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p 0 rtunity of showing their gratitude for the position they were placed in . •pw however , that might be , they were very much pleased that the present Festival had been such a success . He would not intervene by any longer c eech before the enjoyment which he hoped might be found in the Temp ' ' ^ ich the excellent selection of music arranged by Bro . Parratt .

The proceedings then closed , and the brethren adjourned to the Temp le * ! where a charming programme of music was performed , under the direction of Bro . Walter Parratt , by students of the Royal College of Music , including Messrs . Squire , Price , Fischer , Houghton , Jasper Sutcliffe , and Misses Kellett , Anna Russell , and Florence Hoskins .

We append the list of the outgoing Grand Stewards , to whom the best thanks of all the brethren are due for the excellet banquet and the unimpeachable arrangements . * President , Bro . Alfred Thomas Layton , J . P . 60 ; Treasurer , Bro . Henry Pearce Hughes , 4 ; Secretary , Bro . Henry Carter , -s •Bro . Major George Charles D'Albiac , r ; Bro . Tre ^ sillian Parlour

Shippi 2 > *^ - Haxi-y Frederick Pollock , _; Bro . Reginald Eden Johnson , ( j . Bro . Joseph Russell , 8 ; Bro . Alfred Williams , 14 ; Bro . Marcus Richard Sewell , 21 ; Bro . Edward Nixey , 23 ; Bro . Francis William Macau , 26 ; Bro . John Renton Dunlop , 29 ; Bro . Rowland Plumbe , 46 ; Bro . Henry Montague Bates , 91 ; Bro . Charles Eustace Wilson , 99 ; Bro . Richard Fuge Grantham , 197 ; and Bro . Edward Tierney Gilchrist Darell , 259 .

The New Grand Officers.

THE NEW GRAND OFFICERS .

SENIOR GRAND WARDEN . H . R . H . PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR OF WALES was initiated into Freemasonry in the Royal Alpha Lodge , No . 16 , on the 17 th March , 1885 , the ceremony being performed by his lather the Princeof Wales , M . W . G . M ., in a manner which showed that his Royal Highness is a Master of our Craft

in more senses than one , and that his ability as an exponent of our ritual is nearly , if not quite , on a level with his skill as the chief administrator of the Order . The Earls of Carnarvon , Pro G . M ., and Lathom , D . G . M ., gave the address and working tools respectively , and among the other brethren who were present as officers or members of the lodge were Bros .

Lord Baltour of Burleigh , P . G . W ., and the Earl of Limerick , P . G . M . Bristol , who severally occupied the chairs of S . W . and J . W . ; Lord Suffield , P . G . M . Norfolk ; Lord Henniker , P . G . W . ; the Earl ot Milltown , P . G . W . ; Lord H . Thynne , M . P ., P . G . W . ; Lord Carrington , P . G . W . ; General Brownrigg , P . G . M . Surrey ; Col . Le Gendre N . Starkie , P . G . M . East

Lancashire ; Rev . C . J . Martyn , P . G . C ; Rev . J . S . Brownrigg , P . G . C ; Sir J . B . Monckton , Sir F . Roxburgh , Q . C ; Sir Albert Woods , G . D . C ; Colonel Shadwell H . Clerke , G . Secretary ; / En . Mclntyre , Q . C , M . P , ; T . Fenn , Pres . Bd . Gen . Purps . ; and others . On the 7 th May , the Prince was passed to the Degree of F . C . in the Lodge of Friendship , No . 100 ,

Great Yarmouth , the ceremony being most ably carried out by Bro . J . W . French , the W . M . of the lodge , in the presence of Bro . Lord Suffield , P . G . M . Norfolk , and a numerous gathering of brethren , of whom some thirty were Prov . Grand Officers , Present and Past , of Norfolk . The Third Degree was conferred upon his Royal Highness in the Isaac Newton

University Lodge , No . S 59 , Cambridge , to which he had affiliated shortly after his initiation , Bro . B . Anningson , M . D ., the W . M ., and his officers being most successful in carrying out the ceremony , which was witnessed by about 300 brethren , the most conspicuous among whom were Bros , the Earl of Kintore , Subs . G . M . of Scotland ; F . A . Philbrick , Q . C , G . Reg . of England , and

D . P . G . M . Essex ; J . Neal York , D . P . G . M . Cambridgeshire ; Rev . C . J . Martyn , P . G . C . England , and D . P . G . M . Suffolk ; and W . L . Morgan , W . M . of the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , Oxford . Ten days later —on the iSth June—the Prince was advanced to the Mark Degree in the Isaac Newton University Mark LodgeNo . 112 Cambridgein the presence

, , , of Bros , the Earl of Kintore , G . M . ; Lord Egerton of Tatton , D . G . M . ; and other Grand Officers of the Mark Grand Lodge , Ihe ceremony being most impressively rendered by Bro . H . T . Trevor Jones , W . M . of the lodge . Since ihen he has , to use a conventional phrase , though by no

means m a conventional sense , gone on making progress in Masonry , and the Senior Grand Wardenship of England now conferred upon him by his lather , the Grand Master , is both well deserved and worthy of his exalted position , besides being most appropriately bestowed upon him during the Jubilee year of the reign of her Majesty , his grandmother .

