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United Grand Lodge.
UNITED GRAND LODGE .
The Quarterly Meeting of Grand Lodge was held on Wednesday evening at Freemasons ' Hall . Grand Lodge was numerously attended , the brethren who were present numbering over 200 , though the business to be transacted was exceedingly light , and nothing very attractive
appearing on the business paper beyond the election of the Grand Master for the year . The Right Hon . the Earl of Carnarvon , D . G . M ., occupied the throne , in the absence of the W . M . Grand Master supported by Thomas Bagshawe , P . GM . for Essex , as Deputy G . M . ; the Bight
Hon . Thomas Dundas , ALE , S . G . W . ; Sir F . M . Williams , Bart ., M . P ., T-G . W . ; Horace Lloyd , G . D . ; the Rev C . J . Martyn , G . Chap . ; John Hervey , G . Sec . ; S . Tomkins , G . Treas . ; E . H . Patten , G . S . B . ; James Brett , G . Purst . ; John Coutts , Assist . G . Purst . ; C . B . Payne ,
G . Tyler ; J . L . L . Evans , P . B . G . P . ; J . M . Claton , President of Lodge of Benevolence ; J . Nunn , P . G . S . B ., Vice-President ; John Savage , P . G . D . ; J . R . Stebbing , P . G . D . ; B . Baker , PG . D . ; Rev . T-R- Simpson , P . G . C . ; Col . Cole , P . G . D . ; W . Young , P . D . S . B . ; Joseph
Smith , P G . P ., and several others . Among the brethren who attended we observed : — Bros . J . Tepper , W . M ., Grand Stewards Lodge ; Geo . States ; John Bennett , P . M . ; E . J . Baum , P . M . No . i ; A . C . Morton , J . W . 9 ; Geo . J . Palmer , W . M . ir ; R . W .
Stewart , P . M . 12 ; Samuel Field , P . M . 14 ; Alfred Green , J . W . 7 ; James Glaisher , S . W . 33 ; Geo . Kelly , P . M . 46 ; H . G . Buss , P . M . 27 ; F . A . Philbrick , W . M . 18 ; T . W . White , J . W . 21 ; Jas . Warner , J . W 23 ; E . Marsh , W . ; J . Bellerby ,
P . M . 1227 ; C . Braid , W . M . 1196 ; J . W . Avery , W . M . 1178 ; T- F . Creswick , W . M . 957 ; Thos . Bartlett , W . M . 813 ; Fred . Webb , W . M . 704 ; J . J . West , P . M . 54 8 ; James Kench , P . M . 538 ;
H . J . Thompson , P . M . 742 ; H . Fitch , W . M . 742 ; George Gee , S W . 1257 ; L . Alexander , P . M 188 ; Samuel Webb , W . M . 619 ; Henry Massey , P . M . 619 ; E . Cox , P . M . 657 ; Thomas Price , P . M . 186 ; T . E . Tallent , W . M . 186 ; Kemball Cook , P . M . 197 ; Octavius Hansard , J . W . 197 ; E . W . Mackney , S . W . 134 ; T . B . Brabham , P . M . 59 ; Matthew Cook , P M . 23 ; Samuel May , P . M . 33 ; T . Meggy , P . M . 21 ; J .
Boyd , P . M . 145 i J- L . Thomas , W . M . 142 ; C . C . Tayler , W . M . 141 ; Rev . J . M . Vaughan , W . M . 907 ; James Kew , W . M . 179 ; Henry Ash , P . M . 179 ; Henry Garrod , P . M . 749 ; W . Veevers , P . M . 902 ; E . Moody , W . M . 1287 ; T . W . Knight , S . W . 1107 ; G- Harvey , J . W . 1107 :
George Stacey , P . M . 209 ; R . A . Wright , P . M . 504 ; W . Roebuck , P . M . 463 ; W . Milner , P . M . 130 ; W . Jones , J . W . 371 ; W . Tinkler , W . M . 299 ; Geo . Cattell , 1194 ; W . J . Hughan , P . M . 131 , P . G . Sec , Cornwall ; G . S Woodwark , W . M . 107 ; W . E . Gompertz , P . M . 869 ; W . H .
