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Deputy Grand Master , " and couple with the toast the V . W . Senior Grand Warden , Bro . Goldsbro ' . Bro . Goldsbro' having returned thanks on behalf of the Provincial Grand officers , said : It is my privilege and my pleasing duty as a Past Master to propose to you the next toast , one which you , brethren , no doubt anticipate , seeing that for the time being I am in possession ofthe Master's gavel . It is a toast

ivhich it gives me as much sincere pleasure to offer to y-ou as it will do to you to receive it . It is the health of the Very Worshipful Bro . Fourdrinier , the Worshipful Master of the Anglesea Lodge—the first Master of the lodge—a distinguished veteran in Masonry , Past Master of I don't know exactly how many lodges , but something between half a dozen and half a score . You have only to look at his breast covered with those brilliant

decorations , one of which was jilaced there by the hand of a no less distinguished personage and Mason than the Duke of Sussex when Grand Master , so many silent yet convincing proofs ofthe eminent services he has rendered to our Craft . You will think and feel as I do how unnecessary it is that I should even attempt to say anything in bis praise , and you all know him well , as I also have the happiness of doing . I had the pleasure of being

introduced to Masonry and of being elected to the Master ' s chair in tbe same lodge in which our Worshipful Master was initiated some forty years ago , and of which lodge he is a Past Master , as well as a member at the present time . I could say more . Your warm and hearty reception of his name alone tells me less would have sufficed to ensure a worthy reception of the toast , which I now pledge you in a bumper , "The Health of our worthy and "Worshipful Master and Prosperit y to the Anglesea Lodge . '' Full Masonic honours . "

The W . Master said : To a certain extent I was prepared for the kind way in which my health has been received . On looking around me , I see a number of good boys who acknowledge mo as the parent who brought them to the lodge . I am very much obliged to you all , but 1 really want " words to express what I feel . A great many of yon know me well ; those who do not , I pray them to receive this , tho truth , as from an aged father—that I deeplappreciate this liment

y comp . I can assure you that , on each recurring occasion , when the brethren are so kind ( it is , I may own , by their kind conduct towards mo that I feel tbey mean what they say ) , I feel each time , as it comes back to my heart , renewed as ' it were , and , like the giants of old , who , when thrown down , got up stronger than before . I may , perhaps , possess the desire , and do endeavour to do my duty to the Craft . That 1 come short of if ,

is apparent to myself ' , but that my heart is good , and that I desire to do my duty , I pray you to ' believe . Bro . A . W . F . Alexander proposed the health of Bro . Wm . Bulkeley Hughes , and said : I thought it quite impossible that he could be here to-day . The zeal , tho energy , and the kindness he has displayed in being hero on this occasion , aud his ability , also , as Worshipful Master at Llandudno yesterday , are beyond all praise . I shall merely add that which ' is self-evident to all who have the honour and pleasure of knowing him—ho is the same with regard" to everything he undertakes . As a

magistrate in this and in the adjoining county , as a member of Parliament , as a gentleman and as a Mason , be is always ready at his post when required , and his purse is always open to any charitable institution , and on every public occasion he is ever ready to come forward whether it be in this or in the neighbouring counties . We aro all delighted to sec him here to-day ; I therefore beg to drink bis health in a bumper toast . Musical chorusaud full Masonic honours .

, Bro . W . Bulkeley Hughes , M . I ' ., on rising to return thanks , was received with the most enthusiastic cheers and acclamations of tho brethren , said : I scarcely know how to respond to the kind mention of my name . You have honoured me with your kind acclamations—don't let me be thought ungrateful . I am truly . Masonic when I thank you , from the depth of that sense of feeling which I shall ever testify to my brethren , whether in this lod out of tbe lod

ge or ge , if within my reach . I thank yon from the bottom of my heart . What can ' I say ? What can I utter , in thankfulness , for the kind feelings and kind greetings with which yon have received me this evening . It was almost from the bed of sickness that I attended at Llandudno yesterday and hereto-day . I have done no more than my dnty . ' nor than my ftelings and inclinations led me . Nothing is farther from

my heart than to fee ! ungrateful to you : and I will say this—if I suffered greater pain than I have done , I would do more than this for Masonry . Believe me , that whatever I can do to promote the interests of the Anglesea Lodge especially , of which I

am the Senior Warden , I will effect as long as I live . Let me say that tho feelings of a grateful heart are responding to the toast which you have so kindly given and received , and I trust you will excuse the ebullition of a connection of mine in having given . ' . in the warmth of his feelings , out of the usual order , the toast of my health , and in having , earlier than is customary , introduced so unworthy a subject .

