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fto CoiTcspoitoents . Owing to pressure on our space , reports of the Duke ol Cornwall and Kiiby Lodges of Instruction . Duke of Albany Ledge , St . Barnabas ( Mark ) , and Rose Croix ( Aylesbury ) , are unavoidably held over till our next issue .

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SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 22 , 1001 .

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Wc have much pleasure in announcing that his Majcsly the King has been graciously pleased to accept the position of Patron of the Household Brigade and Navy Lodges , Nos . 2 G 1 . 1 and 2612

respectivel y . It will be in thc recollection of our readers that his Majesty , until his accession to thc throne , was permanently Master of these lodges , so that the tie that binds him to them still exists but under another name .

* » » We must not omit to mer . tion that among the brethren cf distinction who have pissed away recently but few have done greater service to Freemasonry than Bro . Harry Nelson Price , P . M ., P . / C ., Past G . Std . Bearer England , who had not only presided both in

lodge and chapter , but had also been an enthusiastic supporter of our Institutions . Bro . Price died at Hythe on Tuesday , the 29 th October , and was buried on Friday , thc 1 st instant , a large number of his brethren being among those who were present at the graveside . * * »

Wo have received Volume XIV ., Part 2 , of " Ars Quatuor Coronatorum , " and shall take the earliest available opportunity of noticing at length and in detail the contents of this always welcome publication . In the iiv antime , however , it may be as well to draw attention to thc fact that the cover of Vol . XIV ., Part 1

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bore the old familiar inscription : " Edited for the Committee by Bro . G . W . Speth , P . A . G . D . C , Sec , " while the Part 2 we have just received bears the same inscription but with the name of " W . H . Rylands , P . A . G D . C , " substituted for that of Bro . Speth , who is thus

succeeded in his dual office of Editor of these Transactions and Secretary of the lodge by one of his oldest friends ar . d ablest fellow-labourers in the field of Masonic , literature . The loss which Lodge Quatuor Coronati has sustained bv the lamented death of Bro .

Speth is , indeed , a serious one , but the members will find consolation in the knowledge which the issue of this second part of their Transactions for the current year will bring home to them very forcibly—that Bro . Sptth's mantle could not have fallen on worthier shoulders than on those of our respected Bro . Rylands .

It may also be well to mention that the new Part is likely to prove doubly acceptable to the members of both circles , by reason of the fact that it contains lifelike presentments of ( 1 ) the late Bro . Speth , and ( 2 ) theTlate Bro . Sir Walter Besant , who were both

founders of the lodge , and until the days of their respective deaths were in Bro . Speth ' s case the first and only Secretary , and in Bro . Besant ' s , the first and only Treasurer Lodge Quatuor Coronati had known , and who passed hence within a few weeks of each other .

Both portraits are excellent , but that of Bro . Speth is a particularly happy one , presenting him to the reader , as it dees , in the character we must all of us most naturally desire to associate with him , as one of the truest , kindest , and most genial of men and Masons ,

Both these portraits are beautifully printed , while those who desire to know something of what the r . ien themselves were , will find the leading facts in their respective careers carefully and lovingly set forth in the accompanying memorial sketches compiled by Bro . Rylands .

We have also received copy of the work on " British Masonic Medals " which has been compiled by Bro . G . L . Shackles , and the value of which is very materially enhanced by an admirable introduction from the pen of Bro . Dr . W . J . Chetwode Crawley .

The volume contains 12 plates of engravings from photographs taken for it from the best known extant specimens of the medals themselves , and those are

accompanied by full letter press descriptions of 115 specimens . We shall take the earliest available opportunity of reviewing this important book . • •

We have already in one of our preceding Notes referred to Bro . W . H . Rylands as the successor of Bro . G . W . Speth as Secretary of Lodge No . 2076 , and from the report we published last week o f the installation meeting of the lodge on the Sth instant , it

will be seen that the office of Treasurer , rendered vacant by the death of Bro . Sir W . Besant , has been filled by the election of Bro . Hamon Le Strange , Prov . G . Master of Norfolk , who has already made for himself a name in the annals of Masonic literature as

author of a most interesting History of Freemasonry in the , Province over which he so worthily presides . It will also be seen that a resolution of sympathy with Mrs . Kupferschmidt , in the loss she has recently

sustained by the death of her husband , who was a P . M , of the lodge , as well as Assistant G . Secretary for German Correspondence . -V : # *

In acknowledging the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter clothing recently presented to him , Bro . Major Herbert Green , Prov . G . Secretary of West Yorkshire , furnished an array of interesting statistics which testify unmistakably not only to thc progress

which that Province has made during the last 16 years , but also to the immense amount of useful work it is constantly doing . During this period there have been 4792 initiations or joinings , 1955 resignations , 1121 death . " , 77 S exclusions , thc number of entries in the

Provincial Register hereby rendered necessary being 8643 . The presented number of subscribing members is 4339 , so that in the course of these years there has been a complete change of membership . Again ,

during the same period there has been contiibuted to the Central Masonic Charities upwards of . 675 , , and this is irrespective of other sums raised towards testimonials and tor other purposes , the bulk of this money having passed through Bro . Groin ' s hands .

