PRO VINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SUSSEX. by the brethren had learned to appreciate more and more his great efforts on behalf of Freemasonry. He was now with the Princess of Wales in VISIT OF H.R.H. THE DI KE OF CONNAUGHT. Russia under sad and painful circumstances, and he was sure that both the Prince and Princess had the entire sympathy of the whole Masonic Craft. Worthing was selected as the place of meeting of the Provincial Grand His Royal Hi UKE OV ONNAUGHT Lodge of Sussex this year, and the inhabitants made the visit the occasion ghness the D C then proposed " The M.W . Pro Grand Master, the Ri of a hearty welcome to his Royal Highness. The Duke, contrary to usual ght Hon . the Earl of Lathom ; the R.W. Deputy Grand Master custom , kindly consented to receive an address at the hands of the Mayor , the Rig ht Hon. the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe ; and the Officers of Grand Lod he said and Corporation ; Colonel Sir Henry Fletcher promised a guard of honout ge, Present and Past." The Craft were, , deeply indebted to the Grand and support on all of the 2nd Sussex Volunteers, and the tradesmen fell in to a large extent Officers for their help wilh a suggestion by the Corporation that the day should be made one ol occasions, and the Sussex Freemasons, he knew, apprtxi tied the frequent general holiday. Very many visitors found their way to the town, and visits which many of the Grand Officers had made to the province. Worthing looked her best, the sun shining gloriously at mid-day on the Bro. Lord H ENRY T HYNNE , in britfly thanking the brethren for the waving flags and banners, while the streets were full of people. The Duke hearty manner in which thev had received the toast, congratulated the Pro- arrived at 1.3=5 . H'S Royal Highness was accompanied by his equerry, Col , vince of Sussex on their grand gathering that day. Egerton. and Sir VV. T. Marriott, Q.C. He was met on the pla form by The Mayor of Worthing, Bro. Councillor W. H. B. FLETCHER , who Sir Henry Fletcher, Bart., M.P., and Lord Henry Thynne, the former ol was greeted wilh cordial applause, proposed " The M.W. Prov. Grand whom introduced the Mayor (Councillor W. H. B. Fletcher) to his Highness. Master, his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught." As a very young His Worsh ip, of course, wore his robes and insignia of office , and was Mason , he said he felt that in submitting such an important toast in the accompanied by the mace-bearers. presence of so many brethren of high standing his words would be weak, A guard of honour, consisting of 100 men of the Arundel, Chichester, but he wished in all sincerity to acknowledge the admirable manner in which and Worthing Companies of the and Volunteer Battalion Royal Sussex the members of the Royal Family discharged the duties lying before them. Regiment , was formed up in line in the roadway. As Freemasons all present appreciated the work of his Royal Highness that As the Duke came from the station the reg imental band struck up the day as Provincial Grand Master. As M tyor of Worthing he wished to National Anthem, while a resident in the neighbourhood , who had impro - heartily thank his Royal Highness for his visit to the town, and to say how vised some light artillery on his premises, fired a royal salute. glad he felt in having the opportunity of testifying to the deep loyalty and Mr. V ERRALL , having been presented to the Duke, with whom he shook devotion of the burgesses of the town to the Royal Family, and also to hands, rea d the following address : express, on their behalf , their warm appreciation of the high compliment Royal Hi To his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, K.G., &c, &c. which had been paid them that day by the visit of his ghness. Mav it please your Royal Highness, The toast was received with enthusiasm. We, the Mayor, Aldermen , and Burgesses of the Boroug h of Worthing, re- The Duke of CONNAUGHT , on rising to respond, was greeted with hearty spectfully offer to your Royal Highness a most sincere and hearty welcome to our and town. prolonged cheers. In acknowledging the toast, he thanked the Mayor We cannot but remember that the popularity of the health resorts of the of Worthing for the kind manner in which he had proposed it, and the bre- Sussex Coast had , to a very great extent, its origin in the favour shown to them thren for their cordiality in responding 10 it. He said he was accustomed to in former years by members of your illustrious house, and we look upon the fact be received by the Freemasons of Sussex in the kindest and most friendly that your Royal Hi ghness has to-day departed from your usual custom when visiting a town in the capacity of Grand Master of the Freemasons of this Pro- manner, and, in his own name, and on behalf of other brethren , he expressed vince, by graciousl y accepting our loyal address as a signal m-irk of the continued the pleasure he felt in holding the Provincial Grand Lodge at Worthing. interest of the Royal Famil y in the welfare and prosperity of the rapid'y-increasing He desired to thank the Mayor, the W.M., and the brethren of the Worth- town of Worthing. ing Lodge of Friendship and the local Committee, for their preparations We beg to thank your Royal Hi ghness most heartil y for this proof of your interest in our town of Worthing, and to assure you of the loyalty and affection and arrangements for their comfort, and also to thank ihe citizens of Worth- which we, in common with all her Majesty 's subjects , feel for her Most Gracious ing for the cordial reception they had extended to him. He then proposed Majesty the Queen , your Royal Hi ghness, and the other members of the Royal " The VV. Deputy Prov. Grand Master, Bro. the Right Hon. Sir W. T. Family. Marriott, Q.C, P.G. Steward." He said they were all indebted to their Given under the Common Seal of the Mayor Aldermen, and Burgesses of , Deputy Provincial Grand Master for the interest he took in the province , and Worthing, this 17th day of November, 1894. W. H. B. FLETCHER , Mayor. for the ready manner in which he came amongst them. He (Bro. Marriott) W. V ERRAI .I., Town Clerk. was a busy man in his profession and in politics, and personall y he was much The Mayor having handed the address and case to his Royal Highness, indebted to him for the ready support and assistance which at all times he the latter said : I desire to thank you, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen , for the gave him. very kind address you hive presented to me on this occasion. I am glad Bro. Sir W. T. M ARRIOTT , in responding, thanked the Prov Grand to have this opportunity of visiting Worthing, and hope the expm'e and Master tor the too kind manner in which he had proposed tne t« as.. He trouble you have taken to make Worthing as good a health resort as had little lime for F reemasonry, but whatever sp ire 11.ue tie nad wa-. at iluir possible will be very amply repaid , and that the town will thoroughly service. He had received invaluable assistance lrom th« Prov. Grand prosper. Officers , and it was his pleasing duty to propose " The W. Prov. Senior Afterwards the Duk e inspected (he troops drawn up near thc station , and Grand Warden , Bro. VV. E. Morrison ; the W. Prov. Junior Grand Warden, a long procession , which included some 30 carriages, then made its way to Bro. Dr. J. Ewart ; and the Officers of Prov. Grand Lodge, Present and the Assembly Rooms. The Masonic dignitaries came first in order, followed Past." by the members of the Corporation , lhc members of the Committee who bad Bro. W. E. M ORRISON , in responding, said the enterprise and progressive arranged for thc i cception, and lastly, the Duku and Mayor, with the troops. character of the town of Worthing had undoubtedly been communicated to The Assembly Rooms had been most tastefully decorated for the the compilers of the toast list, for he believed it was the first occasion on occasion , the wills being festooned and tapestried with coloured fabrics, which a future Prov. Grand Officer had been asked to respond for the Prov. while the stage was decorated with flowering and foliage plants, and choice Grand Officers. He, however, desired 10 express the devotion and loyalty of hot-house flowers embellished the tables. The brethren , who, to the number the officers to the Craft and to the province. of nearly 150, had secured seats at the luncheon , and the ladies who occupied Bro. Sir R AYMOND B URRELL , P.P.G.W., in briefly proposing " The lhe gallery, gave their Prov. G. Master a very enthusiastic reception as he Visitors," gave them a hearty welcome. entered the room with the Deputy Prov. G. Master, Bro. the Rig ht Hon. Bro. Dr. STRONG, in responding, thanked H.R.H. the Duki of Sir W..T. Marriott , Q.C, the applause being continued until he had taken Conn.iughl for his prts nice that day, reman* ing that his visit would bt: t ie lhe chair. The post-prandial proceedings were of a brief but very hearty character. best recommendation the town could possibl y h ive. Owing to the pressure of time " ihe S.ewards " and the T ' The Duke of CONNAUGHT opened the toast list by proposing " The , , yler s toast Queen and the Craft." A toast which he said he was sure would be were omitted. received with enthusiasm. Time did not permit of a length y musical programme Bro. H- That toast having been duly honoured , he next submitted " The M.W. Chipman sang the solo of the N s Eiiith Cnap lm Grand Master H.R.H. the Prince of VVales." For many years, he said, sang •' God bless the Prince of Wales," and nlso one song, the duties of the Prince of Walts had been at the ht'ad of the Craft, and as years rolled accompanist being in the hands of Bro F. D. Carnell. PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE. make the visit of H.R.H. the D uke of Connaught a success, and it is gratif ing to record lhat their united efforts proved a triumphant success. The brethren then adjourned to the Drill Hall, where the Provincial y a Grand Lodge was held. The room had been superbl y decorated , and was The Duke was escorted to the station after the gathering by large crowd crowded by thc targe gathering of Masonic brethren , many of whom had , who cheered him heartily as he look his seat. The Mayor accom- been present at the Iu ichcon. Thc Prov. Grand Master, the D uke of panied his guest, and , sinking hands with the Duke, expressed the great Connaught, presided, and the Prov. Grand Officers present were : pleasure it had given him to welcome him to Worthing. As the train left the station the people cheered again most lus.ily. Bros. Sir W. T. Marriott , Dep. Prov. G.M. ; Richard Clowes, Acting Prov S.G.W. ; A. M. Brooklield , M.P., Prov. j.G.W. ; Rev. ]. A. Rivington , Prov. G. M. Reed Chaplain ; Rev. R. Wood Loosemore, Prov. G. Chaplain : J. , PROVINCIAL GRAND MARK LODGE OF WEST Prov. Grand Treasurer ; T. P. Harker, Acting Prov. Grand Registrar ; V. P. Freeman , Prov. G. Secretary ; T. Burne , Prov. S.G.D.; F. V. Paxton , YORKSHIRE. Prov. J.G.D. ; W. E. D'Albra c, Prov. G.D. of C; H. Endacott, Dep. Prov. G. D. of C. ; M. Lelcw, Prov. G.S.B.; B. Burfield , Asst. Prov. G. Sec. ; H. Cheal , A meeting of the above Provincial Grand Lodge was held at the Masonic Prov. G. Purst. ; G. C. Vernon Inkpen , W. Carless, and E. Histed, Prov. G. Hall , Sheffield , on Thursday, lhe ist inst., under the banner of the Britannia Stwds. ; H. H. Hughes, Prov. G. Ty ler ; and many Present and Past Prov . G. Lodge, No. 53. Present : Officers of Sussex and other provinces. Bros. Charles Letch Mason , P.G.M ; John Barker , D.P.G.M. ; W. E. Smithies, The PROVINCIAL G RAND S ECRETARY called the roll of the lodges in the P.S.G.W. ; Charles Woollons, P.J.G.W:; John Unwin , jun., P.P.G.W.; Vernon province, and it was ascertained that each lodge in the province was G. S. Dearden , P.G.M.O. ; Thomas M yers, P.G.S.O.; J. E. Darling, P.P.G.O., represented. as P.G.J.O. ; Rev. Geo. H. Stock, M.A., P.G. Chaplain ; Capt. H. G. E. Green , The report of the Board of Finance, with the Treasurer 's accounts, and P.G. Treas. ; A. E. Kikham , P.P.G. Reg , as P.G. Reg] ; Joseph Matthewman| P.G. Sec ; G. H. Radcliffe P.P.G.O., as P.S.G.D. ; E. Billington P.P.G O., the report of the Charities Committee, were presented and adopted. , , . as P.J.G.D. ; H. I. Garnett, P.G.D. of E., P.P.G. W., P.G.I. of W.; Thomas Robert- The PROVINCIAL G RAND SECRETARY read statistics showing that the shaw, P.G.D. of C. ; J. P. Hewitt , P.P.G. Reg., as P.A.G.D.C. ; William brethren in the province numbered 13 32. Cockroft, P.G.S.B.; H. S. Holdsworth , G.S.B. of E., as P.G. Std. Br. ; Joh n The P ROVINCIAL GRAND M ASTER then addressed the brethren as Brook , P.G Org. ; George Edwards, P.P.G. Org.; George Wragg, P.P.G. follows : Brethren ,—Once more I have lhe pleasure of being present amongst Org. ; F. Cleeves, P.G.S.B. of E., P.P.G.W., as P.G I.G. ; T. G. Howell , as you to congratulate you upon the quiet prosperity of the Provincial Gran d P.G. S wd. ; M. J. Dodworth , William Senior, and Charles Middleton , P.G. Lodge of Sussex , and am more particularly pleased to c 3 able to pay a visit Stwds. ; and J. H . Newton , Tyler. Also W.Ms., P. Ms., Wardens, and Overseers to the town of Worthing, which, having gone through a period of great from Lodges Old York, T.I. ; Prince Edward , 14 ; Britwnia , 53 ; Feirnley, 58 ; distress, is now showing signs of a return to prosperity, which will, 1 truiti Integrity, no ; Copley, ni; Portal , 127 ; Truth , 137 ; St. Chad, 374 ; and be rapid and satisfactory. The returns do not exhibit a large increase in Danum , 398. the number of members, but steady progress has been made. I do not Bro. Charles Letch Mason , Pro. G. Master, presided , and the Prov. want the lodges to be anxious to receive any but those who express a desire Grand Lodge was opened in due form. to join, and are likely to prove worthy. The number of initiates has been The roll of lodges was called , and all the lodges in the Province were quite satisfactory. I am glad to find that the alterations in the bye- represented except one. laws, providing for four meetings during the year of the Board of Bro. J OSEI'H M ATTHEWMAN , Prov. G. Sec , in presenting the minutes of Finance and of General Purposes , has had good results. I quite agree that the Provincial Meeting held at Halifax, on the and May, 1894, which had the books signed by the members should not hi available for the use been printed and circulated , called attention toth e fact thit the name of Bro. of the Press. I sympathise with those who object to the publication of T. W. Embleton as the donor of 10 guineas for the endowment of the names so freely, and full y endorse the precept ; at the same time, I think it Senior G. Warden 's chair in the Mark Benevolent Institution , had inadver- is a question which must be left to the good t aste of the various Masters, tently been substituted for that of li o. Fred Cleeves, by whom the money and do not feel that I should exercise my authority by actually prohibiting had actually been given ; That he (the Prov. G. Secretary) had made the any particulars of the proceedings from being published. The report of the alteration , and that with that correction he presented the minutes for con- Provincial Grand Lodge Charities Committee is most satisfactory, and must firmation. be a source of considerable congratulation to the Secretary, Bro. J. M. Reed , Bro. H. J. GARNETT then proposed " that the minutes with the correc- whose enthusiastic efforts in the cause of the Masonic Institutions are so tion be taken as read." This was seconded by Bro. V. S. DEARDEN, and highly appreciated. The amount subscribed is very large in comparison carried. The minutes were confirmed on thi motion of Bro. JOHN BARKER , with the number of members, and more especially so when I am told that seconded by Bro. EDWIN BILLINGTON. the amount is arrived at much more by the renewal of old subscribers than The PROV. G. MASTER then delivered an address in which he congratu- by the receipts from new ones. I know that many young Masons are , brought into the list every year, but I should like to see a still further addi- lated the brethren of West Yorkshire on meeting again in the City of Sheffield , and under the banner ofthe Britannia Lodge, No. 53, and the more tion to the number of those who take a monetary interest. in those remarkable and valuable Institutions. I am informed that a Masonic Club for the Pro- so under the peculiar circumstances that had arisen on that occasion. As vince of Sussex has now been started in Brighton. I sincerely trust it will they all knew they hoped to have had the pleasure of a visit from the Pro Grand Master, the Earl of Euston , but as that visit was, in the first instance, prove a means of uniting the brethren of the various lodges in daily inter- in connection with another Order of their honourable Cra ft, great difficulty course, and strengthen those bonds which should bind the Craft. arose in fixing the day. Their thanks were specially due to the brethren in Bro. J. M. Reed was unanimously re-elected Provincial Grand Treasurer. Sheffield for so readily waiving their claim for the meeting in favour of Leeds, The Provincial Grand Master then appointed his officers for the ensuing and then, when the visit of the Pro Grand Master fell through, so kindly year, and invested them with the insignia of their respective offices as renewing their invitation. Since their last meeting at Sheffield they had to follow:— mourn the loss of Bro. William Kel ly, for 34 years Prov. G. Master of the Bro. W. E. Morrison , P.M. 916, 1110, 2-534 ••• Prov- S.G.W. Province of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland , and Derbyshire- „ J. Ewart , W.M. Si 1 ...... Prov. J.G.W. He was appointed at the constitution of the province in 1858 , held the posi- „ Rev. P. Crick, P.M. 851 ...... ")„ , 1 rov' u>r ^har s- tion of Prov. G. Master up to the day of his death, and was the senior Prov. G. „ Rev. R. Wood Loosemore, P.M. 1184 ... j P represen- „ J. M. Reed , P.M. 732 ...... Prov. G. Treas. Master under the English Constitution. Bro. Kelly was a worthy „ W. Carless, P.M. 1848...... Prov. D.G. Reg. tative of their Order , and one they felt it hard to part with. With ,, V. P. Freeman , P.M. 315, 732 ...... Prov . G. Sec. all reverence, he hoped that when he presented his life 's work to „ C. E. Saunders, P.M. ... 1465 ' } n-ov.Prnv S.d.Us.S G D= the Great Overseer, he was found worthy to form part of that spiritual R. L. Thornton , P.M. „ 2459 ... J temple, that " house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." „ R. Piper, P.M. 851 ...... -)pnv1 rov. I .G.Ds.G Ds He was happy to announce that their Provincial Grand Secretary, Bro. „ H. Pearce, P.M. 1797 ...... 3 J the „ G. C. V. Inkpen , P.M. 38 ...... Prov. G.S. of W. Matthewman , had opened a register of the donations of the brethren to „ E. Histed, P.M. 732 ...... Prov. G.D.C. Mark Benevolent Fund, and it was much to be desired that all subscriptions ,, J. H. Longman , P.M. 56 ...... 'Prov. D.G.D.C. in the future should be sent through the Provincial Grand Secretary, although „ A. F. Lamette, W.M. 1947, P.M. 2187 ... Prov. A.G.D.C. it did not necessarily follow that promises must go through the same channel. „ R. Weston , W. 311, P.M. 1303 ...... Prov. G.S.B. J. Referring to the 26th annual Festival of the Benevolent Fund, which took „ F. C. Edwards. P.M. 40 ...... ) r> " ?WV' Gr- StcLo. 1 Brsn Grand j. Crefchton , P.M. nio I ' ' place in June under the presidency of the Etrl of Yarborough, Prov. „ W. C. Newsam , P.M. 1821 ...... Prov. G. Org. Master of Lincolnshire, and which resulted in £1894 being collected , he „ B. Burfield , P M. 1821 ...... Prov. A.G. Sec. said that of that sum West Yorkshire sent up £112 Os., more than one-half „ C. J. King, P.M. 1141 ...... Prov. G. Purst. of which was contributed by the lodge under whose banner they were „ W. Hosken , P.M. 1610...... Prov. A.G. Purst. ~ assembled. He, the Prov. Gi and Master , fully described the objects and ,, Smith Stone, P.M. 311 ...... ] working of the Mark Benevolent Fund, and strong ly urged upon the brethren ,, J. N. M eters, P.M. 341 ...... | In „ H. Whatl-rd P.M. 916 ...... I ,. . the desirability of g iving a regular and steady support to that Charity. J. Prov.„ G. Stwds.~ „ W. E. Rap.