Monthly Masonic Summary.

Monthly Masonic Summary .

THE principal Masonic event we have to record , is the installation of H . R . H . Prince Leopold as Provincial Grand Master for Oxfordshire . AYe give the account in full which we have taken from our

contemporary the Times . The selection of Prince Leopold by his Royal Brother , our exalted Grand Master , as P . G . M . of so important and distinguished a Province has heen one which has been highly appreciated by our English Craft in generaland the

, province of Oxfordshire in particular . He is most fittingly placed at the head of the Order , in the province , where from his residence at Oxford he is so woR known

and so higMy esteemed . His appointment lias been hailed by all Oxford Masons gladly , and we believe will afford universal and heartfelt gratification . And in these clays , when Freemasons are exposed to so many absurd charges , and so many

unfounded calumnies , it is satisfactory for us to remember that in England at any rate , ia Great Britain rather , our Royal Family have not the slightest doubt either of our principles or our professions , our loyalt y or our legality , our teaching or

our true-heartedness . They know us to be a peaceful , [ orderly , law-abiding , patriotic , reli giously minded body , and offer us accordingly their friendly sympathies , and distinguish us With their kindly approval . Here is our answer to each Ultramontane

" anser , " who thinks that the best proof of bis learning , his creed , and his common sense , is to run a muck against Freemasons and Freemasonry . The Prince of " ales has latel y given a proof in India how he values Freemasonry , and we are

c imte content , with him at our head , to endure the contumely of the ignorant , and to lai " gh at the censures of the intolerant . Bro . George Kenning has just commenced a New Cycloptedia , at a very moderate priceand we beg to call the

at-, tention of our brethren to it . Some of the C yclopaedias are too large and too explanatory , others are too condensed and too technical . Bro . Kenning seems to have

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adopted as his motto , " Medio tutissimus ibis . " May hehaveagoodly list of subscribers , as all such works tend to help on Masonic studies and to give an intellectual turn to Masonic disquisitions and Masonic literature .

The Editor has been so fortunate' as to discover the whereabouts of the longsought Wilson M . S . Constitution , and hopes to publish , as announced , by the very kind permission of its present owner , a transcript of it in the April Magazine . An account will then be given of it .

The Installation Of H.R.H. Prince Leopold As P.G.M Of Oxfordshire.

THE INSTALLATION OF H . R . H . PRINCE LEOPOLD AS P . G . M OF OXFORDSHIRE .

ON Wednesday afternoon , February 23 , his Royal Highness Prince Leopold was duly installed as Provincial Grand Master of Oxfordshire in the Sheldonian Theatre , Oxford , which had been lent for the occasion by the Curators . The present Grand

Lodge is not of very great antiquity , having been established on the 20 thFebruary , 1837 , by Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill , who , when filling the office of Deputy Grand Master of England , was appointed Provincial Grand Master of

Oxfordshire by the Duke of Sussex , then Grand Master of the Craft . The Lodge was inaugurated at the Masonic-hall , Alfred-street , and the Rev . J . E . Sewell , who was then AY . M . ' of the ApoRo Lodge ,

and is now Vice-Chancellor of the University , was appointed the first junior Grand AVarden , Since its establishment the Lodge has rapidly grown in importance , owing partly to a great development of Masonic zeal in the provinceand partlyno doubt

, , , to the fact that the Apollo Lodge was one of those forming the province . There is , perhaps , no Lodge in Masonry which has initiated so many distinguished brethren into the mysteries of the Craft , and certainly none which at the present time

contributes so many officers to the Grand Lodge of England . AVithin the last four years it has bad the honour of being presided over by his Royal Highness the