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THIRST AND LAST APPLICATION . To the Governors and Subscribers of the ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . Your Votes and Interest are earnestly solicited for AMY MARGARET LEE , daughter of tbe late Bro . Thomas Vincent Lee , of Union Waterloo Lodge , No . 13 . —Mrs . J . LEE , 29 Grove-terrace , Highgatc-road , N .
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THE ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS , EARLSOOD , REDHILL , SURREY . Under the Patronage o £ Her Most Gracious Majesty THE Q UEEN . Total number of Inmates in the Asylum 563 Entirely supported by Voluntary Subscriptions ... 375 FUNDS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED TO MEET CURRENT EXPENSES . Superior accommodation is provided for private cases , payment for which is regulated by the Board of Management . BANKERS—The London Joint Stock Bank . WILLIAM NICHOLAS , Secretary . Offices , 3 6 , King William-street , E . C .
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DREADNOUGHT SEMENS ' HOSPITAL , Greenxvich , S . E ., and DISPENSARY , Well-street , London Docks , E ., for Sailors of all Nations . No admission ticket or voting papers of any sort required , but both are entirely free to the xvhole maritime xvorld , irrespective of race , creed , or nationality . Since establishment upxvards of 225 , 000 have been relieved from no less than forty-txvo different countries , and the number of patients during 1 SS 2 , xvas 7514 , as compared with 4713 , the average of the preceding ten years . Qualification of a governor one guinea annually , or a donation of ten guineas . Nexv annual subscriptions or contributions xvill be thankfully received by the bankers , Messrs . Williams , Deacon and Co ., 20 , Birchin-lane , E . G ., or by the Secretary at the Hospital . Funds are urgently needed lor this truly Cosmopolitan Charity , which is supported by voluntary contributions . W . T . EVANS . Secretary .
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BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY , 4 , Queen-street-place , London , E . C . Capital—A Quarter of a Million Sterling . TWENTV-EIGHTH " ANNUAL REPORT , MAY , 18 S 3 . NEW BUSINESS . 2070 Policies issued for ; £ - » ° o , 375 New Premium Income £ u , 9 S < 5 BUSINESS IN FORCE . 26 , 000 Policies , Assuring £ 4 > S 25 , 3 I 7 REVENUE OF THE YEAR . Premiums £ i , 4 ° iSo 9 Interest , & c jt 35 . ! 3 i £ 175 . 910 ACCUMULATED FUND . Laidbyin the year £ 69 , 772 Accumulated Fund on 31 st January , 1 SS 3 ( equal to 73 percent , of the net premiums received upon policies in force ) £ 873 , 102 Average Reversionary Bonus for 27 years about t ' , percent , per annum . MUTUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT MUTUAL LIABILITY .
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ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY , LIMITED . 7 , BANK BUILDINGS , LOTHBURY , E . C . General Accidents . I Personal Injuries Railway Accidents . Deaths by Accident . y C . HARDING , Manager .
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SPECULATION & INVESTMENT TN STOCKS AND SHARES ^ LTI-I A MINIMUM RISK TO operate on the Stock Exchange ¦ ^ profitably or , in other x \* ords , increase one's capital , limited though it be , may suggest itself as not very easy of accomp lishment . Quick perception , hoxvever , tempered with experience and a true knowledge of the influences in force , xvill , in many cases , render the process comparatively simple . To purchase a stock or security of any description might not alxvays prove judicious and safe , even xverc the position and prospects in the particular case the most sound and promising , because an immediate improvement , or , indeed , the maintenance of the prevalent market value xvould be improbable , if not impossible , so long as the account remained a weak one , or one showing a heavy preponderance of xveakoperations forthe rise . In like manner a stock mig ht be intrinsically xvorth little or absolutely nothing , but from the fact of it having been largely oversold the price remains apparently firm . T 7 XPLANATORY BOOK sent post free on application . p EAD OPINIONS OF THE PRESS . -wrEEKLY and MONTHLY REPORT sent regularly W to clients . CPECULATIVE ACCOUNTS opened on the most favourable terms . W GUTTER 1 DGE AND CO ., STOCK AND . SHARE BROKERS , 7 , DRAPERS' -GARDENS , THROGMORTON-STREET , LONDON , E . C .
