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GRAND LODGE OF THE PROVINCE OF HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT . THE R . W . BRO . VV . VV . BEACH , M . P ., PROV . G . MASTER . THE VV . BRO . VV . HICKMAN , D . PROV . G . . MASTER . The GRAND LODGE of this PROVINCE will assemble hy command of the R . W . PROV . G . MASTER at ANDOVER , on TUESDAY , the 3 rd day of AUGUST , at 1 . 30 p . m ., and be closed tyled punctually at two o'clock * p . m . The Brethren will meet at thc TOWN * HALL , where the Provincial business will be transacted . The Banquet will take place at 3 . 30 p . m . precisely , at the FORESTERS' HALL . The Tickets will be Five Shillings each , exclusive of Wine . In order to insure the comfort of every one who attends , the W . M . 's of Lodges are earnestly requested to send ( addressed to the Prov . G . Sec , Southampton ) the names of all who propose to join the Banquet , not later than Saturday morning , thc 31 st July . The attendance of Visiting Brethren is particularly invited . By command of the R . W . Prov . G . Master , J . E . LE FEUVRE , P . M ., Prov . G . Sec . Southampton , 17 th July , 5 SS 0 .

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ANCIENT AND PRIMITIVE RITE OF MASONRY . ROSE OF SHARON ROSE CROIX CHAPTER , No . 6 * PROVINCE OF MIDDLESEX . CHAPTER HOUSE , 77 V , BISIIOPSGATE STREET . The Chapter will be opened as a Lodge of Instruction every Tuesday evening in | uly , commencing nn the Oth , when the Degrees of the Chapter—Five and Six—will be worked , and to which Royal Arch Masons are invited . On subsequent Tuesdays the remaining Degrees — Seven to Eleven—will be worked , and holders of these or corresponding Degrees under other Rites are admitted on application . Chapter will be opened nt 7 . 30 p . m . and close at 9 punctually . Information ns to advancement in the Degrees of this Rite may be obtained at thc Chapter House as above . JAMES HILL , 32-, Sec .

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¦ £ o CorrrSBtmtirttts . SECRETARY . —The date will shorty be announced . The following stand over : — l ^ odge of Industry , No . . jS . Berkhampstead I . odge , No . 50-I . West Smithfield Lodge , No . ' 1623 . BOOKS , c 1 * c , RECEIVED . "The Hebrew Loader , " * 'Keystone , ' * * ' Mn-onic Age , " "The Egyptian Gazette , " " Rules , Regulations , nnd List of Members of the Ancient and Accepted Kite , " "Sunday Times , " "Der Long Islaender , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " " The Egyptian Gazette , " "Croydon Guardian . " "La Chaine D'Union , " "Broad Arr ' iw , " " Bolt-tin Olicial , " "Jewish Chronicle , " "Hull Packet . * ' " The Citizen , " " Ti ' . e Empire , " "The New York Dispatch , " " Voice of Masonry , " " Die Bai ' ihutte .

The Freemason.

THE FREEMASON .

. **> ATLR !) AY , J l .-LV . ? , I , iSSo . . _ - <^_ _ . IT will be seen by a paragraph in the Freemason last week that our distinguished brother the Marquis of I . ONIIONDKRRY will be installed Provincial

Grand Master of Durham in October next . H . R . H . the Grand Master will , we understand , be present , with the Pro and Deputy Grand Masters . Wc believe also that on the day following his installation as Provincial Grand Master our

noble brother will be installed Grand Superintendent of Durham by the Grand S . Ezra . Whenever it is arranged to hold the meeting , we doubt not but that there will be a most numerous attendance , to pay respect to that very esteemed and well known member of our Order .

* * ONE of the greatest charms connected with Freemasonry is the pleasant Friendshi p it often interweaves between men oi different feelings , views , ideas , and which remains an agreeable and

unchanged companion to the closing hours of life ' s little scene . How many of us to-day can recall the old lodge and the old friend ; memories which never leave us , which ever supervene , of pleasant hours and comel y associations , and all those things

which have coloured our waking hours , and controlled our normal and even abnormal existence Now , when for a lime our lod ge life is in repose , when we have taken off our " paraphernalia , " and put on our seaside or mountain free and easy dress , and for us Freemasonry is in abeyance for the

The Freemason.

