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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The Freemason is a sixteen page weekly newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and conpains the most important and useful information relating tto Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , io / . Brethren in foreign parts , wishing to have this newspaper sent them regularly from the office of publication , should , in sending their remittances , add te the 2 d . per week the postage on 20 Z .
newspapers . The Freemason may be procured through any newsagent in the United Kingdom by giving ( if needed ) the publisher ' s address , 198 , Fleet-st .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , & c , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
All Communications , Advertisements , & c , intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must i each the Office not later than 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning . Careful attention will be paid to all MSS . entrusted to the Editor , but he cannot undertake to return them unless
accompanied by stamped directed covers . " GENTLEMAN MASONS . "—Too personal for our peaceful pages I "W , P . BUCUAS . —Declined with thanks . The following stand over : — Bros . Tew and Perrott in our next ; too late for this
week . Coloured Lodges in the United States ; J . G . Findel in our next . Consecration of a New Lodge at Morecombe . Entered Apprentices Song ; Bro . Burdett Yeoman . Consecration of a Lodge at Dunmow . Consecration of a Lotlsre at Didsbury .
Ar00803
NOTICE . The SECOND EDITION OF THE
" FREEMASON , " which will be ready early Saturday morning , will contain full reports of the proceedings at the installation of Comp . T . F . Halsey , MP ., as Provincial Grand Superintendent of Royal Arch Masons of Herts , the General Committee ofthe Girls' School , and the Red Cross Conclave at Cambridge .
Ar00809
TheFreemason, SATURDAY , OCT . 30 , £ 875 .
Our Royal Grand Master's Visit To India.
OUR ROYAL GRAND MASTER'S VISIT TO INDIA .
H . R . H . the Prince of Wales took leave of the King and Queen of Greece off H ydra , and entered Port Said at 8 . fo a . m . on the -2 3 rd , where the Khedive ' s son and General Stanton came on board , amid salutes of cannon . The Prince of Wales , with his suite , was transferred to the
Royal Yacht Osborne , and proceeded at 10 . 30 to Ismailia by the canal , where they landed at five o ' clock . A guard of honour received the Prince , to whom great honours were offered . A special train conveyed the Royal party to Cairo , where they arrived at nine and had a magnificent
reception . The Khedive was at the station with his Ministers and the English and foreign Consuls , while vast crowds of people were gathered outside . Military regiments were drawn up , and the bands played " God Save the Queen . " At Zagazig , near Ismailia , the Prince received a reply
to a telegram sent to the Princess from Port Said . On the 24 th Divine service was performed . On the 25 th there was an investiture of the Star of India and later an illumination of the Pyramids . H . R . H . invested PrinceTeufik with the Star of India in the presence of the
Khedive with great eclat . The Serapis left Suez at 8 . 10 on the 16 th , after a brilliant reception . All well . The "Times of India " of Oct . 4 , thus refers to the preparations making for the Prince ' s visit : "Preparationsforthe Prince ' svisitstill occupy public attention , especially in Bombay , as the western capital is to have the honour of
welcoming the Prince to India . It has been arranged to have a grand Freemasons' ball in the Town Hall , and the Byculla Club will give one to the officers of the Flying Squadron , at which the Prince has promised to be present , if only for a short time , during the evening . The visit to Poona has been decided upon , and we believe
Our Royal Grand Master's Visit To India.
Ahmedabad is also to have the honour of receiving the Prince . In Calcutta and Madras addresses are being prepared and arrangements for his Highness ' s reception matured . The committee appointed at Madras to draw up the address have fixed upon a very chaste design for
the casket which is to hold it . The casket will be made of ivory , ornamented with gold , engraved after the swami pattern . The whole will bs supported by four elephants made of gold . A Hyderabad nobleman is having a gorgeous palanquin and two tonjons constructed for
presentation to his Royal Highness . The palanquin is painted in imitation of gold , and lined with rich velvet to match , and bears on the panels the coat of arms of the giver . When completed , with silver mountings , & c , it promises to be a very handsome piece of workmanship .
