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Masonic Notes.

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Wc are pleased to be in a position to announce that his Royal Highness the M . W . Grand Master is making rapid progress towards recovery from the swe accident he met with on Monday , the iSth instant , when he was on the eve of returning to town from his week-end visit to Bro . Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild , M . P ., at SATURDAY , J 30 , 18 9 8 .

Waddesdon . The bulletins issued from time to time a-e ot the most reassuring character , and there is reason to hope that it will be possible for his Royal Hi ghness to leave Marlborough House and be conveyed on board the Royal Vacht Osborne olf Cowes to-morrow ( Saturday ) in time for the Royal Yacht Squadron races next week .

» * * The regular Quarterl y Convocation of Supreme G , Chapter will be held at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday , the 3 rd prox ., at ( lie hour of 6 p . m . The paper

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of Agenda contains nothing of moment , but we are pleased to find that warrants are recommended to be granted for the constitution of three new chapters , of which the Addison . Potter Chapter , No . 2571 , will be located in the Province of Northumberland ; the Connaught Chapter , No . 1071 , in that of Hampshire and

lhe Isle of Wight ; and the Addington Chapter , No . 1937 , in the District of Natal . There arc also three other warrants which the Committee of General Purposes recommend should be granted as soon as the sanction of the lodges to which it is proposed they

shall be severally attached has been received . These three chapters will be located in South Africa—the Jeppe Town Chapter , No . 2481 , and the Doornfontein Chapter , No . 25 S 5 , in the Transvaal District ; and Buluwayo Chapter , No . 2566 , at the town of the same name . ± * A

We notice , also , that the Committee recommend that the Norman Chapter , No . 1334 , Durham , which has made no returns since October , iSSS , and whose charter has been returned by Prov . G . Scribe E ., should be erased from the roll of chapters , and that similar treatment be meted out to 10 other chapters , from

which nothing has been heard for a long time . Among these are three located in the London area , one in Staffordshire , and one in Surrey ; and the remaining five in Bombay , Constantinople , Uitenhage , South Africa ( E . D . ) , Melbourne , and Tunis respectively . # » *

The Committee further recommend that a sum of 100 guineas be granted from the funds of Supreme Grand Chapter as a donation to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys on the occasion of its recent Centenary commemoration . * * *

We have very great pleasure in announcing tha t li . E . Whale one of the boys whom , in consideration of their exceptional ability it has pleased the Board of Management of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys to retain at the School after the age ordinarily

fixed for leaving , has successfully passed the Matriculation Examination of the University of London , being placed in the First Division . This is the latest of the many gratifying evidences we ha / e recently had of the excellent character of the education and training which the pupils of our Boys' School receive .

It is satisfactory to learn from the letter we publish elsewhere from Bro . F . J . W . Crowe that steps are being taken by the authorities of the Grand Lodge of Hungary to remedy the defect we referred to in our article of last week on Hungarian Freemasonry . According to the translated extract from Relet— " the

official organ of the Grand Lodge of Hungary "—the omission of the Bible from the Book of Constitutions will be made good at an early date , while the Council of the Order will ere long be invited to take steps " to make the use of the Bible as a symbol on the altir

compulsory in every Lodge . " The sooner this is done the better , as Hungarian Freemasonry will then be in accordance in this respect with the ancient landmarks of the Order . * * *

As for the point raised by our worthy brother that the "onus of proof" rests with the accuser , we take leave to point out that the subject of Hungarian Freemasonry was first considered a few months since in an article in which we quoted largely from a description of the dedication of a new Masonic Hall in Hungary . We were indebted for such description of

the ceremony to an account we met with in the Report on Correspondence appended to the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Ohio , and we remarked , as we afterwards found the Ohio reviewer had done , on the absence of the V . of the S . L . from the altar , that absence being more particularly-noticeable from the fact of the name of T . G . A . O . T . U . being invoked in the course of the

ceremony . # # * Subsequently we were favoured by a correspondent with the information respecting Hungarian Freemasonry , on which we based our further artic'us , and our " Communicated" article of a few weeks since .

We now have—to make a long story short—Bro . Crowe ' s letter , in which lie tells us that steps have been , or will be shortly , taken to remedy the defects to which our attention had been called , namely , the omission from the Hungarian Book of Constitutions of the Article requiring belief in God , & c ., as a

prerequisite to the initiation of a candidate into Freemasonry ; and the absence of the Bible from tlie altars in Hungarian lodges . There is , therefore , no " onus of proof '' necessary in this case , as the fact of steps being contemplated or taken to remedy these defects is proof enough in all conscience of their existence .

