Acting G. Master, and Sir PETER PARKER B.G.M., CONTENTS. PAG E , " was given UADER— to Col. SAMPSON (sic) H ULSE , first Master," and others. He Sussex and its New Provincial ...... 429 was Deputy Master from 17 8 7 to 1820, and resigning The Masonic " Old Charges " ...... ~- ... 430 in 1821 , was made an Honorary Member. On resi Science, Art , and the Drama ...... 431 gning Provi ncial of North and East Yorkshire ...... 432 as P.G.M. of Sussex he was appointed Prov. G.M. of Kent , Supreme Gra nd ...... •" ,.,, - ••¦ 433 Provin cial Gra nd Lodge of Hampshi re and the Isle of Wig ht ...... 433 in 1S14, and so continued in that office till 1829. ' He was New Books ...... ••• •¦• ••• ••• ¦•• 433 appointed Governor of Chelsea Hosp ital , was promoted F ield- ASONIC N OTES— M Marshal in 1830, and died in 18 after a military career Recent Quarterly Communication of ... 435 37, Yorkshi re ...... 435 extending over 76 years. Gen. HULSE was succeeded as Pro- Proceed ings of the Granel Lodge of Canada ...... 435 vincial Grand Master of Sussex by CHARLES, 4th Duke of Corr espondenc e ... ••• ••• ••• ¦•• •¦• 436 Review s ... — ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 43" R ICHMOND , who died while Governor-General of Canada in ...... Clon fert Cathed ral ... 436 HARLES Capitular and ...... 436 1819. In 1823 C , 5th Duke of R ICHMOND , was J udge Kium 's Lincoln Story ...... 436 appointed , and remained in office till his death in i860. Froi.t T HE C RAFT A BORAD — the duke's death to 1865 the Province was in charge of the G. Grand Lodge of Canada ...... 436 Presentation to Bro. Cornelius Thorne , Past Dist. Grand Master of Registrar, who appointed Bro. DALBIAC to act as Deputy Pro- Northern China ...... 437 vincial Grand Master, as he had done during Bro. C. Thorn e and the Freemasonry of Shang hai ...... 438 the last three years Masonic and General Tidings ...... 440 of the late duke's life. In 1865 Bro. Col. DALBIAC was appointed The Late Bro. Samuel Pope 's Will ...... 440 Provincial Grand Master, but he retained office only for a short time, and on his death , in 186 7, was succeeded by WA LTER PRO VINCIAL GRAND SUSSEX AND ITS NEW J OHN , Lord P ELHAM —now Earl of CHICHESTER . On his resig- MASTER. nation , in 18 77, the Grand Master was pleased to appoint Bro. Sussex is very far from being one of our oldest Provinces, Sir W. W. BURRELL , Bart., M.P., and on his death in 1886, . its earliest Provincial Grand Master—Bro. Captain FRANCIS H.R.H. the Duke of CONNAUGHT, K.G., was appointed and MlNSHALl. —having been appointed in 1774. But it is old in installed by his brother, the M.W.G. Master, as Prov. G. Masonry, the earliest of its extinct lodges having been consti- Master at the Royal Pavilion , Brighton , on the 22nd June of tuted at the Swan Inn , Chichester, in 1724. This lod ge ranked that year. On the Duke's election to the office of M.W.G. Master in succession to the K ING , his as no 31 in 1729 ; No. 28 in 1 740 ; and No. 20 in 1755, ancl was Royal Highness resigned tbe position of Prov. G. Master of Sussex erased in 17 69. Its next oldest lod ge was warranted as No. 65 , and subsequentl y appointed as his successor as ruler of a in 1730 , and met at St. Rook's Hill , Chichester. It became No. Province he had him- self presided over for . 15 years the Earl of M ARCH .57 in 1 740, and No. 35 in 1755, but according to the Sussex , eldest son Calendar for the present year, it appears to have been erased and heir of the venerable Duke of R ICHMOND . His lordship, from the list of lodges in 1754, or a year before it was advanced who is a P.M. of the Union Lodge, No. 38, Chichester, P.Z. of to the latter number. Tins, however, is not the only peculiarity the Cyrus Chapter , and was appointed S.G. Warden of England attaching to this extinct Iodge, as according to the early lodge in 188 1, will have before him an arduous task in following so lists it was constituted in the reign of JULIUS C.KSAR , that is, able, illustrious , and popular a chief as the M.W.G. Master, but several years before the commencement of the Christian Eia. Sussex is a strong Province, with 33 lodges on its roll, of which But without troubling ourselves about this obviously absurd nine are located in Bri ghton , four in Eastbourne, two in Hastings, legend , there is ample evidence both from the lodges which and two in Lewes. Moreover, it is not only a well-ordered have met in the Province , but have long since disappeared from Province, but it numbers among its Present and Past Prov.' G. tlie Register, and from those which are now working, that Sussex Officers several who hive achieved distinction not only in the lias been a Masonic stronghold from a very early period ; Province itsell , but generally, and who will readily give the full and if it has had the misfortune to lose some of its earlier benefit of their wisdom and experience. Such are Bros, the Right lod ges, it can still boast of several that from their Hon. Sir W. T. M ARRIOT T, K.C, P.G.D., D.P.G.M. ; the Very long standing as well as from thc zeal and ability Rev. E. R. CURRIE , D.D., Dean of Battle, P.G. Chap - .- Lieut.- with which they discharge their duties would be an honour Gen. C. VV. R ANDOLPH , P.G.D. (Grand Superintendent Royal to any Province cither in England or elsewhere. Arch) ; V. P. FREEMAN , P.G.D., Prov. G. Secretary ; R. We have said that Sussex became a Masonic Province in CLOWES, P.G. Std. Br. ; &c, &c, &c, and on these his lcird- 1774, when Bro. Captain FRANCIS MlNSllAl.I.was appointed Prov. ship may rely with confidence for counsel in the government Grand Master. According to Bro. THOMAS FRANCIS , author of the ol his Province. " in Sussex ," Captain MlNSllALL was an That the Earl of MARCH 'S appointment will be extremely ollicer in the Horse Guards, and was present as Prov. G. Matter popular with our Sussex brethren cannot be doubted. Not only when , on the ist May, 1775, Lord PETRE , M.W.G. Master, laid is his lordshi p—to use a familiar expression—Sussex born and the foundation stone of the Freemasons' Hall , Great Queen- bred; not only have he and sundry of his ancestors been repre- street. Bro. FRANCIS further states that his name disappears sentatives,of the County in the Commons House of Parliament from the list of Prov. G. Masters " after 17 82," but " how long and laboured hard and successfully to promote the County he conliiued to hold the office cannot now be ascertained." In interests ; but , Masonicall y, the family have done good service 1788 General Sir SAMUEL HULSE was appointed Prov. G. Master , to the Craft from the very earliest times. PRESION , in •ind remained in office till 1814. According to the late Bro, his " Illustrations of Masonry ' (17th edition , p. 1 54), I HOMAS FENN ' S annals of the " Prince of Wales's Lodge, states that " at a general assembly and least of the No - 2 59," the warrant of that distinguished lod ge, bearing date Masons in 1697, many noble and eminent brethren the 20th August , 17S 7, and signed liy the Farl of E FFINGHAM , were present , and among the rest CHARLES , Duke of RICHMON D and LENNOX , who was at that time Master of the being used for the f irst half of a century, and a dagger the Lodge at Chichester. His Grace was proposed and elected second half, and the pagination being that of my volume referred Grand Master for the following year ; and, having engaged Sir to, of 1895 : C 4. " Henery Reade MS." A.D. 1675. CHRISTOPHER W REN to act as his Deputy, he appointed This MS. is described in Cochrane's Catalogue of 1826 , No. 6 DWARD TEONG 33, and E DWARD STRONG , sen., and E S , jun., his and subsequently in Libri'sSale Catalogue (1859) of his valuable MSS. &<:., Wardens. His Grace continued in office only one year, and as No. 65. The late Mr. J. O. Halliwell-Philli pps, F.R.S., bought it from the latter, and at the sale of his library succeeded b Sir CHRISTOPHER ," &C . This, by itself , mi ht it was secured for the Inner Temple was y g Library, London , and is duly noted in the nth Report of the " Historical not be of any great value as evidence of the fact that CHARLES , Manuscri pts Commission," Part VII., but incorrectly described as the 1st Dutfe of RICHMOND, was not only a Mason, but " Master of •' Hen. Neale " (p. 308). It is written on paper, dated 1675, and is similar to the very valuable " VVilliam Watson MS." of 1687 (C 2, pp. 34-39). A the Lodge at Chichester " at the time mentioned—1697. Bro. transcript is much needed. HENRY SADLER , however, in his interesting " Masonic Facts D 38. " H. F. Beaumont MS.," A.D. 1690. and Fictions," makes, at pp. 18-19, the following quotation from The text of this Scroll was known in 1S94, through a transcript being traced the Grand Lodge minutes of the 2nd March, 1 732 : " The , and was published by Bro. VVilliam Watson in the Freemaso n of nth August of that year. The original roll of parchment (six feet in petition of Brother EDWARD H ALL, a member of the Lodge at length and n inches in width) was found in the fall of 1900 at Whitley the Swan, in Chichester, being there made a Mason by the late Beaumont, owned by, and in the occupation of , Bro , H. F. Beaumont, for whom the copy was made, and who kindl SIX y consented to the treasure pissing Duke of RICHMON D , and thirty years agoe, and now recom- into the Library of the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire. This mended by the present Duke of RICHMOND as a proper object makes the ninth MS. in that collection , being the largest number in any Library. An exact T of the Charity of the Free and Accepted Masons, his Petition ypogra phical Reproduction was published in 1901 for the Series ot MSS., so ably edited by Bro. William Watson for West York- was read , and Bro. HALL was called in , and after some shire, with Commentaries b / Dr. Begemann and myself , as well as an Intro- questions asked him, he withdrew and the question being duction by the indefatigable Editor. The number, D 38, is now utilised for the original scroll instead of for the late transcript. Resolved : That six Guineas be given to Bro. EDWARD put—' D 40. " Langdale MS." 17th Century.f HALL for his present subsistancei'" Bro. SADLEK subsequentl y The document is written on paper and alter transcription by Bro. F. F. mentions that " the Duke of RICHMOND was present in Grand Schnitger, was published in the Freemason for December 7th , 1895, with an Lodge at the time Hall's petition was read , indeed the record introduction by me. It belongs to the York Branch , which includes the York MSS. 1, 5, and 2. This is now the property of Bro. G. W. Bain, of implies that he brought it forward himself, at all events he must Sunderland , who is already the owner of several important MSS. reason for believing have had some good in the truth of the D 41. " Thomas Foxcroft MS." A.D. 1699. story." Here, then, we have it in evidence, on the authority This copy has a heading of the Masons' Arms, with the motto " In the of the official minutes of proceedings of our Grand Lodge on Lord is all our trust ; " below being the words " Fear God and keep his com- mandments. For this is the whole Duty of Man . March, 1732 , that the then Duke of R ICHMOND —that " The text is just the the 2nd same as the " Antiquity MS.," and has been transcribed and published by ' is, CHARLES, the 2nd Duke—recommended the petition of a Bro. Henry Sadler in the Freemason for January Gth , 1900, and also Brother HALL, who had been made a Mason in the lodge at separately. It was in the " Tixall Library " lately belonging to Sir F. A. T. C. Constable, deceased. In 1S99, the document was acquired for the the. Swan, in Chichester, 36 years previously—that is, in important collection of the Grand Lodge of England. The roll is of vellum, and runs to fully six feet in length 1696—by his father the first Duke, - while PRESTON, to , and is some eight inches wide. whom the Grand Lodge minutes must have been familiar, E 16 "J. T. Thorp MS.," A .D. 1629. states that the same first Duke was elected Grand Master This fine Roll of Vellum (eight feet by five inches) of A.D. 1629, owned by Bro. Henry Brown , of Northampton , after whom it was called, has since in 1697, being " at that time Master of the Lodge at become the property of Bro. John T. Thorp, whose name it now appro- Chichester." In these circumstances we feci justi fied in priately bears, and who has transcribed and published it (as a gift) with the these as statements of a fact , namely, that CHARLES Transactions of the " Lodge of Research," Leicester, 1898-9, of which he is accepting the accomplished Editor. The scroll was also RICHMOND—w ho was created Baron SETTRINGTON reproduced in the Transac- first Dukeof , tions of the " Cjuatuor Coronati Lodge," London , Vol. XL, 1S98, from a Earl of M ARCH , and Duke of R ICHMOND in the peerage of Eng- copy made for me by the lamented Bro. John Lane. land in 1675, and was Baron M ETHUEN , of Tarbolton , Earl of Had it been traced sooner, no doubt Dr. Begemann would have called DARNLEY , and Duke of LENNOX , in the peerage of Scotland— the famil y after its name, being 17 years earlier than the " Sloane MS., Mason and Master of the lodge at Chichester in 16 or No. 384S " (A D . 