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am wrong . The Grand Secretary came out to ask my business with the Board , and T told him it was to deliver a copy of my appeal , and at the same time to reason with the Board , or ask some explanations on the decision to which it had arrived . And the Grand Secretary having communicated this , returned and told me that the Board would receive the copy of my appeal , but declined granting me an interview . But ( continued Bro . S . ) your Royal Highness misunderstands

me altogether in this matter ; - —it is not about the appeal itself that I complain , but the memorial . I complain that , as Grand Master , you did not comply with the request of our very respectful memorial , by calling an Especial Grand Lodge to hear the appeals after they were sent in , and that your Royal Highness did not even condescend to honour us so much as to acknowledge its receipt ; and now , Most Worshipful Grand Master , after having thus treated a memorial to

call an Especial Grand Lodge to hear the appeal , your Royal Highness sanctions , it would seem , the calling of an Especial Grand Lodge to promote the punishment of a Brother who was a party to that very memorial . The time of Grand Lodge in Quarterly Communication was as much in point for one case as the other ; and I shall therefore move as an amendment , ' That this Grand Lodge at its rising do adjourn to the regular day of meeting in December /

GRAND LODGE OP EMERGENCY , November 19 . The M . W . the Grand Master summoned a Grand Lodge of Emergency on the 19 th of November , to take up the business at the point at which it terminated at the Quarterly Communication in September last , and to ignore and declare null and void the proceedings of the adjourned Grand Lodge held October 1 , The Right Hon . the Earl of Zetland , G . M ., presided in person , supported by Sir Lucius Curtis , Prov . G . M . of Hampshire , as D . G . M . ; T . W . Fleming , Prov . G . M . Isle of Wight ; R . J . Bagshaw , Prov . G . M . of Essex ; 0 . P . Cooper , Prov . G . M . of Kent ; Dr . Kent , Prov . G . M . of South Australia ; T . H . Hall , Prov . G . M . of Cambridge ; S . Rawson , Prov . G . M , of China ; Colonel Burlton , Prov . G . M . of Bengal ; Lord Goderich , S . G . W . ; Frederick Dundas , as J . G . W . ; Cox and Moore , G . Chaps . ; Henderson , P . G . Reg . ; Dobie , G . Reg . ; J . Havers , P . G . S . D . ; J . Hervey , P . G . J . D . ; II . K . G . Potter , P . G . S . D . ; H . Faudel , P . G . J . D . ; J . Parkinson , P . G . S . D . ; F . White , P . G . J . D . ; A . A . Le Yean , P . G . S . B . ; R . J . Spiers , P . G . S . B . ; T . Masson , P . G . S . B . ; J . Biggs , P . G . S . B . ;

H . Parker , P . G . S . B . ; T . B . King , P . G . S . B . ; H . L . Crohn , Sec . for German Correspondence ; White and Farnfield , G . Sees . ; R . W . Jennings , G . Dir , of Cer . ; W . Breitling , P . G . Purs . The Grand Lodge having been opened in due form The Grand Secretary read the circular issued by the M . W . the Grand Master calling the Grand Lodge of Emergency .

THE RIGHT TO ADJOURN . The Grand Master said : " Brethren , I think it due to Grand Lodge that I should now state my reasons more immediately for calling this Grand Lodge , and I trust I shall be able to show you , in connection with those reasons , that I have taken this step simply , because , in my opinion , it was a step necessary to the faithful discharge of my duty . At the September Quarterly Communication the Grand Lodge passed a resolution that the ( - { rand Lodge should adjourn to the 1 st

of October , and now I have to give my most decided opinion that such an adjournment was illegal ( hear , hear ) , and that whatever proceedings took place at such adjourned meeting are null and void . ( Hear ) , brethren , 1 will now state my reasons for coming to this decision . By the Booh of Constitutions , page 10 , article 7 , the law states that there shall bo ' four Quarterly Communications in each year , viz . on the first Wednesday in the months of March , Juno , September , and i ) ecpfnbfir , : \ t which none shall be present br . l . ( lie proper in embers , without

" The amendment was seconded , but lost by a large majority , and the original motion carried . "