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CONTENTS .

REPORTS or MASONIC MEETINGS : — Craft Masonry ¦* •! Instruction 2 ° Royal Arch = S Royal Masonic Institution for Gills 2 9 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 2 9 Masonic Ball in Liverpool 3 ° Public Amusements 3 °

The late King of Italy 3 ° Frccmasonryin Ireland 3 ° Obituary 31 The Order of High Priesthood 3 i Royal Masonic Institution for Boys—Old Scholars' Reunion ... 31 Notes on Art , & c 3 1 The Last Quarterly Conrt of the Girls' School 3 ' Charitable Administration 32

One of the Greatest Hindrances to Masonic Literature 33 Time ' s Revolution „ 33 CORRESPONDENCE : — lobbery in our Masonic and Charitable Institutions 33 The Order of St . lohn 34 The Grand Orient of France 34 Temple Bar Lodge 35 The Girls'School 35 Roslin Castle 35

The Masonic Schools 35 Consecration of the Cholmeley Lotlge 35 Reviews 35 Masonic and General Tidings . ' . 3 & Centenary of the Mount Lebanon Lodge 36 Masonic Ball at Blackburn and Presentation to Bro . Le Gendre N . Starkie 3 * Presentation to Bro . E . J . Morris 40 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 40 Advertisements i . ii . iii . iv . v . vi . vii . viii .

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ECLECTIC LODGE . ( No . 1201 ) . —This lodge , ¦ which , since thc establishment of its new regime of hospitality , has commenced a brighter career , inaugurated the second year of its new life on Friday , 1 ith inst ., by the installation of its new Worshipful Master , Bro . A . E . Taylor . There was a large gathering of members and friends , the visitors including Bros . Thomas Fenn , Past

Grand Deacon of England ; G . Kelly King , P . G . S ., P . M . of the Alexandra Palace and other lodges , Yardey , 201 ; G . G . Barber , 441 ; Knight Smith , 1441 ; J . Mason , A . G . D . C . Middlesex , P . M . 1567 ; Blaik ? , James Stevens , Charles Taylor , of The Great City Lotlge ; Woodcock , 12061 Hamilton , of the St . James ' s Union ; J . Cowan , W . M . of the Carnarvon Lodge , Johnson ( of No . 1 -j j , who hid

passed thc chair in thc Eclectic ) ; J . While , P . M . of Ihe Unite 1 Strength ( Freemason ); F . G . Pochin , G . S . Leicester and Rutland ; Aldworth , Golden Rule ; P . Robinson , 201 ; E . A . W . Taylor , ,-502 ; W . J . Taylor , 271 ; Dr . Payne , 12 O 1 ; C . Walker , 862 ; J . J . Wade , C . Pullman S . T . Williams , C . Walker , antl others . The retiring W . M ., Bro . Harty , opened the lotlge , antl finished his ycat ' s work

by passing brothers whom he had initiated , antl then proceeded with thc installation ceremony , giving the charge to the brethren on the solemnity of the occasion , and calling upon the W . M . elect to assent to the responsibilities undertaken by all candidates for thc Master ' s chair . The Board of Installed Masters having been formed in due and customary form the new Master was invested ,

entrusted , and placed in the highest position to which the members of a lodge can raise any brother member . The usual greetings having been given the W . M . appointed his officers , and invested those whom he had re-elected as well as those elected by the lotlge , the whole being as follows : —Bros . Saul , S . W . ; Lee , J . W . ; Mander , P . M ., a ? Treasurer ; W . H . Barber , Secretary ; Moss , S . D . ; Pochin ,

J . D . ; Dr . Lloyd , I . G . ; Watts , P . M ., as D . C . ; Davis , "W . S . ( and the W . M . in investing this brother raised a laugh by telling the officer that the lotlge looked to see efficiency combined with economy ) , and Bro . Pace made his debut "in collar" by being investetl as A . W . S . Bro . P . M . Mander assisted Bro . Harty in thc installa'ion work , by giving the address to the W . M ., and after Bro .

