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Quarterly Communication.
QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION .
March 4 . —Present , R . W . Bro . R . Alston , P . G . M . Essex , as G . M R . W . Major Shute , P . G . M ., Bristol , as D . G . M . ., R . G . Alston , J . G . W ., as S . G . W . „ B . B . Cabbell , P . J . G . W ., as J . G . W ., Together with several Present and Past Grand Officers , Grand Stewards , the Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens of the Grand Stewards Lodge , and the same of many other Lodges .
The minutes of the last Quarterly Communication were then read ; previous to their confirmation , Dr . CRUOEFIX expressed his regret that such a mere skeleton of the admirable address of the M . W . Grand Master on the great question of the Prussian Lodges and the Jewish Freemasons hacl been suffered to be recorded , it was more than unjust to their Grand Master . The Grand Master in the Chair coincided in the opinion . The
minutes were then confirmed . The Right Hon . the Earl of ZETLAND was then , by general acclamation , elected Most Worshipful Grand Master for the year ensuing . The Brethren rose simultaneously and paid his Lordship grand honours . THE REPORTS of the Boards of Benevolence were approved . THE REPORT of the Board of General Purposes was then read and ordered to be entered on the minutes . Bro . R . G . ALSTON withdrew his notice of motion " to prevent any rejected or non-confirmed motions from being renewed for two years . '
THE MASONIC LIBRARY . Bro . SCARBOROUGH rose and addressed the Grand Lodge on the subject of his motion for granting twenty pounds annually in support of the Masonic Library , and expressed his surprise that so vital a subject , which had occupied the attention of that highly educated and talented Brother , the late Brother Harrison , should have been suffered to drop .-After a lapse of so many years there was nothing but empty shelves ,
and no prospect of any books ; this was a discredit to the Grand Lodge , and a disgrace to those to whom the collection was entrusted . He hoped the subject would elicit opinions from those better qualified than himself , and he would therefore not occupy the time of the Grand Lodge any further . Bro . CRUCEFIX briefly seconded the motion , and intimated that the original projector of the library was not the late Bro . Harrisonbut
, the living Bro . Henderson , Past Grand Registrar , a Brother to whom the Craft was greatly indebted , but for nothing more so than for ' the zeal and spirit he infused at the time into the Brethren in support of the library . He ( Bro . C . ) was among the first contributors , and he remembered to have heard the late Lord Monson state his admiration of the proposition , and that he would send his contributions , and among them ah antique stone chair for the museum . Dr . Oliver and others
had sent in contributions . But for some untoward circumstances which damped the ardour for intelligence at the time , the library would have been by this time extensive , it was not too late to make it so , and not suffer a libel on the Craft that it was behind every Mechanic ' s Institution in the world . Bro . Mc MULLEN said it was impossible to form a library , that some
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Quarterly Communication.
QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION .
March 4 . —Present , R . W . Bro . R . Alston , P . G . M . Essex , as G . M R . W . Major Shute , P . G . M ., Bristol , as D . G . M . ., R . G . Alston , J . G . W ., as S . G . W . „ B . B . Cabbell , P . J . G . W ., as J . G . W ., Together with several Present and Past Grand Officers , Grand Stewards , the Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens of the Grand Stewards Lodge , and the same of many other Lodges .
The minutes of the last Quarterly Communication were then read ; previous to their confirmation , Dr . CRUOEFIX expressed his regret that such a mere skeleton of the admirable address of the M . W . Grand Master on the great question of the Prussian Lodges and the Jewish Freemasons hacl been suffered to be recorded , it was more than unjust to their Grand Master . The Grand Master in the Chair coincided in the opinion . The
minutes were then confirmed . The Right Hon . the Earl of ZETLAND was then , by general acclamation , elected Most Worshipful Grand Master for the year ensuing . The Brethren rose simultaneously and paid his Lordship grand honours . THE REPORTS of the Boards of Benevolence were approved . THE REPORT of the Board of General Purposes was then read and ordered to be entered on the minutes . Bro . R . G . ALSTON withdrew his notice of motion " to prevent any rejected or non-confirmed motions from being renewed for two years . '
THE MASONIC LIBRARY . Bro . SCARBOROUGH rose and addressed the Grand Lodge on the subject of his motion for granting twenty pounds annually in support of the Masonic Library , and expressed his surprise that so vital a subject , which had occupied the attention of that highly educated and talented Brother , the late Brother Harrison , should have been suffered to drop .-After a lapse of so many years there was nothing but empty shelves ,
and no prospect of any books ; this was a discredit to the Grand Lodge , and a disgrace to those to whom the collection was entrusted . He hoped the subject would elicit opinions from those better qualified than himself , and he would therefore not occupy the time of the Grand Lodge any further . Bro . CRUCEFIX briefly seconded the motion , and intimated that the original projector of the library was not the late Bro . Harrisonbut
, the living Bro . Henderson , Past Grand Registrar , a Brother to whom the Craft was greatly indebted , but for nothing more so than for ' the zeal and spirit he infused at the time into the Brethren in support of the library . He ( Bro . C . ) was among the first contributors , and he remembered to have heard the late Lord Monson state his admiration of the proposition , and that he would send his contributions , and among them ah antique stone chair for the museum . Dr . Oliver and others
had sent in contributions . But for some untoward circumstances which damped the ardour for intelligence at the time , the library would have been by this time extensive , it was not too late to make it so , and not suffer a libel on the Craft that it was behind every Mechanic ' s Institution in the world . Bro . Mc MULLEN said it was impossible to form a library , that some