The Yorston Case.

part of the history ; either to do it himself , or obtain the aid of competent persons to do it . In the same year a prospectus was issued , canvassers were sent out , ancl arrangements were made for the insertion of portraits .

It is an open secret that this fact was known to others beside Bro . Carson then . Bro . Yorston was nominally at the time negotiating with Bro . Jack , but the correspondence eventually closed .

The prospectus of the work now in question , as it appeared in the Liberal Freemason , Boston , is not only a " pions fraud , " but a literary curiosity , utterly unprecedented in the history of Masonic or any other literature .

In the first illuminated title page no allusion is made to Bro . Gould at all , but in the second title page the work is said to be by R . F . Gould , assisted by Bros . W . J . Hughan , A . F . A . Woodford , D . M . Lyon , and Bros . Carson , Drummond , and Parvin .

This title page is nofc only , as we said before , a " pious fraud , " but is positively a pure " Pseudologia , " conveying to the Craft , alike in representation and by implication , we are sorry to add , distinct untruths .

In no sense whatever had Bros . Hughan , Woodford , ancl D . M . Lyon anything in the world to do with it , nor could Bro . Gould be said to be " assisted , " in any sense , by

Bros . Carson , Drummond , and Parvin , except in a sense indeed totally opposed to any previous idea of Masonic verity or personal honour .

After Bro . Gould's letters ifc seems to us thafc Brothers Carson , Drummond and Parvin , as Freemasons , have nothing to do but gracefully apologise and withdraw ;

otherwise they make themselves accessories after the fact , as Bro . Carson is undoubtedly , we regret to say ifc , before . Afc this moment , no doubt , it is very difficult to say what can further be done to heal the breach as between

American and English Masonic writers , and make an " amende honorable" to Bros . Gould and Jack . The plate is , so to say , in the melting pofc , and the old proverb may seem to be good , " the winner takes his bite , the loser

has his bark . This is no doubt too true , but is there nofc after all a far wider question at stake as before the justice , the fairness , the good faith and intellectual culture of our many worthy brethren in America ?

We stop here to-day . We might say much more , and especially as to that very disagreeable question of the " portrait price , " but we forbear . Bro . Yorston says he has no ill feeling against Bro . Gould ; Bro . Gould has none

against him , but he has manfully protested , and we think it right to endorse his protest here , on behalf of our English Masonic Press , against an act of Masonic literary piracy , unknown hitherto , happily , in the annals of Masonic literature .

Allied Masonic Degrees.

ALLIED MASONIC DEGREES .

EROR COUNCIL , ( T . I . ) ON Thursday , the 13 th instant , the annual meeting of this Lodge was beld at Freemasons' HaU , St . Savionrgate , York , when Bro . T . B . Whytehead P . M . presided in the absence of the VV . M ., Brother Dr . B . L . Mills , in India . Bro . William Watson P . M . P . Z . received the Degrees of St . Lawrence , Knight of Constantinople , Eed Cross of Babylon , and Grand High Priest . Bro . H . C . Pickersgill was elected

W . M ., and was installed in the chair by Bro . Whytehead , and the Conncil was closed , the members afterwards meeting at refreshment . Among . the . members present were Bros . J . L . Atherton , William Brown , J . Blenkin , Major McGachen , W . R . Dyson , J . T . Seller , and

others . The following were appointed to office by the W . M . : —Bro . J . L . Atherton S . W ., William Brown J . W ., J . Blenkin S . D ., Major McGachen J . D ., T . B . Whytehead P . M , Secretary and Treasnrer , J . T . Seller I . G ., H . E . Consans KG ., and P . Pearson Tyler .

ROYAL ARK MARINERS . YORK LODGE .

A MEETING of this body was held in Freemasons' Hall , Sfc . Saviourgate , York , on the 12 th instant , when Brothers William Brown and J . T . Seller were elevated to the Order , by Bro . T . B . Whytehead P . N . Bro . H . C . Piokersgill was installed in the chair of N .

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Supreme Grand Chapter.

SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER .

