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London and North Western Railway . SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL MasonicGathering AT STRATFORDONAVON, Monday , April 23 , 1877 . On Monday , April 23 rd , CHEAP EXCURSION TICKETS TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON Will be issued by the Train leaving Euston Station at 10 . 10 a . m ., Broad Street 9 . 40 a . m ., and Kensington 9 . 44 a . m ., available to return the same evening by the train leaving Stratford-on-Avon at 7 . 0 p . m ., or by any ordinary train on the following day . For Fares and full particulars see Bills . G . FINLAY , Chief Traffic Manager ' s Office , Euston Station , April , 1877 .
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 siilicrrirAinn in \ r \ p . United . Kingdom . Post free . lolf > .
P . O . O . ' s to be made payable at the Chief Office , London . NEW POSTAL RATES . Owing to a reduction in the Postal Rates , the publisher is now enabled to send the " Freemason " to the following narts abroad for One Year for Thirteen Shillings ( payable in
advance ) : —Africa , Australia , Bombay , Canada , Cape of Good Hope , Ceylon , China , Constantinople , Demerara , France , Germany , Gibraltar , Jamaica , Malta , Newfoundland , New South Wales , New Zealand , Suez , Trinidad , United States of America , & c .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
The following stand over : — Letters from Bros . Henry C Tombs , P . S . G . W . Wilts ., and Richard Brant , Past G . Sec . German Correspondence . Reports of Lodges Joppa , 188 ; Ranelagh , 834 ; St . John of Wapping , 1306 ; Wandsworth , 1044 ; Era , 1423 ;
Windsor , 209 ; Chippenham , 626 ; Southsea , 106 9 ; Liverpool , 1055 ; Lancaster , 1051 ; Liverpool , 1094 ; Manchester , J 4 _ i ; 8 ; Twickenham , 150 , 5 ; Plumstead , 153 6 ; Hampton Vick , 16 5 6 ; Chapters , 1 S 5 , 237 ; Ipswich , Hose Croix Chapter .
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " The Masonic Eclectic , " " Sunday Sun " Philadelphia , " Keystone , " " Voice of Masonry , " " Masonic Advocate , " " Masonic Journal , " " New York Dispatch , " " Noah ' s Sunday Times , " New York .
Births ,Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . Gd . for announcements , not exceed ing four lines , under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . CAMPOIIHM-O . —On the 14 th inst ., at Hollywood-house , Brighton , the wife of Signor E . Campobello , of a daughter . HAIGH . —On the iCth inst ., at Winchester , the wife of the Rev . H . Haigh , of a son . LITTLE . —On the 7 th inst ., at Cliff-house , Dawlish , the wife of J . L . C . Little , ESQ ., of a daughter .
MARRIAGES . DUMBELL . —WOOD . —On the 17 th inst ., at St . Stephen ' s , Hampstead , Henry Charles , son of G . W . Dumbell , Esq ., of Belmont , Isle of Man , to Winifred Charlotte ,
daughter of C . L . H . Wood , Esq ., of Roslyn-house . MENNELL . —THOMPSON . —On the 16 th inst ., at the Church of the Servile Fathers , Fulham-road , Wilfrid , son of G . Mennell , Esq ., of Exeter , to Alice Christiana , daughter of T . J . Thompson . Esq .
DEATHS . BARTER . —On the 17 th inst , at 3 67 , Edgware-road , W ., Marry Ann ( Pollie ) , youngest daughter of Mr . Wm . Barter , in her 22 nd year . Friends will please accept this intimation . SCOTT . —On the 14 th inst ., Bro . Montagu Scott , aged 55 , of Gray ' s Ihn « square .
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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , APRIL 21 , 1877 .
The Movements Of Our Royal Grand Master.
THE MOVEMENTS OF OUR ROYAL GRAND MASTER .