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A GOOD PLAN . r ~ rf > . and upwards judiciously inyZ } JL \ J vested in Options on Stocks and Shares often give handsome profits in a fexv days . Full details in Explanatory Book gratis and post free . — Address GEORGE EVANS and Co ., Stockbrokers , Gresham House , Old Broad-street , London , E . C . Best and safest plan ever devised .
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f ONDON & NORTH-WESTERN L-l RAILWAY .
NORTH WALES AND LAKE DISTRICT
The Summer Service of Trains in the Lake District , and on the North Wales Coast , is noxv in operation . THE EXPRESS LEAVING EUSTON AT 10 . 30 A . M . xvill be found the most convenient for Llandudno , Rhyl , Penmacnmawr , Aberystwith , Barmouth , Dolgelly , & c , as xvell as for the English Lake District . FIRST , SECOND , AND THIRD CLASS TOURIST TICKETS , AVAILABLE FOR TWO MONTHS , Are issued at all the principal stations on the London and North-Western Railxvay . For full particulars , see TOURIST GUIDE ( 124 pages xvith Maps , price One Penny ) , xvhich can be obtained at the Stations , or on application to Mr . G . P . NEELE , Superintendent of the Line . G . FINDLAY , General Manager . Euston Station , July , 1 SS 3 .
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MASONIC PHOTOGRAPHS . INTERIOR OF GRAND LODGE , AFTER THE FIRE , 4 th May . Two VIEWS , Photographed May , 1 SS 3 . THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION . Two VIEXVS , Photographed June , 1 SS 3 . THE ROYAL MASONIC SCHOOL FOR GIRLS . Two VIEWS , Photographed June , 1 SS 3 . THE ROYAL MASONIC SCHOOL FOR BOYS . Two VIEWS , Photographed June , 1883 . Prices , 4 s ., 2 S ., and is . each . Delivered Post Free to any part of the World on receipt of stamps or P . O . O . made payable to George Kenning . Photographed by BROS . BEDFORD LEMERE & Co ., 147 , STRAND .
Published by G . KENNING , 16 , Great Queen Street , London , W . C .
RAFT FURNITURE . —
FOR SALE , under exceptional circumstances , a set of the above , consisting of 3 Oak Chairs , 3 Mahogany Pedestals , 3 Oak Candlesticks , Tesselated Carpet , Ballot 13 ox , Tracing Hoards , all in first-rate condition . For order to viexv , apply to W . H . 13 ., Freemason Office , 16 Great Queen-street , London , W . C .
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ELECTRICITY . —A quantity of Electrical and Scientific APPARATUS to be disposed of . Suitable for Institutions , Schools , Private Gentlemen , or for Presentation . Full particulars on application , by letter addrcsssd to S . G ., at the ottice of the Freemason , 16 , Great Queen-street , W . C .
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AGENTS Wanted everywhere by the Mutual Watch Clubs' Association ( Kendal and Dent , Managers ) , 10 G , Cheapside , London . —Foremen , timekeepers , station masters , clerks , secretaries of portrait clubs , police ofiicers , shopkeepers , & c , xvith spare time , xvanted to form clubs for this successful association . — Illustrated catalogues and particulars on application .
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WANTED a few good Agents , very liberal salary and commission . Master Masons and others having a good social position and a fair connection xvill find this a rare opportunity to make a good annual income . —Apply W . J . Thompson , 39 , Lombardstreet .
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Txvelfth Edition , post-free , is . DR . WATTS on ASTHMA and BRONCHITIS . A Treatise on the only Successful Method of Curing these Diseases . By ROBERT G . WATTS , M . D ., F . R . S . L ., F . C . S ., & c . London : C . Mitchell and Co ., Red Lion court Fleet-street ; and Simpkin and Co ., Stationers' Hall-court .