Green , J . W . 1310 ; W . Dodd , W . M . H 94 ; J . S . Pullin , P . M . 209 ; J . Knott , WAV . 1314 ; G . NelsDn , W . M . 1282 ; W . H . Coulton , W . M . 3 S 2 . All the P . M . ' s of the Jerusalem Lodge , No . 197 , which celebrated its centenary on Friday week , and which was honoured by the presence of the
Prince of Wales and the Acting Grand Master , attended . These brethren were Bros . C . H . Gregory , W . M ., Bazalgette , Hansard , Kemball Cook , Horace Jones , Hollingsworth , Linn , and Monckton . The Prince of Wales and the Actigg
Grand Master were made members of the Jerusalem Lodge on its centenary festival , and the attendance of all the Past Masters at the next following Grand Lodge was considered to be a necessary compliment .
Grand Lodge having been opened with tlie customary solemnities , Grand Secretary , by direction of the Acting Grand Master , read the regulations for the government of Grand Lodge during the time of public business , alter which he also read the minutes of last quarterly communication , which , being put to the Lodge , were unanimously confirmed .
1 he Acting Grand Master then rose and said ; Brethren , it is now my duty to make from this chair a communication to you , which seems called for by the circumstance that has come under my notice . I do not wish to lay more stress than is necessary upon that subject ; at
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the same time I think it is right to communicate it to the Craft through you , and to secure , as I doubtless shall , your entire concurrence in the view that I shall lay down . On the 18 th of February last , in a Masonic periodical , which I have no doubt is well known to most of you ,
and it is known by the title of THE FREEMASON , there appeared a letter from a brother , signing himself Delfraisse , of Chard , in Somersetshire , with reference to the recent unhappy war which has taken place in Europe . The letter itself was a short one , but it was coupled with a protest by that brother against the course of action which
had been taken by the King of Prussia and the German armies . I can only say it would be undesirable , I think , for me to read that letter or the words in which that protest was couched . It is sufficient for me to say that it was written in an excited and , I think , an unwise tone , and whilst no doubt it would have been wiser and
more prudent to have left such a letter and such a protest elone , no man who reads it calmly and dispassionately can deny that it was a document which , if published far and wide , was calculated to stir up the feelings of animosity and hatred . That it did produce that result , in a certain
degree , is clear from the consequence , for a few days afterwards the Grand Secretary received a letter from a German brother , dated from Leipsic on the 2 ist February , in which he complains bitterly—and , I am bound to say , in a not less excited and a not less illogical manner than the
letter with which he found so much fault—of that letter . This German brother , writing from Leipsic , called upon the Grand Secretary for a disavowal of the paper which had published this letter and protest . Well , brethren , it seems to me my duty to state to . Grand Lodge what I understand to be the real facts of the case . So
far as this paper is concerned , and indeed so far as any Masonic publication is concerned , neither the Grand Master nor the Grand Lodge , nor any of the constituted authorities of Masonry in this country are , or ought to be held , responsible . ( Hear , hear ) . This paper is allowed , as it states
upon its title page , to publish the reports of the proceedings in Grand Lodge , with and under the sanction of the Grand Master , on the distinct understanding that those proceedings are accurately reported ; but beyond that there is no responsibility whatever attached , as I have said ,
to the Grand Master or the Grand Lodge ; they are not to be held responsible in any degree for that which is contained in the body of the paper . ( Hear , hear ) . Now , brethren , I wish therefore , in the first instance , to set right our correspondent in Germany , and to make him understand
that he is wholly mistaken in attributing any official character either to articles or to letters or to anything that appears in the body of this or any other Masonic publication—( hear , hear ) ; but I do not think that I should be fulfilling my duty if I slopped here . It is , I hold , my duty
to condemn , so far as my voice can do it , this letter and this protest ; and I do so not on the ground of having sympathy with one side or the other —( hear , hear)—that is a matter wholly beside the question . It is competent to—it is , indeed , the privilege of—every brother in this
country to hold whatever political opinions he pleases —( hear , hear)—and to express those opinions , provided always , however , that he chooses the right time , and place , and mode by which that expression is made —( hear , hear ); but in Masonry , and in a periodical which
confines itself to Masonic matters , it is not only undesirable , it is entirely wrong , that political matters should be introduced . ( Hear , hear . ) It is wrong , I hold , on two grounds . It is wrong , first , because it is esse ; daily unmasonic —( hear , hear ); it is calculated , especially when
dealing with those questions on which men ' s passions and sympathies are \ v-rmly aroused , to stir up enmity and strife , and to do that which is opposed to all Masonic feelings . ( Hear , hear . ) And in the next place , there is no
principle which Ins been more equally , more distinctly i ¦ ¦ ' ! -and , I b-. 'lieve , more constantly and fail . dally adhered to—than that , in this country , at all events , Masonry should hold itself aloof from politics—( hear , hear)—and never , directly or indirectly , sanction any inter-
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meddling with them . ( Hear , hear . ) And if this be true as regards our own internal and domestic politics , it is a fortiori true as regards foreign politics beyond the seas . Brethren , I have still one word more to say . As it has been
my duty to bring this matter under the notice of Grand Lodge , I cannot close these remarks without expressing my personal regret that the . manager of this paper should have allowed the introduction of such a letter and such a protest .
