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(Etmteitts, the lOthOctober, ISoo, being composed principally PAGE. The 3L"asomc Insubordination in Canada 161 however, of representatives from lodges holding Hindus as Freemasons 1G2 The Grand 31asonic Allegory 163 under the Irish and Scottish Grand Lodges. Ab The Stuarts and Freemasonry 104 this time 41 lodges still held allegiance to the 3Iasonic Notes and Queries 183 Correspondence 100 Grand Lodge of England, under the Provincial Bro. Antoine de Kontski 169 Music and Words for use in a Loilge of Mark 31 aster 3-Iasons (1st Grand Mastershi p of Sir Allan McNab, but in portion) 170, 171 31asonic Atems 172 June, 1857, at the semi-annual meeting, it was United Grand Lodge 172 resolved, " that with unfeigned grief this Provincial CEAPT LODGE 3IEETISGS :— Metropolitan , 173 Grand Lodge, in fidelity to the Order within this Provincial 175 Scotland 178 province, is constrained to declare that separate Royal Arch 179 Mark Alasonry 179 organisation is necessary for the efficiency and Lecture on Freemasonry at Dunfermline 179 stability of Freemasonry in Canada/' which Scientific 3Ieetings for the Week 179 List of Lodge, &c . Meetings for ensuing week 179 resolution was confirmed at the succeeding semi- To Correspondents 180 annual meeting, and it was resolved to declare the independence of the Provincial Grand Lodge, and that the warrants of the lod ges should be returned LOlsDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1S70. to the Grand Lodge of England. On this occasion the warrants of 38 lode-es were handed to Sir Allan McNab, as representative of the Grand MASONIC INSUBORDINATION IN Lodge of England. CANADA. The Grand Lodge of Canada having been The organisation of the so-called Grand Lodge formed and constituted, Sir Allan McNab was of Quebec, lias met with very determined oppo- elected as Grand Master, in September 1S57_ sition on the part of the Grand Lodge of Canada, and warrants were issued to those lodges which and the better to enable our readers to understand had returned their original charters. the situation we shall give a short resume of the Some of our Masonic contemporaries in the History of Freemasonry in Canada. United States are supporting the action taken by Previous to the year 1855 the Lodges of Free- the seceding brethren of Quebec, arguing that masons in Canada, as well as those of the other their case is identical with the establishment of the British Provinces in North America, worked under Grand Lodge of Canada itself , and that the Que- warrants from the Grand Lodges of England, bec brethren are equally justi fied in seceding from; Scotland, and Ireland, respectively, according to the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Canada the nationality of the brethren who were the that body was in withdrawing from the Grand founders of the lod ges. The great increase in the Lodge of England ; but in reality there is no numbers of the Masonic Fraternity in the North analogy in the case—in the one instance the American colonies between the years 1845 and brethren were governed by rulers at a great dis- 1855 rendered it necessary that Provincial Grand tance, and by a body who conld not properly un- Lodges should be established for the local derstand their requirements. In the present in- government of the Craft. These having been stance, governors and governed are placed precisely established , with the sanction of the Gran d Lodge in the same circumstances, are located in con- of England , that body seemed to consider its only tiguous districts, and everything seems to favour duty towards its colonial brethren consisted in the necessity of continued union. We can only drawing a considerable portion of its revenues attribute the attempt of the seceding brethren to from them, without conferring any corresponding establish a second jurisdiction within the dominion advantages. This state of things continued for of Canada, to a vain desire of personal aggrandise- some years, till about the years 185-1-5, meetings ment, an excellent opportunity for which is offered Avere held, the subject was fully discussed , and a by the paucity in numbers of the adherents of the considerable number of Masoas in Canada resolved movement. In fact it seems us if just a sufficient to throw off their allegiance to the home govern- number had banded themselves together, to hold ment, and " the Independent G rand Lod ge of the numerous offices which are tenable in a Grand Canada " was established , the first meeting of Lodge. which was held at Hamilton, Canada West, on We append a circular which has been issued by the self-styled Grand Lodge of Quebec, from shipful, the Grand Lodge of the District! of which it appears that the " Grand Lodge " starts Columbia, extended fraternal recognition to this with f ive subordinate lodges, but that it has con- Grand Lodge as a sister G rand Lodge. fident hopes that the few other remaining lodges " 5th.—It now becomes my painful duty further will voluntarily declare their adherence. The to inform you, that at an early day, I will cause to " Grand Lodge " has also the encouraging sup- be forwarded to your Grand Body, a refutation of port of having been acknowledged by " One the principal part of the published proceedings of District Grand Lodge in the United States/ 5 that the Grand Lodge of Canada, at a special commu- of the district of Columbia, one of 42, and we nication held on December 1st, 1869, and an believe one of the smallest, in numerical strength, exposure of the conduct of a few of its officials , of any in that great nation :— anent the Grand Lodge of Quebec, and those who co-operated in its formation. " Grand Lodge of Quebec, Ancient Free and " With the best wishes for the prosperity of your Accepted Masons, Office of the Grand Master, Grand Lodge. Richmond, Province of Quebec, Dominion of " I have the honour to be, M.W. Sir, Canada, Jan . 21st, 1870. " Officers and Brethren, "To the Most Worshipful the Grand Lodge of " Yours fraternall y, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of "J. H. GRAHAM, G.M. of G.L. of Quebec." "M.W. Grand Master, Officers, and Brethren,— I ha ve the honour to communicate to you the HINDUS AS FREEMASONS, fol lowing additional information concerning the (From the Masonic Record of Western India.) Grand Lodge of Quebec :— " 1st .—At the dates affixed , the five lodges men- I have been several times asked my opinion as tioned below declared their adherence to this to the propriety or otherwise of admitting Hindus Grand Lodge, viz. : into Freemasonry. " The Clarenceville Lodge, Clarenceville, District It is a subject that necessitates consideration, of Bedford, No. 152, Beg. of Grand Lodge of especially in India. Canada (still so-called) on Nov. 16. There are, I know, many who deem them eligi- " The Albion Lodge, City of Quebec, No. 17> ble, aud many who are against their admission Reg. of the United Grand Lodge of England, on into our Order. the late festival of St. John the Evangelist, at its Among the former our Grand Master has been one hundred and nineteenth anniversary. classed, because in reply to a letter from one " The Harrington Lodge, City of Quebec, No. Prosonno Cooinar Dutt, in Bengal, he stated that 49, Reg. of Canada, on the same day as the pre- those who " believed in God " were eligible, but ceding. our Grand Master does not say that Hindus should " The Hoyle Lodge, Lacolle, District of Mon- be made Masons. treal, No. CO, Reg. of Canada, on the 4th January My arguments are against their admission. Instant. They may believe in a God and in a thousand ¦ ' The Chateaquay Lodge, Huntingdon, District of gods, as they do; but they do not believe in our Montreal, No. 208, Reg. of Canada on the Gth God, neither in his promises, nor in the record January instant. that He gave. I hold that to be qualified for " 2nd,—Information has been received by me, Masonry, the candidate should believe in the record that two other lod ges of different Grand Registers, of the Old Testiment, and particularly in those are at present, arranging to take the same action promises to which all our rites and ceremonies as the above. have undoubted reference. " 3rd.—It is confidentl y expected that the time If we go into this matter we shall see this. To is not far distant, when the few remaining lodges initiate a man and entrust him with our secrets in will also voluntaril y declare their adherence to the the first degree, he should believe in the emblems Grand Lodge of Quebec. and symbols and the word of that degree. The " 4th.—It is with profound satisfaction that I have same is true of the second and third degrees. Can the honour further to report, that at its late com- a Hindu do so ? Certainly not. He is often ob- munication on the 11th instant, the Most Wor- ligated on that for which he has no respect ; consequently cannot feel bound by it. If he be in- for those disqualifications ; and these disqualifica- structed in the symbols, &c, he neither sees nor tions are most important, and cannot be over- believes in their typical references ; for, as a Hindu, come. he cannot do so. But when we come to theR.A. No true Mason can believe an idolator a fit per- degree, which of course he can take if initiated son to be made a Mason, and a Hindu's belief is into Masonry, how totally unfit does he appear ! totally opposed to the tenets and principles of He believes not in the Eternal Jehovah ; he Freemasonry. believes not in King, Priest, and Prophet, nor in The very fact of a belief in the transmigration that bright Morning Star whose rising brings of souls is, in my opinion, ipse fa cto a cause of his peace and salvation to the whole of the human ineligibility. race. The only thing that is at all within the com- What can those who agree to their admission, pass of his ideas is the last word. This he imper - urge that shall render such disqualifications fectly does understand. nugatory ? To confer Masonry then on a Hindu appears to There are other reasons that may be advanced me a farce ; he does not understand our Order with reference to their strict regard to fidelity, but nor its meaning ; he cannot jo in in our social meet- these I will not enter upon. All that I say is,, ings, nor can he connect himself as a brother in that in my opinion Hindus are altogether ineligible any way (beyond the lodge room) with a single for Freemasonry.—G. member of the Fraternity ; and I know of no single instance where Masonry can be said to have THE GRAND MASONIC ALLEGORY. bettered or been of advantage to such persons . An Address delivered to the Brethren' of ihe Victoria, Lodge., They are not as yet far enough advanced in civili- (No. 1026), Hong Kong. zation, nor sufficiently divested to bigotry, super , By JBRO. HENRY MUMMY, Dist CM., China. stition, and idolatry, to be fit for the high honour of Masonry. (Continued from Page 148) Let any Mason ask himself the simple question For four hundred and seventy years the allegory -' Can an idolater be a proper person for Masonry ?' of Masonic profession rested here. Throughout And are Hindus idolaters or not ? the whole of that time did darkness, impenetrable You cannot obligate them properly, except on as the grave, shroud the sublime, though merely their sacred code, to admit which in your lodge is emblematic, comfort which the ineffable secrets of to admit the law of idolaters into a lodge of the Order of the Holy Royal Arch communicate Christians and Jews, and of others who at any ¦to such Masons as attain to the knowledge of rate believe in the Old Testament as God's law. whathad been originally designed to bo the greatest The Hindu believes in nothing that is common reward bestowed upon the Craftsmen , whose labours, with us; he has no respect or reverence for our and talents contributed to the erection of the firs t God or the prophets, consequently—for God's law temple, built in honour of the true and living God as a Mason respects it. Most High. The memory of the long night That law is ever open in our lodges ; it renders which brooded over these precious secrets, and of the lodge " just.