The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

WITH T!IE " TRUE SUN,' IS 7-,-OW INCORPORATED.

y •
..,.
~:., I
1,f.;, ..y.,:".„,
..,,-.,.
- i
. 14..
. _.
...
... !,,, .t

No. 14,367.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE aid DEFERRED ANNUITY SOCIETY.
2E, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital, 500,0001.
PAWN—His Grate the DUKE of SOMERSET, F. R.S.

WHITE HART HOTEL, LEICESTER.
IF; D D WAGHORN, in again offerinz.. his
sincere thanks to his Commercial Friends and the Public
for their past favours, wishes at the same time to impress upon
them (in contrldiction to a circulated report) that ho is NOT
about to LEAVE tho WHITE HART HOTEL, but assures
them that he will continue to study their comfort and accommoda-
tion by a careful attention to well-aired Beds, and Superior Wines,
also excellent Stabling.
September, 1838.

DIRUCTORS.
T. LAMM MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
Col. Sir Barges Camae, K. C. S. George Lungley, Esq.
John Elliotson, M.D. F. R.S. Kenneth Mackenzie, Esq.
C. Farebrother, Esq., Aid. John Rawson, Esq.
H. Gordon, Esq. I.J•seph Thommon, Esq.
Robert Holland, Esq., M.P. I
PHYSICIAN—J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street.
SOROZ•N—E. S. Symes, Esq.. 3111, Hill-street, Berkeley-square.
ACTUARY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R.A.S.
By the new principles of Life Assurance in this Society many
essential advantages, besides that of securing a provision for a
family, or for old age, are gained by the Assured, and thereby
a vastly increased value is given to each policy effected with the
Society.

DRESS COATS, cut in the first style of Fashion,
sos. ; superfine, 40s. to 50s. ; frock coats, silk facings,
38s. and 475. ; superfine silk velvet collar and silk facings, 50s. ;
trousers, 6s. 6d. to 12s. Od. ; buckskin, cloth, and kerseymere, lbs.
to 251. ; &lacy waistcoats, ss. 6d. to 12s. 6d. ; rich silk ditto, cloth,
and kersymere, 7s. to 12s. 6d. ; Petersham great coats, 251. and
30s. ; pilot -coats, 165., 211., and 30s. ; shooting jackets, 18s, ;
dressing-gowns, 102. 6d. ; boys' and youths' clothing; cloth tunie
dress', 30s. to 425.
A Suit of Clothes, 21.175. ; Superfine Black V. Ss.
At FISHER and Co.'s, Tailors, 31, King William-street, City,
ten doors from London-bridge.

SPECIMEN OF ANNUAL PREMIUMS TO INSURE £I" O.

LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED,
WITHOUT SPRINGS, CLASPS, OR WIRES,
LOOSE TEETH FASTENED,
And Filling Decayed Teeth

• WITH MINERAL Al ARMORATUM.
itIONSIEUR LE DRAY and Co., SUR_
Alt GEON-DENTISTS, No. 60, NEWMAN-STREET,
OXFORD-STREET, continue to RESTO RF. DECAYED TEETH with
heir celebrated MINERAL NIAR.SIORATUM, applied without PAIN,
HEAT, or PRESSURE,' which in a few seconds HARDENS INTO
ENAMEL, PREVENTING and CURING the TOOTHACHE, allay_
ing in one minute the most excruciating PAIN, and rendering the
OPERATION of EXTRACTION UNNECESSARY. They also
FA •tTEN LOOSE '1 EETH, whether arising from neglect, the use of
Calomel, or Disease of the Gums INCORRODIIILE ARTIFICIAL
or NATURAL TEETH of SURPASSING BEAUTY. FIXED, trom
ONE to a COMPLETE ,ET, without EX*I•R 9 CTI NG the ROOTS,
or GIVING any PAIN, the E NCU M BR ANCE of SPRINGS, CL ASPS,
'JIRES, or any other LIGATURE, at the following PARIS
CHARGES:
A Single Artificial T00th...... .£l 10 0
A Complete Set
'• A Complete Set of Natural Teeth, on fine gold -
15 0 0
plate
An entire Set of Natural or Terro
Teeth, nighly finished, in the first styi.t, with
fine gold sockets, usually charged 4., guineas 20 0 0
Arranged on the most improved and scientific principles, and in every
case restoring perfect ARTICULATION and MASTICATION. Arti-
ficial Teeth out of repair, remodelled to fit themouth, and restored equal in
bireauty and durability to their original state.
At hone from Ten till ?'our.—N. B. No. fu, Newman-street, Oxford
tsreft.

