Contents.

CONTENTS .

LlAD-RS 2 g 3 United Grand Lodge—firand Festival 253 New Grand Ollicers 2 J 6 Celebrities at Home 25 S Supreme Grand Chapter 259

CORRESPONDENCEPast Masters 261 Actors and the Craft 262 Reviews 262 REPORTS or MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 262 Instruction 26 4 Royal Arch 26 ;

REPORTS UF MASONIC MEETINGS ( Continued)—Mark Masonry 265 Ancient and Accepted Rite 26 ' Scotland 26 $ Children ' s Soiree of the Wilberforce Lodge , No . 2134 , Hull 26 .

New Masonic Hall at Falmouth 265 Board of Benei-olence 266 The Craft Abroad 266 Obituarv 266 An Interesting Masonic Celebration at Derby 266 Masonic and General Tidings 2-7 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 26 S

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THE Grand Festival on Wednesday passed off admirably . There was a strong muster of representative brethren , and the Grand Stewards , as we anticipated would be the case , had made excellent arrangements for the comfort and enjoyment of the guests . Above all , the Presidential chair was

occupied by the Earl of LATHOM , D . G . M . of England , who is kindness and geniality personified , and who , if at the close of the evening he gave the matter a thought , must have been somewhat puzzled to determine whether he had given or received the greater amount of pleasure . As regards those

on whom it has pleased the GRAND MASTER this year to bestow the honour of the much-coveted purple , our surmises , or rather the whisperings of Rumour a fortnight since , have proved correct so far as they went . The brethren we then named , with the addition of Bros . W . ROEBUCK , E . D . DAVIS , of Northumberland , and H . GREENE are the Grand Officers for

1886-7 , and certainly it would have been difficult to make a happier selection , or one that would have better represented the different sub-divisions of the English Craft , the GRAND TREASURER , who is the elect of Grand Lodge , hailing from a lodge in India , the Grand Junior Warden from an Australian Lod ge in the first instance , and the other officers from the home lodges scattered

indiscriminately throughout London and the Provinces . They are also in a still more striking manner representative of Masonry as a constituent body . Every year witnesses the enrolment among our Grand Officers of men who we know , or it may be , are of different political and religious faiths , and who belong to different professions and callings , or move in different grades of

society ; but not every year's recipients of Grand Office include so many men who have attained eminence in such various callings as are to be found among the newly-invested brethren of Wednesday . May the selection of brethren to receive Grand Lodge honours be hailed with as much satisfaction in future years as it has been this , and may there always be men as worthy of having such distinctions conferred upon them !

* IT is with unfeigned regret we announce the death of R . W . Bro . Sir HENRY EDWARDS , Bart ., Past Prov . G . M . of West Yorkshire . It is not two years since our deceased brother made known his intention of resigning the exalted office to which , almost immediately after his acceptance of the G .

Mastership , H . R . H . the Prince of WALES was pleased to appoint him , and in which he was formally installed about the time the PRINCE underwent a like ceremony at the memorable gathering in the Royal Albert Hall , South Kensington , on the 25 th April , 1875 . Failing health was the cause of Sir HENRY ' S resignation , but it was hoped by the Craft throughout England ,

and especially by his West Yorkshire brethren , that he might be spared yet many years to strengthen a Society he had laboured so unceasingly to serve . However , it has been otherwise ordained , and our brother has gone hence full of years and honours , and enjoying to its utmost extent the | Iove and respect of all his fellow Masons . But , though he himself has passed away ,

the memory of his valuable services will be preserved so long as Masonry itself shall last . The Sir HENRY EDWARDS Perpetual Presentation , made last year by the brethren of his province to the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , will ensure this , even if in the vicissitudes of fortune which attend all bodies corporate the lodges and chapters he had a hand in promoting ,

and at the Constitution of which , in several instances , he personally presided , should cease working . It will , indeed , be a source of gratulation to our West Yorkshire friends that this memorial to their late chief was raised during his lifetime . There was not one among his manv duties as Prov . G .

Master to which he devoted himself so assiduously and with so much heart as the maintenance of our Charitable Institutions , and it must have been an unalloyed pleasure to him in his declining years to know that his name would be associated perpetually with the senior Charity ,

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THE interesting discovery by Bro . H . SADLER of the " Mother Lodge" of the enthusiastic Mason ( one of the most prominent Craftsmen of the last century ) THOMAS DUNCKERLEY , of Hampton Court Palace , enables us now to complete the Masonic record of that well-known Mason . Bro . S IDLER tells us that Bro . DUNCKERLEY was initiated in an old lodge held at

