Quarterly Communication Of Grand Lodge.

QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION OF GRAND LODGE .

GRAND Lodgo will meet on Wednesday next , 6 th June 1877 . Tho following is the business to be transacted : — 1 . The Minutes of tho Quarterly Communication of the 7 th March for confirmation .

2 . Tho Minutes of the Grand Festival of tho 25 th April for con firmation . 3 . Election of Membera of the Board of General Purposes .

4 . Election of Members of the Colonial Board . 5 . Election of Members for tho Committee of Management of the " Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons . "

6 . Report of the Lodge of Benevolence for the last quarter , in which are recommendations for the following grants , viz .: — Tho Widow of a Brother of the Lodgo of Virtuo and Silence , No . 332 , Haclloigh £ 75 A Brother of the Lodgo of Friendship , No . 20 G , London ... £ 100

The Widow of a Brother of the Old Dundee Lodge , No . 18 , London ... ... ... ... ... .. ... £ 150 The Widow of a Brother of tho Burlington Loclgo , No . 96 , London £ 100

A Brother of tho Fitz-Roy Lodge , No . 5 G 9 , London £ 50 A Brother of the Polish National Lodge , No . 531 , London £ 50 A Brother of tho Neptune Lodgo . No . 22 , London ... ... £ 150 The Widow of a Brother of tho Welchpool Lodge , No . 998 ,

Welchpool £ 100 A Brother of the Nyanza Lodge , No . 1197 , Ilminster ... £ 75 Tho Widow of a Brother of the British Kaffrarian Lodge , No . 863 , Port Elizabeth , Cape of Good Hope £ 50

7 . REPORT OF THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES . To the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England . ( 1 . ) It having been represented to the Board that a Brother had been raised to the third degree in twenty-fivs days only after having

passed to the second degree , tho circumstances were fully enquirer into , and , in result , it was ordered that tho Brother be ro-obligatcd and the Lodge ( No . 529 ) lined ono guinea , and admonished to bo moro careful in future .

( 2 . ) A complaint having been laid boforo the Board , alleging that a candidate had been initiated into Masonry by tho W . Master of Lodge No . 820 , whose name aud description had not previously appeared in the Lodgo Summons , as enjoined by the Book of Constitutions , such candidate being afterwards passed to tho second degree

in the face of a protest , the Lodge was duly summoned to appear before the Board by its Master and Wardens , with the Lodgo Warrant and Books , and after tho complaining Past Masters had been heard , as also the W . Master , I . P . Master and other Members , the Board arrived unanimously at the conclusion that not only was the Masonio

offence fully proved , but so unsatisfactory a condition of things was found to exist in the Lodgo , that the Board suspended it from all its Masonio functions for the space of six months , and directed that the candidate in question should be regularly initiated and passed before being entitled to Masonic position and privileges .

( 3 . ) Tho Board of General Purposes further report that the number of tho Trustees of tho real property of Grand Lodgo , originally ten , has become , by death and resignation , reduced to four , and the Board recommend that tho original number be made up by Grand Lodgo , and that it be referred back to the Board to take tho necesi » ry steps for vesting in them the real property of Grand Lodgo .

( Signed ) JOHN B . MONCKTON , President . FREEMASONS' HALL , LONDON , 16 th May 1877 . At the Meeting of the 16 th May , after the ordinary business was concluded , it was proposed , seconded , and carried unanimously , that the best thanks of tho Members of tho Board are eminently merited by the President for the great attention he has paid to tho duties of the office , for the admirable manner in which ho has discharged them , and the great courtesy and kindness he has on all occasions evinced to his colleagues , and they aro therefore fraternally tendered to him .

( Signed ) PETER DE LANDE LONG , Vice-President . To tho Report ia subjoined a statement of the Grand Lodge Accounts at the last Meeting of tho Finance Committee , held on

Friday , the 11 th day of May instant , showing a balance in tho hands of tbe Grand Treasurer of £ 5 , 035 3 s 5 d ; and in the hands of the Grand Secretary , for potty cash , £ 75 ; and for servants' wacres , £ 96 15 a .

8 . Appeal of Bro . John Locke , W . Master of the Royal Prince of Wales' Lodge , No . 867 , Trinidad , against a sentence of expulsion from the Craft , pronounced upon him , and tho erasure of the Lodge , by the District Grand Lodge of Trinidad .

N . B . —The papers relating to this Appeal will be in the Grand Secretary ' s Office till the Meeting of Grand Lodge , and open for the inspection of the Brethren during Office hours . _ 9 . The Annual Report of tho Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for A ged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons , dated the

Quarterly Communication Of Grand Lodge.

17 th of May 1877 , will bo laid before Grand Lodge , and the following proposed alteration in tho Rules which waa then agreed to will , in accordance with the Laws of tho Institution , bo submitted for the approval of lhaiul Lodge , viz .: — To add t <> Lavr 1 , pau'o 15 , after the words " husband ' s petition " tho following : — "And iu tho event of a Widow marrying again and being again left a Widow , she ahull atill bo eligible to bj a candidate . "

10 . Proposed motion by W . Bro . Benjamin Head P . G . D . : — That tho sum of £ 70 bo given from tho Fund of General Purposes ; that the money bo placed in the hands of the Secretary of the - ' Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons , " to sppply tho residents of tho Iustitutiou afc Croydon with coals during tho winter season .

