Lodge Of Benevolence.

LODGE OF BENEVOLENCE .

A . meeting of the Lodge of Benevolence was held on the 23 rd inst . There were present Bros . J . Nunn , as President ; Jas . Brett , as Senior Vice-President ; J . Kench , as Junior Vice-President ; Jno . Hervey , H . G . Buss , A . Pendlebury , S . Rawson , E . P . Albert , W . H . Perryman , Lord Birch Klenck

Kensington , S . G . W . ; R . , W . Mann , J . M . , C F . Hogard , C . Atkins , H . Garrod , Griffiths Smith , H , pick ' etts , G . P . Britten , H . W . Linden , E . W . Devereux , G . Waterman , W . Russell , G . Adamson , M . Spiegel , W . A . " Smeeth , A . Withers , W . Stephens , R . Harman , J . Storey , W . E . Jefftrys , W . Meanwell , F . Adlard , J . Weaver . W . Smallpiecc , J . Kingston , A . J . Ireton , J . W . Watts , W ,

P . Marsh , W . Dairy , and J . C . Woodrow . Thirteen grants amounting to £ 275 were confirmed . There were twenty-eight new cases . Twenty-one cases were relieved amounting to £ 700 : —four £ 10 ( £ 40 ); one £ i & ( £ 'S ) i one £ 20 ( £ 20 ) ; three- £ 23 ( £ 13 ) ; six £ 30 ( £ 180 ); three £ 40 (& 130 ) ; one £ 50 ( £ 50 ) ; two £ 100 I £ 200 ) . Sixes cases were deferred and one dismissed .

The Royal Visit To Grimsby.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO GRIMSBY .

At the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Grimsby on Tuesday last the following address was presented to H . R . H . by the members of the two lodges in that town : — To his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , K . G ., & c , Sec , tec , Most Worshipful Grantl Master of the

United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England . Most Worshipful and Royal Grand Master , —Grateful for the condescension of your Royal Highness to honour the completion of a work to-day which will advance the prosperity of our town and port , and flattered by the gracious privilege granted to us on the occasion of

approaching your august person , we , the brethren practising the Royal Art in the Pelham Pillar Lodge , No . 792 , and the St . Alban ' s Lodge , No . 1294 , under your Royal jurisdiction , humbly relying on one of the principles of our Constitution , confidently but respectfully present our homage to your Royal Highness as Grand Master of our Order . Your illustrious name at the head of the roll of our Order

sheds a lustre on our reputation , and materially promotes the grand objects of our Institution . The warm affection in the breast of every Mason towards the person of Your Royal Hig hness will secure his unfaltering loyalty to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen , and his unshaken attachment to her Crown and the Constitution of the realm . Render acceptable to your Royal Consort our

proud consciousness of her many and amiable virtues antl the benign influence of her example . May the Supreme Architect of the Universe shower upon your Royal Highness and your Royal Consort every blessing , and long preserve you to the nation . By the unanimous viice of the Lodges , W . H . Smyth , P . G . M . for Lincolnshire ; VV . H . Roberts , W . M . 792 ; Wm . Pollitt , W . M ., 1294 ;

Henry Barker , Sec . 792 ; Jack Sutcliffe , Sec . 1294 . — Great Grimsby , 22 nd July , 1879 . His Royal Highness did not read any reply , but handed to Mr . Smyth a paper containing his answer , of which the following are the terms : Biethren , —I thank you for your flattering address and for the sentiments of loyalty which animate you towards

the Queen and the members of the Royal Family . I desire to express to you also my acknowledgments for the warm terms in which you allude to me as your Grantl Master , and I can assure you I experience great pleasure in undertaking the duties of an office of so important and interesting a nature . I am always glad to welcome any member of the Craft , and I rejoice that my visit to your important town has afforded me an opportunity of meeting you .

Freemasonry In Sussex.

FREEMASONRY IN SUSSEX .

The East Sussex News says—Did Freemasonry require a champion to defend it from the attacks of the insidious , a more able advocate could not be found than Bro . John Henderson Scott , the Deputy Provincial Grand Master of

Sussex . At the consecration of the Atlingworth Lodge , a few days ago , he gave an oration on the objects and character of the institution which was a masterpiece of logical reasoning . Bro . Scott does not pin his faith to the supposed great antiquity of the Craft , but he is content to continue an excellent institution as he found it .

