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Provincial.
the Provincial Grand Lodge assisted , with the exception of those who were obliged to return to Banbury . The W . M ,, Bro . Codrington , MA . of Bra & ehose , was in the chair , supported by Bro . Hosier , B . A . of Balhbl > S . W " . ; Bro . Strother , of Magdalen Hall ; the Prov . and D . Prov . Grand Masters , and a numerous assembly both of members and visitors . During a portion of the evening , the Prov . Grand Master took the chair for the purpose of initiating his second son ,
Mr . Fitzwilliam Wentworth Bowyer , of Christ Church , after which the W . M . resumed his seat > and initiated five other members of the university . The passings and raisings , owing to the heavy press of business for this day , had been performed on the day previous . The initiations being over , Bro . Pickard rose to propose the adoption of a motion precisely similar to that passed in the Prov . Grand Lodge in the morning , for the words of which he was indebted to the Prov . Grand Master . The reason , he said , for bringing forward this motion at all ,
was to be found in Lord Zetland ' s speech in tlie last Grand Lodge , and in the Apollo Lodge ; because a rumour was afloat that even if the attack in question had not emanated from some members of the Lodge , there were yet members of the Lodge who were supposed to be connected with the periodical containing the attack . He could not , however , believe that any members of Bo . 460 could haye written an attack , as false as it was unjustifiable ; and , unjustifiable because , if the Grand Master had done what was laid to his charge , vi & ., given the offices in his
gift to his own political friends , there would have been no proof that he had done it from political motives , and that nothing could justify the offensive expression that a noblenian of Lord Zetland ' s high mind and feeling had prostituted his Masonic patronage to political purposes . " The W . M . seconded the motion with the insertion of the words " and libellous , " so that it stood precisely as passed in Proviueil Grand Lodge . The Rev . R . W . Norman observed that he thought Bro . Pickard was mistaken in the idea that either the Lodge or any individual
members of it were in the least implicated m the matter , He heartily supported the motion , but he must repeat what he had said in the morning , that the papers in question were anonymous , that they had nothing whatever to do with reports and rumours , that the Apollo Lodge and its members w ere entirely beside the question , and that they must look at the case entirely ab extra , and judge Hon its own merits , without considering for one moment who might be or could be the author of the article under consideration . That thus viewing the case , he had every
reason to give the proposal his hearty concurrence . The Rev . G-. ' R . Portal observed that the resolution now before the Lodge had been passed that morning in the Provincial Grand Lodge with but one dissentient voice . That one dissentient voice was his own , but now he was haj ) py to say it would bo unanimous , at least as regarded himself , for though he could not , for the reasons he had given in the morning , support it , he was now enabled ( as Bro . Pickard had confined his observations more immediately to the attack upon the Grand Master and
had not at all dwelt on such extraneous matters as his lordship ' s advisers , or those who were said so to be , the colonies , & c ) , to withdraw his opposition , although he could not vote for the motion in its integrity . He hoped , that whatever excitement or warmth of feeling had boon caused by this most painful affair , now that the Grand Master had given his denial to the charges brought against him , and that those explanations had been entered into ,
that all ill feeling would be allayed , and peace and harmony restored . One especial means of promoting this object , he assured his Brethren , would be for country Masons to become regular attendants at Grand Lodge , so as to be enabled to see , and hear , and judge , and vote for themselves , and that if educated men like those now around kirn would systematically adopt this independent course , party spirit would disappear , and peace would once more prevail . Bro . Hosier ( the S . W . )
begged to he allowed to express his entire concurrence in the yiews of tho Rev . Bro . Norman with regard to the anonymous nature of theoffensive paragraph . They had' no business to pay attention to any rumours —no business with the writers , even if they know them—no business to inquire who they were . He could not therefore agree with Bro . Pickard , that the Lodge was called on to express its confidence in tho Grand Master , because their Lodge , or any of its members , were involved , nor could ho consider that they were so ; he supported
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Provincial.