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WEAK OR DEFECTIVE SIGHT . —SPECTACLES scientifically adapted to remedy impaired visicn by Bro . ACKLAND , Surgeon , daily , at Home and Thorntnxvaite ' s , Opticians to the Queen , 416 , Strand , London , W . C . Send six stamps for " Ackland ' s Hints on Spectacles , " which conta ns i-aluablr RueeeR : ° r * to sufferer * from imperfect sieht .
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TO OUR READERS . THE INEEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , .. -. 1 T ^* „« . i « m Canada , the Continent , India , China , Ceylon , United Kingdom . the Colonies & c . Arabia ,, & c . 13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are prefer-ed , thf former payable to GEORGE KENMNCI , Chief Office , London , the latter erossed London Joint Stock Bank ,
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years , and the increasing interest manifested in its doings , has civen the fmniaian a position and inlluence xxhich fexv journals can lay claim to , and the proprietor can assert xvith conlidencc that announcements appearing in its columns challenge the attention of a very large and inlhiential body of readers . Advertisements for the current xveek's issue are received up to Six o ' clock on Wednesday evening . TO ADVERTISERS . THE F REEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , In it the official Reports of thc Grand Lodges of lingland , Ireland , and Scotland arc published with the special sanction of the respec . live Cirand Masters , and it contains a complete record of Masonic worn in this country , our Indian Empire , and the Colonies . The vast accession to the ranks of the Order during the past few
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
FK . O ., Adelaide . —Thanks for your communication , xvhich xve have inserted . We are alxvays , as you infer , glad to havc any information of interest to the Order sent to us .
BOOKS , & c . RECEIVED . "Citizen , " "City Preis , " " Broad Arrow , " "Jexvish Chronicle , " "Court Circular , " "Hebrew Leader , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " " Masonic Record , " " Keystone , " "Masonic Review , " "Liberal Freemason , " " Nexv York Dispatch , " "Nexv York Daily News , " " Tapis , " "
Lifeboat Journal , " " Victoria Masonic Journal , " ' * Sydney Freemason , " " Victoria Freemason , " " Freimaurer-Zietung , " "Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Nexv Brunsxvick , " "Supremo Consejo del 33 del Grand Orient de Espana , " " Bulletin Maconnique de la Grande Loge Smybolique Ecossaise , " " Hull Packet , " " Louisville Commercial . "
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SATURDAY , AUGUST 4 , 1883 . —^* .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not hold ourselx-es responsible for , or cx * en approving oi , the opinio is expressed by our correspondents , but we xvish in aspirit of fair play to all to permit—xvithin certain necessary limits—free discussion . ! —
MASONIC REPUDIATION . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — In a specially printed broadside of the address of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada I have seen xvith great surprise a passage relative to the English
lodges at Montreal , xvhich almost amounts to a direct repudiation of a solemn concordat and an honourable Masonic understanding . I remember well , as others do , Lord Zetland's straightforward and noble words in Grand Lodge , and xve knoxv hoxv truly our English Grand Lodge has adhered in gentlemanly sympathy to what it
undertook openly to carry out . I xvish I could say as much for some good friends of ours in Canada and Quebec . Mislead by some noisy scribes , and led astray by those ignorant of Masonic laxv and history , they have for some time seemed inclined to repudiate the original settlement , and especially to disoxvn
the official and deliberate declarations of their oxvn Grand Master Wilson . If one thing is clear from the old correspondence it is this , —that he never doubted , as he openly admitted , the legal position of the English lodges at Montreal . And he even xvent further , —he stated in an official dispatch , still extant , and lately referred to , that there never had been
