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eluded by g iving the health of their AVorshipful Chairman , with three times three . The toast was drunk with acclamations . The CHAIRMAN rose amid the still reiterated cheers to return thanks , which he protested he could not do in terms adequate to his feelings—( hear ) . AVhen he came to that hall he had no expectation of being called to fill that chair . He had , however , endeavoured to do his best inac
( hear ) . They had manifested a disposition to put up with any - curacies of which he might be guilty , and he had drawn upon their kindnesses —( cheers)—for forgiveness of any deficiencies in duty , and in them he should find a true and just reward for whatever use he mig ht have been on the occasion—( cheers ) . He should have great pleasure frequently in meeting them in that hall again —( cheers ) ; and although he was a comparative stranger , he was not less interested in the good works in which they were engaged ; and no one could more highly approve of the Masonic Charities than he did , or be more ready
to support them than he should at all times be —( cheers ) , ihe YY orship ful Chairman thanked Brother M'Kenzie for the kind and flattering manner in which he had proposed his health ; and after again regretting that the duties of the Chair had not fallen into abler hands , he sat down amid loud ancl general cheering . The CHAIRMAN next gave the Grand Officers present , with three times three . Brother BENJAMIN BOND CABBELL returned thanks in a concise
speech , in the course of which he took the opportunity of stating that the AVorship ful Grand Master had placed in his hands a donation of 50 / . for the Girls' Charity —( loucl cheers ) . The next toast drunk was the health of the Board of Stewards . Brother the Hon . II . FITZROY returned thanks in a speech eloquently laudatory of his Royal Highness the Grand Master , and highly complimentary to the ladies . in his wonted strai
Brother M'KENZIE then proposed " the Ladies , " n of eloquence and gallantry ; ancl the " fair beings , " to whom the incense of his praise was offered , shortly afterwards quitted the gallery for the concert room , and the Chairman having retired , the Brethren rejoined
the laches upstairs . AVe may be pardoned in expressing an opinion that the celebration of the natal day of H . R . H . the Grand Master , at so late a period , so far from tending to any beneficial purpose , has the opposite effect—first , there is always a more genial impulse attending the actual natal day" of the illustrious Brother ; next , by postponing the compliment until bethese institutions
tween the festivals of two out of the three Charities , feel affected unfavorably , which we are certain his Royal Highness must regret . Nor do we discover any satisfactory result from the change—the number attending is not increased beyond an average . The lateness of this festival having prevented our g iving the particulars in their proper place , we have been obliged to adopt the form of a postscript . The Brother , who favoured us with a report , requests us to state that at the Boys' Festival he was treated with marked courtesy , winch
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eluded by g iving the health of their AVorshipful Chairman , with three times three . The toast was drunk with acclamations . The CHAIRMAN rose amid the still reiterated cheers to return thanks , which he protested he could not do in terms adequate to his feelings—( hear ) . AVhen he came to that hall he had no expectation of being called to fill that chair . He had , however , endeavoured to do his best inac
( hear ) . They had manifested a disposition to put up with any - curacies of which he might be guilty , and he had drawn upon their kindnesses —( cheers)—for forgiveness of any deficiencies in duty , and in them he should find a true and just reward for whatever use he mig ht have been on the occasion—( cheers ) . He should have great pleasure frequently in meeting them in that hall again —( cheers ) ; and although he was a comparative stranger , he was not less interested in the good works in which they were engaged ; and no one could more highly approve of the Masonic Charities than he did , or be more ready
to support them than he should at all times be —( cheers ) , ihe YY orship ful Chairman thanked Brother M'Kenzie for the kind and flattering manner in which he had proposed his health ; and after again regretting that the duties of the Chair had not fallen into abler hands , he sat down amid loud ancl general cheering . The CHAIRMAN next gave the Grand Officers present , with three times three . Brother BENJAMIN BOND CABBELL returned thanks in a concise
speech , in the course of which he took the opportunity of stating that the AVorship ful Grand Master had placed in his hands a donation of 50 / . for the Girls' Charity —( loucl cheers ) . The next toast drunk was the health of the Board of Stewards . Brother the Hon . II . FITZROY returned thanks in a speech eloquently laudatory of his Royal Highness the Grand Master , and highly complimentary to the ladies . in his wonted strai
Brother M'KENZIE then proposed " the Ladies , " n of eloquence and gallantry ; ancl the " fair beings , " to whom the incense of his praise was offered , shortly afterwards quitted the gallery for the concert room , and the Chairman having retired , the Brethren rejoined
the laches upstairs . AVe may be pardoned in expressing an opinion that the celebration of the natal day of H . R . H . the Grand Master , at so late a period , so far from tending to any beneficial purpose , has the opposite effect—first , there is always a more genial impulse attending the actual natal day" of the illustrious Brother ; next , by postponing the compliment until bethese institutions
tween the festivals of two out of the three Charities , feel affected unfavorably , which we are certain his Royal Highness must regret . Nor do we discover any satisfactory result from the change—the number attending is not increased beyond an average . The lateness of this festival having prevented our g iving the particulars in their proper place , we have been obliged to adopt the form of a postscript . The Brother , who favoured us with a report , requests us to state that at the Boys' Festival he was treated with marked courtesy , winch