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Knight Templary.
KNIGHT TEMPLARY .
The half-yearly meeting of the Grand Conclave of Knights Templar was held on Friday , the 9 th inst ., at Freemasons' Hall , Great Queenstreet . The M . E . and S . Grand Master Sir Knt . W . Stuart , occupied the throne , supported Sir Knts . the Rev . J . Huyshe , the D . G . M . ; Col ,
Vernon , Past D . G . M . ; C . J . Vigne , P . G . C . Dorsetshire ; Capt . Philips , P . G . C . Suffolk and Cambridge ; the Right Hon . Lord Eliot , P . G . C . Cornwall ; the Hon . A . W . A . N . Hood , M . P ., P . G . C . Somerset ; Major Harvey T . Duncan , P . G . C . British Burmah ; Capt . Clerke , Past
P . G . C . West Indies ; A . C . Crookshank , Past P . G . C . Ceylon ; S . Rawson , Past P . G . C . China ; the Earl of Limerick , Grand Prior ; R . J . Spiers , D . P . G . C . Oxford ; Capt . Portlock Dodson , D . P . G . C . Kent ; S . Rosenthal , F . Binckes , P . G . Officers , and a large number of fratres .
The Grand Conclave was opened in ample form , and the Grand Registrar called the muster roll . The P . G . C . for Somerset , the Hon . A . W . A . N . Hood , and the P . G . C . for British Burmah ,
Major Harvey T . Duncan , attended and performed their homage . The minutes of the last Grand Conclave were read and confirmed . The following report of the Committee was then read : —
Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master : "The Committee of Grand Conclave has the honour to report that the numerical force of the Order has steadily increased since the date of the last meeting . "The change in the place of meeting is an
important event , which has taken place since the last Conclave . The premises at Bedford-row having been sold , and it having been found impossible to come to any arrangement with the purchaser in any respect advantageous to , or within the means of the Order , the Committee appointed ad hoc was
reluctantly obliged to recommend the abandonment of that locality . The Board of General Purposes of the Craft kindly offered the Order the use of the De Grey and Ripon Room , at Freemasons' Hall ; but it being found not only too small , but so inconveniently situated with regard to those auxiliary
rooms requisite for the performance of the ceremonies and the convenience of the officers , the Grand Director of Ceremonies , to whose discretion the Committee had remitted the matter , saw no other solution of the difficulty than to fix on the room wc now occupy , and which , with those adjacent , offers great convenience . Your
Committee will , however , not lose sight of the matter , should a more suitable arrangement be subsequently found possible . "Since the Grand Conclave holdcn in May , a new warrant has been granted to the Moore Encampment , at Peterborough , Ontario , in the Dominion of Canada .
" The Very Eminent Dr . Falconer , the old and valued Grand Commander of Somersetshire , having , from the great increase of his professional business as a physician , found his time too fully occupied to allow him any longer to perform the office entrusted to him , resigned it into your hands
and you have been graciously pleased to appoint as his successor , the Honourable A . W . A . N . Hood , member for West Somerset , eldest son of Viscount Bridport , a captain in H . M . 25 th Regiment . The Committee has to report that Captain Hood has accepted the appointment and announced his
intention of presenting himself to perform his homage at this Conclave . "A vacancy in the Committee having thus occurred , you have been pleased , in exercise of the power conferred by the Statutes , to appoint the Right Hon . the Lord Skclmcrsdalc to supply his
place during the remainder of the year . " The Very Eminent Grand Commander , Colonel Greenlaw , having been removed , in the course of military duty , from British Burmah , he resigned his charge , and you have been pleased to appoint to the vacancy Major Harvey Tuckctt Duncan , who has
accepted the appointment , andsignified his intention to attend and perform his homage at this Conclave . Your Committee regrets to report that Colonel Greenlaw , who was acting on behalf of the Grand Commander of Madras , the Very Eminent Sir Knt .
Arthur Macdonald Ritchie , during his absence on leave , has since departed this life . "The United Province ' of Northumberland and Berwick , ar . d that of West Yorkshire , are still in commendum , no appropriate person having yet been found to assume their command .
Inconsequence of a deputation from the Province of Lancashire , urging on your Committee the advisability of issuing an agenda paper a week previous to the meeting of the Grand Conclave , for the Purpose of keeping the Order in general , and the
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absentees in particular , better informed as to the business to be brought before it , and of any change contemplated in the statutes , rules , or ordinances of the Order , your Committee decided in conformity with the above representation , to present and recommend for the consideration of Grand Conclave a
motion to carry out the views expressed by the deputation , which will be formally moved , for altering the statute regulating the distribution of the agenda paper . "Your Committee directed the Grand Vice-Chancellor to anticipate the decision of Grand
Conclave by issuing the agenda paper of the business at the present meeting , according to the terms of the motion referred to , and before the same could be submitted to Grand Conclave for adoption ; and such agenda paper has been distributed accordingly .
