and many brethren of the original Lodge, founded in FREEMASONRY IN SPAIN Bernard Street, Madrid , in 1727-8 suffered. However, this edict had the usual effect of causing tho further deve- stated last week that we had it in contemplation WE lopment of the Craft, and in 1750-1, there were, to publish an English version, either in full or in according to the Inquisition , as many as ninety- summary, of the article entitled " Freemasonry in Spain," seven Lodges in Spain. About this time, Father which appeared iu the Jnly number of Le Monde Macon* Joseph Torrubia , member of the Inquisition, acting under nique. The article is decidedly interesting, more espe- the authority of a Papal brief , was initiated as a Mason, cially as our knowledge of Spanish Freemasonry is some- taking the oaths prescribed of all who sought admission, what limited, the materials at our disposal for anything his object being to obtain a complete knowledge of the like a connected history being extremely scanty. In fact, members of the Spanish Craft. In March 1751, Father tbe bulk of the English brethren know little beyond the Torrubia placed in the Grand Inquistiors' hands list of the fact that Lodges were established in Spain , that, 67 Lodges then in Spain, when, to the latter's great dismay thanks to the tender regards of the Bomish priesthood, it turned out that pretty nearly the whole of the Masonic but particularly of the Inquisition, the members had a body consisted of nobles and members of the upper ranks of hard time of it, and that, as shown in the Cosmopolitan society. However, he referred the subject to Popo Bene- Masonic Calendar , there is now a Grand National Orient, dict XIV. and King Ferdinand VI., when the King, by with a Grand Lodge, and a Supreme Council 33°, working a decree dated 2nd July 1751, ordered the complete sup- apparently in harmony. The Orient is credited with pression of the Order, the penalty of death without any some 180 Lodges and a membership of 14,800, while the previous trial of any kind being assigned to all found to be Grand Lodge has 270 Lodges, to some 50 of which are members. Chapters. Thus, from the mere point of numbers Spain During the next sixteen years, Freemasonry in Spain would seem justified in claiming a foremost position remained in obscurity, but not without making considerable among Masonic powers, though to judge from certain progress, and in 1767 it renounced its obedience to the Grand remarks in Le Monde Maconnique, it would seem as if Lodge of England and declared itself independent, when Spanish ideas of the Craf t inclined too much towards the Count d'Aranda, Prime Minister of Charles III. and those prevalent in France to make it of much account as the real author of the royal decree which in the spring of a section of the true Fraternity. that year banished the Jesuits from Spain, was appointed According to our French contemporary, the establish- Grand Master, his election to that office being due to this ment of Feeemasonry in Spain is traceable to the influence edict. In 1780 , influenced by French ideas, the Grand of the Duke of Wharton, who was Grand Master of Lodge took the title of Grand Orient, the Count d'Aranda, England 1723. The writer of the article produces no however, continuing to preside with his original title of evidence in support of this statement,-but it is by no Grand Master, and so remained till 1795, when, having means improbable. It is in evidence that the Duke of lost his liberty, he designated as his successor the Wharton was in Spain about the year 1727—he married Count de Montijo, an able diplomatist and Spanish a maid of honour to the Queen of Spain in 1726— Ambassador to the Court of Berlin . The Count was that he took part against his own countrymen at the siege legally nominated Grand Master of the Grand Orient and of Gibraltar—a possession of ours since 1704—and that he it was under his auspices that tho Ancient and Accepted died in a state of penury at a Bernardino convent in Scottish Rite made its appearance in Spain in Catalonia in 1731. Le Monde Macoj mique, however, 1808. One of the creators and propagators states absolutely that the Duke of Wharton was charged of the Dalcho theory, Count Alexander Augustus de with the duty of introducing Freemasonry ; that he Grosse-Tilly, G. Commander of the Supreme Council 33° in repaired to Madrid in 1727, took np his quarters in the France, had a brother in Spain—the Count de Tilly. This only French hotel in the Spanish capital, and having brother, out of hatred for Buonaparte, devoted the whole made all the requisite preliminary arrangements, that on of his vast energy to the service of Spain, and, under the the 15th February 1728 was consecrated in his Grace's name of Gusman, was the soul of the popular movement apartments a Lodge which was afterwards ranked as in Andalusia, which commenced in May and June 1808 No. 50 on the roll of the Grand Lodge of England. Our with the relief of Seville from tbe French and terminated own early registers bear testimony to the fact of there at Baylen ; in fact, it was he who prepared the terms of the having been such a Lodge, and from the Appendix to capitulation of Baylen , which utterly discomfited the Bro. Gould's " Four Old Lodges," it seems to have been forces of Napoleon. This Count de Tilly, on the 17th De- erased in January 1768, but we shonld like to hear more cember 1808, assembled at Aranjuez several Brothers, about the authority on which the chief place in the among whom were Quintana, Saavedra, Vadillo, and account is assigned to the Duke of Wharton. This Gonzalez, and constituted tbe Supreme Council of the appears to have been the only Masonic Lodge in Spain 33rd Degree for Spain. Thus, towards the close of 1800, Wl 1739, when Lord Lovel , who was at the time Grand Spanish Freemasonry consisted of the Grand Orient, ruled Master, granted to Captain James Cnmmersford a depu- by Count de Montijo, practising the English Rite of tation as Provincial Grand Master of Andalusia with full Anderson-Ashmole, and the Supreme Council, ruled by the Powers to found Lodges in the south of Spain. This Count de Til ly, and practising the system of Morin- gave great umbrage to the clergy and monks, and so dis- Dalcho. quieted the secular power that, influenced by the Legate of On 3rd November 1809 was constituted in the very f^ope Uement XIII., Philip V. issued an edict against dungeons of " the Inquisition itself," in the street Isabella freemasonry, in which members of Masonic Lodges were the Catholic, a new Spanish Grand Orient, founded under aercel y denounced , and threatened with the severest the auspices of Kng Joseph, formerly Grand Master of the Penalties if they retained their connection with the Ord er, Grand Orient of France, by the Grand Duke de Berg. Thus in 1809 the Supreme Council of France, and the of the skill of the operative Masons of three thousand Grand Orient of the same country, had both established years ago. off-shoots in Spain, the Grand Orient, ruled by the Count There is no end to the fanciful theories of intellectual lish element speculators abont the Great Pyramid. John Taylor Montijo, alone representing the original Eng , Prof*. according to the Anderson system, but independent and con Piazzi Smyth, H. C. Agnew, Joseph A Seiss, D.D., J. Ral fined wholly and solely to brethren of Spanish blood. The ston Skinner, Everett W. Fish, M.D , W. M. Flinders former Minister of State, Azanza, was nominated Grand Petrie, William Rowbottom, Robert Hewitt Brown, and Master of the new Grand Orient born in 1809 of French others, have created a Pyramid literature, that of itself origin. In 1811 , tho Count de Grasse-Tilly, being dis- constitutes in size no mean library. The latest contribu. satisfied with the manner in which his brother the Count tion to the literature of the subject is of the destructive de Tilly conducted the affairs of the Supreme Council of order, from the pen of President Barnard, of Columbia Spain, constituted a second Supreme Council on the 4th Collego, New York * President Barnard is an ardent July, and the better to vindicate its dependence on French advocate of the introduction of tbe Metric system of Masonic authority, he installed , in tho capacity of Grand weights and measures in this country, and he has attacked Commander of this new power, tho same Azanza, who for the theories of the fanciful school of Pyramidalists with the preceding two yrars had held the office of Grand considerable power, his purpose evidently being to abolish Master of the Grand Orient of Spain, under the protection the idea that our English inch measure bears any relation of the Grand Orient of France. Consequently, there were to the so-called sacred cubit, whioh should justify its at this epoch four Supreme Masonic authorities in Spain : retention, and thus influence the exclusion of the Metric Grand Orient, No. 1, founded 1780—Spanish ; Supreme system. His work is written with grace and scholarly Council, No. I, founded 17th September 1808, also tact, and affords pleasant reading on a recondite subject. Spanish ; and the Grand Orient, No. 2, founded 3rd No- He argues that the Great Pyramid was simply a royal vember 1809, and Supreme Council, No. 2, founded tomb, and that all the striking scientific analogies dis- 4th July 1811 , both of French origin. covered in connecion -with it are merely remarkable coin- Snch was the state of things when Ferdinand VII. re- cidences. Now, while we have no doubt this world-wonder turned to Spain , and by his decree of the 4th May 1814 was a royal tomb, we believe it was also much more. As closed all the Lodges, placing them outside the pale of the Bro. Harry Hazel some years ago observed, in the columns law, and inaugurated a second era of persecution against of the Keystone, " That Cheops at his death might have Freemasonry, the first dating from 1751. But hereabouts been buried in it, if he was its founder, is likely enough, is the obscure point in the history of Spanish Freemasonry. for the interment of a man of eminence in, under or near a In 1817 there would have been signed a treaty of union religious edifice, and especially when he is regarded as its between Grand Orient, No. 1 and Supreme Council, No. 1, founder, is often esteemed, even at the present day, not too by which the Count de Montijo should have become high an honour for a human being. But the internal Grand Master of the Grand Orient and Grand Commander passages and chambers of Cheops disprove tbe theory that of the Supreme Council just as the Minister Arguelles, it was erected merely for a tomb ; and even had the mum- successor of Minister Azanza was Grand Master of the mified remains of the renowned king been discovered m the Grand Orient, No. 2 and Grand Commander of the Great Pyramid, it would afford no greater proof for the Grand Council No. 2, but no documentary evidence tomb theory, than the discovery of a bishop's body beneath of this treaty has ever been forthcoming. It is asserted the pulpit or chancel of a church would for tbe assumption that in 1818 Supreme Council No. 2 had absorbed that the building had been put up expressly to cover the Supreme Council No. 1, or rather that the Grand Inspec- remains of the distinguished ecclesiastic." tors General of the two Councils had combined for the It is not easy to comprehend the great antiquity of this purpose of deliberating on the steps to be taken in order monument. Abraham saw it, and Joseph spent a large to secure the triumph of liberal ideas which took place in part of his life in its vicinity. P.G.M. Bro. Rob Morris 1820. General Riego, the brothers San MigneL'of whom LL.D. (who has several times visited it), has pointedly one became Marshal, and Arguelles took part in the said : " When Solomon planted the Corner-stone of his important deliberations on Madrid in 1818. In 1823 a Temple on Mount Moriah, that of the Pyramid had been clerical reaction set in. Riego, Grand Commander of the laid twelve hundred years !" Wonderful in antiquity, in Sole Supreme Council and Grand Master of Grand Orient structure, and in purpose, is the only wonder remaining to No. 2, was shot and the third persecution of Freemasonry us of the original " seven wonders of the world." * ¦was initiated by the decree of Ferdinand VII. of 1st We think it is a fair deduction from what we positively August 1824, condemning to death without trial every Free- know of the structure of tbe pyramid, and the customs of mason who did not submit himself to the clerical authori- the people iu the era in which it was erected, that it was, ties by the 31st of the same month . But no submission primarily, a Temple of the Snn. This is, no doubt, a followed, and the Inquisition secured many victims in the heathenish conclusion, but it appears to be a reasonable liberal ranks under pretext of their connection with Free- one. It was also, contemporaneously or subsequently, masonry. On 7th March 1825, a Lodge was surprised at used for astronomical or astrological purposes. Many of Grenada in the very midst of an initiation and the Master the most ancient temples were dedicated to the Snn, and (le Venerable) and six others composing it were hanged the priests and soothsayers of the times were called upon there and then, while the candidate was condemned to the to aid at the inception of the building, by the performance galleys for twelve years. of what were thought to be fitting ceremonies. Tacitus, ives a very striking (To be continued.) in the fourth book of his History, g description of the laying of the Corner-stone of the Capital at Rome, when rebuilt by the Emperor Vespasian, on which occasion " Helvidius Prisons, the praetor, preceded by Plautius Alianus, the pontiff, invoked Jupiter, Juno THE GREAT PYRAMID. and Minerva, to prosper the undertaking," and then " loosed the wreaths that bound the foundation stone." THERE is but one pyramid, and that the Great Pyramid In this connection we may observe, that, as is known, of Cheops, or Gizeh. Seventy pyramids once stood the Corner-stone is always laid at the North-East corner of on the margin of the Egyptian desert, but only one has a the edifice. Why ? This, too, is a relic of Sun worship. history hoary with age, and clothed with mystery. It The Corner-stone of the Capitol at Rome, to which we was the parent, all others were imitations. Not only does have just referred, Tacitus says was laid the " eleventh day no contemporary description of it exist, but it stood a before tbe calends of July "—that is, ab the period of the world-wonder for fifteen hundred years before any writer, summer solstice, the great solar festival, when the Sun whose works remain to us, gave an account of it. No reached his highest Northern declination. Now, the hea- wonder we are in the dark concerning it; no wonder all then temples always face the sun, so as to catch the first manner of speculations have been made as to its origin and rays of the rising orb, and since at the end of June the sun purpose. Probably we shall never know the exact truth rises a little North of East, the North-Fast corner of the about it. We are too far removed from it in time, and Temple at that time is in the direct line of the rising sun, know too little about the history of Egypt, at the period one in asserting positively of its erection , to justify any * The Imaginary Meterolog ical System, of the Great Pyramid of why it was built, or to what purpose it was originally Gizeh. By F. A. P. Barnard , LL.D., S.T.D., President of Colombia devoted. One thiug, however, is certain—it is an ever- College. From the Proceedings of the American Meterological lasting monument to the Masonic art, a continuing example Society, New Tork : John Wiley and Sons. and first bathed with its light. Hence this corner in pri school are the salt of t'i" earth " that purifies society and protects mitive times was selected as the most fitting place for the our dearest interest in III ".