Among The Bohemians.

and health returned , but , alas ! the powerful voice—the voice that had moved to tears the jury who had tiied Lcfroy—was gone forever . To exert what voice was left , the doctor said , might be fatal . There was no help for it , and Mr . Williams retired from the Bar . The present Home Secretary , doing a wise thing for once , promptly made him a metropolitan magistrate , and , it may be added , a better magistrate never sat upon the Bench . "

* * -it-Mrs . Cleveland paints on china , and the whole press of the whole world have certified the lact . President Cleveland is not a Mason , and was very sick at being " kept standing two hours in the cold witnessing a march past of American brethren last month . " * * *

Bro . James Willing , affectionately known by everybody as " Jimmy W ., " is a member of the Strand Lodge , and a good Mason . He is connected with everything from Aspinall ' s enamel , of which he knows more than he cares lo siy , to a certain penny weekly which is doing good business . A free-and-easy man , he does a deal of good , and has been known to pick up several humptydumpties and set them up on the wall again . Here ' s a Happy New Year to him ! * # *

The Private Secretary to Col . North is Bro . Campbell—a South American , and a shrewd and clever man . He has not joined a London Lodge since his stay in England , but he loves Masonry , he says , and is longing for the day when a uniformity of ritual is arranged among Masons . Bro . Campbell has been laid up with influenza for some time , I am sorry to say .

* # -it-Mr . Ouless , R . A ., is painting portraits of Bro . Col . North and his wife , for which watch the walls of Burlington House in the spring . Perhaps . * # * La Tosca " is a beautifully-mounted play , but I am afraid has very little money in itand I don ' t like the reading of her part by Mrs . Bernard Beeve .

, The idea is childish , and La Tosca not being - a child should let her silly jealousy come from a high-toned woman of character rather than from a schoolgirl whose jealousy has no strength or force . Bro . Robertson's Scarpia is more powerful than in the early days of the piece . It is intense ; it is clever ; it is beautiful . It is—like his Dunstan Renshaw—all that a fine actor can make a fine part . There is before Mr . Robertson an elevated region of

renown in the dramatic world , of which he alone on the English stage , in my opinion , possesses the key . Go and see " La Tosca" if only to see its Scarpia . * * *

A son of Edmund Yates is sub-editor of London . * * -it-One of the very hardest-worked men at present in London is Mr . Latham , the head man at " Gus ' s . " He rises every morning at six in his chambers in Garrick-street , and journeys to The Elms before breakfast . A slashing race against time then goes on till long past midnight , and he has been known to

have but thirty hours' sleep in six days . Mr . Latham used to be with " Dagonet , " and he tells a very funny story of how he had to thrash that clever playwright and his collaborator , Mr . Henry Pcttitt , to their desks to finish " London Day by Day , " a play which everybody—the authors included —put down as the very worst they had ever written .

* * * Mr . William Davenport Adams—the dramatic critic of the Globe- who is lo be found at " first nights " with his antique velvet-waistcoat , his one-button pea-jacket of the last century , and soft felt-hat of the one previous , has been rambling in bookland again , and has written what he saw . Mr . Adams d . d not write what he thought about the present drama at the Adelphi , with which he was very much disgusted . Why did he not say so !

* * * I may as well say here that "London Day by Day" is , to my commonplace mind , as good as anything ever before produced there . It is certainly rubbish , but what drama is not . It makes you laugh , which is just what a drama ought not to do ; but where have we seen anything better than Rignold's " Harry Ascalon" ? * * *

The intellect of the country was most fitly represented in the pall-bearers , who walked by the side of Browning's coffin . Mr . llullam Tennyson , not unlike his father in appearance , stood for poetry in representing a poet who was the one peer of Browning . Scholarship had Dr . Butler and Browning's dear old friend , the Master of Balliol ; and from Scotland there came Dr . Masson , the erudite author of our standard Life of Milton , and Dr . Knight , one

of the most accomplished students of the day . Medicine has no brighter ornament than Sir James Paget , the law no more learned Judge than Sir James Stephen , the pulpit no more eloquent preacher than Dr . Farrar . Sir Theodore Martin , author of the " Life of the Prince Consort , " the trusted literary counsellor of our Queen , was a friend of the poet , but his presence had , perhaps , a wider meaning than that of friendship . Music sent Sir George Grove ; here ,

loo , was Sir Frederick Leighton , speaking for the brush and the palette ; and , finally , Browning ' s esteemed publisher , Mr . George M . Smith . Surely it was a superb company . KING MOB .