* ' A Hindoo who does not the deprivation which, in consequence of the mis- believe in it would therefore be in a lodge which deeds of a few of their number, befel our ancient to him is not "just," and so is not bound as the brethren who first worked at Jerusalem, and their rest of the brethren are : in short there is nothing- descendants, for near five hundred years, is per- bindin g on a Hindu Mason, and we all know that petuated by that wise regulation of the Supreme no man should be initiated into our Order unless Gran d Chapter, which enacts that no Master he can be most solemnly bound, and unless every Mason can be exalted until twelve months shall, brother has the utmost confidence in the candi- have elapsed from, the day upon which he was date's respect for religion, and in his ability to raised. With what deep sorrow, brethren, must keep inviolate our mysteries, and that he implicitly not he that most things understood , and he that believes in the Moral law. Can this be said of a found the stones and wood, have mourned, when Hindu ? I know of many highly educated Hin . overtaken by the last dread summons, that they dus, men who are thorough gentlemen, and who should be compelled to leave their cherished I consider Avould make really good Masons, but Craft, which they had moulded into lasting shape, deprived of the knowledge of those transcendent THE STUARTS AND FREEMASONRY. syllables which comprehend in one sublime utter- (Continued from page 151). ance, the past, the present, and the future ! How As everything that makes against Mr. Buckan's fervently must not those two devout rulers of view is represented by him to be a fraud and a for- the second or Sacred Lodge have prayed that the gery, and every adverse fact aud statement a delusion and a mistake, it is impossible to argue with him Most Hi h Would, of His unbounded goodness ; g aud as the correspondence seems to be degenerating and mercy, be pleased , in the fulness of His time, into a war of personalities, I send you the last remarks to accord once more the revelation of the awful that I have to make upon the subject. As " Adopted or Accepted Masonry '' in England sounds, and their re-devotion to their original was, prior to 1717, a very tame association , so we are purpose ! If it was so besought (and who need also assured by Aubrey that in 1691, their adoption doubt such exercise of our Grand Master's piety ?) is very formal, and with the administration of an that the name of the Actual, Future, ancl All- Oath of Secrecy/' * therefore we know but little, except by comparison as to its nature and object. It sufficient Master and Creator , , who alone has His is quite certain that the English Masons have no existence iu and of Himself, and who gives to all documents or minutes of lodges, such as they have in others their being, so that He was what He is, Scotland, to connect them about this time with the operative Guilds of Stonemasons, though Aubrey as- ancl He is what He was, and shall be both what ¦ serted their derivation from the latter* the absence He was and what He is from everlasting- to of such documentary evidence being a proof, to my everlasting, all creation depending upon His mind, that the association had changed its character, mighty will,—if it was so besought that His name which is still further confirmed b}* the following regulations of A .D . 1663, the italics being mine. (Har- should be restored to His children, the supplica- Ieian MS. 1942, f. 1) : — tion was mercifully heard, and at length complied "No. 2G. Noe person (of what degree soever) with. At the close of the Babylonish cap tivity bee accepted a free Mason unless bee shalle have a lodge of f ivefree Masons at least, whereof one to bee there was Divinely permitted that priceless dis- a Master or Warden, of that limitt, or de vision, covery, which haserersince remained both a symbol wherein such lod ge shal bee kept, aud another of the and a pledge to the faithful and pious companion trade of Preemasonry."—"No. 30. That for the future the sayd Society, Company, and Fraternity of that the new J erusalem shall sit re hj descend from Freemasons, shall be regulated and governed by one Heaven, and that of Him who overcometh the Master and assembly, and "Wardens, as ye said Com- name shall not be blotted out of the Book of Life, pany shall think fit to chose, at every yearely assembly." but that of Him shall be made a pillar in the A little later non-operatives were taking the most le of his God Temp , and on him shall be written active part in continuing the association , as the fol- the name of his God ! lowing shows. Elias Ashmole, under date of March Brethren, my allegorical exposition is completed. 10, 1GS2, says -.-— I trust that I have exemplified to yon that Free- " About 5 Hoc. post mevid. I received a summons masonry directly symbolises the birth, life, death to appear at a Lodge to be hel d next day at Mason's Hall iu.London. of Man , and his Exaltation to the knowledge of " 11th. " According ly I went, and about noon were admitted into the Fellowshi things eternal ; and I am fain to admit my hopes p of Freemasons, by Sir Win. Wilson, Knight Captain of success to be the stronger, inasmuch that, as Richard Bortliwick , Mr. Wm. Woodman, Mr. Wm. every well instructed brother will have discerned, Grey, Mr. Samuel T.-iy lour, and Mr. Win. Wise, f the most part of my language and illustrations has was the Senior Fellow among them (it being 35 years been drawn from that sublime fount, the sacred since I was admitted) ; there was present besides my- pages of tho First Great Light, from the ancient self the Fellows above-named , Mr. Thomas Wise, charges, and fro m our hallowed ritual and lectures. Master of the Masons' Company this present year, Brethren , let ns hear the conclusion of tho Mi: Thos. Sliorfchose , Mr. Thomas Shad holt Waidsjlbrd Esq., whole matter, which is to fear God and keep Hi's , Mr. Nicholas Young, Mr. John Shortliose, Mr. 'Wm. Hamar Mr. John commandments, for such is the whole duty of , Thompson , and Mr. Wm. Stanton. We all dined at the Half man . Brethren, may we prove true and faithful. Moon Tavern , iu Cheapside, at a noble dinner aud may wo live and die in love pre- ; may we always pared at the charge of the New Accepted Masons.'' profess that which is good , and may we always act Tho certificates and traditions of Masonry allege agreeably to our profession ; may the Lord bless that in 1GSG a revival , revision, aud addition to the us, and prosper us, and may all our good inten- higher degrees took place. May IS, 10'91, we are in- tions be crowned with success. May glory to formed by Aubrey, that Sir Christopher Wren was God on hig h , and on earth peace and goodwill ¦ ¦¦ towards men, ever be the objects of our strenuous ' 1 take the references to Aubrey from an independent source, attainment ! but it is quite sullieient to refer imjniiYi;. to Jlr. J. 0- ll'illi- iveU's " History unci Ai-fcielo s of Masonry," in the notes to which SO MOTE IT BE. t hese extracts will be found- adopted a brother at St. Paul's " and Sir Henry of documents, or the law would have been worded to Grooderic of the Tower, and divers others." abolish in place of enforcinr/ a restriction as to the Sit* Richard Steele has an article in The Taller upon presence of so many operatives. The policy of Scot- a class of men called Pretty Eellows, No. 26 for tish Masons seems to be to persuade the ignorant that Thursday, June 9, l709, in which appears the follow- they are the onl y legal depositaries of Masonry in ing passage :—¦ every degree, and last century all sorts of romantic " You see them accost each other with effeminate fictions were propagated ; but when searchers after airs ; they have their signs and tokens Mice Freemasons ; truth began to publish their lodge minutes, it became they rail at womankind,'' &c. evident that whilst some lod ges included a much larger To this Mr. Matthew Cooke, 30°, adds in the Free- speculative element than others, yet that the modern mason' s Magazine— system of 1717 was introduced by English Masons in " Sir Richard Steele was a Ereemason of the York 1721 ; the old lodges being operative benefit associa- rite, or Ancient Masons. In a list of the ancient tions, without the power of self-government as in Eng- lodges, inserted in Picart's Ceremonies el Costumes land—-that, having been surrendered to an Hereditary reliqieuses de tons les peuples du monde (7 vols, fo lio. Grand Master. The English lodges, it is stated, were Amsterdam, 1723-37), Sic Richard Steele's portrait is used as schools of science during the reign of the given at the head of the sheet depicting the names Stuarts. and places of the ancient Masons' lodgings and meet- The mere denials of Mr. Buchan are not of that ings." weight to counterbalance the universal testimony of One word on a subject upon which Mr. Buchan English Masonic traditions, supported by the writings is indiscreet enough to call upon me for people. In of James Anderson and others. He cannot certainly the British Museum are preserved the signs of the be considered an infallible authority in au order which old English Operative Masons. These have nothing has many rites and degrees of which he is not a mem. in common with those" now used, or which could ber, nor, in my opinion, is he an authority in the de- answer the description of Sir Richard Steele,—the grees of which he is a member. Although, in common very word? that would be used at Mr. Buchan's own with other literary men, I am equally liable to make reception. Even Mr. Buchan's pet proteges, Anderson mistakes, yet so far as I am aware, none of mine have aud Desaguliers, were not Operative Masons, and yet yet been shown. If Mr. Buchan will point the same admitted prior to 1717 . out to me, I shall be grateful to him, and on his show- Though I am unaware what reliance may he placed ing proper grounds for his correction, delighted to make -upon the following, which 1 find (in reply to one of tbe same. ' By inquiring in the proper Masonic quar- Mr. Buchan's tedious weekly ipse dixit assertions) in ters he will find the Stuart evidence of which he is in the pages of the Freemason for January 22, 1870 , search. Your learned correspondent Mi'. Pinkerton, signed by Horace Swete, M.D., yet it is so much in is evidently under misapprehension as to the absence accordance with what I should expect, that I have abroad of Lord Atholl in 1745, through my using the little doubt aa to the genuineness of the article. title of Duke. That nobleman was rightful heir to " Asa refutation of this statement I have now on the old earldom and recent dukedom, of Athol ; but my table a tobacco-box of evident anti q. ua manufac- Sir Bernard Burke states in his Peeray e, that owing ture, and engraving, dated 1670, on the lid of which to his active participation in the troubles of 1715 is engraved the Masonic working tools of the three aud 174.5 , his titles and family honours were settled degrees, the jewels of the Lodge, and many other by the Honorerian Government upon his younger Masonic devices, being nearly a copy of the tracing brother. boards of the three degrees, with other signs I, as a Jonx YAREEE. Craft Master Mason, cannot read, but which a brother who is Mark Master and Eoyal Arch Mason, easily understands. This design is certainly not that of a MASONIC NOTES AND aiTERIES- merely operative body, but involves the knowledge of ht iu our Masonic Mys- much deep speculative thoug JEWISH GEATITUDE. teries." After fifteen years' study o£ the Rosicrucian works "At Worms, on the Rhine, there are about 1,000 aud the various degrees of English Masonry, I state Jews. Their synagogue is very ancient ; it was built my belief unhesitatingly that the "Adop ted Masons " 800 years ago. A constantly-burning lamp hangs existing in 1691 held Rosicrucian opinions, and that before the ark, with this inscri ption : —"Everlasting the " Free and Aceepted Masons " of 1717 were a Lamp for the Two Wanderers." Seven hundred years reformed branch of the " Adopted Masons," and so ago a violent persecution of the Jewish residents took far I am in entire accord with your learned corres- place in this city. It happened ju st at that time two pondent Mr. Pinkerton. A very superficial acquaint- Christian trav ellers were staying there, who endea- ance with the works of the Rosicrucians and Eree- voured to protect them from the fury of the populace, masons is sufficient to show the resemblance. One and in so doing lost their lives. Their names were of two things seems clear from the before-mentioned never known, but the Jews of Worms have kept them regulations of 1663—either the pure operative guild in grateful remembrance to the present day by a per- ¦of Masonry had then ceased, and attempts were made petually burniug lamp."—PICTUS. to bring the association into harmony, or it ceased " OEIGIX OIT SPECULATIVE I?EEE5IAS0N K1*. from that time by the enactment that for the future onlv one or at most two operatives were necessary in What led to the institution of our Speculative Free- a lodge of five members or upwards. Of these two masonry ? It did not come from within the lodge of views the former seems most probable in the absence operative masons, but from without.