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Masonic Festivities.
MASONIC FESTIVITIES .
An assemblage of elegantly dressed ladies and their friends honoured the Brethren of the Old Concord Lodge with their presence on Wednesday evening last , at the Hanover Square Booms , on which occasion the annual ball of the above highly respectable and influential Lodge took place . Bro . Taylor ' s band was in attendance , and gave great satisfaction . The M . C . ( Bro . Frampton ) by his obliging and untiring efforts lightened the labours of the stewards , and
relieved them from the onerous duties of providing bashful young Masons and others with partners . He was also equally successful in keeping something like order and regularity in a very over-crowded room . At one o ' clock the company sat down to an excellent banquet provided by Mr . Withers , to which full and ample justice was done . What the Bev . Mri Spurgeon would have said to the party we know not , if he had happened to drop in half-an-hour after the onslaught on the viands had commenced— -but we think it would not have made much difference to
us , for being under the banner of Bro . Jeffries we did not care to listen to speeches . We are informed that Bro . Jackson , the W . M ., proposed the health of the Queen , making some very appropriate allusions to the peculiar circumstances connected with royalty at the present time ; the toast was received with enthusiastic cheers . This was followed by Bro . Emmens , P . M . and Sec . soliciting the attention of the company for a few moments , while he addressed them upon the subject of this meeting . He said ,- "Ladies and gentlemen , believe me it is no wish of mine to infringe upon your valuable time , being fully aware that the delights of Terpischore
are far more in unison with your feelings than listening to a number of speeches ; still I am bound by my position as secretary to this ball , to solicit your indulgence for a very short time , while I thank you on behalf of the stewards—more particularly the ladies—for this ready response to the call of charity , for charity it is . By thus enjoying yourselves , you are adding some cqmfort to your less fortunate fellow creatures , the profits of these festive occasions being devoted to the charities connected with our valuable Order ; therefore I am not wrong in
addressing you as subscribers , for such you really are . In supporting the "Old Concord Ball" you are subscribing to the funds of our Institution , and I may add , although now in the full measure of enjoyment—many of us probably in the tide of prosperity—yet it is not impossible , so uncertain are the ways of life , that some of us might ere the next anniversary be placed by untoward circumstances in a position to require the aid of those very charities whose funds we are augmenting by these meetings . Again thanking you for your attendance , ladies and gentlemen , allow me in conclusion to propose "The health of our President , Bro .
Jackson , who is only to be known to be appreciated . The toast was received with loud applause ; Bro . Jackson returning thanks with his well known ability . u The health of the Ladies " followed , which was neatly responded to by Bro . Nicholson , P . M . If the Brethren upon occasions of this sort will make long speeches , and wish all the company to hear them , they ought each in their turn to step into the middle of the room , but for ourselves ( we only express it as a private opinion ) we think speechmaking is out of place at balls . On tho whole , the affair passed off exceedingly well , and we wish the " Old Concord " every success at their next
anniversary . Huddersfield . —On Monday , Jan . 25 , the . "Brethren of the Lodge of Harmony , No . 342 , held a ball in honour of the marriage of the Princess ' . Royal with H . B . H . Bro . Prince Frederick William of Prussia , The spacious and well-furnished hall belonging to the Lodge was richly decorated and brilliantly illuminated for the occasion . Outside the building was a very beautiful gas illumination , representing the star of Brunswick , surmounted by a crown . Inside tho hall was another illumination , representing the five-point star of Masonry , the effect of which , combined
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Masonic Festivities.
MASONIC FESTIVITIES .
An assemblage of elegantly dressed ladies and their friends honoured the Brethren of the Old Concord Lodge with their presence on Wednesday evening last , at the Hanover Square Booms , on which occasion the annual ball of the above highly respectable and influential Lodge took place . Bro . Taylor ' s band was in attendance , and gave great satisfaction . The M . C . ( Bro . Frampton ) by his obliging and untiring efforts lightened the labours of the stewards , and
relieved them from the onerous duties of providing bashful young Masons and others with partners . He was also equally successful in keeping something like order and regularity in a very over-crowded room . At one o ' clock the company sat down to an excellent banquet provided by Mr . Withers , to which full and ample justice was done . What the Bev . Mri Spurgeon would have said to the party we know not , if he had happened to drop in half-an-hour after the onslaught on the viands had commenced— -but we think it would not have made much difference to
us , for being under the banner of Bro . Jeffries we did not care to listen to speeches . We are informed that Bro . Jackson , the W . M ., proposed the health of the Queen , making some very appropriate allusions to the peculiar circumstances connected with royalty at the present time ; the toast was received with enthusiastic cheers . This was followed by Bro . Emmens , P . M . and Sec . soliciting the attention of the company for a few moments , while he addressed them upon the subject of this meeting . He said ,- "Ladies and gentlemen , believe me it is no wish of mine to infringe upon your valuable time , being fully aware that the delights of Terpischore
are far more in unison with your feelings than listening to a number of speeches ; still I am bound by my position as secretary to this ball , to solicit your indulgence for a very short time , while I thank you on behalf of the stewards—more particularly the ladies—for this ready response to the call of charity , for charity it is . By thus enjoying yourselves , you are adding some cqmfort to your less fortunate fellow creatures , the profits of these festive occasions being devoted to the charities connected with our valuable Order ; therefore I am not wrong in
addressing you as subscribers , for such you really are . In supporting the "Old Concord Ball" you are subscribing to the funds of our Institution , and I may add , although now in the full measure of enjoyment—many of us probably in the tide of prosperity—yet it is not impossible , so uncertain are the ways of life , that some of us might ere the next anniversary be placed by untoward circumstances in a position to require the aid of those very charities whose funds we are augmenting by these meetings . Again thanking you for your attendance , ladies and gentlemen , allow me in conclusion to propose "The health of our President , Bro .
Jackson , who is only to be known to be appreciated . The toast was received with loud applause ; Bro . Jackson returning thanks with his well known ability . u The health of the Ladies " followed , which was neatly responded to by Bro . Nicholson , P . M . If the Brethren upon occasions of this sort will make long speeches , and wish all the company to hear them , they ought each in their turn to step into the middle of the room , but for ourselves ( we only express it as a private opinion ) we think speechmaking is out of place at balls . On tho whole , the affair passed off exceedingly well , and we wish the " Old Concord " every success at their next
anniversary . Huddersfield . —On Monday , Jan . 25 , the . "Brethren of the Lodge of Harmony , No . 342 , held a ball in honour of the marriage of the Princess ' . Royal with H . B . H . Bro . Prince Frederick William of Prussia , The spacious and well-furnished hall belonging to the Lodge was richly decorated and brilliantly illuminated for the occasion . Outside the building was a very beautiful gas illumination , representing the star of Brunswick , surmounted by a crown . Inside tho hall was another illumination , representing the five-point star of Masonry , the effect of which , combined