Provincial Grand Lodge Of West Yorkshire.

PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF WEST YORKSHIRE .

Under the banner of the Lodge of Harmony , 375 , the nnual meeting of West Yorkshire Provincial Grand Lodge took p ' on tne 2 nd mst " '" tne Masonic Hall , Southarade , Huddersfield , under the presidency of the Right ? Vorship ful Prov . Grand Master ( Sir Henry Edwards ) , assisted by Deputy Prov . Grand Master Bro . Tew , and a torere atray of Prov . Grand Officers . Only six lodges out

of sitty-six in the province were unrepresented , the attendance numbering about 250 . The customary salutations having been tendered to the Prov . Grand Master and his Deputy , Bro . Tew , the followinir brethren were appointed as officers : — Bro . P . I . Critchlev , 208 Prov . S G . W . B . Broughton , 302 Prov . J . G . W .

" Rev . B . Towns Prov . G . Chap . Rev . J . Room ... ... ... Prov . G . Chap . C . L . Mason , 304 ... ... Prov . G . Treas . D . Allison Shaw , 827 Prov . G . Reg .

' I H . Smith , 387 Prov . G . Sec . John Fawcttt , 904 Prov . S . G . D . " G . F . Crowe , 1211 Prov . J . G . D .

Pratt , 1034 Prov . G . S . of W . J . Beedle , 1042 Prov . G . D . of C . J . Edwards , 296 Prov . G . D . of C . „ W . W . MacVay , 154 Prov . G . Swd . B . „ S . Suckley Prov . G . Org . „ P . Parker , 264 Prov . G . Purst . Thos . Knnwlcs . 508 ... ... Prov . fi . A . Purst . — . — — .

,, , , Bros . Dr . Paley , 8 37 ; S . Slack , 910 ;^ J . Menzies , 61 ; J . Sykes , f n „ , ... r- 1 ? uv . ™ -., ,., - r Prov- G Stewards 1514 ; C H . freeman , 275 : 1 and W . Harrop , 290 J Bro . J . Lee , 290 Prov . G . Tyler . „ J . Sheard , 208 Prov . G . A . Tyler .

Sir Henry Edwards , Bart ., Prov . Grand Master , said—Brethren of the Province of West Yoikshire , it gives me much pleasure to greet you here to-day , for I feel that the progress of your Masonic Institutions has been one of success , and especially since this lodge was first opened in 1789 , and of prosperity since its warrant was renewed in 1830 . We cannot , therefore , but feel gratified that the

Craft has been once more invited by the Ldgc of Harmony , No . 275 , to hold the annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge uneler its banner in Hudelersfield , a lodge in which the late Deputy Provincial Grand Master , Bro . Bentley Shaw , exerted his benign influence for very many years in the cause of Freemasonry . When last I occupied this chair in this hall , it was for a few bii . f

moments , on the occasion of the assembly of the brethren to render atiibute of respect to the memory of a virtuous brother and excellent Mason , and to pay our last homage to departed worlh . No one wholeoks aioundthis hall can fail to be struck with the portraits of many administrators in the Craft in this province , anil how well you have invoked the painter ' s skill to adorn your walls with

the likenesses of the rulers and governors of our Order . Let us imitate their virtues , and follow in their footsteps , and practise the lofty principles of these builders and founders of our Institutions , whose resemblances you have been pleased to perpetuate with such fidelity . Morcoier , when I examine the roll of this lodge , I find the names of a large number of Past Masters , the majeirity of whom

have been thought worthy at various times to hold deferent offices in this Provincial Grand Lodge . No brother who reads the names of those who form your list of Past Masters , no one who noted the record of their services , can doubt that the Masonic work they have accomplished has been done for this lodge under the most able guidance , and has been of a thoroughly solid and satisfactory

character . Your present Worshipful Master , Bro . W . C . Kcighlcy , can look back upon a brilliant set of Masor . ic occupants of the chair which he himself , I am well assured , fills in an accomplished manner ; anel his warm heart , which at Barnsley prompted this invitation , will , I am sure , reflect with genial influence beneficially over every action of this lodge . whose charity , harmony , and prosperity

