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a play to be performed in the private theatre , the proceeds of which are to be appropriated in aid of the building fund . AVe have been at length gratified by the arrival , among other books , of the Freemasons' Review for 1843 ; would we could receive each number as it appears . On AAr ednesday , June 26 , a deputatation of the fraternity of Freemasons , consisting of Bros . C . G . Anderson ( Attornev-General ) , P . G . M . ( Rngland ); J . F . CookeP . G . M . ( Scotland ); G . ' O . SmithAA ' . M .
, , , Victoria Lodge ( England ) ; J . Jarrett , AV . M ., Union Lodge ( Scotland ) , ¦ waited on his Excellency the Governor , at the Government House , and presented the following address : — " To his Excellency George Benvenuto Mathew , Esq ., Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty ' s Bahama Islands , Chancellor , Vice Admiral , and Ordinary of the same . " May it please your Excellency
, "We , her Majesty ' s dutiful and loyal subjects , the Provincial Grancl Masters , Deputy Grand Masters , with other Grand Officers and Brethren , who constitute the Provincial Grand Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons for the Bahama Islands , holding under the respective registries of England and Scotland , in accordance with that feeling of loyalty which has been ever a distinguished characteristic of the British Freemason , and of that dutiful respect to our superiors , and that love of
social order which is imperiously inculcated by the principles of our venerable institution , beg leave to approach your Excellency , and to offer our sincere ancl hearty congratulations on your arrival in this colony , and your assumption of its government , as the representative of our young and beloved Queen . " While thus addressing your Excellency as the representative of our Gracious Sovereign , we must be allowed at the same time to express the gratification which we feel at finding that your Excellency not only
belongs to our ancient and venerable Order , but that your Excellency has risen to that high rank in the Grand Lodge of England which can only be attained by those who are proficients in the Royal Art . " AA e ardently hope that your Excellency , Mrs . Mathew , and your young family , may , during your sojourn in this colony , enjoy the blessings of health and domestic happiness , that success may attend your Excellency ' s administrationand that the Almihty Architect and Ruler
, g of the universe may at all times , in all seasons , ancl in all places , be mercifully pleased , in the plenitude of his goodness , to take you and yours under his Divine protection , and to extend to you his choicest blessings . Given under our hands at Nassau , this twenty-fourth clay of June , A . D . 1844 . G . C . ANDERSON , P . G . M ., under the Registry of England . JOHN F . COOKE , P . G . M . under the Registry of Scotland . "
His Excellency ' s Reply . ' '' I receive with real gratification from the Grand Masters , Officers , and Brethren of the Provincial Grand Lodges of the Bahama Islands , this address so expressive of those feelings of loyalty and of respectful obedience to the authorities and laws of our country , which it has ever been the successful aim of Masonry to inculcate . *
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Foreign.
a play to be performed in the private theatre , the proceeds of which are to be appropriated in aid of the building fund . AVe have been at length gratified by the arrival , among other books , of the Freemasons' Review for 1843 ; would we could receive each number as it appears . On AAr ednesday , June 26 , a deputatation of the fraternity of Freemasons , consisting of Bros . C . G . Anderson ( Attornev-General ) , P . G . M . ( Rngland ); J . F . CookeP . G . M . ( Scotland ); G . ' O . SmithAA ' . M .
, , , Victoria Lodge ( England ) ; J . Jarrett , AV . M ., Union Lodge ( Scotland ) , ¦ waited on his Excellency the Governor , at the Government House , and presented the following address : — " To his Excellency George Benvenuto Mathew , Esq ., Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty ' s Bahama Islands , Chancellor , Vice Admiral , and Ordinary of the same . " May it please your Excellency
, "We , her Majesty ' s dutiful and loyal subjects , the Provincial Grancl Masters , Deputy Grand Masters , with other Grand Officers and Brethren , who constitute the Provincial Grand Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons for the Bahama Islands , holding under the respective registries of England and Scotland , in accordance with that feeling of loyalty which has been ever a distinguished characteristic of the British Freemason , and of that dutiful respect to our superiors , and that love of
social order which is imperiously inculcated by the principles of our venerable institution , beg leave to approach your Excellency , and to offer our sincere ancl hearty congratulations on your arrival in this colony , and your assumption of its government , as the representative of our young and beloved Queen . " While thus addressing your Excellency as the representative of our Gracious Sovereign , we must be allowed at the same time to express the gratification which we feel at finding that your Excellency not only
belongs to our ancient and venerable Order , but that your Excellency has risen to that high rank in the Grand Lodge of England which can only be attained by those who are proficients in the Royal Art . " AA e ardently hope that your Excellency , Mrs . Mathew , and your young family , may , during your sojourn in this colony , enjoy the blessings of health and domestic happiness , that success may attend your Excellency ' s administrationand that the Almihty Architect and Ruler
, g of the universe may at all times , in all seasons , ancl in all places , be mercifully pleased , in the plenitude of his goodness , to take you and yours under his Divine protection , and to extend to you his choicest blessings . Given under our hands at Nassau , this twenty-fourth clay of June , A . D . 1844 . G . C . ANDERSON , P . G . M ., under the Registry of England . JOHN F . COOKE , P . G . M . under the Registry of Scotland . "
His Excellency ' s Reply . ' '' I receive with real gratification from the Grand Masters , Officers , and Brethren of the Provincial Grand Lodges of the Bahama Islands , this address so expressive of those feelings of loyalty and of respectful obedience to the authorities and laws of our country , which it has ever been the successful aim of Masonry to inculcate . *