1646), and a much superior text. In the " Sloane " scroll was a 96 there are a number of corrections and interlineations , 38 in all, lirst noted thereabouts. He died in 1723, and was succeeded by his son by my dear friend , the late Bro. G. W. Speth, all of which , save some two CHARLES , the second Duke—who a few years later became Duke or three, are to be found in the " J. T. Thorp MS." The latter concludes D 'AL'HIGNY in France. This second Duke was installed Grand in a different manner to the other Rolls, but else its text is similar to the Master at Merchant Taylors' Hall, on the 24th June , 1724, and " Sloane," including the additions noted. under his administration the Committee of Charity—now E 17. "John Strachan MS.," 1700 circa. the Board of Benevolence—was instituted. He died in 1750 , I called this Roll after the late Mr. Bohn , of Brighton , when it was introduced to my notice by Col. Mead (since deceased), by his son CHARLES, third Duke but, unfortunatel y, and was succeeded , but it was soon lost sight of (p. 159 " Old Charges "). Later on it was again whether the latter was a Alason or not wc are unable to say . brought to the light, and purchased by Bro. G. W. Bain, who has given it On his death in 1806, his nephew C HARLES succeeded to thc the title of the "John Strachan MS.,' as a compliment to the esteemed Dukedom , and it has already been stated that the fourth Duke Grand Registrar. Bro. Thorp transcribed and published it in the Trans- Prov. Grand Master of Sussex from 1S14 till his death actions of the " Lodge of Research ," 1899—1900, with Notes, and also an was Introduction by the fortunate owner. It is written on parchment, the length in Canada in 1819. CHARLES , who became fifth Duke on his being only a little over four feet and seven-and-half inches in width. The father's death was also Prov. Grand Master of Sussex, and held text is similar to the " Alnwick " Branch of the " Sloane " Family. the office from 1823 till his death in i860, when he was succeeded F 5. The " Macnab MS.," A .D . 1722. jn the title by his son CHARLES, 6th Duke and present peer, The roll has been nude up in book form of late years, the paper scroll who, we believe, is not a member of our Society. Thus, as being dated 1722. It is in the celebrated West Yorkshire Maso ic Library, with the Dukes of ATHOLL in Scotland, the Dukes of R ICHMOND and is one of the series of R> productions edited by Bro. William Watson, supporters of our Society throughout—the the Honorary Librarian , with an Introduction by me (1896). The text is have been warm ist important , because it contains the " New Articles " as well as the as Master of the lodge at Chichester more than 200 years ago ; " Apprentice Charge," which are not in the majority of the MSS. Grand Master in ; the as P.G.M. the 2nd as 1724-5 4th These additions to the " Old Charges " require severa l and the 5th also as P.G.M. Sussex Sussex 1814-19; 1823-60. changes to be made in the analysis of the scrolls, based on those of the six Dukes, to whose honours thc Earl of Thus four known to the year 1895. The " Beaumont MS." has seven heir have . been distinguished Masons and this MARCH is , , fact, miles, within whicii distance attendance was obligatory at the own claims, will ensure to him the respect apart from his of the annual assembly, making four in all so distinguished. There has been called upon to rule as Prov. G. Master brethren he of are seven liaving five miles, and f ive with ten miles (including County and Province. his native the " Macnab.") Besides these variations, one MS. has 30 miles ("Pirillipps, No. 3) rend two have 40 miles ('* Melrose, No. 2," THE MASONIC " OLD CHARGES." and " Embleton ") : the remainder having the customary 50 miles. The " Aberdeen MS." (D 11) has been published by me in the Freemason , November 23rd , 1895, and also a few cop ies in Since the publication of my work on the " Old Charges of separate form. British Freemasons," in 1895, a"d °f one or two supp lements There are still several MSS. to trace, two especially which subsequentl y, there have been some important additions and ought to lie found , viz., the MS. alluded to by Bro. T. Lamb alterations in the list, requiring some such particulars as the Smith (deceased), located as X 1, and the " Anchor and Hope following to bring the subject down to date. The cap ital letters Lod ge " MS. numbered X 12. I am always glad to communi- indicate the Families or Groups in which the MSS. are arranged cate with brethren as to such documents. by numbers, as far as possible, chronolog icall y; an asterisk W. J. HUGHAN. comitatu paiatino Dunedin 1617." Thomas Bushell was probably a - Science, Hrt , anb tbe Buama. list of the same age. It is mentioned on the minutes of the Antiquarian Society, 1737, that Mr. Compton produced a gold medal larger than a ' crown piece ; on one side Lore! Bacon , in his hat and robes, with METALLIC MUSIC. this legend—Bacon Vicecs. Set. Alb. Anglia; Cancell. On the reverse— A property has been discovered in metals of a remarkable nature—that, Thomas Bushell. Nicholas Briot was a native of Lorraine, and graver of under certain circumstances, they will produce their own music, and sing in the mint to the King of France, in which kingdom he was the inventor, or, such a as to surprise the listener. The thing was discovered in a at least, one of the first proposers of coining money by a press, instead of curious way by Mr. Schwartz, an inspector of smelting works in Saxony. the former manner of hammering. We transcribe the titles of some He had melted some silver in a ladle, and being impatient for it to cool , memorials against this novel invention, from whence, we may conclude, a turned out the mass, as soon as it solidified , on a cold iron anvil, when, to literary controversy was carried on in France, to which, according to his astonishment , musical tones came from it, similar, as he said, to those custom , the innovation was objected to, as probably interfering with the of an organ. A learned German professor visited the smelting works when abuses of which they were in prescriptive possession. the experiment was repeated. He heard the sounds, and noticed that they "Raisons de Nicolas Briot, tailleur et graveur des monoyes de France, were accompanied by vibrations in the lump of silver, and that when these pour rendre et faire toutes les monoyes du royaume, a l'advenir uniformes ceased the sounds ceased also. Twenty-five years later the same phe- et semblables, &c." nomenon was discovered , but in a different way, near the foot of the " Les remonstrances faites par la " cour des monoyes, contre la nouvelle Cheviots. Mr. Arthur Trevelyan was engaged in spreading pitch with a invention d'une presse, ou machine pour fabriquer les monoyes, proposee hot plastering iron , and observing in one instance that the iron was too par Nicolas Briot 1618." hot, he laid it, in a slanting position , against a block of lead which happened " Examen d'un avis presentc au conseil de sa" majeste 1621, pour la to be at hand. Shortly afterwards he heard a shrill note. His attention reformation des monoyes par Nicolas Briot, compose par Nicolas was attracted to the hot iron , which he found to be in a state of vibration , Coquerel." and thus discovered the origin of this strange music. Here was something This Coquerel was geueralis monetaritts, or pope of the mint, into which to set an ingenious mind at work. Mr. Trevelyan, having asked the advice the reformation was to be introduced. The Luther, Briot, we mav sup- of Dr. Reid, of Edinburgh, set himself to discover the cause of the music. pose, miscarried, as we soon afterwards find him in the service of the He made a number of careful experiments, during which he ascertaine 1 Crown of England , where projectors were more favourably received. From that a " rocker," as he called it, brought out the loudest and clearest notes, these circumstances we may conclude he arrived in the reign of King and he described his ' proceedings so well that they were published James, though • he did not make his way to Court before the accession of in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The King Charles, the patron of genius. Briot's first public work was a medal rocker here mentioned is an instrument bearing some resemblance to of that Prince , exhibited with artist 's name and the date 1658. the bevelled soldering-iron used by tinmen. Imagine a piece of brass, four inches long, somewhat like the outer half of a broad, old-fashioned THE THAMES A SALMON RIVER. - bar, with a thin groove passing from end to end of its narrowest edge, and with a slim, straight handle of the same metal, terminating in a knob, Less than a century ago the salmon, king of fishes, was found in the and you have the rocker. Prof. Faraday next took up the subject, and river Thames. There is evidence to show that in earlier times it was made it the theme of a lecture, which he delivered at the Royal Institution , common in that stream. Since then Father Thames has been badly treated ; embodying an explanation of the phenomenon. He confirmed Mr. about 30 years back the water became so charged with sewage and the Trevelyan 's view as to the tones being due to an alternate expansion and refuse of factories, that it was poisonous not only to fish but to the dwellers contraction caused by the heat. This it is that sets the rocker vibrating, on its banks. The upper Thames remained clean , it is true ; but this was and , according to the rapidity or slowness of the vibrations, such is the of no moment to the salmon , whose instincts make them visit the sea at pitch of the tone. The particular way in which the expansion takes place stated times. So the fish ceased to appear in the metropolitan river. With is that the groove in the edge of the rocker makes it a double edge, and improved methods of dealing with the sewage, and by the aid of stringent whenever the heated rocker is placed resting on a mass of lead, a couple of laws against other sources of pollution , the Thames is comparatively clean ; little prominences or hills rise up, immediately under the points of contact, and it is believed that the salmon could now live in its waters. being the natural effect of expansion caused by heat. At the same moment the rocker begins to vibrate, and no sooner is one side raised than the hill THE AVENUE THEATRE. on that side suddenly sinks, owing to the rapid absorption of its heat by the surrounding mass of lead. The consequence is, that the rocker descends We have much pleasure in offering our congratulations to Mr. Weedon through a greater distance than it rose, whereby the other edge being Grossmith on the continued success of " The Night of the Party," which raised, the same effect is produced on the opposite side ; and thus the has now exceeded its 100th performance. The talented artist is the author of vibrations continue as long as there is a sufficient difference of temperature the comedy in which he takes the leading part. He has achieved the success between the two metals. Although there does not appear to be any way of which attends those who have the courage to wait for it. He is better turning these experiments to a practical use, they are of much importance remembered for his appearances in " A Pantomime Rehearsal " and " The in a scientific point of view. Dr. Tyndall repeated the experiments at the New Boy." The last brought him into prominent notice. For lack of dramatic material, Royal Institution , and extended them to other substances besides metals, without which no actor can succeed , it occurred to him finding in all of them a confirmation of Professor Farady' to provide himself with a play and a part. Hence the " Night of the s views, Party," and proving, what had been denied, that a tone can be produced which has deservedly found favour with the general public. by two metals of the same kind in contact ; for instance, silver on silver , or copper on copper. In this case, however, GENERAL NOTES. thc silver or copper rocker is made to rest on a very thin slip of the same metal held in a vice. Agates, and some other gems rock crystal Mrs. Patrick Campbell will re-open the Royalty Theatre on Saturday, , , fluor the spar, fossil-wood , glass and earthenware, will also give out tones to a 7th prox., with the revival of " The Second Mrs. Tanqueray." heated rocker—the only condition of success appearing to be a clear and even edge in the substance under experiment. Among this class of sub- Mr. Seymour Hicks will be seen in a Christmas piece at the Vaudeville, stances, rock salt exhibits extraordinary effects. Desirous of trying this and later, in 1902 , he will appear there with Miss Ellaline Terriss in an mineral, Dr- Tyndall placed a partially cooled rocker on a mass of it, when, American farce, entitled, " On the Ouiet." as he writes, "to my astonishment a deep musical sound commenced immediately; the temperature of the rocker being at the time far below Mr. Tree re-opens Her Majesty's on the 22nd October with Mr. Clyde that of boiling water, and when the singing ended , was scarcely above Fitch's modern comedy of Manners, " The Last of the Dandies," the cast blood heat." In this case, the want of an edge appears to be of no impor- of which will include, with himself , Mrs. Tree and Miss Lily Hinbury. tance, for " when the heated rocker was laid on a large boulder-shaped mass of salt, it commenced to sing immediately. I scarcely know a substance," adds Dr. Tyndall, " metallic or non-meiallic, with which vibrations can be obtained with greater ease and certainty than with this mineral." Now, here is something to furnish occupation for evening hours, the experiments > PLAN being such as may be tried by the fireside, and even in the drawing room. \^^j | w ^YELL.KNOWN OP A commencement may be made in a roug h way by heating a poker and x x placing it with the knob resting on a table and the heated end on a block of "' -0 cold lead. The singing will at once be heard. Rockers of various kinds MONT HLY may next be introduced , made, as we have described, and placed so as to rest horizontally during the experiment. Wilh a hand vice, such as will PAYMENTS fasten to the edge of a table, after the manner of a lady's pin-cushion , the thinnest slips of metal may be securely held while testing their quality. AT CA GUE The effect , too, may be tried of pressing slightly with a knitting needle on ™-° the back of the rocker immediately above the groove ; it will be found that )0\ «¦ CASH PRI CES. a whole octave of tones may be produced by vary ing the pressure, the \ lowest with least pressure, and shrillest with the highest. Perphaps, after all J? , there may be more in the music of the spheres than a dream of poets or ^\^ & >k.