THE MARKETS.

PRICE OF
fhe highest price of Bread in the:7
A Jod Bread may be had at Sd.
inucE OF SEEDS.-Sept. '25.
Per Cwt. . Per Quarter.
New Fmllish Red Cloversos. WI. ,It St. Foin 40. 443 4>55014 Ditto Ditto -8. -3. -s Bye Grass 205 305.45.
3
New Foreign Ditto ...... 4Ss. 655. '7la 7'.,ccy Grass s 42;. 4?s,
Oki Ditto Ditto s. 403. COs. Linseed, for feeding ...403 541 s
New White Clover ' Os. 6.15. 70s. Ditto, for Awing
OW Ditto Ditto -a 453. COs Ditto, Cur crushing s 42, 465.
her Trefoil l3: 20s. ii2s s Canary s 6:NsO, 7
460.
11g.
011 Ditto -s. 12s. ‘.l'o: Hemi
frefolitim. lOs. Ls. 14s Per Bushel.
P7s4lish Carraway ...... ...-s. 40s. 46: White Mustard Bushey. ^
0:. ( d.
Fanign Ditto -s 403. 455 Brown Ditto ......... RA. (M. N. Pd.
Coriander -s 10, 12; f area ................... 4s M. Os Ccl.
Rapeseed, Eugh,l.: One :per La5i.11.34,46.!. ...... fore g 9 3d.. 31:.
PRICES OF 11OM-S:IA 21.
Farnham Pockets (per cwi.).. ....... ... Ot Cs. 71 Os. to S/ Os.
East K..ni Pockets.
Ditto Bags.. . - 0 •
Mid Kent Pocket;
Ditto Bags n` U. 0,0, to 0 03.
Sussex
earl:ngs ti. Os. 21. 101 toll. l'Y
Y
Old Old ill C. li. W. to 2.. l',.
s
Old Duty estimated at 135,000/.
PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPI'l'A LFIEI,DS
Ware Ws. Id. to 6 apar ton.
355. ed. to 403. O.

ftftEAD.
detropolis is 10d. for the 41b. Lcat.

Middling
Chata Os tld. to 111 s. Od.
PRICES OF LEATHER.
Per lb. d. to d. i Per lb d. to d.
Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b each 11 13 1 Horse Hides, German ...... 10 21
-- ---1,0 50 ......... 12 151 ---- Spznish ..... k 2 21
50 60 ......... 13 t. 7 ' OalfSkins,3o to 401b.(doz )..
14 IS
40 in..........,* :5 ‘,3
~ •. r,

dull Hides
Butts, Vitriol -—5 O 6(` ............ • , • -
English - 70 lil,' ............ *l5 19
Foreign ....
Foreign Hides lO 12 !------- sinall ............... 0 -1
0: esing Hides
Shaved .... 12 14 1 Basils... ........................... 6 1'
- 8
6-24 Saddlers El 'es -
li 16 ! Bellies ........................... ?,
florae Hides, English
• If rounded 2d. to W per lb more
PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sib.
Prico of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) ...... ... ......... 3i. 11
PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP,' kc per 1121 b
Town Tallow ...6 Is,:
553. 6<l Yellow Soap ... ...... ... ...... • ~,,
Yellow Russia • 55s Od. Mottled ......................... —s '„:
Whi. —s. M. Curd .............................. —• ' "
The price of good Storreit(7l3nEdi
Roap Ditto
..,—r.: s (id. Gvet .......................... • 6 al.
l.
Melting Stuff . —s Od Good Dregs ................... s'
Ditto Rough ERs. OA
Candles, per dozen, 78 6d. ; inferior, Cs. 6.1 —Monlz.:s,
Sixpence per dozen discount !hr ca: h.
OesFirCtAheNlDlelt'ar:ilsS. %ors is as folio v.s t--

