Dedication Of The Freemasons Temple At Halifax.

J . G . D . ; AV . John Booth , P . P . G . D . ; AV . John Ward , P . P . G . D . ; W . Thomaa Hill , P . P . G . D . ; W . Wm . Blackburn , P . P . G . D . ; W . John H . Abbey , P . G . S . of AV . ; W . Isaac Booth , P . P . G . S . of W . ; W . Samuel Binns , Prov . G . D . C . ; W . William Smith , P . P . G . S . B . ; W . Arthur Briggs , Prov . G . Pursuivant ; W . Thomas Higgins , Prov . G . A .

Pursuivant ; W . William Patman , P . P . G . Pursuivant ; W . W . Elliott , M . D ., Prov . G . Steward ; W . Henry Day , Prov . G . Steward ; W . A . AV Ramsden , Prov . G . Steward ; AV . Christopher Pratt , Prov . G . Steward ; AV . Fred . Whitaker , acting as Prov . G . Steward ; W . Joshua Lee , Prov . G . Tyler ;

Jonas Sheard ,, Prov . G . Tyler ; aud about 350 members of various lodges present , including W . John Copley , Prov . G . S . of W . E . L . ; W . J . H . Tweedale , P . P . G . R ., E . L . ; W . C . E . Lucas , P . G . S ., Line . ; AV . P . Binckes , Sec . Boys' School ; T . Alexander , Masonic Life Assurance Co . ; Capt .

Coates , Capt . Malcolm , and several other visiting brethren . At the conclusion of the ceremony of dedication , his lordship congratulated the brethren on the successful completion of the building . Other P . G .

Lodge business having been transacted , the P . G . Officers retired in the same manner of procession as they entered , and the lodge was subsequently closed in the three degrees by the W . M . and Officers of No . 448 .

THE BANQUET . A banquet was provided in the Assembly-rooms , Harrison-road . The orchestra was occupied by Bro . Hemingway ' s quadrille band , which played a selection of music during the banquet . Earl de Grey and Ripon presided , and was supported on his

right by Bro . Bentley Shaw , P . G . D . of England , D . P . G . M . ; Rev . J . Senior , L . L . D ., P . G . C . of England , and P . P . G . W . of West Yorkshire ; Bro . R . It . Nelson , P . G . S . ; Bro . Fred Binckes , Secretary of the Boys'School , London ; Bro . Lucas , P . G . S ., Line .: and Bro . T . Alexander . On his left hand

were Sir Henry Edwards , Bart ., P . P . G . AV . ; Rev . James Hope , M . A ., P . P . G . C . ; Bro . E . Armitage , P . J . G . W . ; Bro . C . Oldroyd , P . G . T . ; Bro . S . Waterhouse , M . P . ; Bro . J . H . Tweedale , P . P . G . R . of East Lancashire ; and the Hon . and Rev . P . Y . Savile , M . A ., P . S G . W .

After dinner , the noble Chairman gave the usual loyal aud patriotic toasts , which were responded to with musical honours , Bro . Hemingway presiding at the pianoforte . Captain Malcolm , of the 10 th Regiment of Foot , responded for the army , Major AVaterhouse , M . P .,

on behalf of the Yeomanry , and Captain Coates for the Volunteers . The CHAIRMAN next proposed "The M . W . G . Master of England , the Right Hon . the Earl of Zetland " ( loud cheers ) . He said it had always been to him a source of great gratification to have the

honour of proposing that toastj ; upon occasions like the present . Itwas with feelings , he might almost say of deep emotion , that he rose to ask them to drink tlie toast at the present time ; because within the last few days it had been made known to the Craft at large that it was the intention of his lordship at the

conclusion of his present year of office finally to resign into the hands of the Craft the trust twentysix years . ago they for the first time placed in his bands . If they desired te rear a monument to the Masonic fame of Lord Zetland they would have to write upon it the famous one of the great architect ,

" Si monumentum quarum circumspice . If they wished to see his monument , look around . Look at the increase of the Order in numbers and its advance in public estimation , its numerous lodges , its wide-spread influence , its enlarged charities , its beneficent labours and then they would know the

best proof to which they could appeal for the spirit in which Lord Zetland during that lengthy period had governed this illustrious fraternity ; and , indeed , those who knew as he knew , the unwearying spirit of devotion and of zeal for the interests of the Craft in which that distinguished man had laboured with a single object—for the good of his

brethrenand the advancement of the sound principles of Masonry , must be impressed with a deep sense of the loss which was about to fall on the Masons of England by the retirement of their chief ; but they could not begrudge him at the close of n . valued life the repose which he sought , but they would give him a double amount of esteem and atfection to follow

him in that retirement . Iu that spirit he gave them the " Health of Lord Zetland " ( loud cheer : ) . The CHAIRMAN then proposed , "The Right Worshipfnl the D . P . G . M . of England , the Right Hon . the Earl de Grey and Ripon , and the rest of tho Officers of the Grand Lodgo past and present " ( cheers ) . He spoke in high terms of the way in

which the business of the Grand Lodge was conducted by its present staff of office bearers , and they showed , he said , that they were worthy of the trust which was reposed in them . The Rev . Dr . SENIOR responded , and spoke of the time when he first had the p leasure of seeing the present Grand Master placet ! in his office , 26 years ago , and valued as the present Earl of Zetland was ,

