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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS S 59 United Grand Lodge 5 60 Grand Mark Lodge 561 Grand Lodge of Scotland 563 Roval Masonic Institution for Hoys 563 Ma ' sonic History and Historians 56 4 Freemasonry and its Traducers 5 6 4 Provincial Grand Lodge of Derbyshire 565
. CORRESPONDENCE ( continued)—Of Removal of Lodges S < i 6 The Ritual Question ijfifi Reviews 7 . 5 6 G Masonic Notes and Queries 5 67 The Precedence of Grand Ollieers 567 Quebec and tbe English Lodges in Montreal 5 67 Tlie Grand Lodges of England and Quebec 56 S
Provincial Grand Lodge of Leicestershire and Rutland < 6 i Grand Lodge of Ireland 565 Consecration of the Ark Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners , No . $ q , < 6 J CORRESPONDENCEAnticjuity of Degrees 566 Cheshire and its Charities j 66 Curious live-Laws 5611
REP-IRTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry ' . $ 6 $ Instruction .. ' . £ . 70 Royal Arch 571 Red Cross of Constantine 571 Amusements ^ 571 Obituary 572 Masonic and . 'General Tidings 573 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 574
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THE quarterly communication of Wednesday , thc / th inst ., was a most important one in all respects for English Freemasonry . Few more important assemblies of our Masonic Parliament have recently been held , inasmuch as subjects fraught with present and permanent interest to English Freemasons were to be discussed . H . R . H . the GRAND MASTER was re-nominated by Bro .
ALFRED MEADOWS , P . M ., Grand Steward , and his nomination was hailed with universal cheering . A vote of condolence was unanimously passed , amid unmistakeable demonstrations of hearty sympathy , with the widow of our lamented Bro . President GARFIELD , while an earnest abhorencc was expressed of the atrocious crime which robbed the United Slates of its
President , and Freemasonry of a distinguished member . Bro . J OSHUA NUNN was nominated President of the Board of Benevolence , and Bro . GEORGE LAMBERT and Bro . J AMES BRETT were unanimously elected Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents of the same body for the ensuing twelve months . The votes for the Board of Benevolence for the quarter were ,
with one exception , confirmed , one large vote or £ 200 eliciting some discussion , and whicli may , perhaps , have to be reconsidered . The claim of the so-called Grand Lodge of New South Wales for recognition was decisively rejected . The appeals were submitted to Grand Lodge , and by the advice of the GRAND REGISTRAR were dismissed . Thc alterations
in the laws made by the Managing Committee of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , on the report of a Sub-Committee , were considered by Grand Lodge and approved of . Bro . PERCEVAL ' S motion was referred to the Board of General Purposes , and Bro . RAYNHAM W . STEWART ' S motion
for an increase to tlie Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution in thc grant of Grand Lodge , so as to make that grant ^ 1600 per annum , instead of ^ , 'SoO j as at present , was unanimously agreed to . This concluded the heavy business of a lengthy Quarterly Communication , before a large array of Grand Officers , and not less than 700 brethren .
IV V H . R . H . the Duke of Albany was invested and installed as Past Grand Mark Master Mason , on Tuesday , by Lord Henniker . We see that the negociations for his marriage with the Princess Helenc , of Waldeck , are
going on at the Foreign Office under the direction of Lord Tenterden . H . R . H . request is to bc married in England . The Ring of Holland , who married an elder sister of the intended bride , has conferred on the Duke of Albany thc "Grand Cross of the "Dutch Lion . "
* * WE call special attention elsewhere lo an official communication from the GRAND MASTER to all PROV . GRAND MASTERS , and we beg our readers to study it carefully . We are glad that this incipient controversy is thus properly decided , and in a way which leaves no room to doubt , and no ground for further
discussion . We all must bow alike to thc "dictum" of the GRAND MASTER , based , as it is , on unchanging precedents for " over 150 years . " With one further remark we now dismiss the subject . English Freemasonry in its threefold system of lodge , Prov . Grand Lodge , and Grand Lodge arrangement , forms one ascending scale of honour and authority .
