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proof of the abso ' ute need for special svarnings , and intelligent , brief , and authoritative explanations of the Constitutions , sve could mention a surprising number of serious instances of infraction of the lasvs , ss'hich have come under our notice , sometimes too late for prevention , svhile at otheis our timely information has been gladly svelcomed . In one case , the Master svas about
to install his successor at a Lodge of Emergency , in violation of Rule 130 ; in another , the minutes of a regular lodge svere confirmed ( a portion being non-confirmed ) at an Emergency , contrary to Rule 172 ; and on finding out their error , the members at the next regular meeting read both sets of minutes for confirmation , the action of those at the Emergency being
reversed , thus proving the necessity and desirability of such a rule , so that the minutes may be confirmed at those meetings svhich secure the largest attendances of the brethren . The question of " arrears " is one that requires delicate handling , the by-laws of lodges frequently being indefinite thereon ,
and others , sve are sorry to state , are not alss-ays uniformly observed . Masters of lodges should never forget their responsibility to the Grand Lodge , and hence should do their utmost to understand the Constitutions , which they are pledged not only to obey themselves , but secure the obedience of their members . We shall refer to this subject again and again !
* # * OUR interesting contemporary , the International Masonic Review , of Detroit , Michigan , must forgive us for suggesting that , notsvithstanding "it enters the parlour , the office , the drawing room , the svorkshop , the club room , the nesvs stand , the railroad car , the steamboat , the hotels , and
svatering places , there is a lamentable display of sveakness in its critical department . We do not doubt for one moment that it is " seen , read , and subscribed for by all classes ; " that " its Mystic Ilems and Nesvs , its splendid Literary Department and Literature attract and engage the attention of all classes j" or that "its corps of authors and contributors are not
excelled by any journal of the age . " All this sve are svilling to concede ; yet , in spite of all these ads'antages and encouragements to excellence , its criticisms are marked by a child-like simplicity of ignorance svhich is unworthy of so gorgeous a journal . Some time since sve gave an account derived from an American Masonic paper—svhich , in its turn , had borrosved
it from another American Masonic paper—of a Maryland young lady who svas made a Mason , some 25 or 30 years back , much in the same svay , and for the same reason , as our Irish Mrs . ALDSVORTH of last century . We neither accepted nor rejected the story . We remarked on its striking resemblance to the case of the said Mrs . ALDWORTH , and we asked for corroborative
evidence of its genuineness . By way of rejoinder , our contemporary nosv tells us it has isvice refuted the story , and tsvice shosvn " that such a thing svas not only improbable , but impossible , " and having done this , it describes our poor little paragraph as " a . re-hash of this ancient chestnut . " We are not versed in the mysteries of arboriculture , and cannot say if there is , or is
not , any connection betsveen " ancient chestnuts " and Masonic fables . It may be , too , that sve are " losing our eyesight , " or do not " read our exchanges "—especially is this latter the case , svhen they do not reach usand sve suppose the only course now remaining to us is to apologise meekly to a journal svhich enters so many places , is read by all classes , and can
boast of so large and varied an assortment of authors and contributors , for liaving published "such stuff in a Masonic journal . " But hosv comes it , Bro . Editor , that after making this terrible hullaballoo about our perversity of conduct , the very first thing you do after committing to paper this wordy censure is to reproduce our re-hash of an American ancient chestnut ? If it
is such dreadful "stuff , " svhy cumber your sacred pages with it . Again , in the same number in svhich you first condemn and then reproduce our reproduction of an American Masonic fable , sve note that our old friend , Bro . J ACOB NORTON , takes you sharply to task for recommending an address by Bro . CLY . MER , svhich Bro . NORTON- agrees svith us in describing as a " mere
tissue of fallacies and absurdities , " and he tells you point blank , and , through you , the credulous CLYMER , that "neither SOLOMON , nor ALFRED , nor ATHELSTAN , nor BACON , nor LOCKE , nor NESVTON , nor WEBSTER , & C , & c , svere Masons . " Your reply to this incisive criticism of Bro . NORTON ' S is too long to republish , but its tenour may be gathered from the
concluding paragraph , in svhich you say : " One svord more . Bro . NORTON , did it ever occur to you that you may be mistaken about SOLOMON , ALFRED , ATHELSTAN , BACON , LOCKE , NESVTON , WEBSTER , & C , not being Masons ? Are you prepared to reproduce the proof that they svere not Masons ? If so , let us have it , as you have chosen to take upon
yourself the affirmative of this issue . Let us have the proof and thereby settle the question . " This is sheer nonsense . A asserts that a number of distinguished personages who flourished at periods more or less remote from the present day svere Masons . He adduces not the fraction of a scrap of evidence in support of his assertion , and B—that is Bro . NORTON—not
only politely tells him so , but adds that thc personages in question " svere not Masons . " The burden of proof nosv devolves upon A , who made , not upon B . svho denies the assertion j and if the former cannot establish his case , it falls to the ground , not because of B ' s denial , but from its osvn inherent absurdity . Here then is a further illustration , that though the
International Masonic Review may enter a great many places , and have at its back a svhole army of authors and contributors , the critical judgment of its principal editor is of the most feeble character . It is putting the cart before the horse svith a vengeance , svhen A , who makes an assertion , is . e *< cu * . ed from proving the affirmative ; svhile B , svho denies the assertion ,
r . mitst be bullied into proving a negative . Were this sound doctrine , then a -hare-assertion must in time become an established fact , not because it is ' ¦ ' capable of ' proof , but because it is incapable of disproof .