,COAL MARV
1=1:n Ton. & .t.
A.,:zir's l9 0
Leare's Main
'rd's Redlittglt
Original Wlrn'sor Potittlt 20 0
Atts,e.ll's Hizh Main
Slutlt TA,lfiold
ftni'eld Moor 22 0 .
Walls End Bell and Brtown
Wills End lleatim ‘,2 G .
Walls End Hilda ..., ..... ~..
Walls End Hotspur
Walls End Killintworth
Walls ElO4 Ntwmatch.
Walls End N-,thittub,rla...,l :2l fi
‘V:ills End Per'.ins
W. 411.8 End iced: irs
Walls End Braddylll, Helton 23 8
Walls End Hasa ell , ..... ....... -13 9
Walls End Hetton 2l 0
81f.pi arrived sinc:

cl•.—Sept. =•I.
cer Ten g ?
Wars r.nd Lyons... ............. t:2 .1
tvoili Eri..! 4 rg.robt...o ....••••••• 'll 0
t.',,:is E:r.,l Pgrabcr on .. ... :. .. it ,
V.II i.;ii 1 ;:ussel's :e1 ton_ '23 V
W.
-:.,•ali, 1...,•..i ,tpw.lf ..? ..... ... t.l II
Dixon'i Ilutt..o-.1•nowl .... ..... lq 0
'2ll '.
Wall:: En Ad laiciv ............
‘V_Es End Ear, ett. .............. ',.`.1 II
Nvals End Barrington Tce.s... '2O
NV•illg, End Clareocm Tees ....• `2O t 3
". 2 4 Efhl (40r0,,,, ............... .2! e
1".,-.11. End s:cutli D.o.tvoo ... '22 3
Wails End Victoria Tees ...... '"2 l•
''i alg Ed Ai Tees ............... . • '2.2, 0
Eraii.p"on Main .................. . I i
~
Howard's Netherton Main ... 8 n"
•iliz,tono Wi150n..... ..., .... 11 ''
Wa!ls End Elgin..-.... ........... LA)
last raarlt•nt-dny. 27.

LON DON TUESDAY EVEri ING, SEPT_VMBER 2,5, 1838.
en,it=mmmaamm

WARWICKSHIRE
MEET ING GREAT;MASONIC

(From the Royal Leamington Spa Courier.)
The Officers of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Warwick-
shire held their annual meeting at the Castle Inn, Nuneaton,
on Wednesday last, which was numerously attended by the
highly respectable members of the fraternity resident in
Coventry, Birmingham, Leamington, Warwie‘k, and many
other places within the district. The Brethren were pre-
sided over by Brother N. L. Torre, D. P. G. M., and it was a
source of peculiar gratification to all assembled, to find that
venerable and exemplary Minister of the Established Church
—the Rev. F. Palmer—discharging the duties of P. G. C.,
with all the zeal and fervour cf his earlier days; for where-
ever its meetings are so characterised, it is another practical
proof of the tendency of the Craft to induce " a I+Zve of
virtue, generosity, and philanthropy in its most extended

