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India.
pronounced him to be , in plain Saxon , a "jolly good fellow . " The health of the Master , W . Bro . C . G . Sim , was proposed by Bro . L . E . Rees of Lucknow , and was drunk with great applause . DALHOUSIE CHAPTER—LTJCKHOW . Owing to the paucity of Royal Arch Masons at Lucknow , and the expected departure of some of them from that place , which
would have created difficulties in establishing the Order of Royal Arch Masonry there , a reference was made to the Officiating Provincial Grand Superintendent for permission to open a R . A . Chapter at once . This authority was granted by letter and telegram , dated the 12 th October ; and on the 22 nd , Chapter " Ramsay , " named after the Provincial Grand Snperintedent , Major-General Ramsay , was opened under very promising and encouraging circumstances . Four brethren were on that
evening exalted to the degree , and the fees were were reduced for the period of a month as a significant hint for others to join . Altogether the aspect of affairs is bright for Royal Arch Masonry in Lucknow .
PUNJAUB CHAPTER , LAHORE . The Punjaub Chapter , attached to Lodge Hope and Perseverance at Lahore , opened on Mondav , the 2 Sth October . There were present M . E . Comps . AV . E . Ball , H . J . AVahab , and J . B . Hide ; E . Comp . R . E . Egerton , Comps . J . G . Forbes , H . L . Oertel , R . Trotter , W . AV . Doddam , G . Hutchinson , and AV . Claxton . The routine business having been got through , the
"ballot was taken for the admission of the undermentioned Master Masons , which proving nnanimously favourable , they were admitted and exalted to the Degree : —Harris , member of Lodge Hope and Perseverance , C . R . Crommelin , member of Lodge Faith Hope and Charity at Roy Bareilly . A set of 12 new banners just received from England adorned the Chapter or the first time , and the Companions resolved that 100 Rushould be remitted home for additional fittings for the
pees Chapter . E . Comp . Egerton addressed the Comps . as follows : —¦ " Companions , —In all probability this is the last occasion on which we shall have our M . E . Companion Hide amongst us , as he leaves for England next month , and I do not think we should allow him to leave us without our placing on record how much the Chapter is indebted to him . Ha was one of the founders of the Chapter , and has from the commecement been one of its
most zealous supports . He has attained in it the rank of P . Z ., and in that high office has worked as few , even had they the requisite leisure , could do . His labours for the other degrees have been equally great and valuable , and I doubt not will be suitably acknowledged in the Craft lodge , where all will have an opportunity of testyfying the esteem they feel for him ; but I think the Chapter should give some sign recognising his worth and services , and therefore beg to propose that these remarks
( which I have written down for the purpose ) be entered on the minutes , and a copy he furnished to our M . E . Z . ; and further , that , with his permission , we retain his name on our books as an honorary member . " The proposition was put to the meeting and most cordially approved . There being no more work before the Chapter , it was closed in peace and amity at 9 P . M ., when the Companions adjourned to an excellent repast provided by Cornp . Claxton , and finally separated at 11 p . M .
IvOTEEE , SCINDE . The brethren at this station , having received a warrant from the Grand Lodge of England , opened the new Lodge Industry on the 28 th September , with the assistance of the Master and Past Master of Lodge Union , and one of the Past Masters of Lodge Hope , who , together with a number of other brethren from Kurrachee , had gone by train to the Port of the Indus . After the Master of the new lodge had been duly installed , the brethren adjourned to a banquet on board the Railway Flotilla Steamer Stanley .
NEGAFATAM . Our Madras Correspondent sends us the following : — " Since writing my last , a new lodge has been opened in this Presidency . It works at Negapatain , under the name of Emulation . I believe it has been got up by the staff of railway officials employed on the Grand South of India Railway , which is to ran between Negapatam and Trichinopoly . I must try and write
up and get a list of its members and so forth . Its Secretary is Bro . R . 0 . Fraser , C . E . It is now working under a dispensation from Colonel Macdonald ; - but application has been sent home for a warrant from the Grand Lodge of England . "
Obituary.
