Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS 321 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 322 Roval Masonic Institution for Boys 322 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 322 Provincial Grand Mark Lodgeof Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 322 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Middlesex and Surrey 323 Provincial Grand Lodge of Kent 323

Aldersgate Lodge , No . 165 * 7 3 3 Masonic History and Historians 323 CORRESPONDENCEPrecedence of Prov . Grand OUicers 324 Freemasonry in Spain 324 Grand Lodge Dues 324 King Kalakaua and the National Grand

Lodge of Hgypt 324 Masonic Funerals 324 Old Books , 324 Queries 32 $ A Blunder on a Blunder ... ; 325 Ladies at Masonic Banquets 32 $ Reviews 325 Masonic Notes and Queries 325

Consecration of thc Derwent Mark Lodge , No . 292 32 . < Freemasonry in Egypt 326 Consecration of the * United Brethren Lodge , at Malta 326 Thc Dorset Masonic Charity 327 Memorial to the Late Bro ' . Charles Coote , P . M 327 Early Use of the Term Freemason 327

Amusements 327 New Zealand 327 Jamaica 327 "REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 328 Instruction JW 329 Alark Masonrv 329

Red Cross of Constantine 329 Scotland 329 Australasia 329 Testimonial to Bro . R . Pierpoint 329 Obituary 329 Masonic Tidings 33 a General Tidings 330 Lodge . Meetings for Next Week 331

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ALL our many readers will rejoice to think that nothing but thc temporary necessary alarm happened to the Princesses , thc daughters of our ROVAL GRAND MASTER , in the accident the other day , which might have been productive of the most alarming consequences . * * *

ONE of the saddest tasks of the Masonic journalist is the constant , reference to those worthy brethren of ours who leave the ranks of our Masonic track , one by one , on its onward march . Hardly a week passes over our heads but we have to record the departure of some good and faithful Mason from amongst us , to recall his loss to his family , lo Freemasonry , to his

friends , and the world in which we live . Two such serious facts are mentioned in the Freemason last week , the deaths of our Bro . ALBERT G . MACKEY , and cu - Bro . W . F . COLLARD MOUTRIE . Bro . MACKEY ' S reputation is cosmopolitan , and as a Masonic archaeologist and writer he had few compeers , if any . Bro . MOUTRIE was principally known amongst us as a good working

Mason , and a zealous supporter of the Charities , always kind and friendly , and an unattached member of our Fraternity . And this week thc old , old tale is told , the " silver cord is loosed" and the " golden bowl is broken , " and the '' mourners go about the streets . " Wc have . to lament the loss of an eminent Masonic scholar , and of a good Mason and a kindly friend .

* * OUR American brethren arc treating the bogus story of MORGAN ' S bones as we fancied they would do , with simple contempt . Much allowance must be made at this time of the year for thc inventive genius of correspondents and reporters " hard up " for matter , and anxious for something startling or exciting .

THE consecration of the Montague Guest Lodge seems lo have been a great success , despite a full room , hot weather , and a trying atmosphere .

Thc oration and speeches there delivered were a good "deliverance " of thought and teaching with which to close our Masonic season , and wc can say sincerely that we trust thc future career of this new offshoot of our great Masonic tree will be one of undimmed success and increasing prosperity . It seems to be very well " ofliccrcd . "

TUE discussion anent the Precedence of Grand and Provincial Grand Officers continues , and it is impossible for many reasons lo overrate thc importance of the question thus raised , alike to the Grand Lodge on the one hand , and Provincial Grand Lodges on the other . So far , we sec no

reason to modify the expression of our opinion previously given , in all deference , on the subject , though we did not affect to conceal that it was not given without difficulty , owing to the indistinctness of the Book of Constitutions on the subject , and the uniform custom of English Masonry on the other . Bro . "YORK ' S" letter in our last on this subject suggests several points for very careful consideration .

* * * WE rejoice to note that the accounts of our distinguished Bro . President GARFIELD are all good in tone and result . We trust lhat in thc Providence of T . G . A . O . T . U . his valuable life will be spared to America . In common with all the civilized world wc think it well to keep before us these

improved prospects of our distinguished Bro . General GARFIELD ' S eventual recovery . It is satfsfactory to note the general abhorrence displayed of this cruel repetition of the " mania" of attacking the lives of those "placed in authority over us . " The murder of the Emperor ALEXANDER II . was one of the most distressing episodes of our epoch ; this attack on President GARFIELD seems to us to be the culmination of frenzy and weakness .