sense."
After a variety of business was transacted connected with
this Province, dinner was announced at half-past four, and
was served up in a style which reflected great credit on the
landlady. The meeting was marked with that order, preci-
sion, and regularity which are ever leaning characteristics of
masonry, and which never fail to produce social harmony and
fraternal 'fellowship. In the East sat the R. W. D. P. G. M. ;
in the West, Brother Douglas, who officiated as S. W. ;
in
ehe South, Brother Davis (of Coventry), J. W. ; on the right
of the chair sat the Rev. F. Palmer, P. G. C. ; and on the
left Brother Northhouse, P. M. , from London.
After the removal of the cloth " The health of a mason's
daughter—her gracious Majesty the Queen," was drank with
tremendous applause. " His Royal Highness the Duke of
SMSeX. Grand Master of the Masons," was given with the
full masonic bonows, which were not omitted when the
brethren of the " mystic tie" pledged a bumper " to the
health of Earl Ferrer!, P. G. M. for this county."
The D. P.G. M. rose and introduced " The Health of our
Rev. Brother Francis Palmer," whom he eulogized as a Ma-
son of long standing and unwearied zeal. The toast having
bees drank with the accustomed honours, the Rev. Gentle-
man, in very brief terms, acknowledged the warm reception
given to it, and expressed his desire to assist the cause of Ma-
sonry ie general, but more particularly in the Province where
he had so long held an important office.
The S. W. next addressed the Brethren, in proposing " the
health of the D. P. G. M.," of whose anxiety to uphold the
high character which the Craft had ever maintained, as well
as his desire to see its genuine principles become more widely
known and appreciated by liberal-minded and educated men—
no one, who had witnessed his efforts, could entertain a doubt.
The toast having been drunk with Masonic honours,
The R. W. CHAIRMAN concisely returned thanks, express-
ing his attachment to Masonry—his earnest hope that in this
Province more particularly, an unexampled degree of success
would attend the exertions of those who sought to advance its
Christian and philanthropic objects; and concluded his re-
marks, by stating that there was a Brother present on that
occasion, to whose observations upon the origin and advan-
tages of Masonry they would all, doubtless, listen with more
then ordinary interest. He would propose " the health of
Brother Northhouse, P. M., and success to the Freemasons'
and General Life Insurance Company."—( Drank with
honours.)
Brother NORTHIIOUSE, P.M., and Parliamentary Agent;
expressed his obligations to the Provincial Grand Lodge for
the honour done him, which he was not so vain as to imagine
arose from any merits of his own, but from his professional
connexion with the institution associated with his name.
He had been requested by the R.W.D. P. G. M. to express
his views of the character and objects of masonry, and the
way in which the Insurance Company might be made con-
ducive to its advancement. The former was no trivial task,
surrounded as masonry was with the halo of many ages—its
early history hid in the deep shadows of remote antiquity—
adorned as it had been by names the most illustrious, and
science the most profound—seeking as it did the formation
of a great community of all nations, tongues, and people,
with a language common to all—symbols understood by
all, and one great object felt and acted upon by all—glory
to the Great Architect in the highest, and on earth brotherly
love to the craft, of whatever country, complexion, or condi-
tion.—(Masonic cheers.) There were lour distinguishing
characteristics of masonry. The first was its wonderful an-
tiquity. Who can date its commencement ? who can se.
at such a period no indications of masonry were extant"?
Shall we go to the Aborigines of our own country ? There,
among the Druids,' in the ornaments of their bodies, the man-
ner of their ceremonies, the formittion of their altars, what
intelligent brother can fail to recognise mary of the symbols
of masonry? Go up the stream of time still higher, and you
will find records of the intercourse for tin between the
Phoenicians and the early Britons, which sufficiently accounts
for the mode by which our aboriginal fathers obtained pos-
session of those symbols which marked a more advanced
stage of civilisation than that to which they had in other
respects arrived. Go from Phoenicia to Egypt, and examine
the ordeals of Isis and Osiris, and you will be astonished
.with the closeness of their affinity to much of the ceremonial
Of masonry, while many of the symbols of each seem to be
so strikingly similar as to destroy the possibility of a merely
accidental conformation. If not accidental, whence arose
this singular coincidence Which borrowed from the other,
masonry from mythology or mythology from masonry
There is one fact which, to a close. observer will determined
this question.
One great and gl opous—thelmost fretat
ever
sleepless, ever luminous, ever present Eva that we adore,
they knew not to this height they never ascended—the
