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Knights Templar.

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .

DEVONSHIRE . PLYMOUTH . —Loyal Brunswick Encampment . —An emcrgency convocafcion of the above encampment was held in the Freemasons ' Chapter Room , St . George ' s Hall , on Wednesday , the 13 th February , 1 SG 1—present , the following Sir Knts ., Dowse , Triscott , Edmonds , Lord Graves , P . odd , Mackay , Merryfield , Mills , Thomas , and Blight . —The encampment was opened in due form at half-past three o ' clock , p . m ., when the following Royal Arch Companions ,

George J . Gilbard , of Chapter No . 137 , Irish Register ; Frederick AVm . Dabb , of Chapter 1-1-2 , English Register ; and J . Coleman AATlls , of Chapter 352 , English Register , having been accepted by "ballot , and signed the required declaration , were introduced in ancient form ancl duly installed Sir Knts . of the Royal , Exalted , Religious , and Military Order of Masonic Knights Templar . The ceremony being over , the encampment was closed in solemn form , with prayerat six o'clockwhen the Sir Knts . adjourned to a

, , banquet given in honour of their Em . Com . The usual loyal and Masonic toasts having been given , the Em . Com . elect , Sir Knt . Lord Graves , proposed the healthof their Em . Com ., Sir Knt . Dowse , which his lordship prefaced by a few remarks on the services which Sir Knt . Dowse had rendered to the Order of Knights Templar in this neighbourhood , by resuscitating the . Loyal Brunswick Encampment , after its being in abeyance for better than eight years , an bringing it to its present prosperous state . —Sir Knt . Dowse , in

returning thanks for the cordial manner in which his health was received , gave a succinct statement of the Loyal Brunswick Encampment since its revival in September , 1857 , and expressed his sincere hope , now that it had surmounted those difficulties whicli , for a time , had retarded its progress , that it would long prosperously continue to diffuse the Christian principles of Freemasonry throughout the brethren of the AVest of England . The Sir Knts . retired at an early hour , well pleased with the few hours of social converse they enjoyed .

OXFORDSHIRE . OXFORD . —Encampment of Coeur de Lion . —The ordinary meeting was held at the Masonic Hall , on the 12 th Feb ., when , in obedience -to the directions of the Grand Conclave , the encampment and its members appeared in mourning . The E . C , Sir Knt . the Rev . R . AV . Norman , G . St . B ., presided , supported by Sir . Knt . Comp-Spiers , Past Capt . Sir George M . Grant , Bart ., Reg . ; Sir . Knt . Comp . SeversG . ; H . Sir . Knt . the Rev . C . M . StleG . D . of C ;

, y , aud others . Comp . Neaves , of Balliol College , son of Lord Neaves , of Edinburgh , was installed a Knt . Comp . The election for the ensuing year took place , when Sir . Knt . Rainsford ( W . M . of the Alfred Lodge ) was unanimously chosen Em . Com ., and Sir Kufc . Comp . Spiers , Treas . The banquet was attended by sixteen Knts ., and it was announced that the annual festival would be held on Tuesday , May the 28 th .

Ancient And Accepted Rite.

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE .

AA ' OOLWICH . —In-iiicla Chapter [ of Sovereign , Princes Hose Croix . —A convocation of the above chapter took place at the Masonic Hall , AVoolwich , on the 15 th inst . Tbe Excellent and Perfect Princes present were the IU . Bro . Carter , M / W . S . ; Col . Clerk , Prelate ; Figg , 1 st General ; AV . Smith , 2 nd General ; Fuirley , Grand Marshall ; Cockcraffc , Raphael ; Schwartzkoif , Captain of Lines ; Matthew Cooke , Organist ; and the Ex . Prince Stuart ; ancl several others . The business ofthe evening consisted in perfecting the

following brethren , viz ., Dr . Normanby , Trcherne , Hewitt , Pulman , andO'Donovan , LL . D . The ceremony was effectively performed , and impressed each of the new members with a due sense of its beauty and perfection . The hall was a subject of universal remark amongst those who had been there for the first time ; its appointments being perfect , ancl the association being all that the most ardent admirers of Masonry could wish . After the ceremony , the brethren adjourned to the Freemasons' Tavernwhere the members partook

