! woe's me that in youth I fall, through Incore—the wife and family of Bro. Beaurius were At Noma's* call : murdered here—Ave observed the houses are as the mutineers A gain my mother's tender hand shall ne'er left them—in ruins. We Avill pass by the towns of Goonah, Caress my hair : Sceprce, GAvatior, and take a peep at Agra. This has In vain my songstress, from her turret high, been a splendid station, but has suffered much, as the Shall gaze afar for me ivith eager eye." numerous blackened ruins testify here. "While our country- men Avere shut up in tho fort, the mutineers did their utmost Uw?. in destroying property, &c. Previous to the outbreak, Ave had " Sadly she '11 moan, in dreams at dead of night, three lodges here, A'iz;., Freedom and Fraternity (No. 647); To see our pli ght; Faith, Hope, and Charity (No. 737) ; Star of Hope (No. 761). But comfort thee: soon grief for thy dear sake The only one now AA'orking is the Star of Hope, the members - Her heart will break . of AA'hich. arc increasing, and will soon, I trust, be in as the golden-haired h, Then she, , with merry laug prosperous a condition as ever. I was not a little surprised At Odin's Feast will iA-e thee Avine to quaff. " g on my visiting the famous " Targe " and the Tomb of SA-EX. Ackbar, to find the numerous Avell-knoAi'n marks of tho M.M. Mason on the Avails, floor, &o. "I harl begun, and set to music gay, 1 A festal lay Passing on through Allygkui , AVC arrive at Deihi, are Of ancient Heroes, and old Kings of might, shown the Palace, the Juma Musjicl, Cashmere Gate, &c, of In love and fi ght, AA'hich I AA'ill not UOAV be describing: suffice to say, I soon Forsaken hangs my harp, audits sail tone found a true Mason—Brn. Marshal—bv whom I was in- Is wakened by the passing breeze alone." formed that the Lodge of Delhi, the number of AA'hich I forget, had shared the fate of the oth ers. But though, as HP U . he said, he lost much of his OAVU, yet he managed to save "Gleaming on high, Odin's proud hall is seen the property of the lodge, Avhich, I believe, ivill soon be re- In sunbeams sheen ; opened, as Bro. Marshal, AA'ith other brethren, have appiied Beneath it roll the stars; athwart the sky for a new charter. May they prosper. Wild tempests fl y. Passing by Kurnaul, Ave stop to inquire for Lodge Charity There, with our fathers, shall we feast to-day ; at Uinballa, but regret haA'ing found it closed. ¦Raise then aloft thy song, and end thy lay." Passing on by Loodiana, Ave arrive at Ferozepore, make thc usual inquiries about Masons' lodges, &c, but find Lodge Li has * In the Scandinavian mvlliolorry there were three goddesses, the Xonicis, ivlio ght of the North in darkness. The property, &c, were analogous to the 1'ureae or t'lites. been all saved, and will, I trust, be in use again soon. The lodges of Simla and Lahore arc in good ivorking Officer in the three provinces of Durham, Xorthnmberlantl, and order—brethren numerous, &c. I send you an extract from Lancashire ; Bro. Henry Thomson, P.M., P. Prov. G.S.AV. for the Tim Delhi Gazette* from which it AA'ill be observed that the North and East Riding of Yorkshire ; Bro. AVilliam Doughty, brethren of Lucknow have their lodge in first-rate order. AV.M. elect; J. Storey, North York Lodge, (876), Middles- Hearon I am UOAV in charge of the Ferozepore Post Office, but am borough ; Bro. Thomas Aylon, Tees Lodge, Stockton ; Bro. , Granb Lodge, Durham, &c.—Bro. H. A. Hammerbom, P.M., uncertain Avhen or whore my next flight Ai'ill be to. How- y over, if anything officiated as Installing Master, anil Bro. George Moore, P.M., as particular occurs, I will let you know. which was com- Until then, bciieve Director of Ceremonies. After the ceremony, pleted in due form, the AAr.M. appointed his officers for the ensuing Tours fraternally, year, as follows -.—S. Armstrong, P.M. and Treas.; George Moore, F. J. JORDAN. P.M., Director of Ceremonies ; John Gallon, S.AA\ ; B. R. Huntley, Ferozepore Post Office , 16th Nov. 1860. J.AV. ; David Cunningham (re-appointed) Sec. ; A. Kathan, S.D.; AV. J. Sivenright, J.D. ; James Rogerson, I.G. ; James Mowbray, Tyler ; and AVm. Hall and A. G. Dalziel, Steivards.—At the con- THE SUFFERING- RIBBON WEAVERS AT ' clusion of the business, the lodge was closed, and the brethren ad- COVENTRY. journed to the King's Head Hotel, when the annual banquet, in TO THE EDITOIl OJ THE EREEMASOXS JIAGAZISTE AST- MASONIC MIEBOK. celebration of St. John the Evangelist, was spread by the AA-orthy DJSAII SIB AND BROTHER,—It occurs to me that, if every host, Bro. Joh n Smith. Here they were joined by several others, lodge in England and AVales ivere to subscribe one guinea united with them in the bond of Masonry, among whom were Bro. toAvards the fund for the relief of the distressed operatives George Bottomley, Mayor of Middlesborougb, and Bro. John at Coventry, a very substantial amount might be raised Sutcliffe, AV.M. of the Harbour of Refuge Lodge (1066), West Har- Avithout impoA'erishnig the funds of any lodge. tlepool. After the removal of the cloth, the usual loyal and Masonic I am, dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally, toasts were given and duly honoured ; after which others of a more A YORKSHIRE special nature were proposed and heartily responded to. In the PAST MASTEE. a handsome Middlesborougli, Dee. 31si5, 1860. course of the evening, which was spent most agreeably, subscription was made towards the funds of the splendid charities [With our knowledge of the Craft, we have but little hope of the fraternity. that shillings will be obtained where our Bro. Past Master looks for guineas.] ESSEX. COICHESTER .— United Lodge (No. 998.—The St. John's Festival of this lodge, founded for, and chiefly composed of, officers belong- ing to the Colchester Garrison, ivas celebrated on Thursday, Dec. THE MASONIC MIKEOE, 27th, at the George Hotel. The lodge for the installation of the AV.M. elect for the ensuing year, Major Thos. Gore, was held in the afternoon , the rite of installation being impressively performed by MASONIC MEMS. Bro. Peter Matthews, Prov. Grand Director of Ceremonies for The Festival of the Royal Benevolent Institution for Aged Essex ; after which the following officers ivere invested:—Bro. Col. Joslin Freemasons and their Widows Haddon, C.JE., S.AV. ; Bro. Scott, Medical Staff ; Bro. Henry , comes off on the 30th of the present Sec. ; Bro. Anderson, Treas. ; Bro. Thomas Hall, S.D. ; Bro. Lloyd, month, when, from the list of stewards, we shall bo much dis- J.D.; Bro. F. Early, I.G. ; Bro. AVitten, Tyler. In the evening appointed if a most magnificent subscription is not the result. the brethren sat doAA'n to an elegant and sumptuous banquet, served. At the last meeting of the Grand Stewards' Lodge, it ivas re- in the lodge room by host Guiver. The newly-installed W.M. solved to recommend Bro. H. G. AVarren (Major Gore) presided ; supported by the Prov. G.M. for Essex, , W.M., to the M.W.G.M. Bro. Robert J. Bagshaw ; Bro. Peter Mattheivs, G.D.C.; Bro. John as Prestonian lecturer. Pattison, W.M. of the Angel Lodge; Bro. Captain Pender, P.M. We hear of great alterations in the management of the Girls' (for tAvo years) of the United Lodge; and Bro. Ames, W.M. School, but ive must make inquiries before expressing our opinion Brightlingsea Lodge. There were also present Bros. G. E. Tomp- ivith regard to them. son, R. S. Nunn, Craster, Bennett, Vance, Drew, Scott, J. Mann, T. Hall, Anderson, AA'aterivorth, Clarey (Brightlingsea), H. Joslin, AA7". Williams, &c.—The first toast proposed bv the AV.M. was " The Queen and the Craft ; " Avhich was followed by " The Health PROVINCIAL. of the G.M. of England, the Earl of Zetland ; " and next by that of " The who returned thanks and expressed DURHAM, ProA'. G.M. of Essex," , DAEHNffTOi*-.—Restoration. his pleasure in revisiting this flourishing lodge, after being un- Lodae (So. 128).—The annual lodge avoidably absent from the tivo previous festivals. Bro. Bagshaiv for the installation of AV.M. was held in the Town-hall, on Thursday, r the 27th concluded by proposing, " The Health.of the AA .M. of the United December. There was a good attendance of the members, r as also several visiting Lodge."—The AA .M. acknoivledged the compliment, and p>roposecl brethren, among whom were Bro. C. J. " for Bannister, P.M., of Liverpool " The Deputy G.M. and Officers of the Provincial Lodge, ; Bros. Henry Thompson, P.M., which Bro. Pattison returned thanks. The W.M. proposed, " The 1 °f Mi ¦ , Darlington ; Bro. Bannister, P.M. 5G and 267, and a past or present Grand the ensuing year, was presented for installation. The ancient charges having been read, the lodge was opened in the third degree,, * This appears in another page. mil the W.M. proceeded with the ceremony of installation, ivhieh he rendered most impressively, eliciting high encomiums from the present, in spite of the inclemency of the iveather. Bro. Higginson, brethren. The neiv AA'.M. having appointed and invested his the AV.M ., assisted by Bro. Maund, Prov. G. Reg., and the other officers, the lodge Avas closed in due form and time, and the officers passed Bro. Saunders and Macfarlaue to the .Felloiv Craft brethren re-assembled at four p.m. at the banquet, at ivhieh the degree. The lodge ivas then resumed iii the first degree, when Dri usual loyal and Masonic toasts were given. The brethren finally S. Steel, and Messrs. Gosden, Evans, AArm. AVilliams-, and E. Tucker, separated at ten o'clock. were initiated into Freemasonry. After tho usual routine business AIDKESUOTT.—Panmure Lodge (1025).—The installation meeting the brethren adjourned to refreshment in the ante-room, and of the above lodge was held on Tuesdav evening, December 27th, separated at their usual early hour. It was mentioned- in the course at Bro. Tilbury 's, Royal Hotel, Alilershott, Bro. AVood, AA'.M., of tho evening that Dr. Steel made the fifth broth er , of the same Prov. S.G.D., presiding, supported by his officers and a large at family ivho had been cither initiated in, or joined, tfe Philanthropic tendance of the brethren, among whom we noticed the following Lodge, the numbers of ivhieh are so rapidly increasing that the visitors - —Bros. Money, 67; Spink, 211; A'ine, 211; Beatty, 211 ; brethren find it necessary to use the utmost circumspection hi the Crook, P.M., 671 ; anil Copeman, 1079, P.G.S., Surrey. The lodge choice of candidates. having been opened, the minutes read and confirmed, Bros. Camp- N EWPORT.