—W. P. B. DEPUTY GEAItfD MASTEE MANXISGHAll ' S LETTEE degrees as three, and in practising five with author\ty (page 151). for four only; why he institutes an invidious comparison with other constitutions in points where such As a masonic student I feel bound to say that , comparison only tends to make us ridiculous ; and until this^ pretended letter has been passed as genuine wh he tells the world that Craft Masonry is incom- by some well-known English experts we can reall y , y lete it Lawrence Derinott's place no reliance upon it It was published in the plete, and requires to comp Holy which he st les the " universall Magazine f or August loth, 1868, yet here we still are Royal Arch, y y , " well knowing at the same time in 1870, with pretty much the same amount of know- recognised perfection, that in no constitution except ours, and its descen- ledge as we then had as to its personality and history. dants is the Royal Arch so recognised. Had he not Something suspicious-looking about that. In the , ridiculed Craft Masonry, his effusions would have Magazine for August 29th , 1868, page 172, will be been unexceptionable, and hi hly characteristic of the found some remarks by " R. Y." anent it, which are g country which ive them birth, seeing that they aptly -worthy of perusal. However even supposing it was g , imagery of the East. His sarcastic genuine, there is not a word or sentence in it which illustrate the poetic appeals Ancient and Accepted Rite really proves that our Speculative Preemasonry existed on behalf of the are irresistible especially that portion which informs before 1717 ; in fact, it really proves the opposite and , , us that the " Rose Croix is simply an emendation from, shows that Masonic imposture and credulity existed the Royal Order of Scotland ivell Icnown to have been in writing as well as in print in the year 1757. Had , founded by King Robert Bruce" (?). Hurrah for the Speculative Freemasonry really existed before 1717 , thistle ! Down with the three pillars and the cubic Bro. Manningham ought to have been able to ive g stone ! Next week I hope he will fire a parting shot many proofs, instead of showing his weakness by al- at the " hi h degrees " by exhibiting the Red Cross of" luding to " one old brother of ninety" with whom he g , Rome and Constantine as " lineall descended from. conversed. In short, Bro. Manningham in 1757 seems y , , the ori inal." In the meantime the "Allegory' will" to have been about as hard up for any written or g ' afford a suitable theme for ingenious illustration when substantial evidence to prove the l7l7 theory to be , conjecture is exhausted.—FIAT LUX. wrong, as was his predecessor, Dr. Anderson, iu 1730. Lastly, Royal Arch Masons might be disappointed at EISE AND PEOGEESS OE SPECULATIVE MASONEY. so little notice being taken of them , especially keeping Will Bro. Murray kindly favour the readers of the in view Bro. Hug han's article in the Magazine for Magazine with a lucid explanation of the assertion December l2th 1868 , , p. 461.—W. P. BTJ CHAK". (p. 61) that in those days the degrees of M.M. and of CHEIST AMITY, JIOHATSMEDAXISJI, EBEEMASOXEY, Installed Master, together with the Order of the Holy AMD ATOElfONISAC. Royal Arch, were, to a certain extent, one,'' &c. ; also, with any historical proofs or other sufficient evidence- As Christianity was instituted in the 1st Centur y, in support of the above.—R. A, M. A .D ., Mohammedanism in the 7th , ancl Mormonism in the 19th, so was our Freemasonry or Speculative SOCIAL MASOXBY V . SPECULATIVE MASOXBY. Masonry instituted in the ISth Century,J A.D .— W. P. B. Speculative Freemasonry was not practised in the sixteenth and seventeenth century operative lodges,, BEGI.EE OE IXSTALLEB 1IASTEE. but was manufactured by non-operatives in the eigh- I cannot understand the dictum by Bro. H. Murray, teenth. For social purposes, however, and for the- District G.M. China , respecting the so-called degree purpose of attending at their social gatherings, non- of Installed Master. The whole sentence is not very operatives were admitted into the Craft societies in the- intelligible. Its meaning not only requires illustration, seventeenth century.—W. P. B. but confirmation , by its author, who should have supported his statements by facts. He cannot be ignorant of the fact that the " Book of Constitutions" does not CORRESPONDENCE. acknowledge the " degree" of Installed Master. Be- lieving his assertion to be an unintentional error, I do The Editor is not responsible for the op inions expressed by Correspondent! ,, not urge the outrage offered by it to Masonic government , nor the indiscretion of a District Grand Master ANCIENT MARKS. contradicting one of the most important princi les of p 10 THE EDITOR OF THK FftKEHASOJIS MAGAZINE AXD MASOXIC the constitution, but I certainly do think that his HIE-OB. Dear Sir and Brother position entitles the Craft to the fullest explanation.l ,—At Knaresborough, near P. M. Harrogate, Yorkshire, the winding waters of the Nidd traverse a valley almost unequalled for beauty THE COXSTELLATIOXS OE CELESTIAL MYSTEEIES. and romantic scenery, and, about a mile from the The constellations of celestia l mysteries, now ap- ancient and historic borough, pass the site of an pearing in the Masonic horizon of the Magazine are edifice once famous for its extent and architectural well calculated to astonish the Craft , and are none the finish. This was a Priory of the Order of the Trinity less poetical for being founded on fiction. Does Bro. for the Redemption of Captives, founded by Richard Murray intend the " Grand Masonic Allegory" to be Plautagenet, Earl of Cornwall and King ' of the understood as a satire upon the constitution ? If so, the Romans (brother of Henry III.), by a charter, he has succeeded to admiration , and his production from the King, dated 1227, which was subsequently deserves to be transmitted to posterity along with confirmed by one from Edward II. The property, another " Tale of a Tub ;" otherwise, I cannot see realising rents now worth about £700 per annum , what profound wisdom he discovers in announcing four was, in 155-1, sold to Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury, and was afterwards purchased by the Slingsby family, THE ROYAL ARCH DEGREE, who are its present possessors. At the dissolution TO THE EDITOR OF THE PREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEKOR. of the religious houses, this building was so effectuall y Dear Sir and Brother,—It appears to me that demolished that scarcely one stone was left upon " Fiat Lux," in attacking the Royal Arch Degree, another above the surface. Some of the foundations falls into the very error against which, in others, he so of one corner were laid bare a few years since, and vigorously protests, viz., that of giving words only in attracted considerable attention. Most of the stones place of facts. He says, " All fhe so-called high de- which composed the walls have been appropriated for grees , including the Royal Arch, are subversive of the the fences, outbuildings, &c, of two farms adjoining. principles of Masonry." It will doubtless interest my brother Mark Masters As an admirer of the Royal Arch, I should be glad to know that upon every cleansed or dressed stone to know what there is in its princi ples or ritual at all examined (in nearly all cases upon more than one face subversive of the genuine principles of Masonry ? I of it), there was a mark, evidently made by the know of nothing myself, and must really ask for some mason who wrought the stone. A few of these further proof than his ipse dixit. marks I carefully copied, and subjoin some of them Of the other high degrees I know nothing, as they for inspection :— are not worked in my neighbourhood. However, I

The marks are very numerous, and vary in size fro m agree with " Fiat Lux" so far, that being Christian four to eight inches long, and from three to five degrees they are contrary to the spirit of universal inches broad. I shall, in common with many readers Masonry ; indeed, I consider the Rose Croix apron in to whom the subject of marks is very interesting, be shape altogether unmasonic. glad to receive any information hereon through the I agree with "Fiat Lux'' on one point more fully medium of your pages. —that too much attention is now paid to jewels and Yours fraternally, man-millinery, to the neglect of the real jewels of cha- ANTIQUAEIAN. rity and brotherly love. I think if we endeavoured more earnestly to carry out these great principles, we CURIOUS OLD DOCUMENT. should be the less ready to engage in somewhat acri- (bee page 153;. monious discussion as to the relative merits of our pet 10 THE EDITOE OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEROE. theories. Yours fraternally, Dear Sir and Brother —Bro. Thos- Haiper , D.G.M. , R. A. M. of the ancient Masons, in his seventh edition of the Ahiman Rezon, Svo., 1807 , p. 152, gives this article under the head of " An Address delivered by a Noble LEGEND Brother to his Son on 'his first initiation into Free- JEWISH LAW AND . masonry." TO THE EDITOR 01? TIIE EEEEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR. Bro. Stephen Jones in his Masonic Miscellanies, Dear Sir and Brother,—A very interesting lecture 12mo., 181.1, page 254, entitles it " The Speech of a upon the above subject having been delivered here by Foreign Nobleman on receiving Ms own son into Free- Emanuel Deutsch, I beg to append report of it, as it masonry." appeared in the Glasgow Iferald of the 17th inst. Bro. Donnes, in his third edition of the Irish As to the Talmund I say nothing about it ; but his Ahiman Rezon, 8vo., 1817 , page 81, heads it, " The other remarks ought to be highly valuable to _ all following discourse (translated from the French) was students of Masonry, both Operative and Speculative. pronounced at Brunswick, Lower Saxony, when He shows what we have alread y stated , that the Jews Prince Ferdinand was Grand Master, by the Comte were not a race of builders ; they excelled, however, T , at the initiation of hia son." in music and poetry, also in their knowledge of natural All the articles are perfectly alike. history, and, above all, in their theological ideas. The triple anagram is also given by Bro. Thos. Yours fraternally, Harper in his seventh edition of the Ahiman Rezon, W. P. BUCHAH". p. 135, as "The Freemasons' Memento, by Bro. T. M. af South ton." Yours fraternally, Last night Emanuel Deutsch, of the British F. H., P.M. 8. Museum, delivered a lecture, under the auspices of the Trinity Literary Institute, on " Jewish Law and have been after their heart. It was not before the Legend," in the Queen's Rooms. The chair was time of the later kings of Judah that handicrafts occupied by the Rev. Principal Fairhairn, who briefly began to be developed at all. After the exile it introduced the lecturer. became every man's duty to teach his son a trade, in Mr. Deutsch said he desired to speak of the order, as the Talmud had it, to keep him free from sin. development and the work of the most important With Solomon came the acme of the nation's political representative of that branch of the family of nations existence, and the beginning of the end. By and by which was comprised under the name of Shemites. came the two removals of the tribes, with the latter By common consent, the Assyrians, Chaldeans, of which—that of the people of Judah—began the Babylonians, Syrians, Phcouieians, Arabs, and Ethio- emphatically Jewish period, the period not yet ended. pians were all called Shemites. It was to them that The story of the exile remained to be written, and he oui; spiritual concep tion of the Deity was due. Pan- feared it would not be written for a good while to- theism in the Greek sense was utterly unknown to come. It was one of the most momentous, most the Shemites. Nature to them was nothing but that problematic, of all times. Glimpses were revealed of which had been begotten and was ruled absolutely by the state of culture in Persia and Babylon at that the one great Power, and only in the more or less period, but only a full explanation of the contempo- abstract conception of this one Power were found rary literature, if ever it should be explained., would what differences there did exist in the Semitic creeds. disclose the whole mystery. The treatment of the As all the personal characteristics of the Semitic race Jews during the captivity was so mild, and they appeared in their fullest and strongest intensity in seemed so fully to have identified themselves with the the Hebrew branch , so it was in that branch alone people among whom they dwelt, that when Cyrus that the monotheistic idea had come to full and clear gave them their liberty only from 30,000 to 50,000 consciousness. Abraham at first, in contemplating returned to their own land. The great bulk of the the sun, might have said, " Thus must be God ; " and nation—" purified, as it were, like unto pure flour," as in gazing at the moon ancl stars he might have said, the Talmud had it—remained scattered over thewide " This must be God , and these his servants and mes- Persian empire, preferring the new homes, in which sengers." But at length, on seeing all these again they enjoyed all the liberty of free-born subjects, and pale before the return of