Portsmouth , on January 10 , 1754 . The lodge was originally held at the " East India Arms , " Gosport , apparently warranted in 1724 , and subsequently numbered 35 , according to Bro . GOULD ' S " Four Old Lodges . " It is noted later on as held at Portsmouth , and before its erasure in 1831 for some years was known as the " Lodge of Antiquity , " though not so named in 1754 . As

the lodge in -which he was initiated is expressly mentioned in DUNOKERLEY ' S letter to the Grand Secretary , dated Dec . 19 , 1773 , there can be no doubt of the fact ; so he first saw the " light " under Modern auspices , not the " Ancients , " as some had supposed . He joined the " Somerset House" Lodge ( known as the " Old Horn" ) , we understand , about 1763 , and was

connected with many others , as also chapters and other organisations , especially the Knights Templars , in which he was for yeais the Grand Master . As the natural son of GEORGE IL , a pension was allowed him from 17 6 7 by GEORGE III . ( according to KENNING ' S Cyclopedia ) , THOMAS DUNCKERLEY being then about 43 . He went to sea at the age of ten , and rose to the rank

of gunner , becoming after one of the chiefs in Freemasonry ; but his son did not follow in his father's footsteps , for we are told that though he joined the Craft , he was of dissolute habits , and died in a cellar in St . Giles ' . We hold Bro . HUGHAN ' opinion that justice has not been done to DUNCKERLEY for the share hc had in the Masonic prosperity of the latter half of the last

century . His connection with so many provinces as Piov . Grand Master and Grand Superintendent must have entailed enormous correspondence and labour , as he was no drone , and endeavoured to do his duty in all the many official positions he held . He was practically for some years thc " life and soul " of the Grand R . A . Chapter , and , as Bro . HUGHAN tells us in his

" Origin of the English Rite of Freemasonry , " when there werc no letters or applications for new charters from Bro . DUNCKERLEY , the Grand Chapter often transacted no business whatever . But , though he worked so strenuously for the Grand Chapter , an unfortunate misunderstanding arose which led him to resign all his offices , his letter being read to the Grand Chapter

after his decease , which occurred on Sept . 19 , 1795 . As he was unanimously elected Grand Z . on Jan . 27 , 1791 , and was repeatedly thanked for his valuable services , we refuse to believe that his Masonic record was stained in any way until actual evidence is forthcoming . *¦ »*

WHEN it is known that Bro . EDMUND YATES is a member of our Society , it will surprise no one that among the eminently readable sketches of men of the day , which are published in the columns of the World , should occasionally be found one of some distinguished brother . We give

elsewhere a portrait of the Grand Secretary , which appeared in a recent number of our contemporary . It is evidently from the pen of a ready and capable writer , and will , no doubt , be appreciated by our readers as an excellent counterfeit [ presentment of the chief executive officer of Grand Lodge .

United Grand Lodge.

UNITED GRAND LODGE .

THE GRAND FESTIVAL . Thc Grand Festival of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England was held at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday . In the absence of the Prince of Wales , M . W . G . M ., and the Earl of Carnarvon , M . W . Pro G . M .. the Earl of Lathom , R . VV . Dep . G . M .. presided . His lordship was supported hy Lord Kensington , R . W . P . G . Warden , as Deputy G . M . ; Hugh D . Sandeman , R . W . P . District G . M . of Bengal , as Past G . M . ; the Earl of Milltown , P . G . S . W ., as G . S . W . ; Col . Sackville West , G . J . W . ; Rev . R .

N . Sanderson , G . Chap . ; F . A . Philbrick , G . Reg . ; Thos . Fenn , Pres . Board of General Purposes ; Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , G . Sec . ; E . E . Wendt , D . C . L ., G . Sec . for German Correspondence ; J . Watson , G . S . D . ; T . H . Goldney , G . J . D . ; Horace Jones , G . Supt . of Works ; Sir Albert Woods , G . D . C . ; Chas . Hammerton , G . Swd . Br . ; Butler Wilkins , G . Std . Br . ; G . P . Brockbank , G . Swd . Br . ; E . M . Lott , Mus . Doc , G . Org . ; Henry Garrod , G . P . ; and A . Lucking , G . A . P . The following were also present : —

Bros . Gen . Laurie , G . M . Nova Scotia ; S . S . Lazier , P . D . D . G . M . Canada ; T . H . Tiltore , P . D . D . G . M . New York City ; A . . Saunders , P . D . G . M . Madras ; Sir John 13 . Monckton , P . G . W . ; R . Cunliffe , P . G . W . ; V . A . Williamson , P . G . W . ; Rev . Canon G . R . Portal , P . G . Chap . ; . Rev . H . A . Pickard , P . G . Chap . ; Rev . T . Cochrane , P . G . Chap . ; Rev . R . " J . Simpson , P . G . Chap . ;

Rev . I . E . Cox , P . G . Chap . ; H . B . Marshall , P . G . Treas . ; Capt . N . G . Philips , P . G . D . ; P . de Lande Long , P . G . D . ; J . S . Eastes , P . G . D . ; R . Gooding * , P . G . D . ; R . Grey , P . G . D . ; F . Green , P . G . D . ; l <\ Davison , P . G . D . ; R . W . Stewart , P . G . D . ; T . H . Devonshire , P . G . D . ; H . J . P . Dumas , P . G . D . ; J . C . Parkinson , P . G . D . ; Major J . S . Pierce , P . G . D . ; E . Letchworth , P . G . D , ; H . Maudsley , P . G . D . ; R . Turtle Pigott , P . G . A . D . C . ; R . H . Thrupp , P . G . A . D . C ., * G . Butt , P . G . A . D . C ; J .