H . R . H . the Prince of Wales arrived in Paris on Thursday week , attended by Lord Suffield and Mr . Knollys , and alighted at the Hotel Bristol , intending to remain a few days . The Prince made the most rapid journey on record between London and Paris . The time occupied
¦ was seven hours and three-quarters , including stoppages at Folkestone and Amiens , but exclusive of an hour and a half at Boulogne for supper and rest . The Prince exchanged visits in Paris with Marshal MacMahon , received Prince Orloff ,
and had a long interview with M . Krantz , the French Commissary-General of the coming Universal Exhibition . His Royal Highness has since gone on to Cannes . He left Paris at 7 . 15 on the evening of the 15 th for Nice . His Royal Highness is in good health .
Last Quarterly Court Of The Boys' School.
LAST QUARTERLY COURT OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
At the meeting on Monday a very wise " instruction " was carried unanimously to the General Committee , namely , to consider the propriety of convening a Special General Court for the purpose of fully and carefully dealing with the report of the House Committee , when ready ( be
it what eventually it may ) , with reference to increased accommodation at the Boys' School , as well as the Architect ' s report , and a statement of the proposed expenditure in detail . Such , we apprehend , is the proper way of proceeding , and one most likely to please
all parties . At the Special Court the various conflicting views and opinions can be patiently heard . Those who wish to increase the school at once can receive all attention , when they open out the stern necessities of the case . Those who wish to leave " well alone , " or the school
in " statu quo , " will also be respectfully listened to , while those who may wish for the present to run in , so to say , between the two schemes , on the old adage , " medio tutissimus ibis , " will also have an opportunity of clearly expressing their opinion . By this judicious
determination of the Quarterly Court , anything like hurry or incompleteness will be avoided , and we shall be able to approach the subject with that calmness of consideration and clearness of vision which the interests of the Institution and the feelings of the Craft generally
alike demand at our hands . The matter , as Bro . Dr . Ramsay well said , is a mostjjimportant one for the best interests of the school , and the sooner , after due notice , that the whole matter is brought " ship shape " before the subscribers in a Special Court , the better , we venture to think , it will be for all concerned .
The City Guilds.
THE CITY GUILDS .
Friendly as we are to all measures tending to social improvement and educational extension , we cannot sympathise , as Freemasons , in that attack on the " Guilds" which has been for some time carried on and culminated in a recent
discussion in the House of Commons , for we venture to conceive that this attempt to interfere with the management and expenditure of the Guilds of the City of London is alike archa ; ologically , and legally , and equitably , untenable . Archceologicall y it is quite clear , without any
possible controversy , that the Guilds of London , as elsewhere , are voluntary associations , supported by the contributions of the members , not in any way endowed by the Crown or the municipality—simply a sodality of citizens , for the purposes of trade , mutual assistance , craft handiwork , religious usages . If they were
incorporated b y royal charters , as Guilds in all times have been , even from Anglo-Saxon times , it was simply because otherwise they could not hold landed property , be sued or sue , or have a common seal . No doubt in the time of Richard II ., the Parliament ordered a return of all the Guilds to be made , and many hundreds of these
The City Guilds.
returns then made still may be found in the archives of the Record Office . The Guilds generally were , as it is known , suppressed in the reigns of Henry VIII ., 37 Henry VIII ., and also by 1 Edward VI ., c . 14 , the London Companies escaping as trading Guilds . When
then , it is said that the London Guilds own lands without the payment of any duties to the Government , it must be remembered that in the reign of James I ., all , we believe , of the City Guilds , as appears from the records in the State Paper Office , paid a
composition to the Crown for all lands which could in any way be supposed to have been left for what were termed " superstitious uses . " The simple fact as against the City Companies appears to be that they exist , and are rich , or as Mr . Pease ingeniously and ingenuously puts it
their property is three-fold " known , semiknown , and unknown , " therefore , according to the oriental logic ofthe day they must be " squeezed . " As the Solicitor General well contends for all sums left * for charitable purposes they are responsible to law ; for the money left by
private members of the Guild they are not bound to give account unless so ordered by an express Act of the Legislature . The Times plaoes the matter very truly and logically before us , when it says t " These institutions appeal directly to some of the
strongest influences and traditions of English life . They combine some of the characteristics of Clubs , Benefit Societies , Trade Societies , Charitable Associations , and municipal organizations . All these characters were claimed for them or imputed to them in the course of the debate , and with some degree of propriety . They
do not fall with exactness under any one of such descriptions , and thay differ widely among each other . But in the lapse of long centuries they have assumed one function after another , and they rest on a corresponding range of the most varied interests . Their property is held by some of the oldest tenures in the country , and long traditions at once determine and sanction the
manner it which it is employed . ' Most clear too , is the argument which follows : " The property of the Companies is really of two kinds . There is one class of it which has been bequeathed or bestowed for charitable purposes .