day, he might say, " Neither had acquired wealth and honours, to the dangers and you nor you are God, but there is One above who has difficulties of a re-colonisation of their former country. created both ." Mr. Deutsch went on to trace the While the smaller number went forth to found on the descendants of A braham into Egypt from a pastoral ruins of Zion, not only the temple but the still grander existence to a life of slavery, and remarked that in edifice of the Jewish law and Jewish culture, it was Egypt at that period the supreme unity of the God- the task of those who remained behind, and who gra- head was taught to the initiated, while 'the unitiated duall p diffused themselves over the whole of the then were, by a cloud of mystery and ceremony and symbol , known world, to enter eagerly and intensely into the kept from seeing it. With regard to the history of intellectual life, and to further the progress of civili- the chosen people after their deliverance from bond- sation among all the nations with whom their lot was , age, he said that in the desert they developed , in cast. Counting from the destruction of Jerusalem,. spite ol all tokens and visions, all terrors ancl promises, the Baby lonian exile lasted exactly fifty-two years, their very worst slave qualities. Accordingly, that but its influence had been more lasting and more vital generation , for which the air of liberty was too keen, than anv number of centuries before and after, For was doomed. Their bones lay bleaching in the desert, to it must be traced some of the most important insti- and a young, wild, valiant race, hardened ancl inured tutions of the synagogue in its widest sense—nay, the to danger and independence , went forth, and , with the synagogue itself. Not merely did common meetings partial conquest of the Land of Promise, commenced for prayer and readings from the law and the prophets a stirring and heroic age—an age of high and romantic then beg in to be enforced , but the fact of the existence episode. With .Samuel a new phase was entered on, of the law seemed first to have become fully and stri- the salient points of which were, first, the exaltation kingly clear to the popular mind at that period. In that of the priestly order and the spread of education , same period also those fierce yearnings for a deliverer, ancl, finally, the buildin g up of a kingdom in spite of an Anointed, a Messiah, one of the highest and most the warning laid down in the fundamental code. The ideal conceptions of humanity, found their most glow- form of government , as laid down in the Pentateuch ing ancl their loudest utterance. Then also it was that was that ol a theoeratical republic, or rather number the great basis of all further development of Judaism, of republics—over them all being the invisible ruler, the oral law, began to spread silently at first—the oral Jehovah, represented visibly by the priests. With the law which, under the guise of heaping ordinance upon settlement of the nation into a properly-regulated ordinance, in reality, perhaps unconsciously, aimed at commonwealth , one looked lor the growth among the highest mental liberty. The Jews who returned them of the arts and sciences , but the result was far to Canaan rallied yearningly round their new leaders, " from satisfactory. He did not think thev invented who, instead of grasping a power within their 2-each,. or even developed to any considerable extent any pointed to the one palladium and sign, their na- single branch. Their weaving, their mining, their tional records which remained saved out of a vast - knowled ge of perfumes, their art of multitude of writings that had perished. These writings- engraving precious ' stones, had most probably grown on foreign soil, ancl were then first collected under the auspices of tho mem of the so-called " Great S when the time came that Solomon built his temple ynagogue/' the Talmud being- they written with a view to their explanation. The Talmud whose fathers made bricks for strangers had to was intended sen d for the in the first instance as a public oral trans- Phoenicians to erect their sanctuary. One lation in the synagogue for the people. Of the Talmud occupation alone, the tilling of the soil, seemed to Mr. Deutsch remarked that whatever extraneous ad- mixture might be found in it, owing to want of redac- His remains were removed here for interment on the tion, it was essentially and emphatically a legal code, its 10th instant. law, civil and criminal, national and international, human and divine, forming a kind of supplement to the Yours fraternally, Pentateuch—such a supplement as a thousand years of a WILLIAM KELLY, nation's life would produce. There were in it two prin- Senior P.M. No. 523, and Prov. G.M. cipal divisions—one text, and the other commentary. Leicester, Feb. 21, 1870. The first treated of all possible relations of life, of duty towards God and man, of the mine ar.d thine, of vows and sacrifice, of the rights and duties of royalty from a most constitutional point of view, of the tribunals and the judges. The second part explained and expounded BRO. ANTOINE DE KONTSKI. the text ; but it set forth that there was a realm not to We are pleased to notice the immense success Bro. be touched by any legislation, that there were ethical Antoine' de Kontski (pianist to H.M. the King of duties of the heart which, if fulfilled by all, would make . all legislation superfluous. In this part the Talmud be- Prussia) has met with since we heard him play last came poetical, and between the rugged boulders of the July at the Hanover-square Rooms. law there appeared the blue flower of romance. Mr. On Thursday,de the 17th inst., at Bro. Catalani's resi- Deutsch proceeded , in conclusion, to give several inte- dence, ^Bro. Kontski played Beethoven's Andante resting extracts from the Talmud, for only one of which with variations, and a fantasia of his own on " Sonnam- we have space. "The Talmud," he said, " does not en- bula." Both pieces were admirably performed. The large upon the duty of sobriety, but it tells a story of vocal music was intrusted to Mr. Charles Stanton and the planting of the vine by Noah. "While he was en- Mdlle. Luigia Leali ; the former sang Virginia Gabriel's gaged in this work, Satan came to liim ancl offered his " Only " in a very pleasing manner, and joined Mdlle. services, which Noah gladly accepted, He brought first Leali in Arditi's duo, "Una Notte a Vonezea ," a a lamb and slaughtered it over the young plant; next a charming duet, and admirably sung. Mdlle. L. Leali lion ; fin ally a pig. Behold here the three stages of sang a most effective melody, " How softly day is drunkenness-—first, soft, mild, loving; next, fierce, dawning," composed by Bro. Catalan!. We admire the savage, ferocious ; finally, wallowing in the mire." composition, and also the manner in which it was sung. On the motion of the Chairman, a cordial vote of thanks We must not forget to mention a valse composed ex- was awarded to Mr. Deutsch for his interesting and in- pressly for her by Bro. de Kontski. Ib was beautifully structive lecture, and the meeting separated. rendered, ancl, judging from tho applause she received, it will no doubt become a fa/vourite. The same evening Bro. de Kontski was present at Madame Puzzi's concert, given at tho Marquis of Down- THE LATE BRO. CAPTAIN" BARBER, shire's, when ho played his fantasia on "Faust," and his TO THE EDITOR OF TEE FREEMASONS ' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR. " Eevoil du Lion." It is not necessary to go into the particulars of this concert, as tho name of Madame Dear Sir and Brother,—The brief notice of the Puzzi is always sufficient to ensure a great musical decease of the above brother, in your Obituary of last- treat. Her programme consisted of the choicest vocal week, is incorrect in one or two particulars, His name and instrumental music, and the artists all first rate, as was not Harley (probably an error of the press) but only such are over chosen by this lady. Harby, and he was not initiated in India , as stated. Thc concert was brilliantly attended. Bro. do Bro. Barber was the eldest son of the Rev. William Kontski met with great applause, which he well Barber, vicar of St. John's, in this town , ancl he was merited. His performance of tho pieces above-men- initiated here on the 3rd November, 1S56, as a minor, tioned was perfect. by dispensation , in the John-o'-Gauut Lodge, now No. Tiie second of a series of ballad concerts took place at 523, then 766, and in which lodge he was also passed St. James's Hall on Saturday last, when wo again hud and raised before the pleasui-o of hearing Bro. do Kontski play his going out to India. arrangement of " Faust " also "Le Eoveil du Lion , ;> his Whilst on forei gn service he was stationed for some own composition. His brilliant performtincG of these time at Thayetiryo, and there, in conjunction with pieces won him a hearty encore. We congratulate him Bro. Capt. Colville , then of the 29th Regiment, but on his immense success. now of Bodmin (who had also been initiated in No. Of this remarkable artist thc Era , in noticing the 766, during his residence in England , whilst invalided Saturday Ballad Concerts at St. James's Hall, says :—• after going through the campaign under Lord Gough), " The chief novelty of the evening consisted of the he had made all the arrangements for the establish- first appearance of tho Chevalier Antoine de Kontski, ment of a Masonic lod ge, to be called the John of pianist to tho King of Prussia. M. do Kontski's sty lo Gaunt in the East, hut which was nipped in the bud is essentially didactic and Germauesque, but at the same by the outbreak of the Indian mutiny. time ho is not above creating very fine effects with very simple means. Amazingly ' startling and original , tho The mother lod ge here sent out a handsome copy effect produced iu tho undulating melody is very re- of the volume of the Sacred Law for the use of the markable. M. de Kontski's stylo of playing is essen- never trifled proposed new lod ge, and this, I believe, is now used tiall y severe ancl learned. The music is b with, never out up. This gentleman possesses some- y the District Grand Lodge of the province. After owns the his return thing bettor than more musical execution—he from India, Bro. Barber was also advanced power of breadth , of true expression, accompanied at tho to the Mark degree in the Fowke Lodge in this town , same time by pathos. This was especially noticeable, on the 20th September, 1859. He may probably have not in tho first display or tho second, a superb pas taken the R.A. degree in India. redouble , but in thc piece which ho played as the result Bro. of the enthusiastic encore which he received. The Barber, who had for some time past been suf- power with which this air was rendered, under all con- fering from a very painful and dangerous, and, as the ditions to which tho piano can bo subjected , elicited result proved, fatal disease, was only in his 31styear. reiterated applause." MUSIC AND WOKDS

JOB USB IN A Jjofop ai gtak PUsler HUS0KS,

SELECTED AND AKEANOED BY BROTHER DK. HENRY HOPKINS, PAST G-.J.W. AND P.M. IN MAKE MASONRY , P.P.G.S.W. AND P. M. IN CEATT MASONBY , PAST Z. IH EOYAL A.ECH DEGREE , &C. &C.

[Published under the Autliority of the Grand Lodge of Mark Masters in England and Wales.]'