Preparations on an extensive scale are being made for the visit of the Nizam to Bombay to welcome the Prince . It is expected that fifteen Hyderabad rajahs will accompany the Nizam to Bombay . His Highness will have an escort of four hundred cavalry of the re-formed troops ,
and two thousand retainers . The rajahs rajahlings , and chiefs in India are contributing most liberally towards the reception of the Prince . The largest contribution from a native Prince towards- the visit is that of the Maharajah of Benares , who gave 35 , 000 rupees towards
founding a hospital in that city to commemorate the Prince ' s visit . The Maharajah of Vizianagram gave 15 , 000 rupees on that occasion . But the Zemindar of Ettapooram , in the Tinnivelly district , though yet a minor , has signified his
intention to the collector to expend 33 , 000 rupees on the occasion of his Royal Highness ' s visit to Tuticorn . " Admiral Drummond reports that the engines of the Serapis now work in the most satisfactory manner .
A Precedent.
A PRECEDENT .
We beg most earnestl y to invite the attention of all our brethren to a little matter which affects the constitutional interests of Freemasonry , and the present and future welfare of our great Metropolitan Educational Institutions . It has been contended that a Provincial Grand Lodge , and ,
of course , " a fortiori" of Grand Lodge , has the power of passing a resolution which would tend either to inquire into the government , the expenditure , or the internal economy of these voluntary Masonic institutions . We have always contended , and always shall contend , that such a motion is unconstitutional and altogether " ultra
vires . " We are happy to find that our humble view of the matter is fully confirmed by the expressed and deliberate opinion of our quondam , noble , and admirable ruler , Lord Zetland . At the Qnarterly Communication of March 3 rd , 18 58 , our distinguished Bro . Beach , M . P ., and now P . G . M . for Hampshire , raised a point of order as to the refusal of the Board of Alasters
to receive a resolution proposed to be submitted to Grand Lodge , relative to the examination of the children in the two Freemasons' Schools . What are our admirable old chief ' s wise remarks , remarks which we venture to press on the constitutional feelings and Masonic principles
of a great many excellent brethren , who do not for once seem to apprehend the vital principles at issue ? The M . W . G . M . said , that he believed the question of Bra . Beach arose out of the fact that the Chairman of the Board of Masters had refused to receive a notice of motion referring to
two of the Masonic charities . In his opinion the Chairman of the Board was perfectly right in taking tbat course . It was a motion , as he had already stated , having reference to two of the Masonic charities , with which " Grand Lodge had nothing more to do than as subscribers . If a notice
proposing to interfere with the British Orphan Asylum at Clapham had been put before the Board of Masters there could be no doubt that they would be justified in refusing to receive it . Grand Lodge had little more to do with the Masonic
charities than with the British Orphan Asylum ; that was to say , that it had nothing more to do with them than had any individual subscriber . " This decision , Ex cathedra , by our lamented and constitutional G . M ., Lord Zetland , will , we think , influence many whom our own inferior authority
A Precedent.
has not naturally convinced . Thus , then , the proper course , and the only proper course , for complainant and complaint , is to go before the House Committee , or the Quarterly Court ; and no other proposal or proceeding can be anything else but a "brutum fulmen , " or a step taken
unadvisedly in entire ignorance of the true position of the Masonic Schools , towards the constituted bodies of our Masonic system . We have but one interest to serve , the interest of the Craft and we trust we may be credited for being
actuated in all that we put forward in the "Freemason " by a fervent desire to uphold the proper constitutional precedents of our valuable Order on the . one hand , and the real interests and permanent welfare of our great educational institutions on the other .
Masonic Memories.
MASONIC MEMORIES .
We all of us at times go back in the spirit of our minds to other da \ s and ancient friends . For in Freemasonry , like in every thing else , Time , the great disturber and destroyer of all mundane institutions , often lays its heavy hand on us and the lodge , where we have spent so many happy
hours . Change or sickness , absence or business , take us away for a short time from the company of contemporaries , and the gatherings of our confieres , and like as in some tale ofthe genii , in the meanwhile , a magic transformation has taken place . The old friends we knew so well have
gone . Bro . J ones is sick and suffering , Bro . Brown has gone to live in the country , Bro . Simpson can ' t leave home of an evening , Bro . Barker has got tired of Freemasonry , Bro . Pogson is advised by his doctor not to face the night air , one or two have become married men ,
one or two have migrated elsewhere , and lo and behold , the whole personnel of the lodge is completely metamorphosed . We enter the lodge once again as of yore , we find the external appearances unchanged , and the old Tyler greets us with a smile , and nod , and a few words of
fraternal welcome , " Long time since we have seen you , Bro . Cropper , where have you been ? And then we approach the mystic sanctum , and find ourselves once more in a well-known seat . AU looks as it ever did , except that array of faces , the greater part of which is actually unknown to
us . Oh , we say , " Quando mutatus ab illo is the lodge of to-day , from that good old assembly in which in happier hours we wiled innocently away a few sunny hours of life , amid the calls of duty , or the labours of refreshment . And then we almost start . No more good old P . M .
