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Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar.
COSMOPOLITAN MASONIC CALENDAR .
W . Masters and Secretaries are earnestl y requested to forward to the publisher , at the Offices , 198 , Fleet-street , E . G ., particulars of the place , days , and months of meeting of their respective lodges , chapters , and other Masonic bodies , for insertion in the issue of the Calendar for 18 77 .
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
COLONIAL and FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS are nformed that acknowledgments of remittances received are published in the lirst number of every month .
It is very necessary for our readers to advise ¦ is of all monev orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them .
NEW POSTAL RATES . Owing to a reduction in the Postal Rates , the publisher is now enabled to send the " Freemason " to the following parts abroad for One Year for Twelve Shillings ( payable in
advance ) : —Africa , Australia , Bombay , Canada , Cape of Good Hope , Ceylon , China , Constantinople , Demcrara , France , Germany , Gibraltar , Jamaica , Malta , Newfoundland , New South Wales , New Zealand , Suez , Trinidad , United States of America . & c .
To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The Freemason is a sixteen-page weekly newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , 10 / - P . O . O . ' s to be made payable at the chief office , London .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , & c , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
All Communications , Advertisements , & c , intended foi ir . ' -crtion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later man 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning . P . M . CRAFT AND MARK , AND A P . P . G . O . —Letter received , but unaccompanied with name of sender . This must be given before letter can appear .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d for announcements , not exceeding four lines , under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . Uf' . viiow . —On the nth inst ., at Paignton , Deion , the wife of V . Benbow , Esq ., of a son . CHATTERTON . —On the 7 th inst ., at Tcesdale Lodge , Brixtcn-hill , the wife of H . W . Chatterton , of a daughter . Cni . it . —On the 10 th inst ., at Arlington-street , Viscountess Cole , of a son . DAVIES . —On the nth inst ., at Little Blake Hall , Wanstead , the wife of II . D . Davies , of a son .
MARRIAGES . BOUIIKE—VANUF . I . EUII . —On the 7 th inst ., at CastleConnell Church , co . Limetick , John Ulick , son of R . Bourke , of Thornfields , D . L ., to Elizabeth Agnes , daughter of the late Col . J . Vandeleur ( 10 th Hussars ) . BURNETT—CURTEIS . —On the 6 th inst ., at the parish chuich of St . Nicholas . Sevcnoaks . Lindsav Robert
Burnett , Esq ., adjutant 95 th Regt ., to Agnes Henrietta , daughter of the late Rev . C . T . Curteis . CII . UITHEE—CRANE . —On the 7 th inst ., at St . John's Church , Hackney , Frederick Crabtree , son of J . H . Crabtree , to Alice Elizabeth , daughter cf Stephen Crane , all of Hackney . HotiAitn—WESTON . —On the 9 U 1 inst ., at St . Clement Danes , Bro . C . F . Hogard , to Elizabeth Weston .
DEATHS . A it ; EII . —On the Oth inst ., William Auger , of Burnham , Essex , aged 52 . IIAVWAHD . —On thc 4 U 1 inst ., at Bridge-road , Battersea , Wm . Hayward , aged 70 . Hoot ; . —On the ; th inst ., at West Cliff , Preston , James Hogg , Esq ., aged 64 .
JACKSON . —On the nth inst ., at WinJmill-road , Croydon , Elizabeth , wife of Mr . F . Jackson . Rinii-ins . —On the ist inst ., at Hastings , John Roberts , Esq ., M . A ., Fellow of Magdalen College , Cambridge . ROBEUISON . —On the 24 th of June , at her residence , Buiinlbo , Clarence Riv-ir , New South Wales , after a ¦ vei-k ' s illness , Jane , relict of the late William Robertson , aged 0 , *; years . Friends will please accept this intimation .
WALKER . —On the 7 th inst ., at Dorset-gardens , Brighton , Cipt . I . cven Walker , R . N ., aged 74 . WAUII . —On the 26 th ult ., at Malta , Elizabeth Annie , widow of the late Dr . A . V . Ward , aged 42 .
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The Freemason , SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 16 , 1876 .
The Last Quarterly Communication.
