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CONTENTS . PAGE L EADER' The Grand Mastership ... ... - •¦•- - 289 Masonic Jurisprudence ... ... ... - - - 28 9 United Grand Lodge ( Agenda Paper ) ... ... ... ¦¦¦ 29 c .

Mark Grand Lodge ( Agenda Paper ) ... ... ... - 291 Consecration of the Earl of Clarendon Chapter , No . 19 S 4 291 BroA T . Walmisley , W . M . No . 2241 292 Provincial Grand Lodge of Staffordshire ... ... ... ... 292 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of North and East Yorkshire ... ... 292 Craft Masonry •» - •¦••••- •••2 W

MASONIC NOTESAgenda Paper of United Grand Lodge ... ... ... ... 295 Agenda Paper of Mark Grand Lodge ... ... ... ¦ ... 29 s Annual Meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Northants and Hunts 295 Annual Spoils of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys ... ... 29 ; District Grand Lodge of Queensland ... ... ... •••295

Correspondence ... ¦••••••••— — 2 9 ° Reviews ... •••. 2 < * l Masonic Notes and Queues ... ... ... ... ... 290 Congratulatory Dinner to the G and Treasurer ... ... ... 296 Masonic Rifle Match ... ... ... ... - •••297 Opening of Sydenham Wells Park ... ... ... ... 297

The June Magazines ... ... ... — 298 Mark Masonry ... •••••••••••••••29 S The Craft Abroad ... .. ... » . - •••299 Craft Masonry ... ... ... - ••>- 299 Science , Art , and the Drama ... ... ... ... ... 3 ° J Masonic and General Tidinsrs ... ... ... ... ... 302 Sonnet for the Month of June ... ... ... ... ... 302

The Grand .Mastership.

THE GRAND . MASTERSHIP .

H . R . H . the Duke of CONNAUGHT , K . G ., M . W . Grand Master

of England , will be formally installed in office on Wednesday , ( lie 17 th July , the place chosen for the important function being the Royal Albert Hall , where , on the ever-memorable 28 th April ,

18 75 , in the presence of some 10 , 000 brethren , his Majesty King EDWARD the VII ., Protector of English Freemasonry—then H . R . H . the Prince of WALES , K . G . —was placed on the Masonic throne ; and no doubt the scene that was then enacted will be

reproduced in essentials , if not in all its details , at the approaching gathering . In the years that have elapsed since his MAJESTY took upon himself the responsibilities of the Grand Mastership the number of lodges on the Register has about

doubled itself , and there are probably about twice as many brethren entitled to be present at such a meeting ; but the dimensions of the Hall remain unaltered , and we do not envy the executive officers of Grand Lodge in the task that is now before

tlicm of making all the necessary arrangements for so immense a gathering , and seeing they are properly carried out in such a manner as to gratify the wishes of the great majority without undul y disturbing the equanimity of the minority . There is

this much to be said : The three big meetings that were held in the Albert Hall under the direction and control of Grand Lodge in ' 875 , 188 7 , and 18 97 , respectively , were all of them splendidly successlul , and the remembrance of this fact will be the best

incentive they can have to emulate and , if possible , surpass them . In the 18 4 years that have elapsed since the " Four Old Lodges " in London established the Grand Lodge of

Englandthe mother Grand Lodge of tha Masonic world—41 brethren have presided over it as M . W . G . Master , the last of the 41 being the Prince of WALES , now our King and Protector . From 1717 to I 74 I inclusive a new and different Grand Master was elected

•very year , Bro . GEORGE PAYNE , who was twice elected—in ' / 18 and 1720—having his terms of office separated by the j rand Mastershi p of Dr . DESAGULIERS , who was chosen to

preside over Grand Lodge in 1719 . From 1742 onwards , until the year 1813 , when thc rival Grand Lodges of the " Ancients " and "Moderns" were formed into one United Grand Lodge , onl y . 15 brethren were elected to the office , and of these only one

The Grand .Mastership.

—the Earl of STRATHMORE— -served for a single year , the other 14 being annually re-elected , and holding office for terms of longer or shorter duration . In , 1782 H . R . H . the Duke of CUMBERLAND , K . G ., was elected Grand Master in succession to

the Duke of MANCHESTER , and retained the office till his death in 1790 , when his nephew GEORGE , Prince of Wales , was elected , and remained Grand Master until he became Regent for his father , GEORGE III . The Prince was succeeded in 1813

by his brother , the Duke of SUSSEX , who , conjointly with the Duke of KENT , Grand Master of the Atholl Grand Lodge , had the satisfaction of bringing about the Union of the two Societies , and , on the proposition of his brother of KENT , was

unanimously elected the first M . W . G . Master of the United Grand Lodge of England . The Duke died in 1843 , and the following year the Earl of ZETLAND , who had been his Royal Highness's Pro G . M ., was installed . In 1870 the Earl DE GREY AND

RlPON , now Marquis of RlPON , was elected and installed in office and on his lordship resigning his connection with the Craft in September , 18 74 , his then Royal Highness the Prince of WALES , who had been M . W . Past Grand Master of England for some

five years , was invited , and accepted the invitation , to become Grand Master , and was , as already mentioned , installed as such in the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of some 10 , 000 brethren , on the 28 th April , 18 75 . On the 15 th February last , an Especial

Grand Lodge was held , at which announcement was made that his Majesty the King had retired from the ofiice and assumed the title of Protector and , a fresh nomination having thus become necessary in lieu of that which hid been made at the

last December Communication , H . R . H . the Duke of CONNAUGHT was nominated and at the Quarterly Communication on the 6 th March was unanimously elected M . W . Grand Master . Thus from 1717 to the Union in 1813 Grand Lodge was presided over

by a regular succession of 3 8 Grand Masters , while from 1813 to 1901 there has been four Grand Masters , of whom the Duke of SUSSEX was likewise Grand Master before the Union . Hence the Duke of CONNAUGHT is the 42 nd on the roll of M . W . Grand

Masters of England , and it is the earnest prayer of every English Mason that his Royal Highness may be spared for many years to preside over the Craft of which he has been so illustrious a member for the last 21 years .

Masonic Jurisprudence.

MASONIC JURISPRUDENCE .

[ COMMUNICATED . ] THE FREEMASON IN PUBLIC . Under this heading , which is only employed faute de mieux , the writer proposes to consider the various questions that arise when the Freemason , as such , comes into contact with the

" uninstructed world who are not Freemasons . " Of written law on the subject there is but little . We have , in the antient charges , read to the Master elect , live clauses ( 1 to 4 and 13 ) . In the sixth section of the antient charges of a Freemason

the lourth and hltn clauses reierto benaviour betore tne prolane , and there are , besides , a few decisions of Grand Lodge , and one ' or two orders of the Grand Mastor , these last having reference ' to the wearing of Masonic clothing in public .

The entered apprentice ' s charge also contains much valuable advice that embraces not only his conduct as a Freemason , but as a man and a member of organised society . What else there is of direction and guidance has to be inferred , and consequently there js niuch diversity of practice ,