The Loss Of The " London."

real friend . He believed that this Avas felt everywhere , but in no place more than in the bonds of the Order . In his capacity as Provincial Grand Chaplain of the English Constitution of the Order , Bro . Woolley , as had already been intimated , had

always done his duty ; a notable example of his integrity , in this direction , being his conduct on the occasion of the funeral of their respected Bro . Robert Campbell . It was a duty they owed to themselves and to the Craft thoroughly to carry

out the proposition set forth in the resolution , and he did not doubt but that they Avould accomplish that duty . If they did not fulfil that duty what Avas it that would be said by the enemies of the Order ? It would be said that their professions were

unsubstantial and shadoAvy—that there Avas no reality in their vaunted principles . He urged them to remember this , and for every other consideration that could possibly affect them , he begged to recommend the resolution he had read to the

brethren . Bro . Moss Israel , P . M . 655 seconded the resolution , and regretted the comparatively small number of the attendance , through the inclemency of the weather . He trusted that those AVIIO had

not come would be found working yet harder than those who had not stopped away . They , as Masons , Avere bound to do all that lay iu their power for the family of Bro . Woolley ; for Bro . Woolley had always done battle for them ancl for

their Order . Why should they not ? They all fixed their faith upon the same sacred volume ; and upon the truths they learned therefrom they were all instructed to depend . It ivas to that sacred book , Avhich all Masons had in reverence , that those Avho died in the London had recourse

in their last hour of desolation and agony . I rom that Book ( read and prayed over in that sinkingship ) the Christian and the Jew might at all times draw instruction ancl consolation . The Jewish woman—for there was one of that ancient race on

board—had read , they Avere told , the Bible Avith her Christian sisters before they went down together—before they appeared in the presence of that Great Being , AVIIO , for His own Avise purposes , permitted this sad catastrophe . Might they be

at all times as ready and Avilling to combat all error and ill-feeling as had been their departed brother , who had been lost in the foundering of the London . He was happy to know that the Graud Lodge had already liberally taken the initiative in the good work that Avas before them , and did not doubt but

that considerable sums Avould likeAvise be voted by the metropolitan and different country lodges ; not to speak of AA'hat Avould also be raised by the . individual efforts of Freemasons . The memorial must be made worthy of the memory of the man

for whom they mourned . The resolution was' put and carried as before . Bro . J . A . Bird , W . M . No . 655 , moved the third resolution , which was as folloAVS : — " That the W . M ., P . M ., and Wardens of the different lodges

in Sydney under the E . G ., be a committee to receive general subscriptions ; ancl that the W . M ., P . M ., and Wardens of the several lodges in the province be a sub-committee to receive subscriptions from their members /' ' In ' speaking to this

resolution , Bro . Bird remarked that so much had been said , and so well said already , that he did not intend to detain them by any leng-thened observations . He should only say that the movement Avas one which obtained his warmest

sympathy—his most cordial co-operation . It Avas their first duty as Masons to give a substantial expression to their sympathy Avith the AvidoAV and the children of their deceased brother , a brother taken from them not by any lingering illness , or

by one of the more ordinary forms of death , but snatched away by a sudden and appalling calamity . It behoved them to meet the exigency Avith more than ordinary exertions . Bro . Dr . Brown , P . M . No . 817 , seconded the resolution , Avhicli Avas put and earned as before .

After some observations from the Prov . G . M . relative to the mode in Avhich it Avas proposed to carry out the contributions from the different lodges , Bro . J . M . May , P . Prov . G . Dir . of Cers ., in an

eloquent ancl effective speech , moved the fourth resolution , which AA as as folloAVS : — " That copies of the previous resolutions be transmitted to all the country lodges under the English Constitution in the province of NBAV South Wales , and their

hearty co-operation solicited . " Bro . Bennett , P . M ., seconded the resolution , which was put and carried as before . Bro . W . Wilkins , Prov . G . Supt . of Works , moved the last resolution , which was as follows : —

" That a Treasurer be appointed hy this meeting to act in conjunction with the Provincial Grand Treasurer . " Bro . Bohrsman , W . M ., Lodge Germania , seconded the resolution , which was put and carried , as were those previously agreed to .