This constitutes , strictly speaking , their trust property , and it is to be borne in mind that in respect to its administration the Companies are already under the control and supervision of the law . Their fulfilment of such trusts can be tested at any time , and they can be compelled
to give an account of it . But another large portion of their funds was given , beyond question , for purposes entirely confined to the interests or even to the pleasures of the members . A sum , for instance , of £ 20 , 000 was left to one Company in order that the members might " make themselves
comfortable . " Of course it is open to any onejtobe of opinion that they might have been left for a more useful purpose : but , supposing it had been left to one individual for the same object , neither Parliament nor the law could interfere , and it is
hard to see how the case is altered by the fact of the money being left to a number of individuals . " We shall all agree with the following neat little bit of argument , ad hominem : "What could be more natural or more reasonable than that it should
become a kind of ambition for a man to leave to his Company the means of maintaining such friendly intercourse and of exhibiting the hospitality associated with it ? Money left for this purpose can no more be claimed as public property than the funds of the great Clubs in Pall-mall . Of
course , if a positively injurious use were made of it , the Legislature would have the same rig ht to interfere for the protection of the public as it has in respect to all other kinds of property-But the injury done must be a definite and unmistakable matter of fact , and not a mere op inion
that all the good is not done with the money that might be done . " As for the argument that the Companies spend too much on eating and drinking , and too little on public improvements , as one of their duties is " hospitality , " there can
be no question that they are quite rig ht in carrying out the Scriptural precept , and some of their incriminators may well remember the admonition of " not grudging " a legitimate and munificent hospitality . We quite agree with another remark :
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Ad00607
London and North Western Railway . SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL MasonicGathering AT STRATFORDONAVON, Monday , April 23 , 1877 . On Monday , April 23 rd , CHEAP EXCURSION TICKETS TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON Will be issued by the Train leaving Euston Station at 10 . 10 a . m ., Broad Street 9 . 40 a . m ., and Kensington 9 . 44 a . m ., available to return the same evening by the train leaving Stratford-on-Avon at 7 . 0 p . m ., or by any ordinary train on the following day . For Fares and full particulars see Bills . G . FINLAY , Chief Traffic Manager ' s Office , Euston Station , April , 1877 .
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 siilicrrirAinn in \ r \ p . United . Kingdom . Post free . lolf > .
P . O . O . ' s to be made payable at the Chief Office , London . NEW POSTAL RATES . Owing to a reduction in the Postal Rates , the publisher is now enabled to send the " Freemason " to the following narts abroad for One Year for Thirteen Shillings ( payable in
advance ) : —Africa , Australia , Bombay , Canada , Cape of Good Hope , Ceylon , China , Constantinople , Demerara , France , Germany , Gibraltar , Jamaica , Malta , Newfoundland , New South Wales , New Zealand , Suez , Trinidad , United States of America , & c .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
The following stand over : — Letters from Bros . Henry C Tombs , P . S . G . W . Wilts ., and Richard Brant , Past G . Sec . German Correspondence . Reports of Lodges Joppa , 188 ; Ranelagh , 834 ; St . John of Wapping , 1306 ; Wandsworth , 1044 ; Era , 1423 ;
Windsor , 209 ; Chippenham , 626 ; Southsea , 106 9 ; Liverpool , 1055 ; Lancaster , 1051 ; Liverpool , 1094 ; Manchester , J 4 _ i ; 8 ; Twickenham , 150 , 5 ; Plumstead , 153 6 ; Hampton Vick , 16 5 6 ; Chapters , 1 S 5 , 237 ; Ipswich , Hose Croix Chapter .
