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Masonic Chit Chat.
Alaster , Lord Ramsay , and the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Scotland . The Duke of Argyle presented the deputation . An Address from the Grand Lodge of Ireland has also been presented to Her Alajesty , and most graciously received . AVe have the satisfaction to announce that her Alajesty has been graciously pleased to appoint his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex to
be Captain-General of the Royal Artillery Company , an office of equal rank , we believe , to that of Field Afarshal , and which , though accompanied by no emolument , is yet of the highest distinction , it having hitherto been held only by the reigning Sovereign or the person nearest in rank to the Throne . Thus it was held by the two last Kings of the Stuart family in succession , and after them by King AVilliam III . It was bestowed by Queen Anne on her husband , George Prince of
Denmark ; by George I . on his son , who retained it after he became George II . ; in like manner it was conferred b y George III . on his son the Prince of Wales , who retained it as George IV . ; and his late Alajesty William IV . assumed the office in his own person . It is now well and worthily bestowed on the Duke of Sussex , who has been for many years the Colonel of the Company , and under whose auspices we trust the corps may long prosper . — -Morning Chronicle .
The Prince George Lodge ( was , when erased ) , No . 102 , and it appears from the books of that Loelge , that Prince William Henry , the late King William the Fourth was initiated therein , and raised to the 3 rd Degree , on the 13 th of AIay , 178 G . THE EARL OF DURHAM . The folloiving paragraph has gone the round of the London papers . Wc noticed a similar one in The Chronicle : — " Lord Durham ' s complaint is a slight affection of the lungs
, to which he is subject on the approach of autumn ; but it generally yields to a change of climate , anil a residence of some weeks in the south of Fiance or Italy has been recommended . " These statements are so evidently manufactured that we cannot but wonder at the simplicity in copying them . We had the pleasure of seeing Lord Durham at thc Alasonic Festival held at Chester-le-street on the very day on which the above paragraphfirst appeared ; and certainly during thefour-and-twenty
years we have known his lordship as a public man , we never saw him looking so well . He is , indeed , quite robust . Our impression was but tlie universal orre amongst ah who met him on the occasion ; ancl it was confirmed at the dinner by the noble Earl himself , in proposing " The health of Dr . Dooratt , " the surgeon to tlie Russian Embassy , to whose skill and attention , under Divine Providence , he attributed his enjoyment of a more perfect state of health than he had ever before experienced . —Durham Chronicle .
FREEMASONS IN PARLIAMENT . —Thc following members of the new Parliament are also Alembers of the Alasonic Body;—Lords Ramsay , Ebrington , Albert Conyngham , and Stormont ; Air . Ramsbottom , Air . Rowland Alston , Mr . Easthorpe , the Hon . Col . Anson , Col . Baillie , Mr . W . F . Campbell , Right Hon . Charles Tennyson D'Evncourt , the lion . Thomas Durrdas , Sir William Alolesworth , Col . Rtishhrooke , Mr . Ii . A . Sanford , ancl Air . Robert Steuart . — Fran a f ' o-rresponrleut . [ The list might be increased tenfold—independent of noble Brethren iu the Upper House . — ED . ]
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Masonic Chit Chat.
Alaster , Lord Ramsay , and the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Scotland . The Duke of Argyle presented the deputation . An Address from the Grand Lodge of Ireland has also been presented to Her Alajesty , and most graciously received . AVe have the satisfaction to announce that her Alajesty has been graciously pleased to appoint his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex to
be Captain-General of the Royal Artillery Company , an office of equal rank , we believe , to that of Field Afarshal , and which , though accompanied by no emolument , is yet of the highest distinction , it having hitherto been held only by the reigning Sovereign or the person nearest in rank to the Throne . Thus it was held by the two last Kings of the Stuart family in succession , and after them by King AVilliam III . It was bestowed by Queen Anne on her husband , George Prince of
Denmark ; by George I . on his son , who retained it after he became George II . ; in like manner it was conferred b y George III . on his son the Prince of Wales , who retained it as George IV . ; and his late Alajesty William IV . assumed the office in his own person . It is now well and worthily bestowed on the Duke of Sussex , who has been for many years the Colonel of the Company , and under whose auspices we trust the corps may long prosper . — -Morning Chronicle .
The Prince George Lodge ( was , when erased ) , No . 102 , and it appears from the books of that Loelge , that Prince William Henry , the late King William the Fourth was initiated therein , and raised to the 3 rd Degree , on the 13 th of AIay , 178 G . THE EARL OF DURHAM . The folloiving paragraph has gone the round of the London papers . Wc noticed a similar one in The Chronicle : — " Lord Durham ' s complaint is a slight affection of the lungs
, to which he is subject on the approach of autumn ; but it generally yields to a change of climate , anil a residence of some weeks in the south of Fiance or Italy has been recommended . " These statements are so evidently manufactured that we cannot but wonder at the simplicity in copying them . We had the pleasure of seeing Lord Durham at thc Alasonic Festival held at Chester-le-street on the very day on which the above paragraphfirst appeared ; and certainly during thefour-and-twenty
years we have known his lordship as a public man , we never saw him looking so well . He is , indeed , quite robust . Our impression was but tlie universal orre amongst ah who met him on the occasion ; ancl it was confirmed at the dinner by the noble Earl himself , in proposing " The health of Dr . Dooratt , " the surgeon to tlie Russian Embassy , to whose skill and attention , under Divine Providence , he attributed his enjoyment of a more perfect state of health than he had ever before experienced . —Durham Chronicle .
FREEMASONS IN PARLIAMENT . —Thc following members of the new Parliament are also Alembers of the Alasonic Body;—Lords Ramsay , Ebrington , Albert Conyngham , and Stormont ; Air . Ramsbottom , Air . Rowland Alston , Mr . Easthorpe , the Hon . Col . Anson , Col . Baillie , Mr . W . F . Campbell , Right Hon . Charles Tennyson D'Evncourt , the lion . Thomas Durrdas , Sir William Alolesworth , Col . Rtishhrooke , Mr . Ii . A . Sanford , ancl Air . Robert Steuart . — Fran a f ' o-rresponrleut . [ The list might be increased tenfold—independent of noble Brethren iu the Upper House . — ED . ]