, of their usual frugal repast . On the cloth being removed , the M . W . S . gave " The Health ofthe Members of the Supreme Grand Council of the 33 ° , " whicli was drunk with the accustomed honours . —The Prelate , Colonel Clerk , said it was his pleasing duty , for the first time , to propose " The Health of the M . W . S ., " who was able in his capacity , amiable in conduct , and under whose auspices the chapter ivould be sure to flourish . — The M . AV . S . rose to return thanks for the kind manner in

very which their estimable prelate had proposed bis health . He had in all he undertook endeavoured to do his best , and the Invicta Chapter would not be an exception to the rule . The AV . M ' . S . said it gave him great pleasure to propose "The Health of their newly perfected Brethren , " and he hoped thev had been pleased ; the more they saw of it , he felt sure the more thev would like it , and

Ancient And Accepted Rite.

pronounce ifc the most beautiful in Masonry . He was not so deeply read in the privileges of the Order as his predecessors , and called upon Dr . Hinxman and Colonel Clerk , to afford the information he covtkl not undertake . —The two 111 . Bros , alluded to explained much of the principles of . the degree which cannot appear in print . Dr . Normanby in reply said , he considered what he had seen as an extension of the wide principles of Masonry . He thought it was meant to singularise a more religions and binding

union without being sacerdotaI , ; 'if he might so term it . He thought it was a closer ! tying together the brotherhood in acts of charity , but more particularly amongst Christians , or an eclecticism of a choice people . In England , Masonry had but little to do , because the country was free ; but in despotic states few could imagine tho value of finding a brother , and if liberty was ever to sink , he hoped its principles would ' ever be cherished in Masonry . He prided himself to see many faces he did not expectand hoped to find

, many friends among them . Bro . Pulman said , years might elapse before he had again the pleasure of meeting them . He had come from Constantinople , where he was Master of a loclge , ancl by the advice of Bro . Hyde Clarke he had presented himself for installation in the Invicta Chapter ; and although an entire stranger to them , they had very kindly received him on the recommendation of Bro . Hyde Clarke . —Bro . Hewitt felt much pleasure in the instruction

he had received that evening . His first essay in . Masonry was made out of curiosity , as he then believed the Craft to be only a scheme for people making themselves jolly and ridiculous , but now he knew better , ancl that evening had been one of his greatest Masonic treats . The Ex . and Perf . Bro . Traherne , who had come from New Zealand , had great pleasure in stating how much he appreciated the honour they had done him ; and for their information he could tell them that no one could calculate the value of

Masonry to all whose lot might be cast in New Zealand or Australia . Dr . O'Donovan returned his personal thanks for the honour they had done him , in making him a Prince Mason . —The M . W . S . said he had to propose the health of one -much beloved hy the chapter who ; although he was in a distant country , was both a well-skilled Mason , and one who had done good service to the Craft in the East . He alluded to Bro . Hyde Clarke , AV . M . of the Homer Lodge at Smyrna , who had sent them a very excellent

Bro ., the new Prince Bro . Pulman , to be installed there ; and it was a considerable honour that so eminent a Bro . as Hyde Clarke , known in almost every quarter of the globe , should have recommended a brother to the Invicta Chapter , in preference to any other . —The Ex . and Perf . Bro . Pulman , on again rising on behalf of Bro . Hyde Clarke , could hut thank them for entertaining such an opinion of his labours in a good cause , and which he , Bro . Pulman , could heartily endorse . —The M . AV . S . said it was usual to

propose the fourth estate in all public meetings , and they had their ' s in the Masonic Press . THE FUEEJIASONS' MAGAZINE was a good exponent of the Craft , and they had one who held an office in their Chapter of great importance , thafc of Organist . He was not only useful in the chapter , but had given two interesting lectures on music in behalf of the hall fund . He should therefore couple with the FREEMASONS MAGAZINE the name of the 111 . Prince Bro . M . Cooke . Bro . Cooke replied in a few words . —Bro . Cool-craft bore witness to

the value of the MAGAZINE , as conveying a mass of intelligence not often found amongst Masons . —Bro . Hewitt had been six years a Mason , but had never heard of THE MAGAZINE until that night , but should , from the testimony borne to its utility , anxiously look for its future appearance . Tbe sovereign princes then drew near the tire , ancl the evening " was passed in a manner that seems peculiar to the Invicta Chapter of Rose Croix Masons .