nonce , let us duly recall what we owe to that friendshi p which the lodge has cemented , to that kindness which has never failed us , to that interest which has not wavered , to that sympathy which still is ours , amid thc dailv cares and crosses

of this our mortal state of existence . And thus it is wise to make this little pause and break in our lodge life , lest uniformity should tire , or repetition should pall . Besides , what a good thing it is for us all to get away from

our own "dear little village for a time , and to forget drains and rates , smells and worries , and English politics , and German bands . What a contrast does sweet smelling clover , or the walk amid the woodbine or pine woods , or shrimps and

lea in a seaside village , give to us poor mortals here . To stand on fell , on mountain top , mid Druid remains or Briton ' s camp ; to lift up our eye in wonder at the beauties of wood , and vale , and lake , or the " everlasting hills " is , indeed , a

good thing for us all . So let us take holidays when we can get them , and give holidays to others when we can . In thc wear and tear and ruck of life nothing so soothes , softens , gladdens , benefits our

often weary lot , as a few pleasant days oi rest and refreshment for body and mind . Home seems invested with double charms , and nature in her boundless store can invigorate and improve us all .

WE call attention to lhe intercsiing accounts of the meetings of the Provincial Grand Lodges of Hertfordshire , . Surrey , and Suffolk , which will be found in our columns this week . We rejoice heartily

to note tne very energetic condition of these distinguished boclie ~ , which make the " life and heart "' of our provincial Freemasonry , and which are now very nourishing , very active , and very much in earnest .

THERE is , as a correspondent tells us last week , who signs himself "A , " in the Guildhall Library a broadside squib about Freemasonry , of date 17 . ^ 0 , hitherto unk . iown ( as far as we are aware : to Masonic students . For it agrees with no known form

so far of tile " Oram ! Mystery , or any otner similar work , it illustrates one * or two points of . Masonic archeology curiousl y and peculiarl y enough . For we have a right to draw even from the childish and senseless attacks of our opponents any points

which suit our own purpose , or throw light on our own history . The ! im pc ml is that , even in tj , ** - , ' * -, according to ihis assailant of Masonry , probabl y Prichard , the operative connexion is siill sustained . Second !* . —the three Degrees are in lull operation ,

and words are used , ami expressions employed , which serve to convince us . Masonic students oi thc past of the veracity after at ! of ANDEKSIIN ' statements generally in 1 / - " v Some o ! us can . no doubt , recall to mind l ) i : itv ' iiTT * s assertions , which

though exaggerated and contested as all such partizan assertions are , and always will be in like circumstances , yet have some little truth in them , though everything , we beg to remark , so far makes for thc antiquity , not the modernity , of our present system .

WE rejoice to note that H . M . the OUEEN has granted a site in St . George ' s Chapel , Windsor , tor a memorial lo the File lamented PRINCE IMPERIAL . It is not , indeed , for the Freemason to allude to passing topics of political or polemical

controversy , much less to discuss or criticize the progress of public affairs ; but many of our readers will agree with us , we know , in thinking that no onc

ever died more nobly , "in harness right knightly , " in the field than did that gallant boy , and that no one more deserves a living and loyal memorial on English soil .

SOME one has said that an age of controversy is not the most favourable one for the "growth" of the " religious life , " and the same , we think , may also be fairly said of Freemasonry . For Freemasonry

does not , and cannot , truly flourish amid the heats and excitement of party warfare . It wants no such turbid scenes , none such injudicious friends to assert ils principles , or commend its manv and undoubted

The Freemason.

claims to the confidence and admiration of mankind . It is impossible in the eagerness of

controvers }* , ( for none are so little wise as controversialists in the means they employ , the weapons they use ) , either to affix the limits of " free discussion *' or the probable end of a special movement . Neither can we control the animus of hot partizans or the

possible and probable " outcome" of even " pure personality" in all such " vexatas qutestiones . '' We may ourselves believe , as was said of old . sunt certi denique fines to everything here ; but then , on the contrary , that older adage is truer still .

the " beginning of strife is as the letting out 0 ' water , " and no cne can affect to control the overflow , or direct thc course of the stream . What good , may we ask , have the controversial questions raised by the French Grand Orient done French

or cosmopolitan Masonry ? So whether it is the hot weather , or the prospect of mountain breezes , or any other cause , we give notice that the Freemason is just now of most peaceful humour , specially

objecting to any of those loo of ten petty controversies , whose only objectseems lobe personal self-assertion , and which do good , as Baillie NICOL J ARVII liked to say , to " nacthing and naebodv . "

* * WE note with regret , according to the Cliaim if Union , thai an attack has commenced in thc Rite Ecossais . both against the phrase " Principe Createur , " and the still older "formula , " Le Grand

Architecte del'Univcrs . As regards the " Principe Createur" wc have never approved , and can never approve of it , in itself . But we fear that if the authorities do not mind , even thc Rite Ecossais in France will , as it were , go on " pari passu " with

the Grand Orient , in renunciation of the name of God . This would be a great blow to English members of the A . and A . Rite , and we know will not be approved of by them . We trust that there may be some lillie mistake , or possibility

of a reconsideration of the matier , but the words wc read as the report of the "Commission" are to our minds very ominous , because entirely " or all fours " with the similar movement and verbiage

in the Grand Orient of France . We trust thai thc ( irand Conseil will stand firm and do then duly , as they have done it recently , very gallantly , both to the Rite Ecossais in France , and for thc true interests of the A . and A . Kile everywhere .

