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Masonic Notes .

SATURDAY , MARCH . 4 , 18 99

The Quarterly Communication of United Grand Lodge was held at Freemasons' Hall , for the transaction of the tegular business , on Wednesday , under

the presidency of Bro . W . \ V . B . Beach , M . P ., l ' rov . Grand Master of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , who , earlier in the proceedings , obligated and installed Bro . Earl Amherst as Pro Grand Mastcr , in succession to thc late Earl of Lathom . The Pro Gra . - . d Master then took the chair , and , in his turn , installed Bro . the

Eirl A Warwick as R . W . Deputy Graud Master . A message was then read from his Royal Highness the M . W . Grand Master relating to Freemasonry in Peru , and recommending the ' . withdrawal of the inttrdict against the Grand Lodge of Peru , in consequence of its having restored tbe Volume of the Sacred Law to its place on its altar ar . d on those of the lodges under its

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obedience . Resolutions in accordance with the Grand Master ' s recommendation were , therefore , proposed , and adopted nem . con . H . R . H . the Prince of Wahs was th ^ n elected for the 25 th time to the office of Grand Master , and duly proclaimed , while the reports of the Boards of Benevolence and General Purposes were adopted . #

* * On this occasion Grand Lodge was opened at 2 p . m ., in view of the keen contest for the office of Grand Treasurer for the ensuing year to which everyone was looking forward . The candidates , whose names were mentioned last week , having been proposed and seconded , the poll was opened , and during

the afternoon a succession of brethren entered G . Lodge , and having deposited their ballot-papers in the room , retired . In the evening the result was announced as follows : for Bro . A . H . Bevan 1322 votes for Bro . Harry Manfield 1026 , the former being thus elected by a majority of close on 300 votes . A full report of the meeting will be found in another part of our columns .

* * * Thg . Grand Lodge of Mark Masons met in Quarterly Communication at Mark Masons' Hall on Tuesday , the 28 th ultimo ., when Bro . the Earl of Euston , M . W . Pro G . Master , occupied the chair , and was numerously supported by the Grand Officers and

representatives of private lodges . As for the proceedings , there was nothing of very great moment to which , after our " Notes " of last week , we need call the attention of . our readers . Bro . A . H . Bevan was elected unanimously G . Treasurer for the ensuing year , there being no other candidate nominated for

the office , and will thus have the honour of occupying this important position in Craft , Royal Arch , and Mark Masonry concurrently . Sympathetic reference was also made by the President of the General Board ( Bro . R . Loveland-Loveland , Q . C . ) on moving the adoption of the Report , to the sudden and lamented

death of R . W . Bro . Col . A . Bott Cook , Prov . G . Master of Middlesex , whose demise occurred after the Board's Report was printed , or the sad event would have been mentioned therein . The kindly terms in which Bro . Loveland spoke of our deceased brother

and the important services he had rendered to the several branches of Fremasonry with which he was connects d , were fully appreciated by all present in Grand Lodge , and will be equally appreciated by the whole body of Masons . a * *

The annual Festival of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , which was held on Friday , thc 24 th ultimo , proved , as usual , a great success . The meeting , which was very numerously attended , had the honour of being presided over by the R . W . Bro . the Earl of Dartmouth , Prov . G . Mister of Staffordshire ,

who was supported by a strong force of Grand Officers , prominent among whom was Bro . E . Letchworth , G . Secretary , who is the Treasurer of the Iodge . Thc lodge work , which consisted of the Sections of the First Lecture , was faultlessly performed under the able guidance of Bro . R . Clay Sudlow , Past G . Std ,

Br ., Preceptor , who occupied the Master's chair , and before the Iodge was closed a cordial vote of thanks , proposed by the Earl of Dartmouth , and seconded by Bro . R . Horton Smith , Q . C , Past G . Registrar , was passed by acclamation , and gracefully acknowledged by Bro . Sudlow on behalf of the workers of the Sections .

* » After the banquet which followed , and at which Lord Dartmouth most genially presided , a succession of admirable speeches were delivered . In proposing " Success to the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , " his lordship laid great stress on the- importance of

having such a School of Instruction , and expressed the belief that the quasi-official position it held gave it an influence which ordinary lodges of instruction were necessarily unable to command . He pointed out that the Emulation working of the ceremonies was thesamc as that recommended , after the consummation of the Union in 1813 , by the Lodge of Reconciliation , and

approvedand , with someslight modifications , adopted by Grand Lodge in 1816 . Thus the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , which was founded a few years laterin 1823—was carrying out the working of the ritual precisely as it had been settled , as stated , in 1816 , and hence its system should be the standard of work for all English lodges .