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " The Masonic Eclectic , " " Sunday Sun " Philadelphia , " Keystone , " " Voice of Masonry , " " Masonic Advocate , " " Masonic Journal , " " New York Dispatch , " " Noah ' s Sunday Times , " New York .
Births ,Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . Gd . for announcements , not exceed ing four lines , under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . CAMPOIIHM-O . —On the 14 th inst ., at Hollywood-house , Brighton , the wife of Signor E . Campobello , of a daughter . HAIGH . —On the iCth inst ., at Winchester , the wife of the Rev . H . Haigh , of a son . LITTLE . —On the 7 th inst ., at Cliff-house , Dawlish , the wife of J . L . C . Little , ESQ ., of a daughter .
MARRIAGES . DUMBELL . —WOOD . —On the 17 th inst ., at St . Stephen ' s , Hampstead , Henry Charles , son of G . W . Dumbell , Esq ., of Belmont , Isle of Man , to Winifred Charlotte ,
daughter of C . L . H . Wood , Esq ., of Roslyn-house . MENNELL . —THOMPSON . —On the 16 th inst ., at the Church of the Servile Fathers , Fulham-road , Wilfrid , son of G . Mennell , Esq ., of Exeter , to Alice Christiana , daughter of T . J . Thompson . Esq .
DEATHS . BARTER . —On the 17 th inst , at 3 67 , Edgware-road , W ., Marry Ann ( Pollie ) , youngest daughter of Mr . Wm . Barter , in her 22 nd year . Friends will please accept this intimation . SCOTT . —On the 14 th inst ., Bro . Montagu Scott , aged 55 , of Gray ' s Ihn « square .
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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , APRIL 21 , 1877 .
The Movements Of Our Royal Grand Master.
THE MOVEMENTS OF OUR ROYAL GRAND MASTER .
H . R . H . the Prince of Wales arrived in Paris on Thursday week , attended by Lord Suffield and Mr . Knollys , and alighted at the Hotel Bristol , intending to remain a few days . The Prince made the most rapid journey on record between London and Paris . The time occupied
¦ was seven hours and three-quarters , including stoppages at Folkestone and Amiens , but exclusive of an hour and a half at Boulogne for supper and rest . The Prince exchanged visits in Paris with Marshal MacMahon , received Prince Orloff ,
and had a long interview with M . Krantz , the French Commissary-General of the coming Universal Exhibition . His Royal Highness has since gone on to Cannes . He left Paris at 7 . 15 on the evening of the 15 th for Nice . His Royal Highness is in good health .
Last Quarterly Court Of The Boys' School.
LAST QUARTERLY COURT OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
At the meeting on Monday a very wise " instruction " was carried unanimously to the General Committee , namely , to consider the propriety of convening a Special General Court for the purpose of fully and carefully dealing with the report of the House Committee , when ready ( be
it what eventually it may ) , with reference to increased accommodation at the Boys' School , as well as the Architect ' s report , and a statement of the proposed expenditure in detail . Such , we apprehend , is the proper way of proceeding , and one most likely to please
all parties . At the Special Court the various conflicting views and opinions can be patiently heard . Those who wish to increase the school at once can receive all attention , when they open out the stern necessities of the case . Those who wish to leave " well alone , " or the school
in " statu quo , " will also be respectfully listened to , while those who may wish for the present to run in , so to say , between the two schemes , on the old adage , " medio tutissimus ibis , " will also have an opportunity of clearly expressing their opinion . By this judicious
determination of the Quarterly Court , anything like hurry or incompleteness will be avoided , and we shall be able to approach the subject with that calmness of consideration and clearness of vision which the interests of the Institution and the feelings of the Craft generally
alike demand at our hands . The matter , as Bro . Dr . Ramsay well said , is a mostjjimportant one for the best interests of the school , and the sooner , after due notice , that the whole matter is brought " ship shape " before the subscribers in a Special Court , the better , we venture to think , it will be for all concerned .
The City Guilds.
THE CITY GUILDS .
