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THE MASONIC MIRROR . * £ * All communications to be addressed to the EDITOR , at No , 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C .

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Masonic Mems.

MASONIC MEMS .

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has named Monday the Sth . May next , for the Anniversary Festival of thc Koyal Masonic Institution for Girls , on ivhich occasion His Royal Highnesss has consented to preside . We are informed that the installation of Colonel Lyne as K . W . Prov . G . M ., for Monmouthshire , will take place in the

large Room at the Town Hall , Newport , on Easter Thursday , April 13 th , and that Theodore Mansel Talbot , Esq ., R . W . Prov . G . M ., for the Eastern Division of South Wales , will be respectfully invited to perform the ceremony . Tho next meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Suffolk Is announced to be held at Ipswich in July next .

St . Luke ' s Lodge of Instruction , No . Ill , has been remove from the Pier Hotel , Chelsea , to the " Gladstone , " 202 and 201 Brompton Road , S . W . The meetings are held every Friday evening at 8 o'clock . It is intended to hold a Masonic Ball on a grand scale , the King ' s Head Hotel , Newport , on Thursday , the 20 th of April

next ; and a committee of management has been formed . We hope to be able to give a full programme in our next issue . A masonic ball is to be held in Lincoln ^ during the visit of tho Prince of Wales to that town and neighbourhood , in the Grand National Steeple Chases week . The proceeds of the ball , which is expected to be honoured by the presence of the Prince Of Wales , are to be applied to charitable Masonic purposes .

United Grand Lodge.

UNITED GRAND LODGE .

The Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge was held at Freemasons' Hall , Great Queen Street , on Wednesday , 1 st inst . lo the absence of the M . W . G . Master , the Earl De Grey and Ripon , who is now in Washington , U . S ., as the representative of Her Majesty in the High Commission for tho settlement of various matters in dispute between our Government and that of the United States , the throne was occupied by the Right Hon . Earl Carnarvon , 11 . W . Deputy Grand Master ;

The following officers of Grand Lodge were present :- —R . W . Bros . R . T . Bagshaw , Prov . G . M . Essex , as Deputy Grand Master ; Frederick Dundas , M . P ., representative of the three Grand Lodges of Berlin , as S . G . W . ; Sir F . Martin Williams , M . P ., J . G . W . ; Rov . Charles J . Martyn , Grand Chaplain ; Samuel Tomkins , Q . Treas . ; vEnas J . Mclntyre , G . Reg . ; J " . LI .

Evans , President of the Board of General Purposes ; John Hervey , G . Sec . ; Horace Lloyd , Q . C , ancl other Grand Deacons ; Brackstone Baker , P . G . Deacon , ; F . P . Cockerell , G . Supt . of Works ; Sir A . W . Woods , Garter , G . D . C ; Conrad C . Dumas , Assist . G . D . C ; J . Breet , G . Purst . ; J . Coutts , Assist . G . Purst . ; and other Grand Officers , and a numerous attendance of Present

and Past Grand Stewards . Bros . Col . Burdett , Prov . G . M . Middlesex ; Augustus Smith , Prov . G . M . Cornwall ; R , J . Spiers > D , Prov . G . M . Oxfordshire , aud several other Provincial and Deputy Provincial Grand Masters were also present . The Hon . Bros . Robert Hamilton , Dist . G . M- for Jamaica ; H . Murray , Past Dist . G . M . China .

Bro . Chas . Button Gregory , "W . M ., and the whole of the officers of the Jerusalem Lodge , who are all Past Masters , attended , out of compliment to Earl Carnarvon , who , with Bro . H . R . H . The Prince of Wales , were made members of the Lodge

on tbe occasion of the Celebration of the Centenary Festival . Amongst the brethren present as visitors were , Tho Illustrious Bro . Count Steu Lewenhaupt , of the Grand Lodge of Sweden ; and R . W . Bro . John Eraser of Glasgow , R . W . M . of Thistle Lodge , No . 87 , on the Registry of the Grand Lodge of Scotland . The London Lodges were represented by Bros . J . Tepper , Grand Stewards' Lodge ; W . AVatson , P . M . G . S . ; G . States .

P . M . G . S . ; D . Samuel , P . M . G . S . ; H . Norman , P . M . 1 ; J . Saunders , P . M . 1 ; P . Bennoch , P . M . 1 ; E . J . Barrow , P . M . 2 ; E . M . Perkins , AV . M . 5 ; A . Green , J . AV . 7 ; T . Edmands , AV . M . 8 ; F . Hickling , P . M . 8 ; S . Francis , P . M . 8 ; G . J . Palmer , AV . M . 11 ; AV . Moutrie , P . M . 11 ; Raynham W . Stewart , P . M . 12 ; J . Henderson , P . M . 13 ; E . Young , S . AV . 13 ; S . Glover ,

P . M . IL ; S . Field , P . M . 14 ; G . Hillyer , S . AV . 14 ; F . A . Philbride , AV . M . 18 ; J . P . Huggins , S . AV . IS ; R . AVah-ond , J . W . 18 ; T . F . Stevens , J . AV . 19 ; T . Davies Seivell , AV . M . 21 ; H . M . Stotenhoff , P . M . 21 ; T . Meggy , P . M . 21 ; A . Crawford , S . AV . 22 ; J . G . Russell , J . AV . 22 ; S . May , P . M . 23 ; M . Cooke ' P . M . 23 ; John Dyte , P . M . 25 ; Thomas Arnold , AV . M . 25 ; C-

Bennett , P . M . 25 ; II . Dickets , P . M . 25 ; C . A . Long , P . M . 25 > * E . AV . Levy , J . AV . 25 ; E . M . Haigh , J . AV . 29 ; J . Rasting , P . M-30 ; S . T . Smith . S . W . 30 ; AV . F . Osborne , J . AV . 30 ; J . Glaisher , AV . M . 33 : A ?" . Smith , CE . P . M . 33 ; 1 _ . | AV . Dunn , S . AV . 34 ; W . Honiara , W . M . 59 ; John Healey , P . M . 59 ; T . B . Brabham , 59 ; AV . Griffin , P . M . 90 ; J . S . Mumford , J . AV . 90 ; R . J . Hall ,

AA . M . 95 ; J . Marriott , P . M . 95 ; T . Ducas , S . AV . 95 ; E . March , W . M . 99 ; J : W . Stephens , J . AV . 99 ; J . W . Halsey , P . M . 134 ; W . Johnston , P . M . 134 ; E . Johnson , AV . M ., 140 ; T . Turner , J . AV ., 140 ; C . Taylor , W . M .-141 ; James Hill , P . M ., 141 ; E . Gottheil , P . M ., 141 ; A . E Hams , P . M ., Ill ; N . Glucksteiu , P . M ., Ill ; J . L . Thomas , AV . M ., 142 ; G . Boulton , AV . M ., 143 ; J . Last , S . W ., 144 ; W .