-, aud in tho end opens for our a ! uissiou lacing of the Corner-stone. In Masonry customs are the gates of the ti;?w Jerusalem. I ranch love to recall tin* instrn- p mt-Midity we as Masons have had in giving form, and shape, nnd stable and perpetual—therefore to the present day, and boauty to this great work of human progress in the State of Iowa. through all time, the North-East corner is, and will be On many an occasion, too, have we, the Masons of our beloved deemed the appropriate place for the typical foundation Iowa, been called upon to take part in the erection of those temples styne of the edifice. at whose doors sits the blind goddess with scales equipoised in her The Great Pyramid is y will remain one of hands dealing out imperial ju stice to all alike. Justice is ono of tho , and probabl , four cardinal virtues ever placed before the Masonio student, whether the mysteries of the world. President Barnard says it yonng or old in the profession, which he is not only to study bnt must get out of the way of the Metric system. We have practise while living, if ho would obtain tho highest good here, and nothing against tl is system , and even think many advan- hereafter enjoy tho fruition of a well-spent life. tages would result from tho adoption of a universal standard In the building of Masonic temples we are over expected to take a now part , for they aro the homes in which much of our Masonic life is to of weights and measures, and tho Metric system be spent, and well for all if usefully and happi ly spent in the practico appears to promise more in this direction than any one as well as the inculcations of thoso princi ples ever calculated to previously advocated. In Russia, England, and the United mako us tho wiser and the better in all tho relations of home, of States it is increasingly meeting with favour, and there is citizens and Masonio life. reason to believe it will, after no long time, be generally Bnt novnr, my brethren and fellow-oitisens, when I have been ted. It will not ht callod to take a part , however humble or exalted , iu a work of this adop be, however, until after a hard-foug kind and character, have I engaged in it with sach a hearty goodwill, intellectual contest. The advocates of the Pyramid system such a spirit of devotion, and such high hopes of the ultimate good of weights and measures have a bi-monthly organ, issued to the Craft , destined to be the out-growth of the work we to-day at Cleveland, Ohio, styled The International Standard , the have iu hand. Heretofore all along these years, now two score and July issue of which is before us as we write. It contains more, have we laboured for others, helped build honses in which other people should dwell for a season and do good. And the good some twenty articles, by various Pyramidists, including which has come from their work is onr abundant reward . Piazzi Smith, Astronomer Royal of Scotland , J. Ralston To-day, yes, to-day, brothers, do we come to lay the corner-stone Skinner, of Cinncinati, the Rev. H. G. Wood and others ; of onr own house, our home, the " Library Building of the Grand and it also has a paper entitled Pyra midal Freemasonry, Lodge of Iowa of A. F. and A. M." a building whioh, as " the hands of onr brothers have laid the foundation of this honse, onr hands being the substance of an address read before St. Ambrose shall also the , we pray finish it ; and then shall wo know that the Lord Lodge, No. 1891, of West Kensington, London , by of Hosts hath sent " us to do this work and complete the structure, Secretary of the Lodge. The subject is one of scientific the corner-stone of which we have just laid with appropriate cere- and Masonic interest, and it is worthy of the attention monies, witnessed by churchmen, Masons, and citizens alike with devoted to it by so many eminent scientists and Freema- interest. sons.—Keystone. This bnilding is to contain the large and valuable, the rare and in. teresting collection of works devoted to the hiBtory, philosophy and jurisprudence of Masonry and its kindred sciences—a collection afc onco the proud monument of its fou nders and of the Grand Lodge its fortunate possessor— a collection in which the citizen who wishes well of the State and its progress, alike with the Mason, may and shonld IOWA'S MASONIO LIBRARY. feel a just pride. Masonry has left an indelible record upon the history of the past Address of Grand Secretary T. S. Parvin , delivered at the in our own and other lands, more especially, however, in this " land laying of the Corner-stone of the " Iowa Masonic of the free and home of the brave " this land of progress in all that Library Building," at Cedar Rapids, 7th May 1884. goes to make the State. " Its record has boon made in books, in prin- ciples, m monuments, and upon sooiety, and it over should be yonr FEOM THB VOICE OP MASONBT. pleasure, my brethren, to enconrage tbe library, now so magnificent in THE snn at its meridian height not only beantifi.es and adorns the its proportions. day, bnfc summons tbe brethren to refreshment from labour. A brief history of public libraries in the past ages of the old world Spring has come again to gladden onr hearts. The chilled winds of may not be without interest or significance in this connection or on winter hare ceased to blow, and the snowflakes, which so lately filled this occasion. the air, no more carpet the earth, while the green grass rises to The history of the principal libraries of our own country, too, is lighten the sonnd of onr footsteps. not without interest, as affording instruction and encouragement to Our traditionary Grand Master Solomon in his inimitable song onr own efforts. says : " The flowers appear upon the earth , the time of the singing of The libraries of America are classed as public libraries, college, birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." school, theological, law, medical, scientific, national, state and state ' Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. historical society libraries, ten in all. We have come as representatives of the Lodges, of onr homes, and The first in the second series, and only recently admitted in the from distant portions of onr great and prosperons state. We come list and so recognised by the commissioner of education at Wash- upon a mission, a mission of love, of learning and of pleasing duty. ington, .is " Masonic Libraries," and that of the Grand Lodge of And surely the elements of nature aronnd ns, as well as the goodly Iowa heads the list as the first in its origin and largest in its extent. citizens of yonr city, yea now ours, welcome us to-day and welcome We will, however, refer more fully to a single one of the Collegiate the occasion of our coming. Libraries whose history is somewhat similar to our own. When John Harvard in 1638 made his will and left the half of his this I ween " A rare and choice procession , , estate to endow the college which bears his name, he added, we are Nor once in Home, nor yet in Corinth seen ; told by the present librarian of that institution, to bis benefaction No golden eagles gloating o'er their prey his entire library of two hundred and sixty (260) books, and so the In cruel triumph for a bloody day. college grew upon a foundation of books. A rich soil from which to grow a most healthy and flourishing institution of learning, which Victors you are indeed ! has borne rich fruit in its offspring all over the land. Bnt higher for your meed, In 176'i Harvard hall was burned, destroying the entire library And noble panegyrics employ save one massive volume, " Downame's Christian Warfare Against More like to psalm3 on Zion's holy hill , the Devil." That warfare, as embodied in the contest between When the long wandering ark at last stood still." knowledge and ignorance, has in his or some other's name been I have counted the hours of the revolving sun above ns since he waged ever since. And that volume still in the library, has become rose this gladsome morning. And, as I watched his course so calm, the chief corner-stone upon which has been built one of the very HO steady and so beautiful , 'mid the clonds my thoughts have happily largest and best libraries in the new world. journeyed backwards. They would go, and I could only in imagina- When that college and library was founded in 1638, the colonists tion follow the bent of their inclination ; and so I review the years of New England, from whom our people are largely sprung and whose as they came passing along beforo me. For four decades and more love of freedom , of learning, of Masonry and of libraries we have Das it been my lot, my ever pleasing vocation , to engage in ceremonies largely shared, knew absolutely nothing of this valley, of the great "ke those of this day. I have laid corner-stones as Grand Master, lakes or of the great river we inhabit. And little could they at that and for Grand Masters, and been dignified " from my youth np " as early clay have dreamed of the changes two and a-half centuries Grand Orator," (Phoebus, what a name !) on such occasions would have wrought in their own and the newer States. Nay, in almost innumerable. thr'ir wakeful dreams their more intelligent successors do not more I have laid corner-stones of churches and school houses, of temples than half realise the truth that is patent everywhere to all who will °' justice and public libraries, of academies of science and Masonic come and see. temples, all over the prairies of onr young and growing state. Following in their footsteps we are seeking to build a hall for the To this hour, as each returning Sabbath is ushered in by the god collection we have made by purchase, and not by the bequest of a of day from many a hill-top overlooking the gre.".t father of waters on noble and generous patron. We seek to build nob a parthenon, a °ir eastern borders, there rises the song of praise and the morning lyceam, a porch or an academy—bnt all in one. and evening nraver from altars erected to the known God in sane. Varies " A temple fit for all who sit touched with the Mason's hand. The recollection fills my heart 's feet •Wiew with At Wisdom , love to Him who loveth us all. From the capital of our And hers alone." ''ate and from many a green spot along the highway over which now he iron horse hurries in his rapid journey to the Big Muddy on the It is most fitting then that we here present a brief sketch of the est, on each school day may be seen loving children marching along origin of onr own library, and in so doing we prefer, for modesty's 0 the spot , next to sweet home !sake if for no other reason to let a friend speak for us c(i " home, ," the dearest on earth, , , and so copy ongh they but little heed it at the time. The church and the from the report of the Committee on tho library submitted by Bro. Langridge at tho last session. Thi-> , while somewhat poetical , is too, had not the Grand Secretary opposed the foolish scheme with all substantiall y true. his might and influence. It well nigh swamped him iu the freuzy of "Iu January 1814 , this Grand Lodge was organised. In a now the hour, but when they had returned to their " sober, second territory, whose inhabitants occupied only a narrow strip along its thoug ht," all were glad at the failure of the scheme. eastern bonndarv , with four weak Lodges, and less than one hundred A few years later, iu June 1876, the Grand Seoretary, in his Masons, its prospects of showing great literary activity were not report as Librarian used this language under the head of " Fire flattering. Your Grand Secretary, however, was a reading Mason ; Proof Building for Library .'' " No intelligent or thoughtful man or nay, more, he was a Mason whn learned , for did he not, early in his Mason of the state, or from abroad , has visited oar library during Masonic life, when ho accidentally found a stray copy of what he the past yeai- who has not oxpressed himself upon the risk of conti- supposed to bo the first edition of Anderson 's Constitutions, despair- nuing so valuable a collection of books and papers in a building not ing of owning it otherwise, commit it to memory, and so make it his f ireproof. No money could replace many of the books and records if own beyond tho danger of a resouo ? A few years later, when destroyed. visiting a lady friend (now as theu of Muscatine) , ho found Cole's Ahiman Kezon on tho tablo ; the lady, the time, and the ocoasion of 1 he subject is of such importance that the Grand Lodge cannot the visit wero immediately forgotten , until pi qned at his absorption long ignore it." in the book and his forgetfnlness of herself she curtly dismissed him And strange to say, many of those same brethren now changed with the advice that if tho book was so much moro entertaining than sides, and upon this, charged that officer with the very design they she, to take it with him. This book was the beginning of your Grand had previously advocated, and he opposed. So diffloult is it to edu- Lodge Librarv , and is yet upon your shelves. cate a large body of men or brethren to a correct aud just view of a " In,1815 , on the recommendation of the Committee on Masonio measure of great importance. Library, acting npon the suggestion of the Grand Seoretary, who re- With this, the earliest referenoe, we give the last of 1883 and by ported , 'We believe that a commencement should be made, and the committee, and upon this subject of a " Fire Proof Building," the addition s made from time to time, as the Grand Lodge may be able, committee add : " Having seoured so large and valuable a library. so that in time we mav have a collection of Masonic information that the question naturally arises, not less how best to care for and may be an honour to us.' Tho Grand Lodge appropriated J ive dollars preserve it from loss, than how to inorease it and add to its value. 