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Masonic Notes .

United Grand Lodge held high Festival on Wednesday , in celebration of St . George ' s Day—the day of the Patron Saint of England . Thc Deputy Grand Master—in the absence of the M . W . Grand Masterpresided , and , as is usual at these annual meetings , there was a full attendance of the brethren to witness the SATURDAY , APRIL 30 , 18 9 8 .

iivcs'itureot those whom his Royal Highness the M . W . G . M . has been pleased lo appoint as the Grand Ofiicers for the ensuing year . A list of these brethren will be found in our report of the proceedings , and in another part of our columns we publish the records of their services , so that our leaders may see and judge for

thunselves what manner of Masons thty arc whom the Grand Master has seen fit to honour with the purple of Grand Lodge . We think the conclusion they will arrive it will be , as we suggested last week , that a b'tter or more worthy body of men could not have been selected . # •* - *•*

The Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter will be held at Freemasons' llall on Wednesday , the 4 th prox ., when the new Grand Ollicers will be appointed and invested . A cons'derable proportion

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of those vvho have just received Craft honours will be appointed to corresponding offices in Grand Chapter . But there are sundry who do not possess the necessary Royal Arch qualifications , while others are already Past Grands , either through having been appointed as

substantive Grand Officers or because last year or the year before they had brevet rank as such conferred upon them . In place of these companions who have distinguished themselves in private and Prov . Grand Chapter will be appointed .

* * It will be noticed from our report of Grand Festival that his Royal Highness has been pleased to confer Past rank on three brethren , of whom one in particular has occupied positions of eminence in

Masonry for a long term of years . Ihe three in question are Bro . his Honour Judge F . A . Philbrick , Q . C , who is now a Past Grand Warden ; Bro . R . Horton Smith , Q . C , who , in recognition of his services as Dep . Grand Registrar , has been made Past

Grand Registrar ; and the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor of London , Bro . Alderman Col . Davies , M . P ., who has been made a Past Grand Deacon . As regards the Lord Mayor , the numerous and heavy demands which for years past must have been made upon his time as

a man of business , a City magnate , and Member of Parliament have prevented him taking a very active part in the proceedings of our lodges , but most of us will recognise that it is an honour conferred upon our venerable Society to have included among its leading

members another chief magistrate of the grandest old Corporation the world has ever known . We congratulate his lordship , and in spirit salute him according to ancient custom . So also do we congratulate most heartily Bro . Horton Smith , Q . C , on the honour he so well deserves .

But it is necessarily to Bro . Philbrick , Q . C , who has held positions of high distinction in the Craft for very many years that we tender our heartiest congratulations . I : is a quarter of a century almost to the very day since he received his first appointment to ofiice in

Grand Lodge , and for more -than half that period he has been the legal adviser of the Craft . In the Province of Essex he has received , as he has deserved , the goodwill and respect of the brethren . But not only on the ground of his great knowledge and experience

of Masonry do we offer him our congratulations on his appointment to the brevet rank of Past G . Warden . No one could have moved freely among the lodges in the Metropolis and what are commonly spoken of as the Home Counties without having learned that Bro .

Philbrick is not only one of the ablest , as he is one of the most experienced of Craftsmen , but likewise that he is by reason of his geniality one of the most popular . There are few who have donemore towards promoting that spirit of kindness which is , or ought to be , among

the leading characteristics of the true Freemason . There has been in these latter days a spirit abroad which urges upon the brethren the necessity of being perfect in everything . They must bs perfect ritualists , perfect in their knowledge of the Constitutions ,

perfect in their familiarity with the laws of Masonic Jurisprudence , and among those who worship this spirit he is held to be the best Mason who is the most perfect in all these things . * *

Bro . Philbrick has not lost sight of thc belief that a knowledge of Masonry is desirable among Freemasons , bat he has , at the same time , recognised that the promptings of good fellowship must not be overlooked in this desire to convert Freemasonry into an exact

science . We want good men to rule over lodges and chapters , but this goodness must not be restricted to lodge work . We want them to be good in presiding at the festive board as well as in the lodge , and if they can bring tie members closer together , and show them

how to know and respect each other better , we do not imagine there are many who will not forgive them if occasionally they are non-plussed in the ritual . At all events , Bro . Philbrick has been as earnest in his desire to promote geniality at our Masonic gathering * as uc is

capable of enlightening them upon the duties of the lodge and the laws of the Craft , and it is for reason of L liis ihat his appointment to so exalted a position as ihat of Past Grand Warden has been so popular everywhere throughout the Craft .