The following is the agenda paper of business to bo transacted THE MASONIC MIRROR. in Grand Lodge at the next Quarterly Communication to be holclen on Wednesday next, the 2nd March :— * All communications to lie addressed to the EDIT OE at No *& , 1. The regulations for the government of Grand Lodge during 19, Salisbury-street, Strand, London, W.C. thc time of public business will be read. 2. The minutes of the Quarterly Communication of the 1st December, 1869, will be read and put for confirmation. MASONIC MEMS- 3. The election of a M.W. Grand Master. Upon which the JIAEK LOD GE MUSIC. —AS previously announced, we give on Deputy Grand. Master will move, pursuant to notice given at the preceding pages the first portion of the Music for use in a the last Quarterly Communication, a resolution expressive of Lodge of Mark Masters. The second portion will he given next the regret of Grand Lodge at the retirement of the Earl of week. Zetland from the office of Most Worshipful Grand. Master. TXLEES of Lodges, Janitors of Chapters, Equerries of Encamp 4. Election of a Grand Treasurer. merits, &e., in England, Scotland, and Ireland, are requested to 5. The M.W. Grand Master will make a communication to forward their names and addresses to the Publisher of THE Grand Lod ge in reference to the formation of a Grand Lodge FBEEJIASONS'S MAGAZINE, SO that a complete Register and of New Brunswick, and will move a resolution to acknowledge Directory may be comp iled. it. 6. Tho M.W. Grand Master will move—" That the Book of THE meetings of the Hervey Lodge of Instruction, hitherto Constitutions, page 4G, article J-, be altered b expunging the held on Tuesday evenings, at the Georgo Hotel, Walliam-green , y words ' until the next meeting of the Grand Lodge.'" have been altered to Friday evenings, at the same place. 7. Election of the committee of Past Masters upon the Brethren who wish to witness Masonic work iu first-class style , motion of Bro. James Stevens P M. No. 720 respecting the will do well to pay this lodge a visit. , . , uniformity of working. THE British Oak Lodge of Instruction, formerly held at the S. Report of the Board of Benevolence for the last quarter, Silver Lion Tavern , Poplar, is now held at the Bank of Friend- in which is the following report:—"That Bro. R. D. W., shi Tavern Mile End p , , on Monday evenings, at 7 for 8 o'clock. of the Union Waterloo Lodge, No. 13, Woolwich, having FIDELITY LODGE OI? IsamucTlou (Xo. 3).—It has been been recommended to Grand Lodge in December by the proposed that the above lod ge he removed from the Yorkshire Lod ge of Benevolence for a grant of £30, and his petition Grey to the Goat and Compasses, Euston-road. The discussion having been icferred back for further consideration, it was is adjourned till the second Thursday in March, when it is hoped resolved, after a careful re-investigation of all thc facts, that as many members as can make it convenient will attend. Bro. the petition of Bro. R. D. W. be dismissed ; " also recommenda- Edward Moody, 11)3, S.W. 1,2S7, is the Secretarv. tions for the following grants, viz. :— A LODGE of Instruction is held iu connection with the The wiiloiv of the late Bro. II. W., of thc Eoyal Oak Medina Lod ge, Co-.ves, Isle of Wight, every Monday evening. Lod ge, No. 871, Deptford £50 0 0 The witlow of the bite Bro. E.G., of the Lodge of JOHN RUST, f, :-mei-ly the publisher of this M ACAZIXJ-, who Fidelity, No. 269, Blackburn 40 0 0 was dismissed on the vth of October last, for being drnnk and The witlow of the late Bro. W. J. N., of the Robert disorderl y, was tiiod on the 1st inst. at the Old Bailey, on the Burns Lod ge, No. 25, London 30 0 0 Bro . 1!. I.., of the Lodge of Australia Felix, No. 47-f , first of several CMHI IS, in an indictment— ' Rcjiaa v. liiisl—and Melbourne , Vielori-.i 50 0 0 was found guilt y of embezzlement, and sentenced to four The six orp hans of the late Bro. E. IL, of the Union months' imprisonment with hard labour. The prisoner for Loilge, No. 129, Kendal 30 0 0 some time past, by advertisement and otherwise, solicited aid The witlow of tho late Bro. T. H. W., of the St. Andrew 's Lotim-, No. 222, London 50 0 C from the members of tho Craft, upon false representations, and with malicious motives. The prosecution in ([iics-ticm did not 9. E .EPOIIT OE THE BoABJD OE GE-CIHAI PCIU'OSES, ori ginate, and has no connection with the Proprietors of this To the Viiited Grand Lodye of Ancient Free and Accepted MAGAZIXE. 'ibis notice has become necessary in consequence Masons of Fng land . of communications received from various quarter.? stating , that 1. The Board of General Purposes beg to repoit that they the prisoner had attemp ted to excite sympath in his behalf y , have received a comp laint from the Lodge of Benevolence and under that plea obtain monies from ihose with whom his against two brethren , viz., the W. Master and a Past Master of duties, us an employe in this office, brought him into communi- a lod ge for having been both present at tho same time at tho cation. meeting or the Lodge of Benevolence on the 17th November 1 ist , in contravention of the Constitutions. Tho brethren being in attendance admitted the truth of the complaint, but the Past UNITED GRAND LODGE. Master pleaded that ho was not aware of the law, and expressed The following circular letter has been addressed to the W.M.'s his regret at having violated it. Both brethren having expressed of lodges:— their contrition were reprimanded, and cautioned to be more careful iu future. " W. Master-,—Your attendance is required , together with 2. flic M .W. Grand Master having asked the opinion of the your Wardens and Past Masters, at a Grand Lodge, or Quarterly Board relative to the case of -i without having Communication , to be hold at this place on Wednesday, the brother who, obtained the necessary 2nd of March nest, tit six o'clock in the evening. dispensation , had been installed in the chair of one lodge, he being at the time the actual Master of " The Grand Lodgo will be opened at seven o'clock precisely. another lod ge, and having two more meetings to preside over in "By command of the M.W. Grand Master, the latter, a memorial from the lod ge had been subsequently " Freemasons ' Hall, W.C, " John Hervey, G.S. addressed to the M .W. Grand Master praying him to grant a " London , 19th Feb., 1870. " dispensation and condone the offence. The Board, after considerable discussion, resolved, under all 2. Appeal of Bro. George Smithers against the decision of the circumstances of the case, to advise the M.W. Grand Master the District Grand Lodge of South Africa, annulling his to grant the dispensation ; at the samo time recornrnended that assumed position as a Past Master in the Craft. the gravity of tho oifence against the Constitutions of the Order N.B.—The papers relating to these appeals will be in the should be pointed out to the lodge, that it should be admonished Grand Secretary's office till the meeting of Grand Lodge, and to be more careful in future, and that the letter conveying the open for the inspection of the brethren during office hours. admonition as well as the dispensation should be read in open o dge, and recorded on its minutes. (Signed) J. LunvEiETl* EVAHS, President. Craft J^asflnrrj, Ereemasons' Hall, ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. 16th February, 1870. To the report is subjoined a statement of the Grand Lodge accounts at the last meeting of the Finance Committee, held on METROPOLITAN . the lltli February, 1S70, showing a balance in the hands of the FIDELITY LODGE (No. 3).—Tbe brethren of this old lodge Grand Treasurer of £2,628 9s. 4d„ and in the hands of the met at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday, the 9th inst., the chair Grand Secretary, for petty cash, £75. being occupied by Bro. Cordwell, W.M., who initiated Mr. George Honey ancl Mr. Philli raised Bro. Frodsbani in a most per- 10. A report of thc S ps, pecial Meeting of the Royal Masonic fect manner, and installed Bro. Charles Terry as Master of the Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and tho Widows of lodge for the ensuing year. The newly-appointed W.M. invested Freemasons, on the 22nd July, 1869, will be laid before Grand his officers, as follows : Bros. Kaylor, S.W. ; M'Dougal, J.W. ; Lodge, including- alterations in the laws. Dearsley, P.M. and Treas. ; Squire, P.M. and Sec. ; Pottinger, S.D. ; Green, J.D. ; Manning, I.G. ; and Potts, Tyler. An ex- N.B.—This report, with the proposed alterations in the laws, cellent banquet followed. The W.M. bestowed some well-earned can be seen at the office of the Grand Secretary, and at the compliments on Bro. Cordwell for the installation ceremony, and office of the Secretary of the Institution. Bro. Phillips responded for the initiates. Bro. Avery, P.M. 619, replied for tbe visitors amongst whom were Bros. T. Beard, 11. EEPOET OE THE CoaoiiTiEE 02* THE EUKD OE HET**-- , P.M. 101 ; Webb, 172 ; Forsyth , 369 ; Button, 72; Woodman, VOLEJTCE, 157; Smith, 907 ; and Corfield, 252. There was some excellent The further consideration of which was deferred from tho last singing by Bros. Donald King, George Honey, Phillips, and Quarterly Communication. Dearsley. 12. Report of Bro. E. P. Harding-, Auditor of Grand Lodge ALDIOH LODGE, (N O. 9.)—A. regular meeting of this lodge at the Freemasons' Hall, accounts, of receipts and disburs ements during the year ISG8. took place on Tuesday, tho 2nd inst., Great Queen-street, Liucoln's-inn-fields, Bro. E. Butler, the 13. Memorial from the Provincial Grand Lod ge of East W.M., took the chair, supported by Bro. Willey, P.M., as S.W., Lancashire against certain proposed alterations in the rules of in the absence of Bro. Baylis ; H. Albert, J.W., and P.M.'s E. the "Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freema- Coste, I.P.M., S. Coste Vallentine, Moring, Stevens. &c. The sons and the Widows of Freemasons." lodge was opened and the minutes of the previous lodge read and confirmed; a ballot was taken for the admission of Mr. P. 14. PROPOSED MOTIONS. Grant, which resulted in his favour, and was followed by his 1. By Bro. Joshua Nuim, G.S.B.:-— " That provided tho reso- initiation into the order. Bro. Merton was jvassed to the 2nd lution, proposed by the Committee on the Fund of Benevolence degree. There being no further business before the lodge, it wag closed in due form with solemn prayer, and the brethren sat to replace the last paragraph of No. 6 Fund of Benevolence (in clown to a sumptuous banquet, at which the usual loyal ancl the Book of Constitutions), he passed by Grand Lodge," to Masonic toasts were given responded to. move— " That the form of the certificate required to be sent to E GYPTIAN: LOD GE (NO. 27).—The brethren of this lodge met Lod ge of Benevolence with all petitions (and to be signed by the on Thursday, 3rd inst., at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street. The " visitor, a member cf the ledge, or some oth er brother) be W.M., Bro W . H. Libbis, in the chair, supported by Bros. Poole, S.W., Shepherd, J.W., and P.M.'s, Hoare, B. P. Todd, referred back to the said committee on the Fund of Benevolence Treas., H. G. Buss, Sec., J. Coutts, D. H. Jacobs. The lodge for details and adjustment. " having been opened iu clue form and solemn prayer, tbe 2, By 15]o. J. Rankin Stebbin, P.G.D. :— " That in tho minutes of the former lod ge were read ancl confirmed. The opinion of this Grand. Ledge, no future Grand Master should report of the audit was then road. Bros. Rolfe and Fraukford hold that office for more than five years in succession , were passed to the second degree. A ballot was taken for the unless in admission of Messrs. W. Richards and J. Green, and being in the case of a Eoyal Prince." their favour, they were dul y initiated. Bro. Poole, S.W. ancl 3. By Bro. Raynham W. Stewart , W.M. No. 453:— '-"That Vv.ii. elect , was then presented to the ledge for installation , no brother shall hold the c ilice, of Grand Master (unless he be a ancl that ceremony was most impressivel y performed by Bro. y-four W.M 's and Prince of thc Blood Royal) for a longer period than five years Joh n Savage, P.G.D. There were twent . , at P.M.'s present to witness the ceremony. The newly-installed the end of which time he shall.retire from oflice for at least one W.M. then invested his officers as follows :—Bros. W. H. Libbis, year.** I.P.M.; Shepherd, S.W.; Palmer, J.W.; B. P. Todd, P.M., 4. By Bro. John Savage, P.G.D.,—" That the office of M.W. Treas. ; H. G. Buss, P.M., Sec; Harrison , S.D. ; Atkins, J.W. ; ler. The W.il. Grand Master shall not be held by any Lamble, I.G.; Macree, Dir. of Cers. ; Riley , Ty brother for a longer announced iiis intention to become a Steward for the Boys' period than four years in succession. 'This law shall not appl y- School on thc next anniversary festival , and solicited the sup- to a Prince of the Blood Royal, hut it shall apply to any brother port of the brethren. The lodge was then closed iu due form whom he may appoint as Pro Grand Master." and with solemn prayer, and the brethren adjourne d to the banquet. 5. By Bro. John Udall , P.G.D. :— "That the.sum of £2,000 be given from the Fund of Genera l Pin-poses ViTKUVLVN* LODGE (NO . 87).—The regular meeting of this at the Festival of lodge tool; College-street , Lam- tho Boys place at the White Hart 'Tavern, ' School on Wednesday, the 30th March, His Royal beth , on Wednesday, the 9th inst. The \V.M.. Bro. Henry Cary, Highness the Prince of Wales, M.W.P. Grand Master, in tho presided , supported by Bios. Vorley, P.M., S.W. ; Banham, J.W.; chair." Hopkins, S.D. ; Hull , J.D. ; and Thurkle, I.G. ; Wade, Morris, 15. APPEALS. and Fisher, P.M.'s; Hoke, P-M. and Treas. ; Hill, P.M.; Whi- 1. Appeal of Bro ting, P.M. anil Sec ; Stuart, P.M. Lod ge of Faith ; and H yde, . Georgo Btase against iiis expulsion from The lod the P.M. Lodge of Faith . ge having been opened , the W.M. Order by the District Grand Lodge of ih mbny. passed a brother to the second degree and initiated two genllo- men. The election of W.M. for the ensuing term succeeded' LODGE OP JOPPA (NO. 198). —The brethren ©f this lodge ifiet-- resulting in favour of Bro. Vorley, P.M. and S.W., who for tho at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-steet,.on Moiwlay,tho 7th insfe - second time is called upon to fulfil tho duties of that office in The chair was taken by Bro. L. .Alexander, P.M. in tho absence - the lod ge. Bro. Noke, P.M., was re-elected Treas. and Bro. through illness of the W.M. The lodge being opened tho ballot- Ellis Tyler. The business of the evening being concluded, the was taken for the admission of Messrs. A. G; Do'cison ancl J. J.. lodge was closed in due form. An excellent banquet followed, at Dervoy, which proving favourable they were duly-initiated. Bros.. which the usual toasts were proposed and responded to. The Gibson Nathan, and Lyons were passed to the degyee of E.G.