'to be expended nnder tho direction of the Grand Seoretary for Your committee would, therefore, as our predecessors have done, securing such information as he may see proper ;' and thus, in the urge upon you the necessity of preparing a safe place of deposit for absonce of evidence to the contrary, wo believe was laid the com- them. Plans and estimates have heretofore been submitted, and are mencement of the first Grand Lodge Library in existence. A few in your archives. The money is provided, and only your order is individuals in this conntry, and in Europe, had doubtless made col- lacking to supply a place of safety. We should he dereliot if we lections of this kind, large for the means available, but to this Grand tailed to urge upon you most earnestly to care for these treasures Lodge, under the foresight of your present Grand Secretary and whioh oircurostances so fortunately have placed in jour hands, and Librarian , is, we repeat, due the honour of leading in the establish- for the preservation of whioh you are responsible to the world and to ment of the first distinctively Grand Lodge Library. Since then it the Craft, aud in which, therefore, you are so largely interested in has, as liberally as its means have justified , continued the same wise both a pecuniary and fiduciary sense." course, until now the wave caused by the stone is thus cast into the Year after year the Grand Secretary harped upon this harp of Masonic mill-pond , has travelled widely aud more widely, until the many strings, calling to his aid " committees on the library " and the collection of Masonio books has become, to a considerable extent, a " Grand Master " at least. Here and now we take pleasure in stating ' craze,' and to supply the demand a business, or at least it was so that onr Grand Master Yan Saun fro m the hour of his election iu until lately, aa the ' search for hidden treasures ' of the kind^ has 1881 has been the earnest and best friend of this library building been so thorough and microscopic as to almost exhaust the supply, enterprise—a full history will be found in our committee's report of and the demand for old Masonic literature bids fair to cease from the Grand Lodge in June next. sheer inability to find material for its supply. " We are here for this day, " Nor has this Grand Lodge confined itself to the collection of To stamp on the clay, purely Masonic books, in the sense only of Masonic magazines, pro- A part of ourselves ceedings, laws and addresses, or polemics between warring factions That may never die.'' of the Brotherhood. As the roots of a thrifty tree stretch out into must confess in this good hour that the earth as widely as do tho branches into the air, and so come in We relation with their soundings, so does Masonry interlace with aud " We looked beyond take its form and pressure, its growth and bent from contemporaneous Through waiting years of sun and rain." matters. Political systems, scholastic and religious culture, all its various environments, have affected it as it has them, until, as in " And never thought, nor word went wild ; tracing to their fountain head tbe national peculiarities of victorious Content if only we could see people, one has to familiarise himself also with the history of those This blessed day." they have subjugated ; so in studying Masonry must he make long Brother James W. Staton, of Kentucky, President of the " American excursions into those cognate bnt outlying fields. With this in view Masonio Collectors' Association ," in his congratulations upon the yonr librarian has enriched your collection with books of travel, of occasion says : " Of course Brother Parvin is as happy as a father is history, of poetry, and even of fiction , while in those ' quaint and with his first baby, in the possession and management of this vast curious volumes of forgotten lore ' treating of the powers of nature, library, and in seeing a grand building arise to receive it." of the occnlt sciences, and of thousands of ' uncanny subjects on The good brother was not aware of the fact that to-day is the which few well regulated minds desire to dwell,' your shelves contain fortieth anniversary birthday of " his own first baby," May Parvin many rare and valuable selections. And thus, commencing with a Lee (wife of a Mason) as well as of the library, both first seeing light single book in 1844, the Library of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, as in the beautiful month of May—so it is a happy May-day to all. shown by the catalogue prepared and snbmitted at their session in But we will no longer think, much less speak of the trials and 1883, by your librarian, and including the Bower library, now con- tribulations throngh which we have passed in our progress to this tains many thousands of pieces of valuable works and pamphlets, dav aud this event—no ! Masonic, religious, artistic and miscellaneous besides a handsome , We would not collection of medals, prints and articles of vertu and bric-a-brac " , Call back the vanished years many very rare, a f ew nniqnes, and if estimated at cost to you and to , The plans, and hopes, and fears Brother Bower, worth between twenty and thirty thousand dollars. j Thus in far less than the time Duties, and smiles, and tears , expected by your Committee in 1845, Are our3 to-day." have we reached that ' collection of Masonic information,' which tbe promised should be * an hononr to us.' " But they are tears of joy and not of sadness, and to the dntiea of the Yes, from 1845 to 1882, from an appropriation of five dollars for hour we betake ourselves and go on with our work to its completion ; the purchase of a book and periodical , and for binding, to the mag. —and when our labours are ended. nificent grant of 4000 dollars for the purchase of the " Bower Collec- when I hem the green tion," the largest and most valuable private collection at that "And kirk-yard day iu With the mould upon my breast this country if not in the world was but the period of the , active life Say not he did well or ill ' of the manhood of your Librarian who addresses you , to-day. Only, ' he did his best.' And the increase of Masonic libraries during these latter years throughout the several states indicate a healthful growth and a that does his best greater desire for Masonic literature of the " He past and tho present. Does all he oan— Here in the Library (soon to be stored in this building) are An angel conld do no more." gathered the dearest thoughts and expressions of the most eminent patrons of Masonry. It is of incalculable value to the present, and Masonry does not consist in costly temples of beauty and strength , to the generations that are to follow will be doubly so." nor in libraries of the collected wisdom of the past and the present. I have alluded to two brothers aud quoted from one—Brothers Nor does it yet consist of ceremonies, however sublime and beautiful William Baker Langridge and Robert Farmer Bower, both intelligent, their ritual, whether secret or public as those of to-day. The fathers earnest and successfu l collectors of Masonic books, and both during builded wiser than they knew when they laid the foundation stone their entire Masonic lives tbe true, warm and helpful friends of the upon which tbe moral and social fabric of Masonry has been built Library and its Librarian. through the ages past. It is an institution of growth rather than of " Oh for the touch of a vanished hand creation . Otherwise it had not come down upon the stream of time , in. And the sound of a voice that is still ! " to ns improved as it has been , and to-day exist as a potent faotor the civilisation and progress of mankind. For could our dear brothers but know to-day. that their most che. Masonry exists in its living principles, and consists of lives and rished desires are about to be realised they would bj happy beyond actions, the outgrowth of those principles. It is not all of life to live measure. The last Masonic paper our Brother Langridge wrote was and will not be all of death to die. the " Report on the Library, ' from which we have quoted, as we will My brothers, our Masonry, as well as our religion , teaches us, and again, in reference to this building. from this teaching " we know that if our earthly house of this taber» Some ten or more years ago tbe brethren and the Grand Lodge of nacle were dissolved , we have a building of God, a house not made Iowa were crazed on the subject of the erectiou of a costl y " Temple," with hands, eternal in the heavens." It is for admission to that and would have swamped the Grand Lodge and Masonry in Iowa house when the turmoils of life have ceased that we seek and ear- neatly labour in season and out of season. Yet we know full well that " a man is not justified by works, but by faith," and so we look to the QUARTE R LY COMMUNICATION OF " great light" to enlighten onr darkened minds that we may pursue the straight and narrow path, whereby we may find an abundant en- UNITED GRAND LODGE. trance therein, not forgetting that as we journey on " we may rejoice in the work of our hands '* if we but do " the works meet for THE following is the business to be transacted in Grand repentance." Lodge on Wednesday, 3rd Sep tember 1881, at 6 for To this end we would that all who enter within our courts, to learn 7 p.m. mysteries and to become Freemasons indeed shonld not onl our , , y The Minutes of tho Communication of the 4th June study tbe precepts of our royal art hut practise in their dail 1. Quarterly , y walk for confirmation. and conversation the lessons which have so often and so forcibly been taught aronnd onr sacred altars, whereon no strange fire should ever 2. Report of the Lodgo of Betievolenco for tho last quarter, in be permitted to burn. None save the incense of true, faithful and which are recommendations for the following grants, viz. :— loving hearts, each striving who can best work and best agree in A Brother of the Lodge of Affability, No. 317, Man- carrying forward the good designs spread out upon the trestleboard chester ...... £75 0 0 of life by the Master's hand. We may not always succeed ; there are rains and clouds in the A Brother of the Sir Francis Burdett Lod go, No. 1503, moral as in the physical world, but " the blue heaven is larger than Twickenham ...... 150 0 0 a cloud " and we will look for the light of heaven. A Brothor of tho St. Peter s Lodge, No. 476, Carmarthen 75 0 0 " Whenever we will what is good A Brother of the Burgoyne Lodge, No. 902, London ... 100 0 0 We are better because we willed ; A Brother of the Lion aud Lamb Lodge, No. 192, London 100 0 0 And there is worth in an earnest would, Although it be not fulfilled ; The Widow of a Brother of the British Lodge, No. 8, For it is not with success that we bnild London ...... 100 0 0 Our life—but with noble endeavour ; A Brother of the Lodge of Fortitude, No. 131 , Truro ... 50 0 0 Full suooess is a prize won never." A Brother of the St. Marylebono Lodge, No. 1305, Let us then at this good hour with the " Pleasures of Memory " London ...... 50 0 0 thickly strewn o'er our pathway and gathered throngh all these forty The Widow of years that have gone to return no more, resolve to do our duty to a Brother of tho Eboracnm Lodge, No. God, to man, and to our country. With the " Pleasures of Hope " 1611 , York ...... 75 0 0 brightening up before ns, encouraging each to a higher attainmen t A Brother of the Lodge of Hope and Charity, No. 377, in life, and to the better accomplishing our destiny here, we may Kidderminster ...... 75 0 0 return to onr homes and to our Lod ges conscious of having willed A Brother of the Lebanon Lodge, No. 1326, Feltham ... 75 0 0 aright, and so continue to " hope, hope on, hope ever," till the end comes : then will the " pleasures of imagination " so fondly oherished A Brother of the Royal St. Edmund's Lodge, No. 1008, by us all be fully realised, and our work be approved by the Master Bury St. Edmund's ...... 100 0 0 Builder on high. " For the structure which we raise 3. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. , To the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accep Time is with materials filled ; ted Masons of England. Our to-days and yesterdays Are the stones with which we bnild. The Board have to report that it has recently appeared from the Return made by a Country Lodge that a hi her degree had been Truly shape and fashion these g , conferred on a Brother at a less interval by one day, than for.r weeks Leave no yawning gaps between ; from his receiving the previous degree and, an explanation having Think not because no man sees , been called for, it was stated that the regular meeting of this Lodge Suoh things will remain unseen. falling on a holiday it was summoned to meet the day before, under the new Rule 165, and it was considered that this Rule allowed of While the day hath light let the light be used, the degree being conferred at that meeting, although one day was For no man shall the light control wanting of the four weeks. The Board thereen decided that Rule 195 Or ever the silver chord be loosed remained nnaltered, and in full force, notwithstanding Rule 165 and Or broken the golden bowl, tho additional Rule 130, and that tho Brother irregularly advanced May we build God's Holy Temple must be re-obligated before a certificate can be issued. In the true Masonic soul." The Board beg to recommend to the Grand Lodge that a donation of fifty guineas bo raado to the fund now being raised for tho restora- tion of the Church of St. Giles's-iu-the-Fields, iu which parish tho Grand Lodge buildings and premises aro situated. The Board of General Purposes bog to submit a statement, of the THB BARTHOLDI STATUE. Grand Lod ge Accounts, at tho Meeting of tho Finauco Com- mittee, held on Friday, tho 15th clay of August instant, shewing a ON Tuesday, 5th August, Bro. W. A. Brodie, M.W. Grand Master of Masons of New York, assisted by the Grand Officers of tho Balance in tho Bank of England of £1,770 5s lOd ; and in tho hands Grand Lodge, laid the Corner-stone of the famous Statue of Liberty of the Grand Secretary for Petty Cash £100, and for Servants' (Bartholdi Monument) on Bedloe's Island, in the harbour of the city Wages £100 ; and Balanco of Annual Allowance for Library £14 Is 2d. of New York. (Signed) RALPH GLUTTON, M.W. Grand Master Bro. W.A. Brodie, in the course of his address Vice President. said :—" The question may be asked, Why call upon the Masonio FREEMASONS' HALL, LONDON , W.C. Fraternity to lay the Corner-stone of such a structure as is here 19th August 1884. to be erected ? Because it has become a common law practice all The President will move :— the world over, a custom so ancient that the memory of man runneth nob to the contrary, a custom which prevailed centuries before 1. That the Report b'3 received and entered on the minutes. modern seoret societies were thought of. But there is a special 2. That the donation of fifty guineas be made to the fund reason why we should be called upon for this special duty of to-day, beipg raised for the restoration of the Church of St. Giles's-in- No institution has done more to promote liberty and to free men the Fields. from the trammels and chains of ignorance and tyranny than Freemasonry, and we as a Fraternity take an honest pride in 4. NOTICE OF MOTION :— depositing the Corner-stone of the pedestal of this statue which , we By Brother CHARLES F. HOGARD P.M. No. 205. pray God may deserve to prosper , by becoming a beacon light of To add to paragraph 19 of the Book of Constitutions— liberty to all men , and promoting harmony and brotherly love Election of Grand Treasurer—the following words:— throughout the world till time shall be no more. Amen." The band then played " Old Hundred." A salute of twenty-one " In the same manner as the elected members of the Board guns was fired from the old Fort Wood battery, when R.W. Bro. of General Purposes." Frank R, Lawrence delivered the oration. We quote one para- graph:— " Never since the building of the Temple of Solomon, have List of Lodges for which Warrants have been granted Masons participated in a work more exalted than that now in by the M.W. Grand Master since the last Quarterly Com- progress upon this spot. The colossal statue to be placed upon this massive base is grand iu its origin, its execution and its proportions intinication of Grand Lodge :— grand, aa representing a pnre and ennobling friendship between No. 2019—The Elian Vaimin Lodge, Douglas, Isle of Man. two great nations of free men, at peace with one another, and at 2050—The St. Trinians Lodge, Doug las, Isle of Man. peace with all the world, who thus happily circumstanced, erect 20ol—The Springsnre Lod ge, bpnngsnre, Queensland. an enduring monument to typify and illustrate to all the earth their 2052.