( Hear , hear . ) I do them all justice ; I am quite willing to believe that it was one of those oversights to which the most careful managers of a paper are sometimes liable ; but at the same time , I would put it to them most earnestly that ,
in carrying on this publication , they owe a duty both to the Craft and to Grand Lodge , and to tlie Grand Master , as the Parliament and the constituted head of Freemasonry in England . Privileges are accorded to them of reporting
under the sanction of the Grand Master the proceedings of Grand Lodge ; and I need scarcely point out that if difficulties of this sort—which happily have been most rare—were to occur , it would become absolutely necessary to reconsider
the whole question of Masonic publications . ( Hear , hear . ) But I prefer , for my own part—I greatly prefer—to appeal to their own good sense , their own good feelings , and above all , that true Masonic spirit which , I am convinced ,
actuates them , just as much as it actuates all of us . They will feel and understand that in these publications , both with regard to such matters as these , both with regard to the matters which they publish and with regard to the matters
which they ought not to publish—because that is often quite as incumbent a duty upon themthey are exercising a great and high trust towards the Craft ; and I am satisfied that after this explanation of what has been a painful matter ,
it will be wholly unnecessary for any one again occupying this chair to call the attention of Grand Lodge to the subject . ( The noble lord resumed his seat amidst loud applause ) . On the election of a Most Worshipful Grand
Master for the year being brought forward , Bro . Raynham W . Stewart said : Most Worshipful Acting Grand Master and brethren , I rise with a very great deal of pleasure , in accordance with my nomination at last Grand Lodge ,
to propose the Right Hon . the Earl de Grey and Ripon as our M W . G . Master for the ensuing year . I am sure , brethren , it is a source of greatest and deepest regret that his lordship is not able to take his seat among us this evening .
I know you all feel , as I do , that the way in which he has conducted the business of Grand Lodge while he has been our head and presided over us during the year that is past , he will repeat during the ensuing year . By force of
circumstances he is not able to preside here to-night ; but there is not one of us , although he may regret his absence , who must not feel gratified that he has been so highly honoured by the
position in which he is now placed by her Majesty , by being sent on a political mission to America . Our American brethren will highly appreciate him , because , as we know , he goes fortified with this character : that he has been
faithful to his Queen and country , and will act in the business on which he is engaged in the spirit of a true Englishman . I have , therefore , great pleasure in proposing the E . irl de Grey and Ripon as our G . Master for the coming year .
( Cheers . ) Bro . J . B . Monckton : Most Worshipful Acting G . Master and brethren , I have the honour of seconding the proposal which has been made by our brother , Raynham Stewart . To
second the nomination of the head of our Craft is at all times an exceedingly high honour . It is , besides , a very great pleasure when tlie nobleman so proposed stands deservedly so high in the estimation of his brethren as the Earl de Grey and Ripon . Were I to add to the words
which have fallen from our Bro . Stewart , I feel that I should he taking from rather than adding to the value of the brother who is nominated as Grand Master . Therefore , I beg simply to second the motion of my Bro . Stewart . ( Cheers . ) The Acting Grand Master then put the
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United Grand Lodge.