Just as all Provincial Grand Officers take precedence of all lodge officers , except the WORSHIPFUL MASTER , unless the PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER or DEPUTY PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER be present , so Grand Officers take precedence of all Provincial Grand Officers ,
except the PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER , unless the GRAND MASTER , the PRO GRAND MASTER , or DEPUTY GRAND MASTER be present . It seems by the decision we have alluded to elsewhere , that all fall now into their proper places Masonically , and certainly according to the common law of English Freemasonry and the meaning of our written Constitutions .
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WE arc pleased in being able to call attention to an article in the " Masonic Magazine" for December , by our Bro . W . H . RYLANDS , entitled " Freemasonry in the Seventeenth Century : " Warrington , 1646 . We commend it to the notice and perusal of our Masonic students . We are also glad to heaf that another interesting paper on a cognate subject will appear in' the January Magazine , by the same writer .
WE understand that an effort is being made at the meeting at Brighton on thc 12 LI 1 , both of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Sussex and the Sanitary Congress the same day , lo have an exhibition of Masonic " relics , " books , curiosities , and old jewels . Whether there is time now te organi'ze a successful exhibitition with such short notice ma } ' be a matter of
doubt , but we wish it all success , and trust that it may tend to encourage alike Masonic collections and Masonic archrcology . VVe think that in the spring some attempt should be made to have a Masonic collection of inter ? esling specimens of Masonic a ; stheticism and Masonic usages , history , and archaeology in London .
THE report of the meeting of the Lodge of Emulation is very interesting . We always mark gratefully the services rendered by this distinguished body of Masons to Masonic ceremonial , to a chaste and correct rendering of our beautiful ritual . " __ . * ,
Wn agree with our contemporary , the Observer , that the dispersion of great libraries , though sometimes lamented , is not a fact to be regretted , either in the interests of " Bibliophily , " or the reading , student , and collecting public . When wc see at the "Sunderland Sale" ^ 1000 arc given by Mr . QUARITCH for ' "Do Civitate Dei" of St . Augustine ,
printed at Venice , on vellum , in 1475 , " excessively rare , " as we are told , things , we think , must be looking up in more ways than one . Mr . TECHENER , of Paris , and Mr . ELLIS ( ELLIS and WHITE ) , who have been Mr . Q UARITCH ' S principal competitors , have given large prices for curious , and rare , and valuable works . Thc ultimate value of this famous library
sold will probably now considerably exceed £ 40 , 000 . What a sum to give for books , some may be inclined to say . But "books , " after all , form one of the main ingredients in the personal and intellectual happiness of social life , and to the philanthropic and humanitarian progress of mankind and the world .
OUR distinguished brother the Lofto MAYOR has opened a fund for . the relief of many distressed ladies , whom the failure of their tenants in Ireland to pay their rents ( in many cases amounting to moral dishonesty )
has reduced to so low an ebb of poverty and distress that one or two , if not more , have had to apply for parochial relief . We wish , therefore , all success to the benevolent efforts of our brother the LORD MAYOR , and call the attention of our readers to so proper and needful a fund . Indeed , Grand Lodge , wc venture to think-, might fairly grant a " vote in aid . "
* " ' * WE arc glad to be informed that the reverend and learned Rabbi , NATHAN has recovered from a severe attack of illness , and proposes to
continue ( D . V . ) in the new year the interesting lectures on Freemasonry which he commenced some time back at No . 33 , Golden-square . We wish him all success ; and many who were privileged to be present at his first lecture will be pleased to note the announcement .
WE quite agree with a contemporary that the " body-snatching " in Scotland , hitherto an unknown crime in Great Britain , in this special form , at any rate is a matter calling for deep caution ' and grave attention . We may have in this country a reproduction of the removal of poor Mr . STFWXRT '
corpse , and the abduction of a living CHARLEY ROSS . We cannot do better than give his own words , in which we fully concur : " Crimes , like storms seem to travel from West to East . The American forgers came to us from New York . It is not at all improbable that thc thieves who rifled the family vault at Dun Echt are thc same who stole the corpse of Mr . STEWART .
The abductors of CHARLEY ROSS have paid their last account . But it is possible that their example may bc followed or attempted here in England , and it is well that parents should bear the possibility in mind . " We are glad to hear that thc police have taken the matter in hand , and trust that they will give their best attention to unravel thc web of this dangerous and audacious criminality .