—The Douglas Lodge, Port Donglas, Queensland. love of liberty. To ns, as Masons, this event evidences the growth 2053.—The Ngamotu Lodge, New Plymouth , Wellington, N.Z. of principles we hold most dear, and we would fain regard it as 2054.—The Wilson Ilea Lodge, Waltham Cross, Herts. presaging the coming of a time when the love of man for his fellow- 2055.—Tho Rose of Sharon Lodge, Sydney, N.S.W. man shall unite all the races of the earth in one great brotherhood , 2056.—Tho Alexandra Lodge, Jnneo Junction , N.S.W. when men of all nations shall commingle and vie with one another 2057.—The Mount Victoria Lodge, Mount Victoria, N.S.W. in the promotions of liberty and the enlightenment of mankind. 2058. —The Hose Lodge, Emmaville, N.S.W. If this hope is too sanguine, we may at least regard the erection of 2039,-The St. Mark's Lodge, Carterton , Wellington, N.Z. this statue, and the circumstances by which its creation is sur- 2060.—Tho La Franco Lodge, Regent Street. rounded, as manifesting a remarkable extension of the principles 2061.—The Lodge of Fidelity, Ranikhet, Bengal. Which we cherish, for never before has a similar event occurred ; 2062.—The Lodge " Victory," Fatchgarh, Bengal. and in no previous age has the occurrence of such an event been 2063.—The St. Osyth's Priory Lodgo, Clacton-on-Sea , Essex. Possible.—Keystone. 2064.—The Smith Child Lodge, Tunstall, Staff. fchero in connection with Ma3onry. He joined with Sir Edmund FREEMASONRY IN THE PROVINCE OF Lechmere iu bidding them a hearty welcome. WORCESTER. Tho Dean of York was next called upon. He said :— Exhibition of works of art and curiosities in con- AN no rose to address them in obedience to the command of the nection with our ancient Order was most success- Provincial Grand Master. Tho object of the Exhibition , as they had fully inaugurated in tho good old city of Worcester on been told , was not to reveal the secrets of Masonry to the public Wednesday evening, when a conversazione was held, at generally ; but it was hoped to disabuse certain erroneous impres. sions which prevailed amongst the unitiated as regarded Masonry, tho Guildhall, at which about 450 ladies and gentlemen and at the sumo to afford those who took an interest in Masonry were present, at the joint invitation of the Provincial some gratification by showing them the treasures and records of the Grand Master of Worcestersh ire, Sir Edmund A. H. Craft in the present and the past. He thought the prejudices whioh Lechmere, Bart., M.P., and his Worshi p the Mayor of existed in regard to Masonry were threefold. In the first place, it Worcester, Bro. William Blizzard Williamson. Amongst was assumed that they were a foolish body, that thoy adorned them, solves in pecnliar and fantastic dresses, and that there was really those who were present we may mention :—Colonel Sir nothing to bo said for them. He thought, however, that thatExhi. Francis Burdett Prov. G. Master Middlesex , the Doan of tion would show thoso who had that feeling at lea9t this faot, that if York the Rev. C. A. Purey-Cust, M. J. Mclntyro, Col. they were foolish people, they would be surprised to see how large a Shadwell H. Clerke, Rev. 0. J. Martyn , Rev. W. K. R. proportion of foolish people there had been in the world. They would Bedford , Rev. F. J. Hill W. J. Hughan, J. B. Brinton , see in that Exhibition that the Masons went back to a very ancient , date, that they had gathered in men of great position and of great M.P., Rov. Canon Butler, F. Binckes, T. B. Whi te- eminence in all parts of the world. They would be astonished to head , Henry Smith, John Clmdwick, Dr. H. Hopkins, find , perhaps, how many of thoso whose names were not altogether J. S. Cumberland , C. F. Pidcock, T. Lamb-Smith, unknown in the pages of English history had not been ashamed to T. M. Humphries, J. R. Riley, Dr. Ringer, T. W. be enrolled as members of a Masonic province. Perhaps the impres. sion which would be made in their mind by the Exhibition would be Tew, W. Lake, T. R. Hill, M.P., Rev. C. Black, that after what they had seen thero must bo something in it. The C. H. Birbeck, H. G. Budd , A. J. Beauchamp, R. Bach , next thing was that people were disposed to think that they were a Rev. Canon Cattley, R. Smith-Carington, A. Comber, selfish people. They thought Freemasonry consisted in nothing R. Eagar, A. F. Godson, Major Irwin , Canon Knox- much better than eating and drinking. They thought the life of a Little, Colonel Mead , Rev. Trevor Parkins, J. Stevens, Freemason was a life of incessant and interminable festivity ; but if they would look at the record s in the museum they would see what J. H. Sillitoe, J. Stallard , R. V. Vassar-Smith, George mifht be learned from the reports of the different branches of their Taylor, W. H. Rylands, W. W. Morgan, &c. &c. Craft, they would fee that they were far from being a selfish body, Sir Edmund Lechmere and the Mayor of Worcester that they hud the welfare of others very much at heart, that from received their guests in the Guildhall , which was most generation to generation tho one great object of their community had elegantly decorated for the occasion, while the exhibits, been to promote the welfare of others. They wonld see that they which are full described in a well arranged Catalogue had always had a watchful care for the young and bad provided for y , them, as far as circumstances wonld allow, the means of a good sound and number some 1172 articles, were displayed in both useful education. They would see that there were institutions the New and Old Council Chambers of the elegant connected with Masonry by which the aged and infirm were provided municipal building of the City of Worcester. The com- for, and their days of decay and decrepitude relieved. They would pany began to arrive at half-past seven o'clock, and subse- see also that there were ways in which the poorer members of the Craft received substantial and timely benefit and help from their quently Sir Edmund Lechmere, in addressing his guests, brethren. Therefore he was quite sure a careful study of the Exhibi- stated that— tion would disabuse at once any snch impressions in the minds of those who might have entertained them. There was, in the third Bro. the Very Rev. A. C. Purey-Cnst (Dean of York) had con- place, a lurking suspicion in some people's minds that the Masons sented to say a few words to them upon the Masonic Museum which must be a bad set of people. No less a person than the Pope had had been collected and arranged with so much skill and ability by told them that they were communists, and that they disregarded the their valued brother, George Taylor. On his own behal f as Provincial holy ordinance of matrimony, and he had implied that they were guilty Grand Master , he ventured to offer them all a most heartv welcome. of so many transgressions of tho moral law and the laws of sooiety He trusted that the arrangements which had been made for their re- that he had altogether interdicted them. He thought the presence ception might be generally satisfactory to them all. He thought of so many of them on that occasion would bo tbe best proof as to they were indebted very much for the initiation of that Museum to whether they disparaged the holy ordinance of matrimony. They their excellent friend the Mayor of Worcester. As they all knew, he Masons rather flattered themselves that at all events if they were added to the other qualifications for the varions capacities that he not the most ornamental order in the*community, they were quite as filled in the city that of being an enthusiastic and experienced good as their neighbours. The records in the Exhibition would show Mason. He was desirous that his year of office might be signalised had ever been a body of upright and sober-minded people, b that they y some special effort connected with Masonry . He communicated who had had the best of all aims and objects in view, and had not his views to him (Sir Edmund), aud he ventured to suggest an idea been guilty of flagrant tra nsgressions of laws either human or which had often occurred to him that of a Masonic conversazione , , to Divine, nor wandered in the devious paths of infidelity and supersti- which they might all come, and which might be made interesting by tion. If they could disabuse those impressions which more or less the aid of a Masonic Exhibition of works of art. The Mayor cordially lingered abroad concerning them a great deal would be done by such concurred in that idea. To many minds a Masonic ball might have an Exhibition as that to benefit Masonry in the outer world. As to been more popular j bnt a conversazione was decided upon, and he the inner world it did a great deal to increase one's pride in the was happy to say that the idea was taken np cordially by the history and character of the Craft to which he had had the honour brethren throughout the Province, and a great number of brethren for more than thirty years to belong. He had great pleasure in visit- formed a Committee to carry out that object. To those who were Worcester and seeing the Exhibition. Ho congratulated the Mason s that Exhibition must ing be one of great interest. They flatter Grand Master and the Mayor and all connected with that Exhibition, themselves that no such , collection had been brought together in tbe on the great success that had attended their efforts. He hoped that Midland counties or perhaps in England , , specially connected with gathering would form an epoch in the history of Freemasonry in the Mason ry. Their non-Masonic friends also might study thoso objects county and city of Worcester, that it would lead to an increase of with some degree of interest. He dared say it would suggest a great members and to an increase of the more substantial benefits of deal of speculation in their minds and he was sorry they , could not stabilit union , and good order, whioh were essentially characteristic indnlge them with any exposition of their secrets. But they could y, of the body to which they belonged. give them some little insight into their history and antecedents. He hoped their noti-Masonic friends would go away with the conviction The many calls on our time this week preclude us from in their minds that whatever might bo tho usages and customs and to this interesting Exhibition as history of English Masons, at any rate fchny might say, in the words giving as much attention of the old Masonic song, " There's nongh t but what's good to bo we feel it deserves, but we hope to be able to devote some understood of a Free and Accepted Mason." Their signs and considerable amount of our space in future issues to a com- symbols all pointed to the fact that there was nothing in Masonry parative analysis of the several articles described in the contrary to the great princi ples of religion and loyalty, or to those interesting Catalogue, which reflects great credit upon principles which they all recognised as being connected more espe- has cially with the Masonic body, brotherly love and unity. Bro. George Tayler Prov. G. Sec. Worcester, who displayed much scholarly ability in its compilation, wbue Bro. Williamson was now called upon to say a few the Archaeological Notes of Bro. W. J. Hughan will receive, words, aud in response to the request spoke as follows :— as they deserve, the gravest consideration at the hands of all students interested in Masonic History. He cordially agreed with Sir Edmund Lechmere that they mit'llt all derive some good by studying the many objects of interest which would be found in the Exhibition. They were very much indebted to brotbren at a distance, and to Masons in every part of the coantry ge of Wor- who had interested themselves so assiduously and earnestly in bring- The members of the Provincial Grand Lod ing that great collection of Masonic art together. lie commended to cester held their Annua! Meeting on Thursday. The pro- his brother Masons a study of it. He wished it to be known that penple ceedings throughout were of a very interesting character, were never asked to become Masons. If they did so it must be of their and, in connection with the Exhibition to which we refer own free will and inclination. As far as he could ascertain that was above, will long be remembered by those who had the one of the most beautiful collections of Masonic art ever broug ht a fall report together in this country. He was sure the ladies and gentlemen privilege of being present. We shall publish present would go away inutrncted and edified by what they had been next week. ENGRAVINGS.—GEO. REES, Cheapest House in London. The largest Selection of all the best I'ietuivs on view.—GEO. BEES, 11a Strand , near 'Waterloo Bridge. Established 30 years. ENGRAVINGS —GEO. REES, Cheapest House in London .— Sir ^Mtrarg. F. Leiifhtoti's, V.R.A., " Wedded ," " Day Dreams," " Winding tho Skein," " Viola ," " Moretta," Jfcc, at 21s. "The Music Lesson." A few —:o:— artists' proofs only. BRO. W. HICKMAN P.G.A.D.C. ENGRAVINGS.—GEO. REES, Cheapest House in London. All liriton Kivioro Knjrnivings and Etchings on view—Sympathy, His Only Friend , Night Watch , Poachers, G'avo Cauem, and many others. IT is with great regret we have to announce the death, GRAVINGS.—GEO. REES.—Just Published , a tine engraving, on Friday 22nd inst., in the 60th year of his age, of Bro. EN "The Day of Reckoning," by Waller. Prints will bo 2ts. Artists' W. Hickman, Deputy Prov. G.M. Hants and the Isle of proofs are now at a premium, two or three only left. Wight, and Past G. Assist. D. of C. of the Grand Lodge ENGRAVINGS.