Sun, Moon, and Stars they worshipped, but the Light of
Lights was beyond their conception; to the Temple they
did that homage which the mason renders alone to its Great
Architect ; their
religion was bounded by the physical
while the Etta shows that the Brethren of our Order in
htletea'reonm% t:ist ages of antiquity soared to a Temple not made
with hands—to an • 'ar
Al not of the earth, sea,or skies, but
„
,s • 'stem of systems, to the omnipotent, omniscient,
through the
omnipresent Architect of the Universe.—(Masonic cheers.)
the most probable origin of masonry, as a sys-
In his mind, and •
with signs secresy, was the captivity of the
tern connected
.who
_being a proscribed race—their mil-
Hebrews in Egypt ;
gion denounced—their children murdered—sought in caves
and in deserts, by mystical words and mystical symbols, to
worship the
I their fathers in secrecy and in safety—to
he a holy brotherhood rh
ood known to each other bee•smoefasnushpast find-
tenrdracnoe:lnd
ing out, and o.
thediscovered, g)l3
caverns,
et for on astronomical principles—upon the idea
only accou.
could be better seen from the bottomrob beift t a were
that the stars
than the surfacend of the earth—there in all
by the mystical union of masonryP and religion
was held
the held,
Isof Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jeero worshipped'gion
was esGetive breihren.—( Masonic cheers.) Egypt
by the pyramids,Uni which still towered to the skies after dynassttiees
of its fotten, cities swallowed up, and nations b
had been
urtg masonry was a moral pyramid, with its base
extinct—
the earth extinct—cut
its to stone in the heavens, and whichlrionsuedteohsnet
ouldP witness the destruction of the
race of ages
structures of uwnrelmcnabered kings. It would live w
plre colurrns w.restle_,.but in vain, a
With all-subduing Time—his cankering band
With calm deliberate malice wasteth them :
The busto moulders, and the deep cut marble,
Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge.
cheering.) The second characteristic of Masonry
..—(Great s ,
was the vastness of its extent—go where you will you meet
almost from " Indus to the Pole"—aye,
it It reached e tan and under
the burning suns of I-Ln os . amid the chilling snows of
Canada, were lodges to receive. and brethren to welcome you.
The wandering brother—an extle it might be from his native
land, or tossed by the billows of the dee amid a people whose
language he spoke net, whose manners. he knew not—house-
and as he would imagine friendless on the face
less, penniless,
of the earth, with scarcely a ray of hope to flit across the
dicary prospect, his mind gloomy, or it might be sunk in de-
spair—suddenly, he discovers a brother—the universal
language of the mystical union is uttered and answered—his
wants are relieved—his soul is comforted, and he goes on his
way rejoicing.. Thus indeed may we exclaim with the poet—
Should fate command us to the farthest verge
Of the green earth—to distant barbarous climes,
whence first the sun
Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beams
Flame on the Atlantic Isles—
brethren may be found to cheer and to succour; the mind
sinks not in the sadness of its own solitude, and even the very
circumstance of being a Mason, the power of claiming and the
certainty of: receiving sympathy, is in itself an Iris of Hope
amid the storms and tempests of this troubled life. It also en-
ables us to feel with the Bard of Eden, that—
He that bath light within his own Blear breast,
May sit lithe centre and enjoy bright day.
—(Cheer:.) The third characteristic of masonry is the sub-
limity of its principles, or rather principle, for it may be
smeared up in one word, Love. The passion that burns in
:he Seraphim and enkindles the glories of the Cherubim, is
the all-pervading spirit of Masonry. It is in essence and
substance brotherly love. Where charity is absent, it never
can be present; and this should ever be borne in maid by
11„..''e• who may feel too anxious a de.ire for the honours of
orace—the trappings and jewels of distinction—in whose
bosoms jealousy (.).r envy or anger may raekle—'.hit these
very jewels are the eyrnbuls of opposite feelings, the outward
and, visible signs of en inward and spa ituel grace, and that
withnut charity and brotherly
the blazonry of he • love, such jewels would be but
,cris and the pmssssion of such offices
the desecration ofpniasnyn'tv.—(Chee"*) Though brotherly
love Was the object ef masonry, it was rot its end ; it was
not t r be imsgined that the chivalry of its varicus orders—
trs Terr.plar; Knights of St. John, &c., were intended
to be merely idle and orearn-ntal titles the true Mason felt
I-, the whole family of man, and perhaps he could not better
exemplify this feeling than by mentioning t.vo circumstances
that occurred dui inrr h's residence in Lincolnshire, in which
'two innocent beinee, one both morally and legally, and the
other morally guiltless, were saved from an unjust and igno-
miiious death by the active exertions of Brother Brocklesby,
Brother Sanders (F. rarerly of Stratford-on-Avon), Brother
Colemel Sibtherp, and another brother, who in other respect%

