Consecration Of The Goodacre Lodge, No. 2495, At Bootle.

The usual loyal toasts were given from the chair , and received with enthusiasm and musical honours . The WoRsini'i-vr , M \ STER then gave in suitable terms "The M . W . the Pro Grand Master , Lord Lathom , " which was also very heartily received . His LORDSHIP having replied , Bro . I . PLVTTS submitted "The Grand

Officers , Present and Past , " which was acknowledged by Bro . FORRESTER . Bro . W . T AYLOR proposed " The Provincial Grand Officers , Present and Past , " to which Bro . J . NEW - responded ; and the PROV . GRAND SECRETARY proposed " Thc W . M ., " to which Bro . FLETCHER felicitously replied . The other toasts included " The Visitors , " submitted by Bro . G . C . A .

MOIR and acknowledged by Bro . WILLINGS , and "The Officers of the Lodge , " proposed by Bro . CHRISTIE and responded to by Bro . RAWLINSON . A programme of music was rendered during the evening , to which the following contributed—Bros . R . Rawlinson , R . Wilson , F . H . Seddon , and E . Edwards , the proceedings being brought to a close by the brethren joining in singinsj " Should auld acquaintance be forgot . "

The following gifts have been made to the lodge : Mrs . A . E . Smith , Master ' s chair ; Mrs . W . Taylor , Senior Warden ' s chair ; Mrs . Gilbert Leigh , Junior Warden ' s chair ; Mrs . G . C A . Moir , Wardens' columns ; Mrs . D . W . Molyncux , ballot box and Charity box ; Mrs . John Fletcher

Bible , cushions , kc . ; Mrs . W . Macvie , "Emblems of Mortality ; " Mrs . John Blundell , tripod and stand ; Mrs . Isaac Platts , box of tools ; Mrs . A . Cross , set of gavels ; and Bros . McHugh , Pearson , and Walter Musker presented the three tracing boards . The lodge was furnished throughout by Bro , George Kenning .

The Province Of Guernsey And Alderney.

THE PROVINCE OF GUERNSEY AND ALDERNEY .

We briefly announced in our last issue that H . R . H . the Prince of Wales had been pleased to constitute the Islands of Guernsey and Alderney into a Province for Masonic purposes , and that Brigade-Surgeon Dr . Balfour Cockburn had been appointed Grand Master . We are now enabled to

g ive our readers some particulars of the Masonic career of the newlyappointed Prov . Grand Master , and to offer to him our congratulation s on his accession to so dignified and honourable a position , and to the Province on having such an able and truly Masonic brother to rule over them .

Bro . Balfour Cockburn was initiated in St . Stephen ' s Lodge , Edinburgh , in 1851 , affiliated to and one of the earliest members of the Pentangle Lodge , Chatham . Proceeding to Gibraltar after several years service there he left the Rock as P . M . , and P . P . Z . 27 8 , and Past District Senior Grand Warden , also in thc Mark as P . M . of 43 , and Past Senior Grand Deacon of England

and Wales , also LP . of the Calpe Preceptory , and P . M . W . S . of the Europa Chapter of Rose Croix , and for distinguished service in assisting to restore this latter chapter to good working order he was promoted to the 30 , and some time after to ( he 31 ° in the Ancient and Accepted Rite . Being ordered to India , Bro . Balfour Cockburn did good Masonic work at Bangalore ,

becoming a Past Master and a P . P . Z . of the Bangalore Lodge and Chapter , No . 1043 , and whilst stationed on ihe West Coast resuscitated the Western Star Lodge , No . 1 449 , at Cannasson , and was a P . P . of the Mysore Excelsior Preceptory- In Guernsey he is a P . M . of Doyle s Lodge , and a member of Mariners , the oldest lodge in the island . He founded thc Samian Lodge ,

No . 425 , of Mark Masters in Guernsey , and was the first to work the Degree in the island . A lodge of Ark Mariners , which bears his name , was also founded by him in Gibraltar . Bro . Cockburn is a member of the 32 , and holds the office of Intcndant General for Guernsey in the Order of the Red

Cross of Rome and Constan'inc . He has been summoned as an Officer of Great Priory , and it is an open secret that he is shortly to hold a further office of great importance and trust in Grand Mark Lodge . Bro . Cockburn is a Life Governor of all the Institutions and has served many Stewardships , he also holds high cilice in the Allied Degrees and the Cryptic Rite .

