Installation Of The Provincial Grand Master Of Hampshire And The Isle Of Wight.

INSTALLATION OF THE PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER OF HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT .

There was a large and influential gathering of Freemasons at Southampton on Tuesday the 30 th nit ., on the occasion of the installation of the Right Worshipful Bro . W . "W . B . Beach , Esq ., M . F ., as Provincial Grand Master of Hampshire and the Isle of Wig ht . The Hartley Hall had been , by

permission of the Council of the institution , placed at the disposal of the brethren , of whom upwards of 250 attended to meet their Masonic Chief , including a large number of Past Prov . Grand Officers . The ceremony of installation was ably performed by the Right Worshipful Bro . the Earl of Carnarvon , Prov .

Grand Master ot Somersetshire ; Bro . the Rev . C . Pettat , officiating as P . G . Chaplain ; Bro . R . S . Hulbert as P . G . S . Warden ; Bro . W . H . Ford , as P . J . G . Warden ; aud Bro . S . D . Forbes , P . P . G . W ., Essex , as Director of Ceremonies , assisted by Bro . R . Holbrook , P . P . G . D . C , and Bro . Dr . Eagles , P . P . G . A . D . C .

At the conclusion , the P . G . M . appointed and invested his officers as follows : -Bros . C . E . Deacon ( 391 ) , Deputy Prov . G . M . ; W . Hickman ( 130 ) , P . G . S . Warden ; J . Douglas ( 487 ) , P . J . G . Warden ; Rev . C . Pettat ( 691 ) , P . G , Chaplain ; Dew ( 694 ) , P . G .-Reg . ; M . £ . Frost ( 487 ) , P . G . Treas ., (

reelected by the Prov . G . Lodge ); J . E . Le Feuvre ( 130 ) , P . G . Sec . ; C . S . Woollons ( 309 ) , P . G . S . Deacon ; Wilkinson ( 359 ) , P . G . J . Deacon ; Lemon ( 394 ) , P . G . Superintendent of Works ; E . S . Main ( 903 ) , P . G . Dir . of Ceremonies ; Bettesworth ( 804 ) , P . G . Asst . Dir . of Ceremonies ; Gaffe ( 35 ) , P . G . S . B . ; Bradbear ( 804 ) ,

P . G . Org . ; Bebbeck ( 1 . 95 ) , P . G . Pursuivant . Bros . Snelling ( 76 ) , Jones ( 130 ) , De Frame ( 257 ) , G . A . Green ( 309 ) , Harle ( 359 ) , and Hine ( 394 ) , P . G . Stewards ; Bros . Dawkius ( 394 ) , and Biggs ( 130 ) , P . G . Tylers . In the course of the Prov . Grand Lodge business

it was referred to the Committee of Benevolence to report on a better mode of ensuring a more efficient election of Hampshire candidates to the various Masonic charities than now exists , and a proposition by Bro . J . R . Stebbing , P . G . D . of England , expressive of opinion that no future Grand

Master of England should hold that office more than three successi ve years , was carried by a large maj ority . The financial and other routine business of the Province was subsequently transacted , and the lodge was closed about four o ' clock , after sitting nearly

four hours . During the ceremony of installation a special ode and a hymn for the occasion were sung by a choir composed of members of the Craft , who were under the skilful direction of Bro . F . G . Bradbear , P . M ., the Prov . Grand Orirauist .

A sumptuous banquet was subsequently served in first-rate style by Bro . Dartnall , of Southampton , at the Victoria Assembly Rooms , Portland-terrace , at which about 200 of the brethren attended . The Prov . Grand Master presided , and was supported by the Earl of Carnarvon , Prov . Grand Master of Somerset

Bros . Wyndham Portal , P . G . Warden of England ; C . E . Deacon , D . P . G . M . and P . O . Deacon of England ; J . R . Stebbing , P . G . Deacon of England ; John Hervey , Grand Sec . ; Patten , Sec . of the Masonic Girls' School ; S piers , D . P . G . M . of Oxfordshire ; Sir Nelson Rycroft , Bart ., & c .

