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Births, Marriages And Deaths.

Births , Marriages and Deaths .

BIRTH . WEAVER . —On the 28 th April , the wife of I 5 ro . James Weaver , P . AI . 862 and 1319 , P . Prov . G . Org ., Aliddlesex , of a son .

Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

AU Communications , Advertisements , & c , intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later than 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning .

The following stand over and will bc inserted next week ** - ¦* I (¦ Letters from T . C . G . L . ; W . Kelly ; Edwin Prior ; "A New Order in Yorkshire . " Poetry : " The Installation ; " "Ode , " W . S . ; "The Berkshire Alasons . " Reports of Lodges : 21 , 141 , 332 , 464 , 1018 , 1138 , 1239 , 1309 , 1381 , E . C , Grand Lodge of Scotland .

The Graphic

THE GRAPHIC

This Week , May 8 , contains the following Fine Engravings : Portrait of Aliss Elizabeth Thompson ( Drawn from Life ) , Painter of the " Roll Call , " fcc . " Off Duty , " from the Picture by G . Pope . Collision Between a Ship and an Iceberg off Cape I lorn .

THE FREEMASONS

At the Albert Hall . The Earl of Carnarvon leading H . R . H . the Prince of Wales to the Throne . Signor Tommaso Salvini , the great Italian Tragedian . The Transit of Venus : An Observatory Station in the Australian Bush . Patent Reversible Lifeboat for Ships . The Civil War in Spain : Don Carlos attending Alass at the Cathedral of Tolosa . Old Country Seats : Scighford Hall , Staffordshire .

School Revisited : One ot the Heads from Mr . G . D . Leslie's Picture in the Royal Academy Exhibition ( Extra Double-Page Engraving on Plate Paper ) . The Threatened War in Burmah : A Bore on the Sitang River . Our Obituary Record : Portraits of Baron Brunnow , Sir Arthur Helps , Canon Selwyn , H . W . Pickersgill , R . A ., and Air . T . Wright ,

the Prison Philanthropist . The Snake-eating Snake at the Zoological Gardens . The Arctic Expedition : Patent Gun for Shooting Walruses ; Snow Boot . A Gondola Race at Venice . A New Story by Air . George Alacdonald , entitled St . George and St . Alichael , is continued in this Week's Number .

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The Freemason , SATURDAY , MAY 8 , 187 . 5 .

Memories Of The Great Installation.

MEMORIES OF THE GREAT INSTALLATION .

By this time most of our good brethren have gone home again , and find themselves amid the joys and comforts of their " own fireside . " We trust that they will carry a tale back to those who will eagerly listen , of all that is precious and

Memories Of The Great Installation.

pleasant connected with that red letter day henceforth in our Masonic calendar , April 28 th , 1875 . They will , we think , take away with them , at least we hope so , many pleasurable reminiscences . They saw and heard their Grand Master in all the warmth of his amiable

kindliness , and in all the manly sincerity of his genial nature . They witnessed a sight , that they will never forget , in the enthusiastic fervour of commander and brethren , and the most famous , and best disciplined meeting that our Order has ever been privileged to hold . Why , even

today we are still regarding with astonishment and pride those serried lines of exulting Craftsmen . We even still can behold their manipulations . All honour to them ! They came from all directions , and they proved themselves to be what we knewthem to be , despite the vaticinations

of some and the fear of others , a most warmhearted , gentlemanly , amiable and loyal body of men , obedient to lawful authority , and eager to please and be pleased . Even the profane press , the Times for example , is deeply struck by the order , the zeal , the perfect subordination

of that mighty assembly , and there can be no doubt , that that noble gathering has given , and will give , muchadditional " eclat " and" prestige " to our Order generally . The banquet passed over as well as the meeting , and the speeches were equally marked by good taste , much happy

facility , and above all with true Masonic teaching . Anything more thoroughly and truly in the spirit of our old Grand Masters than the heartfelt expressions of our august Grand Master , we have never read , and we augur well indeed for the Craft and for him . The Duke of Connaught

was loudly cheered , as he well deserved to be , and the Duke of Manchester ' s opportune little address deserves to be specially commended . I 3 ro . Erasmus Wilson and his Board of Stewards demand all praise and many thanks . The genial Doctor himself made a very effective speech , and

under his skilful direction there could be no doubt that not only was the festival itself a great success , but the guests thoroughly enjoyed their dinner . Some one has said that " the things of to-day are the things of to-morrow / ' but we doubt the truth of the axiom as regards April 28 th , 1875 . We

shall never behold such another assembly again . It was quite pleasant to see so many old Freemasons , and to shake hands with so many ancient friends , and we are not likely or willing to let go its agreeable souvenirs . But , like as when one bids adieu to an old mate who is setting off

for a distant clime , or just as when we leave some old familiar spot with a sigh and a wrench ofthe heart , so as we wish good bye to our grea . Installation gathering , as we say " vale " to its bril liant pageant , and its glorious heartiness , we do so with mingled pleasure and regret . Pleasure to

have been present , regret that it is now a thing of the past ! But for us in England it will ever remain an event of imperishable recollections , and nothing can ever lessen its value or dim its grandeur to our English and loyal Craft . As Moore sang of old , it is still ever true in this

mundane existence of ours , in great things as well as in humble—You may break , you may shatter the vase if you will , But the scent ofthe roses will hang round it still .