JUNIOR GRAND WARDEN . Bro . General VISCOUNT WOLSELEY , K . P ., G . C . B ., &* c , is a Mason of 'ong standing , having been initiated in the Military Lodge , No . 728 , Dublin , ° n the 13 th April , 1854 , when a subaltern in the 90 th Regiment . But the exigencies of military service in various parts of the world continued almost

uninterruptedl y during a long course of years prevented him , until quite recentl y , fr 0 m taking an active part in Masonic work , though in 1883 in his , P . " at the consecration banquet of the lodge bearing his name , the th ° * ey' ^ anchester > No . 1993 , his lordship spoke in glowing terms of e obligations he had been under to Fieemasonry during his career . How-» v . ; , . '^3 on the occasion iust referred to , he was invested first S . W . of

mitt 1 y Lodge , and s ' nce then , whenever his official duties have perted , he has shown that his attachment to Freemasonry is as warm as ofR , Heis a Past S . G . W . of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons hiehfK ^ * ^ ' * anc * have no doubt his appointment to the same 0 f ., ? . e ' . ' Craft Grand Lodge will be received with the same sense vss , ^ -ion as was the honour conferred upon him in Mark Masonry two years since .

t > , GRAND CHAPLAINS , much ' Rev > T * CARTWRIGHT SMYTH , D . D ., LL . D ., well deserves the there " j ted purple which has just been conferred upon him . Indeed , Pursu i * En £ lisl 1 Masons who can point with pride to a Masonic career So ma WU ^ SUcl 1 un ' ^ ability and success and under varying aspects in of j ^ y parts of the world . Our reverend brother was initiated in the Isle of the r " tIle R ° y Is , e of Man Lod £ > N ° - 333 , under the Constitution \ vh eri h " ^ Lod >; e of Scotland , the 27 th December , 1843 , being the date tl ,. •e Was raised tfl the Thild DporpP . Thp vpar fr , Ilr , „ M * nrr tiQvl ' no- in

f yne , rval . taken holy orders and migrated to a curacy near Newcastle-ontavin ' s- ] ° lned the Nonhern Counties Lodge , No . 406 , then No . 5 S 6 , ? nd ftas . . Sequentl y affiliated to the De Loraine Lodge , then No . 793 , abi ities v ! - t 0 the chair of S * * in l 848 _ 9 ' his zeal a , ld of p be * ng further recognised by investiture with the honours * Ind * ' •ant * Chaplain of Northumberland . In 1849 he sailed deticy f R avin - ? keen appointed lo a Government Chaplaincy in the presioengal- and almost immediately after his arrival had the post of

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District G . Chaplain of Bengal conferred upon him . In 1852-3 he occupied the Master's chair in Star ot Hope Lodge , No . 520 , Agra , and soon after became a founder of the Dalhousie Lodge , No . 639 , Mussoorie , being elected to the chair two years in succession , 18 54-5 and 1855-6 . During his term of service here , he preached a sermon 1 elore the brethren , and afterwards , by request , published it . This sermon evoked from a renegade

Mason a fierce attack on freemasonry , which , however , had no other result than to draw from Bro . Smyth a most able vindication of our principles under the title of "Freemasonry represented and misrepresented . " This able rejoinder still further enhanced his already brilliant reputation , and not only did he secure a vote of thanks from the D . G . Lodge , but the D . G . Master appointed him S . G . Warden of the District . At the outbreak of

the Indian Mutiny at Meerut on the ioth May , 1857 , our reverend brother was the senior Government Chaplain at that station , and the devoted services he rendered , both as a man and in his sacred calling , to his fellow Anglo-Indians , drew from the latter many addresses and testimonials , a copy of one of which dated " Meerut , 30 th January , 18 5 S , " and presented to him on the eve of his departure for another sphere

of labour , will be found in the memoir of his friend Bro . William Watson , P . M ., P . Z ., & c , from which most of these particulars have been derived , the signatures to the said address including all the civil and military residents at Meerut . His next station was at Singapore , where he was appointed Deputy District Grand Master of the Eastern Archipelago , and where he held concurrently , under the usual dispensation ,

the Masterships of Lodges Zetland-m-the-East , now No . 508 , and Fidelity , since incorporated wilh No . 508 . In 1876 , Bro . Smyth left India , and , revisiting England , was six months afterwards presented with the living of St . Chad's , Far Headingly , Leeds , where he has prosecuted his task of ministering to the spiritual necessities of his neighbours and enlightening his brother Masons of ihe district ever since , among the later honours he

has received being the Provincial Grand Chaplaincy of West York-hire in 1885 . With such a record as this , we are not surprised that ihe Prince of Wales should have conferred upon him the purple of the United Grand Lodge of England , and vve venture to say that no one has better deserved this great distinction . With Royal Arch Masonry he has been connected since the year 184 ^ , when he was exalted in the De Sussex Chapter , attached to the