Harty hatl delivered the charge to the Wardens , Bro . Mander took up the thread of the ceremony by the last charge , " oltl style , " therein conducting the listeners over the " bleak mountains" with very pleasant elocution . The W . M . then decoratetl the I . P . M ., Bro . Harty , with the Past Master ' s jewel voted by the lodge , and referring to the change made by thc majority of the lotlge , a year ago ,

from a non-banqueting to a banqueting lodge , saitl the lodge during the preceding year had passed through a crisis , and hatl come out of it most satisfactorily , antl the fact that it had come out of it thus satisfactorily was mainly due to the immense energy of Bro . Harty . ( Cheers . ) Bro . Harty , before election to thc chair , passed through the other offices of the lodge , working in allof them with

skill antl assiduity , and he had disch ? rged the tluties of W . M . —always a difficult ant' responsible post , but of increased difficulty last year in the Eclectic—in a manner which hatl won the entire approbation of all who had seen the working of the lodge . ( Cheers . ) That day the I . P . M . had cappctl his work by discharging the tluties of Installing Master , and the jewel which the lodge hatl bestowed coultl

be accepted with honour , antl worn as having been worthily earnetl . ( Applause . ) Bro . Harty , in responding , said he could not allow that moment to pass away without thanking his friend and brother , whom he had had the pleasure of installing that night , for the words just heard , and the lotlge for that which in his eyes was a jewel of inestimable value . To be the W . M . of his mother lodge was to a Mason a crowning point to his Masonic

career , and it was a matter of delight to himself that he had passetl through this honourable distinction , to the honourable position of a P . M . of the lodge . ( Cheers . ) When he entered the Eclectic all was dark and dreary with regard to hospitality , and there was no happy meeting , no friendly introduction of thc newly made brother to his brother Masons after the ceremony . He felt this lack of union , for he never saw the Worshipful Master who initiated him after

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thc ceremony , but he knocked against Bro . Mander on that eventful evening of his initiation , and asked that brother to come with him and drink " success to Freemasonry . " It was after coming to know what Freemasonry was in other lodges and in other respects , that he resolved to endeavour to work a change in the constitution of the lodge by which the brothers of the Eclectic could receive and give

hospitality , and they coultl not exchange such friendly visits under the old system of the Eclectic , f or no brother would care about accepting hospitality if he could not offer it in return . ( Cheers . ) The lotlge had now tried the change for a year , and he hoped they liked it . ( Cheers . ) He was bound to say the members seemed to enjoy the new regime , antl under it thc lodge would flourish . ( Cheers . ) Letters

were read by thc Secretary from the Grantl Secretary and Assistant Grand Secretary expressing regret at inability to be present . Bro . Mander drew the attention of the lotlge to the fact that Bro . Harty hatl undertaken the office of Stewird for the forthcoming festival of thc Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , on behalf of the " Old People , " and moved that the lodge vote £ 10 to be placed

on Bro . Harty ' s list . Bro . Bostobel sccondetl the motion , which was carried unanimously . The lodge was then closed , antl the [ brethren disappeared from the Temple of Masonry to re-appear in thc Temple of Restauration , the Holborn Restaurant , where a feast which woultl have astonished the Masons of a generation or two back wis served for the delectation of those who love dinners " A Ia

Russe . " The W . M ., after the dinner , gave the usual loyal toasts , with an expression of the combined loyal sentiments towards the Queen and the Craft and the head of our Order which arc ever heard in Masonic circles . The W . M . then proposed "The Grand Officers , Past and Present , " and congratulated the Eclectic Lodge upon the fact that there vvas present a distinguished Past Grand

Officer , who was , moreover , a member of the lodge , and who wculd , no doubt , respond to the toast—Bro . Thomas Fenn , Past Grand Deacon . ( Cheers . ) Bro . Thomas Fenn , who was received with warm cheers , said he had to thank the lodge for connecting his name with the least of "The Grantl Officers , " for hc regarded it as a vcry great honour to a Past Grand Officer to have his name coupled

in a toast with noblemen so distinguished as the Earl of Carnarvon and Lord Skelmersdale . ( Cheers . ) Every brother who attended Grand Lotlge on a recent occasion , and heard Lord Carnarvon speak upon a very weighty subject , could not but have felt that His Royal Highness the Most Worshipful Grand Master could not have fountl a more fitting representative of himself than the Earl of