had been in opposition to the Gallant Colonel—they. in one
case, after petitions from the committing Magistrates, iron
thousands of individuals, backed by the county Members, anc:
the recommendation of the Jury, had failed ;—when all hop-
seemed to be gone—when the Home Secretary had replied in
answer to every application that he saw " notLing.in the case
to prevent the law taking its course"—they persevered env
ceased not till they bad convinced the Government of the
cross injustice as well as savage cruelty of the sentence, and
the rescued victim yet lives to thank the Great Architect And
the humble brethren that worship him, for being saved by th;
plilanthrophy enkindled by Masonzy.—( Great cheering.)
The fourth characteristic of Masonry is the perfect equality of
its constitution. It knows no distinction of persons—the
proudest Prince in the first degree, is beneath the lowliest
peasant in the second or third, and is compelled to acknow-
ledge his inferiority. Masonry especially confirms the language
of the poet—
Worth makes the man,-and want of it the fellow ;

The rest is naught but leather and prunella.
Some time ago, while on a visit to a distinguished brother,
the P. G. M. of a great county, and an eminent Member o!
Parliament, he had had the good fortune to meet the gallant
Sir Sidney Smith, who had stated that, on one occasion he,
though a mere commoner and a foreigner, from his being a
higher Mason, presided over 12 Sovereign Princes ; a most
eonvincing proof that masonry levels all distinctions, save its
owne—(Cheers.) Let those then, who calumniate masonry
—who scoff at it because they do not understand it—let
them look at its leading characteristics—its , fathomless anti-
quity—its boundless extent—it:3 ceaseless benevolence—its
brotherly love, and its sole distinctions of science and virtue,
and allege if they can, aught in its theory to justify their
slanders.—(Cheers.) Nay, more, let them look at what it
has effected—let them survey the noble Cathedrals of eur
Lind, and ask who were the builders ? Who was of
Wykeham ? Who William of Wainfleet ? Who Inigo Jones?
Who Sir Christopher Wren ? With a host of others, ho
have adorned the land by their science and their genius?—
Why Masons! brother Masons I—(Grcat cheering.) Tyrants
have opposed the craft at all times; but, like the palm tree,
the heavier they oppress it, the more towering its growth.
Ferdinand of Spain, and Don Miguel of Portugal, dared to
denounce negroes, Constitutionalists, and Freemasons—but
our brethren, who as brethren have nothing to do with poli-
ties, laugh them to scorn. Others have opposed masonry on
more piatiAble grounds, by pointing to the differences between
brethren, and the occasional forgetfulness of the symbolic co-
lour of our apparel. But does masonry promote anger and
strife ? Does masonry promote intoxication and irregularity ?
You know it does not. You know if these evils do take place
that they are not the consequences of masonry, but exactly
the revers,: ; for masonry, as well as Christianity, teaches us
that " our bodies are the temples of the living God ;" and
the EYE that we ought to have ever before us, speaks trum-
pet-tongued, " Thou God seest me." No doubt, however,
there are practical abuses—from the spirit of masonry being
neglected or lost sight of, Lodges fall into decay, and the
Ordec itself into disrepute—the tearful words in Italic type
appear in the calendar, " erased by order of die Grand
Lodge." Now, here it is that the Freemasons' General In-
surance Company will come into beneficial operation with
the tenth of its profits appropriated to masonic purposes
under the eye of each Provincial Grand Lodge, temporary
difficulties may be relieved, Lodges need Lot be erased
while there is a hope of their being revived—and,
in a few years, such a sum will be forthcoming, as will,
doubtless, form a large and permanent fund for all the objects
of masonry. (Here brother Northhouse entered into a variety
of details, to show the great advantages of the Insurance Com-
- pally in its options of a provision for children, a provision for
old age, occasional loans on the securities of the policies, in-
creasing or decreasing premiums, according to circumstances,
&e. ; nbile he demonstrated the certain profits of the institu-
tion from the fact, that Denominatical Offices have a great ad-
vantage over others, as an immense majority of persons not of
such denominations, are always disposed to insure with offices
tacked by large and respectable bodies ; and the tables of the
increment and decrement of human life, compiled by Dr.
1-..eysham. at Carlisle, by Babbage and Morgan, from the
Equitable Experience, by Fiulayson, from the Government
Annuities, &c., render the returns a mathematical certainty. )
He concluced by expressing a hope, that masonry might be
better known—that its own brethren might feel more and more
ardour in its great objects—that their zeal might be enkindled,
their amity extended, theirabours of love followed by a dif-
'-fusion of happiness and science—and that, with this Institu-
tion at their back, they might have greater means of showing
to the uninitiated world, how delightful a thing it is for
" brethren to dwell in unity," whose chief object is to prove
that a good Mason can never be a bad man.—(Masonic
cheers.) By thus cultivating the nobler virtues of masonry
—by being " a light 'befGre men"—by abjuring all petty
feelings and wcrking far the common good—by studying to
bear and fo,beer—by feeling that though their faith was
sublime and their hope glorious, "CHARITY was the greatest
of all"—by viewing, in the language of a modern philosopher,
their "ceremonies as only the guards of their essences," and
their jr-weis but the types of the jewels within—they would
!earn to mount, the steps of Jacob's ladder, from the lodge be-
low to the Lodge above; and the GREAT MASTER of all would
enable them to soar from "system to system," from glory
to glory for countless ages, ashen Time should be no more :
" The stars may fade away—the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years:
But LOVE shall flourish in immortal %oath
Unhurt, amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds 1"
(Great masonic cheering. )

