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To balance Grand Chapter £ 414 6 o „ „ Unappropriated Account 172 7 n „ Subsequent Receipts ... 5 't 3 5 £ i ° 97 17 4

By purchase of £ 300 Consols at 95 I and Commission , j £ 2 S 8 o o „ Disbursements during the quarter 204 9 10 „ Balance 4 . i ' 9 l „ „ in Unappropriated Account ... 179 8 5

£ 100 7 17 4 which balances are in the hands of Messrs . Willis , Percival and Co ., Bankers of the Grand Treasurer . The committee having likewise reported that they had received the following petitions , Comp . Col . Creaton moved and Comp . Josep h Smith seconded that the prayers of the same be granted , and the Grand Chapter consequently

adopted the recommendation unanimously . 1 st . From Comps . Henry Penfold as Z ., George Fleming as H ., and George White as J ., and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Pentangle Lodge , to be railed the Pentangle Chapter , and to meet at the Sun Hotel , Chatham , in the County of Kent . 2 nd . From Comps . Danell H . Webb Horlock as Z .,

Charles Gordon Archer as H ., and the Rev . George Ross as J ., and nine others for a chapter to be attached to the Dunheved Lodge , No . 789 , Launcestou , to be called " The Dunheved Chapter , " and to meet at the Masonic Hall , Launceston , in the county of Cornwall . 3 rd . from Comps . Joseph Henry Warren as Z ., Frederick Horspool as H ., and Benjamin Barber as J ., and

eleven others for a chapter to be attached to the Brent Lodge , No . 1284 , Topsham , to be called " The Brent Chapter , " and to meet at the Masonic Hall , Topsham , in the county of Devon . 4 th . From Comps . Herbert Tritton Sankey as Z ., Charles Holthim as H ., and John Hemery as J ., and nine others for a chapter to be attached to the United In .

dustrious Lodge , No . 31 , Canterbury , to be called "The Bertha Chapter , " and to meet at the Guildhall , Canterbury , in the county of Kent . 5 th . From Comps . James Terry as Z ., John Anthony Winsland as H ., and Robert Griggs as J ., and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Lodge of United StrengthNo . 228 , London , to be called "The United

, Strength Chapter , " and to meet at the Guildhall Tavern , Gresham-street , in the City of London . 6 th . From Comps . John Ross Gallant as Z ., William Crawford as H ., and Joseph Wright as J ., and six others for a chapter to be attached to the New Concord Lodge , No . 813 , London , to be called the New Concord Chapter , and to meet at the Rosemary Branch Tavern ,

Southgateroad , Islington , in the county of Middlesex . 7 th . From Comps . Charles R . Dallas as Z ., Peter Scott as H ., and Charles Wilkinson as j ., and eight others for a chapter to be attached to the Lodge of Industry , No . i 4 i 5 , Nowlucka , Lahore , Punjaub , to be called the Progress Chapter , and to meet at Lahore , Punjab . 8 th . From Comps . Christopher William Calthrop , M . D .,

as Z ., Thomas Cooke as H ., and Richard Hill as J ., and seven others for a chapter to be attached to the Lodge Morning Star , No . 1439 , Palumpar , Punjab , to be called the Calthrop Chapter , and to meet at Palumpar , Kangra , Punjab . Lord De Tabley then said that the next business on the

paper was an appeal against the judgment of the Grand Superintendent of Middlesex , suspending the Royal Union Chapter , No . 3 82 , Uxbridge , and the three Principals thereof , for non-payment of dues to the Provincial Grand Chapter , and for contumacy . Comp . Matthew Cooke said he did not know what the exact course of procedure in Grand Chapter was , whether

to lead the report 111 cxtenso or not . Comp . AL . J . Mclntyre said cheappeal should be supported by one or more of the appellants , who should briefly state the substance of the appeal and the grounds on which the appeal vvas founded . It vvas not absolutely necessary that the appeal should be read , though if it was the wish of Grand Chapter there was no reason why it should not be

read . After a short discussion it was ruled that Comp . Matthew Cooke should state his case .