" Your Committee has decided to recommend the following grants from the Fund of Benevolence : — Sir Knight D £ 10 , and Sir Knight W . £ 25 . The particulars of these cases will be stated to you orally by the Grand Treasurer , to whom they will be moved .
"At the suggestion of the MelitaEncampment , subscriptions have been solicited forthe sickand wounded in the present Continental war . Thus challenged to carry out one of the original objects of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St . John , those administrative officers with whom communication
could be conveniently had at this season of the year , when the summoning of a Committee would have been futile , thought it would not be easy to reject such a suggestion ; and , in consequence , issued a circular , which has produced no very considerable result .
" It is now suggested by your Committee that , inasmuch as the general fund subscribed for the sick and wounded amounts to so very large a sum , and in an indirect way may be considered as tending to nurture the war ,. the sum subscribed by members of the Order would be better applied to the
relief of those unfortunate persons who have , by the calamity of war , been rendered destitute , without any fault of their own , and who will starve should they not receive a temporary assistance . Your Committee , therefore , recommends that the subscribers should be communicated with , with the view of obtaining their assent to the proposed
change in the destination of the fund , and that its administration be entrusted to a Sub-Committee , especially appointed for such purpose . " The Grand Treasurer reports the gross balance on the general account to be ... ... . £ 404 12 10 Less to the credit ol the Almoner ' s Fund ... ... ... 261 g 9
^ 143 3 1 which will be materially increased by May next , when the higher rate of fees granted by the Grand Conclave shall have come into the Exchequer . " It is in contemplation to keep the general roll
of members of the Order , in future , on parchment , to ensure greater durability . ( By order of the Committee of Grand Conclave ) , "X P . MAC C . DE COLQUUOUX , " Grand Chancellor . "
Sir Knt . C . Chandos Pole , Second Grand Captain , proposed , and Sir Knt . Chorlton seconded the following motion ( which was carried ue / n . con . ) , for carrying out the recommendation of the Committee as to the future
issue of the agenda paper : — "At page 11 of the Statutes , paragraph 20 , for the words ' given to each knight attending , ' substitute the words , ' sent at least a week before the meeting of Grand Conclave to each Grand Officer , and to each private encampment in England and Wales , through the Grand Registrars of the respective provinces . '"
The following motion for authorising the change in the destination of the fund subscribed for the sick and wounded , was proposed by the D . G . M ., the Rev . J . Huyshe , seconded by Sir Knts . Rawson , and agreed to , after explanation from Lord Eliot : —
" That on the subscribers being communicated with , and consenting thereto , the money collected in answer to an appeal from the Grand Chancellor of the Order be handed over to the Refugees' Benevolent Fund , through the Provincial ( irand Commander for Cornwall , the Right Honourable Lord Eliot . "
The motions for benevolences recommended in the report were then moved and seconded , and carried nem . con . The report of the Committee was then received and adopted .
The Grand Almoner collected the alms , after which the Grand Conclave was closed in ample form .
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A Grand Priory of the Order of Malta was then opened by the Grand Prior , the Rev . J . Huyshe . The minutes of the last Grand Priory were read and confirmed . The report of the Committee was read . as follows : —
" Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master , " Your Committee has no special observations to make with respect to this Order on this occasion . " The Grand Prior held in May last a Priory , under the Banner of the Observance Encampment , at which twelve members presented themselves
and were admitted into the Order ; but inasmuch as , pursuant to the notice that he would hold a Priory , under the Banner of the St . George ' s Encampment ( London ) , should a sufficient number of knights signify their desire to be received into the
Order , and sufficient number of knights not having sent in their names , the Grand Prior has not thought it necessary to detain you for the somewhat lengthy ceremony on this occasion . The knights in question will , however , be able to receive the degree in May next .