—Silurian Lodge (So. 693).— A lodge of e'.Wei'gency boll, of Lodges 117 and 145 (Scotland) AA'atkins, 428 (England) and was held at the neiv Masonic Hall, on Thursday, the 27th December, Payne, 20 (Ireland), ivere hallotted for and admitted joining - mem- to instal Bro. Whitchurch as AV.M. The ceremony was ably' per- bers of the lodge. Bro. How-ard, the AA'.M. elect, being presented formed by Bro. Ed. AA'ells, P.M. After the appointment of officers, for installation into the chair of K.S., that impressive ceremony the brethren adjourned to the Vestgate Hotel to the banquet ; the was most ably performed by Bro. AVood, the retiring AV.M., in the AV.M., Bro. AVhitchurch, took the chair, and his S.AV., Bioi presence of P.M.'s Crook, " JSTO. 671, and Simpson, of No. 0. The Hancon, the vice-chair. The W.M. ivas supported by Bros. West, - customary salutation having been given, the AV.M. invested his AA'ells, and Lyne, of the Silurian Lodge; and Bros. Homfray,. officers as follows :—Bro. Downer, S.AV.; Buckland, Prov. G.S.B. Leybourne, and Simpson, of the Isca Lodge; Bro. Higginson, J. W. Dewar, Treas.; RoAvley, Sec.; Sheldrake, S.D.; Shool- AA'.M. of the Philanthropic Lodge, AbergavennA', and about thirty braid, J.D. ; Dobby, I.G.; Simpson, D.C.; Roberts and Philli ps, other brethren.—The healths of the AV.M., the D. Prov. G.M. (Bro. Steivards ; and AA'allace, Tyler. The business being completed, tho Rolls), Bro. Lyne, the Installing Master, the Isca Lodge, Newport, brethren adjourned to the banquet. The W.M. presiding ivas sup- and the Philanthropic Lodge, Abergavenny, Avere especially ported by his officers and the undermentioned :—Bros. Hall, Lacy, honoured by the enthusiastic reception with AA-hich they were Kelly, Outtering, Richards, Parrott, Bateman , AVhite, AVilliams, honoured, and a veiT happy evening was spent. Davies, Bird, Rostall, Shutterlin, Harrington, Brown , Kidney, Yates, and Tilbury, and in proposing the usual loyal and Masonic NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. toasts, hoped that lie should be favoured by the same zealous assist- NoimiA-MTTON —Pomfret Lodge (No. 463).—The brethren of ance and support as had been given to his predecessor , Bro. AVood. the above Lodge celebrated the festival of St. John in the loclge- --Bro. Cook proposed " The Health of P."M. Bro. AVood," who, hi room at the George Hotel, on Thursday, the 27th ult., under the returning thanks, spoke with feelin g of the services of his officers presidency of Bro. M. Easton Jones, the Al'.M. The minutes of the during the past year, and alluded especially to the unceasing last lodge having been read and confirmed , the AA'.M. vacated the zeal of the Secretary, AA'IIO had rendered invaluable assistance.—It chair, to which Br. Motteram AArilliam Floivitt had been unani- ivas intimated by Bro. Crook, whilst returning thanks for the mously elected. The ceremony of installation was most ably and visiting brethren, that he and the brethren in the neighbourhood efficien tly performed by P.M. Bro. Riley, of the Stuart Lodge, Bed- of Farnham contemplated, the formation of a lodge at that ford (737). Tho AA'.M. then appointed the following brethren as ancient toivn. The whole proceedings were of a most satisfactory his officers—namel v, Hinton, S.AV. ; Cotton, J.AV. ; Coglan Green, character, and the evening AA-as spent in a truly Masonic manner. S.D.; Parberry, J.D.;, Jeffs, S.S. : Horsepool . J.S. : Butler AVil- kins, LIS-.; and ltobinson , Sec. Bro. Thomas Marshall, P.M., was HEREFORDSHIRE. elected Treas. Tho brethren then adjourned to the banquet, pro- the Messrs. Hi ins. In addition HEREFORD .—Palladian Lodge (No. 141).—Th e annual meeting vided in a most liberal manner by gg of this lodge aud the festival of St. John ivas hold at the Green to P.M. Riley, ive noticed as visitors P.M. Inns, and Bros. Tunnard Dragon Hotel, in their new lodge-room , on Thursday, 27th Decem- and Davies, of the Lodge of Fidelity, Toivcester (652). ber, I860, to install the AV.M. elect., Bro. Henry Clarkson. The ceremony was performed by Bro. E. Geary, P.M., Lodge So. 19, in OXFORDSHIRE. a very impressive manner. After which the W.M. invested the OXEORD .—Alfred Lodge (So. 425).—The annual festival of the folloiving brethren as officers for the ensuing year :—Bros. J. AA'. Alfred Lodge AA-as held at the Masonic Hall, on Thursday, Avhen Brother Rainsford ivas Lacey, S.AV. ; J. G. Morris, J.AV. ; II. C. Beddowe, Treas.; J. tho newly-appointed AVorshipful Master, , Gardiner, Sec; AV. Philli ps, S.D. ; E. George, J.D. ; H. Gntton , duly installed by the Dep. Prov. G.M. Brother Spiers, as the pre- who appointed as his officers as I.G. After which the AV.M. initiated Mr. 11, F. Knight into the siding officer for the year ensuing, mysteries of our order, AA'hich proved to the brethren of the Pal - under :—Bros. AA'ilkinson, S.AV. ; C. .1. A'ineent, J AY.; Rev. ladian Lodge that they had chosen a gentlemen to fill the office of T. G. Mortimer, Chap. ; H. Houghton, Treas.; J. G. Bet- AV.M. who is second to none in this proilnce as a working Mason. teris, Sec ; G. Taun ton, S.D. ; Steane, J.D ; John Briscoe, Ther e is also great credit due to the whole of the officers of the Master of Cers. ; AV. Ringrose, Org. ; Emberlin , Inner Guard ; lodge, as they Avent through duties ivith satisfaction to the lodge AV. R, Hobbs, Assist. Sec. It was resolved that a. sub- and credit to themselves. After which the A\r.M. presented a very scription of five guineas should be contributed toivavds the handsome P.M.'s jewel, in the name of the lodge, to our excellent statu e of Euclid, to be presented by the Freemasons of the pro- Bro. the A'enerable Archdeacon R. L. Freer, D.D., P.M. of the vince to the Neiv University Museum. The lodge having been Palladian Lodge, as a token of the high esteem in which he is closed m line for™ , the hrethreii adjourned to banquet, whew the held by the brethren of that lod ge. The lodge Avas then closed in anniversary Avas duly celebrated. 'The Prov. G.M. (Br. H. A. due form, and the brethren retired to banquet in perfect harmony. Boivyer) was prevented by illness from attending, as was also the Mayor (Bro. Sadler). The ei-ening ivas spent in a most agreeable manner, and the iieiA-ly-appointed AV.M. presided, and gave the LANCASHIRE (EAST). - usual 'toasts with considerable tact and ability. Amongst the ROCK DAM;.—Hope Lodge (So. 62).—On AA'ednesday the mem - brethren present wc noticed Bros. Aid. Spiers, Sheriff Thompson; bers of Lodge 62 met at the lodge-room, Spread Eagle Inn, and P.Ms. AVyatt, Owen, Marti n, Bevers, AVall-er, IXev. II. A. Pickard ; P.M. Bro. John Lord installed Bro. Joh n Clegg AV.M. for the ensuing Bros. Holmes, Plowman, Frazer, Tlmrland, Briscoe, Bruton , year. The Master-elect appointed the following as his officers :— &e. The brethren separated about \ half-past ton o'efock, with Bros. Edmund Leach, S.AV. ; S. Jackson, J.W. ; John Leach, the feeling that a more agreeable evening Avas never spent within S.D.; AV. Davis, J.D. ; T. Brierly, I.G.; E. Clegg, Sec; the Avails of the Masonic Hall. John Cheatham, Tyler ; George Holmes, SteAvard. Bro. John Standing Avas elected Treasurer ; Bro. Erhvin CollingAvood was SOMERSETSHIRE. appointed to represent the lodge on the Provincial Comniittce of tho HIGTIBRIDGE , BuRXHAAi.—Rural Philan thropic Lodge (So. 367). Benevolent Fund; and a subscription was entered into to relieve a —A lodge of emergency ivas held at the Masonic Room, Railway distressed local brother. At tho subsequent dinner, the usual loyal Hotel, Ilighbridge, on Friday, December, 28th, 1860, for the pur- and Masonic toasts were succeeded by " The A'isiting Brethren," pose of raisin g Bro. AV. J. E. Poole, Lieutenant of her Majest y's 60th which was acknoivledged by Bro. S. Brierly (375). Royal Rifles, who is about to join his regiment in Ireland. Bro. T. Davies, having been examined, and found duly qualified , was MONMOUTHSHIRE. passed to the degree of Felloiv Craft. Bro. Davies having retired, A-B.TMOA\'VSSX- .—Philan throp ic Lodge (So. 1120). —On Friday, Bro. AV. J. E. Poole ivas examined, and being proved duly qualified , the 2Sth December, the usual monthly meeting of this lodge was ivas raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason. It Avas unani- held at the Masonic Hall, ivhen move than twenty brethren were mously resolved to forward a letter of condolence to the family of the deceased Prov. G.M. of Somerset, Bro. C. K. IC. Tynte, a copy kopft, Captain of Lines ; MattheAv Cook e, Organist ; and Henderson, of which was read and agreed to. The lodge was then closed, and re-appointed Tyler. After which, the solemn and peculiar rites of the brethren adjourned for refreshment, after ivhieh the usual this, the most beautiful of all degrees in Freemasonry, having heen loyal and Masonic toasts Ai-ere given and responded to. A collec- brought to an end, the Sovereign Princes adjourned to their usual tion was made for the Benevolent Fund, as usual, and the evening banquet at the Freemasons' Tavern, near the Dockyard Station- spent iu a very agreeable manner. After full justice had been done to Bro. De Grey's providing and the cloth had been removed, the 111. Bro. Carter, M.AV.S., gave YORKSHIRE (AVEST). the toast of " The Queen," which Avas received AA'ith that veneration SHEFFIELD.—Royal Brunswick Lodge (So. 373).