—GEO. REES, Cheapest Uouso in London.— Large assortment of Kngravings and Etchings, from 5s to 10s each of England. Bro. Hickman had been a member of our Our new Design Book for Frames, with instruction for making, B stamps Society for upwards of twenty-seven years, having been ENGRAVINGS.—GEO. 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In 1871 his services were recognised by his appointment as Grand Assistant Director of Ceremonies of England. He was exalted to the R.A. degree in October 1858 , in the Concord Chapter, No. 394; was a P.Z., Past Prov. Gr. Scribe E., and Grand Second Principal of the Province ; while in the Mark degree, to which he was advanced in the Economy Lodge, No. 52, Win- chester, he was a Past Master of the St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 63, Southampton , Dep. P.G.M.M.M. Hants and Isle of Wight, and had served as G. J. Warden Mark Grand Lodge, in 1882. He had also taken the 32° in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He was a Vice-President, had served four Stewardships for the Boys' School, and was a Life Governor of the Girls' School and Benevolent Institution, for each of which he had likewise served one Festival Stewardship. He was a Life Subscriber of , and had served as Steward for, the Mark Benevolent Fund, and was an active supporter of the Masonic Benevolent Institution organized in his Province. His death will he regarded as a heavy blow by the brethren, especially in bouthampton , by whom he was so well known and so rpHESE Stands are unsurpassed in simplicity, strength , portabilit y, universally respected. To them, as well as to the rest of L cheapness, and elegance of finish . Thoy aro suitable for Military Panels his Hants Orchestras, Reading and News Rooms, Libraries, Studies, nnd Drawing Rooms and Isle of Wight Brother Masons, and to the When opened to their full capacity they stand o feet high , and can be folded members of his family, we beg to offer the expression of and enclosed in a case 21 inches long by 2 inches diameter. The weightis about and thoy wilt support a weight of 50 lbs. our sincere sympathy. 3 lbs. 12 oz., To be obtained of all Music Dealers , and of the Manufactur ers anil Proprietors of the Patent , HARROW & CO. MASONIC _ FRIENDSHIP.—HOW very deep, wonderful and true is Masonio friendship, which is indeed one of the distinguishing badges MUSIC SMITHS , BRASS WORK ERS , &a of onr Order ! How many old companions can we mnster up to-day, m memory and pleasant associations still, fast, true friends for years, 13 and 14 Portland Street, Soho, London, W. who are still interested in us and we in them ? We belong to the same Lodge, we frequent the same Chapter, we see each other often , we greet eaoh other warmly. Years have not dimmed the gracious DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS FREE, sensibilities of our ancient associations. Time, with its sorrows and it changes, its years and its burdens, though it may have bowed onr frames and whitened our locks, has not extinguished the warmth of our hearts, has not chilled the old fire on the mystic altar of Masonio INSTALLATION friendshi p. And so let us hope it will ever be until that inevitable hour, when even for us the time must come when our work is over OF H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES and our weird f olfilled. Until then, let old and valued friendship As the M.W.G.M. of England, Spude our steps and cheer our ways, lifting up our aspirations with pisasantest memories, and filling our minds with kindliest sensibili- AT THE ROYA L ALBERT HALL ties. —Freemasons ' ' Repository. 28th APRIL 1875. COPTES of this BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVING by Brothor HARTY P.M., consisting of A'-tist's Proofs, Proof;* before Letters, aid Lettered MASONIC LECTURE. Proofs, India Prints, and Plain Prints may be had at Co3t Prico bysipplying to ' KNOBS AND EXCRESCENCES." Bro. W. R. NORRIS, R RO. 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Lawn 30 feethy20 feet. Adapted for Garden Parties, &c. ; or for indoors, in Halls, Skating Einks, &c. AS TOLD BY AN OLD NEWSPAPER FILE. Orders received for Manufacturer by Kir. A. S. AKBOWSMITH, 80 New Bond Street, London, BY BEO. T. B, WHYTEHEAD, TORK. WHERE A GAirE IS OX VIEW. Liberal discount allowed, for cash. HAVE been employing some few hours of leisure REVISED RULES , 2 ND EDITION , WITH DIAGRAM , SIX STAMPS. I time within the past month in looking through the Prices :—£5 15s Od; £4 5s 6d; £2 10s Od: complete. files of some of the newspapers published in Tork daring tho last century, chiefly with the somewhat forlorn hope FIRE AT FREEMASONS' HALL ! of lighting upon allusions to our Craft in this city before LARGE photographs of the Temple, taken immediately after the the revival year of 1761. We know how bare these old pro- fire, on 4th May (suitable for framing), 5s each ; or framed in oak, securely packed , sent to any address in the United Kingdom, carriage paid, on vincial newspapers are, how curtly they conveyed then* receipt of cheque for ISs. Masters of Lodges should secure this memorial of the intelligence, Journalists old Templo for their Lodge rooms. and how brief were their leaders. of our day mi ht temper of W. Q. PAEKEB, Photographer, 40 High Holborn, W.C. g perpaps, with benefit to the Itatabliriied 25 years the reading public as well as their own comfort, couibio° to revert to these manners and customs of their prototypes that of his brother, in the Grand Lodge records, is very of the eighteenth century. interesting, since it seems to indicate that the old Lodge Even as late as 1801 three of tlie nine weekly journals at York recognised its operative origin, and was following published in this broad county of Yorkshire were issued the custom of years long antecedent, when the speculative from the Tort Press, and in the previous century the element first knocked at its doors. Thomas and Joseph printers of York had gained a prestige and notoriety for Atkinson, two brothers, petitioned to be made brethren in good work which was second to none in the kingdom. 1761, and " being balloted for and approved of nem con, The first newspaper published in York was called the York were accordingly elected E.P.'s and F.C.'s without paying Mercury, which made its appearance on the 23rd February the usual fees of the Lodge, as being working Masons. 1719, and died in 1740, being the property of Thomas Joseph Atkinson was the builder of the bridge over the Gent, the celebrated York printer. In 1725 was started River Foss in York, and the Grand Lodge of all England the York Oourant , which in 1848 was merged in the York attended in regalia to lay the first stone of that bridge. Uerald ; and in 1772 Ftherington' s York Chronicle saw the In the Courant of 19th June 1764, appears a similar light, and in 1839 was merged in the Yorkshire Gazette . summons for the 25th June, signed by (J.) Palmes and My search in the files of the Courant —by kind permission Wilbor, Wardens, and on the 18th December 1764 is a of Mr. Hargrove, the manager of the York Herald—from notice headed " Palmes Grand Master," announcing a its earliest date to 1761, the year of the revival of the dinner for the 27th December, and signed " Willbor and Grand Lodge at York, has been barren of any discovery of Nickson Wardens." On the 18th June and 24th December direct allusions to the Craft in York, but I find in the 1765, the half-yearly assemblies were again advertised number for 30th January 1739, an advertisement of under Palmes Grand Master. Anderson's Constitutions of 1738. John Palmes was a member of a very old family This day is published , in Largo and Small Quarto, dedicated to established at Naburn, near York, for several centuries. H.R.H. Frederick Prince of Wales, and presented by tbe Right He was made a Mason in the Lodge at York in May 1761, Honourable tbe Marquis of Carnarvon, present Grand Master, immediately after its revival by Drake and his party. THE NEW BOOK OF CONSTITUTIONS , Willbor the Senior Warden appears to have been a boot- by James Anderson, D.D. maker or currier. Printed for Ward and Chandler, Booksellers, in Coney-street, York, and at Scarborough. Large paper, 10s 6d : small, 53. I find in the Courant for 22nd April 1766, an advertise- " that The ment of another of the catch penny " exposures publisher of the Courant at this time was Caasar seem to have amused the public of those days advertised Ward, of Coney-street , York. I have not a copy of these as follows :— Constitutions to refer to ; but from this advertisement one would gather that the edition issued by Ward was unau- This day is published, price 2s, sold by W. Tesseyman, Bookseller thorised. If in the Minster Yard, York. (Illustrated with several elegant copper, so, it would go to show that Freemasonry plates being the only performance of the kind by whioh a person may was very strong in York and in the North to make it gain admittance to any lodge in tbe world without the expenoe of worth the while of a local publisher to produce a reprint. being a Mason.) In the number for 4th December of the same year is SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY : OR THE MASTER MASON. announced— Being a true guide to the inmost recesses of Freemasonry both, ancient and modern. Containing a minute account of the proceed, " The Merry Companion ," price 2s , containing 100 songs, including ings from an Entered Apprentice to a Past Masterj with the dif- Hunting, Jollity, the Freemasons &o. Published b Ward and , y ferent words signs and gripes. Chandler, at the Shi without Temple , , p, Bar, London, and at their Illustrated with several elegant copper-plates exhibiting the shops in York and Scarborough. different lodges, Freemasons, cyphers, &o. On 11th December 1759, was advertised in the Ootirant To which is added a complete list of all the English regular Lodges " The Freemasons' Songs, price Is. Printed for R. Brem- in the world according to their seniority with the dates of each Con. ner, at Edinburgh, and sold b T. Haxby, in York ;" and stitntion and days of meeting. y By T. W. an officer in the army and late Master of the Swan in the same paper, of 25th April 1760, I find the follow- Tavern Lodge in the Strand. ing :— Translated from the French original, published at Berlin, and bnrnt by order of the King of Prussia at the intercession of the Free- Sold by C. Etberington, in York j R. Beckwith, in Ripon ; E. Carbntt, in Whitby ; G. Sagg, in Mflton : and J. Smith, in Bradford. masons. A M ASTER KEY TO FREEMASONRY, London : Printed for G. Robinson and J. Roberts, afc Addison's , by which all the Secrets of the Society are laid open and their pre- Head in Paternoster Row. tended mysteries exposed to the public, with an accurate account of Grand Master (J.) Pal mes advertised his summer meet- the examination of the Apprentice, Fellow Craft , and Master. ing in 1766 at Mr. John Dalton's, the Punch Bowl in QUIDQUID SUB TEKKA EST IN APRRICUM , PROFERET (ETAS.—Hor. Stonegate, a regular Masonic house, the winter meeting YOUR SECRETS, SIRS, WHIT RISE, being also held there, the Wardens on the last occasion THO' ALL THE EARTH O'ERVHELH THEM , TO MEN 'S EYES. signing themselves " Willbore and Nixon." A Lodge London : Printed for J. Bird, opposite St. Dunstan's Churcb. Fleet warranted b the Grand Lodge in London (Moderns) had Street. y been held for a few years at the Punch Bowl, but had N.B.—The public may depend upon this being a gennine account of their whole secrets, by which a person may gain admittance into ceased to meet when Palmes and his brethren took up their a Lodge. quarters there. The minutes of this Punch Bowl (or No. 259 are still extant During the whole of the last century clubs and Stonegate) Lodge, , , and were de- guilds scribed by me in the Freemason some years ago. The of all kinds wore very prevalent, and in York there were several of them. The Ancient Societ Grand Lodge of All England had in 1762 warranted a y of York Florists Lodge of French Prisoners of War to meet at the Punch (still in existence) was one of these, the Antient and Honourable Society of Gregorians was another Bowl Inn, but we have no record of any of its proceedings. , and an- On 23rd June 1767 Agar Grand Master nouncements of their meetings appear with , , , and his tolerable regu- Wardens Atkinson and Beckwith, publicl larity. The Grand Lodge at York was revived , y summoned the , as we all brethren to meet at the Punch Bowl on the 24th of the know, in March 1761, but I meet with no Masonic notices month, and again on Monday, the 28th of December, they of publications or meetings from 1760 until 20th December 1763, when the following occurs : advertised themselves to dine at the same house. Seth Agar was Sheriff of York in 1760 and an Alder- MOKRITT , Grand Master. man. He came of an old family of York mercers and The FREE and ACCEPTED MASONS are desired to meet the GRAND MASTER at Mr. Howard's, in Lendal, York, on Tuesday, tho 27th woollendrapers, his father having been Lord Mayor in instant December. Dinner on the Table at Two o'clock. Tickets may 1744 (presumably), and his grandfather in 1724. He be had of Mr. Tasker, Treasurer. must have been an intelligent brother, as his name appears Brooks f „ . Wardens.r as a subscriber to " Calcott's Candid Disquisition " on Atkinson j Freemasonry, published in 1769. He was initiated in John Sawry Morritt was the father of the John B. S. 1761. Morritt who purchased the historic domain of Rokeby from 14th June 1768 saw the public summons of another the Robinson family, late in the last century, and was a (Geo.) Palmes, Grand Master, whose Wardens were Nick- mend of Sir Walter Scott. He was not made a Mason in son and Wright; these for the first time signed themselves the Lodge at York, for he was a visiting* brother on the Grand Wardens. 