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main ornament of our Craft is , I am sure , the sincere prayer of every Mason in Cornwall , and we most- heartily drink your very good health . "The health of the Deputy P . G . M . Brother Ellis , " and of the "P . D . P . G . M . ancl Treasurer , Brother Pearce , " were also proposed and drunk , and suitably acknowledged . The Ladies then retired , and the Lodge was close tyled , when the P . D . P . G . M . proposed , in highly eulogistic terms , "The health of the two Wardens , Brother

Augustus Smith , of Scilly , and Brother Reginald Rogers , of Truro , " and in doing so , ho referred particularly to the great improvement which Brother Smith had effected in the Scilly Islands , converting the inhabitants from almost a state of pauperism , to the condition of an industrious and intelligent community . The P . G . Senior Warden , Brother Augustus Smith , returned thanks and said , whatever his measures had been at Scilly , the groundwork had been education , with a view to teaching others to assist themselves ; that all his plans had been regulated by true Masonic principles , and results having now proved their soundness , and given confidence , had he to do the Avork OA'er again he should in almost every particular , folloAV out the

same course . The P . G . Junior Warden , Brother Reginald Rogers , also acknowledged the toast in suitable terms . "The health of the P . G . Chaplain " was next given , with thanks for the very excellent discourse he had that day delivered , conveying as it did many moral lessons , and inculcating to the brethren , their duties as ChristiaiAS as well as Masons . Brother the Rev . Cuthbert E . Hosken acknowledged the toast , and gave " The better health of Brother Grylls ; " and the next proposed was , "The Masters of the different Lodges in the Count )' , " which Avas responded toby Brother

Hogge , P . M ., of the St . Austell Lodge . The D . P . G . M . next proposed "The health of Brother Heard , the P . G . Director of Ceremonies , " and bore testimony to the efficient assistance he had rendered to the Craft , and the able manner , in which he had fulfilled tbe onerous duties devolving upon him . Brother Heard responded , and said he should always be happy to perform the duties incumbent upon him , as a Mason . Several other Masonic toasts were then given , amongst them " The health of the host , Brother Dunn , " Avith thanks to him for the elegant repast he had provided . The Brethren spent the remainder of the evening in " Peace and Harmony , " and separated with every feeling of fraternal regard ancl esteem .

CHESTER . PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE . This Lodge held its annual meeting on the 26 th ult , at Congleton . The full report of the proceedings , which reached us asfwe were going to press , and consequently too late for insertion in our present number , shall appear in our next . We may , howeverstatethat there was a procession of the brethren from the Lod-roomat

, , ge , the Lion and Swan Inn , to St . Peter's church , where an appropriate sermon was preached , in aid of the Provincial Masonic Funds of Benevolence , by Rev . T . W . Newell Tanner , V . W . P . G . C . DEVONSHIRE .

LODGE OF FORTITUDE ( NO . 122 ) . —The members of this Lodge held one of emergency on the 18 th of July , when Br . Phillips , the W . M ., most ably initiated Dr . Andrews , Surgeon of H . M . S . Alarm , into the first degree of the science . Labour finished , refreshment , in shape of Br . Killingley ' s recherche supper followed , to Avhich , we need scarcely say , prompt justice was done . The members of this Lodge having made arrangements for the annual trip up the beautiful river Tamar , on the 31 st ult . all were anxious for weather suitablebut as the course of excursion ancl

, ; picnic parties is , as Shakespeare tells us , the course of love is , " Destined never to run smooth , " so Avas the path of the brother who catered for the pleasure seekers beset with thorns of sundry kinds . First , the weather was anything but such as would have been chosen on the day previous—rain and mist , mist and rain , being the only variation—so that doubt and consternation overspread the countenances of those superintending the culinary department ; indeed , Ave are not sure that a messenger was not despatched to the front to give notice of the first glimpse of sunshine , or even