any wish on the part of the Grand Lodge of Canada to ignore the abstract and concrete right of the English lodges to adhere to the mother country . Hoxv , in the face of such documents in their archives , the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada can doubt thc right of the English lodges to exist , to work , to elect , and reject such candidates as are
legally proposed , passes my comprehension . Under xvhat law of Masonry can the Montreal Masons be compelled to ask their candidates " Have you been rejected in another jurisdiction ? " Even supposing for mutual convenience the lodges of one jurisdiction may wish to have such a query put to intending Masons , such a matter can only be settled
by terms of jurisdictional intercommunion . But the Montreal Masons have clearly committed no wrong . Hoxv can such an act be an invasion of a jurisdiction ? 1 often xvonder that the knoxvn ability of Bro . Graham and others has not before this perceived that by the extreme irritation they manifest , and the " open sore" they keep
up , they are doing their very best to perpetuate the English lodges and their system . So moderate have we been in England , and so anxious to carry out Lord Zetland ' s declarations in the letter and in the spirit , that there has been a tendency to recommend the suspension of the activity of the Provincial Grand Lodge
and Provincial Grand Chapter , or rather now District . But if these unseemly attacks are to continue , what is to prevent Bro . Badgley , Provincial Grand Master and Provincial Grand Superintendent , from seeking to " activer , " as they say in France , his Provincial Grand Lodge and Provincial Grand Chapter , to fill up his offices and create
a living form of Masonic activity . So unxvise have been the xvords and deeds of many , so unsound the theories propounded , so xvild the Masonic laxv enunciated , that much sympathy is naturally excited for the Montreal lodges , xvhose only faultis unchanging loyalty to their Mother Grand Lodge . If they are compelled to do xvhat I have hinted at , by unxvise demonstrations and
ceaseless attacks , the Grand Lodge of England , so long as they keep thc even path of Masonic legality , xvould be bound to support them , and the prospects of an eventual peaceful settlement xvould be throxvn back indefinitely . Threats and tall talking do not move us in England ; xve regard them as " UunUurn " and " high falutin , " and being essentially just and laxv abiding , our motto alxvays is "Fiat Justitia Ruat Ccelum . " —Yours fraternally , AN OLD ENGLISH MASON .
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Ad00404
THIRST AND LAST APPLICATION . To the Governors and Subscribers of the ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . Your Votes and Interest are earnestly solicited for AMY MARGARET LEE , daughter of tbe late Bro . Thomas Vincent Lee , of Union Waterloo Lodge , No . 13 . —Mrs . J . LEE , 29 Grove-terrace , Highgatc-road , N .
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THE ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS , EARLSOOD , REDHILL , SURREY . Under the Patronage o £ Her Most Gracious Majesty THE Q UEEN . Total number of Inmates in the Asylum 563 Entirely supported by Voluntary Subscriptions ... 375 FUNDS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED TO MEET CURRENT EXPENSES . Superior accommodation is provided for private cases , payment for which is regulated by the Board of Management . BANKERS—The London Joint Stock Bank . WILLIAM NICHOLAS , Secretary . Offices , 3 6 , King William-street , E . C .
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DREADNOUGHT SEMENS ' HOSPITAL , Greenxvich , S . E ., and DISPENSARY , Well-street , London Docks , E ., for Sailors of all Nations . No admission ticket or voting papers of any sort required , but both are entirely free to the xvhole maritime xvorld , irrespective of race , creed , or nationality . Since establishment upxvards of 225 , 000 have been relieved from no less than forty-txvo different countries , and the number of patients during 1 SS 2 , xvas 7514 , as compared with 4713 , the average of the preceding ten years . Qualification of a governor one guinea annually , or a donation of ten guineas . Nexv annual subscriptions or contributions xvill be thankfully received by the bankers , Messrs . Williams , Deacon and Co ., 20 , Birchin-lane , E . G ., or by the Secretary at the Hospital . Funds are urgently needed lor this truly Cosmopolitan Charity , which is supported by voluntary contributions . W . T . EVANS . Secretary .
