The Masonic Mirror.

very valuable institution would soon be so far augmented as to enable them to provide for the long list of candidates . The last festival was a good specimen of what might be done , as upwards of £ 1 , 750 were collected , aud this time he hoped there wotdd be equally as good a collection . Having alluded to a Brother who had been a candidate for five years , he repeated that it gave him great pleasure to be named with the charities , and thanked the Brethren for the honour conferred upon biui . Bro . Farmer said there were ten new candidates this year , so that at the next election there must necessarily be a large number unsuccessful . Several of the Brethren became subscribers to the institution ; and the Tyler ' s toast brought a truly happy meeting to a close .

PRESTON LODGE ( NO . 106 S ) . —The consecration of this now Lodge , the last wo believe at present on the roll , took place at the Star and Garter Hotel , Putuey , on Saturday last , the 22 nd instant . The ceremony was ably performed by Bro . John Hervey , P . G . D ., assisted by Bro . the Rev . J . E . Cox , P . G . Chap . ; Bros . Archer , P . G . Steward ; Robinson , P . G . Steward ; Nutt , P . G . Steward , & c , So . There were a large number of the brethren present , amongst whom Ave observed Bro . Simms , Grand Steward ; Bro . Smith , Grand Purs . ; Bros . Watson , P . M . ; BasterP . M . ; GreenP . M . BussP . M . ; Fi P . M . HammettP . M .

, , ; , gg , ; , ; Mastermau , P . M ., & c ., & c . The musical portion of the ceremony was conducted by Bro . Matthew Cooke , assisted by Bros . Donald King , P . M ., and Thomas Young . The music performed was the ode "By Masons' Art ; " the anthem , 133 rd Psalm ; the responses ; and during the processions Bro . Cooke played—march " Zauberflb'te , " Mozart ; march , " Occasional Oratorio , " Handel ; " Wedding March , " Meudlessohu ; aud on the last of the salutations Bros . Young , King , and Cooke took their places in the procession , singing " How merrily we live , " with good effect .

The oration was delivered by Bro . the Rev . J . E . Cox , P . G . Chaplain , who , in the course of his observatious , said that of the three gre . tt principles of masonry , viz : brotherly love , relief , aud truth , he should confine himself to the former , in addressing the Lodge , and although it might be somewhat out of the usual oourse , he could not help adverting to circumstances which had become notorioushe alluded to the want of brotherly love , which had characterised some of the late proceedings in Grand Lodge . He did not intend to impugn the motives of those who might have thought it their duty to take the course they had done , for he believed that the opposition was imagined by those who formed it to be a duty ,

and however misguided he might consider their course to be , he believed they were carrying out that which was their settled opinions and not from factious motives . Still he must say those ideas were , in his opinion , totally unfounded on facts aud thoroughly erroneous , aud this brought him to the peculiar matter on which he bad to address the Lodge , viz . brotherly love . He had adverted to the dissensions in Grand Lodge , because he feared they would woakeu the principle of brotherly love , and he also desired to hold out a warning to a Lodge at its foundationto show to the members present that where bitter hostilityoven in a

, , good cause , was allowed to creep in , there one of the three grand principles was in great danger of being totally lost sight of . He trusted that the brethren of the Preston Lodge would hold firm to the principle of brotherly love , that if they differed on any subject it should only be as to how much the one could exceed the other in the exercise of this important duty . After alluding to the other portions of their duties , the reverend brother concluded by reminding the brethren that charity and brotherly love meant something more than Masons generally admitted .

They thought if they put their hands into their pockets to help the needy they had done their duty ; now there is no doubt that they had done a part , and a very material part of their duty in so doing , but he must be allowed to remind them that brotherly love and charity were synonymous , that charity was not only almsgiving , but that sympathy for a brother ' s wants , that mild construction of his faults aud failings , which in the language of the holy scripture was said to " suffer much , " At the conclusion of the ceremony of consecration , Bro . Hervey proceeded to the ceremony of installing the new W . M ., Bro . Owen Boweu , who was presented by Bro . Nutt , P . M ., No . 32 . Bro . Cole , P . M ., having been invested as S . W . aud Treasurer , and Bro . Whitemau as J , W ,, Bros . Blake , Osborne , C . Robinson , Cox ,