Comp . Cooke then said that his case rested on informality on several points . The first point that he took was that his chapter , being founded some forty years before the Province of . Middlesex was reported to be founded , they had done everything that was right and proper . Up to the time the chapter was summoned to appear they did not know officially that there was a

Province of Middlesex . They worked as under Grand Chapter , from which they had never received admonition or reproof . That was his first point . His next point was that the whole matter was informal . They had not had statutable notice , nor a peremptory notice before they were suspended . When they were summoned they were summoned to appear out of the Masonic jurisdiction of the

Grand Superintendent of Middlesex ; to wit , not more than 300 yards from Freemasons' Hall . He contended that having been established before the province was constituted the Royal Union Chapter owed allegiance only to Grand Chapter . Grand Registrar said that on the ground that there was

no peremptory summons before the suspension , the objection vvas fatal to the suspension . On the ground that by the first summons the companions were required to appear in a place not within the province that also was fatal ; and he should advise Grand Chapter to take off the suspension . On the grounds that the companions of the Hoyal Union Chapter owed

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allegiance only to the Grand Z . and Grand Chapter , he must disabuse Comp . Cooke ' s mind of that error . The Grand Z . appointed Provincial Grand Superintendents , as he had power to do , and all chapters within that province which had been in existence before that province was formed , owed allegiance to the Vtov . Grand Superintendent , as the representative of the Grand Z . The Prov . Grand

Superintendent stood in the same position to the chapters and companions of his province as the M . E . Grand Z . stood to the whole body of Arch Masons . Col . Burdett , Grand Superintendent for Middlesex , explained that a peremptory summons was not issued because he wanted to act in a friendly and kind manner . When summoned to appear in London the companions had

their convenience consulted , and it was thought they living in London , it would be more suitable for them to appear in London than to go sume distance out of London . As to the companions of the Royal Union Chapter not having official notice of there being a Province of Middlesex , some of the companions of that chapter were Provincial Grand office-bearers . He was very glad to find the suspension

taken off , and hoped that hereafter the Royal Union and the Prov . Grand Chapter would get on well together . After a few words from Comps . S . Leith Tomkins , the G . Registrar , Matthew Cooke , Hyde Clarke , and G . R . Shervill , the suspension was removed . Bro . Lord de Tabley announced that H . R . H . the

Prince of Wales had appointed Comps . Col . Creaton , Benj . Head , and Robert Gray on the Committee of General Purposes . The Comps . then elected Comps . John Boyd , 145 ; Joseph Smith , 19 ; J . Ebenezer Saunders , 2 ; H . C . Levander , 76 ; F . Adlard , 214 ; and James Lewis Thomas , 13 , as members of the same Committee . Grand Chapter was then closed and adjourned .

Consecration Of The Mornington Lodge, No. 1672.

CONSECRATION OF THE MORNINGTON LODGE , No . 1672 .

On Monday afternoon the Mornington Lodge , No . 1672 , was consecrated by Bro . John Hervey , at the Eagle Hotel , Snaresbrook . Bro . Hervey was assisted in the ceremony by Bro . H . G . Buss , Assistant Grand Secretary , as D . C . ; the Rev . P . M . Holden , P . G . C . Middlesex , who

took the office of Chaplain ; Bro . E . P . Albert , P . G . P ., as S . W . ; Bro . James Terry , G . D . C . Herts , as J . W . ; and Bro . Lurking , as I . G . The performance of the ceremony was musically accompanied , under the direction of Bro . Dr . James F . Haskins , by Bros . G . T . Carter , T . W . Simons , and R . Farquharson . The list of brethren present included the following

names : —Bros . Charles Lacey , P . P . G . W . Herts ; W . T . Scott , W . M . 9 ; H . W . Gompcrtz , J . W . 1364 ; W . G . Clarke , P . M . 101 ; A . Lucking , P . M . 160 ; S . A . Thompson , 91 ; W . Bristo , P . M . 860 and 1364 ; Percival A . Nairne , P . M . 176 , W . M 1329 ; Ernest Wright , W . M . 1364 ; H . Marfleet , P . M . 217 , 898 , 1382 ; Edw . Brown , 159 8 ; B . Blunsen , 742 ; T . Vale Christmas , 31 ; W .

