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United Orders of the Temple and Hospital 8 rl Grand Priory of Malta 813 Grand Mark Lodge 813 CORRESPONDENCE : — Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution S 14 Bro . Morton Edwards and Grand Mark Lodge ... 814 Surrey Masonic Hall 814

Bro . Stebbing ' s Proposition S 14 Masonic Tidings 814 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 815 Masonic Notes and Queries , 815 A MasonicSong 815 Reviews > 81 ;

Live Masons a 10 CRATT MASONRY : — Metropolitan „ ., , S 17 Provincial 817 MARK MASONRY : Metropolitan 819 ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE :

Provincial 819 Freemasonry at Ballarat 819 Masonic Meetings for next week S 20 Advertisements Son , 810 , S 21 , S 22 , 823 , 824

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UNITED ORDERS OF THE TEMPLE AND HOSPITAL .

GRAN : i > Coxci .. \ vri . On Friday , the 1 . 3 th inst ., the usual December meeting of Grand Conclave was held at the City Terminus Motel , Cannon-street , when the

following Sir Knights were present : —The \ . H . and E . Deputy Grand Master Sir Knt . the Rev . J . Huyshc on the throne ; the V . E . P . G . Commanders of Cornwall ( Lord Eliot ) , Stafford and

Warwick ( J . Lloyd Foster ) , Dorsetshire ( C . J . Vigne ) , Suffolk and Cambridge ( Capt . Phillips ) , Kent ( Major-General Clerk ) , and China ( S . Rawson ) . The following Grand Officers , on the

muster-roll being called , answered to their names : —Sir Knts . the Earl of Limerick , Grand Prior j Sir Patrick Colquhoun , Q . C ., LL . D . Grand Chancellor ; the Rev . E . Moore , Grand

Prelate ; C . A . N . B . Royels , 1 st Grand Captain ; W . Tinkler , Grand Vice-Chancellor ; J . Lavender , Grand Registrar ; C . Goolden , Grand Treasurer ; Dr . Ramsay , Grand Constable ; Hyde

Pullen , Grand Superintendent of Works ; J . Lambert Sim , Grand Director of Ceremonies ; J . F . Starkey , Asst . G . D . C . ; Emm Holmes , Grand Provost : G . Lambert , Grand Warden of

Regalia ; S . Rosenthal , 2 nd Grand Expert ; R H . Hutchinson , 2 nd Grand Standard Bearer Dr . II . D . Moore , 3 rd Grand Standard Bearer A . C . Mott , 4 th Grand Standard Bearer : W . R

Many , 1 st Grand Herald ; J . R . Poulter , 2 nd Grand Herald ; and Wilhelm Ganz , Grand Organist . Tho following were also present : — Sir Knts . Rev . C . II . Spencer Stanhope , Past

Grand Almoner ; I \ . Spencer , P . G . B . B . ; Capt . Whitbread , P . G . Herald ; S . Jones , P . G . S . B . ; J . E . D . Jameson , P . G . A . D . C ; Major Clerk , P . P . G . Commander , West Indies ; K . J . S piers ,

D . P . G . C , Oxford ; C . Chandos Pole , P . 2 nd Grand Captain ; Capt . Barlow , P . 1 st G . A . D . C . ; J . Birchall , P . Grand Chamberlain ; J . M . P . Montague , P . 1 st G . B . ; R . . 15 . de Burgh , Grand

Marshal ( Ireland ); R . Costa , P . 1 st G . Capt ; W . E . Gumbleton , P . G . Constable ; J . H . Younghusbanil , l ' . G . Constable ; Capt . Phayre , P . G . Almoner ; E . Hutton Gregory , l ' . G . A . D . C

AV . H . Prince , Past Grand Expert ; M . D . Sim , P . G . 1 st Capt . of Lines ; the Honourable W . Warren Vernon , Rev . I . Downes Hawkesley , Gen . Munbee , and other Sir Kni ghts . The Knights having arranged themselves , and

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formed the Arch of Steel , the Acting Grand Master , preceded by the Grand Officers , then entered in procession , properly marshalled by the Grand Director of Ceremonies , in the usual order .

The acting Grand Master having taken his seat on the throne , opened the Grand Conclave in ample form . The Grand Registrar called the muster roll . The minutes of the last Grand Conclave were

read and declared to be correctly recorded . The following report of the Committee of Grand Conclave , printed copies of which were in the hands of the Grand Officers , was taken as read : —¦

Your Committee has the honour to report : That since the last meeting of Grand Conclave , four warrants for new Encampments , signed by yourself , have been duly passed under

the Great Seal of the Order , viz : The Worlebury Encampment of St . Dunstan , at Weston-super-Mare , in the Province of Somerset , dated the r 7 th May .

