The Craft Abroad.

in favour of the plaintiffs , with ' , value of the goods admitted to be m possession ot defendants , and damages , together with rosts of reference , arbitration , and award . He mentioned that on the following night it would be 13 years since the illegal resolution was passed which caused the carrying away the warrant of No . 65 G . This completed another phase of this matter . Four propositions for Initiation were made , also one of a joining member from a leading Cheshire lodge , Mersey , No . 477 ,

Birkenhead . A very enjoyable hour was spent at the banquet table . Bros . Mauly , 2074 , Glassop , 51 , N . S . W . Constitution , and other members and visitors contributed to the harmony of the evening . The toast of "The Visitors" was responded to by Bro . Scarlett , R . N ., 2074 , on behalf of the English visitors ; also by brethren belonging to the N . S . W . Constitution .

Instruction.

Instruction .

CLAREMONT LODGE , No . 1 S 61 . PRESENTATION TO THE PRECEPTOR , THE NEW PUOV . G . STD . BR . OF SURREY . The Preceptor of the above lodge of instruction ( Bro . j . S . Pointon , P . M . ) having betn elected Prov . G . Std . Br . of Surrey , in succession to Bro . W . Ellinger , P . M . 2222 , the members gathered in great force on Wednesday evening , the 17 th inst ., at the home of thelodee—the Newlands Tavern , Stuart-road , Peckham Rye , S . E ., of which " mine

host" is Bro . Dickason—a private " whip" round having been made with a view to marking the sense of the lodge and other comrade lodges of their appreciation of the honour done by the Prov . G . Lodge to Bro . Pointon . TheClaremont Lodge of Instruction , by trie way , is one of the most genial and efficient nurseries of the Craft in Suburbia , and since its foundation , three years ago , its weekly convocations bear an unbroken record . The following officers were present : Bros . J . Ellinger , P . M . 2222 , P . G . Std . Br .

Surrey , W . M . ; J . Tossell , 1205 , S . W . ; W . Maybourn , IOOI , J . W . ; j . li . Wiberg , IQOI . S . D . ; A . 5 . Jennings , 73 , J . D . ; A . Bridge , 1 S 61 , I . G . ; J . S . Pointon , P . M . 1861 , W . M . 1901 , P . G . Std . Br . Surrey , Preceptor ; W . T . Greenland , J . W . 1 S 61 , Sec : W . Jobson , J . D . 22 CG , Org . ; and J . Dickason , 1901 , Treas . There were also present Bros . Sykes , P . M . ; H . E . Francis , 1 SG 1 , P . P . S . G . D . ; W . H . Bale , P . M . ; F . PowP . M . 1901 ; Wimble , P . M . tc , oi ; J . D . Wilkinson , P . M . and Secretary of

, the Star Lodge of Instruction ; 1 . Dickason , S . W . 1861 ; H . P . White , 1541 ; vV . J . White , 1541 ; S . W . Clarke , 1 S 61 ; Rees Day , 1 S 61 ; W . H . Webb , 1329 ; R . C . S . Philp , 1 S 61 ; Culpeck , 879 ; H . R . Gurney . S . D . 1 SG 1 ; Hand , 192 S ; Brace , 192 S ; A . H . Portch , J . D . 1 SG 1 ; Robinson , P . M . ; J . Rose , P . M . ; J . Lightfoot , P . M . 1901 ; Gibbons , 165 S ; H . H . Bolton , 1901 ; G . Dixon , S 79 ; Reynolds , Secretary of the Vitruvian Lodge of Instruction ; and many others .

