Consecration.

CONSECRATION .

HUMPHREY GHETHAM CHAPTER .

THE Humphrey Chetham Chapter of Knights of the Pelican and Eagle , and Sovereign Princes Eose Croix of H . E . D . M ., was consecrated at theFreemasons' Hall , Manchester , on Monday , the 24 th ult . The following among others signed the attendance book : — Col . Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie , C . E . N . Bestwicke-Eoyds

Impl . Gen . N . W . Dist ., Frank Eichardson S . C ., J . H . Matthews , A . B . Cook , J . C . Hay Gr . See . Gen ., 33 ° ; Sir G . D . Harris G . D . of C , 32 ° ; Arthur Henry Jefferis M . W . S .-designate P . M .

W . S . No . 31 , 30 ° ; J . H . Sillitoe Prelate-designate , Arthur Middleton P . M . W . S . St . Peters , No . 31 , John E . Lees 1 st Gen .-designate , W . B . Akerman 2 nd Gen .-designate , Thomas Plumpton , 18 ° .

Visitors : —Bros . J . H . Calvert and Abm . Clegg , Palatine ' , No . 7 ; E . G . Harwood P . M . W . S ., and Jas . Newton , St . Peters , 31 ; Ed . Newhouse P . M . W . S . ( Cheshire ) , Thos . Forrester , G . A . Myers , A . B . Lamm , Thos . Wilde Eice , T . E . Wilkinson , and W . Cockcroft , Crawford , No . 114 .

The Chapter is under the Supreme Council 33 ° of the Ancient and Accepted Bite for England and Wales and Dependencies of the British Crown , the Founders being Bros . A . H . Jefferis E . and P ., J . H . Sillitoe , J . E . Lees , A . Middleton , W . B . Akerman , Thos . Plumpton , and J . M . Sinclair 18 ° P . M .

W . S . These Brethren , together with the members of the Supreme Council , having signified their approval of the undermentioned ten candidates , they were duly perfected , viz ., Bros .

W . Brookes 1009 , E . Williams 325 , F . Armstrong 325 , Geo . S . Smith 1134 , Buckley Carr 1161 , I . E . A . Gotz 645 , W . A . Boyer 2554 , Wm . Charlton , J . P ., 2554 , A . C . K . Smith 2554 , and John Stanley Derbyshire 1565 .

Brother A . H . Jefferis was the M . W . S .-designate , and his installation into the chair , as well as the ceremony of consecration , was performed by members of the Supreme Council , who were subsequently elected honorary members of the Chapter . The

newly-inducted M . W . S . having appointed and invested his Officers , the business of the Chapter was shortly afterwards brought to a close , and the company , numbering over thirty , adjourned to a recherche banquet , which had been provided under the direction of Bro . Phillips .

Proposed New Lodge At Bedale.

PROPOSED NEW LODGE AT BEDALE .

ON Monday , 17 th ult ., at a meeting of the Anchor Lodge , Dr . J . S . Walton W . M . P . P . G . S . B . presiding , a petition was laid before the members from seven Brethren in the Bedale district , who are desirous of forming a new Lodge , to be called the Beresford-Peirse Lodge , to be held at Bedale . On the motion of Bro . C . Palliser P . M . P . P . G . S . ofW ., seconded by Bro .

Dr . Tweedy P . M ., the petition was approved of , and the W . M and Wardens of the Anchor Lodge were directed to sign it on behalf of the Lodge , while the hope was expressed that the Provincial Grand Master would recommend the granting of a charter .

It seems that there are disadvantages as well as advantages in being a Freemason . A certain old salt , who has crossed the deep many times these last twenty years as master of an Allan liner , has lost a bride and money through his connection with the Craft . He fell in love with a bashful young maiden of 30

and a marriage was arranged . She objected to his religion , for he was a Protestant and she of the Bornan faith , but this difficulty was satisfactorily on the way to settlement when , to her horror , the lady discovered that her lover was a Freemason . Passionately the sea-captain protested that he was not much of

a Mason , that he had not been to a Lodge these twenty years , and anyhow he took only one degree , and that did not make a proper Mason . The lady would not listen . Freemasonry was unholy , begirt with unknown but sinister rites , and never should it be said than an O'SulJivan , of Kilmallock , in County Cork , had allied herself with a believer in the hated cult . The captain

called God to witness that he was broken-hearted , and sued the lady for £ 500 , for breach of promise . The lady estimated her charms at sixpence , and paid that amount into court . Now' the nautical Mason with the broken heart and the lady with the sixpenny charms are at issue , and it is expected that there will be fun . — " Southampton Echo . "

OLD Books and Curiosities relating to Freemasonry , Knights Templars Kosicrucians or other Secret Societies wanted . Address , W . W . Morgan , New Barnet .

