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Ameeica.
The salary of the Grand Secretary was Raised from # 2 , 000 to twenty-jive hundred dollars , & c . _ A resolution Avas then offered , which was adopted , that the names of all the Grand and Past-Grand Officers and Representatives of Lodges who answered to
the call of their names at the close of the session be put on record and be published in the minutes . Sixteen warrants were granted , and Kane Lodge was continued under dispensation . Some trifling business of an informal character followed , when , after singing " All hail to the morning , " the benediction was pronounced , and the Grand Lodge Avas closed in ample form .
The Week
THE WEEK
Her Majest y , with the Princesses Alice and Helena andher Royal visitors , went on Monday to inspect the Leviathan . In the evening the Queen had a dinner party , after which ' . the Bradford Choral Society had the honour of performing before the Court . On Tuesday Her Majesty and the Prince Consort , and the King of the Belgians , and the other Royal guests went to Frogmore , where they dined , and afterward returned to Buckingham Palace . On Wednesday there was a dinner party at the palace , and on Thursday the Queen and Prince Consort , Avith the Royal visitors , visited the Royal Italian Opera . On Friday the Queen
gave an evening party , and on Saturday , the Queen and Prince Consort drove to St James ' s Palace , to pay visits to the Duchess of Cambridge , and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz . In the evening : the Prince Consort Avent to Great ToAver Hill , to take the chair at the annual Trinity House dinner . The Queen , with the King of the Belgians , and the Duchess of Brabant honoured her Majesty ' s Theatre with her presence . ——In the House of Lords , on Monday , the Earl of Malmesbury stated that the Government had ordered some temporary measures to alleviate the inconvenience produced by the bad air from the river
but any permanent [ operations that would disturb the deposits on the shores could not be undertaken till the cooler weather of the autumn . Earl Stanhope moved , as a resolution , that an address be presented to her Majesty , praying that her Majesty would be pleased to take into consideration the proclamation of the first year of her reign , by Avhich the services of the Church for the 5 th of November / the 30 th of January , the 20 th of May , and the 20 th of June , are appointed to be read yearly on those days , and are annexed to the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England ; and should her Majesty ] see fit , to
substitute for that proclamation one declaring that only the service for the 20 th of June , the anniversary of her Majesty ' s accession , shall henceforth be so read and published . The motion amended by the omission of the reference to the service of the 20 th June , her Majesty ' s accession , was agreed to . On Tuesday Lord Brougham postponed the second reading of the Independence of Parliament bill , and various bills Avere advanced a stage . On Thursday Earl Derby , who Was present for the first time since his indisposition , expressed his thanks to their lordships for the courtesy extended to him , in postponing several bills of importance , owing to his illness . There were two bills before their
lordships / the object of both being the admission of Jews to Parliament . Of these two bills , while still retaining his objections to removing the barriers which secured to the legislature the character of a Christian Parliament , he gave the preference to that of Lord Lucan . He would , however , accept that measure as a compromise . Lord Lyndhurst having withdrawn his measure , Lord Lucan moved the second reading of his bill , which empowers the House to dispense with the words " on the true faith of a Christian / ' should any member declare that the words were not binding on his conscience . The Earl of Clancarty moved as an amendment that the bill be read a second time that day six months . On a division
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ameeica.
The salary of the Grand Secretary was Raised from # 2 , 000 to twenty-jive hundred dollars , & c . _ A resolution Avas then offered , which was adopted , that the names of all the Grand and Past-Grand Officers and Representatives of Lodges who answered to
the call of their names at the close of the session be put on record and be published in the minutes . Sixteen warrants were granted , and Kane Lodge was continued under dispensation . Some trifling business of an informal character followed , when , after singing " All hail to the morning , " the benediction was pronounced , and the Grand Lodge Avas closed in ample form .
The Week
THE WEEK
Her Majest y , with the Princesses Alice and Helena andher Royal visitors , went on Monday to inspect the Leviathan . In the evening the Queen had a dinner party , after which ' . the Bradford Choral Society had the honour of performing before the Court . On Tuesday Her Majesty and the Prince Consort , and the King of the Belgians , and the other Royal guests went to Frogmore , where they dined , and afterward returned to Buckingham Palace . On Wednesday there was a dinner party at the palace , and on Thursday the Queen and Prince Consort , Avith the Royal visitors , visited the Royal Italian Opera . On Friday the Queen
gave an evening party , and on Saturday , the Queen and Prince Consort drove to St James ' s Palace , to pay visits to the Duchess of Cambridge , and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz . In the evening : the Prince Consort Avent to Great ToAver Hill , to take the chair at the annual Trinity House dinner . The Queen , with the King of the Belgians , and the Duchess of Brabant honoured her Majesty ' s Theatre with her presence . ——In the House of Lords , on Monday , the Earl of Malmesbury stated that the Government had ordered some temporary measures to alleviate the inconvenience produced by the bad air from the river
but any permanent [ operations that would disturb the deposits on the shores could not be undertaken till the cooler weather of the autumn . Earl Stanhope moved , as a resolution , that an address be presented to her Majesty , praying that her Majesty would be pleased to take into consideration the proclamation of the first year of her reign , by Avhich the services of the Church for the 5 th of November / the 30 th of January , the 20 th of May , and the 20 th of June , are appointed to be read yearly on those days , and are annexed to the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England ; and should her Majesty ] see fit , to
substitute for that proclamation one declaring that only the service for the 20 th of June , the anniversary of her Majesty ' s accession , shall henceforth be so read and published . The motion amended by the omission of the reference to the service of the 20 th June , her Majesty ' s accession , was agreed to . On Tuesday Lord Brougham postponed the second reading of the Independence of Parliament bill , and various bills Avere advanced a stage . On Thursday Earl Derby , who Was present for the first time since his indisposition , expressed his thanks to their lordships for the courtesy extended to him , in postponing several bills of importance , owing to his illness . There were two bills before their
lordships / the object of both being the admission of Jews to Parliament . Of these two bills , while still retaining his objections to removing the barriers which secured to the legislature the character of a Christian Parliament , he gave the preference to that of Lord Lucan . He would , however , accept that measure as a compromise . Lord Lyndhurst having withdrawn his measure , Lord Lucan moved the second reading of his bill , which empowers the House to dispense with the words " on the true faith of a Christian / ' should any member declare that the words were not binding on his conscience . The Earl of Clancarty moved as an amendment that the bill be read a second time that day six months . On a division