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Many complaints having been received of thc difficulty experienced in procuring the Freemason in thc City , the publisher begs to append tlie following list , being a selected few of the appointed agents : — Abbott , Wm ., East Cheap . Bates , Pilgrim-street , Ludgalc-hill .

Born , II ., 11 3 , London-wall . Dawson , Wm ., 121 , Cannon-street . Gilbert , Jas ., 18 , Graccchurch-strect . Guest , Wm ., 34 , Paternoster-row . Phillpott Bros ., ( 1 3 , King William-street . Pottle , R ., 14 , Royal Exchange .

May also be obtained at W . 11 . Smith & Son's Bookstalls at the following City Stations : — Broad-street . j Holborn Viaduct . Cannon-street . | London Bridge . Ludgate Hill .

Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

All Communications , Advertisements , & c , intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later than 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning . All ' Communications should be sent to 198 , Fleet Street .

REMITTANCES RECEIVED . Crauford , W . P ., New Zealand , P . O . O £ 0 13 c Mount Olive Lodge , Demarara , P . O . O 2 00 Peppier , E ., Channel Fleet , Stamps o 60 Saunders , A . W . O ., East Indies , Draft 1 14 8 Wctherill , IL , Hasskin , Stamps 050

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The Freemason , SATURDAY , AI-RIL 3 , 1875 .

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NOTICE . With reference to the statement of the Times that " Certificates are required to be countersigned by the Secretaries , " it is entirely incorrect and unfounded . I

Installation Of H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales.

INSTALLATION OF H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES .

We understand that after providing for all the qualified members of Grand Lodge there will be one Master Mason ' s ticket for each lodge that has made application .

Dress For The Installation.

DRESS FOR THE INSTALLATION .

With regard to this most important point we are in a position to say , that the following regulations on the subject will be printed on the cards for admission . We request our brethren carefully to note the rules anti arrangements thus laid down . " Brethren to appear in evening

dress ( or black frock coats ) , white gloves , and full Masonic Craft clothing . Masters , Wardens , and Past Masters must , in addition , wear the collar and jewels of their respective offices . Provincial Grand Officers—the collars and jewels of the lodges and offices , respectively , in right of which they attend as members of Grand

Lodge . Non-commissioned officers of the regular service in full dress uniform will be considered in evening dress . Volunteers must not appear in uniform . No jewels or emblems to be worn but those appertaining to Craft or Royal Arch Masonry . Brethren are recommended to bring their Grand Lodge certificates , as they

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cannot be admitted unless the Stewards in charge of the entrance are satisfied of their identity . This ticket is not to be given up , but is to be produced for inspection whenever required by the Stewards on duty . The places in the hall have been determined b y ballot . A

seat is provided for every brother to whom a ticket has been issued . Brethren are therefore expected to proceed quietly to the places assigned to them . Brethren bringing coats and hats must take them in the hall and place them

under their seats out of view . The use of this ticket is an engagement by the brother named thereon to conform to all the regulations made by authority of the Grand Master . By command of the M . W . Grand Master . ( Signed ) John Hervey , Grand Secretary . "

The Installation Of The Grand Master.

THE INSTALLATION OF THE GRAND MASTER .

We think it well to give our friendly readers and the Craft a few words of fraternal advice and warning . Some lodges , it seems , despite the cautionary directions of the official circulars , are sending in the names of all their brethren , on the ground , we suppose , that if there is to be

an allotment of tickets at the last , they may stand well as to numbers in the distribution , Now , we venture to think , and to say , that in so acting , they are not behaving quite fairly to the authorities , as they are giving them much increased trouble . It is not likely , as a general rule , that

one half of the members of any lodge will attend , and as W . Masters are desired to return onl y the names of those who really mean lo attend , we trust that they will consider a little the very heavy labours of those excellent brethren who have the arrangements of the gathering and the

apportionment of the tickets . We trust , that all who are in authority in our lodges will endeavour strictly to comply with the rules and regulations laid down , and appreciate the evident desire of the central authorities and officials to be fair and considerate to all .

The Great City Lodge.

THE GREAT CITY LODGE .

The visit of our Bro . the Lord Mayor and other civic authorities to this new and most flourishing lodge , specially and fully recorded in our last impression , seems to have been a most successful and enjoyable one . We are glad to read such a list of visitors , we congratulate its

worthy W . M . on so pleasant a " soiree . " It puts us in mind , as we con over the names of those who gathered round the hospitable board , of what the oldest Masonic MS . still preserves for us , of the habits of our operative forefathers in their Grand Assembly .

