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GRAND TREASURERSHIP 1901 . CANDIDATE : W . BRO . CAPT . JOHN BARLOW , J . P ., P . M . 1260 , 1012 , & c , & c . CHAIRMAN OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : W . BRO . JAMES IRVINE P . M ., & c . Brethren and Friends having Signed Sheets , in their possession in favour of Bro . Capt . Barlow are- requested to forward them as soon as possible , to the Loridon or Provincial Secretaries , as necessary , for Registration . WALTER POTTER , 442 Kingsland Road ^ N . E . C . D . CHEETHAM , 7 Mosley Street , Manchester .

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THE HERCULES , LEADENHALL STREET . J . F . NEADE , Proprietor , WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT , 119 Leadenhall Street , London , E . C . Excellent accommodation for Lodges of Instruction . The Confidence ' Lodge , No . 193 , meets at this-establishment every Wednesday , at' 7 o ' clock .

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H . T . STEVENS , High class Family Butcher * 19 High Street , Oxford Street , London ,- W . G . ( FACING TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD ) . . ' ¦'¦ Special Quotations given for Hotels , Restaurants and Cluba ; Families waited on dally . . Best English meat .

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United Grand Lodge.

UNITED GRAND LODGE .

BY Command of the Most Worshipful the Pro Grand Master the Right Honourable the Earl Amherst an

ESPECIAL GRAND LODGE will be held on Friday next , 15 th February , in the Queen ' s Hall , Langham , Place , W ., at two for three o ' clocK in the afternoon , for the purpose of transacting the following business : —

i . —To vote a Loyal and Dutiful Address to His Majesty the King , tendering the respectful sympathy of the Craft ,: on the death of Her late Majesty pueen A ictoria , and further offering the respectful and fraternal congratulations of the Fraternity to His Majesty on his accession to the Throne ;

2 . —Communication from the Most Worshi pful Pro Grand Master respecting the Grand Mastership ; and Motion thereon . 3 . —MOTION , "That the Communication be recorded in the Minutes of Grand Lodge . "

4 . —MOTION , That the nomination for the office of Most Worshipful Grand Master , made at' the last Quarterly Communication , having become inoperative , this Grand Lodge do now proceed to a fresh nomination /'

5 . —Nomination of Grand Master . In order to meet the convenience of Brethren attending this Grand Lodge , and to avoid confusion , Brethren entitled

to attend ( other than Grand Officers ) , will sign the books . and obtain the necessary vouchers for admission , at Freemasons' Hall , either on Thursday , the 14 th inst ., between the hours of 10 a . m . and 8 p . m ., or on Friday , I 5 th > between 10 a . m . and I p . m .

Grand Officers Present arid Past , including Present Grand Stewards , win sign in the Rooms reserved for them at the Queen ' s Hall .

The Grand Tyler will convey to the Queen ' s Hall ) the clothing at present deposited at Freemasons' Hall , of those Past Grand Officers who may intimate to him on or before Thursday , 14 th inst , their intention to be present .

The Queen ' s Hall is capable of accommodating about 4 , 000 Brethren , but we anticipate that number will by no means represent all who may desire to attend , and we shall not be at all surprised if there are many who are unable to gain admittance .

An Episcopal Mason.

AN EPISCOPAL MASON .

THE first ecclesiastical appointment of the King is the nomination of Bro . Archdeacon Stevens Past Grand Chap , of England to be a Bishop-Suffiragan in the diocese of St Albans , with the title of Bishop of Barking . The new

suffragan is the son of Mr . Thomas Ogden Stevens , of Clifton , and was bom in 1842 . He was educated at Shrewsbury , and was afterwards scholar and exhibitioner of Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he graduated' in 1863 . He was an assistant master at Charterhouse School for the

next three years , being ordained deacon by the Bishop of London ( Dr . Tait ) in 1865 , and priest in 1866 by the Bishop of Peterborough ( Dr . Jeune ) , to whose diocese he had gone as curate at Woodford , Northants . He served the parish of St . Mark , Victoria Docks , first as curate and then as vicar ,

from 1868 to 1872 , and after filling curacies at St . Botolph , Bishopsgate , and Holy Trinity , Brompton , he was appointed in 1875 to the vicarage of St . Luke , Victoria Docks . In 1882 he became vicar of Saffron Walden , Essex , and in 1889 vicar of St . John ' s , Stratford , a post which he held till a short time

ago , when Lord Salisbury nominated him ; to succeed Canon Henson as chaplain to St . Mary ' s Hospital , Ilfbrd . He became Archdeacon of Essex in 1894 . The Bishop-Designate has thus spent the greater part of his ministerial life in the diocese which he will now serve in a higher capacity , and he

has had experience of both its rural and its densely-crowded parts . As he is to take his title from Barking , it may be supposed that the district assigned to him by the Bishop of St . Albans will be the . thickly-populated region known as " East London over the Border , " which he already knows

thoroughly . 'Archdeacon Stevens was Grand Chaplain of England in 1896-97 , and has shown great interest in the . Craft , notably by conducting a Masonic party to the Holy Land . He was an honorary canon of St Albans from

1891 to 1894 , was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1889 . He married , in 1866 , a daughter of Mir . George Burtram , of St . Helier , Jersey , arid sister of Sir Geo . Clement Burtram , late bailiff of the island :

IT is a very striking testimony to- the difference between England and some foreign countries that the newest of our Bishops , even though he is only a suffragan , is a prominent Freemason ,, and has been Grand Chaplain of the Society in England . In Roman Catholic countries the Cliurcri-is bitterly

opposed to Freemasonry , and it is only right to say that Freemasons are just as bitterly opposed to the Church . In England' a wise freedom has shown us how to reconcile two bodies which are not essentially antagonistic , and it is very often the case that the best Masons are also the best

Churchmen . The man who obeys the Grand Orient in France thereby proclaims himself a Free Thinker as well as a Freemason , and the acknowledged foe of all ordered religion . So much is this the case , that the enmity of the Roman Catholic Church has driven the French and Italian M ' asOris into , ah

attitude of implacable hostility , and the French in particular have so utterly thrown aside all the religious part of the Craft that English Masons are compelled to refuse them the recognition to which they would otherwise be entitled . The idea of a French or Italian priest—to say nothing of a Bishop

•—being a Freemason is inconceivable , and it is even impossible for a private man to be a member of the Craft and to avail himself of the offices of the Church . The reason , of course , is that the Roman Catholic Church will not suffer the existence of any society with rules which it does not

recognise ,, and * above all ; cannot endure the notion of a secret which must not be told in confession . The result of this enmity is the transformation of a body which , in this

country , we know chiefly as a powerful charitable organisation , into the foe of religion and the nurse of revolution . Nothing could better illustrate the difference Between the English and thie Latin way of looking at the same thing . — " Globe . "

The members of the Honour and Friendship Lodge , No . 1266 , at their meeting at Blandford , on Tuesday , 8 th ult , presented their late Tyler Bro . W . Strange with a gold watch , beautifully engraved . The presentation was made

by the oldest Past Master of the Lodge Bro . W . W . Stickland P . P . J . G . W ., who spoke in high terms of the faithful way Bro . Strange had filled the Office for so many years , Bro . Strange suitably acknowledged the gift .