Jones with his dogmatism and his lectures , his laying down the law , his infallible authority , his ready utterance , and his good memory . No ; all is changed . A young P . M ., excessively well got up , very civil , very pleasant , and very fluent , repeats those cherished formulai which we have
heard so often from friendly lips of old , from the brave , the true , the warm-hearted , and the most fraternal alike in speech and heart , and which we know so well , and have been acquainted with so long . The old lodge is the same in some respects to us , as it , indeed , \ must be , and yet it is not the same . We miss the smiling faces
and warm hearts of the past •we miss friendship that never wavered , and fraternal feelings that never changed ; we miss the old familiar companions of many an hour of work , of many a merry re-union ; and , like ghosts in an assembly of the living , we are like strangers in a home which once was ours , and new comers in a lodge room which we aided to establish and adorn .
And all we can say is , " Such is life . " Time and change come to us all in turn ; they dim the after hours of life with lowering clouds , they undermine friendship , and they deaden affection . The world is moving on , and we are growing old , and the " postnati" are getting the advantage
of us , and think that we are not quite go-a-head enough for them . Like Masonic philosop hers , let us accept calmly then , the inevitable and the actual . We have worked our work , we have done our duty , we have laughed at old Jowler ,
and cheered Pat Maguire ' s song , and have declared that our W . M . is a " jolly good fellow , which nobody can deny—ny . " We have up held the cause of Masonic order , or have furthered the claims of Masonic bsnevolence , and as every do ! as its day , we have had ours . But still the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The Freemason is a sixteen page weekly newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and conpains the most important and useful information relating tto Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , io / . Brethren in foreign parts , wishing to have this newspaper sent them regularly from the office of publication , should , in sending their remittances , add te the 2 d . per week the postage on 20 Z .
newspapers . The Freemason may be procured through any newsagent in the United Kingdom by giving ( if needed ) the publisher ' s address , 198 , Fleet-st .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , & c , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
All Communications , Advertisements , & c , intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must i each the Office not later than 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning . Careful attention will be paid to all MSS . entrusted to the Editor , but he cannot undertake to return them unless
accompanied by stamped directed covers . " GENTLEMAN MASONS . "—Too personal for our peaceful pages I "W , P . BUCUAS . —Declined with thanks . The following stand over : — Bros . Tew and Perrott in our next ; too late for this
week . Coloured Lodges in the United States ; J . G . Findel in our next . Consecration of a New Lodge at Morecombe . Entered Apprentices Song ; Bro . Burdett Yeoman . Consecration of a Lodge at Dunmow . Consecration of a Lotlsre at Didsbury .
Ar00803
NOTICE . The SECOND EDITION OF THE
" FREEMASON , " which will be ready early Saturday morning , will contain full reports of the proceedings at the installation of Comp . T . F . Halsey , MP ., as Provincial Grand Superintendent of Royal Arch Masons of Herts , the General Committee ofthe Girls' School , and the Red Cross Conclave at Cambridge .
Ar00809
TheFreemason, SATURDAY , OCT . 30 , £ 875 .
Our Royal Grand Master's Visit To India.
OUR ROYAL GRAND MASTER'S VISIT TO INDIA .