" The stock of certificates on paper being exhausted , your Committee has ordered them to be printed for the future on parchment . "By order of the Committee of Grand Priory . "JP . MAC C . DE COLQUHOUN , Grand Chancellor . "
The report was received and adopted , and the Grand Priory was afterward closed in ample form . The G . M ., the D . G . M ., the Rev . J . Huyshe , the Past D . G . M ., Col . Vernon , with other knights , then adjourned to banquet .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
¦ v-The Editor is not responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents . THE WAR VICTIMS . I To the Editor of The Freemason . )
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —A few weeks since I obtained from you the favour of insertion of a communication in which I asked aid on behalf of the poor French peasants and others , who , through the devastating progress of the war in their country ,
have been reduced to a condition of poverty and extreme suffering . Alas ! my pen was destitute of the power to touch the hearts of those to whom I addressed myself ; and as is often the case , the inadequate handling of a subject mars the very object with which it is taken in hand . Would that
I could write as fervently as I feel for those thousands of helpless ones—men , women , and children —whose homes have been destroyed , whosecountry has been devastated , and whose prospects are only of desolation and mourning . I should , in that case , be the means of bringing to their aid thousands of
those who read THE FREEMASON and sympathise with human suffering . Trustworthy men tell us of travelling through what were some of the most fertile and fruitful tracts of country between Paris and the Rhine , in which the population is reduced to such a condition of destitution and suffering as
to be literally stunned orstupified . A correspondent of one of the daily papers says : — " If I had the power to describe to you a tithe of the misery and desolation existing in the towns and villages I passed through , you would think me guilty of exaggeration . The sight of hamlet after hamlet , and
small town after town , in which every shutter is closed , and the only sound to break the awful stillness in the chief thoroughfares is the clatter of our horses' hoof , is melancholy enough in itself . But when dismounting one comes from the general to the particular by entering house after house in the
vain search for a small loaf or a cup of warm coffee , for which a handful of silver is offered , the real distress which reigns supreme is more nearly realised . It is not easy to carry much food on horseback ; it is still harder to keep entirely to oneself the slender stock one does set out with when
at the first meal , hungry children come round and fight for the well-picked bones of a chicken , and women with infants at the breast almost faint with gratitude at the gift of a ha ' porth of bread . I was consequently nearly famished upon arrival at Etampcs . Have you anything left in England
after all you have so generously given ? I am ashamed to take up the cry of the horse-leech ' s daughter ; but the weather is so hard and these poor people are so terribly hungry , I solemnly declare to you that their condition is desperate in the extreme . At Toury , a town of some two
thousand inhabitants , the priest came into a house where I was—a baker ' s—and through a thin partition I heard him—shall I divulge it ?—asking the baker to steal—no , to take a handful of meal from some entrusted to him by the Prussians to bake bread for them , and watched over by a sentry at
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Knight Templary.
KNIGHT TEMPLARY .
The half-yearly meeting of the Grand Conclave of Knights Templar was held on Friday , the 9 th inst ., at Freemasons' Hall , Great Queenstreet . The M . E . and S . Grand Master Sir Knt . W . Stuart , occupied the throne , supported Sir Knts . the Rev . J . Huyshe , the D . G . M . ; Col ,
Vernon , Past D . G . M . ; C . J . Vigne , P . G . C . Dorsetshire ; Capt . Philips , P . G . C . Suffolk and Cambridge ; the Right Hon . Lord Eliot , P . G . C . Cornwall ; the Hon . A . W . A . N . Hood , M . P ., P . G . C . Somerset ; Major Harvey T . Duncan , P . G . C . British Burmah ; Capt . Clerke , Past
P . G . C . West Indies ; A . C . Crookshank , Past P . G . C . Ceylon ; S . Rawson , Past P . G . C . China ; the Earl of Limerick , Grand Prior ; R . J . Spiers , D . P . G . C . Oxford ; Capt . Portlock Dodson , D . P . G . C . Kent ; S . Rosenthal , F . Binckes , P . G . Officers , and a large number of fratres .
The Grand Conclave was opened in ample form , and the Grand Registrar called the muster roll . The P . G . C . for Somerset , the Hon . A . W . A . N . Hood , and the P . G . C . for British Burmah ,
Major Harvey T . Duncan , attended and performed their homage . The minutes of the last Grand Conclave were read and confirmed . The following report of the Committee was then read : —
Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master : "The Committee of Grand Conclave has the honour to report that the numerical force of the Order has steadily increased since the date of the last meeting . "The change in the place of meeting is an
important event , which has taken place since the last Conclave . The premises at Bedford-row having been sold , and it having been found impossible to come to any arrangement with the purchaser in any respect advantageous to , or within the means of the Order , the Committee appointed ad hoc was
reluctantly obliged to recommend the abandonment of that locality . The Board of General Purposes of the Craft kindly offered the Order the use of the De Grey and Ripon Room , at Freemasons' Hall ; but it being found not only too small , but so inconveniently situated with regard to those auxiliary
rooms requisite for the performance of the ceremonies and the convenience of the officers , the Grand Director of Ceremonies , to whose discretion the Committee had remitted the matter , saw no other solution of the difficulty than to fix on the room wc now occupy , and which , with those adjacent , offers great convenience . Your
Committee will , however , not lose sight of the matter , should a more suitable arrangement be subsequently found possible . "Since the Grand Conclave holdcn in May , a new warrant has been granted to the Moore Encampment , at Peterborough , Ontario , in the Dominion of Canada .
