Grand Lodge.

GRAND LODGE .

A . Qis . vWEEBiA * cOiMUSK . vno ^ was held at "Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday last , June 1 st , the Right Hon . tho Earl of Zetland , M . W . G . M ., presiding , supported by Bros . Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis , as D . G . M . ; Frederick Dundas , M . P ., as S . G . W . ; Frederick Pattison , as J . G . W . ; S . Tomkins , G . Treas . ; Rev . A . Ward , G . Chaplain ; Roxburgh , G . Beg . ; W . 0 . Clarke , G . Sec . ; Crohn , G . See . for German Correspondence ; J . Savage and F . Slight , G . Ds . ; S . Daukcs , G . Supt . of Works ; R . W . Jennings , G . Dir . of Cers . ; A . W . Woods , Asst . G . Dir of Cers . ; G . E . Pocock , G . S . B . ; W . Farnfield , Asst . G . Sec . ; C . Horsley , G . Organist ; J .

Smith , 6 . Pursuivant ; Capt . Bowyer , Prov . G . M . for Oxford ; Bagshaw , Prov G . M . for Essex ; Revs . J . "Vane , Sir J . IV . Hayes , and J . E . Cox , P . G . Chaplains ; W . H . White , P . G . Sec . ; Nelson , Potter , Udall , Havers , Hervey , Seott , N . Tomkins . Rowe , and Koightley , P . G . Ds . ; Thory Chapman , F . G . D . C . ; Le Vcau , Philipe , LI . Evans , Biggs , Elkington , Patten , Spiers , and Masson , P . O . S . Bs . ; Broitliug , P . G . Pursuivant , & c . & c . Grand Lodge having been opened in ample form , The M . W . Grand Master said—Brethren , before the business of the evening

commences I wish to inform you I have received a communication from the D . G . M . Lord Panmure , expressing his regret at being unable to attend Grand Lodge on account of important private business detaining him in Scotland .

liKKACII Oh' t'ntVII . EGK . Bro . Roxburgh , G . Reg ., then addressed the M . W . G . M ., aud said , Most Worshipful Grand Master , I wish , before anything else is done , to call attention to what I conceive to be a breach of privilege . ( Hear , hear ) . There is on the paper of this evening a notice of motion by Bro . Whitmore , reflecting on the conduct of the Grand Registrar , and I submit that it is a breach of privilege . It is a notice of motion assuming as a fact a vague report which lias appeared in a certain periodical , and which Bro . Whitmore has not brought before the Board of General Purposes

, ( the constitutional tribunal for tho investigation of charges against any brother ) . Upon that report Bro . Whitmore lias founded an accusation , which ho has not attempted to prove before that Board . ( Hear , hear ) . No brother lias , I conceive , a right to circulate among tho Craft a charge- against another brother assuming that which litis never been proved . ( Cheers ) . Whether it be or not a breach of privilege , 1 ask your indulgence , inasmuch as I am not longer fit to hold the office with which you have honoured me , should thc scandalous charge preferred

against me he true—that you will tdlow the motion to be tit once brought forward before Grand Lodge , that Bro . Whitmore may have an opportunity of proving his charge , or that I may be exculpated from it . It states that "thc Grand Lodge is desirous of expressing its regret that the Grand Registrar should consider it consistent with his duty to the Craft , of which he is the authorized legal adviser , to organize a party movement for the purpose of securing the election of certain brethren as members of tho Board of General Purposes . " It is impossible that I

can be in a position to advise your lordship on the election of the Board of General Purposes while that charge remains undisposed of . It charges mo with conduct which I emphatically and indignantly deny . I deny that there is a particle of truth in it ; and I ask your lordship to have it at once investigated , and I throw rnyself on your indulgence and on that of Grand Lodge . ( Cheers ) . Thc M . W . Grand Master . —I hope I may save the time of Grand Lodge by the few observations which I shall now make . ( Hear , hear ) . I can assure the Grand Lod

ge , and Bro . Roxburgh , that this notice has not escaped my observation . It decidedly appears to me to be a broach of privilege —( hoar , hear)—inasmuch as it contains an unproved charge against a Grand Officer , who , to use ' the words of the notice itself , "is the legal adviser of the Craft . " Whether such a charge be true or false , it ought , iu my opinion , to have been brought before the Board of General Purposes , : > s the constitutional hoard for the investigation of all such complaints ; but to bring it before Grand Lodge as a notice of motion , which can only be brought