H . R . H . the Prince of Wales took leave of the King and Queen of Greece off H ydra , and entered Port Said at 8 . fo a . m . on the -2 3 rd , where the Khedive ' s son and General Stanton came on board , amid salutes of cannon . The Prince of Wales , with his suite , was transferred to the
Royal Yacht Osborne , and proceeded at 10 . 30 to Ismailia by the canal , where they landed at five o ' clock . A guard of honour received the Prince , to whom great honours were offered . A special train conveyed the Royal party to Cairo , where they arrived at nine and had a magnificent
reception . The Khedive was at the station with his Ministers and the English and foreign Consuls , while vast crowds of people were gathered outside . Military regiments were drawn up , and the bands played " God Save the Queen . " At Zagazig , near Ismailia , the Prince received a reply
to a telegram sent to the Princess from Port Said . On the 24 th Divine service was performed . On the 25 th there was an investiture of the Star of India and later an illumination of the Pyramids . H . R . H . invested PrinceTeufik with the Star of India in the presence of the
Khedive with great eclat . The Serapis left Suez at 8 . 10 on the 16 th , after a brilliant reception . All well . The "Times of India " of Oct . 4 , thus refers to the preparations making for the Prince ' s visit : "Preparationsforthe Prince ' svisitstill occupy public attention , especially in Bombay , as the western capital is to have the honour of
welcoming the Prince to India . It has been arranged to have a grand Freemasons' ball in the Town Hall , and the Byculla Club will give one to the officers of the Flying Squadron , at which the Prince has promised to be present , if only for a short time , during the evening . The visit to Poona has been decided upon , and we believe
Our Royal Grand Master's Visit To India.
Ahmedabad is also to have the honour of receiving the Prince . In Calcutta and Madras addresses are being prepared and arrangements for his Highness ' s reception matured . The committee appointed at Madras to draw up the address have fixed upon a very chaste design for
the casket which is to hold it . The casket will be made of ivory , ornamented with gold , engraved after the swami pattern . The whole will bs supported by four elephants made of gold . A Hyderabad nobleman is having a gorgeous palanquin and two tonjons constructed for
presentation to his Royal Highness . The palanquin is painted in imitation of gold , and lined with rich velvet to match , and bears on the panels the coat of arms of the giver . When completed , with silver mountings , & c , it promises to be a very handsome piece of workmanship .
Preparations on an extensive scale are being made for the visit of the Nizam to Bombay to welcome the Prince . It is expected that fifteen Hyderabad rajahs will accompany the Nizam to Bombay . His Highness will have an escort of four hundred cavalry of the re-formed troops ,
and two thousand retainers . The rajahs rajahlings , and chiefs in India are contributing most liberally towards the reception of the Prince . The largest contribution from a native Prince towards- the visit is that of the Maharajah of Benares , who gave 35 , 000 rupees towards
founding a hospital in that city to commemorate the Prince ' s visit . The Maharajah of Vizianagram gave 15 , 000 rupees on that occasion . But the Zemindar of Ettapooram , in the Tinnivelly district , though yet a minor , has signified his
intention to the collector to expend 33 , 000 rupees on the occasion of his Royal Highness ' s visit to Tuticorn . " Admiral Drummond reports that the engines of the Serapis now work in the most satisfactory manner .
A Precedent.
A PRECEDENT .
We beg most earnestl y to invite the attention of all our brethren to a little matter which affects the constitutional interests of Freemasonry , and the present and future welfare of our great Metropolitan Educational Institutions . It has been contended that a Provincial Grand Lodge , and ,
of course , " a fortiori" of Grand Lodge , has the power of passing a resolution which would tend either to inquire into the government , the expenditure , or the internal economy of these voluntary Masonic institutions . We have always contended , and always shall contend , that such a motion is unconstitutional and altogether " ultra
vires . " We are happy to find that our humble view of the matter is fully confirmed by the expressed and deliberate opinion of our quondam , noble , and admirable ruler , Lord Zetland . At the Qnarterly Communication of March 3 rd , 18 58 , our distinguished Bro . Beach , M . P ., and now P . G . M . for Hampshire , raised a point of order as to the refusal of the Board of Alasters
to receive a resolution proposed to be submitted to Grand Lodge , relative to the examination of the children in the two Freemasons' Schools . What are our admirable old chief ' s wise remarks , remarks which we venture to press on the constitutional feelings and Masonic principles
of a great many excellent brethren , who do not for once seem to apprehend the vital principles at issue ? The M . W . G . M . said , that he believed the question of Bra . Beach arose out of the fact that the Chairman of the Board of Masters had refused to receive a notice of motion referring to
two of the Masonic charities . In his opinion the Chairman of the Board was perfectly right in taking tbat course . It was a motion , as he had already stated , having reference to two of the Masonic charities , with which " Grand Lodge had nothing more to do than as subscribers . If a notice
proposing to interfere with the British Orphan Asylum at Clapham had been put before the Board of Masters there could be no doubt that they would be justified in refusing to receive it . Grand Lodge had little more to do with the Masonic
charities than with the British Orphan Asylum ; that was to say , that it had nothing more to do with them than had any individual subscriber . " This decision , Ex cathedra , by our lamented and constitutional G . M ., Lord Zetland , will , we think , influence many whom our own inferior authority
A Precedent.