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he was rejoiced to believe that in their preseut chairman they possessed one who would fill that lofty position with great ability . Sir H . EDWAF . DS , Bart ., rose to propose the next toast , and waa received with immense cheering , the whole company rising . Tlie toast was " The Right

Worshipful the P . G . M . of West Yorkshire , the Right Hon . the Earl de Grey and Ripon . " Sir Henry said that never had he stood forward with greater satisfaction and purer pride than at that moment ( loud cheers ) . He had to propose the health of a man who was esteemed above every

other man in the craft , not only in Yorkshire , but throughout Great Britain ( cheers and applause ) . He had the honour to propose the toast of the mail who presided at that great meeting—that magnificent meeting of Freemasons ( loud cheers ) . It was indeed a proud pleasure to him to have such a

toast to propose to them , and he thanked the brethren for having placed it in his hands ( cheers ) . No man in AVest Yorkshire was more highly esteemed or more deeply respected than Lord de Grey and Ripon ( loud cheers ) . He ( the noble chairman ) had long beeu a Mason—he had long presided

over this province , not only with great credit to himself , but he had done great credit to the Masons of this great riding , which will never be forgotten . He had presided over its councils with firmness , and had shown an ability which had fascinated everv member . The loss of such a man to West

Yorkshire would be very difficult to fill . He did not mean to say Lord de Grey was about to depart never to return , but one who would depart from them as their chief in Freemasonry ( No , no ) . He deeply regretted to say that from infirmities and age the noble Lord Zetland was about to retire

from the position of chief amongst Masons in England . A successor must be found , and who more likely for a successor than that noble lord who sat at his right hand ( loud cheers oft repeated ) ? No man would deplore more than he did the loss of Earl Zetland to Freemasonry , and no man would

be more delighted to place their present chairman in that position than he ( Sir Henry ) would . Earl de Grey was popular everywhere , and he would be popular still throughout the country . Again he deeply regretted the loss of Earl de Grey from AVest Yorkshire , but should be delighted to be associated

with him in carrying on the work of Masonry in his exalted position of Grand Master ( loud cheers ) . He was delighted to inform his lordship that he would have the votes of the entire province of AVest Yorkshire ( cheers ) . The toast was drunk witli Masonic honours .

The CHAIRMAN rose to reply amidst a perfect ovation , the company rising to cheer again and again . His Lordship said he had often received from the brethren of AVest Yorkshire proofs of their regard , but had never risen with deeper feelings of emotion to reply to the toast which had just been offered to

them as he did upon this occasion , for never as it seemed to him , had they been pleased to accord to it a warmer or more cordial reception . No man could have exercised the high office which he had filled in that riding now for several years , among such a body of meu as the Masons of West Yorkshire ,

without having become united to them by ties closer and closer ( hear , hear , and applause ) . No man be his heart ever so cold—and his , lie trusted , was not of such material ( hear , hear)—but must have been warmed by that hearty zeal for the interests of Masonry , bv that cordial confidence which they had

displayed towards him , and by the hearty co-operation which he had received from them on every hand , for it was the happy constitution of the Craft , whether they looked to its organization in the Grand Lodge and under the Grand Master , or whether they looked to those minuter grand lodges which

were spread throughout the Provinces of the country—it was their happy constitution that , while sufficient power was placed in the hands of those who presided over the councils of the Craft , they had of necessity constantly to apply to the cooperation of their brethren of every order ; and

without that co-operation it would be impossible for any man to conduct the government of JIasonry . He had always held it to be the duty of those who were set to rule in the Craft , whatever might be the position which they field , steadily to set before them the ancient landmarks of the Order ( hear ) and firmly

and constantly to enforce adherence to thoso landmarks , and the time-honoured traditions upon which the Craft was based , but at the same time always to exercise whatever authority mii / lit be placed in their hands by the confidence of their brethren or the choice of their chiefs , with an earnest desire to

merit and secure the confidence ofthe brethren over whom they were called to rule , with an earnest and ever-present conviction that unless they could secure that confidence and the co-operation which followed it they had no hope of being able to do good to the

craft . It had been in that spirit that he had endeavoured to discharge the duties of the high office that lie had held in that province , and that he had learned as he watched the conduct and principles which guided the rule of his great chief , Lord