" The Very Eminent Dr . Falconer , the old and valued Grand Commander of Somersetshire , having , from the great increase of his professional business as a physician , found his time too fully occupied to allow him any longer to perform the office entrusted to him , resigned it into your hands
and you have been graciously pleased to appoint as his successor , the Honourable A . W . A . N . Hood , member for West Somerset , eldest son of Viscount Bridport , a captain in H . M . 25 th Regiment . The Committee has to report that Captain Hood has accepted the appointment and announced his
intention of presenting himself to perform his homage at this Conclave . "A vacancy in the Committee having thus occurred , you have been pleased , in exercise of the power conferred by the Statutes , to appoint the Right Hon . the Lord Skclmcrsdalc to supply his
place during the remainder of the year . " The Very Eminent Grand Commander , Colonel Greenlaw , having been removed , in the course of military duty , from British Burmah , he resigned his charge , and you have been pleased to appoint to the vacancy Major Harvey Tuckctt Duncan , who has
accepted the appointment , andsignified his intention to attend and perform his homage at this Conclave . Your Committee regrets to report that Colonel Greenlaw , who was acting on behalf of the Grand Commander of Madras , the Very Eminent Sir Knt .
Arthur Macdonald Ritchie , during his absence on leave , has since departed this life . "The United Province ' of Northumberland and Berwick , ar . d that of West Yorkshire , are still in commendum , no appropriate person having yet been found to assume their command .
Inconsequence of a deputation from the Province of Lancashire , urging on your Committee the advisability of issuing an agenda paper a week previous to the meeting of the Grand Conclave , for the Purpose of keeping the Order in general , and the
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absentees in particular , better informed as to the business to be brought before it , and of any change contemplated in the statutes , rules , or ordinances of the Order , your Committee decided in conformity with the above representation , to present and recommend for the consideration of Grand Conclave a
motion to carry out the views expressed by the deputation , which will be formally moved , for altering the statute regulating the distribution of the agenda paper . "Your Committee directed the Grand Vice-Chancellor to anticipate the decision of Grand
Conclave by issuing the agenda paper of the business at the present meeting , according to the terms of the motion referred to , and before the same could be submitted to Grand Conclave for adoption ; and such agenda paper has been distributed accordingly .
" Your Committee has decided to recommend the following grants from the Fund of Benevolence : — Sir Knight D £ 10 , and Sir Knight W . £ 25 . The particulars of these cases will be stated to you orally by the Grand Treasurer , to whom they will be moved .
"At the suggestion of the MelitaEncampment , subscriptions have been solicited forthe sickand wounded in the present Continental war . Thus challenged to carry out one of the original objects of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St . John , those administrative officers with whom communication
could be conveniently had at this season of the year , when the summoning of a Committee would have been futile , thought it would not be easy to reject such a suggestion ; and , in consequence , issued a circular , which has produced no very considerable result .
" It is now suggested by your Committee that , inasmuch as the general fund subscribed for the sick and wounded amounts to so very large a sum , and in an indirect way may be considered as tending to nurture the war ,. the sum subscribed by members of the Order would be better applied to the
relief of those unfortunate persons who have , by the calamity of war , been rendered destitute , without any fault of their own , and who will starve should they not receive a temporary assistance . Your Committee , therefore , recommends that the subscribers should be communicated with , with the view of obtaining their assent to the proposed
change in the destination of the fund , and that its administration be entrusted to a Sub-Committee , especially appointed for such purpose . " The Grand Treasurer reports the gross balance on the general account to be ... ... . £ 404 12 10 Less to the credit ol the Almoner ' s Fund ... ... ... 261 g 9
^ 143 3 1 which will be materially increased by May next , when the higher rate of fees granted by the Grand Conclave shall have come into the Exchequer . " It is in contemplation to keep the general roll
of members of the Order , in future , on parchment , to ensure greater durability . ( By order of the Committee of Grand Conclave ) , "X P . MAC C . DE COLQUUOUX , " Grand Chancellor . "
Sir Knt . C . Chandos Pole , Second Grand Captain , proposed , and Sir Knt . Chorlton seconded the following motion ( which was carried ue / n . con . ) , for carrying out the recommendation of the Committee as to the future
issue of the agenda paper : — "At page 11 of the Statutes , paragraph 20 , for the words ' given to each knight attending , ' substitute the words , ' sent at least a week before the meeting of Grand Conclave to each Grand Officer , and to each private encampment in England and Wales , through the Grand Registrars of the respective provinces . '"
The following motion for authorising the change in the destination of the fund subscribed for the sick and wounded , was proposed by the D . G . M ., the Rev . J . Huyshe , seconded by Sir Knts . Rawson , and agreed to , after explanation from Lord Eliot : —
" That on the subscribers being communicated with , and consenting thereto , the money collected in answer to an appeal from the Grand Chancellor of the Order be handed over to the Refugees' Benevolent Fund , through the Provincial ( irand Commander for Cornwall , the Right Honourable Lord Eliot . "
The motions for benevolences recommended in the report were then moved and seconded , and carried nem . con . The report of the Committee was then received and adopted .