\. Illustrated Catalogue ot philosophers. We have all heard how that the statue of Memnon used to \^C . ^ Watches, Clocks, s,ng in the morning sunbeams, and who shall say \^Cr1 ¦* > \ Jewellery, He., and that out of the experi - V ^ #VV "T HE TIMKS " ments we have suggested may not come a musica l instrument on which fvln ''cat shall be the only performer. Wind will then have a rival. sL^\fpK -^i, ¦OI K MEDALLISTS IN THE REIGN OF JAMES I. V^ VV ^ . We shall now give a briel account ot a few of the medallists of this Siio \fy£\ reign. The first Tlie "FIEI,D"Wal.-li is XX^^N ¦ f* X N graver we meet is Charles Antony, to whom Sir Thomas liomltm Mini* & lm» 1'utoileil X ^^t M Kiiyvet, Master of the Mint in the second year of the king's reign, paid by Improvements Hint make it X.^^^%k. ar sujwrior ID all others. X ? ^ * ,ra t £-1 ° lor gold and workmanship, for graving an offering iece of ^ J& gold " p , Antony having then the title of the king's graver. It is a thin One-third aaved by buying I X. arger plate, than a crown piece, representing King James on his throne. It is of Best London Hailo Hiuli-Class Watch. In direct, from tho Makfi 'R. I X. very neat workmanship. It is thought that the same HunW, llalMIimtiiiif, or Crystal Glims __SZ^Z I X person made the JIK-t. Gold Casts i!25, or in Silver Casus £15. When icrilina mention " Freeman, *." ^ ?£ m,,'6o4 on the peace with Spain , and that he continued in office till 020. l here was a warrant to a brother called Thomas Antony, curator! J. 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PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF NORTH AND Herbert Green , P.G.S.B. Eng., P.G. Sec. WestVorks ; Sir Chas. Legard, Bart. ; Sir J. Sykes-Rymer, Gilbert Wilkinson, Wm. Watson, P.P.G.W. EAST YORKSHIRE. West Yorks; the Rev. J. E. Torbett , the Rev. C. E. L. Wright, the Rev. E. W. Drage, the Rev. J. W. Dales, and many others. A Provincial Grand Lodge was holden in the Grand Hall, I he Spa, The annual balance-sheet having been audited and found correct , was Scarboroug h, on the invitation of the Old Globe Lodge, 200 ; Denison unanimously adopted. Lodge, 1248 ; Leopold Lodge, 17G0 ; and St. Nicholas Lodge, 2586, on The PROV . G. SECRETARY read the annual report of the Board of Friday, the 26th ult., when there were present : Benevolence, which was unanimously confirmed. Bros, thc Most Hon. the Marquess of Zetland , K.T., Prov. G.M. ; Lord Bolton , Bro- G. H. WALSHAW, P.P.G.D.C, proposed the election of Bro. John P.G.W. Eng., Dep. Prov. G.M.; W. H. Rose, P.P.G.W., as Prov. S.G.W. ; J. Clare, P.M. 200, as Prov. Grand Treasurer, which was seconded by Bro. Wm. Tindell , Prov. J.G.W. ; M. C. Peck, P.M. 2494, P.G. Std. Hr. Eng., P.G. W. S. RoiisoN , P.P.G.D.C, and carried unanimously. Sec, John Stevenson , P.M. 312, Capt. H. Darley (Mayor of Scarboroug h), P.M. The PROV. G. MASTER said that in consequencs of the lamented death 200, H. Onslow Piercy, P.M. 1040, Wm. Ascough , P.M. 1248, Mark Scott, P.M. of Bro. Cowper, his office has to be filled by a brother who possesses the 566, J. S. Moss, P.M. 312, C. M. Forbes, P.M. 236, Wm. Richardson , P.M. 561, qualifications of great Masonic zeal and industry, leisure, and ability to and T. B. Redfearn , P.M. 2134, P.A.G. Sec, P.P.G. Wardens ; Rev. F. Grant undertake the respjnsibilities of this important trust. I believe all these James, M.A., 1618, and Rev. C. H. Steel , M.A., 184 8, Prov. G. Chaplains; Rev. qualifications will be found in our P.M. W. G. Chilman , P.M. 660, Rev. E. A. B. Pitman , M.A., P.M. 66o, E. Fox-Thomas, esteemed Bro. Egbert Fox-Thomas, 312, P.P.G.C , and I therefore have great pleasure in proposing him to be P.M. 312, and W. T. Robson , M.A., P.M. 543, P.P.G. Chaplains ; J. York Torr , our Prov. Charity P.M. 250, Prov. G. Treas. ; A. Jones, P.M. 236, and T. Scott, P.M. 561, P.P.G. Representative , and I have reason to believe that he P.M. 312, Prov. G. Reg. ; G. Bohn C.E., P.M. would undertake the work if elected. Treasurers ; J. H. Harrowing, , The resolution 1010, C. Waistell , P.M. 1337, W. J. Watson , P.M. 602, E. Corris, P.M. 57, Robert was seconded by the D EI\ PROV . G. M ASTER , and carried W. White, P.M. 312, and Thos. Morrill , P.M. 57, Past Prov. Grand Registrars ; unanimously. Robert Cuff , M.D., P.M. 200, Prov. S.G.D. ; Staveley Wallgate, P.M. 660, Prov. Bro. E. FOX -T HOMAS gracefully acknowled ged the honour conferred J.G.D. ; Col. H. F. Pudsey, P.M. 1010, W. C. Whiteside, P.M. 250, G. Lamb , upon him , and promised his utmost endeavours to further the objects of thc P.M. 1611, J. Edgar, P.M. 294,. J. Winterschladen , P.M. 1848, Chas. Gray, P.M. office to which he had been elected. 734 ; F. W. Wardill , P.M. 734, M. J. Martensen , P.M. 57, and J. H. Shouksmith , Three representatives of Prov. Grand Lodge on the Charities' Associa- P.M. 161 1, P.P.G.Ds.; John Thomas, P.M. 602, Prov. G. Supt. of Works ; tion , Bros. VV. J. Watson , P.P.G. Reg. ; Geo. Potter-Kirby, P.P.G.D.C. ; Thomson Foley, P.M. 294, C. E. Bradley, P.M. 1760 , Walker S'.ead, P.M. 1337, and E. Corns, P.P.G. Reg. ; were unanimousl y elected. and C. H. Fletcher, P.M. 1248 , P.P.G. Supts. of Works ; John George Wallis, Bro. T. M ORRILL , P.P.G. Bros; E, J G. Potter-Kirb Reg., proposed the re-election of P.M. 151 , Prov. G.D.C; G. H. Walshaw. P.M. 200, y, P.M. 236, Corns, P.P.G. Keg., and was Wm. S. Robson , P.M. 200, A. J. Tay lor, P.M. 6C0, and G. E. Martin , P.M. 1248, J. E. Walker, P.M. 250, as Auditors, which P.P.G. Dirs. of Cers. ; William Wilkinson , P.M. 566, Prov. Dep. G.D. of C.; seconded by Bro. W. C Whiteside, P.P.G.D., and carried. W. N. Cheesman , P.M. 566, and Wm. S. Meek, P.M. 25S6, P.P.D.G.D . of Cs. ; Under Bye-law 21, the following five membars of Provincial Grand Robert McBean , P.M. 643, and G. W. Tindall , P.M. 2586, P.P. Asst. G.D. of Lodge were re-elected to serve on the Provincial Board of General Pur- Cs.; Geo. Lei g h , P.M. 2134, P.P.G. Std. Br., acting Prov. G.S.B.; Thos. M. poses, viz. : Bros. T. B. Wnytehead , P.G.S.B. Eng., P.P.G.W. ; Sir J. Goldie, P.M. 660 ; W. Storey, P.M. 1611; Jas, C. Heselton , P.M. 294 ; and Sykes-Rymer, P.P.G. Reg. ; W. H. Rose, P.P.G.W. ; W. J. Watson, Robert Murray, P.M. 123, P. P.G.S.Bs. ; E. l'Anson , P.M. 1618, and F. W. P.P.G. Reg. ; and H. Toozes, P.P.G.D. Booty, P.M . 1248, P.P.G. Std. Br., Prov. G. Std. Brs. ; John E. Lupton , P.M. The Prov. Grand Master then presented the Grand Lodge Charity 1760 ; Jas. Buckle, P.M. 660 ; John Rennird , P.M. 734; Robert Forster, P.M . Jewel to the Prov. Grand Director of Ceremonies and to Bro. Col. H. P. 2586 ; and George Petch , P.M. 1605, P.P.G. Std. Brs. ; B. Kilvington , W.M. Pudsey, P.P.G.D., who had qualified for that distinction by their libera ! 1611, Prov. G. Org. ; W. H. Attlay, P.M. 312; F. Wilson , M.D., contributions to the Charities of the . 250; J. Carlill Savill , 1010; and J. F. Stewart, C02, P.P.G. Orgs. ; The various lodges in the province, all of which ware represented , with John M. White , P.M. 1040 , Prov. G. Purst. ; Geo. Chambers, P.M. 17 60, Thos. the exception of the Albert Victor Lod then communicated. Dickinson , P.M. 1618 Richard Hamper, P.M. 17G0 , and Walter Hig hmoor P.M. ge, No. 2^, 28, , , The returns showed a total of 241S subscribing ' members, taking Lodge 1040, P.P.G. Pursts. ; John McFaden , P.M. 643, Henry Watson , P.M. 2586, No. 2328 as last year. Thos. Fidler , P.M. 543, Wm. Bungay, P.M. 561, F. G. Pexton , P.M. 1760, and R. Hod gson The Prov. G. Master then appointed and invested the following as Burton Newbald,3i2, P.P. Asst. G. Pursts.; , 566, T. W. Sidgwick , 602, Prov. G. Officers for G. G. Evering ham , P.M. 630, Chas. T. Lang, O43 , Wm. Copley, 660, and Geo. the ensuing year : Rennard , P.M. 734, Prov. G. Stwds. ; and Chas. Travess, P.M. 1428 , Prov. G. Bro. the Hon. W. G. A. Orde-Powlett ...... Prov. S.G.W . Ty ler. Visitors: Bros. Robt. Hudson, P.G.S.B. Eng., P.G. Sec. Durham ; the „ Ernest F. Taylor ...... Prov. J.G.W. Rev. H. R. Harrison , , P.P.G. Chap. West Yorks ; E. W. Ingra m, W.M.837 „ the Rev. S. M. 910 ; Thompson , M.A...... i 0 r Chaps.r. ,„, John Robinson , P.M. in , P.P.G.W. Durham ; Wm. Gilling, P.M. 809, P.P.G.D. „ the Rev. L. S. Robinson , M.A j Prov. G. Cambrid ge; and A. Gourley, W.M. 2557. Also the W. Masters, Past Masters, „ John Clare (elected) ...... ,., Prov. G. Treas. Wardens , and many brethren of the various lod ges in the province. „ Charles E. BritUin ...... Prov. G. Reg. The Prov. G.' Lodge having been opened in due form , the Prov. Grand „ M. C. Peck, P.G. Std . Br. Eng., P.P.G.W. ... Prov. G. Sec. Director o| Ceremonies called upon the brethren to salute the Prov. G. „ James Milestone ,, ...... j.Prov. S.G.c n Ds. Master and the Dep. Prov. G. Master with Grand honours. The Past G. „ J. T. Hansell ...... ] Officers of England were also saluted. „ T. H. Dunn... ,{.. . „ „ ...... Prov. J.G.Ds. The minutes of the last Prov. G. Lodge held at Hull on 5th July, 1900, „ W. H. Robinson ...... j and the Special Prov.G. Lodge held at York , on Sth March , 1901, were taken „ George Eckles .., ...... Prov. G.S. of W.' as read and confirmed. „ John Geo. Wallis ...... , Prov. G.D.C. Letters of apology for absence were received from Bros, the Dea n of „ James Horn by ...... prov. D.G.D.C. Voik , P.G. Chap. Eng. ; J. W. Woodall , P.G. Treas. Eng. ; J. H. „ William Hodgson ... ,., ... Prov. A.G.D.C. Handyside, P.G.D. Eng. ; T. Ii. Whytehead , P.G.S.B. Eng. ; Major „ Charles H. Dodsworth ...... ,„ Prov. G.S.B. Gilling ...... ••• PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF HAMPSHIRE Bro. F. ¦¦¦)" | Prov. G. Std. Brs. H. Taylor ...... AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. " Richard ]. Pitcher, Mus. Bac...... Prov. G. Org. " Thos. B. Redfearn , P.P.G.W...... Prov. A.G. Sec; " John H. Hill ...... - Prov. G. Purst. The annual meeting of the above Provincial Grand Lodge was held on " Joh n Garbutt ...... Prov. A.G. Purst. the Gth inst., at Aldershot, and was presided over by tha Deputy Prov. G. " Chas. Travess ...... Prov. G. Tyler. Master, Bro. Ed gar Goble, P.G.S.B. Eng. A gloom was thrown over the ' knowled The newly-appointed Prov. Grand Officers were then saluted with Grand proceedings by the ge that the highly esteemed Prov. G.M., Bro. W. W. B. Beach, M.P., had succumbed to the injuries sustained by being ° Six Prov. Grand Stewards to be nominated by the Kingston , Sykes, thrown out of a hansom cab in Parliament-street , London , on the Friday Marwood, Denison , Anchor, and Falcon Lodges. previous, but the business necessities of the Craft would not permit of a The D EI\ PROV. G. M ASTER said that as this was the first occasion of postponement of the Prov. G. Lodge at short notice. hter ' The following were appointed as the Prov. G. Officers for the ensuing his meeting the members of Provincial Grand Lodge since his daug s 12 (Lady Exeter's) marriage, he desired to thank the brethren , on her lady- months : ship 's behalf , for the handsome sum so kindly presented as a wedding gift. Bro. Col. Le Roy L?wis, 928 ...... Prov. S.G.W. Lady Exeter had purchased jewellery which would be hi ghly valued as an „ H. G. Marshallsey, 725...... Prov. J.G.W. . of the good feeling towards her father which exists in the Rev. F. M. Middleton , ...... ) „ „, evidence „ 2475 Prov.D G. " Rev. S. S. Still, 1971 ... j Chaps. The PROV . G. MASTER delivered the following address : Worsh ipful „ J. W. Gieve, 1069 ...... Prov. G. Treas. brethren,—Since our last annual meeting the chief event of the year has „ J. C Wheeler, 257 ...... Prov. G. Reg. been the accession of our M.W. Grand Master to the Throne of this vast „ H. G. Giles, 257 ...... Prov. G. Sec. ht as his Empire, and the installation of H.R.H. the D uke of Connaug „ E. A. Edwards, 1090 ...... ) D c f n Majesty 's illustrious successor. This grand ceremonial took place in the Royal „ G. A. Brannon , 15. j Prov. S.G.Ds. Albert Hall on the 17th inst., and was attended by above 9003 brethren. „ W. Sandell, 21 ...... J. 5S \ Frovp I regret to observe that during the year we have lost several most valuable „ fames Maling, 903 ...... j - J-G.Da. members of our province. Our late Prov. Charity Representative, W. B-o. „ W. H. Brading, 2169 ...... Prov. G.S. of W. W.H. Cowper, P.G. Std. Br. England, was taken away in the midst of his „ E. J. T. Webb, 342 ...... Prov. G.D.C. work only three days before he would have attended an election in London „ E. G. Stroud , 175 ...... Prov. Dep. G.D.C. on our behalf. Bro. Cowper was a thorough and genuine Freemason , an d „ W. Bates, 394 ...... •) the following extract from his will , which has been sent to me by his executors, „ P. Dicks, 1S83 ...... [ Prov. A.G.D.Cs. will be read with touching interest : "To my Brother Freemasons I leave „ C. 1. Penny, 130 ...... J my best wishes and earnest desire that the high principles of the Craft will „ J.J. Carnon , 1776 ...... Prov. G.S.B. ever be upheld." W. Bro. Andrew Farmer, P.P.G.W., one of our worthiest „ C. Wilkes, 132 ...... brethren , quickly followed Bro. Cowper to the tomb, and W. Bro. Col. R. G. „ G. Greenslade, 1112 ...... ^i Prov. G. Std. Brs. Smith, P.P.G.W., who wasourCharity Representative for five years (1885-90), „ W. H. Vye, 195 ...... ) W. Bro. John Blenkin, P.P.G.D., W. Bro. J.T. Seller, P.P.G.D., and W. „ Norman Clinton , 723 ...... Prov. G. Org. Bro. E. Cooper, a respected member of Lodge 200, have been called away „ G. P. Lancaster, 903 ...... pr0v. Asst. G. Sec. to the Grand Lodge above. May these worthy brethren find successors „ J. B. Jaye, 723 ...... Prov. G. Purst. able and willing to emulate their good example, and carry on the work of „ G. Luxton , 2074 ...... Prov. Asst. G. Purst. the Craft with equal zeal and fidelity. The R.W. Prov. Grand Master of „ F. W. Chaine, 2S3S ...... "| Province of Durham (Lord Barnard) was installed on our neighbouring „ R. Clover, 309 ...... I the 26th June by the M.W. Pro Grand Master (Earl Amherst), and the 2016 ! „ G. Turvill , ...... Prov. O. ceremony was a brilliant success. Lord Barnard is represented here to-day „ A. E. Sayer, 2203 ...... ^ Stewards. W. Bro. Hudson, P.G.S.B. Eng., Prov. Grand Secretary of Durham , by ,, G. H. Goodman , 1 705 ...... J whom we are always pleased to see. The affairs of our province, I am „ J. S. Hobbs, 195S ...... ) thankful to say, are in a satisfactory condition , as will be seen by an „ J. Exell , 1835 ...... Prov. G. Tyler. inspection of the printed accounts. The interests and subscriptions to our Educational Fund have enabled us to distribute during the year £365 amongst the 29 children now upon our books. In consequence of the lamented deaths I have referred to, the province has lost a considerable number of votes for the London Charities. I would, therefore, fraternally flew :iBoohi5. urge the representatives of the various lodges to induce their brethren to support these Institutions by contributions or undertaking Stewardshi ps , so lhat our newly-elected Prov. Charity Representative may be able to go to Mr. GoorgO Allen, of 156, Charing Cross-road , will publish shortly the London with confidence and success. I have received an invitation for opening volumes of a series of sound and wholesome books for boys on entirely York Lodge fresh lines. The name of the new series will be " The Young England Library." holding our meeting next year from the North , No. 602, at Mr. Allen has placed thc library under the editorshi and have great pleasure in accepting the same. The p of Mr. George A. B. Middlesbrough, Dewar, B.A. (Oxon). Among those who have expressed their sympathy with the meeting will be unusual ly interesting, as the jubilee of the North York objects of the library are Dr. Warre, Head Master of Eton, the Bishops of Ri pon Lodge will be celebrated on that occasion, so that we may hope for a very and St. Asaph, Dean Hole, of Rochester, and other eminent ecclesiastics and enjoyable assembly. I must now express my best thanks and those of educationalists. Prov. G. Lodge to the W. Masters and brethren of the four Scarborough " The \ oung England Libra ry " will consist of books written essentially for lodges who have so kindly and hospitably entertained us on this and many boys by those whose hearts are in the work they are undertaking. Each volume previous occasions. We always come to this beautifu l place with pleasure, is to be instructive as well as entertaining. Thc subjects dealt with will include and leave it with regret, whilst the good and fraternal feeling which exists the achievements by land and sea of heroic Britons , their discoveries and adven* amongst the resident brethren enhances the satisfaction of the visitor. tures in search of Empire in all parts of the world; popular and useful pursuits in The Masonic anthem , " Hail Masonry," was then sung, the solo by and out of doors, such as carpentering, wood-carving, photograp hy, &c.; summer Bro. G. J. Gowthorpe, 2586, and the chorus by the brethren , accompanied and winter games and pastimes ; natural history and athletics. on the organ by the Prov. G. Organist. In a genera l preface the editor explains the programme and purpose of The Prov. G. Lodge was then closed. " The Young Eng land Library." It is to be primaril y a library of relaxation , but the many opportunities which occur in pastime books of directing A banquet, at which the Prov. G. Master presided , was subsequently boys' thoughts and their ambitions»into the right channels will not be neglected. ln the books held at the Grand Hotel, and was numerously attended. The usual loyal on games, stress will be laid on the ri htness of and Masonic g playing in an unselfish sp irit , of toasts were honoured , and a most agreeable evening spent. striving for one's own side and the honour of one's own school rather than for oneself and one s personal prowess. In the pursuit of Natural History, boys will be urged to attach more importance to the observation of wild life than to the mere collection of species and varieties. The books on SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER. naval and military achievement will deal with facts only. Sensational and wildly improbable fiction will have no place in this series, the volumes of which will bj specially suitable as gift books. In consequence ol the much lamented death of the Right The opening volumes will be "The Open-Air Boy," by Rev. G. M. A. Hon, William Hewett, M.A , of Winchester College, with about 30 illustrations by Missrs. Wither Bramston Beach , M.E. Third Grand Williams , and " Sea Fights and Adventures," by J. Knox Laughton , M.A., with 1 nnci pal , an event which has occasioned deep sorrow to every 32 full-page illustrations. Both books will be ready in October. The series -Member ot the Order, by whom he was greatly respected and will be issued in crown 8vo form at 6s. per volume , with special ly designed beloved, it is Ordered " that the Supreme Grand Chapter , cover. I rovincial The same firm are issuing a new work, in 12 monthl y parts, price 7d, each Grand Chapters, and all Subordinate Royal Arch part , entitled " The Living Rulers of Mankind ," by the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson , Chapters , be placed in Masonic Mourning for the space of three B.A., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., which will be a popular biographical account of all the months from this date. living emperors , kings, and queens of the world and their families, l li together with all the reigning princes, presidents of Republics , the c Mourning to be worn by Companions individuall y to be princi pal sultans, amirs, beys and ruling rajihs of all countries, as follows : with 400 illustrations , including portraits , palaces, castles, royal gardens, & :. 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The Evolution of the English Bible, by H. W. Hoare, late of JUDGE KRUM' S LINCOLN STORY Balliol College, Oxford. (London : John Murray, Albermarle-street). Price, ios. 66. net, of all booksellers. This is a remarkable book, as it so completely fills the niche intended for it, and is beyond question , one of the most useful , Judge Chester H. Krum was talking about Lincoln, whom he greatly interesting and reliable works ever published on the subject. All that the admired. He said : " Introductory " is more than fulfilled in the subsequent author promises in his " None of the yarns which picture him as swapping stories is true. chapters, the-result being a volume entirely different from all others in its special Lincoln never engaged in what we call swapping stories. He never aims and realisations ; the treatment oi the subject being happily satisfactory as told a story except to illustrate some point. In 1889 I was in Washington well as ori inal, and the numerous details are successfully dealt with in their , and g met Postmaster-General Wanamaker, He said : historical settings, so that the " Evolution of the National Bible " is clearly ' I would like to hear a book in a most attractive story about Lincoln that you are willing to swear is a true bill.' I told him illustrated and described in this handsomely got up , this one : r and most scholarly manner. There are eight chapters beside the one mentioned, devoted to (2) Medieval England and the Bible, (3) The Bible and Scholasticis n, " 1 he prosecuting attorney of Lincoln 's county was a red-headed indi- Wycliffe and the Bibles of the fourteenth century, (5) William Tyndale and vidual, who was a comical cuss to look at. He was fid (4) ¦ gety and nervous and his Work, (6) The Coverdale, Matthew and Great Bibles, (7) The Genevan , tuttered , and everybody had fun with him. He had contrived to tear the Bishops' and Douai Bibles, (8) The Authorised Version, (9) The Work of seat of his trousers one day, and as he sat within the bar railing, intent Revision. In illustration of these there are portraits and facsimiles, and the upon the trial of some case in which Lincoln was interested, his leg was printer helps the reader, not only with exceptionally clear type, but on the left resting on a table, and the white skin was exposed to view. Somebody as required of the chapters, and on the right sides occur the titles, , started a subscription paper with this heading : 'We hereby agree to are head lines descri ptive of the text found in the two pages, subscribe the sum opposite our names for the purpose of buying the these being changed accordingly on every other page This is the prosecuting attorney a new pair of trousers.' within reasonable limits (300 Some five or six lawyers had first handbook published combining signed for a quarter each and the general account of the successive versions, from Wycliff to thc , paper was passed to Lincoln, who was pages octavo) a engrossed with a cross-examination. of our National Bible, with their historical setting. It is this latter fea- He looked at thc paper a moment, Revised, and then wrote : ture that adds so much to the value of the work, for Mr. Hoare has succeeded in ' 1 can give nothing to the end in view.—A. Lincoln.' "•— bringing " the history of the versions into relation with the main current of events St. Louis Star. as to associate the story of the national Bible with the story of the national life." A Chronological Table for the period between the sixth and seventeenth centuries, extending to eight pages, is a positive boon for earnest and thoughtful readers of DEATH. the volume, and the tabular view of the evolution of the English Bible is equally Hoare is to be congratulated on having produced such welcome and useful. Mr. BiiACH. instant a readable instructive, and accurate work on the various Versions and Transla- —3rd , from an accident, the Right Hon. William Wither Bram. , ston Beach , tions of the Bible, and, as our warm approva l of his labours is based on an of Oakley Hall , M.P. for the Andover Division , Hampshire, intimate acquaintance with its pages, it may be taken for granted that such praise Prov. Grand Master of Hampshire, aged 74. is well deserved. CLONFERT CATHEDRAL. ZEbe Craft Hbroab. A recent discovery in the course of the restoration of Clonfert Cathedral has brought to light a curious historical incident the bearing of which was not before GRAND LODGE OF CANADA. known. King Charles, the Second, said to Bishop Burnet , the author of the Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles , that, although Wolley was a blockhead , he had appointed him Bishop of Clonfert because he had worked so successfully At 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon , the 17th ult., the 46th annual as a Parish Clergyman in Suffolk in getting the Nonconformists to come to Communication of the above Grand Lodge in the Province of Ontario was church. Bishop Wolley proved himself to be no blockhead. Shortly after his held in the Court House, Hamilton, Ontario. The Court-room is one of the Bishopric of Clonfert he set about the restoration of the appointment to the largest and best proportioned in the Dominion , and is admirabl He held the Bishopric for years, from 1664 to 1691. Amongst y Cathedral. 