THE LAST QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION .
we quite rejoice to have to comment on so satisfactory a meeting of Grand Lodge , in the month of September . At that time , generally , its attendance is of the thinnest and the business merely routine . On the present occasion over 300 brethren assembled to consider and
discuss the important notices of motion on the agenda paper . We are glad to record that the appointment of an enlarged committee was carried , and that on the reasonable proposal of Bro . Curteis , and the wise suggestion of Bro . Mclntyrc , the Grand Registrar , the provincial brethren
were fully represented on the committee . We trust that we shall have a gooJ report from it and that a reasonable proposal may be made which will command the sympathies of all . ' Grand Lodge has decided to perpetuate its Royal Grand Master ' s safe return by some donation ,
some memorial , and therefore the object ought to be , to try and discover a solution of the whole question , which will be acceptable to all . The committee has a large mission and full powers , and we hope , that in the discharge of its imnortant dutv to the Craft , it will , as we feel
sure it will , ever keep before it , clearly and consistently , this one great end , the honour of our Grand Master , and the true interest of our Order . It is not a question , happily , into which our party spirit can enter , or on which antagonistic issues need be raised . We do not think that it would
be becoming in us to attempt to discuss , as one or two brethren unwisely did in Grand Lodge , what the committee is likely to report , and what should be , so to say , the line it ought to take . It would be neither in good taste nor Masonic form for us to do so , now that the
consideration of the subject matter is relegated to an independent committee to deal with and report upon . But we think we may say this ; that if any of the Masonic Institutions are to be the channels through which this testimony of the gratitude of Grand Lodge is to be manifested to the public
and the Craft , then all should , we venture to think , in some way or other , be put , so to say , on an equality . We make this remark in all deference , but we know that , thus expressing our humble opinion , we are also expressing the opinion ofa good many zealous members of the
Craft . And here we leave the matter to day , if not '' sub-judice , " " sub-committee , " with every good wish for wise counsels , and a judicious and happy proposal , when in due time that Committee makes its report to Grand Lodge . After the expressed opinion of Grand Lodge
it seems very difficult to suggest any other appropriation but a purely Masonic one of some kind or another . Grand'Lodge having so decided we bow to its authority , though we could have wished that a larger view had been taken of the matter altogether . One brother has written
to us as if there had been " unbrotherly feeling " displayed in the discussions which have arisen out of our worthy brother , the Past Grand Chaplain ' s original proposal . We are notaware of it , and it is impossible to suppose , that for a
brotherhood like ours , so independent and so educated , differences of opinion will not arise . It would be very bad for us all if they did not . But we arc "brethren , " and having manfully spoken our minds on any subject , if need be , we msut harmoniously " agree to differ . "
Prejudices Against Freemasons.
PREJUDICES AGAINST FREEMASONS .
We gave last week from the "Thanet Guardian " the account ofa curious episode at Margate , to which our attention was called at once by more than one correspondent . We confess we do not understand whv the Watch
Committee of the borough of Margate should make the profession of Freemasonry a disqualification for the office of the chief of the police in that good town . Perhaps some brother can throw some light on so extraordinary a proceeding , and we shall be glad if he will give our readers the
Prejudices Against Freemasons.
benefit of his remarks in the pages of the " Freemason . " In the meantime we will only say that such regulations of a municipal body are very absurd , and such prejudices very per . verse . Freemasons are among the most orderlv
loyal , well-principled of mortals , friends always to discipline and decorum , and habitual sup . porters of the law . What then , and who then is the cause of such a ridiculous objection > When and by whom was such an instruction to the Watch Committee criven , or is it the In .
nunous idea of that intelligent body of citizens ? We feel , that in the interests of many members of the police service who are Freemasons , we have a right to ask for an investigation into the matter , and for a reply to these questions . Such difficulties might be raised by an
Ultramontane Town Council , or by those who take a hostile view of Freemasonry and Freemasons , but we do not , we confess , understand them when they emanate from an ordinary English municipal body , and we shall hope to hear that there is some mistake in the matter .
The Detection Of Crime.
THE DETECTION OF CRIME .