- visitors were Bros. Littlewood, W.M. Royal Alfred ; Reed, J.W. and Bro. H. D. Halliday was raised to the sublime degree of a 1,287 ; Dory, 290; and Opperman, 25. M.M. A brother in distressed circumstances was relieved with EASTEUN STAB LOD GE (No. 95). —A regular meeting of this thc sum of three guineas. Bro. J. Abrahams, P.M., announced lodge was held at the Shi p and Turtle Tavern, Leadenhall-street, his intention to become a steward for the festival for the- Royal. on Tuesday, the 15th inst. Present: Bros. E. W. Davis, Mar- Masonic Institution for Girls in May next. The lodge was then- riott, W. W. Davies, G. Cosner, Sharp, S. Clay, ancl Bateman, closed, and the brethren adjourned to a slight repast,, at which P.M.'s The visitors present were Bros. Batt, P.M. 147 ; Antler- the usual loyal and Masonic toasts were given and responded to. son, S.W. 924 ; Hartnoll, Lay ton, Wood, Westwood, Lassan, ST. PAUL'S LODGE (NO. 194). —Thc brethren of this lodge Abbott, Surr, Brandon , Meredith, and SUIT. Bro. G. S. Ayres met at Cannon-street Terminus Hotel on Tuesday, the 15th was insfcnll»cl as W.M., and app oi n ted as his officers Bros. R. T. inst. There were present Bros. E. 6. Evesr W.M'.; W. Ald- Hill, S.W.; T. Ducas, J.W. ; Wicks, S.D. ; Clay, J.D.; M. Ayres, rid ge, J. W.,- R. M. Veal, P.M. and Treas. ;• Robert Fowler, I.G.; E. W. Davis, P.M., Tress.; P.Edinger, Sec; and Speight, P.M. and Sec; Stanley Fowler, S.D.; S. Weston , J.D. ;. F. Tyler. Bro. S. J. Barnett, of the Australian Lodge of Harmony, Gordon Brown, I.G. ; Ed. Randell, Charles Wilson, John was unanimously elected as a joining member. At the conclu- Harper, F. Renshaw, H. Renshaw, P.M.'s; The visitors present sion of the business the brethren adjourned to the banquet, and were Bros. Henry Garrod, P.M. 177, 507, 749 ; and Henry spent a very pleasant evening. Parker, 437. LODGE OE HO.VOUB AXD GENEROSITY: (NO . 1G5).—A regular LODGE OP UXITED STRENGTH (NO. 228).—The- installation meeting of this lodge was held at the London Tavern, Bishops- meeting of this lodge was held on Tuesday, the Sth inst., at the gate-street, on Tuesdav, the loth inst. Present : Bros. John Old Jerusalem Tavern, St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell. The lodge Kendal, WM.; Hein-v Thorn, S.W. and W.M. elect ; E. S. Earle. being opened , ancl tho minutes having been read and confirmed, J.W. ; K. Rarasav, S.D.; W. B. Church, J.D. and Chap. ; W. and some routine business disposed of, the W.M. elect, Bro. G. Lemon, I.G.; B. C. Driver. P.M. ancl Sec ; W. M. Westall, ' Morten, was presented, and in due and ancient form installed P.M. and Treas.; and W. W. Aldridge, C. G. Prideaux, J. L. into the chair of K.S. by Bro. Vivian , whose excellent rendering Lyons, and It. T. Cole, P.M.'s. Visitors present : Bros. G. T, of the ceremony was greatl y appreciated. Four gentlemen, were Trcherne, Windsor Lod ge; J. Topper, J.W. Grand Stewards' then balloted for, and the result being favourable, they were Lodge ; Franklin , S.W. ; Kynaston, P.M., 58; Humphrevs, initiated by the newly-installed W.M. Bro. Vivian was re- 9G, Burlington ; F. Richardson , P.M., and Hillyer, J.W'., 14 ; vt arded for his services to the lodge during the past year- by W. Richardson, p JI. 14 ; Gleadall, P.M., P.G. Chap. ; Lloyd, being presented with an elegant Past Master's jewel, iu gold,, 129 ; G. G. V. Treherne, Castle Lodge ; Gretrory, 173 ; Chamn- ancl a handsome collar aud Past Master's jewel in silver, accom- non, 4, Scotland ; Ransford , 14, P. G. Org. ; Gover, S.W. 1 ; panied with a valuable diamond ring, the collar, jewel, ancl ring - Davie.-, Celtic; Dunne, S.W. 00; and Stohwasscr, P.M. Grand being the private subscri ption of the members of the lodge. Stewards' Lodge. Bro. Thomas Hamilton was passed to thc LODGE OP UNIONS (NO . 256).—Tho installation meeting of degree of F.C. Bro. Henry Thorn was installed as AV.M,, and this lod ge took place on Monday, the 7th inst.,. at Freemasons.' appointed his officers, as follows : Bros. Earle, S.W. ; Ramsay, Hall, Bro. Thomas Green , W.M., in the chair. Tho lodge was J.W.; Westall, Treas. ; Driver, Sec ; Church, S.D. and Chap.; opened iu the first degree, the minutes read and confirmed, and Lemon, J.D.; Drake, I.G.; and Grant, Tyler. It was resolved other business transacted , when the Grand Secretary, Bro. John that application be made to Grand Lodge for permission to wear Hervey, proceeded to instal the W.M. elect, Bro.. Captain Ryan,, a centenary jewel, the lodge having been established more than No further business being offered, the 100 years. into the chair of K.S. lodge was closed , and the brethren adjourned ta. the banquet. LODGE OP SINOEKITT (No. 174). —A regular meeting of this WELMSGTO _C LODGE (SO . 548). —The regular meeting of this lod ge was held at the Guildhall Hotel, Grcsham-street, City, on lod ge took place on the Sth inst., at the White Swan, Deptford, Wednesday, the 16th inst. Tho chair of K.S. was occup ied b y under the Mastership of Bro. W. P. T. Saegert, who was well Bro. Gee, W. M., who was supported by his officers as follows :— supported by his officers and a good attendance of brethren^ Bros. Atlkins, S.W. ; Savage, J.W. ; Crawley, S.D. ; Tuck, J.D. ; Two brethren were raised to thc third degree by the W.M.. Moore, I.G. ; Rawley, P.M., Treas.; Newton, P.If., Sec. ; Lacey, There was a candidate for initiation, who, being favourably I.P.M. ; Barlow, P.M. Bros. Levy, Allen and Bright wero pre- balloted for, was initiated into Masonry b tho W.M. Several' sent as visitors. Bro. Deering and Wood were passed to the y brethren were received as joining members, and the lodge was degree of F.C, and Bros. Bellow, Paddon , Farrow, ancl Bura- then closed. nelli, were raised to the sublime degree of M.M. Bro. Geo. Thomas was elected as a jo ining member. Two proposals wore BELGEAVE LOODGE (No. 749).—The brethren of this lodge received for initiation on next regular lodge meeting. The sura met on Wednesday, the 16th inst., at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet- of five guineas was voted to the widow of a deceased member, street, when Bro. G. Pyinm, W'.M., initiated one gentleman, and lend the sum of two guineas towards the fund now being raised raised a brother. Au excellent banquet followed. Three visitors for the purpose of purchasing a Life Boat. A highly interesting were present. The ceremonies were well rendered by both letter was read from Bro. Gucdalhi, member of Lodge Sincerity, W.M. and officers. who is now in Pa ris, relating his several visits to Lodges of MERCHANT NAVY LODGE (NO. 781). —The regular monthly Ereemasons in that capital. One lodge (L'Etoile Polaire), wish- meeting of this lodge was held at the Silver Tavern , Burdett- ing to cultivate -a friendly feeling with English Masons, dele- road , Limehouse, on Wednesday, the 9th inst. Bro. E. T. Read, gated Bro. Guedalla to represent to the Lod ge of Sincerity, then- W.M., opened the lodge at five o'clock precisely, supported by desire of an exchange of fraternal sentiments. This instance of his officers. Bro. Roberts was raised to the sublime degree of tho Brotherhood of Freemasons was particularly pleasing to the M.M., and Bros. Wiskin, Paco, and Viney passed to the degree junior members of Sincerity, and all agreed that such desire on of F.C., both these ceremonies being rendered in a very credit- the part of the members of " L'Etoile Polaire " should be enter- able manner by Bro. Read, W.M. This being the night lor the tained and cultivated by the members of " Sincerity." election of W.M., Bro. M. J. Helps, S.W., was unanimously LODGE OP TEANQUILITY (NO . 185). —An emergency meeting eleeted, and received the congratulations of the brethren. Bro. of this lodge was held on Monday, the 14th inst., at ltadley 's J. Wright was re-elected as Treas., and Bro. Hoare, Tyler, and Hotel, Blaekfriars. Bros. Holbrook, W.M., Dr. Biegel, S.W., Bros, llugg, Sheerboon, and Hayward auditors. Bro. Killick, L. Barnett, J. W . A ballot was taken for thc admission of P.M., then proposed , and Bro. Daniel, P.M., seconded, that a Messrs. F. Beck and Joh n King, who were dul y initiated into suitable jewel be presented to their W.M., Bro. Read, on his re- the Order. Bro. W. A. Knappe was elected a joining member, tirement from the chair, for tho able services he had rendered to mid afterwards raised to the third degree. There being no the lodge, as well as a tribute of respect from the brethren. The further business the lodge was closed and the brethren Proposition was put and carried unanimously. The lodge having separated. been closed, the brethren adjourned to banquet ; and it is only just to Bro. Holt, the caterer, to say that the brethren duly ap- Braham, J.W. ; Blum, S.D. ; S. D. Rosenthal, J.D.; L. Jacobs, preciated his exertions to please them. The usual loyal and Treas.; E. P. Albert, P.M., Sec. Lodge being opened in due Masonic toasts followed. Bro. J. Wright, the Treasurer, in giving form, the W.M. raised Bros. Julius S}>ier Knight and Zwiegler the toast of the Masonic Charities , intimated his intention of to the third degree, ancl Messrs. E. G. Dalton and Alfred Kino •collecting subscriptions that evening for the A ged Freemasons were initiated. Bro. G. S. Simmonds announced his intention to and their Widows, when a goodly sum was contributed. The represent the lodge as Steward at the next anniversary festival brethren separated at an early hour, having spent a very plea- for the Boys' School. The lodge was then closed, ami the bre- sant evening. thren adjourned to a very excellent banquet. The usual loyal - NEW CONCOED LODGE (N O. 813). —The members of this aud complimentary toasts and speeches followed. The visitors flourishing lodgo held their usual monthly meeting at the Rose- were: Bros. P. Walters, P.M. 73 ; H. M. Levy, P.M. 188 ; M- mary Branch Tavern, Hoxton, on Friday evening, the 18th inst. Emanuel, 205 ; Joel Emanuel, 205, and Laeroix, 511. Bro. J. Hart, W.M., opened his lod ge, assisted by the following NEW WASDS-WOETH LODGE, (NO. 1044).—The regular meet- officers and brethre n :—Bros. Bartlett, S.W.; M. J. Atkins, ing of the above lodge took place on Wednesday, tha 2nd inst., J.W. ; J. J. Wilson, Prov. G.D. Middlesex, ancl I.P.M.; J. at the Freemasons' Hotel, Wandsworth , Bro. J. S. Oswin, S.W'., Bertram, P.M.; W. H. Main, P.M., and Hon. Sec; Salisbury, occupying the chair of W.M. (in consequence of the death of S.D. ; Blyth, J.D. ; McDavitt, 0. Phillips, Cusworth, Gain, Bro. E. Daly, the W.M.) Bros. Wilson , P.M. as S.W7.; Barrett, Hofbauer, Euucquig, Gabb, Hill, Tay lor, Townsend, Wasser- J.W. ; R. Orel, P.M., Sec. The lodge being opened and the- trudinger, Cain, Spratt, Whaloy, Crabb, E. Walker, Gallant, minutes read and confirmkd, a motion of which notice had been Denny, Shellard , Mountford, and Briisthu. The visitors were, given at a former meeting, that the clays of meeting be changed Bros. Terry, P.M. 228 ; T. Beard, P.M. 101 ; Harper, J.D. 765; front the first to the third Wednesday of the month, was carried Cook, S.W. 65. The lntnutes of the previous lodge having been unanimously. Notice of motion was also given that the lod ge read and confirmed, the ballot was taken for Bro. Cusworth to be removed to the Spread Eagle Hotel, Wandsworth. The busi- become a joining member, and was unanimously in his favour. nesss of the evening being concluded , the brethren then sat down The lodge was then opened in the second degree, aud Bros. to a substantial dinner, provided by Bro. Hare. The usual loyal Taylor and Phillips being candidates foe the third degree, both and Masonic toasts were given, including that of His Royal High- answered, were intrusted, and retired, and the lodge being ness tbe Prince of Wales, P.G.M. Bro. Orel, I.P.M., then proposed, opened in the third degree, both brethren were raised to the the S.W., Bro. Oswin , who bad offieiuted that evening. He was sublime degree of M.M. The lodge was then resumed to the in every sense full y qualified to fill any office he mi ght be- first degree, and Bros. Wassertrudiuger, Shellard, and Gallant elected to. Bro. Ord, I.P.M., returned thanks for the P.M.s ;. being candidates for the second degree, answered ancl retired, Bro. H. M. Levy for the visitors, and the toast of the officers and the lodge being resumed to the second degree, they were was responded to by Bro. Barrett, J.W. During the evening severally passed to the degree of E.C. The lodge was again the S.W. Bro. Oswin and Barrett contributed to the harmony.. resumed to the first degree, and Mr. Carl Rhein (who had beea The brethren then separated. previously balloted for) being in attendance, was initiated into EINSBUEY PARK LODGE (No. 1,288).