Northern Counties Lodge , 406 , Newcastle-on-Tyne . While at Mussoorie he became founder and First Principal of the St . John the Baptist Chapter , 639 . He is also a Past Z . of the Dalhousie Chapter , No . 508 , Singapore , P . Z . and a founder of the Excelsior Chapter , No . 1042 , Leeds , and Past Provincial Grand J . of West Yorkshire . He was advanced to the Mark at Agra , in 1852-3 , is a Past Master of sundry of its lodges , and a Past Provincial Senior Grand Warden ( Mark ) of West Yorkshire ; and last year , when the

Piince of Wales was installed Grand Master of ( he Mark Grand Lodge , Bro . Smyth was honoured with the appointment to one of the Grand Chaplaincies . He has been a Knight Templar since 18 47 , when he was installed in the Kent Encampment at Newcastle-on-Tyne , and is Past E . P . of the Fidelity Preceptory , No . 114 , Leeds . He is a S . P . Rose Croix of 1847 , a Royal and Select Master , and last , but not least , a Life Governor and past Festival Steward of all our Masonic Institutions , and of the Mark Benevolent Fund .

Bro . the Rev . G . W . WELDON was initiated in the Sphinx Lodge , No . 1329 , on the 15 th July , 1871 , and , having been absent for some time from England , became , on his return , a joining member of the Royal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge , No . 4 , on 23 rd November , 1876 .

He represented this distinguished lodge on the Board of Grand Stewards in 1882-3 , and was elected Worshiplul Vlaster in 1883 . He is also a member of the Ancient and Accepted Rite , having taken the 18 , and being enrolled a member of Chapter No . 29 of that Degree . He has served a Stewardship for , ancl has qualified as , Life Governor of each of our Institutions ,

GRAND TREASURER . Bro . RICHARD EVE , who was elected Grand Treasurer by a large majority of votes in Grand Lodge , on the 2 nd March , well deserves the hig h distinction which his brother Craftsmen have bestowed upon him . His record is a full one , for he has been an indefatigable Mason , and has pursued with never failing energy and spirit whatever task he may have put

his hand to . His career extends over 31 years , and having been W . Master of Guy ' s Lodge , No . 395 , Leamington , in i 860 , his position as a Past Master of the Royal Art is of more than a quarter of a century ' s standing . His chief services , however , have been rendered in the Province of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , of which he had the honour to be appointed S . G . Warden in 1871 , G . J . in the Prov . G . Chapter , in 1874 , and S . G . W . in the Prov . G . Mark Lodge in 1 S 77 . He is a P . M . and the

Treasurer of the Panmure Lodge , No . 723 , Aldershot , P . Z . and Treasurer ot the Panmure Chapter ( R . A . ) , No . 723 , P . M . and Treasurer of the Aldershot Military Mark Lodge , No . 54 , Aldershot , and present E . Preceptor of the William Stuart Preceptory , No . 76 , Aldershot . As regards our Institutions , it is enough for us to state that he is a Patron of the Benevolent Instiiution , and a Vice-Patron of the two Schools , and that he has served quite 25 Festival Stewardships during his connection with the Craft .

SENIOR GRAND DEACONS . Bro . W . A . B . BURDETT-COUTTS , M . P ,, obtained his first insight into Freemasonry in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , Oxfoid , in 1872 . In 1884 he was elected a joining member of the Westminster and Keystone , No . 10 , and about the same time was founder and first W . M . of the Abbey

Lodge , No . 2030 . In 1885 he was re-elected to the same office and has continued ever since to take a deep interest in the well being of the lodge . He has served as Festival Steward both for the Girls' and Boys' Schools , and has qualified as a Vice-President of the former Institution and as a Life Governor of the latter .

Bro . GEORGE COOPER dates his first knowledge of Freemasonry from April , 1866 , when he was initiated in the Hope and Unity Lodge , No . 214 , ' Brentwood . Six years later he was installed VV . M ., and in 1874 he was elected , and has ever since remained , Treasurer of the lodge-. The services he has rendered generally , but also in his capacity of custodian of the lodge moneys , may be judged from the fact that , in 1878 , the brethren

presented him with a Life Governorship of the Boys' School and a Treasurer ' s jewel , and that , again , in 1881 , on the occasion of his marriage , he received a second testimonial , in the form—very appropriate under ihe circumsiances . ¦ —of a silver tea and coffee service . Inthe Province of Essex he ranks as a P . P . G . S . of W ., and he is also a subscribing P . M . of the Percy Lodge , No . 198 , of which he was elected a joining member in 1870 . In May , 1868 , he was exalted to the Royal Arch Degree in the chapter attached to his