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adopt another conveyance , because I do not know the address of the Great Britain Grand Secretaries . I commence , then , my new periodical reUtions with you as a brother and colleague , asking of you this favourto tell me the precise and sure address of the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of England , the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , the Grand
Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Ireland , and your own address . And secondly , I'll ask you another favour—to publish the enclosed paper in your journal . It is intended to be distributed from New York by our Grand Representative ; but 1 hope you will not have any objection to make it known , whereby you would be in a great manner useful
to the Grand Lodge of Island of Cuba . Finally , I offer you my monthly correspondence to your paper , should you deem it agreeable or worth while for your subscribers . On everyone of these points I will be most happy to know your mind , which I shall endeavour to follow directly .
And , meantime , I take heed of this occasion to offer you my humble services as a brother , a colleague , and a lawyer , who will be very glad to make friendship with you . AUREUS ALMEIDA . Giand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of the Island of Cuba .
Office of the Grand Representative of the M . W . Grand Lodge of the Island of Cuba . New York , August 3 rd , 18 77 . To the R . W . G . M . of thc M . W . G . L . F . A . M ., of the State of
WISDOM . VIRTUE . FRATERNITY . R . W . Sir and Bro .: The irregular Masonic group bearing thc name Colon , in the island of Cubi , has lately beer , subject to original events , which my Grand Lodge deems proper to make known , in order to prevent any possible mistake about the new meaning and worth of the so called Grand Lodges
of Colon . We gave you notice , in due time , of the orig in and history of the primitive Grand Lodge of Colon , established at Santiago de Cuba , Dec . 5 th , 1859 , by three regular lodges , chartered by South Carolina : Fraternidad , Prudencia , and San Andres . —We have told you how the jurisdictional rights of that primitive Grand Lodge decayed , and
were lost , on account of its having submitted to the Supreme Council of Colon , Sept . 30 th , 1867 . You know that this Sup . Council , since that day , assumed all the powers of a Grand Lodge ; that in 1873 , it reinstalled the Grand Lodge of Colon , though only as a section thereof . Finally , we have told you how and why the lodges of Havana , Matanzas and Cardenas—6 of which
chartered by the Grand Lodge of Colon before its submission—met in a convention , and established the Sovereign and Independent Grand Lodge of the Island of Cuba . —Aug . 1 st , 1876 . In this state of things the few lodges yet acknowledging at Havana the authority of Colon , sent ( June 4 th , 1877 ) a proclamation to the Grand lodge at Santiago deCuba ,
requesting the immediate removal of that body to Havana , and threatening to revolt and to establish another Grand Lodge of Colon , in case their request should not be granted . The Grand Lodge of Santiago de Cuba , under this pressure , divided : the representatives of the three primitive lodges . with those of the two lodges at Guantanamo and
Manzanillo , and those of two lodges more at Havana , supported by the Grand Secretary , the DeputyGrand Mastcr , and the Grand Treasurer , refused their consent to any removal of the Grand Lodge from Santiago de Cuba , striked the petitioners with irregularity , ana professed to be the only regular Grand Lodge of Colon , having thc seal , archives , and treasury , and possessing the three primitive lodges . —
May 27 th , 1877 . The Havana band met in another place as the true Grand Lodge of Colon—June 3 rd , 1877—voted their removal from Santiago de Cuba , and are at present installed in the city of Havana , as the only Grand Lodge of Colon ; though void of the representation of the three primitive lodges , and of the seal , archives , and funds , with every
other appurtenance hereto belonging to the Grand Lodge called Colon . We have now , then , two Grand Lodges of Colon in the Island ol Cuba ; both irregular , yet both claiming to be the only genuine Grand Lodge in that country . Those are the facts which my Grand Lodge finds convenient to make known to all regular Grand Lodges in the world .