UNITED GRAND LODGE .
The Quarterly Meeting of Grand Lodge was held on Wednesday evening at Freemasons ' Hall . Grand Lodge was numerously attended , the brethren who were present numbering over 200 , though the business to be transacted was exceedingly light , and nothing very attractive
appearing on the business paper beyond the election of the Grand Master for the year . The Right Hon . the Earl of Carnarvon , D . G . M ., occupied the throne , in the absence of the W . M . Grand Master supported by Thomas Bagshawe , P . GM . for Essex , as Deputy G . M . ; the Bight
Hon . Thomas Dundas , ALE , S . G . W . ; Sir F . M . Williams , Bart ., M . P ., T-G . W . ; Horace Lloyd , G . D . ; the Rev C . J . Martyn , G . Chap . ; John Hervey , G . Sec . ; S . Tomkins , G . Treas . ; E . H . Patten , G . S . B . ; James Brett , G . Purst . ; John Coutts , Assist . G . Purst . ; C . B . Payne ,
G . Tyler ; J . L . L . Evans , P . B . G . P . ; J . M . Claton , President of Lodge of Benevolence ; J . Nunn , P . G . S . B ., Vice-President ; John Savage , P . G . D . ; J . R . Stebbing , P . G . D . ; B . Baker , PG . D . ; Rev . T-R- Simpson , P . G . C . ; Col . Cole , P . G . D . ; W . Young , P . D . S . B . ; Joseph
Smith , P G . P ., and several others . Among the brethren who attended we observed : — Bros . J . Tepper , W . M ., Grand Stewards Lodge ; Geo . States ; John Bennett , P . M . ; E . J . Baum , P . M . No . i ; A . C . Morton , J . W . 9 ; Geo . J . Palmer , W . M . ir ; R . W .
Stewart , P . M . 12 ; Samuel Field , P . M . 14 ; Alfred Green , J . W . 7 ; James Glaisher , S . W . 33 ; Geo . Kelly , P . M . 46 ; H . G . Buss , P . M . 27 ; F . A . Philbrick , W . M . 18 ; T . W . White , J . W . 21 ; Jas . Warner , J . W 23 ; E . Marsh , W . ; J . Bellerby ,
P . M . 1227 ; C . Braid , W . M . 1196 ; J . W . Avery , W . M . 1178 ; T- F . Creswick , W . M . 957 ; Thos . Bartlett , W . M . 813 ; Fred . Webb , W . M . 704 ; J . J . West , P . M . 54 8 ; James Kench , P . M . 538 ;
H . J . Thompson , P . M . 742 ; H . Fitch , W . M . 742 ; George Gee , S W . 1257 ; L . Alexander , P . M 188 ; Samuel Webb , W . M . 619 ; Henry Massey , P . M . 619 ; E . Cox , P . M . 657 ; Thomas Price , P . M . 186 ; T . E . Tallent , W . M . 186 ; Kemball Cook , P . M . 197 ; Octavius Hansard , J . W . 197 ; E . W . Mackney , S . W . 134 ; T . B . Brabham , P . M . 59 ; Matthew Cook , P M . 23 ; Samuel May , P . M . 33 ; T . Meggy , P . M . 21 ; J .
Boyd , P . M . 145 i J- L . Thomas , W . M . 142 ; C . C . Tayler , W . M . 141 ; Rev . J . M . Vaughan , W . M . 907 ; James Kew , W . M . 179 ; Henry Ash , P . M . 179 ; Henry Garrod , P . M . 749 ; W . Veevers , P . M . 902 ; E . Moody , W . M . 1287 ; T . W . Knight , S . W . 1107 ; G- Harvey , J . W . 1107 :
George Stacey , P . M . 209 ; R . A . Wright , P . M . 504 ; W . Roebuck , P . M . 463 ; W . Milner , P . M . 130 ; W . Jones , J . W . 371 ; W . Tinkler , W . M . 299 ; Geo . Cattell , 1194 ; W . J . Hughan , P . M . 131 , P . G . Sec , Cornwall ; G . S Woodwark , W . M . 107 ; W . E . Gompertz , P . M . 869 ; W . H .