* * Ai'TKU some recent remarks of some of our con temporaries , not flattering to the Mctropolitai Police , our readers will have rejoiced with us ti havej- ' read of that " coup"dc police" which In

spector BANNISTER recently gave to some wellknown " magsmen , " "gentlemen" that is , of tht " road and rail , " who rejoice to do the " confidence trick , " in this case , happily , " once toe often . " Philosophically we are tempted to exclaim ,

" What is the world , after all , just now , but a great amphitheatre in which the confidence trick is played bv many of all classes daily , for whom there is . let

us hope , somewhere an Inspector BANNISTER in store ? " "Guys" and " marks" still abound among us , and wecan only wish to the " Inspector BANNISTERS" of society " more power to their arrums . "

* * OUR readers have often read our remarks , though we never pen them without pain , in respect of Roman Catholic bigotry and intolerance towards us poor Freemasons , here , there , and everywhere . One of the most shocking proofs of the same we

have for some time realized is contained in the Ci ' iaine d'Union for July , where at pages 187-188 " La Scmaine Religeuse , " of Versailles , for June 20 th , 1880 , reproduces a passage from the " Semaine de Grenoble , " in which a certain Perc

J ANDEL , a Dominican , declares solemnly before several witnesses that he expelled the " demon " who was presiding over a Masonic lodge by the sign of thc cross . The story is too ridiculous , nay ,

too blasphemous , to transfer lo our pages , and we can only pity any one who can seriously state such a wicked and diabolical untruth . The probability is that the poor Dominican is out of his mind . Bro . HUBKRT , who relates the story , adds , " Risurn

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS. Article 4
PICNIC OF THE CHILTERN LODGE, No. 1470, DUNSTABLE. Article 4
SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE METROPOLITAN LODGE, No. 1507, AND THE ROYAL SAVOY LODGE, No. 1774. Article 4
COMMUNIQUE. Article 4
REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS. Article 4
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GRAND LODGE OF THE PROVINCE OF HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT . THE R . W . BRO . VV . VV . BEACH , M . P ., PROV . G . MASTER . THE VV . BRO . VV . HICKMAN , D . PROV . G . . MASTER . The GRAND LODGE of this PROVINCE will assemble hy command of the R . W . PROV . G . MASTER at ANDOVER , on TUESDAY , the 3 rd day of AUGUST , at 1 . 30 p . m ., and be closed tyled punctually at two o'clock * p . m . The Brethren will meet at thc TOWN * HALL , where the Provincial business will be transacted . The Banquet will take place at 3 . 30 p . m . precisely , at the FORESTERS' HALL . The Tickets will be Five Shillings each , exclusive of Wine . In order to insure the comfort of every one who attends , the W . M . 's of Lodges are earnestly requested to send ( addressed to the Prov . G . Sec , Southampton ) the names of all who propose to join the Banquet , not later than Saturday morning , thc 31 st July . The attendance of Visiting Brethren is particularly invited . By command of the R . W . Prov . G . Master , J . E . LE FEUVRE , P . M ., Prov . G . Sec . Southampton , 17 th July , 5 SS 0 .

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ANCIENT AND PRIMITIVE RITE OF MASONRY . ROSE OF SHARON ROSE CROIX CHAPTER , No . 6 * PROVINCE OF MIDDLESEX . CHAPTER HOUSE , 77 V , BISIIOPSGATE STREET . The Chapter will be opened as a Lodge of Instruction every Tuesday evening in | uly , commencing nn the Oth , when the Degrees of the Chapter—Five and Six—will be worked , and to which Royal Arch Masons are invited . On subsequent Tuesdays the remaining Degrees — Seven to Eleven—will be worked , and holders of these or corresponding Degrees under other Rites are admitted on application . Chapter will be opened nt 7 . 30 p . m . and close at 9 punctually . Information ns to advancement in the Degrees of this Rite may be obtained at thc Chapter House as above . JAMES HILL , 32-, Sec .

