The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-01 00:00:00

LIFE-BOAT SERVICE.

TENBY, Wednesday Night.
I have to report (says Capt. Drummond) that
the Florence lifeboat, belonging to the National
Lifeboat Institution, went off yesterday in a very
heavy gale from the S.W., and succeeded in bring-
ing ashore the master and crew of three men of the
schooner Carnsew, of Hayle, which was at anchor
in a very dangerous position off the east end of
Caldy Island, and hoisted a signal of distress. The
lifeboat had to be taken along the shore on its car-
riage a distance of two miles to windward of the
vessel before being launched. The boat and crew
behaved admirably. It was past midnight befora
the lifeboat was safely lodged in its house again.
BUCKIE, N. 8., Wednesday Afternoon.

John Macdonald, Esq., of the City of Glasgow
Bank at this place, states that last night and to-day
the boat of the National Lifeboat Institution has
done noble work in saving forty-five persons from
numerous fishing boats which had been overtaken
by a storm, outside Buckle.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.

Arrived, Sept. 30—Premier, from Buenos Ayres; Pros-
perous, from Gijon ; Liebe, from Caon ; Sabrina, steamer,
from Patras.

Arrived, October I—Maria Pia, steamer, from Lisbon ;
Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp ; Europa, steamer, tram
Malaga ; Seine, steamer, from Boulogne.
Sailed—Taepiog for Shanghai ; Costa Rica, packet, for
Punta Arenas ; Strathmore, for Swan River; Blair Athol,
for Rangoon; Kingdom O'Fife and British India, for Bom-
bay; Plover, for Barbadoes ; Laurel, for Bathurst ; Giraffe,
steamer, for Calais.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.

Passed, Sept. 30.—Mendoza, from London, for Oporto.
Passed, Oct. I.—Sophia, for Newport; Duke of Suther-
land, for Adelaide ; Ruckers, for Jamaica ; Tagus, for
Huelva— all from London.

MOVEMENT OF TROOPS.—Yesterday a detachment
of the 29th Regiment arrived at Liverpool aid embarked
on board the steamer Belgian, which sails to-day for
Quebec, where the detachment will join the head-quarters
of the regiment.
The first Masonic funeral that ever occurred in
California took place in the year 1849, and was performed
over the body of a brother found drowned in the bay of
San Francisco. An account of the ceremonies states that
on the body of the deceased was found a silver mark of a
Mason, upon which were engraved the initials of his name.
A little further investigation revealed to the beholder the
most singular exhibition of Masonic emblems that was
ever drawn by the ingenuity of man upon the human skin.
There is nothing in the history or traditions of Free-
masonry equal to it. Beautifully doted on his left arm in
red or blue ink, which time could not efface, appeared all
the emblems of the Entered Apprentice. There were the
Holy Bible, the Square, the Compass, the 24-inch Gauge,
and the common Gavil. There were also the mosaic
pavement representing the ground-floor of King Solo-
mon's Temple, the intended Tessel which surrounds it,
and the Blazing Star in the centre. On his right arm,
and artistically executed in the same indelible liquid,
were the emblems pertaining to the Fellow Craft degree,
viz., the Square, the Level, and the Plumb. There wore
also the five columns representing the five orders of
Architecture—the Tuscan, Doric, lonic, Corinthian, Com-
posite. In removing the garments from his body the
trowel presented itself, with all the other tools of operative
masonry. OVer his heart was the Pot of Incense. On the
other parts of his body wore the 800 Hive, the Book of
Constitutions, guarded by the Tyler's Sword ; the Sword
pointing to a naked heart ; the All-seeing Eye ; the
Anchor and Ark, the Hour Glass, the Scythe, the Forty-
seventh problem of Euclid; the Sun, Moon, Stars, acrd
Comets ; the three steps emblematical of Youth, Manhood,
and Age. Admirably executed was the weeping Virgin,
reclining on a broken column, upon which lay the Book
of Constitutions. In her left hand sbo held the Pot of
Incense, the Masonic emblem of a pure heart, and in her
uplifted hand a Sprig of Acacia, the emblem of tin im-
mortality of the soul. Immediately beneath li,r stood
winged Time, with his scythe by his side, which cuts the
brittle thread of life, and the Hour Glass at his feet,
which is ever reminding us that our lives aro withering
away. The withered and attenuated fingers of fee De-
stroyer were placed amid the long and gracefully flowing
ringlets of the disconsolate mourner. Tuns were the
striking emblems of mortality and immortality beautifully
blended in one pictorial representation. It was a spec-
tacle such as Masons never saw before, and, in all proba-
bility, such as the fraterntt.y will never witness again.
The brother's name was never known.