Fraternally yours , RAMON ILLA , Grand Repr . Gr . L . I . of C . [ Thc addresses of Ihe three Grand Secretaries in Great Britain are as follows : —John Hervey , Esq ., Freemasons ' Hall , Great Queen-street , London , I ' nglane ); T > . Murray Lyon , Esq ., Ficemascns' Hall , q 8 , George-street , Edinburgh , Scotland ; Samuel B . Oldham , Esq ., Freemasons ' Hall , Molesworth-strett , Dublin , Ireland . The office of thc Frcimaum , 19 8 , Fleet-street , London , England . ]
TESTIMONIAL TO MR . ALLPORT , OF THE MIDLAND RAILWAY . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Since the letter appeared in the Freemason I have
been told that a Scotch paper has taken the matter up , and I big to enclose you extracts from two other papers . It is a subject worthy of all good Alasons , and I trust you will give it all the aid you can . Yours sincercl ) , TRAVELLER . A correspondent of the Lowestoft Journal says : — Sir , —Having lately been enjoying the sea breeze from
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your coast , and on reckoning up the cost , I see very plainly that but for the system of third-class fares and quick travelling introduced by Mr . Allport ,- the general manager of the Midland System of Railways , we should not have been able—financially , I mean—to get our customary holiday : and I fe * el thankful at having once mote been
able to gne the htue ones the treat of digging sand and making puddles to their hearts' content . With your permission , I should like to thank Mr . All . poit for bringing about the system of quick travelling and cheap fares , and I have no doubt thousands of others do in their hearts . May he live long and die a happy man is the hope of PATERFAMILIAS .
The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette of Aug . 15 writes : THIRD CLASS BY AI . I . (' RAINS . — THE PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL TO MR . AI . LI'O RT . —This matter is still kept before the public . A cutting has been sent us from Engineering , from which we t-ather that the Freemason , thc Builder , Builders' Weekly Reporter , and other papers have expressed thtir concurrence with this movement . We
would venture to suggest that the object in view would be considerably advanced by a committee being formed and a start made . A newspaper cannot well take the initiative , and many may be waiting for something more definite than mere suggestions . It is said that commercial men are greatly indebted to Mr . Allport . If they think so , they , as a class , could suitably set such a movement on foot .
AN INTRUSION . To the Editor nf the " Freemason " Dear Sir and Brother , With reference to proceedings announced on page 337 of the Freemason , as arranged for , though not
ultimately carried or _ t , permit me to ask what ( if any ) justification could a W . M . or other officer plead for the admission into " open lodge assembled , " of a person who has not been initiated ? Believe me , yours fraternally , HEREOWARD .
[ The two following letters appeared in the Times of Tuesday : —]
CAXTON EXHIBITION . Sir , —Although you have done justice to Ihe very remarkable character and great value of the typographical collection at South Kensington , which in a few days will be dispersed , by adir . itting many articles and letters respecting it in your columns , I hope there may still be room for some statements partly supplementary to and partly in
correction of the information which the Exhibition and its catalogue afford . The Exhibition would have been more popular and more instructive if the specimens had been more promptly and more completel y furnished with descriptive labels , or at least with numbers corresponding with those in the catalogue . Unfortunately , it is about to close just as it is approaching the condition [ in which it
ought to have been at its opening . The collection is , if Anything , rather too large and miscellaneous . Yet there is more than one deplorable hiatus in the chain of typographical history , which mi ght , I think , have been easily supplied . Even to this day , strange to say , the question of the first inventor of printing with moveable type is sometimes disputed , and it was in this Exhibition that one would have most reasonably have
looked for an example of a work which seems to furnish the most valuable evidence on the subject . I mean the " Chronicon Eusebii Caisariensis Episcopi , " printed by Ratdolt at Venice in 1483 , about 30 years after the earliest extant example of printing , and continued by a later author to the date cf publication . In this Chronicle , printed at a period when a false claim could hardly have been made without exposure , the invention is expressly affirmed to be that of John Gutenburg , of Mentz , on the Rhine , in the
year 1440 . One looks in vain also for the earliest known instance of musical notation by types , which is in the "Colectorium super Magnificat , " of John Gerson , supposed to be printed by Eggcsteyn , at Strasburg , in 1473 . The notes ,
which are used in gradation to express the mental emotions from joy down to grief , through the intermediate stages of hope , pity , and fear , have no stave , the intention being , as it seems , that this should be supplied by lines ruled in by hand , which however , has not been done in
my copy . As some space in the Exhibition is assigned to phonetic printing , I am surprised to find no allusion to the phonetic publications of Charles Butler , Head Master of the Holy Ghost School at Basingstoke , whose illustration of the language of bees by musical notation in the " Feminine Monarchic" is refeired to in your last week's article on
