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Answers To Correspondents.

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Births, Marriages, And Deaths.

Births , Marriages , and Deaths .

[ The charge is 2 s . 66 . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this beading . ] BIRTH . KNOX . —On the 21 st inst ., at Park-villa , Shooter ' s-hill , the wife of Captain F . B . Knox , Royal Artillery , of a daughter .

DEATHS . BONO . —On the 20 th inst ., at Cumberland-terrace , Finsbury-park , N ., Hannah Sarah , wife of Mr . James Bond , aged 54 . NORRIS . —On the 20 th inst ., at Brinkley , Southwell , Notts , Mr . George Goodwin Norris , Major 2 nd Warwickshire Militia , aged 52 years .

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THE FREEMASON . SATURDAY , J 28 , 1879 .

H.R.H. Prince Leopold.

H . R . H . PRINCE LEOPOLD .

Prince Leopold was , on Wednesday last , installed W . M . of the Lodge of Antiquity , amid a goodly gathering of its members , and the manifest rejoicing of all present . That most ancient and distinguished lodge has a history , alike unique and remarkable , and it is very

fitting that it should be presided over by one so qualified to adorn the Master ' s chair as H . R . H . Prince Leopold . He is well known to Englishmen and to Masons by his artistic taste and aesthetic culture , and his zealous desire to extend the great blessings of scientific study and sound

education . He is a student , and a successful student , moreover , of more than one branch of general and special knowledge , and his public utterances have been warmly hailed and heaitily appreciated by all who have had the pleasure of listening to them . There is also a special

interest in the fact to " Old Antiquity , " as its members like to term it , that Prince Leopold succeeded H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex , thirtyfour years Master of the lodge . It is this historic connection of the Lodge of Antiquity with

the annals of our Order , and above all with the Royal Family , which renders it so desirable that so distinguished a lodge should claim as its head a member of that Royal House , ever ready to take its share of the burdens of benevolent labour and of social amenities which devolve

upon them , as citizens of the greatest monarchy the world has ever seen . The history of the Lodge of Antiquity has yet to be written , and its many documents are still to be collated . It cherishes the tradition that King William III . was initiated among its members at Hampton

Court Palace , and certain it seems to be that it was in existence in 16 91 , and , probably , very much earlier as a purely operative lodge . Indeed , it stands without a rival , the head of English Freemasonry , and though now No . 2 by the fraternal arrangements of the Union of 1813 ,

under the great-uncle and grandfather of Prince Leopold , it is , strictly speaking , the real and original No . 1 of English Freemasonry . Let us hope that the union begun on Wednesday last between the Lodge of Antiquity and Prince

Leopold may long be cemented and preserved , and that under his distinguished presidency it may long retain its high character and its distinctive system , its prestige at home and its popularity abroad .

The Anniversary Festival Of The Boys' School.

THE ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL .

¦ The Anniversary Festival of the Boys' School took place on Wednesday , though in unfavourable weather , at the Alexandra Palace , under the presidency of the Earl of Rosslyn , K . T ., 900 ladies and gentlemen being present . Bro . Binckes announced ^ 10 , 500 . We shall recur to the subject in our next .

The Scotch Rite In France.

THE SCOTCH RITE IN FRANCE .

We regret that a fresh conflict has arisen in France , namely in this influential body , and sincerely sympathizing as we do with those many excellent French Freemasons who deplore the present deplorable condition of French Freemasonry , we trust that means may be adopted to " still

the tempest , " and to " guide the storm . " So far , it appears to us , from our more serene and philosophical attitude , as the French have it , a " tempest in a glass of water , " or , as we less elegantly say , a " storm in a tea-pot . " But then we are not on the spot , and we forbear alike to

criticize , much more to condemn . All we can wish for the much tried and ill used Freemasons of France is that they may have peace and rest , that they may be let alone by intriguers , and emancipated from " intrigues , " and that those brethren who seem like " stormy petrels " to foster differences , and revel in agitation , may alike be dis-

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appointed in their handiwoik and follies , nay crimes . What French Freemasonry wants is repose—immunity from the turbulence , the silli . ness , the violence , the wildness , the anarch y which has disgraced and marked its latest episodes as there is , perhaps , a hope , faint though it be , that

" Philip drunk" may yet yield to " Phli p sober , " and that the good sense of the majority of French Freemasons will lead them , despite a busy and bitter faction , to retrace their steps and to restore peace , and goodwill , and unity , and fraternal relations in the Masonic family . Otherwise , we con .

fess , all these little episodes are to us but evidences of that restless and uneasy condition of French Freemasonry , which , dating from the mischievous manoeuvres of Massol , has not yet , apparentl y culminated in its most destructive and revolutionary projects . We trust that the Ancient

and Accepted Rite in France may be preserved from intestine strife and unseemly complications and we feel sure that , if need be , some of the distinguished English members ofthe Rite will be rejoiced to act in the interests of peace and reconciliation . So far , we think it right to say , as far as we can profess to understand the merits of

the case , both the law and common sense of the matter are with the authorities : as we all of us know that the principle of obedience must be upheld if organizations are to be kept together , and resistance to lawful authority and violation of distinct statutes can never properly be overlooked or sanctioned by Freemasons .

In Memoriam.

IN MEMORIAM .

Since last we met our readers a sad incident connected with the Zulu War has given intense grief to all in England . We allude to the melancholy intelligence of the death of the Prince Imperial . He fell , as our readers know , in a little skirmish or surprize of a reconnoitring

party , of which he was seemingly in command , and his body , happily recovered by our cavalry patrols , and bearing seventeen assegai wounds , is now on its way to England . Sad ending , indeed , in the good Providence of T . G . A . O . T . U ., to the undoubted promise of a gallant career , premature close , according to our mortal calculations , of a

bright intelligence and of noble aspirations for the welfare of humanity . We can all enter into the feelings of the widowed mother , now left alone in the world , though in truth it is really not in the power of language or the sympathy of the best intentioned to measure the full depth of this irreparable blow to a fond , proud mother ' s heart . But as Freemasons we should he little

deserving the name if we hesitated , on any petty considerations whatever , to express our heartfelt sorrow at these most unexpected and most mournful tidings . Though Freemasons we are always patriots , and we may well always remember that the lamented Prince was educated

at Woolwich , was pleased always to consider himself a " gunner , " and died most chivalrously identifying himself with his English comrades in the hard services of a most serious campaign . Gifted with no ordinary capacities , and placed in a most difficult situation , he had won for

himself the esteem , and respect , and affection of all his comrades , and the mourning in the entire English army for his regrettable death is deep , and true , and universal . He has , however , in this , as in other matters , set an example to young men which it is worthy to note and , above all , to

admire . "Taught to command by learning to obey , " he " volunteered " most nobly to share in the dangers and difficulties of a very deadly war , and "setting at nought self-interest and ease , " he sought manfully to learn in that rough , good school of military service , the commendable

qualities of endurance , hardness , and self-development . And though , humanly speaking , his end seems to us to- day a sad close to brig ht hopes and glowing anticipations , there is , after all , no better death for any one , be ha who he may , to die here below , than that of the

" poor soldier , " in the "path of honour , " in the " field of duty . " As Englishmen and Freemasons , we shall all long remember with regretful pride , that he died " with harness on his back , a true soldier , sharing the " rations , " wearing the " ¦ uniform" of the English army , and that he cheerfully bore with courage and animation the