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Grand Stewards' Lodge , to learn somewhat more of the principles and tenets of the order than are generally developed in private Lodges . GRENADIER LODGE , NO . 79 . —This Lodge held its first meeting for the season on Thursday , the 28 th October , under very flattering ausices . Bro . Fredrick Bi W . M . had the honour of proposing and
p gg , , initiating the following five gentlemen : —Anthony Peck , Esq ., Actuary of the Engineers ' , Masonic , and Universal Mutual Life Assurance Society ; James Johnson , Esq ., of Gravesend , surgeon ; William Bellingham , of Beaufort Buildings , wine-merchant ; Alfred Bingham , Esq ., of the Stock Exchange ; and Alfred Williams , Esq ., of the Stock Exchange . The ceremony was very ably performed by the W . M ., who bids fair to emulate the zeal and ability so
prominently displayed by his lamented father , the late Bro . John Bigg , P . M ., of the Moira Lodge . At the banquet , Bro . Peck returned thanks for the Entered Apprentices in a neat and humorous speech . Officially connected as this gentleman is with the Engineers' and Masonic Assurance Society , in which the late Bro . Crucefix took so prominent a part , it is not to be wondered at that he should desire to be enrolled among the members of the Craft , or that his advent among them should be otherwise than interesting . In the course of the evening : the W . M . alluded to the
all-absorbing topic of the day , in the following terms : "Before proceeding to what may be regarded as the domestic toast of the Evening , I hope the worthy P . M . of the Grenadier Lodge will pardon me for departing from the ordinary routine , and permit me to submit to you and them a sentiment which , as a military Lodge , it becomes our mournful duty to drink , with all the solemnity it necessaril y inspires . Brethren , since we last had the pleasure to meet at this festive boardit has pleased the G . A . 0 . T . U . to withdraw
, from us that great pillar of the constitution , our illustrious Brother , the Duke of Wellington , whose very name was a tower of strength to the land : and I conceive that we should hardl y be justified in meeting together after the loss of the Colonel of the Grenadier Guards , without devoting a glass to his immortal memory . Of the merits , valour , and judgment of this distinguished hero , I feel thoroughly incompetent to speak , but we may sing of them , and when it is
remembered that we have the happiness to number amongst our body , our amiable and musical Bro . P . M . Stanbridge , who never sings Moore ' s immortal couplet to Wellington ' s Name without rendering both the song and the singer more popular , I now call upon Mm to gratify us with this composition , after we have drunk in solemn silence to "the Immortal memory of our Brother , the Duke of Wellington . " The proceedings of the evening were much enlivened by the musical talents of Bro . Bellingham , and other newly initiated Brethren .
EMULATION LODGE OF IMPROVEMENT . —This most respectable and thoroughly regular Lodge of Improvement held its anniversary meeting on Monday , November 29 , when upwards of eighty members were present . Bro . W . F . Beadon , P . J . G . W ., in the absence of
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Metropolitan.
Grand Stewards' Lodge , to learn somewhat more of the principles and tenets of the order than are generally developed in private Lodges . GRENADIER LODGE , NO . 79 . —This Lodge held its first meeting for the season on Thursday , the 28 th October , under very flattering ausices . Bro . Fredrick Bi W . M . had the honour of proposing and
p gg , , initiating the following five gentlemen : —Anthony Peck , Esq ., Actuary of the Engineers ' , Masonic , and Universal Mutual Life Assurance Society ; James Johnson , Esq ., of Gravesend , surgeon ; William Bellingham , of Beaufort Buildings , wine-merchant ; Alfred Bingham , Esq ., of the Stock Exchange ; and Alfred Williams , Esq ., of the Stock Exchange . The ceremony was very ably performed by the W . M ., who bids fair to emulate the zeal and ability so
prominently displayed by his lamented father , the late Bro . John Bigg , P . M ., of the Moira Lodge . At the banquet , Bro . Peck returned thanks for the Entered Apprentices in a neat and humorous speech . Officially connected as this gentleman is with the Engineers' and Masonic Assurance Society , in which the late Bro . Crucefix took so prominent a part , it is not to be wondered at that he should desire to be enrolled among the members of the Craft , or that his advent among them should be otherwise than interesting . In the course of the evening : the W . M . alluded to the
all-absorbing topic of the day , in the following terms : "Before proceeding to what may be regarded as the domestic toast of the Evening , I hope the worthy P . M . of the Grenadier Lodge will pardon me for departing from the ordinary routine , and permit me to submit to you and them a sentiment which , as a military Lodge , it becomes our mournful duty to drink , with all the solemnity it necessaril y inspires . Brethren , since we last had the pleasure to meet at this festive boardit has pleased the G . A . 0 . T . U . to withdraw
, from us that great pillar of the constitution , our illustrious Brother , the Duke of Wellington , whose very name was a tower of strength to the land : and I conceive that we should hardl y be justified in meeting together after the loss of the Colonel of the Grenadier Guards , without devoting a glass to his immortal memory . Of the merits , valour , and judgment of this distinguished hero , I feel thoroughly incompetent to speak , but we may sing of them , and when it is
remembered that we have the happiness to number amongst our body , our amiable and musical Bro . P . M . Stanbridge , who never sings Moore ' s immortal couplet to Wellington ' s Name without rendering both the song and the singer more popular , I now call upon Mm to gratify us with this composition , after we have drunk in solemn silence to "the Immortal memory of our Brother , the Duke of Wellington . " The proceedings of the evening were much enlivened by the musical talents of Bro . Bellingham , and other newly initiated Brethren .
EMULATION LODGE OF IMPROVEMENT . —This most respectable and thoroughly regular Lodge of Improvement held its anniversary meeting on Monday , November 29 , when upwards of eighty members were present . Bro . W . F . Beadon , P . J . G . W ., in the absence of