A QUARTERLY Convocation of the Supreme Grand ii Chapter will be held afc Freemasons' Hall , London , on Wednesday , the 2 nd day of November next , at six o ' clock in the evenino * .

THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL PURPOSES . To the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England . Thu Committee of General Purposes beg to report that they have examined the accounts from tho 20 th July to the 18 th October 1887 , both inclusive , which they find to be as follows : — £ 3 d | £ s d

Balance Grand Chap- I Disbursements daring ~ Z ^ 1 ! Z * *• ____" ter - - 560 4 9 I the quarter - 262 2 8 „ Unappropriated i Balance - - 514 11 10 Acconnt - 208 12 7 i „ Unappropriated Subsequent Receipts- 211 7 9 J Account . 203 10 7 £ 980 5 1 ' £ 980 5 1

which balances are iu the Bank of England , Western Branch . The Committee have likewise to report that they have received the following petition : — From Companions Henry Naunton Davies as Z ., Richard Male as

H ., Robert Charles Hanter as J ., and six others for a Chapter to be attached to tho Merlin Lodge , No . 1578 , Pontypridd , to be called " Tho Naunton Davies Chapter , " and to meet at the Masonio Hall Pontypridd , South Wales , ( E . D . ) '

This petition being in all respects regular , the Committee recommend that tbe prayer thereof be granted . The Committee have also to report that they have received a memorial from the Chapter of Harmony , No . 632 , meeting at Devizes , praying to be detached from the Lodge of Concord , No . 632 ,

Trowbridge , Wiltshire , and to be attached to the Wiltshire Lodge of Fidelity , No . 663 , Devizes , in the same County . Both Lodges and the Grand Superintendent of Wiltshire having given their consent , the Committee recommend that the prayer of the memorial be granted .

The Committee have further to report thab they have received a petition from Companions Alfred Parry as Z ., James Sparks as H ., Francis Barton as J ., and twenty other .., for a Chapter to be attached to the Lodge of Concord , No . 632 , Trowbridge , Wiltshire , to

be called " The Chapter of Concord , " and to meet at the Masonic Hall , Trowbridge , shonld the prayer of the memorial for the Chapter of Harmony being detached from Lodge No . 632 , Trowbridge , and attached to Lodge No . 663 , Devizes , be granted .

This Petition being in all respects regular , the Committee recommend that the prayer thereof be also granted . ( Signed ) ROBERT GKEY ,

President . Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C . 19 th October 1887 .

The monthly meeting of the General Committee of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls was held on Thursday , at Freemasons' Hall , Bro . Robert : Grey P . G . D ., President of the Board of Benevolence , in the chair . He was

supported by Bros . Frank Richardson P . G . D ., Arthur E . Gladwell , C H . Webb , J . H . Matthews P . G . Sword Br ., Major E . H . Finney , H . Massey , Edgar Bowyer P . G . Stand .

Bearer , J . S . Cumberland , and F . R . W . Hedges Secretary . After the reading and confirmation of the minutes , a grant of £ 15 was made to apprentice a pupil , and £ 400 was transferred to the Sustentation Account . The Chairman

was authorised to sign cheques for accounts recommended by the Audit Committee . Two candidates were placed on the list , for the election in April 1888 . The Chairman , before the proceedings were concluded , said as brethren

were present who knew about the proposal of the Centenary Committee for enlarging the buildings , and were acquainted with the plans already submitted , he would like to inform them that the original plan had been

sent back to Bro . Hunt , by whom they were assisted and advised , and he had had a meeting with the Committee . They , through Bro . Hunt ' s help , had been able fco get a scheme proposed that he thought was very much better than

that which was first laid before the Craft . He might add that one or two brethren , representing the Provinces , whom fchey had asked to help them on fche Centenary Committee , had expressed fcheir views , and they were perfectly satisfied

with the plans as amended . He thought when the brethren saw the plans , which were now being lithographed- — and would be in their hands in a few days—they would have no objection . He believed the brethren would

approve of them . Bro . C . H . Webb asked whether the newly-proposed plans would increase the cost ? The Chairman said no ; on the contrary , the cost would be reduced rather than increased . The brethren then separated .