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CONTEN TS. A reflection came over us on November 5th , (Gunpowder Day,) which we think it well to communicate to our readers, " quantum valet." It is this, LEADERS 505 Consecration of a New Mark Lodge at Royal Masonic Institution for Hoys 506 Durban 510 that Time, " edax rerum," as the old poet has put it, seems to carry away on Ko'val Masonic Benevolent Institution 50^ Consecration nf the Southwark Lodge of Grand Lodge of Scotland 506 Royal Ark Mariners 510 its oblivious and yet destructive stream the memories and the struggles, the Consecration of thc Gilbert Greenall Chap- Annual Banquet of the Star Lod ge of In- crimes and conspiracies of men. We are told however by the " Press " that ter, No. 1250 505 struction , No. 1255 Sio Cavernous Masonry 5/07 Kni ghts Templar 511 this last 5th of November was a very " lively " day—one of the " most lively CoKKESI'ON'DENCE—¦ Obituary S11 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls JoS K EI '- IRTS OK M ASOXIC M EETINGS— for years," spent as it is, as most of us know in scenes and episodes partly The London Masonic Charitv Association 50S Craft Masonry 512 farcical, partly " saturnalian." If we to day, remembering the passionate Hamburg h Lotteries 50S Instruction , 514 Reviews 50S' Royal Arch C14 reprehension of the loya l English people which that great pre-dynamite crime Masonic Notes and Queries 509 Ancient and Accepted Rite 514 IWctiopolitan Masonic llencvolent Asso- Cryptic Masonry 514 of nearly 300 years ago unanimously evoked , and which is still represented ciation ; OIJ Amusements ^ 514 in grotesque proceedings and childish horseplay, giving the police much Provincial Grand Lodge of Wiltshire 5C9 M asonic and General Tidings 51 j Provincial Grand Chapter of Cheshire JIO Lodge Meetings for \e„t Week J16 trouble, we repeat, we may well not pass over in silence this somewhat peculiar anniversary of national feeling as a protest against hurtful W E have great pleasure in announcing, as will be seen by an official com- conspiracies, secret societies, and unbridled fanaticism. For, keeping munication elsewhere, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, before us the farther fact that the " outcome " of that mournful will preside at the Festival of the Girls' School in 18S2. incident still lingers in popular ballads and black letter treatises, * * or that curious literature of indi gnant attack and Jesuitical defence, A most imp_rtant meeting of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution which may be found on thc shelves of the bibliophilist, and took place on Wednesday last, with reference to the alteration of the rules, at the same time realizing that some time ago a quasi sort of de- We shall cal l special attention to it next week. fence, even apology, was put forth by a Roman Catholic writer for GUY FAWKES and his merry men *** " " all, we are warranted in repealing the AT a recent lecture on " Secret Societies," a Rev. H ELY H UTCHINSON thus " truism " with which we commence this short article, despite such passing spoke anent Freemasonry. " It might be objected that his remarks might " effervescence." Yes, Time spares none of us ; the annals of kings or app ly equall y to the Masonic Brotherhood. He was not a Mason, but he the records of peoples ; and we to-day, who look back on the past, even now knew that Freemasonry was not a conspiracy. It described itself as ' founded are still partial in our judgment, as we fear, in our estimate of the past, inas- on the practice of social and mora! virtue. ' Its watchwords were ' Brotherly much as " Time " seems to wrap up all men and things in its " darker pall Love, Relief , and Truth.' It was a friend of order, and upheld the constitu- of forgetfulness and uncertainity. " The lesson we are to learn, we think, is ted authority and laws of thc realm, and the testimony of centuries had a message of " toleration,"—that great Masonic truth ,—and which bids us, proved that its fruits were as beneficent as its object was benevolent. " These whileadhering to what we ourselves believe and know to be the truth, " even to are just and befitting words from a non-Mason. It is both amusing and in- the death ," like thc "four faithful Craftsmen of old," never to let go our own teresting for the student of the past to note, not onl y how " history repeats nobler Masonic sentiment of toleration for the religious convictions, for the itself ," but how often thc " engineer is "hoist with his own petard . Hardly different and differing views of others, and, above all, ever to manifest an a day