27th December of that year and 13th 'th October 1762, when his brother Christopher was pro- June and 27th December of the following year were again Posed as a candidate. The Morritts had a town house iu festivals, as well as 25th June of 1770, all under Grand Micklegate, York, as most of the county families had at Master Palmes, and all advertised. that period. Joseph Atkinson, the Junior Warden George Palmes was apparently a brother of John, who tl , was a op crative otoneinason , and the entry of his initiation and had been Grand Master in 1765 and 66. and was made a Mason a month before his brother, although he was not Charles Chaloner, who was Grand Master in 1773, was raised until January 1763. initiated on the same night as George Palmes, in 1761, at In the Courant of 19th June 1770, is an announcement a time when several men of position took an interest in the of a meeting of the lodge at Knaresborough— Lodge, but Chaloner's interest was very transient, for he never attended any meetings, and resigned in 1767, but " KEDAR —MASTES. of the old famil The Free and Accepted Masons are requested to meet at the house rejoined in 1770. He was one y of Cha- of W. Robert Revell, the Crown in Knaresborough, on Taesday, the loner of Guisborough, in the North Riding. John Bagley, 26th day of June instant, to celebrate thp anniversary of St. John his Junior Warden, was a York tradesman, and served the the Baptist, and attend a regular procession to the Church to hear office of Sheriff of the City in 1790. Chaloner resigned Divine Service, when a Sermon will be preached by a Brother his membership in 1775. suitable to the occasion. The Apollo Lodge was warranted 31st July 1773, so that this must have been its first annual festival. Many JEr}**—* brethren were connected with this Lod The Brethren are desired to meet at nine o'clock, as Divine Ser- distinguished ge, vice will begin at ten." and several of the members of the old Lodge, who should have stood by their mother, went over to the more fashion- The Rev. Charles Kedar, Robert Revell, and William able body which met at the George Hotel, in Coney-street. Batesou had been mado Masons at York in October 1769, Early in the present century most of the minutes, &c, of and at tho same time a Constitution had been granted to the Apollo Lodge were sold, with other Masonic property, them to open and hold a Lodge at the Crown, at Knares- to the brethren of a Hull Lodge, and are now in the borough, a small town a few miles from York, on the river possession of tho Humber Lodge. Nidd. Four names were included in the Constitution , the In 1774 Grand Lodge met as usual at the York Tavern, f ourth being that of John Brulart, nominated as Secretary, under Sta pilton Grand Master, and Bagley and Bewlay, who also had been made at York. Grand Wardens. There must have been some feeling of In July of the same year a Constitution had been granted rivalry between the Apollo and tbe Grand Lodges, or the to John Atkinson as Master, George Dawson as S.W., meetings would not have been called as they were on the Wm. Askwith as J.W., and John Carlisle as Secretary, to same day and hour. open and hold a Lodge at the Royal Oak, at Ripon, in Henry Stapilton was a scion of a very old house, in Yorkshire, Askwith having been previously made a Mason which, however, even in that day, very little of the original at York. The Ripon brethren must have soon tired of Tees-side blood was to be found, owing to lack of male their York connection , for a warrant appears to have been heirs. He probably lived at Wighill, near York, where applied for and granted to them from London in June they had estates. They were connected by marriage with 1776. the Vavasours, of Copmanthorpe, near York, hence most Processions were fashionable about this time for the likely the Masonic association. He joined the Lodge in winter Festival of St. John is thus announced : 1773, and seems to have been popular with the brethren. he presented the Lodge with a deer " PALMES, Grand Master. In the spring of 1775, , " The Free and Accepted Masons are desired to meet the Grand for the purpose of getting up an extra banquet. Master on St. John's Day, the 27th December instant (1770), at the On 20th December 1774, appears the following : York Tavern, at nine o'clock in the morning, to attend him in pro- cession to St. John's Chnrcb, in Micklegate, where a sermon suitable " TANCRED, to the occasion will be preached by a brother, and afterwards to dine " Provincial Grand Master for Yorkshire. with him at the same tavern. Dinner will be on the table at two " The officers and brethren of the different lodges of Free and o'clock. Accepted Masons in this oounty, under the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of England, are desired to meet in the Apollo, at the George Inn, in Coney.street, York, on Tuesday next, the 25th day of December, being the anniversary of St. John, in order to form " Tiokets to be had at Mr. Kidd's Coffee House, in Coney-street. proper rales and regulations for the further progress of the Society. Such brethren as purpose to attend are desired to take ont tickets by " N.B.—Tickets to be had at the bar of the said inn. Dinner at themselves or friends before the 24th inst." three o'clock." This was one of the most successful gatherings of the Sir Thomas Tancred was the third recorded Prov. Grand century in York. The brethren assembled with their Master, the first having been Wm. Horton, Esq. (1738), visitors to the number of 120. They marched with their and the second Edward Rooke (1740) . The Tancreds are " colours," headed by the city band and the band of the a very ancient race, their seat being at Boroughbridge, iDniskilling Dragoons, to church, where a sermon was within easy reach of York. preached by Bro. the Rev. Wm. Dade, on " God is Love." " The Freemasons' Calendar " is advertised in the The bells of St. Martin's, Coney-street, rang out a merry Courant for 20th December, 1774. peal ; they had a famous dinner, and they appropriately ended a happy day by getting np a handsome subscription " Never before printed. for charitable purposes. The Rev. W. Dade was rector This day is published, price 9d, stitched, "THE FREEMASONS' CALENDAR," of Barmston, in the East Riding, and an author of a or an almanack for the year of Christ, MDCCLXXV ., and ANNO LUCIS, " History of Holderness." MMMMMDCCLXXV , being the third of the Bissextile, or Leap Year; con. On the 24th June 1771, Gascoigne, Grand Master, and taining, besides an accurate nnd useful calendar of all the remarkable his Wardens, Harrison and Lakeland, publicly summoned occurrences for the year, many useful and curious particulars re- their summer Festival at Mr. Matthew Kidd's, the York lating to Masonry. Inscribed with great respect to the Rt. Hon, Lord Petre, G. Master, by a Society of the brethren. Tavern, and again at the same house for the 27th De- Est etfideli tuta silentio merces. cember. In 1772 Lakeland and Bussey were Wardens, London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by all the and summoned meetings for 24th June and 28th December, Booksellers and sellers of almanacks in Town and Country." the latter meeting being advertised in the York Chronicle , as well as the Courant by order of the Lodge. The files of the Courant for the years 1775-6 and 7 , York Sir Thomas Gascoigne was the last baronet of the famil appear to have been mislaid, but in Btherington' s y three and died in 1810. Their Yorkshire seat was at Parlington, Chronicle of Friday, 22nd December 1775, appear and they claimed to be descended from the historic Lord advertisements : Chief Justice Gascoigne, temp. Hen. IV. Sir Thomas was " MORIAH LODGE, NO. 176, initiated at York, with Sir Walter Vavasour, in January of Free and Accepted Masons under the Constitutions of the Ancient 1768, but was not again heard of until he was elected Grand Lodge of England. The members hereof are desired to meat Grand Master in absentia in December 1770. I fear he the Master, Wardens , &c, at the house of Mr. William Blanchard , was not a very good Mason , for in December 1779 he was the Star and Garter, in Nessgute, York, on Wednesday, the 27tb inst., being tbe anniversary of St. John. Dinner on the Table at Two struck off the books for non-payment of arrears. o'clock . In 1773, Chaloner Grand Master, and Bussey and Bagley Grand Wardens, advertised their gatherings for 24th June This (according to Bro. R. F. Gould in his " Atholl and 27th December, at the York Tavern, and in the Lodges ") was a Lod ge warranted by the Ancients in 1772 Courant for 21st December appears the announcement of for tho 1st Regiment Yorkshire Militia, at Sheffield , and the Apollo Lodge, thus : afterwards removed to the Star and Garter, in Nessgate. 1 do not know under the "A POLLO LODGE .—The members of this Lodge are desired to that it anywhere else appears meet their brethren on Monday next, the 27th inst., being St. John's name of " Moriah." Day. All Free and Accepted Masons desirons of visiting this Lodsje admitted by applying for tickets at tbe bar of the George Inn, STAPILTON , Grand Master. Coney.street. Diuuer will be on the table at three o'olook." Free and Accepted Masons are desired to meet the brethren of tbe Most Ancient Grand Lodge of All England at the York Tavern on endeavour to make himself onn of the best brethren of the Order. Wednesday, the 27th inst. The newly-admitted brother having responded, the W.M. proposed the health of the Installing Master. It afforded him great pleasure Grand Wa Krr} ^ to propose this toast. The way in whioh Bro. Garrod had performed the work, and the ability whioh he bid brought to bear on the TANCRED Provincial Grand Master. , tusk were alike creditable to him , especially when it was remem- The Free and Accepted Masons under tho Constitution of the Grand bered that it was only at the eleventh hour that he had been asked of England aro desired to meet the brethren of the A POLLO Lodge to undertake the duty. The way in which he had that night been Lodge at tho George Inn, in Coney-street , York, on Wodnesrtay, installed had made an impression on his mind that would never ber 27 being the Auniversary of St. John. Tickets to be had Decem , be effaced. Brother Garrod returned his hearty thanks for the toast bar ' , at the of the said Inn. Dinner at Two o clock. and tbe way in which it had been received. He had considered it a (To be continued). great honour to be called upon to perform the installation ceremony, and was gratified to find his efforts had met with approbation. It had been an additional pleasure to him, on tbe present occasion, to undertake the work, because he looked upon Bro. Rowe as some- what in the light of a personal friend, and one whom he felt INSTALLATION MEETINGS, &c. snre wonld do honour to the position he had been placed in. The toast of the Visitors waa next given from the ohair, and was acknowledged by Bros. Roberts, Durrant, Drisool l, &o. The Charities HIGH CROSS LODGE, No. 754. followed, and was replied to by Bro. Morgan, after which the W.M. proposed the health of the Past Masters of the Lodge, coupling with THE installation meeting of this Lodsre was held on Wednesday , 27th instant, at the Seven Sisters Hotel, Page Green, Totten . the toast the name of Bro. Lewis, who briefly responded. Toasts on ham, when Bro. G. Rowe, the S.W. of the past year, was formally behalf of thy Masonio Press and the Officers of the High Cross Lodge placed in the chair of the Lodge. Bro. E. J. Lewis the W.M. presided brought the list to an end, and the Tyler having given the onstomary at the opening of tho proceedings, being supported during the evening closing toast, the brethren separated . Among the visitors who by the following Officers :—Bros. George Rowe S.W., A. G. Fifller signed the register were Bros. Charles H. Roberts P.P.G.C. Essex, J.W., P.M.'s W. Dance Treasurer, J. LioTsnll Secretary, G. Townsend, G. Collier 1237 , J. Driscoll P.M. 30, 1579 , C. C. Pearce 1237, H. Stephens, W. M. Tegg, G. Jones, H. Clements, J. Gnrrod, David R. Mathison 1237, John Green P.M. 27, F. Eastwood P.M. 933, J. E. Roberts, J. Wells ; Walter S. Cooper S.D., J. Birkin J.D., Very Tyler. Pinder 1707, W. E. Durrant P.M. 1056, W. MoKay 861, W. Provost At the request of the W.M., who had been very nnwoll for some time 861, N. Salmon 177, W. W. Morgan Jan., A. Dnrrant P.M. and P.Z. 1185 W previously, Bro. Garrod assumed the chair, and in due course per- , 569, . F. Green 861, J. Barker 933, J. T. Ashby 228, C formed theoeremony of installation. His rendering of the ritual was Handley 475. all that could be desired, and, bearing in mind the faot that he bad assumed the gavel at a few moments' notice, reflected the greatest credit on him. Having been duly installed as W.M., Bro. Rowe DUKE OP CONNAUGHT LODGE invested the following as his Officers for the year :—Bros. A. G. , No. 1834. Fidler Provincial S.G.D. Middlesex S.W., W. Cooper J.W., W. Dance ON Tuesday evening, 26th inst., there was a numerous gathering Treasurer, J. Linzel l Secretary, J. D. Birkin S.D., W. J. Meek of brethren at the Masonic Hall, Landport, on the occasion J.D., E. Holt I.G., S. Goodall D.C, W. Shepherd Steward, of the installation of Bro. J. Westaway as W.M. of the above Lodge E. Lovell Assistant Steward, and J. Very Tyler. The other for the ensning year. The ceremony of installation was conduoted portions of the ceremony of installation were then completed, by Bro. G. Felton Lancaster , of Gosport, to whom a speoial vote of after which the Worshipful Master proceeded to initiate Mr. James thanks was awarded. The W.M. afterwards appointed the following Ibbitson into the mysteries of the Order, performing the ceremony in as his Officers for the year:—Bros. G. Farncy Brown I.P.M., G. T. a manner rarely equalled by one so fresh to the office. Before the Cunningham S.W., I. S. Gardner J. W*., S. R. Ellis P.M. Treasurer, dosing of the Lodge a portrait, presented by Bro. Wells, was for- C. W. Bevis Secretary, D. T. Rule S.D., J. Mnir J.D., W. W. Slada mally accepted on behalf of the Lodge, and a vote of condolence was I.G., W. H. Baker D.C, R. G. Farlam and W. D. Parkhonse P.M. passed with Bro. Oddy, who has recently lost his wife. Nothing Stewards, J. Exell Tyler. A feeling allusion was made by the further offering, Lodge was closed , and the brethren adjonrned to the W.M. to the death of Bro. W. Hickman Prov. Deputy Grand Master, banquet room, where a most enjoyable repast was provided. At its and a vote of condolence with his family was unanimously agreed to. conclusion, the W.M. gave the onstomary toasts. In proposing that The brethren afterwards adjonrned to the dining-room, where a of the Queen and the Craft, be remarked that this was a toast whioh capital banquet was provided, Bro. Westaway presiding. always came with a degree of freshness to every Mason in every part of the Empire. Every loyal Englishman was faithful to the Sove- reign, and none more so than the Masonio brethren. The toast having been honoured, and the National Anthem sung, the W.M. We have heen requested to state that the Regent gave the health of the M.W.G.M. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. He Masonic Hall (Cafe Royal) will he closed for a few weeks, was sure that many of those present who had attended Grand Lodge for the purposes of cleaning and decorating, must know how worthily the Prince of Wales filled the office of Grand Master. The next toast was that of the Pro Grand Master, the Deputy Grand Master and the rest of the Grand Officers Present and Past. From what the W.M. had seen he was sure that The Chiswick Lodge of Instruction, No. 2012, will the Grand Officers were excellent men and Masons, able and willing re-open on Saturday, 6th September, at the Hampshire Hog, to do all that might be required of them. Bro. Lewis the I.P.M. was King-street, Hammersmith, W. pleased at being in a position to give the next toast. It was one of the greatest pleasures which followed his vacation of the ohair, to propose the health of the W.M., becanse in doing so he asked the brethren to drink the health of one who relieved him of a great At the Convocation of the North London Chapter of responsibility. The W.M. who had been installed that day was one Improvement, on Thursday, at the Alwyne Castle Tavern who had been looked forward to for some time past. He had worked , for the honour be had attained and had really received what he St. Paul's Road, Canonbury, Comps. Gregory M.E.Z., deserved—a position of which he was in every way worthy. He was Dehane H., G. W. Knight J., Shaw S.N., Radcliffe P.S., Master of the ritual of the several degrees of Masonry, a staunch there was a fair attendance, notwithstanding many of the supporter of the Masonio Institutions, and had shown himself to be a supporters of this Chapter of Improvement are out of Worthy Mason at heart. He had proved his proficiency by the initia. town. Won that night, in a really oreditable manner, of a friend of his into the Order, and had thus early proved that his intention was to uphold the dignity of the Lodge during the coming year. In replying to the toast the W.M. felt that Bro. Lewis had spoken of him in far more "We understand that the fourth volume of Bro. Gould's eulogistic terms.than he deserved , he shonld, however, try to carry " History of Freemasonry " will be issued lo subscribers in oat the important duties of his office in such a manner as to render October, and that the remaining volumes, V. and VI., will himself worthy of the praise bestowed on the present occasion . He be published at about intervals of three months. Much of began to realise the responsibility of the work he had undertaken , and felt it would require all his power to carry it throngh. He should the apparen t delay, we are informed, has arisen from the try his best, and hoped to make tho High Cross Lodge shine out necessity of proceeding, at the same time, with the subject second to none. With the co-operation which he felt snre he should matter of two or more volumes, though the comparatively receive from the members he hoped to be able to accomplish his few students of our Antiqnities will require no very desires. He felt he mnst now begin to speak a fevv words in praise of his laboured apology to satisfy their minds that the task of immediate predecessor in the chair—Bro. Lewis. He had writing an elaborate history of Freemasonry is not one .ways found hitn a most courteous and abl e brother. He had pre- sided over the Lodge faithfully and zealously during his term of that, with any expectation of success, can be compressed Mastership, and well deserved tbe jewel which tbe members bad within a narrow limit of time. Unanimously voted to him at their last meeting. It was now his pleasure to attach this jewel to the breast of Bro. Lewis, and in doing B0 he could bnt wish be might be long spared to wear * HOLLOW AT'S PILLS.— For the cure of debility, bile, liver, and stomach com- •&• Bvo. Lewis returned thanks. He was particularly gratified plaints th's inappreciable medicine is so well-known in overy part of the world, at the way in which the brethren had received the toast proposed in an' the cures performed by its use are so wonderful , that it now stands pre- his hononr, as it showed they were satisfied with his government of eminent above all other remedies, more particularly for the cure of bilious and the Lod liver complaints , disorders of the stomach, dnpsy, and debilitated con-titutioa ge during the past year. He was also very proud of the A course of these digestive Pills painle3-*ly but surely regulates the organs of handsome jewel which they had awarded him , and should over wear dise-tion and acts most beneficially on the secretory and excretory organs >t as a memento of the pleasant time he had spent in the High Cross generally. Thev expel fromthesecretive organs and thecircnlationthoseeflete Lodge. and morbific matters which produce inflammation, pain, fever, debili'.y, and The W.M. next gave the toast of tbe Initiate. He was physical decay—thus annihilating, by their purifying properties, tb« virulence pleased to receive him as a member, feeling assured that he wonld of the most painful and devastating diseases. 2it-Merchants, Masonic Hall,Liverpool anstructton) H%-True Love and Unity, Freemasons Hall . Brixham . Devon DIAKY FOR THE WEEK. ?«s_Koval Yorkshire, M asonic Club, Hanover-street, Keighley Lodges 315—Royal York. Rovn l Pavilion , Brighton We shall be obliged if the Secretaries of the various 3B4—Cambrian , Mas nic Hall. Neath. , „ .. , throughout the Kingdom will favour us with a list of their 373-Socrates. George Hotel. High-street . Huntingdon Days of Meetings, &c, as we have decided to insert only those 393-St. David. Masons * Hall. The Parade, Berwick that are verified by the Officers of the several Lodges. 403—Hertford, Town Hall, Hertford 493—Roval Lebanon, Spread Eagle, Gloucester 558—Temple. Town Hall, Folkestone. 624—Abbey, Masonic Hall, Union-st-eet, Burton-on-Trent B73-St. John, Masonic Hall, Liverpool. SATUBDAY, 30th. AUGUST. 734-Londesborough, Masonio Hall , Bridlington Quay. , Croydon, at 3 779—Ferrers and Ivanhoe, Town Hall, Ashby-de-la-Zoucb. House Committee, Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 794--Warden , Sutton Cotdfiel d 1275— Star, Five Bells. 155 New Cros3-road, S.E.. at 7. (Instruction) , Royal Hotel Triangle, Hackney, at 7 (Instruction) Wt—Carnarvon , Masonic Hall, Havant. 13ftt—Earl of Zetland, Royal Edward, 947—Fortescue. Manor House, Honiton, Devon. 1621—F.ccleston, Crown and Anchor, 79 Khury Street , S.W., at 7 (Instruction) Lancashire Sinai Chapter of Improvement Onion , Air-street. Regent-st., W., at S 897—Loyalty, Fleece Inn, St. Helens, . »«0—Bute. Masonic Hall. 9 Working-street, Cardiff. 1182—Wharncliffe, Rose and Crown Hotel Penistone 986—Hesketh, Grapes Inn, Croston R.A. 178—Harmony, Royal Hotel, Wigan. 995—Fnrness. Masonic Hall, Ulverston. 1002—Skiddaw. Lodge Room, Market-place, Cockerraonth. MONDAY, 1st SEPTEMBEB. 1134—Newall , Freemasons' Hall. Salford. 1214—Scarhorongh. Scarborough Hall. Caledonia-road , Batley 22—Loughborough, Cambria Tavern , Cambria Road, near Loughborough 1244—Marwood , Freemasons' Hall, Redcar. Junction, at 7.30. (Instruction) 1322—Waverley, Caledonia Inn, Ashton-under-Lyne. 45—Strong Man, Excise Tavern , Old Broad Street, E.C, at 7 (Instruction) 1336—Square and Compass, Corn Exchange, Wrexham. 144—St. Luke, Anderton 's Hotel , Fleet-street, E.C. ) 1473—Bootle. 148 Berry-street , Bootle, at 6. (Instruction.) 174—Sincerity, Railway Tavern, Railway Place, Fenchnroh Street, at 7. (In 1619—Sackvitle East Grinstead 180—St. James's Union , Union Tavern, Air-street , W., at 8 (Instruction) , Crown Hotel, at 8 (Instruction) 1674—Caradoc, Masonio Hall, Bank Buildings. Sussax Street, Rhyl 548—Wellington , White Swan, High-street, Deptford, 1750—Coleridge. Sandringham House, Clevedon. 1425—Hyde Park, Fountain Abbey Hotel , Praed Street, Paddington , at 8 (In). 1970—Hadrian. Freemasons* Hall, South Shields 1445—Prince Leopold, Printing Works, 202 Whitechapel Road, E., at 7 (Inst.) 1489—Marquess of Ripon , Pemhnry Tavern, Amhnrst-rd., Hackney, at 7.30 (In) R.A. 203—St. John of Jerusalem. Masonic Hall, Liverpool. ' R.A. 903—Gnsport, India Arms Hotel, Gosport 1507—Metropolitan, The Moorgate, Finsbnry Pavement, E.C, at 7.30 (Inst.) , Birmingham 1585—Royal Commemoration, Fox and Hounds, Putney, at 8. (Instruction) R.A. 1031—F'etcher, Masonic Hall, Now Street 1608-Kilbnrn, 4fi South Molton Street, Oxford Street , W„ at 8. (Inst.) M.M. 11—Joppa, 65 Argyle-street, Birkenhead (Inst.) M.M. 69—United Service, Assembly Rooms, Brorapton, Chatham. 1623—West Smithfield . Clarence Hotel . Aldersgate Street, B.C. at 7 , Birmingham 1625—Tredegar , Royal Hotel, Mile End-road M.M. 115—Bedford , Masonic Hall, New-street 1693—Kingsland , Cock Tavern, Highbury, N., at 8.30 (Instruction) 1853-Caxton, Freemasons' Hall, W.C. , . x WEDNESDAY. 3rd SEPTEMBEB. 1891—St. Ambrose, Baron 's Court Hotel, West Kensington. (Instruction) Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge, Freemasons' Hall R.A. 933—Doric, 79 Whitechanel-road , at 7. (Instruction) 3—Fidelity, Alfred , Roman Road, Barnsbury, at 8 (Instruction) M.M. 139—Panmnro, 8A Red Lion Square, W.C. 30—United Mariners'. The Lugard , Peokham, at 7.30. (Instruction) 37-Anchor and Hope, Freemasons' Hall,Church Institute, Bolton-le-Moors 73—Mount Lebanon, Windsor Castle, South wark Bridge Road, at 8. (Inst) 61—Probity. Freemason's Hall, St. John's-place, Halifax 186—Industry, Railway Hotel, West Hampstead, at 7. (Instruction) 113—Unanimity. Bull Hotel, Preston. 193—Confidence, Hercules Tavern, Leadenhall-street, at 7.30 (Instruction) 133—Harmonv , Ship Hotel, Faversham 228—United Strength, Prince Alfred , 13Crowndale-rd., Camden-town, 8 (In) 154—Unanimity, Masonic Hall, Zetland-street , Wakefield 638—La Tolerance, Morland's Hotel, Dean Street, Oxford gt. at 8 (Inst) 156—Harmony, Hnyshe Masonic Temple, Plymouth 720—Panmure, Balham Hotel, Balham, at 7 (Instruction) 236—York, Masonic Hall, York 781—Merchant Navy, Silver Tavern, Burdett-road, E. (Instruction) S51—Loyal , Masonic Hall, Castle-street, Barnstaple 813—New Concord , Jolly Farmers, Southgate-road, N. (Instruction) 264—Nelson of the Nile, Freemasons' Hall, Batley 861—Finsbury, King and Queen, Norton Folgate, E.G., at 7.30 (Instruction) s Hotel, Market street, Over Darwen 862—Whittington , Red Lion , Ponpin's-court, Fleet-street, at 8 (InRtTnction 381—Harmony and Industry, Smalley ' (Instrnotion) 408—Three Graces. Private Rooms, Haworth 902—Burgoyne, Victoria Hotel, Farringdon Road, at 7. 431—St. George, Masonic Hall, Norfolk-street , N. Shields 1278—Burdett Coutts, Duke's Head, 79 Whitechapel Road, E., at 8. (Inst.) 467—Tndor, Red Lion Hotel, Oldham ,„,„,,. 1288—Finsbury Park, Cock Tavern, Highbnry, at 8 (Instruction) 482— St. James's, Masonic Rooms, Wrotham Road, Handsworth, Staffordshire 1475—Peckham, Lord Wellington Hotel, 616 Old Kent-road, at 8. (Instruction) K9—Semper Fidelis, Crown Hotel, Worcester 1524—Duke of Connaught, Royal Edward. Mare-street, Hackney, at 8 (Inst) 667—St. Oybi, Town Hall, Holyhead 1604—Wanderers, Adam and Eve Tavern,Palmer St., Westminster, at 7.30 (In) 613—Unity, Masonic Hall, Southport 1662—Beaconsfield , Chequers, Marsh Street, Walthamstow. at 7.30 (Inst.) B22—St. Cuthberga , Masonic Hall, Wimborne 1681—Londesborough, Berkeley Arms, John Street, May Fair, at 8. (Instruct) 823—Everton , Masonic Hall, Liverpool, at 7.30. (Instruction) 1791—Creaton. Prince Albert Tavern, Portobello-ter., Notting-hill-gate (Inst.) 850—St. Oswald, Town Hall , Ashbourne, Derbyshire 1922—Earl of Lathom, Station Hotel, Camborwell New Road, S.E., at 8. (In.) 928—Friendship, Masonic Hall, Petersfield R.A. 177—Domatic. Union Tavern, Air-street, Regent-st., at 8 (Instruction) 1045—Stamford, Town Hall, Altrincham, Cheshire M.M.—Thistle, Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, at 8 (Instrnotion) 1050—Gundnlph . King's Head Hotel, Rochester 74—Athol, Masonic Hall, Severn-street, Birmingham 1051—Rowley, Athenamm, Lancaster 86—Loyalty, Masonio Hall, Prescot, Lancashire 1077—Wilton, Red Lion Inn, Blackley, Lancashire 125—Prince Edwin, White Hart Hotol, Hythe, Kent 1108—Royal Wharfedale, Private Room, Boroughgate, Otley, Yorks 128—Prince Edwin, Bridge Inn, Bolton-street, Bury, Lancashire 1180—Forward, Masonic Booms, New Hall-street, Birmingham 258—Amphibious, Freemasons' Hall, Heckmoudwike 1211—Goderich, Masonic Hall, Gt. George-street, Leeds 277—Friendship. Freemasons* Hall, Union-street, Oldham 1239—Wentworth , Freemasons' Hall, Sheffield. 298—Harmonv, Masonic Rooms, Ann-street, Rochdale 1264—Neptune, Masonic Hall, Liverpool. 326—Moira, Freemasons' Hall, Park-street , Bristol 1302—De Warren, Masonic Hall, White Swan Hotel, Halifax i 327—Wigton St. John, Lion and Lamb, Wigton 1380—Skelmeradale, Queen's Hotel, Waterloo, Liverpool 380—Integrity, Masonic Temnle, Commercial-streot. Money, near Leeds 1434—Nottinghamshire, Masonic Hall, Nottingham 387—Airedale, Masonic Hall, Westgate, Shipley • 1449—Royal Military. Masonic Hall. Canterbury, at 8. (Instruction) 406—Northern Counties, Freemasons' Hall, Maple-street , Newcastle-on-Tyne 1519—Albert Edward, Albion Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors, near Accrington 417—Faith and Unanimity, Masonic Hall, Dorchester 1542—Legiolium, Masonic Hall, Carlton-street, Castleford 471—Silurian, Freemasons' Hall, Dock-street, Newport Monmouthshire 1573—Caradoc, Masonic Hall.Caer-street, Swansea 580—Harmony, Wheat Sheaf, Ormskirk 1575—Olive, Corbet Arms, Market Drayton 694—Downshire, Masonic Hall, Liverpool, at 7. (Instruction) 1578—Merlin , New Inn Hotel, Pontypridd , South Wales 606—Segontium, The Castle, Carnarvon 1676—St. Nicholas, Freemasons' Hall, Grainger-street, Newcastle 645—Humphrey Chetham, Freemasons' Hall, Cooper-street, Manchester. 1798—Zion, Hulme Town Hall, Manchester 673—St. John, Masonic Hall, Liverpool, at 8. (Instruction) B.A. 106—Son , Royal Beacon Hotel , Exmouth 678—Earl Ellesmere, Church Hotel. Kersley, Farnworth, near Bolton. K.A. 380—Integrity, Masonic Temnle, Morley 838—Franklin , Peacock and Royal Hotel, Boston R.A. 827—St. John, Masonic Temple, Halifax-road, Dewsbury 910—St. Oswald, Masonic Hall, Ropergate, Pontefract M.M. 2—Phoenix 110 High Street Portsmouth 972—St. Augustine, Masonic Hall, Canterbury. (Instruction) , , 992—St. Thomas, Griffin Hotel, Lower Broughton TUESDAY, 2nd SEPTEMBEB. 1010—Kingston, Masonic Hall, Worship-street, Hull 1013—Royal Victoria, Masonic Hall, Liverpool Colonial Board, Freemasons' Hall, at 4 1037—Portland, Portland Hall, Portland. (Instruction.) SB—Constitutional , Bedford Hotel, Southampton-bldgs., Holborn , at 7 (Inst) 1085—Hartington, Masonio Hall . Gower-street, Derby 65—Prosperity, Hercules Tavern, Leadenhall-street, B.C., at 7. (Instruction ) 1091—Erme. Erme House, Ivybridge, Devon 141—Faith, Quean Anne's Restaurant, Queen Anne's Gate, St. James's Park 1167—Alnwick, Masonic Hall, Clayport-street, Alnwick Station , at 8. (Instruction) 1206—Cinque Ports, Bell Hotel, Sandwich 177—Domatic. Lnrroy Masonic Hall, Camberwell, at 7.30 (Instruction) 1218—Prince Alfred, Commercial Hotel, Mossley, near Manchester 188—.Toppa, Champion Hotel, Aldersgate-street, at 7.30. (Instruction) 1274—Earl of Durham, Freemasons' Hall, Chester-le-Street 255—Harmony, Greyhound, Richmond, Surrey 1323—Talbot , Masonic Rooms, Wind-street , Swansea 654—Yarborough , Green Dragon, Stepney (Instruction) 1335—Lindsay, 20 King-street, Wigan 753—Prince Frederick William, Eagle Tavern, Clifton Road, Maida Hill, at 8 1354—Marquis of Lome, Masonio Rooms, Leigh, Lancashire (Instruction) 1356—De Grey and Ripon, 140 North Hill-street, Liverpool, at 7.30 (Inst.) 820—Lily of Richmond, Greyhound, Richmond, at 7.30 (Instruction) 1363—Tyndall, Town Hall, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester 830—Dalhousie, Sisters' Tavern, Pcwnall-road, Dalston at, 8 (Instruction) 1431—St. Alphege, George Hotel, Solihull 1044—Wandsworth , East Hill Hotel , Alma Road , Wandsworth (Instruction) 1511—Alexandra, Hornsea, Hull (Instruction) 1321—Emblematic, Red Lion, York Street, St. James's Square, S.W., at 8 (In.) 1620—Marlborough , Derby Hall, Tue Brook, Liverpool 1383—Friends in Council, 33 Golden-sqUaro 1615—Colno Valley, Lewisham Hotel, Slaithwaite 1349—Frip-s, Liverpool Arms, Canning Town, at 7.30 (Instruction) 1092—Hervey, George Hotel, Hayes 1360—Royal Arthur, Rock Tavern, Battersca Park Road, at 8. (Instruction) 1903—Princo Edward of Saxe Weimar, Masonic Hall, Portsmouth 1331—Kennington , The Horns, Kennington. (Instruction) R.A. 200—Old Globe, Londesborough Rooms, Scarborough 1446—Mount Edgcumbe, 19 Jermyn-street, S.W., at 8 (Instruction) R.A. 369—Limeston Hock, Swan and Royal Hotel, Clitheroo 11"1—Islington , Champion, Aldersgate Street, at 7, (Instruction) R.A. 409—Stortford, Chequers Inn , Bishop's Stortford 1472—Henley, Three Crowns, Woolwich R.A. 625—Devonshire, Norfolk Arms Hotel, GIossop 1540—Chaucer, Old White Hart, Borough High Street, at 8. (Instruction) M.M. 36—Furness, Hartington Hotel, Duke-street, Barrow-in-Furness 1601—Ravensbourne , George Inn, Lewisham, at 7.30 (Instruction) M.M. 56—Temperance, Masonic Hall, Todmortlen 1695—New Finsbury Park, Hornsey Wood Tavern, Finsbury Park, at 8 (Inst) 1707—Eleanor , Trocadero , Broad-streot-buildings, Liverpool-street, 6.30 (Inst) 1949—Brixton, Prince Regent Dnlwich-road, East Brixton, at 8. (Instruction) THUESDAY, 4th SEPTEMBEB. Metropolitan Chapter of Improvement, Jamaica Coffee House, Cornhill , 6.30, 27—Egyptian, Hercules Tavern, Leadenhall-street, E.C, at 7.30 (Instruction R.A.