-,- . P.M 1184 [ conclusion , he said there was one other subject to which he must refer. At „ ]. Wend , P.M 1636 ... the suggestion of his Deputy, and entirely without his knowledge, a sum was „ R. P. Clowes, P.M. 2201 ...... j raised , and the chair of that province endowed in support of the Royal Prov. Grand Lod ge was then closed. Masonic Institution for Boys. That very handsome donation, to which every A word of praise is due to the Stewards, Bros. G. C. Vernon Inkpen , E. one of the 12 lodges in the province contributed, amounted 1050 guineas, ano Histed, R. Piper, H. Pearce, and W. Carless, for their admirable arrange- conferred five votes upon the Provincial Grand Mark Master for the time ments. Necessaril y the burden of the work fell upon Bro. R. Pi per, ex- being in perpetuity. He thanked the brethren for that further proof of their Mayor of wonhing, who, in conjuction with the Mayor and the brethren of confidence. It was very gratifying to him also that the Mark brethren ol the Worthing Lodge of Friendsh ip, had laboured with energy and zeal to this province should so unanimously have hel ped in raising the noble amount °f jf4500 > which their R.W. Prov. Grand Master, Bro. W. L. Jackson , as Oliver Papworth were elected Trustees in place of Bro. A. H. Moyes, Chairman of the Festival, was able to announce. deceased , and Bro. C. Galdard, who has left the province. A sum of five The DEPUTY PROVINCIAL GRAND M ASTER also addressed the guineas was voted to the widow of a late brother of No. 441. bret h ren. Votes of thanks were passed to the Mayor for the use of the hall and to The PROV. G. SECRETARY then announced letters of regret at inaVi lity lhe Charity Stewards. Provincial Grand Lodge was then closed. to attend from Bros. T. B. Whytehead , P.P.G.W., and A. W. Walker , The brethren , to the number of sixty, afterwards pirtook of a banquet Prov. G. Sec , N. and E. Yorkshire ; also from Bro. R. F. Morton , Prov. G. at the Rose and Crown Hotel, and the evening was spent in true Masonic Sec, Lincolnshire, as well as from other brethren. harmony. The PROV. G. SECRETARY next read a letter from Bro. T. Tomlinson, W.M. of Copley Lodge, Leeds, convey ing a most cordial invitation on the PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF WILTSHIRE . rart of himself and his breihren to Prov. Grand Lod ge, to hold its next meeting under the banner of No. in. The annual meeting of the above Provincial Gran d Lodge was held at The PROV. G. MASTER said that he hoped and believed we should at Chippenham on Saturday, thc ioth inst., in the Lodge Room of Lodge our next meetirg have a visit from the Pro G. Master , the Earl of Euston , Lansdowne, No. 626. The Prov. G.M., Bro. the Earl of Radnor , occupied that he would give him all the vacant days for six weeks after Easter the chair, and was supported by lhe Deputy Prov. Grand Master, Bro. to select from , lhat it would be the annual meeting, and that for the C. N. P. Phi pps, and more than too Present and Past Prov. Grand Officers convenience of the province generall y, he thoug ht it should be held in Leeds, and breihren of the various lodges of the province, including Bros. Harry and that unless something at present unforeseen occurred , he h id little Bevir , P.S.G.W. ; W. S. Bambridge, P.J.G.W. ; Rev. E. Anderson, doubt the kind invitation of Bro. Tomlinson and the Copley Lodge would be P.G. Chap. ; F. H. Goldney, P.G.D. England, Prov. G. Treas. ; T. C. accepted. Hopkins, P.G. Reg. ; H. Leaf, P.J.G.D. ; J. Chandler, P.P.S.G.W., The W ORSHIPFUL D EPUTY proposed a vote of thanks to Bro. George P.G.D.C ; H. Millington , P.G. Org. ; S. Snell , P.G. Purst. ; H. D. Wragg, W.M., the Past Masters and brethren of Britannia Lodge, particu- Evans, P.A.G. Purst. ; and W. Dean , P.G. Tyler. larly to Bro. H. J. Garnett, P.M., for the excellent arran gements they had After the transaction of business the Prov. Grand Master appointed his made for this meeting, and for the comfort and convenience of Prov . Grand officers for the ensuing year as follows : Lodge. He congratulated them upon the complete success of their labours. Bro. W. J. Mann ...... Prov. S.G.W. This was seconded and carried , and Bro. GEO . W RAGG having briefly „ H. Merrick...... Prov. J.G.W. acknowledged the compliment, Prov. Grand Lodge was closed. „ Rev. J. D. Dunlap ...... Prov. G. Chap. A tea a la fourchettc followed. This was excellently served and ,, E. B. Merriman ...... Prov. G. Treas. thoroughly appreciated. Upwards of 40 brethren partook. The after „ F. H. Phillips ...... Prov. G. Reg. proceedings were of the usual loyal and Masonic character, the meeting from „ Harry Bevir...... Prov. G. Sec. beginning to finish being a great and undoubted success. „ J. K. Read ...... Prov. S.G.D. „ E. Neale ...... Prov. J.G.D. „ E. Waters ...... Prov. G.S. of W. PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF CAMBRIDGE SHIRE. „ J. Chandler ...... Prov. G.D.C. „ C. J. Hibberd ...... Prov. A.G.D.C. The annual meeting was held at the Town Hall , Wisbech, on the invita- „ C. B. Oliver...... Prov. G.S.B. tion of the United Good Fellowship Lodge, No. 809, on Tuesday, the 20th „ H. H. Baker ...... Prov. G. Org. A Wellington ...... Prov. G. Purst. inst., for the appointment of officers and the despatch of other Masonic „ , „ J. Turner ...... Prov. A.G. Purst. business. „ VV. T. Coleman ...... Prov. G. Std. Br. Bro. Col. R. Townley Caldwell, Prov . Grand Master, was in the chair, „ C. Bishop ...... "} and was supported by Bros. Rev. Joseph H. Gray, Deputy P.G.M. ; G. ,, B. W. Cries...... f Prov . G. Stewards Carrick, acting P.S.G.W. ; H. Thorn , acting P.J.G.W. ; Revs. L. R. „ G. W. Kni ght ...... J Prov. G. T ler. Tuttiett and H. T. Cronin, P.G. Chap lains ; W. Bray, P.G; Treasurer . „ W. Dean ...... y Oliver Papworth, P.G. Secretary ; W. Grover, P.S.G.D.; G. Whitehead ! Provincial Grand Lodge received with regret the resignation of Bro. P.J.G.D. ; F. Dewberry, P.G.D.C; R. F. Percy W. Simpson, P.G.S.B. ; F. H. Goldney, as Prov. G. Treas., and a vote of thanks was accorded him W. II. Berrid ge, P.G. Org. ; and J. R. Bambridge, P.G. Purst. for his past services extending over 14 years. The atlendance also included Bros. F. R. W. Hedges, P.G.S.B. Eng., The usual banquet was held at the Angel Hotel, over 80 brethren sitting Secretary R.M.I.G. ; J. McKay, P.G. Std. Br. Eng., P.D.G.M. Westmor- down. land and Cumberland; J. M. McLeod, P.P.S.G.W. Derbyshire, Sec. R.M.I.B. ; A. S. Coxon , W.M. St. Peter's Lodge ; J. Sheppard , P.P.S. PROVINCIAL GRAND MARK LODGH OF G.W. Suffolk ; M. Cox, J. Clark, and others. WORCESTERSHIRE. The minutes of the last annual meeting having been read and confirmed , the roll of the Provincial Grand Officers was called, and also the roll of the The annual meeting of the above Provincial Grand Lodge was held at lodges. Dudley on Monday, the 19th inst., under the banner of the Godson Lodge, The P.G. Treasurer's accounts were of a satisfactory character, showing No. 330, when there were present Bros. A. F. Godson , M.P., Prov. G.M.; a balance of about £35. Abraham Green, D.P.G.M. ; Murray Haynes, P.G.O. ; W. T. Page, The P.G. Registrar 's return of the lodges for the past year showed a P.G.O. ; Rev. W. J. Down , P.G. Chap. ; W. E. Walker, P.G. Treas. ; ht decrease in membershi number who slig p, due mainly to the considerable T. F. Bland , Sec ; M. Smith, P.G.D.; J. W. Roberts, P.G.D.C. ; Duncan had left Cambridge. Shedden , P.G.S.B. ; W. Stansfield , P.G. Org. ; James Jones, P.G.I.G. ; Bro. W. W. Rouse Ball, P.M. 1492 , was elected P.G. Treasurer for the and many officers and members of the respective M irk lodges in the pro- year. vince. Visitors : Bros. Wright Wilson , P.G. Sec. Warwickshire, and Harry The P.G.M. then appointed and invested the Provincial Grand Officers Clark, 340. as under : The Prov. Grand Lodge was opened , and, after the usual routine busi- Bro. John Leach, S09 ...... Prov. S.G.W. ness, the P.G. Treasurer's accounts were approved, showing a credit balance, S. H. Sharman „ , 441 ...... Prov. J.G.W. and Iiro. W. E. Walker was unanimously re-elected P.G. Treasurer. 8S9 p :: K: 5Ll c£& ... ::: ::: } ™. G. chaPs. The P.G. CHAPLAIN having delivered a well-considered and appropriate „ W. Rouse Ball, 1492 ...... Prov. G. Treas. address, the alms were collected for the Mark Benevolent Fund , Bro . W. A. „ Oliver Papworth, 88 ...... Prov. G. Sec. Campbell volunteering as Provincial Charity Steward. „ A. J. Elworthy, 809 ...... Prov. G. Reg. The Prov. Grand Lodge was invited to Worcester for the nex t annual „ A. H. Ruston, 2107 ...... Prov. S.G.D. meeting under the banner of the Lechmere Lodge, No. 59. Several A. Hill ...... Prov. J.G.D. „ , 859... from the funds. „ W. Sindall, 88 ...... Prov. G. S. of W. Charitable grants were made „ J. Dewberry , 441 ...... Prov. G.D.C. The Prov. G. Master appointed his officers as follows : „ C. E. Boughton Leigh, 859 ...... Prov. A.G.D.C. Bro. A. Green ...... D.P.G.M. „ A. E. Priddle, 859 ...... Prov. G.S.B. „ T. F. Bland...... Prov. S.G.W. „ E. E. Girling, S09 ...... Prov. G. Org. „ M. Smith ...... Prov. J.G.W. „ C. W. Redin, 88 ...... Prov. G. Purst. „ W. T. Page...... Prov. G.M.O. „ C. F. Charlton , 88 ...... ^ „ J. Jones ...... Prov. S.G.O. „ F. W. Potts, 441 ...... I „ R. J. Surman ...... Prov. J.G.O. „ N. Symonds, S59 ...... j-Prov. G. Stwds. Rev. W. Down ...... Prov. G. Chap. . „ J. „ H. C. W. Windley ... „ W. E. Walker ...... Prov. G. Treas. ,, A. J. Briggs ,...... J „ Duncan J. Shedden ...... Prov. G. Reg. of M. „ C. H. Ellis ...... Prov. G. Tyler. „ Murray Haynes ...... Prov. G. Sec. The officers having been saluted, the report of the Cambridge Masonic ., W. Stansfield ...... Prov. S.G.D. Charity Association was received. „ W. A. Campbell ...... Prov. J.G.D. A Charity jewel was presented to Bro. P. H. Young, P.P.G.S.B., and a „ J. M. Harlow ...... Prov. G. I. of Wks. W. Roberts ...... Prov. G.D.C. Charity jewel Bro. Oliver Papworth , P.P.S.G.W., P.G. Sec. „ J. clasp to „ H. Newey ...... ••• Prov. G.S.B. On the motion of Bro. P. H. Y OUNG, it was agreed to vote 15 guineas „ C. A. Hatfield ...... Prov. G. Std. Br. to the Cambridge Masonic Charity Association for current expenses. „ J. S. Morris ...... Prov. G.I.G. On the motion of Bro.AV. BRAY, P.P.G. Treas., it was agreed to vote „ T. G. Dobbs...... Prov. A.G.S. lo guineas to one or mor^of the Royal Masonic Institutions. „ T.W. Knott ...... •¦• Prov. G. Tyler. Bro. Oliver Papworth was nominated to serve on the Board of Manage- After the lodge was closed , the brethren banqueted under the genial ment of Royal Masonic Institution for Boys. Bros. Rev. J. H. Gray and chairmansh i p of the Prov. G. Master, at the Saracen 's Head Hotel. PRO VINCIAL GRAND MARK LODGE OF As the best part jf man is the poetic, so it is 111 Masonry. Nobjdy will deny the latter, because as lo' g as it has existed nothing has been said in NORTH WALES. favour or praise of Freemasonry without reliance on its aid. The Craft it the of U"hersal has acknowledged it, stamp^ with seal approval, and m 1st The annual meeting of the above Provincial G-aM Lodge was held on either stand for it or acknowledge the institution worthless, as it would be Monday, the i9*h inst.. at Rh . l . Bro. Col. Hunter, P.G.M., presiding over whem eliminated from it. at exceptionally large attendance of brethren from all parts of lhe province. So far as the ordinary acceptation goes, poetry is little appreciated 'Oif . Prov. Grand Master invested his officers for the ensuing year as in the bustling hurry of our mneteenth'century competition to live, into which most of us can hardl y avoid being drawn ; but to own that the 'lows fo : suppression of humanity in the breast, and honesty in one's dealings, enables Bro. Lieut.-Col. Gordon-Warren ...... D.P.G.M. a man to be the better equipped to earn his living, is a confession few men „ Coxhead ...... Prov. S.G.W. would make ! .. T.iomas William 1; ...... Prov. J.G.W. Many people, I know, regard any kind of poetry, if they acknowledge „ Cap ain Ashley Randol ph ...... Prov. G.M.O. appreciation of it , as an inspiration of the mind more or less elegantly ,, T. B. Farrington ...... Prov. S.G.O. expressed ; but this is no poetry, and certainly not the kind I would wish to „ John Hughes ...... Prov. J.G.O. always find in a Mason ic Lodge and want preserving. 1 f poetry does not stir ev, ^h Evans G. our nobler qualities, which the jostling hubbub of life or the hardness of our " § ' | Prov. Chaps.r ,, Rev. Thomas Edwards...... ¦•¦ ) surroundings may have deadened—if it does not touch the chord s which .. Richard Bellis ...... Prov. G. Treas. responded so melodiously when the true poetry of life awoke in our youth:— „ J. Haworth ...... Prov. G. Reg. if it re-animates none of those lofty, ideal inspirations which the untrammelled „ \V. D. Henderson ...... Prov. G. Sec. enthusiasm of boyhood produces, but have long lain dormant under the cold ,, Dr. Jones Roberts ...... Prov. S.G.D. if it speaks not from the soul in ' calculating influences of the world—in short, ,, F. Fisher Jones ...... Prov. J.G.D. tones indicative of the source, and neither stirs our hearts in some degree to „ J. M. Gunn...... Prov. G.S. of W. our betterment, nor inspires our souls with gentle, noble or sublime feelings .. G. L. Woods ...... Prov. G.D.C. " ' ' ' (and I am deeply conscious myself of having been most likely a great sinner „ J. G. Jones ...... Prov. G.S.B. in this respect), it is no poetry at all, but worthless doggerel ! „ John Owen ...... Prov. G. Std. Br. ' Prosaic man says " I hritf acts—no poetry for me 1 " while deep away in „ Dr. T. K. L. Davies ...... Prov. G.I.G. the recesses of his heart he constantly yearns for it! The prosaic Mason says , ,, J. Burwell ...... Prov. G. Org. " if we don 't get on , the supper will be cold ; can't we skip a bit 1" and yet Prov G Stewards the latter will leave the said supper-table wilh a scowl if the poetry of :: H£Sih" ::: ::: ":] - - - Masonry be left out in proposing his health. ,, J. Vincent ...... Prov. G. Tyler. As I have more than once asserted , Maso nry might travel on stili wider The binquet was served at the Westminster Hotel. lines, but is influenced by the prosaic tendency of the world which it f ollows. The P ROV. G RAND M ASTER, in response to the toast of his health, referred It has all the qualifications of a leader , and everything to lose with nothing to gain from outside. It mi ht be a great social power ; but we older Masons to the great increase which had taken lace in Mark Masonry, no fewer than g p do exactly to our children in the Craft as parents generally too often do in 40 lodges hiving been added to the Order in England last year. these days, wilfully neglecting their need of encouragement, good example, love ; and then with hardened hearts looking around lo find on whom or what to throw the blame for the consequences. Is it any wonder that we CONSECRATION OF THE FITZWILLIAM MARK have the daily horrors in the newspapers, when by sapping child-life and crushing out the poetry of life in youth we are forming the man that is to be ? LODGE, No. 477, AT PETERBOROUGH. The same hardness of heart that prompts to train a youth to regard money- getting as the sole purpose of his existence, cannot fail to have its baneful Pi-Urbo-. ugh can now claim the distinction of having formed and opened effect. Similarly shut out the poetry of Masonry and ignore its teachings, and what is left ? The coming manhood is just as serious a contemplation th.. f ir Mnk luil gp since the inauguration of the new provinces, which for the Mason'C, as the society future, and " to be forwarned is to be fore- Grand M irk Lod has considered it desirable to create, ge on the decease of armed." —A, J. Leader in the Freemasons ' Repository. th* lamented B o. Kelly, late P.G.M. nf Leicester, and the gathering at the Freemasons' Hall, Peterborough, on Monday, the 19th inst, was worthy of this • ci a-ion. THE FREEMASONS AND MEDIAEVAL ART. The ceremony of consecration was conducted by the Pro Grand Master, the Eatl ol Euston , who is also Prov. Grand Master of Norths Hunts, and Architects are apt to forget that by the very fact of copy ing their pre- B-H«. decessors of the Middle iAges, they become most unlike them in that LT H En ton was accompanied by the following Grand Officers : Bros. particular circumstance which is the life and soul of all material art, the C«l. A. B. Cook . P.G.M. Middx., as S.W. ; C. FitzGerald M rtier, P.G.W., principle on which it is carried on. The present generation endeavours to G S.. asJ.W. ; Rev. J. H. Gray, G. Chip., as Chap. ; J. Balfour Cockburn , recover, like a dead language or a lost science, what the men of old exer- G.D.C as D C. i Jabez Church , P.G.O., as J.O. cised as a living, progressive, self-developing thing. We have, indeed, the The ceremony was carried out with all the ea=e and masterly skill and body, decayed and worn out as it is, but they had the spirit which quickened impressiveness which great experience in their special duties has made this it. It is a mistake to suppose that that spirit was identical with, or even di-.ii 'ein'-hfd Head of our O d-r familiar. the necessary result of , the Mediaeval faith . The two things are quite dis- The musical arrangements were under the direction of Bro. Richard tinct in themselves, as is evident from the fact that we retain ths latter, while Croft , P.M., P.P.G. Org., Leicester, &c, and in such able hands these were we had utterly lost and are now only recovering the former. Gothic archi- simpl y perfect. tecture was immediately and essentially suspended by the dissolution of the A word of praise must also be given to Bro. Clarabut, Hon. Sec. pro Freemasons, in whose hands it was vested like a vast monopoly, rather than tern , who has been indefati gable in his exertion-; to start the lod ^e. by the rupture in the unity of the Christian Church which took place in the The ceremo'-y of consecra ion being ended. B-o. C. F. Matier, P.G.W., sixteenth century. Without such an organised system as that wonderful and G. Sec. took the cha i r and installed B'O. G. C. W. Fitzwilliam as W.M. conftaternity supplied, no amount of religious feeling or enthusiastic faith The W .M. anr oint- d the following brethrt-n as his officers , and they could have achieved the great ecclesiastical works of the Middle Ages, were dulv investfd: Bros. T. Pni pps Dorman , P.M. 245, S.W. ; W. H. because (as at present) it would have been unable, so to speak, to embody P.ke, P.M. 292, J W.; Geo. C C r-ter, M.O. ; J. Hardy, S.O. ; J. B. itself in any definite , methodical, scientific way. At the present time few Vergette, J.O. ; Rev. P. Royston. Chap. ; J. C'ifton , Treas. j R. D. Adkins, men of genius supply a want and, as it were, a vacuum in the department of R*g. ; H. C. Cl-rabut, Sec. ; J. C. Ruyce, S.D.; J. S. Loweth , J.D. ; W. ecclesiastical art which was unknown and unfelt in the days of the Free- B.iy. r, Org. ; R. W. Elsey, l.G. ; F. Caster, Stwd. ; and H. Plowman, masons. Our bond of unity, so far as it exists in giving the preference to a T\ ler. particular style, is nothing more than a common consent to admire and Among't the numerous visitors present we noticed : Bros. Abraham copy their works. What, indeed, but a kind of rivalry to be foremost' in Woodiw s-, Prov. G.M. Derbyshire ; G. Ellard , P.G. Stwd., P.M. 245 ; reviving a lust art could now insure anything like an agreement or uni- Paget , Crolt, Hart , Hod ges, Fletcher, and R binson , W.M. 245. formity in building and decorating churches ? Where each one strive; The usual banquet took place at the Angel Hotel. to be the buit copy ist of an existing model it is obvious that at Ieist a very close approximation to uniformity will be the result. But this uniformity is a totally different thing from thit which formerly prevailed through the THE POETR Y OF MASONRY. influence ot co-operation and the restrictions of actual rule. It is just as diffe rent as the voluntary and independent attempts of five or six fellows of It would indeed be a sorry world if we were able to deny that there is a colleges to imitate the old monastic life would be from the working of an one case Poetry of Life ; and he who denies the Poetry of Masonry in the same sense, actual religious community living under the ancient rule. In the monasticism is a thing extinct or at least merely traditionary, in the other it has studied it to very little purpose ; his intellect is dull indeed. As in the is a living reality. So it is with modern church building ; the selection of a pnetrv of life , it is believed in at one period, the happiest, viz. : in our youth. style is atbitrary, and it is only to a general movement and a kind of fashion The Masonic youth of every man (1 speak with some years over a quarter of (induced no doubt by the best feelings of love and icverence for the mighty a century 's experience, passed as a keen observer of men and things), is past) that we owe the improved character and furniture of the churches wnich pissi cl in mixed wonder, with gratitude for the knowledge that ;i Society we see rising everywhere around us. Of the history, organisation, rules and exists wiih such x r Sessions toward God and man. This admiration of the craft of the ancient Freemasons next to nothing is known. But we cannot princi ples of a hitman institution , so instinctively interwoven with thankful- contemplate their works without being filled with amazement at the perfection ness towards a beneficent Creator—that elevation of the soul above the of a system which for many centuries together could cover the face of Europe ordinary io:tine of life awakened at ou' initiation—combined with the with buildings wherein every detail was, for the time bsing, in the strictest willing acknowled gment in the presence of our friends, and, as it were, in unison, a system under which every advancement and improvement of the the p-esence of Gid , acceptance ot those principles and avowal of trust in art was spread simultaneousl y and adopted unanimously by the wording Him—spring fion what may very aptly be called the poetry of Masonry. It thousands throughout a wide Continent. Not but that Christian architecture has reached the hear.", then, and however long or short may be the period of had national developments, or rather, perhaps took national directions its duration Ihere , runs on exactly parallel lines to what is called the poetry according to climate, material, and other external circumstances. For of life. The 'at'er circum^ance is the only reason why it is being subject instance, the early linglish and the contemporaneous continental geometric- to partial extinction , which could never have happened had the Craft occu- decorated , our perpendicular, and the gorgeous flamboyant of our neighbours pied its proper and original p'ace as a leader ins'.cad oi following th« ou '- are instances of these diverging tendencies, though all are essentially side world. subordinate to one rule and evidently animated by one spirit.—Architect. BOABB OF BENEVOLENCE. Robert Grey. He (Bro. Brett) did not profess to have tutions would have to be altered if they varied their the wisdom of King Solomon , but he knew one thing present princi p le. They could not make a rule of their The November meetingof the Board of Benevolence —that all the brethren of the Board were proud of own. In the op inion of the Board , there were fre- was held on Wednesday evenine at Freemasons' Hall , their President. There was an old proverb— " Like quentl y cases that were worth y of relief , althoug h the London. Bro. Robert Grey, P.G.D.. President of the master, like man,'' and he believed there was great petitioners might not have subscribed more than two Board ; Bro. James Brett , P.G.P., Senior Vice-Presi- truth in it , for when a president set a good examp le it years at a distant date. If Ihey were to alter their dent ; and Bro. C. A. Cotttbrune , Junior Vic--Presi- had great force and influence on those over whom he rule as suggested , they mi g ht have urgent cases where der t, occupied their respective chairs, while lhe Grand presided. It was not possible to lind a brother more they would be prevented relieving them. The remedy Secretary 's department was represented by Bros. able or more attentive—g iving his time constantl y at was in the hands of the Board , as they had the powerto Edward Letchworth , G. Sec. ; A . A. Pendlebury, Asst. that Board—more painstaking or patient than Bro. deal with every case on its own merits. G. Sec; William Dodd , and W. H. Lee. Among the Robert Grey ; he was the same Bro. Robert Grey now The subject then dropped , and the brethren conlirmed other brethren present were Bros. George B. Chapman , as he was when he first took the chair nearly nine recommendations made at the October meeting to the Charles J. R. Tijou , Charles Dairy, S. Vallentine , years ago. Ever since he first took the chair he had extent of £S7°- The new list contained 41 cases. Of David D. Mercer. Major-General F. Gadsden , James disp layed great jud gment, ability, and firmness , but at these only one was dismissed. The remainder were Bunker. George Read, Henry Garrod. W. P. Brown , the same time with consideration , patience, hel pfulness , relieved with a total of ,£, 1040. They came from S. V. Abraham , William Bywater, George Graveley, and great kindness. Considering the long list of London , Malton , Havant , Hocking, St. Helena , Pem- George R. Langley, F. Hilton , H. Williamson , S. H. business there was before the Board that night , he broke Dock , Dewsbury, Leicester , Hartlepool , Hexham , Goldschmidt , E. C. Mulvey, Robert H. Gowan , Walter would not be justified in taking up the time of the Aldershot , Wi gton , Shrewsbury , Ching ford , Plumstead , Martin , Charles Frederick Hogard , Walter Hopekirk , brethre n with further remarks, more especiall y as Bro. Norwich , Crewkerne, Gosport , and Bermuda. There W. F. Smithson , Thomas Minstrell , H. Ffrench Brom- Robert Grey was not only so well known to himself were five amounts of .