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r - ^^ S ^^ ss ^^^^ sa ^ i ^^^ Swcss Ppreeiiasoil SATURDAY , AUGUST 24 , 18 95 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

We regret to announce that a very successful burglary was effected at the premises of this journal some time between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning , a large quantity of jewellery , chiefly Masonic , having been abstracted from the cases , in which it had been left safely stowed away overnight . The resident manager , on descending into the shop early on Thursday morning , seeing what had happened , at once com "

Masonic Notes.

municated with the police , by whom measures were promptly taken to discover the authors of the burglary —with what success remains to be seen . * * # Arrangements are said to have heen made lor the holding of an International Anti-Masonic Congress on

the 29 th September . As the Governments of France and Italy are supposed to he too much under the influence of secret societies to render it probable that such a gathering would be allowed to pass unmolested in either of those countries , the City of Brussels has been chosen for the meeting , the objects

of which are announced to be firstly to prove to the world by undeniable evidence the evils and disasters which Freemasonry has caused to mankind at large and the Roman Catholic Church in particular , and secondly , to provide , a remedy for its sinister action and establish a permanent organisation against " this infernal Society . " AU this sounds very terrible , and

if we were anything- else than Freemasons we suppose we ought to be quaking in our shoes at the terrible fate in store for us . But somehow we are quite indifferent as to whether the proposed Congress meets or not , and if it does , as to the measures it may see fit to adopt for getting rid of " our infernal Society . " See the article we quote elsewhere on the subject .

* A correspondent has kindly informed us that our suggestion as to Bro . Alderman H . Bemrose , M . P ., and Bro . H . Arnold Bemrose , P . M . and P . Z . No . 253 , being one and the same individual is incorrect . Both , it seems , are brothers , but Bro . Alderman Bemrose and

Bro . H . Arnold Bemrose stand to each other in the relation of father and son . Bro . H . Bemrose , the father , who has just been elected M . P . for Derby , was , he tells us , S . W . of the Hartington Lodge , No . 1085 , Derby , in 1873 , but has never passed the chair . We thank our correspondent for his information . # #

* We have also to thank sundry other correspondents for having kindly furnished us with further information on the subject of " The Craft in the House of Commons . " One of them enumerates as many as four members of the new House who , to his certain knowledge , are members of the Craft ; while a second

mentions two . We also have made some additional discoveries , and if others among our readers who may chance to know of M . Ps . who are Masons , will send us particulars , we shall shortly be in a position to publish a third list of Masonic members of the present House of Commons . * * *

It will be seen , from announcements made in our last and present issues , that the pupils of our two Schools have been again distinguishing themselves , and demonstrating the excellence of the training they receive . Last week the Secretary of the Roya ! Masonic Institu - tion for Boys intormed us that at the recent

examinations in Science and Art by the South Kensington Department , the number of certificates awarded to pupils of that Institution was 45 , as compared with 31 last year . Of these 14 were granted for practical Plane and Select Geometry , eight for Geology , two

first and six second class Model Drawing ; six passes in Mathematics , Stagt . 1 , and two first and seven second class in Stage 2 . The Girls' School candidates have been similarly successful , as will be seen from the paragraph which appears in another column . * » *

The annual communication of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire was held in the City of Concord on the 15 th May last under the presidency of Bro . Chas . C . Hayes , M . W . G . M . There do not appear to have been many knotty questions to exercise the minds of the brethren present , but it was decided that in the case of a brother who desires to be advanced to the

Second and Third Degrees after having remained an E . A . for several years inquiries should be made as to whether he was in the same position as at his initiation , or whether there had been such changes in his character and moral standing as might render his further progress in Masonry undesirable . Bro . C . C . Hayes and George P . Cleaves were re-elected Grand Master and Grand Secretary respectively .

the Grand Lodge of Iowa held its 52 nd annual Communication in Marshalltown on the 41 I 1 , 5 th , and 6 th June last , under the presidency of Bro . Lioerty E . Fellows , M . W . G . M . There was a good deal of business transacted , but it was principally of local interest .

rive new lodges received charters , the nuinbjr now un the roll being 464 , with an aggregate subscribing membership of 26 , 103 . Bro . George W . Bali was elected and installed Grand Master in succession to Bro . Fellows , while the veteran Bro . T . S . Parvin remains at his post of Grand Secretary .