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Metropolitan.
season . The amount collected included five guineas , a donation from Bro . Conquest , of the Grecian Saloon . Bro . Keast , of the Star Tavern , City-road , kindly allowed the use of a room for tbe meetings of tbe Committee , aucl thereb y limited the expenses of those engaged in conducting the benefit .
PROGRESS OE FREEMASONRY . —It is alw * ays with the greatest pleasure that we are enabled to announce that our Order , combining in its ceremonies so much of morality , sublimity , and real religion , is progressing favourably in the opinion of our fellow-men , and therefore it gives us extreme gratification to learn that during the last year more than 2 , 600 certificates have been issued for new Brethren from the Grand Lodge ; and that since the commencement of the year ,
twenty-two charters for new Lodges have been granted , the last number out , 908 , having been issued to a number of the Brethren at Glossop , in Derbyshire . The large majority of the new Lodges are granted to Brethren in our rapidly-increasing colonies of Australia and Canada , where Masonry appears to be extremely popular , a circumstance Avhich cannot fail to give us a very favourable opinion of colonial life . During the year there was only one Loclge granted to
the London district , viz , the Beadon , No . 902 , held at our esteemed Bro . Adams ' s , Star and Garter , KCAV Bridge , the last of the previous London Lodges , the Fitzroy , No . 830 , having obtained its charter in 1849 .
CROSS OE CHRIST ENCAMPMENT , 16 th Dee . 1853 . — Present — Sir Knights , R . Costa , E . C . ; R . Mosley and Foster AVhite , 1 st and 2 nd Capts . ; R . Spencer , P . C . and Regr . ; C . Baumer , P . C . and Trea . ; Lieut .-Colonel G . Amnion , P . C . ancl Prov . G . C . for Staffordshire ; Major Robb , Prov . G . C . for Hampshire ; G . Waekerbarth , P . C . ancl Grand Treas . of the Order . At this meeting it was movedand carried unanimouslythat five guineas be presented to
, , tbe Committee for carrying out the testimonial to be presented to our esteemed and revered M . E . and S . Grancl Master , Col . C . K . K . Tynte . At this meeting , also , tbe sum of ten pounds was voted to the widoAV of an old , valued , and beloved P . C . of this Encampment , the late Sir Kt . AV . Shaw .
Provincial.
PROVINCIAL .
DEPvBYSHIBE . DERBY . —On Tuesday , the 25 th of October , the Brethren of the Tyi-ian Lodge No . 315 , met to celebrate tbe anniversary of their Lodge , established in 1785 . The AV . M . Bro . Samuel Henchley , jun , in a most able manner , initiated two candidates into tbe mysteries of the
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Metropolitan.
season . The amount collected included five guineas , a donation from Bro . Conquest , of the Grecian Saloon . Bro . Keast , of the Star Tavern , City-road , kindly allowed the use of a room for tbe meetings of tbe Committee , aucl thereb y limited the expenses of those engaged in conducting the benefit .
PROGRESS OE FREEMASONRY . —It is alw * ays with the greatest pleasure that we are enabled to announce that our Order , combining in its ceremonies so much of morality , sublimity , and real religion , is progressing favourably in the opinion of our fellow-men , and therefore it gives us extreme gratification to learn that during the last year more than 2 , 600 certificates have been issued for new Brethren from the Grand Lodge ; and that since the commencement of the year ,
twenty-two charters for new Lodges have been granted , the last number out , 908 , having been issued to a number of the Brethren at Glossop , in Derbyshire . The large majority of the new Lodges are granted to Brethren in our rapidly-increasing colonies of Australia and Canada , where Masonry appears to be extremely popular , a circumstance Avhich cannot fail to give us a very favourable opinion of colonial life . During the year there was only one Loclge granted to
the London district , viz , the Beadon , No . 902 , held at our esteemed Bro . Adams ' s , Star and Garter , KCAV Bridge , the last of the previous London Lodges , the Fitzroy , No . 830 , having obtained its charter in 1849 .
CROSS OE CHRIST ENCAMPMENT , 16 th Dee . 1853 . — Present — Sir Knights , R . Costa , E . C . ; R . Mosley and Foster AVhite , 1 st and 2 nd Capts . ; R . Spencer , P . C . and Regr . ; C . Baumer , P . C . and Trea . ; Lieut .-Colonel G . Amnion , P . C . ancl Prov . G . C . for Staffordshire ; Major Robb , Prov . G . C . for Hampshire ; G . Waekerbarth , P . C . ancl Grand Treas . of the Order . At this meeting it was movedand carried unanimouslythat five guineas be presented to
, , tbe Committee for carrying out the testimonial to be presented to our esteemed and revered M . E . and S . Grancl Master , Col . C . K . K . Tynte . At this meeting , also , tbe sum of ten pounds was voted to the widoAV of an old , valued , and beloved P . C . of this Encampment , the late Sir Kt . AV . Shaw .
Provincial.
PROVINCIAL .
DEPvBYSHIBE . DERBY . —On Tuesday , the 25 th of October , the Brethren of the Tyi-ian Lodge No . 315 , met to celebrate tbe anniversary of their Lodge , established in 1785 . The AV . M . Bro . Samuel Henchley , jun , in a most able manner , initiated two candidates into tbe mysteries of the