—This lodge which Her Majesty's name ahvays elicits from her most faithful held its annual meeting on Thursday, the 27th December, when the subjects the Masons of every degree. The next Avas that of the folloAving brethren Avere present Thomas Danb P.M 162 M.W.S. of the order, Dr. Leeson, followed by the Supreme Grand- , viz., *y, . and AA'.M. 373 ; Dr. Bartolome, P.M. 162 and 373; AVilliam Council of the 33°. The 111. Bro. Dr. H INXSTAX then rose and said :• Longden, P.M. 162 and 373 ; J. Sherwin, P.M. 29S; William He had a high and distinguished privilege, to propose a toast AVhite, jun., AV.M. 162 ; H. AA'. Garnett, 236; J. Heivett, H. which Avas to him, and every Sovereign Prince present, ono of unboun- AVebster' H. J. Garnett, F. Primrose, E. Drury, G. Stuart, S. ded satisfaction. They had installed into the chair of M.AA'.S., that Neivbould, AV. Jackson, &c. The lodge having been opened, and day, one who lived in the hearts of all. He (Dr. Hinxman) was the minutes of tho last lodge read and confirmed, the AV.M. opened tempted to wish their M.AV.S. ivasabsent, as lieslioukltlienbe enabled in the second degree, and the W.M. elect, Bro. John Heivett, Avas to say more in bis favour than in his presence. But as he ivas duly presented by Bro. P.M. BartolemiS for installation. Bro. there, amongst them, and they had elected him to that hi gh position, Danby, the retiring master, then proceeded to perforin the cere- they knew he would do his duty to the utmost, and they also kneiv mony in that able and impressive manner ivhieh characterises him to be possessed of more than the requisite .'ability and applica- all his Masonic labours, and at its conclusion the W.M. appointed tion to perform that duty. For himself he felt sure that, prosperous the folloiving as his officers for the ensuing year:—Bros. J. "Willis as the Invicta Chapter ivas, it Avould continue to progress under their- Dixon, P.M., S.AV ; W. Longden, P.M., J.W. ; F. AV. Primrose, neAvly installed M.W.S., and he hoped that they might see him at See.; Ensor Drury, S.D. ; Graham Stuart, J.D.; and AV. Jackson, every meeting. It had given Dr. Hinxman very great pleasure, I.G. At. tho banquet which succeeded, Bro. P.M. Dr. Bartolomd imperfectly as he had done the ceremony; but in the absence of the gave some very interesting particulars of the history of the lodge, late M.AA'.S. ho ivas very proud that it had fallen to his share. As he and of Freemasonry generall y in Sheffield. before said, their M.AV.S. lived in the hearts of all, and it AVIIS almost- SHEFFIELD .— Britannia Lodge (No. 162).—A meeting of this needless for him to call upon them to fill a bumper in his honour, lodge was held on Friday, the 28th December, when Bros. Osborn —The 111. Bro. CARTER , M.W.S., said, in rising to return thanks for and Clayton, of the Scarsrlale Lodge (No. 981), Avere elected joining the very kind expressions made use of towards him, and the ready members. The ball committee reported that they had made response given by all present to the toast, he was somewhat at a arrangements for a grand Masonic ball to be held on the 23rd of loss for proper expressions. Their 111. Bro. Dr. Hinxman had said January in the Cutler's Hall, and that the M.W.G.M. the Earl of that he, the M.AV.S., would worthily succeed the frivo AA4IO had Zetland, the D.G.M. the Marquis of Dalhousie, and several noble preceded him. This he begged leave to doubt, for of all the Masons- Prov. G.M.s, aud other distinguished brethren had iiromised to be- he kneiv they were the most excellent. The height of Dr come patrons and steivards.—The AV.M., Bro. Win. AVhite, jun., Hinxman's attainments n-ere kno Avn to them all, and it was utterly- then gave his recently appointed officers and tho other brethren impossible to be a better Mason, friend, or man, than their 111. Bro. present, instruction in the several degrees, and pointed out the Clerk. He had only one hope for himself, and that ho should strive various little discrepancies which he had observed in the working to realise, in leaving the Invicta Chapter as prosperous, respectable, of other lodges in the many different provinces lie had had and happy as ho f ound it.—The M. W.S. said, they were honoured the pleasure of visiting.— Bro. Hr. AA'ebster, Sec, gave the by the presence of tivo visitors, one a member of the Grand lecture on the T.I!, iu the first degree, and the lodge was closed in Orient of France, and the other the 111. Bro. Shuttleivorth, well peace and harmony ; the brethren adjourning to the banquet, ivhere known to most of the princes present. He should therefore propose they continued to improve themselves by discussing the various "The Health of the Visiting Princes';" coupling the same with the subjects introduced by the W.M. " Supreme Grand Council of the Grand Orient of France."—The- excellent Bro., AV. LITTATJR, had not hoped to have spoken first be- cause he felt that their 111. Bro. Shuttleivorth should have had pre- cedence. Still, as the toast had been coupled ivith the Grand Orient ROYAL ASCK. of France, he could not, as a member under that jurisdiction, refuse to respond. AVhat he had that day seen could leave an indelible GIBRALTAR .— Calpean Chapter (So. 345).—A convocation of this impression on his mind. The degree was not better worked in chapter AA-as holden on AVednesday, 19th Dec;—Present, Comps. France than in the Invicta Chapter, and Masonry could never Ingram,M.E.Z.; Ellison J., as H.; j .Williams , as J.; Wilkinson, S.E., perish whilst such men Avere entrusted with its merits. They were- Jackman, S.N., Irivin. P.S., Martin and Patterson, Asst. Sojs.; all, as Rose Croix Masons, too jealous of their privileges to admit Sivain, P.Z., and'an unusual number of others. Bros. Major Dunn, tlios lvho Avere not truly eligible, and whose motives Avere not in 100th P.W.R.C, 345 ; Capt. Herbert, 7th Roval Fusiliers, 17S ; accordance with honour, brotherly love, and charity. He was Capt,Dyer, Sth (The King's), 178 ; Lieut. Kitchener, 6th Royals, and quite unknown to them, but they had met him in that spirit of Rennie, 100th PJV.R.C , Avere regularly exalted to the degree of equality which ahvays distinguish ed the members of the high H.R.A. Four brethren AA-ere proposed as candidates, and no other degrees ; and for their hosp itality and urbanity in his reception he business being before the council, the companions separated at an begged to thank them, assuring all present that such feeling would, early hour. never be effaced from his memory.—The 111. Bro. Snui'TLEwoRTir said he lvent to Woolwich for the express purpose of witnessing the working. It was long since he had been in a. Rose Croix Chapter, but he must say, in justice to the Invicta Chap ter, he had never- ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SITE. seen the degree worked better, inid seldom so well. His worthy Bro. Avished him to speak first, but as he Avas better known amongst AVooLWlOn.—Invicta Chap ter of Sovereign Princes Rose Croix — them, he could not think of doing so; but now in his own name, and This flourishing Chapter held its first coiwocation for the season at that of the brother ivho had last addressed them, he begged to the Freemasons' Hall, AA'illiam-street, Woolwich, on Friday, the 21st tender their thanks for their reception as visitors.—The M.AV.S. ult. The members present were the 111. Bros. Dr. Hinxman, said, two brethren had that day been received into the Rose Croix Shuttleivor th, and Figg, and the excellent brethren the Rev. E. J. degree. He felt sure that they must be pleased and gratified, AVade, Carter, Schivartzkopft, Read, Matthew Cooke, and Cockcraft. although, from a Candida te'sbeing nervous, and his attention distracted The excellent Bro. AV. Littaur, of the Grand Orient of Paris, was a to many things at thc same time, the fullbeauties of the ceremony were visitor. The business of the evening was that of admitting to not so apparent to him as they becam e afterwards, when he could con- this noble order Bro. James Steivart, of Lodge (No. 156), and template them calmly. Then it ivas that every one admitted to Captain G. A. Crawford, of Lodge (No. 728), as Avell as installing that degree found that it ivas the most beautiful in Masonry, and the 111. Bro. Carter as M.W.S. of the Invicta Chapter for tho t!n>. j'none could surpass it. He, the M.W.S., had very great pleasure, ensuing twelve mouths. In the unavoidable absence of the M.W.S., in receiving them, and hoped they would be as constant in their the 111. Bro. Colonel Clark, Dr. Hinxman, the first M.W.S. of attendance as circumstances would permit ; and ho hoped, yet more, the chapter, admitted the neophytes, and ably installed the neAv that they AA'ould like the order, and those they met in that chapter, M.AV.S., who was pleased to appoint the following members to the 'The degree Avas one to which very many high privileges Avere respective offices placed against their names :—The 111. Bro. Colonel attached, and it AA-as confer its Clerk gratifying to them to be able to , Prelate; Figg, First General ; AV. Smith, C.E., Second powers on two such brethren as they had that day installed, and General ; Fairlie, Grand Marshall ; Cockcraft, Raphael: Schwartz - whose healths he then begged to propose—The excellent Bro, Captain CRAWFORD would detain them but a tew minutes. He had posed both, feeling that the degree offered a high tone of interest derived great gratification and profit, that day, from the very J to every Christian Mason, and in Ireland, to which he Avas bound heautiful ceremony he and his excellent Bro. Stewart had passed by kindred ties, and where he ivas going-, those high degrees through. His professional duties prevented him from entering were held in high honour. He fel t that a minister of the Church upon a steady course of attendance, but he felt that he had arrived AA-as heartily Avelcomerl in Freemasonry, and as such had looked for- at a degree of Freemasonry which ivas of the greatest possible ad- ward to a pleasant career ; and although this ivas but his second vantage, and with which it AA-as his intention to make himself appearance, he did hope to meet them again, and assured them the thoroughly acquainted, As a Rose Croix brother he had added Invicta Chapter harl his hearty good wishes. Though absent, he greatly to his knowledge and enjoyment, and the degree itself was should be alivays present ivith them in fraternal spirit, and hoped sufficient to raise the character of Freemasonry in every recipient. when next he appeared among them to find it increased hy more On behalf of the neiA-ly installed, he returned thanks for the honour such valuable members as he saw around him, and that the M.AA'.S. done them in the proposition of the toast.