Bailey , S . W . 49 ; Wyndham Hart , 49 ; W . Wilson , 402 ; Samuel H . Rawley , P . M . 174 ; E . P . Albert , P . G . P . ; James T . Wastford , 1364 ; John Hervey , G . S . ; H . G . Buss , Assist . G . S . ; James Terry , P . G . D . C . Herts ; H . Massey , P . M . ftttf { Freemason ); Charles B . Payne , G . T . ; Frederick Binckes , Grand Steward ' s Lodge ; E . Gottheil , P . M . 141 ; John G . Stevens , W . M . 033 ; Rev . P . M .

Holden , P . G . C . Middlesex ; Thos . W . Simons , 1185 ; E . Coste , P . M . 9 ; J . J . Furlong , 1 G 02 ; Thos . S . Mortlock , P . M . 186 ; J . W . Litson , 1306 ; N . G . Thomas , 1 G 12 ; G . T . Carter , P . M . 3 82 ; P . A . Bianchi , P . M . 1698 ; ] ohn Turner , 49 ; S . G . Robinson , 1615 ; R . Humphrey , 1364 ; Thos . E . Taylor , W . M . 101 ; W . H . Wallington , P . M . 860 ; las . L . Hunter , 159 8 ; Thos . Barford , P . M .

55 ; J . G . Baxter , jun ., 206 ; G . E . Laverach , 917 ; R . Fatquhavsoti , I . G . 90 , ; Watson Carr , S . W . 72 ; and J . E . Cockett , 1364 . After the lodge had been duly opened , and the petition for the warrants and the warrant itself had been read , Bro . Hervey said he did not know how it was , but he could assure the brethren that in every fresh lodge he

consecrated heseemedtobe more nervous and mere anxious about how the ceremony would be cairicd out , and it was only a day or two ago that he could reconcile to himself how that feeling overcame him . But still it was , he thought , a very natural feeling , and one which the brethren would agree with him was not much out of the way , or a feeling that was wrong to entertain . The feeling vvas that the

solemnity of the proceedings might thoroughly impress the brethren who took part in them . This was a feeling which should be held by all the brethren who were participators in the ceremony , for it was necessary that the proceedings should be conducted so as to produce a good end . A great responsibility rested on those who consecrated a lodge . Upon them in a great measure it

depended whether the lodge would be impressed with what was done . In a similar way when the W . M . initiated a candidate , upon the impression which he gave was the feeling which the candidate had towards Masonry afterwards . On the consecrating officers and those who were good enough to assist it also depended what the lodge would be considered . The brethren of the lodge , and the

visitors who were their guests , naturally were more or less impressed as the ceremony was ill or well performed , and , therefore , on the Consecrating Officer was there a great responsibility . Then , the brethren who were the recipients of the warrant must also feel that upon them devolved a vast responsibility for what they were about to undertake .

They were undertaking that a new society , a branch of the main trunk , should in the future be under their control and management ; and it would depend upon them whether that society should be a credit or otherwise to the Craft . Upon them , moreover , hung the responsibility of judging of the characters of those who were to be admitted into the ranks of Freemasonry—a responsibility

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which was delegated to them by the Grand Lod ge of England , and to the Grand Lodge of England they were answerable for what they undertook to perform . Therefore , in both instances , there was a heavy weight on the Consecrating Officer , and not only on him but on the brethren of the new lodge . He had often and often dilated on the necessity of care in the introduction

of candidates , and he was not about again to trouble the brethren with any observations of that nature . He would not either advert to another rather favourite subject of his , the necessity of not resorting to the black ball when it was not urgently required by the character of the individual who sought introduction to the lodge . He would rather touch on more pleasing themes , and one was the

conviction he felt that the brethren who were about to be entrusted with the rule of this lodge would so perform their obligations as to merit the esteem of the brethren and the gratitude of the Craft generally . He hoped they would do their duties in such a way as that candidates might be impressed with feelings of respect for the society they be . came members of , that they might become good Masons ,

and not secede from the Craft as from a body which they did not care to belong to , and into which they ought not to have been introduced . If the duties were properly discharged there would be no question that the child would be led into the path which he ought to pursue , and thus a good initiation would make good Masons in a general way . He trusted that if he had felt at all nervous the

brethren would feel that it was not for want of will to do his work properly , but from a certain feeling which he could not control . The ceremony was thereupon proceeded with , and Bro . Hervey , at the proper time , called upon Bro . the Rev . P . M . Holden to deliver an oration . The Rev . P . M . Holden then said : Worshipful Sir , Grand