Obituary .
BRO . ROBERT ANGELL . [ From the Kurrachee Herald , Vith August 1861 . ] One of the most remarkable men in this station has passed away . Last evening saw the mortal remains of Robert Angell consigned to where he would " shake hands with dust and call the worm his kinsman . " AVhen living , he was more than remarkable : he was a celebrity . His character stood out in
bold outline , distinct from any thing known of all other men here . His individuality was something almost tangible ; it separated him from most others ( or from the common herd as G . P . R . James would have said ) , procured him enemies who feared , and friends who warmly admired him . Altogether he was a man so widely known , so much observed , and so greatly respected , that his loss has now left behind a sense of voidness not commonly felt on the occasion of the death of one in his
sphere of life . AVhen speaking of Bob Angell , it is difficult to repress the desire to give some account of him , as the last that will be said of one who has had a large circle of friends scattered throughout India , more especially among Freemasons . AVho of the Craft have not at some time or other heard of him ? The history of his early life is identified with the progress of Freemasonry in India . He it was who at Seringapatam assembled the first
accredited Lodge in the Empire ; and after bringing it into a high state of efficiency , he proceeded to establish the lodge at Cannanore . The Armenian Lodge at Madras , owes him a heavy debt of gratitude for his eminent services in its behalf , and doubtless when they all now hear of his death , they will greatly deplore it . To him the Craft owes the successful opposition of the Past Master as a distinct degree , and for which service he received a Jewel from the Grand Lodge in England . He was
himself the possessor of every known degree of the craft , of all the chivalric orders , was an Orangeman and Oddfellow ; aad only halted at the altar of Priesthood ( represented by the Mitre in the chart published by Broderick ) , which he could not get for reason of his ignorance of his letters . His attachment to Freemasonry amounted to devotion , the peculiar system of its cosmopolity having impressed him with a veneration snperior to anything elseboth reliious and secular . Latterlhe became
, g y haunted by a desire to purge the Craft in India of suspected sehismatical tendencies , and many might remember thathe published a challenge in 1856 to the illuminati of the Craft in Bombay to confer on the matter , undertook a journey to the Presidency , and successively met the brethren , beginning with the Templars , and ending with the M . M ' s Lodge , with profit to the whole of them .
And Robert Angell , who accomplished all this , and much more besides , was a man wholly destitute of learning ; or to use his own words , he was " no scholar , my friend , and did not know the alphabet from the gable end of a house . " The solace and instruction of a book were therefore beyond his reach ; but nevertheless , scarcely any man among us more emphatically realized the Muslicus abnormis sapiens , crassaque Minerva , as Robert Angell did . Perhaps it was to the absolute necessity of
making bis memory tbe custodian of his knowledge , that we should ascribe his marvellous recollection of things ; and we might take a hint from this fact , that if a man does really put faith in his memory , it will respond to his confidence , and save him the mortification of confessing that his knowledge lies mainly in his library . In other respects also , the life of Robert Angell would read a valuable lesson of what be achieved b and labour
may y energy unaided , as in his case , by the advantages of the most elementary book-learning . After settling in Belgaum in 1842 ( he was present at its capitulation 25 years before ) as a Queen's pensioner , and with nothing besides the very limited resources of such men , he set about acquiring a competence , without which he instinctively held with Junius , no man can be happy or even honest . People in those days used to see a sturdy European
personally assisting in the building of a house ; and later he would be seen digging by himself a well in the compound of it ; whatever he could do himself he never asked another to do ; nor did he ever defer it till to-morrow if it could be finished to-day . It is entirely beyond my power to convey a notion of the look of honest pride which would light up bis face , as in answer to the question " AVho built these houses of yours , Mr . Angell ? he would stretch out his brawny arms and exclaim : — " These two poor hands , my lad—these two poor hands ! " There was no
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India.