Carnarvon . ( Cheers . ) Notwithstanding the noble Earl ' s connection with state affairs , antl thc great demands upon his time through his holding a most important position in the Government of the vast British Empire , his lordship never faile 1 to conic to Grand Lodge when any important question affecting the Craft was to be discussed , antl the manner'in which the Pro Grantl Master

brought such questions before Grantl Lodge was such , that by his eloquence , his tact , antl Masonic good feeling he carrietl Grand Lotlge with him on all points . ( Cheers . ) It was deeply to be regretled that Lord Skelmersdale was not so frequently in Grantl Lodge as the brethren would like , and those who knew his lordship were sure that he would be a great favourite—but his lordship's absence was

to be accountetl for by the fact that his health did not admit of his taking so great a part in Grand Lotlge affairs as the brethren desired , antl this all brethren would regret . ( Hear , hear . ) With respect to thc other Grantl Officers , the manner in which the toast had been received testified to the respect the Craft generally bore to those selected by His Royal Highness for office , antl on behalf

of his brother Grand Officers ami himself , Bro . Fenn returned warm thanks . He proceeded to atltl that on the last occasion when he had the honour to respond to the toast in the Eclectic Lotlge ( on the last installation night ) , he ventured , with some harmless pleasantries , to allude to his first visit to the lodge , when he performed the duty of consecrating it . Bro . Harty , had that night described

his own feelings of isolation upon initiation , and Bro . Harty ' s experience of the first introduction to the Eclectic Lodge was more genial than his ( Bro . Fenn's ) , for while Bro . Harty did find a friend and brother to go and drink " Success to Freemasonry " with him , he himself , on his first night with the Eclectic , got no more than a glass of cold water . ( A laugh . ) Last year he did contrast that

hydropathic reception —( a laugh)—with the gathering at the changed constitution of the lodge , and congratulated the members of the Eclectic Lodge upon the change ; but in doing so he hatl not the slightest idea that he was wounding the susceptibilities of a kind and good brother , one who however much one might differ with him upon points , must be declared to act conscientiously up to his

idea of Freemasonry . ( Hear , hear . ) At the . time that he ( Brother Fenn ) spoke last year , he was ignorant of any difference having arisen in consequence of the change having been made by the majority of the members , and hc hatl then really expected to see present the kind and good brother to whom hc referred , and to hear from him the confession of a mistake in the original

constitution of thc lodge . ( A laugh . ) Bro . Fenn thus felt constrainetl to make some sort of apology for saying anything , however unintentional , calculated to wound any one ' s feelings . Still , however , " may difference of opinion never alter friendship , " antl Bro . Fenn still held his own opinion that labour and refreshment shoultl never be sundered . ( Cheers . ) If the social aspect of Freemasonry were cut out from Freemasonry there would be a

body without a soul . ( Cheers . ) Especially would this be the case in London , where an ordinary inhabitant in a " road , " a " crescent , " a " terrace , " and a " park , " might live for twenty years without knowing his opposite neighbour , and , therefore , social gatherings were necessary to assist men in forming those friendships which Freemasonry was so famous for forming and cementing . ( Cheers . ) In the country , where people know each other , the social

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element was kept with a glass of whisky and water , and a pipe . ( Hear . ) Hc ventured to say , however , that we somewhat overdo banqueting in London . ( Hear . ) In former timrs Misonie banquet c insisted of fish and a joint , and a tankard of ale—and he was not sure that it would not be better for us to follow our forefathers' example to som ; extent . ( Hear . ) In these times of high

pressure we could go in for French dishes and champagne—he was not finding fault with the Eclectic for doing so , as he had that evening much enjoyed himself , ( a laugh ) , but looking over the minutes of the Prince of Wales ' s Lodge he found it solemnly laid doivn that members were only t <* . have wine when a prince of royal blood dined with

thc lotlge , and this showed that moderation and economy were practised in former times . ( Hear . ) But it did n > , t matter whether members of lodges bad win ** , or whether they had ale—it would be weil for the Craft if from time to time the brothers dined together . ( Cneers . ) Without thc institution of dining , a proper sociil element would be lost to the Craft , antl the high moral principles thereby

inculcated woultl be lost , and Masonic charity as well . ( Hear . ) By " Masonic charity , " he ditl not mean that which was dinned into Masonic ears on all Decisions , as to the duty to put our hands into our pockets to support the Masonic Charities . To do this was all very well , yet this was only the outcome of our teaching ; but to tlo that was not alone

