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Sussex.

SUSSEX .

The annual meeting of this Provincial Grand Chapter was held at the Royal Pavilion , Unghton , on Saturday afternoon , unuer the presidency ot the Prov . Grand Superintendent , Lieutenant-general C . W . Randolph , who- appointed the Omcers xor the year .

Un the termination of the business the company sat down to a banquet , the Provincial buperintendeut again presiding .

Hie customary Loyal and Arch toasts were duly honoured , and a musical programme was sustained by the ^ iLonan Glee Singers ( Messrs . P . lophiii , iNorman Richards , Argyll taanoway , and G . Welling ) .

TP 1 T A A" K A K A A K A K K K rC K K 91 SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER .

TPIE Quarterly Convocation will be held on Wednesday next , ist May , at Preemasons' Pla . ll , London , W . C , at 0 p . m . punctually . 1 he following is the Agenda of Business :

The Minutes of the last Quarterly Convocation to be read for confirmation . Installation of Principals and Investiture of Officers for the ensuing year . REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL PURPOSES .

To the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England . The Committee of General Purposes beg to report that they have examined the Accounts from the 10 th January , tp the iotli April iooi , both inclusive , which they rind to be as tollows :

To Balance , Grand Chapter - ' - - ^ 15 8 7 5 ,, ,, U nappropriated Account - 230 15 o , , Subsequent Receipts" - - - 530 11 7 £ 93 H o

By Disbursements during the Quarter - 375 118 „ Balance - - -. - - - 322 11 4 „ „ Unappropriated Account - 233 11 o ^ 93 ' i 4 ° -

which Balances are in the Bank of England , Law Courts Branch . The Committee have likewise to report that they have received the following Petitions : — 1 st . From Companions Babington Boulton as Z ., Charles S . Cox as H ., William jonnson Anderson as J ., and six otners tor a Chapter to be attached to the vveai- Valley Lodge , . No . 1121 , Bishop AucKland , to be called the •' Babington Bouuon Chapter" and tu meet at Bishop AucKland .

2 nd . From Companions John Matthews as Z ., William Priestnail as H ., James . Hampton . Lee as J ., and thirteen otners tor a Chapter to be attached to tlie Widnes -Lodge , Mo . 2 S 19 , widnes , to be called the " vvidnes Chapter , " and to meet at the centi-al Hotel , Widnes .

3 rd . From Companions Charles G . Hatt as Z ., John Worth as H ., jL-nank JLloyd Banner as J ., and seventeen otners tor a Cnapter to be attacheu to tue . car . ls court Lodge , lNo . 2705 , . London , to be called " n-aris Court Cnapter , and to meet at the Crown Hotel , Cricklewood , London .

4 th . From Companions Nicholas Peter Le Cocq Barbenson as Z ., Edgar William . Livesey as il ., rsichotes William u-audion as j . and twenty-one others lor a Chapter to oe attached to the bt . Anns Lodge , JNo . 593 , Aiderney , to be called " bi . Anns Chapter , " and to meet at the Masonic Kooms , Oliver Street , Aiderney .

The Committee have likewise received Memorials , with Extracts of Minutes , for permission to remove the following Chapters : — " The Flope Chapter , " No . 574 . from the Temperance Hall , to the Masonic Hail , iNewbury . " The Whittington Chapter , " No . 862 , from Anderton's Hotel , Fleet Street , to Freemasons' Hall , London .

; The Willesden Chapter , " No . 2489 , from Freemasons' Hall , to the Hotel Cecil , Strand , London . " The Chapter of Temperance , "' No . 169 , from the White Swan Hotel , Depttord , to the Railway Tavern , New Cross Road , London .

" The Camden Chapter " No . 704 , from Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street , to the Frascati Restaurant , Oxford Street , London . ( Signed ) GEORGE DAVID HARRIS , President . Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C . soth . April 1901 .

Sussex.

After the ordinary business had been disposed of , the following Resolution was passed : — " That the cordial thanks of the Committee be tendered to E . Companion Sir George D . Harris , their President , for the very able and courteous manner in which he has presided over its Meetings during the past year .

( Signed ) RICHARD HORTON SMITH . APPEAL .

By Companion James Caton Scribe E . La Cesaree Chapter , No . 590 , Jersey , against a decision of the Provincial Grand Superintendent of the Province of Jersey ( Colonel E . C . Malet de Carteret ) , admonishing the appellant , and ordering the admonition to be entered on the minutes of the Chapter . Election of the Committee of General Purposes for the ensuing twelve months .

Responding to the toast of the Provincial Officers , at the recent installation meeting of the Agricola Lodge , York , Bro . Sir J . Sykes Rymer said he felt it was an honour to be allowed to respond to such a toast , but before he said anything in connection with it he would congratulate their W . M . on

having reached the highest honour which it was in the power of his Brethren to confer upon him . In the Marquis of Zetland and Lord Bolton they had two Omcers of whom all Masons might be proud , for they took a great interest in the Craft . Pie had been acting as Treasurer of a fund

subscribed by W . M . s and P . M . ' s for a wedding present to Lord Bolton ' s daughter on her marriage with the Marquis of Exeter , and £ ys had been expended in two diamond rings and a diamond and turqoise bracelet . It was not everyone they met who were proper persons to be made Masons , and it was well

for the various Lodges to guard well the entrance into Masonry . There was no doubt that Masonry was intended to make them better , and if they followed up its precepts they would try to do all the good they could . There was plenty of scope for them to do that , and they would make

the world better and happier . Masonry w as intended to make them better men for being members of the Craft , and if they were not better for being Masons then the Craft was not at fault , for it was . intended by the founders to play a very important part in linking men together .

Bro . F . G . Ivey P . M . Keystone Mark Lodfe , No . 3 will be nominated at the December meeting of Mark Grand Lodge as Grand Treasurer of that Degree for next year . ' Our Brother has already won the distinction of Senior Grand Deacon in the Mark Province of Middlesex , and D . G . D . C .

in Grand Lodge , so that from our point of view his proposed nomination for the Treasurership will be a mistake . That is an Office which should be conferred by Worshipful Masters and Past Masters alone , on one of their number , and it would be much better if Grand Lodge Officers were precluded from taking any part in the annual election .

••• It would tend greatly to relieve the tedium of waiting the opening of Grand Lodge if the Organist , or a Past Grand Organist , were to enliven the time between the opening ot

Grand Lodge meeting room and the commencement of proceedings , by a little music . It was six minutes to five before the Organist arrived on the occasion of Wednesday ' s gathering .

The Daily Express celebrated its first anniversary on the 24 th inst ., and we take the opportunity of congratulating Bro . Bartley D . enniss upon the success that has attended his efforts during the past year , and upon his presenting so bright , reliable , and readable a newspaper to the public .

The best systems of government have legislative , executive and judicial departments , and the legislative department has two branches , the senate and the house of representatives . In Masonry the whole final judicial and

legislative departments are vested m the Grand Lodge . The representatives of Lodges stand for the house ; trie permanent membership for the senate , and both together exercise the supreme judicial powers . —Josiah H . Drummond , Maine .

* •* Masonry is a moral force , and , spite of all the talk about the power of money , it is moral forces , after all , that make the world go round . —H . H . Ingersoll , Tennessee .