has not naturally convinced . Thus , then , the proper course , and the only proper course , for complainant and complaint , is to go before the House Committee , or the Quarterly Court ; and no other proposal or proceeding can be anything else but a "brutum fulmen , " or a step taken
unadvisedly in entire ignorance of the true position of the Masonic Schools , towards the constituted bodies of our Masonic system . We have but one interest to serve , the interest of the Craft and we trust we may be credited for being
actuated in all that we put forward in the "Freemason " by a fervent desire to uphold the proper constitutional precedents of our valuable Order on the . one hand , and the real interests and permanent welfare of our great educational institutions on the other .
Masonic Memories.
MASONIC MEMORIES .
We all of us at times go back in the spirit of our minds to other da \ s and ancient friends . For in Freemasonry , like in every thing else , Time , the great disturber and destroyer of all mundane institutions , often lays its heavy hand on us and the lodge , where we have spent so many happy
hours . Change or sickness , absence or business , take us away for a short time from the company of contemporaries , and the gatherings of our confieres , and like as in some tale ofthe genii , in the meanwhile , a magic transformation has taken place . The old friends we knew so well have
gone . Bro . J ones is sick and suffering , Bro . Brown has gone to live in the country , Bro . Simpson can ' t leave home of an evening , Bro . Barker has got tired of Freemasonry , Bro . Pogson is advised by his doctor not to face the night air , one or two have become married men ,
one or two have migrated elsewhere , and lo and behold , the whole personnel of the lodge is completely metamorphosed . We enter the lodge once again as of yore , we find the external appearances unchanged , and the old Tyler greets us with a smile , and nod , and a few words of
fraternal welcome , " Long time since we have seen you , Bro . Cropper , where have you been ? And then we approach the mystic sanctum , and find ourselves once more in a well-known seat . AU looks as it ever did , except that array of faces , the greater part of which is actually unknown to
us . Oh , we say , " Quando mutatus ab illo is the lodge of to-day , from that good old assembly in which in happier hours we wiled innocently away a few sunny hours of life , amid the calls of duty , or the labours of refreshment . And then we almost start . No more good old P . M .
Jones with his dogmatism and his lectures , his laying down the law , his infallible authority , his ready utterance , and his good memory . No ; all is changed . A young P . M ., excessively well got up , very civil , very pleasant , and very fluent , repeats those cherished formulai which we have
heard so often from friendly lips of old , from the brave , the true , the warm-hearted , and the most fraternal alike in speech and heart , and which we know so well , and have been acquainted with so long . The old lodge is the same in some respects to us , as it , indeed , \ must be , and yet it is not the same . We miss the smiling faces
and warm hearts of the past •we miss friendship that never wavered , and fraternal feelings that never changed ; we miss the old familiar companions of many an hour of work , of many a merry re-union ; and , like ghosts in an assembly of the living , we are like strangers in a home which once was ours , and new comers in a lodge room which we aided to establish and adorn .
And all we can say is , " Such is life . " Time and change come to us all in turn ; they dim the after hours of life with lowering clouds , they undermine friendship , and they deaden affection . The world is moving on , and we are growing old , and the " postnati" are getting the advantage
of us , and think that we are not quite go-a-head enough for them . Like Masonic philosop hers , let us accept calmly then , the inevitable and the actual . We have worked our work , we have done our duty , we have laughed at old Jowler ,
and cheered Pat Maguire ' s song , and have declared that our W . M . is a " jolly good fellow , which nobody can deny—ny . " We have up held the cause of Masonic order , or have furthered the claims of Masonic bsnevolence , and as every do ! as its day , we have had ours . But still the