That Freemasonry is of ancient date none can doubt , but whether its origin can be faily traced to the erection of King Solomon ' s temple is a matter which we leave enthusiastic members of the Craft to satisfy themselves upon . The chief objections to Freemasonry , among those who < lerUe it , are the so called " mummeries . '' But we would ask , What is any institution of the same character without

its ritual and its distinguishing characteristics of dress and degree ? Is it not even so in religion ? And as Freemasonry is a religious Order founded on strict morality , Why should its members be sneered at for adopting a similar system ? Is it not the ambition of most men to rise above their fellows , and not only earn distinction , hut be entitled to wear some distinguishing mark thereof . '

That the Masonic motto is , "Do good by * tealth and blush to find it fame , " is well known , but have not Freemasons , in addition , noble public institutions for the support ° f the orphan and aged ? Bro . Scott says , " If sociity were perfect we should , indeed , have no need of Freeniasonry to induce us to love our fellow men , nor of

Christianity to teach us our duty towards God ; but being ° nly poor , weak , erring human creatures , we require guidance , and training , and discipline , and so , according to our several idiosyncrasies , we must each one of us adopt such means as are most suitable to us , which will lead to a better and truei life , and which will

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enable us to become what we desire tn bc . " Thus we may fairly suppose that those who would detract from the plan of Freemasonry do so because they are not thoroughlyconversant with its principles . Those who honourably act up to the cardinal virtues which it teaches cannot fail to believe that though Freemasonry , like all other earthly institutions , has its blots and failings , the whole is a grand scheme which teaches the " Fatherhood of one God and the brotherhood of all men . "

Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

Bro . Thomas F . Hill was installed W . M . of the Lodge of Harmony , No . 220 , on Wednesday last , the 23 rd inst ., at the Wellington Hotel , Garston , near Liverpool . The Ri g ht Worshipful Bro . Capt . Hunter , Past Provincial Grand Master of Aberdeenshire ( East ) , antl Past Senior Grand Warden of Greece , has been appointed Grand Representative from Greece at the Grantl Lodge of Scotland .

The Lieutenant of the Order of Malta , otherwise known as the Sovereign Order of St . John of Jerusalem , hasjjust been raised by the Pope to the dignity of Grand Master . Since the beginning of the present century this high title had been in abeyance , but Count di Santa Croce , an Austrian peer of Tyrolese origin , upon whom the honour has devolved , will at once assume the rank of a Sovereign

Prince and the title of Serene Highness , which are appendages to the dignity of Grand Master of the Knights of Malta . The seat of the Order is at present in Rome , where it possesses a magnificent mansion , situated in the midst of a large garden on the Eastern slopes of Mount Aventine . Monastic orders having been suppressed in Italy , the Knights of Malta exist at present as a benevolent society devoted to the care of the sick antl wounded in times of

peace , as well as on the battlefield . They possess and administer hospitals at Jerusalem , Naples and Milan , and in Germany they have organised three ambulance trains of forty wagons each , which were of much use in the late wars . The members of this most ancient Order , which was founded in the Holy Land in the the year 1048 untler the title of St . John of Jerusalem , bore , for upwards of two centuries , the name of Knights of Rhodes . Keystone .

Metropolitan Masonic Meetings

METROPOLITAN MASONIC MEETINGS

roi the Week ending Friday , August 1 , 1879 . The Editor will be glad to receive notice from Secretaries of Craft Lodges , Royal Arch Chapters , Mark Lodges , Encampments , Conclaves , & c , of any change in placs , day , or month of meeting .

SATURDAY , JULY 26 . Audit Com . Boys' School . Lodge 1293 , Burdett , Mitre Hot ., Hampton Court . „ 1297 , West Kent , Forest Hill Hot ., Forest Hill . „ 1541 , Alexandra Palace , Alexandra Palace , N . Chap . 1329 , Sphinx , F . M . H .

LODGES OP INSTRUCTION . Lily , Greyhound , Richmond . Manchester , 77 , London-st ., Fitzroy-sq . Star , Marquis of Granby , New Cross-nl . Eccleston , King ' s Head , Ebury Bridge , Pimlico . Percy , 113 , Southgate-rd ., N .

MONDAY , JULY 28 . Lodge 1743 , Farringdon Without , Viaduct Hot ., Holborn . LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . Wel'ington , White Swan Hot ., High-st ., Deptford . St . John , Gun Hot ., Wapping , 8 till 10 . Prince Leopold , Lord Stanley Tav ., Kingsland .