West Indies

WEST INDIES

SAINT CiiRiSTornnn's . —On Sunday , Dec . 30 fch , tho occasion of sermon being preached , ancl a collection made , in our parish church in behalf of "The British Syrian Relief Fund , " there was a Masonie procession from the Mount Olive Lodge to church . The A'enerably Archdeacon Poore—himself a " Brother Mason "—preached a ver ' y cloquent and impressive sermon on Gal . vi . 10 , "As we have therefore opportunity , let us do good unto all men , especially unto them who are of the household of faith . " In his exordium ,

the preacher observed , with reference to the results of the fearful massacre— " It has produced an amount of distress and destitution which call for aid from all who profess to be Christians , from all who deserve to he called lirothei-Masons , brethren of the Mystic tie—in other words , from every one of this large congregation . " In establishing the claims of the unfortunate suffers on the Christian sympathy and liberality of his hearers , he remarked " The persons on whoso behalf your charitable contributions are requested are styled , in a circular addressed to me 'Our fellow Christians in Syria . ' In a paper which accompanied that circular they are called

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MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS OF NAPLES. Article 1
VISIT TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON AND ITS VICINAGE. Article 2
THE GRAVE S OF BROS. JACKSON AND POLK. Article 4
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 5
Literature. Article 6
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 9
Poetry. Article 10
I'M GROWING OLD. Article 10
A LAMENT. Article 10
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 10
THE HIGHER DEGREES. Article 11
THE ROYAL ARCH DEGREE. Article 11
THE WEST LANCASHIRE BALL. Article 11
NOTES ON MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Article 11
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 12
METROPOLITAN. Article 12
PROVINCIAL. Article 14
MARK MASONRY. Article 16
ROYAL ARCH. Article 16
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 17
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. Article 17
WEST INDIES Article 17
MASONIC FESTIVITIES. Article 18
THE WEEK. Article 19
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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Knights Templar.

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .

DEVONSHIRE . PLYMOUTH . —Loyal Brunswick Encampment . —An emcrgency convocafcion of the above encampment was held in the Freemasons ' Chapter Room , St . George ' s Hall , on Wednesday , the 13 th February , 1 SG 1—present , the following Sir Knts ., Dowse , Triscott , Edmonds , Lord Graves , P . odd , Mackay , Merryfield , Mills , Thomas , and Blight . —The encampment was opened in due form at half-past three o ' clock , p . m ., when the following Royal Arch Companions ,

George J . Gilbard , of Chapter No . 137 , Irish Register ; Frederick AVm . Dabb , of Chapter 1-1-2 , English Register ; and J . Coleman AATlls , of Chapter 352 , English Register , having been accepted by "ballot , and signed the required declaration , were introduced in ancient form ancl duly installed Sir Knts . of the Royal , Exalted , Religious , and Military Order of Masonic Knights Templar . The ceremony being over , the encampment was closed in solemn form , with prayerat six o'clockwhen the Sir Knts . adjourned to a

, , banquet given in honour of their Em . Com . The usual loyal and Masonic toasts having been given , the Em . Com . elect , Sir Knt . Lord Graves , proposed the healthof their Em . Com ., Sir Knt . Dowse , which his lordship prefaced by a few remarks on the services which Sir Knt . Dowse had rendered to the Order of Knights Templar in this neighbourhood , by resuscitating the . Loyal Brunswick Encampment , after its being in abeyance for better than eight years , an bringing it to its present prosperous state . —Sir Knt . Dowse , in

returning thanks for the cordial manner in which his health was received , gave a succinct statement of the Loyal Brunswick Encampment since its revival in September , 1857 , and expressed his sincere hope , now that it had surmounted those difficulties whicli , for a time , had retarded its progress , that it would long prosperously continue to diffuse the Christian principles of Freemasonry throughout the brethren of the AVest of England . The Sir Knts . retired at an early hour , well pleased with the few hours of social converse they enjoyed .