music-printing . As early as 1634 an edition of this work and also an English grammar were published by Butler of Oxford in phonetic j-pelling , of which the present one is only a revival , and with certain special forms of phonelic type . I did not observe in the collection any examples of the magnificent typography of Bodoni , of the Royal Press of
Parma in the 18 th century , nor of his contemporaries , Renouard and Didot , at Paris . Foulis , of Glasgow , is represented only by his less important productions . But , above all the truly noble achievements of the Chiswick Press ( C . Whiitingham's ) , for W . Pickering , the only man of later days who has really rivalled , and perhaps equalled , the typography of the 15 th century , ought surely
to have been prominent in an English exhibition of printing . His folio seiies , in six vols ., of the various editions of the Book of Common Prayer and his Wycliffe ' s New Testament mi ght have stood side by side with the Mazarine Bible or the Mayence Psalter without losing by the comparison . It was , by the way , the Mazarine Bible , not the Mayence Psalter ( as stated in the " Handbook of the Exhibition " )
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of which two copies were sold in the Perkins sale . It js however , after all , an ungracious task to point out defects in an Exhibition which has afforded me , and I hope manv others , extreme pleasure , and I will not trespass further on your space . Basingstoke Rectory . J . E . MILLARD .
TEMPLE BAR . Sir , —The repaving of Fleet-street having now entirely stopped the traffic through Temple Bar it would seem to trrdinary minds the proper time for removing that alread y condemned obstruction , the lease of it having expired some time ago . Common Councilmen , however , have not
common minds . If I rightly understand their debates , as reported in your columns , they decline to remove the Bar until the Government or Board of Works make some satisfactory arrangement about the space left vacant by throwing back the frontage of the New Law Courts . In other words , they say that if the street be not widened
exactly to their fancy , they will do their best to obitruct it . Is not this much the same policy as that pursued in the Hou ? e of Commons b y Messrs . Parnell , Bigga , r , and Co . ? Your obedient servant , A FLEET-STREET BANKER .
United Grand Lodge.
UNITED GRAND LODGE .
The following is the agenda of business for Wednesday , 5 th September , 1877 : — The minutes of the Quarterl y Communication of the 6 tti June for confirmation . The M . W . Grand Master will mnvc—( 1 ) " That in consideration of the dreadful fire which
has occurred at St . John , New Brunswick , and which has devastated that city , this Grand Lodge do grant the sum of two hundred guineas , to be paid out of the Fund of General Purposes , in aid of the fund now in course of formation for the relief of the inhabitants . " ( 2 ) " That this Grand Lodge do grant the sum of one hundred guineas , to be paid out of the Fund of General
Purpose ? , in alleviation of the distress caused by the ' Cataclysm ' which has recently occurred on the coast of Peru . " Report of the Lodge of Benevolence for the last quarter , in which are recommendations for the following grants , viz : — A brother of the Tyrian Lodge , No . 253 , Derby Ao o 0
A brother of the Lodge of Concord , No . 323 , Stockport ... ... ... 50 o 0 The widow of a brother of the Saint James ' Lodge , No . 7 6 5 , Southwark ... ... ... 100 o 0 A brother of the Duke of Athol Lodge , No . 210 , Denton ... ... 75 o 0 The daughter of a brother of the Stoneleigh
Lodge , No . 725 , Kenilworth .. 50 o 0 The widow of a brother of the Lodge of Faith and Unanimity , No . 417 , Dorchester ... 200 o 0 Report of the Board of General Purposes . The Boaril of General Purposes have to report as follows : — 1 . Arising out of the opinions for some considerable
time expressed in Grand Lodge , and more especially the recent debates of that assembly , the Board have had under their careful and special consideration the constitution of the Lodge of Benevolence , and having referred the question to a committee of the whole Board for consideration and report , have received from such committee the following report thereon : —
To the Worshipful Board of General Purposes . The Committee of the whole Board , to whom it was on the 19 th day of June last referred to consider the advisability of recommending Grand Lodge to alter the title and constitution of the Lodge of Benevolence , beg to report unanimously as follows : —Having fully considered the subject we are of opinion that it is advisable to recommend Grand Lodge to alter both the title and the
constitution of the Lodge of Benevolence in manner hereinafter mentioned . 1 . The "Lodge of Benevolence" to be in future designated the " Board of Benevolence . " 2 . 'I he Board of Benevolence to consist of the Grand Master , Pro Grand Master , Deputy Grand Master , the Grand Wardens , a President , and forty-five other members . The President and fifteen of such members to be annually
nominated by the Grand Master at the Quarterl y Communication in December , and the remaining thirty members to be elected by Grand Lodge from amongst the actual Masters and Past Masters of lodges , such election to be conducted in the same manner as that of the Board
of General Purposes , but it should not in our opinion be a regulation that one-third or any other proportion of the members should retire annually . 3 . —The Board to elect one of its members to be Vice * President .
