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Read a letter from the R . W . Bro . H , Howe , dated on board the Oriental at Fea , the 24 th April , acknowledging the rank of Past Dep . Pro . G . M ., which had been conferred on him by the ^ Prov . G . M ., and the kind manner in which it had been communicated to him .
The Prov . P . G . M . informed the District G . L ., that , in consequence of the departure of R . W . Bro . Howe and the lamented demise of R . W . Bro . Chaunce , the Prov . G . M . had been pleased to make the following appointments : — R . W . Bro . J . A . Burkinyoung , Prov . P . J . G . W ., to be Dep . Prov . G . M . in succession to R . W . Bro . Howe . .
W . Bro . J . G . Llewelyn , W . M ., of Lodge True Friendship , No . 265 , to be Prov . G . Reg ., in succession to T . W . Bro . Clark , elected Prov . G . Treas . Read a communication from W . Bro . H . G . Colvill , Prov . P . S . G . D . and Prov . M . of Lodges 609 and 794 , intimating the revival of a Lodge , No . 322 , under the constitutions of the G . L . of Ireland , in H . M . 29 th Regiment , at Thyat Myo , in Pegu ; and expressing a desire to open a friendly correspondence with the District G . L . of Bengal . The Warrant of this resuscitated Lodge bears the date of 3 rd May , 1759 ! " _
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Canton . —Royal Sussex Lodge ( No . 753 ) . — -This influential Lodge , we are glad to learn , is in a very flourishing state ., and dispenses its bounty with a liberal hand ; in addition to former donations to the Masonic institutions , the Prov . G . M . Bro . Rawson , received last month twenty guineas for the Girls' School , twenty guineas for the Boys' School , and ten guineas for the Widows' Annuity Fund . [ We should be glad to record similar acts of benevolence from all the Lodges at home and abroad . —Ed . F . M . M . l
Neglect of Desert , an End op Class Legislation . —¦ Whenfa man is Jin health , his appetite will seek for proper food ; when his system is disordered , he affects pernicious aliment . So is it with a nation . Strong minds , powerful intellects , unfortunately , it may be , proud or indolent , until evoked into action , abound and throng our streets , living uselessly , or confining their benefits to a limited and ignoble sphere , yet capable of controlling empires , and constructing good from evil circumstance . But they are slighted , unallied ., unsought out ,
unemployed ; the wealth of their rich minds is debarred egress , by being filtered through the selfish stupidity of those who should stand as sponsors to their thoughts in books . Disappointment cramps their energy ; the hopelessness of contest against stupidity and official indifference disheartens them ; and the hope which once in early life glittered like the steel , is now sheathed in the bosom of its owner , turning its point against him , until with age the heart grows over it , and the wound is cicatrized , but rankles still . Oh ! what thoughts , what deeds have withered like leaves on the stem of early life , beneath the cold frosts of
aristocracy , beneath the atmosphere of ignorant inattention , which should have fostered and encouraged them , —thoughts which might redeem a nation ' s sufferings , deeds which might restore it from decay ! No matter ; official negligence is , like all the vices , expensive in its maintenance ; it has cost content and happiness ; we have paid for it desolation and bereavement in the homes of England ; its path is marked by the march of the three furies , —Plague , Pestilence , and Famine—over the corpses of our bravest men ! — ( From an extempore sermon preached before the University of Oxford , by the Eev . O . -F . Owen , M . A ., 1855 . ) *
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Read a letter from the R . W . Bro . H , Howe , dated on board the Oriental at Fea , the 24 th April , acknowledging the rank of Past Dep . Pro . G . M ., which had been conferred on him by the ^ Prov . G . M ., and the kind manner in which it had been communicated to him .
The Prov . P . G . M . informed the District G . L ., that , in consequence of the departure of R . W . Bro . Howe and the lamented demise of R . W . Bro . Chaunce , the Prov . G . M . had been pleased to make the following appointments : — R . W . Bro . J . A . Burkinyoung , Prov . P . J . G . W ., to be Dep . Prov . G . M . in succession to R . W . Bro . Howe . .
W . Bro . J . G . Llewelyn , W . M ., of Lodge True Friendship , No . 265 , to be Prov . G . Reg ., in succession to T . W . Bro . Clark , elected Prov . G . Treas . Read a communication from W . Bro . H . G . Colvill , Prov . P . S . G . D . and Prov . M . of Lodges 609 and 794 , intimating the revival of a Lodge , No . 322 , under the constitutions of the G . L . of Ireland , in H . M . 29 th Regiment , at Thyat Myo , in Pegu ; and expressing a desire to open a friendly correspondence with the District G . L . of Bengal . The Warrant of this resuscitated Lodge bears the date of 3 rd May , 1759 ! " _
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Canton . —Royal Sussex Lodge ( No . 753 ) . — -This influential Lodge , we are glad to learn , is in a very flourishing state ., and dispenses its bounty with a liberal hand ; in addition to former donations to the Masonic institutions , the Prov . G . M . Bro . Rawson , received last month twenty guineas for the Girls' School , twenty guineas for the Boys' School , and ten guineas for the Widows' Annuity Fund . [ We should be glad to record similar acts of benevolence from all the Lodges at home and abroad . —Ed . F . M . M . l
Neglect of Desert , an End op Class Legislation . —¦ Whenfa man is Jin health , his appetite will seek for proper food ; when his system is disordered , he affects pernicious aliment . So is it with a nation . Strong minds , powerful intellects , unfortunately , it may be , proud or indolent , until evoked into action , abound and throng our streets , living uselessly , or confining their benefits to a limited and ignoble sphere , yet capable of controlling empires , and constructing good from evil circumstance . But they are slighted , unallied ., unsought out ,
unemployed ; the wealth of their rich minds is debarred egress , by being filtered through the selfish stupidity of those who should stand as sponsors to their thoughts in books . Disappointment cramps their energy ; the hopelessness of contest against stupidity and official indifference disheartens them ; and the hope which once in early life glittered like the steel , is now sheathed in the bosom of its owner , turning its point against him , until with age the heart grows over it , and the wound is cicatrized , but rankles still . Oh ! what thoughts , what deeds have withered like leaves on the stem of early life , beneath the cold frosts of
aristocracy , beneath the atmosphere of ignorant inattention , which should have fostered and encouraged them , —thoughts which might redeem a nation ' s sufferings , deeds which might restore it from decay ! No matter ; official negligence is , like all the vices , expensive in its maintenance ; it has cost content and happiness ; we have paid for it desolation and bereavement in the homes of England ; its path is marked by the march of the three furies , —Plague , Pestilence , and Famine—over the corpses of our bravest men ! — ( From an extempore sermon preached before the University of Oxford , by the Eev . O . -F . Owen , M . A ., 1855 . ) *