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concluding representation was the form of the intended pillar , in brilliant colours , which elicited rapturous applause . TUB ceremony of laying the foundation of a New Town Hall and Market at Penzance , with Masonic honours , took p lace lately . THE Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Hall ( the foundation of which laid onlabout four months beforeby JSEnysJisq tne
was y , .. . , ^ Chairman , and Brother Ellis , of Falmouth , the P . G . Secretary of Cornwall ) was opened with the splendid exhibition of models , inventions improvements in machinery , first-rate paintings , and specimens oi art , on the Gth , 7 th , ancl Sth inst . Several Professors ot eminence in Geoloo-y , & c from the Universities attended ; the Chair was filled by Davies Gilbert , Esq ., formerly President of the Royal Society . i
THE next Masonic Public Meeting in Cornwall will be held at _ rowane Park , on the llth of October , to celebrate the 50 th Anniversary of the Provincial Grand Mastership of the Venerable Sir John St . Aubyn , Bart . AVe believe the Hon . Baronet is the Senior P . G . M . under the Constitution , and that this office , and perhaps no other m the Grand Lodge have ever been held by any other for so long a period . Non-THWici-.-Septeraber ISth being appointed for the consecration of the festival held at theAngel
the New Lodge of Sincerity , No . 620 , was ^ Inn , Northwich . The morning was ushered in by a peal from the bells ot Witton Church , and the novelty of the spectacle with which the eyes ot the inhabitants were to be feasted induced them to keep it a holiday . About nine o ' clock the visitors began to arrive , in great numbers : soon alter ten o ' clock the arrival of the R . AV . P . G . M ., Lord Account Combermere , and R . AV . D . P . G . M ., John F . Maddock , Esq . was announced iw » flourish of trumnets : and the Lodge was opened in due form , by
the AV . M . Bro . L . AVilbraham , ofthe Cestrian Lodge , 615 the VV . M . Bro . Cobbe , of the King ' s Friends Lodge , 370 , and the AV . M . Bro . Robinson , of the Combermere Lodge of Love and Harmony , JSo . 581 , acting as Wardens . His Lordship , with his Deputy and Provincial officers having taken their stations in the audience chamber , the VV M . commanded the Director of Ceremonies , Bro . S . Brown of the Cestrian Lodge , to inform the P . G . M . that the Lodge was duly opened , and that the Brethren requested the attendance of the P . G . M . and his officers , for the purpose of opening the P . G . Lodge , ancl proceed to consecrate and trie omcei
a new one . Shortly after the P . G . M ., the D . P . G . M ., s walked in procession to the great room , the trumpet sounding their approach , and the band playing the " Entered Apprentice March . His Lordship having ascended the sp lendid new throne , with the deputy on his right hand , proceeded to open the P . G . Lodge ; Brother Holt , oi Manchester , and Brother Pennis , of Warrington , the Senior and Junior AVardens Lodbeing dulopenedthe solemn rites of
conse-. P . G . ge y , cration commenced , during which the usual anthem was sung by the Brethren . Consecration being ended , the Lodges were marshalled in the Masonic order of procession by Brothers Bradburn and Brown to attend divine service at AVitton Church , preceded by a full military
When the band arrived at the church doors , the Brethren opened rhdit and left , the officers elevating their white staves so as to form an arch for the P . G . M . with his officers to pass underneath . They were received by Brother Bradburn , and conducted to the front seat in the east gallery , on which hung the new beautiful floor cloth , the organist
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Provincial.
concluding representation was the form of the intended pillar , in brilliant colours , which elicited rapturous applause . TUB ceremony of laying the foundation of a New Town Hall and Market at Penzance , with Masonic honours , took p lace lately . THE Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Hall ( the foundation of which laid onlabout four months beforeby JSEnysJisq tne
was y , .. . , ^ Chairman , and Brother Ellis , of Falmouth , the P . G . Secretary of Cornwall ) was opened with the splendid exhibition of models , inventions improvements in machinery , first-rate paintings , and specimens oi art , on the Gth , 7 th , ancl Sth inst . Several Professors ot eminence in Geoloo-y , & c from the Universities attended ; the Chair was filled by Davies Gilbert , Esq ., formerly President of the Royal Society . i
THE next Masonic Public Meeting in Cornwall will be held at _ rowane Park , on the llth of October , to celebrate the 50 th Anniversary of the Provincial Grand Mastership of the Venerable Sir John St . Aubyn , Bart . AVe believe the Hon . Baronet is the Senior P . G . M . under the Constitution , and that this office , and perhaps no other m the Grand Lodge have ever been held by any other for so long a period . Non-THWici-.-Septeraber ISth being appointed for the consecration of the festival held at theAngel
the New Lodge of Sincerity , No . 620 , was ^ Inn , Northwich . The morning was ushered in by a peal from the bells ot Witton Church , and the novelty of the spectacle with which the eyes ot the inhabitants were to be feasted induced them to keep it a holiday . About nine o ' clock the visitors began to arrive , in great numbers : soon alter ten o ' clock the arrival of the R . AV . P . G . M ., Lord Account Combermere , and R . AV . D . P . G . M ., John F . Maddock , Esq . was announced iw » flourish of trumnets : and the Lodge was opened in due form , by
the AV . M . Bro . L . AVilbraham , ofthe Cestrian Lodge , 615 the VV . M . Bro . Cobbe , of the King ' s Friends Lodge , 370 , and the AV . M . Bro . Robinson , of the Combermere Lodge of Love and Harmony , JSo . 581 , acting as Wardens . His Lordship , with his Deputy and Provincial officers having taken their stations in the audience chamber , the VV M . commanded the Director of Ceremonies , Bro . S . Brown of the Cestrian Lodge , to inform the P . G . M . that the Lodge was duly opened , and that the Brethren requested the attendance of the P . G . M . and his officers , for the purpose of opening the P . G . Lodge , ancl proceed to consecrate and trie omcei
a new one . Shortly after the P . G . M ., the D . P . G . M ., s walked in procession to the great room , the trumpet sounding their approach , and the band playing the " Entered Apprentice March . His Lordship having ascended the sp lendid new throne , with the deputy on his right hand , proceeded to open the P . G . Lodge ; Brother Holt , oi Manchester , and Brother Pennis , of Warrington , the Senior and Junior AVardens Lodbeing dulopenedthe solemn rites of
conse-. P . G . ge y , cration commenced , during which the usual anthem was sung by the Brethren . Consecration being ended , the Lodges were marshalled in the Masonic order of procession by Brothers Bradburn and Brown to attend divine service at AVitton Church , preceded by a full military
When the band arrived at the church doors , the Brethren opened rhdit and left , the officers elevating their white staves so as to form an arch for the P . G . M . with his officers to pass underneath . They were received by Brother Bradburn , and conducted to the front seat in the east gallery , on which hung the new beautiful floor cloth , the organist