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Zetland—a rule which , as they now knew , was about to cease among them , and hard indeed would be the task ofthe man who might be chosen , whoever he might be , to succeed to such a ruler . It was only by endeavouring , however unequally , to follow the footsteps of bim who was about to retire from the

greatest position m- the art , with the spirit that animated Lord Zetland , that any man could hope to discharge the duties of so great an office ; and the more they reflected , as naturally they were led to do at such a moment , upon the past history of Freemasonry in this country , and upon the great and

improved position which it now occupied here , the more deeply must every one be impressed with the duty which lay upon them in their respective spheres to demean themselves both within the walls of their lodges and to the outer world as became good and honourable Masons , for they were taught by their

ceremonies of the deeper meaning which underlay the outward things of the craft ; aud when they learned almost now from day to day of the progress of their institutions , of the new lodges which were being added and the new members being enrolled , the greater , naturally must they feel , especially

those who might be called upon to take any government of the order , the responsibility which rested upon them to maintain unsullied and unimpaired those great and noble and lovely principies upon which the order was built centuries ago , and which amidst all the changes of the past had imprinted

upon their order an imperishable stamp ( applause ) . It would ill become him to touch upon the delicate ground upon which some of the speakers had not unnaturally entered that evening . No man who felt the responsibility that attached to the office of Grand Master would put himself forward for such a post .

If it should fall to the lot of any man to be called upon to fill it by the suffrages ofthe craft , then indeed he would be called upon to consider whether it would not be his duty to accept the office . Deep as his regret was at the loss which they were about to sustain , he felt confidence that even the loss of

so great a man as him who had ruled over them for the last 26 years would not wreck the stability of Masonry , would not weaken the foundation or impair their progress , because that progress was not dependent upon the presence of any single man , however good , for those foundations had been

laid fn times the memory of which had almost perished , upon one eternal and enduring basis ( applause ) . The CHAIRMAN next gave the toast of the AV . D . P . G . Master and the Officers of Provincial Gaand Lodge Pastand Present , to which Bro . Bentley Shaw , replied .

The following toasts were then given and responded to : —• ' The Visiting P . G . O . 's from other districts , " responded to by Bro . Lucas , from Lincolnshire" ; " The health of AV . M . 's and Officers of the Lodges of Probity and St . James ' s , " responded to by Bro . B . AV . Jackson , AV . M . of the Lodge of Probity , and

Bro . R Lord , AV . M . of St . James ' s Lodge ; " Success to the Masonic Temple ; " " The Chairman , Vicechairman , and Members ofthe Building Committee , " responded to by Bro . Fisher ; ' The Secretaries , " responded to by Bros . Harry J . Franklin and Austin Roberts ; "The Architects , " responded to by Bros ,

Jackson and Horsfall ; " The Visiting Brethren , " responded to by Bro . Binckes , Secretary of the Boys ' School , London ; " The Countess de Grey and Ripon , Mrs . B . Shaw , and the Ladies , " proposed by Sir H . Edwards , and responded to by the Chairman on behalf of Lady de Grey , aud by Bro . Bentley Shaw ;" " The Distressed Masons . "

BREAKFAST . —Errs ' s COCOA . —Grateful and Comforting . —The very agreeable character of this preparation lias rendered it a general favourite . The Civil Service Gazette remar / ta : — ' Tlie singular success which Mr . Kpps attained hy his homoeopathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by any experimentalist . By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations

of digestion and nutrition , and hy a careful application of the Sue properties of well-selected cocoa , Mr . Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctor ' s bills . " Hade simply with boiling water or milk . Sold by the Trade only , in ^ lb ., 4 lb . and 1 lb . tin-lined packets , labelled JAMES Errs & Co ., Homoeopathic Chemists , London . —ADVT .

THE BLOOD PURIFIER . —Old Dr . Jacob Townsend ' * Sarsaparilla . Other Medical Testimony . —In speaking of the ' Blood Purifier , " old Dr . Jacob Townsend ' s Sarsaparilla , G C . Kurnott , M . D ., L . S . A . Lond ., says : — " I strongly recommend it in cutaneous diseases and all impurities of the blool . " March 24 , 1869 . —In a letter to the proprietors , June 6 , 1869 , Dr . Irvine , of Irvine ' s-town , savs : — " I have

been in tho habitof ordenngyour Sarsaparilla for my patients with the best results . Send me six quarts nnd six mammoth bottles . " For all skin diseases , for purifying tho system of mercurial poisons , and building up the broken constitution it is the only safe and certain remedy . —In Bottles 2 s . £ d ., 4 s ., 4 s . Cd ., 7 s . Cd ., lis . Sold by all Druggists Fills and

Ointment each in Boxes , Is . ljd ., 2 s . 9 il ., 4 s . Gd . Testimonials also from the Hon . the Dean of Lismorc ; General AVilliam Gilbert , of the Indian Army ; ordered also by Apothecaries Uall , London . Caution—Get the red and blue wrappers , with the Old Doctor ' s head in the centre . No other genuine . —ADVT .