¦»«»••»—The lodge being opened in the Three Degrees , and closed down , the Secretary read letters and messages ol regret for unavoidable absence from Bros . VV . Rogers , W . M . 1 S 61 ; Deeley ; C . VV . Phillips , 192 S ; Underdown , 1 SG 1 ; J . Hart , 1901 ; T . G . Bond , 1 SG 1 ; and others . The W . M ., addressing the brethen , said they were assembled to perform a labour of love , and to congratulate their worthy Preceptor on his attaining to the dignity of Grand Standard Bearer of the Province of Surrey . It was fitting that this little ceremony should be practically contemporaneous with the installation

of their Grand Master , the Duke of Connaught , the same day , at which many of them had had the honour to be preesent ; at any rate , in the minds of those present , one event would serve to connote the other ; ani in the calendar of Bro . Pointon , at any rate , they hoped that evening would long be remembered by him , and cherished , first as a personal friend of his ( the speaker's ) and as the brother of them all , for the little mark of appreciation he had now to bestow on him on their behalfin token of his unselfish devotion to the lodge in particular , and to Freemasonry

, in general . ( Applause . ) It never occurred to him that he ( the Chairman ) would ever have this pleasurable task of informally investing Bro . Pointon , as his successor , with the clothing he had himself been proud to wear . In the circumstances of Bro . Rogers ' s ill-health , his duty that evening had come as a pleasant surprise . He could not tell Bro . Pointon all that was in his heart , and the hearts of all , of their deep sense of

gratitude for what he had done for them . The gift that night was the spontaneous outcome of thtir feeling for him . Bro . Pointon had been amongst them a good many years . He was a teacher among teachers , and he had very great pleasure in presenting him with the clothing of his new office . ( Applause . ) The VV . M . hereupon handed to Bro . Pointon the full dress and undress of Grand Std . Br ., together with the P . G . Std . Br . ' s jewel J

Bro . Pointon , assuming his new and handsome garb , got a perfect ovation from the brethien on rising to acknowledge the compliment . He spoke of the very Rrcat surprise it had been to him , and of the comparative success of the conspiracy of silence in regard to that scheme . ( Laughter . ) If he had served them well ( and it was a labour of love ) , he was now amply repaid . ( Applause . ) He paid a tribute to his Masonic fester-father ( the late Bro . Walter Martin , P . A . G . P . Eng . ) , who he wished could have been present at that function ; and , after again thanking the brethren from the bottom ol his heart , the speaker resumed his seat amid a fresh outburst of applause .

Bro . J . H . Wimble , P . M ., felicitated Bro . Pointon on the compliment paid to him on his own behalf and that of Bro . Wills , P . M ., whose first initiate the recipient was . That was an honour that Bro . Pointon thoroughly deserved . Bros . J . T . Wilkinson , Sec . 1275 ; Sykes , P . M . ; Brace , iy 2 . S ; and members of the Selwyn Lodge all having expressed their appreciation of the instruction recciv ; d at Bro . Pointon's hands , the proceedings closed in harmony .

Obituary.

Obituary .

BRO . SAMUEL POPE , K . C P . G . D . ( UY ONE WHO KNKW HIM ) . We take the following interesting sketch from the Daily News of the Jjrd instant :

Mr . Samuel Pope , K . C , died at his residence in Ashley-gardens , Victoriastreet , S . W ., on Monday night . He was leader of the Parliamentary Bar . Mr . Pope ' s death was painfully sudden . It was , however , known that he had long suffered from valvular disease of the heart . As recently as Friday last he was busily employed , but a gout attack prostrated him somewhat on Saturday and

Sunday . On Monday , he was thought to be somewhat better , and it had been arranged that he should have a consultation at Westminster yesterday with regard to a Parliamentary Bill . He dined at home at Ashley-gardens on Monday evening , and retired to bed at his usual time—10 o ' clock—seeming cheerful and comparatively well . A little later he was found dead in bed , having evidently passed away painlessly and quietly in his sleep .