£"50 each , five of ^,40 each , eight head, W. J. Barnes, Thomas R. Cass, Richard R. B. (Bro. Brett), but to all the brethre n both at that and all of .£30 each , 14 of ^20 each , six of l^io each , and two Staveley, J. Pickett, S. Quitmann , S. G. Sevinn , A. E. other Boards at which he gave his assistance. He of ;£s each. Sallaway, R. F. B. Lennard , R. A. Moody, W. Fincham , sincerely proposed " That a hearty and cordial vote of J. Vine, J. K. Gwyn , T. E. Tay lor, I. H. Gluckstein thanks to our Bro. Robert Grey be recorded on the , CITADEL LOUGH OF INSTHUCTION No. !S G. Waterall , W. P. Hubbert, H. Massey, T. Harper , minutes," and in doing that he was quite sure he ex- , g 7. VV. L. B. Seagrave, W. T. Warner, J. S. Tamburini, pressed the feelings of the brethren when he said he W. Harris, J. Whitehead , C. S. Mote, Wm. Shurmur, hoped that the Board might be honoured and A preliminary meeting of brethren living in the Ge)rge V. Rice, N. Fortescue, R. W. Muggerid ge, petitioners benefited by his being spared to preside neighbourhood of Stoke Newington was held at George E Fairchild , T. Bateman Fox, John Rawle, E. over the Board for many years to come. Farleigh Hotel , Amhurst-road , Stoke Newington (pro - Francis, A. j. Wilks, Thomas Sims, Saml. E. South- Bro. Henry Garrod , P.G.P., and Bro. C. A. Cotte- prietor, Bro. Jas. Cole, 115SJ, on Tuesday evening, gate, J. H. Matthews, F. Gallizia , C. E. Collins , Thos. brune, P.G.P., Junior Vice-President , rose together, but the 13th inst., for the purpose of formall y resolving Pickett, Wm. F. Smithson , J. F. Knibb, Howard the latter gave way. upon forming a lodtie of instruction , appointing the Sammons, John G. McEwen , Joseph Bolton , Henry Bro. H ENRY G ARROD , P.G.P., said , as one of the necessary ollieers, and framing by-laws. Times, Henry Stiles, Henry Roberts, W. P. Barnshall , oldest members of the Board of Benevolence , he would Bio. 1' . I. Bird , P. M . 1567 and iSj" (of which he is C. W. C. Jones, R. Pain Walkden , N. Goodchild , like vety much to second the motion. He knew Bro. senior P.M. andfounder), having received the authority Harold J. Harper, R. Gillard , W. M. Stiles, W. A. Cottebrune would like to do so as he had on previous of the Citadel Lodge, No. 1897, in the Province of Scurrah , R. Alaway, and Henry Sadler, G. Tyler. occasions ; but he hoped he might be allowed to second Middlesex , to hold a lodge of instruction under their The General Committee of Grand Lodge, or " Board it as one of the oldest members of the Board. It title, Bro. James Terry, P.G.S.B., Sec. R.M .B.I., of Masters," was first held for the adoption of the would , however, be needless for him to make any kindly consented to inaugurate the lodge on Friday agenda of Grand Lodge on December 5th , and the lengthened remarks, Bro. Brett having spoken so full y evening, the 16th inst., by a rehearsal of the ceremonies following proceedings took place. on the motion. The motion was carried unanimously. of con ecration and installation. Bro. RoBERT G REY said he should like to ask the Bro. R OBERT G REY , President , then said he felt by Bro. Terry was ably assisted in the work by Bros. Committee as to whether it would not be better that the remarks which had fallen from Bro. Brett that this John Mason , P.M. 156 7, &c, P.G.S.D. Middx., as S.W.; some minutes of the Committee should be kept. There was not merely a formal vote of thanks, but a sincere James Bunker , P.M. 115S, as J.W. ; the Kev. W. B. was no Committee he knew of that had not a record of expression of the feelings ot the brethren. Some little Robinson , 149 1, as Chap. ; T. I. Bird , P.M., &c, as its proceedings. There mi ght be at times a question time ago the Board resolved that their meetings should I .P.M. ; Willie Wri gnt , P. M. 1897, M.li Z. 1602, of what did or did not take place, and he thought it open at live o'clock , instead of six, in the evening. He P.P.G. Org. Middx., as Org. ; O. J. Von Holtorp, would be very much better that this Committee should was afraid however that that night the regular business P.M., P.P.G.D.C. Mid.ix., as D.C. ; J. R. Cordell , always have some record of the proceedings, some would not commence till long after six, and therefore P.M . 813, P.Z., as l.G. ; Harry Willsmer , 1507, as shorthand note of what transpired. He was sure it he would say only a few words as a consideration of Secretary. would be as fair to those who thought that they were fuller expressions, and he hoped the Board would The following members of the Io I ge formed on the perhaps not treated as they might have been at that accept them as his thanks. Bro. Brett had been kind 13th instant were present: Bros. ]. tL G.i-.kin , P. VI. Board as it would be to those who were members of enoug h to call him "the same Robert Grey to-day that 1897, P.A.G.D.C. Middx. ; C. J. Davison , P. vl. 1897; the Board. He would like to ask the Board if it was he was the first time he sat there." In spirit he was J. Osborne, P.M. and Se,:. 1897, P /-.' ; P. Young, their wish that in the future a minute of their proceed- the same; he was very proud and thankful to say he LP. vl. 1897 ; VV. Wnite>ide , D.C. 1567. and Sec. Sir ings should be made. did not feel himself so very much older, and he only Hug h M yddleton Lod ge uf Instruction ; C. J. Kooin- Bro. VV. P. BROWN enquired whether it was meant hoped he might continue so. He trusted it would be son, 1897; li. Einerv , 27, 192S ; Geo. K^obeM , S. VV. that there should be a record of the proceedings at the his great honour, as it would be his extreme pleasure, 1662 ; f. H. Palmer, 1 708 ; C. H. Ditenman , 1567 ; Board of Benevolence. to preside over the brethren for many years. He should Fred. Kebble, S.D. 1662 ; G. Clark , P.M. 1679 ; F. Bro. R OBERT G HEY said no, but only of the Quarterly only be too pleased to do so if it was the will of the Dunstan P. .VI. 1326 , Preceptor of Citadel anJ Dal- Meetings of the General Committee of Grand Lodge, M.W. Grand Master to again appoint him to that dis- housie Lodges of Instruction ; E. G. PUtt, 1327 ; D. because some discussion might take place at Grand tinguished post. It was a position of which he was J. Witte, IJ27 ; J. Cole, I15S ; T. Fieatel , 171 ; A. Lodge on what had occurred at the Committee. In justly proud , for he considered that that Board , and the Wyatt, 1567; and 1' . V. Fenn , 1567, and others. 19 cases out ot 20 the proceedings were merely formal Board which was so abl y presided over by his brother Visitors : Bros. I. P. Cohen , P.M. 20^; A. S. I'oJd , about the business to be transacted at the ensuing on his right—Bro. Loveland Loveland—the Board of I.P.M. 27; R. J. Campbell , P.M. 14 ^ 9; S. Pardoe, Grand Lodge, and the minutes would be merely for General Purposes—were the two Boards , which were P.M. 1585 , 1567; G. S. Denney, P.M. 16.7 ; F. Flood , information. But it might happen that something would the essence of Masonry, the backbone of the whole P.M. 1929 ; S. C. Kaufman , P.M. ; J. C. Yates, P.M. take place which might appea r to be invidious. At Craft . He had done his best here, but that best would 1366 ; S. Crane, P.M. 933; J. J. Cantle, P. AL 1791 ; all events, he thought it would be very much better have been utterl y useless had it not been for the W. S. Harvey, P.M. 1216 ; VV. Hicklin , P.M. 1201 ; that there should be a record. He therefore would universal kindness, assistance, and moderation he had N. Edmunds , P.M. 1894 ; H. G. Gush , P.M. 1541; VV. make a motion to that efftct. received from every brother who attended the meetings Harding, P.M. 2168 ; R. S. Tay lor, W.M. 1929 ; W. Bro. M ERCER and Bro. LANGLEY both thought it of the Board. It was not given to everyone to have Gray, P.M. 1489 ; and about Go otner brethren. would be well that such a record should be kept. the gift of patience ; he did not possess it himself , but Alter the lodge had been opened , Bro. Terry ad- Bro. J. B RETT seconded the motion. he could onl y say that if at any time he had said a dressed the brethren upon the object of the meeting, Bro. R OBERT G REY then put the motion " That word that might have been taken as a little sharp, or the usual ceremony of consecration was then proceeded minutes of the proceedings of the General Committee unbrotherly, or unkind , there was no feeling of that sort with , after which Bro. F. Dunstan, P.M., one of the shall be kept regularly and be confirmed at the next in his mind, and he asked their pardon. He looked Preceptors, was installed as W.M., and appointed his General Committee." forward to the future with as much pleasure as he oflicers. 1 he motion was carried unanimously, and the agenda looked back on the past—the pleasure of bestowing A hearty vote of thanks was accorded Bro. Terry and was then settled. and extending relief to those who had not been so the ollieers who had so ably assisted him in the per- The Board of Benevolence was thereupon opened. fortunate as the members of that Board. That was formance of these most beiutiful ceremonies , on the Bro. JAMES BRETT, S.V.P., said that as that evening his idea , to extend relief to the distressed , and as long proposition of Bro. B IRD , I.P.M., who spoke in high was the last occasion when the meeting of the Board as they carried out that princi ple of loyalty to the terms of the great service rendered to the Citadel for the present year would be held, he thought that precepts of the Craft so long would they stand at the Lodge of Instruction by the presence of so prominent as Stewards of the important Fund of Bene- head of the Craft which stood at the head of the world a brother, and Bros. Terry, Mason , Rev. VV. B. Robin- volence, it was desirable that they should look back of Masonry. son, and W. Wright were unanimously elected honorary and review the result of their year's labours. He Bro. DAVID D IXON M ERCER , P.G.P., said that before members. thought they could do so with much satisfaction to considering the cases on the paper he would like to ask The permanent officers of the lod ge are Bros. O. J. themselves, when they considered that in that time, the opinion of the President whether the time had not Von Holtorp, P.M. 1897, P.G.D.C. Middx , and F. with some thousands of pounds, many poor Masons in arrived for the Board to take some steps with regard to Dunstan , P.M. 1326 , Preceptors ; T. I. Bird , P.M. 156 7, distress and trouble had been relieved by the Board ; those petitioners who had ceased to be paying members 1897, P.Z., P.G.S.B. Middx., Treas.; Rev. W. B. in addition to whom many widows and children of of lodges for some time. At the last meeting they had Robinson , 1491, Chap. ; C. J. Robinson , 1897, Org. ; Masons had also been relieved. That was to the some cases before them where the petitioners had not and Harry Willsmer , 156 7, Sec. brethren who formed the Board a great privilege as well paid for 30 or 40 years. There were some such cases No less than 53 joining members were elected from as a great pleasure. But to do this spontaneously, before them that ni g ht , where they had subscribed two among the visitors present , a number believed to be efTecti\el y, and with equal justice to all—with as much or three years, and then ceased for years. He thoug ht almost unprecedented in any lod ge of instruction , and liberality as possible—it was necessary to give not an they ought to take their circumstances into considera- making with the founders a grand totil ot 75 members occasional, but a constant attendance at the Board , tion , and he would like to take the feeling of the Board in less than a week. because it was not possible to form a correct opinion whether there should not be a limit ot time when a The Citadel Lodge of Instruction will m^et a want of the distribution of the funds at the disposal brother should beallowed to come to the Board for relief. long felt in the nei ghbourhood of Stoke Ne.vington , of a Board without the knowledge of its income, Bro. J AMES B REII" said they could not do it without and under the guidance of such well-known Masons as and whether it would last out the year. On that getting the law altered. Bros. Bird , Von Holtorp, and Dunstan , with the assist- Board they had seen , on some occasions, distin- Bro. D. D. M EKCEK said according to the law a ance of the able, popular , and energetic Bro. Harry guished brethren come forward to support cases, and brother must have paid two years to his lodge. He Willsmer as Secretary, will no doubt be able to supp ly hy great ability and elocutionary power, had so advo- could see nothing in the book with regard to altering instruction to all Masons in the north-ea st of London cated those cases as to lead the Board to vote larger the rule. who are desirous of obtaining it. sums than they otherwise would , and that to the detri- Bro. C. J. R. Tijou , P.A.G.P. . We cannot alter it. The lodge room is admirably adapted for purposes ol ment of very strong cases. As he had said , to do the Bro. D. D. M ERCER . There is nothing to prevent instruction , and the host , Bro. J. Cole, his provided it work well , required not only constant attention , but us limiting the time. with square pavement, while various founders—notably good government, and that was the point to which he Bro. R OBERT G REY lead Rule 234, and said it was Bro. Fred. Keboell—have presented the necessary wished to draw the brethren's attention , and was the peifectl y clear—and he thoug ht Bro. Lovelai.d , whom working tools , &c, so that the lodge is as full y equi pped Purpose lor which he rose. He was going to propose he would appeal to, would endorse what he said—that as even the oldest regular lodges holding warrants from a vote of thanks to thc President of the Board, Bro. they could not go beyond that. The Book of Consti- the Grand Lod ge of Eng land. STREET HOTEL PHCENIX FIRE OFFICE, PICTURE FRAMES , CANNON , CROSS , MASONS' CERTIFICATES , &c , CANNON STREET , E.C. 19, LOMBARD ST., & 57J CHARING FRAMED TO ANY DESIGN. LONDON — Established 17S2. Lovssr Current Rat es I Assure d free of all Liability I-I . MORELL , RITTER & PUZEY , P ROPRIETORS . lied liberal and Prompt Settlements | Electric Lighting Rules supp 17 & iS, GREAT ST. ANDREW ST., BLOOMSBURY , W. C. MACDO NALD , 1 Joint LONDON , W.C. J F. B. MACDO NALD , J Secretaries. SPACIOUS AND COMMODIOUS ROOMS Importer and Manuf acture r of all kinds of PICTURE FRAME and ROOM MOULDINGS , Carver , Gilder , and FOR LARGE OR SMALL INSURANCE COM- ACCIDENT Mmnt ' utter , having the l argest Stock in the United MASONIC LODGES , PANY LIMITED. Kingdom , and a larg e sts ff of experienced Workmen , is to. ST. SWITH IN'S LANE , LONDON , E.C. a e t ¦ x¦¦' ute all orders at the lowest rate with dispatch . AND , c-ntaim' ng all the newest Designs, Injuries. Send for Pattern Book General Accidents. I Personal Post free for 6 Penny Stamus. Estimates given. BANQUETS, Deaths by Accident. 95 Pages , Railway Accidents. | Telegrams , " Rabbitry, London. 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The RESTAURANT on Eastern Side of Hotel Entrance "THE PROFESSIONAL NOTE ," is open to the' public from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for Breakfasts , Send for Specimens of High Class Stationery, Visiting Luncheons , Teas , and Dinners. Cards , and Dies gratis. A High-class Vellum Paper , with Roug h or Satin Surface. Also gratis on application:—Boo k of Exam ples of Monu- The 2s. Hot Luncheon , from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., in Coffee SAMPLES ON APPLICATION. Room , unequalled. mental Brasses, and Specimen Book of Brass Door Plates. Registered Address for Telegrams :— Catalogue of Seal Engraving, etc. (illustrated), stamps. Send for Illustrated Price List Free. 13 CLEMOW , LONDON. MATTHEWS, DREW, &COMPANY, Illustrated Tariff Post Free. MANCHESTER" HOTEL, 37 & 38, HIGH HOLBORN , LONDON , W.C. THE " A LDERSGATE -STREET , E.C. (Opposite Chancery Lane). FUNERALS OF EVERY Law Writing Department—10 , G RAY ' S I NN P LACE , W.C. FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL. DESCRIPTION. 300 BEDS. OALS. COALS. COALS. LONDON NECROPOLIS Co., p Immediatel y opposite the Aldersgate Station of the Metro- 188, W E STMIN STER BRID G E R OAD, politan Railway, and central and convenient for everywhere . 2, L ANCASTER P LACE , ST R AND . COCKERELL' S (L IMITED ), 13, CORNHILL , LONDON , E.C. THE " BRISTOL" & " GLOUCESTER" ESTABLISHED 1795. ROOMS BONDED STORES—LEITH , SCOTLAND. For Prices, see Daily Papers ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR MASONIC PURPOSES OLD GRANS SPECIAL TODDY, AT REASONABLE TERMS. THE CREAM OK Trucks direct from the Colliery to every Railway Station. FINE BANQUETING HALL. HIGHLAND WHISKY. HEPBURN AND COCKS, GUARANTEED TEN YEARS OLD. Terms and all particulars on application to A Perfect Blend of Choicest Brands of Finest DEED , CASH BOX , WROUGHT IRON FRAME AND Old Scotch Bro. F. G. NEWELL , Manager. Whiskies. STRONG-ROOM DOOR MANUFACTURERS , Samp les Free. Carriage paid on orders of one dozen and For many years in C HANCERY L ANE , respectfull y beg to BREE'S ROYAL HO TEL, JERSEY upwards. inform the public that they have removed o Healthiest situation in St. Helier. For Prices and Agencies app ly to Wirksworth. 20 degrees cooler than the sea front. See Reports of ARTHUR H ILL H ASSALL , M.D., London , 49A , LINCOLNS' INN FIELDS, Author of " Food and its Adulteration ; " E DWY G ODWYN (S.W. CORNER), BED AND BREAKFAST AND 6/-. C LAYTON , F.I.C., F.C.S.; G RANVILLE H. S HARPE , LONDON , VV.C. 5/6 F.C.S., Analyst , late Principal of the Liver pool College of FULL BOARD , ROOMS & SERVICE , 8/0 & 9/- per day. Chemistry ; The " Anti-Adulteration Revie w," &c. ; Dr. Works—sg, WYCH STREET, STRAND. G ILBERT D. S UTHERLAND , F.E.I.S., Consulting Analyst Over a hundred years ' reputation lor Quality and Telegraphic Address— "B REES , J ER SEY ." and Food Expert , speciall y retained by the National Food Good Value. Reform Association. Estimates given . Established 1790. Price Lists ALEXANDRA HOTEL, CHARLES WRIGHT & SON, **¦ ST. LEONARDS-ON-SEA. W IRKSWORTH and L ONDON . E'ADE'S GOUT & RHEUMATIC LEADING FIRST-CLASS H OTEL. DUE SOUTH. FISH , POULTRY , GAME , OYSTERS. • PILLS. FACING THE SEA . Spacious Public Rooms. Conservatory and Lounge. THE FIRST TWO PILLS TOOK THE PAIN AWAY. Hydraulic Lift and every modern improvement. Tabl e IOHN GOW , LIMITED d'hote Dinner separate tables at Night Porter. 0 , 7. 86, OL D BROAD STREET , E.C. EADE'S PILLS , 2, College Park Villas, Kensal PERCY BEER , M ANAG ER (late 17, New Broad Street , E.C ), Green , London , W., May, (Late of Bailey 's Hotels, London). EADE'S PILLS. 1891. 12, HONE Y LANE MARKET , CHEA PSIDE, E.C, Dear Sir ,—1 feel it my dut y to tell DENTISTRY. 93, TH EOBALD' S RD., HOL BORN . W.C, EADE'S PILLS you I had Rheumatic Gout twice , and DENTAL COMPANY, AND had to stop at home for three weeks. THE 86, HIGH STREET , PECKHAM , S.E. 1 cannot describe the pai n 1 suffered. 1 read your adver- 213, REGENT STREET , W. tisement , and looked upon it as all others. A brother ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DENTISTRY. JOHN GOW , Limited , always have on sale the Lar gest signalman said , " Try them. " I did so. Stock in London of the Very Best Quality at Lowest Prices. Artificial Teeth with all the recent Improvements , without THE FIRST TWO PILLS TOOK THE PAIN AWAY H IGH -C LASS PROVISION STORES ( NOW OPENED ), the removal of stumps , or causing the least pain. Americ an in a few hours , and I was able to resume Teeth entirely without VVires or Plates. Extractions with So, 51, and 52, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. GOUT. my work. No one need be fri ghtened the aid of Gas or Ether Spray. to take them. I have recommended Ihe Dental Company have an improved and painless GENTLEMAN wide RHEUMATISM , them to all whom 1 have heard com- EDUCATED , system of fixing Artificial Teeth. desire s laining of Rheumatism Gout Commercial Experience , prime of lite, p , , Lum- America n Sjsttm of Gold Crownin g and Pivoting EMPLOYMENT. Cash ier or any bago , Neural gia , &c. I hope no one , Business Manager , GOUT. Stumps. Croivn Bar and Brid ge Work. such capacity at low salar y. Ban kers ' will doubt my statement. —Yours sin- Life-long character. and other highest references. —J . R AMSDEN R ILEY , P.Z., R1IEUMAT1SM. cerel y, JAS. PETTENGALL. CONSULTATIONS F REE . Grey-road Walton Mr. G. Eade. 49, , , Liverpool. The Dental Company guarantee all work. EADE'S GOUT & RHEUMATIC PILLS. FOR SALE, £4 4s. Prepared only by George Eade , DUTCH BULBS. G WEAT U NRESERVED SALES GOULD'S HISTORY OF FREE- 72 , Goswell Road , London , E.C.; and EVERY D AY . MASONRY , Sold by all Chemists in Boitles, is. lid., and 2s. gd. 5000 LOTS SOLD WEEKLY. Morocco. Published Price , £$ 5s. EADE' S GOUT & RHEUMATIC PILLS. Freemason Office , 16 & iCa , Great Oueen-street , Londo n , MESSRS.PROTHEROE& MORRIS W.C. THE BEST MEDICINE FOR BILE , will Sell by Auction , at their THE BEST MEDICINE FOR WIND, C ENTRAL SALE R OOMS , 07 & OS , C HEAPSIDE , L ONDON . THE WESTMINSTER PALACE THE BEST MEDICINE FOR INDIGESTION ,, E.C , H O TEL , is Every Day at 12, large consi gnments of VICTORIA STREET , S.W. pADE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS. HYACINTHS , TULIPS , CROCUS , NARCISSUS , and olher Bulbs , Recently m oderni sed, and now replete with every They quickl y remove irritation and feverish .state of the icceived direct from Holland. STOMACH , correct the morbid condition of the LIVER , convenience and comfort. Electric Light Commissions carefull relieve the system of all impurities , which , by circulatin g in y executed for those unable to througho ut. the Llood , injuriousl y a ffect the action of the KIDNEVS , attend. Goods packed and forward ed to all parts. Six- and , by icmoving the causes of somuch discomfort , restore pence in stamps remitted to the Auctioneers as above will CHARGE FOR ATTENDANCE ABOLISHED . the vital energ ies of bod y and mind. ensure a supp ly ot catalogues lor 12 sales. SPECIAL TERMS N.B.