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CONTENTS .

LEADERS 5 <> 3 United Grand Lodge 564 Grand Mark Lodge Sb 6 Testimonial to Bro . W . | . Hughan 567 Annual Festival of the Lodge of Emulation 5 C 9 Liverpool Masonic Ball 5 6 9

The Late Bro . H . S . Alpass 5 6 9 CORRESPONDENCEThe Grand Treasnrership 571 St . Anne ' s Schools 571 Masonic Mendicancy 571 Reviews 571 Notes and Queries . 17 '

REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 572 Instruction 574 Royal Arch 574 Mark Masonry 574 Knights Templar 575

The Candidates for the Office of Grand Treasurer 575 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 575 Obituary 57 s Masonic and General Tidings 57 t Lodge Meetings for Next Week Cover .

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THE Ouarterly Communication of Grand Lodge took place on Wednesday last under the presidency of the Eartof CARNARVON , Pro G . M . His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES was re-nominated , amid loud cheers , as Grand Master for the ensuing year , and Bros . CAMA , Major WOODALL , and J AMES WILLING were nominated as Grand Stewards for the same period . We refer our readers to the report elsewhere for the various items of

business transacted , and will only add that the dignified reply of Grand Lodge through the GRAND MASTER will , we hope , settle the matter , and convince the Quebec Masons that the Grand Lodge of England cannot give way to un-Masonic menaces or even violent opposition to the ancient and Cosmopolitan laws of Freemasonry .

* * * THERE are , of course , " testimonials and testimonials ; " but we confess to be a little jealous of the fashion growing amongst us . The great fear always is that brethren of long service , much value , comparatively of humbler rank or status , are passed over altogether , and some mere factitious incident of

the hour , some fictitious " gush , " give to the more fortunate presentee , in the happy enthusiasm of his friends , that which ought alone be offered to true merit , long service , or personal qualities of the highest order . At the same time , it is very difficult to check either the impulses of warm feelings or even the passing sentiment of the moment . Men and Masons see things so

differently . What is everything to one , is nothing to another ; what appears the height of merit to some , is to another proof of no merit at all . And so the world wags on its way , and the whirligig of Time brings strange concerts . Testimonial follows upon testimonial , even in Freemasonry , as a proof of regard , esteem , affection , of merit , of "opportunism , " or

what you will , and the chronicler has to-day to record , no doubt , what warm hearts have said , and zealous hands have effected . In Bro . W . J . HUGIIAN ' S case there can be little doubt the testimonial proceeds from a genuine admiration of the man and the Freemason , and as a recognition of much literary good work and high Masonic services . There is no one in the Craft , at home

or abroad , who can grudge , for one moment , the free-will offering of English and American Freemasons to a brother whose name has been so long before it as a pioneer in the great and goodly enterprize of Masonic culture and archaeological study . From the republication of COLE ' S Constitutions down to his recent valuable work , Bro . HUGHAN has always been favourably

before the Craft . He is known , by patient industry and keen discrimination , to have thoroughly mastered the history of our lodges , and the minutiae of archaeological lore ; and , alike in America and England , he is an authority on various moot points . To him a presentation was made on Wednesday last , —of which a full report appears elsewhere , —which is alike most

complimentary and most honourable to him . We can only hope that he may be spared many years to realize and enjoy this substantial proof of the regard , respect , and appreciation of his brethren in England and America , for zeal , energy , and courage so long and fraternally displayed in endeavouring to advance Masonic studies , and to illustrate the great cause of Masonic truth .

* # * ENGLISH Freemasonry has suffered a great loss in the lamented and untimely decease of J CREATON . Wherever English Masons most do congregate his name was well known , and his presence always warmly greated . A zealous and earnest Freemason , he never wavered in his

affection for the Order , and his un-tiring work on its behalf . In the odges and chapters which he most attended his name remains and his memory will endure , as a loyal , honest , and devoted brother , always read y to help a friend , always wishful to extend the genial , the

philanthropic , and the kindly tenets of the Craft , His attachment to our great Charities -is too remarkable and tco commendable to be passed over without a few words of kindly and sympathetic remembrance . Unlike many a richer man , he was a zealous and liberal supporter of the Charities to the very last . Hardly a year passed , —indeed , we may