Green , J . W . 1310 ; W . Dodd , W . M . H 94 ; J . S . Pullin , P . M . 209 ; J . Knott , WAV . 1314 ; G . NelsDn , W . M . 1282 ; W . H . Coulton , W . M . 3 S 2 . All the P . M . ' s of the Jerusalem Lodge , No . 197 , which celebrated its centenary on Friday week , and which was honoured by the presence of the
Prince of Wales and the Acting Grand Master , attended . These brethren were Bros . C . H . Gregory , W . M ., Bazalgette , Hansard , Kemball Cook , Horace Jones , Hollingsworth , Linn , and Monckton . The Prince of Wales and the Actigg
Grand Master were made members of the Jerusalem Lodge on its centenary festival , and the attendance of all the Past Masters at the next following Grand Lodge was considered to be a necessary compliment .
Grand Lodge having been opened with tlie customary solemnities , Grand Secretary , by direction of the Acting Grand Master , read the regulations for the government of Grand Lodge during the time of public business , alter which he also read the minutes of last quarterly communication , which , being put to the Lodge , were unanimously confirmed .
1 he Acting Grand Master then rose and said ; Brethren , it is now my duty to make from this chair a communication to you , which seems called for by the circumstance that has come under my notice . I do not wish to lay more stress than is necessary upon that subject ; at
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the same time I think it is right to communicate it to the Craft through you , and to secure , as I doubtless shall , your entire concurrence in the view that I shall lay down . On the 18 th of February last , in a Masonic periodical , which I have no doubt is well known to most of you ,
and it is known by the title of THE FREEMASON , there appeared a letter from a brother , signing himself Delfraisse , of Chard , in Somersetshire , with reference to the recent unhappy war which has taken place in Europe . The letter itself was a short one , but it was coupled with a protest by that brother against the course of action which
had been taken by the King of Prussia and the German armies . I can only say it would be undesirable , I think , for me to read that letter or the words in which that protest was couched . It is sufficient for me to say that it was written in an excited and , I think , an unwise tone , and whilst no doubt it would have been wiser and
more prudent to have left such a letter and such a protest elone , no man who reads it calmly and dispassionately can deny that it was a document which , if published far and wide , was calculated to stir up the feelings of animosity and hatred . That it did produce that result , in a certain
degree , is clear from the consequence , for a few days afterwards the Grand Secretary received a letter from a German brother , dated from Leipsic on the 2 ist February , in which he complains bitterly—and , I am bound to say , in a not less excited and a not less illogical manner than the
letter with which he found so much fault—of that letter . This German brother , writing from Leipsic , called upon the Grand Secretary for a disavowal of the paper which had published this letter and protest . Well , brethren , it seems to me my duty to state to . Grand Lodge what I understand to be the real facts of the case . So
far as this paper is concerned , and indeed so far as any Masonic publication is concerned , neither the Grand Master nor the Grand Lodge , nor any of the constituted authorities of Masonry in this country are , or ought to be held , responsible . ( Hear , hear ) . This paper is allowed , as it states
upon its title page , to publish the reports of the proceedings in Grand Lodge , with and under the sanction of the Grand Master , on the distinct understanding that those proceedings are accurately reported ; but beyond that there is no responsibility whatever attached , as I have said ,
to the Grand Master or the Grand Lodge ; they are not to be held responsible in any degree for that which is contained in the body of the paper . ( Hear , hear ) . Now , brethren , I wish therefore , in the first instance , to set right our correspondent in Germany , and to make him understand
that he is wholly mistaken in attributing any official character either to articles or to letters or to anything that appears in the body of this or any other Masonic publication—( hear , hear ) ; but I do not think that I should be fulfilling my duty if I slopped here . It is , I hold , my duty
to condemn , so far as my voice can do it , this letter and this protest ; and I do so not on the ground of having sympathy with one side or the other —( hear , hear)—that is a matter wholly beside the question . It is competent to—it is , indeed , the privilege of—every brother in this
country to hold whatever political opinions he pleases —( hear , hear)—and to express those opinions , provided always , however , that he chooses the right time , and place , and mode by which that expression is made —( hear , hear ); but in Masonry , and in a periodical which
confines itself to Masonic matters , it is not only undesirable , it is entirely wrong , that political matters should be introduced . ( Hear , hear . ) It is wrong , I hold , on two grounds . It is wrong , first , because it is esse ; daily unmasonic —( hear , hear ); it is calculated , especially when
dealing with those questions on which men ' s passions and sympathies are \ v-rmly aroused , to stir up enmity and strife , and to do that which is opposed to all Masonic feelings . ( Hear , hear . ) And in the next place , there is no
principle which Ins been more equally , more distinctly i ¦ ¦ ' ! -and , I b-. 'lieve , more constantly and fail . dally adhered to—than that , in this country , at all events , Masonry should hold itself aloof from politics—( hear , hear)—and never , directly or indirectly , sanction any inter-
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meddling with them . ( Hear , hear . ) And if this be true as regards our own internal and domestic politics , it is a fortiori true as regards foreign politics beyond the seas . Brethren , I have still one word more to say . As it has been
my duty to bring this matter under the notice of Grand Lodge , I cannot close these remarks without expressing my personal regret that the . manager of this paper should have allowed the introduction of such a letter and such a protest .