The Lion And Lamb Lodge And Chapter, No. 192.

THE LION AND LAMB LODGE AND CHAPTER , No . 192 .

BY BRO . K . F . GOULD . 1 Can tinned from page i " , S- ) In Chapter VIIL , which is devoted to the Royal Arch , Bro . Hughan tells us— "The ' Ancients' w ..-re not thc first to work the Degree , for the ceremony was known in England , Scotland , and Ireland , and possibly in North America , piior < o the constitution of that Body . They , however ,

recognised and wire very partial to what was then kno-. vn to them as the ' Fouvv ' n Dcgn-C , ' 1 .. - ' ilc ' . y Rov-il Arch , ' : u \ d permitted all their lodges by virtim of the warrants !" . v : leU by their authority to hold chapters according to tin : ' l . a . vs aivl Ro ^ u ' r'ti -ns for the Instruction and Government' thereof . Con tquei . tly , the I . ijii and Lamb Lodge , from its origin in 1789 to the

end ol i . S / . v was e iipoweicd t . > duly confer the Degree on any qualified member . " 'The two rival Grand Chapters followed the example of the two Grand Lo . ' ges with which they wri : respectively connected , and peacefully united on August iSth , ( S 17 . But the practice then established under which the Royal Arch was to be' v-. jrkccl ! n the future , may be characteri . ' . ed as an

entirely new deparUt . -.. - i 1 Kvgli- ' a Ma ^ unry . Before : the fusion of ! a \ : two Grand Lodges ( 1 S 13 ) , tl . e brethren under the older of there booi .. ' ; were : dmiued to the "Arch" in chapters , which were really though no ! ostensibly in stric alliance with the lodges . Under the younger Grand I . oij ; . ; .:, however ( " Ancients " ) , the usage was dissimilar . Thc Royal Arch was confcrrcil in the lodges , and thc Degree was referred to in all brain lies of the jurisdiction with honour and respect .

The Lion And Lamb Lodge And Chapter, No. 192.

But after August iSth , 1817 , it was decided that the system of working the " Arch " in private lodges should be discontinued , and at the same time the mode of conferring it in chapters was brought nearer to the rival ( and more ancient ) practice , by a regulation being enacted , that every chapter should be attached to a lodge , and bear its number . For further particulars relating to the Rise , Progress , and Vicissitudes of the Royal Arch Degree ,

the interested reader must necessarily be referred to the works of those writers who have made a special study of- the history of this most interesting adjunct to Freemasonry ; Hughan ' s Origin of the English Rite , and Intro - ctory Sketch prefixed to the latest reprint of Dassigny ' s Serious Enquiry may be here cited as together presenting a " bird ' s-eye view " of a very large and complicated subject .

In 1 S 17 , the Lion and Lamb Chapter might have sprang into existence , but it did not , ror was it until 1871 that a warrant was obtained from Grand Chapter . On thc 10 th of January , 1 S 72 , Chapter No . 192 was consecrated by Comp . Henry Muggeridge , with Comp . George Kenning ( the originator and a founder ) as the first M . E . Z . The members are now 25 in number , and the success of the Lion and Lamb Chapter may be said to closel y approximate to that of the lodge .

In a final chapter ( IX . ) the illustrations- —31 in number—are pleasantly described by Bro . Hughan . Among these are portraits of Bros . Peter Thomson , Henry Muggeridge , and George Kenning—the last in Mark clothing , as showing the highest Masonic rank he has attained . The historian of the lodge—Bro . Hughan—also tells us that Bro . Kenning was " advanced '' iniS 64 ; became a K . T . and Rose Croix , 1869 ; 30 ° , 1872 ; Red Cross , 1867 ; and a member of the Royal Order of Scotland , 1 S 72 .

Finally , there is an appendix of 34 pages , containing a set of by-laws as recommended by the " Ancients " ( 1789 ) , lists of W . M . ' s , places of meeting , presentations , & c , & c . One marked characteristic of No . 192 , viz ., its devotion to the cause of

Charity , I have omitted to notice in the proper place . The Lion and Lamb is a Vice-President of the three Institutions , and has over 70 votes in perpetuity for these truly Masonic establishments . Including those of Bros . Muggeridge ( 155 ) and Kenning ( 296 ) , more than 600 votes are possessed b y the lodge and its memberst

