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without condemning one another . Amid all the noise of angry combatants and tbe turmoil of sectaries Freemasonry offers a rendezvous ' for toleration , concord and brotherhood . Of the great fundamental principles of the Order , I will only say that they appear to me like the grand old Atlantic Ocean spread out before us in dazzling beauty

and sunlit streaks . Its vastness is only limited by the globe we inhabit , thongh its waters merge into other oceans and seas which lave the continents and islands which give them names . So is the universal bond of Masonic charity . It knows neither Confucian , Buddhist . Mam , nor Christian , by symbol or creed , but embraces all in its

universal girdle of charity and brotherly love . It only asks for the sign , to at once extend tbe fraternal embrace . I commend this Order to your wise consideration and enlarged sympathies , and thank you , on behalf of my brethren , as well as myself , for jour kind presence here to-day to assist in laying this stone . "

The Benediction was then read as follows : — " Glory be to God on high , and on earth peace and goodwill toward men ! 0 Lord , we most heartily beseech Thee with Thy favour to behold and bless this assemblage j pour down Thy mercy , like the dew that falls upon the mountains , upon Thy servants engaged in the

solemn ceremonies of this day . Bless , we pray Thee , all the workmen who shall be engaged in the erection of this edifice ; keep them from all forms of acoidents and harm ; grant them in health and prosperity to live ; and finally , we hope , after this life , through Tby mercy , wisdom , and forgiveness , to attain everlasting joy and felioity , in Thy bright mansion—in Thy holy temple—not made with hands ,

eternal in the heavens . —Amen . " The brethren here responded earnestly , " So mote it be ! " and gave the grand honours and a hearty huzza . ; Refreshments were afterwards liberally supplied in the lower hall of the Lodge room , which had been beautifully and lavishly decorated with flowers , and the ceremony of laying the Corner Stone of the Temple closed . —Nassau Guardian .

[ We are indebted to a correspondent for the paper which contains this interesting report . Bro . J . H . Webb , the District Grand Master , is well known to , and deservedly esteemed by , many of our readers , inasmuch as he is a brother by birth of Bro . W . P . Webb , the popular Worshipful Master of the Kensington Lodge , No . 1381 . — EP . F . C . ]

On Saturday last there was a meeting of the General Committee of the Boyal Masonic Institution for Boys , at Freemasons' Hall , Bro . Edgar Bowyer presiding . The following brethren were also present : —Bros . A . Williams , C . F . Matier , J . L . Mather , R . W . Stewart , A . E Gladwell ,

L . Bnf , Jas . Terry , Rev . A . F . Woodford , Dr . F . W . Ramsay , E . C . Massey , and the Secretary . After the usual business of confirming the minutes of the Committee ' s previous meeting , and reading the minutes of the House and Audit Committees for information , a sum of £ 250 was voted to be transferred from the General Fund to the

Sustentafcion Fund , which had been overdrawn . Three petitions were presented , and of these two were approved and the other deferred for further information . An ontfit allowance was voted to A . E . Breary , a former pnpil , who was certified to be giving satisfaction to the employers to

whom he has engaged himself . Bro . Raynham W . Stewart's motion , of which due notice had been given , then came on for consideration . Bro . Binckes having withdrawn , Bro . Stewart briefly stated his proposal that the Committee should add the sum of £ 100 a year to the Secretary ' s

salary . He had originally proposed to ask them for an addition of £ 150 , but to this Bro . Binckes had himself objected . Although the subject of discussion precludes any detailed report being given of what was said by the different speakers , the unanimity of the vote will sufficiently

indicate that there was no oppositien offered to the motion , which was seconded by Bro . Matier , and carried without a dissentient voice . It is desired , however , that the Craft generally may he informed exactly as to the following facts : —Seven or eight years ago Bro . Binckes ' s salary

was fixed by the Committee at £ 400 a year , in addition to which he was allowed a sum of £ 200 as compensation for the discontinuance of the per centage he had previously received upon the sums collected for the Institution . On his completing his twenty-Brat year of service , the sum of