27 adapted for the purpose. In none of the cities of the province are the other works, he had the Cathedral bell recast, and had the following inscri ption rooms sufficiently commodious to accommodate so large an engraved upon it: assemblage as annually gathers to attend Grand Lodge. " Fracta diu silui , resono cairipana refusa Muta prius, didici jam resonando loqui. Ope el opere Eduardi Wolley, D.D., Episcopo Clonfertis et Duaey, Anno Hamilton is a city of about 50,000 inhabitants, is prettily situated Domini 167 8 Probati me." at the head of Lake Ontario, and is one of the oldest Masonic centres in Which has been thus humorousl y translated : the Dominion. Barton Lodge, No. 6—'.he senior lodge of the city—dates from 179C " 1 Tom Bell while broken hung The proceedings were enlivened by a fraternal visit from Lung without the use ol tongue the Grand , Lodge of Michigan , with its G.M., But have found my voice at last M.W. Bro. Frank Gilbert, and a numerous delegation. By my learned lord recast , And resound my former song The Committee on Credentials reported 362 warranted lodges on the Ding, ding, ding, dong." roll , 206 represented by their duly qualified oftijers, 7S represented by prox/, 18 not represented by proxy but by Past M isters present , to thc present time very little work of repair was 60 Past Mister., Fiom the year 1G64 done present , and 60 unrepresented. There were present until Brother Canon McLarncy, the present Rector tou ' S43 delegates, who tut lonfert Cathedral , , c up registered a total vote of 1444. thc restoration some few years ago. He has accomp lished a great work under the guidar.ee of a competent architect. Everything his been done with the greatest On the dais were the Grand Officers and a large number of Past Grand reverence and care. A sum of ,£2000 is slill required to comp lete the restoration Ollicers. M.W. Bro. Hungerford occupied the chair, with the Dsputy of this historic and beautiful building. G.M., R.W. Bro. J. E. Harding, on his right. There were present all the Past Grand Masters, viz., M.W. Bros. A. A. Stevenson , Hugh Marray, ). Ross Robertson , Hon. J. M. Gibson , Attorney-General of O.itario, W. R. White, R. T. Walkem, and Henry Robertson. CAPITULAR - AND CR YPTIC MASONRY. The G RAND M ASTER read his annuil address—a custoimry feature at the opening of every annual Communication of Grand Lodged In con- prehensive and explicit manner it dealt itular Masonry is a lesson of human life, with its ups and downs , its with all m ilters inciJe.ital to the Cap Craft life of the jurisdiction during h waj s and smooth , its darkness and lig ht , its mountains and vales. the past year, ani received ths close roug attention of all present. No man has ever jet trod a perfectly smooth way fro m the home of his captivity here to the city and temple of his God above. The rugged road The tl rand Master commenced with a loving reference to the death of the late and dilap ida cd bridges, the stony fords, the almost impassible rivers and Queen , and closed the paragraph with the following message, which h3 had sent inaccessible mountains which the children of I srael encountered on their on Tuesday at midnight to the Grand Lodge of Eng land , and which reiclud that from Bjby lon to Jerusalem are striking lessons of the innumerable body on Wednesday, at Albert Hall , during the ceremin^ : " Tne Grand Lodge journey in session assembled with which we are confronted each ciay of our lives. K-j i cing, of Canada, , on behalf of 31,000 Freenusons and British obstacles , congratulates the Mother Grand Lod in the God of their deliberations, ' with their hearts fixed on the subjects ge of the world on the installation however , of a worthy successor to the great Craft ruler who his was no barrier that could impede th ir progress. passed from your Gran! holy city, there Eastto the Throne of a united Empire." He surmounted , and tne destination of th;ir stated thit he had deputed R.W. Every obstacle was hopis Bro, G. J. Bennett , of Toronto , a Past District Deputy repre- , if our hc.vts are imbued wifi Gran l Jlaster, to finall y obtained. Companions the faith sent the Grand Lodge of Canada on that ausp icious Grand Israelitish hosts and our eyes are li ml occasion. The which inspired the y fixed on the Master recorded his visits to different parts of the jurisdiction , and the fratern.il eternal gotl , we will yet see the mountains ol opposition dissolve at our welcome that had been extended to him by the Craft. He alluded to the Masonic approach , rivers recede at our appearing, rough ways made smooth for our situatiun in Quebec , and to the fact that one of the Montreal lodges, St. feet, and darkness become as light before us. However dark and rough and Lawrence, had passed a resalution favourable to union with the Grand Lodge of that province, and expressed the hope that St. Paul's and St. George's Lodges, During the absence in Europe in July, 1900, of M.W. Bro. J. Ross which were still on the English register , would soon decide to follow a similar Robertson , P.G.M., he was unanimously elected to the office of Historian of course. In a paragrap h devoted to the fraternal dead of this and other jurisd ic- the Grand Lodge. Bro. Robertson has written the history of the Craft in tions, the Grand Master referred , among others , to the passing away of R.W. two volumes of 1000 pages each , and the highest encomiums have been Bro. W. R. Singleton , of the District of Columbia , and R.W. Bro. Theodore S. passed upon his work not only by the Grand Masters of Canada, but by Parvin , of Iowa. He cited a number of rulings which lie had given distinguished Masons in different parts of the world. As this communi- on different subjects in connection with Masonic jurisprudence. He mide a cation afforded his first opportunity of returning thanks for the honour , just pointed reference to the position of a lodge known as the Rojal Solomon Mother before the installation of ofiicers , Palestine which is No. on the Canadian Register. He I.odge at Jerusalem , , 293 Bro . R OBERTSON stepped to the front of the dais and said : Most Wor- said : I have declined to approve of certain bye-laws sent to me By this lodge, as deemed it would be unwise to grant it privileges that would not be granted to ship ful Sir,—I want, with your permission , Most Worshipful Sir, to take I I have had since my return from Europe, to thank any lod ge in this jurisdiction. While on this subject , a short sketch of this this, the first opportunity lodge's history may not prove uninteresting. Twenty-ei ght years ag;o a tew Grand Lodge for the honour done meat the last annual communication , and members of tlie residing in Palestine thoug ht it would be advisable to during my absence in Europe, in appointing me to the position of Historian found a lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in the ancient City of Jeru- of the Grand Lodge of Canada. It is an honour which I greatly appreciate. salem , as it was supposed to be the cradle of Freemasonry, and that the workmen Your kindness in creating this position al a recognition of my efforts to per- in the quarries of King Solomon's Temp le were the actual predecessors of those petuate the history of the Craft Masonry in British North America is an who meet to-day in modern Masonic Iod ge rooms. The first thing to be done was evidence of goodwill which I appreciate more than tongue can tell.. In my to secure a . One from the Grand Lod ge of England would have been poor effort as Masonic Historian I have been rewarded by many tokens of preferred , but the promoters were told that such an application would be rejected. esteem , but the honour you have done me comes as a crown to my labour of The Grand Lodges of Scotland and Ireland were also appro ached, but they, too, love, and you have in my thanks all that my heart can give you." declined to entertai n the proposil. None of these applications, 1 am assured, The speech of the M.W. brother was greeted with loud applause. of the Grand were put in writing, for the reason that official rejection from any The G RAND MASTER referred to the pleasure it afforded all present to Lodges named would most likel y prevent a successful effort elsewhere . »a warrant in the see M.W. Bro. Mason , the Grand Secretary, at his post after a serious Failing in Britain , attempts were made to secure y testified to their approval of his words. United States , but absolute failure was the result. Even Kentuck y, illness, and the members heartil the home of M.W. Bro. Robert Morris who was a moving spirit The election of Grand Officers resulted in the re-election of M.W. Bro. in the efforts to secure a charter for a loJ ge at Jerusalem , declined. Bro. Morris Hungerford as Grand Master, and R.W. Bro. Harding as Deputy Grand had been a true friend of the ori ginal Grand Lodge of Canadi and its M.W. Master ; R.W. Bros. McAllister as S.G.W., and A. Dyment, M.D., as Grand Master, William Mercer Wilson. It is surmised and believed that the J.G.W. M.W. Bros. J. J. Mason was re-elected Grand Secretary, Hugh Grand Master knew nothing of the fruitless efforts made in England , Scotland , Murray as Grand Treasurer, and V.W. Bro. James O'Hara as Grand and Ireland , as well as in the United States, to obtain a warrant , for on Feb- Registrar. The Rev. Bro. Von Pirch, a prominent Lutheran clergyman, ruary 17th , 1873, a warrant was issued by the Grand Lod ge of Canada , M.W. Bro. was elected Grand Chaplain. W. M. Wilson being Grand Master, R.W. Bro. Thomas White, D.G.M., and Grand Lodge will meet at Windsor, Ontario, opposite Detroit, Mich., R. W. Bro. T. B. Harris, Grand Secretary. From that time to the present , next July. beyond the fact that we have one of our chartered lodges in that far-distant The District Deputy Grand Masters of Grand Lodge were installed by country, we have known very little of its workings or methods of conducting the M.W. Bro. Ross Robertson , and the other ofiicers by M.W. Bro. Hugh usual business of a lodge, and have had no practical supervision over its affairs ; J. that Murray. and it is not unreasonable to suppose, in view of this fact , a careless, slip- The Grand Lodge then closed. shod , and unconstitutional method of conducting everything in connection with the lodge has been the result. I have been placed in possession of facts, the most reliable, which convince me that only one course is advisable , as far as this Grand Lodge is concerned , and that is an immediate withdrawal of the charter. By my PRESENTATION TO BRO. CORNELIUS THORNE, instructions, the Grand Secretary wrote the W.M. of the lodge, ordering him to forward at once the minute books. It was expected that these would be here PAST DIST. G. MASTER OF NORTHERN CHINA. before this, but so far the Grand Secretary has not received any reply to his letter. The Grand Master advised that the districts of the Grand Lodge be recast, and It has been known for some time that it was the intention of Bro. C. that some of the larger ones be sub-divided. He concluded by recommending the Thorne to sever his long connection with the Far East and go home as soon recognition of the Grand Lodges of Western Australia and Porto Rico, and the as he could conveniently settle his affairs. Naturally such a leading light postponement of the recognition of the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica until the in Freemasonry could not be allowed to depart without due recognition of recei pt of further information. his services on the part of the brethren in general j and the enthusiastic At the close of his address the G RAND M ASTER announced the receipt meeting held on July 2nd , at the Masonic Hall , was the spontaneous of the following cable from R.W. Bro. Edward Letchworth, the Grand outcome of the warm regard in which Bro. Thorne is held by the members Secretary of England : " His Royal Highness and Grand Lodge received of the Craft at large. congratulations of Grand Lodge of Canada with greatest satisfaction , and The present occupant of the Dist. G. Master's chair, Bro. Lewis Moore, most heartily reciprocate good wishes." had issued notices for a special communication to be held at seven p.m. Thc message was received with the utmost enthusiasm. At that hour there were present from 150 to 200 representatives ot every The reports of the Committees of the Board of General Purposes were branch of Freemasonry in the Far East. Members of the English, received and read. The report on the condition of Masonry proved that Scotch , and American Constitutions had assembled in force, and were the jurisdiction was prosperous. The report on Benevolence showed that arranged under their respective lodge banners according to ancient .