—Sales of plants evciy Mond ay and Thursda y ; EADE'S ANTIBILIOUS PI LLS. Oichids every Friday. IOR THE .Sold by all Chemists in Boxes, is. 1 id. and 2s. tjd., or ACC O MM O DATI O N O F MA SONIC LO DGES Ma i'e:1. 7rce on receipt of remittance by GEORGE EADE, FREEMASON—FOR SALE a THE I NSTALLATION AND OTHER BANQUETS. 72, Goswell Road , London , E.C. comp lete set from the commencement; bound in cloth ; price £20. Apply li. C , Freemason Office, iG, Bro. GEO. J. BRINKWORTH , EADE' S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS. J G reat Queen-st reet , W.C. Manag e! THE FOLLOWING HOTELS OF Now Ready. In Cloth, Red Edges. Price 2s. 6d. among Royal Arch Provinces, we are confident that THE MIDLAND RAILWAY Middlesex will become as prosperous under the new COMPANY will be found complete in all the MASONIC PRONOUNCING regime in this branch of Masonry as it has been in the arrangements, and the charges moderate. DICTIONARY, Craft. For one thing it has a goodly muster-roll of Giving the Pronunciation and Definition of every word MIDLAND GRAND susceptible of a mispronunciation , used in the work of chapters, while his lordship will have the advice and (St. Pancras Station) London, N.W. , Consecration, and Funeral Service, assistance of two capable R.A.' The new Initiation , Installation s in Comps. Thrupp in the Craft Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery, and and M ead , the newly-appointed Prov. G.H. and Prov. VENETIAN ROOMS the Supreme Council, in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish at this Hotel Rite, by G.J . are available for Wedding Breakfasts, and Public and ¥ * * Private and Masonic Banquets. REV. JAY A. FORD, ADELPHI Past Master, and Masonic Lecturer, and Prelate of Battle- There are few men in our ranks who have worked Creek Commandery, No. Knights Templar. (Near Central Station), LIVERPOOL . 33, harder and are better deserving of being honoured QUEEN'S, LEEDS. LONDON : than Bro. G. W. Speth , the indefatigable Secretary MIDLAN D, BRADFORD. GEORGE KENNING , 16 & 16a Great Queen-street, W.C. of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, No. 2076, and the MIDLAND, DERBY. editor of its Transactions, and it was with sincere MIDLAND, MORECAMBE. THE CRITERION , pleasure that last week we published a report of the Tariffs on application. proceedings which recently took place—in connection with the 1 nstallation meeting of the lodge—under the Telegraphic Address—" M IDOTEL." PICCADILLY. auspices of Bro. Sir Charles Warren, when Bro. W ILLIAM TOWLE , Hotels, &r., Manager. Speth, in recognition of his valuable services, was Dining and Luncheon Carriages (ist and 3rd class) are presented with a gold watch and chain. Here, indeed, attached to express trains between London (St. Pancras) there can be no doubt that honour was paid to whom and Glasgow (St. Enoch). Luncheons, Teas, Dinners and honour was due, and we congratulate both Bro. Speth other refreshments served en route at Midland Railway ALL DEPARTMENTS NOW Buffet prices. For times of departure and other particulars who received the testimonial and the members of the see Midland and other Time Tables. lodge who presented it. # «T AURENT - RE-OPENED * * At the recent meeting of the Provincial Grand -PERRIER" Lodge of Worcestershire, held at Malvern , the bre- thren attended Divine service in the fine old Priory SANS-SUCRE Church. Amongst other good things a new Masonic AKTER anthem , entitled " Bear ye one another's burdens," BOUZY-REIMS. VINTAGE 1889. was well rendered, and met with general approval. The composer is Bro. Walter F. Newton, S.W. 1204, GRAND VIN BRUT. and Prov. Grand Organist ; and we are glad to see he RE-DECORATIONS & IMPROVEMENTS. has published the anthem, which is sure to be a success at consecration and other meetings. The only * * * In our report last week of the installation of Bro. NATURAL BRUT CHAMPAGNE F. H. Macklin as W.M. of the Asaph Lodge, we OK THE HI GHEST CLASS THE EAST ROOM , omitted to notice the very beautiful card of invitation that had been issued for the occasion. It speaks well Without any added Sugar or Alcohol. for the zeal and interest shown by individual members that an artist of the reputation of Bro. Glendoni should Enlarged to meet its Constantly Increasing At all SPIERS & POND 'S Establishments, and every have devoted so much time and skill to the execution leading Hotel, Club, and Restaurant. of a special design for this meeting. The result was a Patrona ge, and entirely Re-decorated for the charmingly dainty etching, which all will treasure as a JUJASONIC 'XMAS GREETING memento of the occasion. service of the most # # • In this connection also a novelty was provided and CARDS. , much dignity was lent to the proceedings by the per- formance of an entirel new musical ritual b Bro. Dr. RECHERCHE DINNERS AND SUPPERS. y y J. Hornsey Casson. This was sung most impressively by four brethren, who are the chief soloists at St. Paul's Cathedral. One knows of the ordinary anthem BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED. which is occasionally introduced into the Masonic Is the Best Ventilated and Most Elegant Restaurant ritual, but we think this is the first time that a special Masonic service has been composed using the words in London. of the ritual. The music is very good, and we believe that Bro. Casson is about to publish it. PARTRIDGE & COOPER , « THE " STATIONERS , NEW DESIGNS NOW READY. 191 & 192, FLEET STREET, LONDON, Would invite attention to their Scotland LARGE AND WELL - SELECTED STOCK OF GLASGOW. GENERAL & FANCY STATIONERY, Lodge Of St. John (3 Bis.).—A funeral Suitable for presents, such as Inkstands, Stationery, lodge in memory of the late Bro. John Dick, P.M., Cabinets, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Dressing Bags, Glasgow, was held on the 15th inst. Bro. Peter Brownlie, Travelling and Brief Bags, &c, all of which are enumer- R.W.M., occupied the chair, and was supported by a large number of brethren, including Bros. R. A. M'Gilvray, SELECTION OF NIN E DIFF ERENT ated in their New Illustrated Catalogue, sent free on appli- cation. LP.M.; J. L. Cowan, S.W.; P. Bland, acting J.W.; Geo. W. Sellars, B.B. ; Alfred King, S.D.; Geo. Kean , SO RTS, acting J.D.; C Macfarlane, D. of M.; D. S. Law, Stwd.; James Brown, l.G. ; Past Masters James Taylor, jun. ; ex-Deacon-Convenor Thomas Mason, John Anderson, jun.; JamesM'Millan ; Bros. Wm. Cochran, A. L. Wright, 2s. 6d. POST FREE. J. A. S. Kerr, Deacon Andrew Gray, Deacon James Laird, __£. C. Morgan, Jonathan Campbell, Wm. Dick, Wm. L. Dick, and Jas. William, R.W.M. 3C0. The lodge having been opened, the R.W.M. intimated , SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1894. apologies trom Past Masters Bros. Major Johnston , Wm Kyle, Colonel Menzies, Rev. Thos. Somerville, Rev. Moses Taggart, John Ferguson, A Bissett, S.M.; Alex. Leitch, R. Kyle, Sec, and others. The proceedings, which were ODaaonic notes. printed, were then gone through, in the course of which GEORGE KENNING , 16 & i6.\, GREAT QUEEN STREET, We congratulate our Royal Arch companions of Bro. ex-Deacon-Convenor Mason, P.M., delivered the oration. Bro. Mason in eloquent terms referred to the LONDON , W.C Middlesex on the installation of Comp. Lord George deceased, whom he had known for 40 years. He dealt Hamilton^^^^^^^, M.P., as Grand Superintendent of the Pro- with his early youth, the indom itable perseverance and vince. It may not always be possible, but it certainly energy which characterised him in his business, and indeed FRANK HASWELL , in all the affairs in which he interested himself, the peace (KSTABLISIIED 1817), is eminently desirable, that the two branches of con- and happiness of his home life, the nobility of character SIGN AND GLASS WRITER TO THE TRADE. stitutional Masonry—the Craft and the Arch—should and goodness of heart which distinguished him as a Free- 4, SOHO STREET be in charge of the same person but where as in the mason, and finally the courage and patience with .which , OXFORD STREET, LONDON, W. ; , he strove against the disease which ultimately caused his case of Bro. Lord George Hamilton , the Craft ruler death. ARTISTIC WRITER TO THE has been successful in his administration , and it is The R.W.M. endorsed Bro. Mason's well chosen known that he is eligible to preside over the Arch, it remarks. He had been in office with the late Bro. Dick, FINE ARTS. and knew the loss which had been sustained by his death, TESTIMONIALS A SPECIALITY . would be an act of singular unwisdom to select any and he felt gratified that the lodge had now conferred the other companion, however distinguished a Mason highest honour it was in its powei to bestow. He expressed T^OR SALE-Quatuor Coronati Lodge he might be, for the appointment. Happily for Middle- ths pleasure it afforded him at seeing so many members ¦*¦ the departed P.M., and he " Reprints," C vols, (one bound) ; " Transactions," sex, his lordship did not present as a mark of respect to 7 vols. ; " Bain's Reprints," Nos. 1 and 2; and " Richaid- press his unwillingness, on felt sure that the deceased's family would appreciate the son 's Robert Burns;" in one Lot ; unsoiled ; £15, or offers the score of inexperience, to accept the post of Grand honour which had been done to his memory. Wanted .—Address, LEX , Freemason office. Superintendent, and as it has now resumed its place The lodge was then closed in.due and ancient form. impressive manner. He appointed his officers as follows • Corree ponDence. iRevtewe. Bros. VV. Bradford , S.W. ; T. H. T. Jarvis, J.W.; H Kemp, S.D. ; W. C. Tvler, J.D. ; S. Godden, P.M.' "FROM SNOWDON TO THE SEA ." Stirring Stories of Treas. ; Weaver, P.M., S<=c. ; A. Clarkson , I.G. ; A MURDERED FREEMASON. J. C" North and South Wales. By Marie Trevelyan. author E. Muller, D.C; A. V. H. Pauncefort, P.M., Ore. ; T. To the Editor of the " Freemason. " of " Glimpses of Welsh Life and Character," &c. J. Hester, Stwd.; and I. Gilbert , Tvler. Afterwards the Dear Sir and Brother, "T HE M AKERS OF B RITISH I NDIA ." By W. H. Daven- chair was occupied by Bro. A. V. H. Pauncefort. P.M., port Adams. New Edition , revised and brought down and five eentlemen , viz. : Messrs. W. G. Butler, Percy J. The following clipping from The Pennsylva nia to date. With a Map and 12 Illustrations. Driver, A. T. Chamberlain, R. I. Spencer, and G. Geen Grit of October 17th last may interest many of your "A TALE TOLD UY TWO ." By L. E. Tiddeman , author were initiated. Two brethren were relieved from the readers. Perhaps some of our American brothers will of " Prim 's Story," " Little Miss Masterful," &c. Benevolent Fund. be able to furnish further information on the subject , Illustrated hv O. L. Thnmas. The lodge was closed and a banquet afterward s took and I hope they will do so.—I am, dear sir and brother, " U P IN THE O LD P EAR TREE ." A Holiday Story by place. S. P. Armstrong, author of " Pup and Peggy," &c. The usual loyal and Masonic toasts were proposed and yours fraternall y, Illustrated by H. W. Petherick. GEORGE MARKHAM TWEDDELL. the proceedings were enlivened by Bro. F. C. Bevan, who " T HE PALACE OF I DEAS ." By Louise Alice Riley, author contributed several songs during the evening. Rose Cottage, Stokesley, of " Father Christmas's Stories." Illustrated by Robert November 16th. Buxton. South Norwood Lodge (No. " 1139).—The "A woman with a remarkable history—a history "U NCLE TOM 'S CABIN : OR , LIFE AMONG THE installation meeting of this lodge was held on Saturday, LOWLY ." By Harriet Beecher Stowe. Abridged for the inst., that would make many brave men shake—resides near young readers. With Illustrations. 17th at the Pavilion , South Norwood Park. Muncie, Ind., and is at present quite prominent in an London : John Hogg, 13, Paternoster Row. There was a good attendance of members and visitors, extensive lawsuit against the United States. The As usual, our worthy Bro. Hogg is well to the front with among those present being: Bros. Aug. Beddall, W.M.; woman in question is Mrs. Sarah Barker , nee Morris. his gift books for Christmastide, nor have we, as usual , Percey H. Horley, S.W. ; F. Callam, J.W.; A. H. Her suit against the United States was brought on by the slightest doubt they will prove acceptable to the public. Evans, P.M., Treas.; G. E. Becker, P.M., Sec. ; C. S. the massacre of her husband and children , destruction Of the half-dozen we have received as specimens of his Dear S.D. ; H. M oger, L. B. Pillin enterprise, the most important is the work entitled , J.D. ; , P.M., D.C. ; of her home, and other injuries she received personally W. Hamsder, l.G. ; F. Livingstone, Stwd.; R. at the hands of the Cheyenne Indians, for which she " From Snowdon to the Sea. It contains some 20 H. Goddard , Tyler ; E. F. S. Green P.M. ; G. E. wants in the neighbourhood of §20 ,000. stories, the scenes of which lie in different parts of the , Becker, principality. They are, without exception, admirably told, P.M.; J. J. Kern, P.M.; Churchward, P.M.; Corner "A short time ago Hon. John VV. Jones, of Bone- , and those who delight in reading folk-stories and the weird P.M. ; Corner, Martin, and others. Visitors : Bros. man, Mont., arrived in Muncie to secure evidence to tales and curious superstitions ot an ol 1 country like Wales be used in this claim. In her deposition she says : will find material enoug h in these pages to grati fy their Wilson, P.G.S.D. Herts ; Geen, P.M. 1962; Eckersall, P.M. Hart, Mullen Childs Marti n, Gurney, "' We carried on a hotel and store business for taste. Among those we have read with the greatest plea- 217; , , and several months, when the Indians attacked us killing sure are ** The Master ot Llantysilio "—a story of the Dee Murison . , bide; " Till the Day of gment —a night in the Chair my husband and three other men and capturing my- Jud After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and of Idris ; " lhe Flight of the Merl yn;" " The Man of the confirmed , the initiation of Messrs. Jenninjs, Litchfield , self and my little boy Charlie, who was 15 months Moat House " ; " Bound lor Llandovery " ; and " The old. The Indians burned the house and took all the Legend ot Rhitta the Giant." But each tale has its special Woodd, Galsworthy, and Capt. Galsworth y was proceeded stock, burned the Wagons and everything on the place, merit, and we have selected the lew we have specified with, the rehearsal of the ritual by the W.M., Bro. A. including the hay.' haphazard as illustrating the several merits of the author's Beddall , being very impressive. The last named initiate is " Speaking of her own experience when captured, style. We may add that the book, wnich is dedicated by Capt. Galsworthy of the ship " Kow Shing," sunk by the she says : ' During the day the Indians would place permission to Loid Windrom , Lord Lieutenant of Gla- Japanese soon after the outbreak of the present war with morganshire, is neatl y b-iund in cloth and printed in capital China. Bro. Percy H. Horley, W.M. elect, was then me on the pole drags and cover me with buffalo robes. type. presented by Bro. Kern, P.M. (who acted as D.C Often they would not clock , Bra. go into camp until 10 o' Mr. Davenport Adams's " The Makers of British India " Pillin , P.M., D.C, being absent through indisposition), to at night, eating only once a day, and then sometimes is a new edition of a work which has already found favour Bro. A. Beddall, who, in due course, performed the cere- only dog meat. with the public. It has been carefull y revised and brought mony of installation in a manner which gave great satisfac- " My child was brought to me in about three months. down to date, and should be very popular with those tion to all present. Bro. Horley appointed and invested his My babe was brought to me only to be taken in a who love to read of the adventurous doings of the warriors officers as follows : Bros. F. Callam, S.W. ; C. S. Dear. heartrending manner. About one month after they and statesmen to whom is due the estabhsnment of our rule J.W. ; R. H. Evans, P.M., Treas. ; G. E. Becker, P.M., broug ht him to me the chief got angry at him because in India. The rise and growth of the East India Company Sec ; H. J. Moger, S.D. : W. Hamsher, J.D. ; F. it was afraid of him , would cry and would not go to the is dealt with sufficiently in an introductory chapter cover- Livingstone, I.G.; and J. Sabunjie and G. Henry, Stwds. ing the period from 1600 to the middle of the last century, The Installing Master then gave the usual addresses to chief. This made the chief so mad that he took it by and then are described in a series of separate chapters the the W.M., officers , and brethren. Notice of motion was the neck, threw it upon the ground, and stamped upon it, principal events of successive Governors-General and Vice- given, and the sum of 10 guineas was voted to each of the so it died soon afterwards. They wanted to bury it before roys, lrom Chve to the Earl of Elgin, the present occupant of Masonic Charities. it was quite dead. Two squaws and I buried it in a the Vice-regal throne. Mr. Adams has the great merit of The lodge was then closed, after the customary " Hearty coffee sack. This was the morning before we broke being able to record events without bias, and a glorious record good wishes " by the visitors, and the brethren adjourned camp. it is which he has set before us, and in which will be found to the banquet table, where the best of good fellowship " A friend went to the place after the Indians had taithlully and concisely described all the great achieve- prevailed. , left, and found my husband's body in the river and the ments of Chve, Warre n Hastings the Marquis Wellesley, The usual toasts were given and duly honoured, that of body of the other man near. Their heads were cut off. the Marquis of Hastings, the Marquis of Dalhousie, and " The Worshipful Master " being very ably proposed by Viscount Canning ; of Sir Arthur Wellesley, Lord Lake, Bro. Beddall, and received with marked enthusiasm, Bro. He sent me a Freemason pin which he had on, and a Sir George Pollock, Havelock and Outram, Lord Clyde, Percy H. Horley reply ing very suitably to the compliment piece of his scalp the Indians had dropped. I kept and others. There is an excellent map in which the pro- paid.him. the piece of scal p as a bloody reminder of my terrible gress of our empire may be traced, while the illustrations, The toast of " The Initiates " was next on the list, and agony. My brother-in law wrote me that the Free- though few in number, are well chosen. Here again the gave the W.M. the opportunity of saying that since the masons went out from Denver and buried the body. work is presented by both printer and binder in a manner foundation of the lodge there had never been so many " Mrs. Barber is now very feeble at the age of 57. which leaves nothing to be desired. initiates at any one meeting, and that his year of office as She is also covered with large white scars, which cor- As regards the smaller works, which are intended for Master had commenced by breaking the record. He wel- roborates the story of her sufferings. Should her young children , there is little to be said, but that little is in comed them very sincerely, and strongly recommended their the direction of praise. The task of abridging Mrs. attendance at an instruction lodge . claim be allowed, the government will deduct the Beecher Stowe's story of " Uncle Tom 's Cabin " has been The toast was duly honoured , and each initiate responded. amount from money due to the Cheyenne Indians from ably and conscientiously discharged. "A Tale told by The W.M. gave the toast of " The Visitors," which was the United States. Iwo " is simple but interesting, the narrators being a well received, and responded to by Bros. Wilson, Eckersall, "To think this woman's history over, she would certain Beaufort Marmaduke Erroll and his pretty sister and Geen. surely be jud ged a marvellous woman, and not many 1'rixy, while " Up in the Old Pear Tree " and " The In submitting the next toast, that of " The I.P.M. and can be found who have had the frightful experiences Palace of Ideas," the former by S. P. Armstrong and the the Past Masters," the W.M. paid a warm tribute to the and endured the sufferings she has." latter by Louise Alice Riley, are equally meritorious and manner in which the I.P.M. had done the work during the tolerably certain to make friends among the readers they past year, and the great interest he had taken in the lodge. A QUERY. are intended to amuse. They are all nicely got up, and as He expressed the great pleasure it gave him to present to they are far from' costly, we trust they will receive that Bro. Beddall the Past M aster's jewel, unanimously voted To the Editor of the " Freemason." measure of patronage to which they are entitled. to him by the lodge in token of their esteem and regard. Dear Sir and Brother, This was a signal for great cheering on the part of those present, and Bro. Beddall was much affected by the cordial In the Freemason of the 29th September last reception. The W.M. spoke very kindly ot the other appeared the following : k^K^pEKOGSSi Past Masters, and bore testimony to their willingness at all "Is there any authority for the following ? :— times to assist in the work of the lodge. an A brother holding Provincial Grand rank, who Broo. Beddall , I.P.M., on rising, received quite ovation , and thanking the brethren for their kindness, said ceases to be a subscriber to any lodge in the province lawssm^ of he should wear the jewel with remembrances of some loses such rank, and if he again joins a lodge in the ^^Sj the happiest hours he had ever spent. He testified ti the province is not entitled to wear Provincial Grand able assistance and support he had received from the officers clothing until he receives a new Provincial appoint- Craft flDasoiu ^. of the lodge and the brethren generally during his year of ment." office. METROPOLITAN MEETINGS. of To this no repl has columns, The next toast submitted was that of " The Oflicers y yet appeared in your Hamsher, I am, however, officially informed that— the Lodge," to which. Bros. Callam, S.VV., and "A Past Pro- Whittin gton Lodge (No. 862).