£ 100 was voted to him as a gratuity , to commemorate the occasion , but from the manner in which this payment had been entered in the published accounts it is feared that some brethren may imagine that it is an annual payment , which is not the fact . In short , now that Bro . Binckes ' s

salary has been raised to £ 500 , his whole emoluments from the Institution do not exceed £ 700 . On being informed of what bad been done for him , Bro . Binckes thanked the

Committee for the compliment they had paid him , and said that though his faculties had lost some of the vigour they possessed when he was a younger and stronger man , the resolution that had been passed was an indication that

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the Committee did not consider that he was as yet failing in bis efforts on behalf of the Boys' School . There was no other business , and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings .

The monthly meeting of the Committee of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution was held on Wednesday , at Freemasons' Hall , when there were present Bros . Colonel Creaton Grand Treasurer ( in the chair ) , Rev . A . F . A . Woodford . James Brett , Edgar Bowyer , George Bolton ,

Raynham W . Stewart , J . March Case , Thos . Cubitt , A . H . Tattershall , William Stephens , J . G . Gordon Bobbins , H . McPherson , Thomas W . C . Bush , C . H . Webb , Robert P . Tate , W . Hilton , Charles Godtschalk , W . J . Murlis , and James Terry Secretary . The chairman signed cheques for

the quarter ' s annuities £ 1 , 570 to the men , and £ 1 , 355 to the women , besides cheques for office salaries , expenses , & c . A widow was granted half her late husband ' s annuity , and four male and two female candidates were placed on the list for the May 1883 Election . Bro . Terry informed the

brethren that G . Lodge would hold its next Quarterly Communication before the Committee met again , and as Bro . Raynham Stewart's motion for granting £ 800 a year to the Benevolent Institution would be again mentioned there , it was desirable that all the brethren should attend to support it . A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings .

On Saturday afternoon , H . M . S . Bacchante , with the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales , took up her moorings off Cowes . Its arrival had beeu expected much earlier in the day , and at 8 a . m . the Prince and Princess of Wales , on board the Royal Yacht Osborne , had started to

meet the good ship on which their sons had been voyaging round the world . But for some reason , whether barnacles or other is of little moment , it was not till the afternoon was well advanced , that the approach of the Osborne followed by the Bacchante was signalled , and as there were

yachts and other small craft innumerable sailingabout , and as the Hector guardship , Cowes , the Prince of Wales ' s yacht Aline , & c , became all of a sudden quite gay with the bunting they displayed , the scene was a very lively one . The Prince and Princess on meeting the Bacchante had boarded

her , and greeted their sons most affectionately , and , having inspected the ship , returned with them to the Osborne . When the latter , therefore , had taken np her moorings , the Royal party left in a steam pinnace for the purpose of visiting the Queen at Osborne . About seven o ' clock they

returned on board the Osborne , where the Prince and Princess entertained at dinner a number of guests , among them Lord Charles Scott , Captain of the Bacchante , and several of his officers . The young Princes afterwards returned to their vessel . On Sunday the Prince and Princess of Wales attended divine service on board their

sons' ship . As tho Bacchante sailed from Portland on 20 th September 1880 , the Royal midshipmen have been absent only a few weeks short of two years .

Gregory H ., Stroud J ., John Evans Sheffield S . E ., Knig ht S . N ., R . F . Feunell P . S ., Edmonds Preceptor , when the ceremony of exaltation was rehearsed , after which Comp . Stroud of the Bedford Chapter , and Comp . Phillips of the Industry Chapter were elected joining members .

The meetings of the North London Chapter of Improvement , at the Canonbury Tavern , St . Mary ' s-road , are being conducted in an eminently satisfactory way . Oa Thursday last Comps . Edmonds filled the chair of Z .,

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