Reports Of Masonic Meetings.

Treas . ; Robert Hunter , S . D .: Adam G . Marks , , L . D . ; Gardner Marks , I . G . Labour being over , the brethren adjourned to Mr . Irwin ' s Commercial Hotel , at seven o ' clock p . m ., where they sat down to an excellent dinner , served up in capital style . The cloth being removed , the chairman gave the usual loyal and Masonic

toasts , which were duly honoured and ably responded to by several of the brethren . The toasts of the several officers , past and present , having been given and dul y responded to , the brethren separated at an early hour in peace , love , and harmony , having spent a very agreeable eveninsr .

Royal Arch.

Royal Arch .

LEICESTERSHIRE LEICESTER . —Chapter of Fortitude . ( No . 279 ) . ¦ —This Chapter held its usual monthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall , Leicester , on Thursday , f une 27 th . Present : M . E . Comp . AV . Kelly , P . G . Supt . and P . Z . ; E . Comp . Toller , M . E . Z . ; E . Comp . AVeare , P . Z . ; E . Comp . Crow , J .:

and Comps . Partridge , E . ; Revd . Haycroft , P . S . Rowlett , A . S . ; Atkins , and Banes . Visitors , Comps . J . M . Moore , Rowley Chapter , Lancaster ; and S . P . Ekin , Pythagoras Chapter , Cambridge . The business consisted in exalting Bros . J . B . Hall , AV . M . 1391 ; A . Palmer , 279 , AValter AVilkinson , S . D ., 1391 ; and A . Sargeant ,

523 ; as companions of the H . R . A ., the . ceremony being ably performed by the M . E . Z . Bro . J . T . Thorp , Secretary of J ohn of Gaunt Lodge , No . 1523 , was proposed for exaltation , and Comp . S . P . Ekin as a joining member , after which the Chapter was closed , and the companions adjourned to refreshment .

DORIC CHAPTER ( NO . 33 ) .- — -The Doric Chapter of Instruction will meet on Thursday evening , July 1 ilh , and every succeeding Thursday , at eight o ' clock , at Comp . Vellons , the Rising Svm Tavern , Globe-road , Bethnal-green . Comps . T . J . Burnes , Preceptor ; Rugg , Hon . Sec .

Mark Masonry.

Mark Masonry .

DEA ONSHIEE . SOUTH MOLTON .- —Fortescite Lodge ( No . 9 ) . —This Lodge held its usual monthly meeting at the Freemasons' Hall , on 'Monday , Bro . Edwin Purse occupying his position of AV . M . An addition to its members has been recently made by

the advancement of Bros . Shapland , Symons , and Pitowsky . After the business of the evening was ended , the AV . M . invited the whole of the brethren present to his private residence , to supper , and a very pleasent evening was spent .

KENT . RAMSGATE . —Holmesdale Lodge ( No 129 ) . — A meeting of this young , out rapidly progressing , Lodge was held on Thursday evening ( June 2 nd ) , at Hiscocks' Royal Hotel , Ramsgate . There were three candidates for

advancement , all of whom were unanimously approved . Two were , however , unavoidably absent , but the- third ( I 5 ro . Richard J . Emmcrson , AV . M . of the Cinque Ports Lodge , Sandwich ( Xo 1206 ) , was present , and advanced to the honourable

degree of Mark Master b y Bro . L . Finch , AV . M . This is the first time that Bro . Finch has occupied the chair since his installation , and great credit is due to him for the very perfect manner in which he performed the ceremony , all the

officers executed their work well , ably seconding the efforts of the AV . M . Bro . James AV . Smith , Grand Steward , delivered the lecture of the degree to the newly advanced Brother . Bro . Eairtlough , AV . M . of the Dover and Cinque

Ports Mark Lodge , with several of his officers , were present , and expressed their satisfaction with the work . Bro . Finch and some of his officers accepted the invitation of Bro . Fairtlough to pay a return-visit to the Dover Lodge , on Monday , the iSth instant .

GIBRALTAR . GIBRALTAR . —Marl : Lodge ( No . 43 ) . —The regular meeting of the above lodge , was held on

Mark Masonry.

Friday evening , the 7 th inst . The business notified in the summons was to appoint officers for the ensuing twelve months ; to ballot for as joining member Bro . Oxley , Limited Service Lodge No . 69 , and to advance Bros . Brownlee , Lackland , Little , and Haynes . The ceremony

of installation of the AV . M . was unnecessary , the AV . M ., Bro . Balfour Cockburn , having been unanimously re-elected to the chair . The lodge having been duly opened , the AV . M . then appointed the following brethren to the respective offices opposite their names , making a few

appropriate remarks to each , as the badge of office was placed on their breasts . Bros . Morgan , Senior AVarden ; AV . Brown , Junior AVarden ; AVall , Master Overseer ; Seath , Senior Overseer ; Hepper , Junior Overseer ; Marshall , Senior Deacon ; Ashton , Junior Deacon ; Trencery ,