Red Cross Of Constantine.

RED CROSS OF CONSTANTINE .

CONSECRATION OF THE EBORACUM CONCLAVE , No . 137 .

ON Tnesday last , at York , took place tho very interesting cero . mony of consecration of a Conclave of an Order whose traditional origin may bo said to bo intimately blended with tho early history of tho quondam " Capital of tho North . " Early iu January of this year preliminary steps were taken by a few brethren residing in York , and a warrant having been obtained from the Grand Council , active efforts wero made to sret tho Conclave into working order .

Committees were appointed for the purpose of making preparations , and " Royal Oak Day " having been appointed aa tho dato of consecration , everything was in order when the time arrived . It happened , rather unfortunately , that tho consecration of the new Masonio Hall , at Grimsby , had been fixed for the samo day , and tho consequence was that several members of the Red Cross Order , belonging to tho

De la Pole Conclave , at Hull , who had previously accepted invitations to Grimsby , were debarred from being present . Notwithstanding this circumstance , however , there was a very good muster on tha occasion , and the ceremonies passed off most favourably . A party of Sir Knights from Sheffield , including III . Sir Knt . S . B . Ellis , Intondant General unattached , and several other members of

tho White Rose of York Conclave , arrived in York by an early tram , and were received at tho Masonio Rooms , Queen's Hotel , by E . Sir Knt . T . B . Whytohead , under whose guidance thoy spent somo hours in viewing the moro interesting of the archaeological relics which aro so numerous in tho ancient city . The Guildhall , a very lino old Gothic hall , erected in 11-46 , and which was used by the Freemasons

on the occasion of the installation of tho present Earl of Zetland as Prov . Grand Master of North and East Yorkshire , in 1874 , was first visited , after which the party proceeded to tho Yorkshire Philosophical Society ' s Gardens , and inspected tha ruins of St . Leonard's Hospital , founded by Athelstano ( of Masonio fame ) , in 936 , and rebuilt by King Stephen . Portions of tho walls of ancient Eboracum afforded

much interest , and the ruins of the Abbey of St . Mary , with the innumerable specimens of Masons' marks to bo found on its atones , were greatly admired . The large collection of antiquities , and the geological collections of the Society , were not unnoticed , as well as the picturesque old palace erected by Henry VIII ., and now used as a school for the blind . Thence , proceeding through Bootham Bar ,

tho premises belonging to tho York Lodge , No . 236 , in Dnncombe-street , were visited . The interior of the Lodgo room , with its handsome decorations and appropriate arrangements , was the source of much admiration , and an examination of the largo collection of Masonic engravings , & c , the property of the Lodge , occupied somo little time . The noble Chnrch of St . Peter of York

was the next object of attraction , and tho party there visited tho ancient crypt , where the old operative Masons used to hold their Lodges , and -where tho remains of the old Saxon and Norman Churches , over which is erected the present Gothic pile , havo been opened out for the benefit of the student of architecture ; the unrivalled octagon Chapter House was also visited , and the party then

passed through the ancient Ecclesiastical College of St . William , erected in the reign of Edward IV ., and so to Monk Bar , tho aueiont barrier at the eastern entrance of the city , whence , proceeding * through Goodramgate , the site of tho palaco of tho Emperor Constantino , tho Merchants' Hall in Fossgato was reached ; it was in tho handsome and quaint meeting-room of this Ancient Corporation of

MerchantAdventnrers thatFrancis Drake the historian , as JuniorG . W ., gave hia ovation , since reprintol , at a Grand Lodge on St . John ' s Day , tho 27 th December 1726 , the Right Worshipful Charles Bathurat Esq . Grand Master . At Walmgato Bar the ancient ontwork or barbican was the subject of much curiosity , together with the old gates and portcullis , which aro still in existence . Thence tho party proceeded ,

by way of the old city walls , dating about tho time of Edward I ., to St . George ' s Fields , on their way gaining a view of Clifford ' s Tower , erected by William tho Norman , as tho keep of the Castle of York . Crossing the river , the walla were again tho route adopted , and a few minutes' walk brought the party to Micklegate-bar , the finest of the

four chief gateways , and the arch of which is of Roman construction . Thus tho circuit of tho City was completed , and an adjournment was made to lunch , at the Queen ' s Hotel . At threo p . m . the Conclave was opened , by V . I . Sir Knight the Hon . W . T . Orde-Powlett , E . Sir Knight Roddewig M . P . S . 120 acfcimr as E . V . E . III . Sir Knt . S . B . Ellis as Grand

Marshal , and other Knights from Hull and Sheffield occupying tho several offices . Five candidates for the Order , having previously been elected , wero then duly installed , and proclaimed Knights of the Order in ancient form . A procession was then formed in tho antechamber , aud the ceremony of consecration was proceeded with . At its completion , B , Sir Knt . T . B . Whitehead aud E . Sir Knt . Thos ,