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Asylum For Worthy Aged, And Decayed Freemasons.
The report was received and adopted . The Treasurer , Secretary , and Collector , were unanimously re-elected . The salary of the Secretary was raised to forty guineas per annum , and an honorarium of twenty guineas for his very indefatigable and extraordinary services during the past years , was unanimously voted .
GENERAL COMMITTEE . Bro . Attwood , A . Bro . Ede , J . Bro . Rackstraw , W . .. Barnard , T . B . .. Graves , R . .. Sangster , M . .. Bigg , J . .. Imrie , W . .. Savage , J . .. Brewster , E . .. Leeks , W . F . .. Spiers , J . .. Brown , H . .. Phillips , E . .. Tombleson , T .
.. Dobson , W . F . .. Pike , J . .. Waller , — .. Evans , W . .. Pryer , T . .. Wright , W . L . Auditors . —Bros . Barrett , Savage , Staples , Tombleson , and Turner . The kind and efficient services of Bro . Theodore Lemale , on many occasions , were brought before the meeting , and the privileges of a Life Governor were unanimously voted to that excellent brother . The unanimous thanks of the meeting were voted to the Stewards of
the Masonic Ball ; to Col . the Hon . Geo . Anson , M . P ., Chairman of the late Anniversary Festival ; to the Board of Stewards , for their liberality ; to the Chairman and Directors of the Engineers , Masonic , and Universal Life Assurance Societv . for their generous support ; and
to the Building or Sub-Committee , for their strenuous exertions and able services . It was then resolved that the General Committee be requested to commence the erection of the Asylum as early as possible . Thanks being passed to the Chairman , the meeting adjourned . From none of the other charities have , we been favoured by any reports .
Chit Chat .
CHIT CHAT .
GUIDO . — "Rini ( Guido ) was born at Bologna in 1571 , and died in 1642 . All the excellencies of painting seem united in his superior genius ; for whether we consider the grand style of his composition , the delicacy of his ideas , the disposition of his objects in general , or the beautiful turn of his female forms , his colouring , or his graceful air of the heads , all are admirable , and fill the mind with a kind of ecstacy . All subjects were not equally adapted to the genius of Guido : the tender , the pathetic , the devout , in which he could manifest the sweetness and
the delicacy of his thoughts , were those in which he peculiarly excelled —those which distinguished him from any other painter , and gave him precedence of all . In expressing the different parts of the body , he had a remarkable peculiarity ; for he usually designed the eyes of his figures large , the nostrils somewhat close , the mouth small . Guido ' s heads are accounted not inferior to Raffaell ' s . His works have been deservedly admired throughout all Europe , and to this day increase in value and esteem . "—Gould ' s Dictionary of Painters ,
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Asylum For Worthy Aged, And Decayed Freemasons.
The report was received and adopted . The Treasurer , Secretary , and Collector , were unanimously re-elected . The salary of the Secretary was raised to forty guineas per annum , and an honorarium of twenty guineas for his very indefatigable and extraordinary services during the past years , was unanimously voted .
GENERAL COMMITTEE . Bro . Attwood , A . Bro . Ede , J . Bro . Rackstraw , W . .. Barnard , T . B . .. Graves , R . .. Sangster , M . .. Bigg , J . .. Imrie , W . .. Savage , J . .. Brewster , E . .. Leeks , W . F . .. Spiers , J . .. Brown , H . .. Phillips , E . .. Tombleson , T .
.. Dobson , W . F . .. Pike , J . .. Waller , — .. Evans , W . .. Pryer , T . .. Wright , W . L . Auditors . —Bros . Barrett , Savage , Staples , Tombleson , and Turner . The kind and efficient services of Bro . Theodore Lemale , on many occasions , were brought before the meeting , and the privileges of a Life Governor were unanimously voted to that excellent brother . The unanimous thanks of the meeting were voted to the Stewards of
the Masonic Ball ; to Col . the Hon . Geo . Anson , M . P ., Chairman of the late Anniversary Festival ; to the Board of Stewards , for their liberality ; to the Chairman and Directors of the Engineers , Masonic , and Universal Life Assurance Societv . for their generous support ; and
to the Building or Sub-Committee , for their strenuous exertions and able services . It was then resolved that the General Committee be requested to commence the erection of the Asylum as early as possible . Thanks being passed to the Chairman , the meeting adjourned . From none of the other charities have , we been favoured by any reports .
Chit Chat .
CHIT CHAT .
GUIDO . — "Rini ( Guido ) was born at Bologna in 1571 , and died in 1642 . All the excellencies of painting seem united in his superior genius ; for whether we consider the grand style of his composition , the delicacy of his ideas , the disposition of his objects in general , or the beautiful turn of his female forms , his colouring , or his graceful air of the heads , all are admirable , and fill the mind with a kind of ecstacy . All subjects were not equally adapted to the genius of Guido : the tender , the pathetic , the devout , in which he could manifest the sweetness and
the delicacy of his thoughts , were those in which he peculiarly excelled —those which distinguished him from any other painter , and gave him precedence of all . In expressing the different parts of the body , he had a remarkable peculiarity ; for he usually designed the eyes of his figures large , the nostrils somewhat close , the mouth small . Guido ' s heads are accounted not inferior to Raffaell ' s . His works have been deservedly admired throughout all Europe , and to this day increase in value and esteem . "—Gould ' s Dictionary of Painters ,