The W . M . said : I really could not interrupt the hearty and nun honest outburst of feeling of the brother who proposed the last toast , though somewhat out of the usual order . I look around the room , and I see here many of my own children . I can go to the old St . David ' s Lodge , at Bangor , and I can come to the Lodge in Anglesea , and in each of them I can see a lot of my own boys ; and if my boys tell me that I a

indrifting and out of my course , I may tell them if they had been seated in this chair they would have done the same , because we see our dear brother , Bulkeley Hughes , back again amongst us , and we aro all so delighted to find that , with the blessing of tho Great Architect of the Universe , he is recovering from an accident which might have been even more serious than it was . Wo are so delighted to receive him again amongst us . He is a Past

Master , and he will be lenient with me . I hope and believe he will see that we are all so pleased to find him so far restored to health that he will overlook what I admit has been a slight deviation from our usual course . Bro . Alexander : I admit that I rose sooner than I ought to have done , according to the order of toasts as arranged by the-Worshipful . Master . I regret that I was out of order . Tbe W . Master : The next toast I propose to yon is an exceedingly gratifying one to every member of the lodge ; it is "Tho Health of the Newlv-Initiated Candidates . " Brethren ,

I have said before to-day , and I pray you to listen for one moment to me now , that , in all my Masonic connections , and upon all occasions since it has been my great pleasure to be connected with the Craft , I have never found an assemblage of brethren come together so gradually and so naturally as this has done . We beg . in with nine , and at first we bad a variety of propositions , and before the end of the year we had the leasure of reckoning among our number five brethren holding

p commissions of the peace in the county . We had one member of that important House which , I believe , maybe said to be the ruling power in the realm . We had three clergymen , two practising lawyers , one barrister , two gentlemen connected with the important banking interest , and other gentlemen with more or less pretensions to the position of esquire , some of them to whom it was justly dueto others not critically so . We wero

, but a small number , but a small score of good fellows ; and since that time wo have gone on gradually increasing like the rolling snowball . I am delighted to meet three brethren from the grand craft of Esculapius . They are the first of the brethren that I have had the pleasure of counting under our bannerthree black graces , law , physic , and divinity . First u-e had the law , then we had the divinity , but we bad not yet got the

physic . Wo have got it now ( you will think me exceedingly discursive ); in fact , the cape and corner stones are the two brethren who joined us to-night . I pray you to believe me ; and I venture in your name to tender to those brethren my advice to go on and prosper in their new- profession , one which makes me become acquainted with Bro . Charles William Bulkeley . I am exceedingly delighted to see that he has come here to take care of his friends . Our Bro . Hughes , who , though the younger man is tbe senior Mason—I shall couple his name with this toast .

eong— " Ihe Entered Apprentice-Bro . II . XV . A . Hughes returned thanks on behalf of nimself and Bro . George Higgins , and expressed the pleasure he felt in being admitted a member of the Anglesea Lodge . Bro . William Bulkeley Hughes : I propose the health of the brethren who have done us the honour of attending here this evening as our visitors . You wero kind enough , Worshipful Master , to notice the unworthy subject who addresses you , and

I will now endeavour to make amends for that emotion which was created in me ( by a gentleman , one of my own connections ) ,, by proposing the health of two members of my lodge of Saint Tudno . I would call your special attention to the gallant brother who sits on the left ot the Worshipful Master as one of the most prominent members of the Craft , not only from the badges which he has the proud satisfaction to bear , but from the circumstance of his having resided sometime in this country benefitting himself , I hope , as well as tbe people whom be is amongst . I would especially allude to be very efficient services