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The Week.
was present . The report was , on the whole , satisfactory — eminently so as far as the progress and health of the scholars were concerned—but it was regretted that the annual subscriptions had fallen off . On the other hand , the number of regiments that contributed to the fund was on the increase . Several ofthe company present followed the example of the noble chairman , ancl increased the amount of their subscriptions . '
A case , which was decided in the Divorce Court on Saturday , discloses some features which will be abhorrent to the feeling of every Englishman . A man , who suspected his wife of misconduct , employed a spy to watch her conduct , and upon the evidence he furnished the petition was presented . It was however , altogether uncorroborated , and the judge , in dismissing
the application , made some severe comments on the impropriety of employing spies in such cases , who , he said , if they did not find evidence of guilt , were under the strongest possible temptation to manufacture it . ——In the Court of Common Pleas an action was brought against the proprietor of the Standard for an article which appeared in March last , ancl which the complainant alleged to be a libel on her character . It arose out of the fact that some unknown scoundrel wrote letters to
young women for immoral purposes , ancl asked them to communicate with him under the initials of " W . P ., " afc 151 , Cheapside . In commenting on this circumstance the Standard mentioned the names of fche parties living afc the specified address , which were patent to all the world in the London Directory . The friends of the plaintiff construed this into a libel , ancl the judge in summing up the case , while he exonerated
the writer from malice , leffc it to the jury to say whether there was such an insinuation on the lad y ' s personal character as required her to come forward to clear herself . The jury found for the plaintiff with 40 , s . damages . George Bryco , convicted upon trial at Edinburgh of the murder of a young woman
named Jane _ Seaton , has been executed . The culprit , during the latter portion of his confinement , showed a spirit of penitence and of acquiesence in the doom that awaited him . Ib will be recollected that efforts were made to obtain a commutation
of his sentence , on the ground of the low moral organisation in the character of the murderer , but tbe Home Secretary declined to interfere wifch the course of justice . The three foreigners who stand charged with defrauding a firm on the Continent of silk goods to the extent of £ 30 , 000 ancl with forgery , have been again brought up afc the Mansion House .
Further evidence was given in the case , after which the prisoners were again remanded . Bail was refused . An inquest has been held afc Sheffield , on the body of a woman named Myers , who was killed by her husband . The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the man . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Conference sat on Wednesday ,
but could agree to no arrangement . England ' s proposal for mediation was rrjected by Austria and Prussia , and likewise by Denmark . The proposal is stated to have been made the subject of preliminary discussion between the Austrian ancl Prussian Governments , but they would only agree ' to accept the good office of a mediating Power on conditions to which
Denmark was not likely to assent . Furthermore , Prussia would not accept the mediation as in any way binding upon her . The result was that the meeting ended in nothing . It is stated that another sitting is to take place to-day . If no agreement can be adopted in the meantime , hostilities must then be resumed . A telegram from Copenhagen announces that the
differerences between the King , the Ministry , and the Privy Council are settled . The Dogblad says no Ministry recommending the formation of a Schleswig-Holstein estate can stand . The people will never suffer the sacrifice of Schleswig . Domi-
The Week.
ciliary visits were paid by the police at tho close of last week to the houses of two members of the Corps Legislatif , Messrs . Carnofc and Gamier Pages , ancl also to several other persons . Papers were searched and documents confiscated . This proceeding arose from the fact of the gentlemen being supposed to be concerned in forming an association of more than 20 persons for electioneering purposes . A number of individuals under 20 may , according to French law , so associate
themselves ; beyond that they become liable to prosecution . The visits were not confined to Paris , but took place simultaneously throughout France . The only result , it is thought , will be to increase the opposition minority , and to render the defeat of the Government certain in many of the elections for Councils General which have just commenced . The Japanese Ambassadors having signed the treaty—the object of their journey to Paris—are on their way back to their native country . Spain
, it is said , has decided to come to a peaceable solution of the misunderstanding with Peru . Such is reported to be the determination arrived at in a Ministerial Council just held at Madrid . The Memorial Diplomatique states thafc a circular note has been addressed by the Austrian Cabinet to its diplomatic agents denying that the meeting of the two Emperors at Kissengen has any reference to a Holy Alliance or the slightest hostile feeling towards any power whatever .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
P . M . AND P . PROV . G . W . —We have received a letter , signed as above , complaining of the large number of officers appointed in the Provincial Grand Lodge of Turkey , who have not served the office of Master or Wardens in their respective lodges , to their apparent exclusion . We have made inquiries on the subject , and find that every Master and Past Master iu the different lodges who would accept ifc have held Grand Lodge , and hence the undue preponderance of simple M . M . 's
in the appointments . We admit we think it would be better even to allow one brother to hold office for a series of years ) than to introduce a number of brethren into Grand Lodge , be it Supreme or Provincial , before they have been properly graduated in a private lodge , and in some instances we hold it to be illegal . On foreign ancl colonial stations , however , considerable latitude must be allowed , and we should be sorry on such stations to have the responsibility of appointing the officers , especially where the lodges lay at any distance one from another .