" The health of Broiher J. Sharp, jun., of Leamington,
was then given with masonic honours,

Brother J. SHARP, in reply, said, upon the compliment pail
himself he had nothing to observe, further than to thank
;hem most sincerely for the kind reception given to the men-
;ion of his humble name-; for on such occasions as those,

higher thoughts than personal ones should fill the soul ; and
those thoughts were naturally directed, with somewhat of
exultation, to the great, advance of masonry, whereser the
purity of its principles—the importance cf its objects—and
the vast influence it posse;sed in the social fabric of man,
were properly developed.—( Loud cheering ) Reference
had that day been made to an institution, which offered
a secure and profitable mode of investing capital—an insti-
tution, which, moreover, was recommended to their notice by
the assurance that a share of the profits of the new Company
would be appropriated to such benevolent purposes as Pro-
vincial Lodges might direct or approve. The capitalist would,
unquestionably, regard such a society, f: oral the variety of new
nodes that would be introduced for the augmentation of capi-

tal, with feelings of satisfaction ; but, among other advantages
not ltss important, was the never-failing source which the so-
ciety would present, to persons of provident habits of comcort
in old age.—(Cheering.) And that reflection reminded him
of another institution which deserved a generous appree.:a-
ioa at the hands of every genuine Mason, sines the princi