passes, (as in some curious conespondencc in India, which we have absolute horror of the " debasing practice of persecution for conscience asked the Editor to publish in the December or January number of the sake," by whomsoever initiated, by whomsoever carried out. " Masonic Magazine,"—loo long for our columns), but that we read of viru- * lent Ultramontane attacks on Freemasonry as a "Secret Society." And yet * * WE note that the National Portrait Gallery has been recently enriched by the organization of thc Jesuits is the greatest "Secret Society " in the pictures of two old Grand Masters, H.R.H. the DUKE oi' KENT, and world, with its mysterious Fourt h Degree ; and the " Illuminati ," the most H.R.H. thc D UKE OF SUSSEX . The D UKE OF KENT was Grand Master pernicious and destructive society which ever existed, was formed clearl y of the " Antient " and " Athol Masons " ; the D UKE 01' SUSSEX was Grand on the "Jesuit lines " by W EISHAUPT, a Roman Catholic Professor of Canon Master of the so-called "Moderns," the Grand Lodge of 1717. The happy Law at Ingoldstat, and a quondam disci ple of the Jesuits, though he left union between the two bodies took place, as most of our readers well know, them and denounced them later. * ** in 1813. But it it not generally realized, that Her Gracious Majesty the T HE Earl of M AR, in the place of Sir M ICHAEL SHAW STEWART, who has Q UEEN being the only daughter of a brother—H.R.H. the D UKE OI ruled over the Scottish Grand Lodge with singular dignity and effect, has KENT, the Grand Master of the Antients—has special claims on our Ma- been elected unanimously G.M. of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. Sir sonic sympathy and loyalty. Three of her sons and her son-in-law, the ARCHIBALD C. CAMPISELL was also elected D.G.M., and Bro. R. F .S HAW Imperial Crown P RINCE OF GERMANY , are also all Freemasons. STEWART Substitute G.M.. The Earl of H ADDINGTON and the Earl of * B READALUANE , Senior and Junior Wardens, the Rev. J. BARCLAY and the * * T HE progress of cheap literature is very remarkable, so much so that it almost Rev. W. TULLOCII G. Chaplains, Major CROMBIE S.G.D., and thc Marquis amounts to a " revolution. " Lady BRASSEY published the " Voyage of the of TWEEDDALE J.G.D. We congratulate the Grand Lodge of Scotland on Sunbeam," with illustrations, at the price of sixpence , a short time back ; its present position of prestige and prosperity. and now Sir T HEODORE M ARTIN, through SMITH and ELDER, and with the special sanction of the Q UEEN , issues his valuable life of the late Prince T HE letter of our esteemed Bro. H UGHAN , which appeared in the last Free- Consort, originally published at about four pounds, for the hitherto unheard mason, will be read by all Masons, both in England and Quebec, with feel- of price of two and sixpence—five parts at sixpence a part. What effect ings of admiration and approval. Practically, our worth y and able brother such a movement on our contemporary literature will have remains to be seen. endorses the same deliverance " we felt bound to make on this difficult " The Times, in a striking " leader " on the subject, seems to anticipate that subject , if in different form. Wc had to deal with the " correspondence " one result will be an international copyright between thc United States and as a " whole," and with its possible and probable effect on the English England. But the question is one admittedly which has two sides ; and Masonic mind. We may be right or wrong in the opinions we formed and one, too, on which a great dea l my be said from the very opposite points of the views we expressed on thc substantial merits of thc case; but those who the " compass." We shall see, and appreciate we think, the kindly and know us best can answer that we write honestly, and, while with every good benevolent motives which have permitted such a cheap issue of readable and feeling to our brethren in Quebec and Bro. G RAHAM, their distinguished remarkable works, and shall be ready to acknowledge that their value as G.M., we yet believe it to be our duty, for ' which we are responsible to the " Educators " of thousands of eager readers cannot be over estimated. Craft, to uphold and to defend thc rights of linglish lod ges, and the dignity Lady BRASSEY'S work lias already reached a sale of 100,000. How far, how- and prestige of the Grand Lodge of England—always fair dealing and con- ever the prices of our general literature will be affected by such exceptional siderate. We do not hesitate to add the expression of our conviction , that if publication , as we said before, remains to be seen.