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BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY , 4 , Queen-street-place , London , E . C . Capital—A Quarter of a Million Sterling . TWENTV-EIGHTH " ANNUAL REPORT , MAY , 18 S 3 . NEW BUSINESS . 2070 Policies issued for ; £ - » ° o , 375 New Premium Income £ u , 9 S < 5 BUSINESS IN FORCE . 26 , 000 Policies , Assuring £ 4 > S 25 , 3 I 7 REVENUE OF THE YEAR . Premiums £ i , 4 ° iSo 9 Interest , & c jt 35 . ! 3 i £ 175 . 910 ACCUMULATED FUND . Laidbyin the year £ 69 , 772 Accumulated Fund on 31 st January , 1 SS 3 ( equal to 73 percent , of the net premiums received upon policies in force ) £ 873 , 102 Average Reversionary Bonus for 27 years about t ' , percent , per annum . MUTUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT MUTUAL LIABILITY .
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ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY , LIMITED . 7 , BANK BUILDINGS , LOTHBURY , E . C . General Accidents . I Personal Injuries Railway Accidents . Deaths by Accident . y C . HARDING , Manager .
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SPECULATION & INVESTMENT TN STOCKS AND SHARES ^ LTI-I A MINIMUM RISK TO operate on the Stock Exchange ¦ ^ profitably or , in other x \* ords , increase one's capital , limited though it be , may suggest itself as not very easy of accomp lishment . Quick perception , hoxvever , tempered with experience and a true knowledge of the influences in force , xvill , in many cases , render the process comparatively simple . To purchase a stock or security of any description might not alxvays prove judicious and safe , even xverc the position and prospects in the particular case the most sound and promising , because an immediate improvement , or , indeed , the maintenance of the prevalent market value xvould be improbable , if not impossible , so long as the account remained a weak one , or one showing a heavy preponderance of xveakoperations forthe rise . In like manner a stock mig ht be intrinsically xvorth little or absolutely nothing , but from the fact of it having been largely oversold the price remains apparently firm . T 7 XPLANATORY BOOK sent post free on application . p EAD OPINIONS OF THE PRESS . -wrEEKLY and MONTHLY REPORT sent regularly W to clients . CPECULATIVE ACCOUNTS opened on the most favourable terms . W GUTTER 1 DGE AND CO ., STOCK AND . SHARE BROKERS , 7 , DRAPERS' -GARDENS , THROGMORTON-STREET , LONDON , E . C .
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A GOOD PLAN . r ~ rf > . and upwards judiciously inyZ } JL \ J vested in Options on Stocks and Shares often give handsome profits in a fexv days . Full details in Explanatory Book gratis and post free . — Address GEORGE EVANS and Co ., Stockbrokers , Gresham House , Old Broad-street , London , E . C . Best and safest plan ever devised .
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f ONDON & NORTH-WESTERN L-l RAILWAY .
NORTH WALES AND LAKE DISTRICT
The Summer Service of Trains in the Lake District , and on the North Wales Coast , is noxv in operation . THE EXPRESS LEAVING EUSTON AT 10 . 30 A . M . xvill be found the most convenient for Llandudno , Rhyl , Penmacnmawr , Aberystwith , Barmouth , Dolgelly , & c , as xvell as for the English Lake District . FIRST , SECOND , AND THIRD CLASS TOURIST TICKETS , AVAILABLE FOR TWO MONTHS , Are issued at all the principal stations on the London and North-Western Railxvay . For full particulars , see TOURIST GUIDE ( 124 pages xvith Maps , price One Penny ) , xvhich can be obtained at the Stations , or on application to Mr . G . P . NEELE , Superintendent of the Line . G . FINDLAY , General Manager . Euston Station , July , 1 SS 3 .
.
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MASONIC PHOTOGRAPHS . INTERIOR OF GRAND LODGE , AFTER THE FIRE , 4 th May . Two VIEWS , Photographed May , 1 SS 3 . THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION . Two VIEXVS , Photographed June , 1 SS 3 . THE ROYAL MASONIC SCHOOL FOR GIRLS . Two VIEWS , Photographed June , 1 SS 3 . THE ROYAL MASONIC SCHOOL FOR BOYS . Two VIEWS , Photographed June , 1883 . Prices , 4 s ., 2 S ., and is . each . Delivered Post Free to any part of the World on receipt of stamps or P . O . O . made payable to George Kenning . Photographed by BROS . BEDFORD LEMERE & Co ., 147 , STRAND .