—The instal- replied. vincial Grand Officer is entitled to wear Provincial J.D., lation meetingof this Iodge was held on the inst., and The Tyler's toast brought a most enjoyable evening Grand clothing on all occasions when attending Masonic 19th marked the anniversary of the initiation of the worthy to a close. meetings, whether he continues to subscribe to a Iodge Bro. Mullen played very effectively some pinoforte solos, Secretary, Bro. James Weaver, whose introduction to in the province or not. —See Rule 96, Book of Consti- and several brethren enlivened the evening with capital tutions." I shall be glad to have the opinion of " Lex Masonry took place just 25 years ago. Further interest songs. Scri pta " and others on this point; also whether a was manifested in the meeting from the fact that the W .M. brother who ceases for 12 months to subscribe to installed this year is the son of Bro. T. B. Wavell, one of any THE MOZART LODGE, No. 11)21). lodge, in or out of the province, is also entitled to the founders of the lodge, and the W.M. who filled the wear the clothing, whilst a non-subscriber , and after chair at Bro. Weaver's initiation. The following brethren will hold its ' This well-known Surrey musical lodge, he re-joins a lodge : A Past Master loses his rank , were present , besides numerous visitors : Bros. J. Weaver, second annual ladies' ni ht at Anderton 's Hotel, Fleet- and so do other office rs b g , y ceasing to subscribe. Why P.M., 1319. f-z - >77> S62, I3iy, and Treas. 1319, P.P.G. street, on Thursday, the 6th prox. The meetings of the should not a Provincial Grand Officer r—Yours fra - Org., Sec ; S. Godden , P.M.; Collinson , P.M.; Mozart Lodge are always enjoyable from the fact that ternall J. J y, Irvine, P.M.; H. Brocklehurst , P.M.; A. V. H. Paunce most excellent music forms so large a portion of the H. R. G. is , P.M.; |.T. Collis, P.M.; G. H. Wavell, W.M fare provided , and on this occasion the programme November 20th. fort But elect ; W. Bradford, T. H. T. Jarvis, VV. Mainzer, H a large one— reception , supper, conceit, dance. memorable is -?- Kemp, W. C. Tyler, A. Clarkson, C. IC. Muller , T. what should make the evening specially J that the Prov. Grand Master of Surrey, Bro. Colonel F KNCINU UP M ASONIC H ALLS.—We have thought for Hester, 1. B. Bennett, J. B. Baylis, A. T. Rapkin. T. H. has promised that if e a good while that the fencing up of Masonic halls has been Curtis, A. Wench Gerard Noel Money, C.B., " carried to a ridiculous extent. Once, in Maine, the refusal Harrison , A. J. , F. Heywood , E. possibly can , he will be present. Tne musical arrange- to allow Masonic funeral services to be held in a church Muller, ). T. Southgate, J. C. Harwar, II. Williams, n, J. ments will be under the able direction of Bro. George H. Taylor , A. J. Tay lor, W. 11. Godden, F. W. Lowe, A. dedicatf d to the worship of God was received with intense Pownall, the Organist of the lodge, and as to the cater- indignation , and yet within a very few years the same J. Hullebone , and J. Gilbert , Tyler. guests, After the usual busin ss, Bru.James Irvine, who occupied ing for the more substantial requirements of the doctrine came to be applied to Masonic halls, but later a preclude any more common sense view of the matter has prevailed. — the chair in the absence of tne W.M. installed Bro. the names ot Bros. Clemow and Evans J. H. Drummond. Wavell in the chair of King Solomon in an able an i possible misgivings on that account. Kennington Lodge (No. 1381).—A meeting much experience , and at the termination of his year thev LIVERPOOL. nf this lods>e was held at the Horns Tavern , Kennington w< ukl agree that he had been one of the most successful —The annual Park. on the 6th inst. Among those present -ind distinguished Masters who hail ever reigned ove r them. Lodge Of Israel (No. 1502). were Rrns. |. installation meeting of the members of this lodge was N. Hearn , VV .M. ; Dr. Millsom. S.VV. : Lundie I.P.M Bro. Rev. J. H. Smith. P.P.G. Chap., VV.M.. said the , , hi-ld on the afternoon of the 19th instant, at the M isonic as J.W.; George Fveretr , P.M., P.G. Treas., Treas warm reception given to his name was distinctly a great .; Hall , Hope-street when there was a la-ge gathering of W. Stuart, P.M., See. ; Barry, , ].D. ; leasure to him , as were the kindl y words of the LP.M. , S.D. ; Parrat p members and visitors. Bro. VV. VV. Mellor W.M., who CHishulm , I.G. ; Hopkins. Org. H. Higgins , P.M. ; in proposing lhe toast. To assert that they were not in , ; presided installed Bro. W. Binks as his successor in Capt. Walls. P.M., G. Std. Br. ; VV. P. Weft P.M. ; accordance with his merits woultl be an ungenerous act , J. , the chair, and the following officers were invested : Bros. Cockburn , P.M. ; Westley, P.M. ; Foote, P.M.; and on his part , but he could say he felt personally that he W. VV. Mellor , I.P.M. ; U. Neville S.W. ; Andrew D.-nnis, P.M. scarcely deserved them. It would not be well for him to J. , Woodhead, ; Rev. H. M. Silver Chap. ; Henry Ihe minutes of the previous meeting been read make any strong promises, for promises, as they knew, J.W. , having Gabriel and confirmed , Bro. D. K. Price was raised to the Third sometimes came to a disastrous end, but, as actions , Treas. ( re-elected); Barnard Levy, Sec. (re- appointed) ; Andre w Kirkpatrick , D.C. ; A. E. Wood- Degree, Bros. H. Roles and W. Hucker spoke louder than words, he thought it would be wise to passed to the Second house I).; S. Woodhead ; Barnet Li l.G.; Degree, and Mr. Charles Limvood leave en estimate of his worth until he had done his work. , S , J.D. psoi, received into tree- George E. Finger B. Burgess, T. Calderbank, and A. M. masonry, the th ree ceremonies being ably performed. He was bound to say it should be his endeavour to maintain , Crickett Stewards ; and Reginald Mountfield , Org. In The lod ge was then closed and a banquet that lodge in the same eminerce and position it had already , , followed. _ the course of the evening an illuminated address was pre- The preliminary toasts bavin? received full justice attained. He thanked them for lacing him in that posi- , " The p sented to the I.P.M., Bro. Mellor, in recognition of the Health cf the W.M." was proposed b tion and the honour done him and if at the end of the y the I.P.M. In the , valuable services he had rendered during his two years of course of his remarks he congratulated the W.M. upon the year they could give him an equall kindly greeting, he y Mastership. efficient manner in which he had discharged the duties of should then know he had performed his work to their satis- The music after the banquet was given by Bros. Hollis, the chair that day. At the banquet, also, he had presided faction and that he had justified the choic i made, and if he Heginbotham , Edwards, Piatt, Seddon , Clayton Brown, most ably. The Worship ful Master's year thus far had carried away their good will that moment would be a dis- . and Shaw, under the direction of Bro. Reginald Mountfield , been a busy one, and there was every probability of its tinctly prouder one than that in which he was speaking. . Organist of the lodge. ending so. Bro. T. L. Wilkinson , Dep. G. Reg., then said the The W.M.. having replied , then gave " The Initiate." W.M. had honoured him by placing the toast of "The THORNE. In his remarks he said that the candidate, he be- Installing Master " in his hands. They were aware it was lieved , would do credit to the lodge. He (the VV.M.) usual to pay a compliment to the work, but on the present St. Nicholas Lodge (No. 22591.—The first was particularly struck with the manner in which Bro. occasion he should take it to be an impertinence on his meeting of this lodge under the new W.M. was held in the Limvood had conducted himsel f during the ceremony. part to do anything of the sort. That was the 120th Peace Hall on Wednesday, the 14th inst., when there were The Kennington Lodge was a very strong lodge, and pro- time Sir Joh n Monckton had done the ceremony, 14 or 15 present Bros. W. Martin, W.M. ; G. Kenyon, S.W. ; T. motion to office was therefore slow, but, as the initiate of those occasions being in that lodge. That brotle: had Barber, J.W. ; A. L. Peace, I.P.M. ; Rev. J. J. Little- was a young man, he could hope in time to reach the risen to great rank in Alasonry, and his great fame as a wood, Chap.; B. M iskill, Treas.; |. Constable, bee. ; H. chair. Mason was world-wide. They all knew that by reason of Fenton, S.D.; G. Eland, J.D. : E. Hirst, I.G. : VV. P. The initiate, in reply, briefl y said that the ceremony had the invaluable work done by him in that lod ge, and by the Robotham , Org. ; J. H. Bletcher, Almoner; T. Living- , made a deep impression on him, and although, as the Master interest he had taken in its welfare and business, the lodge stone E. Shillito, and E. Pine, Tyler. said , it might be years before he reached the chair, yet he had risen to the high position it holds amongst lodges in Lodge having been opened , and ths minutes of previous hoped in the meantime to discharge his duties as a Free- England. As Cervantes had said " Men are as God made meeting read and conlirmed, the balance-sheet of the mason. them, only a little worse," and therefore Masons were as Treasurer was passed, showing a balance in favour of the lodgeof In reply to the toast of "The Visitors," Bro. R. Gillard, their lod ge made them, only a little worse. When he saw £,32 13S.GJ. Mr. T. R. R. Marsdin wasduly initiated by the VV.M., princi VV.M. 901, among others, paid a hi gh compliment t> the so many efficient Masons present, he formed a very high the work being pally performed by the VV.M. lor his working, and to the lodge for its hospitality ideal of the lodge which had turned them out, and as he I.P.M. Alter " Hearty good wishes " the brethren so ably dispensed by Bro. George Everett, their dis- knew the lodge owed so much of its skill, and ability, and adjourned to the club-room for supper. tinguished 'Treasurer power to Sir Monckton, he felt bound to draw attention , whose efforts to enhance the com- J. WESTHAM. fort of the visitors that evening had been so kind and to the valuable services he had rendered that evening. untieing. They knew his services in detail far better than he did ; he Hadrian Lodge (No. 2483).—The usual " The Past Masters " followed, and was responded to by could only remind them of his work, and ask them to monthly meeting of this lod ge was held at the Corporation Bro. Lundie. cordially join him in drinking the toast. Arms on VVednesday, the 14th inst. The VV.M., Bro. H. In pn posing " The Health of the Treasurer and Secre- Bro. Sir John B. Monckton , P.G.W., in response, said J. Capon, took the chair, and was supported by the follow- tary," the W.M. said he could not find sufficient words to that some long time ago he was asked to propose the health ing officers : Bros. Major E. E. Stillwell, I.P.M.; Richard thoroughl y express his personal obligations to both. of a gentleman he had never heard of before, and on ask- Francis, S.W. ; W. R. Griffin , J.W.j F. Russell, S.D. j Bro. G. Everett, as usual m ade a humorous speech , and ing the chairman to tell him a little about him, he said " lay F. C Golden, J.D.; William Trigger, Sec ; James Bro. Stuart followed in the same vein , the respective quaint it on thick," He did not know whether the Deputy Grand Wood, l.G. ; Edgar Street, Org. ; and G. Nicholson, utterances of both speakers causing much merriment. Registrar had the "tip " from the W.M., but he did it Stwd. ; and a goodly number of the members of the lodge. The toast of '* The Officers " terminated the proceedings . exceedingly well. The old Past Masters were proud of that The W.M. initiated Mr. Elom Pierce, and Bro. William A mest enjoyable feature of the evening was the excel- lodge, and liked to hear it spoken well of. Out of 16 Masters, Chapman was raised to the Sublime Degree of a M aster lent instrumental and vocal harmony of Bros. Hopkins, 13 were present at the table, and the others were in the land Mason by the I.P.M. Davis, Lundie, Price, Clowes, and Linwood. The last of the living. He was getting old , and he did not suppose All business being ended, the lodge was closed, "and thc named has a voice of fine quality thoroughly under con- he should do many more installations, but he was looking brethren adjourned to an excellent supper, provided by trol. The Treasurer also contributed toward s the harmony forward to see the present VV.M. install his successor, as Bro. Jas. Sargent. " When Joan 's Ale was New." Will it ever be old as sung Bro. Wright, P.M., had done, and it he could only get an WORKINGTON. by him ? opportunity of prompting a little he should be happy . Eden Lodge (No. 2285).—The brethren of^his , P.M., propnsed "The Visitors " Bro. H. Clarke , and lodge assembled at the Masonic Rooms, Portlind-sqaare, Alliance Lodge (No. 1827).—The installation said that when in Paris he bought a book on Freemasonry, on Tnursday, the Sth inst., the principal business b:\a i the meeting of this important'lodge—which holds every atrocity was attributed to them such a pro'- and found that , but installation Of Bro. Thomas Mitchell, J. W. and W. .VI. elect, minent position in the City of London—was held at the the illustrious names at the head of the Craft should dispel for the ensuing year. The ceremony was performed b Guildhall l avern y , Gresham-street, on Wednesday, the 14th the illusion. Bros. J. C Tnonipson , P.M., P.M. 982, P.J.G.W. ; G:o. inst. The civic element was strong l P.M., P.P.G.W. Somerset y represented by the Bros. E. E. Phillips, , and Kenworthy, P.M. ng, P.P.G.S.W.; assisted by Bro. Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, and other officials , whilst the Craft Easterbrook responded for the toast, after which Bro. Patterson, P.M. 962, P.P.J.G.W. The newly-installed fu rnished many prominent Grand Oflicers. Under Sheriff Phillips gave " The Past Masters." M aster appointed and invested his officers for the ensuing Lod ge was opened by Bro. Col. E. T. Rodney Wilde, Bro. Alderman Frank Green , P.M., having replied, was year as follows : Bros. John Burfor.l, I.P.M. ; George W.M., the ninutes confirmed, and the Audit report followed by Bro. Garnet Man , P.M., who said he rose with Atkinson, S.VV.; James VV. Scott, J.VV. ; John Jenkinsjn, adopted. Bro. Sir W J. B. Monckton , P.G. ., then assumed diffidence and pleasure to reply; diffidence in responding P.M., P.P.G.S.B., Treas. ; Rev. A. F. Curwen, P.M., the chair and installed Bro. Rev. J. H. Smith, P.M., before so many efficient Past Masters, and pleasure at see- Chap.; James Thompson , P.M.. P.P.A.G.D.C Sec ; P.P.G.' , Chap., as VV.M. The following officers were ing so many well-remembered faces. He recollected when Coates Fothergill, S.D. ; H. S. Wilson , J.D.; W. Hollo- invested : Bros. Capt. Vickers Dunfee, S.W.; W. Bruce Sir J. Monckton acted as accoucheur to this lodge, and way, I.G. j Joseph Cooper Org.; and W. Whitehead, Clarke, , J.W. ; Rev. G. J. Scott, P.M., Chap. ; H. Clarke, there was now no better lodge in Masonry. Time had Tyler. P.M., Treas. ; Col . Sewell, P.M., P.G.S., Sec.; J. Carlyon passed away, and it was with the greatest pleasure he stood Amongst the visiting brethren who did honour to Bro, Hughes, SD. ; Baron de Bush , l .D. : W. T. Roberts. there to address the brethren. It was about three weeks Mitchell on this occasion were Bros. Rev. Jas. Anderson, l.G. ; H. Squire, P.M., D.C; F. A. Jewson, Ore. ; and ago that he arrived in England, and on Saturday next he P.M. 119 and 1002, P.G.S.W. ; J. Wilson, 1002 ; Thomas E. Clarke and P. Monckton, Stewards. The W.M., in started for his jungle home, but the eye of memory Atkinson , P.M. io _>2 Rev, kindly , P.P.G.S.B. ; Casson, uy; and cordial terms, presented Bro. Col , Rodney was very often glanced over that wide expanse, and he often E. M. Ric-, P.M. 1002 P.P.G. Chap. ; and others. VVilde ' , , I.P.M., with a Past Master's jewel in recognition of thought of the pleasant times he had spent among them. At the close of the lodge Bro. Mitchell invited the whole his services during the past year, and the gift was appro- He trusted that when he came back to old England again he of the brethren present to a banquet, priately which was provided acknowledged. should be a subscribing member, being only an honorary by Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson of tha Central Hjtel. The Lod ge was closed, and, after banquet, the usual toasts member now, and enjoy that good fellowship he recollected remainder of the evening was spent in proposing the usual were proceeded with. so well. Men might comeand men might go, but he hoped loyal and Masonic toasts. "lhe Oueen and the Craft," and "H.R.H. the Prince this lodge would go on for ever. He would drink with them of Wales, M.W.G.M., " were first heartily honoured. the old Masonic toast : " Happy to meet, sorry to part, Bro. Sheriff George Hand , in giving "The Grand and happy to meet again." Officers," said that he was so young in Masonry that he Orticers' " toast elicited a cordial response from would rather that one of his elder brethren had " The TRopal Hrcfo , proposed the executive officers , and the proceedings were closed in the toast. He was proud of being a Mason , and had the usual manner with the Tyler's toast. always considered that to be a good Mason would mean to PLYMOUTH. be a good man. No man who was a true Mason could be The brethren present included Bro . Rev. J. H. Smith , ' a bad man W.M., P.P.G. Chap., and the ollieers named above ; Bros. St. George s Chapter (No. 2025).—The , for the whole system was founded upon the annual meeting of this chapter was held at the Free- book of all other Sir J. B. Monckton , P.G.W. ; E. Letchworth , P.M .; books. It gave him great pleasure to masons' Hall , on Thursday evening, the 15th instant, to olfer this toast, and connect with it the name oi the Grand Sic Geo. D. Harris, P.G.D. ; T. L. Wilkinson , Deputy Secretary. G. Reg. ; R. Berridge. P.G.D. ; J. H. Matthews, P.A. instal Comps. W. S #eet, M.E.Z. ; H. Reynolds, H.; and G.D.C ; P. de L. Long, P.G.D.; Alderman ' Frank T. J. Cole, J.—the Principals for the year ensuing. The Bro. E. Letchworth, Grand Secretary, in responding, Installing said Green, P.M., P.G.D. ; Lieut.-Col. Alderman H. D. Officers were Comps. J. Gidley, P.Z. ; C. G. he would not presume to speak on behalf of Lord Withell P.Z.; and W. Allsford Lathom Davies, Sheriff Geo. Hand, Undcr-Sheriff T. Beard , , , P.Z. 202. Among the and Lord Mount Edgcumbe—those two distin- Past Principals were Comps. Giff jrd guished Under-Sheriff Philli ps, Capt. H. Wright, P.M.; ' J. J. , P.Z. ; G. R. noblemen who shared to a great extent with his Barrett, P.Z. ; R. Pike P.Z. 230; Allen P.Z. Koyal Hi Perkins, P.M. ; E. F. Fitch , P.M.; F. S. Jackson , , J. , 1099 ; ghness the management of their Craft. From the C. Dunsterville, P.Z. 1S9 ; and G. Dunsterville H. 1S9. frequent opportunities P.M.; Ex-Sheriff T. Clarke, E. Garnet Man , P.M.; E. , he had of judging the interest they The officers were invested as follows : Comps. Harvey, jook, he mi E. Phillips, P.P.G.W. Somerset; C. W. A. Goodfellow, J. ght say, there were no members who took a S.E.; G. R. Stanlake, S.N.;G. R. Barrett , P.Z., Treis.; "eener interest in the J. E. Turner, Fredk. Hill , VV. Westcott, G. A. Pickering, welfare of the Craft than F. J. Oram, P.S. ; Broad , ist A.S.; O.-in md, 2nd A.S.: those two distinguished brethren. As the very P.G.S.; J. H. Whadcoat, W.M. iS; F. Hobbs, C. ). Pilmcr, Org.; Harris, D.C.; Hunt, A.D.C; Cruchett, unworthy representative of the Grand Andrews, E. Shedd, VV. W. Floyer, A. W. Bu 5h, Capt. E. Officers, he 11-sw , and R. VV. Weale, Stewards; and W. H. Pnillips, thanked them on their behalf for Pugh, W. W. Lee, VV.M. 1897; and others. the kind reception g iven Janitor. the toast. It had given thein the greatest pleasure Ac tne close of the chapter the companions adjourned to to be present and witness the installation of the W.M. It » Save him the refreshment room of the club, where an excellent supper peculiar pleasure to attend, because he could not PROVINCIAL MEETINGS. was provided but remember , and under the presidency of Comp. James that at the inauguration of this lodge both Gidley a very enjoyable evening was parsed. his lamented predecessors—Bros. John Hervey and Col. EASTBOURNE. j>nadwell Clerke—took an important part. From what he "ad seen of the W.M. he felt confident that he would in Hartington Lodge (No. 916).—The installa- every way maintain the best traditions of the lodge, and tion meeiing of this lodge took place at the Queen 's Hotel, "te Grand Lodge hoped he would have before him an on |the gth inst., when Bro. Benson wrs installed as W.Si., flDarft nDasonr \>. "tremely pleasant and prosperous year of office, and appointed his officers as I'oll.ws : Bros. Councillor . "ro. Col. Rodney Wilde, I.P.M., next submitted "The I' oran, LP.M. ; Dr. II. Colgate, S.W. ; Dr. Astley DEVONPORT. 'health of the VV.M." He said that when they saw a Roberts, J.W. ; Viccargi, S.D. ; Jackso n, J.D. ; Councillor Fidelity Huyshe Lodge (No. 91). —The mother like their W.M, oming into an ordinary lodge W. H. Burt , l.G. ; Alderman Morrison, Sec. ; andJ. H. annual meeting w_ts held at Eunngton Misonic Hall, !*ll n his honours thick upon him, and working his way up, Campion Coles, Treas. on Wednesday evening, the 14th instant, when Bro. W. H. t showed tney were always willin g to hel p and work iur tne Afieiwards the brethren dined together undir the presi- Corner was installed VV.M. Tne attendance was excep- enetit of the lud*e and brethren generally. They were dency of the W.M., who was supported by a numuer of tionally large. Amongst thos; present were Bros. M. wtunate in having as their W.M. on; who had had so distinguished brethren of the province. Durbin , P.P.S.G.D. ; S. T. I Urris, P.P.G.D.C ; C. M.A., 0 ; ist General ; L. Steele, °, 2nd General ; Hunt, P.P.J.G.D. ; A. Maddock, P.P.G.S.B. ; T. R. H. The lodge was opened in due form , and the minutes 300 30 W of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The Paas, 30 , Treas.; VV. Maple, G.M.; Major Harris, P.P.A.G.D.C ; H. Best, P.P.G.P.; J. Lose, J. E' ; W. V. Harris, P.P.G.P.; W. Routledge, lodge was opened in the Second Degree, and the 2nd Anderson , 30°, P.M.W.S. ; Lieut.