OXFORDSHIRE . OXFORD . —Encampment of Coeur de Lion . —The ordinary meeting was held at the Masonic Hall , on the 12 th Feb ., when , in obedience -to the directions of the Grand Conclave , the encampment and its members appeared in mourning . The E . C , Sir Knt . the Rev . R . AV . Norman , G . St . B ., presided , supported by Sir . Knt . Comp-Spiers , Past Capt . Sir George M . Grant , Bart ., Reg . ; Sir . Knt . Comp . SeversG . ; H . Sir . Knt . the Rev . C . M . StleG . D . of C ;

, y , aud others . Comp . Neaves , of Balliol College , son of Lord Neaves , of Edinburgh , was installed a Knt . Comp . The election for the ensuing year took place , when Sir . Knt . Rainsford ( W . M . of the Alfred Lodge ) was unanimously chosen Em . Com ., and Sir Kufc . Comp . Spiers , Treas . The banquet was attended by sixteen Knts ., and it was announced that the annual festival would be held on Tuesday , May the 28 th .

Ancient And Accepted Rite.

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE .

AA ' OOLWICH . —In-iiicla Chapter [ of Sovereign , Princes Hose Croix . —A convocation of the above chapter took place at the Masonic Hall , AVoolwich , on the 15 th inst . Tbe Excellent and Perfect Princes present were the IU . Bro . Carter , M / W . S . ; Col . Clerk , Prelate ; Figg , 1 st General ; AV . Smith , 2 nd General ; Fuirley , Grand Marshall ; Cockcraffc , Raphael ; Schwartzkoif , Captain of Lines ; Matthew Cooke , Organist ; and the Ex . Prince Stuart ; ancl several others . The business ofthe evening consisted in perfecting the

following brethren , viz ., Dr . Normanby , Trcherne , Hewitt , Pulman , andO'Donovan , LL . D . The ceremony was effectively performed , and impressed each of the new members with a due sense of its beauty and perfection . The hall was a subject of universal remark amongst those who had been there for the first time ; its appointments being perfect , ancl the association being all that the most ardent admirers of Masonry could wish . After the ceremony , the brethren adjourned to the Freemasons' Tavernwhere the members partook

, of their usual frugal repast . On the cloth being removed , the M . W . S . gave " The Health ofthe Members of the Supreme Grand Council of the 33 ° , " whicli was drunk with the accustomed honours . —The Prelate , Colonel Clerk , said it was his pleasing duty , for the first time , to propose " The Health of the M . W . S ., " who was able in his capacity , amiable in conduct , and under whose auspices the chapter ivould be sure to flourish . — The M . AV . S . rose to return thanks for the kind manner in

very which their estimable prelate had proposed bis health . He had in all he undertook endeavoured to do his best , and the Invicta Chapter would not be an exception to the rule . The AV . M ' . S . said it gave him great pleasure to propose "The Health of their newly perfected Brethren , " and he hoped thev had been pleased ; the more they saw of it , he felt sure the more thev would like it , and

Ancient And Accepted Rite.

pronounce ifc the most beautiful in Masonry . He was not so deeply read in the privileges of the Order as his predecessors , and called upon Dr . Hinxman and Colonel Clerk , to afford the information he covtkl not undertake . —The two 111 . Bros , alluded to explained much of the principles of . the degree which cannot appear in print . Dr . Normanby in reply said , he considered what he had seen as an extension of the wide principles of Masonry . He thought it was meant to singularise a more religions and binding

union without being sacerdotaI , ; 'if he might so term it . He thought it was a closer ! tying together the brotherhood in acts of charity , but more particularly amongst Christians , or an eclecticism of a choice people . In England , Masonry had but little to do , because the country was free ; but in despotic states few could imagine tho value of finding a brother , and if liberty was ever to sink , he hoped its principles would ' ever be cherished in Masonry . He prided himself to see many faces he did not expectand hoped to find

