-
Articles/Ads
Article PROVINCIAL. ← Page 23 of 49 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Provincial.
city of Sunderland may ever be hailed as affording encouragement and 2 > rotection to science . " The members of the Committee were then severally presented to his Royal Highness , who again congratulated them upon their undertaking , expressing his conviction that such institutions afforded the best means of keeping society together . The whole of this part of the day ' s business liaving been thus
completed , his Royal Highness , addressing the assemblage which was about to prepare for the return of the procession , said : — " There is one duty I have still to perforin . Upon such occasions as these we should never lose sight of the illustrious lady who presides over this country , —( loud and continued cheering ) . We have placed her effigy beneath this stone-I hope her memory will be borne down to posterity with the value it deserves . I propose , therefore , that ive should say ' God bless the Queen !' with three times three . "
I he proposition was received with the utmost enthusiasm , and responded to with cheers that awakened many distant echoes . After this expression of loyalty , the procession returned to the Phcenix Lodge in the same order as it set out . The duties of Masonry detained his Royal Highness at the Lodge until four o ' clock , at which hour he proceeded to the Bridge Inn , to partake of a public dinner . At this banquetwhich was confined to Masonsthe Earl of Durham
, , presided , having on his right the Duke of Sussex , Sir H . Williamson , the Hon . John Dundas , and Sir Cuthbert Sharpe ; and on the left the Earl of Zetland , Mr . Easthope , M . P ., Mr . C . Buller , M . P ., Mr . Hawes , M . P ., and Mr . Loraine . Upwards of one hundred and forty sat down to dinner , and about fifty more , who had dined in a separate apartment , were admitted after the removal of the cloth . The room was tastefully fittedup for the occasionand there was no lack of substantial viands .
, When these had disappeared , and grace had been said—The CHAIRMAN rose . The first toast he had to proposewas one ivhich was ever , or at least ought ever to be , drunk with enthusiasm in every public assembly in England . He meant " The health of the gracious Sovereign who filled the throne of these kingdoms . "—( Great cheering ) . His Royal Highness had justly observed , in the course of the day , that if there were any portion of her Majesty ' s subjects who were more bound
than another in duty and inclination to offer up prayers for the welfare and happiness of their illustrious Sovereign , it was the body of Freemasons of England . —( Cheers ) . The great principle and practice of their Order enjoined them to pay obedience to the constituted authorities of the state , to honour the laws , and , above all , to pay honour , allegiance , and respect to the illustrious personage who was at the head of all the constituted authorities of this realm . —( Loud cheers ) . If in ordinary
times , and under ordinary circumstances , it ivould be their duty to avail themselves of an opportunity like the present to show their respectful attachment to the Queen , how much more did it become their duty to do so when their eyes and ears had been disgusted by the most atrocious calumnies thrown out against the august person of their Sovereign—a lady not more distinguished for her high state than for the unsullied purity of her character . —( Enthusiastic cheering . ) With them no such practices would find countenance , and it was therefore with a perfect reliance upon their enthusiasm and loyal attachment to her most gracious
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Provincial.
city of Sunderland may ever be hailed as affording encouragement and 2 > rotection to science . " The members of the Committee were then severally presented to his Royal Highness , who again congratulated them upon their undertaking , expressing his conviction that such institutions afforded the best means of keeping society together . The whole of this part of the day ' s business liaving been thus
completed , his Royal Highness , addressing the assemblage which was about to prepare for the return of the procession , said : — " There is one duty I have still to perforin . Upon such occasions as these we should never lose sight of the illustrious lady who presides over this country , —( loud and continued cheering ) . We have placed her effigy beneath this stone-I hope her memory will be borne down to posterity with the value it deserves . I propose , therefore , that ive should say ' God bless the Queen !' with three times three . "
I he proposition was received with the utmost enthusiasm , and responded to with cheers that awakened many distant echoes . After this expression of loyalty , the procession returned to the Phcenix Lodge in the same order as it set out . The duties of Masonry detained his Royal Highness at the Lodge until four o ' clock , at which hour he proceeded to the Bridge Inn , to partake of a public dinner . At this banquetwhich was confined to Masonsthe Earl of Durham
, , presided , having on his right the Duke of Sussex , Sir H . Williamson , the Hon . John Dundas , and Sir Cuthbert Sharpe ; and on the left the Earl of Zetland , Mr . Easthope , M . P ., Mr . C . Buller , M . P ., Mr . Hawes , M . P ., and Mr . Loraine . Upwards of one hundred and forty sat down to dinner , and about fifty more , who had dined in a separate apartment , were admitted after the removal of the cloth . The room was tastefully fittedup for the occasionand there was no lack of substantial viands .
, When these had disappeared , and grace had been said—The CHAIRMAN rose . The first toast he had to proposewas one ivhich was ever , or at least ought ever to be , drunk with enthusiasm in every public assembly in England . He meant " The health of the gracious Sovereign who filled the throne of these kingdoms . "—( Great cheering ) . His Royal Highness had justly observed , in the course of the day , that if there were any portion of her Majesty ' s subjects who were more bound
than another in duty and inclination to offer up prayers for the welfare and happiness of their illustrious Sovereign , it was the body of Freemasons of England . —( Cheers ) . The great principle and practice of their Order enjoined them to pay obedience to the constituted authorities of the state , to honour the laws , and , above all , to pay honour , allegiance , and respect to the illustrious personage who was at the head of all the constituted authorities of this realm . —( Loud cheers ) . If in ordinary
times , and under ordinary circumstances , it ivould be their duty to avail themselves of an opportunity like the present to show their respectful attachment to the Queen , how much more did it become their duty to do so when their eyes and ears had been disgusted by the most atrocious calumnies thrown out against the august person of their Sovereign—a lady not more distinguished for her high state than for the unsullied purity of her character . —( Enthusiastic cheering . ) With them no such practices would find countenance , and it was therefore with a perfect reliance upon their enthusiasm and loyal attachment to her most gracious