Contents.

CONTENTS .

LtUDHR- ' - ™ --Freemasonry and the War Funds . ... ... .. *"" •••617 United Grand Lodge ( Quarterly Communication ) ... ... ... G 17 Mark Grand Lodge ( Quarterly Communication ) ... ... ••¦ 619

Art and the Drama ' ... ... ... •••- •••° 2 ° Annual Supper of the Prosperity Lodge of Instruction , No . 65 ... ... 620 Provincial Grand Lodge of Dorsetshire ... ... •••... 621 Consecration of the St . Alban ' s Lodge , No . 27 S 1 I ... ... ... G 21 Consecration of the Mizpah Chapter , No . 1671 ... ... ... G 23 Provincial Grand Chapter of Essex ... ... •¦• ... r > 23

MASONIC N OTESauarterly Communication of United Grand Lodge ... ... ... 625 uatterly Communication of Mark Grand Lodge ... ... ... O 25 Annual Convocation of the Provincial Grand Chapter of Essex ... C 25 Dorsetshire Freemasonry ... ... ... ... _ ... G 25 Annual Meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Leicestershire and Rutland ... ... •••... ... •¦• 625

Correspondence ... •••— •••••••••e 2 " Consecration ot the Assheton-Egerton Lodge , No . 2793 ... ... G 20 Craft Masonry ... ... •••¦¦•- - 626 Ancient and Accepted Rite ... ... ... ... ... 630 Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ¦¦••••... C > 3 >

Allied Masonic Degrees ... ... ... ... ... 631 Instruction ... ... ... •¦•••••••... G 3 ' The New Governor of Bombay and the Craft ... ... ... C 31 Obituary ... ... ... ¦¦••••... - (> 3 « Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... G 34

Freemasonry And The War Funds.

FREEMASONRY AND THE WAR FUNDS .

We have no desire or intention of parading before the public the doings of Masonry in the field of benevolence " . There is , in the first place , no need to do anything of the kind , the reputation of the Craft in tin ' s respect being so well established ,

while , in the next , it tends to mar the effect of a duty that is gracefully done , to be continually drawing attention to its performance . Still , it is satisfactory , if not very surprising , to find

that the Freemasons of Old England are doing their fair share of the work of providing for the widows and orphans of the brave men who have fallen in battle in the service of their

QUEEN and country ; for those of our soldiers who may be either for a time or permanently disabled from earning a livelihood ; for the thousands of families , many of them once living in affluence , but all in more or less comfortable circumstances , who arc now

not only outcasts from their homes , but , in the majority of cases , in actual want of the necessaries of life ; and , generally , for all who are , or may be , in suffering through this fierce and terrible war which is now raging in South Africa . For weeks our lodges

and chapters and other Masonic bodies have been remitting to ' > ne or other of the Funds started for the purposes we have mentioned the modest sums subscribed at their regular or special meetings ; and nearly all the reports that reach us contain evidence

of the determination of our brethren and companions not to be behind the rest of their fellow-countrymen in helping to relieve the distress thathasariscn out of this Transvaal War . The othcrday il was the Supreme Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch which voted

100 guineas to ( he Transvaal Refugees Relief Fund and its 'irand Officers' Mess 1050 shillings to the Daily Telegraph Shilling Fund . Then the Woodgrange Lodge sent its 1102 shillings to the latter . The Capper Lodge , No . 1076 , gave 11

guineas to the " Patriotic Fund ; " the Fellowship , No . 2535 , £ 25 to the Mansion House Fund . Other subscriptions include 10 guineas from the Asaph Lodge , No . 1319 ; £ i 10 s . from the

Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 ; 245 shillings from the Cosmopolitan Lodge , No . 915 , all paid over to the Daily Telegraph Fund , while this week we have had 100 guineas voted to the same Fund by the Mark Grand Lodge , and iooo guineas to

Freemasonry And The War Funds.