-Col. F. J. Stohwasser P.P.S.G.O. 0 ' P.M.; and j . R. Lord, P.P.G.I. of W. Section of the Lecture was worked bv Bro. Thorn, A;,st. 30 , P.M.W.S.; C Tayleur , M.A., P.M.W.S.; G. Pigache The ceremony was conducted by the retiring W.M. and Preceptor. Bro. Evans, being a candidate for raising, was P.M.W.S., and others. Bro. Lord. The fol'owing officers were invested for the examined and entrusted. The lodge was opened in the The chapter was then closed, and the brethren adjourned ensuing year : Bros. E. H. Littleton , S.W. ; T. Henderson , Thiid Degree, and the ceremony of raising rehearsed , Bro . to the Cafe Royal to dine. J.W.j J. Vercoe, M.O. J W. brockman, \U.iJ. F. G. Evans, candidate. The 2nd Section of the Lecture ill. Bro. George Graveley presided , and gave the various Tucker, J.O. ; R. A. Norman , Organist and Chaplain ; was worked by Bro. VV. Hoggins, and the 3rd Section by toasts with commendable brevity. A. Maddock, Treas. ; J. R. H. Harris, Sec ; G. ,Smale, the Preceptor. The lodge was resumed in the First De- Bro. Major Probyn made a fluent and complimentary S.D. ; Truscott, J.D. ; Hamblyn , l.G. ; Richards, D.C. ; gree, and after the first rising the dues were collected . At speech iu responding for " The Visitors." Lam, A.D.C.; and C. Dyer, Tyler. the second rising, Bro. H. C Parker, S.W., was elected 111. Bro. Dr. Coffin and Ex. Bro . G. A. Berkeley, acknow- Refreshments were served in the refectory, and an enjoy- VV.M. for the ensuing week, and he appointed the officers ledged the toast of " The Past Sovereigns," and able evening was spent. in rotation. After the third rising, all Masonic business Bro. Major Williamson spoke at length for "The being ended, the lodge was closed. Officers. " LIVERPOOL. During the evening, III. Bro. Dr. Lott, and Ex. Bros. Dr West Lancashire Lod ge (No. 65).—The ISLINGTON LODGE (No. 1471).—The usual week ly Hinton , Egbert Roberts, and F. W. Driver, M.A., respect annual installation in connection with the above lodge took meeting was held on Tuesday, the 20th inst., at the ively contributed instrumental, vocal, and poetical selections place at the Adelohi Hotel, on Wednesday, the 7th inst ., Cock Tavern , Highbury, when, notwithstanding the in- when Bro. Richard Owen was installed W.M. for the clement weather, there were present Bros. G. T. Peall, CARDIFF. ensuing year by Bro. John Hayes, P.P.G.S.B. The W.M. ; R. P. Upton, S.W. ; R. W. N icole, J.W.; J. W. , Caer-Daf Chapter (No. 118). — A large following visitors were present: Bros, lohn Chadwick, Clarke, acting Preceptor; J. Petch P.M., P.P.G.S.B. number of the members of this chapter were present at the P.G.O., Prov. G. Sec.; H. Armstrong, P.P.G.D. Cheshire ; Herts, Treas.; C. M. Coxon, P.M., P.P.G.D. Herts, and Masonic Hall on Thursday, the 15th inst., the occasion H. lohnston, P.M. 359 ; R. Sharrock , P.G.S.O. ; J. J. Duncan , P.M., Sees.; D. C. Ritchie, S.D. ; A. Oldrey, being the installation of Bro . E. VV. Shackell as M.W.S. Hardwick Marsh, P.A.G.S.; Samuel Lock, P.G.S. ; G. A. I.D.; S. Rutley, I.G. j A. C. Burnley, J. H. Whadcoat, for the ensuing year. The ceremony of D. C. Attwater, C. T. Barlow, P.M. ; A. installation was Myers, P.G.S., W.M. 34; Rodger Pye, P.G.J.W.; Milton Smith, performed by the retiring M.W.S., Bro. John Monday. Henry Thomas, P.P.G.S.B.. P.M. 1G1 ; C. G. Hale, Oliver, P.M.; C. Smith , J. Amand, VV. A. Goring, F. A. The following is the list of officers : Bros. E. Balls, VV. Rapley, P. F. Holmden, W. G. Carrington, R. W. Shackell P.G.A.D.C; and others. The W.M. invested his officers M.W.S. ; S. D. Churchill, High Prelate ; T. P. Kerman, as follows : Bros. J. B. Parker, I.P.M. ; W. Hewson, Loomes, and G. Ridgewell. First General ; D. R. Roberts, Second General ; The lodge was opened, and the minutes read and con- John P.G.D.C. P.M., D.C. ; John Hayes, P.P.G.S.B., P.M ., Munday, P.M.W.S., Treas.; J. H. Taylor, 30°, P.M Treas. ; James Pittaway, S.W. ; Robert Shacklady, J,W. firmed. The ceremony of initiation was then rehearsed , W.S., Recorder ; VV. B. Ferrier the , Marshall ; J. Show, John Milne, M.O. ; William Rawsthorne, S.O.; E. R. Bro. Attwater being candidate. The ancient charge Raphael; W. H. Williams, D.C ; H. B. Crouch, A.D.C.; Latham, J.O.; 1. H. Tyson, R.M. ; I saac Dixon , Sec, ; was given. Bro. Goring answered the questions leading to H. Fraser, Harol d ; Isidore Leon, Captain of Guard the Second Degree. The lodge was opened in the Second 0 ; J, W. H. Moore, S.D. ; J.S. Buck, J.D. ; D. C M'Gleave, M. Gerhold , 30 , Organist ; W. J. Vaughan, Almoner ; I.G.j R. Tunnicliffe, and James Jones, Stwds. The Degree and the ceremony of passing rehearsed, Bro. J. E. Bacon and Dr. De Vere Hunt, Stwds. ; and Amos retiring W.M., Bro. J. B. Parker, was presented with a Rapley being the candidate. Bro. Carrington answered Jenkins, Outer Guard . valuable gold jewel, manufactured by Bro. George the questions leading to the Third Degree. Bros. Balls, The banquet took place at the Queen 's Hotel . Kenning. Goring, and Ridgewell were elected members of the lodge. YORK. Bro. U pton was elected W.M. for the ensuing week, and appointed the officers in rotation. The lodge was then Eboracum Lodge (No. 1611). —A meeting closed. of this lodge was held at their hall, St. Saviourgate, on ©rbev ot tbe Secret f!Donitoi\ Monday, the 12th inst., when Bro. James Smith, theS.W., CHAUCER LODGE (No. 1540).—A meeting was held was installed as W.M. for the ensuing year. There were a on Tuesday, the 20th inst., at the Old White Hart Hotel , Premier Conclave. —A meeting of this con. large number of visitors present, amongst them being Bros, Borough, S.E. Present : Bros. J. O'Dea, W.M. ; F. clave was held at the Holborn Restaurant, on the 13th inst. the Very Rev. the Dean of York, Past Grand Chaplain W. Stephens, S.W. ; Polak, J.W. ; W. Roots, P.M., Among those present were : Bros. Baston, P.S.R., &c, in Eneland; I. Todd , P.M. 236, Prov.G.Treas.; A.Jones, Preceptor ; W. Bird , Sec; Featherstone, S.D.; Krasa, the chair; Capt. T. C Walls, P.S.R.; W. G. Lemon, W.M. 236 ; M. Rooke, P.M. 236, P.P.G.D.; J. S. J.D.; Bull pitt, I.G. ; Osmond, P.M. ; Atkin , Malham, J.P., P.G. Treas., Treas. ; Dr. Goss, P.S.R., &c, Sec ; Rymer, P.M. 236, P.P.G.R.; E. VV. Purnell , P.M. 236 ; O'Brien, Morley, Cahn, Watts, and Woodbury. Dr. Roberts, and Baron de Ferrieres. I. B. Sampson, P.M. 236; H. Foster, P.M. 236, P.G. The lodge was opened in due form, and the minutes of The minutes of the previous conclave having been read b.C ; E. Carter, S.W. 236 ; M. Bryson , J.W. 236 ; F. the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The and conlirmed, the reports of the visiting Deacons and Smith , P.M. S37, P.P.G.D.C ; W. N. Cheesman, P.M. lodge was opened in the Second Degree. The lodge correspondence generally were brought before the meeting. 5O6, P.P.G.D.C; J. Crow, 1522 ; W. E. Field, 1406 ; having been opened in the Third Degree, Bro. Malham The Secretary read numerous letters from absent members . I. E. Jones, W.M. 232S ; F. Shann, S.W. 232S ; D. rehearsed the installation ceremony, and the brethren The conclave was then closed and adjourned till the Voung, W.M. 1991 ; J. W. Dow, S.W. 1991 ; G. H. saluted the chair in the three Degrees. The lodge was re- second Tuesday in March next. Stott, 1991 ; R. Wilkinson, S37; J. S. Shannon, 23G ; sumed in the Second Degree, and Bro. Atkin having Refreshment followed labour , but with the exception 0! G. Y. Whytehead , 232S ; and others. The following Past answered the usual questions, was entrusted. The lodge " The Queen and the Order " no other toast was given. Masters of the lodge were also present : Bros. T. B. was resumed in the Third Degree, and the ceremony of Whytehead, J. S. Cumberland, G. Balmford , J. H. Shouk- raising was rehearsed, Bro. Atkin being the candidate. smitb, A. T. B. Turner, W. Storey, J. Blenkin , W. B. The lodge was resumed in the First Degree. Bro. Malham Dyson, G. Lamb, and G. Chapman. The Installing having answered the usual questions, was entrusted. The ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR Officers were Bros. J.S. Cumberland, P.M., P.P.G.W ., lodge was resumed in the Second Degree, and the ceremony GIRLS. and G. Lamb, P.M., P.P.G.D. of passing was rehearsed, Iiro. Malham being the candi- The formal business having been disposed of , the VV.M. date. 'The lodge was resumed in the First Degree, and, elect was presented for installation by the retiring W.M., there being no further busine-s, the lodge was closed. The Institution has sustained a great loss by the Bro. J. L. Spetch. The ceremony of installation was early death , in her 21st year, of Miss Charlotte Annie carried out by the Installing Officers , and at its conclusion STAR CHAPTER (No. 1275). —The usual weekly McMillan , one of the younger members of the educa- following brethren as his officers for meetingof the above was heU at the Stirling Castle Hote), tional staff. Miss McMillan the W.M. invested the Church-street, Camberwell, on Friday, the iGth inst., , who had been brought up the ensuing year, viz. : Bros. F. H. Vaughan, S.W. ; F. in the School, was much beloved for her amiable dis- VV. Halliwell , J.W. ; Rev. R. P. T. Tennent, Chap. ; when there were present: Comps. Grummant , M.E.Z. ; Benedetti, H. ; Pullen , J. ; F. Hilton, P.Z., Preceptor; position and sterling qualities. She will be long re- G. Bal m ford . P.M., P.P.G.O., Treas.; J. Kay, Sec. ; J. membered and sincerely regretted. Her death was , S.D.; W. S kes, J.D.j H. Shouk- Stone, S.E. ; Lewis, S.N.; Cornford , P.S, j Night- T. Chambers y J. ingale, VV. , Elgar, Addington , H. D. Grazebrook, occasioned by a short but extremely severe attack of smith, P.M., D.C.; A. Humphreys, I.G; B. Lofthouse, Jones P.M., W. Bean, and B. Kilvington , Barr, West, Bannister, Salmon, and North . gastric ulceration , which, notwithstanding unremitting Org. ; VV. Storey, The minutes of the previous convocation were read and Stwds. ; T. Dunlop, Tyler; G. Lamb, P.M., P.P.G.D., medica l care and the most devoted nursing, ended Preceptor ; and T. B. Whytehead, P.M., P.G.S.B. confirmed. The ceremony of exaltation was rehearsed, fatally on the evening of Saturday last. Thc funeral Fngland, P.P.S.G.W., Librarian. The musical portion of Comp. Addington personating the candidate. Comps. will take place to-day at Stoke-on-Trent. the ceremony was excellently rendered by the lodge choir, VV. Jones, J. 79, and Hy. D. Grazeb rook , H. I GOI , were consisting of Bros. VV. Bean, B. Kilvington , E. Deben- elected joining members. Comp. Benedetti, H., waselected M.E.Z. for the next meeting. The business ended, the ham, and W. Sykes, Bro. W. S. Child presiding at the MASONIC SERVICE AT HOLY TRINITY CH URCH , organ. The Secretary read a list of apologies for non- chapter was closed. attendance from the following : Bros, the Hon. W. T, HOVTHPORT. Orde-Powlett, Dep. Prov. G.M. ; M. C. Peck, Prov. G. Sec, P.G.S.B. Eng. ; the Rev. R. P. T. Tennent, Chap. ; A Masonic service, which , despite the unsettl ed E. K. Spiegelbalter, W.M. GGo ; R. Hodgson, 566; F. Ikni obts Gemplar. state of the weather, was very well attended, was held R. Hansell, P.M. Falcon ; G. Kirby, P.M. 23G; P.P.G. at Holy Trinity Church on Sunday afternoon , the nth D.C ; C Palliser, P.M. Anchor ; J. Armstrong, New- Shadwell Clerke Preceptory. — The inst., in aid of the fund for the endowment of a castle ; F. Fielding, Hebden Brid ge; VV. C Forster, 24, election meeting was held on the 15th instant, at 33, who P.P.G.R. Northumberland ; T. H. Lindberg, 232S ; T. Masonic cot in the new infirmary. The brethren , Golden-square, W. Sir Knight Geo. Gregory, E.P., pre- church S. Brogden , P.M. 236 ; A. Buckle, P.M. 23G ; C. M. sided , and was assisted by Sir Knights H. Lovegrove, wore their Masonic clothing, assembled in the Forbes, P.M. 23O; J. P. Carr , J.W.232S ; R. F. Gould, P.E.P., P.G.C. of C, Reg.; A. McDowall, P.E.P. ; Dr. schools, and shortl y before three o'clock a procession Past G.D. ; J. Brown, W.M. 250 ; H. Longford, P.M. N. Goodchild , H. P. Hay, R. C Liversedge, Heineman, was formed in the following order -. Tylers of lodges, Falcon ; G. Shackleton , 3S7; T. W. Longden. 17 60; T. Phipps Dorman, and G. VV. Capel. Entered Apprentices, Fellow Crafts, Master Masons, W. 11. Cowper, North York ; W. J. Hughan, P.G.D. ; Thc ballot was taken on behal f of Comps. C B. Barnes, officers of lodges, according to rank, Past Masters of and others. A. S. Reed, and Major Shackleston-Allen. The latter was lodges, Provincial Grand Officers , Past and Present, The banquet took place at the Royal Station Hotel in unable to attend, but the other two were duly installed as according to rank, Grand Officers and Clergy. Pr°" the evening, when the W.M. presided over a large gather- Knights Templar by Sir Knight Lovegrove. Sir Knight ceeding, the brethren entered the church and took the ing of members and visitors from the York and other lodges T. P. Dorman was elected E.P., and Sir Kni , ght VV. A. seats reserved especially for them . in the province. Scurrah, P.E.P., was re-elected Treasurer. the The loyal and Masonic toasts were submitted and duly At the [completion of the business the , members dined at The service commenced with the singing of honoured , " The Health of the W.M." being received with the Criterion. hymn, " Brightly gleams our banner," the opening enthusiasm . prayers being read by Bro. Rev. J. S. Gardener, During the evening a cordial welcome was accorded to P.P.G. Chap. VV. Lanes. The lesson was read by Bro. Bro. J. S. Cumberland , P.M., P.P.G.W., on his visit to ant ) accepted te, Rev. Dr. C. T. Porter, P.M. 2360, and the anthem, the lodge, of which he was one of the founders in 1S7G. ancient IR i " Remember now thy Creator " (Steggall), was well The musical arrangements were carried out under the Mount Calvary Chapter (No. 3).—A meet- rendered by the choir. Prayers to the end of evensong direction of Bro. Lofthouse, Organist. The lodge choir hyuin, lees and songs, assisted by Bros. ing of this chapter was held at the Masonic Hall, Golden- were read by the Rev. C. Grub, and then the rendered a selection of g sung. J. S. Cumberland, J. B. Sampson, Todd, Stott, and Dow, square, on the gth inst.0 Among those present were Bros. " O Lord, how joy ful 'tis to see," was heartily and recitations were given by Bros . Humphreys, Garrood, George Graveley, 30 , P.M.W.S., in the chair; Major W. The sermon was preached by Bro. the Rev. T- " • P , J , West and J. S. Shannon. B. Williamson, J. 3o Prelate ; Capt. T. C. Walls, Spencer, P.G. Chap, of Eng., and P. P.G. Chap, of P.M.W.S., Recorder ; E. M. Lott, Mus. Bac, 31°, Org.; do 0 Lanes., who took for his text Heb. xiii. 16, " But to F. Egbert Roberts, Asst. Org. ; Dr. T. VV. Coffin , 30 , good and to communicate forget not for with such P.M.W.S. ; F. W. Drive r, M.A., P.M.W.S. : G. , sacrifices God is well pleased." At the outset of I'IS ano Cha pters ot Berkeley, P.M.W.S. ; Victor J agielski, M.D.; A. W, Xofcfles hreys, P. E. Biddlecombe , Capt. A. C. Baldwin address he said that those words brought before then' Hump , H. a'iu 3n0tructton. J. Adams, P. W. Hinton , Mus, Doc ; B. Johnson , and one of the fundamental princi p les of Freemasonry, C. Slater. Bro. Major C Probyn was a visitor. it was in accordance with another of those principle5 LA TOLERANCE LODGE (No. 53S).—A meeting of The miiutes of the previous meeting were read and con- that they had gathered together in church that alter- this lodge was held on Wednesday, the 21st inst., at lirmed. The ballot was taken on behalf of Bro. L VV. noon to worship God. Freemasonry was a peciil'3' the Frascati Restaurant, Oxford-street, W., when there Murray, S.VV. 242G, but he was unavoidably prevented from system of morality, veiled in mystery, and illustrated were present Bros. j. Mason , W.M. ; li. C. Parker, attending. 'The Recorder having reported that Bro. G. by signs. It was founded upon the purest principles 0 Grimwoi d, J.P., M.W.S., was too ill to attend the S.W. ; A. Terry, J.W. ; J. Paul, P.M., Preceptor; J. chap ter, piety and virtue ; it rested upon a reli gious basis ; ' Thorn , P.M., Asst. Preceptor; Geo. Hill , P.M., Treas.; a resoluiion of sympathy was unanimously passed. A s taught them that part of the 24 hours of the day m" . W, E. Willby, P.M., Sec ; VV. Hoggins, S.D. ; E. similar resolution was unanimously passed to III. Bro. W. lodge* Paas, ", P.M.W.S., Treas. Apologies for non-attend- be devoted to prayer to Almighty God ; and their Kraus, l.D. ; T. Pringle, I.G. ; Wm. Brett, F. G. Evans, 30 forme and A. Narten. ance were received from Bros. G.^ Grimwood , Nelson Prower, were opened and closed with prayer, and prayer part of all their M asonic ceremonials. Freemason! y An excellent banquet followed , which was catered asnearas possible to the colours of the different Degrees. taught them that they must regard the Holy Bible as an for by Bro. Winden , of Canning Town , who gave the By the initiated , many of the characters will be readily unerring standard of truth and justice, and they must greatest satisfaction to all the brethren for the masterly and easily recognised. In and below the frieze there is regulate their actions by the Divine precepts it contained . manner in which he had provided everything necessary a conventional treatment of the lily and pomegranate, It taught tlu-m also that their duty towards God and their for the auspicious occasion. symbolic of the Second Degree. An important improve- duty to their nei ghbour. It told them that their duty During the banquet musical selections were performed ment has been the alteration and enlarging of the prin- to God was never to mention that Nam e but with the on the piano, and a delightful programme of toasts cipal niches. Heating and ventilation have both been awe and reverence due from the creature to the and songs rendered the evening most enjoyable. improved , and the work has been six months in hand. Creator ; that their duty to God was to implore His aid After a vote of thanks to the host, Bro. Smith , and The design and the stencil plates are the work of Bro. in all their lawful undertakings , and to look to Him in other convivialities , the brethren departed for home, Lewis Stevens, P.M., and the decoration has been every emergency for comfort and consolation. From having spent one of those delightful evenings only carried out by Bro. Charles Stevens, P.M., P.P.G.S. the Holy Bible they read that their duty towards their known to Freemasons . of Wks. neighbour was to render every kind office that justice The lodge of instruction meets every Wednesday A large number of invitations was issued for the, or mercy might require, to relieve the necessity and evening, at 8 p.m., at the Denmark Arms Hotel , conversazione , but the Prov. G. Master and his Deputy, soothe the afflictions of those in distress ; and Barking-road , under the Preceptorshi p of Bro. Thos. the Lord Mayor of London , the Right Hon. C. Seale- it was for the latter purpose that he had to Cowell . The Secretary 's address is 4, Sibley Grove, Hayne, and Sir Stafford Northcote were unable to be ask their generous contributions that afternoon . East Ham , Essex. present , although they accorded the proceedings their It was to do to others as they would that others in patronage. similar circumstances should do to them—in a word , Music and refreshments were provided , and in the Freemasonry taught them as the Apostle" did in his ©ur portrait ©allerg ot Morsblpful ante-room was an exhibition of Masonic curios, text , " To do good and communicate forget not, for selected from the uni que collection of Bro. F. J. W. with such sacrifices God is well pleased." To carry /toasters. Crowe, of Torquay, The exhibition included a out the spirit of the text it required that they must be complete series of the various certificates issued by the benevolent—which meant being well willed towards Grand Lodges of England , as well as certificates, some charitable purpose , a disposition to be ready to jewels, aprens, and sashes of Masonic Grand bodies part with or give up some advantage which they shared from all parts of the world. in order to promote the happ iness of someone else, The principal feature of the evening was a lecture and he trusted that was the disposition which animated by Bro. W. J. Hughan , P.G.D. England , on Free- everyone in that church in regard to the object for masonry in connection with Newton Abbott, and which he had to plead that afternoon. He trusted Newton Bushel—Bro. Hughan commenced with spme also that that would be the spirit which would animate complimentary references to the ladies, and explained the peop le of South port in the effort which was being how the only ' • lad y Freemason " came to be initiated. made to raise an endowment fund for the new Alluding to Charities, he observed that though little infirmary. But to car ry out the teaching of the text it was s..id by the brethren respecting the same, they spent required that they should also be beneficent, which .£300 a day in Charity, and maintained and educated meant " to be well doing." Benevolence was the over a thousand boy s and girls. Dealing with Newton , intention, beneficence consiste 1 of action ; benevolence he found that no reguUr lodge was held till 1759, when was the cause, beneficence the result . But in assisting a lodge was formed at the Sun Inn or Tavern. This any charitable object they should take care that they lod ge was subsequentl y transferred to Exmouth , where exercised caution , or they might do harm where they it has ever since remained , and is now known as the wanted to do good , they mig ht communicate of their Sun Inn , No. 106. The second Newton lodge was means, yet they might not do good ; or they mi g ht formed in 1769, and was called the Royal George, give of their charity in such a way as to cause those probab ly from the name of the tavern in which it was who received it to become idle instead of working for held. This lodge did not flourish either, for after being their living. But the charity for which he asked their transferred to Brid port , it was erased in 1832. The aid that afternoon was one that did not lay itself open next lodge was at Newton Bushel , where, in 1812, it to any charge of that kind ; it was one in assisting was held at the Freemasons' Inn , now called the Com- which they could only do good by generously support- mercial Hotel, where Bro. Charles Stevens had dis- ing it. Freemasonry instructed them in the p rinciples covered a room which was admirabl y suited for Masonic of universal benevolence and charity ; it taught them meetings. Another lodge, called the Morning Star , to seek solace for their own distress by extending relief originated at Newton in 1872 , but ceased in a few and consolation to their fellow creatures in the hour of years. The substantial Newton Lodge was that formed nfiliction. It was that they might carry out that teach- in 1S66, the Devon Lodge, under whose auspices they ing that he asked them to support that afternoon the were met that evening. He regarded that hall as one endowment of a cot at the new infirmary by the Masonic of the prettiest in Devon. Indeed he had seen BRO. JOSEPH JACKMAN , many body. He knew he should not appeal to them in vain; , in England and Scotland , and that seemed to take the lie knew how nobly they responded at the centenary W.M. Britannia , No. 139, and of White Rose of York palm. In 1759, when the first lodge was formed at festival service. There had been raised ^100 towards Lodge, No. 2491, both in Sheffield. Newton , there were 1500 lodges in the world, and the fund for the endowment of a cot in the new infirm- Bro. Joseph Jackman , whose portrait we produce 35,000 members. At the present time there were ary by the Masonic body, for which purpose ,£700 was above, occupies a position almost uni que in the Craft. 