The Palestine Encampment , at Port Hope , Ontario , in the Dominion of Canada , dated the , 31 st May . The Alpass Encampment , at Liverpool , in the Province of Lancashire , dated the 1 st November ,

and The Royal Mysore Excelsior Encampment , at Bangalore , in the Province of Madras , dated the 14 th November . And that the Royal Gloucester Encampment ,

at Southampton , has been revived . In accordance with your commands , the Grand Chancellor , accompanied by the Grand A'ice-Chancellor , proceeded to Stockton-on-Tees , on the 29 th October last , for the purpose of

consecrating the Mount Grace Encampment in the Masonic Hall , lately constructed there , installing the Eminent Commander , Sir Knight J . Trotter , and opening a Priory of Malta ; all which having been done , with the assistance of the Knights of the

Royal Kent Encampment of Newcastle , the Grand Chancellor informed the Kni ghts that Northumberland and Durham would thenceforth form one Province , under the command of Sir Knight William Punshon , who was prevented by

illness from attending to receive formal charge of the enlarged Province . Your Grand Chancellor has , therefore , on account of the great distance , been compelled to delegate his office in this respect to Past Ihm ' nent Commander C . I .

bannister , who has undertaken to perform this duty , on a fitting occasion , at Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Certain differences having arisen in the Province of Bombay between the Provincial Grand Commander , G . S . fudge , and someof the Knights

of that Province , live appeals have been lodged with the Grand Vice-Chancellor , but as they are so intimately connected as to be incapable of severance , and some of them are still incomplete , it has been found impossible to deal with them

previous to the meeting of this Grand Conclave . Your Committee therefore recommends that the suspensions decreed by the Provincial Grand Commander bo continued till the next Grand Conclave .

In conformity with the stipulations of the Tripartite Treaty of the r ; th day of March , 1 S 7 1 , the Grand Chancellor , in the execution of his office , and at the instance of Bro . Savary , complained to the Grand Lodge of Mark Masters of

the conduct of Bro . Morton Edwards , a Junior Grand Deacon of that body , for that he had , at Cambridge , within the Province of Sutfolk and Cambridge , pretended to admit by communication Bro . Savary , an undergraduate of that

University , into the Order of the Temple , without warrant or authority , and had received from Bro . Savary a Considerable sum of money for the same , he , Bro . Morton Edwards , not being recognized

as a member of the Order , The Grand Lodge of Mark Masters thereupon suspended Bro . Morton Edwards , and no appeal was lodged against this judgment within the prescribed period . The Statues of the Convent General , drawn up by the Commission under the Treaties of 1867

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and 186 9 , between England , Scotland , and Ireland , have been ratilled by the Grand Masters of England and Ireland . In effect these Statutes make no material alteration in the internal organization of the Order in the respective kingdoms , nor otherwise bevond the nomenclature , which

has been taken from historical authority . Great advantages arc anticipated from this federative combination . These Statutes which have already been circulated , are laid on the table of Grand Conclave , for the information of that body . Motions for giving effect to the various provisions thereof will be made .

In announcing the fact of the agreement between England and Ireland , it is with deep regret that your Committee makes known the position assumed by the Order in Scotland , which has not only neglected to take part in . the consultations provided to be held by their own solemn act , but refuses to accept the decision come to by their colleagues .

On the other hand , it is with feelings of the greatest satisfaction that your Committee announces the desire of the Grand Encampment of the United States to enter into nesrociations for a

Treaty of Amity and Alliance with our Branch of the Order ; and has appointed , as its Plenipotentiaries , Sir William Sewall Gardner , Past Grand Master , Sir John AV . Simons , and Sir George S . blackie ; one of whom ( Sir G . S .

Blackie ) visited London 111 the autumn , during the recess , with his credentials . It will be therefore necessary to meet this courteous advance by the appointment of plenipotentiaries on the part of the Order on this side of tho Atlantic . Your

Committee cannot doubt , by the friendly animus evinced by our Transatlantic brethren generally , and more especially by the compliment paid to yourself in inviting you to attend the meeting of their triennial Grand Encampment in September , 1 S 7 t , and , still further , by the unanimous vote of

that body , by which you were made an honorary member of the Grand Encrnnment of tire United States , with the rank and u . ' . 1 Past Grand Master , that a Convention of the . .. ti . * proposed will lead to the most important and beneficial results to the Order of the Temple in

whatsoever part of the globe it may exist . Your Committee recommends that an address of condolence to His Majesty the King . of Sweden , now Grand Master of the Temple in that country , on the death of his brother , the late King , be signed by yourself , on behalf of the

Order , and forwarded through the regular official channel to His Majesty . Your commands for general mourning in the Order for his late Majesty the King , Grand Master of Sweden , have been duly carried into

client by the Grand Director of Ceremonies . The . Judicial Council , under the Tripartite Treaty , held its first meeting on the 4 th inst ., for the purpose of regulating its procedure , and other matters .

The Committee on Grand Officers , reappointed b y Grand Conclave in May last , suspends its report pending action on the new Statutes of the Convent-General . With a view to affording those members of the the Order who are unabletoattendGrand Conclave earliest authentic information of the proceedings

of the meetings , your committee has authorised the Grand Chancellor to issue , by anticipation of the " Calendar , " through the Eminent Commanders of each encampment , for the use of the members of right entitled to attend and vote , a precis of those proceedings , as soon as practicable after the meetiner .

The Committee , having decided the question referred to that body at last Grand Conclave as to the investment of the lienevolent Fund , in some safe inU'rest-bearing securities , prefered Indian Guaranteed Railway Stock as the most advantageous , and directed the Grand Treasurer

to invest , 1 ' joo on the security of shares or debentures of any East Indian Railway Company paying a dividend of 5 per cent ., or interest of the like amount guaranteed by the Anglo-Indian Government , in the names of himself , of

the Grand Chancellor , and the Grand Vice-Chancellor . The Grand Treasurer , in exercise of this discretion , purchased £ 350 Guaranteed Five per Cent . Stock in the Oude and Rohilcund Railway Company , but in so doing necessarily exceeded his man-