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give you " The : Senior and Junior Grand Wardens and Office Bearers and Past Office Bearers of the Grand Lodge of Nottinghamshire , coupled with the name of Bro . T . Danks" ( applause ) . Bro . T . Banks returned thanks for the honour done Mm , which he accepted with the greatest gratitude . He had sufficient experience in Masonry to know

that he must do whatever he was told to do by his superior ; and as he had been told that he must get up and return thanks for the health which had been drank ; he felt bound to do it . The Grand Master had reminded him of many circumstances connected with the officers of the Grand Lodge and its Past officers ; and he could . only say , that they had done their duty to the best of their ability . The example set them by their Grand Master rendered neglect impossible . He had heard with delight the eulogy which had been passed upon the Prov . G . M . by

Bro . Close , as a warrior and as a country gentleman , but the only character they knew him by here was that of a Mason , and he could render him a tribute in that character as strong as was possible in any other character ( cheers ) . He honoured him as a working Mason , and in that capacity he was an example to the whole kingdom . As a working Mason he had been enabled to raise them from the lowest depths ; for they were upon a very low scale of Masonry before he came amongst them , and by his efforts and excellent conduct they had become what they saw them that day ( cheers ) .

Bro . E . Percy , G . S ., had a toast to propose before they parted , which he felt sure nobody would omit to drink , it was the health of the governing body of that borough . Gentlemen who had lived for their whole lives , as he had done , in that town , and watched the rise and progress of events , must have seen with what degree of talent and success the corporation of Nottingham had addressed itself to effect very great improvements in the town . Their ideas seemed to have become enlarged and expanded co-existently with what the town of Nottingham

was likely to become . There was one point especially worthy of notice in the history of the town , and it was that it had been one of the very few Corporations of England which , when their charters had been menaced by the then reigning sovereign had refused to be coerced . He congratulated their Dep . G . M . on the circumstance that his ancestors had been amongst those who had withstood these encroachments . He thought , therefore , they mjght well emulate the motto which the town bore upon its banner " Vivit post funera virtus , " He proposed "The Corporation of Nottingham and Mr . Alderman Heymann " ( applause ) .

Mr . Alderman Heymann in reply , said , every corporation which exercised its privileges aright was a Parliament in itself ; and he did believe that , without these ancient bodies we should not stand so much the envy and admiration of all the world . It would be very bad ta ' ste in him to enlarge on this matter ; but he did feel that an honour had been conferred upon him—a foreigner , though not an alien—for he felt as proud of being considered an Englishman as any one there ,

and entered into matters affecting the interests of that town with as much warmth as any man could . And he could not forget , as a German , that in the Baltic provinces arid in some others , whence a part of our population came , there were at the present time institutions such as Mr . Macaulay describes them to have been in England 200 or 300 years ago ; and he wished in his heart that the institutions which did so much for this country were carried back to the ancient race also ( cheers ) .

Bro . Close moved the thanks of the company to the noble Earl for presiding * which were heartily accorded . The band struck up a Masonic air , and Colonel Wildman bowing to the Brethren as he passed , left the room , attended by the noble Chairman , the Mayor , vSir Thomas Parkyns , Sir Edward Walker , Messrs . Close , Williams . Percy , and the Office Bearers of the G . L .

OXFOEDSHIEE . Oxford . —On Wednesday , the 27 th Dec , the Brethren of the Alfred City Lodge assembled at the Masonic Hall , for the purpose of installing the W . M . elect , Bro . John Thorp , son of Mr . Alderman J . Thorp . The ceremony of installation was admirably performed by Bro . B . J . Spiers , P . Gr . S . B . of England , and late Mayor of this city . On the conclusion of the ceremony , the W . M . appointed