15,000 lodges in various parts of the world, and he did required , and it was towards the remaining sum that he He is W.M. of two Sheffield Lodges at one and the not think there could be less than two million members, asked them to g ive. same moment. Initiated , passed , and raised in 188 1 in the annual income being five millions sterling. The At the close of the sermon a collection was taken Britannia , No. 139, which , next to Probity, No. 61, Eng lish Grand Lodge was the oldest, largest, and most and amounted to £36 Ss. During the offertory the Halifax , is the senior existing lod ge in West Yorkshire, charitable. As to secrets, so far as he had been enabled hymn " Thou to whom the sick and dy ing " was sung, Bro. Jackman , by dili gent attention to Masonic duty, to discover the original secret of .Freemasonry was how and the Benediction was pronounced hy Bro. the Rev. and by persevering effort , so comp letely gained the to build , but at the present time their secret was that C. S. Hope, P.P.G.C. West Lanes. The concluding confidence of his brethren that in December of last year that they had no secret. He asked for the sympathy h ymn was " O worship the King, all glorious above." they elected him VV.M. of his Lodge. Shortly before and support of the ladies, and instanced the Queen as Bro. H. Hudson , late 1313, presided at the organ with this, the VVhite Rose of York Lodge, No. ' 2401, was the Patron of the Craft, which he regarded as the most his customary talent and ability. formed in Sheffield , and Bro. Jackman was one of beneficent Society in the world. The more they knew The brethren reassembled in the schoolroom at the the founders. Last month he was chosen by the unani- of it the more they would appreciate such a useful , close of the service, when mous vote of its members to fill this chair also. He ancient, and honourable Society. was installed on the 2nd November and thus A cordial vote of thanks was passed to Bro. Hughan Bro. the Rev. C. S. H OPE , referring to the large , number who had attended said he was sure it spoke became W.M. both of the oldest and the youngest Shef- at the instance of Bro. the Rev. G. T. Warner, P.P.G. , Chap. well for Freemasonry in South port that there should be field lodges at the same time. No stronger proof of their so many present , and it would also help very greatly belief in his Masonic worth could his brethren give, In recognition of his services in decorating the lodge, the bazaar to be held in aid of the infirmary, and the and Bro. Jackman may well feel proud of the distinc- a Past Master's jewel was presented to Bro. Lewis Stevens b work of the institution itself. He thoug ht he would be tion conferred upon him. From part of this serious y Bro. Major C. Davie, P.A.G.D.C. Eng. Prov. G. Sec , who was thanked for his presence on the ri ght in thanking, on their behalf , Bro. Spencer for his responsibility he will , however, shortly be relieved, as admirable sermon. his term of office in Britannia Lodge is reaching its motion of the W.M., Bro. G. H. Hearder, seconded by The brethren also accorded their thanks to Bro. Rev. close. Bro. Jackman is a companion of the Paradise Bro. W. Vicary, P.P.G. Reg. C. S. Hope lor allowing them to hold the service at Chapter , which is connected wilh bis mother lodge, The visitors were thanked at tbe instance of Bro. F. Holy Trinity. and belongs to the outer circle of the Quatuor Coronati , Watts, the compliment being acknowledged by Bro. G No. 2076. He has served Stewardshi ps on behalf of N. Burden , P.J.G.W. all three Masonic Institutions five times, and has at all Dancing followed. INAUG URAL BANQUET OF THE IXION times warmly advocated their support, Bro. Jackman is the sole proprietor of the Persberg Steel Works, LODGE OP INSTRUCTION. Sheffield , and takes a practical interest in the com- Scotland merce of the city. Besides being a member of the Iron A great assembly of brethren took place at the and Steel Institute, and the British Iron Trade PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPTER OP Denmark Arms Hotel , East Ham , on Wednesday Association , he is also an Associate of the Mechanical evening, inauguration ABEHDUENSEIlli:. the 7th instant , to assist at the Engineers, member of the Sheffield Chamber of Com- banquet Instruc- and installation of the Ixion Lodge of merce, and Honorary Secretary of the Bi-metalic tion . It must be very gratif ying to the brethren to The annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Chapter find League. It will thus be seen that Bro. jackman occu- that their ancient Order is so well represented in ies a by no means unimportant position in com - of Aberdeenshire was held in the Masonic Hall Build- Kast hbourhood , p Ham , a rising and progressing neig mercial circles in Sheffield , a position which , like his ings, Exchange-street, Aberdeen , on the 16th instant. which localities of bids fair to be one of the leading Masonic standing, he owes entirely to his own ability Sir Allan Mackenzie , Bart., of Glenmuick, Prov. G. 'he Eastern district. and the excellent reputation which he has so univer- Superintendent , was in the chair. There was a repre- The installation ceremony was performed by Bro. J. sally gained. sentative meeting from the various chapters of the lv es, P.M., who successfull y installed Bro. H. Ffrench province. Bromhead , P.M., P.Z., P.P.S.G.W. Essex. as the W.M, 1 he chief business was the election of office-bearers I he officers were invested by the W.M. as follows : MASONI C CONVEIlSA/AONk! AT NE WTON. for the ensuing year, the following being the princi pal : 1J <-os. Thomas Cowell. S.W. ; B. C. Curtis, P.M., J.W. ; Comp. Sir Allan Mackenzie ... Prov. G. Supt. H . J. Day, P.M., S.D. ; Wm. Allvey, J.D. ; Barber , ' The members of the Devon Lodge, No. 1138, at „ Col. Lumsden of Pitcaple Prov. G.H. '•G. ; J. S. Chapman , Treas. ; and William W. Ives, Newton Abbott , on the 20th ult., held a conversazione „ J. M'Intosh Prov. S.J. Sec. to celebrate the re-opening of the lod ge premises after „ J. H. Forshaw Depute P.S.7.. There were also present Bros. A. J. Ives, P.M. ; J. renovation. The hall has been handsomely decorated „ A. Barclay Prov. G.S.E. Wilson , P. M., P.P.G.S.B. Essex ; B. Stewart , P.M.; to harmonise with the different Degrees of Masonry „ A. Dakers Prov. G. Treas. Spurgeon Sec. ; Sallaway, W.M. ; McKenzie, held therein. The princi pal work has been the general „ Rev. J. M'Cowan ... ') D„„ „, , 2501 PrOV" n Cha J-I:gg, Sidders, J. Day, Simpson , Delo, Reedman , Hon. arrangement of the desi gn , leaving the panels to be „ Rev. W. S. Hildesley ...) G' Ps' Stwd. ; Dale, Hon. Stwd. ; D. Ross, W. Golding, filled in with more defined characters of the Order. „ .J. Taylor Prov. G. ist Soj . Alstrom , Cottier, Bloom , Lowe, Mettrop, Ayton , Thus the Degrees leading to the Royal Arch and Mark „ D. Blake Prov. G. 2nd Soj . Gemmell , Mahany, and Tomlin. are separately treated, and the colouring has been kept „ S. Lawrence Prov. G. 3rd Soj. T HE W OR SHIPFUL C OMPAN Y OF M ERCERS have made T HE P LUCKNETT L ODGE , No. 1 70S, has rem-wed fr om a second grant of 250 guineas to the building fund of the The Bald Faced Stag, East Finchley, to Woodside Hail , Church House. North Finchley.

T HE COMMITTEE of the St. Bri de' s Youths ' Institute , A M ASONIC S ERVICE will be held , on Sunday next, a ( Shoe Lane, has received a donation of £25 from Mr. H, St. J ames ' s Chu rch , East Dulwich Green , at six o' clock , of B^^^Wnrefisffli Lawson , M.P. which the Rev. P. H. Aitkin , M.A., is vicar. T HE RECEIPT has been acknowledged , at Marlborough- B RO . S HERIFF H AND distributed the priz es last week at st for the poor-box , under the will the close of the annual show of the Stoke Newingto n BRO . H. LOVEGROVE who ran as an independent candi- reet , of the sum of £20 Chrysanthemum Society. date for a seat on the Council of the Society of Architects , of the late Lydia Branch. was placed within six of tbe tcp of the poll. T HE R EV . A. P. S IIIRREFF , late Principal at St. J ohn ' s SEVERAL pieces of needlework by tbe Lady Mayore ss are included amongst the 000 garments included in AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE P OULTRY S HOW , some Divinity School , Lahore , has been appointed by the Arch- 50, the , Italian Leghorns , the property of Bro. H. Lovegrove , were bishop of Canterbury to the Recto ry of St. Dunstan ' s-in- exhibition the London Needlework Guild whose hon. placed second , third , and fourth by the judges. the.East , and he will reside in the parish . secretary is Mrs. Basil Ellis, is holding at the Imperi al Institute , South Kensington. M R . E DWIN F OX (of the firm of Messrs. Edwin Fox 3nd RO P ASSMORE EDWARDS will preside , and Bro. B . J. T HE PRIZE GIVEN by the Prince of Wales for competi- Bousfield), has been elected a director of the Accident the Rev. E. A . B. Sanders , M.A. Archdearon Sinclair , tion by members of the Honourable Artillery Company (of Insurance Company, Limited , St. Swithin 's House , St. and the Rev. VV. Hardy Harwood (rector of Whitechapel), which his Royal Highness is Captain-General) has been won Swithin ' s-lane. pal speakers at the meeting to be held at will be the princi by Corporal Healy, of No. 6 Company, with 11275 ; to-morro w (Saturday), in the 93 T HE INSTALLATION of the W.M. of the Albert Victor the Royal Albert Hall points in shooting at Queen ' s ranges , and 2075 allowed for Lodge , No. 232S, will take place at Freemasons ' Hall , St. interests of the Homes for Little Boys, Farning ham and drill. Saviourgate , York , on the 27th inst. The W.M. elect is Swanley. Bro. Fred. Shann , M.R.C.S., and thc Installing Maste r , B RO . F. W. DRIVER , M.A., P.M., P.Z., Stc, author of ACTORS ' B ENEVOLENT F UND.—Mr. H. Beerbohm Tree health perm itting, will be Bro. T. B. Wh ytehead , P.M. " The Noble Soul," "The Submerged City, " "Tou jours will take the chair at the annual dinner of this fund , to be Perdrix " (f poems), "A Novel Vengeance ," and "TheF our BRO . ROBERT C. DRIVER , P.G.D., has written to Bro. IHd at the Hotel M etropole , on Wednesday, the 12th prox. Henries " (prose), recites his original productions at II. Times, the VV.M. of Honour and Generosity Lod ge, The committee state that the demands upon the fund musical entertainments , smoking concerts , &c. For No. 165, resigning the Secretaryship of that lodge , a post during the current year have been very heavy, a large terms , address G2 , Lancaste r-road , Notting Hill , W. he has filled for the last 3S years to the greatest advantage number of -aged actresses and actors depending entirely to the lodge. We regret to learn that ill-health is the cause upon the hel p of the fund for thei r means of existence. VERY SUCCESSFUL was the cinderella given last week of his being compelled to resign. Bro . Driver is in his 78th at the Town Hall , Westminster , in aid of the funds of the year. W E REGRET to note the untimel y death of Bro. Walter London Skin Hospital. The Hospital , which was founde d in 1SS7 by Mr. J ames Startin , has made rapid progress T HE V.E. P ROV . P RIOR OF DEVON (Rev . Dr. Lemon J ames Walker , Strand Lodge , No. 19S7, at the early age , during its seven years ' existence , as indeed is shown by th e K.C.T.) purposes holding at Pl ymouth , to-day (Friday), a of 30 years. The deceased was a son of Bro. J ohn fact that , whereas during the fi rst year only patients Provincial Prior y of the Order of Knights Hospitaller of Walker , of Southend , True Friendship Lod ge, No. 160, for 725 were treated , this number was increased in 1S to 1400. St. John of Jerusalem , Palestine , Rhodes , and Malta , at manv years associated with the Fast of London in trade as 93 a builder and contractor, to which business Bro. Walter During the past 11 mon'hs, 1450 out-patients and 40 in- the Freemasons ' Hall , Plymouth. A large attendance of patients have been treated. the knights is expected. Walker succeeded. He was fortunately unmarried , but deep sympathy is due to his parents , in their sorrow. Bro. T HERE WAS a lar ge gathering in the King 's Hall at the AT A MEETING on Friday, the 16th inst., of the Eastern W. Walker was widely known , and his genial presence and Holborn Restaurant on Thursday to celebrate the jubilee of Star Lod ge, Aberdeen Chap ter , No. 1 , the following office- genuine good qualities had endeared him to a large circle the I heulogical Ci illege b elnng ingto the Presbyb-ri ^nChurch bea rers were appointed for the ensuing year : Matron , nf fr iends. He was interred on Thursday, the 15th inst., at of Eng land , the invitations bring issued by the Social Union Sister Brewster; A ssociate , Sister M'Robbie ; Secretary, the East London Cemetery. connected with ths same religious body in London. Mr. Sister Binner ; Treasurer , Sister Will; Conductress , H. M. Matheson traced the history of the college since O VER telegraph messengers were inspected by the its Sister Merchant; Associate , Sister Baxter ; Warder , 700 foundation Postmaster-General at the Tower of London on Thursda y. , and dwelt with especial satisfaction on the Sister Senior ; Ada le, Sister Gibson ; Ruth , Sister Milne ; marvellous growth of the church , possessing as it now does Esther , Sister Martin ; Martha , Sister Lang ; Electa , Sister The boys, in their winter uniform , with great coats and gaiters, began to muster under command of Lieut. -Col. in the southern portion of this country no fewer than 114 Masson ; and Patron , Bro. A. A. Smith . congre gations , with 4100,000 of revenue. Nearly half the J . P. MacGregor soon afte r S.30 a.m., and on the bugle P EOPLE WHO GRUMBLE at railwa y unpunctuality should pul pits are filled by ministers trained in the college. sounding the whole battalion was extended for physical drill . take to heart the remarks made by Air. Lambert , the and performed the first four pr actices in excellent time to Similarly have the forei gn missions expanded , there being energetic manager of the Great VVestern Railway, an the music of the massed bands of the Central Telegrap h 30 male and 20 female missionaries , most of them engaged interestirg interview with whom , showing how he has risen Office and the various districts. There was also the usual in China. The prospects of the college were declared by the Rev. Oswald D from a comparatively humble position to his present post , salute in line and a march past in column and quarter y kes, princi pal, to be never more hope- appears in the current number of "St. Paul' s." " Those ," column. Mr. Arnold Morley, M.P., congratulated the ful than at present. An agreeable feature of the evening was the presentation of a portrait to Professor Gibb by old he points out , " who will persist in arriving at a station with boys on their improvement. huge quantities of luggage just as the train is about to students , in recognition of a quarter of a century ' s work , start are the perverse people to whom the inconvenience T H E A NNUAL DA NC E of members of the Lodge of United the Rev. Donald Matheson actin g as the mouthpiece of the must be chiefl y attributed. " A minut e or two lost in tbis Brethren , No. 346, of which Bro. John Parkinson is the subscribers. way at every station soon makes up the quarter of-an-hour W.M., was held in the Exchange Assembly Rooms , A N A USTRALIAN PAPER asks and answers several ques- late which causes indignant travellers to write to the Times. Blackburn , on Thursday, the 15th inst., and was in every tions affecting the Craft. Is Freemasonry, it asks , an I NEFFIC I EN T O F FICE RS .—Office rs of a lodge (elected respect a great success. The attendance was large , and eleemosynary organisation , or a religious sect ? Was it or appointed ) who are frequentl y absent , often late and the arragements made for the comfort and convenience of established , and is it supported for the purpose of giving always unable to properl y perform their work , not for want those present were admirable. A programme of 21 dances alms , or spreadin g a reli gious doctrine ? Certainl y, neither of time or lack of ability, but because of indifference and was gone through , the dancers footing it merril y to the the one nor the other. What then is it? It is a social ' , , lack of interest , should not be advanced , nor should the strains ot Mr. Abbott s capable orchestra . Bro. William brotherhood , having a social and religious aspect. It is members of a lodge have any compunctions of conscience Lamb , P.M., D C , P.P.G.P., fulfilled the duties of Master meant , by bring ing the best man of the community together in refusing to advance Ihem , nor should the Worshi p ful of Ceremonies with more than ordinary care and attention , in social intercourse , to elevate their minds, and improve Master have any compunctions of conscience in removin g their manners. B bring ing all classes of the community J AMES ANDERSON R OSE .—Marcus Ward and Co., y them , for incalculabl y more is due to the interests of the Limited , announce the earl y publication , in two volumes , together on a basis of social equality it tends to level up- lodge in particular and the Craft in general than the of a further selection of engraved portraits from the collec- wards. It gives men of ordinary calibre and position an wounding of the feelings of voluntaril y inefficient officers. tion exhibited by the late James Anderson R jse at theooen- opportunity of mixing with the most refined , intelli gent, and While there are a few inefficient officers, we are glad they ing of the New Librar y and Museum of the Corporation of illustrious in the communit y. It teaches men that they can are but few, and hope their number will grow beautifully theCity of London , N ovember , 1872. Thisselectionc jnsistsof have social enjoyment and relaxation without excess. There less.—Keystone. over 100 portraits of celebrated histotical characters ; royalty, is no association in the world which devo-.es so much of its funds to relieving the poor as Freemasonry. Is not that T HE R ECENT R AINFALL .—Mr. H. Steward of statesmen , reformers , generals , anists , litterateurs are all J . , 40G, who Strand , writes as follows:— " When it is ' water water represented , and accompany ing these portraits are attrac- enough for the most fa tidiuus , without railing at those , inte r- everywhere ,' it may not be uninteresting to your reader s tively-written biogra p hies , edited by Mr. Gordon Goodwin , spend a portion of their time and money in social to know something about the rainfall for the past six who has also furnUhed by way of prefice a very interestin g course ! Once reduce Freemasonr y to a soup kitchen alms weeks. I see by re ference to the chart kept here that memoir of Mr. Rose. A portrait of Mr. Rose appears as a giving organisation and its doom is sealed. There are and yet the rain has been registered on 13 out of the 16 days this frontisp iece. The fi rst selection appeared in one volume in many noble institutions which give no alms at all, benefit the human race. month , amounting in all to nearl y th ree inches (2.92 1S74, published at nine guineas , but these hav e long since inches), and this after a fall of nearly 5 " inches in October been sold. F RUIT G ROWING IN A USTRALIA .—The large hall of (5.41 inches in actual fi gures). This gives a total of Si A NTIQUITY —We are sure we do not despise or und er- the Horticultural College at Swanley (Swanley J unctio n) inches, with a dail y average of nearl y two-tenths of an inch . a rate antiquity, and so we like to climb mountain height s, was well filled on Tuesday evening, the 20th instant , by since the 5th October , which is almost unprecedented , at fairl y representative audience drawn from the fruit-gro ring any rate , nearly double that of the same period for last and though they are cold and barren and often hid in clouds, but we prefer to live in the sunny and fruitful valleys. community of the district , for the purpose of hearing an the preceding year , the total for 1S93 being 4-83 inches and We think more of Masonr y for what it is and is doing illustrated lecture by Bro. J ames Stevens, representativ e of 1S92 inches. The amount of water represented by to-da y, 4*72 the than for what it ever has been or has done in ages the Australian Irrigation Colonies , under the above title. 8 inches of rain is about 174, 240 gallons , or S00 tons , per pist. the Tfere are enough p ractical , matter-of-fact fellows that will By permission of the governing body of the college, acre. " the in ist on looking at the date on the half-do 'Iar general public were enabled to share with the students , but we are ex- F EMALE SCHOOL I NSPECTORS .—Bro. George Markham reluctant to distmb the illusions that aff jrd so much deli ght advantages to be derived from an extremel y lucid Tweddell , the Cleveland Author , is proposing the appoint- to those who indul th ;m position of the details of the creation and progres s of ge in , so long as they do not , ment of female inspectors for girls ' and infants ' schools. seriousl y interfere with good work , growth and the two large s;ttlement - ia Victoria and South Austra lia prog ress, now Bro. Tweddell says : " In our days, when women are com- but when so-called landmarks are set up in the path of known as Mildura and Renmark respectively , world. peting favourably with men in every sort of learning, surel y reason and justice and sound sense we feel like asserting attracting considerable interest in the horticultural it is high time that properl y educated females were ap- The lecturer was intioduced to his audience by Thom is our minhood and examining these obst ructions to see if the pointed as inspectors of girls ' and infants ' schools. That they are not rejected rubbish from the Temp Russell , Esq., of Stone , who said thatin consequence of le.— Voice of seri es they are at least equall y as able to judge of the moral and Masonry. good report which had reached the college as to the mental training uf their own sex, and of infants of both , of lectures in the course of deliver y at the Cryst al Pa !a<* thi as males, few will be bold enough to deny ; and they must T RADES T RAINING S CHOOL .