The City's Sheriffs.

Guildhall School of Music that he became a member of the lodge bearing that name . As representative of the City on the London School Board , and as a member of the Metropolitan Asylums Board , he joined , and in the latter case was a founder , and became the present Treasurer , of the lodges formed in connection with those bodies . The list of our worthy brother ' s Masonic activities would be incomplete did we not add that he is a member of the Chine Lodge , No .

188 4 , Shanklin , where his marine residence is situated , and that he is a P . Z . of the Chaucer Chapter , No . 1540 . It is not in the nature of idle prophecy to remark that still higher honours may in due time probably await acceptance by such representative members of the Craft , remembering in this connection that the highest offices in Freemasonry have been not infrequently filled in the past by the City ' s chief magistrates .

United Grand Lodge Of England.

United Grand Lodge of England .

''pHE Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge was held j on the 3 rd December at Freemasons' Hall , and was presided over by the Pro Grand Master , Earl Amherst , wiiile the two Provincial Grand Masters of Jersey and Guernsey occupied the chairs of Deputy Grand Master and Past Grand Master respectively .

The business paper contained little of special interest beyond the reference in the report of the Board of General Purposes to the Grand Registrar ' s report on the New Licensing Act and its effect on Masonic lodges . The Pro Grand Master announced that the M . W . Grand Master had been pleased to confer on Bro . W . E . Brymer , M . P ., Past

Grand Deacon , Deputy Provincial Grand Master for Dorsetshire , the rank and dignity of Grand Warden ( Junior ) . The Grand Secretary , Bro . Sir Edward Letchworth , read a communication from the Home Secretary in reply to the address to the King , congratulating His Majesty on his restoration to health and on their Majesties'

Coronation . The nomination of a Grand Master for the ensuing year w ; is the next business , and the honour of nominating His Royal Highness the Duke of Conuaught for that office fell to the lot of Bro . Major Badham , Past Grand Steward . The nomination , it is needless to say , was received with acclamation .

Much interest is usually evinced at the December meetings on the nomination of a Grand Treasurer , but on this occasion , as on the last , the brethren had wisely agreed to avoid a contest by accepting a candidate whose excellent qualities and world-wide popularity precluded opposition . The name of Bro . W . S . Penley was received with unanimous approval ,

and no other name was submitted . Bro . J . H . Matthews was re-appointed and invested as President of the Board of Benevolence , with Bro . David

D . Mercer , Past Grand Standard Bearer , and Bro . Henry Garrod , Past Grand Pursuivant , as Senior and Junior Vice-President respectively . The nominations of twelve Pasl Masters to serve on the Board followed , ; ind as onl y the requisite number were submitted , they were declared duly elected . j

On the motion , by the President , that the report of the Board of General Purposes be received and entered on the minutes , a discussion arose on the item in the report calling attention to the provision of the New Licensing Act as affecting Masonic lodges . Questions were asked and observations offered by

Bros ! J . E . Le Feuvre , P . G . D . ; W . F . Lamonby , P . A . G . D . C ; and others , which elicited from the Grand Registrar a reply to the effect that this was not a question of Masonry at all , but a question of the law of the land , and after describing the usual practices in regard to refreshments at provincial meetings and private lodges and the requirements of the Act

with regard to Masonic clubs , concluded by reminding them that they should help the authorities by keeping the undertaking which he , as representing the Masonic body , had given to the Home Secretary . In the course of the Grand Registrar ' s remarks he strongly deprecated the practice of

introducing refreshment into the lodge room at any time as being unseemly and un-Masonic , and trusted it would be entirely discontinued .

Before closing Grand Lodge , the Pro Grand Master observed that the discussion had been rather an irregular one ; but it had elicited much valuable information , and he was certain that every brother in Grand Lodge would agree with him in thanking the Grand Registrar for the time and trouble he had expended on that most important subject . Grand Lodge was then closed .

Consecration Of The Richard Clowes Lodge, No. 2936.

Consecration of the Richard Clowes Lodge , No . 2936 .

TT 7 E have recently had to chronicle instances of Masonic y V activity in the Province of Essex , and it is now our duty to place before our readers a further instance of Masonic vitality in that important province , namely , the consecration of the Richard Clowes' Lodge , which took place on Tuesday , December 16 th ( b y dispensation ) , at the

Great Eastern Hotel , London , in the presence of a large assembly of distinguished brethren , including the following Grand Officers-. —Bros , the Right Hon . the Earl of Warwick , Deputy Grand Master ; Rowland Plum be , P . S . G . W . ; J . Woodall Woodall , P . G . T . ; Col . Clifford Probyn , P . G . T . ;

Commander Giles , P . G . D . ; J . D . Langton , P . D . G . D . C . ; Claude Egeiton-Green , P . D . G . D . C , Deputy P . G . M . Essex ; James Stephens , P . D . G . D . C ; R . Clay Sudlow , P . A . G . D . C ; T . J . Railing , P . A . G . D . C ; J . M . McLeod , P . G . Swd . Br . ; Major Heam , P . G . Swd . Br . ; j . Percy Fitzgerald , Grand Swd . Br . ; Richard Clowes , P . G . Swd . Br . ; and Albert Lucking , P . G . P .

As a compliment to the distinguished Essex Mason after whom the lodge was named , the ceremony was performed by the Right Hon . the Earl of Warwick , Deputy Grand Master , who was for many years Prov . Grand Master of Essex , assisted by Bros . Commander Giles , as S . W . ; J . D . Langton , as J . W . ; the Rev . C . E . Barnes ,

Prov . Grand Chaplain , as Chaplain ; T . J . Railing , Prov . Grand Secretary , as Secretary ; Albert Lucking , Prov . Grand D . C , as D . C ; and Dr . W . H . Cummings , P . G . O ., as I . G . The manner in which the ceremony was rendered by the Deputy Grand Master was convincing proof to all present that his lordship takes a keen interest in the ceremonies of

the Craft . In the course of an interesting oration , the Chaplain impressed upon the founders the religious nature of Freemasonry , and that , from the initiation onwards , it was one perpetual invocation to the Almighty , and that we were taught to the full our duty to our God and to our neighbour ,