The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-27 00:00:00

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PORTLAND.

GRAND CEREMONY OF CONSECRATION OF
I,ODGE (No. 1037) OF FREE AND ACCEPrED
MASONS.

On Wednesday, the 21st inst., the day without any
night, the New Masonic Lodge at Portland, No. 1037,
established chiefly, we believe, through the exer.
tious and instrumentality of Brother R.N. Howard,
who has most aporouristely been elected W.M.
of the New I 4 dge, was consecrated under the
auspices of Brother Jecob% of Weymouth, as master of
the Ceremonies, end Brother Thomas Coombs, of
Dorchester , who is Grand Secretary of the Pi coinCle. In
ad d irin to whom were the following offi gatiog brethren,
Broiler T. M. I 'ricktney, P. P.O. Sept. Wks, Brother
T. Chick, Acting J.W. Brother W. J. Hill, J.D.,
Brother W. Bryant, P.P.J.G.D., Broti-er Smith,
P. J. 0 .D. , and Brother J. D. Harvey. P.M. P. P.O. , Supt.
of Wks., as well as an attendance of nearly fifty of the
brethren of thin and the adjoining provinee of Somerset,
comprising deottatioi a from the .Poole Lodge, Brother
It. Sydenherp, W M. ; All Soots Lodge, of WeVineuth,
Brother Smith, W. M. ; the Lodge of Faith and Unan-
imity, Dorchester, Brother Thomas Click, W.M. ; the
Wareham Lodge, Brother Piiynter, W.M. ,&c., dtc., ftc.
who all sae eted in the ceremonies.
The ceremony, which is elmost waive as regards the
high cereincoial of consecretimi, although Lodges are
commonly dt di cated in a leee iuipo.ing mariner, took place
in the Wore' Bethel, under the Verne, a comet suitable
apartment for the purPose, the sFrviems bring entirely
religious. It was conduoted by Brother Jacob*, in a
manner which, for iinoressiveneen ant solemnity, was ac-
knowledged by ell preaentoever to heve been a en equalled
or surpiased. The brethren assembled at high noon in
the Bethel, (the use of nliich had been granted for the
occasion tat: h a promptrtude which elicit-a the warrant
thanks, by Bro. ('oo le who in one of the Tru•tees of the
Chap.!) where t, e emblems wiioe,aed only within
the arcane nt nine craft, were grouped e midst f. stoma of
Novel.n awl evergreens, and the mosaics actually
carpetted with florel decoritioris of the most tasteful
andi, f course, artistic character. We noticed meny
veryi fine "flannel" rose', such an Louire de Dijon,
Geant des Bette lies. Ise' . of which Brother Jacobs hat
most rurblesaly drapoiledhis gardens at Radipole, in his
seal ti do honour to the occasion. Nor must we omit
to any that the Strings of the New Lodge itseif
harmoei-ed admirably with the gorgeous array
of paraphernalia and helped to constitute a model in.
tenor of it Ma.iciii's lodge. The lodge having been duly
ripened by the W.M R.N. Howard, succesaively in
Hie &so, second, and third degrees, and again resumed
in the first for the admission of mitered epprentices of
the infan, lodge, the W.M. called upon Brother Jacobs
to roomed will the car which he did by
delivering an el ileorete inausurel on the high and holy
principles of mroionry, extracts from which will appear
in the Fort/arid Telegram. He followed up this discourse
hy eoiducting in the most pert'. ct style we ever wit-
nensed, the following chor .1 service, of which we have
perminsion to publish mrtain poroions, only promising
that a w.ll-mesited compliment is due to Brothers
Harper and Patch for leading riff the Choral portion and
to Bi other Stagg, the organist of All Souls Lodge, who
presided at the Harmonium. The music oomprised
some of Virtue's Selection of the Psalms,Tallia's Chants,
&c.