» # * Then as regards the election of candidates to these Cenlril Charities , West Yorkshire has carried

successfully iSS cases , the number of votes which have been collected and manipulated in securing their election being 457 , 000 . These figures , which almost take one ' s breath away , show that the office

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which Bro . Green has occupied so honourably to himself and with such advantage to his Province is about as far removed as possible from being a sinecure , and we cordially echo the wish so fervently expressed by

the acting Prov . Grand Master when making the present ition that many many years may pass ere he will find himself under the necessity of appointing a successor to our able and distinguished brother .

At p . 355 of Bro . John Armstrong ' s " History of Freemasonry in Cheshire , " we read that on " October 15 th , 1851 . —Bro . Dixon , P . M ., proposed Mr . Horatio Lloyd , 22 , Student-in-Law , of the City of Chester , a

candidate for Masonry , and , further , that " Bro . Lloyd was initiated December 10 th , 1851 , and became W . M . in 1854 , Recorder of Chester in 1866 , Judge of the County Court 1875 , and was Knighted in 1890 . " The lodge in which the Masonic circumstances here

recorded took place was the present Cestrian Lodge , No . 425 , and the brother whose introduction into Masonry , and subsequent election to the chair of K . S . in his mother lodge , is thus briefly recorded , is the present Bro . his Honour Sir Horatio Lloyd , P . G . D . of England , Dep . Prov . G . M . Cheshire ; and Past G . S . B .

England , and P . P . G . H . in the Royal Arch . In his Prov . Grand Lodge our respected brother has served as S . G . D . ( 1856 . 8 ) , S . G . W . ( in 1874 and 1875 ) , and as Deputy P . G . M . since 1887 . He was appointed to Grand rank in 18 79 , and has played a leading part in Cheshire Masonry during the greater part of the period in which he has been connected with the Craft .

. On the 10 th December , Bro . Sir Horatio Lloyd will celebrate the Jubilee of his acceptance into the Order in the Cestrian Lodge , and it is the intention of his Cheshire brethren to mark the auspicious event by

presenting him with a service of plate in recognition of the signal service he has rendered lo their Province and in token of the respect and esteem they entertain for him personally . During his long career , he has done a vast amount of good serviceable work not only

in his own particular Province of Cheshire , but likewise generally , and it is as honourable to our Cheshire brethren that they should thus recognise the benefits they have derived from his work as it is to Bro . Sir H , Lloyd that he should be the recipient of this distinction .

• * We congratulate Bro . the Hon . James Hozier , M . P ., on his re-election for the third time to the chair of the Grand Lodge of Scotland . Bro . Hozier has discharged the duties of his high and responsible office in

a manner that has secured to him the respect of the whole Scottish Craft , and is in every respect worthy of the honour which Grand Lodge has done him by choosing him as their ruler for a further period . An illustration of the tactful manner in which he acts was

furnished on this occasion , when , on a note of opposition being sounded to the acceptance of Grand Committee ' s recommendation re the Denmark-Hamburg dispute , the Grand Master pointed out that a

refusal on the part of Grand Lodge to uphold the Grand Committee would be tantamount to a denial to the Grand Lodge of Denmark's sovereignty within its own territory . A S *

As regards the Grand Committee s recommendation to the effect that the recognition of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia was premature under the circumstances , we consider there was fair justification for the course pursued by Grand Lodge in adopting it . Of the

28 lodges under the Scottish Constitution in the Colony as many as 26 have expressed a desire to retain their connection with the present Grand Lodge , so that there is no such transfer of allegiance as would justify any other than the course proposed by the

Grand Committee . What may come to pass in the future , when the local Grand Lodge , at present composed for the most part of lodges originally constituted by the Grand Lodge of England , is in a position to

exercise a greater influence , cannot be foreseen . It is enough for us that , in our opinion , the Grand Lodge has taken the right course , and in such a manner as to permit of its changing its policy hereafter should thc necessity arise .

* * It is greatly to be regretted that Bro . James Berry has found it incumbent on him , owing to the state of his health , to resign the office of Prov . Grand Mailer of Forfarshire , which he has held with great

distinction for some years past , but a most worth y and able successor has been found in Bro . the Hon . Charles M . Ramsay , more than one member of whose famil y has held the same office in the past with the greatest advantage to the Province .