In proposing the toast , " The Queen and the Craft , " the Prov . Grand Master expressed his gratification that the Prince of Wales had lately been admitted into the Fraternity , and hoped that his appreciation of what he learned on the threshold of Masonry would lead to his taking every means for

being admitted into the inner precincts . By the choir ' •God Save the Queen . " The Prov . Grand Master next gave "The Most Worship ful the Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland . " whose signal efforts in behalf of Masonry he eulogised , and the toast having been drunk , th inks were cordially

tendered to the Earl < d'Cai-narvoii | who had to leave by au early train , for the proficiei . cy he had shown and thekinduess he evinced in acting as installing master . The KAUL (>!• ' CARNARVON , who was received with great enthusiasm , made an admirable speech in reply , assuring the brethren that he at all times experienced

great pleasure as a Hampshire man in meeting Hampshire men , but this feeling was greatly enhanced when he found himself amongst Hampshire masons . It had been a real personal satisfaction to him to be allowed to take part in the proceedings of that day . Interesting at all times as such a ceremony was , it was doubly

interesting to him on this occasion , because the friendship existing between their Prov . G . M . and himself dated hack many , many years , and he hoped and believed had grown with each year . ( Applause ) . It was a friendship inaugurated , he might say , under the shadow of masonry , because it was under the

council and tutelage of his right worshipful tnend that he was induced , to his own ( satisfaction and c imfort and never ceasing gratification , to be enrolled in the ranks of masonry ( cheers ) . He rejoiced , therefore , if itwas in his power , in however feeble a degree , to return the obligation that the Provincial Grand Master had

Installation Of The Provincial Grand Master Of Hampshire And The Isle Of Wight.

imposed upon him in early life . ( Cheers . ) They would allow him , without ceremony , and without exaggeration , to congratulate them upon having as Prov . G . M ., a brother who would devote his time , energy , best thoughts , and attention to the duties of the office , without stint and without fear of trouble to

himself . More than this , he held there was no man in England more truly devoted to the interests of the craft , more familiar with its working , or more fitted in every way to be its exponent . ( Cheers . ) He thought also that he mig ht congratulate his right worshipful friend upon entering on the rule of a province second

to none in this country , whether as regards its prosperity , its wealth , the intelligence of its members , or the position which some of them took in Freemasonry . Without for one moment desiring to speak in disparagement of small provinces , he thought there were many advantages connected with large provinces like

this one , and he owned he should deeply regret if ever the province of Hants abandoned the advantages which he thought its present size gave it in the Craft , as he desired to see it not only worthily represented by its Grand Master , but also by the number and strength of its lodges , securing that weight and

importance , that credit and dignity , that was always due to a large and influential province , and he hoped that when his rig ht worshipful friend had to surrender the charge he had taken that day the prosperity of the craft would be still larger in the province than it now was . ( Cheers . ) The great and imposing

ceremony which had taken place that day ought not , he thought , lig htly to pass from their recollection . To his mind it had spoken various morals . In the first place , it pointed a distinct contradiction to those calumnies and misrepresentations which masonry sometimes experienced . Those who followed the course

of their proceedings , who carefully weighed all that was said and done , who took in the sense of the obligations , the promises , the professions , and the charges , musthave felt that Freemasonry in England at least can never be accused , as it has been accused and vilified sometimes abroad , as the friend of anarchy and

disorder —( hear , hear , )—but rather that it is the sure , the loyal friend of order , of good government , of social harmony—in a word , of everything that tends to raise , to improve , and even to ennoble man —( loud cheers )—that it is loyal to the great and sacred institutions of this country , and that it is intimately bound up with

those great foundations upon which all the peace and happiness , and tho prosperity of society depends . ( Hear , hear ) . In the next place , he thought it must have suggested itself to every brother ' s mind who attended to the proceedings to-day that the fundamental princip le was the admission of the worthiest to the

highest positions in the province . That was the principle they desired to recognise , and upon which he hoped they proceeded , and it was one which should be kept steadily in view , becauscin the administration of a large province , it was rig ht that none should be selected but those really competent and worthy to bear rule . And

in the administration and management of their individual lodges they should , he thought , diligently and carefully keep in mind that none should be admitted to the Craft unless they are likely in every sense of the word to become good Masons . ( Cheers ) . He cheerfully recognised the right of every lodge to admit those

who might be agrecahle companions , and who , from social habits and intercourse , were eligible as members of a society constituted in a great degree upon social considerations , but he also hoped that they would keep steadily before them the fact that there were certain qualities requisite in their opinion—certain

princi p les with which they would not dispense—when they admitted any to the fellowship and membership of a lodge . ( Hear , hear ) . They laboured under the difficulty that the principles of Freemasonry were in a great degree secret—they were not at liberty to publish them on the housetops , nor to make them the subject

of itinerant lecturing , but on the other hand they might , at least , refute the calumnies from time to time thrown out against them by showing that in their daily practice , in their constant , habitual life , they not only put forward a claim to certain great qualities and

principles , but were prepared to exercise them at any cost of personal trouble and at any sacrifice , no matter what that sacrifice might be —( cheers)—and that they would act not so much in the letter as the spirit of their laws . Those who thus endeavoured to make