Bro . Su dlow , in responding for thc toast , laid stress on the necessity for literal accuracy in thc working , remarking that while'it would be produciive of harm rather than of good to interrupt the presiding officer in his working for the purpose of correcting any slight

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error of omission or commission on his part , and while such a course would be undesirable , if not im possible , in any ordinary lodge of instruction , it would be a grave mistake to allow even the slightest verbal slip to pass uncorrected in a lodge whose working was

looked upon as the standard to be followed . We agree with Bro . Sudlow in these remarks , and we feel sure that our readers will be gratefulto him for insisting so strenuously upon the necessity for complete accuracy in all respects .

* * » Two of the new lodges in London for which his Royal Highness the M . W . G . Master has been pleased to grant warrants are , at the time of writing , on the eve of being consecrated . The date fixed for the consecration of Comrades Lodge , No . 2740 , is this

( Friday ) afternoon , when the ceremony will be performed at the llolborn Restaurant by the Grand Secretary , assisted by Bros . J . H . Matthews , President of the Board of Benevolence , as S . W . ; Col . Davis as J . W . the Rev . J . S . Brownrigg , P . G . C , as

Chaplain ; Frank Richardson , P . G . D ., as D . C . ; and Major Newington Bridges , P . G . S . B ., as I . G . The principal officers designate are Bros . J . H . Lister , P . Prov . G . S . B . Surrey , W . M . ; J . G . Baldock , S . W . ; and J . C . Jordan , J . W .

» * » The Lodge of Verity , No . 2739 , will be consecrated at the Cald Monico , on Monday , the Sth instant . The ceremony , will on this occasion also , be performed by the Grand Secretary , who will be assisted in his task

by Bros . Thomas Fenn , P . G . W ., as S . W . ; William Russell , P . A . G . D . C , as J . W . ; and the Rev . J . S . Brownrigg , P . G . C , as Chaplain . The principal officers designate are Bros . John Renton Dunlop , P . G . Stwd ., W . M . ; Edward Roehrich , S . W . ; and A . J . Neville , J . . * # #

It is with very sincere regret we announce the death of Bro . Lord Herschell , Past S . G . W . of England The event , which occurred on Wednesday morning in Washington , U . S . A ., was quite unexpected . About a fortnight previously his lordship had met with an

accident , having slipped on a piece of ice as he was stepping into his carriage , and sustained somewhat severe injuries to the hip and thigh ; but he had been progressing so satisfactorily towards recovery , that no one anticipated a fatal termination to his illness . Owing to the busy career he had followed at the Bar ,

in the House of Commons , and subsequently in the House of Lords , when he was appointed Lord Chancellor , his lordship was not a very active member of our Order ; but , after he had been installed as ; W . M . of the Northern Bar Lodge , No . 1610 , his Royal Highness was pleased to appoint him to the chair of S . G . W ., it

being the first occasion on which such an honour had been conferred upon the highest legal functionary in the United Kingdom . We tender our most respectful sympathy to Lady Herschell and the rest of his lordship ' s family in their bereavement . * * *

We learn from the Voice of Masonry for December last that at the 38 th Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Colorado , which was held at Denver on the 20 th and 21 st September , under the presidency of Bro . Cromwell Tucker , G . Master , G . Lodge declined to authorise life membershi . It also

p appears , from the reports that were then presented , that there were at that time 92 lodges on the roll , with a total membership of 7 605 , while the financial condition of Grand Lodge was sound . Bro . Horace T . de Long was elected and installed M . W . G . M . ' for the ejsuing year , and Bro . E . C . Parmelee re-elected G . Secretary •# ' * J '

It is with great regret that we learn from the pages of the December issue of the Freemason ' s Repository published at Providence , Rhoda Island , that this periodical will not be continued . The magazine was started , if we remember rightly , in the year 1871 , and during nearly the whole of its career was under the

Editorship of Bro . the Rev . Henry W . Rugg , who for the last lew years had also been its proprietor . During nil these years it was one of the ablest conducted and most valuable of our many American exchanges . Its articles were admirably written and ( he information it furnished uf the doings of the Craft in the United

States was both ample and trustworthy , Bro . Rugg , in announcing the discontinuance , explains that having many other duties to fulfil and finding that the Repository did not receive such a measure of support as such an organ of Masonic opinion was entitled to , he did not

consider himself justified in carrying 01 the work . We are sorry , as we have said , that henceforth there will be no longer a Freemason ' s Repository lo enlighten us on American Masonry , but we cannot consider the course which Bro . Rugg has taken ill-advised under the circumstances .