The report of the Metropolitan Police , which we commented upon last week suggests several considerations to those who inhabit the metropolis , and are specially interested io the preservation and protection of their persons and property . Indeed , all are interested in the matter more or
less , as the efficient working of our police system , alike in repression and in detection , is of paramount impoitance to the order and well-being of society , the peace and prosperity , and comfort of of us all alike . Nothing so much tends to detract from the progress of civilization ,
thetruiliberty of the subject , the conveniences of material affluence , and the simple tranquillity of domestic life , as a state of anarchy or lawlessness , a disposition to riot , outrage , or plunder , which things , as we well know , seriousl y affect the value of property , and weaken the
just prescription of ancient laws and good government . Some of us may remember parts of the country which , before the introduction of the rural police , for instance , were very uncomfortable places to live in , and where quiet people , and timid people , were positively at the
morcy of the " area sneak" by day , the crouching burglar by night , in which it was not always safe , for young women especially , to go out after dark , and where personal and general robberies were of daily occurrence . Some of us , we say ,
can recall in our memories to a similar state of things . Now all these happy amenities of ruffianism are things of the past , and we trust , under tbe auspices of a well organized urban and rural police , will never again occur . Why , as we write , we can even now recall an old familiar
spot where henroosts were regularly robbed the moment there was poultry enough to make the "job" worth anything , when ; at Michaelmas , the farmers' geese and
turkies invariably disappeared " en masse , where sheepstealing was not unfrequent , and where the plundered were consoled with such a specimen as this of the facetious poetry of thiefdom : —
" You are rich , and we are poor , When this is done , we'll come for more . " And ours are facts , not fictions—stern realities , which happened before our very eyes , not so many long years ago after all—not the creation
merely of a facile and ornate imagination . From Col . Henderson ' s report it is apparent , we think , that detection follows crime , as a general rule , in the majority of the current crimes of civilization , and that we may fairly assert that the metropolis is well protected , alike at the
Westend , as by the effective City police under Col . Fraser , from those offences which would gravely interfere with the happiness and social security of us all alike , and which jeopardize the preservation of property , or menace the public order , peace , and safety . But it seems to us that , notwithstanding this so far satisfactory state °
things , there is a defect in our existing sys . * - ' which requires amendment and alteration . We allude to what we may term the "" hig her detection of crime and criminality . " In our free country » and under our good old Constitution , we canno ' have , as in other countries , a secret police , an
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar.
COSMOPOLITAN MASONIC CALENDAR .
W . Masters and Secretaries are earnestl y requested to forward to the publisher , at the Offices , 198 , Fleet-street , E . G ., particulars of the place , days , and months of meeting of their respective lodges , chapters , and other Masonic bodies , for insertion in the issue of the Calendar for 18 77 .
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
COLONIAL and FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS are nformed that acknowledgments of remittances received are published in the lirst number of every month .
It is very necessary for our readers to advise ¦ is of all monev orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them .
NEW POSTAL RATES . Owing to a reduction in the Postal Rates , the publisher is now enabled to send the " Freemason " to the following parts abroad for One Year for Twelve Shillings ( payable in
advance ) : —Africa , Australia , Bombay , Canada , Cape of Good Hope , Ceylon , China , Constantinople , Demcrara , France , Germany , Gibraltar , Jamaica , Malta , Newfoundland , New South Wales , New Zealand , Suez , Trinidad , United States of America . & c .
To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The Freemason is a sixteen-page weekly newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , 10 / - P . O . O . ' s to be made payable at the chief office , London .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , & c , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
All Communications , Advertisements , & c , intended foi ir . ' -crtion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later man 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning . P . M . CRAFT AND MARK , AND A P . P . G . O . —Letter received , but unaccompanied with name of sender . This must be given before letter can appear .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d for announcements , not exceeding four lines , under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . Uf' . viiow . —On the nth inst ., at Paignton , Deion , the wife of V . Benbow , Esq ., of a son . CHATTERTON . —On the 7 th inst ., at Tcesdale Lodge , Brixtcn-hill , the wife of H . W . Chatterton , of a daughter . Cni . it . —On the 10 th inst ., at Arlington-street , Viscountess Cole , of a son . DAVIES . —On the nth inst ., at Little Blake Hall , Wanstead , the wife of II . D . Davies , of a son .
