Our New Lodges.

OUR NEW LODGES .

The list of new lodges , for which it was stated in the Agenda Paper for the recent Communication of Grand Lodge that his Royal Highness the GRAND MASTER had been pleased to grant warrants since the beginning of March last numbers 16 , of which two will be located in London , eight in the Provinces ,

and six in Districts abroad . In March the number was 21 , of which four were to meet in London , 11 in the Provinces , and six abroad . The total , therefore , for the first six months of 18 90 , as against the whole 12 months of 188 9 , is 37 against 43 , so that there is every probability , thus far , at all events , that the

new lodges warranted in the current year will compare favourably with some of the best years since the Prince of WALES was installed Grand Master , as far , at least , as mere numbers go . Nor is there is any reason to suppose that as regards the character and ultimate efficiency of the new lodges the

comparison will be in any degree less favourable . Already several of those warranted during the first three months of the year have given us a taste of their quality , and from what passed at

the consecration of the Grafton , No . 2247 ; the Ermine , No . 235 1 ; the Universities , Durham , No . 2352 ; and others , we are able even in these early days to form a tolerably fair estimate as to the success of their further career . The new list also

contains some lodges which may be trusted to give a very good account ol themselves when once they have started fairly on their way , and find themselves in good working order . There are , however , one or two points in connection with the latest list which deserve to be noticed . Of the two London

warrants granted by the GRAND MASTER , one is for a lodge which is to be known as the Cornish , No . 236 9 , which will be confined to Cornish Masons and Cornishmen resident in or near London who may be desirous of joining our ranks . ft starts under most favourable auspices . Its founders are some 20 in

number , and include the Right Hon . the Earl of MOUNT EDGCUMBE , Provincial Grand Master of Cornwall , and Bros . MOLESWORTH ST . AUBYN , N . J . WEST , BELGRAVE NlNNlS , and others . It will be ushered into existence by the GRAND SECRETARY in person on Thursday next , the iqth inst .,

and between the number of its founders and the number that have expressed a wish to join it or be initiated under its banner , there can be little doubt that in a very short time it will be numbered among our greater successes . But what we mostly desire to call attention to is the class of lodge , of which this is

not the pioneer , but a bright example . Lodges of this kind have been already established in London , the United Northern Counties Lodge being a particularly successful case in point . The idea , indeed , may be said to have originated , so far as our memory serves us , in 1855 , when the somewhat dilapidated

fortunes of one of our oldest lodges—the Westminster and Keystone , No . 10—were revived by Bro . the late Canon PORTAL , Bro . W . W . B . BEACH , M . P ., and others , who conceived the plan of making this ancient lodge chiefly , though not entirely , a London home for members of the Apollo University

Lodge , then No . 4 60 , Oxford . There is then a fair field open for those who desire to have lodges of this character established in London in connection with a particular county or counties . Nor do we for one moment suppose that the Grand Lodge authorities would set their faces against the multiplication of

such lodges . In the extra-Masonic world there are many London clubs which have been especially established for the benefit of visitors from this or that county , and residents in the Metropolis , who are connected with it by family or other ties , and we see no

reason why in the Masonic world there should not be similar lodges in London intended for the special benefit of brethren hailing from or connected by similar ties with this or that particular county . _ We note also that of the six newly warranted lodges for Districts abroad , three will belong to the Australasian Colony of

Our New Lodges.

Queensland , and as two of the six abroad in the March list were designed to meet in the same District , there is not much likelihood , for some time , at all events , of Queensland separating herself from the parent Grand Lodge . There would hardly be a rush for new warrants if Queensland had made up its mind to

have a Grand Lodge of its own . It strikes us that , from a Queenslander ' s point of view , it would be a greater honour to be asso ciated with the foundation of the earliest Queensland lodges than with the last of those warranted by the parent Grand Lodge . The other three lodges abroad in the same list are No . 3356

( Madras ) ; No . 2364 ( Newfoundland ); and No . 2370 ( Punjab ) . The two London lodges are No . 2362 ( Bloomsbury Rifles ) and No . 236 9 , the Cornish Lodge already referred to . The eight Provincial lodges are No . 2355 ( Derbyshire ); No . 2357 ( South

Wales , East Division ) ; No . 2358 ( Isle of Man ); Nos . 2359 and 2360 ( West Lancashire ) ; No . 23 61 ( Middlesex ); No . 236 3 ( East Lancashire ) ; and No . 2368 ( Cheshire ) .

The Grand Lodge Of Pennsylvania.

THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA .

The Report of the Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania during the year 188 9 contains a mass of information relating to its own doings , as well as a most valuable appendix in the shape of a Report on Correspondence , together

with much else that will well repay the reader who gives it his attentive perusal . Pennsylvania , as is well known among English Masons , is one of the most influential jurisdictions in the United States , and being , as it is , descended from our own

Grand Lodge , and , what is still more important , being a most rig id observer of all the old laws and customs of our ancient Craft , all particulars that come to hand of its doings must necessarily interest us . The principal section of the Report contains

a full account of the Annual Grand Communication on the 27 th December last , when , as usual , the GRAND MASTER delivered his address , in which the chief events of the year then concluding were carefully passed in review , and the principal Grand Officers elected at the Quarterly Communication earlier in the

same month were duly installed . On this occasion , however , the address was preceded by a speech from Bro . THOMAS R . PATTON , Grand Treasurer , and representative of our Grand Lodge at the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania , in which that

distinguished brother announced his intention of giving his Grand Lodge a sum of $ 25 , 000 ( £ 5000 ) , to be vested in certain trustees appointed by himself , under certain rules and conditions to be drawn up by the said trustees , the interest of which to the extent be of

of $ 500 (^ 100 ) a year should spent for purposes benevolence , while the remainder was to be added to the principal annually until the latter had reached $ 50 , 000 ( £ 10 , 000 ) . Then the amount to be expended annually in benevolence would be

raised to $ 1500 ( £ 300 ) , while the balance of interest would be added to the principal until the latter reached $ 100 , 000 ( £ 20 , 000 ) , and then the whole income was to be expended for the benefit of deserving persons being Masons . The gift having been accepted

by Grand Lodge , and certain resolutions of thanks to Bro . PATTON for such munificence having been passed by acclamation , Grand Master MCCALLA , delivered his address , the principal item

in it being the account rendered by him of the measures taken for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers by the floods of last year . The Grand Officers elect , including Bros . MCCALLA , G . M . ; J . SIMPSON AFRICA , D . G . M . ; M . ARNOLD , S . G . W .

M . H . HENDERSON , J . G . W . ; T . R . PATTON , G . Treas . ; and M . NlSBET , G . Sec , were installed in office , and the rest of the Grand Officers having been appointed , the rejDorts of the various Committees were submitted and dealt with , and the meeting closed . On the Report on Correspondence we shall from time to time offer sundry remarks , as occasion may require .