Published by G . KENNING , 16 , Great Queen Street , London , W . C .
RAFT FURNITURE . —
FOR SALE , under exceptional circumstances , a set of the above , consisting of 3 Oak Chairs , 3 Mahogany Pedestals , 3 Oak Candlesticks , Tesselated Carpet , Ballot 13 ox , Tracing Hoards , all in first-rate condition . For order to viexv , apply to W . H . 13 ., Freemason Office , 16 Great Queen-street , London , W . C .
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ELECTRICITY . —A quantity of Electrical and Scientific APPARATUS to be disposed of . Suitable for Institutions , Schools , Private Gentlemen , or for Presentation . Full particulars on application , by letter addrcsssd to S . G ., at the ottice of the Freemason , 16 , Great Queen-street , W . C .
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AGENTS Wanted everywhere by the Mutual Watch Clubs' Association ( Kendal and Dent , Managers ) , 10 G , Cheapside , London . —Foremen , timekeepers , station masters , clerks , secretaries of portrait clubs , police ofiicers , shopkeepers , & c , xvith spare time , xvanted to form clubs for this successful association . — Illustrated catalogues and particulars on application .
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WANTED a few good Agents , very liberal salary and commission . Master Masons and others having a good social position and a fair connection xvill find this a rare opportunity to make a good annual income . —Apply W . J . Thompson , 39 , Lombardstreet .
Ad00414
Txvelfth Edition , post-free , is . DR . WATTS on ASTHMA and BRONCHITIS . A Treatise on the only Successful Method of Curing these Diseases . By ROBERT G . WATTS , M . D ., F . R . S . L ., F . C . S ., & c . London : C . Mitchell and Co ., Red Lion court Fleet-street ; and Simpkin and Co ., Stationers' Hall-court .
Ad00415
WEAK OR DEFECTIVE SIGHT . —SPECTACLES scientifically adapted to remedy impaired visicn by Bro . ACKLAND , Surgeon , daily , at Home and Thorntnxvaite ' s , Opticians to the Queen , 416 , Strand , London , W . C . Send six stamps for " Ackland ' s Hints on Spectacles , " which conta ns i-aluablr RueeeR : ° r * to sufferer * from imperfect sieht .
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TO OUR READERS . THE INEEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , .. -. 1 T ^* „« . i « m Canada , the Continent , India , China , Ceylon , United Kingdom . the Colonies & c . Arabia ,, & c . 13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are prefer-ed , thf former payable to GEORGE KENMNCI , Chief Office , London , the latter erossed London Joint Stock Bank ,
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years , and the increasing interest manifested in its doings , has civen the fmniaian a position and inlluence xxhich fexv journals can lay claim to , and the proprietor can assert xvith conlidencc that announcements appearing in its columns challenge the attention of a very large and inlhiential body of readers . Advertisements for the current xveek's issue are received up to Six o ' clock on Wednesday evening . TO ADVERTISERS . THE F REEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , In it the official Reports of thc Grand Lodges of lingland , Ireland , and Scotland arc published with the special sanction of the respec . live Cirand Masters , and it contains a complete record of Masonic worn in this country , our Indian Empire , and the Colonies . The vast accession to the ranks of the Order during the past few
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
FK . O ., Adelaide . —Thanks for your communication , xvhich xve have inserted . We are alxvays , as you infer , glad to havc any information of interest to the Order sent to us .