the Provincial Grand Lodge assisted , with the exception of those who were obliged to return to Banbury . The W . M ,, Bro . Codrington , MA . of Bra & ehose , was in the chair , supported by Bro . Hosier , B . A . of Balhbl > S . W " . ; Bro . Strother , of Magdalen Hall ; the Prov . and D . Prov . Grand Masters , and a numerous assembly both of members and visitors . During a portion of the evening , the Prov . Grand Master took the chair for the purpose of initiating his second son ,
Mr . Fitzwilliam Wentworth Bowyer , of Christ Church , after which the W . M . resumed his seat > and initiated five other members of the university . The passings and raisings , owing to the heavy press of business for this day , had been performed on the day previous . The initiations being over , Bro . Pickard rose to propose the adoption of a motion precisely similar to that passed in the Prov . Grand Lodge in the morning , for the words of which he was indebted to the Prov . Grand Master . The reason , he said , for bringing forward this motion at all ,
was to be found in Lord Zetland ' s speech in tlie last Grand Lodge , and in the Apollo Lodge ; because a rumour was afloat that even if the attack in question had not emanated from some members of the Lodge , there were yet members of the Lodge who were supposed to be connected with the periodical containing the attack . He could not , however , believe that any members of Bo . 460 could haye written an attack , as false as it was unjustifiable ; and , unjustifiable because , if the Grand Master had done what was laid to his charge , vi & ., given the offices in his
gift to his own political friends , there would have been no proof that he had done it from political motives , and that nothing could justify the offensive expression that a noblenian of Lord Zetland ' s high mind and feeling had prostituted his Masonic patronage to political purposes . " The W . M . seconded the motion with the insertion of the words " and libellous , " so that it stood precisely as passed in Proviueil Grand Lodge . The Rev . R . W . Norman observed that he thought Bro . Pickard was mistaken in the idea that either the Lodge or any individual
members of it were in the least implicated m the matter , He heartily supported the motion , but he must repeat what he had said in the morning , that the papers in question were anonymous , that they had nothing whatever to do with reports and rumours , that the Apollo Lodge and its members w ere entirely beside the question , and that they must look at the case entirely ab extra , and judge Hon its own merits , without considering for one moment who might be or could be the author of the article under consideration . That thus viewing the case , he had every
reason to give the proposal his hearty concurrence . The Rev . G-. ' R . Portal observed that the resolution now before the Lodge had been passed that morning in the Provincial Grand Lodge with but one dissentient voice . That one dissentient voice was his own , but now he was haj ) py to say it would bo unanimous , at least as regarded himself , for though he could not , for the reasons he had given in the morning , support it , he was now enabled ( as Bro . Pickard had confined his observations more immediately to the attack upon the Grand Master and
had not at all dwelt on such extraneous matters as his lordship ' s advisers , or those who were said so to be , the colonies , & c ) , to withdraw his opposition , although he could not vote for the motion in its integrity . He hoped , that whatever excitement or warmth of feeling had boon caused by this most painful affair , now that the Grand Master had given his denial to the charges brought against him , and that those explanations had been entered into ,
that all ill feeling would be allayed , and peace and harmony restored . One especial means of promoting this object , he assured his Brethren , would be for country Masons to become regular attendants at Grand Lodge , so as to be enabled to see , and hear , and judge , and vote for themselves , and that if educated men like those now around kirn would systematically adopt this independent course , party spirit would disappear , and peace would once more prevail . Bro . Hosier ( the S . W . )
begged to he allowed to express his entire concurrence in the yiews of tho Rev . Bro . Norman with regard to the anonymous nature of theoffensive paragraph . They had' no business to pay attention to any rumours —no business with the writers , even if they know them—no business to inquire who they were . He could not therefore agree with Bro . Pickard , that the Lodge was called on to express its confidence in tho Grand Master , because their Lodge , or any of its members , were involved , nor could ho consider that they were so ; he supported