Freemasonry In Hull.

FREEMASONRY IN HULL .

LONDON , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 5 , 1861 .

The Humber Lodge ( No . 57 ) , whose warrant is dated in 1756 , built a new lodge house in Osbornestreet in 1827 , which having been found too small to accommodate the increasing number of its members , the brethren , some time since , deter- '

mined to make some extensive alterations in and to the lodge buildings facing Osborne-street—to convert the present lodge-room into a banquettinghall , and to build a new lodge room . Upon this determination being come to , the Worshipful Master ,

Bro . 0 . S . Todd , placed the matter in the hands of Mr . Smith , the architect , of Hull , with instructions to prepare the necessary plans in accordance with the exigencies of the lodge . Plans in accordance with such instructions were duly prepared

and [ submitted to and approved by the lodge in May last . The additions to the fabric of the present lodge buildings are as follows : —The existing lodge room it is proposed to use as the future banquetting hall of the new lodge , retaining its

present height , length , and width , being , in fact , without alteration or change , except where the new entrances are rendered necessary in order to adapt it for its intended purpose .

Two large houses , and premises adjoining , belonging to the lodge and lying south of the old lodgo room , have been cleared away , and on the site is now being built a very handsome entrance hall ( 23 ft . long ) to the banquetting hall , with

folding doors ; an entrance , also , to a library , 16 fb . long , and a private room for the W . M . ; a kitchen , with cooking apparatus sufficient to dine over a hundred and fifty members , as also hot-water apparatus for heating the lodge and banquetting

hall * a steward ' s room , with closets and every convenience ; also a private side entrance to the banquetting hall and to the Tyler ' s house . The upper floor will be approached by a handsome stone Masonic staircase , leading from the

entrance hall and landing in a corridor liaving an organ loft over it , the corridor being sufficiently large to allow of the formation of Masonic processions , and giving access not only to the new lodge itself ( which will be of the same size and

over the existing lodge room ) , but to a new preparing room , and a Tyler's room' adjoining . The T yler ' s apartments will be to the east of the grand staircase , and consist of a kitchen , sittingroom , and two good-sized bed rooms . The whole

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will be approached by a staircase leading from the private entrance from Osborne-street to the banquetting hall , and giving also access to the lodge , kitchen , aud the Steward ' s room . There will be in Osborne-street a new front to

the lodge buildings with a facade in the Italian style executed in cement , and which , when finished , will be a handsome addition to the public buildings of the town . The foundation-stone of these new buildings

was laid last week by Lord Londesborough with full Masonic honours , under a dispensation from the Grand Master . The brethren of the Humber Lodge may be congratulated upon having so handsome a series

of Masonic buildings , and upon the general prosperity of their lodge and its funds . We are informed that during the last few years the lodge has spent in educating in their own

town eight or nine of the sons and daughters of poor brethren about £ 300 ; in contributions to ; local charities £ -286 ¦ in payments and donations to the "widows of deceased Masons , members of their lodge , £ 178 ; and in casual relief to

distressed brethren , £ 652 ; whilst their Benevolent and Pension Euncl , established by the lodge in 1840 , amounts to £ 3 , 500 . The cost of the new buildings will be about £ 1 , 000 , all of which has been subscribed for by

the members of the lodge without touching a shilling of their invested funds . Where is thereanother lodge which has done , or can do , as much as the Humber ?

The Fine Arts In Connection With The Church.

THE FINE ARTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHURCH .

An Address by Mr . "VV . BUHGES , at the Bristol Church Congress . One of the very great advantages of reunions ; such as the present is , that Ave are enabled to takestock of other things than those immediately set forth in the prospectus ; and I therefore most willingly seize the opportunity to examine as to

the state of the fine arts in connection with the Anglican Church . Of course , the subject resolves into what we have done , what we are doing , and what we may reasonably be expected to do . Now as to what we have done . It is some tvv'enty years or more since the Cambridge Camden Society

took up the subject of Mediasval architecture . Pugin had done much , but no man can ever pretend to direct so great a subject as a change in our architecture . The Camden Society went into the breach , ancl , by means of a series of most useful papers , containing the results of the ex-