Colonial And Foreign.

Colonial and Foreign .

Sir Henry Morland , Scottish Grand Master , presided on the 2 nd ult . at the largest Masonic gathering ever held in Bombay , the occasion being the presentation to the Duke of Connaught of the patent of his nomination as Honorary Past Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons in India . Five hundred European , Parsee , Mohammedan , and Hindoo brethren from all parts attended the Lodge . A grand banquet , at which covers were laid for three hundred persons , was afterwards given . The entertainment was altogether a very brilliant and successful one . * * *

I he committee appointed at a meeting of ihe three Masonic Constitutions working in New Zealand , held in Dunedin , for the purpose of considering an attempt to bring about a union with the view of founding a Grand Lodge in that colon )' , has submitted its report . The committee recommends that if the subordinate Lodges and the Ciaft generally approve of the formation of a Grand Lodge in New Zealand the following principles should be insisted upon , and made unalterable by the Grand Lodge , save with the consent of all the

District Grand Lodges : —The Grand Lodye should meet once a year ; and the place of meeting should be changed annually . The Grand Lodge should be composed of the District Grand Masters , Deputy District Grand Masters , and Wardens ex - officio , and fifty members appointed by the subordinate Lodges . The Grand Master should hold office for four years , and appoint his Deputy . But all the other

Officers should be elected by the Grand Lodge . In other respects the Grand Lodge should have full legislative powers , and supervise the administration of District Grand Lodges . There should he five District ( hand Lodges in the colony—viz ., Auckland , Wellington , Westland , Canterbury , and Utago ; and new District Grand Lodges may be constituted from time to time by the Grand Lodge . In the opinion of the Committee , no real union will be

consummated until there is greater harmony among' th ? members and Lodges on the question of a Grand Lodge ; and this cannot be obtained without fuithcr consideration and negotiation . Pending the consideration of the foregoing recommendations by the subordinate Lodges , the Committee suggests that the Grand Lodge formed in Wellington should not he countenanced .

* * * The completion of the -Masonic Temple , on Manhattan-avenue , Brooklyn , is a matter of moment to members of the fraternity , and of exceeding interest to all other citizens who like to know of the city ' s growth and have ; m admiration of the art on which that growth so greatly depends . The building is four stories in height , and the structure alone cost 130 , 000 dols . Many thousand

dollars are to be spent in decorations and furnishing , which will be carried out on a sumptuous scale . * * * At a meeting of Lodge St . Andrews , S . C ., Auckland ( N . Z . ) , Bro . Macrae , on behalf of the late Bro . Mr . J ustice Gillies , presented to the Lodge w French manuscript of Freemasonry , over a hundred years old , supposed to be the original ritual of the Grand Orient of France . This was accompanied by a manuscript translation by Bro . C . D . Whitcombe . Besides its documentary worth , the manuscript has a high monetary value .

* * * An interesting ceremony in connection with Masonry took place at the Masonic Hall , Moray-place , Dunedin , on the nth October , when Bro . James Gore was installed as Right Worshipful District Grand Master of New Zealand South , Scotch Constitution , in succession to R . W . D . G . M ., Bro Harvey , who has held office for the past five years .

* * * The Earl of Kintore , Governor of South Australia , was installed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons , by Lord Carrington , on the 20 th of October . The celebration was made the occasion of an imposing ceremony . * *

-it-Denver , Colorado , has ahead ) ' commenced . ' preparations for the triennial conclave of Knight Templar in 1892 . * * •* The funeral of the late Bro . A . T . C . Pierson , Grand Secretary of Minnesota , took p lace with all the grandeur the State could give it on November 29 . No fewer than three thousand Brethren , which included all the Grand Lodge Officers , attended the ceremony . * * *

A telegram from Belgrade confirms the report that the German police , by order of the Government , have suppressed several Lodges of the Grand Orient Freemason ? at Nisch . The Brethren were sitting in open Lodge when the police entered and cleared the hall in the most unceremonious manner .