will always be deeply interesting to me and to the members ° f this Provincial Giand Lodge . The latest illustration of your principles is the generous contribution of nearl y £ 90 to the " Bentley Shaw Memoiial Fund Prosecution , " and £ 50 to the " Aged Freemasons' and Widows' Annuity fund ; " and further , the Worshipful Master has set a good example by making himself a Steward at the annual

festival of the Boys' and Girls' Institutions , accompanied b y a donation to each of these Masonic schools . This " > dge of Harmony is , as it were , the centre of a Masonic system . Where we meet to-day we are surrounded by other lod ges of planetary biilliancy . There is a lodge , » o . 290 , with nincty-fe ur members ; No . 521 , with 100 members ; No . 1514 , with seventeen members ; No . 6 52 ,

* 'th twenty members ; No . 140 , with thirty-five members ; . •'/ S . ? , with fourteen members ; and this centre loelge "Self , No . 275 , with ninety-seven subscribing members . '"Us we see with what success Freemasonry has ramified ant i increased until this part of West Yorkshire is covered * Un Masonic institutions , after the same pattern as our j * ntral institutionthe Grand Lod of England and the

, ge ; m Portance which is represented by the brethren and friends * ' gathered around me ; and by ( he lists of the lodges , nich testify to the number of noutiates who , under jour * P ' ices , are entering Fieemasonry and the world of geo-.. ' science and of moral culture . Since we met under ( . ¦ friendl y Lodge , I and my Deputy , Bro . Tew , attended ¦¦ . j . ' va on 'he 12 th February of the Aged Freemasons

Ball 0 ws i ' n tne Freemasons' Hall . We supported our S ^ llant fiiend an ( i neighbour the Provincial Grand Master tho f-ancashire , when the largest sum col tcted within se walls was announced ; and , in consequence , at the " S of the Committee ol this Institution the following

Provincial Grand Lodge Of West Yorkshire.

day , it gave my Deputy and our Secretary , who were present , the satisfaction to acquaint me that the number of vacancies for widows was increased from six to sixteen . ( Applause . ) As the Chairman of our charity will shortly inform us , this province has one widow and two aged men candidates for our sympathies . This augmentation of admission will give our voting power and our efforts-a far

higher prospect of success for these worthy but unfortunate claimants on our benevolence . Our Chairman and Vice-Chairman have laboured earnestl y for us , and will do their best at the elections . We hope their efforts will be rewarded with success . When we last assembled at Barnsley we offered our sympathies to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen on the death of her daughter Her Royal Highness

the Princess Alice . To day it is our duty to express our felicitations towards the same Royal laely on her acquUition of a Royal daughter-in-law . His Reyal Highness the Duke ot Connaught , who , on the day of the installation of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as Grand Master of England , was described by our Royal Granel Master as the youngest Entered Apprentice in the Craft ,

has been united in marriage to the Princess Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes of Prussia . We offer the congratulations of the Ciaft in this province , not only to Her Majesty , the Patroness of our Order , but also to the newlywedded Royal couple . May this bride and bridegroom

realise the hgartfelt aspirations of the Craft that there will be a most ample fulfilment of the promise ratified in the ancient chapel of St . George , at Windsor , of a happy and contented married life . ( Applause . ) Our Poet Laureate has said of his t ) pical English Margaret" From the westward-winding flood ,

From the evening-lighted wood , From all things you have won , A tearful grace as though you stood Bttween the rainbow and the sun . " The new English Margaret has inelceel a tearful grace , and on Thursday , the 13 th March , in St . George's Chapel , this Royal laely stood indeed " between the rainbow and the

sun . " ( Applause . ) The time has again come round when I must part officially with those of the acting Provincial Grand Lodge officers , and select other to fill their chairs for the coming year . The dema . uls upon the services of these retiring brethren have been indeed during the year just closing excessive . I thank all the outgoing officers for their zeal , anel the rcaely performance of their ,

at times , difficult duties ; and , perhaps , more particularly the Registrar , on whose time , patience , and legal knowledge this province his largely diawn . But in the annual constitutional change of officers comes the most difficult , onerous , and disagreeable of my duties —> o many worthybrethren on whom I should like to confer Provincial Grand Lodge recognition , and so few official favours to bestow ,

