Love to one, Friendship to many, Goodwill to all.

Let our conversation and lives teach youth perseverance, women modesty, old age respect, and all the world respect.

May every good Odd-fellow be slow to censure his brother, quick to defend the absent, and ready at all times to give the cold shoulder to slander and prejudice.

May the heart that sympathizes in the distresses of others, never sorrow over its own misfortunes.

May our Lodge Meetings be instructed by Experience, enlivened by GoodHumour and Harmony, but never wounded by Rancour or Sarcasm.

Open hands and honest hearts in every lodge and every clime.

The three H's-Health, Honesty, and Happiness.

Though wine and good fellowship make us light-hearted,

May Prudence and Merriment never be parted.

The faults we can excuse in ourselves, let us not condemn in a brother. Virtue to direct us, Justice to govern us, Love to influence us, Friendship and Charity to make us brothers all over the world.

When we finally make up our accounts, may all errors be excepted.—4 Secretary's toast.

When Bacchus presides, may Reason and Prudence be his right and left supporters.

Wine to enliven the heart, and Friendship to uncork the bottle.

Obituary.

On Monday, March 5th, 1860, at Birkenhead, aged 61 years, died P.P.G.M. James Stanton. The deceased was a member of the Loyal Britons' Pride Lodge, Birkenhead District, having been initiated into that lodge in 1839, soon after its opening, and continued an active and persevering member up to the time of his last illness, which only extended over a few days. Deceased has frequently filled the chairs of his lodge, and in December, 1857, was elected, at the Quarterly Committee, to fill the office of Deputy Grand Master in the District, and in the following December, was unanimously chosen to fill the Grand Master's chair for the ensuing twelve months, which office he filled with credit to himself and advantage to the Birkenhead District. Mr. Stanton was a man of a quiet, peaceable character, one who was always ready to help a brother in distress, and who thought no trouble too much in promoting the good and welfare of Odd-fellowship and its members. If space would permit, numberless instances could be adduced to prove the goodness of his heart to his fellow-men. As a proof of the respect and esteem in which deceased was held, upwards of 200 members met to follow his remains to the grave. Members from every lodge in the district united together to do honour to his memory, which will long live in the hearts of his brethren; and though we feel his loss, we console ourselves in the reflection that "our loss will be his gain."

JAMES WEBB, PROV. C.S., HYDE DISTRICT.

MR. JAMES WEBB, one of the gentlemen selected by the delegates at the Leicester A.M.C., to have his portrait in the Magazine, is known as a most active and zealous member of our Order ;-the honour therefore is well accorded. He was born at Pillsworth near Bury, in the county of Lancaster, on the 10th of June 1808. He is the eldest son of the late John Webb, calico printer, formerly of Hams, near Ratcliffe, and is a lineal descendant, by the side of his paternal grandmother, of the late John Collier of Milnrow, near Rochdale that singular celebrity of wit, humour, and caricature, who rejoiced in the euphonious cognomen of "Tim Bobbin." Painter, poet, prosodist, wit, and philosopher, the name and writings of Tim Bobbin are universally known throughout these districts; but the works in which he excelled being written principally in the Lancashire dialect, are scarcely appreciated to the extent they deserve.

This passing tribute to a man of genius from whom Mr. Webb has descended, will not probably be considered out of place. On Mr. Webb's father removing to Hyde, he gave up the precarious occupation of calico printer, and commenced as a schoolmaster. For this profession he was pretty well adapted, having received a sound English education, which he gradually imparted to the subject of this notice. Mr. Webb commenced work before he was nine years of age, and in due time was apprenticed to a block printer. About the time his apprenticeship was completed, he married Ann, the eldest daughter of the late Thomas Atkinson, on the 28th of October, 1827. They have been blessed with a family of thirteen children, five of whom, three sons and two daughters, only are living. Like most men who have to climb from the lowermost rounds of the social ladder, Mr. Webb and his partner have tasted of the bitters as well as the sweets of life. Shortly after marriage, and when his family began to increase, his trade of block printer was sadly depressed, and employment in it became very precarious.

Seeing no prospect of his trade reviving and that a livelihood must be obtained for himself and young family, he resolved to make application for

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a situation as under-bookkeeper. In this he was successful; and through his assiduity and good conduct his employers soon raised him to be principal and general warehouseman, giving him at the same time a liberal advance of salary. In this situation he remained until the year 1836 when his father died, when he succeeded him in the school. Since this period he has followed the honourable profession of teacher, and now has one of the most numerous, and respectable private schools in the neighbourhood. By his own exertions, aided by his wife, he has acquired a humble competency, and occupies a position which by his energy, perseverance, industry, and honourable conduct, alike richly entitle him to enjoy and possess.

Mr. Webb was initiated in the Stranger's Refuge Lodge, Hyde District, on the 23rd of March, 1835. The Lodge night after his initiation, he was elected Assistant Secretary; and at the next change of officers was appointed Elective Secretary. In the same year he was appointed one of the Board of Management of the District. At this period in the history of the Hyde District, it was discovered that the officers had sorely mismanaged their accounts with the Board of Directors, and run the District considerably into debt. As no person could actually be made responsible for this state of things, it was determined that there should be a board of management; that the goods' department should be invested in Mr. Webb, and the remaining part conducted by the Board, thus virtually superseding the District officers. Things went on this way for nearly three years, during which time Mr. Webb served the offices successively of V.G., N.G., and G.M. of the Lodge, and was now eligible to serve as a District officer. He stood his poll for C.S. of the District, but was defeated by an older member, who retained the office for a few months, until he got hold of a sum of money, and then gave up his office and membership, having more respect for cash in hand than his own honour or the credit of the Manchester Unity. But, on Mr. Webb attaining the office of G.M., in 1840, he was compelled to refund the money in less than a week. As might be expected, the books had become confused through the late Corresponding Secretary seceding from the Order, and those of the Board of Management never having been properly audited. Mr. Webb was therefore appointed to audit the District accounts, and those of the Board of Management for the preceding three years; the ordinary auditors having declined the investigation. He was successful, and the District, seeing his ability in accounts, elected him C.S. This was in 1838: in 1839 he was appointed Prov. D.G.M., and in 1840 he was elected G.M. In 1841 he was re-elected C.S., which office he has held to the present time. During his term of office in the Lodge, he introduced many reforms both in the Lodge and the District, several of which have been adopted by not only our own order but by other societies. The declaration certificate for new members was first introduced by him; the Hyde District printed and distributed a considerable number of these certificates, which were entitled the "selfacting examining surgeon," at various annual meetings, and great good has resulted. In 1839 the attention of Mr. Webb was drawn to the enormous amount paid for travelling relief; by statistical tables produced and laid before the York A.M.C., Mr. Webb proved that where some districts were paying pounds, others were only paying pence for the relief of travellers. This, together with other information which he furnished for managing and improving the travelling relief, led to a nearer equalization of the system;