Bro . Kenning is very heartily to be congratulated on the success which has crowned his efforts to provide the " Lion and Lamb " with an adequate memorial of its long and honoured career . In his preliminary address , he tells the brethren of No . 192 : " In the first place , I wished to bring the present members , as it were , face to face with those brethren who had worked , and carried on the lodge for the past century . Secondly , I was

anxious that all the statements made should be accurate , and capable of being verified . For this purpose I consulted and obtained the valuable assistance of Bro . W . J . Hughan , P . G . D ., the first Masonic historian of the day . Thirdly , I wished to perpetuate the memory and the services rendered by good and worthy members of our Great Order who had taken part in the working of the lodge . "

These objects have been fully attained , and in his latest "Lodge History " Bro . Hughan has indeed amply rendered the " valuable assistance " that was so confidently expected from him—an expression , by the way , which I am anxious should be deprived of any ambiguity of meaning , arising from a want of clearness in the opening words of this article , wherein I may

possibly be held to imply that our Bro . Hughan " assisted " in the preparation of the historical sketch , whereas what I meant to convey was , that by enacting the familiar rile of historian , he had both abl y and gladly assisted a very old friend in carrying to a successful issue , the generous and happilyconceived design of presenting the members of his " mother lodge" with an " accurate " record of its history .

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

The Quarterly Court of the supporters of this Institution was held on the 12 th inst ., at the Freemasons' Tavern , when the chair was taken by Bro . Richard Eve , P . G . Treas . After the reading nnd confirmation of the minutes , Bro . EVE moved the following resolution on behalf of the Board of Management : "That the proposal from the Province of Kent for the right to a Perpetual Presentation , to be called 4

1 he hastes Presentation , to be purchased by the payment of twelve hundred guint-as ( £ 1260 ) on the same terms as previous agreements of a like nature , be accepted , subject to the condition that the Presentation shall be available onl y for sons of Kent Masons , and that each boy presented under same shall in every case be qualified under the then existing Laws of the Institution . " This was carried , and the election of Treasurer was next proceeded with .

Bro . GKO . EVERETT , P . G . Treas ., in proposing Bro . Charles E . Keyser for the office , said the position ol Treasurer to the Institution had been worthily held during the past year by that very popular and esteemed brother , the Grand Secretary , but he , finding that the various duties connected with his high and important office precluded his giving the attention to it which he desired , and which he considered the office demanded , had not presented himselt for re-election . The retirement of Bro . Letchworth was much to be regretted , but it afforded him

( Bro . Everett ) , an opportunity of which he eagerly availed himself , of nominating as his tucccssor , a brother equally popular and estimable in the person of Bro . Charles E . Keyser , Past Grand Deacon and Patron of t ! u ; Institution . Bro . Keyser had not onl y given with princely liberality to the various Charities connected with the Order , but he had worked hard for them as well . That was especially the case with regard to the

Boys' School , for , as a member of its Board of Management , he had given much time and rendered rno-t valuable services , to which those who had the honour and pleasure of working with him could testify . The Institution was most fortunate in finding n brother so eminently fitted as Bro . Keyser to take upon himself the duties of its Treasurer , and he would go further , and venture to say that , were it possible to hive a 'Treasurer made to order , they could not improve upon the pattern they had now before them .

Bro . KICVSKK returned thanks for the honour conferred on him . The following brethren were cLcted on the Board of Management : ( London brethren ) Bros . Stanley J . Attenborongh , George Everett , John Glass , William Alfred Scurrah , James Willing , jun ., ( Provincial brethren ) William F . Smithson , R . V . Vassar-Smith , Major J . E . be Feuvre , J . P ., James VV . Burgess , and W . H . Bailey The Court then proceeded to elect 30 boys out of an approved list of 43 candidates , the result of which will be found in our advertising columns . The followin" : are the Hiisurct-sslul candidates .

Nr . me . Votes . Name . Votes . VmuiLv- - , ll-rbcit 1 . 163 , Hlackler , Wm . J . Kobt . Woodgate 255 Harrison , I'rank Sutton 1080 Vockins , Reginald Cecil Hadland ... 2- ' Ridfmd , Phillip 917 Baker , Arthur 2 » 7 Miller , Alec Stewart 7 S 3 Thomas , Percy Alexander ( last ) ... > " ° Vernon , Arthur Stanley 3 S 4 Holland , Walter 7 Martin , Reginald Guv 377 Hurst , ( ohn Henry 7 Sellentin , Frdmann Friedrich Wm . 31 O