Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS 505 Royal Masonic Institution for Hoys 506 Ko ' val Masonic Benevolent Institution 50 ^ Grand Lodge of Scotland 506 Consecration of thc Gilbert Greenall Chapter , No . 1250 505 Cavernous Masonry 5 / 07 CoKKESI'ON'DENCE—¦ Royal Masonic Institution for Girls JoS The London Masonic Charitv Association 50 S

Hamburgh Lotteries 50 S Reviews 50 S ' Masonic Notes and Queries 509 IWctiopolitan Masonic llencvolent Association ; OIJ Provincial Grand Lodge of Wiltshire 5 C 9 Provincial Grand Chapter of Cheshire JIO

Consecration of a New Mark Lodge at Durban 510 Consecration nf the Southwark Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners 510 Annual Banquet of the Star Lodge of Instruction , No . 1255 Sio Knights Templar 511 Obituary S 11 KEI' - IRTS OK MASOXIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 512

Instruction , 514 Royal Arch C 14 Ancient and Accepted Rite 514 Cryptic Masonry 514 Amusements ^ 514 Masonic and General Tidings 51 j Lodge Meetings for \ e „ t Week J 16

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WE have great pleasure in announcing , as will be seen by an official communication elsewhere , that his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught , will preside at the Festival of the Girls' School in 18 S 2 .

* * A most imp _ rtant meeting of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution took place on Wednesday last , with reference to the alteration of the rules , We shall call special attention to it next week . * * *

AT a recent lecture on " Secret Societies , " a Rev . HELY HUTCHINSON thus spoke anent Freemasonry . " It might be objected that his remarks might apply equally to the Masonic Brotherhood . He was not a Mason , but he knew that Freemasonry was not a conspiracy . It described itself as ' founded on the practice of social and mora ! virtue . ' Its watchwords were ' Brotherly

Love , Relief , and Truth . ' It was a friend of order , and upheld the constituted authority and laws of thc realm , and the testimony of centuries had proved that its fruits were as beneficent as its object was benevolent . " These are just and befitting words from a non-Mason . It is both amusing and interesting for the student of the past to note , not only how " history repeats

itself , " but how often thc " engineer is "hoist with his own petard . Hardly a day passes , ( as in some curious conespondencc in India , which we have asked the Editor to publish in the December or January number of the " Masonic Magazine , "—loo long for our columns ) , but that we read of virulent Ultramontane attacks on Freemasonry as a "Secret Society . " And yet

the organization of thc Jesuits is the greatest "Secret Society" in the world , with its mysterious Fourth Degree ; and the " Illuminati , " the most pernicious and destructive society which ever existed , was formed clearly on the "Jesuit lines" by WEISHAUPT , a Roman Catholic Professor of Canon Law at Ingoldstat , and a quondam disciple of the Jesuits , though he left

them and denounced them later . * * * THE Earl of MAR , in the place of Sir MICHAEL SHAW STEWART , who has ruled over the Scottish Grand Lodge with singular dignity and effect , has been elected unanimously G . M . of the Grand Lodge of Scotland . Sir ARCHIBALD C . CAMPISELL was also elected D . G . M ., and Bro . R . F . SHAW

STEWART Substitute G . M .. The Earl of HADDINGTON and the Earl of BREADALUANE , Senior and Junior Wardens , the Rev . J . BARCLAY and the Rev . W . TULLOCII G . Chaplains , Major CROMBIE S . G . D ., and thc Marquis of TWEEDDALE J . G . D . We congratulate the Grand Lodge of Scotland on its present position of prestige and prosperity .

THE letter of our esteemed Bro . HUGHAN , which appeared in the last Freemason , will be read by all Masons , both in England and Quebec , with feelings of admiration and approval . Practically , our worthy and able brother endorses the same " deliverance " we felt bound to make on this difficult subject , if in different form . Wc had to deal with the " correspondence "

as a " whole , " and with its possible and probable effect on the English Masonic mind . We may be right or wrong in the opinions we formed and the views we expressed on thc substantial merits of thc case ; but those who know us best can answer that we write honestly , and , while with every good feeling to our brethren in Quebec and Bro . GRAHAM , their distinguished

G . M ., we yet believe it to be our duty , for ' which we are responsible to the Craft , to uphold and to defend thc rights of linglish lodges , and the dignity and prestige of the Grand Lodge of England—always fair dealing and considerate . We do not hesitate to add the expression of our conviction , that if the G . M . and Grand Lodge of Quebec are wise in their generation , and

accept the friendly suggestions of our GRAND SECRETARY , thc matter will , and must , eventually , wc think it is quite clear , " settle itself . " But if , by hasty measures , or regrettable manifestation of needless energy , on the part of our Brethren of Quebec , the English Grand Lodge becomes involved " 1 a contest , not of its own seeking , matters wiil become still more

complicated , and the ultimate peaceable and amicable settlement of this jurisdictional controversy will be inevitably postponed during our time and generation . Surely , if now the old adage is made good and true , " Verbum satsapienti , " and , therefore , we call Bro . GRAHAM ' S attention , specially and thoughtfull y , to the two-fold representation of the undoubted mind of English Freemasons , which we have been privileged to put forth in the Freemason .

