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Provincial.
PROVINCIAL .
EDITORIAL VISIT TO TAUNTON , SHEPTON MALLETT , WELLS , WEYMOUTH , DORCHESTER , BRISTOL , AND BATH . The schoolboy is enjoined to take time by the forelock , and we seized , with all the ardour of the veriest holiday urchin , the first ancl only opportunity that has been afforded us to visit some portion of the " Beautiful West ; " and having been welcomed by our Brethren with the kindest
, we might say the most affectionate atcention , we take this public mode of thanking them individually and collectively , for the generous hospitality , for the liberal construction of all those views which they have required us to explain in Lodges and at meetings—for the unanimous expression of support in aid of the Schools and the Asylum ; and , lastly , for the approbation that has been generally expressed and recorded of our Masonic labours as journalists . An entire month has passed like a pleasant dream ; the overtension of the spirits has relaxed , and we gratefully write ,
Q » 2 d datur a Divis tehci optatius hora ?" We are called now from refreshment to labour , and shall briefly recount our merry-making . At Taunton , the members of the Loclge of Unanimity and Sincerity were publicly advertised , and summoned as a Lodge of Emergency , to be holden on the 6 th of August . The attendance was very numerous , including several Brethren from Devonshire , Bristol , Wells , and otherlacesThe
p . public reception of the visiter was most complimentary as to etiquette . The business in Loclge was confined to the address of the W . M . Brother Haseler , who expressed , on the part of the Brethren assembled , the great pleasure he felt in the visit of an honorary member of the Lodge , whose services in Freemasonry he was pleased to enumerate at length , and with all the warmth and interest which a Masonic friend could desire . A pointed allusion was made to the Aged Masons' lum
Asy , and to the advantages derived , and still derivable , from the public organ of Masonic intelligence , the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . The visiter acknowledged the very high compliment that had been paid to him , and entered at considerable length into the various subjects of the Master ' s address , glanced at the general state of the society , and concluded his observations hy a declaration that the liberality of the province of Somerset , and especially of that Lodge of which he was proud to he member
an honorary , and happy in thus addressing them , had been one of the main props by which that noblest of the Masonic charities had been so proudly sustained . The Lodge being closed the Brethren retired to banquet , and proved that their hospitality could , if possible , exceed the etiquette of tlieir discipline . The various addresses were so many happy allusions to the circumstances of the meeting . The visiter , at some length , proposed the ladies of Taunton , and embodied in the toasts sentiments which appeared to give very great satisfaction . Brother Robert Leigh , in a very humorous reply ou behalf of the sex , claimed his right , and , in-
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Provincial.
PROVINCIAL .
EDITORIAL VISIT TO TAUNTON , SHEPTON MALLETT , WELLS , WEYMOUTH , DORCHESTER , BRISTOL , AND BATH . The schoolboy is enjoined to take time by the forelock , and we seized , with all the ardour of the veriest holiday urchin , the first ancl only opportunity that has been afforded us to visit some portion of the " Beautiful West ; " and having been welcomed by our Brethren with the kindest
, we might say the most affectionate atcention , we take this public mode of thanking them individually and collectively , for the generous hospitality , for the liberal construction of all those views which they have required us to explain in Lodges and at meetings—for the unanimous expression of support in aid of the Schools and the Asylum ; and , lastly , for the approbation that has been generally expressed and recorded of our Masonic labours as journalists . An entire month has passed like a pleasant dream ; the overtension of the spirits has relaxed , and we gratefully write ,
Q » 2 d datur a Divis tehci optatius hora ?" We are called now from refreshment to labour , and shall briefly recount our merry-making . At Taunton , the members of the Loclge of Unanimity and Sincerity were publicly advertised , and summoned as a Lodge of Emergency , to be holden on the 6 th of August . The attendance was very numerous , including several Brethren from Devonshire , Bristol , Wells , and otherlacesThe
p . public reception of the visiter was most complimentary as to etiquette . The business in Loclge was confined to the address of the W . M . Brother Haseler , who expressed , on the part of the Brethren assembled , the great pleasure he felt in the visit of an honorary member of the Lodge , whose services in Freemasonry he was pleased to enumerate at length , and with all the warmth and interest which a Masonic friend could desire . A pointed allusion was made to the Aged Masons' lum
Asy , and to the advantages derived , and still derivable , from the public organ of Masonic intelligence , the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . The visiter acknowledged the very high compliment that had been paid to him , and entered at considerable length into the various subjects of the Master ' s address , glanced at the general state of the society , and concluded his observations hy a declaration that the liberality of the province of Somerset , and especially of that Lodge of which he was proud to he member
an honorary , and happy in thus addressing them , had been one of the main props by which that noblest of the Masonic charities had been so proudly sustained . The Lodge being closed the Brethren retired to banquet , and proved that their hospitality could , if possible , exceed the etiquette of tlieir discipline . The various addresses were so many happy allusions to the circumstances of the meeting . The visiter , at some length , proposed the ladies of Taunton , and embodied in the toasts sentiments which appeared to give very great satisfaction . Brother Robert Leigh , in a very humorous reply ou behalf of the sex , claimed his right , and , in-