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¦ £ o CorrrSBtmtirttts . SECRETARY . —The date will shorty be announced . The following stand over : — l ^ odge of Industry , No . . jS . Berkhampstead I . odge , No . 50-I . West Smithfield Lodge , No . ' 1623 . BOOKS , c 1 * c , RECEIVED . "The Hebrew Loader , " * 'Keystone , ' * * ' Mn-onic Age , " "The Egyptian Gazette , " " Rules , Regulations , nnd List of Members of the Ancient and Accepted Kite , " "Sunday Times , " "Der Long Islaender , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " " The Egyptian Gazette , " "Croydon Guardian . " "La Chaine D'Union , " "Broad Arr ' iw , " " Bolt-tin Olicial , " "Jewish Chronicle , " "Hull Packet . * ' " The Citizen , " " Ti ' . e Empire , " "The New York Dispatch , " " Voice of Masonry , " " Die Bai ' ihutte .

The Freemason.

THE FREEMASON .

. **> ATLR !) AY , J l .-LV . ? , I , iSSo . . _ - <^_ _ . IT will be seen by a paragraph in the Freemason last week that our distinguished brother the Marquis of I . ONIIONDKRRY will be installed Provincial

Grand Master of Durham in October next . H . R . H . the Grand Master will , we understand , be present , with the Pro and Deputy Grand Masters . Wc believe also that on the day following his installation as Provincial Grand Master our

noble brother will be installed Grand Superintendent of Durham by the Grand S . Ezra . Whenever it is arranged to hold the meeting , we doubt not but that there will be a most numerous attendance , to pay respect to that very esteemed and well known member of our Order .

* * ONE of the greatest charms connected with Freemasonry is the pleasant Friendshi p it often interweaves between men oi different feelings , views , ideas , and which remains an agreeable and

unchanged companion to the closing hours of life ' s little scene . How many of us to-day can recall the old lodge and the old friend ; memories which never leave us , which ever supervene , of pleasant hours and comel y associations , and all those things

which have coloured our waking hours , and controlled our normal and even abnormal existence Now , when for a lime our lod ge life is in repose , when we have taken off our " paraphernalia , " and put on our seaside or mountain free and easy dress , and for us Freemasonry is in abeyance for the

The Freemason.

nonce , let us duly recall what we owe to that friendshi p which the lodge has cemented , to that kindness which has never failed us , to that interest which has not wavered , to that sympathy which still is ours , amid thc dailv cares and crosses

of this our mortal state of existence . And thus it is wise to make this little pause and break in our lodge life , lest uniformity should tire , or repetition should pall . Besides , what a good thing it is for us all to get away from

our own "dear little village for a time , and to forget drains and rates , smells and worries , and English politics , and German bands . What a contrast does sweet smelling clover , or the walk amid the woodbine or pine woods , or shrimps and

lea in a seaside village , give to us poor mortals here . To stand on fell , on mountain top , mid Druid remains or Briton ' s camp ; to lift up our eye in wonder at the beauties of wood , and vale , and lake , or the " everlasting hills " is , indeed , a

good thing for us all . So let us take holidays when we can get them , and give holidays to others when we can . In thc wear and tear and ruck of life nothing so soothes , softens , gladdens , benefits our

often weary lot , as a few pleasant days oi rest and refreshment for body and mind . Home seems invested with double charms , and nature in her boundless store can invigorate and improve us all .

WE call attention to lhe intercsiing accounts of the meetings of the Provincial Grand Lodges of Hertfordshire , . Surrey , and Suffolk , which will be found in our columns this week . We rejoice heartily

to note tne very energetic condition of these distinguished boclie ~ , which make the " life and heart "' of our provincial Freemasonry , and which are now very nourishing , very active , and very much in earnest .

THERE is , as a correspondent tells us last week , who signs himself "A , " in the Guildhall Library a broadside squib about Freemasonry , of date 17 . ^ 0 , hitherto unk . iown ( as far as we are aware : to Masonic students . For it agrees with no known form

so far of tile " Oram ! Mystery , or any otner similar work , it illustrates one * or two points of . Masonic archeology curiousl y and peculiarl y enough . For we have a right to draw even from the childish and senseless attacks of our opponents any points

which suit our own purpose , or throw light on our own history . The ! im pc ml is that , even in tj , ** - , ' * -, according to ihis assailant of Masonry , probabl y Prichard , the operative connexion is siill sustained . Second !* . —the three Degrees are in lull operation ,

and words are used , ami expressions employed , which serve to convince us . Masonic students oi thc past of the veracity after at ! of ANDEKSIIN ' statements generally in 1 / - " v Some o ! us can . no doubt , recall to mind l ) i : itv ' iiTT * s assertions , which

though exaggerated and contested as all such partizan assertions are , and always will be in like circumstances , yet have some little truth in them , though everything , we beg to remark , so far makes for thc antiquity , not the modernity , of our present system .