MARRIAGES . BOUIIKE—VANUF . I . EUII . —On the 7 th inst ., at CastleConnell Church , co . Limetick , John Ulick , son of R . Bourke , of Thornfields , D . L ., to Elizabeth Agnes , daughter of the late Col . J . Vandeleur ( 10 th Hussars ) . BURNETT—CURTEIS . —On the 6 th inst ., at the parish chuich of St . Nicholas . Sevcnoaks . Lindsav Robert
Burnett , Esq ., adjutant 95 th Regt ., to Agnes Henrietta , daughter of the late Rev . C . T . Curteis . CII . UITHEE—CRANE . —On the 7 th inst ., at St . John's Church , Hackney , Frederick Crabtree , son of J . H . Crabtree , to Alice Elizabeth , daughter cf Stephen Crane , all of Hackney . HotiAitn—WESTON . —On the 9 U 1 inst ., at St . Clement Danes , Bro . C . F . Hogard , to Elizabeth Weston .
DEATHS . A it ; EII . —On the Oth inst ., William Auger , of Burnham , Essex , aged 52 . IIAVWAHD . —On thc 4 U 1 inst ., at Bridge-road , Battersea , Wm . Hayward , aged 70 . Hoot ; . —On the ; th inst ., at West Cliff , Preston , James Hogg , Esq ., aged 64 .
JACKSON . —On the nth inst ., at WinJmill-road , Croydon , Elizabeth , wife of Mr . F . Jackson . Rinii-ins . —On the ist inst ., at Hastings , John Roberts , Esq ., M . A ., Fellow of Magdalen College , Cambridge . ROBEUISON . —On the 24 th of June , at her residence , Buiinlbo , Clarence Riv-ir , New South Wales , after a ¦ vei-k ' s illness , Jane , relict of the late William Robertson , aged 0 , *; years . Friends will please accept this intimation .
WALKER . —On the 7 th inst ., at Dorset-gardens , Brighton , Cipt . I . cven Walker , R . N ., aged 74 . WAUII . —On the 26 th ult ., at Malta , Elizabeth Annie , widow of the late Dr . A . V . Ward , aged 42 .
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The Freemason , SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 16 , 1876 .
The Last Quarterly Communication.
THE LAST QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION .
we quite rejoice to have to comment on so satisfactory a meeting of Grand Lodge , in the month of September . At that time , generally , its attendance is of the thinnest and the business merely routine . On the present occasion over 300 brethren assembled to consider and
discuss the important notices of motion on the agenda paper . We are glad to record that the appointment of an enlarged committee was carried , and that on the reasonable proposal of Bro . Curteis , and the wise suggestion of Bro . Mclntyrc , the Grand Registrar , the provincial brethren
were fully represented on the committee . We trust that we shall have a gooJ report from it and that a reasonable proposal may be made which will command the sympathies of all . ' Grand Lodge has decided to perpetuate its Royal Grand Master ' s safe return by some donation ,
some memorial , and therefore the object ought to be , to try and discover a solution of the whole question , which will be acceptable to all . The committee has a large mission and full powers , and we hope , that in the discharge of its imnortant dutv to the Craft , it will , as we feel
sure it will , ever keep before it , clearly and consistently , this one great end , the honour of our Grand Master , and the true interest of our Order . It is not a question , happily , into which our party spirit can enter , or on which antagonistic issues need be raised . We do not think that it would
be becoming in us to attempt to discuss , as one or two brethren unwisely did in Grand Lodge , what the committee is likely to report , and what should be , so to say , the line it ought to take . It would be neither in good taste nor Masonic form for us to do so , now that the
consideration of the subject matter is relegated to an independent committee to deal with and report upon . But we think we may say this ; that if any of the Masonic Institutions are to be the channels through which this testimony of the gratitude of Grand Lodge is to be manifested to the public
and the Craft , then all should , we venture to think , in some way or other , be put , so to say , on an equality . We make this remark in all deference , but we know that , thus expressing our humble opinion , we are also expressing the opinion ofa good many zealous members of the
Craft . And here we leave the matter to day , if not '' sub-judice , " " sub-committee , " with every good wish for wise counsels , and a judicious and happy proposal , when in due time that Committee makes its report to Grand Lodge . After the expressed opinion of Grand Lodge
it seems very difficult to suggest any other appropriation but a purely Masonic one of some kind or another . Grand'Lodge having so decided we bow to its authority , though we could have wished that a larger view had been taken of the matter altogether . One brother has written
to us as if there had been " unbrotherly feeling " displayed in the discussions which have arisen out of our worthy brother , the Past Grand Chaplain ' s original proposal . We are notaware of it , and it is impossible to suppose , that for a
brotherhood like ours , so independent and so educated , differences of opinion will not arise . It would be very bad for us all if they did not . But we arc "brethren , " and having manfully spoken our minds on any subject , if need be , we msut harmoniously " agree to differ . "
Prejudices Against Freemasons.
