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SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 3 , 1900 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

None will feel a deeper sympathy with our venerable Soverei gn in the latest sorrow that has befallen her through the death of her gallat . t and much-loved grandson Prince Christian Victor of

Schleswig-Holslein , ( ban the members of the Society of which Her Majesty has been Patron for so many years , and ° f which her son and the heir to her throne , W . RAl . lhe Prince of Wales is , and has been for over a

Masonic Notes.

quarter of a century , the M . W . G . Master . Throughout the whole ot her long reign our gracious Queen has shown such tender solicitude for the welfare and happiness of all her subjects , to whatever station of life they may have been called , rejoicing with them in

their joys and grieving with them in their griefs , that there is not one of her people , man , woman , or child , who does not look upon his Queen's afllictio ' ns as his own and her losses as his losses . May the Great

Architect grant to Her Majesty the strength to bear with her accustomed fortitude the bereavement with which it has pleased the Almighty in His inscrutable wisdom to visit her .

A more enthusiastic welcome could not have been given to the City Imperial Volunteers on their return home from the war in South Africa . At the same time it is difficult to imagine how the authorities could have blundered more thoroughly over the

arrangements that were made for the march of the regiment along the chosen route . The Cunard Company ' s officials did their part in landing the troops at Southampton and the Railway Companies conveyed

them safe , and sound to Paddington . After that—Chaos . The C . I . Vs . had hard enough work set them to do in South Africa , but the hardest of all must have been their march through London on Monday . We congratulate them on having survived the ordeal .

The installation meeting of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 , will be held at Freemasons' Hall on Thursday—not Friday , as stated in the summonsthe 8 th instant , the W . Master elect being Bro . E . Conder , iun . After the appointment and investiture

of his officers for the year Bro . Conder will deliver the inaugural address which is customary in No . 2076 on these occasions , after which a vote of thanks will be moved to the retiring Master , Bro . T . B . Whytehcad , Past G . S . B . England . The usual dinner will follow at Holborn Restaurant .

« * There is the usual modest paper of Agenda to be submitted at the Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter , which will be held at Freemasons ' Hall on Wednesday , the 7 th instant . There will be ,

firstly , an acknowledgment of the address voted by Grand Chapter to his Royal Highness the First Grand Principal on the death of his brother , H . R . H . the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( Duke of Edinburgh in the peerage of the United Kingdom ) ; then the Report of

the Committee of General Purposes ; and , lastly , the election of a member to serve on the Committee of General Purposes , in place of Comp . George Graveley ,

P . A . G . D . C , deceased , Comp . Henry A . Tobias , Past G . Std . Br ., being the only candidate nominated for the vacancy . This business will not occupy Grand Chapter for long .

Warrants for three new chapters , all of which will be located in the Provinces , are recommended by th e Committee . One of these is for the Wansfell Chapter , to be attached to the Ambleside Lodge , No . 274 s , Ambleside , in the Province of Cumberland

and Westmoreland ; the second for the Granville Chapter , to be attached to the Lord Warden Lodge , No . 1096 , Walmer , in the Province of Kent ; and the third for the Clarendon Chapter , to be attached to the Earl of Clarendon Lodge , No . 1984 , Watford , in Hertfordshire .

The annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Cornwall , which was held at Camborne on Tuesday , the 23 rd ult ., under the auspices of the Mount Edgcumbe Lodge , No . 1544 , appears from the report of the proceedings , which we publish in another column , to

have been well attended , and the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , Prov . Grand Master , who presided , must have been much gratified by the encouraging reports that were presented on the subject of membership , the finances , the Provincial Charitable Organisation , and

other matters . The Provincial Grand Secretary had the pleasure of announcing that the aggregate membership of the 31 lodges in the Province was 19 S 4 , this being the highest number ever recorded for Cornwall , and giving the excellent average of 61 members per

lodge . The Provincial Grand Treasurer's statement was also a most satisfactory one , while Bro . Gilbert Pearce ' s Report of the Cornwall Masonic Charity Association—which , in the unavoidable absence of that

brother , was read by the Provincial Grand Secretary — showed that good work was being done by it for the Province , and liro . E . A . Broad was in a position to furnish a good report uf his work in dealing with the vo . ts for the Central Masonic Institutions .

