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CONTENTS . PAGB LEADERThe Right Hon . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., Prov . Grand Master of Hants and the Isle of Wight ... ... ... - - 4 » 7 A New American Grand Lodge ... ... ... •••— 4 Supreme Grand Chapter ( Quarterly Convocation ) ... ... •••4 ' 9 The New Masonic Hall , Leeds ... ... ... •••••¦ 4 ' 9 Visit of the Strong Man Lodge , No . 45 , to Godstone ... ... ... 4 ' Dedication of a Masonic Templeat Ilfracorabe ... ... — 4

MASONIC NOTESOuarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter ... ... 4 3 Recent Annual Meeting of the Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Berks and Oxon ... ... ... •••••••••4 2 3 District Grand Mark Lodge of Bengal ... ... ... ... 4 3

Reviews ... ... — ¦•••••¦•••••4 4 The August Magazines ... ... ... •••••••••4 2 4 SCOTLANDQuarterly Meeting of Grand LoJge ... ... ... ... 42 4 Consecration of the Babington Boulton Chapter , No . 1121 ... ... 425 Science , Art , and the Drama ... ... ... ••••••4 5 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... •••- 4 Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... •••4 2 S

The Right Hon. W. W. B. Beach, M.P., Prov. Grand Master Hants And The Isle Of Wight.

THE RIGHT HON . W . W . B . BEACH , M . P ., PROV . GRAND MASTER HANTS AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT .

A feeling of the most profound sorrow has pervaded all ranks of the English Craft since the news was published early in the present week that Bro . the Rig ht Hon . W . W . BRAMSTON Bl . ACH , M . P ., Prov . Grand Master of Hampshire and the Isle of

Wight , had succumbed to the injuries he received on Friday , the 2 nd instant , through being shot out of a hansom cab in Parliament-street when on his way home from the House of Commons . Bro . BEACH was picked up in a state of unconsciousness , and

taken to Westminster Hospital , where , notwithstanding that he rallied somewhat next morning , and appeared to be going on favourably , he died on Saturday evening last , about 24 hours after the occurrence of the accident . As a daring rider to hounds from his earliest years , Bro . BEACH had had many a

nasty fall in the hunting-field—on one occasion , about half-acontury ago , he remained unconscious for several days , and his life was for a time despaired of—and it sec us almost the irony of fate that one who had survived so mxny accidents should

have fallen a victim to such a one as is happening almost daily all over London without causing serious , much less fatal mishap . But our late respected brother was well past the allotted three

score years and ten , and his rallying powers were not what they had been , and he passed , away , as wc have said , peaceful within 24 hours of the accident .

For the last two years—ever since the death of the late Bro . Sir J OHN MOWBRAY , Bart . —Bro . BEACH had enjoyed the distinction of being the " Father " of the House of Commons , and last year , in consideration o _ h ' s long and honourable career ,

our late gracious Queen made him a Privy Councillor . He was lust returned to Parliament in April , 1857 , when the public mind was seriously exercised about the doings of Commissioner Yeh and just before the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny . The late

i-ord PAl . MERSTON was the then Prime Minuter , and Lord JOHN Kus . SELL—subsequentl y Earl RUSSELL—was one of the mem-•> ers for the City of London ; then BENJAMIN'

DISRAELI—afterwards Earl of BEACONSKIEI . D—was leader of the Opposition , and the late Right Hon . J . E . Dl . NiSON was elected Speaker in succession to the Right Hon . CHARLES SIIAW-LE I'EVRE who had just resigned that office and been created a peer b y the title of

The Right Hon. W. W. B. Beach, M.P., Prov. Grand Master Hants And The Isle Of Wight.

Viscount EvERSLEY . Not one . of the present occupants of the Treasury Bench , so far as we are aware , nor any of the leaders of the Opposition had seats in the House . From the date of his first election to November , 1885 , he sat for N . Hampshire ,

and from November , 1885 , till his death , for the Andover Division of the County . Asa Mason his career dates back ' to 1848 , when he was initiated in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , Oxford , and thenceforward hunting and Freemasonry

appear to have shared between them the greater part of his attention . Many years before he was appointed Prov . Grand Master and Grand Superintendent he had won distinction in the Craft and Royal Arch Masonry and in the Mark Degree ,

havingbeen appointed Prov . S . G . Warden of Oxfordshire in 1853 , and of Hampshire in 1858 , S . G . Warden and Prov . G . Mark Master of Berks and Hants in 1857 , Dep . G . Mark Master in 1863 , and

M . W . G . M . M . in 1866 , while in the Royal Arch he had served as M . E . Z . of the Alfred Chapter , No . 340 , Oxford , in 18 55 , and in 1862 was founder and first M . E . Z . of the Westminster and

Keystone Chapter , No . 10 . Thus when on the ist June , 186 9 , the late Earl of ZETLAND , M . W . G . Master , appointed him Prov . Grand Master of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , there was nothing of undue or exaggerated praise in the

statement of the late Earl of CARNARVON— -to whom was assigned the honour of installing him—when his lordship pronounced him to be " a brother who would devote his time , energy , best thoughts , and attention to the office without

stint , and without fear of trouble to himself ; adding , " more than this , he held there was no man in England more trul y devoted to the best interests of the Craft , more familiar with . its working , or more fitted in every way to be its exponent . " All

this , and more than all this , has been borne out by the experience , during the last 32 years , firstly , of his much-loved Province , the members of which were to have met him in Prov . Grand Lodge ' on Tuesday , and would have taken piide in congratulating him .

on the brilliant success of his recent Chairmanship of the Boys ' School Ff stival ; and , generally , of the whole Masonry of England , with which he had been connected for more than half a century ; in whose ranks he had attained to so many and such

exalted positions of dignity and trust ; whose best interests he had laboured so strenuously , consistently , and successfully to strengthen and promote ; and by the whole bod y of whose ' members he was so highly esteemed and respected . Though

quiet and unobtrusive beyond what is looked for in a public man , Bro . BEACH was ready at all times to discharge any duty that might be required of hiti ; and though film and even strict in discharging any such duty , he was , nevertheless , a great

favourite , and his presence was always most cordiall y welcomed whether in Grand or Prov . Grand Lodge or Chapter or in private lodge or chapter . He was continually on the move throughout his Province , visiting lodges , chapters , preceptories .

consecrating new bodies , dcdica'ing new Masonic Halls , opening Masonic exhibitions—as at Shanklin , in the Isle of Wight—or laying foundation or coping stones—as at Southampton in October , iSg 8 . In shor , he was the . heart

and soul of any and every enterprise that was calculated to advance the well-being of his Province , and the depth and sincerity of the feeling entertained for him b y the brethren of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight may be judged

by what happened at the Quarterly Court of the Boys' School last month , when it was proposed and unanimously agreed to accept from them the sum of 1550 guineas with which to purchase , as a memorial of his chairmanship , at the 103 rd Festival of the