( Hear , hear . ) I do them all justice ; I am quite willing to believe that it was one of those oversights to which the most careful managers of a paper are sometimes liable ; but at the same time , I would put it to them most earnestly that ,
in carrying on this publication , they owe a duty both to the Craft and to Grand Lodge , and to tlie Grand Master , as the Parliament and the constituted head of Freemasonry in England . Privileges are accorded to them of reporting
under the sanction of the Grand Master the proceedings of Grand Lodge ; and I need scarcely point out that if difficulties of this sort—which happily have been most rare—were to occur , it would become absolutely necessary to reconsider
the whole question of Masonic publications . ( Hear , hear . ) But I prefer , for my own part—I greatly prefer—to appeal to their own good sense , their own good feelings , and above all , that true Masonic spirit which , I am convinced ,
actuates them , just as much as it actuates all of us . They will feel and understand that in these publications , both with regard to such matters as these , both with regard to the matters which they publish and with regard to the matters
which they ought not to publish—because that is often quite as incumbent a duty upon themthey are exercising a great and high trust towards the Craft ; and I am satisfied that after this explanation of what has been a painful matter ,
it will be wholly unnecessary for any one again occupying this chair to call the attention of Grand Lodge to the subject . ( The noble lord resumed his seat amidst loud applause ) . On the election of a Most Worshipful Grand
Master for the year being brought forward , Bro . Raynham W . Stewart said : Most Worshipful Acting Grand Master and brethren , I rise with a very great deal of pleasure , in accordance with my nomination at last Grand Lodge ,
to propose the Right Hon . the Earl de Grey and Ripon as our M W . G . Master for the ensuing year . I am sure , brethren , it is a source of greatest and deepest regret that his lordship is not able to take his seat among us this evening .
I know you all feel , as I do , that the way in which he has conducted the business of Grand Lodge while he has been our head and presided over us during the year that is past , he will repeat during the ensuing year . By force of
circumstances he is not able to preside here to-night ; but there is not one of us , although he may regret his absence , who must not feel gratified that he has been so highly honoured by the
position in which he is now placed by her Majesty , by being sent on a political mission to America . Our American brethren will highly appreciate him , because , as we know , he goes fortified with this character : that he has been
faithful to his Queen and country , and will act in the business on which he is engaged in the spirit of a true Englishman . I have , therefore , great pleasure in proposing the E . irl de Grey and Ripon as our G . Master for the coming year .
( Cheers . ) Bro . J . B . Monckton : Most Worshipful Acting G . Master and brethren , I have the honour of seconding the proposal which has been made by our brother , Raynham Stewart . To
second the nomination of the head of our Craft is at all times an exceedingly high honour . It is , besides , a very great pleasure when tlie nobleman so proposed stands deservedly so high in the estimation of his brethren as the Earl de Grey and Ripon . Were I to add to the words
which have fallen from our Bro . Stewart , I feel that I should he taking from rather than adding to the value of the brother who is nominated as Grand Master . Therefore , I beg simply to second the motion of my Bro . Stewart . ( Cheers . ) The Acting Grand Master then put the