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Royal Freemasons' Girls' School.
Sir Edmund Gooch , M . P ., Prov . G . M . for Suffolk ; Bro . B . Bond Cabbell , M . P ., P . J . G . W . ; Bro . W . F . Beadon , P . J . G . AV . ; Bro . Rev . J . E . Cox , Grand Chaplain ; Bro . Giraud , S . Grand Deacon ; Bros . Gaskoin , Chandler , Hodgkinson , AVhite , Potter , King , P . G . Deacons ; Bro . Crohn , G . Sec . for Foreign Correspondence ; Bros . Bellamy WebbJ . S . EvansPattenSpiersP . G . S . B . Bro Le Yeau
, , , , ; , G . S . B ., and many other distinguished Brethren . The Banquet , ivhich was provided by Messrs . Watson , Coggin , ancl Banks , embraced every delicacy of the season , and was served in admirable style , ancl greatly to the credit of this establishment . Grace was said before dinner b y the Grand Chaplain , Bro . Rev . J . E . Cox ; and on the removal of the clotha Metrical Grace
, , "Benedictus sit Dens in donis suis , " composed by John Reading , A . D . 1675 , was sung with fine effect by the professional vocalists , who were under the direction of Bro . Genge , and consisted of Miss M . AVilliams , the Misses Wells , Masters Caulfield , Madden , and De Sofia , and Bros . T . Young , G . Perren and Lawler . Bro . Farquharson Smith presided at the piano .
Bro . Toole officiated as Toastmaster , and had no sinecure , for the Brethren did not observe that order which is so essential for the real enjoyment of such meetings ; the result of this was , that most of the speeches were imperfectl y heard , ancl others were quite inaudible . After grace had been sung , ancl partial silence effected , The GEAND MASTEB rose , and said that the Brethren would all anticipate the toast whieh he had now the honour to projiose ; it
was one which every Mason would drink with the utmost cordiality , for , independently of the affection and . allegiance whieh they owed to then- Sovereign , they could not forget that Her Majesty was Patroness of the Girls' School . He would give them "Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen , and the Craft . " The National Anthem ivas then sung by the professional vocalists with good effectthe company joining in the chorus .
, The GEAND MASTEB then proposed the healths of Prince Albert , the Prince of AVales , aud the rest of the Royal Family . Glee— " Blow , gentle gales . " Bro . B . B . CABBELL said he rose for the purpose of proposing a toast , which he was sure they all anticipated and would receive with that cordiality and respect , to ivhich it was eminently entitled . He would not call upon them in ordinary language on this occasion to pay a compliment to the distinguished nobleman who
occupied the chair , but to pay a compliment to themselves , by manifesting to his lordship a just appreciation of the services which he had rendered them , and which it had been tlieir good fortune to enjoy during the time that he had so ably filled the office of Grand Master ( loud cheers ) . His lordship succeeded to that high office under no ordinary circumstances , and at the same time under no ordinary difficulties , for he succeeded a Prince of the Blood , who presided over Masonry in this country for more than a quarter of a century , and who for the assiduity , business-like habitsand discharge of dutwhich was manifested bthat
illus-, y , y trious individual in all that related to Freemasonry , made it no easy task for anyone who might succeed him in that high position ( cheers ) . They had the happiness on the present occasion of receiving among them a nobleman , who , independently of his personal merits , had an hereditary claim upon them , inasmuch as he was one of those happy men , who had inherited not only high rank and distinction from
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Royal Freemasons' Girls' School.
Sir Edmund Gooch , M . P ., Prov . G . M . for Suffolk ; Bro . B . Bond Cabbell , M . P ., P . J . G . W . ; Bro . W . F . Beadon , P . J . G . AV . ; Bro . Rev . J . E . Cox , Grand Chaplain ; Bro . Giraud , S . Grand Deacon ; Bros . Gaskoin , Chandler , Hodgkinson , AVhite , Potter , King , P . G . Deacons ; Bro . Crohn , G . Sec . for Foreign Correspondence ; Bros . Bellamy WebbJ . S . EvansPattenSpiersP . G . S . B . Bro Le Yeau
, , , , ; , G . S . B ., and many other distinguished Brethren . The Banquet , ivhich was provided by Messrs . Watson , Coggin , ancl Banks , embraced every delicacy of the season , and was served in admirable style , ancl greatly to the credit of this establishment . Grace was said before dinner b y the Grand Chaplain , Bro . Rev . J . E . Cox ; and on the removal of the clotha Metrical Grace
, , "Benedictus sit Dens in donis suis , " composed by John Reading , A . D . 1675 , was sung with fine effect by the professional vocalists , who were under the direction of Bro . Genge , and consisted of Miss M . AVilliams , the Misses Wells , Masters Caulfield , Madden , and De Sofia , and Bros . T . Young , G . Perren and Lawler . Bro . Farquharson Smith presided at the piano .
Bro . Toole officiated as Toastmaster , and had no sinecure , for the Brethren did not observe that order which is so essential for the real enjoyment of such meetings ; the result of this was , that most of the speeches were imperfectl y heard , ancl others were quite inaudible . After grace had been sung , ancl partial silence effected , The GEAND MASTEB rose , and said that the Brethren would all anticipate the toast whieh he had now the honour to projiose ; it
was one which every Mason would drink with the utmost cordiality , for , independently of the affection and . allegiance whieh they owed to then- Sovereign , they could not forget that Her Majesty was Patroness of the Girls' School . He would give them "Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen , and the Craft . " The National Anthem ivas then sung by the professional vocalists with good effectthe company joining in the chorus .
, The GEAND MASTEB then proposed the healths of Prince Albert , the Prince of AVales , aud the rest of the Royal Family . Glee— " Blow , gentle gales . " Bro . B . B . CABBELL said he rose for the purpose of proposing a toast , which he was sure they all anticipated and would receive with that cordiality and respect , to ivhich it was eminently entitled . He would not call upon them in ordinary language on this occasion to pay a compliment to the distinguished nobleman who
occupied the chair , but to pay a compliment to themselves , by manifesting to his lordship a just appreciation of the services which he had rendered them , and which it had been tlieir good fortune to enjoy during the time that he had so ably filled the office of Grand Master ( loud cheers ) . His lordship succeeded to that high office under no ordinary circumstances , and at the same time under no ordinary difficulties , for he succeeded a Prince of the Blood , who presided over Masonry in this country for more than a quarter of a century , and who for the assiduity , business-like habitsand discharge of dutwhich was manifested bthat
illus-, y , y trious individual in all that related to Freemasonry , made it no easy task for anyone who might succeed him in that high position ( cheers ) . They had the happiness on the present occasion of receiving among them a nobleman , who , independently of his personal merits , had an hereditary claim upon them , inasmuch as he was one of those happy men , who had inherited not only high rank and distinction from