—The M.W.S. would now AA-ould pass as happily through his year of office as his predecessors turn to the veterans who had preceded him in the office he held. hail done. Thanking them for ' their kindness, and thc honour they No one would feel satisfied if he should be such a ilireliet from his had done him, the excellent brother concluded amid considerable duty to omit the healths of those 111. brethren, Dr. Hinxman and applause.—The 111. Bro. FIGG- ivas sensible of thc honour of being Colonel Clerk ; and it Avould be extremely improper to do so on the appointed first General, and likewise re-elected Treas. Ho had night of his installation. He Avas sorry tliat Colonel Clerk ivas also tho satisfaction to announce that the chapter had a balance in absentjbut it made his task easier ; for he could say, that all agreed its favour in his hands. He had been acting as secretary hereto- in that a more excellent Mason, a more worthy man, a move sincere fore, and as they were getting rather numerous, being above friend, to everything and everybody in Masonry, Avas not to be found. thirty strong, he thought the offices might UOAV be divided.—The .{Hear, hear.) Dr. Hinxman ivas present. He had been their first excellent Bro, COCKCIIAFT was exceedingly obliged for his appoint- M.AV.S., and his worth was well known to every one round that ment, and believed the degree to be one of the greatest honours table ; therefore he should propose, as the next toast, " The Health of Masonry could boast. His anxious desire ivould bo to render himself the M.AA'.S., who had passed the Chair ",—The 111. Bro. Dr. Hinxman worthy' of it, and hoped to be enabled to fulfil the duties attached ielfc himself incompetent to do justice in returning thanks, and ex- to his position with credit to himself and satisfaction to the chapter. pressed his very deep regret at the absence of the 111. Bro. Colonel —Th e Sovereign Princes then drew round the fire, and passed the Clerk who ivas much more competent ; still, as his locum teuens, he remainder of the evening in that agreeable and instructive converse would say that, however hard their late M.AV.S. had worked, if he which renders the meetings of the Invicta Chapter one of the most VA-ere present, ho, Dr. Hinxman, knew he would only declare he had pleasant and intellectual re-unions in Freemasonry. •done Ills duty, and was amply repaid iu the prosperity of the chap- ter, which he had much at heart, in seeing it flourish. On his own part, he had worked hard, but had been most energetically supported; COLONIAL. and it was admitted that the 18' n-as much wanted in AVoolwich. AVhen the chapter AA-as established it, was intimated that it was too GIBRALTAR ,—IXIIABITANIS' LODGE (No.l7S.)—This lodge met on near London, and so it had been removed from Blackheath to Wool- Monday evening, 17th Dec, Bro. IrAvin , P.M., acting for the AV.M., wich, in which latter toAA-n they were without the prescribed radius. absent in England. Bro. Jackman, S.W., and Bro. Wilkinson, As the first M.W.S., he -was gratified to Had such a spirit of emula- J.AV., were at their posts, and about fift y of tho brethren. An officer tion pervaded the members of the Chapter who were willing to shoiv of the Spanish Navy was initiated, and Bros. Prior (Lieut. R.A.), to others that they sought the ennobling and perfect representation Duulop (Lieut. R.A.), and Belling were raised to the sublime degree ; of that degree. He need scarcely say that no province could boast of after which the lodge proceeded to the election of AV.M. and a better Masonic Hall. It ivas set apart for the pu rpose of Free- Treasurer, f or thc ensuing j ear. Tlie voting papers having been masonry, and entirely removed from all other influences. Its collected, it appeared that the votes were equally divided between -establishment had been croivned Avith signal success, and there had Bro. Jackman, S.AV., and Bro. Ingram, P.M., Treas., whereupon Bro. been no retrograde motion, but an. onward striving by lodges, and Irwin was pressed to exercise his rights of giving a casting vote, •chapters, to improve their position by making it their place of ivhieh he at last consented to do, declaring Bro. Jackman duly meeting. The Hall had done much for Freemasonry in AVoohvich ; elected.—Bro. Ingram having obtained permission to address the it elevated the science, and took aivay the reproach too often made lodge, thanked the brethren for the confidence so many of them against the Craft. The Invicta Chapter occupied a position second placed in him; he ivas quite unprepared for it. They had a long list to none, and inculcated those holy truths AA-hich Av ere laid down in of eligible candidates for the proud position of AV.M., and he had that most valuable of all books—the Bible; and the man AA'I IO per- not the least idea that they would have singled him out for one-half fected himself in that book AA-as truly most wise, for it inculcated their votes. He greatly congratulated the lodge upon the easting those principles which taught him to answer for the deeds done in vote of Bro. Irwin and that for several reasons :—1st however the body. AVhilst that ivas their guide the chapter would flourish ; proud he (Bro. Ingram), would have been to bo their AV.M., yet he aud he hoped he was not saying too ^much, or taking too high had already so much Masonic work on his hand that he could not ground, when he assured them that it had been the endeavour of possibly have given that attention and time to the affairs of No. 17S both those who had filled that high office , and AA-hich , he believed, which he conscientiously ivould wish to give to any lodge over they would also find to actuate their present M.W.S. Thanking them Avhich it might be his lot to preside. 2nd, lie thought, as a general for the compliment on behalf of Colonel Clerk and himself, he resumed rule, it ivas much better for the Craft thai a Warden should be his seat.—The M.AA'.S. said there was a toast which was usual at all promoted than that a P.M. should be elected to the chair, as thus Masonic meetings, that of " The Officers ," Avithout AA-IIOSC aid the number of P.M.s ivould be increased, ivhieh always tended to nothing could be done. He hoped they ivould all be punctual in j promote the stability of the lodge,—and as the position of AA'.M. their attendance, and those whom he had appointed had ahvays was one of the prizes held out for good aspiring Masons, it would sliOAvna ready disposition to attend, hi the toast he should inchuleone bo discouraging if zealous Masons saw that prize repeatedly who had that eveniug acted as their prelate, and was extremely bcstoAved ou the same person. 3rd. Bro. Jackman had proved so sorry to hear they were about to lose him, lamenting that his very constant in his attendance, and so efficient in his duties, that neiv sphere of usefulness ivas at such a distance. He then gave ho could not do otherwise than make a good Master : it Avas a subject " The Officers ," coupling the same with the mime of tlie excellent of congratulation that the lodge had elected a master AA -IIO had Bro., the Rev. E. J. Wade.—Tlie excellent Bro. the Rev. E. J. WADE regularly earned the distinction in such a manner that it had almost said he Ai-as not going to return thanks for the officei'S, because he become his right to be elected.—A good deal of other business was had only acted as one pro. tern., and should reserve their right to transacted, and but little time ivas left for refreshment. those who chose to follow- him. He could not say but what he LODGE OF FRIENDSHIP (No. 345) .—A numerously attended had hoped to have been numbered ivith the officers , although he harl meeting of this lodge took place on Saturday, December 15th, Bro. not expected to have been called on that day ; but ho supposed they Sivain, W.M.in the chair.—Bro. Kempsou (Royal Fusiliers), No. 17S, they thought it most becoming to have one in holy orders to do was elected as a joining member, alter ivhieh the brethren proceeded that portion of the duty he had done. It was a great pleasure to to elect AV.M., Treas., and Tyler for the ensuing vear. Tho AA'.M., him to have found himself likel y to learn that beautiful rite, and in reading the list of members eligible, regretted that both Bro. it was also a great disappointment to find his connection ivith the iSTeivcome (Lieut. R.A.), and Bro. \Vheatley (Lieut. R.B.), J.AV., had Invicta Chapter so soon severed. AVhen he was installed nothing left this station on military duty. The choice of the lodge must was further from his thoughts than the idea of quitting London. therefore fall on a P.M. or P.W. On the votes being registered He was not going to say that he had not obtained a better appoint- tho voice of the lodge proved to be uuanimous in favour of the ment, but he was going to say that he ex tremely regretted leaving election of Bro. Major F. D. Middleton, A.D.C' , as W.M., Bro. behind him such brethren as he found in the Invicta Chapter, and Weir, Treas., aud Bros. D , Bcatubo imcl J. Romero, joint Tylers. A as a proof that he ivas sincere, one of his oldest personal friends, deputation ivas appointed to intimate the vote of the lodge to the Capt. Crawford, had been accepted on his proposition, that day, and I W.M. elect, consisting of Bros. Ingram, P.M., AVilkinson, and he had also proposed his oivn brother as a member. He had pro- : Patterson. TrjKfflBY. mon of different characters and dispositions were joined together, this so widely-extended broth erhood must contain some unworthy members, but it would be unjust to condemn Masonry on account S.IIXRXA.