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As regard the further remark in which Bro . Crowe expresses the hope that " if our informant writes further he will do so under his own signature , " we can only suggest that our informant will in this matter please himself without consulting Bro . Crowe , who appears

to have constituted himself the champion of Hungarian Freemasonry . We can , however , assure Bro . Crowe that our correspondent is one whose information is to be trusted generally or we should not have made his communications the basis of our articles .

* ? * Upon the point which Bro . Crowe has raised—and which at first sight would appear to be rather a telling one—as to the fact of the article about belief in God , & c , having been omitted from the Hungarian Book of Constitutions in 1886 , and being now for the

first time referred to by a brother of that nationality , what we have already said as to the articles on Hungarian Freemasonry having had their origin in cur chance discovery of an account of a Hungarian dedication ceremony in the Ohio report sufficiently explains this . Our Hungarian correspondent read our

version of the account of this ceremony and our comment on the absence of the Bible from the altar , and very naturally , and , as it proved , correctly , judged that further information would be acceptable . Any further responsibility for the lapse of so long an interval must rest with us .

•* * The Provincial Grand Lodge of Devon assembled at Paignton on Tuesday last . The R . W . Bro . the Hon . Sir Stafford H . Northcote , Bart ., C . B ., M . P ., the Prov ,. Grand Master , was in the chair ; Bro . W . J . Hughan , P . S . G . D . of England , occupied the Deputy Provincial

Grand Master s chair , in the unavoidable absence of Bro . Major Davie , D . P . G . M . ; and Bro . Jno . Lane F . C . A ., P . A . G . D . C . England , was also on the dais . The two Provincial Grand Wardens were present , viz ., Lord Churston and Bro , E . H . Shorto . Full particulars , will be given next week . * a

We have much pleasure in announcing further , that in addition to the meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge ol Devonshire , held as aforesaid , two other meetings of a similar character took place on the same day , that of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Shropshire , which took place at Market Drayton , and that of the Prov . Grand

Lodge of Essex , which was held at the Town Hall , Brentwood . At the latter meeting the retirement of Bro . Philbrick , P . G . W ., from the office of Deputy Grand Master of the Province , became an accomplished fact , as did also the apppointment of Bro . Col . Lockwood , P . G . D ., as the successor of Bro . Philbrick . We may

further mention that the opportunity was taken of presenting an address to the retiring Deputy , in which the Province of Essex expressed his gratitude to him for the manifold services he had rendered it , and at the same time congratulated him on the recognition of his services as Grand Registrar by his Royal Highness the M . W . G . M ., as testified by his ( Bro . Pnilbrick's )

elevalion to the rank of Past G . Warden of United Grand Lodge . Moreover , the services rendered by Bro . T . J . Railing , P . A . G . D . C , as Prov . G . Secretary for a long term of years were also recognised . But as to those and all other matters connected with the meeting we shall publish a full report in our next week's issue . * * *

It must have been a great satisfaction to Bro . the Marquis of Zetland and the Province of North and East Yorkshire , over which he has presided for nearly a quarter of a century , to find that the Educational Fund , which was established , a few years since , has proved so great a success . His lordship , in the course

of his address at the recent annua } meeting , at York , of his Prov . Grand Lodge , said that the Fund was " continuing and extending its useful work ; " that it had latterly increased the amount of its grants ; and that at the present time there were 26 children upon whom a sum of ^ 271 was being annually spent . He

also referred with satisfaction to the support his Province had given to the Boys' Centenary , which , though amounting to only about ^ 500 , was still a considerable sum , having regard to the outlay annually incurred by the Province in respect of the aforesaid Educational Fund .

•# * The annual meeting , at Sutton , on the 21 st instant , of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Surrey , under the presidency of Bro . the Earl of Onslow , was very numerously attended , the members and visitors together being not very far short of 300 . The matter referred to by the Provincial Grand Master in

the course of his address , which appears to have caused the greatest amount of satisfaction , was the very generous help rendered by Surrey to the Boys ' Centenary , the total of the donations and subscriptions incurred by the Province being upwards of , 63 600—which , as Lord Onslow very justly pointed out , was a large contribution from a Province with only some 43 lodges on its roll .