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Ireland.
visitors from several Lodges of this city and county , as well as from Lodges 12 , Dublin , ancl 13 , Limerick . Tlieir enjoyment was enhanced and enlivened by the freely accorded exercise of talent of the professional Brethren ancl other members of the Craft , whose vocal and instrumental performances were of the highest order , comprising many of the most celebrated compositions and arrangements of the Italian and German masters . The Brethren separated at the verge of the prescribed hour of the evening , with the liveliest impressions of the pleasures derived from their meeting .
No . 8 , or St . Patrick s Lodge —This ancient , numerous , and respectable Lodge helcl the celebration of the festival of St . John , on Wednesday , at M'Dowell ' s Great Rooms , Imperial hotel . After the transacting of some Lodge business , the Officers ancl Brethren marched in procession to the banquetting room , where a dinner was laid before them in every respect worthy of the renovated splendour of this magnificent establishment . The routine ancl other toasts were neatly and appropriately prefaced
by the newly-elected AA . M ., and many of them were ably and eloquently responded to by the Brethren and visitors . The Masonic airs and chorusses were given from the lately published volume of Bro . Dr . J . Smith , whose harmonious arrangement of them was much to be desired , and whose felicitous adaptation of more recent compositions to Masonic words , forms a valuable addition to this class of music . Selections from the Orpheus collection of German glees were rapturously applauded by those Brethren who had not the
opportunity of hearing them elsewhere . Several three and four part glees , sentimental or joyous , as the occasion demanded , were also sung by Bros . Keays , A . D . Roche , Wheeler , and M'Carthy , the latter presiding at the piano , and those present who are constantly in the habit of hearing these talented and clever artists , freely admitted that their efforts were most successful . The many Brethren of other town Lodges , who assisted at the banquetappeared delihtedwhile the members from the county Lodges
, g , will take with them the remembrance of a most courteous and fraternal reception—a musical treat of a description rarely participated in , and an evening of unsullied enjoyment . Aug . 18 . —Michael Furnell , Esq ., D . L ., Provincial Grand Master of North Munster , attended the invitation of the Masonic Order at Cork ,
for the purpose of installing Sir William Chatterton , Bart ., as Provincial Grand Master of Munster , and at four o ' clock , p . m . the large rooms of the Imperial were densely crowded with the fraternity . The sublime and solemn ceremonial was performed with the most becoming dignity by the R . AV . Bro . Furnell . We deem it a marked favour to have obtained his excellent charge on the occasion , viz : —Rt . AV . Sir , —When I congratulate you on the very exalted and honourable position in which you are now placedas the
, legitimate head of such an august assemblage as are now around me , ol' men professing undeviating devotion to the Divine ordinance of universal philanthropy , and of moral rectitude : a position adding the brightest lustre even to that high and proud station you so justly hold in society , I repeat that while I sincerely congratulate you thereon , it becomes my duty to intimate to you that the office is also fraught with much onerous responsibility and serious care , for " if it is worth while
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ireland.
visitors from several Lodges of this city and county , as well as from Lodges 12 , Dublin , ancl 13 , Limerick . Tlieir enjoyment was enhanced and enlivened by the freely accorded exercise of talent of the professional Brethren ancl other members of the Craft , whose vocal and instrumental performances were of the highest order , comprising many of the most celebrated compositions and arrangements of the Italian and German masters . The Brethren separated at the verge of the prescribed hour of the evening , with the liveliest impressions of the pleasures derived from their meeting .
No . 8 , or St . Patrick s Lodge —This ancient , numerous , and respectable Lodge helcl the celebration of the festival of St . John , on Wednesday , at M'Dowell ' s Great Rooms , Imperial hotel . After the transacting of some Lodge business , the Officers ancl Brethren marched in procession to the banquetting room , where a dinner was laid before them in every respect worthy of the renovated splendour of this magnificent establishment . The routine ancl other toasts were neatly and appropriately prefaced
by the newly-elected AA . M ., and many of them were ably and eloquently responded to by the Brethren and visitors . The Masonic airs and chorusses were given from the lately published volume of Bro . Dr . J . Smith , whose harmonious arrangement of them was much to be desired , and whose felicitous adaptation of more recent compositions to Masonic words , forms a valuable addition to this class of music . Selections from the Orpheus collection of German glees were rapturously applauded by those Brethren who had not the
opportunity of hearing them elsewhere . Several three and four part glees , sentimental or joyous , as the occasion demanded , were also sung by Bros . Keays , A . D . Roche , Wheeler , and M'Carthy , the latter presiding at the piano , and those present who are constantly in the habit of hearing these talented and clever artists , freely admitted that their efforts were most successful . The many Brethren of other town Lodges , who assisted at the banquetappeared delihtedwhile the members from the county Lodges
, g , will take with them the remembrance of a most courteous and fraternal reception—a musical treat of a description rarely participated in , and an evening of unsullied enjoyment . Aug . 18 . —Michael Furnell , Esq ., D . L ., Provincial Grand Master of North Munster , attended the invitation of the Masonic Order at Cork ,
for the purpose of installing Sir William Chatterton , Bart ., as Provincial Grand Master of Munster , and at four o ' clock , p . m . the large rooms of the Imperial were densely crowded with the fraternity . The sublime and solemn ceremonial was performed with the most becoming dignity by the R . AV . Bro . Furnell . We deem it a marked favour to have obtained his excellent charge on the occasion , viz : —Rt . AV . Sir , —When I congratulate you on the very exalted and honourable position in which you are now placedas the
, legitimate head of such an august assemblage as are now around me , ol' men professing undeviating devotion to the Divine ordinance of universal philanthropy , and of moral rectitude : a position adding the brightest lustre even to that high and proud station you so justly hold in society , I repeat that while I sincerely congratulate you thereon , it becomes my duty to intimate to you that the office is also fraught with much onerous responsibility and serious care , for " if it is worth while