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say every year , —as a matter of course , his name was to be found in the list of additional donations , while his presidency at election time and Committee meeting , was hailed by all the subscribers alike , in town and country , as an augury both of a satisfactory transaction of business , and a guarantee for all that was fair , all that was Masonically correct and

gratifying . Indeed , when we seek to number up Bro . CREATON s untiring service to English Masonry the record becomes almost too serious and even too striking . He has passed away from amongst us , still in the full fervour of Masonic zeal and good work , and a missed man he will be , in more coteries

than one , —missed almost more than words can express . Those who knew him best valued him the most , and there are very many here of us all who will feel very deep sorrow indeed , when they realize sternly that they have seen the last of J CREATON . * * *

"TEMPERANCE" in our last issue touches upon one or two topics which arose out of the remarks of Bro . TEW , and to which we are by no means insensible . Indeed , we showed by what we said , that some of the points he alludes to were before us when we wrote , and that we were not at all insensible of several of the facts and considerations he dwells upon with

much force . We were , however , more concerned , in dealing with a " dictum" of our distinguished brother as regards "dictation" by the W . M . of a lodge enforcing the decision of his lodge that no alcoholic liquor should appear in the social circle . YVe wished to be fair to all . Thero are , no doubt , grave objections to setting up as it were a line of demarcation

between temperance lodges , so called , and other lodges , inasmuch as temperance is one of the Cardinal virtues , and is strictly enjoined and inculcated in all our Masonic lodges . Neither can we quite accord with the expressed theory , that all such lodges are to take a higher status of culture , utility , and the like , than

those in which a contrary system prevails . When these new lodges can tell us that they have equalled their compeers and predecessors in work for the Craft and liberality for the Charities , we will have something to say to them . In the mean time we say we hope and expect great things of them , and we ask them to remember the good old English adage , " the proof

of the pudding is in the eating . " We regret to note in our correspondent ' s letter , a sort of impatience as to differing opinions , —a want of Toleration as to views and feelings contrary lo those he is accumstomed to and approves

of . But surely Freemasonry teaches us all a lesson of Toleration ; and , with due submission to his opinion , we hold , and hold strongly , that there is room in English Freemasonry for both schools of thought on the special subject involved .

* * * WE were thinking over the question of " dictation , " raised as to a lodge in its social circle declining the use of alcoholic liquor , and it occurred to us how easy it was to illustrate the fallacy of the conclusion of those who assert there is in this dictation toother Freemasons . If any brother visitor has a right to

complain of the absence of alcoholic liquor , he has equally aright to complain of the absence of any other favoured " compound , " any other accustomed " plat " in the menu . YVhere are we going to ? We then must come to the conclusion of our Bro . the Mayor of LEEDS , that those who do not like such " provender" in such social circles , must keep away and seek

elsewhere better entertainment . It is impossible that the liberty of any number of brethren all agreed on the subject can be interfered with by the fancies or feelings of a visitor or visitors . If indeed such views are sound we must have Masonic hospitality reduced to a uniform standard . The charm of our Masonic social circles , heretofore , has been variety , and the special

customs and ancient usages of each separate lodge entertainment . We ought all to be contented with what is set before us , and it will be a very evil day for English Freemasonry , when we commence to measure and value lodge hospitality by what alone suits our own proclivities , or entirel y harmonizes with our special views ( which may be very faulty ) on the subject .

* # * THE argument of our excellent confrere , Bro . J . W . SIMONS , in the New York Dispatch , will suit the " meridian" of the United States Grand Lodges , but will hardly accord with our views in England . As regards the necessity of all voting on a ballot to prevent discovery of

individual voting , we in England cannot understand such an argument . The . Deacons would know , it is true , who did not vote at all , but how such a part-knowledge affects the secrecy of the ballot we cannot for the life of

us comprehend . If the ballottee knew who had not vjted out of a lodge of 35 persons , namely , seven or eight , he might realize , it is true , that the ayes and the noes were distributed among the remaining members . But how such a knowledge would help him , or affect the inviolablesecrecy of the ballot box ,