The Queen And The Craft.

amounting in all to £ 8000 . Then on Monday , tbe 14 th instant , there will be in the Royal Albert Hall , South Kensington , just such another assembly of brethren under the presidency of his Royal Highness the M . W . G . Master , as graced the year of the

QUEEN ' Jubilee ; and as the tickets of admission have been pi iced at 21 s . each , and it has been decided that the proceeds arising out of their sale shall be handed over , one half to the aforesaid Hospital Fund , and the other to the Masonic

Institutions in equal parts , there is no doubt that if the total realised amounts lo no more than in 1 SS 7 , there will be a further £ 6 ooa raised for Charitable purposes in commemoration of the QUEEN ' S record reign— £ 3000 being assigned to the Hospitals

and / , tooo to each of the three Masonic Chanties . But this will represent onl y a part of what is done in the way of Jubilee celebrations . On the 14 th inst . the Empire Lodge will entertain

visiting brethren from the Colonies and India , and the number of distinguished Masons who have alread y promised to attend is considerable . The Anplo-American and Columbia

Lodges will do their part in extending the rites of hospitality to Masons from the United States , of whom there is little doubt there will be a large influx in the course of this summer , while in the country many Provincial Grand Lodges are already

p lanning something or other which may serve to celebrate the event of the year . In short , though there is not much in the way of outward and visible sign of what the Masons of England have it in contemplation to do in tbe way of Jubilee

festivity , there is little doubt they have made up their minds to demonstrate the truth of their Grand Master ' s statement at his installation in the Royal Albert Hall , in the spring of 18 75 , as to the attributes by which the Order is characterised being

" Loyalty " and " Charity . " The presence of brethren in St . Saviour ' s Church last week showed our respect for Reli g ion ; the assembly in the Albert Hall on the 14 th instant will prove

our Loyalty to a beloved Sovereign ; and the grants and contributions from our funds to Hospitals , to the Indian Famine Fund and to our own Institutions , and whatever else may be forthcoming during the year , are the evidence direct of our Charity .

United Grand Lodge Of England.

UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND .

The Ouaiterry Communication of United Grand Lodge was held at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday evening . Bro . Earl Amherst , D . G . M ., presided ; Bro . W . W . B . Beach acted as Deputy G . M . ; Bro . General Laurie , M . P ., as Past G . M . ; Bro . Victor Williamson , as S . G . W . ; and Bro . Sir John Monckton , as J . G . W .

There were also present among a gathering of about 1000 brethren Bros , R . Loveland Loveland , Judge Philbrick , QC , R . Horton Smith , Q . C , Richard Eve , E . Letchworth , G . Sec ; W . Lake , Asst . G . Sec ; H . Lovegrove , J . A . Farnfield , D . P . Cama , Sir Joseph Dimsdale , Samuel Cochrane , G . Everett , T . Fenn , J . H . Matthews , Jas . Stephens , D . G . D . C . ;

C . Hammerton , C . W . C . Mutton , W . M . Stiles , J . C . Malcolm , W . M . By water , P . de L . Long , Archdeacon Stevens , Dean Hole , Rev . C . V . Child , Rev . R . J . Simpson , R . C . Sudlow , Rev . C . J . Martyn , C . E . Keyser , A . C . Spaull , Dr . Jabez Hogg , F . West , J . E . Le Feuvre , E . St . Clair , G . Read , J . D . Langton , W . Vincent , W . A . Scurrah , Dr . E . Pocock , and J . J . Thomas .

Grand Lodge laving been opened in due form , the minutes of the Ouaiterly Communication of March 3 rd and of the Grand Festival of April zSth were read and confirmed , after which Earl AMHERST announced that the Grand Master , had again been pleased to appoint Bro . Richard Loveland Loveland President of the Board

of General Purposes . Bro . Loveland Loveland then advanced to the throneand was re-invested by Earl Amherst amidst cheers . Scrutineers of the ballot at the election of members of the Board of General Purposes were then obligated , the ballot cards were collected , and the Scrutineers retired .

On the motion of Bro . J . J . THOMAS , which was duly seconded , Bro . J . Smith was duly re-elected Auditor of Grand Lodge accounts . On the motion of Bro . J . H . MATTHEWS , President of the Board of Benevolence , seconded by Bro . D . I ) . MERCER , S . V . P ., the following recommendations of grants made by the Board of Benevolence were confirmed :

The widow of a biother of the Stuart Lodge , No . 540 , Bedford ... / . 50 o o The widow of a biother of the Victoria in Burma Lodge , No , S 32 , Rangoon ... ... ... ... ... 75 o o The widow of a brother of the Vitruvian Lodge , No . 33 S , Ross ... Go o o A brother of the Perseverance Lodge , No . 213 , Norwich ... 75 o o The widow of a brother of the Union lx > dge , No . 2 , 17 , Demerara do o o

A brother of the Eccleston Lodge , No . 1624 , London ... ... 75 o 11 A brother of the Royal Jubilee Lodge , No . 72 , London ... Ou o o A brother of the John Heiv ^ y I-odge , No . ufio , London ... fx > o o A brother of the University of London Lodge , No . 2033 , London ... Go O O A brother of the St . Augustine ' s Lodge , No . 19 JI , Rugeley ... 50 o o A brother of Ihe Sincerity Lodge , No . 174 , London ... ... Co o o The widow of a brother of the I lumber Lodge , No . 57 , Hull ... 50 0 o

United Grand Lodge Of England.

