Grand Lodge.

GRAND LODGE .

LOXDOX , SATURDAY , MAY 3 , 18 C 3 .

Once more has the Grand Master "been reinvested with power , heing the eighteenth time—and much as we object on principle to continuous re-elections , we are bound to admit that he resumes his position with the full approbation of the brethren ; and there was but one cause of regret on "Wednesday , viz

.,-that the health of the nohle Earl was too delicate to permit his stopping to preside over the Grand Festival which , however worthily the chair may he filled , and that it was ably filled we need not say when we announce that it was taken by the D . Grand Master —always appears to us , in the absence of the Grand Master , something like the play of Hamlet with the

principal character omitted . Of the new Grand officers , we shall say but little at present , trusting to be able shortly to lay before the brethren a statement of their position in , and services to the Craft . "We may however , ohserve , that to two of the appointments we should as a rule object

viz ., those of Bro . Havers , as J . G . 'W , and Evans as S . G . D ., " believing that all grand offices are equally honourable , and that promotion is keeping out other brethren from a due participation in the honors of the Craft—but in the present case we admit that there are special considerations which take the appointments alluded to without the operation of the rule .

Bro . Havers , has hy long services , gained the confidence of the Craft who recently voted him a complimentary testimonial , which was appropriately presented on "Wednesday ; and at the last Grand Lodge he courteously but respectfully declined , a further compliment designed for . him by the Grand Master ,

on the ground that it would divert the funds of the Gvand Lodge from -what he believed to he their legitimate objects . "Under such circumstances , and in the face of his declared opinion that he wished to do further honour to Bro . Havers , we know of no more

fitting manner in which the Grand Master could pay him that honor than by offering him a more foremost place ( in rank only , for Bro . Havers talents always command attention ) in Grand Lodge than that he had hitherto held ; and that the brethren duly endorsed the act of the Grand Master , was shown Dy the loud applause of the brethren on the name of

-Bro . Havers beina ; announced . Bro . Evans has long been a Past Grand officer , and if he has not appeared so prominently before the brethren as Bro . Havers , he has been an industrious and conscientious worker in the various Committees of the Craft , and his advancement to hi

gher office is we believe only the induction to further and more onerous duties , it being understood that

Grand Lodge.

Bro . Evans will in June next be appointed President of the Board of General Purposes in succession to Bro . Melntrye who has become Grand Registrar . There is one appointment , however , which we must strongly deprecate—not that we blame the Grand Master for it , knowing that he has to lookto others for

advice , and the names of the members of his Council it would be well to publish to the brethren—viz ., that of Bro . Stimpson as Grand Organist . Musically , we admit the appointment to be good , but Masonically it is wrong . Bro . Stimpson was only initiated in the

Athol Lodge , Birmingham , on the 8 th of February , and raised on the 11 th of April ; he not being- at the time the appointment was offered him even a registered Mason— and yet he is made Grand Organist in a Craft which contains on its rolls the name of

one of the greatest composers of the day , whoseoperas are being played throughout the world ; of one of the ablest musical conductors of which England can boast ; of one of the most successful musical teachers , who has already been a Prov . Grand

Organist ; of one who is the Organist of the noblest Abbey in the kingdom ; and some hundred or more brethren whose musical talents are acknowledged by every person , excepting the heads of the Masonic body .

Masonic Facts.

MASONIC FACTS .

( Continued from page ) 322 . 187 . In 767 , Albert , Archbishop of York , took down ' andrebuiltthe Church of St . Peter in that city . Eanbald , who afterwards became Albert ' s successor in the see , had the direction of the building in conjunction with Alcuinwho was celebrated for his talents . The latter

, described the building in a poem ; the verses record the names of the builders , and say that it was sup- ; ported by columns , on which were arches , that it had , - galleries and thirty altars .

Ast nova basilicas mirae struetura diebus . Praesulas hujas erat jam coe pta , peracta sacrata . Haec minis alta clomus solidis suffulta columnis , Supposita qua ? stant curvatis areubus , intus Emicat egregiis laquearibus atque fenestris , Pulchraque porticibus fulget circum data multio Plurima diversis retinens solaria tectis

Quae triginta tenet variis ornatibus aras Hoc duo discipuli ternplum , doctore jubente , Aedificarunt Eanbaldus ot Alcunius ambo Concordo operi devota mente studentes . Hoctamen ipse pater socio cum prfesule ternplum Ante die decima quam clauderet ultima vitae Lumina praesentis , Sophiae sacraverat almaa .

—Alcium , De Pontificibus et Sanctis Eaelesia-e Fibcracensis . 1 S 8 . This Church was destroyed by fire in 1069 ; within twelve months , however , Archbishop Thomas , rebuilt it from the foundations ; a small portion of this Church is still in existence in the Crypt , ( see Plan—Fig . 55 . —Masons Marks Fig . 56 . ) 189 . Archbishop Eoger ( 1171 ) began a new Choir