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS S 59 United Grand Lodge 5 60 Grand Mark Lodge 561 Grand Lodge of Scotland 563 Roval Masonic Institution for Hoys 563 Ma ' sonic History and Historians 56 4 Freemasonry and its Traducers 5 6 4 Provincial Grand Lodge of Derbyshire 565
. CORRESPONDENCE ( continued)—Of Removal of Lodges S < i 6 The Ritual Question ijfifi Reviews 7 . 5 6 G Masonic Notes and Queries 5 67 The Precedence of Grand Ollieers 567 Quebec and tbe English Lodges in Montreal 5 67 Tlie Grand Lodges of England and Quebec 56 S
Provincial Grand Lodge of Leicestershire and Rutland < 6 i Grand Lodge of Ireland 565 Consecration of the Ark Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners , No . $ q , < 6 J CORRESPONDENCEAnticjuity of Degrees 566 Cheshire and its Charities j 66 Curious live-Laws 5611
REP-IRTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry ' . $ 6 $ Instruction .. ' . £ . 70 Royal Arch 571 Red Cross of Constantine 571 Amusements ^ 571 Obituary 572 Masonic and . 'General Tidings 573 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 574
Ar00101
THE quarterly communication of Wednesday , thc / th inst ., was a most important one in all respects for English Freemasonry . Few more important assemblies of our Masonic Parliament have recently been held , inasmuch as subjects fraught with present and permanent interest to English Freemasons were to be discussed . H . R . H . the GRAND MASTER was re-nominated by Bro .
ALFRED MEADOWS , P . M ., Grand Steward , and his nomination was hailed with universal cheering . A vote of condolence was unanimously passed , amid unmistakeable demonstrations of hearty sympathy , with the widow of our lamented Bro . President GARFIELD , while an earnest abhorencc was expressed of the atrocious crime which robbed the United Slates of its
President , and Freemasonry of a distinguished member . Bro . J OSHUA NUNN was nominated President of the Board of Benevolence , and Bro . GEORGE LAMBERT and Bro . J AMES BRETT were unanimously elected Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents of the same body for the ensuing twelve months . The votes for the Board of Benevolence for the quarter were ,
with one exception , confirmed , one large vote or £ 200 eliciting some discussion , and whicli may , perhaps , have to be reconsidered . The claim of the so-called Grand Lodge of New South Wales for recognition was decisively rejected . The appeals were submitted to Grand Lodge , and by the advice of the GRAND REGISTRAR were dismissed . Thc alterations
in the laws made by the Managing Committee of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , on the report of a Sub-Committee , were considered by Grand Lodge and approved of . Bro . PERCEVAL ' S motion was referred to the Board of General Purposes , and Bro . RAYNHAM W . STEWART ' S motion
for an increase to tlie Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution in thc grant of Grand Lodge , so as to make that grant ^ 1600 per annum , instead of ^ , 'SoO j as at present , was unanimously agreed to . This concluded the heavy business of a lengthy Quarterly Communication , before a large array of Grand Officers , and not less than 700 brethren .
IV V H . R . H . the Duke of Albany was invested and installed as Past Grand Mark Master Mason , on Tuesday , by Lord Henniker . We see that the negociations for his marriage with the Princess Helenc , of Waldeck , are
going on at the Foreign Office under the direction of Lord Tenterden . H . R . H . request is to bc married in England . The Ring of Holland , who married an elder sister of the intended bride , has conferred on the Duke of Albany thc "Grand Cross of the "Dutch Lion . "
* * WE call special attention elsewhere lo an official communication from the GRAND MASTER to all PROV . GRAND MASTERS , and we beg our readers to study it carefully . We are glad that this incipient controversy is thus properly decided , and in a way which leaves no room to doubt , and no ground for further
discussion . We all must bow alike to thc "dictum" of the GRAND MASTER , based , as it is , on unchanging precedents for " over 150 years . " With one further remark we now dismiss the subject . English Freemasonry in its threefold system of lodge , Prov . Grand Lodge , and Grand Lodge arrangement , forms one ascending scale of honour and authority .