It is not necessary that we should give in detail a record of the career of our distinguished brother , lie A . G . S . in the Royal Arch . He has won distinction was appointed in IS ; J . G . D . in tlr ; Craft , and in 1 S 74 in the Mark and Templar Oiders , in the A . and A . Rite , in the Order of the Secret Monitor , & c . In 1884 , on th :

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resignationof the late Bro . Mclntyre , Q . C , of the office of Grand Registrar , which he had held for the preceding 22 years . Bro . Philbrick was selected to fill this very responsible ofiice in Craft and Arch Masonry , and though his recommendations as the legal adviser of

Grand Lodge and . Grand Chapter may not have been invariably received by all without question , it is also generally known that in ths discharge of his duties he has ever been most conscientious , and that if not infallible , his rulings have always been entitled to

respect . In Essex he is beloved as well as respected . As Deputy Prov . G . Master , under the present Proy . Grand Master and his predecessor—the late Lord Tenterden—he has been familiar with the working of the Province , while as Grand Superintendent since 1 S 83 , he has presided over Royal Arch Masonry in the Province to its great advantage , and to his own

renown . He has also done good service to our Institutions ; nor will it be soon forgotten what immense services the Philbrick Investigation Committee rendered in bringin ' gabout the reorganisation of the Boys ' School and placing it once agiin on a substantial ¦ basis .

We congratulate the Old Masonians on the success which attended the consecration of their lodge at Anderton ' s Hotel on Saturday last . It was a most

excellent meeting in all respects , while there is little doubt that under the auspices of such a distinguished Mason as Bro . C . E . Keyser , P . G . D ., and oaewho has shown so great a desire to promote the welfare of all our Institutions as he has , that it will pass safely through the most critical period of its existence . It has our best wishes for a long and successful career . * # #

We understand that a favourable answer has been given to thc petition of certain London brethren , who were W . Masters of lodges in the Metropolitan

District the day the Queen ' s Diamond Jubilee was celebrated for a warrant of constitution for a lodge which will be known under the style and title of the Jubilee Masters ^ Lodge , No . 2712 . There is reason to believe that the consecration will take place some time during the latter half of June . * # *

We deeply sympathise with Bro . Henry Lovegrove , P . G . S . B ., in the calamity that has befallen him . It seems that in a paragraph that recently appeared in our columns cur very distinguished brother was

described as a " Surgeon " instead of " Surveyor . " How anyone can havc confounded two such opposite professions we are at a loss to suggest , * but , needless to siy , we deplore the error . » * *

In our Notes of last week we took occasion to express our sympathy with Bro . A . N . Sloan , lately G . M . of Tenessee , who had all his ofiiciil records destroyed by fire about three months after he had been installed in office . At the same time , we congratulated him and his Grand Lodge on the sufficiency of the materials at his command from the last nine months of his

Mastership for framing an address of the usual formidable length . This address , of course , included quite a number of rulings mostly on matters of small detail , among them being one which , it has occurred to us , is rather more amusing than American Grand Masters ' decisions generally are .

» * + The following knotty point was siabmitted to him for his decision : " The By-laws of a lodge provide that they can be changed only by a vote of threefourths of the members present . When the change was voted upon , nineteen members were present ; fourteen voted in the affirmative , lour in the negative , and one

refused to vote . Was the motion carried r " Grand Master Sloan gravely decided—and his decision was subsequently endorsed by the Grand Lodge—that " it was not . " Arithmetically speaking , there is of course no doubt that Grand Master Sloan was right , threefourths of ly being 14 ' ,. But we fail to see how onefourth part of a member could have voted one way ,

and his remaining three-fourths the other . It may be that in Tennessee Masonry the division for voting purposes of an odd member into four equal parts is possible—we are aware that strange things occasionally happen in some of thc Grand Lodgo jurisdictions in the United States—but we should like to know how it is managed .

WE HAVE been requested to announce lhat Bro . Henry Sadler , O . 'Tyler and Sub-Librarian of Grand Lodge , will deliver a lecture at the Rutland Hotel , Perry-hill , Catford , lo-iiiorrow ( Saturday ) , at i > p . m ., under the auspices ot the Evening Star Lodge of instiuction . No . 1719 . This will be thc last of the meetings during the present session .