£2500 had been paid out in relief grants to 137 applicants. Warrants were custom. issued to quite a number of new lodges. Tne Board of General Purposes The business of the meeting was no less pleasing than simple. It was recommended the suspension of the Royal Solomon Lodge, No. 293, at the presentation to Bro. Thorne of a token of esteem and regard from his Jerusalem, Palestine. The Grand Master did not disclose his information brother Masons. The testimonal took the form of a set of silver table with regard to the work of this Iodge, but it is understood that for years ornaments of very chaste and elegant design, consisting of a handsome past there have been very m.'iny irregularities which had only recently been centre piece, four corner pieces, and a set of silver flower stands. brought to his noti e. It should be said that there has been a strong feeling The presentation was made in the large hall by the D.G. M ASTER , who in Canada for some time that the warrant should be withdrawn. It has in his inimitable style sketched the course of Bro. Thome's Masonic career been thought by many Past Grand Masters that the lodge was so many in Shanghai, named some of the leading lights in Masonry who were con- miles distant from the mother jurisdiction that proper supervision of its work temporary with him in the early days, men some of whom have now a was impossible, and that, therefore, such a lodge should be warranted by world-wide reputation amongst members of the Craft—R. Freke Gould for some jurisdiction nearer home. example. He dilated upon the benefits which had been conferred upon The Grand Secretary's report showed the year's recei pts to have been their body, not in one constitution only, but in all, by the P.D.G.M. now 23,-)99 dollars, the largest items being : Certificates , 3662 dollars ; dues, about to say " good-bye " to them , and concluded with eloquent wishes for '! .i. i32-5o dollars ; fees, 2014 dollars ; general fund interest , 3089 dollars. long life, renewed health , and added happiness to the R.W. brother and his The expenditure amounted to 21 ,638 dollars, leaving a balance of 1861 family, to whom and whose descendants he hoped the token of regard now dollars. Of thc expenditure 11,840 dollars was for benevolence. The presented might pass as an heirloom. He then read the inscri ption which receipts were 10SO dollars in excess of those of last year. During the year it was proposed to engrave upon the gift. Masonic halls were dedicated at Sturgeon Falls, Arnprior, and Amherstburg On behalf of American Masonry, R.W. Bro. DANFORTH expressed the The Grand Treasurer, Bro. Hugh Murray, reported , showing the pleasure felt by himself and his compatriots in assisting at such an inter- balance in the bank on June 3rd , 19 01 , to be 13,348 dollars. The state- esting function. He endorsed to the full the remarks that had fallen from ment of the general fund showed the balance on hand June ist, iyoi , to be the head of the English Craft in Northern China, and referred especially to 81,85(1 dollars. The balance of the asy lum fjnd is 16,491 dollars. The the very kind assistance which the Ancient Landmark Lodge had received balance sheet shows investments amounting to 85,000 dollars, which , from R.W. Bro. Thorne. with the balance of 1 3 34S dollars, makes the total of 08 348 dollars . Bro. THORNE , in reply, deprecated the laudation which the previous The honorary rank of Past G. Registrar was given to R.W. Bro. Alex. speakers had used respecting him. He had tried to do his best for M isons Patterson , who for 30 years has been closely identified with the work of and Masonry. Hehad been connected with the Craft since 1852 , and hid relief , h ving acted as Secretary of the Toronto Board of Relief for that watched the rise and growth of its influence in Shanghai. He "had ever period. tried to impress upon the brethren the duties as well as the privileges of

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d§ j f! ¦JwuEA SKILFULLY L BLENDED CIGAR: J Samples ls. 6a. pout free. ii ^iuiMsiss^r?? 5g=! " W PELICAN," Jan. 12th . 1001, says-"The: 13cmxi-:o AMI H AVANA C HIAU C OMPA NY 'S ' MANUEL MURIAS ' mc excellent : the § ^ nc'u ull ~ pj l' 1jL'"'° 'y 28/- POr 10 0. it would he well tu notes the Address, II H II rcull y -rood Ci'-riii- is indeed worth liiivinjj. " Q Address-BORNEO & HAVANA CIGAR CO., 13, Billiter Buildings, Billiter St., E.C. 8 Freemasonry, and had ever exhorted them to put into practice outside the the names of M. L. Smith, C. H. Butcher, P. A. Myburgh , C. M. Donald- door of the lodge those admirable princi ples inculcated within it. He son , and R. F. Gould , will be best known by the present generation of accepted the gift of the brethren in the spirit in which it was given , re- Masons. The band of the 67th Regiment which was here at the time echoed the wish ot the D.G.M. that it might pass down as an heirloom in enlivened the proceedings. his family, so that his children might know in what esteem their father had In those days China was, Masonically, a province. It is since then that been held by his brother Masons in Shan ghai. the present division into two districts has taken place. The subsequent The presentation over, the brethren adjourned to the spacious dining- history of the present Masonic Hall is matter of common knowledge. room of the Masonic Hal l , where an excellent dinner was served to more Quoting from the little work before referred to, we have the following : " In than too guests. Fortunately ths weather was cool , and with the aid of the year 1895 it was discovered that the back portion of the block of punkahs the tastefully-decorated room was not in the least hot. buildings known as the Masonic Hal l was unsafe and rebuilding was The toast of the evening was, of ourss, " Health and Happiness to the eventually commenced." On the igth June, 1897, a great variety of R.W. Bj -other," whose approaching depirture is so near. The speeches interesting documents was, wiih some little ceremony, deposited in a leaden of the D.G.M., Bro. Moore, and of the D.D G.M., Bro. Danforth , casket in a " specially prepared cavity in the walls of the new building," to were cast much in the some mould as those before outlined , but Bro. send down to the distant future " some record of our work." Allan , as the R.W.M. of the Cosmopolitan Lodge, working under the Referring to the list of Past Masters of the Northern Lodge we find Scottish Constitution , showed by dates and statistics the close amongst the collection of well-known and highly honoured names in local connection between the Cosmopolitan Lodge and Bro . Thorne history, that of C. Thorne in 1858 (not 1856 as is implied on p. 2) for the though a member of the English division of the Craft. He told his hearers first time as Master. He was again in the chair in i860, since which time that Bro. Thorne had aided in the founding of the lodge, that he had been though he has never officiall y taken the Mastership, he has been an ever an Honorary Member of it almost from the commencement, and that for ready aid and substitute io a long succession of worthy men. In 1S62 Bro the past quaiter of a century he had established a record by instilling year Thome's name appears as First Principal of theZion R A. Chapter, a Craft off- by year the various Masters as they succeeded each other. shoot of the Northern Lodge. Twenty years later a Committee was appointe d R.W. Bro. THORNE made a very feeling and appropriate reply, and by the Munici pal Council to inquire into the scholastic needs and capabili- then excused himself on the score of delicate health. ties of the settlement, but as their report fell flat , the Masonic Body, led by Other speeches, songs, and toasts filled up the remainder of the evening. Bro. Thorne and a few other public-spirited men, took the question in hand —Shanghai Mercury, July 3rd. raised money, established a school, the direct forerunner of the present Public School. Such is a very brief outline of the connection between Shanghai Masonry and the estimable gentleman who expects so soon THORNE AND THE FREEMASONRY OF SHANGHAI. to leave us, and BRO. C. to whom, in common with the whole community, Masonic and non-Masonic In our last night's issue we gave a short account of the presentation we offer our heartiest good wishes. To such a man as R.W. Bro. Thorne ceremonial and dinner given to Bro. Cornelius Thorne on the occasion of the teachings of Freemasonry were more than empty s,ound. Ceremony, his approaching departure from Shanghai. rite, and ritual are to such but externals, useful only as typifying those gran d Bro. Thome's connection with local Freemasonry is interwoven with princi ples which are ever the pride and the glory of the world-wide brother- every fibre of its history. In that admirable little book compiled by Bro. hood whom they bind together. •' By their fruits ye shall know F. M. Gratton , and recently re-edited by Bro. Drummond Hay, and them." Throughout history they have stood primarily for brotherly entitled " Freemasonry in Shanghai and Northern China," we find Bro. love, for charity, and truth , with the endless streams of good of which these Thome's name for the first time on p. 2. The date is 1856 , when though are the fountain Lead. Any one of the annual reports that are issued by only a four-year-old as regards Masonry, Bro. Thorne was apparently the thousands of Masonic institutions throughout the world will suffice to already Master of the Northern Lodge, a lodge which from that time to show the practical effect, of the charitable teaching which is a corner stone this has been second to none in the Far East for high-bred support of in Masonic princi ple. In Great Britain the Craft has long been honoured Masonic principles. We there find Bro. Thorne, as he then was, engaged by having the Heir Apparent as its Grand Master. Now that he has ' in the disposal of the first Masonic Hall , a " one storied structure, entered attained the Throne he has necessarily resigned this post, taking the more from a porch supported by Corinthian columns," and situated in thi Nanking- honorary rank of Patron. In the United States, the highest members of road , then known as Park-lane. Since that time, with the exception of a short the Commonwealth are enrolled in the lists of Freemasons. It is onl y in sojourn at home, Bro. Thorne has been intimately connected with the ups lands that are suffering from want of freedom either in church or state that and downs of the Craft in Shanghai. He has seen the erection of two we find Masonry under a cloud. We cannot go into the vexed question halls, that in the Canton Road still standing, but used for other purposes, why this should be. Possibly there are faults on both side?. Certain it is and from which the inscription stones were not removed till so recently as that the experience of England and America, and in a somewhat less emp hatic 1895, and the present building on the Bund which was ready for occupation degree, of Germany, shows that in Masonry we have a system which in 1867. Its foundation stone had been laid with great ceremony on the I' thinketh no evil, which rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth 3rd July, 1865, 36 years ago yesterday. There was a large assembly, the j in the truth ," and the inference is that if other Continental Masonry is Consular Body, the Munici pal Council , the Commissioner of Customs, the j comparable to that of the Anglo-Saxon type, there is something wrong with Volunteers, and many others being present. Amongst the various officers S the institutions that condemn it.—Shanghai Mercury, July 4th. CATALOGU E OF BOOK S AND MANUSCRIPTS In the Library of the Grand Lodge of England, WITH ADDITIONS TO TIIE END OE 1895.

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BEING AN ACCOUNT OF Commemo ration , Star and Garte r , Arbour-square , Commercial West Smithfield , City Scotch Stores , 27, Kni ghtrider-st., E.C. road , E., at 8. Whittington , Red Lion Poppin 's-court , Fleet-street , at 8, LODGES IN REGIMEN TS AND Hotel Kensington , at 8. nalhousie , Greyhoun d , _ _ Zodiac , Denmark Hotel , East Ham , at 8. SHIPS OF WAR Duke of Corn wall , Bristol Room , Manchester Hotel , Aldersgate- Andrew Chapter , Bush Hotel , Shepherd' s Bush , W., at 8. , street , B.C., at 7. Clapton Chapter , Amhurst Club , Rectory-road , N., at 8. Eleanor , Red Lion , High Road , Tottenham , at 8. Domatic Chapter , St. J ames's Restaurant , Piccadill y, W., at 8. BY Frkenwal d, Railway Hotel , Barking, at 7.45. Lewis Chapter , Fishmongers ' Arms Hotel , Wood Green , at 8. Fri ars , The White Horse , 94, White Horse-lane , Mile End-rd., E. Camden Mark Lodge , Earl Russell , Pancras-road , King ' s Cross 8. ROBERT FREKE GOULD _, o Hyde Park , Prince of Wales Hotel , Eastbourne-terr., Bishop ' s-rd., (Late 31st Foot , Barrister-at -Law), Paddingt on , at 8. THURSDAY , AUGUST 22. Wilton-roa d , Victoria , to PAST SENI O R G RAND DEAC O N OF ENGLAND , . I talia , Fumag alli' s Restaurant , 13, 9 House Committee Girl s' School at 4,30, Kingslan d, Cock Tave rn , Highbury, N., at 8.30. C HAPTER or I MPROVEMENT — Author of Ripon Weaver ' s Arms , London Wall , B.C., at 6.4s, Mar quess of , 1657, Aldersgate , Manchester Hotel , Aldersgate-street , at 6.30, " The History of Freemasonry, " Metr opolitan , Moorgate Tavern , 15, Finsbury-pavement , at 7.30. and other Works. Neptune, Gauden Hot el, Clapham , S.W., at 7.30. Looeuej. AND CHAPTIRS or I NSTRUCTION . Nort h Londo n Chapter , Cock Hotel , Highbury, at 8. , Ridler 's Hotel , Holborn , E.C., at 7. Burdett-Coutts, Swan Tavern , New Bethnal Green-road , at 8 Perse verance Burgoyne , Coach and Horses , , Clap ham-road , S.W., at Ouee n 's Westminster , Criterion , Piccadill y, at 8. 