4 . —Five members to form a quorum . All which is submitted to the consideration of the Boards ( Signed ) J B . MONCKTON , Chairman . And the Board of General Purposes unanimously a rc f , ' ing with such report do recommend the same tc Grand Lodge for adoption .
, 2 . —The Board have had under their consideration aid that of the Premises Committee the question of improving the accommodation in the Grand Secretary ' sofTice , and have arrived at the conclusion that the lest and most satisfactory mode of effecting the desired end would be to ut , 1 , s . eeriy ineiuc ur eiiei . iiii ^> uic uesiicu cull wuum V- ¦¦ - - i
the lavatory on the ground floor at the back of the gran staircase and the front room known as the library , * '' . J by means of communicating openings , would , m opinion of the Board , afford , for some time to come least , sufficient and proper accommodation for carry " *
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adopt another conveyance , because I do not know the address of the Great Britain Grand Secretaries . I commence , then , my new periodical reUtions with you as a brother and colleague , asking of you this favourto tell me the precise and sure address of the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of England , the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , the Grand
Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Ireland , and your own address . And secondly , I'll ask you another favour—to publish the enclosed paper in your journal . It is intended to be distributed from New York by our Grand Representative ; but 1 hope you will not have any objection to make it known , whereby you would be in a great manner useful
to the Grand Lodge of Island of Cuba . Finally , I offer you my monthly correspondence to your paper , should you deem it agreeable or worth while for your subscribers . On everyone of these points I will be most happy to know your mind , which I shall endeavour to follow directly .
And , meantime , I take heed of this occasion to offer you my humble services as a brother , a colleague , and a lawyer , who will be very glad to make friendship with you . AUREUS ALMEIDA . Giand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of the Island of Cuba .