The report of the Board of General Purposes , as already published in the Freemason , last week , was taken as read , and ordered to be received and enlered on the minutes , on the motion of Bro . R . LOVELAND LOVELAND seconded by Bro . J . J . THOMAS . On the motion of Bro . his Honour Judge PHILHRICK , Q . C , G . Registrar ,

seconded by Bro . J . J . THOMAS , Vice-President of the Board of General Purposes , the report of the Special Committee appointed by Grand Lodge to consider certain additions to , and alterations in , the Book of Constitutions , proposed by the Grand Registrar , also published in last week's Freemason , was taken as reid , and ordered to be received and entered on the minutes .

Bro . PmuiRK'K then moved , pursuant to notice , the additions mentioned on the agenda paper . He said he had little to remark on the subject , for those brethren who were present at the last Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge would remember that after Grand Lodge had by a very decisive majority expressed its opinion on the matter by its vote , on- the suggestion of Bro . Simpson , P . G . C , it was referred to a Committee ; and

an exceptionally strong Committee was named , some of the brethren on it having large Colonial experience , members of the Colonial Committee of the Board of General Purposes , the President of the Board of General Purposes , the Vice-President of the Board , Sir G . D . Harris , Past President of the Colonial Board and Past G . W ., Bahamas ; Bro . J . H . Matthews , President of the Board of Benevolence , and Past District Grand Deacon of

Bengal ; W . Bro . Major-Gen . Gadsden , P . G . Swd . Br ., and Past District Grand Warden of Madras ; W . Bro . Frank Richardson , P . G . D .. P . D . G . Warden Victoria , and Representative of the Grand Lodge of Victoria at the Grand Lodge of England ; and W . Bro . W . F . Lamonby , P . G . Warden of the Grand Lodge of Victoria . A suggestion was made that Bro . Eve should be appointed , and Grand Lodge appointed him . The

appointment was accepted , and the Committee met . He was sorry to say Major-Gen . Gadsden was unable to attend through illness . After consultation the Committee was unanimous , and Major-Gen . Gadsden who had also seen the report , agreed with its conclusions . He ( Bro . Philbrick ) regretted that Bro . Eve did not attend , and the Committee did not understand at all from him at the time

what it was that prevented him attending . But with the exception of Bros . Eve and Major-Gen . Gadsden every member of the Committee a'tended , and they were entirely unanimous , and the result was that with the exception of a few amendments that were verbal the propositions before Grand Lodge were recommended by the whole Committee . He now begged to move the first which in substance was that brethren who now certainly

to his mind committed a Masonic offence if they met to discuss and did discuss the formation of a new Grand Lodge involving a new jurisdiction , should under certain circumstances have a dispensation granted to them to meet and express their opinion whether the time had come for the Colony or District or part of the Colony or District to set up , as he expressed it at last Grand Lodge , housekeeping on its own

account . It was better that it should be done openly and that it should not involve the brethren taking part in it in a penalty . It was the opinion of Grand Lodge—it was the opinion certainly of the Committee—and he had heard nothing to the contrary ; but since he had been in Grand Lodge two memorials or resolutions had been put before him — one coming from New Zealand and one from South Africa—dissenting

from any alterations . It was a very curious thing—it was very odd—that those two memorials were almost to a syllable alike . ( Laughter . ) Evidently , if he might use the colloquialism , the organ had been voiced by an experienced tuner . ( Hear , hear . ) He did not want to discuss them , but they were similar . The memorialists were certainly under a misapprehension as to Grand Lodge granting warrants

and not the Grand Master . Brethren knew very well that Grand Lodge did not assume the jurisdiction of the Grand Master . The memorialists had lost sight of that . The brethren would remember what Gen . Laurie said at the last meeting that , if these alterations were made , matters would be put on a better foundation . He had a letter in which a point was raised , in which the writer , with reference to the words " In a Colony or foreign part in which

a District Grand Lodge exists , if the District Grand Master shall think proper to grant a dispensation for that purpose , it shall be . lawful for any lodge to hold a special meeting , or meetings , to discuss and resolve on the question of the formation of a Sovereign Grand Lodge for or including the District or part thereof , or any neighbouring District or part thereof , or any lodges not in a District . " The writer wanted to know what that meant .

He would explain . If there was no District there was no difficulty ; but there were lodges where there was no District or no province , and they had on the smallest matters that required action of the Provincial Grand Master to come up to Grand Lodge head-quarters . This usually caused great delay , and very often there was a necessity that the matter should be

adjudicated upon at once . Like at Grand Lodge , it was thought right that they should be entitled to have their voice in the matter . But where there was a District Grand Lodge it was all under the authority of the District Grand Master , and the brethren would , of course , take care that every lodge proposed to be included in the new territory should be consulted . He moved that 21 8 A be added .

Bro . J . J . THOMAS seconded the motion . Bro . RICHARD EVE opposed . He asked on a former occasion that the matter should not be hurried , but that the consideration of the proposed alterations should be delayed for nine months in order that brethren in distant parts of the world might have a full opportunity of considering whether the alterations were or were not desirable . He lost his motion ,

and ultimately a special Committee was appointed and he ( Bro . Eve ) was put on . The brethren had been informed that he did not attend the meeting , the reason was he was not like Sir Boyle Roche's bird , he could not be in two places at the same time . There was nothing he undertook with greater pleasure than Masonic work . He did not stop away on account of having any feeling , but would have been at the meeting , and he made every

endeavour to be at it , but he was detained at a County Council meeting and he could not get away from it . The brethren had heard about the memorials from South Africa and New Zealand being similar and about an ecperienced gentleman voicing the organ . He thought that was a little inuendo . He had very few connections in South Africa and he knew very few in New Zealand . He was a member of the Board of General Purposes ,

and at a sitting there he hati a telegram from four District Grand Masters in New Zealand desiring that he would protest as far as possible against these regulations being made into law . He . was not allowed to refer to it . He protested now that hurry was not necessary and he moved as an amendment that this matter do stand adjourned until the Grand Lodge in December .