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He hoped they would soon have an opportunity of doing that which they were all most anxious to do , of meeting the enemy in the field . The sooner a battle—and that a good one—was fought the better ( loud cheers ) , as they might then the sooner look forward to peace . Br . Commodore Lynch in replying on behalf of the navy , said that it had long been the pet service of the country , and he was quite sure that it was deserving of

the kindest sympathies and attention of the nation ; but he was sorry to see that as far as the war hacl as yet gone , there had not been a more entire union "between the two branches of the service . The navy had been kept in a state of inaction , and yet the war was more a naval war than otherwise . He had for thirty years been watching the course of events in the East , and it was with peculiar gratification that he hailed the declaration of war , for it was both just and necessary , and he was perfectly satisfied that the result of it was still in their own hands .

Br . Pritchard , High Bailiff of Sonthwark , rose to propose the next toast . They had met he said for a solemn ceremonial , and had laid the foundation stone of an addition to an hospital which claimed public support , because of the large amount of misery which it relieved , and because of the philanthropic spirit on which it was founded , and with which they had now for ever associated the name of the Duke of Sussex . If that prince were present in person amongst them as he had often been , nothing would give him greater gratification than to have his name linked with the

carrying out of those principles on which the hospital was founded , and which had been during life ever dear to him . They were , lie trusted , all united in a common object—the alleviation of human misery , ancl although they had in the ceremony of the day attained what they had calculated on , they had , nevertheless , been deprived

of the presence of a nobleman on whom hacl fallen the mantle of His late Royal Highness , and who justified that distinction by carrying out tho same benevolent sentiments to their utmost extent . They had , he was grieved to say , been deprived of the pressence of their Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland , and at that absence they all felt a cloud of gloom which they could not shake off , and they felt it the more deeply as ; t was in consequence of domestic affliction , which he hoped would be only temporary and be soon removed , so that they might again have their Grand Master

amongst them . In the name of the Hospital he had to thank his brethren present for the display which they hacl that day made of true Masonic philanthrophy . Having mentioned the loss which they had sustained in the absence of the Grand Master , he could not conclude without adverting to the compensation also . They had felt , the deprivation to which he had referred , but they hacl been blessed in finding in the man ready to take his lordship's place , one for whom they felt no less respect from his qualities as a Br ., than on account of the dignified manner in which

he had that day gone through the duties of their G . M . With these observations he would call on them to drink to the health of the Earl of Zetland , Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons , ar . d to that of the other grand officers . Br . Dobie briefly returned thanks . Br . F . Dundas , M . P ., next said that , when they considered the origin of the ceremonial which they had that day witnessed , tlioy could not but feel exceedingly indebted to those who had suggested the erection of the " Sussex Wing" as a

memorial of the virtues of His late Royal Highness . In fact , no committee he considered could have acted better than had the committee of the fund , and he should therefore call on the company to drink to the health of that Committee , coupled with the name of the Rev . Dr . Bowles .

The Rev . Dr . Bowles in replying to the compliment said that when first he originated the memorial fund , a great many of the subscribers were anxious to raise a monument to the memory of H . R . H . in some part of the metropolis , and others thought of placing a splendid mausoleum over his last resting-place in Kensall Green Cemetery ; but he ( Rev . Dr . Bowles ) represented to them that as the two most splendid monuments in that burial-place were those of Ducrow and of St . John Long , the quack doctor , they could hardly regard a similar erection as an honour to the deceased prince , and urged on them the propriety of applying the money subscribed to the cause of charity . In that cause he had been aided by the Earl of