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v DUBHAM . Sunderland . —At the Boyal Arch Chapter of Strict Benevolence ( No . 114 ) , held at the Palatine Lodge-room , Bridge Hotel , on Thursday evening , the 1 st of March , the following ^ -Companions were installed Officers for the ensuing year : — Edw . D . Davis , Z . ; Bobert Saville , H . ; John Crossby , J . ; Frank H . Balm , E . ; Edw . Evans ( as ) N . ; Edw . Smith , Treas . ; Benj . Brooks , P . S . ; Edw . Brown , ( as ) A . S . I ; Benj . Levy , A . S . 1 ; Wm . M . Laws , Janitor .

ESSEX . North Essex Lodge ( No . 817 ) . —The annual meeting of the Members of this Lodge ¦ M was held on Monday , arch 5 , for the purpose of electing the W . M . and Treasurer Bro . James Bolfe , S . W ., was elected W . M ., and Bro . Wm . Honey wood , Treasurer . The Bev . Bobert Chapman Webb , curate of Braintree , was proposed for initiation at the ensuing meeting , to be held in April , the day of the installation .

We understand that the W . M . G . M . of the G . L . of England ( the Earl of Zetland ) has appointed Bobert John Bagshaw , Esq ., of Doveicourt , Harwich , Prov . G . M . for the county of Essex , vice Bowland Alston , Esq ., resigned .

KENT . Margate . —Union Lodge ( No . 149 ) . —On the 5 th January , the installation of Bro . Staner , as W . M .,. took place , and the ceremony was most ably and impressively performed by Bro . OsmondPhipps , P . M . of No . 149 and 621 , andP . G . O . for Kent ( the Bro . who so materially assisted the Hewlet Fund ) . Bro . Staner invested Bro . Phipps immediate P . M . ; Bro . Castle , S . W . ; Bro . Bobertson , J . W . ; Bro . Wood , P . M ., P . P . G . B . of Kent , Treas . ; Bro . Poussett , P . M . of No . 149 and 621 ,

P . P . G . S . W . andP . G . D . C ., Sec . ; Bro . Feakins , S . D . ; Bro . Braiser , J . D . ; Bro . Marchant , J . G . ; and Bro . Conconi , Tyler . The appointment of Stewards was deferred until the next Lodge ; the Lodge is in a very flourishing state , and the funds are strictly applied to Masonic charity alone . After the usual business of the Lodge , Bro . OsmondPhipps rose for the purpose of presenting to Bro . Harvey Boys , P . M . and P . P . S . G . W . for Kent , a very handsome snuff-box , which had

been unanimously voted to him by the members of the Lodge ; in the centre , was engraved his family coat-of-arms , in the dexter corners the P . M . ' s insignia , and those of S . G . W . of the Province , in the sinister corners the Degree of B . A . and the Thirtieth Degree ; the interior inscription testified that it was presented by the Brethren of the Union Lodge as a sincere though inadequate acknowledgment of the many and important services which the worthy Brother had rendered , not only to the Union Lodge , but to the Craft in general .

Bro . Phipps said that it was his pleasing duty to address the Brethren on a subject , which he knew would be most agreeable to all , and he wished he was more competent to do justice to it , but they all knew he was not guilty of making long speeches , nor did he approve of them , and as a rule he was inclined to consider them a species of immorality , for it was not doing to others as we should be done by . He had never tried to make a long speech , and he had no doubt he should most signally fail if he were to make the attempt ; but if any one occasion

more than another could induce him to make an exception to this rule , it was the present , and he perhaps might endeavour to do so , did he not know that were he to expatiate on the merits of the worthy Brother , whose Masonic services in the Province and in the Lodge they were then about in some measure more particularly to recognise , " till he was hoarse and they were dull , " still he should feel that he had not done justice to his merits , nor half enumerated his valuable services—such being his conviction , and as he was certain that the opinion of the

Brethren coincided with his own , the sooner he came to the point the better . They were all aware of Brother Boys ' s Masonic services in the Province : to him they were indebted for a new and efficient set of Provincial Byedaws ; through his candid representation and unremitting zeal the honour of the purple apron had of late years been satisfactorily and impartially conferred ; by his noble exercise of the truly Masonic virtue—Charity—many institutions had been , would be , and were materially benefited ; and by his judicious influence in former years asj