—Homer Lodge (No. 110S). —At a lodge of emergency, of the errors of a fflAV; ' seven of the late but ho AA-as sure the Prince would be an held on the loth December, Hyde Clarke, AV.M., ornament to the Craft. His unobtrusive friendshi to all gated in the second degree, and one p , his gentle- Smyrna brethren ivere re-obli manly behaviour, would have made him conspicuous in any- society. in the first degree, by the AA'.M., in pursuance of the authority He, Captain Young, had for many years been a Mason The lod , but had never conferred on him by tho dispensation of the M.AV.G.M. ge known any brother to have passed through a stricter examination likewise considered the report on Constantinople matters, and than His Hi hness. He, Captain Young, ting the fraternal invitation of g ivas no politician, but passed unanimous resolutions accep could not help taking an interest in anything tending to advance co-operation offered by the Oriental Lodge of Constantinople, No. good fellowship and feeling between natives and Europeans. tendering thanks to W. Bro. G. Laurie, AV.M., No. 1101 for It 1108, , ivas by such meetings as those, that prejudices of caste, colour, his exertions in this matter, and electing him an honorary member. and rel igion were eradicated. Masonry was not intended to super- sede religion, but, on the contrary, was the auxiliary or handmaid of religion .- a good Mason was always a good man. The Prince is the INDIA. firs t native of Lueknow who had been initiated in Lodge Morning Star, and he ivould now call upon all to fill their glasses, and drink the W.M.'s toast of " Long Life and Happiness to his Hi MASONIC BANQUET AT L LTGKNWV. ghness Prince Moontaz-oo-Dowlah," ivith Masonic honours. The Prince Moomtaz-oo-Doivlah gave a Masonic Banquet on tho As soon as the cheering and music hud subsided, and silence 11th November at the Ameenabab Palace, to commemorate his ini- obtained, the Prince, who spoke in Hindoostanee, returned thanks, tiation as a Mason ; as it is the first banquet held in Lucknow ivhich Mr. Hollingberry interpreted as follows -.—"That his Highness since our occupation , an account of it may prove interesting, es- felt unequal to express in words IIOAV much hefeltthe honour of seeing pecially to brother Masons, The palace itself was kindly placed so many brethren and distinguished visitors at his entertainment. at the disposal of the committee by brothers Hollingberry and The heart ivas most eloquent when the voice was mute. He wasproud Bees. The building itself can be seen from most parts of Lucknoiv, of the honour of having been admitted a member of the Craft , and •and has fine loft y rooms, ivith walls and ceilings handsomely de- ivould endeavour to deserve all the encomiums the AV.M. and Bro. corated ; for tius occasion, however, it ivas magnificently illuminated, loung had passed on hmi." His Highness sat down amidst great the gateway and avenue, as well as the front of the building ivas applause. one blaze of light, which was visible from all parts of the city ; the The AV.M. next proposed " The Health of our Visitors," which Star, the badge of the Lodge, with the transparencies underneath , was responded to by Bro. Bayley, the Judicial Commissioner, who consisting of the Royal initials, V. B., radiated over by a star and expressed] for himself, and fbr all the guests present, his thanks to crow-n; under this again was the number of the Lodge, 810, the his friend the Prince for the kind invitation to the banquet. By letter M, in honour of the Prince and the word" Welcome," the square the happy faces around him, his conviction was that, ivhatever might and compass typif ying the whole. At the four cardinal points, the be the merits of Freemasonry, there certainly existed among the pillars Avere also festooned and covered with lamps, throwing a members a fueling of fellowship and amity. bright light on the entrance. The banqueting hall was decorated Lieut, BtfCKXEY, &c, then proposed, " The Health of the W.M., with flags, wreaths of laurel, and quite a conservatory of choice Bro. Macgrennan." All knew the exertions which he, assisted by a plants and flowers, reminding one of the saloons of one of our larger feiv zealous brethren, had used in resuscitating Lodge Morning metropolitan theatres, on the occasion of a State visit ; the table, Star. Bro. Macgrennan had always the interests of that lodge at with its costly service of plate, glittering il-om thc raja of light heart, and in the midst of the perils and privations oftZie siege of the thrown down by the handsome eandelabras, the outre but gorgeous Residency, had acted as a true soldier and Mason. When Havelock •dresses of His Hi ghness, and other members of his family, inter- entered the garrison, he found more than three-fourths of the mem- mingled with the scarlet, blue, and more sombre black of the bers of the lodge killed or wounded. He, Lieut. Buckley, therefore civilians, with the Masonic attire of the Craft, combined in pro- considered that W.M. Macgrennan deserved to be the Master of du cing a most brilliant effect, and the tout ensemble, as-th e Prince, the lodge, now the most prosperous in the north-west. He had there- preceded b , y the Deacons with their wands of office, followed in fore much pleasure in proposing the W.M.'s Health, to be drunk by procession hy the rest of the guests, entered the hall, and took then- all with Masonic honours. seats at table, AA-IIS most picturesque, the fine band of the 23rd The AV.M. and Chairman, in rising to reply, said, in a feAV brief AVelsh Fusiliers, kindly lent for the occasion by Colonel Wells, ivords, that he did not deserve what Bro. Buckley had said of his ex- (who ivas unable to attend) at the same time striking up "The ertions in resuscitating the lodge; but that was due to the Past Entered Apprentice's Song." Masters and other members of tho lodge. AVith respect to Masonry, Some seventy gentlemen sat down to dinner; grace being said the AV.M. observed that it ivas a peculiar duty lie owed to the by the AVorshi pful Master and Chairman, Brother Macgreenan, who Craft generally, and he was pledged to do his utmost for its pro- was supported on his right by His Highness the Prince Moomtaz, motion, whenever and wherever opportunities presented themselves. and on his left by Past Master Lieutonent Buckley, &c. Nearly the This he ever studied to do, and it was to him a labour of love whole of the and representative members of the services were present, pleasure. As regards services in the Baillie Guard, and his carrying every delicacy one could wish for was on the table, and the wines, away in safety to Allahaba d such of the Government records as supplied b he y Messrs. Dalziel and Co., were most recherch e, the could save, he had done so as a last act of duty to the Government whole of the arrangements reflecting much credit on the Committee, he had the honour of serving. A task had been assigned to him at a who hail no easy time for tho last week prior to the banquet, critical moment, and he had had the honour of accomplishing Brothers Russell it to , Young, La Chemette, Mackenzie, Holt; and Rees. the satisfaction of his superiors, and of the Government of India, As soon as the cloth ivas removed, the Chairman's voice sounded ivhieh had acknowledged its appreciation of his services under the to order, and the Queen, Royal Family, the Craft, and other toasts peculiar circumstances, and the difficulty and dangers of the times. usual on such occasions having been responded to ivith Masonic But he ivas ahvays ready to make himself useful honours to the State , the Chairman rose to propose the toast of the evening. whenever the opportunity presented itself; although a non-military He was happy to call on the brethren and visitors present to man, he trusted, if ever his humble services Avere again required drink to the health of His Highness the Prince Moomtaz-oo-Dowlah, in that capacity, he would be again at his post, and not be who had the back- evening before last been admitted an Entered Ap- ward in delivering a few ounces of lead into the ranks of the enemy, prentice Freemason. The strictest examination had been made before with as much hearty goodwill as actuated every one of the unskilled the Prince was initiated , and he, the AVAL, was happy to say, had men of his civil, uncovenanteih and non-official passed throug companions in h the ordeal with honour to himself As early as May arms in the Baillie Guard." hst His Highness had applied for tho privileges of Freemasonry, Senior Bro. AVarden Hoff next rose, but he and in a telling speech pro- , the AVorshipful Master, and other Brethren harl thought it posed thc health of the Past Masters and Officers, alluded to thc right to make the minutest inquiries into the Prince's character gallant bearing ere and bravery of one of them, Lieutenant Buckley, he was made a member of the Craft. It ivas not because tho &c, of Delhi celebrit lod Prince y. He also said there were few ges out of ivas a member of the Royal House of Oudh that he was Calcutta that could boast of having so many Past Masters as Lodge now amongst us as a brother, but because he was a th good and wor- Morning Star, and that this alone might be pointed out as an in- y man, liberal in his ideas, and loyal beyond a doubt. The AV.M. dication of the prosperity of the lodge. hoped, in conclusion, that His Highness might hav ' e health and Lieutenant Buckley, &c, returned thanks, and enlarged on the nappincss to rise to the higher decrees of the Craft. " princi Captain ples of Freemasonry, stating that the endeavour of every Xovso-, Paymaster, 23rd Welsh Fusiliers, Senior Warden Mason should be not only to assist the members of his OAVU lodge, but the Lodge, said, in continuation of what had been so abl pressed b y ex- of every felloAV-creature in distress. Before he sat down, however, he, y the AVorshipful Master, that Masonry was free and Lieutenant Buckley, desired , brothers, open to all on the part of his other to ivorth y men. It was true, like all largo societies where thank Bro. Hollingberry for his services on this occasion, as, but for Bro. Hollingberry's able assistance as interpreter, His Highness the in 13 years. The lowest point reached by the thermometer was S ,. Prince could not have been initiated, which happened at seven o'clock on the morning of Christmas-day, Bro. Hollingberry having returned thanks, the AV.M. gave as a Heavy snow and intense cold are reported from various quarters of last toast, "All poor and distressed Masons "—drunk in solemn the kingdom; cold, indeed, to a degree such as has, perhaps, never silence. been chronicled in our country's meteorological records. As much- The only other speech we shall allude to is that of Major Cham- as 45 degrees of frost, or 13 below zero, has been registered by the berlain, Superintendent of Thuggee, himself a high Mason. It was thermometer in some situations. In the western counties the snoiv- fully of anecdotes and numerous allusions, and he succeeded in fall has been very great, and in consequence of the obstruction keeping up one continuous flow of merriment ; the party did not caused to traffic several mails were delayed, and the Post-office break up till the small hours, hoping they might soon again meet to announced the non-arrival of sixty in one day. On Sunday there spend as pleasant an evening.