348 7.30. PUBLISHED BY , Frascati Restaurant , 3a, Oxford-street , at 8. Caxton , Car ^s, 265, Strand W.C , at 7. Reeent 's Park The Criterion Piccadilly, at 8. Roya l Arthur , Prince of Wales Hotel (opposite Wimble don Hall- Covent Garden , , GALE & POLDEN , LTD ., 2, AMEN-CORNHR , PATER - Station), at 8. Duke of Edinburgh , Eastern Hotel , East India Dock Rd., E., 7.30. way Greyhound Hotel Kensington-sq., W at 8. NOSTER ROW , LO NDON , E.C , Roya l Commemora tion , Railway Hotel , Putney, at 8. Earl' s Court , , „ 2 Pancras-road , s Cross , at 8. Elliot , Railway Hotel , Feltham. Rova l Savoy, Earl Russell , King' And Supp lied by Holbor n Restaurant , Holborn , at 7.30. Great City, Red Cross , Paternoster-square , at 7. Scots , High Cross , Red Lion , Hi gh-road , Tottenham , at 8 St. Jame s's Union , St. J ames's Restaurant (Piccadilly entrance) GEORGE KENNING , 16, G REAT QUEEN-STREET , ' Surrey Masonic Hall , Camberwell New-road. Hi ghgate , Falkland Arms , Falkland-road , N.W., at 8. St. Mark' s, L ONDON W.C. S\ Michae l's, Richmond Hotel , Shep herd' s Bush Road , W„ 8. Hornsey, White Hart Masonic Rooms , Lewisham , S.E., at 8 , S ncerity , Blackwall Railway Hotel , Fenchurch-street , at 7. Ivy, Half Moon & French Hora Hotel , East Hill , Wandsworth Norwood , (joat House Bridge Hotel , renge-rn., at ». at 8. South , AN EXACT REPRODU CTION Tyssen Amherst , Amherst Club , Amherat-rd., Rectory-rd., N..J.30 Justice. Brown Bear , High-street Deptford , at 8. elpton , Great Easte rn Hotel , Bishopsgate-street , at 8. Kent , King and Queen , Norton Folgate , at 8. OF THB Walthams tow, Cheque r 's Hotel , High-st „ Walthamstow , at 8. La France , Cafe Royal , Regent -street , at 8. Wellingto n , New Cross House , New Cross , at 8. Langton , Simpson 's Restaurant , Bird-in-Hand Court , EX., MACNAB MAS ONIC MS. Woodrow , Stone ' s, 14. Panton-street , Haymarket , S.W., at 3. at s.30. OF A.D. 1722 , "Th e Falkland ," Falkland-road , N.W., at 8. Leopold , Moorgate Tavern , Moorgate-street , E.G., at 7. Zetland , s Restaurant Piccadill at 8. Jorlc Chapter , Duke 's Head , 79, Whitechapel-road , at 6. Montefiore , St. J ames' , y, E DITED BY . swis Chapter , Fishmongers ' Arms Hotel. Wood Green , N., at 8 Priory, Berrymead Priory, Acton , at 8.15. Rose, Stirling Castle , Church-street , Camberwell. at 8. BRO. WILLIAM WATSON Roval Albert, White Hart Hotel , Abchurch-lane , at 7-30. (of Leeds) TUESDAY, AUGUST 20. Royal Alfred , Star and Garter , Kew Bridge , at 7.4s WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY Board of General Purposes , at S. St. J ohn' s, Court House , Harlesden , N.W., at7.30. St. J ohn 's, Queen Victoria Tavem , Eimouth-st ,, Stepney at 8. BRO. WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAN. C RAFT LODOI . St. Luke 's, Victoria Tavern , Gertrude-street , Chelsea, at 8. Stockwell , Surrey Masonic Hall. Sir Hug h My ddelton , Star and Garter , Upper-st., Islington , at 8 1339, Southern Star , Shi p Tavern , Kennington Road , S.E., at 8. ALSO BAFTJKI or INSTRUCTION . Locals AND C Temple. Upland Tavern, Crystal Palace-road. S.E., at 6. Reduced Facsimile ol portions ol the MS. Alfred Newton , Royal Pal ce Hote Kensington , at 8. Tranquillit y. Restaurant Frascati , Oxford-street , W„ at 8. linxton , Prince Regent , Dulwich-road , Heme Hill , S.E., at 8. Tredegar , The Cheshire Cheese, Crutched Friars , B.C., at 7.30. Union Waterloo , Earl of Chatham , Thomas-street , Woolwich . Dipper , City Arms , St. Mary Axe, at 6. London : G EORGE K CNNIN Q, ifi & 16A, Gt Queen-si. (Jlirence and Avondale, Green Man Hotel , Leytonstone , E., at 8 United Military, Star & Garter Hotel , Powis-st., Woolwich , at 8 constitutional , "App le Tree and Mitre ," 30, Cursitor-street , Highgate Chapter , Hornsey Wood Tavern , Seven Sisters-road , Chancery-lane , W.C , at 7. at 8.30. Kintore Mark lodge , Montpelier Arms , Choumert-road , Peckham FREEMASON'S HYMN. —THE Chaucer , Gra pes Tavern (Slee & Pike' s), DI , Borough High , MYSTIC TIE. Words and Music composed street , at 8. at 8.10. by Corinthian , Geoige Hotel , Cubitt Town , Pop lar , at 8. F. J . STEIN . Price is. 6d. nett. Croy don Lodge of Concord , King 's Arms , Katherine-street , FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. Croy don , at V. ' School , Dalhousie , Lord Iruro , Dalston-lane, at 8. Board of Management Boy s at 2.30. GEORGE KENNING , 16 & 16a Great Queen St., W.C. Egyptian , Salut tion , Newgate-street , at 7. Locaii AND C HAPTIRS or I NSTRUCTION . Kmbleraatic , St. (ames 's Restaurant , Piccadilly, at 8. Knlield , Rose an-< Crown , Church-street , Edmonton , at 8. Albion , Essex Head , Essex-street , Strand , at 7, fo? Sons Kicelsior , Fuma alli' s Restaurant , 12 and 13, Wilton-road , All Saints , Town Hall , Pop lar , at 7.30. DCQCMTriCOC- m ¦ QQ y°ur Victoria-station , S.W., at 8. Chough , Forest Hill H otel, Forest Hill , at 7.30. P and Daughters. Euphrates , Ve Old Greyhound , Balaam-street , Plaistow , E„ Citadel , Farlei gh Hotel , Amhurst-road , Stoke Newington , N at 7.30. Clapton , Great Eastern Hotel , Liverpool-street , E.C., at 7. Finsbury, The Bell Hotel , Old Bailey, at 7. Coborn , The George Inn , High-toad , South Woodford , at 8. PANTING MACHINES Florence Nightingale , M.H., William-street , Woolwich , ind and Crusaders, Northam pton Arms , 205, Goswe!l-rd., E.C , at 8.30. fill Tues., Earl of Carnarvon , Elgin Hotel , Ladbroke-grove , Notting-hill , 7 4th at 7.30. le ^ h -ndon . Railway Hotel . West Ham pstead , N.W., at 8. Earl of Zetland , Royal Edward Hotel , Triang , Hackney, at 7 COMPLETE OUTFIT Islington , Cock Tavern , Hi ghbury, at 7.30. Emulation , Freemasons ' Hall , at 6. %5& tfHrC loppa , "The Moorgate ," 15, Finsbury Pavement , E.G., at 7.30 Gavel Club , Freemasons ' Tavern , at 8. From ^3 • 3 :0 Kensington Harrow , Waterloo Arms, Hi gh-street , Marylebone , at 8. TKi&JrtSSSfeJt SllfilBllliPlirSsV The Printing Pros that will , Town Hall Tavern , High-street , Kensington , at 8 turningearn lut C08t m B are moments Kirby, Midland Grand Hotel , St. Pancras Station , at 7.30. Henley, Three Crowns , North Woolwich , at 8. sw3(-lSBaNSllffi ;JKsSb ^* P , Hugh Owen , Restaurant Frascati , Oxford-street , at 7.30. ¦n^K^^ SIsV ^KMBT anout good work , and Mount Edgcumbe , Rockingham Arms , Newington Causeway JVfiRKS& ^MK sltstT creating industrial appetite S.E.,at 7.30. Kennington , Horns Tavern , Kennington Park , S.E., at 8. 3f MBBex&mbiiE&r in your youngsters. Beaut ). Nelson, Sur and Garter , Fowls-street , Woolwich , at 8. Lewis, Fishmonger 's Arms Hotel. Wood Green , N„ at 8. VtomPfjggH !fB&& £S/jl- J£ K fully finished and of great Lewisham , White Hart , Lewisham , S.E., at 8. BHv!3ii»i3n wSS3S5 ^J i3|jt strength , at n price charged by New Cross . Kernbles ' Head. Lone Acre. W.C. at 8. XmOfSj ac} *•.-:A~<>*&^Zff i j2a other Finns for Toys. Descrip- New F'.nsbary Park , Hornsey Wood Tav., Finsbury Park . Loyalty, Private Rooms, oi , Church-st., Stoke Newington , at 8 tive lists, tully Illustrated , sent Pythagorea n, Portland Hotel , Greenwich ,at 8. Metropolitan (Victoria ), Mail Coach , 60, Farring don-street , at 7 —H for TWO STAMPS by the Richmond , Ihe Freemasons ' Club , Richmond , at 8.30. Ranelagh , Six Bells, Queen-street , Hammersmith , W., at 8 Robert Burns , Frascati Restaurant, Oxford-street , W. Royal Standard , Castle Tavern , 81, Holloway-road , at 8. EXCELSIOR PRINTING MACHINE Co., Hose of Den mark , Brunswick House , Wandsworth-road , at 8. St. James's, Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-road , S.E., ai 8. 66, Hatton Oa vden , Iiondon , B.C., South Middl esex, Beaufort House , Walham Green , S.W., at7.30 Savage Club , Savage Club , Adeiphi-terrace , at ll. St. Kew , Masonic Hall ' Selwyn, Montpelier Tave rn , Choumert-road , Peckham , »t 8. GRADUAL PAYMENTS JF DESIRE D. , Weston-super-Mare , at 8. ' St. Leonard' s, Bedford Hotel . Victoria Park-road , South Stability, Masons ' Hall Tavern , Masons -avenue , at 6. Hackney, at 8. Stanhope , Fox and Hounds Hotel , Upper Richmond-road , Strand , The Salisbury, & Strand at Putney, at 8.30. 91 92 , 7. Walhrook at 8. PLATES o tockw ell, Callingham 's Restaurant , 94, Cannon-st., E.C , at 6. Stuart , The Deacon ' s, , City, BRASS victori a Park , George Hotel , Stratford , E., at 7.30. Temperance, Railway Tavern , New cross-road , at 8. Southw ark , White Hart Hotel , New Cross Gate , at 8. The Abbey, The Town Hall , Westminster , 7.30 till g.30. AND United Pilgrims , Surrey M.H., Camberwell New-road , at STENCILS Wands worth , St. Mark' s School-room, Battersea Rise, S.W. at 8 7.30. EnjvaveFi Signs Sc ! of Westmi nster , Cafe Royal , " B" Room , at 8. OINTMENT Y r mont ROYAL A RCB C HAPTI RS . rvt L ' NevWand' s Hotel , Peckham Rye, at 8. ^jJs&5Bh&' ^^^ S ^mm ^sS ^ HAV E BEEN USED . e-onnd ence, Bunch of Grapes , 14. Llme-street , E.C . at 7. 1185, Lewis , Holborn Restauran t. tel, Shepherd » Bu8h W » at8 1623, West Smithlk'ld , Anderton ' s Hotel. Their efficacy is marvellous. Thoy hiwo cured numbers of cases crouC onrh ch VEndJ , ChrisA° t - ' Church Schoolroom , Edison-road , Crouch LODOIS AND CHAPTIRS or I NSTRUCTION . whero even lifo lifts l>eon despaired of by our clover Specialists . knd . at 8.30. ULCERS , ABSCESSES , TUMOURS , POLYPUSES , Bad y A," croft Midland G/an d Hotel , at 8. Alexandra Palace , Station Hotel , Camberwell News-road , at 7.51 Legs, Old and Poisoned Wounds (including Dog and other D«?, M or ' Hammermith Dnk ' ° B!"e Tavern .Moorgate-stieet , at 8. Chiswick , Windsor Cast le Hot., King-st., , at 7.30 Bites), and every form ot Eruption and Skin Disease, Eczema , C° nau 8>>*. Royal Edw ard Hotel , Triangle , Hackney,if 8 Duke of Connaug ht , The Windsor Castle , 135, LowerClapton-rd Ringworm , &c , effectuall y cured by BURGESS ' HON c-arlK a ,i Ot„? Lathnm.i u .ts.t.ln.. n > ..- II ,.,_... ¦ a R ,,.., r* —-••"»•» oi*uuij T-lavcrn , C/amoerweJi new-roan , &.&..^ 0 at 8. OINTMENT and PILLS. A™ " Hotel , St. John 's Wood , at8. Ebury, The Rocking ham , Newington Causeway, at 8. tUliltJy, 'r They aro also tho most speedy and effectual remedies for ;;„ CaBtl Hotel » 8, > Holloway-road , N., at 8. Eccleston , 12 and 13, Wilton-road , S.W., at 7.30. Coughs Colds Bronchitis Asthma , Rheumatism , Lumbago Gan y, Dre ClubJ. Rutland Hotel , Perry Hill , Catford , at 8. , , , , Guel Dh " Wine Offlce-court , F.'eet-street , at 7. Evening Star , and ovcry complaint whero there is acute inflammation , Pi u d' Harfo w Finsbury Park, Cock Tavern , at 8. Hamm " ?}f.? ' Leytonstone-road , E„ at 8. reducing same in a remarkabl y short space of time. A boon to m"t' wy«>ml>e House , a6 , Hammersmith-rd., King Harold , Four Swans , Waltham Cross , at 7. Lan ^SJ 1 3 7.45. every household for Cuts , Burns , Scalds , Ac. Sold separately, " AS*e' Hotd Utord at 8. Manchester , Waterloo Arms , High-street , Mary lebone, at 8. La ffi " ' , > . ls. lid., 2s. Od., 4s. Od., lis., and 22s. per box , by all ce, r ?a, l.Re»tauran t 3». Oxford-street , at 8. Star , New Cross House , Deptford , S.E., at 7. Und«w.b rou fn . CriterionS Duke of Albany Hotel , Kitto-road , St. Katherlne ' chemists. Advico gratis. LondonI «£S? S K , Piccadilly, at B. Vitruvian , i Scottish Rifles, Albert Hotel , VIctorlMtreet , S.W., 8.30 park , Hatcham , S.E,, at 7.30. i E. BURGESS , 59, GRAY'S INN ROAD , LONDO N , W.Q BRO. HENNIKER _ HEATO N, M.P., suggests that it would be an improvement if every official at St. Martin 's-le-Grand had a preliminary two years' business training in flftasonfc anb General ZCtbfnas. a City shop. BRO. DR. WYNN WESTCOTT, H.M. coroner for N.E. London , is among the BRO. J. MORRISON McLEOD has been elected a Liveryman of the Glovers latest victims to the mosquito scourge. Both his hands have been badly bitten , the left Company. hand being much swollen and painful. BRO. V. I. R. LONGMAN , C.C, is spending the vacation at Melto n Constable. THE EFFORTS of the Worship ful Company of Plumbers to improve the technical knowledge and skill of the working members of the craft have met with BRO. SIR HENRY HARBEN has been appointed the hon. colonel of the ist most Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). encouraging success. At the recent examinations held in London and the chief pro - Cadet Battalion of the vincial centres upwards of 400 candidates were exam ;ned. BRO. ARCHDEACON SINCLAIR says he rarely finds that sufficient attention is Perhaps this is one of the reasons, he adds, why A PAINTED-GLASS WINDOW in memory of the late Duke of Westminster paid to the ventilation of churches. has been placed by the parishioners of St. George 's, Hanover-square people so often go to sleep in church. , in St. Mary 's Church , Bourdon-street , Berkeley-square , which was erected 20 years ago by the late THE DIRECTORS of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation (Limited) Duke of Westminster as a chapel of ease to the mother church . The subject of the have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum. The interim window is Christ blessing children. dividend a year ago was at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum only. IN WELL-INFORMED QUARTERS it is rumoured that the visit of the Crown KING'S YACHT.—His Majesty 's new yacht, Victoria and Albert , left Portsmouth Prince of Germany is not unconnected with the desire of his Imperial Highness to on the 14th instant for Gibraltar, in order to subject the vessel and her boilers and discover whether his feelings towards one of the daughters of Bro. the Duke of machinery to a series of very severe tests. Commodore the Hon. H. Lambton was in Connaught finds a response. Every good wish fro m the people of this country svill command. accompany the Prince in his suit. COAL PRODUCTION.—The production ot coal in the United Kingdom in 1900 THE REMAINS OF SIGNOR CRISPI arrived at Palermo on the 15th instant was 225, 181,000 tons, valued at £121,653,000. The output in Belgium was 23,352.