I always approach this duty with difficulty , anxiety , and delicacy—viz ., out uf a long list , yearly increasing in number , to select names for the ensuing year of the must energetic , able , and zealous Past Masters . Those brethren , therefore , who shortly will receive from mc the appointment of office must , uneler the difficult circumstances by which I am surroundeel , accept even the lowest

office it is in my power to offer them as the equivalent of the highest position in the Craft . It is not by placing you in a chair that I can best confer recognition e n your . Masonic labour * . I want you to feel yojr work in the Crafc is far more piecious than that which lodge rank confers . It is because your labours and generosity cause your names to be respected in tvtrv lodge , it is because you

give to your Masonic work something which to my mind is far more precious and rare than the mere merit of the apron of Provincial Grand Lodge—intelligence , and the single-hearted devotion of a well-spent Masonic life . I thank you all , and honour these Past Masters because they have helped the lodges within an * the brethren without , anel because they have touched thechorels which have

evoked the impulses of benevolence and charity towards others who could not without assistance help themselves , either within or outside the evalls of the lodge . It is for their mental and administrative endowments I appreciate and recognise and thank them most ; for their examples of fortitude , pruelence , and justice . The best of endowments and the most enduring rewarel they can possess is

the memory they leave in their loelges , which impels those who come after them to sirenuous efforts and exalted aims . I accept the invitation of the Scarborough Lodge , No , 1214 , to meet at Batley , in October , the place of the next Provincial Grand Lodge gathering . In consequence of the depression of trade , and other matters which I named at Barnsley at the last quarterly meeting of th e

Provincial Grand Lodge , I deem it inexpedient this year to hold an intermediate quarterly meeting in Ju ' y . ( Loud applause . ) Bro . Tew , Deputy Prov . Grand Master , also addressed the brethren , joining in expressions of gratitude to the retiring officers , especially paying a high compliment to the zealous , genial , and able manner in which Bro . Malcolm

had discharge-d the duties of Prov . Grand Registrar , an office which had largely trespassed on his time during the past year . In the course of the day the Prov . Grand Master , in the name of the Prov . Grand Lodge , presented Bro . Malcolm with a handsome jewel as some slight but permanent

recognition of lis services , anel expressed the pleasure he fell in pinning it on his breast . Bro . Malcolm briefly acknowledged the gift , but felt he hael done no more than his duty as a Mason . [ We are indebted to the Yorkshire Post for the above report , and regret we did not receive it direct , in time for our last issue . ]

The Premier has sent ^ 150 from the Royal Bounty Fund to Lord Houghton for Mrs , Llanos , the sister of Keats . —Athenaum ,

Provincial Grand Chapter Of East Lancashire.

PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPTER OF EAST LANCASHIRE .

The annual meeting of the above Prov . G . Chapter was held in the Town Hall , Blackburn , on ihj 3 rd inst ., a numerous assemblage of co npanions from all parts of the province testifying to the interest taken in Royal Arch Masonry in this di-tric . Amongst those present were

Comp . Ceil . Le Gendrc N . Starkie , M . E . Prov . G . Superintendent ; Comps . R . H . Hutchinson , as Pr > v . G . H . ; Dr . Royle , as Prov . G . J . ; J . B . Carr , P . Prov . G . Scribe N . ; W . O . Walker , P . Prov . G . Scri ' ic N . ; Wm . Roberts , P . Prov . G . P . S . ; Chas . Davis , Ralph Landless , Thos . Hargreavcs , P . Prov . G . 2 nd Assistant Sojourners ; G . P . Brockbank , T . J . Hooper , P . Prov . G . Treasurers ; T . S .

Amsivortb , Prov . G . Registrar ; E . Heyivooel , Prov . G . Swoid Bearer ; Ellis Jones , Benj . Taj lor , P . Piov . G . Sword Bearers ; E . Sleigh , P . Prov . G . Standard Bearer ; J . H . Sillitoe , Prov . G . Dir . of Cer . ; R . Whittaker , P . Prov . G . Dir . of Cer . ; Jas . Varlcy , Prov . G . Org . ; T . R . Peel , J . W . P . Salmon , W . Nicholl , Prov . G . Stwds . ; Thr s . Mitchell , Prov . G . Janitor ; and representatives from all

the chapters in ihe province , with only one exception . The Provincial Grand Chapter was opened at 1 . 45 p . m ., and after the roll of chapters had been called over and letters of apology from absent Provincial Grand Officers had been read , the M . E . Prov . G . Superintendent called attention to the fact that the absence of the 2 nd Prov . G .