Office of the Grand Representative of the M . W . Grand Lodge of the Island of Cuba . New York , August 3 rd , 18 77 . To the R . W . G . M . of thc M . W . G . L . F . A . M ., of the State of
WISDOM . VIRTUE . FRATERNITY . R . W . Sir and Bro .: The irregular Masonic group bearing thc name Colon , in the island of Cubi , has lately beer , subject to original events , which my Grand Lodge deems proper to make known , in order to prevent any possible mistake about the new meaning and worth of the so called Grand Lodges
of Colon . We gave you notice , in due time , of the orig in and history of the primitive Grand Lodge of Colon , established at Santiago de Cuba , Dec . 5 th , 1859 , by three regular lodges , chartered by South Carolina : Fraternidad , Prudencia , and San Andres . —We have told you how the jurisdictional rights of that primitive Grand Lodge decayed , and
were lost , on account of its having submitted to the Supreme Council of Colon , Sept . 30 th , 1867 . You know that this Sup . Council , since that day , assumed all the powers of a Grand Lodge ; that in 1873 , it reinstalled the Grand Lodge of Colon , though only as a section thereof . Finally , we have told you how and why the lodges of Havana , Matanzas and Cardenas—6 of which
chartered by the Grand Lodge of Colon before its submission—met in a convention , and established the Sovereign and Independent Grand Lodge of the Island of Cuba . —Aug . 1 st , 1876 . In this state of things the few lodges yet acknowledging at Havana the authority of Colon , sent ( June 4 th , 1877 ) a proclamation to the Grand lodge at Santiago deCuba ,
requesting the immediate removal of that body to Havana , and threatening to revolt and to establish another Grand Lodge of Colon , in case their request should not be granted . The Grand Lodge of Santiago de Cuba , under this pressure , divided : the representatives of the three primitive lodges . with those of the two lodges at Guantanamo and
Manzanillo , and those of two lodges more at Havana , supported by the Grand Secretary , the DeputyGrand Mastcr , and the Grand Treasurer , refused their consent to any removal of the Grand Lodge from Santiago de Cuba , striked the petitioners with irregularity , ana professed to be the only regular Grand Lodge of Colon , having thc seal , archives , and treasury , and possessing the three primitive lodges . —
May 27 th , 1877 . The Havana band met in another place as the true Grand Lodge of Colon—June 3 rd , 1877—voted their removal from Santiago de Cuba , and are at present installed in the city of Havana , as the only Grand Lodge of Colon ; though void of the representation of the three primitive lodges , and of the seal , archives , and funds , with every
other appurtenance hereto belonging to the Grand Lodge called Colon . We have now , then , two Grand Lodges of Colon in the Island ol Cuba ; both irregular , yet both claiming to be the only genuine Grand Lodge in that country . Those are the facts which my Grand Lodge finds convenient to make known to all regular Grand Lodges in the world .
Fraternally yours , RAMON ILLA , Grand Repr . Gr . L . I . of C . [ Thc addresses of Ihe three Grand Secretaries in Great Britain are as follows : —John Hervey , Esq ., Freemasons ' Hall , Great Queen-street , London , I ' nglane ); T > . Murray Lyon , Esq ., Ficemascns' Hall , q 8 , George-street , Edinburgh , Scotland ; Samuel B . Oldham , Esq ., Freemasons ' Hall , Molesworth-strett , Dublin , Ireland . The office of thc Frcimaum , 19 8 , Fleet-street , London , England . ]
TESTIMONIAL TO MR . ALLPORT , OF THE MIDLAND RAILWAY . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Since the letter appeared in the Freemason I have
been told that a Scotch paper has taken the matter up , and I big to enclose you extracts from two other papers . It is a subject worthy of all good Alasons , and I trust you will give it all the aid you can . Yours sincercl ) , TRAVELLER . A correspondent of the Lowestoft Journal says : — Sir , —Having lately been enjoying the sea breeze from
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your coast , and on reckoning up the cost , I see very plainly that but for the system of third-class fares and quick travelling introduced by Mr . Allport ,- the general manager of the Midland System of Railways , we should not have been able—financially , I mean—to get our customary holiday : and I fe * el thankful at having once mote been
able to gne the htue ones the treat of digging sand and making puddles to their hearts' content . With your permission , I should like to thank Mr . All . poit for bringing about the system of quick travelling and cheap fares , and I have no doubt thousands of others do in their hearts . May he live long and die a happy man is the hope of PATERFAMILIAS .
The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette of Aug . 15 writes : THIRD CLASS BY AI . I . (' RAINS . — THE PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL TO MR . AI . LI'O RT . —This matter is still kept before the public . A cutting has been sent us from Engineering , from which we t-ather that the Freemason , thc Builder , Builders' Weekly Reporter , and other papers have expressed thtir concurrence with this movement . We
would venture to suggest that the object in view would be considerably advanced by a committee being formed and a start made . A newspaper cannot well take the initiative , and many may be waiting for something more definite than mere suggestions . It is said that commercial men are greatly indebted to Mr . Allport . If they think so , they , as a class , could suitably set such a movement on foot .