Just as all Provincial Grand Officers take precedence of all lodge officers , except the WORSHIPFUL MASTER , unless the PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER or DEPUTY PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER be present , so Grand Officers take precedence of all Provincial Grand Officers ,
except the PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER , unless the GRAND MASTER , the PRO GRAND MASTER , or DEPUTY GRAND MASTER be present . It seems by the decision we have alluded to elsewhere , that all fall now into their proper places Masonically , and certainly according to the common law of English Freemasonry and the meaning of our written Constitutions .
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WE arc pleased in being able to call attention to an article in the " Masonic Magazine" for December , by our Bro . W . H . RYLANDS , entitled " Freemasonry in the Seventeenth Century : " Warrington , 1646 . We commend it to the notice and perusal of our Masonic students . We are also glad to heaf that another interesting paper on a cognate subject will appear in' the January Magazine , by the same writer .
WE understand that an effort is being made at the meeting at Brighton on thc 12 LI 1 , both of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Sussex and the Sanitary Congress the same day , lo have an exhibition of Masonic " relics , " books , curiosities , and old jewels . Whether there is time now te organi'ze a successful exhibitition with such short notice ma } ' be a matter of
doubt , but we wish it all success , and trust that it may tend to encourage alike Masonic collections and Masonic archrcology . VVe think that in the spring some attempt should be made to have a Masonic collection of inter ? esling specimens of Masonic a ; stheticism and Masonic usages , history , and archaeology in London .
THE report of the meeting of the Lodge of Emulation is very interesting . We always mark gratefully the services rendered by this distinguished body of Masons to Masonic ceremonial , to a chaste and correct rendering of our beautiful ritual . " __ . * ,
Wn agree with our contemporary , the Observer , that the dispersion of great libraries , though sometimes lamented , is not a fact to be regretted , either in the interests of " Bibliophily , " or the reading , student , and collecting public . When wc see at the "Sunderland Sale" ^ 1000 arc given by Mr . QUARITCH for ' "Do Civitate Dei" of St . Augustine ,
printed at Venice , on vellum , in 1475 , " excessively rare , " as we are told , things , we think , must be looking up in more ways than one . Mr . TECHENER , of Paris , and Mr . ELLIS ( ELLIS and WHITE ) , who have been Mr . Q UARITCH ' S principal competitors , have given large prices for curious , and rare , and valuable works . Thc ultimate value of this famous library
sold will probably now considerably exceed £ 40 , 000 . What a sum to give for books , some may be inclined to say . But "books , " after all , form one of the main ingredients in the personal and intellectual happiness of social life , and to the philanthropic and humanitarian progress of mankind and the world .
OUR distinguished brother the Lofto MAYOR has opened a fund for . the relief of many distressed ladies , whom the failure of their tenants in Ireland to pay their rents ( in many cases amounting to moral dishonesty )
has reduced to so low an ebb of poverty and distress that one or two , if not more , have had to apply for parochial relief . We wish , therefore , all success to the benevolent efforts of our brother the LORD MAYOR , and call the attention of our readers to so proper and needful a fund . Indeed , Grand Lodge , wc venture to think-, might fairly grant a " vote in aid . "
* " ' * WE arc glad to be informed that the reverend and learned Rabbi , NATHAN has recovered from a severe attack of illness , and proposes to
continue ( D . V . ) in the new year the interesting lectures on Freemasonry which he commenced some time back at No . 33 , Golden-square . We wish him all success ; and many who were privileged to be present at his first lecture will be pleased to note the announcement .
WE quite agree with a contemporary that the " body-snatching " in Scotland , hitherto an unknown crime in Great Britain , in this special form , at any rate is a matter calling for deep caution ' and grave attention . We may have in this country a reproduction of the removal of poor Mr . STFWXRT '
corpse , and the abduction of a living CHARLEY ROSS . We cannot do better than give his own words , in which we fully concur : " Crimes , like storms seem to travel from West to East . The American forgers came to us from New York . It is not at all improbable that thc thieves who rifled the family vault at Dun Echt are thc same who stole the corpse of Mr . STEWART .
The abductors of CHARLEY ROSS have paid their last account . But it is possible that their example may bc followed or attempted here in England , and it is well that parents should bear the possibility in mind . " We are glad to hear that thc police have taken the matter in hand , and trust that they will give their best attention to unravel thc web of this dangerous and audacious criminality .