the Mansion House Fund by United Grand Lodge , and this ( Friday ) evening , when the Great Priory of the Order of the Temple meets at Mark Masons' Hall , there will , we doubt not , be a further 100 guineas voted , in accordance with the

recommendation of the Council , to the Daily Telegraph Fund . Thus , throughout the English Craft , from Grand Lodge and private lodge , Grand Chapter and Great Priory and private chapter and preceptory , subscriptions , have been finding their way to the different Funds , and for weeks and months to come will

continue to How in , so that the sufferings of those affected b y the war may be , as far as possible , alleviated . Of course , the reader will understand that the sums we have specified are merely representative of the far more numerous contributions which have been raised in all directions by bodies of Masons . They are , in fact , just a few of

tne amounts tnat have been mentioned in our own reports , or that have caught our attention in glancing down the lists which are appearing day by day in the Times , Daily Telegraph , and other papers , and compiled in a list of our own . But , after all , we are doing no more than has been done before when occasions have arisen and it has been found necessary to appeal to the nation

tor the wherewith to relieve the sufferers in times of war . Very generous contributions were made by our brethren to the Patriotic Fund established at Lloyds ' , that was started during the wars in which the country was engaged during the early

years of the present century ; while , in the days of the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny , our lodges , both Grand and privat e , were among those who assisted in the patriotic work—a grant from Grand Lodge of £ 1000 being made to the Patriotic Fund in 1855 in connection with the former , and one of equal amount in 1858 to the Indian Relief Fund in connection with the latter .

United Grand Lodge.

UNITED GRAND LODGE .

The Quarterly Communication of United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England was held on Wednesday evening last , at Freemasons' Hall , London . The Earl of Warwick , Dep . G . M ., presided . Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., Prov . G . Master for Hants and the Isle of Wight , acted as Dep . G . M . ; and Bro . the Rev . C . J . Martyn , P . G . C ., as Past Grand Master . Bro . Thomas Fenn , P . G . W ., acted as S . G . W . ; and Bro . Robert Grey , as J . G . W .

Among numerous- other brethren present were—Bros . R . Loveland l . ovtland , Q . C . ; Sir Forrest Fulton , D . G . Reg . ; E . Letchworth . G . Sec . j J . W . Woodall , P . G . T . ; Richard Eve , P . G . T . ; George Everett , P . G . T . ; S . Cochrane , P . G . T . ; Alfred H . Bevan , G . T . ; Lennox Browne , R . D . M . Littler , Q . C , P . D . G . Reg . ; Sir Joseph C . Dimsdale , P . G . T . ; J . Lewis Thomas , J . M . McLeod , P . G . S . B ., Sec . R . M . I . B . ; James Henry

Matthew , Dr . Clement Godson , P . G . D . ; Rev . F . N . Bethune Norman Lee , G . C . ; Imre Kiral y , W . Vincent , W . A . Scurrah , James Boulton , Janus Kew , and Frank Richardson , acting G . D . C . Grand Lodge having been opened in due form , GRAND SECRF . TARY read the minutes of the Quarterly Communication of September 6 th , and they were put and confirmed .

Bro . M . LYON rose tocall attention to a question of privilege . Since the last meeting of G . Lodge he had received a lithographed le . ter addressed to himself , and signed by a G . Officer . On looking through it carefully he discovered , to his astonishment , thit it was nothing but a lithographed circular relating to trips got up by a touring agency , and , as it appeared to him to be contrary to the usages of the Craft , he brought the matter before G . Ledge .

The Earl of WARWICK said that this had nothing to do with the business before G . Lodge . Bro . H . THOMSON LYON remarked that he thought that it ought to be brought before the G . Lodge . The Earl of WARWICK repeated that he did not think it had anything to do with G . Lodge ; but if Bro . Thomson Lyon would kindly bring it before G . Lodge on a notice of motion , it would be well considered . Bro . CHARLES BEAUMONT , G . Stwd ., then rose and said : Most Worshipful Acting Grand Master , —I have the honour to nominate for Grand