The New Grand Officers.

first W . M . ofthe Warden Lodge , No . 1096 , held at Sutton Coldfield , and was presented with a P . M . ' s jewel by the Lodge at the termination of his year of office . He has likewise been a subscribing member , since 1856 , of the Westminster and Keystone Lodge , No . 10 . The rev . bro . was

appointed Provincial Grand Chaplain of Warwickshire in 1858 , and has preached four times before Prov . G . Lodge , viz ., at their Annual Meetings in 1 S 58 and 1859 ; on the occasion of the consecration of Lodge 1080 , at Stratford-on-Avon ; and of the laying of the foundation stone of the Leamington Schools . Notices of all these

events appeared in the MAGAZINE at the time . He resigned his Prov . Grand Chaplaincy at the annual Prov . G . Lodge meeting in I 860 . Bro . Bedford was exalted in the Alfred Chapter , No . 425 , Oxford , June 15 th , 1849 , and afterwards joined the Fortitude Chapter ,

Birmingham , No . 57 , in which he has served as Assistant and Principal Sojourner . He also took the Knight Templar degree in the Beauceant Encampment , Handsworth , March 3 rd , 1853 . Our rev . brother is favourably known in the literary world , especially by his work on

the Blazon of E piscopacy—Heraldry being a subject to which he has devoted considerable attention . Bro . Bedford has at various times subscribed to the different Masonic Charities .

Bro . RICHARD BRANDT , Get . Secretary for German Correspondence . —Of Bro . Brandt we know but little . He was initiated in the Shakspeare Lodge ( No . 116 ) in October , 1850 , ancl raised in 1851 . He passed through the various offices , and was W . M . for two years , 1856-7 and 1857-8 . Bro . Brandt has served the Stewardship

of the Girls' School two or three times , and is a Vice President ofthe Institution . We hear that Bro . Brandt is suffering from ill health , and is at present abroad .

Bro . JENEAS J . MCI ^ TXRE , S . G . D . —Bro . Mclntyre was initiated in the London Lod ge , No . 125 , on the 6 th of March , 1852 , and appointed to the office of S . D . in June of that year ; and in the following years he became respectively J . Yv " . and S . W . On the 6 th of January ,

1855 , he was installed as W . M ., and on the 1 st of January , 1859 , took the office a second time . In March , 1857 , our brother joined the Cestrian Lod ge , No . 615 , Chester , as most members of the bar going that circuit , and belonging to our order , do ; and was installed as

its AY . M . on the 11 th of January , 1860 . He joined the Eoyal Somerset House aud Inverness Lodge , No . 4 , in November , 1 S 57 . This year the . brethren unanimously elected him as W . M ., ancl he was dul y installed as such on the 25 th of February last , he not having served any

subordinate office in either the Eoyal Somerset House and Inverness Lod ge or in the Cestrian . He was exalted in the Chapter of Prudence , No . 12 , on the 21 st of November , 1859 , served as First Assistant Sojourner last year , aud ivas installed as Third Principal on the ISth

of March . At the last Meeting of Grand Chapter he was appointed Second Grand Assistant Sojourner . At the Grantl Lodge in June , 1809 . he was elected a Member

of the Board of General Purposes as W . M . of the London Lodge , 125 . Last year he was again elected a Member of the Board as AY . M . of the Cestrian Lodge , 615 , and at the Meeting of the Board , in June of last year , he was elected its Yice President . In 1855 Bro .

Mclntyre served the office of Steward for the Girls ' School , and became a Life Governor of that Charity . In 1 S 59 he served as Steward for the Eoyal Benevolent Institution , and became a Life Governor of both the Male and the Widows' Annuity Funds . In the same year he

served as Steward for the Boys' School , and became a Life Governor of that Charity , and this year he served as Steward for the Girls' School a second time . He was elected hy the Eoyal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge their Grand Steward this year ; but his

appointment to the office of S . G . D . has prevented his serving . Bro . Mclntyre is favourably known in Grand Lodge as a clear and logical debater , and his opinions on any matter under discussion are ahvays listened to with attention , and in his new position he will have still greater opportunities of making himself favourabl y known to the brethren .

Bro . CHARLES HUTTON GREGORX , C . L ., J . G . D . — Bro . Gregory was initiated on April 12 th , 1843 , in the Jerusalem Lodge ( No . 233 ) , a lodge which has longheld a hig h standing in the Craft , and which has the honourable distinction of having for many years always sent a Steward to each of the Charities . He was

installed Master of that Lodge on January 14 th , 1846 , and served as Grand Steward in tho same year . He acted as Steward for that Lodge for the Girls' School in 1846 , for the Boys' School in 1854 , and for the Benevolent Institution in 1859 . He is a Life

Governor and an annual subscriber to each of these Charities . For some years he has been the Senior Member of his mother lodge , in which he served for seven years as Treasurer , and now holds the office of Director of Ceremonies . He was for some years a member ofthe Beaufort Lodge ( No . 120 ) , at Bristol , and is now a subscribing member of the Eural Philanthropic Lodge

( No .-367 ) , at Highbridge , in Somersetshire . He was exalted as a Eoyal Arch Mason in the Beaufort Chapter ( No . 120 ) , at Bristol , on September 28 th , 1 S 47 , and is now First Principal of the A ale of Jehosophat Chapter ( No . 367 ) , at Highbridge . He is a Past Grand Herald of the Knight Templar , and a member of the Eougemont Encampment

at Exeter . He is also a Rose Croix . Bro . Gregory is a a A ice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers , of which profession he is a distinguished member . Bro . Jons' SI - HOUUS , Asst . G . D . C—Bro . Symonds , who is well known by the active part he has taken in

connection with the government of the Masonic Charities , was initiated in the Ionic Lodge ( No . 275 ) on the 1 st February , 1849 , and filled the chair as AV . M . in 1852 . He joined the Lodge of Emulation ( No . 21 ) in March , 1851 ; was AV . M . in 1 S 57 , serving the office of Grand Steward from

No . 21 in 1 S 5 G-7 . Bro . Symonds was exalted to the Eoyal Arch degree in the Eoyal York Chapter ( No . 7)—