, many friends among them . Bro . Pulman said , years might elapse before he had again the pleasure of meeting them . He had come from Constantinople , where he was Master of a loclge , ancl by the advice of Bro . Hyde Clarke he had presented himself for installation in the Invicta Chapter ; and although an entire stranger to them , they had very kindly received him on the recommendation of Bro . Hyde Clarke . —Bro . Hewitt felt much pleasure in the instruction

he had received that evening . His first essay in . Masonry was made out of curiosity , as he then believed the Craft to be only a scheme for people making themselves jolly and ridiculous , but now he knew better , ancl that evening had been one of his greatest Masonic treats . The Ex . and Perf . Bro . Traherne , who had come from New Zealand , had great pleasure in stating how much he appreciated the honour they had done him ; and for their information he could tell them that no one could calculate the value of

Masonry to all whose lot might be cast in New Zealand or Australia . Dr . O'Donovan returned his personal thanks for the honour they had done him , in making him a Prince Mason . —The M . W . S . said he had to propose the health of one -much beloved hy the chapter who ; although he was in a distant country , was both a well-skilled Mason , and one who had done good service to the Craft in the East . He alluded to Bro . Hyde Clarke , AV . M . of the Homer Lodge at Smyrna , who had sent them a very excellent

Bro ., the new Prince Bro . Pulman , to be installed there ; and it was a considerable honour that so eminent a Bro . as Hyde Clarke , known in almost every quarter of the globe , should have recommended a brother to the Invicta Chapter , in preference to any other . —The Ex . and Perf . Bro . Pulman , on again rising on behalf of Bro . Hyde Clarke , could hut thank them for entertaining such an opinion of his labours in a good cause , and which he , Bro . Pulman , could heartily endorse . —The M . AV . S . said it was usual to

propose the fourth estate in all public meetings , and they had their ' s in the Masonic Press . THE FUEEJIASONS' MAGAZINE was a good exponent of the Craft , and they had one who held an office in their Chapter of great importance , thafc of Organist . He was not only useful in the chapter , but had given two interesting lectures on music in behalf of the hall fund . He should therefore couple with the FREEMASONS MAGAZINE the name of the 111 . Prince Bro . M . Cooke . Bro . Cooke replied in a few words . —Bro . Cool-craft bore witness to

the value of the MAGAZINE , as conveying a mass of intelligence not often found amongst Masons . —Bro . Hewitt had been six years a Mason , but had never heard of THE MAGAZINE until that night , but should , from the testimony borne to its utility , anxiously look for its future appearance . Tbe sovereign princes then drew near the tire , ancl the evening " was passed in a manner that seems peculiar to the Invicta Chapter of Rose Croix Masons .

West Indies

WEST INDIES

SAINT CiiRiSTornnn's . —On Sunday , Dec . 30 fch , tho occasion of sermon being preached , ancl a collection made , in our parish church in behalf of "The British Syrian Relief Fund , " there was a Masonie procession from the Mount Olive Lodge to church . The A'enerably Archdeacon Poore—himself a " Brother Mason "—preached a ver ' y cloquent and impressive sermon on Gal . vi . 10 , "As we have therefore opportunity , let us do good unto all men , especially unto them who are of the household of faith . " In his exordium ,

the preacher observed , with reference to the results of the fearful massacre— " It has produced an amount of distress and destitution which call for aid from all who profess to be Christians , from all who deserve to he called lirothei-Masons , brethren of the Mystic tie—in other words , from every one of this large congregation . " In establishing the claims of the unfortunate suffers on the Christian sympathy and liberality of his hearers , he remarked " The persons on whoso behalf your charitable contributions are requested are styled , in a circular addressed to me 'Our fellow Christians in Syria . ' In a paper which accompanied that circular they are called

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