In Mr . Samuel Pope , K . C , the Parliamentary Bur loses its undoubted leader , and the Bar of England generally its senior practising member . For the last 15 years or moie Mr . Pope ' s practice has lain almost exclusively before the Private Bill Committees of cither House uf Parliament , with tbe exception of occasional visits to the Court of the Railway Commissioners and , whenever the opportunity arose , before the judges appointed to try election petitions . But it is not 25 years

since Mr . Pope was accounted one of the recognised leaders of the Northern Circuit , and competed successfully for business al Manchester and Liverpool , when the Committees of Parliament were nut silting , with the late Lord Justice Ilolker , the late Lord Chitf Justice , the late Lord Ilerschell , and the present Speaker of the House of Commons . Mr . Pope wis trained on the Northern Circuit , and was for some seven years from the date of his call in 1858 until he settled in London

Obituary.

in 1 S 65 what is known on the circuit as A Manchester local . He was the son of a Manchester merchant , and intended originally to devote himself to a commercial career , but was induced by his success as a speaker on temperance and political platforms to adopt the Bar as his profession . From the date of his call in 1 S 5 S , at the age of 31 , Mr . Pope ' s career at the Bar was never in doubt . He had from the outset a reputation with the public not only as a speaker on public platforms , but as Secretary of the United Kingdom Alliance , a position which he was proud to retain to the day of his death .

He made a respectable income from the first . Defending prisoners at Sessions and at Assises , then employed in local libel and breach of promise cases lie was soon the most prominent junior in all cases which depended chiefl y on skill in advocacy . During these early years at Manchester he was constantl y pitted against his friend Jack Holker , afterwards Attorney-General and Lord Justice . It was the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , whose chairman was closely associated with him in temperance work , that first introduced him to work before

Parliamentary Committees , and from 1865 , when he left Manchester and deliberately sought work at the Parliamentary Bar , treating the work on circuit as of secondary importance , to the very day of his death , it is safe to say that he was engaged in almost every case of importance that has come before these tribunals . Twice during the early part of his career he sought to represent Bolton in Parliament , but without success . His friends have never hesitated to express their

belief that , had he found a seat in Pailiament at that time , his peculiar abilities as an advocate and as a debater must have secured him an even more distinguished career than that he achieved apart from politics . Throughout his life he was a staunch Liberal and reformci in social and political matters , but he did not hesitate in these latter days to declare himself as in sympathy with the Imperialist wing of the party , and to deplore any attack on the present Government with regard to its policy in South Africa .

The main characteristic of his advocacy , both in the Courts and before Committees , was its straightforward honesty . He never sought to gain a point by raising what he believed to be a false issue . He knew by instinct the strong and the true point of his case . From that he never departed , that he would press with all the fervour and skill of a trained orator , but he could not , and would not , urge an argument until his mind was convinced of its truth and bonesty . In dealing with the lay tribunals before which he practised , he was always anxious to present

the law as he honestly believed it to be , not as he might fairly argue it to be , for the purposes of his case ; thus following , as he himself said , the example set by his eminent predecessor at the Parliamentary Bar , Hope Scott . The Chairmen of Committees soon learnt to rely upon him in this respect , and it was not uncommon to hear them appeal to him after a prolonged legal argument between learned ccunsel upon a point of law to say what in his opinion the law really was . His word was sufficient . More than any man has he maintained the honour , reputation , and

character of the Parliamentary Bar , with its peculiar temptations and difficulties , as a trained legal body constantly practising before a lay tribunal . The simple lucidity and honesty of his argument was the main feature of his advocacy ; next to that the large interest with which he could clothe a mass of apparently dull figures and facts . In promoting a Bill in Parliament , he would so marshal his facts as to present a picture of absorbing interest to a committee . He was never dull , he was never over technical ; he knew where the difficulties of his case lay , and , whilst he sympathetically aided his tribunal

to overcome them , he seemed to be learning with the Committee that he was teaching . To the last day of his life he maintained unimpaired these peculiar qualities . They have been exemplified in more than one case this Session , notably in the complicated Derby Corporation Bill , to which he devoted much attention . The universal verdict of his competitors and friends has been that he was as clear as ever , as honest as ever , as interesting as ever . No man ever had fewer enemies . His rivals trusted him , loved him and confessed their inferiority .