—The brethi en of this, , the mysteries, &c of ancient Preemasonry. This being the lodge met for tho first time after tho consecration on the lOtbj the W.M. night the election of W.M. for the year ensuing, inst., at the Finsbury Park Tavern, and was well attended. reported that in accordance with the by-laws, Bro. Bartlett, Three gentlemen were initiated into thc Order. An excellent had been examined at a Board of Installed Masters, S.W., and banquet was provided. had most ably worked the several ceremonies. He was balloted for ancl unanimousl y approved by the lod ge, and declared W.M. elect. Bro. J. S. Wilson was elected Treas., ancl Bro. Speight, PKOVINCIAL. Tyler. Bros. Spratt and Mountford were elected auditors. It was resolved that a P.M. jewel be presented to Bro. Hart, W.M., LANCASHIRE (EAST). upon his retirement, for his very excellent working ancl atten- OPENSHAW.—Lodge of Faith (No. 581).—The members of this- tion to the interests of the lodge during the past year. Bro. lodge, held at the New Inn, met on Wednesday, the 16th inst. Bertram, P.M., called the attention of the members to the fact The W.M., Bro. W. B. Pritchard in the chair, supported by Bros. of his having undertaken the duties of Steward for the Boys' Joseph T. Richardson , P.M. ; John Tippling, P.M.; Thomas School at the ensuing festival , ancl having headed his list with Tyers, P.M. Tho visitors present represented lodges 993 and the munificent donation of fifty guineas, was voted five guineas 1,083, there were two raisings, vi-/..: Bros. Edward Levick and from the lodge funds, and promised the support of many of the Charles Clarkson , the ceremony being ably performed by Bro.. brethren. Bro. Main, P.M. and Hon. See., solicited the assis- J. T. Richardson , P.M. tance of the Benevolent Fund on behalf of the widow of a P.M. of this lod ge, who, he regretted to say, was in very dis- TODMOEDEI*.—Lodge Harmony (No. 288).—The regular tressed circumstances, through her late husband having been for meeting of this prosperous lodge was held on Wednesday, the at the. Masonic Hall. The W.M.. Bro. John Watson , time deprived of reason , and recently d ying in a lunatic asy lum. 16th inst., The lodge awarded £5, and recommended an application to opened the lod ge about 3.30 p.m., and iu consequence of this- Grand Lodge. Several gentlemen were proposed for initiation being tho night of installation, the lodge was welt attended by next meeting, ancl the lodge was closed in due form. The both members and visitors. The members present were Bros. brethren then sat down to an excellent supper, provided by the W. Pilling, P.M., Prov. G. Sunt, of Works, East Lancashire ; worthy host, Bro. Gabb, to which the brethren did ample justice. J. Copley, J. Lord, T. Schofielcf, W. Shackleton, M. Helliwell,. After the usual loyal ancl Masonic toasts, Bros. Terry and Bertram J. Blomley, and J. Jackson, P.M.'s ; J. Hamer, Sec.; T. Lord,. replied for the Charities, and congratulated the W.M. for the S.W. ; W. Barker, J.W. ; B. Stephenson, I.G. ; W. Sutclitt'e,. arduous task he had so efficientl y performed, having worked the Ty ler ; C. Buckley, S.D. ; T. G rcenleas, J.D.; T. Schotleid, E- whole of the ceremonies. He, in reply, thanked the officers and Lord, and others. Visitors : Lod ge Prince Edward, 308, West expressed his entire satisfaction for their assistance. After some Yorkshire ; C. P. Binks, W.M. ; J. Lord, S'W. ; Handh-y aud excellent harmony from Bros. McDavitt, Blytb, Hubbard, and Siddall, Lodgo Prudence, 219; S. Barnes, W.M. ; E. Hartley, S.W.; John Barker, W.M. elect ; J. Hallcwell , P.M. ; J. others, and a vote of thanks to the worthy host, the brethren ' separated. Sutclitte, P.M .; J. Cropper, J. Elsworth, Sec ; aud T. Law, P.M. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and DOEIC LODGE (No. 933) .—The installation meeting of this confirmed, several candidates were balloted for—viz., Messrs. lodge took place at Anderton's on Tuesday, Sth inst. Bro. W'ain- W. E. Thorlcy, W. Riley, S. Wilson/I'. Priestley, M. G. Whiteley,. wright was installed as W.M. for the ensuing year. The W.M. was initiated into Freemasonry by P.M.'s Copley and Law, appointed Bros. Yetten, S.W.; J. Griffin , J.W.; Seurr , P.M., after which P.M. Pilling gave the charge, &c, in a very Treas.; and J. Stevens (554), Secretary. At the banquet which impressive maimer. Alter the above business Bro. E. Lord was followed the attendance of visitors was numerous, amongst installed in the Master's chair for the ensuing year. The whom we noticed Bro. Eyre, Prov. Grand Chaplain, West York- brethren having been admitted, the "W.M. was proclaimed and shire. saluted in the usual form. Thc W.M. then appointed his MONTEPIOIIE LODGE (NO. 1,017).—The brethren of the above officers as follows :—Bros. Buckley, S.W.; J. Hamer, J.W.; lodge met on Wednesday, the 9th inst., at the Freemasons' Hall. J. Watson, I.P.M.; Thomas Lord, See.; J. Lord, Treas. ; B. Great Queen-street, Thc chair being occupied by Bro. S. Stephenson, S.D.; J". Grcenleas, J.D.; T. Scholiold, I.G.; W. Pollitzer, W.M., supported by Bros. E. D. Philips, S.W. ; Sideline, Tyler. Alter the regular business was disposed of. the lod ge was closed in due form and with solemn prayer. Tho the other officers present Heine; Bros. Duff, P.M.; Smith, P.M., brethren then retired to refreshments, which were presided over Treas.; Rev. J. Spittall, P.M., Chap. ; Buzz ird, S.AV. ; Scul- by the AV.M., and attended by a considerable number of thorpe, J.W. ; Rev. Dr. Hayeroft, S.D. ; Partridge, J.D.; John- brethren. After the table was cleared the W.M. proposed tho son, P.M., Org. ; and Lewin, I.G. Bro. Kelley, Prov. G.M., " Queen anil the Craft," which was duly honoured. Bro. T. was also present, and there was also a good attendance of mem- Law, Prov. G. Org., presided at the pianoforte. The next toast bers and visitors. The lod ge having been opened, ancl the " His Royal Highness Bro. the Prince of Wales, the Princess of minutes of the last regular meeting and of a lodge of emergency AVales, and the rest of the Royal Family," was drunk with read and confirmed, the lodse was opened iu the second degree, Masonic honours. The Master then gave the "M.AV. tho G.Af . and Bro. the Rev. W. Targett Fry, having passed an examination , of England, the Earl of Zetland, and tho rest of the Grand retired, and the lodge hnvmcr been opened in the third degree, Officers," which was drunk with the usual honours. The he w-as duly raised as a Master Mason by tho W. TvI. in a very Master then'gave the " R.W. thc Prov. G.M. of East Lancashire, impressive manner. The whole of the officers were also well-up Stephen Blair," which was drunk with " Prosper the Art." in their respective duties, which they discoursed throughout the The Master then ga ve tho " R. W.D.G.M., W. R. Cullender, and evening in a most satisfactory manner. On the conclusion of the rest of the Provincial Officers," drunk with honour, -and re- the ceremony of raising, the W.M. called the attention of the sponded to by Bro. Copley, Prov. G. Supt. of AVorks, East Lan- brethren to the presence, for the first time since his installation, cashire, in very appropriate terms. The next toast was proof the Provincial Grand Master, Bro. Kelley, ancl called upon posed by Bro. T. Schofield, P.M., " Tho I.P.M., John AVatson ,-" them to salute him with the honours, which was accordingly and drunk in the usual manner with honours, and responded to done. Bro. Kelly thanked the brethren for their cordial recep- by the I.P.M., who expressed his thanks to the brethren, and tion, but said that, while he did not wish the dignity of the was pleased to think he had given the members satisfaction office to suffer in his hands, and therefore by all means on state -with his stewardship for thc past year, and wishing the lod ge occasions let the honours be paid to office which he held ; it prosperity the next year. Bro. W. Shackleton, P.M., proposed would on all other occasions be more consonant with his feelings "the newly installed Master and the rest of his officers," which if the brethre n would consider that he attended the meetings was responded to by the Master and officers in appropriate of the lod ges in the town in his private capacity as one of their terms. Bro. Copley, the P.M., proposed the health of tho Past Masters. Thc lodge was then lowered to the first degree, Installing Master, AV. Pilling, P.M. The toast was drunk with and Bro. the Rev. John Frederick Halford was examined as to many fraternal expressions of esteem for his never-faltering his proficiency in that degree, after which he was passed to the zeal in the cause of Masonry, and his readiness at all times to degree of Fellow Craft , and had the tracing board explained to take part in the practical -working of the lodge. (This toast him. On the lodge being closed in the second degree, a ballot had to be drunk in the absence of the brother, in consequence was taken for Mr. R. .T. Lulham and Mr. W.P. Cox, both of whom of his being unwell). Several other toasts were drunk and re- were unanimonsly elected, but were not present for initiation. sponded to—•" viz., " Visiting Members," " Lodsre Prudence, Bro. C. Whittaker was also due for the third degree, but was 219," "Lodge Prince Edward, 308," "Masonic Charities," "To absent from the town. Three gentlemen were proposed for all poor and distressed Masons," and " The Entered Appren- initiation. It was announced that the Masonic ball, after the tices." The proceedings were enlivened by some excellent meeting of the Provincial Grand Lod ge on tlio lOfch inst., was vocal and instrumental music, and the brethren separated at a very successful, and that about ;6(>0 would be available for seasonable hour, all pleased with the evening's entertainment. division between the Leicester Infirmary ancl the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution. A vote of thanks having been passed LANCASHIRE (WEST). to Bro. Buzzard for his very efficient services as hon . secretary of the Ball Committee, the lodge was closed , and the brethren PRESTOS*.—Lodge Concord (No. 343).—Tho usual monthly adjourned to refreshment. meeting of this flourishing lodge was held at the King's Arms Hotel on Thursday, the 17th lust., Bro. James Porter, AV.M., in the chair, supported bv the following brethren :—P.M. NORFOLK. Quayle as S.W.; Heaps, J.AAf .; Rev. J. Taylor , Sec. and Chap. ; Kiss's LYSX.—Philanthropic Lodge (No. 107). —Tbe annual Cockshott, S.D. ; Parmer, J.D. ; P.M. Robinson , Treas. ; meeting of this lodge took yAaee on Monday, the 7tli inst., in Wilson, I.G. ; Robinson, Tyler ; Galloway, P.M. 350 ; 11. P. the lodsre room , Globe Hotel , for the purpose of installing Bro. AVatson, P.M. ; Steib, P.M. ; Don , P.M. 333; Smith, M.S., W. ii. Pole. The ceremony WHS most admirabl y and impres- WM.314 ; Nevett, J.W. 113 ; T. A. Smith, P.M. ; R. B. Pear- sively performed by Bro. Whitwell , P.M., assisted by Bro. Duns- son, 654, G. W. Dawson, Hall, Tunnielill'e, Penrice, Bils- ford, P.M., as Dir. of Cers. Thc following officers were invested borough, 1,035 ; Bee, E. Myers, 314 ; Elton, Clark, Clegg, for the ensuing year: Bros. Thomas R. Mills, S.AV. ; Wondwark, Snape, Dewhurst, J. IT. Miles, Ash ton , Harkness, Johnson, ' J.D.; Puttock, S.I). ; Chatlwick , J.D. : the Rev. Lake Onslow*, Nettlefold , &c Thc lod ge was opened in due form at 6.30 ; Chap. ; Cruso, Trens. ; Green , Sec: Wells and Miller, Stewards ; and after the confirmation of the minutes of the previous lodge , Warp, I.G.; and AA7oolsoy, Tyler. The banquet was served up the ballot was taken for Bro. It. B. Pearson , of Lodge Peveril by Bro. Marshall in his usual sp lendid st le at 6.30 p.m., when of the Peak, 654, as a joining member, which proved unani- y about forty of the brethren partook of the same. Bro. Pole, mous. The lod ge was then opened in the second degree, when the newly installed W.M., presided, and was supported bv Bros. Bros. Penrice and Nettlefold were duly passed to the degree of Banks, I.P.M. ; Sadler, Ives Household. Onslow, Whitwell, Eellow Craft. Tho lodge was then opened in the third degree, Durnsford, Braham, Palmer, P.M.'s ; and other visiting brethren. when Bros. Hall and Elton were raised to the sublime degree of T 'The AV.M. gave the following toasts, which were acknowledged M.M. iu a very admirable manner by the AA .AL, assisted by Bro. iu the usual manner :—"The Queen and the Craft ; " " Bro. P.M. Galloway. The lod ge was then resumed to the first His Royal Hi hness the Prince of Wales, P.G.M., the Prin- degree, when