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THE M . W . GRAND MASTER has granted a svarrant for the constitution of a nesv lodge , to meet in one of the historical saloons of the national theatre , Drury Lane . It is to be called the Drury Lane Lodge . No . 2127 . R . W . Bro . Lord LONDESBOROUGH , P . G . S . W . of England , is the first W . M . designate ; Bro . AUGUSTUS HARRIS , S . W . ; Bro . Sir J ELDER
GORST , Q . C , M . P ., Solicitor-General , J . W . ; and Bro . A . M . BROADLEY , P . D . D . G . M . Malta , Secretary . Amongst the original members are Bros . Admiral Sir EDWARD INGLEFIELD , C . B ., D . C . L . ; Colonel KITCHENER ,
R . E . ; THOMAS THORNE , HENRY NEVILLE , CHARLES WARNER , and others . The lodge svill be consecrated as soon as the VVorshipfuI Master designate recovers from the effect of the accident he met svith a fesv days ago whilst shooting .
The Provincial Grand Lodge Of Oxfordshire.
THE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF OXFORDSHIRE .
The demands on our space are less serious than they svere last ss'eek and the sveek previous , and sve are therefore in a position to supplement our account of the installation of R . W . Bro . the Earl of Jersey as P . G . M . of Oxfordshire by giving a complete list of the brethren svhom his lordship svas pleased to appoint as his P . G . Officers for the year . A glance at this
list svill shosv that Bro . Lord Jersey has reappointed Bro . Bird to the important position of D . P . G . M ., an office svhich that brother so admirably filled during- the P . G . Mastership of the late Duke of Albany . It svill
beseen further that the onerous duties of P . G . Secretary has'e been entrusted ! to Bro . E . L . Hasvkins , * svho during his connection svith the province has . svon golden opinions from the brethren generally . The list is as follosvs : —
Bro . Reginald Bird , P . G . D ., 357 ... ... Prov . D . G . M . „ H . G . W . Drinksvater , 340 ... ... Prov . G . S . W . „ W . L . Morgan , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . J . W . „ Res ' . A . R . Pritchard , 1 S 95 ... ... Prov . G . Chap . „ Rev . C . J . F . Yule , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . Chap . „ W . G . Emberline , 340 ... ... ... Prov . G . Treas .
„ J . S . Wells , 599 ... ... ... Prov . G . Reg . „ E . L . Hasvkins , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . Sec . „ H . Houghton , 340 ... ... ... Prov . G . A . Sec . ,, Lord Valentia , 47 8 ... ... ... Prov . G . S . D . „ A . A . Webb , 1036 ... ... ... Prov . G . J . D .
„ F . Marsh , 18 95 '" ... ... Prov . G . S . of W . „ F . P . Bulley , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . D . of C . „ B . P . Lascelles , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . A . D . C . „ J . Arnall , 47 8 ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Ssvd . B . „ E . Home , 340 ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Std . B .
„ F . Pigott , 1399 ... ... ... Prov . G . Std . B . „ G . Osvens , 1 703 ... ... ... Prov . G . Org . „ E . F . Greensvood , 1 515 ... ... ... Prov . G . Purst . „ W . D . Sutton , 1763 ' ... ... ... Prov . G . A . Purst , ,. Sir B . Brodie , 357 ... .- " I
„ F . J . Humphreys , 357 ... ... ... ( " P ' MTV * I 5 ' -. rs hProv . G . Stwds . „ L . M . Wynne , 599 ... ... ... j „ S . C . Wakefield , 1703 ,, J . W . Messenger , 340 ... ... J „ G . Norsvood , 478 ... ... ... Prov , G . Tyler .
Grand Lodge Of Scotland.
GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND .
A Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Scotland svas held in the Freemasons' Hall , Edinburgh , on Thursday afternoon , thc 5 th inst . The throne svas occupied by the Grand Master Mason of Scotland , Colonel Sir Archibald C . Campbell of BIythssvood , Bart . ; Bro . James Crichton acted as Grand Senior Warden , and Bro . George Fisher as Grand Junior
Warden . Amongst others present svere Bros . Ihe Earl of Kintore , Substitute Grand Master ; D . Murray Lyon , Grand Secretary ; David Kinnear , Treasurer ; J . T . S . Elliot , younger , of Wolfelee , Grand Senior Deacon ; Colonel J . T . S . Stesvart , acting Grand Junior Deacon ; J . Dalrymple Duncan , Grand Bible Bearer ; Provost Brand , Grand Director of
Ceremonies ; Dr . Cranstoun , Grand Bard ; F . E . Villiers of Closeburn , Grand Sword Bearer ; Robert Davidson , Grand Organist ; James Turner , President , and William Edsvards , Vice-President of the Board of Grand Stesvards ; and a large attendance of Past Grand office bearers and others . A vidimus svas submitted by the Grand Cashier , svhich shosved that the
income of the Grand Lodge for the past quarter had been £ 957 and the expenditure ; £ 6 u , leaving an excess of income to the amount of £ 34 6-There had been 1360 entrants to the Craft during the quarter . A statement as to the funds of the Scottish Masonic Benevolence Trust for the three months ending 20 th ult . showed that £ 20 had been voted to brethren , or svidosvs of brethren , in distress .
The Grand Committee submitted a report of a Special Committee svhich they had appointed to confer svith the tsvo brethren who had issued some publications that svere recently under the notice of the Grand Lodge . Certain conditions svhich had been laid dosvn by the Grand Committee , and which svere accepted by one of the brethren in question , sverc appros'ed ,
and the case svas sent back to the Grand Committee . It was intimated that Bro . John Baird , Glasgosv , had resigned his seat on the Grand Committee , and that the Committee had placed on record their high sense of his services to the Grand Lodge during a period of fifteen years . Bro . Robert Nisbet , Glasgosv , svas unanimously chosen in his stead . A report was submitted from the Grand Master and Provincial Grand Master of East Renfrewshire ,
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proof of the abso ' ute need for special svarnings , and intelligent , brief , and authoritative explanations of the Constitutions , sve could mention a surprising number of serious instances of infraction of the lasvs , ss'hich have come under our notice , sometimes too late for prevention , svhile at otheis our timely information has been gladly svelcomed . In one case , the Master svas about
to install his successor at a Lodge of Emergency , in violation of Rule 130 ; in another , the minutes of a regular lodge svere confirmed ( a portion being non-confirmed ) at an Emergency , contrary to Rule 172 ; and on finding out their error , the members at the next regular meeting read both sets of minutes for confirmation , the action of those at the Emergency being
reversed , thus proving the necessity and desirability of such a rule , so that the minutes may be confirmed at those meetings svhich secure the largest attendances of the brethren . The question of " arrears " is one that requires delicate handling , the by-laws of lodges frequently being indefinite thereon ,
and others , sve are sorry to state , are not alss-ays uniformly observed . Masters of lodges should never forget their responsibility to the Grand Lodge , and hence should do their utmost to understand the Constitutions , which they are pledged not only to obey themselves , but secure the obedience of their members . We shall refer to this subject again and again !