AN INTRUSION . To the Editor nf the " Freemason " Dear Sir and Brother , With reference to proceedings announced on page 337 of the Freemason , as arranged for , though not
ultimately carried or _ t , permit me to ask what ( if any ) justification could a W . M . or other officer plead for the admission into " open lodge assembled , " of a person who has not been initiated ? Believe me , yours fraternally , HEREOWARD .
[ The two following letters appeared in the Times of Tuesday : —]
CAXTON EXHIBITION . Sir , —Although you have done justice to Ihe very remarkable character and great value of the typographical collection at South Kensington , which in a few days will be dispersed , by adir . itting many articles and letters respecting it in your columns , I hope there may still be room for some statements partly supplementary to and partly in
correction of the information which the Exhibition and its catalogue afford . The Exhibition would have been more popular and more instructive if the specimens had been more promptly and more completel y furnished with descriptive labels , or at least with numbers corresponding with those in the catalogue . Unfortunately , it is about to close just as it is approaching the condition [ in which it
ought to have been at its opening . The collection is , if Anything , rather too large and miscellaneous . Yet there is more than one deplorable hiatus in the chain of typographical history , which mi ght , I think , have been easily supplied . Even to this day , strange to say , the question of the first inventor of printing with moveable type is sometimes disputed , and it was in this Exhibition that one would have most reasonably have
looked for an example of a work which seems to furnish the most valuable evidence on the subject . I mean the " Chronicon Eusebii Caisariensis Episcopi , " printed by Ratdolt at Venice in 1483 , about 30 years after the earliest extant example of printing , and continued by a later author to the date cf publication . In this Chronicle , printed at a period when a false claim could hardly have been made without exposure , the invention is expressly affirmed to be that of John Gutenburg , of Mentz , on the Rhine , in the
year 1440 . One looks in vain also for the earliest known instance of musical notation by types , which is in the "Colectorium super Magnificat , " of John Gerson , supposed to be printed by Eggcsteyn , at Strasburg , in 1473 . The notes ,
which are used in gradation to express the mental emotions from joy down to grief , through the intermediate stages of hope , pity , and fear , have no stave , the intention being , as it seems , that this should be supplied by lines ruled in by hand , which however , has not been done in
my copy . As some space in the Exhibition is assigned to phonetic printing , I am surprised to find no allusion to the phonetic publications of Charles Butler , Head Master of the Holy Ghost School at Basingstoke , whose illustration of the language of bees by musical notation in the " Feminine Monarchic" is refeired to in your last week's article on
music-printing . As early as 1634 an edition of this work and also an English grammar were published by Butler of Oxford in phonetic j-pelling , of which the present one is only a revival , and with certain special forms of phonelic type . I did not observe in the collection any examples of the magnificent typography of Bodoni , of the Royal Press of
Parma in the 18 th century , nor of his contemporaries , Renouard and Didot , at Paris . Foulis , of Glasgow , is represented only by his less important productions . But , above all the truly noble achievements of the Chiswick Press ( C . Whiitingham's ) , for W . Pickering , the only man of later days who has really rivalled , and perhaps equalled , the typography of the 15 th century , ought surely
to have been prominent in an English exhibition of printing . His folio seiies , in six vols ., of the various editions of the Book of Common Prayer and his Wycliffe ' s New Testament mi ght have stood side by side with the Mazarine Bible or the Mayence Psalter without losing by the comparison . It was , by the way , the Mazarine Bible , not the Mayence Psalter ( as stated in the " Handbook of the Exhibition " )
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of which two copies were sold in the Perkins sale . It js however , after all , an ungracious task to point out defects in an Exhibition which has afforded me , and I hope manv others , extreme pleasure , and I will not trespass further on your space . Basingstoke Rectory . J . E . MILLARD .
TEMPLE BAR . Sir , —The repaving of Fleet-street having now entirely stopped the traffic through Temple Bar it would seem to trrdinary minds the proper time for removing that alread y condemned obstruction , the lease of it having expired some time ago . Common Councilmen , however , have not
common minds . If I rightly understand their debates , as reported in your columns , they decline to remove the Bar until the Government or Board of Works make some satisfactory arrangement about the space left vacant by throwing back the frontage of the New Law Courts . In other words , they say that if the street be not widened
exactly to their fancy , they will do their best to obitruct it . Is not this much the same policy as that pursued in the Hou ? e of Commons b y Messrs . Parnell , Bigga , r , and Co . ? Your obedient servant , A FLEET-STREET BANKER .
