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Masonic Notes.

Masonic Botes .

VVe hope to give Bro . Hughan ' s article on the second P a" * t of the Transactions of the Quatuor Coror . ah Lod ge , No . 2076 , next week . The number is now in

'ne hands of the binders , and will doublless be issued almost immediately . Bro . Hughan ' i estimate of its value leads us to expect another literary treat , the importance of each successive part being well maintained ,

lhe Porcupine , of Liverpool , in its issue of the 14 th ¦ 1 contains a violent tirade against Freemasonry , ''' ( tending over more than two columns ; the annual

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statement of account of one of our Liverpool lodges furnishing the text for the article in question . How it became possible for our " fretful " contemporary to discuss publicly the affairs of a private body we must leave it to the W . M . and members of the lodge to ascertain ; neither shall we offer any remarks on the taste—or , as most people will say , the want of

tastewhich has influenced this journal to attack our Order so wantonl y and on such frivolous grounds . It is possible , however , there may be some people who are still more ignorant about Freemasonry than our contemporary—though it is difficult to imagine there are many who can be more spiteful—and for their en . Iig htenment we take leave to offer a few words .

* * * We have said the attack is based on the annual statement of account of a lodge in Liverpool , which , from certain indications vouchsafed in the article , we judge to be No . 1505 . According to this statementwhich is for the 12 months ended 30 th June last—the

fees and subscriptions received during the year amounted to some £ 382 , of which about £ 182 was disbursed in "fees to the central department of the Order and general expenses of the lodge itself ; " about . £ 50 in contributions " to various benevolent funds ; " some . £ 135 in "refreshments , " and / " 12 12 s . for a " picnic . " * * = K

There is nothing very terrible in this outlay , nothing to justify our Liverpudlian contemporary in its wanton abuse of Freemasonry . The Province of West Lancashire , in which Liverpool is situated , contains 107 lodges , with an aggregate membership of upwards of 7000—or at the rate of ( say ) 70 per lodge . However , to give our contemporary every reasonable advantage .

let 11 s suppose that No . 1505 contains 50 members . In that case , the amount expended in "refreshments " averages £ 2 14 s . per annum per member , and as , according to Grand Lodge Calendar , the lodge meets nine times in the year , it follows that the large sum of six shillings per meeting is the amount "disbursed per member in administering to the needs of the inner man . " * * »

This is not extravagant . It does not leave a very wide margin for " the intoxicants " which the Porcupine at once proceeds to allege are so freely indulged in at lodge meetings . It does not justify the allegations that there exists " a universal ' wet rot' in the Order ;"

that our Society is " very largely in the hands of an already far too dominant drink interest ; " or that "a very firm link in the chain which the liquor interest is fastening upon civic life has been forged by the association of Freemasonry with intoxicants . " * * .

It is quite true the " refreshments" stand to the ' benevolence" in the ratio of three to one , but there is no reason why the members of a lodge should not dine together after they have transacted their Masonic business , nor is the sum they expend in " benevolence " b y my means confined to the grants out of lodge funds .

Now as it stands , these grants amount to between oneseventh and one-eighth of the whole lodge income , \ vhich is by no means an illiberal provisiontomakefor thewants of the necessitous . A private individual , or famil y , which gave as much away to their poor relatives , or connections would not be considered uncharitable , nor

would they be held up to public opprobrium if they devoted thrice as much to the satisfaction of their own requirements as to the requirements of the poor . Our spiteful friend had better obtain a little information before it again proceeds to attack a body of whose affairs it knows nothing . # #

* However , it is easy to see how the Porcupine has erred , though its error does not justify its virulence . Doubtless it looks upon the Masonic Order as a benefit society or , it may be , a kind of Charity Organisation Society , whose funds are to be devoted to almsgiving and nothing else . But the sooner it disabuses its

mind of this idea , the better . Charity in the sense of almsgiving is only a subordinate part of Masonry , as it is of that larger and purer Charity , which we are told in Holy words , '' is kind , " "doth not behave itself unseemly , " " thinketh no evil , " and of which , to judge from this particular article , our irate little friend stands in need .

According to a paragraph in the Freemasons ' Repository the New York Masonic Home at Utica has been enriched by the bequest of an estate valued at 15 , 000 dollars , which has been left to it by the late Bro . Ensworth D . Babcock , a highly esteemed member for many years of the Orient Lodge of Copenhagen , New York .

Correspondence.

Correspondence .

THE SACKVILLE LODGE , No . 1619 . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Will you allow me to correct several serious errors which appear in your report of the last meeting of the above lodge . It is not true that the Worshi pful

Master presided , he unfortunately was kept away by illness ; it is not true that a new member was initiated , he unfortunately did not attend ; it is not true that we number 40 members , we unfortunately are only 3 8 . As to our Masonic Hall , we certainly all admit the necessity of its provision , but we cannot believe that

the tone adopted by your correspondent is calculated to bring about the desired result ; it is not correct , either , that the jewel voted to myself had alread y been manufactured , it was only voted atthe meeting referred to , and will not be presented until September next . — Yours fraternally ,

ALFRED M . BETCHLEY , P . M ., P . P . G . S . B .. Secretary . July 26 th .