PREJUDICES AGAINST FREEMASONS .
We gave last week from the "Thanet Guardian " the account ofa curious episode at Margate , to which our attention was called at once by more than one correspondent . We confess we do not understand whv the Watch
Committee of the borough of Margate should make the profession of Freemasonry a disqualification for the office of the chief of the police in that good town . Perhaps some brother can throw some light on so extraordinary a proceeding , and we shall be glad if he will give our readers the
Prejudices Against Freemasons.
benefit of his remarks in the pages of the " Freemason . " In the meantime we will only say that such regulations of a municipal body are very absurd , and such prejudices very per . verse . Freemasons are among the most orderlv
loyal , well-principled of mortals , friends always to discipline and decorum , and habitual sup . porters of the law . What then , and who then is the cause of such a ridiculous objection > When and by whom was such an instruction to the Watch Committee criven , or is it the In .
nunous idea of that intelligent body of citizens ? We feel , that in the interests of many members of the police service who are Freemasons , we have a right to ask for an investigation into the matter , and for a reply to these questions . Such difficulties might be raised by an
Ultramontane Town Council , or by those who take a hostile view of Freemasonry and Freemasons , but we do not , we confess , understand them when they emanate from an ordinary English municipal body , and we shall hope to hear that there is some mistake in the matter .
The Detection Of Crime.
THE DETECTION OF CRIME .
The report of the Metropolitan Police , which we commented upon last week suggests several considerations to those who inhabit the metropolis , and are specially interested io the preservation and protection of their persons and property . Indeed , all are interested in the matter more or
less , as the efficient working of our police system , alike in repression and in detection , is of paramount impoitance to the order and well-being of society , the peace and prosperity , and comfort of of us all alike . Nothing so much tends to detract from the progress of civilization ,
thetruiliberty of the subject , the conveniences of material affluence , and the simple tranquillity of domestic life , as a state of anarchy or lawlessness , a disposition to riot , outrage , or plunder , which things , as we well know , seriousl y affect the value of property , and weaken the
just prescription of ancient laws and good government . Some of us may remember parts of the country which , before the introduction of the rural police , for instance , were very uncomfortable places to live in , and where quiet people , and timid people , were positively at the
morcy of the " area sneak" by day , the crouching burglar by night , in which it was not always safe , for young women especially , to go out after dark , and where personal and general robberies were of daily occurrence . Some of us , we say ,
can recall in our memories to a similar state of things . Now all these happy amenities of ruffianism are things of the past , and we trust , under tbe auspices of a well organized urban and rural police , will never again occur . Why , as we write , we can even now recall an old familiar
spot where henroosts were regularly robbed the moment there was poultry enough to make the "job" worth anything , when ; at Michaelmas , the farmers' geese and
turkies invariably disappeared " en masse , where sheepstealing was not unfrequent , and where the plundered were consoled with such a specimen as this of the facetious poetry of thiefdom : —
" You are rich , and we are poor , When this is done , we'll come for more . " And ours are facts , not fictions—stern realities , which happened before our very eyes , not so many long years ago after all—not the creation
merely of a facile and ornate imagination . From Col . Henderson ' s report it is apparent , we think , that detection follows crime , as a general rule , in the majority of the current crimes of civilization , and that we may fairly assert that the metropolis is well protected , alike at the
Westend , as by the effective City police under Col . Fraser , from those offences which would gravely interfere with the happiness and social security of us all alike , and which jeopardize the preservation of property , or menace the public order , peace , and safety . But it seems to us that , notwithstanding this so far satisfactory state °
things , there is a defect in our existing sys . * - ' which requires amendment and alteration . We allude to what we may term the "" hig her detection of crime and criminality . " In our free country » and under our good old Constitution , we canno ' have , as in other countries , a secret police , an