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CONTENTS . PAGE LSADKRThe Installation of the M . W . Grand Master ... ... ... 159 Masonic Jurisprudence ... ... ... . •••¦••"" •••159 Provincial Grand Lodge of North and East Yorkshire ... ... ... 160

C Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter ( Annual Communication ) ... 161 Devon Masonic Educational Fund ... ... ... ... 162 Burns' Dumfries Lodge ... ... ... ... ... ... 162 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... •» - 162

M ASONIC NOTESApproaching Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls ... 185 Provincial Grand Lodge of Warwickshire ... .. ... 165 Provincial Priory of the Order of the Temple for Burma ... ... 165 History of the Provincial Grand Lodge and of Freemasonry in Cheshire 165 Annual Convocation of the Grand Chapter of Quebec ... ... 165

Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... ... 166 Craft Ma'onry ... ... ... ... ... ... 167 Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 167 Instruction ... ... •••... •••... ... 168

Mark Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 168 Easter Railway Facilities ... ... ... ... ... 168 Recent Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution ... ... 16 9 Obituary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 169 Science , Art , and the Drama ... ... ... ... ... 170 Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... 172

The Installation Of The M.W. Grand Master.

THE INSTALLATION OF THE M . W . GRAND MASTER .

It is not unnatural that the brethren should be desirous of knowing when , where , and under what circumstances H . R . H . the Duke of CONNAUGHT , who has been elected to succeed his

brother , King EDWARD VII ., as M , W . Grand Master of United Grand Lodge , will be installed in office . We do not know that we can do much towards allaying this curiosity . As we mentioned a week or two since in some of our Notes , the time when

the place where , and the arrangements in accordance with which the ceremony will take place , will be made known in due course-But there is no need for hurry . The validity of the acts done by his Royal Highness , or in the name and on behalf of his Royal

Highness , since his election on the 6 th instant , will not be affected by any delay that may occur in his formal induction into thc chair of Grand Lodge . Hence there is no reason why a fairly

long interim should not elapse in the case of his Royal Hi ghness , as in that of a private person who has had the misfortune to lose a near and much-loved relative , before he is

again called upon to take part in any duty which is not imperativel y required of him . We are all anxious that he should take an active part in Masonry as soon as possible , consistently with the respect due to our late Sovereign , but the interests of

the Craft will not suffer by the delay that may occur . Moreover , the ceremony is of such a character , and the number of those who are entitled to be present so great , that a considerable time must be allowed for the preparations . It is

more than likely that the Royal Albert Hall will be , as in 18 75 , selected for the occasion . It is about the largest building of the kind that is suitable for such a function , and which will accommodate so vast a concourse of brethren . But the

preparations for such a meeting cannot be made offhand at a moment ' s notice . In 18 75 , when the Hall was requisitioned for the installation of the then Prince of WALES , the number of lod ges on the English Register was about 1300 , of which about looo

were located at home and the rest in the Colonies and foreign Parts . If We estimate the Masters , Wardens , and Past Masters , as avera ging 10 per lodge , there were then about 10 , 000 brethren

who were eligible to be present at the ceremony , and who , we m ay reasonabl y assume , would desire to attend . In addition , eac , ' % e was permitted to send one Master Mason and it was estimated at the time that between 8000 and 10 , 000 were

The Installation Of The M.W. Grand Master.

actually in the Hall , out of the n , ooo entitled or permitted to be there . Now there are close on 2400 lodges on the Register , and if we leave out the 500 located in the Colonies or foreign parts , there remain between 1800 and 1900 which

are entitled to be represented in Grand Lodge , whenever it meets for the transaction of business . Thus including * the Graud Officers , Present and Past , and reckoning the number entitled to attend at 10 per lodge , as in 18 75 , we have , without

allowing for the presence of Master Masons , some 20 , 000 to find room for , or about twice as many as at the meeting in 18 75 . Doubtless the mere mention of these figures will satisfy

the more impatient of the brethren that when arrangements have been made as to the place , some few weeks must further elapse ere the actual day for the installation of the Grand Master can be fixed . In the meantime the brethren will no

doubt be pleased to know that the Grand Festival will be held on the day appointed by the Constitution , that the Duke of CONNAUGHT will be then and there proclaimed Grand Master ,

and that the Grand Officers for the ensuing year will be appointed and invested precisel y as if there had been no change in the Grand Mastership .

Masonic Jurisprudence.

MASONIC JURISPRUDENCE .

[" COMMUNICATED . I THE WARRANT .

( Continued ) . In our last article on this subject wc referred to the case of a lodge which occupied a place on the register considerabl y lower than its actual age entitled it to . We mi ght now quote an instance of a lodge which occupies a place considerably

higher owing to several circumstances . In fact , at the very outset of its career it was occupied in making history both ways , both retrospective and prospective . In Lane ' s Masonic Records Lodge Universal Charity , Madras , is put down as dating from

lot 1 , and it therefore ought to bc numbered at the least 330 , whereas it stands on the list as No . 273 , and the publishers of the Calendar have put down the incorrect date 1789 opposite to it . The story is rather interesting . .

A warrant was granted 111 1 795 to Lodge Strength and Beauty , at Vellore , in South India . The warrant was issued by John Chamier , Provincial Grand Master , but the fact was never reported to the home authorities , and so the new lodge never got on to the register . In 1806 there were disturbances at

Vellore , culminating 111 a mutiny . Many Europeans were killed , and the lodge never met again . The warrant was found in a well , it is said , and was transmitted to the Provincial Grand Secretary . Its place on the local register was No . 8 . In 18 u , five years later , a number of members of Carnatie Military

Lodge , local No . 2 , determined to found a lodge , and they not only applied for a warrant , but for a particular warrant , local No . 8 and got it . The ground for the request was that one of the founders , Jacob Pascal , had been Senior Warden of No . 8 . The new Lodge Universal Charity did not get on to the register

of Grand Lodge till 1822 , aud by a stroke ot good fortune it got the number , 514 , of the Royal York Lodge of Gloucestershire , just then erased . Twice , then , this lodge was able to antedate its existence . This is only one of several instances of lodges working under warrants acquired in this irregular way .

I his , however , is a digression from our present purpose , which is to define what the warrant is . We have already stated the circumstances under which a warrant is issued , and have recounted instances of the ways in which they were issued a century ago . The warrant is headed by the name of the Grand Master , the preamble recites the fountain of the authority under

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