PEGASUS takes too wide a flight for our comprehension . J . B . ( Montreal ) . —We did advocate the cause yon allude to as warmly as anybody ; but having expressed our opinion that neither side were altogether in the right , we managed to offend both . No unusual thing for editors to do . J . W . —W Q should think Ireland . BETA . —We have no recollection of the letter to which you
allude . We doubt if ifc ever came to hand . AN APPRENTICE in London can have no difficulty in learning all that is requisite for him to know , and much more . He has only to visit any lodge of instruction , ancl he will find plenty of brethren able and willing to teach , if he will give the time to learn ,
A . B . to C . D . —There is no exact law that a Prov . G . Registrar shall be an Installed Master , but wc have no hesitation he should be , that qualification being required from the Grand Registrar ; and where there is no law to tho contrary , Provincial Grand Lodges are bound to follow the general laws of Grand Lodge . As to informing you , however , what a Prov . G . Master can do it is altogether out of our power , they being to all appearance virtually above the law , for when once
appointed no one can supersede them but the Grand Master , and a very strong case would have to be made out to induce so amiable a man as the Earl of Zetland to take such a course . That it was done once is true , but the case was very peculiar , and could not with due regard to the best interests of the Order well ho overlooked , although a more honourable or a bettev- ' mtentioned Mason did not exist in the Craft than the brother to whom we allude . His
office was parading Templary in a Craft Provincial Grand Lodge ; and though we are proud of being Templars ourselves , we are compelled to admit that the proceedings of the one Order must be kept distinct from the other .
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The Week.
was present . The report was , on the whole , satisfactory — eminently so as far as the progress and health of the scholars were concerned—but it was regretted that the annual subscriptions had fallen off . On the other hand , the number of regiments that contributed to the fund was on the increase . Several ofthe company present followed the example of the noble chairman , ancl increased the amount of their subscriptions . '
A case , which was decided in the Divorce Court on Saturday , discloses some features which will be abhorrent to the feeling of every Englishman . A man , who suspected his wife of misconduct , employed a spy to watch her conduct , and upon the evidence he furnished the petition was presented . It was however , altogether uncorroborated , and the judge , in dismissing
the application , made some severe comments on the impropriety of employing spies in such cases , who , he said , if they did not find evidence of guilt , were under the strongest possible temptation to manufacture it . ——In the Court of Common Pleas an action was brought against the proprietor of the Standard for an article which appeared in March last , ancl which the complainant alleged to be a libel on her character . It arose out of the fact that some unknown scoundrel wrote letters to
young women for immoral purposes , ancl asked them to communicate with him under the initials of " W . P ., " afc 151 , Cheapside . In commenting on this circumstance the Standard mentioned the names of fche parties living afc the specified address , which were patent to all the world in the London Directory . The friends of the plaintiff construed this into a libel , ancl the judge in summing up the case , while he exonerated
the writer from malice , leffc it to the jury to say whether there was such an insinuation on the lad y ' s personal character as required her to come forward to clear herself . The jury found for the plaintiff with 40 , s . damages . George Bryco , convicted upon trial at Edinburgh of the murder of a young woman
named Jane _ Seaton , has been executed . The culprit , during the latter portion of his confinement , showed a spirit of penitence and of acquiesence in the doom that awaited him . Ib will be recollected that efforts were made to obtain a commutation
of his sentence , on the ground of the low moral organisation in the character of the murderer , but tbe Home Secretary declined to interfere wifch the course of justice . The three foreigners who stand charged with defrauding a firm on the Continent of silk goods to the extent of £ 30 , 000 ancl with forgery , have been again brought up afc the Mansion House .