Principal , Comp . J . L . Hine , was occasioned by a painful bereavement , namely , the loss of his beloved wife . The Provincial G . Superintendent in fitting terms then proposed that a letter of condolence he sent to Comp . Hine . The motion was duly seconded and carried , with universal expressions of sympathy with Comp . Hine in his deep affliction .

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved , as were also the accounts of Provincial Granel Chapter for the past year . Comp . Edmund Hey wood was unanimously elected Prov G . Treasurer . The M . E . Prov . G . Supcrintenelent appointed the following companions as Prov . G . Officers for the ensuing year ,

and they were severally invested with their j-. wels of office , and saluted accordingly , vix : — Comp . C . R . N . Beswicke-Royds ... Prov . G . 2 nd P . „ Franklin Thomas ... ... Prov . G . 3 rd P . „ John Tunnah Prov . G . Scribe E . „ James Newton ... ... Prov . G . Scribe N . „ Geo . Higgins Prov . G . P . S .

„ Denis Towers , Prov . G . ist A . S . „ R . Timperlcy ... ... ... Prov . G . 2 nd A . S . ,, Edmund Haywood ... ... Prov . G . Treas . ,, John E . Anderton Prov . G . Reg . „ John Smethurst Prov . G . Swd . B . ,, Julius Arensberg ... ... Prov . G . Std . B . „ John W . P . Salmon Prov . G . D . of C .

„ Edwin Hilhwell Prov . G . Org . Comps . Saml . Haworlh , N . Jones , } „ „ _ R . Gomall j I rov . G . Stewards . Comp . T . Mitchell Prcv . G . Janitor . Comps . John E . Lees and Thos . Grime were appointed Auditors of the Prov . G . Chapter accounts . A Committee was appointed for the purpose of framing

a code of bye-laws for the government of the Prov . G . Chapter . It was determined that the Scribe E . of each chapter in the province be elesireel to senei a copy cf the circulars , convening meetings of chapters , to each of the three Prov .

G . Principals . A grant of £ 10 was made to the East Lancashire Systematic Masonic Educational and Benevolent Institution . All business being concluded , the Prov . G . Chapter was closed at 2 . 4 ; p . m ., and the companions adjourned to banquet at the Old Bull Hotel .

Sweden Borgian Rite.

SWEDEN BORGIAN RITE .

This promising branch of philosophical Masonry is still putting forth fresh leaves of the eternal acacia . Although its progress has been comparatively slow , its vitality is evinced by many satisfactory tokens , no doubt to be followed by many more . The strong , calm good sense and energy e . f the Lancashire and Cheshire mi n has elone much

to promote the success of the Primitive and Ori ginal Rite of Freemasonry , which illustrates in so remarkable and pleasing a way the purity and eternity of Craft Masonry . Those acquainted with its excellent principles earnestly advocate its extension , anel labour unceasingly to water the branch so successfully planted by the original founders about three years since . And among these labourers there

are none more deserving of honourable mention anel reward than our brethren , the members of the Royal Oscar Loelge and Temple , No . 9 , of Liverpool , the meeting eif which occurred on Thursday last , under the presidency e . f W . Bro . \ V . T . May , suppoited by W . Bro . Thomas Clark , P . M . of tbe lodge and Temple . The Royal Oscar Lodge was actually founded by Bro . Thomas Clark , and

the Supreme Council of the Rite have recognised his eminent services by promotion to a high office in Supreme Grand Lodge . It woulel be perhaps ir . vielious to memion the names until officially given , and hence wc do nut give them now , but they will doubtlessly be announced in our next

issue . They hate had two severe losses this year in the persons of Bros . Captain Charles Scott and H . F . T . Irwin , whose several devotion in their special poMtiuns will ever remain engraven on the pillars . The iiicciiig of the Royal Oscar was interesting , as several brethren were admitted , advanced , and elevated 011 the occasion .

v Bro . II . N . Field , has removed from No . 38 , to No . 77 , Cheapsiele .