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A reflection came over us on November 5 th , ( Gunpowder Day , ) which we think it well to communicate to our readers , " quantum valet . " It is this , that Time , " edax rerum , " as the old poet has put it , seems to carry away on its oblivious and yet destructive stream the memories and the struggles , the crimes and conspiracies of men . We are told however by the " Press " that

this last 5 th of November was a very " lively " day—one of the " most lively for years , " spent as it is , as most of us know in scenes and episodes partly farcical , partly " saturnalian . " If we to day , remembering the passionate reprehension of the loyal English people which that great pre-dynamite crime of nearl y 300 years ago unanimously evoked , and which is still represented

in grotesque proceedings and childish horseplay , giving the police much trouble , we repeat , we may well not pass over in silence this somewhat peculiar anniversary of national feeling as a protest against hurtful conspiracies , secret societies , and unbridled fanaticism . For , keeping before us the farther fact that the " outcome" of that mournful

incident still lingers in popular ballads and black letter treatises , or that curious literature of indignant attack and Jesuitical defence , which may be found on thc shelves of the bibliophilist , and at the same time realizing that some time ago a quasi sort of defence , even apology , was put forth by a Roman Catholic writer for GUY

FAWKES and his " merry men " all , we are warranted in repealing the " truism " with which we commence this short article , despite such passing " effervescence . " Yes , Time spares none of us ; the annals of kings or the records of peoples ; and we to-day , who look back on the past , even now are still partial in our judgment , as we fear , in our estimate of the past ,

inasmuch as " Time" seems to wrap up all men and things in its "darker pall of forgetfulness and uncertainity . " The lesson we are to learn , we think , is a message of " toleration , "—that great Masonic truth , —and which bids us , whileadhering to what we ourselves believe and know to be the truth , " even to

the death , " like thc "four faithful Craftsmen of old , " never to let go our own nobler Masonic sentiment of toleration for the religious convictions , for the different and differing views of others , and , above all , ever to manifest an absolute horror of the " debasing practice of persecution for conscience sake , " by whomsoever initiated , by whomsoever carried out .

* * * WE note that the National Portrait Gallery has been recently enriched by pictures of two old Grand Masters , H . R . H . the DUKE oi' KENT , and H . R . H . thc DUKE OF SUSSEX . The DUKE OF KENT was Grand Master of the " Antient" and " Athol Masons " ; the DUKE 01 ' SUSSEX was Grand

Master of the so-called "Moderns , " the Grand Lodge of 1717 . The happy union between the two bodies took place , as most of our readers well know , in 1813 . But it it not generally realized , that Her Gracious Majesty the

Q UEEN being the only daughter of a brother—H . R . H . the DUKE OI KENT , the Grand Master of the Antients—has special claims on our Masonic sympathy and loyalty . Three of her sons and her son-in-law , the Imperial Crown PRINCE OF GERMANY , are also all Freemasons .

* * * THE progress of cheap literature is very remarkable , so much so that it almost amounts to a " revolution . " Lady BRASSEY published the " Voyage of the Sunbeam , " with illustrations , at the price of sixpence , a short time back ; and now Sir THEODORE MARTIN , through SMITH and ELDER , and with the

special sanction of the QUEEN , issues his valuable life of the late Prince Consort , originally published at about four pounds , for the hitherto unheard of price of two and sixpence—five parts at sixpence a part . What effect such a movement on our contemporary literature will have remains to be seen . The Times , in a striking " leader " on the subject , seems to anticipate that

one result will be an international copyright between thc United States and England . But the question is one admittedly which has two sides ; and one , too , on which a great deal my be said from the very opposite points of the " compass . " We shall see , and appreciate we think , the kindly and benevolent motives which have permitted such a cheap issue of readable and

remarkable works , and shall be ready to acknowledge that their value as " Educators" of thousands of eager readers cannot be over estimated . Lady BRASSEY ' S work lias already reached a sale of 100 , 000 . How far , however the prices of our general literature will be affected by such exceptional publication , as we said before , remains to be seen .

* * * WE are glad to be able , with these facts before us , to raise another protest against that ignoble profanation of our common literary inheritance carried on in thc abbreviation and evisceration of the great works of dead authors , or of those whose copyright has expired by efflux of time . Such acts of

misapplied ingenuity constitute a very serious impeachment on the tastes and temper of contemporary "literrateurs , " and , above all , of our own reading generation . We can only hope that they will be thoroughly unsuccessful , as not only are they a " fraus pia " in themselves , but are a manifest evidence of some prevailing characteristics of the hour , of that tendency to manifest " Egoism , " which seem to underlie , to its present weakness and eventual