The Grand Almoner collected the alms , after which the Grand Conclave was closed in ample form .
Knight Templary.
A Grand Priory of the Order of Malta was then opened by the Grand Prior , the Rev . J . Huyshe . The minutes of the last Grand Priory were read and confirmed . The report of the Committee was read . as follows : —
" Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master , " Your Committee has no special observations to make with respect to this Order on this occasion . " The Grand Prior held in May last a Priory , under the Banner of the Observance Encampment , at which twelve members presented themselves
and were admitted into the Order ; but inasmuch as , pursuant to the notice that he would hold a Priory , under the Banner of the St . George ' s Encampment ( London ) , should a sufficient number of knights signify their desire to be received into the
Order , and sufficient number of knights not having sent in their names , the Grand Prior has not thought it necessary to detain you for the somewhat lengthy ceremony on this occasion . The knights in question will , however , be able to receive the degree in May next .
" The stock of certificates on paper being exhausted , your Committee has ordered them to be printed for the future on parchment . "By order of the Committee of Grand Priory . "JP . MAC C . DE COLQUHOUN , Grand Chancellor . "
The report was received and adopted , and the Grand Priory was afterward closed in ample form . The G . M ., the D . G . M ., the Rev . J . Huyshe , the Past D . G . M ., Col . Vernon , with other knights , then adjourned to banquet .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
¦ v-The Editor is not responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents . THE WAR VICTIMS . I To the Editor of The Freemason . )
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —A few weeks since I obtained from you the favour of insertion of a communication in which I asked aid on behalf of the poor French peasants and others , who , through the devastating progress of the war in their country ,
have been reduced to a condition of poverty and extreme suffering . Alas ! my pen was destitute of the power to touch the hearts of those to whom I addressed myself ; and as is often the case , the inadequate handling of a subject mars the very object with which it is taken in hand . Would that
I could write as fervently as I feel for those thousands of helpless ones—men , women , and children —whose homes have been destroyed , whosecountry has been devastated , and whose prospects are only of desolation and mourning . I should , in that case , be the means of bringing to their aid thousands of
those who read THE FREEMASON and sympathise with human suffering . Trustworthy men tell us of travelling through what were some of the most fertile and fruitful tracts of country between Paris and the Rhine , in which the population is reduced to such a condition of destitution and suffering as
to be literally stunned orstupified . A correspondent of one of the daily papers says : — " If I had the power to describe to you a tithe of the misery and desolation existing in the towns and villages I passed through , you would think me guilty of exaggeration . The sight of hamlet after hamlet , and
small town after town , in which every shutter is closed , and the only sound to break the awful stillness in the chief thoroughfares is the clatter of our horses' hoof , is melancholy enough in itself . But when dismounting one comes from the general to the particular by entering house after house in the
vain search for a small loaf or a cup of warm coffee , for which a handful of silver is offered , the real distress which reigns supreme is more nearly realised . It is not easy to carry much food on horseback ; it is still harder to keep entirely to oneself the slender stock one does set out with when
at the first meal , hungry children come round and fight for the well-picked bones of a chicken , and women with infants at the breast almost faint with gratitude at the gift of a ha ' porth of bread . I was consequently nearly famished upon arrival at Etampcs . Have you anything left in England
after all you have so generously given ? I am ashamed to take up the cry of the horse-leech ' s daughter ; but the weather is so hard and these poor people are so terribly hungry , I solemnly declare to you that their condition is desperate in the extreme . At Toury , a town of some two
thousand inhabitants , the priest came into a house where I was—a baker ' s—and through a thin partition I heard him—shall I divulge it ?—asking the baker to steal—no , to take a handful of meal from some entrusted to him by the Prussians to bake bread for them , and watched over by a sentry at