—Delhi Gazelle. was a fearful storm, accompanied by the breaking- up of the frost,. AA-hich has made itself felt on the coast, antVmarked its passage by a considerable amount of damage to both life and property afloat; ©uituarfj. The French sloop, Jean Bap lisie, with a valuable cargo, was driven on shore under the South Foreland. All hands were got safely THE R.AV. BRO. THE EARL OF MKXBOROtTGH, PROV. on shore with the exception of. the captain, who, unfortunately,, G.M. OF AVEST YORKSHIRE. was drowned. In Cawsand Bay a schooner was wrecked, the The R.AA'. the Earl of Mexborough rlied on Tuesday, December captain, mate, and three men losing their lives. At Portland Bay 25th, 1SG0, at the residence of Colonel the Hon. James Lindsay, a Swedish ship called the Irene ivas driven against the neiv break- M.P., in Fortman-sqnarc, after a short illness. The deceased was water, when the pilot ivho had charge of her was drowned. Another born on the 3rd of July, 17S3, and married ou the 29th of August, storm passed over the metropolis on Monday night and Tuesday 1S07, Lady Anne York c, eldest daughter of Phili p, third Earl of morning', which told Avith disastrous effect in the* Channel, where Hardwicke, by whom, Avho survives his lordshi p, he leaves surviving its violence Avas experienced to a fearful degree. Serious losses, issue three sons and a daughter, namely, Viscount I'ollington ( now both of life and property, have been the result. On Neiv Year's Earl of Mexborough), the Hon. and Rev. Philip Yorkc Savile, the morning a large French barque ivas wrecked on the GoodAviu Hon. Charles Stuart Savile, and Lady Sarah, married to Colonel the Sa'nds. Of the' crew tho fate is uncertain, it being only knoivn that Hon. James Lindsay, !a[.P„ of the Grenadier Guards. The deceased they succeeded in getting into their boats. Another large vessel, nobleman is succeeded iu the family honours hy his eldest son, John belonging to Hamburgh, was also wrecked on the south part of the Charles George, A'iscount I'ollington, born the :1th of June, 1S10 , same sands. In this instance, also, it is to be feared the unfor- and married on the 2.1th of February, 1812, to Lady Rachel Walpolc, tunate creiv have perished. The opposite French coast appears eldest daughter of the late Earl of Orford, who' died the 21st of to have been the scene of even more numerous casualties than our June, 1854, and by whom he has an only son , John Horace, born OAvn , the gale having raged there with extreme fury. The frost in 1S13. The present peer ivas educated at 'Trinity College, Cam- has since returned with tho utmost severity. A serious boiler bridge, at which University he graduated IiI.A. in 1S30. In 1S31 explosion happened in the building of the School of Medicine and he was returned to Parliament for Gatton , and represented Ponto- Surgery, Manchester, on AVednesday, through the pipes having fract in the House of Commons from 1S35 to 18 .17. Our Bro. the become frozen up. Much damage ivas done to the house, and some late Earl was one of the oldest Masons—indeed so far back is the of the students narrowly escaped ivith their lives. At the Sur- date of Ms initiation that we have been unable to trace it. His rey Sessions a youth named George Lingham was charged with lordship, it is well knoivn, ivas what has been termed an " Athol obtaining 10s. fraudulently. He had gone into a public-house Mason," and when the IAVO sections of our order merged in tho where the prosecutor, a female, was standing at the bar, and offered United Grand Lodg-c of Eiig-l-iiicl, in 2810, it is believed that many lier a " gulrl watch " for a pound. S!ie, however, not satisfied AA-ith of the Athol hooks were destroyed, the record of the late Prov. such a decided bargain, agreed to pay half the sum demanded. G.M.'s Masonic career being amongst those missing. His lordshi p Soon after, on examining her purchase, she found it to consist of a held the office of Prov. G.M. of West Yorkshire for many years, brass locket. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to and up to the time of his decease. tAvelve months' hard labour. In the Court of Queen's Bench an action against the Eastern Counties Raihvay Company, arisin g out BROTHER MATTHEW DAAVES. of an accident at Tottenham , by which a gentleman named Stokes On the 13th of December, at his residence, AVostbrook, Bolton, lost his life, and ivhieh has been protracted through six days, Lancashire, Brother Mattheiv Dawes, P.S.A., JP.&.S, in his 57th the jury found that there was no evidence to prove the ivelding of year. Bro. Dawes ivas initiated iu the Anchor and Hope Lodge, the defective tire by the company—that the weld was a proper one So. -11, March 3, 1S35, and served the office of W.M. in 1810 ; he —that the defect could not hav e been discovered by inspection— was exalted in the chapter attached to the same Lodge, May 31, that there ivas an insufficiency of break poiver, but had there been 1S37, and passed the chairs. Bro. Dawes Avas i'rov. Grand Com. of more the nature of the accident would not have been altered. A Knights Templar for Lancashire, and a member of the Supreme verdict ivas accordingly entered for the defendants. A bill of ex- Council of the 33rrl degree. In the Temp lar degree, as also those ceptions was tendered to his lordsh ip's summing up on behalf ot under the Ancient and Accepted Rite, Bro. DIIAVCS look great the plaintiff. A young man named Lot Ivanson Leather, who interest. He ivas au assiduous searcher after Masons' marks,' and shot a girl at Bury a tew days ago, ivas brought before the mag is- had a most extensive collection of these memorials of Craftsmen. trates on Friday, charged with attempted murder. It ivas Few brethren were more esteemed and respected than our departed sliOAi-n that the girl, Jane Mooney, had refused to receive the pri- brother, and AVC may truly say a courteous gentleman has gone to soner as her suitor, which moved him to commit the crime. After his rest. firing a pistol at her and wounding her he made several successive attempts upon his oivn life—hy shooting, hanging, droAvning, and ultimately cut his throat with a knife. He ivas committed for TEE WEEK trial. At a coroner's inquest, held in the Hut Barracks, Wool - wich Common, on Saturday, a verdict of manslaughter was T HE COURT.—During the early part of the week, her Majest y returned against a soldier, named May, for causing the death of his and family have been dispensing the usual hospitalities of Windsor, comrade. Immediately after tho occurrence May absconded, and and Mr. Lock , who brought the despatches from China, where he had succeeded in defeating the efforts of the pickets to discover his was one of the prisoners , has harl tho honour of joining the Roya l whereabouts. Ou AVednesday, lioivever, he turned up amongst a circle at dinner. On New Year's-day the band of the Royal Horse batch of ruffians who were charged at AVestminster police-court Guards played a selection of favourite airs ou the East Terrace. Her with perpetrating a series of dastardly outrages in Chelsea ; show- 's annual distribution Majesty of food and clothing to about GGO ing by his subsequent conduct how little the fate of his poor com- poor persons of the Windsor and Clewer parishes took place on rade had affected his mind. T AVO farmers of Somerton have been Wednesday, in the Biding .House of the Castle. The Queen and committed for trial at the assizes on a charge of cutting aivay a Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of AVales^ Princess portion of the bank of the River Barrett. Their object is stated Alice , Prince Arthur, Prince Leopol d, and the Princesses Helena, to have been to benefit a portion of their own land by the deposit Louisa, and Beatrice, left AVindsor by a special train for Osborne! from the river water thus made to overfloAv ; but the effect to Prince Alfred has proceeded on a visit to Germany. others is represented as likely to be very disastrous. An explo- GEXERAT, ' H OME NRWS .