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SgBS ^ Sbr ^ i . ^^ Consecration of a Lodge at Tonbridge 23 rS Masonic Institution for Boys * r ) ft H The Prince of Wales 232 TlieLa ' -t Ouarterlv Communication 233 Charity VStinB » 3 Uro . Simps "" , . Letter 233 Masonic Exhibitions = 3 * Pleasant June i *

C OKRESI ' 'M ' . ^ CS - Charitr Voting 'J * Illegitimacy and Freemasonry 334 lii-rrepancics between Engrtsh and Amerrcan Freemasonry 234 A Correction 2 34 The Lausanne Conference 234 Xo ISro . Deigcl , Vienna 234 ¦ The Rig ht of Visiting 235 ' Tire Exclusion of the Hebrews 23 $ 23

Thc Mace Fund S Misv . se of Masonic Emblems 235 Bro . Constable ' s Drawing 23 $ An Erratum n 2 3 Grand Mark Lodge 236 Freemasonry in tho United States 237 Rro Goulev ' s Last Article ... 237 lodce Meetings for Next Week' 237 Advertisements lajS , L ii . iii . ly . v . vi .

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UNITED GRAND LODGE .

The Quarterly Communication of Free and Accepted Masons of England was held on Wednesday evening , at Freemasons' Hall . Bro . fobn Fawcett , Provincial Grand Master for Durham , presided , Capt . Piatt acting as S . G . W ., and the Hon . W . Warren Vernon as J . G . W .

Among the brethren present , who were very numerous , were Bros . Dr . Hamilton , H . D . Sandeman , S . Rawson , Dr . Moore , J . W . Clabon , J . B . Monckton , Peter de . L . Long , Rev . R . J . Simpson , Rev . C . J . Martyn , Rev . Sir J . Warren Hayes , M . J . Mclntyre , Q . C , A . J . Duff

Filer , Rev . W . Lake Onslow , Rev . C . W . Arnold , Sir Albert Woods ( Garter ) , the Earl of Donoughmore , S . Tomkins , John Hervey , H . G . Buss , Capt . N . G . Philips , Major Shadwell Gierke , Col . Somerville Burney , James Glaisher , Benj . Head , H . Browse , Thos . Fenn ,

J . A . Rucker , Raynham W . Stewart , Major Penrice , Montague Guest , Rev . J . Studholme Brownrigg , James Mason , Sir F . M . Williams , Hyde Pullen , C . E . Willing , ex-Sheriff Hutton , J . M . Case , Joshua Nunn , F . Robinson , Toller , Cottebrune , Brett , J . C . Parkinson , W . T . Howe ,

Brackstone Baker , Dubois , George Kenning , Fellows , Bingemann , Matier , Nelson Reed , Clever , Hammond , Stephens , Cubitt , Hogard , Newton , Hopekirk , Wright , and H . Massey ( Freemason ) . After Grand Secretary had read the minutes ,

and the Grand Lodge had confirmed them , The acting Grand Master said that before the Grand Lodge proceeded to any other business he was quite sure the brethren would bear with him while he expressed a wish , which he knew would be tho wish of Grand Lodge generally , that their brother , Lord Donoughmore , should

now make a statement with regard to the report ofthe Committee of which he was a member , as to the lifeboats . ( Great cheering . ) The Earl of Donoughmore , P . G . S . W ., then rose , and said that in the absence of the two distinguished brethren who did him the honour to assist him on this Committee it devolved

upon him , now that the minutes of the Grand Lodge had been confirmed , to state what progress the Committee had made with the task entrusted to them , and he was charged specially before proceeding to explain what had been ; . ^ ex P ess great regret on the part of both the Earl

of Carnarvon and of Lord Skelmersdale that they were not here in person . Lord Carnarvon himself was particularly anxious ! ° inform them of what he had done , and J was only by the unavoidable pressure of „ iness th * t he had been prevented from

h 7 l ? g' He ( Lord Donoughmore ) therefore to ? t } ie brethren to be content with the u a , , Wlth the wooden spoon to tell them what « G been done . The Committee had kept carelai / !? ' tIle P rinciples which were notably ML n in Lord Carnarvon , Pco Grand a ^ er s . speech in Grand Lodge , which he was

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sure was still remembered by the Craft . Lord Carnarvon told them in that speech that he desired , and that he felt that this Grand Lodge would desire , that this memorial should be as marked and as special as possible , and the Committee had had that idea on their minds in

choosing the localities in which these lifeboats should be situated . They had had -two difficulties to guard against—two particularly . One was that they should avoid going to some place -where a lifeboat had been before , tbat the station should be an entirely new one , that it should

be a new work , known as having been founded by the Freemasons of England ; and , secondly , they wished to avoid going to any locality where a lifeboat , though it might be a very desirable thing , yet through a peculiar pressure of circumstances it might be very difficult to make it

efficient . For instance , they might put a lifeboat in a place where the lifeboat-house might look very nice and where the boat would be very serviceable if they could only get a crew to manage it . There were many things of the sort that the Committee had to consider , so that

they were guided in their choice of a spot by that principle . Again , there was another thing the Committee desired . As there were to be two lifeboats , they wished , and tbey thought it would meet with the approval of the Grand Lodge and the Craft generally if one of those

lifeboats was in some locality near London , where it might be , so to speak , under the immediate eyes of the London brethren , who would thereby take a greater interest , if possible , in its success and in its work ; while the second they desired to place in the most

