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Scotland,
V EDINBURGH . '¦ - ' ¦ ' '¦ .. ¦'¦'¦¦' ''' ¦ : - ''; -W The Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Scotland was held on Monday , 3 rd August , in Kampling ' s Hotel , the M . W , D . G . M ., Bro . Whyte Melville , of Bennoch and Strathkiness , in the chair . The principal business of the evening was voting £ 3 , 500 for the house in George-street , which is to be rebuilt as the Freemasons' Hall . Bro . Dr . Macowan acted as G . S . W ., and Bro . Dfybrpugh as J . W . Most of the G . office-bearers were present , and a large attendance of
members ot Grand lx > dge . Lodge of Edinburgh , Mary ' s Chapel ( No 1 ) . — -A meeting of this Lodge was held on Thursday evening , 6 th August , for the purpose of initiating three foreign gentlement into the mysteries of our Order . The R . W . M . conducted the ceremony With his usual ability , going through the whole three Degrees in French , fully
explaining to the candidates all they had to learn , and continuing until they fully understood what they had gone through . We must congratulate the Lodge of Edinburgh in having so efficient a R . W . M ., and the Grand Orient of France in having so learned a representative at the Grand Lodge of Scotland . The nancies of the candidates were Antoine Portal , captain of the brig Cannebriere ; Jprgeh Heolf , Munster , and Guide Drammar , Norway . Bros . Clark and Thallon acted as Wardens , and full y explained at the examinations anything the candidates did not understand .
A report of Journeymen Lodge jubilee will be given in our next
PEEBLESHIBE . PKOVINCIAL OKAND LODGE . The Provincial Grand Lodge met oh Tuesday , the 11 th of August , under the auspices of the Peebles Kilwinning Lodge , No . 24 , for the purpose of being present at fixing the keystone of the bridge across Eddlestone Water , at Peebles , and laying the foundation-stone of " The Chambers Institution / 'which is to be built at the expense of Mr . William Chambers , of Glenormiston , —a gentleman who , by
honest industry , has raised himself from comparative poverty to wealth and independence , and whose career we glean from a speech made by him in returning thanks for his health being proposed at a dinner in his native town , in August , 1841 : — " It has been said that prophets are not apt to be honoured in their own country ; I can say , however , that the first remarkable honour paid to me has been not only in my own country , but on the very spot of my birth . Here , where twenty years ago I was sent forth upon the world to use the faculties with which
nature had endowed me ; here , after doing my best in the interval to improve and use those faculties , lam received back to the open hearts of a hundred honourable men , mostly my school companions , and told that the place of my nativity is glad to claim me as her child . There is something peculiarly striking in this recognition . I am the descendant of a long line of burgesses of Peebles . My ancestors have lived here with your ancestors from time immemorial . If you will search your records , if they go back so far , you will find that a person of the name which
I now bear , and probably my ancestor , was chief magistrate of Peebles at the conclusion of the thirteenth century , or about forty years before the town was made a royal burgh by King David II . I can trace my family here from father to son for two hundred years . Good reason have I then to feel pride in having my name enrolled in the list of your citizens . The transactions of this day indissolubly connect me with a place in which our family has lived for at least ten
generations—perhaps since it was first settled by an Anglo-Saxon people . Owing to certain family misfortunes , my parents found it advisable to remove to Edinburgh , in 1813 , when I was thirteen years of age . There I was in a short time introduced to scenes of active industry . What were the privations I endured while an apprentice it would be out of place to say , and it would be equally irrelevant to trouble you with the history of my early career . It will be reckoned
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Scotland,
V EDINBURGH . '¦ - ' ¦ ' '¦ .. ¦'¦'¦¦' ''' ¦ : - ''; -W The Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Scotland was held on Monday , 3 rd August , in Kampling ' s Hotel , the M . W , D . G . M ., Bro . Whyte Melville , of Bennoch and Strathkiness , in the chair . The principal business of the evening was voting £ 3 , 500 for the house in George-street , which is to be rebuilt as the Freemasons' Hall . Bro . Dr . Macowan acted as G . S . W ., and Bro . Dfybrpugh as J . W . Most of the G . office-bearers were present , and a large attendance of
members ot Grand lx > dge . Lodge of Edinburgh , Mary ' s Chapel ( No 1 ) . — -A meeting of this Lodge was held on Thursday evening , 6 th August , for the purpose of initiating three foreign gentlement into the mysteries of our Order . The R . W . M . conducted the ceremony With his usual ability , going through the whole three Degrees in French , fully
explaining to the candidates all they had to learn , and continuing until they fully understood what they had gone through . We must congratulate the Lodge of Edinburgh in having so efficient a R . W . M ., and the Grand Orient of France in having so learned a representative at the Grand Lodge of Scotland . The nancies of the candidates were Antoine Portal , captain of the brig Cannebriere ; Jprgeh Heolf , Munster , and Guide Drammar , Norway . Bros . Clark and Thallon acted as Wardens , and full y explained at the examinations anything the candidates did not understand .
A report of Journeymen Lodge jubilee will be given in our next
PEEBLESHIBE . PKOVINCIAL OKAND LODGE . The Provincial Grand Lodge met oh Tuesday , the 11 th of August , under the auspices of the Peebles Kilwinning Lodge , No . 24 , for the purpose of being present at fixing the keystone of the bridge across Eddlestone Water , at Peebles , and laying the foundation-stone of " The Chambers Institution / 'which is to be built at the expense of Mr . William Chambers , of Glenormiston , —a gentleman who , by
honest industry , has raised himself from comparative poverty to wealth and independence , and whose career we glean from a speech made by him in returning thanks for his health being proposed at a dinner in his native town , in August , 1841 : — " It has been said that prophets are not apt to be honoured in their own country ; I can say , however , that the first remarkable honour paid to me has been not only in my own country , but on the very spot of my birth . Here , where twenty years ago I was sent forth upon the world to use the faculties with which
nature had endowed me ; here , after doing my best in the interval to improve and use those faculties , lam received back to the open hearts of a hundred honourable men , mostly my school companions , and told that the place of my nativity is glad to claim me as her child . There is something peculiarly striking in this recognition . I am the descendant of a long line of burgesses of Peebles . My ancestors have lived here with your ancestors from time immemorial . If you will search your records , if they go back so far , you will find that a person of the name which
I now bear , and probably my ancestor , was chief magistrate of Peebles at the conclusion of the thirteenth century , or about forty years before the town was made a royal burgh by King David II . I can trace my family here from father to son for two hundred years . Good reason have I then to feel pride in having my name enrolled in the list of your citizens . The transactions of this day indissolubly connect me with a place in which our family has lived for at least ten
generations—perhaps since it was first settled by an Anglo-Saxon people . Owing to certain family misfortunes , my parents found it advisable to remove to Edinburgh , in 1813 , when I was thirteen years of age . There I was in a short time introduced to scenes of active industry . What were the privations I endured while an apprentice it would be out of place to say , and it would be equally irrelevant to trouble you with the history of my early career . It will be reckoned