—-An increased rate of mortalit" is sion of gas has taken place at the South-Western Railway Station shown b , y the metropolitan returns for last week, attributable to Glasgow, ivhieh although fortunately not attended with loss of the severit , y of the weather. From 1260 in thc previous week- the life, has caused a serious destruction of propertj*. The gas had number of deaths rose ' to 1-107. Of births there wove durin ." tho accumulated in the cellars underneath, and ignited upon the door same period 1188—731 being boys and 751 girls. A proper idea of being opened. Doors aud windows Avere bloAvn out, the floor of the the unusual degree of cold may be had from the fact that the mean booking-office was lifted up and sent into the street, whilst a huge temperature of the air was 11° below the average of the same week iron gate, several tons in weight, was shattered to pieces. Of course there were some case3 of personal injury, and many narrow education was carefully attended to, and ho had the advantage escapes. M. Louis Dethier, the projector of a distribution of of studying under some of the most celebrated instructors in twelfth cakes by lottery, which the authorities put a stop to on the different branches of literature, science, and the arts. Al- the ground of its illegality, ceased the issue of tickets and closed though too young at the time to be entrusted with any com- his office. A plan had also been devised by M. Dethier to meet the mand, he nevertheless took part in the celebrated campaigns of requirements of the case and satisfy his subscribers; but this had been 1813 and 1814 , in which Prussia in a great measure avenged the interfered with through his having been adjudicated a bankrupt. indignities heaped upon her by the great Napoleou. He was after- On Tuesday morning James Johnson, private of the 41st Regiment, wards admitted into the Council of State, and shared in the direc- .satisfied the requirements of the law annexed to the crime of tion of public affairs. On the decease of his father, in June, 1840, murder, by paying the penalty of his life on the scaffold in front of he ascended the throne, and commenced his reign hy ameliorating Winchester gaol. The culprit was convicted at the last assizes of the repressive system of government of Ids' predecessor. In 1848, the wilful murder of Serjeant Chipp and Corporal Coles, by shooting when the revolutionary mania extended to the Berlinese, he them ivith a rifle as they sat playing at backgammon in Aldershofc attempted to lead and direct the movement, placing himself at the barracks on the 29 th of November. A double execution has head of the National party, and proposed to fuse all the German taken place at Durham, the wretched culprits being Thomas Smith States into a great federal union under a single Monarch. His and Mihier Locke.y, both convicted of murder at the late assizes. scheme, however, was not successful, and ho finally entered on a The county of Stafford has taken an important step in the career of re-action, which exposed him to much ill-will. In the formation of an association for tho improvement of musketry year 1S57 he first exhibited symptoms of insanity, which so greatly practice—a measure ivifchout which the meetings of rifle volunteer increased in force that in October, 1858, his brother, Prince Frede- companies must be as resultless as child's play, and the movement rick AVilliain Louis, ivas created Regent, to the general satisfaction itself but a transient effervesence of national spirit. Lord of the people. As the late king had no issue, the Regent conse- Hathevton presided over a meeting held for that purpose in Stafford sequently succeeds him, whose eldest son, Prince Frederick William, last iveek, when resolutions ivere adop ted, and a proper organ isation the husband of the Princess Royal of England, is now the heir instituted for carry ing them into effect. Subscriptions are largely presumptive to the Prussian throne. promised, and everything seems fair for a successful result. UNITED STATES.— The most important news brought by the FOREIGN IXTE,T.LIGE>-CE.—The JILonilcur commences the new- American mail is the resignation of General Cass, Secretary of year by publishin g a daily political rei'ieiv. The principal an- State, caused, it is said, by the refusal of the Cabinet to grant the nouncement it contains is that of the pardon of Count Teleki request of the commandant of Fort Moultrie, Charleston, for by the Emperor of Austria. This politic and prudent step is reinforcements. Mr. Troscott, the Assistant-Secretary of State, had confirmed by the IFiener Zeitung, which says that Count Teleki also resigned. Mr. P. F. Thomas had accepted the Secretaryship of having been summoned to the Emperor's presence, his Majesty the Treasury, vacated by Mr. Cobb. Several of the members of accorded to him a cessation of the pending proceedings against Congress from the Southern States had issued a manifesto, advising him, and set him at liberty, Count Teleki promising to give up all tho slaveholding states to separate from the Union. The debate on his political connections abroad, and not to cross the Austrian the secession question AA-as continued day by day in both Houses of frontiers. The friendly act of the Emperor of the French Congress, and had not concluded when the mail left. In the South exempting Englishmen from the annoyance of the passport system the secession movement ivas carried on with great vigour, though has been rendered still more gracious and complete by a circular of there is evidently much reluctance in some of the states to push M. de Persigny, ordering the prefects to give instructions that matters to extremities. The admission of Kansas into the Union English subjects may be received in France on the declaration of ivill meet ivitli no opposition from the democrats. their nationality, and affording them the advantage of visiting- AVEST INDIES AND SOTTTE AMERICA.—By tho arrival of the public buildings on tile mere prurluulluii vf a A-irj 'ting- card stamper! Seine at Suutfiainp fcoii AVO aro in receipt of intelligence from the b.v the agent at the frontier or a prefect of police. The last West Indies and tho Pacific. The political aspect of the islands accounts from Home state that it is the general conviction there was satisfactory and peaceful , and in Jamaica the anticipated con- that the Papal Government will fall. The clerical party is repre- flict between the legislative bodies had been arrested by the spirit sented as greatly dissatisfied with the Emperor of Austria, for bis of fair play exhibited by both branches of the legislature towards liberal concessions. The National par ty are increasing in bold- the executive council. An average amount of commercial transac- ness. On Sunday, the 23rd, they assembled at the Cathedral of tions at fair prices had taken place, and in most of the islands the St. Peter, and made a strong demonstration in favour of annexation weather ivas goorl, and the crops flourishing. From Lima ive hear to Sardinia, Tho reactionary movements in the Abruzzi were on that another attempt had been made on the life of President the increase, the party being reinforced by the discharged Castilla, and failed. The ch-i l war was still raging in Neiv Grenada ; .Neapolitan soldiers. The siege of Gaeta is noiv proceeding ivith the Liberals had bombarded Santa Martha, but with little effect , great activity. The bombardment is continued day and night, and and it was thought they ivould soon retreat from want of ammuni- is causing' great destruction in the city. The King, to be out of tion. Chili ivas quiet, and the measures taken by Government the reach of danger, passes the night on board a Spanish fri gate against the invasion of the Aranconian Indians had been partially in the harbour. The Sardinians are daily receiving additional guns, successful. and an attempt will shortly- be made to breach the walls. The INDIA AND CIIISA,—By the arrival of the Overland Mail we are Wiener Zeitung contains tii-o Imperial decrees, which show that in possession of advices and papers from Calcutta to the 23rd ult., that the financial position of Austria is as desperate as ever. The and from Hong-Kong to the loth ult. There is no special neiA-s first orders that, in vieAv of the present extraordinary state of from Calcutta, and the general Indian news has been anticipatedby things, the forced ciu'rency of bank notes in Lombardo- the Bambay mail. The China papers confirm the UOAVS arrived by Venetia shall be Maintained ; and the second orders that telegram relative to the ratification of the treaty, and its conditions. the payment of the interest on the National Loan shall be effected The fate of Captain Brabazon and Mr. Boivlby is no longer doubt - in hank notes ivith the corresponding agio. The Emperor of ful ; the latter died from exhaustion and mortification, brought on Austria has addressed an autograph letter to the President of the by inhuman treatment ; and the former, ivith Abbe Luc, ivere be- Imperial Chancery for Transylvania, ordering the immediate organi- headed by the orders of the Tartar general in whose hands they sation of the Chancery and of the Gubernium of the province, and li-ore, through exasperation at a wound he received in the battle of also the assembling of a conference of the most eminent persons of ("'h:in-kia-A\'an. the various classes of the. different nationalities to deliberate on the CAPE OF G OOD HOPE.—AA'o have news from the Cape to eariy organisation of the Transylvanian Diet, Other matters of a the 21st ult. Sir G. Grey ivas at Cape 'IWn, but great complaint ivas public nature are also to be brought under the notice of the con- made at the little progress effected in public business. British ference, and the whole terms of the royal letter indicate the Kafl'raria has been proclaimed a separate colony-. The agitation for intention of the Emperor to confer on thc province independent the separation of the eastern provinces from the west AVIIS gaining and liberal institutions. -The JCreu- Zeitung, of Berlin, publishes ground, and a league had been formed to promote the object. Im- a telegram received from Vienna, stating that the Emperor has migration prospects are reported to be favourable, there being sanctioned the resolution of the Gran Conference, and will convoke plenty of work in the outlying districts. the Hungarian Diet in February. Lieutenant Latour has ar- rived at Lisbon from Madeira , and from thence has communicated PUBLIC AKUSEME'MTS. to A'ienna by telegram the gratify ing intelli gence that tho health of the Empress ivas quite satisfactory. Betters have been received ASTLEY'S A.MPHITHEATRK. at Trieste from Mostar stating that the inhabitants of Piva, Drop - The Christmas novelty at the Royal Amphitheatre rejoices in the bek, and Banjuno, have revolted against the Turks, with the in- suggestive title of " Harlequin aud the AVonderful ' .Horse ; or, tention of placing themselves under tlie Government of Mon- Graciosa and Pevcinet, the "C g'ly Duchess and the Greed y King " tenegro.