°°° on board the steamer Varese . The event was the occasion of a great popular mani- tons, in France 32,587,000 tons, in Germany 109, 225,000 tons, and in the United States festation. During the passage of the funeral car many flowers were thrown from the 245,422,000 tons. windows along the route. The coffin was taken from the carriage, and placed in the church'known as the Albergo delle Povere, while bands played , TOURISTS who intend spending their holidays at Cromer or in the neighbourhood the soldiers presented Great Eastern Railway 's Company 's new arms, and all present uncovered their heads. The scene was very solemn and im- would do well to procure a copy of the posing. booklet, forming an annotated time-table to the London and Cromeriexpress service, which has just been issued by the company at their publishing office, No. 30, Fleet-street, ON VVEDNESDAY , the 14th instant , Bro. the Earl of Warwick (Lord-Lieutenant E.C. of Essex) attended a public gathering at the Drill Hall , Brentwood , and presented suitably inscribed silver watches, provided by public subscri ption , lo 20 ON THE 14th instant, in the presence of a vast assembly of spectators, soldiers, Volunteers of Dundonald opened the new rifle ranges on the Morfa belonging to Brentwood and the vicinity, who have returned from active service in and civilians, the Countess South Africa. Seven of the recipients joined the C.I.V.'s, 12 were members of camping ground, Conway. Lord Cochrane fired the first shot with a L»e-Metford and the cheering. The M iyor of Conway, Alderman Hugh Essex Volunteers Active Service Company, and one served with the Imperial Yeomanry . scored a bull's-eye, amid great Major Rasch, M.P. for the division , was present. Hughes, presented the Countess with a beautiful album containing an address of welcome. SIR THOMAS LIPTON left Liverpool on the Teutonic on the 14th instant for THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT is expected to leave Ireland very shortly for New York , to watch his yacht race for the America Cup. The owner of the Shamrock Germany in order to witness the autumn mancKuvres of the German Army. He will was accorded an enthusiastic organised farewell , both at Southgate, his Hertfordshire be accompanied in all probability by Prince Arthur , and will proceed to Marienbad , home, and at Euston Station. ' At the latter place Sir Thomas told a correspondent where he will be the guest of the Kaiser. Bro. Lord Roberts has also accepted the experts had assured him that the old challenger had in recent trials shown herself at invitation of the Emperor to be present. The Duchess of Connaught will , in the least eight minutes faster than she was at any time during the races, while Shamrock meantime, pay a visit to her mother, Princess Frederick Charles of Prussia , at Mii.'litz. II. had proved herself nine minutes quicker than her sister. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. —The King has been FOR SICK CHILDREN.—The East London Hospital for Children , Shadwell , is pleased to sanction the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Order of the appealing for a sum of ^20,000, which is urgently required for extensions. The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England : of Grace : Colonel Bordrigge following new buildings are needed , ac many cases have to be turned away every North North (from Esquire) ; Sir John Alexander Cockburn , K.C.M.G. (from week on account of the want of accommodation in the hospital : New mortuary and Honorary Associate); Mr. John Brown, L.R.C.P. (from Honorary Associate) ; and laundry, £2500 ; new kitchen , casualty department , accommodation for staff , £11,000 ; Ccl. Arthur Montagu Brookfield , M.P. Ladies of Grace : Miss Henrietta Wedgwood a ward of 12 beds for whooping cough , and new wards with 20 beds for general cases, Mrs. Temple. (from Honorary Associate) and Agnes Fanny, £6500. The number of patients app ly ing for relief has increased from 6S73 in 1877 to FISH UNFIT FOR FOOD.—During last month the officers of the Fishmongers ' 35,000 last year; while the number of beds has only increased by 17. food tons cwts. of fish at Billingsgate Company condemned as unfit for human 197 9 BURNS' RELI CS.—The trustees of Burns' cottage Market , representing one ton in about S3 tons; one ton 15 cwts. at Shadwell , representing , museum , and monument at Farringdon Market. The weight of fish Alloway, near Ayr, have just acquired a number of MSS. for the museum. The docu- one ton in about 109 tons ; and two cwts. at ments, which are eight in number, and all in the handwriting of delivered during July at and near Billingsgate Market was 16,348 tons , of which 12 ,252 the ooet, have been purchased for£400. Chief among these writings is a copy of " Hol y Willie's Prayer , tons arrived by land and 409(1 tons were delivered by water; and at Shadwell the tota I '" quantity returned as condemned incribed on all four pages of a double sheet of paper 8 inches or 9 inches square. It is delivery was 191 tons by land. Fifty-five tons of the interesting as having the motto from Pope, were immature plaice and whiting too smal l for sale on a glutted market. " And sent the godl y in a pet to pray." Among several other objects of interest recentl y acquired by the trustees are three THE MEMORIAL over the grave of " Chicago Smith ," whose death , it will be panes of glass from the Globe Hotel , Dumfries, on which Burns had scratched some remembered enriched Ihe British Exchequer to nearly a million pounds sterling, is a characteristic verses with a diamond. cemetery near Elgin. A massive semi-Corinthian unique feature in the beautiful THE FOLLOWING is a list of the wreaths sent b structure of Aberdee n granite, and weig hing many tons, the monument covers a y various lodges at thc funeral square. On one side of the slab, underneath the canopy, supported of the late Bro. the Right Hon. W. VV. B. Beach , M.P., for which we are indebted to number of yards the undertaker , Bro. W. Carnon : Province of Hints and Isle of by four ornate pillars , arc inscribed the simple words : "In Memoriam. George Wight. Supreme Chicago. Born at Millhill , Old Deer, i oth Feb., 1S03 ; Died at Grand Chapter R.A., Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons , Rival M asonic Institu 'in Smith, Banker in for Boys, East Medina Lodge, No. ; Provincial Grand London , 7th October, 1S99." 175 Mark Lodge, Hants and Isle of Wight; Boscombe Lodge, No. 215S ; Albert Edward , No. 1780 ; St. Hubert , SUCCESS OF THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION. -The attendance at the Glas- No. 1373 ; St. Clair , No. 2074 ; Royal Gloucester, No. 15,; Medina , No. 35; gow Exhibition on Saturday was 69,854, and the money taken amounted to £1535. In Lod ge of Economy, No. 76; Camp Lodgo, No. 1331 ; Oakley, No. 6yi; Aldershot the three months the Exhibition has been open the aggregate attendance has almost Army and Navy, No. 1971. months total of the iSSS Exhibition , the exact figures b:\nf 5,106,111, equalled the six ' LADY WARWICK ON EDUCATION.—The Countess as compared with 5,748, 179. A compariso n of attendances and takings for the Bank of Warwick on Wednes- interesting. Thirteen years ago people passed the turnstiles day entertained a party of visitors from the Oxford University Extensio 1 Summer Holiday week is 255,045 , School at Warwick Castle. In the course of an address, and £6050 was realised ; while last week the attendance totalled 43S 410, and th; cash she urged the Universities to The latter figures dj not include coupons or steamboat bridge the gulf that lay between them and the mass of the people. She wished more taken amounted to £8343. of the working classes partici pated in such tickets. gatherings, for the University Extension Movement was intended to reach the people, of whom , she feared , the movement did THE FACT that England and France are neighbours, writes Bro. the Rev. J. not now touch the great mass. The Universities would never reach the democracy Stephen Barras?, ihe Rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, ought to ensure the two countries until teachinc in elementary schools was much imnroved. Here ili.«r».i ii.;.,..c;i;.r living peaceably side by side. " That this is recognised by the Governments of our ought to step in and make their voices heard in demanding first that teachers in ele- respective countries is evident ," he adds, " and the sooner it is recognised by the people mentary schools should have a thoroughly liberal education , as well as high technical and the Press the better will it be for all concerned. Whilst it is true that we are training, the training colleges being affiliated to the Universities. Secondly, they should France's best customer, it is also ttue that France can serve us as no other country can. urge upon the ruling powers the necessity of providing a really sound system of national If this were not so our trade would have gone elsewhere long ago. Very well ! what education , which should bring not only our present very inferior primary, but also the happens.' That we are interdependent; that any rupture in relations would produce best secondary, higher, and even University education within the reach of every mutual discomfort , unhapp iness, dismay. What follows but that no effort must be working man 's child. Lecturers had something to learn from thoie whoss alin-.t m iter spaied to produce friendly relations? Where difficulties arise they should be faced and was poverty. discussed in a friendly way—of course, with mutual friend'hsss. Such a course would ccmmend itself to the commonscnse of both England and France."— City Press. THE " ALFRED JEWEL."—The fo'lowing letter to the Editor of the Times, by Sir George Birdwood, on the famous " Alfred Jewel " in the Ashmolean Museum , THE LATE BRO. SAMUEL POP E'S WILL, Oxford , which holds so important a position in the history of ancient jewellery and enamelling, is taken from the issue of the 51b instant : Quite apart from the question whether the prognathic basal extension of the "Alfred Jewel " was ' intended to repre- £74.000 IN TESTAMENT. sent the snout of a boar or a fish , every one familiar with the ph y lacteric talismany of the regal helmets of the Chinese and Indian Tartars will be prepared to accept Professor The will bears date 25th March , 1899, with a codicil of the 3rd June iSoi Earle's explanation of the jewe l as a significant ad junct and aljavait of a "Cynehelm " of Bro. Samuel Pope, of 74, Ashley gardens, K.C, J.P., and D.L., Recorder of of , er about, the time of Alfred the Great. It closely resembles the turn worn on their Bolton , who died on the 22nd ult., aged 74 years , son of the late Mr Samuel regal helmets and turbans by lhe " Mo(n)gol Emperors " of India. The word torn Pope and of Phu be, daug hter of Mr. William Rushton , of Liverpool. The late means literall y " a forelock. " " a curl ," " a let ; " and hence " a plume," " a Bro. Samuel Pope's estate has been valued at 024 18s and metaphorically " the cream (of anything) ; while the torn £74, . 6d. It was his desire crest," " a tassel ; " " to be buried at Llanbedr, in the same grave as his late wife, and he benueathed ol the Tartar regal helmet, as worn by the " Emperors of Delhi" and their higher in trust for the lacteric jewel of gold set with precious stones £100 purpose of keep ing the grave in order. He confirmed the efficers, was a phy , fashioned as a variant ift to the Rector of Llanbedr of the of the " knopand Itawer " pattern , of which 1 have wntten at length in the last chapter g Star Inn , now kno.v n as the " Artro " Work- of "The Industrial Arts of India." The base of the jewel represents an expanded men 's Club, and the premises are to be in trust for use as a reading-room for the lotus flower of , usually, 12 petals, and the apex a lotus bud , modelled flit , with a II im- inhabitants of the village of Llanbedr. Bro. Pope was chairm an of the English boyant edging of gold, irradiated with diamonds. The back of both the 11 jwer and the Association of American Bond and Shareholders , and a director of the South bud are always decorated , in p raved work , or enamel , with a conventional representa- African Territories , Limited. He bequeathed to Mr . Charles Henry Mason of tion of Ihe " Tree of Life. " It is the " Tree of Life," in its lil y form , that is engraved 36, Holland Pa rk , and Mr. Frederick Walker, of OS, Coleman-street , "Alfred Jewel ," and this at once suggests its Oriental inspiration solicitors on the back of the , the executors of his will , £500 each ; to his clerk , Charles Taylor Barlow , £2000 ; and it is evidently but another variant of the lotus-knop of Egyptian , Assyrian , to his servants of years' , 15 service £500 each ; to his niece , Minaret Bury, Buddhistic , and Arab art. Of course no Oriental understanding the symbolism of the £1000 ; to his niece Elizabeth jewel would have :o draughted the decorations thereon that it had to be worn on the , Bury, his cat's eye stud , his portrait as Q.C , by "Cynehelm " upside down—that is, with the broad end of the " knop " upward and Percy, and his household effects ; and to his nephew , Samuel Pope , the portraits the pointed end downward—in utter violation of all the principles of talismanic of his father and grandfather . The testator leaves the: residue of his property in " signature. " trust as to two-sixths thereof for his said niece, Elizabeth Bury, as to two-sixth s ANGLO-INDIANS AND OTHERS seeking genuine Indian-manufactured for his niece, Florence Maud Wright, as to one-sixth for his niece and nephews, condiments, currie stuffs, chutnees, preserves , pc/ppidums , Bombay ducks, Nepaul Pherbe and Samuel and William Rushton Pope absolutel y, but with the intenti on pepper, Sic, send to the original firm. C. Stcmbridge and Co., iS, Green-street , that they shall provide for their mother, Mrs. Janet Pope, and the remaining one- Leicester-square, London; and Calcutta, Established 'S21. Write for price ljst. sixth in trust for his nieces, the daug hters of his sister , Mrs. Phu'be Lankcster, (Removed from 33, Leicester-square). •ibsolutely, but with tbe intention that they nlso shall provide for their mother.