* " * THE satisfactory capture of LEFROY—MAPLETON—or whatever his name is , —seems to be the signal for an attack on the police at Scotland-yard . We

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notice some very singular , nay , to us incomprehensible , "leaders " in several excellent contemporaries on the subject . That mistakes have been committed " ab initio " we do not deny , and a want of common sense exhibited we do not think it worth while to discuss ; but we cannot see how any " laches " of any kind can justly be charged on the Detective Force . Sir W . V .

HaR-COURT s sensible words deserve remembrance , —that the police have always to contend against "abnormal " scoundrels and in a " normal " way , and unless they were gifted with supernatural intelligence we do not profess to realize how they could have done better than they have done—carefully , quickly , and surely . But people will talk , and papers must write . *

WE arc immensely amused by an error relative to " things Masonic which crept inlo our contemporar }* , the Times , on Thursday last . The " scribe" describing the meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodgeof Kent

at Rochester , states that " Lord HOLMESDALE was re-elected Provincial Grand Master . " If he was a Freemason who sent this report , he must , to use a popular phrase , be a " wet " Freemason . If a non-Mason he ought really to get up his " facts " better .

* * ¦ 1 H E last Encyclical of Pope LEO XIII . deserves to be noted and realized . Under soft and flowing verbiage it conceals and contains the " old , old teaching" of the Church of Rome , unmodified by change of time and circumstances , unaffected by the advance of education and civilization . None

of its ancient claims to entire infallibility and universal sovereignty are eschewed or withdrawn . All monarchical authority is made to rest on the sanctions and basis of the Church , and practically Pope LEO XIII . in 1 SS 1 repeats the old Roman Catholic dogma , if conveyed in very gentle and specious terms , that as all sovereign authority resides in the Roman Catholic

Church , which is above all earthly laws , it has within it , if it only sees fit to use it , a power of conferring authority on some and absolving subjects from their allegiance to others . Let all read carefully the allocution itself for themselves , and they will discover that Rome is indeed " semper eadem , " unchanging in its assertion of spiritual , nay , of temporal , sovereignty . We

poor Freemasons who were condemned unheard in 1738 , and are still condemned unheard in 1881 , may well doubt the fairness of the religious partisans of a body , which seems still to assert that only the exigencies of the times require the cessation of its active interference in all things , with rulers

and with nations , and that even now , though dormant and in abeyance , before the common sense of the world , its claims to universal sovereignty , based upon a pure muthos , are , really and truly , as active and as living as ever . Forewarned is , however , in our case , forearmed .

BY this time a large section of , our metropolitan brethren are on the way for a well merited holiday . Many provincial lodges are also taking a recess . Freemasonry may bc fairly said to be , as the French put it , " en sommeil , " in sleep , for a little , enjoying a Spanish "siesta , " after the "burden and

heat " of our Masonic season . We can only trust that theirs will be a very pleasant relaxation from work and responsibility , that they will not forget , wherever they go and wherever they be , that they arc members of our honourable Fraternity , and that Freemasonry will still appear to them , and be to them , in all things and under all circumstances , a thing to bc valued , to be loved , to be proud of .

* " * THE review of the Volunteers seems to have been a complete success . The military and railway arrangements worked admirably , without friction , and without a drawback . We congratulate many of our worthy brethren who

are zealous Volunteers , notably the distinguished " Fitzroy Lodge , " on their being members of the "Force , " and on their gallant bearing and rapidly improving discipline ; for they know as well as we do , that in soldiering as in Freemasonry "discipline is everything . "

AT the Quarterly Court of thc Girls' School another point of order was raised , but as the meeting evidently was righteously sick of all such personal discussions , no one could be found to second the motion for non-confirmation .

and the question , therefore , happily became a " dropped question . " Wc note that there will be twenty-four candidates and fifteen to be elected in October . Our old friend , Bro . J SYMONS , was properly emphatic in respect of a swimming bath for thc Girls' School .

* * WE note thc following paragraph in our esteemed contemporary , the Philadelpliia Keystone , and call the attention of our readers to it . Unfortunately , just now , most of our lodges are "in recess " : — " A number of prominent

Pennsylvania Craftsmen have gone , or are about to go , to Europe , to spend their summer vacations . Among these brethren arc our esteemed friends , Past Grand Master Bro . ROBERT A . LAMBERTON , LL . D ., President of the Lehigh University , and Past Grand Commander Bro . WM . H . ALLEN , LL . D ., President of Girard College . "