And the grete burges of that syte , They were there allc in their degre . We heartily endorse all that was said about the friendly feeling that should ever exist between our ancient fraternities and the civic authorities of the oldest municipality in England , of the first

municipality in the world . At this moment the important office of Lord Mayor is filled by our worthy and respected Bro . W . H . Stone , while the President of the Board of General Purposes is the Town Clerk to the venerable municipality ; Bro . Ellis and Bro . Shaw , the two Sheriffs , are

also Free and Accepted Masons . Several other members of the corporation belong to our Order , among them our excellent Bro . J . Symonds , and . Bro . Horace Jones . We sincerely trust that the '' entente ccrdiale " may long continue and increase as years move on . Freemasonry has yet but existed superficially so to say , in the city .

We believe that it yet has to find there " a local habitation and a name , " and probably a good hall , in which most of the City lodges could meet , would g ive impetus to its advance , and confer permanency on its existence . We hope to be privileged to record many more such trul y fraternal reunions .

The Bank Holiday.

THE BANK HOLIDAY .

Though as Masonic journalists we are very wisely estopped from all purely political remarks and reveries , we are not prohibited , so far as we are aware , from noticing from time to time , some of those many social questions and usages

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which crop up in the onward passage of years , and the peaceful progress of mankind . We confess we are amongst those who fully approve of Bank Holidays . We think that many of us will remember the old adage , " AU work and no play makes Jack a dull boy , " and most true it has

proved like many ethers in the history of our Anglo-Saxon human race , and especially in Great Britain . We hear sometimes violent diatribes against the improvident and reckless habits of the operative population . But it may be fairly said of them ,-we contend , after much

experience of their ways and feelings , that their virtues are their own , their vices the consequences , more or less , of social anomalies or exceptional causes . Given the same conditions to start with , there is no possible reason why our laborious fellow countrymen , or that important

class which fills our banks , counting-houses , and warehouses , should not be every whit as intelligent , as self-restrained , as prudent , as wellconducted , as their " betters , " to use a common form of expression . But until quite lately , the condition of these great classes was one of hard

toil , so that the pursuit of material enjoyment , nay even of excessive relaxation , was the inevitable result of the long strain upon the human machine . We were in the parks on Monday , and we saw man )* hard-working clerks and workers , with their wives and children , enjoying

the fresh air , and the verdure of those great lungs of London . No doubt the same scene was witnessed elsewhere in many crowded localities . We can conceive nothing better for the classes mainly interested , or indeed for every section of the community . Prince Albert said years ago ,

and no truer or wiser words have been uttered in our generation , that the " interest of the most widely contrasted classes , " was , after all , " identical , " and any legislation which tends to draw us all closer together , to give a stronger and kindlier cohesion to our social system , which

lightens labour and takes away a little , if even for one hour , from the often depressing influences of toil , ought to be welcomed by the patriot , the philanthropist , and the Freemason . Sure we aro of this , that with some faults and some errors , the result for the most

part as , we said before , of much mistaken policy , the English people possesses in itself , the germs of the finest character the world has ever seen . Respectful and yet independent , loyal and peaceable , orderly and tractable , faithful to their employers , and most deeply attached to their kith and kin , they deserve , as they will no

doubt receive in the wiser arrangements of administrative Government to-day , all that consideration , and all those social ameliorations , which will assuredly increase the general and domestic happiness of our nation , and render more stable the sacred institutions of home and Fatherland .

The New Generation.

THE NEW GENERATION .

One of the most popular topics of the " high falutin" writers just now , appears to be , the intense wickedness and worthlessness of the new generation . One might almost fancy such scribes were wishful to take a leaf out of the book of those excellent men , Messrs . Moody

and Sankey ; to denounce , like the eloquent Mr . Stiggins , the wickedness of all around him , except one or two chosen " vessels . " No doubt when Mr . D'Israeli , in the memorable pages of " Coningsby , " put into the mouth of a great nobleman , " these are evil days for the new

generation , " he struck a chord which vibrated through many sensibilities . But time has passed on , the changes of the world have been many , and that suffering generation has vanished in turn , and here we are , on the whole , as " well as can be expected , " at any rate to-day , and with

numberless signs of prosperity , loyal order , and peaceful progress . It is well we think , then , never to allow ourselves to give way on any pretence to hasty censures of persons and events , or to a morbid view of things in general . The

world , after all , is pretty much the same from generation to generation . Particular epochs may have special characteristics and possibly have , but on the whole , the normal state of the world and of mankind varies very little . " In the long run , " said some one of old , " most things find