pronounced him to be , in plain Saxon , a "jolly good fellow . " The health of the Master , W . Bro . C . G . Sim , was proposed by Bro . L . E . Rees of Lucknow , and was drunk with great applause . DALHOUSIE CHAPTER—LTJCKHOW . Owing to the paucity of Royal Arch Masons at Lucknow , and the expected departure of some of them from that place , which
would have created difficulties in establishing the Order of Royal Arch Masonry there , a reference was made to the Officiating Provincial Grand Superintendent for permission to open a R . A . Chapter at once . This authority was granted by letter and telegram , dated the 12 th October ; and on the 22 nd , Chapter " Ramsay , " named after the Provincial Grand Snperintedent , Major-General Ramsay , was opened under very promising and encouraging circumstances . Four brethren were on that
evening exalted to the degree , and the fees were were reduced for the period of a month as a significant hint for others to join . Altogether the aspect of affairs is bright for Royal Arch Masonry in Lucknow .
PUNJAUB CHAPTER , LAHORE . The Punjaub Chapter , attached to Lodge Hope and Perseverance at Lahore , opened on Mondav , the 2 Sth October . There were present M . E . Comps . AV . E . Ball , H . J . AVahab , and J . B . Hide ; E . Comp . R . E . Egerton , Comps . J . G . Forbes , H . L . Oertel , R . Trotter , W . AV . Doddam , G . Hutchinson , and AV . Claxton . The routine business having been got through , the
"ballot was taken for the admission of the undermentioned Master Masons , which proving nnanimously favourable , they were admitted and exalted to the Degree : —Harris , member of Lodge Hope and Perseverance , C . R . Crommelin , member of Lodge Faith Hope and Charity at Roy Bareilly . A set of 12 new banners just received from England adorned the Chapter or the first time , and the Companions resolved that 100 Rushould be remitted home for additional fittings for the
pees Chapter . E . Comp . Egerton addressed the Comps . as follows : —¦ " Companions , —In all probability this is the last occasion on which we shall have our M . E . Companion Hide amongst us , as he leaves for England next month , and I do not think we should allow him to leave us without our placing on record how much the Chapter is indebted to him . Ha was one of the founders of the Chapter , and has from the commecement been one of its
most zealous supports . He has attained in it the rank of P . Z ., and in that high office has worked as few , even had they the requisite leisure , could do . His labours for the other degrees have been equally great and valuable , and I doubt not will be suitably acknowledged in the Craft lodge , where all will have an opportunity of testyfying the esteem they feel for him ; but I think the Chapter should give some sign recognising his worth and services , and therefore beg to propose that these remarks
( which I have written down for the purpose ) be entered on the minutes , and a copy he furnished to our M . E . Z . ; and further , that , with his permission , we retain his name on our books as an honorary member . " The proposition was put to the meeting and most cordially approved . There being no more work before the Chapter , it was closed in peace and amity at 9 P . M ., when the Companions adjourned to an excellent repast provided by Cornp . Claxton , and finally separated at 11 p . M .
IvOTEEE , SCINDE . The brethren at this station , having received a warrant from the Grand Lodge of England , opened the new Lodge Industry on the 28 th September , with the assistance of the Master and Past Master of Lodge Union , and one of the Past Masters of Lodge Hope , who , together with a number of other brethren from Kurrachee , had gone by train to the Port of the Indus . After the Master of the new lodge had been duly installed , the brethren adjourned to a banquet on board the Railway Flotilla Steamer Stanley .
NEGAFATAM . Our Madras Correspondent sends us the following : — " Since writing my last , a new lodge has been opened in this Presidency . It works at Negapatain , under the name of Emulation . I believe it has been got up by the staff of railway officials employed on the Grand South of India Railway , which is to ran between Negapatam and Trichinopoly . I must try and write
up and get a list of its members and so forth . Its Secretary is Bro . R . 0 . Fraser , C . E . It is now working under a dispensation from Colonel Macdonald ; - but application has been sent home for a warrant from the Grand Lodge of England . "
Obituary.