United Grand Lodge.
UNITED GRAND LODGE .
The following is the agenda of business for Wednesday , 5 th September , 1877 : — The minutes of the Quarterl y Communication of the 6 tti June for confirmation . The M . W . Grand Master will mnvc—( 1 ) " That in consideration of the dreadful fire which
has occurred at St . John , New Brunswick , and which has devastated that city , this Grand Lodge do grant the sum of two hundred guineas , to be paid out of the Fund of General Purposes , in aid of the fund now in course of formation for the relief of the inhabitants . " ( 2 ) " That this Grand Lodge do grant the sum of one hundred guineas , to be paid out of the Fund of General
Purpose ? , in alleviation of the distress caused by the ' Cataclysm ' which has recently occurred on the coast of Peru . " Report of the Lodge of Benevolence for the last quarter , in which are recommendations for the following grants , viz : — A brother of the Tyrian Lodge , No . 253 , Derby Ao o 0
A brother of the Lodge of Concord , No . 323 , Stockport ... ... ... 50 o 0 The widow of a brother of the Saint James ' Lodge , No . 7 6 5 , Southwark ... ... ... 100 o 0 A brother of the Duke of Athol Lodge , No . 210 , Denton ... ... 75 o 0 The daughter of a brother of the Stoneleigh
Lodge , No . 725 , Kenilworth .. 50 o 0 The widow of a brother of the Lodge of Faith and Unanimity , No . 417 , Dorchester ... 200 o 0 Report of the Board of General Purposes . The Boaril of General Purposes have to report as follows : — 1 . Arising out of the opinions for some considerable
time expressed in Grand Lodge , and more especially the recent debates of that assembly , the Board have had under their careful and special consideration the constitution of the Lodge of Benevolence , and having referred the question to a committee of the whole Board for consideration and report , have received from such committee the following report thereon : —
To the Worshipful Board of General Purposes . The Committee of the whole Board , to whom it was on the 19 th day of June last referred to consider the advisability of recommending Grand Lodge to alter the title and constitution of the Lodge of Benevolence , beg to report unanimously as follows : —Having fully considered the subject we are of opinion that it is advisable to recommend Grand Lodge to alter both the title and the
constitution of the Lodge of Benevolence in manner hereinafter mentioned . 1 . The "Lodge of Benevolence" to be in future designated the " Board of Benevolence . " 2 . 'I he Board of Benevolence to consist of the Grand Master , Pro Grand Master , Deputy Grand Master , the Grand Wardens , a President , and forty-five other members . The President and fifteen of such members to be annually
nominated by the Grand Master at the Quarterl y Communication in December , and the remaining thirty members to be elected by Grand Lodge from amongst the actual Masters and Past Masters of lodges , such election to be conducted in the same manner as that of the Board
of General Purposes , but it should not in our opinion be a regulation that one-third or any other proportion of the members should retire annually . 3 . —The Board to elect one of its members to be Vice * President .
4 . —Five members to form a quorum . All which is submitted to the consideration of the Boards ( Signed ) J B . MONCKTON , Chairman . And the Board of General Purposes unanimously a rc f , ' ing with such report do recommend the same tc Grand Lodge for adoption .
, 2 . —The Board have had under their consideration aid that of the Premises Committee the question of improving the accommodation in the Grand Secretary ' sofTice , and have arrived at the conclusion that the lest and most satisfactory mode of effecting the desired end would be to ut , 1 , s . eeriy ineiuc ur eiiei . iiii ^> uic uesiicu cull wuum V- ¦¦ - - i
the lavatory on the ground floor at the back of the gran staircase and the front room known as the library , * '' . J by means of communicating openings , would , m opinion of the Board , afford , for some time to come least , sufficient and proper accommodation for carry " *