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Board Of Benevolence.

BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE .

THE Board of Benevolence met on Wednesday , 23 rd ult ., at Freemasons' Hall , and in the absence of the President Bro . Eobert Grey Bro . D . D . Mercer Senior Yice-President took the chair , the Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents' positions being occupied by Bro . 0 . A . Cofctebrune and Bro . James Boulton . The Grand Secretary , the Assistant Grand Secretary , Bros . W .

Dodd and Eecknell represented the office of Grand Secretary , and the elected members of the Board , and those who by Grand rank were entitled to be present were Bros . William Vincent ,

Henry Garrod , George B . Chapman , William Pentiman Smithson , W . J . Mason , S . V . Abraham , George E . Langley , William Fisher , Eobert A . Gowan , Thomas Webb Whitmarsh , Gen . Gadsden , W . Kipps and James Bunker .

The Masters and Past Masters of Lodges who attended were Bros . Henry Smith Syer , William Moulder , George Powell , James Linzell , Edward E . Eansom , W . E . Sutton , H . Massey , Frank Evans , T . H . Hobbs , Thomas Bugler , G . Wakefield , C . J . Banner , J . E . Johnson , B . Sadler Wood , James Eutherford , G . M . Ooxon , F . H . Barker , and E . H . Winfrey .

There was only one confirmation of a recommendation to the Grand Master at the former meeting to be made , and this having been done the Board considered twenty-four new casesa short list . This the Brethren disposed of in two hours and a

half , and made a total grant of £ 555 . One petitioner was recommended to Grand Lodge for a grant of £ 100 , and one for £ 75 . The Grand Master was asked to approve of £ 40 being given in two cases , and £ 30 in four cases . The sum of £ 20 was granted to each of eight petitioners , and £ 10 to each of two .

The Anti- Masonic Congress.

THE ANTI- MASONIC CONGRESS .

THE Vienna correspondent of the " Standard , telegraphing on Sunday night , says the Congress , which is to last five days , was opened on Saturday iu Trent . The participators are chiefly clerical , and the attendance is much smaller than was expected , amounting only to about five hundred . The lay

members belong almost exclusively to the Austrian , German , and Italian nobility . Prince Lowenstein was elected President , and Count Paganuzi Vice President . The Bishop of Trent , in an address of welcome , expressed a hope that the work of the Congress would prove as beneficial to Christendom and the

Church as the great Council of Trent itself . After the Brief of the Pope and several letters of approval had been read , speeches were delivered by Monsignor Smorezynski and the Bishop of Lugano , on the pernicious work of Freemasonry , and the first general sitting came to an end .

In the afternoon , sittings of the four Sections were held . The fourth Section , which is engaged in a consideration of Anti-Masonic action , resolved on International organisation against

Freemasonry , with a centre in Eome , and on a propaganda with a view of enlightening the public as to the nature of Freemasonry , by books and public meetings . Medals and prizes will also be given for the best essays on the sabjeot .

The President of the Central Committee , Commendatore Alliata , welcomed the delegates , says the " Daily Telegraph , " and concluded by calling for three cheers for the Pope , and the

Emperor Francis Joseph . These were heartily given , and the Congress subsequently despatched telegrams of loyal devotion to his Holiness and the Emperor . It was decided that the deliberations should be conducted in French and Italian .

The Comte de Mun has addressed a long letter to the French Organisation Committee of the Anti-Masonic Congress to be held at Trent . He regrets that he will be prevented by pressing engagements previously made from taking part in the Congress , but he assures the Committee that he is in cordial agreement

with its object . The struggle against Freemasonry he does not hesitate to declare presses as a public necessity not only upon Catholics , but upon all who are desirous of preserving religious belief and the bases of moral and social order . He thinks that Masonry has already thrown down the mask and stands as the

avowed enemy to Catholicism . Its all-permeating influence , open and secret , can only be counteracted by counter Christian influences equally widespread . Nothing better could be conceived for the determination and spread of these counter influences than an International Anti-Masonic Congress , such as it is designed

to hold at Trent . It will bring into light the international and destructive aims of Freemasonry , which is the enemy not only of Christianity , but also of civilisation itself , by its appeal for

independence from all supernatural law . Catholics , by partaking in the Congress , will range themselves alongside with the utterances of the Popes against Masonry . By arresting its march they will perform a social work of the greatest use . — " Tablet . "

There is a good deal of gossip about the Anti-Masonic Congress at Trent , which might have been recorded as a mere speck on the horizon if its mission had not been aided by the blundering of the Grand Orient of France . The French Masonic Lodges are evidently losing the traditions of the great Craft

which , though not impeccable , has been the greatest benevolent association since the Great Revolution . Interference in religious matters in the sense of aggressive and doctrinal atheism caused a split with the Lodges of other countries . And now this has been capped by the transformation of the Lodges into political

agencies . From a Masonic point of view , all this is downright heresy , and it is not surprising to find French Ministers who are good Masons bub who absolutely decline to accept the dicta of their Brethren in politics and in the giving of places . The

Anti-Masonic Congress would have had no arguments outside the usual reactionary shibboleths about secret societies . The Grand Orient of France has given it a chance to prove its case . — " Sunday Times . "

The organisers of the Anti-Masonic Congress seem to be disappointed with the result . It was a promising idea . Upon the one hand , are swarming millions of Freemasons , uncounted , but a prodigious host ; on the other , devout Catholics , perhaps

as numerous , who regard the Society as representative of Anti-Christ . Between the two , surely , a mighty gathering could be collected , such as would draw the notice of the universe , and strike terror into heretics in general . The Freemasons would come , because everybody likes to be present when he is cursed ;