Masonry a living reality would hare an easy conscience . They would feel that in their own sphere , be it humble or be it high , they had , at least , according to their light , done their best for the promotion of that great order to which they belonged , to the welfare of which thev were pledged , and , as he believed , the interests

of which they all had most dearly at heart . ( Loud cheers ) . "The Deputy Grand Master ( Earl do Grey and Itipou ) and Grand Officers" was afterwards proposed , and Bros . HERVEY , Grand Secretary , WYNOHAN PORTAL , Past G . W . of England , and J . R . STKIH-IXQ ,

Past G . D . of England , returned thanks . Ihe latter proposed the health of the 11 . W . Prov . Grand Master of'IIampshire , and took the opportunity of explaining , in reference to some annoyance which the Isle of Wight brethren felt at their province having been annexed to Hants , that so far from his having advocated the

Installation Of The Provincial Grand Master Of Hampshire And The Isle Of Wight.

union—as had been misrepresented concerning him in some of the public papers—he had never ceased to oppose it —( hear , hear)—and as to the Hampshire Masons having exerted themselves to the same end , he ventured to say they knew nothing about it , and had nothing to do with it , and that they only desired , with

himself , that nothing should disturb the kindly feeling which had ever existed between the Masons of Hampshire and the Isle of Wi ght . ( Cheers . ) The PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER , in acknowledgment of the toast , made reference to the same subject , and said that he himself pointed out to the Grand

Master certain objections which suggested themselves to him in reference to the amalgamation of the two provinces , but the Grand Master having over-ruled them , he considered he should have been guilty of a great dereliction of duty had he not at once given way . ( Hear , hear . ) He was anxious to give the Island

brethren every facility for exercising ; the privileges of Freemasonry within the Isle of Wight—( hear)—and if the end would be attained by holding an additional Grand Lodge yearly or by a half-yearly meeting , he should be found heartily co -operating and doing all that he could to give the Island brethren every

possible facility , hrom what he had seen to-day he was not sure that the interests of so important a province were efficiently served by meeting only once a year . ( Hear ) . If it met with the concurrence of brethren it would be his duty to ask them to meet oftener ( hear , hear , )—and as he knew it would be inconvenient

to many to come long distances , he should ask advice upon the subject . The ri g ht worshipful brother proceeded to dilate at some length upon the many excellent qualities of Freemasonry , aud resumed his seat amid loud applause .

" Ihe Deputy Provincial Grand Master" ( Br . Deacon ) was subsequently given and acknowledged , and the " Wardens and Officers of P . G . Lodge , " coupled with the name of Bro . W . Hickman , as P . G . Senior Warden , was similarly honoured , and responded to by Bro . Hickman .

Masonic Female Orphan School, Dublin.

MASONIC FEMALE ORPHAN SCHOOL , DUBLIN .

A general meeting of the Board of Governors of this Institution was held at the School House on Tuesday , the 7 th inst ., when there was a numerous attendance of those entitled to be present . The chair was taken by the Deputy Grand Master , in his capacity of Senior Vice President . The ordinary business having been disposed of the

reports from the several committees were submitted , and it was most gratifying to learn that the finances of the Institution were in such a prosperous condition . The receipts for the month were < £ 2 ( i 0 7 s . 2 d ., including £ 30 from Lodge 59 , Belfast , and £ ' 30 irom Lodge 93 . William E . Uuiubletou , V . P ., handed in a donation of four shares ( £ ' 20 ) in the Masonic Hall Company ,

which with his previous donations , amounted to £ 70 . The thanks of the Board were votid to Brother Guinblcton . The Scrutineers of the ballot for the election of three pupils then presented their report , from which it appeared that of tho brethren entitled to vole 132 Life Governors , 581 Annual Governors , and 280 Official

Governors , had exercised the privilege . The total number of votes recorded was o , oGli , as follows : — Christina Allen 5 U 0 Jane S . Andrews 103 Anna Matilda Copeland 252 Louisa Ellis ... 23 Louisa M'Mullen 332

Margaret Maxwell ... ... . 42 s Mary K . St . P . Orr 918 Helen Mary Perry ... 159 Catherine Savers ... ... ... 535 Mary Orr , daughter of the late Samuel Orr , M D ., of Iiinishannon , county Cork , Christina Allen , daughter of

the late Richard Allen , Assistant Engineer , Harbour Office , Belfast , and Catherine Sayers , daughter of the late Michael Sayers , cabinet maker , Dublin , were then declared duly elected as pupils of the school . The several Honorary Officers and Committees of the School were re-elected for 1870 .

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