At every function of the Northern Circuit of the last 15 years has he been acclaimed president ; when a compliment was to be paid to a member of the circuit upon promotion—to be a Judge , Chief Justice , Chancellor , or Speaker—the occasion was incomplete without Pope in the chair , with one of his incomparable after-dinner speeches , half-bantering , half-serious , wholly affectionitc and honest . So , too , in Masonry , no banquet of the Northern Bar Ledge , of which he was one of the earliest initiators , and for many years the Treasurer , was complete without

Pope ' s presence and speech . It is not too much to say that there is not a member of the Parliamentary Bar , of the Northern Circuit , or of the Bar at large , who does not feel that he has lost in Pope an object of love , of respect , and of admiration , one who made him think well of his profession and its honour , of its mutual regard , and its esprit de corps , of one who summed up for them all those qualities which have made the Bar a great and honourable profession , and of one to whom each looked up as an example of honest , simple : life and affectionate genial character .

Bro . Pope was one of the earliest initiates—in 1876—0 ! the Northern Bar Lodge , Xo . itjio , and devoting himself earnestly to the welfare of the lodge and the duties of the Craft , he was elected Worshipful Master in 1 SS 0 . On his retirement he was elected , and has since been annually appointed to the ollice of Treasurer . Bro . Pope had also interested himself in the other branches uf Masonry . He was exalted in the Friends in Council Chapter of the Royal Arch in 1877 , advanced to the Mark Degree in the Snowdonia Lodge ,

No . 250 , Portmadoc , installed a member of the Order of the Temple , and a Knight of Malta , and perfected Rose Croix in the Canterbury Chapter , No . 72 ; but the claims of a busy professional life left him little leisure for more than the pursuit of Craft Masonry , and this , both in London and the provinces , he had followed with zeal and success . He was one of the founders of the Mawddach Lodge , Barmouth , Merionethshire , of which county Bro . Pope was a magistrate , deputy lieutenant , and deputy chairman of the quarter sessions . He becime Master of the lodge in 1 SS 5 on the consecration of a new Masonic Temple ,

which Bro . Pope had erected at Barmouth for the use of the Craft . On the death of Sir W . W . Wynn , Bart ., P . G . M ., and the sub-division of the Province of North Wales and Shropshire , Bru . Pope was appointed by R . W . Bro . Lord liarii-rh , the new Provincial Grand Master , Senior Grand Warden of the Province of . \ ith Wales . He was also a member of the Royal Leek Lodge , No . 1 S 49 , Bangor , and the Madoc Lodge , No . 1 509 , Portmadoc , while as regards our Institutions , he was a Vice-President and had served as Steward for both the Girls' and Boys' School . He was honoured with the appointment of S . G . Deacjn uf Grand Loc e in 1 SS 6 .

I 0 . LORD BRASSEY has ananged to lay the foundation itonc of the Missions 1 St tn Church and institute for the port of Manchester on the 1 st prox . Ihe ililin are to cost / Jtiooo , of which i ,- | ooo has been already raised . l'hey are tu place iron building , which has been well useJ by sailors since the opening of the rip Can . in ii ' ij . | .

1 CHR . JT'S HOSPITAL . -Proposed Valedictory Dinner . -It is pioposed ( with the ieuni * siun ol the hospital authorities ) that Founders' Day dinner , the annual iestival in Imimeiuoration of King Edward Vl . ' s birthday , shall this year be held in the Great 1 all of the Institution un Wednesday , October 23 rd , if a sulihient attendance cm be e cured . The Duke of Cambridge has already signified provisionally that he will '' bi nl y too happy to dine with the supporters ot the dear old Hospital . " The Vicar of hrist Church , Newgate-street , the Rev . E . H . Peaice , M . A ., a former "Grecian , " will reside .