Strong Man , Old Rodney ' s Head , Old-st ., E . Sincerity , Railway Tav ., Fenchurch-st . Station . Camden , 174 , High-st ., Camden Town , at 8 . Tredegar , Royal Hot ., Mile-end-rd . St . James ' s Union , Union Tav ., Air-st . Perfect Ashlar , Victoria Tav ., Lower-rd ., Rotherhithe .

Upper Norwood , White Hart Hot ., Church-rd . Marquis of Ripon , Pembury Tav ., Amherst-rd ., H icki ey . Loughborough , Warrior Hot ., Brixton . West Smithfield , New Market Hot ., West Smithfield . St . George ' s , Globe Tav ., Greenwich . Doric Chapter , 248 , Globe-rd ., Mile End-rd ., at 8 .

TUESDAY , JULY 29 . Audit Com . Girls' School , at 4 .

LODGES OF INSTHUCTION . Metropolitan , 269 , Pentonville-rd . Yarborough , Green Dragon , Stepney . Domatic , Surrey M . H ., Camberwell New-road . Faith , 2 , Westminster Chambers , Victoria-st . Prince Fredk . Wm ., Lord's Hot ., St . John ' s Wood .

Prosperity , Hercules Tav ., Leadenhall-st . Dalhousie , The Sisters' Tav ., Pownall-rd ., Dalston , E . Florence Nightingale , F . M . H ., William-st ., Woolwich . Constitutional , Bedford Hot ., Southampton Bdgs ,, at 7 , Israel , Rising Sun Tav ., Globe Road . Wandsworth , Spread Eagle Hot ., Wandsworth . Royal Arthur , Prince ' s Head , York-road , Battersea .

Beacontree , Red Lion , Leytonstone . Excelsior , Commercial Dock Tav ., Rotherhithe . St . John of Wapping , Gun Hot ., High-st ., Wapping . Islington , Three Bucks , 23 , Gresham-st ., at 7 p . m . Leopold , Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-rd ., Bermondsey . Mount Edgcumbe , 19 , Jermyn-st ., St . James ' s . Sir Hugh Myddelton , 162 , St . John ' s-st .-rd . Metropolitan Chapter , Jamaica Coffee Ho ., Cornhiil .

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WEDNESDAY , JULY 30 . Lotlge S 9 8 , Temperance-in-the-East , G , Newby-pl ., Poplar .

LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . Confidence , Railway Tavern , Fenchurch-st ., at 7 till 9 . Urban , 23 , Gresham-street , City , E . G ., at 6 . 30 . Neiv Concord , Jolly Farmers , Southgate-rd ., N . Mt . Lebanon , Horse Shoe Tav ., Stones-End , E . Pythagorean , Portland Hot ., London-st ., Greenwich . La Tolerance , 2 , Maddox-st ., W ., at 7 . 43 .

Peckham , Maismore Arms , Park-rd ., Peckham . Stanhope , Thicket Hot ., Anerley . Finsbury Park , Earl Russell , Isledon-rd , Holloway , at 8 . Southwark , Southwark Park Tav ., Southwark Park . Duke of Connaught , Sutherland Chapel , Walworth Road . Duke of Connaught , Havelock Tav ., Albion-rd ., N .

United Strength , Hope and Anchor , Crowndale-rd ., N . W . Whittington , Red Lion , Poppin ' s-court , Fleet-st ., at 8 . Royal Jubilee , 8 r , Long Acre . Langthorne , Swan Hot ., Stratford . Temperance in theEast . George the 4 th , Ida-st ., Poplar , 7 . 3 o , Thistle , M . M . M ., The Harp Tav ., at 8 .

THURSDAY , JULY 31 . Gen . Com . Girls' School , at 4 . Lodge 1524 , Duke of Connaught , Havelock Tav ., Albionrd ., E . LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . Union Waterloo , Chatham Arms , Thomas-st ., Woolwich . Egyptian , Hercules Tav ., Leadenhall-st .

Fidelity , Yorkshire Grey , London-st ., W . Finsbury , Jolly Avglers' Tav ., Bath-st ., City-rd . Ebury , 12 , Ponsonby-st ., Millbank . Highgate , Bull and Gate , Kentish-town . The Great City , M . H ., Masons' Avenue . High Cross , Coach & Horses , High-rd ., Tottenham .