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PROVINCIAL MEETINGS . CROWLE . Isle of Axholme Lodge ( No . 1482 ) . —The installation meeting took place on Tuesday , the 24 th ult ., at the Masonic Rooms , when the following were present : Bros . C . Fox , VV . M . ; R . N . Brunyee , I . P . M . ; J . Faulkner , S . W . ; H . I . Burtonshaw , I . W .: I . F .

Watson , Treas . ; R . Wood , P . P . G . S . B ., Sec ; J . Constable , P . P . G . O ., Chap . ; W . Chamberlain , P . M ., D . C . ; T . Staniforth , P . P . S . G . W ., Almoner ; W . Pickering , J . W . ; VV . R . Wressell , I . G . ; J . Franks and W . Birks , Stewards ; G . Naylor , I . G . ; W . Burtonshaw , P . M . ; J . W . Cundall , W . S . Scholey , J . M . Behrendt , P . M . ; and others . Visitors : Bros . F . Tasker , P . P . G . T . West Yorks ;

J . Harrison , XV . Fretwell , P . M . 24 * 2 ; and others . The lodge having been opened , Bro . T . Faulkner , S . VV ., was presented for installation as W . M . by Bro . Wood . Bro . Staniforth very correctly took the office of Installing Master . Bro . Blagboro' sang the solo , " Be thou faithful , " with splendid effect , and the VV . M . invested his officers as fallows : Bros . C . Fox , I . P . M . : H . L . Burtonshaw ,

S . W . ; VV . Pickering , J . W . ; J . F . Watson , Treas . ; R . VVood , Sec . ; G . F . Tyack , Chap . ; W . Chamberlain , D . C ; R . N . Brunyee , A . D . C . ; T . Staniforth , Almoner ; VV . S . Scholey , S . D . ; R . VV . Wressell , J . D . ; I . Franks , I . G . ; G . Bates , VV . Birch , G . Hoe , and J . W . Cundall , Stewards ; and G . Naylor , I . G . "Hearty good wishes" were given from all visiting

brethren , and the lodge was closed . A photographic group was taken by Bro . Wade Pickering . The banquet was held in the Darby and Joan , after which the usual toasts followed . " The Oueen , " " H . R . H . the M . W . G . M ., " "The Grand Lodge / ' and " The I ' mvincial Grand I . odge " were given from the chair . Bro . Constable responded for Provincial Grand Lodge .

"The VV . M . " was proposed hy Bro . Tasker , and responded to by the W . M . Bro . Constable gave " The I . P . M ., " lo which Bro . Fox d dy responded . Bro . Wood j-ave " The Visitors , " which was responded

to by Bros . Harrison , Hemingway , and Tasker . Bro . VV . Burtonshaw gave " The Masonic Charities , " to which Bro . Staniforth responded . After the toast of "The Ladies , " and the Tyler ' s toast , the National Anthern and "Auld Lang Syne , " concluded a very happy and enjoyable evening .

MARPLE . Benevolence Lodge ( No . 336 ) . —The usual monthl y meeting was held on Saturday , the 14 th ult ., under circumstances of a somewhat depressing character , for the members of this old country lodge . During the preceding week the brethren had met to attend the funeral of Bro . John Osbaldison , the ancient Tylerwhohad the

, , Great Architect spared him until next year , would have completed the 50 th yi-ar of his membership of the lodge . His decease has removed one of the best known Masons in this part of the province , and his kindly , genial nature will always be remembered by those among whom his character was so well known and appreciated . Deceased had not been in the enjoyment of roijust health for some years past ,

an attack of paralysis , from which he never quite recovered , having incapacitated him from ftl lowing his occupation . Other infirmities came on with increasing age , and somewhat suddenly , and in his 74 th year , he quietly passed away . He was laid t . i rest in the adjacent graveyard of St . Thomas ' s Church , Mellor , where many of the old members of this lodge have been interred in past years . It is

worthy of tecord lhat the Osbaldison family have been connected with the local IjJge fur a period of upwards of 84 yeais , the father tf the deceased having been initiated in the year 1 S 10 . D .-ccaseil himself entered the lodge in 1 S 45 , and Iiiled the chairs in 185 G , while another brother tuoK Masonic vows upon kim & elt in the year 1 S 52 . It is

in all probability , only seldom that unbroken family connections of so lung a duration can be met with . 'Touching references were made to the loss which the lodge had sustained by his dc . ilh , and ( he Secretary was instructed to make the sad event tho subject of special mention in thi * minute-book of the lodge .