Officers , and brethren all—The occasion upon which we are met to-day is , I think , interesting , not only to us as Masons personally and individually , but to the whole Craft at large , inasmuch as it denotes the continued prosperity of our venerable order , which , like the famous Indian tree , the banana tree , perpetually renews itself in scions as vigorous and flourishing as the parent stem . It

is to myself personally a source of peculiar gratification and pleasure to have been invited to come among you to-day , and to assist our popular and deservedly beloved brother , the Grand Secretary of England , at so important a ceremony as the consecration of this new lodge , the Mornington Lodge , more especially as 1 have no doubt that the founders of the lodge are brethren admirably

skilled and well qualified to fulfil the various duties of the high office to which they have been appointed by the Grand Master . Having , doubtless , in some other lodge , " won golden opinions" for their zeal in the cause of Freemasonry , they are now naturally and very laudably anxious to devote some portion of their abilities , their time , and influence to the still further advancement and

developement of so noble , so interesting , so ancient , and so very valuable a science . What has been remarked by a very distinguished and learned writer of literary men may , I think , be equally well applied to the brethren of our distinguished Craft . They are a perpetual priesthood , standing forth , from generation to generation , the dispensers and living types of God ' s everlasting wisdom .

And I rejoice to know aird to think that there are so many distinguished , learned , talented men to be found in the ranks of our fraternity . To their enfranchised minds Freemasonry must unveil a whole universe of thought ; to them it is and it must be a source of keen delight to trace and to interpret those grand and solemn truths which were but dimly foreshadowed in the mystic rites of

the ancient world . Looking through the mists of ages they behold in the white-robed Athenians a kindred race , and are familiar with the symbolic teachings of the great philosophers of old . Amidst the darkness and obscurity of occult ceremonies they can have faint gleams of the true light in which wc now rejoice . In every land they find tokens and traces innumerable , graven by the hands

of skilful Masons upon the walls of ruined fanes and temples , and they establish the affinity of our Order with the Sucitty of Dionyshn artificers , with the disciples of Pythagoras , with the College of Architects of Rome , and with the various operative associations of the middle ages . They demonstrate clearly that the grand ethics of Freemasonry were taught and known by the very wisest sages of

Greece , whose names to this very hour are revered and honoured by the whole civilised world ; they prove that our Order , though often persecuted and often divided , has never yet failed or even faltered in its sublime career , though the greatest and the mightiest empires and kingdoms of the earth have been called upon to submit to tbe destroying hand of conquest or to the effacing fingers of time and

decay . And 1 would ask you , what nobler exercise of the mental faculties can possibly be found than a calm and earnest search after mystic knowledge , thus gleaning and gathering in our onward path the rich stores of wisdom which it reveals to our view ? But it is certainly not to the intellectual pleasure to be derived frorr . the study of Freemasonry alone that I would direct your attention . Our

Order possesses other and far more valuable claims upon your sympathy and support . It is founded upon principles that are at once an honour and an ornament to hum & ri nature . It bids us hasten to the rescue of the young and the helpless from the snares and the pitfalls of poverty , and of ignorance , and even of vice . It calls upon every one of us to ameliorate the sad condition of those who ,

from some circumstances or other , in the decline of their lives require our consolation and assistance ; and I am proud and happy to say that English Freemasons have ever been distinguished , not merely for their zeal in pr ° " moting the welfare of the Order , but for their large-hearted benevolence and diffusive charity . The very best ansvve that can possibly be given to the sneers and the cavils an the disparaging remarks of the unenlightened world is t °