Salisbury , Union Tav ., Air-st ., Regent-st . Southern Star , Crown Hot ., Blackfriars-rd . Great Northern , Berwick Arms , Bcrners-st ., Oxford-st . Rose , Walmer Castle Hot ., Peckham-rd ., at 8 . Covent Garden , Ashley ' s Hot ., Covent Garden , at 8 . Crusatlers , St . John ' s Gate , Clerkenwell , at 9 . Prince Frederick William Chapter , St . John ' s Wood .

FRIDAY , AUGUST 1 . Lotlge 171 ( 1 , All Saints , Town Hall , Poplar . Mark 223 , West Smithfield , New Market Hot ., King-st ., West Smithfield .

LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . London Masonic Club , 101 , Queen Victoria-st ., E . C . Robert Burns , Union Tav ., Air-st ., Regent-st . Belgrave , Harp Tav ., Jermyn-st ., W . Unions Emulation ( for 'M . M . ' s ) , F . M . H . Temperance , Victoria Tav ., Victoria-rd ., Deptford . Metropolitan , Portugal Hot ., Fleet-st ., at 7 .

St . Marylebone , British Stores Tav ., St . John ' s Wood . Westbourne , Lord ' s Hotel , St . John ' s Wood . United Pilgrims , Surrey M . H ., Camberwell New-rd . St . James ' s , Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-rd ., S . E . Duke of Edinburgh , Silver Lion , Penny-fields , Poplar . Doric , 79 , Whitechapel-rd ., at 8 . Burgoyne , The Red Cap , Camden Town , N . W .

St . Luke ' s , White Hart , King ' s-rd ., Chelsea . Chigwell , Prince's Hall , Buckhurst-hill . Royal Standard , The Alwyne Castle , St . Paul ' s-rd ., N . Ranelagh , Bell and Anchor , Hammersmith-rd . Finsbury Park , Earl Russell , Isledon-rd ., Holloway , at 8 . William Preston , FeathersTav ., Up . George-st ., Edgware-rd . Earl of Carnarvon , Mitre 1 lot ., Goulbourne-rd ., Notting-hill . Pythagorean Chapter , Portland Hot . London-st ., Greenwich .

Masonic Meetings In East Lancashire.

MASONIC MEETINGS IN EAST LANCASHIRE .

For the week ending Saturday , August 2 , 1879 . MONDAY , JULY 28 . Lotlge 999 , Robert Burns , F . M . H ., Manchester .

TUESDAY , JULY 29 . Lotlge 1774 , Melton , Railway Hit ., Guide Bridge , WEDNESDAY , JULY 30 . Lodge 1 i ( i , Royal Lancashire , Swan Hot ., Colne . ,, 128 , Prince Edwin , Bridge Inn , Bury .

„ 227 , Friendship , F . M . H ., Oldham . „ 1083 , Townley Parker , Mosley Hot ., Beswick , „ 1218 , Prince Alfred , Commercial Hot ., Mossley . „ 1219 , Strangways , Empire Hot ., Strangeways . „ 1773 , Leopold , Masonic Rooms . Church , Accrington . Mark 24 , Roberts , Masonic Rooms , Ann-st ., Rochdale .

THURSDAY , JULY 31 . Lodge 283 , Amity , Swan Hot ., MUt .-pl ., Haslingden . „ 286 , Samaritan , Green Man Hot ., Bacup . „ 344 , Faith , Bull's Head Inn , Radcliffe . ,, 346 , United Brethren , Windmill Inn , Samlesbury .

„ 369 , Limestone Rock , M . H ., Clitheroe . ,, 462 , Bank Terrace , Hargreaves Arms , Accrington . ,, 816 , Royds . Spring Gardens Inn , Wardle , Rochdale . Chap . 266 , Napthali , Masonic Rooms , Heywood . Mark . 32 , Union , F . M . H ., Manchester .

FRIDAY , AUGUST 1 . Lodge 219 , Prudence , M . H ., Todmorden .

SATURDAY , AUGUST 2 . Lodge 1458 , Truth , M . R ., Conservative C , Newton Heath . For Masonic Meetings throughout Scotland see Scottish Freemason , which can be obtained at the Office of this paper , 198 , Fleet-street , London .