WE rejoice to note that H . M . the OUEEN has granted a site in St . George ' s Chapel , Windsor , tor a memorial lo the File lamented PRINCE IMPERIAL . It is not , indeed , for the Freemason to allude to passing topics of political or polemical

controversy , much less to discuss or criticize the progress of public affairs ; but many of our readers will agree with us , we know , in thinking that no onc

ever died more nobly , "in harness right knightly , " in the field than did that gallant boy , and that no one more deserves a living and loyal memorial on English soil .

SOME one has said that an age of controversy is not the most favourable one for the "growth" of the " religious life , " and the same , we think , may also be fairly said of Freemasonry . For Freemasonry

does not , and cannot , truly flourish amid the heats and excitement of party warfare . It wants no such turbid scenes , none such injudicious friends to assert ils principles , or commend its manv and undoubted

The Freemason.

claims to the confidence and admiration of mankind . It is impossible in the eagerness of

controvers }* , ( for none are so little wise as controversialists in the means they employ , the weapons they use ) , either to affix the limits of " free discussion *' or the probable end of a special movement . Neither can we control the animus of hot partizans or the

possible and probable " outcome" of even " pure personality" in all such " vexatas qutestiones . '' We may ourselves believe , as was said of old . sunt certi denique fines to everything here ; but then , on the contrary , that older adage is truer still .

the " beginning of strife is as the letting out 0 ' water , " and no cne can affect to control the overflow , or direct thc course of the stream . What good , may we ask , have the controversial questions raised by the French Grand Orient done French

or cosmopolitan Masonry ? So whether it is the hot weather , or the prospect of mountain breezes , or any other cause , we give notice that the Freemason is just now of most peaceful humour , specially

objecting to any of those loo of ten petty controversies , whose only objectseems lobe personal self-assertion , and which do good , as Baillie NICOL J ARVII liked to say , to " nacthing and naebodv . "

* * WE note with regret , according to the Cliaim if Union , thai an attack has commenced in thc Rite Ecossais . both against the phrase " Principe Createur , " and the still older "formula , " Le Grand

Architecte del'Univcrs . As regards the " Principe Createur" wc have never approved , and can never approve of it , in itself . But we fear that if the authorities do not mind , even thc Rite Ecossais in France will , as it were , go on " pari passu " with

the Grand Orient , in renunciation of the name of God . This would be a great blow to English members of the A . and A . Rite , and we know will not be approved of by them . We trust that there may be some lillie mistake , or possibility

of a reconsideration of the matier , but the words wc read as the report of the "Commission" are to our minds very ominous , because entirely " or all fours " with the similar movement and verbiage

in the Grand Orient of France . We trust thai thc ( irand Conseil will stand firm and do then duly , as they have done it recently , very gallantly , both to the Rite Ecossais in France , and for thc true interests of the A . and A . Kile everywhere .

* * Ai'TKU some recent remarks of some of our con temporaries , not flattering to the Mctropolitai Police , our readers will have rejoiced with us ti havej- ' read of that " coup"dc police" which In

spector BANNISTER recently gave to some wellknown " magsmen , " "gentlemen" that is , of tht " road and rail , " who rejoice to do the " confidence trick , " in this case , happily , " once toe often . " Philosophically we are tempted to exclaim ,

" What is the world , after all , just now , but a great amphitheatre in which the confidence trick is played bv many of all classes daily , for whom there is . let

us hope , somewhere an Inspector BANNISTER in store ? " "Guys" and " marks" still abound among us , and wecan only wish to the " Inspector BANNISTERS" of society " more power to their arrums . "

* * OUR readers have often read our remarks , though we never pen them without pain , in respect of Roman Catholic bigotry and intolerance towards us poor Freemasons , here , there , and everywhere . One of the most shocking proofs of the same we

have for some time realized is contained in the Ci ' iaine d'Union for July , where at pages 187-188 " La Scmaine Religeuse , " of Versailles , for June 20 th , 1880 , reproduces a passage from the " Semaine de Grenoble , " in which a certain Perc

J ANDEL , a Dominican , declares solemnly before several witnesses that he expelled the " demon " who was presiding over a Masonic lodge by the sign of thc cross . The story is too ridiculous , nay ,

too blasphemous , to transfer lo our pages , and we can only pity any one who can seriously state such a wicked and diabolical untruth . The probability is that the poor Dominican is out of his mind . Bro . HUBKRT , who relates the story , adds , " Risurn

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