deserving locality they could find in the provinces . Well , he might say now that they consulted with the Lifeboat Institution , and he would like to bear witness now to the cordial co-operation and great assistance that the Committee had had from Bro . Lewis , the secretary of thatinstitution , in all they

had done . They had letters on every point , and this had helped very materially to bring about what he hoped Grand Lodge would consider to be the very successful result of their labours . Bro . Lewis had just received a return from the Lloyd ' s agents of localities where lifeboats were

most wanted , and he submitted a list of sis places , amongst which he gave the Committee the free choice . For the London lifeboat there were two places . The first of them was Ramsgate , a most important place , near the Goodwin Sands , and he need not tell the brethren , or remind

them of the services of the Ramsgate lifeboats hitherto—they were well known ; but there was this disadvantage about Ramsgate—there was one lifeboat there , and , therefore , they would not be founding an entirely new station . Then the Committee went over to the north shore of the

mouth of the Thames , and he was happy to say that from the representations made to him ( Lord Donoughmore ) , the Committee had anticipated in some degree the wishes of certain brethrenhe hoped of a large majority of them—in the place they had fixed upon for the London lifeboat .

They had fixed upon the village of Clacton-upon-Sea , ( loud applause ) , which had an immense area of quicksand in front of it ; and it was only very lately , in fact last year , that a very disastrous wreck occurred theio , and wrecks constantly occurred there . The Committee , therefore ,

thought that a lifeboat there would be most useful to the institution , and besides this there was this advantage , that the lifeboat would be in connection with the Harwich lifeboat , which was situated a little further north . ( Cheers . ) With regard to the country or provincial lifeboat ,

there was one place in Carnarvonshire which was submitted to the Committee , but that , again , would hfive involved competition with a station which was already supplied , and it was open to more objections than Ramsgate was . But they had claims of a very important kind tc consider ,

and he regretted , himself , that under the circumstances they were not able , for some reasons , to fix upon that station for a lifeboat . There were two places in Yorkshire submitted to them , but they were both open to the objection of the

difficulty of providing crews , and further , from a donation which had already been made to the Lifeboat Institution , the first choice in Yorkshire had gone . The Committee then turned their thoughts to that part of the coast which was

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' " 9 nearest to the great highway of our country's commerce , and they thought of Devon and Cornwall . They found on the coast of Devon two very important places where there were no lifeboats now , on a rock-bound coast , where he ( Lord Donoughmore ) had , himself , seen

several unpleasant south-westerly gales . Those two places were Yealmpton , at the mouth of the River Yare , and Hope Cove , near Salcombe ; and of the two they fixed upon Hope Cove , for -while it commanded the storm-beaten coast of the west it was

in connection with the Salcombe lifeboat . Those were the two localities which the Committee had decided upon to fix as stations for the two lifeboats of Grand Lodge . There was one other point , a smaller point he would not call it , though it might appear a smaller

point to the brethren—that was as to the names to be given to the two lifeboats . He thought when he made the announcement in Grand Lodge of -what the recommendation of the Com mittee was he might safely say beforehand would be received with unmitigated satisfaction

It seemed to the Committee the best titles of these lasting records of Grand Lodge ' s thankfulness for their Grand Master ' s return should be something to remind not only the present Freemasons , but their successors , of the expression of joy and satisfaction which the whole Craft

poured forth on the preservation of the Grand Master ,- but the Committee felt also that it should remind them to call to their memory the illustrious lady whose name was inseparable from the Prince of Wales ' s and which was inscribed in all their hearts—the Princess of

Wales ( cheers ) . The Most Worshipful the Pro Grand Master wrote to his Royal Highness to ask his permission to make use of his name and that of the Princess for these boats ( applause ) , and he ( Lord Donoughmore ) was happy to be able to state that his Royal

Highness had consented that their lifeboats should be called "The Albert Edward" and "The Alexandra . " ( Renewed applause . ) There remained now just one other point which they had not touched upon in tbe announcement of what had been done . There remained the

subject of the memorial tablet to be etected in Grand Lodge in commemoration of the event . Although there was not much room in Grand Lodge for a fitting monument to call to Freemasons' mind the action taken by this Grand Lodge , still he had no doubt that room would

be found for it . That was the whole of the announcement he had to make j but before he sat down he would like to say this one word , that ever since this scheme had been started it was one which had had the very greatest interest to many , and , he would wish to add , the

Committee thought they might safely say , without transgressing the bounds of that modesty which always accompanied true benevolence , that in establishing this memorial they had established one worthy of the Craft , worthy of loyal Englishmen , and that it was thoroughly

approved of and appreciated ( for he had it from his own lips ) by the Grand Master ; and also that it was one which would be of immense use and service to the suffering of our fellow-creatures . ( Great applause . ) 1 he election of members of the Board of

General Purposes , of members of the Colonial Board , and of members for the Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons then took place , and the scrutineers who were appointed to examine the votes

left Grand Lodge to perform their duties . The acting G . M . announced that the Grand Master had appointed Bro . John B . Monckton again to be President of the Board of General Purposes , and Bro . Rucker to be President of the Colonial Board .

The report of the Lodge of Benevolence for the last quarter contained recommendations for the following grants :

The widow of a brother of the Lodge of Virtue and Silence , No . 332 , Hadleigh ... £ 75 o o A brother of the Lodge of Friendship , No . 206 , London ... ... ... ... ... too o o The widow cf a brother of the old Dundee Lodge , No . 18 , London ... ... ... 150 o o The widow of a brother of the Burlington Lodge , No . 9 6 , ' London 100 o