—Camden, The Boston, Junction Road, Holloway, at 8 (Instruction) 87—Vitrnvian, White Hart, College-ntreet, Lambeth, at 8 (Instruction) R.A. 1365—Clapton , White Hart Tavern, Clapton, at 8. (Instruction) 117—Justice, Brown Bear, High Street, Deptford, at 8. (Instruction) M.M. 1—St. Mark's, Freemasons' Tavern , W.C. 435—Salisbury, Union Tavern, Air-street, Regent-street, W., at 8 (Inst.) 701—Camden , Lincoln's Ini Restanmfc, 305 High Holborn, at 7 (Instruction) 70—St. John, Huysho Masonic Temple, Plymouth 75-1 -High Cross, Coach and Horses, Lower Tottenham, at 8 (Instruction) 103—Beaufort , Freemasons' Hall, Bristol. 901—City of London, Jamaica Coffee House, Cornhill, at 6.30. (Instruction) 120—Palladian, Green Dragon Hotel , Hereford. 1155—Excelsior , Sydney Arms, Lewisham-road 124—Marquis of Granby, Freemasons' Hall, Old Elvet , Durham 1158—Southern Star, Pheasant, Stangate, Westminster-bridge, at 8 (Inst.) 126—Silent Temple, Cross Keys Inn, Burnley 1178 -Perfect Ashlar, Bridge House Hotel, Sonthwark 158—Adams, Masonic Rooms, Victoria Hall, Trinity-road , Sheerness 1 1185—Lewis, Kings Arms Hotel, Wood Green, at 7 (Instruction) 226—Benevolence, Red Lion Hotel, Littleborough; 1339—Stockwell, Cock Tavern, Konnington-road, at 7.30 (Instruction) 1360— Royal Arthur, Village Club Lecture Hall, Wimbledon 1126—The Great City, Masons' Hall. Masons' Avenue, B.C., at 6.30 (Inst.) SATUBDAY , 6th SEPTEMBEB. 1^15—Prince Leopold , Three Nuns Hotel, Aldgate, E. General Ccnraittee Boys* School , Freemasons' Hall , at 4 X55S—D. Connaught, Palmerstou Arms, Urosveuor Park, Camberwell, at 8 (Iu) 198—Percy. Jolly Farmers', Southirate Road, N.. 8. (Instruction) 1614-Covent Garden, Bedford Head Hotel , Maideu Lauo, W.C, at 8. (Inst.) 1275— Star, Five Bells, 155 New Cross-road. 8. R.. at 7. (Instruction) 16£i— Rose, Stirling Castle Hotel. Church Street , Cainborwell. (Instruction) 136 (— Karl of Zetland , Royal Edward. Triangle, Hackney, at 7. (Instruction) 167*—Langtou , Mansion House Sta^iou KesUuratit , K.C. at 6, (Instruction) 1621 - I'Vvles'nn . Crown and Anchor, 71) Klmr .v Street, S.W\, at 7 (Instruction) 1677—Uru-ailers, Old Jerusalem Tuv., St. Jolm's Gate, Clerkenwell , at 9 (Inst.) 2012—Chiswick , Hampshire Hog. King Street, Hammersmith , W. (Instruct.) 1744—Royal Savoy, Yorkshire (Jrey, Lomloa Street, W., at & (Instruction) Sinai Chapter of Improvement, Union, Air-stre«t, tteapnt-street, W., at 8 1950—Southgate, Railway Hotel, New Sonthgate R.A. 975—Roso of Denmark , Star and Garter , Kew Bridge B.A. 763—Prince Frederick William, Lord 's Hotel , St. John's Wood, at 8. (In.) R.A. 13S1—Kennington, Surrey Ulub Hotol, Kaiitiiugton Oval 119—Peace, Private Rooms, Meltham B.A. 1471—North London, Alwyne Castle Tavern , St. Paul's Road, Canonbury. 308—Prince George, Private Rooms, Bottoms, Eastwood at 8; (Instruction) J 1323—Amherst, King's Arms Hotel , Westorhara. Kent B.A. 1716—All Saints, Vestry Hall, Fairfield Road, Bow 1362—Royal Albert Edward , Market Hall, Rcdhill M.M. 199—Duke of Connaught, Haverlock, Albion-rd„ Dalston, at 8. (Inst.) 1458—Truth, Private Rooms. Conservative Club, Newton Heath, Manchester M.M. 14—Prince Edward's, Station Hotel, Stansfield , Todraorden 24—Newcastle-on-Tyne, Freemasons' Hall, Grainger-st., Newcastle 38—Union, Council Chamber, Chichester 116—Royal Lancashire, Swan Hotel , Colne 123—Lennox, Freemasons' Hall, Richmond, Yorkshire 208—Three Grand Principles, Masonic Hall, Dewsbury 249—Mariners, Masonio Hall, Liverpool 254—Trinity, Craven Arms Hotel, Coventry 266—Napthali, Masonic Hall, Market-place. Hnra^ NOTICES OF MEETINGS. 269—fidelity, White Bull Hotel, Blackburn 275-Harmony, Masonic Hall, South Parade, Huddersfleld 2»3-Amity, Swan Hotel, Market-place, HaslmBden Prosperity Lodge of Instruction , No. 65.—A meeing 289-Fiuelity, Masonio HaU, Carlton-hill, Leeds was held on Tuesday, 26th inst., at Bro. Maidwell's, Horcnles aW-Constitutional, Assemoly Rooms, Beverley Vork<» Tavern, Leadenhall-street. Present—Bro3. Rich. W.M., Hayes S.W., 295-Gqmbermere Union, Maco'esfieid Arms, Macolesfleld 3l)0-Minerva, Pitt and Nelson, Ashton-uiidw-LynB Walker (Hon. Sec.) J.W., Dyson S.D., Pitt I. G., Moss Preceptor ; 309—Harmony, Rea Lion, Fareham ' also Bros. Daniel, Roberts, Sohweitzer, Maun, Weil, Harris, Schadler. 317—Attability, Freemasons* Hall, CooDer.«i-r«><^ \r<,„„v»„»„ After preliminaries 337-Candonr, New Masonic , Lodge was opened in the second dogroo. Bro. Boo^gK^'^Sf'""**'l a ulaioworth - Daniel answered the 341-Wellington, Cinque Ports Hotel j&£ "' ' questions leading to the third, and being entrusted, was duly raised to the degree of M.M. Bro. Haynes waa elected W.M. for the ensuing week. Nothing further offering, Lodge ^8-St. Peter, Star and Garter was closed, and adjourned. This being the fifth meeting of the Hotel Wolverhampton second Prosperity Charity Aim—Cestrian , Grosvenor Hotel, Chester Association, the brethren proceeded to Tie—Benevolent, Town Hall, Wells, Somersetshire. ballot for the fifth Life Governorshi p of ten guineas, which proved 2S-Cecil, San Hotel, Hitohin in favour of Bro. Mason, Collector to the Royal Masonio Benevolent ^-Foresters, White Hart Hotel, Uttoxeter Institution. 462—Bank Terrace, Hargreaves Arms Hote1, Accrington 463—East Surrey of Concord , Greyhound, Croydon. 509—Tees, Freemasons' Hall, Stockton, Durham. 639—St. Matthew, Dragon Hotel, Walsall. Justice Lodg e of Instru ction , No. 147 — On Thursday 83B_Ogle. Masonio Hnll, Morpeth last, at the Brown Bear, High Street, Deptforrl ; fJ ros. Banks WM.., o37_Portland, Masonic Rooms, Town Hall, Stoke-npon-Trent. J. Bedford Williams S.W., 669—Blagdon, Ridley Arms Hotel, Blyth Pitt J.W., Speisht P.M. Secretary, Catfc 685—Northumberland, Assembly Rooms, Westgate-road, Newcastl S.D., Coen J.D., Penrose I.G. ; P.M.'s Hatchings (Preceptor) , Good, 792—Pelham Pillar, Masonio Hall, Bullring-lane , Great Grimsby and G. Bolton j Bros. Lewis, Prior, &o. Tho work of the evening , 974—Pentalpha, New Masonic Hall Darley-street, Bradford comprised the rehearsal of the ceremony of initiation, Bro. Lewis 976—Royal Clarence, Blue Ball, Bruton, Somerset candidate. After routine work, Lodge was closed in due form. 1074—Underley, Masonic Room, Market-place, Kirkby Lonsdale 1088—Royal Edward, Commercial Inn, Stalybridge 1125—St. Peter, Masonic Hall, Tiverton, Devon 1164—Eliot , Private Rooms, St. German's, Cornwall. Kingsland Lodge of Instructi on, No. 1693.—A meet. 1182—Duke of Edinburgh, Masonic Hall, Liverpool, at 7.30. (Instruction) ing was Leld on Monday, at the Cook Tavern, Highbury, N. Bros. 1231—Savile , Royal Hotel, Elland Western W.M., 1282—Ancholme , Foresters' Hall, Brigg, Lin colnshire Weeden S.W., Turner J.W., Forge Treasurer, Colling, 1284—Brent , Globe Hotel, Topsham, Devonshire ridge Secretary, Woodman S.D., Parks J.D., Ware I.G. After 138-1—Equity, Alforde Chambers, Widnes preliminaries, the ceremony of installation was rehearsed by 1473—Bootle, Town Hall, Bootle, Lancashire Brother Crosbie 1600-Walpole, Bell Hotel, Norwich , Brother Western being candidate. The brethren 1504—Red Rose of Lancaster, Starkie's Arms Hotel, Padiham, near Burnley saluted in the various degrees, and after Brother Western had 1613—Friendly, King's Head Hotel, Barnsley invested the Officers, Bro. Crosbie gave the addresses in a capital 1680—Cranbourne, Red Lion Hotel, Hatfield , Herts, at 8. (Instruction) manner. Bro. Weeden was elected W.M. for next Monday. After 1587—St. Giles, Royal Oak Hotel, Cheadle 1594—Cedewavn ,.Public Rooms. Newtown, Montgomeryshire the Lodge had been closed, some harmony was indulged in, Bros. 1790—Old England, Masonic Hall, New Thornton Heath Collins and Wright accompanying the varions singers. 1807—Loyal Wye, Builth, Breconshire 1829—Barrel!, George Hotel, Shoreham R.A. 325—St. John, Freemasons' Hall, Islington-square, Salford R.A. 384—St. John, Bnlls Head Inn, Bolton HOME POLITENESS.—A boy who is polite to his father and mother R.A. 768—Bridgwater, Freemasons' Hall, Runcorn, Cheshire is likely to be polite to every one else. A boy lacking politeness to R.A. 1235—Phoenix of St. Ann, Court Hotel, Buxton his parents may R.A. 1393—Hamer , Masonic Hall, Liverpool have the semblance of courtesy in society, bnt is M.M. 63—Britannia, Freemasons' Hall, Sheffield never truly polite in spirit, and is in danger, ns he becomes familiar, of betraying his real want of courtesy. We are all in danger of FBIDAY , 5th SEPTEMBEB. living too much for the ontside world, for the impression whioh we Metropolitan Masonic Benevolent Association, 155 Fleet-street, E.C. at 8.30. make in sooiety coveting the good opinions of those who are about us Emnlation Lodge of Improvement , Freemasons' Hall , at 7. in the social world, and who continue to sustain and be interested in 26—Robert Burns, The North Pole, 115 Oxford-street, W., at 8 (Instrnc.) us, notwithstanding these defects of deportment and oharaoter. We 144—St. Luke, White Hart, King's-road, Chelsea, at 7.30. (Instruction) 607—United Pilgrims, Surrey Masonic Hall, Camberwell , at 7.30. (Instruct.) say to every boy and to every girl, cultivate habits of courtesy and 766—William Preston, St. Andrew's Tavern, George St., Baker St., at 8. (In ) propriety at home—in the sitting-room and kitohen, as well as the 834—Ranelagh, Six Bells, Hammersmith (Instruction) parlour—and you will be sure in other s Head, 79 Whitechapel-road , at 8. (Instruction) places to deport yourselves in 933—Doric, Duke' a becoming and attractive manner. When one has a pleasant smile 1066—Metropolitan, Portugal Hotel, Fleet-street, E.C. at 7. (Instruction) and graceful demeanour it is a satisfaction to know that these are 1160—Belgrave, Jermyn-street, S.W., at 8. (Instruction) 1275—Star , Ship Hotel, Greenwich not put on, but that) they belong to the character, are manifest at all 1298—Royal Standard, Alwyne Cavtie, St. Paul's-road, Canonbury, at 8. (In.) times and under all circumstances.—Freemasons ' Repository. 1365—Clapton , White Hart, Lower Clapton, at 7.30. (Instruction) 1642—E. Carnarvon, Ladbroke Hall, Notting Hill, at 8. (Instruction) 1789—Ubique, Guardsman Army Coffee Tavern, Buckingham Palace-road, S.W., at 7.30. (Instruction) The " Freemasons' Calendar and Pocket Book " for 1884 1815—Penge , Thicket Hotel, Anerley 1901—Selwyn , East Dulwich Hotel, East Dulwich. (Instruction) can be had at the Grand Secretary's Office , Freemasons' R.A.—Panmure C. of Improvement, Stirling Castle, Church Street, Camberwell Hall, London, price 2s, bonnd in roan. R.A. 79—Pythagorean. Portland Hotel. London-street, Greenwich. (Inst.) B.A. 1499—Ezra , 90 Ball's Pond-road, N M.M.—Old Kent, Crown and Cushion, London Wall, E.C. (Instruction) 41—Friendship, Freemasons' Hall, Cooper-street, Manchester 81—Doric , Private Room, Woodbridge , Suffolk. " IT SAVED MY LIFE, 219—Prudence, Masonic Hall, Todmortlen. For tho fever had obtained a strong hold on me. In a few days I was quite 242—St. George, Guildhall, Doncaster. well." This extract from a letter of C. Fitzgerald refers to 306—Alfred , Masonic Hall, Kelsall-street, Leeds , Esq., 401—Royal Forest, Hark to Bounty Inn, Slaidburn 442—St. Peter, Masonic Hall, Peterborough LAMPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE, 453—Chigwell , Loughton Tavern, Station Road, Loughton, at 7.30 (Inst) Which is Effervescent and Tasteless, forming a most Invigorating, Vitalising, 460—Sutherland of Unity, Castle Hotel, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Refreshing Draught. 621—Truth , Freemasons' Hall, Fitzwilliam-street, Huddersfield. Drs. PROUT, MORGAN, TURLE Y, GIBBON, SPARKS, DOWSING, CARR 652—Holme Valley, Victoria Hotel, Holmfirth JACKSON, STEVENS, and many other Medical Gentlemen , have given un- 837—De Grey and Ripon, Town Hall , Ripon qualified testimony to the importance of the discovery and the immense value of 839—Royal Gloucestershire, Bell Hotel, Gloucester 1034— Eccleshill. Freemasons' Hall, Eccleshill THIS GREAT REMEDY, 1096—Lord Warden, Wellington Hal l, Deal possessing elements most essential for the restoration and 1143—Royal Denbigh, Council Room, Denbigh maintenance of Health, with perfect Vigour of Body and Mind. 1333—Athelstan , Town Hall, Atherstone, Warwick . fasGives instant relief in Headache, Sea or Bilious Sickness, 1387—Chorlton , Masonic Rooms, Chorlton Cum Hardy Constipation, Indigestion, Lassitude, Heartburn, 1393—Hamer , Masonic Hall, Liverpool, at 8. (Instnc'tion) and Feverish Colds; prevents and quickly cures the worst 1628—Fort. Masonic Hall, Newquay, Corn wall. form of Typhus, Scarlet, and other Fevers; Smallpox, 1657—Albert Edward, Bush Hotel, Hexham. Measles, and Eruptive or Skin Complaints, and various }™1—Morecambe, Masonic Hall, Edward-street, Morocamba, Lancashire. other altered conditions of the blood. }SS~~Prince of Wales, Freemasons' Hall, Salem-3treet , Bradford. i«6l—Gosforth , Freemasons' Hall, High-street, Gosforth In Patent OIass-StOj>pci'e, GLXUmAX. At 10.30, CHATTF.RTON. RiPBHins »BOM "THB FBSSMASOS 'S CHBONICIB." ALHAMBRA.—At 7.15 BLACK EYF.'D SEE-TJSAN, &c. ADELPHI —At 7.15, TURN HIM OUT. At 8.0 IN THE RANKS. OF PORTRAITS LIST . HAYMARKET.-At a, THE WATERMAN. At 8.45, EVERGREEN. 1 Or» LITHUBV BBOTHH . 17 THB CHBISTUJT M INISTBB . i A DISTINQCISHBD MASON. 18 THB MYSTIC . STRAND —At 7.30, SUNSHINE. At 8.15, OUR BOYS. 3 Tsm MAH ov ENBBOV . 19 A MODBL M ASON. 4 FATHBB TIMS. 20 A CHIP VHOM JO PPA . GAIETY.—At 7.10, TO OBLIGE BENSON. 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