Obituary .
BRO . ROBERT ANGELL . [ From the Kurrachee Herald , Vith August 1861 . ] One of the most remarkable men in this station has passed away . Last evening saw the mortal remains of Robert Angell consigned to where he would " shake hands with dust and call the worm his kinsman . " AVhen living , he was more than remarkable : he was a celebrity . His character stood out in
bold outline , distinct from any thing known of all other men here . His individuality was something almost tangible ; it separated him from most others ( or from the common herd as G . P . R . James would have said ) , procured him enemies who feared , and friends who warmly admired him . Altogether he was a man so widely known , so much observed , and so greatly respected , that his loss has now left behind a sense of voidness not commonly felt on the occasion of the death of one in his
sphere of life . AVhen speaking of Bob Angell , it is difficult to repress the desire to give some account of him , as the last that will be said of one who has had a large circle of friends scattered throughout India , more especially among Freemasons . AVho of the Craft have not at some time or other heard of him ? The history of his early life is identified with the progress of Freemasonry in India . He it was who at Seringapatam assembled the first
accredited Lodge in the Empire ; and after bringing it into a high state of efficiency , he proceeded to establish the lodge at Cannanore . The Armenian Lodge at Madras , owes him a heavy debt of gratitude for his eminent services in its behalf , and doubtless when they all now hear of his death , they will greatly deplore it . To him the Craft owes the successful opposition of the Past Master as a distinct degree , and for which service he received a Jewel from the Grand Lodge in England . He was
himself the possessor of every known degree of the craft , of all the chivalric orders , was an Orangeman and Oddfellow ; aad only halted at the altar of Priesthood ( represented by the Mitre in the chart published by Broderick ) , which he could not get for reason of his ignorance of his letters . His attachment to Freemasonry amounted to devotion , the peculiar system of its cosmopolity having impressed him with a veneration snperior to anything elseboth reliious and secular . Latterlhe became
, g y haunted by a desire to purge the Craft in India of suspected sehismatical tendencies , and many might remember thathe published a challenge in 1856 to the illuminati of the Craft in Bombay to confer on the matter , undertook a journey to the Presidency , and successively met the brethren , beginning with the Templars , and ending with the M . M ' s Lodge , with profit to the whole of them .
And Robert Angell , who accomplished all this , and much more besides , was a man wholly destitute of learning ; or to use his own words , he was " no scholar , my friend , and did not know the alphabet from the gable end of a house . " The solace and instruction of a book were therefore beyond his reach ; but nevertheless , scarcely any man among us more emphatically realized the Muslicus abnormis sapiens , crassaque Minerva , as Robert Angell did . Perhaps it was to the absolute necessity of
making bis memory tbe custodian of his knowledge , that we should ascribe his marvellous recollection of things ; and we might take a hint from this fact , that if a man does really put faith in his memory , it will respond to his confidence , and save him the mortification of confessing that his knowledge lies mainly in his library . In other respects also , the life of Robert Angell would read a valuable lesson of what be achieved b and labour
may y energy unaided , as in his case , by the advantages of the most elementary book-learning . After settling in Belgaum in 1842 ( he was present at its capitulation 25 years before ) as a Queen's pensioner , and with nothing besides the very limited resources of such men , he set about acquiring a competence , without which he instinctively held with Junius , no man can be happy or even honest . People in those days used to see a sturdy European
personally assisting in the building of a house ; and later he would be seen digging by himself a well in the compound of it ; whatever he could do himself he never asked another to do ; nor did he ever defer it till to-morrow if it could be finished to-day . It is entirely beyond my power to convey a notion of the look of honest pride which would light up bis face , as in answer to the question " AVho built these houses of yours , Mr . Angell ? he would stretch out his brawny arms and exclaim : — " These two poor hands , my lad—these two poor hands ! " There was no