—Technical educa tion , the and elsewhere , it had been thou ght desriable to aff jrd be better fitted to examine the work of girls in knitting, importance of which it would be difficult to overestimate , is students at Swanley and others interested in fruit cultur e, of crochetin g, darning, hemming, patching, backstitching, and at length reall y making headway in the Metropolis. On an opportunity of learning the nature and characteristic s every variety of needlework , than most men can possibl y Thursday night Sir Henry Roscoe, at the invitation of the the newl y-formed Settlements in Australia , and the methods be. 1 trust that this lette r will move some one of more in- Worshipful Company of Carpenters , inspected the Trades of irrigation pursued ; and to see, through the medium ol fluence than myself to take up the subject , though , as Training College, in Great Titchfield-street , and delivere d the views to be represented , the indisputable resul ts of six Elihu , the son of Bara chel, lhe Buzite , said over thirty-four a brief address. The institution in question , which is years progress , both in regard to the bearing capaci ty °' cenluiies ago— ' Harken to me; I ali o will show mine assisted by several of the City Guilds , provides practical the trees p lanted durin g that period over a most extensive instruction classes for apprentices and workmen engaged in area , and of the towns which had grown up and were opinion ,' —ar.d I will be glad to see others do the same. We e have latel y, very properly, had some female inspectors of the London building trades , including such cralts as nros perin g as a result of the imoorlant [enter prise. I' factories appointed. Why not carry the reform into schools masonry, carpentry, joinery, wood carving, painting, and lelt certain that an attentive consideration would be give" and workhouses? Women are , I sinceiel y hope , fast so forth, lt was stated by Colonel Bannist er Fletcher that to the lecturer 's address , and that the lime-lig ht ph"'° ' had emerg ing from tbe Oriental degradation to which they have there were 1O1 pup ils, and that the aver age weekl y atte n d- views for which he no_iced , liberal prepara tion amV are ance was avec 200. Sic Hetwy Ruscoe. said that it was bten made , vfuuM give liis heaters much sat isfaction- been unjustly subj e cted in the blundering past , a about to become the pioneers of purity and progress in the extremel y creditable to the City companies to have devote d Bro. Stevens, who was most cordiall y received , gave so much money towards technical education. 'There was most interesting account ot the extensive Irnga ion Settle- brighter future. " - no question of the great need and value of just such in- ments , which was listened to with the utmost inieres t- A NOTHER B KI .ACH or I' KOMISI ; C ASK .- 1'lns IS a familiar line in struction now-a-days. It would tend to increase and occupying more than an hour and a half of quic* the newspaper *, anil one whirl ) always allract - . the eye. Ami e yet , when we conic to read the report , ' how oflen do wc- lind that maintain the high standard of British workmansh ip. Sub- passing time. The lecture was illustrated with a l*'6 the case is not very amusing after all. Indeed , considered sequently, in making the round of the class-rooms , the number of magnificent lantern slides. At the conclusW> rk 'btJ y, Ihe hraikhifr ' nf a promise i.s a very serious matti-r. A visitors expressed much satisfaction at tbe thorou ghness of the chairman having proposed a vote of thank s to tr man who is once liuilty ol such an act is never trusted a^ain. the training being imparte d to the students. The drawings lecturer in terms of gteat appreciation , and which »• When we are sull'c-ring from indigestion , sick headache , or lrom in nearl y all ot the departments were cleverl M.K .A.L.) do we Inrn to Holloway ' y executed , princi pal of the college, Mr. Colville Brown , any disorder ot Ihe stomach , wh y s and in the carving, bricklayers ' s'ri | ' I'ilis r Because they promise relief in such cases , and have never , and decorative painting &c, sior.ded in like manner , a must pkasant and 'n ;. yet broken their promise during a trial in all parts of lhe world school-rooms the work was of grea t excellence, many of live evening terminated amidst many expression s of sal- " for nearly sixty years, the young apprentices showing most marked talent. faction. Egyptian , Salutation, Newgate-street, at 7. Honor Oak, Crystal Palace Tavern , nt 8. TUESDAY , DECEMBER 4. (emblematic, St. James's Restaurant, Piccadill y, at 8. Hornsey, White Hart Alasonic Rooms, Lewisham , S. K., at S. Enfield , Rose and Crown, Church-street, Edmonton , at 8. Ivv, Railway Tavern , Battersea Rise, S.W., al 8. (' RUT I. . .IH.1.S . Sutton Cuhllield 704 S(ra t ford-mi- Excelsior, Commercial Dock Tavern, Plough-road , Rotherhithe, 8 Justice, Brown Bear, High-street , Deptford , at 8. Notting ham ... 47 Havant S04 Avon ... 2135 Faith, Victoria Mansions Restaurant, Victoria-street, S.W., at d. Kent , King nnd Queen, Norton Folgate, at 8. Norwich 52 Honiton 847 Bishops StorU Finsbury, The (Jel l Hotel, Old Bailey, at 7. Langton, Wi-itc Hart, Abchurch-lane, V..C-, at 5.30. Plymouth .. ;o i.inslutlc 94.S I 'oni 213/1 Florence Nightingale, M.H., William-street, Woolwich , 2nd and Leopold , Moorgate Tavern , Moorgate-street,- K.C., at 7. Bristol 103 Card ill " 9G0 Fairfield 220a 4th Tues., at 5.30. Montefiore, St. James's Restaurant, Piccadill y, at 8. Hereford 120 Bradford 974 Southport ... 220-; Hendon , Railway Hotel, West Hampstead , N. W., at 8. Perfect Ashlar, Bridge House Hotel , Southwark, at 7. Durham 124 I'Iverstune ... < IIK Blaekwater ... 247 < Islington, Cock Tavern, Highbury, at 7.30. lYiory,Berry mead Priory, Acton, at 8.15. Sheerness ... 15 S Cockermouth .. 1002 Amp 'hiU 24110 (oppa, Boundary Tavern, Aldersgate-street, E.G., at 7.30. Royal Mbert White Hart Hotel , Abchurch-lane, at 7.30. l,\Uleluffi> ' ... 22b Aberyslwitb . .. 1072 Whalley 2529 , ' , p Kensington, Scarsdale Arms, Edwardes-square, Kensington, at 8. Royal Savoy, Criterion, Piccadill y, at 8.30. Dudley 252 Wa liner IOIJ O K.A. Cn .\i ric i%s. Mount Edgcumbe, Havelock Arms, Naylor-road, Asylum-road, St. John 's, Court House, Harlesden , N.W., at 7.30. Keighley 205 Manchester ... 1134 Lincoln 21)7 Peckham, at 8. St. Joh n's, Queen Victoria Tavern , Fxmouth-st„ Stepney, at 8. Brighton 315 Ilminster 1197 Hayle 45a Nelson , Star and Garter, Powis-street, Woolwich, at 8. St. Luke's, Victoria Tavern , Gertrude-street , Chelsea , at 8. Oxford 340 Weston 1:22 Chesterfield ... tiSi New Cross, Chester Arms, Albany-street, N.W., at 8. Sir Hugh Myddelton , Star and Garter, Upper-st., Islington , at 8. Neath 3O4 Bri gg 12H2 Birmingham .. 1031 New Finsbury Park, Hornse^ Wood Tav., Finsbury Park, at 8. Southern Star, Sir Sy dney Smith, Chester-st., Kennington , at 8. BerwieU ...... 303 Wrexham ... 133d Hull 213.1 Pilgrim (German language), Guildhall Tavern, Gresham-street, Southwark Park . White Hart Ilotel. New Cro-s Gate, at 8. So ith Molton 421 Amlwch 14 SS Chatham 2404 E.G., ist and 3rd Tues., at 6.30. Stockwell , Salutation 'lavern , Newgate-street, at (i.30. M nn mon th .. . 457 Port ma dor ... 1 501) M ARK L. Prince Frederick William , Eagle Tavern Clifton-roa d Maida M.H., Masons'-avenue Gloucester .. . 4113 Bognor 172( 1 llantev , , Thc Grea t City, , K.C., at G.30. " \$ Vale, at 8. Tredegar, The Cheshire Cheese, Crutched Friars, F.C., at 7.30. Liskeard 510 Southampton .. 17X0 Truro ;S Richmond, Station Hotel, Richmond , at 8.30. Union Waterloo, Far! of Chatham, Thomas-street, Woolwich. Folkestone ... 558 Pad stow 17S5 Bury 130 Koyal Naval College, Greenwich Hospital Schools, at 8. Victoria Park , George Hotel, Stratford , F., at 7.30. New Mal.'nM .. . tttio Builth J .S07 AmluvJi 3*11 Robert Hums, Frascati Restaurant, Oxford-street, W. Chancer Chapter , George Hotel , High-street , Borough , S.K., at S. Liverpool ... 073 Prod sham ... M|oS Ring wo. hi 3S1 South Middlesex ,.Beaufort House, Walham Green, S.W., at 7.30 Clapton Chapter , Three Sisters Hotel , Hackney Downs, at 8. Stroml ... 702 South Shields 11170 Lewes ... \t\i St. George s, New Cross Public Hall , at 8. Industry Chapter , Prince Regent, Dulwich-roa d , Heme Hill , at 8. Bridlington ... 734 Bakewell .. . 2i2<| St. Kew, Masonic Hall, Weston-super-Mare, at 8. North London Chapter , Cock Tavern, Highbury, at H, LODOE.S or Lvsruuf'Ttox. St. Leonard 's, Bedford Hotel Victoria Park-road South , , Birming ham Hackney, at 8. ... 74 Broadstairs ... 429 Wellington (JuayuOi FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7. Darlington . 111 Halifa x ~ Wandsworth , St. Mark's School-room Battersea Rise, S.W., at S .. 44S Jarrow . .. .. 111 9 , Whitehaven ... St. Austell ... Varborough, Green Dragon, Stepney, at 8. CRAFT LODGES. 119 411O Bootle 1473 Weymouth ... 170 A lesbury ... Kingston Hill Camden hapler , The Moorgate, Moorgate-street, at 8. Moira , Albion Tavern. y 591 1O3 H 92, Liverpool ... 241 Cl'eckheaton ... 1103 Hudderslield Earl of Carnarvon Chatter , Ladbroke Halt, Notting Hill , at 8. Yarborough, London Tavern. ... 17S3 554, Batley 264 St. Helens ... S Buckingham ... Metropolitan Ci>uNer , White Hart, Abchurch-lane, at 6.30. 706, Florence Ni ghtingale, Royal Mortar Hotel , Woolwich. 97 17M7 Marypfirt . 371 Stockton 1140 Chertse\ 2120 Kintore M ark Lodge, Stirling Castle Hotel , Camberwell Green , 890, Hornsey, Anderton 's Hotel. S.E., at 8. 1275, Star, Shi p Hotel , Greenwich. 1489, Marquess of Ri pon , Cock Tavern , Hig hbury . WEDNESDAY , DECEMBER 5. WEDNESDAY , DECEMBER S. 1627, Roval Kensington , Freemasons' Hall. 1891, St.' Ambrose, St. James's \\:\\\. CKAYT LOW.RS. Hnnglas 1004 West Hartle- GRAND LODGE QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION , at 6 2467", Pickwick , Anderton 's Hotel. Smiderland ... n4 Mull 1010 pool 1.S02 for 7. 2488, Kcecntrie, Criterion. Poole 137 Liverpool ... 1013 Liverpool ... 204 2 Leicester 270 West Mailing.. 10(13 Tunbridge CRAFT LODGES. KOYAL A RCH C HAPTERS. Tavistock ... 2H2 Derby 1085 Wells ... 2200 511, Zetland, Anderton 's Hotel. S, British , Freemasons' UalL Rochdale „. 298 Alnwick 1167 Long Eaton ... 2224 1585, Royal Commemoration, Holborn Resta u rant. 250, Prince of Wales, Whitehall Rooms. Bristol ...... 326 Sandwich ... 120b Bicester 2334 1803, Cornhiil, Cafe Monico. Wigton 327 Chester-le- Cardiil" 2453 LODGES AND CHAPTERS OF I NSTRUCTION . Ramsgate ... 42(1 Street ... 1274 R.A. CHAI'TBKS. RO VA L A RCH CHA PTER . Albion , Swan's Nest, Great Swan-alley, K.C., at 7. Newport, Mon. 47 1 Atherstoue ... 1333 Leeds 304 Town Hall at 5$, Constitutional , Ship and Turtle Tavern. AH Saints, , Poplar, 7.30. Ludlow ...... (JI 1 Wigan 1335 Preston Beacontree, Green Man, Leytonstone, at 8. Manchester ... 645 Leigh 1354 Bishops Stort- ^^^ LonoEs AN D CHAPTERS or IN STRUCTION , Clapton, Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool-street , F.C, at 7. Kearsley 678 Solihull 1431 ford 4oq Cru saders, Northampton Arms, Goswell-road, at 8.30. Abergavenny .. 818 WonJston ... Stafford Beaconsfield Chequers Hotel, High-street, Walthamstow at 8. 1461 72O , , Earl of Carnarvon , Elgin Hotel , Lad broke-grave, Notting-hill, 8. Boston Warminster ... Sowerb Bridge Belgrave, Salutation Tavern, Newgate-street, at 6.30. 838 1478 y 1283 Earl of Zetland , Royal Edward Hotel, Triangle, Hackney, at 7. Bungay Carlisle Hornsea Bromley St. Leonard, Bromley Vestry Hall, Bow-road, at 8. 929 1532 1511 Emulation, Freemasons' Hall, at 6. East Lone ARK ODGES Confidence Swan's Nest Great Swan-alley, Moorgate-street ... 970 Liverpool ... 1620 M L , , , , Euphrates, Green Man , Mansell-street, Whitechapel , E., at 8. Lower Brough - Frizington ... 1060 Workington E.C, at 7. ... 282 Gavel Club, Freemasons' Tavern, at 8. ton Halifax 1736 Wootfou-imder- Grays Valley, National School-room , St. Mary Cray, at 8. 992 Harrow, Waterloo Arms, Hi gh-street, Marylebone, at 8. jersey 1003 Edge Dalhousie, Lord Stanley, Paragon-road , Mare-street, Hackney. 8. 29(1 Henley, Three Crowns, North Woolwich, at 8. Birmingham Doric, Moorgate Tavern ,Moorgate-street, at 8. .. 410 Kennington, Horns Tavern, Kennington Park , S.E., at 8. LODGES or I NSTRUCTION . Duke of Albany, Masons' Arms, 169, Battersea-park-road, at 8. at Lewis, Fishmongers' Arms, H igh-street, Wood Green, 7.30. Chatham 20 Longton 54(1 Wisbech Hor] Duke of Connaught, Royal Edward Hotel, Triangle, Hackney, 8. Loyalty, Private Rooms, 206 Mare-street, Hackney, at 8. , Shrewsbury ... 117 Ventnor 551 Worthing ... K51 Fidelity, Alfred Tavern , Roman-road, Barnsbury, N., at 8. Metropolitan (Victoria), Portugal Hotel , Fleet-street, at 7. Ryde 175 Newbury ... Chorlton-011- Gallery, Press Club, Wine Office-court , Fleet-street, at 7. Queen's Westminster, Criterion, Piccadilly, W., at 8. 574 Bingley Liverpool ... Medlock ... 1459 Guelph , Plough and Harrow, Leytonstone-road, E., at 8. Ranelagh, Six Bells, Queen-street, Hammersmith, W., at 8. 4^9 594 Haverfordwest 464 Heme Bay ... 2000 Hammersmith, Board Room, Bath and Wash-house Co., Blacks- Royal Standard, Castle Tavern, 81, Holloway-road, at 8. road, Hammersmith, at 7. Royal Alfred, Star and Garter* Kew Bridge, at8. Lansjthorne, Angel Hotel, llford, at 8. St. Ambrose, St. James's Restaurant, Piccadill y, at 8. THURSDAY, DECEMEBR 6. La Tolerance, Frascati Restaurant, , Oxford-street, at 8. 32 St. James's, Gregorian Arms, Jamaica-roa d , S.E., at 8. CRAFT L ODGES . Northampton.. L Berkeley Arms Mayfair, at 8. 360 ymm 1505 Londesborough, , John-street, Savage Club, Savage Club. Adelphi-terrace, at 6. Newcastle ... Grantham ... Stony Stratford Albert Hotel Victoria-street S.W., 24 3G2 1U39 London Scottish Rilles, , , 8.30. Selwyn, Montpelier Tavern , Choumert-road , Peckham, at 8. Canterbury ... Wolverhampton Town Hall Limehouse 31 419 Faringdon ... 1770 Merchant Navy, , , at 7.30. Stability, Masons' Hall Tavern , Masons'-avenue, at 6. Chichester ... Spilsb , Mitcham, at 8. 38 y 426 Brighton 18211 Mitcham. Vestry Hall Stanhope, Fox and Hound? Hotel , V' pper RH-hmond-i oa d , Hull Wells, Somerset Kidderminster. Halt-Moon Hotel Borough at 8.30. 57 446 187 4 Mown! Lebanon , , , Putney, at 8.30. Lowestoft ... Accrington ... Sandhurs t ... Farmers Southgate-road N., at 8. 71 462 iHgu New Concord, Jolly , , Temperance, Railway Tavern, New Cross-road , at 8. Merthvr Tvdvil no Howden Reading Balham 630 204 1 Panmure, Balham Hotel, , 31 7.30. The Abbey, The Town Hall , Westminster, 7.30 till 9.10. I pswich .Manchester . Settle East Finchley, at 114 633 2091 Plucknett, Bald-faced Stag, 7.45. United Pilgrims, Surrey M.H., Camberwell New-roa d, at 7.30. ( olne 11ft Stoke-on-Trent Bradford .. .. 2 's Head Knightrider-street Doctnrs Com- O37 321 Prosperity, Old Parr , , Woodgrange, Princess Alice Hotel, Forest Gate, E., at 8. Richmon d ... 123 Black pool ... HindJev mons 703 2350 , at 7. Eastern Star Chapter , Hercules Tavern, Leadenhall-street , 2nd Devonport ... 230 Tot ties ...... 710 Chester 238(1 Pythagorean, Portland Hotel, Greenwich, at 8. and 4U1 Friday, at 7. Liverpool ... 240 Grimsby Birkenhea d ... 24911 Ravensbourne, Rising Sun , Rushey Green, Catford, at 8. 792 Hornsey Chapter , Prince of Wales Hotel , Eastbourne-terrace , Coventry 254 Lo>twitiiiol ... S56 R.A. CH A PTER S. Roya l Jubilee, the Crown, Lambeth-road, S.E., at 8. Bishop's-road, Paddington , W., at 8. Hev wood ... 2(1(1 Plumstead ... 010 Ramsimte . at 8. .. 420 Roya l Oak, Lord Clyde, Wotton-road , Deptford , Lily oi Richmond Chapter , Station Hotel, Richmond, at 8.30. Blackburn ... Bruton Ardwick 's-rd., Victoria Pk., 8. 2119 97(1 581 St. Leonard, Prince of Wales Hotel, Bishop Mount Sion Chapter , Royal Edward Hotel , Triangle, Hackney, Huddersfield ... Burv 1012 Wiga n 22O1 1 Southgate Railway Hotel New Southgate, at 8. 275 , , 2nd and 4th Friday, at 7.30. Chelmsford ... 276 Melton Mow- Oldham 2341 Strong Man Blue Anchor, 164, Fenchureh-street, E.G., at 6.30. , Pythagorean Chapter , Dover Castle, Broadway, Deptford , at 8. Leeds 289 bra y 1130 M ARK LODGES. Temperance-in-.he-East, Greenwich Pensioner, Bow-Jane, Poplar, Star Chapter , Stirling Castle Hotel, Church-st.; Camberwell, at 8. Beverley 294 St. Germans. ... 11O4 Birkenhea d ... n at 7.30. Mark Grand Masters, Mark Masons' HaU , Great < hieen Street , Macclesfield ... Topsham 128 Rochdale . . 20 United Mariners Duke of Albany, Kitto-roa d, Nunhead , at 7.30. 295 4 , W.C, at 6. Ashtoivunder- Horneastle ... 1304 Barrow-in-Fur- United Strength, Hope Tavern, atanhopc-st., huston-road, at 8. Lyne 300 Ki picy 1324 ness 36 Wanderers, Victoria Mansions Restaurant, Victoria-street, S.W., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. Metrics 305 Darlington ... 1379 She/Held 55 at 7.30. Fareham Widnes 1384 Liskeard ' Warrant Oflicers, St. Mart'm's-street, W.C, at 7. CRAFT LODGES. 309 37u 35, Manchester . .. 317 Bootle 1473 Luton 405 Westbourne, The Prince Alfred, 112, Queen 's-road , Bayswater, 8. 108, London , Shi p and Turtle Tavern. Helston 318 Norwich 1 500 Shrewsbury ... 444 Whittington , Red Lion , Poppin 's-court, Fleet-street, at 8. I Phu'tiix , Freemasons' Hall. ?3J I 'ppcrmill ... 337 Banudrv 1513 Soutlmort ... 471 Andrew Chapter , Bush Hotel, Shepherd's Bush, \V., at 8. 17O , Caveac, Albion Tavern. Domatic Chaptir , St. James's Restaurant, Piccadilly, W., at 8. 1426 , Great City, Cannon-street Hotel. LODGES OF I NSTRUCTION. Camden Murk Lalgf, lCarl Russell, Pancras-rnad, King's Cross, 8. 1612 , West Middlesex , Municipal Buildings Kalintr. Canterbury ... 31 Maidstone ... 503 Sandow n , LW. 1869 1671, Mizpah , Albion Tavern. Nottingham ... 47 Liverpool ... 073 Shanklin, LW. 188 4 ' THURSDAY DECEMBER 6. 1928 , Gallery, Anderton s Hotel. Pl ymouth ... 70 Rochester ... 1050 WalHngford ... 1887 , 2369, Cornish, Mark Masons' Hall. Liverpool ... 21b Liverpool . .. 1182 Hazel Grove ... 1957 C.KAFT l,OnOES. 2384, Mitcham, Vestry Hall , Lower Mitcham. Batley 264 Sudbury 1224 New Brompton 196 7 io, West mi nster and Keysrone, Kreema sons' Hall. Dxbridge ... 382 Romford 1437 Bra d ford 2321 27i Egyptian, Anderton 's Hotel. 45, Strong Alan , Guildhall Tavern, FRIDAY , DECEMBER 7. 192 , Lion nnd Lamb, Cannon-street Hotel. MASONIC MEETINGS (PROVINCIAL) CRAFT LODC. ES. Ri pon 8 Gor-forth 106 22 Ionic Criterion. 37 4 7, , For the week ending Saturday, December K, 1894. Manchester ... Alderburgh ... 93(1 Penarth 2ii , St. Andrew's, Freemasons* Hall. 44 1754 Leeds 30O Stow-on-the- R.A. CHAPTE RS. I.a Tolerance Freemasons' Hall. 538, , 1'owcester ... Wold ... Plymouth ... 822 , Victoria Rilles, Freemasons* Hall. 445 951 156 The following is a list of Towns in whicli the Lodges, &c, Hudderslield... 521 Chorlton-cum- Weymouth ... 170 1178, Perfect Ashlar, Bridge House Hotel. Selby 590 Hard A RK ODGE 121 6 Macdonald Surrey Masonic Hall. whose numbers are appended , meet at the dates given* Further y ... 1357 M L . , , Ashford Nottingham ... 1405 ( 'astlcford ... St. Clement Danes, The Courts Restaurant. of places of meeting, &c, of Craft Lodges and K.A. 709 457 »35*. particulars Louth 712 Morecambe ... 15O1 U61, United Service, Cafe Koyal. Chapters will be found in "The Freemasons' Calendar," and 1425, H yde Park The Westbourne. LOD GES OF I N STRUCTION . , those of Mark, Rose Croix, &c, in "Th e Cosmopolitan Masonic 1672 , Mornington. Holborn Viaduct Hotel. R ichmond ... liristol Birkenhead ... uK\j " both published annually at the ofHceof The h'reematun. 123 $26 1707 , Eleanor, Great Kastern Hotel. Calendar, Bristol 187 Bra d ford 1034 Bristol — Province 1565, Trinity College, 13, Mandeville Place. Keighley 2(15 Saltash 1071 1772 , Pimlico, Victoria Mansions. '"tjo. Old lingland, Masonic Hall , Thornton Heath. MONDAY , DECEMBER 3. SATURDAY , DECEMBER 8. 22 71 , St. Pancras, Midland Grand Hotel. -291, West Hani Abbey, Town Hall , Stratford. CR AFT LODGES. Wimborne ... 622 Lowestoft ... 1452 CRAFT LODGE . ¦ Bolton ...... 37 Basingstoke ... G Wadebridge ... ¦IU , Clarence and Avondale, Red Man, LeytausUme. 94 1954 Sutton Bath 53 Gloucester .,. Sunderland ... 2030 1347 25 12, Fulham, Town Hall. 839 Ealing 1O12 Ashbourne ... 850 CaJstock ... 2tub Lynn /07 Portishead ... KOYAL A RCH CHAPTERS. Preston 113 Petersfield ... 928 Kington 2240 1755 Didsbury 2359 2, Chapter of St. James, Freemasons' Hall. Whitehaven ... 119 Ipswich (159 Wallsend-on- 9, Albion , Ship and Turtle Tavern. Bridgewater ... 135 Altrincham . .. 1045 Tyne ... 2497 LonoE OF I NSTRUCTION, 34, Moriab , Freemasons' Hnll. Wakefield ... 154 Rochester .,, 1050 Newcastle ... 2520 Birkenhea d ... 478 174, Sincerity, London Tavern. Pl ymouth ... 156 Lancaster ... 105 1 Mark Coniston 2525 S, lb93i Kingsland, Holborn Restaurant. Dover 199 South port ... 1070 R.A, CHAPTER Saltash 2 =7i . St. Pancra s,-Midland Grand Hotel. Barnstaple ... 251 1071 Exmouth 10O Price ys 6d. Torquay 328 Blackley 107 7 Wakefield ... 1019 M ARK: LO»G E . Ross 338 Oswesby 1124 Crowthorne ... 1899 HANDY BOOK to the Study of Leamington ... Birmingham ... 1180 M ARK LOD G E S. Ml?, Studholme, Golden.si|tiare. 395 3^, Norwich 428 Leeds ...... 1211 Portsmouth ... 2 A the ENGRAVED . PRINTED, and MANUSCRIPT LODGES ANO CHAPTERS OF I NSTRUCTION. North Shields.. 431 Shellield 1239 Hull 12 of Ancient Free and Accepted Exeter Middleshoro' LISTS OF LODGES at 8 Cambridge ... 44' 1254 ... 270 jhirdett-Coutts, Swa n Tavern, New Bethnal Green-road, Gateshead ... Masons of England (" Moderns " and "Ancients ") from S.W., at | Oxford 478 Liverpool 1264 293 'birgoyne. Coach and Horses, 348, Clapham-road, 7.30. Handsworth ... 482 Booking ...... 1312 Slmreeam ... 380 Movent Garden , Criterion , Piccadilly, at 8. 1723 to 1S14, with an Appendix and Valuable Statistical ( Worcester ... 529 Nottingham ... 1434 Liverpool 447 reaton , Hush Hotel, Shepherd's Bush, W., at 8. Tables. By Bro. JOHN LANE, F.C.A., P.M. 1402, Past rescent \ , King's Head Hotel, Twickenham, nt 8.30. LODGES OF I NSTRUCTION . , Past Prov. Grand Jerby Allcroft , Midland Grand Hotel , at 8. Senior Grand Warden of Iowa Registrar "uke of Edinburgh, Eastern Motel , Commercial-road , Limehouse, Old Brompton. 184 Hudderslield... 521 Canterbury ... 1449 of Devonshire , &c, &c, &c, Author of " Masonic Records, F.., at 7.30. Norwich 213 Workington ... 962 Land port ... 177b " " Masters' Lodges," &c, Stc,and dedicated '-/Hot, Railway Hotel, Feltham. Bradford 302 Levenshuline .. 993 Waffon-on- 1717-1886, Jarrow, Waterloo Arm s, High-street, Marylebbne, at 8. Brighton 315 Saltash 1071 Naze 1799 to Bro. W ILLIAM J AMKS H UGHAN , P.S.G.D. England. Cross Hi Tottenham, at 8. Reading 4'4 Mossley 1218 East Retford... 1802 j'gh , Coach and Horses, gh-road, London: GBORGH K UNMIN G , 16& 16a, Gt. Queen-st., Wghgate, Falkland Arms, Falkland-road, N.W., at 8. Newport 47 1 Leeds 1221 Hull 2134 W.C. -WORTH A GUINEA A BOX. NOTICE OF REMO VAL. ftEECHAMfe

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