Masonic Notes.

As regards the Cornwall Masonic Annuity and Benevolent Fund , Bro . Milford , though he had to acknowledge that the amount ( £ 362 ) received in the way of contributions was less by about ^ 30 than the total of the previous year , was able to show that good

work was being done by the Fund . I he amount expended—being £ 150 in respect of seven annuitants , . £ 132 for nine widows , . 6100 in eight educational grants—reached a total of . £ 382 , while the income arising from investments was £ 234 . The

recommendations of the Committee of Relief for grants to the amount of 100 guineas , of which one half was to the Annuity and Benevolent Fund and the other half

for distribution among the Central Charities , were endorsed by the meeting . Thus , both locally and generally , the Province was able to give an excellent axount of its work during the past year .

* There remains just one incident that occurred during the meeting which , as it has reference toone ol the ablest and most energetic members of the Province , must not be allowed to pass unnoticed . We allude to the

presentation by the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , on behalf of the Province , to Bro . B . F . Edyvean , Prov G . Secretary , of his clothing as P . A . G . D . C . of United Grand Lodge . In doing this his lordship laid stress on the great amount of good , solid , and successful

work which Bro . Edyvean had done for Cornwall during the years he had held the office of Prov . Grand Secretary , and the equally successful work he had done in behalf of the Central Charitable Institutions of the Society . The laudatory remarks of the Prov . Grand

Master were heartily applauded by the brethren , who fully realise how admirably Bro . Edyvean has fulfilled his duties both officially and as an individual Mason ,

and we take leave to congratulate him on the estimation in which he is held throughout the Province and of which this gift of the Grand Lodge clothing of his rank is the latest evidence .

There is yet another lodge to be added to the roll of Warwickshire —the Seymour Lodge , No . 2804 , which will be consecrated at the Masonic Hall , Ipsley , Redditch , on Wednesday , the 14 th inst ., at 2 . 30 p . m . The ceremony will be performed by

Bro . George Beech , P . G . Std . Br . England , D . P . G , Master , assisted by the Grand Officers of the Province . The principal officers designate are Bro . Lord Ernest Seymour , P . M . No . 301 , P . Prov . G . W . —after whom

the lodge is named—W . Master , and Bros . Thomas Evans and Herbert R . Lloyd ( W . M . No . 301 ) , S . W . and J . W . respectively . A banquet—tickets 5 s ., exclusive of wine—will be held at five p . m .

We have much pleajure in announcing that Volume IX . of " Quatuor Coronatorum Antigrapha , M tsonic Reprints ot the Quatuor Coronati Lodge" is now ready , and we have no doubt will attract the notice of all Masonic students . It contains ' * the full list of a

valuable and hitherto unedited MS . in the British Museum , ' The Book of the Fundamental Constitutions and Orders of the Philo-Musiae et Architecture Societas , London , 1725 . 1727 , ' twenty-two pages of facsimile and a treatise on the history and Masonic

importance of tnis Society , from the pen of W . Bro . W . H . Rylands , F . S . A . , P . A . G . D . C , Past Master . " The importance of this MS . lies in the fact that it presents " the first evidence of three separate Degrees in Freemasonry , and a glimpse of the way in which

Freemasonry was carried on only a few years after the foundation of the Grand Lodge by brethren imbued with the methods in vo ^ ue immediately before that event . " * # *

We are further informed that , notwithstanding the many difficulties which have presented themselves in its compilation , the promised work on " British Masonic Medals " is now approaching completion , and its publication may be looked for about Christmas . We are

given to understand that it will contain "exquisite photographic reproductions of every Masonic medal ol a cuiiiinemurativc character ever struck in Great Britain , Ireland , and the Colonies . Both sides will be given , natural size , " and accompanying each will be a

full description of the medal itself as well as of the event or person it was meant to commemorate , while in the case of the rarer specimens , reference will be made to the collections in which they are preserved .

The work is being produced by the Quatuor Coronati Lodge and the Grand Lodge of Hamburg , and the number of copies printed will be regulated by thu number of subscriptions .