The Romish Church And Freemasonry.

THE ROMISH CHURCH AND FREEMASONRY .

THE following is part of a letter addressed to the " Bournemouth Observer " : One who becomes a Mason takes an oath in God's name to keep the secrets of Masonry under the sanction of the penalty of death . There is a cheerful variety as to the mode of torture differing with the different grades . But the sanction is death in some form . Dr . White cannot deny this fact . Now , I argue that , if a Mason were to violate the secrets , and . if ( though

unlikely in England ) a fellow Mason , being deputed , were to inflict the penalty , the latter would be adjudged by the law of the land guilty of a crime , and , if caught , would be hanged as a criminal ; for he could not shield himself behind a sanction which the law does not recognise . One , therefore , who exposes himself , by taking the oath , to having the penalty of death

inflicted upon him by a fellow Mason , is an accomplice , by his own consent , in the crime of this criminal . An English Mason may say with a smile : " It is a mere form ; the penalty would not be exacted , if the oath were violated a hundred times . " I daresay it is so ; but this only transforms a participation in what is held by the law to be an intended crime into a reckless profanity by tossing about God's name in a childest mockery .

I put this dilemma to Dr . White , and ask him to justify the morality of the case in logical form . F . CHEW , S . J . 27 th February 1896 .

KNIGHTS TEMPLARS . THE annual meeting of the Restormel Preeeptory was held in the Masonic Hall , Liskeard , on 25 th ult ., when Sir Kt . R . A . Courtney was installed as E . P . for the ensuing year , the ceremony being ably and . impressively performed by Past E . P . Sir Kt . Major Shanks .

"A Sprig Of Acacia."

"A SPRIG OF ACACIA . "

THE announcement of the death of Dr . E . C . Eevell , Mayor of the borough of Saltash , which occurred on Sunday morning , will be received with the deepest regret in the west of England . Deceased was found in a comatose state between six and seven o ' clock , and on Dr . Meadows being summoned life

was found to be extinct . Dr . Eevell was first elected on the Town Council by the heaviest recorded poll , in 1893 , and was unanimously elected Alderman and Mayor in November 1894 . He was re-elected to the civic chair last November . On the late Lord Kingsale declining re-nomination as County

Councillor for the Saltash district , owing to ill-health , Dr . Eevell was elected without opposition to fill the seat . Deceased was also Major in command of the local Volunteer corps , and was the means of bringing it up to its present state of efficiency . He was surgeon to the Loyal Link of Friendship Lodge of

Oddfellows and Court Pride of the Tamar of Foresters , as well as to several other smaller clubs . His general practice was a very large one , he being as a surgeon both skilful and sympathetic . He was also a P . M . of Zetland Lodge , and

P . P . G . Swd . B . Deceased was exceedingly popular in the town and neighbourhood , and very highly respected . He will be greatly missed , especially by the poor , to whom he was a true friend , says the " Western Mercury . "

BEO . Frederick Dawson , who died on Monday , 17 th ult ., was buried on the 20 th , at Locksbrook Cemetery , amid widespread manifestations of regret and sympathy . Beyond his connection with several local societies and institutions , the deceased took no active part in public affairs , though abundant

evidence was afforded at the funeral of the esteem in which he was held as a citizen . Prior to the interment at Locksbrook there was a short service at St . Swithin ' s , the deceased being for many years a churchwarden of Walcot . Among those who attended were representatives or the Eoyal Sussex Lodge , No . 53

• "TlHE funeral of Bro . Thomas Crook Lewarn , of Plymouth , I who died suddenly near his residence on Saturday , 15 th ult ,, took place on the 19 th , at Plymouth Cemetery . Deceased was a P . G . J . D . of the Devon Provincial Lodge , and P . M . of Lodge Charity , 223 , and the esteem in which he was held was

evinced by the large attendance of Brethren . At the approach to the grave the Freemasons present formed in two lines , through which the coffin , concealed by beautiful wreaths , was carried , and at the close of the service the Brethren dropped sprigs of acacia into the grave .

THE funeral , of Alderman J . Thomas , who died at his residence , the King ' s Head Hotel , Monmouth , on the 24 th ult ., took place the following Thursday , at the Monmouth

cemetery . The procession included the Mayor and Corporation , the members of the Loyal Monmouth Lodge of Freemasons , of which deceased was a Past Master , and a very large number of gentlemen and tradesmen .

MANY will learn with sincere regret that Dr . G . J . Malcolm Smith died at his residence , Amwell Place , Hurstpierpoint , on the 20 th ult . He was a P . M . of the South Down Lodge . THE death is announced of Bro . W . Weichert , of Cardiff , and a member of the local Lodge .