- Frederick William IV., King of Prussia, expired at —a name in itself almost ""as good as a play " to an imag inative noon yesterday in tho palace of Sans Souci. He was the son mind. The piece is very brilliant and attractive, full " ',' fancy and of Frederick AVilliam 111., and was born in the voar 1795. His alliuont in fun, ami will endure honoura ble comp iri-uii with the A'ery best pantomime that has heretofore been produced at this itself, and the various excellent dioramas it contains, giving scenes favourite theatre. The other performances consisted of the ever- of all the exciting events of the last half-dozen years in the Crimea, welcome scenes in the circle, and Mr. J. Crockett's extraordinary in India, in China, and in Italy, proving, with the descriptive lec- feats of lion-taming, all of which, as well as the pantomime, wore tures, sufficiently attractive to secure a , good attendance of those received with enthusiastic applause by a crowded audience. who, objecting to the lighter forms of amusement, are still desirous to do homage to the season, and present to their children a really STRAND. instructive exhibition. The Christmas piece at this favourite little theatre is from tho prolific pen of Mr. H. J. Byron. It is an illustration of the well- BURFORD'S EXHIBITION", knoAvn fairy tale of " Cinderella and the Glass Slipper," AA'hich ha ivhieh has been established so many years as to be almost beyond so often done the stage, if not the State, good service by amusing He the memory of man, but which never fails to be attractive. A neiv Majes ty's lieges on festive occasions. The treatment by Air. Byron Panoram a of Messina has jnst been opened; and looking at the- is, however, novel and ingenious, and care has been taken to make peculiar interest with Avhich everything regarding the Sicilies at. the " cast " sufficiently wide to embrace nearly the AAIIOIC of the present creates in the public mind, cannot fail to be attractive. Strand company . The piece was highly successful , and the eo n- cluding scene, by Messrs. Calcott and Broadfoot, is a beautiful MADAME TUSSAUD'S. piece of senio effect, of which the audience testified their admira- The fi gures at this celebrated exhibition of Avax-work are as fresh tion by a tumultuous call for the artists. A similar compliment wass and brilliant as AA'hen the exhibition was first opened a quarter of paid to Mr. Byron, and the curtain fell amid hearty and prolonged ]., century ago, whilst the araangeuient has been greatly improved. applause. The entertainments con cluded ivith tho UOAV farce of Amongst the recent additions to the collections are—Gari- " Did 1 Dream It." The house was filled in every part. baldi, the King of Naples, and Mullens, the murderer of Mrs. Enisley, who has found his place amongst other notorious criminals, POLYTECHNIC INSTTTUT ION. in what used to be termed the Chamber of Horrors, but which has The new management of this excellent institution, th ough under recently changed its title, and is now designated as the Chamber of the control of a limited company, has shown itself no niggard in Comparative Anatomy. the amount of amusement provided for the holiday folk, and ivhieh agreeably combines the solid and the li ght, the instructive and ALHAMBRA PALACE. amusing. The hall has been tastefully coloured, and the new This last venture of Mr. E. T. Smith promises to be the most arrangements include a sculpture-gallery, coloured in the Pompeian remunerative of that gentleman's numerous speculations. Mr. style, and furnished ivith impluviums filled ivith lloAvers, from which Smith has shown himself a perfect master of the art of catering for issue innumerable tiny jets of water ; a gallery of carefully selected the amusement of all classes of society, and never more so than at paintings, by deceased artists, in ivhieh is also the armoire of the Alhambra. A really popular anil excellent concert by good Napoleon the First, and a series of very interesting engravings, by singers and musicians, and admirable dancing by an efficient corps de Turner, and of woodcuts, by BeAvick , as also prints of the etchings ballet , could scarcely fail to be attractive, especially when brought and various stages of the plates, &c. The architectural-room has together in one of the finest halls in the metropolis, which has been some pleasing models, and the naval department is worth a visit most elegantly decorated , and every convenience provided for the from those interested m the subject. The great feature in the accommodation of the public, whilst the price of admission is only building, and an entire novelty, is a gigantic sectional model of the Gd. A neat, sketchy entertainment—musical, Terpsichorean, and earth's crust, designed and executed by Air. Joh n S. Phone, manag- dioramic — has been produced, entitled "Donnybrook Fair," in ing director of the institution , under whom the various improve- which the humours and vicissitudes to be met with in that once ments b.-iA-e been eil'ceted. f herc ,-irc two pur/briuaiiees ;l rluy— celebrated prn t'icringr worts aMy ami laughingly delineated—Mr. Sam. from half-past twelve to five, and seven to eleven, the first of which Collins himself being sufficient to ensure its success, he being both commences Avith an explanation of the model just named by Air. a genuine Irish singer anil actor. King, and Avhich is sufficiently scientific for all practical purposes without losing the best element of such lectures—a popular style ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. easily understood by young and old. Then there is the oxy- The selection of animals and birds assembled ivithin these gar- hydrogen microscope, under ivhieh are shown some beautiful pho- dens has never been surpassed, and, notwithstanding the weather, tographs of sculpture, as well as living and other objects; the well- they appear to be in excellent health, There are few studies more known diving-bell ; a Lecture on .Astronomy; and some admirable attractive for the young than that of natural history, and there is Dissolving A'iews, especially of Italy and Sicily, ivith one series of no place in the kingdom where it is so well illustrated as in comic scenes for the juveniles. Nor is music wanting to add to these gardens. the charms of the Institution ; the band, under the direction of Air. AVaud, being most efficient , and a most excellent entertain- GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. ment being given by Mr. Charles Field, assisted by-Messrs. Aylivin, Air. and Mrs. German Ueed and Mr. John Parry have returned. Field, Freilcrich, and 'full, and the Alisses Bennett and Warner, AVhat more need be said to assure our readers that a most excellent who introduce some favourite songs Avith good effect. These varied entertainment is in store for them if they have not already visited entertainments, combined with the various natural and mechanical it ? The lady has lost none of her appreciation of character ; and, objects to bo found within the hall, render thc Polytechnic one of ably supported as she is by her husband and Air. Parry, the Gallery the best of popular resorts. of illustration will continue, as it has ever been under the manage- ment of the Heeds, a most attractive and fashionable peace of resort ROYAL COLOSSEUM. for the coining season. Dr. Bachholfner appears to have greatly improved this establish- ment since he undertook the management, some six years since, ST. JAMES'S HALL. during ivhieh period he has raised it to a character second to none. The Buckley Sercnadcrs ivell maintain their ground. Anna Alalia We need not here dilate on the beauty of the colossal dioramas of Jones appears to bo an immense favourite, whilst " A little more Paris and London—for who is there in London , or who has visited cyder " brings rloivn a perfect hurricane of [applause. Air. G. Paris, who has not seen them and formed their own opinion of Buckley is the best bones ive have ever seen, and his solo from the their truthfulness and excellence?—or the stalactite caverns, the Opera of " Zampa " must be heard to be appreciated. The enter- Swiss conservatory, the sculpture gallery, the eosmoramic vieivs, rsrc, tainment, is brought toa close by aplantation festival dance, entitled for these are known as the standing attractions of the exhibition. A " Dixies' Land," the comicalities of which arc irresistible, and the neAV pictorial and musical entertainment has been produced, entitled, audiences never leave excepting in the best of humour. "A Holiday Excursion," in Avhich Air. Austin Burns, the lecturer, contriA'es to give some interesting particulars, not only of the scenery, but of the manners and customs of the people in India, TO C 0 lUiESPONDExSPTS. China, Australia, Turkey, Italy, France, America, &C.—a sufficientl y wide range for the most extorting of si ght-seers. Then there is AxosY-iioi'S.—Write to the Grand Secretary. another musical entertainment, by Mr. ileivsou , under the title of N IL.—It was only a flash in the pan.—Persons, however amiable "Musical Peculiarities of the Present -Age ;" and, in a " Casket of they are, do not like to play second fiddle after having been so Mirth," Air. Julian gave some capital imitations of popular per- long, improperly, ranked as first. formers, which Avas greatly aiiplauded. The Colosseum is generally, GEOitrjE.—A'ou have no legal right to keep a certificate pre- as it deserves to be, Avell attended. sented to you by a beggar, even if you believe him to he an impostor. THE GREAT GLOBE, T. T. T. (Jersey).—AA'e do not undertake any such agencies, in Leicester-square, is one of those exhibitions which does not pro- Be cautious hoiv you are proceeding, or unpleasant results may vide any special entertainment lor the holidays—the Great Globe folloAV.