Further evidence was given in the case , after which the prisoners were again remanded . Bail was refused . An inquest has been held afc Sheffield , on the body of a woman named Myers , who was killed by her husband . The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the man . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Conference sat on Wednesday ,
but could agree to no arrangement . England ' s proposal for mediation was rrjected by Austria and Prussia , and likewise by Denmark . The proposal is stated to have been made the subject of preliminary discussion between the Austrian ancl Prussian Governments , but they would only agree ' to accept the good office of a mediating Power on conditions to which
Denmark was not likely to assent . Furthermore , Prussia would not accept the mediation as in any way binding upon her . The result was that the meeting ended in nothing . It is stated that another sitting is to take place to-day . If no agreement can be adopted in the meantime , hostilities must then be resumed . A telegram from Copenhagen announces that the
differerences between the King , the Ministry , and the Privy Council are settled . The Dogblad says no Ministry recommending the formation of a Schleswig-Holstein estate can stand . The people will never suffer the sacrifice of Schleswig . Domi-
The Week.
ciliary visits were paid by the police at tho close of last week to the houses of two members of the Corps Legislatif , Messrs . Carnofc and Gamier Pages , ancl also to several other persons . Papers were searched and documents confiscated . This proceeding arose from the fact of the gentlemen being supposed to be concerned in forming an association of more than 20 persons for electioneering purposes . A number of individuals under 20 may , according to French law , so associate
themselves ; beyond that they become liable to prosecution . The visits were not confined to Paris , but took place simultaneously throughout France . The only result , it is thought , will be to increase the opposition minority , and to render the defeat of the Government certain in many of the elections for Councils General which have just commenced . The Japanese Ambassadors having signed the treaty—the object of their journey to Paris—are on their way back to their native country . Spain
, it is said , has decided to come to a peaceable solution of the misunderstanding with Peru . Such is reported to be the determination arrived at in a Ministerial Council just held at Madrid . The Memorial Diplomatique states thafc a circular note has been addressed by the Austrian Cabinet to its diplomatic agents denying that the meeting of the two Emperors at Kissengen has any reference to a Holy Alliance or the slightest hostile feeling towards any power whatever .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
P . M . AND P . PROV . G . W . —We have received a letter , signed as above , complaining of the large number of officers appointed in the Provincial Grand Lodge of Turkey , who have not served the office of Master or Wardens in their respective lodges , to their apparent exclusion . We have made inquiries on the subject , and find that every Master and Past Master iu the different lodges who would accept ifc have held Grand Lodge , and hence the undue preponderance of simple M . M . 's
in the appointments . We admit we think it would be better even to allow one brother to hold office for a series of years ) than to introduce a number of brethren into Grand Lodge , be it Supreme or Provincial , before they have been properly graduated in a private lodge , and in some instances we hold it to be illegal . On foreign ancl colonial stations , however , considerable latitude must be allowed , and we should be sorry on such stations to have the responsibility of appointing the officers , especially where the lodges lay at any distance one from another .
PEGASUS takes too wide a flight for our comprehension . J . B . ( Montreal ) . —We did advocate the cause yon allude to as warmly as anybody ; but having expressed our opinion that neither side were altogether in the right , we managed to offend both . No unusual thing for editors to do . J . W . —W Q should think Ireland . BETA . —We have no recollection of the letter to which you
allude . We doubt if ifc ever came to hand . AN APPRENTICE in London can have no difficulty in learning all that is requisite for him to know , and much more . He has only to visit any lodge of instruction , ancl he will find plenty of brethren able and willing to teach , if he will give the time to learn ,
A . B . to C . D . —There is no exact law that a Prov . G . Registrar shall be an Installed Master , but wc have no hesitation he should be , that qualification being required from the Grand Registrar ; and where there is no law to tho contrary , Provincial Grand Lodges are bound to follow the general laws of Grand Lodge . As to informing you , however , what a Prov . G . Master can do it is altogether out of our power , they being to all appearance virtually above the law , for when once
appointed no one can supersede them but the Grand Master , and a very strong case would have to be made out to induce so amiable a man as the Earl of Zetland to take such a course . That it was done once is true , but the case was very peculiar , and could not with due regard to the best interests of the Order well ho overlooked , although a more honourable or a bettev- ' mtentioned Mason did not exist in the Craft than the brother to whom we allude . His
office was parading Templary in a Craft Provincial Grand Lodge ; and though we are proud of being Templars ourselves , we are compelled to admit that the proceedings of the one Order must be kept distinct from the other .