* # * OUR interesting contemporary , the International Masonic Review , of Detroit , Michigan , must forgive us for suggesting that , notsvithstanding "it enters the parlour , the office , the drawing room , the svorkshop , the club room , the nesvs stand , the railroad car , the steamboat , the hotels , and
svatering places , there is a lamentable display of sveakness in its critical department . We do not doubt for one moment that it is " seen , read , and subscribed for by all classes ; " that " its Mystic Ilems and Nesvs , its splendid Literary Department and Literature attract and engage the attention of all classes j" or that "its corps of authors and contributors are not
excelled by any journal of the age . " All this sve are svilling to concede ; yet , in spite of all these ads'antages and encouragements to excellence , its criticisms are marked by a child-like simplicity of ignorance svhich is unworthy of so gorgeous a journal . Some time since sve gave an account derived from an American Masonic paper—svhich , in its turn , had borrosved
it from another American Masonic paper—of a Maryland young lady who svas made a Mason , some 25 or 30 years back , much in the same svay , and for the same reason , as our Irish Mrs . ALDSVORTH of last century . We neither accepted nor rejected the story . We remarked on its striking resemblance to the case of the said Mrs . ALDWORTH , and we asked for corroborative
evidence of its genuineness . By way of rejoinder , our contemporary nosv tells us it has isvice refuted the story , and tsvice shosvn " that such a thing svas not only improbable , but impossible , " and having done this , it describes our poor little paragraph as " a . re-hash of this ancient chestnut . " We are not versed in the mysteries of arboriculture , and cannot say if there is , or is
not , any connection betsveen " ancient chestnuts " and Masonic fables . It may be , too , that sve are " losing our eyesight , " or do not " read our exchanges "—especially is this latter the case , svhen they do not reach usand sve suppose the only course now remaining to us is to apologise meekly to a journal svhich enters so many places , is read by all classes , and can
boast of so large and varied an assortment of authors and contributors , for liaving published "such stuff in a Masonic journal . " But hosv comes it , Bro . Editor , that after making this terrible hullaballoo about our perversity of conduct , the very first thing you do after committing to paper this wordy censure is to reproduce our re-hash of an American ancient chestnut ? If it
is such dreadful "stuff , " svhy cumber your sacred pages with it . Again , in the same number in svhich you first condemn and then reproduce our reproduction of an American Masonic fable , sve note that our old friend , Bro . J ACOB NORTON , takes you sharply to task for recommending an address by Bro . CLY . MER , svhich Bro . NORTON- agrees svith us in describing as a " mere
tissue of fallacies and absurdities , " and he tells you point blank , and , through you , the credulous CLYMER , that "neither SOLOMON , nor ALFRED , nor ATHELSTAN , nor BACON , nor LOCKE , nor NESVTON , nor WEBSTER , & C , & c , svere Masons . " Your reply to this incisive criticism of Bro . NORTON ' S is too long to republish , but its tenour may be gathered from the
concluding paragraph , in svhich you say : " One svord more . Bro . NORTON , did it ever occur to you that you may be mistaken about SOLOMON , ALFRED , ATHELSTAN , BACON , LOCKE , NESVTON , WEBSTER , & C , not being Masons ? Are you prepared to reproduce the proof that they svere not Masons ? If so , let us have it , as you have chosen to take upon
yourself the affirmative of this issue . Let us have the proof and thereby settle the question . " This is sheer nonsense . A asserts that a number of distinguished personages who flourished at periods more or less remote from the present day svere Masons . He adduces not the fraction of a scrap of evidence in support of his assertion , and B—that is Bro . NORTON—not
only politely tells him so , but adds that thc personages in question " svere not Masons . " The burden of proof nosv devolves upon A , who made , not upon B . svho denies the assertion j and if the former cannot establish his case , it falls to the ground , not because of B ' s denial , but from its osvn inherent absurdity . Here then is a further illustration , that though the
International Masonic Review may enter a great many places , and have at its back a svhole army of authors and contributors , the critical judgment of its principal editor is of the most feeble character . It is putting the cart before the horse svith a vengeance , svhen A , who makes an assertion , is . e *< cu * . ed from proving the affirmative ; svhile B , svho denies the assertion ,
r . mitst be bullied into proving a negative . Were this sound doctrine , then a -hare-assertion must in time become an established fact , not because it is ' ¦ ' capable of ' proof , but because it is incapable of disproof .
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THE M . W . GRAND MASTER has granted a svarrant for the constitution of a nesv lodge , to meet in one of the historical saloons of the national theatre , Drury Lane . It is to be called the Drury Lane Lodge . No . 2127 . R . W . Bro . Lord LONDESBOROUGH , P . G . S . W . of England , is the first W . M . designate ; Bro . AUGUSTUS HARRIS , S . W . ; Bro . Sir J ELDER
GORST , Q . C , M . P ., Solicitor-General , J . W . ; and Bro . A . M . BROADLEY , P . D . D . G . M . Malta , Secretary . Amongst the original members are Bros . Admiral Sir EDWARD INGLEFIELD , C . B ., D . C . L . ; Colonel KITCHENER ,
R . E . ; THOMAS THORNE , HENRY NEVILLE , CHARLES WARNER , and others . The lodge svill be consecrated as soon as the VVorshipfuI Master designate recovers from the effect of the accident he met svith a fesv days ago whilst shooting .
The Provincial Grand Lodge Of Oxfordshire.
THE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF OXFORDSHIRE .