The Advantages Of Discipline.

THE ADVANTAGES OF DISCIPLINE .

It is well known that it is not an easy matter to move a large body of men . In theory it may seem a facile operation , and the book of mancefc . vres may be very precise , but yet in practice it requires , as all know who have anything to do

with such things , no little carefulness , much selfpossession , and a great deal of " savoir faire , " to say nothing of a " memoria technica . " And so to many the control over from 7 to 8 , 000 Freemasons seemed somewhat dubious , and not a little hazardous . And yet here " without a

casualty , ' such is the police report , they all moved in and they all moved out , without the least difficulty or the smallest confusion . Too much praise cannot be accorded to their commanders , too much admiration cannot be expended upon them . We do not know to whom exactl y belongs the praise of drawing ojut the scheme for the ar-

The Advantages Of Discipline.

rangement of the brethren , but we believe it to belong to Bro . Albert W . Woods and Brother Thomas Fenn alone . Whoever it was , has a clear talent for organization , and we may be glad that we have one brother or more capable of successfully handling and controlling

large masses of Freemasons . But still equal kudos , we think , ought to be given to our brethren . An old soldier once said that the " greatest merit of all was to know how to obey orders , " and certainly no body of men could have been more docile or more

tractable than those many thousands of Freemasons on April 28 th . Indeed , Freemasonry teaches us all the good lesson of discipline , whether general or personal , from first to last . From the time we see the light until we pass away from all of earth , so long as we are affiliated—and all Masons

ought to be affiliated Masons—ours is a continuous exhortation , alike to discipline of self and discipline in the lodge . We are , as Lord Winchelsea once said ofthe great Duke , " taught to command by learning to obey , " and he , in our opinion , is the truest Freemason who has learnt

the best of all lessons next to self disci pline , namely , obedience . And though Freemasons , like all Englishmen , have a slight tendency to grumble , they are not as a general rule either " frondeurs" or insubordinate . They are , for the most part , a very cheerful , contented ,

easily gratified , orderly body of men , amenable to authority , and loyal to their chiefs . We have , happily , few disagreements , and no cabals amongst us ; complaints are unfrequent , and controversy is at a discount . Hence we have every element of stable prosperity and

peaceful progress . And long may it so continue . Long may we be free from idle questions and hurtful logomachies , long may we remain a loving , a forbearing , a tolerant , an united Order . When we are gone , and another generation has

taken our places , and they talk of our great Installation of 1875 , may they be as happily cemented as we are in all fraternal good will , may they equally manifest th ^* advantages of discipline , and of obedience to authority .

The New Grand Officers.

THE NEW GRAND OFFICERS .

We have much pleasure in being enabled to publish the following short memoirs of some of the n » w Grand Officers : —

J UNIOR GRAND WARDEN . The Lord Mayor was initiated in the Tuscan Lodge , 14 , in the year 1 855 ; in 1857 joined the Grand Masters' Lodge , No . 1 ; served all the offices , including Master ; appointed Grand Steward b y the Grand Masters' Lodge ; served the office and was appointed President of the

Grand Stewards . Joined the Moira Chapter , R . A . j filled the three chairs and is M . E . Z ., and will be promoted to Grand Chapter on Wednesday . Subsequently became a member of a Surrey lodge , the Frederick of Unity , also joined chapter connected with it . Is also a member of the Rose Croix and a K . Templar . Has served the office of Steward on several

. GRAND CHAPLAIN . The Rev . Spencer Robert Wigram , M . A ., Balliol Coliege , Oxon , vicar of Brittle well , Essex , and rural dean , was initiated in Romford , Lodge Hope and Unity , No . 214 ; Past Grand Chaplain of the Province of Essex : J . W . Priory Lodge ,

1000 , and P . M . and P . Z . 2 x 4 . Son of Bro . Octavius Wigram , of Bryanstone Square , for many years Governor of Royal Exchange Assurance , a very hard-working Mason ; has devoted a great deal of time to the interests of the Craft in Essex , and is well known aud extremel y liked by all who have the pleasure of coming in contact with him .

J UNIOR GRAND DEACON . Bro . Robert Grey was initiated into Freemasonry on the 13 th February , i 860 , in the St . Andrews-in-the-East Lodge , No . 222 , and passed the chair of that lodge in 1865-6 . He joined the

Prince of Wales ' s Lodge , No . 259 , on the 23 rd February , 1864 , and represented that lodge as Grand Steward in 1866 . In 186 9 he acted as one of the Stewards at the Inauguration Festival . In 1874 , on the occasion of the Installation ofthe Prince of Wales as W . M , of the Prince of