Cornwall Charity.

CORNWALL CHARITY .

THE sixteenth annual meeting of the Cornwall Masonic Charity Association was held at Truro on Thursday , 7 th inst , Bro . P . Colville-Srnith Deputy Prpv . G , M . Vice-President in the chair . Bro . G . B . Pearce Hon . Treasurer and Secretary

reported the receipt of 332 guineas ( with one exception only the largest amount received in any previous year ) , which , with 13 guineas brought forward from last year , gave a sum available for distribution of 345 guineas . It was decided to distribute 335 guineas , and carry forward 10 guineas to next

year . On the proposition of Bro . Broad , the Hon . Secretary was irequested to call the attention of certain Lodges in the

Province to the claims of the Association , and to the indifference of their representatives to the interests of the Charities it supports . The Officers were thanked for their services and reelected .

Cornwall Charity.

The ordinary business was afterwards proceeded with . The Grand Master read a letter from His Royal Highness Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia thanking Grand Lodge for conferring on him its honorary membership , and expressing the hope that the closer ties thus formed between the Grand Lodge of Scotland and the Germany Grand Lodge would last for ever .

Mark Grand Lodge.

MARK GRAND LODGE .

A SPECIAL Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales and the Colonies and Dependencies of

the-Bntish Crown will be held in Mark Masons Hall , Great Queen Street , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields ' , on Tuesday next , 19 th inst , at three for four o ' clock punctually , for the purpose of transacting the following Business : — ¦

1 . To vote a Loyal and Dutiful Address to His Majesty the King , offering the respectful sympathy of this Grand Lodge and the Members of the Mark Degree , . on the death of Her late . Majesty Queen Victoria , and further presenting the

respectful and sincere congratulations of this Grand Lodge to His Majesty on his accession to the Throne . " 2 . To receive a Communication from the Most Worshipful Pro Grand Master . ' ' - ••'• ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ •• " - ¦ J •• ¦*¦ 3 . Motions arising out of such Communication .

Grand Lodge Of Scotland.

GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND .

ON Thursday afternoon , 7 th inst ., a Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Scotland was held in the Freemasons' Hall , Edinburgh . - There was a large attendance , about 350 Brethren being present from all parts of the

country , " and special interest was taken in the meeting in respect of the reference expected to be made to the recent demise of the Queen . The Hall was heavily draped with mourning . The throne and the adjacent seats were draped

with black ; the large windows in the east were covered with black , draped with purple , and so were all the panels round the Hall encircling the busts of the Past Grand Masters . All the Brethren were in mourning .

When Grand Lodge filed into the Hall all rose to receive the Grand Master , and at the touch of the Grand Organist the solemn music pi Chopin ' s Funeral March added solemnity to die event . The throne was occupied by the Grand Master the Hon .

James Hpzier , M . P ., and the Grand Wardens . were in their places-r-T-Brothers A . A . Speirs , of Elderslie , Senior Grand Warden ; and William Munro , Denholm , Junior Grand Warden . The Grand Master was supported by Bros . J ohn Graham , of Broadstone , Grand Master Depute ; the Hon . Charles Maule , Ramsay , Substitute , and others .

The Grand Master said—Since last we met in Grand Lodge we have lost by death our revered Sovereign Lady , Queen Victoria , our Queen of Queens , of blessed and of glorious memory . Her Majesty was the mpther as well as the Monarch of her people , and an orphaned Empire now

mourns that mother ' s loss . As Monarch , Queen Victoria has passed away , but her blessed influence will for ever live , and her bright example will for ever shine as a guiding light for one and all of us along the rugged path of duty . I ask you , Brethren , to authorise me to sign on your behalf , and to

submit to His Majesty King Edward , for so many years the Patron of our Scottish Craft , an address of respectful sympathy and of devoted loyalty , and also an address praying King Edward to deign to continue , as in the past , to be the Royal Patron of all Scottish Masonry .

The Brethren , in solemn silence , indicated their assent in the usual manner , and then the Grand Master read the address , bearing the seal of Grand Lodge , and signed by the

Grand Master and the Grand Secretary . This having been approved , Mendelssohn ' s funeral march was played on the organ amid the profound silence of the upstanding Brethren .

Grand Lodge Of Ireland.

GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND .

A SPECIAL meeting of this Grand Lodge was held on Thursday , 7 th inst , under the presidency of Sir J . Creed Meredith , LL . D ., Deputy Grand Master , when the following address was unanimously adopted :

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty . MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY , —We , the Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland , in Special Grand Lodge assembled , most humbly desire to tender to vour Majesty and to every member of the Royal Family the sincere , and heartfelt sympathy of our whole

Fraternity m the heavy trial with which it has pleased the Great Architect of the Universe to visit not only your Majesty and the Royal House , but also the entire people of your Majesty ' s mighty Empire , by the death of our late dearly-beloved and highly venerated Sovereign Queen Victoria . We venture most respectfully

to assure your Majesty of the loyal devotion of every , individual member of the Craft to your Majesty ' s Throne and person , and ve humbly pray that ypur Majesty , following in the footsteps of your Royal mother of blessed memory , may enjoy , under the protection of the Most High God , a long , prosperous , and happy

reign . Signed at Dublin , this 7 th day of February 1901 . ABERCORN G . M . J . CREED MEREDITH D . G . M . CASTLETOWN G . Sec .

Norfolk.

NORFOLK .

BY cemmand of the Provincial Grand Master Bro . Hamon le Strange P . G . D . Eng . a special Provincial Grand Lodge was held " on Saturday afterrioon , at the rooms of the

Masonic Association , 47 St . Giles ' s Street , Norwich , to consider and resolve upon an address of condolence with his Majesty the King and Royal Family on the decease of her late Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria .

.. There wasi a- large attendance of the Brethren- and rail-Lodges in the Province were fully represented . The Prov . Grand Master presided , and was supported by his Deputy Bro . PL J . Sparkes , and leaders in the Craft from all parts of the Province .

Bro . Hamon le Strange reminded the Brethren that it had been the mournful duty of Norfolk Masons to meet in February 1892 , to give voice to expressions of sympathy on the death of the Duke of Clarence . On the present occasion they had gathered together to offer sincere condolences to the

Royal family on the demise of the beloved Queen . It was hardly possible to recognise the full measure of the loss which had fallen upon the country . Amid an unprecedented and universal mourning it was some solace and satisfaction to notice the vast tide of sympathy which had flown in not only

from every corner of the United Kingdom , but also from the Greater Britain beyond the seas , and from every organised government in both hemispheres . It was no mere form of words to say that the late beloved Queen Victoria had done everything to render herself a true mother to her

people . Masons were on firmer ground when , as a circumstance arising out of the late sorrowful occurrence , they congratulated King Edward VII , who for twenty-six years had

so splendidly exercised the powers and attributes of the Grand Master of the Order . In Norfolk they had every reason to ; be grateful for the personal share his Majesty ' had graciously ' taken in local Masonic ceremonies .

The Prov . Grand Master then moved that an address of condolence should be sent to his Majesty , and the D . Prov . G . M ., in seconding the resolution , remarked that during her life the Queen had been loved and honoured , and all would mourn her death and revere her memory .

The Brethren rose , and in silence assented to the address , which expressed heartfelt condolence , and hearty congratulations upon the accession of his Majesty , in the following terms : '

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY . MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGNWe , your Majesty ' s dutiful and faithful servants , the Prov . Grand Master , Officers , and Brethren of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Province of Norfolk , with all humility and respect approach your Majesty for the double purpose of expressing our heartfelt condolences on the demise of our late beloved Sovereign ,