Friendly as we are to all measures tending to social improvement and educational extension , we cannot sympathise , as Freemasons , in that attack on the " Guilds" which has been for some time carried on and culminated in a recent
discussion in the House of Commons , for we venture to conceive that this attempt to interfere with the management and expenditure of the Guilds of the City of London is alike archa ; ologically , and legally , and equitably , untenable . Archceologicall y it is quite clear , without any
possible controversy , that the Guilds of London , as elsewhere , are voluntary associations , supported by the contributions of the members , not in any way endowed by the Crown or the municipality—simply a sodality of citizens , for the purposes of trade , mutual assistance , craft handiwork , religious usages . If they were
incorporated b y royal charters , as Guilds in all times have been , even from Anglo-Saxon times , it was simply because otherwise they could not hold landed property , be sued or sue , or have a common seal . No doubt in the time of Richard II ., the Parliament ordered a return of all the Guilds to be made , and many hundreds of these
The City Guilds.
returns then made still may be found in the archives of the Record Office . The Guilds generally were , as it is known , suppressed in the reigns of Henry VIII ., 37 Henry VIII ., and also by 1 Edward VI ., c . 14 , the London Companies escaping as trading Guilds . When
then , it is said that the London Guilds own lands without the payment of any duties to the Government , it must be remembered that in the reign of James I ., all , we believe , of the City Guilds , as appears from the records in the State Paper Office , paid a
composition to the Crown for all lands which could in any way be supposed to have been left for what were termed " superstitious uses . " The simple fact as against the City Companies appears to be that they exist , and are rich , or as Mr . Pease ingeniously and ingenuously puts it
their property is three-fold " known , semiknown , and unknown , " therefore , according to the oriental logic ofthe day they must be " squeezed . " As the Solicitor General well contends for all sums left * for charitable purposes they are responsible to law ; for the money left by
private members of the Guild they are not bound to give account unless so ordered by an express Act of the Legislature . The Times plaoes the matter very truly and logically before us , when it says t " These institutions appeal directly to some of the
strongest influences and traditions of English life . They combine some of the characteristics of Clubs , Benefit Societies , Trade Societies , Charitable Associations , and municipal organizations . All these characters were claimed for them or imputed to them in the course of the debate , and with some degree of propriety . They
do not fall with exactness under any one of such descriptions , and thay differ widely among each other . But in the lapse of long centuries they have assumed one function after another , and they rest on a corresponding range of the most varied interests . Their property is held by some of the oldest tenures in the country , and long traditions at once determine and sanction the
manner it which it is employed . ' Most clear too , is the argument which follows : " The property of the Companies is really of two kinds . There is one class of it which has been bequeathed or bestowed for charitable purposes .
This constitutes , strictly speaking , their trust property , and it is to be borne in mind that in respect to its administration the Companies are already under the control and supervision of the law . Their fulfilment of such trusts can be tested at any time , and they can be compelled
to give an account of it . But another large portion of their funds was given , beyond question , for purposes entirely confined to the interests or even to the pleasures of the members . A sum , for instance , of £ 20 , 000 was left to one Company in order that the members might " make themselves
comfortable . " Of course it is open to any onejtobe of opinion that they might have been left for a more useful purpose : but , supposing it had been left to one individual for the same object , neither Parliament nor the law could interfere , and it is
hard to see how the case is altered by the fact of the money being left to a number of individuals . " We shall all agree with the following neat little bit of argument , ad hominem : "What could be more natural or more reasonable than that it should
become a kind of ambition for a man to leave to his Company the means of maintaining such friendly intercourse and of exhibiting the hospitality associated with it ? Money left for this purpose can no more be claimed as public property than the funds of the great Clubs in Pall-mall . Of
course , if a positively injurious use were made of it , the Legislature would have the same rig ht to interfere for the protection of the public as it has in respect to all other kinds of property-But the injury done must be a definite and unmistakable matter of fact , and not a mere op inion
that all the good is not done with the money that might be done . " As for the argument that the Companies spend too much on eating and drinking , and too little on public improvements , as one of their duties is " hospitality , " there can
be no question that they are quite rig ht in carrying out the Scriptural precept , and some of their incriminators may well remember the admonition of " not grudging " a legitimate and munificent hospitality . We quite agree with another remark :