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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , MAY 24 , 1875 .

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ESPECIAL GRAND LODGE .

An especial Grand Lodge was held on Wednesday , at high noon , to record the feelings of grief which Masons feel on the lamented death ofthe late Past Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland .

The Marquess of Ripon , M . W . G . M ., presided , and was supported by the Earl of Carnarvon , D . G . M . j J . Fawcett , P . G . M . Durham - , R . J .

Bayshaw , P . G . M . Essex . Grand Lodge having been opened with the usnal formalities .

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Grand Secretary said he had received letters apologising for unavoidable absence from Lord Tenterden , and others . He then read the summons calling the Grand Lodge together .

Thereupon , the Grand Master said r Brethren , you have now heard read the summons which explains the reason of our being specially called together on this occasion , and , brethren , I cannot

doubt that in directing this especial Grand Lodge to be summoned , I rightly interpreted the feelings of the Craft at large ; for knowing well , as I do , the very high estimation in which our late

brother , Lord Zetland , was held , and the affectionate regard which was entertained for him throughout the length and breadth of the country , I feel confident that I did not mistake the

sentiments ofthe Craft , when I felt it my duty to call together this especial Grand Lodge for the purpose of giving" expression to the feelings of every truly Masonic heart , and p lacing upon the

records of this Grand Lodge our deep sense of the loss which we have all sustained by the death of our Past Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland . Brethren , I need not remind

you of the services which Lord Zetland rendered , during his long Masonic career , to the Craft in this country . You will all remember how , for five-and-twenty years , he

occupied this throne , and with what zeal , with what impartiality , with what high and honourable feelings he discharged the important functions of Grand Master of English

Freemasons . I have , upon so many occasions , since Lord Zetland resigned the office of Grand Master , marked , both in this Grand Lodge , and other assemblages of the Craft , the

feelings which you have entertained towards him , and your grateful recollection of his long career as Grand Master , to render it possible for me to doubt for one moment that there is not a brother

in this Lodge who is not filled , upon this occasion , with feelings of sincere grief for the great loss which the Craft has just sustained , and who does not feel that that loss is one personal

to every one of us ; that there has been taken away from us , not only an eminent brother , but one who was , to each of us , almost a personal friend . I , who for many years had the

honourand the high honour , I shall ever esteem it—of being closely associated with Lord Zetland while he was at the head of the Craft , know well the spirit in which he laboured for the interests of

Freemasonry . You all know how high and honourable was his character ; you all know how utterly incapable he was of acting upon any occasion from any personal or any private

motive * you know how much at heart he had the interests of the Craft at large ; and it would , indeed , be surprising if , after such a career as his , we had not met together upon this

melanchol y occasion to associate ourselves with the many hearts—the hearts of his family , of his friends , and of his neighbours—who are now filled with grief for the great loss which we have

sustained . Lord Zetland , indeed , lived to a ripe old age , to enjoy the honours which were showered , and justly showered upon

h'm by his Sovereign , his countrymen , and his brethren of the Craft , and I know well that of all those honours there was none which in heart he appreciated more hi g hly than those

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which were the result of the confidence which for a quarter of a century the brethren 'of this Grand Lodge were pleased to repose in him . Brethren , it needs no further words from me , I

am confident , to secure your unanimous support to the proposal which I am about to make , that we should , by a formal resolution , place upon the records of this Grand Lodge those sentiments of

grief for the great loss which we have sustained , and of affectionate recollection of the past services of onr noble brother , which animate , I am confident the heart of every man in this Iodge , and of

every true Mason throughout the country . Brethren , with respect to the form ofthe resolution which I am about to submit , it has been prepared in accordance with previous precedents ,

which upon the principles of our ancient fraternity we are always so desirous of following , and on the whole it has appeared to me that it would be , under the circumstances of this case , more in

accordance with propriety if I were to ask you now to agree to a formal resolution to be entered upon the records of this Grand Lodge , and instead of asking you to vote an address to the

present Earl of Zetland , I were to suggest to you that you should submit to me the duty of communicating to his Lordship the resolution which I trust you will unanimously agree to . Brethren ,

this resolution , as I have said , in the first place records formally the death of Lord Zetland , in the manner consistent with the precedent which was followed in the case of his late Royal Highness ,

the Duke of Sussex , and then it proceeds , very briefly and very heartily , to record the feelings with which this Grand Lodge had heard of that melancholy circumstance . His Lordship then

read the resolution . The Earl of Carnarvon : —Most Worshipful Grand Master I have to express to your Lordship my very sincere and hearty thanks forallowing me the

great privilege and honour , as I conceive it , of seconding the resolution which you have just now put to the Grand Lodge . I can add very few words indeed to the tribute which your

Lordship has so feelingly and eloquently offered to the memory of Lord Zetland . Indeed , it is a case wherein it is hardly necessary ; for he lives still in the recollection of almost all whom I see

in this Grand Lodge , and feelings are often in these cases better than words . Yet this much I would venture to say , that in the case of those whom the Craft in England elect to rule over

them , they look at least for two great conditionsthey look for the Masonic qualifications , those attributes and virtues which this Order especiall y lays stress upon , and which it becomes all of us

to know , and they look also to the moral qualities of the man •they look to a high character , they look to integrity , to an unblemished reputation in every estate , and in every condition and

phase of social life . And I think these two conditions were most completely fulfilled in the case of our late Grand Master , Lord Zetland . I would add yet another to which your Lordship

also alluded , and that is the personal feeling of affection and respect which he who occupies that throne ought also to inspire . On occasions like

these , tributes to the memory of those that are gone sometimes seem to have the cold formality of funeral orations •but this is not the case in ths present instance . I am satisfied that the