The demands on our space are less serious than they svere last ss'eek and the sveek previous , and sve are therefore in a position to supplement our account of the installation of R . W . Bro . the Earl of Jersey as P . G . M . of Oxfordshire by giving a complete list of the brethren svhom his lordship svas pleased to appoint as his P . G . Officers for the year . A glance at this
list svill shosv that Bro . Lord Jersey has reappointed Bro . Bird to the important position of D . P . G . M ., an office svhich that brother so admirably filled during- the P . G . Mastership of the late Duke of Albany . It svill
beseen further that the onerous duties of P . G . Secretary has'e been entrusted ! to Bro . E . L . Hasvkins , * svho during his connection svith the province has . svon golden opinions from the brethren generally . The list is as follosvs : —
Bro . Reginald Bird , P . G . D ., 357 ... ... Prov . D . G . M . „ H . G . W . Drinksvater , 340 ... ... Prov . G . S . W . „ W . L . Morgan , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . J . W . „ Res ' . A . R . Pritchard , 1 S 95 ... ... Prov . G . Chap . „ Rev . C . J . F . Yule , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . Chap . „ W . G . Emberline , 340 ... ... ... Prov . G . Treas .
„ J . S . Wells , 599 ... ... ... Prov . G . Reg . „ E . L . Hasvkins , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . Sec . „ H . Houghton , 340 ... ... ... Prov . G . A . Sec . ,, Lord Valentia , 47 8 ... ... ... Prov . G . S . D . „ A . A . Webb , 1036 ... ... ... Prov . G . J . D .
„ F . Marsh , 18 95 '" ... ... Prov . G . S . of W . „ F . P . Bulley , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . D . of C . „ B . P . Lascelles , 357 ... ... ... Prov . G . A . D . C . „ J . Arnall , 47 8 ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Ssvd . B . „ E . Home , 340 ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Std . B .
„ F . Pigott , 1399 ... ... ... Prov . G . Std . B . „ G . Osvens , 1 703 ... ... ... Prov . G . Org . „ E . F . Greensvood , 1 515 ... ... ... Prov . G . Purst . „ W . D . Sutton , 1763 ' ... ... ... Prov . G . A . Purst , ,. Sir B . Brodie , 357 ... .- " I
„ F . J . Humphreys , 357 ... ... ... ( " P ' MTV * I 5 ' -. rs hProv . G . Stwds . „ L . M . Wynne , 599 ... ... ... j „ S . C . Wakefield , 1703 ,, J . W . Messenger , 340 ... ... J „ G . Norsvood , 478 ... ... ... Prov , G . Tyler .
Grand Lodge Of Scotland.
GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND .
A Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Scotland svas held in the Freemasons' Hall , Edinburgh , on Thursday afternoon , thc 5 th inst . The throne svas occupied by the Grand Master Mason of Scotland , Colonel Sir Archibald C . Campbell of BIythssvood , Bart . ; Bro . James Crichton acted as Grand Senior Warden , and Bro . George Fisher as Grand Junior
Warden . Amongst others present svere Bros . Ihe Earl of Kintore , Substitute Grand Master ; D . Murray Lyon , Grand Secretary ; David Kinnear , Treasurer ; J . T . S . Elliot , younger , of Wolfelee , Grand Senior Deacon ; Colonel J . T . S . Stesvart , acting Grand Junior Deacon ; J . Dalrymple Duncan , Grand Bible Bearer ; Provost Brand , Grand Director of
Ceremonies ; Dr . Cranstoun , Grand Bard ; F . E . Villiers of Closeburn , Grand Sword Bearer ; Robert Davidson , Grand Organist ; James Turner , President , and William Edsvards , Vice-President of the Board of Grand Stesvards ; and a large attendance of Past Grand office bearers and others . A vidimus svas submitted by the Grand Cashier , svhich shosved that the
income of the Grand Lodge for the past quarter had been £ 957 and the expenditure ; £ 6 u , leaving an excess of income to the amount of £ 34 6-There had been 1360 entrants to the Craft during the quarter . A statement as to the funds of the Scottish Masonic Benevolence Trust for the three months ending 20 th ult . showed that £ 20 had been voted to brethren , or svidosvs of brethren , in distress .
The Grand Committee submitted a report of a Special Committee svhich they had appointed to confer svith the tsvo brethren who had issued some publications that svere recently under the notice of the Grand Lodge . Certain conditions svhich had been laid dosvn by the Grand Committee , and which svere accepted by one of the brethren in question , sverc appros'ed ,
and the case svas sent back to the Grand Committee . It was intimated that Bro . John Baird , Glasgosv , had resigned his seat on the Grand Committee , and that the Committee had placed on record their high sense of his services to the Grand Lodge during a period of fifteen years . Bro . Robert Nisbet , Glasgosv , svas unanimously chosen in his stead . A report was submitted from the Grand Master and Provincial Grand Master of East Renfrewshire ,