Masonic charity . ( Cheers . ) We were taught not only to relieve the distressed , and to extend the liberal hand to those in want , but to render kind offices to each other ; to soothe the unhappy , and to sympathise in their misfortunes ; to restore peace to troubled minis ; to forgive the injuries of men to endeavour to blot wrongs and the sense of wrongs from the recollection , and to foster those

principles of universal friendship and benevolence which the colour of blue teaches us should be as expensive as the blue vault of heaven itself . ( Loud cheers . ) He concluded by thanking them most cordially for the manner in which they had received the toast of the Grand Officers , and in return trusted that the lodge might flourish . Brother Harty , in an eloquent speech , then toasted the W . M ., whose day of

installation was also his natal day . Bro . James Stevens chanted " Many happy returns cf the day , " amid thc plaudits of thc brethren . The W . M . responded in a speech which was alike a credit to his heart and head , and then proceeded to give " The Health of the Visitors , " and having read the long Ii t , was greatly cheered when he stated that his own father and uncle were present on that , to him

great occasion . Response was made to the toast b y Bro . J . Stevens , Bro . Cowan , Bro , Woodcock , Bro . Taylor , and several ether brethren ; and then the W . M . proposed the toast of the Past Masters , antl dwelt upon the high honour the lodge felt in having as its W . M . an artist of the

celebrity of Bro . Harty , whose name was so closely associated with the Craft as the artist of the picture of the Prince of Wales ' s installation at the Albert Hall . Bro . Harty responded in a speech worthy of the occasion and of the traditional eloquence of the Sister Isle . It was late before the proceedings were entirely over .

EARL OF CARNARVON LODGE ( No . 1642 ) . —Thc brethren of this \ otire held their regular meeting on Thursday , the 10 th January , at the Ladbroke Hall , Notting-hill . Bro . Penn , W . M ., presided for the first time . Bros . Parkhouse , S . W . ; Smout , sen ., as J . W . j Savage , P . M . as S . D . ; Lander , J . D . j Oldery , Organist ; and Smout , jun ., D . C . Amongst the brethren present we

also noticed Bros . Lichtwitz , Whittaker , Collet , Newland , F . ye , Wootl , Barte , and other . After reading and confirming the minutes of the last meeting , Bro . Oldery passed the Second Degree , and Bro . King was duly raised to the Third Degree , and here we must observe that the ceremony peiformed by the W . M ., might be a pattern to many old Masons , and it was generally acknowledged

amongst the brethren , that they never heard it done with more perfection , the dignified appearance of the W . M ., naturally adtls of course to the solemnity of the ceremony . Messrs . C . Rowland , Dewynter , John Roberts , and James Whittaker , were then admitted to the Order . Before closing the lodge it was proposed and carried to hold another ball on thc 2 2 nd of February , atthe Ladbroke Hall , similar

to that of last year , for the benef t of the Masonic Institution for Girls , which Bro . Stephens , P . M . represents at the next festival , antl as may be justly anticipated , his list will be nearly equal to that of Bro . Murlis , P . M ., last year , which amounted to over ^ 200 . After closing the lodge , the brethren adjourned to the banquet , provided admirably by Bro . Linscott , the usual loyal and Masonic

toasts being proposed . The Earl of Carnarvon is always in this lodge a special toast as a mark of gratitude , not only for giving permission to name the lodge after him , but also to use his coat-of-arms . " The Visitors" were then honoured ; there were present Bros . Dyer , 790 ; Harvey , 1196 ; Hendover , Morgan , Little , Game , P . M . 511 ; Adkins , T . Sivage , P . M . ; and Spiegel , 188 , and itwas

responded to by each separately . The P . M . ' s toast was respontled to in the usual humorous style by Bro . Murlis , P . M . " The Initiate" also responded to the toast proposed ; then followed " The Officers , " here especially , the VV . M . was pleased to see Bro . Parkhouse , the S . W ., in his place who , through his own illness and illness in his

family , was for some time prevented from being amongst them . The S . W ., on rising to respond , ( who seems to be a great favourite amongst the brethren ) , was greeted with great applause , and was so overcome with emotion , that he could hardly express more than a few words . The other officers then

responded in suitable terms . The next toast was " The Masonic Charities ,. " to which Bro . Stevens , P . M ., as Steward for the next festival , responded , thanking the brethren for the liberal manner in which the lodge had treated him , by heading his list with ten guineas , and the support he had from the brethren in adding to it already more than 100 guineas , led him to expect that his list