Treasurer ; AVilliamson , Secretary ; Leys , Registrar of Marks ; Arrowsmith , D of Cers ; Michie , Inner Guard . Bros . Lackland , and Haynes , being in attendance , were then advanced to the honourable degree by the AV . M . At the conclusion of the ceremony the AV . M . rose and

stated that he had hoped at thc expiration of his year of office to have proposed that a jewel should be voted to an officer of the lodge who , during his tenure of office , had evinced an amount of zeal and industry worthy of the highest praise . Taking into consideration however , the peculiar

position of the lodge just at present , he had felt that such a demand on the funds of the lodge would have been somewhat unjust , under these circumstances , and considering the great assistance he had personally received from the office * in question , he had taken the matter into his

own hands and had ordered a jewel , at his own expense—and he now seized the opportunity of bestowing it , fully believing that presenting the same in his official capacity as AV . M . and in open lodge assembled , it would clothe it with a value which its mere intrinsic worth could never

convey . The AV . M . then directed the Deacons to marshal the hue , Secretary , Bro . AVilliam Brown , to the foot ol" the dais , and after a few appropriate observations he suspended the jewel on his left breasl . Bro . Brown expressed his thanks to the AV . M ., statins' at the same time

that he had been taken so greatly b y suprise at this most unexpected proceeding , that he had felt utterly incapable of saying all that he could wish to do . The jewel , which was of a somewhat novel pattern , was from a design of the AV . M . himself , and consisted of crossed plumes with a

scroll above , bearing the inscription , and a keystone below . It had been executed in silver gilt b y Bro . Geo . Kenning , of London . The elegant simplicity of the design and the extremely chaste workmanship of the ornament elicited the

unqualified approbation oi all the brethren present . After the transaction of" some trilling business connected with the domestic economy of the lodge , the brethren retired to refreshment , and the evening was closed in harmony and much social enjoyment .

THE PROV . GRAND LODGE OI- ' SI ' ITOLK met at Sudbury on Monday , the 1 st July . About 100 were present , including the Provincial Grand Alaster , Col . Sir Shafto Adair , Bart . Seventyfive sat down to the banquet . A full report will

appear 111 our next . Special service had been previousl y held at the magnificent old church at Long Milford , where an eloquent sermon was preached by the Rector , the Rev . C . J . Martyn , Past Grand Chaplain of England .

Tin : PRINCE IMPERIAL OF GERMANY , in his quality of Grand Alaster on the Masons of Prussia , has just given his assent to a project for unifying the eight societies now existing in the Empire .

THE PRINCE or AVALES , attended by Lord Skelmersdale , was yesterday inaugurated Commander of the Encampment of Faith and

Fidelity , at the Freemasons' Hall . His Royal Hig hness , attended by Air . F . Knollys , having been re-elected Master ofthe Royal Alpha Lodge , was installed at Willis ' s Rooms on Monday . afternoon .

The Freemasons And The Reredos At Gloucester Cathedral.

THE FREEMASONS AND THE REREDOS AT GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL .

The beautiful reredos now approaching the completion of its restoration will be unveiled to the public on the aijth September next , the

Right AVorshipful the Grand Master of the Freemasons of this province , Lord Sherborne , having accepted the invitation of the Dean and Chapter to take part in the proceedings .

Ihe arrangements are in very good hands , and , in addition to a large assemblage from this and neighbouring counties , the display by the Freemasons will , doubtless , be as chaste as it will be effective .

AVe are reminded of two previous and memorable occasions in which the Freemasons appeared in full insignia in this venerable cathedral . On August 19 , 182 , 3 , when Bro . the

Rev . 1 . D . Fosbrooke , the county historian , preached the " Masonic Jennerian Sermon , " in aid of the subscriptions for erecting a monument

in honour of Dr . Jenner , and again when the Rev . R . Roberts occupied the pulpit , when the foundation-stone of the monument to Bishop

Hooper was laid . The third occasion , three months hence , is to outstrip its predecessors , and promises to be an unusually marked red letter day in the calendar of the Craft .

Although the suggestion of thc restoration of the Reredos originated with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach , Bart ., P . G . AV . of England , Past Senior Warden of the province , much praise is due

to the Royal Gloucestershire Lodge of this city , who will find three hundred pounds of the money required , and who , by their ardour , have stimulated others . Its sister lodge , the Lebanon ,

will also subscribe , it is to be hoped , one hundred pounds . But how much more praise is not due to brethren at a distance from the capital of the province , and who may naturally be

supposed not to feel so keen an interest in the project as those resident on the spot , who will find the remainder of the money to make up over / hooo r

The whole matter rerkcts great credit on the Masonic body , as well is it a work in which all

may feel proud they have assisted . The restoration of the Cathedral , if a local , is also a national undertaking , and is worth y of support from whatever quarter sought .

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cocoa , Mr . Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills . "—Civil Service Gazelle . Made simply with Boiling Water or Milk . Each packet is labelled" I AMES Epps vV : Co ., Homoeopathic Chemists , London . '

IIOI . LOWAV ' S l ' u . i . s . — 'this cooling medicine has the happiest effect . When the blood is overheated and a tenden- ' ry to inflammatory action is set up in the system one pill , taken shoitly before dinner , does away with with the indigestion , fullness , and flatulency , indications of a weakstomach or disordered liver . A few Pills taken at bed time , act as alteratives , and aperients , they not only relieve

the bowels , hut regulate ever ) ' organ connected with them , overcome all acrid humours and encourage a free supply of all the secretions essential to our well-being . Holloway's Pills thoroughly cleanse , and perfectly regulate the circulation and beget a feeling of comfort in hot climates and hig h temperatures , which is most desirable for preservation . of health . — ADVT