The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-12 00:00:00

NATURE OF TIIE INSTITUTION.

The Loyal Orange Institution of Great Britain is un-
limited as to numbers, and exclusively a Protestant asso-
ciation I its affairs are directed by a grand master, a grand
secretary, a grand treasurer, a deputy grand master, a
deputy grand secretary, and deputy grand treasurer, a
grand chaplain and deputy grand chaplain, a grand com-
mittee- and grand officers constituting the Imperial Grand
Lodge in London,
The Imperial Grand Lodge meets in the nietropolls en
the third Thursday in February; on the 4th of June, and
at such other times as shall be appointed by the Grand
Master, or the Deputy Grand Master. No regulation,
resolution, or rule of the Orange Institution, can be at any
time rescinded, altered, or amended, without notice of the
intention to move, or rescind, alter of amend the same,being
given at the regular meeting of the Imperial Grand Lodge
previous to such motion i and no eomplaiiit,,proposition,
matter,_Or thing; can be considered or discUSsQd the
Grand Ledge until the same shall have been sub-
mitted to the Grand Committee, unless the Grand Master,
or Deputy Grand Master, dr dignitary presiding, shall be of
opinion that iiiCdifOriithed tar ihjul joins atis:e from its
postponement. The order and attention to allproccedings
of the Grand Lodge may be judged of from the fact, that
the grand master never enters the lodge or leaves it with-
out the mace liChitt carried before him) that, during the
sittings of the lodge, the mace is always placed on the table
before the grand master, and that a member of the lodge,
styled a tyler, is stationed outside the door. Every lodge
is opened and closed with prayers, the forms of which are
printed in the rules and ordinances ofthe institution.
The Imperial Grand Lodge is held in Portman-square,
London, at the house of Lord Kenyon, the Deputy Grand
Master of England and Wales and the Duke of Cum-
berland, if in England. has always, since he accepted the
the office of Grand Master, presided at such meetings.
The business is generally prepared some days previous to
the meeting by the Grand Committee and the Deputy
Grand secretary) and IS submitted to the meeting of the
Grand Lodge in due form, their being a fad of business
prepared and placed before the Grand Master or Chair=
man, The Itepoti tit 016 Grand Committee and the reso-
lutions prepared by them are read through in the first in-
stance) and then put separately; from the chair such reso-
lutions 1)0-4 seconded anti put to the assetubly are decided
by show of hands, and the resolutions, when agreed to,
have often the initials of the Grand Master affixed to
them the fliililites Or the fiftteeediagS of giit4ry meeting_of
the Grand Lodge are submitted by the Deputy Grand -Se-
cretary to the Deputy. Grand Master; for his examination
and coPe rctitlii; afterwards pfitited, as appaafg by the
minutes of a meeting of the Grand Lodge, 27th April,
1821.—Resolved, " That nd etnimlnication, written or
printed, of the proceedings of the Grand. Lodge be made,
without the special orders of the Grand Lodge, Grand
Master, or Deputy Grand Master.' The Deputy °rand
Secretary officially signs all those circulars, and copies of
them are generally sent to each dignitary of the institution,
to the Deputy Grand Masters of distrlctS, and to Masters
of separate lodges at home and abroad.
The connection between the Orange lodges of Ireland
and Great Britain, Is shown by the following rule :
Rule 12. The members of the late or present Grand
Orange Lodge of Ireland are honorary members of the Impe-
rial Grand Lodge of Great Britairh
" Proxies from masters of lodges add from dignitaries arc
admitted to the Grand Lodge meetings."
The Grand Committee, consisting of thirty-six members,
all of them being grand officers of the institution, are ap-
pointed by the Imperial Grand Lodge, with power in the
Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master to add to their
number ; the duty of this committee is to watch dyer the
affairs of the institution while the Imperial Grand Lodge
is not sitting, to decide on all applications or appeals, and
to exercise such other powers, conformable to the rules of
the institution, as the exigencies of the different cases com-
ing before them shall require. Five members are compe-
tent to act, and six members are annually nominated in the
room of six retiring, but who are re-eligible. Lieutenant-
Colonel Fairman states that the Grand Committee, when-
ever the Deputy Grand Secretary finds it necessary to call
on them for advice, meets to deliberate and advise, In the
same manner as a Cabinet or Privy Council ; all the acts
of the Grand Committee arc submitted to the scrutiny and
concurrence of the Imperial Grand Lodge at its ensuing
meeting.

The Deputy Grand Masters of counties, cities, and bo=
roughs, sending Members to Parliaments are walked by
the Imperial Grand Lodge, The Deputy Grand Masters
of districts arc appointed by the Imperial Grand Lodge,
on the recommendation of the brethren of the districts.
The masters of warrants are annually elected by their re-
spective members, subject to the approbation of the Impe,
real Grand Lodge, where they are represented by the De-
puty Grand Masters of districts ; and each Deputy Grand
Master of a :district convenes a meetinc, of the several
masters in his neighbourhood, at which, he presides once
every six months, or oftener, if necessary, to discuss the
affairs of the Institution. Each master of a lodge is di-.
rected, at each regular half-yearly meeting, to present a
correct report of the state of his warrant (orlodge) to the
Deputy Grand Master of the district, who makes his re.
turn to the Imperial Grand Lodge on or before the 24th
days of May and December respectively. Besides the dis-
trict lodges, there are isolated lodges—that is, such lodges
as, by reason of
.distance or any other circumstances, can-
not be conveniently attached to any particular district ; and
all these may communicate with the nearest Deputy Grand
Master of any district : and at each .regular half-yearly dis-
trict meeting, the Deputy Grand Master shall collect and
transmit to the Deputy Grand Treasurer, or to the De-
puty Grand Secretary of the Imperial Lodge, the returns,
with the fees, dues, and all money which they receive on
account of the Institution. Every member of the Institu-
tion, from the rank of Grand Commissioner downwards,
must. first belong to some specified lodge. No lodge. can
be constituted except by warrant from the Grand Lodge,
under the signature of the Grand Master, and with the
seal of the Grand Lodge ; and all members of the Imperial
Grand Lodge are members of every other lodge in Great
Britain.

RULES AND ORDINANCES.
Your Committee call the attention of the House to the
fact, that the rules and ordinances of the Loyal Orange
Institution in Great Britain, and of the Grand Orange
Lodge in Ireland, are nearly similar, the rules of the former
having been formed from those of the latter ; the objects
of both institutions are also nearly analogous ; the same
signs and pass-words arc used by the members of .both in-
stitutions ; members of lodges in Ireland are admitted into
lodges of the Loyal Orange Institution in Great Britain,
and also. in the colonies, and vice versa ; the systems of
England and Ireland were assimilated in 183172 ; and the
new system of lectures, secret signs, and pass-words, have
of late years been adopted by all Orangemen in the United
Kingdom and in the colonies ; and the ordinances declare
that " its whole ifistitution is one neighbourhood, within