BOOKS , & c . RECEIVED . "Citizen , " "City Preis , " " Broad Arrow , " "Jexvish Chronicle , " "Court Circular , " "Hebrew Leader , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " " Masonic Record , " " Keystone , " "Masonic Review , " "Liberal Freemason , " " Nexv York Dispatch , " "Nexv York Daily News , " " Tapis , " "
Lifeboat Journal , " " Victoria Masonic Journal , " ' * Sydney Freemason , " " Victoria Freemason , " " Freimaurer-Zietung , " "Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Nexv Brunsxvick , " "Supremo Consejo del 33 del Grand Orient de Espana , " " Bulletin Maconnique de la Grande Loge Smybolique Ecossaise , " " Hull Packet , " " Louisville Commercial . "
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SATURDAY , AUGUST 4 , 1883 . —^* .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not hold ourselx-es responsible for , or cx * en approving oi , the opinio is expressed by our correspondents , but we xvish in aspirit of fair play to all to permit—xvithin certain necessary limits—free discussion . ! —
MASONIC REPUDIATION . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — In a specially printed broadside of the address of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada I have seen xvith great surprise a passage relative to the English
lodges at Montreal , xvhich almost amounts to a direct repudiation of a solemn concordat and an honourable Masonic understanding . I remember well , as others do , Lord Zetland's straightforward and noble words in Grand Lodge , and xve knoxv hoxv truly our English Grand Lodge has adhered in gentlemanly sympathy to what it
undertook openly to carry out . I xvish I could say as much for some good friends of ours in Canada and Quebec . Mislead by some noisy scribes , and led astray by those ignorant of Masonic laxv and history , they have for some time seemed inclined to repudiate the original settlement , and especially to disoxvn
the official and deliberate declarations of their oxvn Grand Master Wilson . If one thing is clear from the old correspondence it is this , —that he never doubted , as he openly admitted , the legal position of the English lodges at Montreal . And he even xvent further , —he stated in an official dispatch , still extant , and lately referred to , that there never had been
any wish on the part of the Grand Lodge of Canada to ignore the abstract and concrete right of the English lodges to adhere to the mother country . Hoxv , in the face of such documents in their archives , the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada can doubt thc right of the English lodges to exist , to work , to elect , and reject such candidates as are
legally proposed , passes my comprehension . Under xvhat law of Masonry can the Montreal Masons be compelled to ask their candidates " Have you been rejected in another jurisdiction ? " Even supposing for mutual convenience the lodges of one jurisdiction may wish to have such a query put to intending Masons , such a matter can only be settled
by terms of jurisdictional intercommunion . But the Montreal Masons have clearly committed no wrong . Hoxv can such an act be an invasion of a jurisdiction ? 1 often xvonder that the knoxvn ability of Bro . Graham and others has not before this perceived that by the extreme irritation they manifest , and the " open sore" they keep
up , they are doing their very best to perpetuate the English lodges and their system . So moderate have we been in England , and so anxious to carry out Lord Zetland ' s declarations in the letter and in the spirit , that there has been a tendency to recommend the suspension of the activity of the Provincial Grand Lodge
and Provincial Grand Chapter , or rather now District . But if these unseemly attacks are to continue , what is to prevent Bro . Badgley , Provincial Grand Master and Provincial Grand Superintendent , from seeking to " activer , " as they say in France , his Provincial Grand Lodge and Provincial Grand Chapter , to fill up his offices and create
a living form of Masonic activity . So unxvise have been the xvords and deeds of many , so unsound the theories propounded , so xvild the Masonic laxv enunciated , that much sympathy is naturally excited for the Montreal lodges , xvhose only faultis unchanging loyalty to their Mother Grand Lodge . If they are compelled to do xvhat I have hinted at , by unxvise demonstrations and
ceaseless attacks , the Grand Lodge of England , so long as they keep thc even path of Masonic legality , xvould be bound to support them , and the prospects of an eventual peaceful settlement xvould be throxvn back indefinitely . Threats and tall talking do not move us in England ; xve regard them as " UunUurn " and " high falutin , " and being essentially just and laxv abiding , our motto alxvays is "Fiat Justitia Ruat Ccelum . " —Yours fraternally , AN OLD ENGLISH MASON .