pies which it recognised, N7cre based upon that divine quality
of the mind and heart " which is twice blessed, since it blesseth
him that gives and him that takes ; and becometh the
sceptred Monarch bAter than his Crown." He need
scarcely say that he alluded to the pro.Pcted Asylum. for
Aged and Decayed Masons.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.)
It was the support of such institutions which tended to advance
he interests of the fraternity—to chasten its character—to
.oint out its peculiar beauties ; and to render Masons wo,:thy

of the Scriptural aaplication—" When the ear heard me,
blessed me, and when the eye saw na‘•, it gave witness to me
because I delivered the poor that crtcd, and the fatherless,
and him that had none to help Lim ; the blessing of him that
was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's
heart to leap for joy."—(Cheering.)
" Freemasonry all over the universe," and " the healths of
the Provincial 011iecrs" (acknowledged by .Brother Douglas).
ware next drank.
Brother NonrimotTss proposed the heAth of his friend,
whom he had long known as the ornament and philosopher of
masonry the Rev. Dr. Oliver, D. P. G. M., of Lincolnshire.
The brethren separated about nine o'clock, highly delighted
with the i:liellactuality and harmony which prevailed.

On Tuesday the inhabitants of the little village
called Clagton Heights, rear Halifax, were extremely agitated
from the following dreadful circumstance : Sarah A ma Bland,
a young woman r f weak intellect, had, a few days previously,
ai:en birth to an illeg t:mate male child; as she could not
get any means of supporting the infant, the wretched girl
clasped it round the throat and strangled it. She then went
into the orchard, and, taking a knife from her pocket, she cut
her throat with it, but did not divide the windpipe. Her
brother, who was ill in bel, saw her attempt the act, .and gate
an alarm ; in consequence of which she was given into custody.
In the evening a coroner's inquest sat on the body of the child,
at which several surgeons declared that the infant's death was
caused by strangulation, and a verdict of wilful murder against
the wretched mother was returned. The Coroner issued his
warrant for her committal.—York Herald.
On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Wool-
pack Inn, Sr. Botolph-street, an the body of a young man
named Thomas Osborne, who was found hanging to a large
h mgh in the hedge inclosing the Ordnance Field. Deceased
was found abou: half-past six the previous evening, and though.
on being cut down, there were symptoms of animation, he soon
expired. It appeared from the evidence that for the list twelve
months he had been paying his addresses to a young woman
named Emma Scrjeant, who discarded him a short time ago
in consequence of his unsteady conduct, and this, it was
thought, WPS the cause of the act. He was seen to very deli-
berately select a piece of cord from his aunt's outhous_o,
Magdalep-street, and half an hour alter he was found hanging.
The jury returned a verdict of filo de and the body was
i oterred in St. Giles's chutchyard at half-past eleven the same
night, without the rites of Christian burial.—Chdeayforai
Chronicle.

THE CROPS.—The Scotch and hish papers coo-
Veue to report most favourably of the progress of the harvest.
From the silence of most of the English prov neial pop2rs•
conclude that the crops in their respective neighbourhoods
have alteady been housed.

re-A.
.:.„,_..._„„,......
c—
...„.,..„1„,...„7--5vic.,,,,„,,._..,_•_:;A:,—i„---4.;.,-4;,,
~
1..1 ~...., (.:;) I..rfA:‘ ----;_,
.....,... ;, " 2 , /
. . • -,15-='!..titri---,s. '- 7'r4ktte44411t.,. '.. ''.
,!ait,-, ~. 414 A, •-•
_e...'' 4VW'''"••-;fir
"
1
ilok
_.,e,' r..',' - - r ' . '•
-.'""?... ' -
~" ------ v.,-,---/",%‘-;---4• - ",,ie-A- '''''',:-„,..;: 0 r r,, ,' it-i.0....._ t. 12
Ili'll'i ;s •, ', . :-.*-"s -..,..__ i - ..,.;* '...