three brethren were proposed for joining mem- g cess of Wales, and tho rest of the Roval Family ; " " Tho bers, and throe gentlemen for initiation. Hearty gold wishes M.AAr. Grand Master of England , the E:irl of ' Zetland; " having been tendered by the visiting brethren, the lodge was "The R.AA *. D. Grand Master, the E-irl Oe Gi-cy and Ripon." duly closed with solemn prayer at ten p.m. The brethren then Bro. Household proposed "The R.W. Prov. Grand Master of adjourned to refreshment, when the usual loyal and Masonic Norfolk , Bro. Cabbell." Bro. Pridgon proposed "'fhe Ar.AV. D. toasts having been given , Bro . P.M. Galloway, in proposing the Prov. Grand Ma ster of Norfolk, Bro. the Honourable F. Wal- health of the AV.M., expressed his great ancl sincere gratifica- polc, and tho rest of the Prov. Grand Officers. " Tho Rev. Bro. tion at the very kind and truly fraternal manner in which he Onslow, Prov. Grand Chap., responded. Bro. Banks proposed had been received as a visitor, also at thc very able manner in "The AV. M .," who responded Tho AV.M. proposed " The In- which the W.M. and his officers conducted tin; business of the . stalling Ma -iter ;" Bro. Whitwell responded. Bro. AVoodwark lod ge. Altogether:! most agreeable and pleasant evening was proposed " The Dir of Cers. ; Durnsford responded. Bro. spent, the brethren separating and " Bro. at half-past eleven in peace Mills proposed harmony. " The I.P.M.," to which Bro. Banks responded. Bro. Ives proposed "Tiie Chap lain ," which was responded to by tho Rev. Bro. On»low. Bro. Sadler proposed " The LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. Visiting Brethren; " responded to by Bro. Palmer. The LEICESTER —John of Gaunt Lodge (No. 523). —This lod ge held AV.M. proposed "The Officers of the Lodge," and Bro. Mills its usual monthly meeting at the Freemasons' Hall, on Thursday, responded. Bro. Puttock proposed "The Masonic Charities." the 17th inst., under the presidency of tho AV.M., Bro. Toller , Other toasts were given, when " The Tyler's Toast" brought the evening to a close. Some good songs and music were rendered nial, ancl would now read the inscription which appeared upon by Bros. Reed, Crusoe, Green, &c, and speeches by the several one portion of it, viz. ;— brethren accompanying the foregoing toasts. A most enjoyable " To Bio. John Preeee, P. Prov. G.S.AV., evening was spent. This Salver and Service , Tokens of fraternal regard avi d gratitude, NORTH WALES AND SHROPSHIRE. For services rendered to toe Grail; iu general, -e in particular , DENBIGH.—liogal Denbigh Lodge (No. 1,143). And the Royal Denbig h Lod^ his Masonic brethiuu The members of this dis.itiguished lod Town-hall AA' ere presented by ge met at the , pon his departure Denbi h, on Friday, tho llih inst. The business of i lie evening, U ¦ g From thc Province .of North Wales aud Shropshire. including the presentation of a testimonial to Bro. John Prcece, A.L. 5870." who has lately removed to the city of Lichfield. Tint occasion A.D. lStO. being of a gala natnrc, the lodge room was adorned with appro- He (the AV.M.), in the observations he had addressed to the priate banners, and .Alasonic crests, artistically executed by Air. R. lodge and to Bro. Preeee, retrained from u-ong terms of fulsome Maurice Roberts. On entering, the eye was gratified by the praise, or any expression which niis_ h„ be considered over- appearance of a very -handsome aud chaste collection of solid laudatory, feeling that he best consulted the wishes of the bre- silver plate, comprising the testimonial , arranged on a table thren, and that anything more than the plain and honest truth covered with crimson cloth, at the east end of tiie lodge, and would, so far from being gratefu l to Bro. Preece's feelings, which was inspected by a number of ladies aud gentlemen prior be annoy ing to ouo of his earnest and honourable dispositions ; to the meeting, by whom, also, the various articles of plate were and, in conclusion, he begged to express a hope that, although much admired for the good b'ste and skill with which they had Bro. Preeee had left them, he would occasionally make his been manufactured. The testimonial , it should be stated , was in appearance amongst them. He iva s sure Bro. Preeee would two parts—the one from thc Masonic brethren, consisting of a always be present with them iu sp irit , and he could assure him richly-embossed salver and dinner service, ancl the other by tho they would always be glad to hoar of his promotion—mi ght it public, of a tea and coffee service, the whole supplied by the not be long in coming—and if it only led him a little nearer to ancient firm of Elkington and Co., at a cost of nearly £100, thein, instead of further off, they would like it all the better. almost equally subscribed, the public testimonial fund (of which, One remark more, and he had done. It li-.nl been often said R. C. B. Clough, Esq., surveyor, was the worthy hon. secre- that tokens ot gratitude conveyed lively sentiments of thank- tary) being a little over the other in amount. fulness f or favours to come. Now, their testimonial to their The lodge was opened in clue form at four o'clock, and a worthy brother was unalloyed with any suspicion of that nature, happier and more deli ghtful party never assembled in the good for by his having removed from them, there was no opportunity old town under the banner of the compass , the square, and the for the giving or receiving of such, and therefore Bro. Preeee level. There were present:—Bros. John Ormiston , AVigfair, could only accept thoir gifts in the spirit they were given, which Flintshire, AV.M. ; J. Copner Wynne Edwards, I.P. M.; It. he begged him to clo, with all hearty good wishes that they aa "Vaughan AVilliams, P.M.; John Preeee, P.M., P. Prov. S.G.AV. ; men and Masons could wish him as a man and a Mason. R. Lloyd AVilliams, S.W.; Rev. J. H. Roberts. J.AV. ; Martin Bro. Preeee, who was at first so overpowered that he could Underwood, J. R. Hughes, AV. P. Beecham, Rev. Henry Parry ; J. not speak , returned his most grateful thanks in feeling terms. Parry Jones, Treas. ; R. Harrison, T. Sleight, Francis Wynne, They had really undeservedly made him a most handsome Llewellyn Lodge, St. Asaph, Augustus Henry Rai d, John present, and which he much appreciated. He assured all the Davies, &c. Bro. George Osborne Morga n , j lT.P., forwarded a brethren that as long as he lived he would always remember kind note regretting not being present, and Bro. R.J. Sisson, and appreciate his connection with the Royal Denbigh Lodge, Talardy, Flintshire, also sent au expression of his regret for the in the formation of which he had been merely an humble instru- same through the AV.M. ment. Itwas to the officers of the lodge and tho members of it After the regular business of the lodge had been performed, that the credit of its success belonged. He could see well that including the various phases of the beautiful ceremonies of they had star ted upon very good grounds, and by so con- passing and raising in order, by four of the junior brethren, the tinuing they could not fail to secure its future prosperity and W.M., in appropriate and eloquent terms, presented the lodge's welfare. lie was quite aware that the few words he had testimonial to Bro. Preeee, whom he complimented for having uttered fell very far shor t of what was due from him ; and that always been very anxious and cordial in affording any assist- there had been many observations made by their worthy and ance he possibly could, not only to himself but to every brother esteemed W.M. to which he ought to respond ; hut he felt him- of the lodge. As long as Bro. Preeee had been amongst them self under the necessity of requesting that they would allow he had been always ready to afford them all assistance ancl in- him to conclude by again thanking them for the very tangible struction, had put them well forward in their duties, and he and munificent tokens of their regard and esteem they had (the AV.M.) hoped and believed they all felt as much as he did presented to him. The W.M.'s closing remark had brought to how greatly they were indebted to Bro, Preeee for the gratif y- his mind the fact that when men departed from thc place where ing position in which the lodge now stands. Bro. Preeee, in they had been activel y engaged, people seemed to find out their tbe course of events , they had been all happy to bear, had. met good and bad qualities. Fortunately he had been most kindly with that promotion which he richly deserved fro m the direc- judged , and had to rejoice in the possession of tho beautiful tors of the eminent banking company with which he was con- service of plate which they had just- presented to him. But nected, and upon which they all congratulated him, although apart from that—and while he should ever value it—he they fully estimated the serious loss of the presence of so valu- assured the brethren how groat a pleasure it had been for him able a brother to the ledge. But having left them , it was to serve them and the Craft generally, ami how inestimable was thought by the members it would, be becoming on their par t to his reward in knowing that he had their approval of his con- -present Bro. Preeee with some mark of the respect iu which he duct, and their goodwill and best wishes as men and broth er was held amongst then), and the regret that they felt upon his Masons, and which by him wero most heartily reciprocated to leaving the neighbourhood. In. accordance with that feeling, all. the testimonial on his ri ght hand had been provided , and iu tho After tho labours of the lodge, the brethren adjourned to au name of the Royal Denbigh Lodge he begged Bro. Preece 's excellent banquet, provided by Bro. IT. C. Murless, Crown acceptance of those gifts, possessing in themselves a certain de- •Hotel , and spent a most delightful evening. The usual loyal gree of intrinsic value, but still more valuable and honourable as and Masonic toasts were given by the AV. M., and enthusiasti- convey ing with them the expression of the kind will and grati - cally responded to; and Uro. Vaughan Williams, P.M., tude entertained, towards him by his Masonic brethren. Gilts, delivered a most eloquent aud appropriate speech , illustrating he was well aware, might be iu themselves but of small value, the true and und ying princi ples of oar Order , and showing and yet be most valuable to the receiver, as showing the Masonic Temple; Tav., Tavern ; Ho., Hotel ; Ro and noticed the change which had taken place from Rooms; L., Lod ge; St., Street ; Sep, Square). operative to speculative Masonry nearly two centuries METBOPOHTAH LODGUS AND CllAPIEKS. ago. He entered at some length into the nature and Monda y, Feb. Wth. constitution of a Lodge of Freemasons, ancl the relation LOUGHS.—Royal Somerset House and Inverness, F.M.H. ; Castle which lodges bore to the Grand Lodge. He explained Lod ge of Honnany, AVillis 's Rooms, St. James's; OUI King's the nature and design of tho obligations which every Arms, F.M .H.; Pythagorean , Shi p and Turtle , Royal Hill, member of the " Triad Society " entered into when he Greenwich ; Universal , F.M.H. ; Unity, London Tav,, Bishops- gate-st. ; British Oak, Bank of Friendshi p Tav., Bancroft- Thursday, March 3rd. place, Mile End-rd. ; Burgoyne, Anderton's Ho., Fleet-st. ; Fidelity, Yorkshire Grey, London-st., Fitzroy*-sq.; Kent, Duke of De Grey ancl Ripon , Angol Ho., Great Ilford. CHAPTER .— York, Borough-rd., Southwark ; United Mariners, Three Joppa, Albion Tav., Aldersgate-st. Cranes, Mtle-end-rd.; Vitruvian, White Hart, College-st., Tuesday, March 1st. Lambeth ; St. George's, Globe Tav., Royal Hill, Greenwich ; Manchester, Berkeley Arms, John-st., Berkeley-square ; Tran- Colonial Board, at 3. LODGES . — Royal York Lod ge of Per- severance, F.M.H. ; Albion F.M.H.; Old Dundee, London quillity, SusarLoat'Tav., Great St. Helen's, E.G. ; Whittington, , Royal Oak Tav., Bishopsgate-st. ; Temple, Ship and Turtle, Leadenhall- Thatched House Tav., 9, Red Lion-st. ; Royal Oak, Tavern HAPTER OP NSTRUCTION st. ; Old Concord, F.M.H. ; Stability, Anderton's Ho., Fleet- , Deptford . C I .—Joppa, Prospect of AYhitby Tav., Wapping-wall. st. ; St. James's, Leather Market Tav-, New AVestern-street, 57, Bermondsey ; Grosven or, Victoria Station , Metrop . District Friday, March -1th. Railway Station , Pimlico; Duke of Edinburgh , New Globe, Robert Burns, Union Tav., j'ir-st., Regent-st. ; St. Luke's, Tav., Bow-rd. ; Golden Rule, Great AA'estorn Ho., Bayswater ; Pier Ho., Chcyne-walk , Chelsea; Temperance, Victoria Tav., Temperance, AVhite Swan Tav., Deptford. Victoria-rd., Deptford; Stability, Guildhall Tav., 33, Gresham Wednesday, March 2nd. st. ; Unions (Emulation Lodge of Improvement for M.M.), Freemasons' Hall ; United Pilgrims, Horns' Tavern , Ken- Quar. Communication , at (> ODGES for 7 p.m. L .—Zetland, ning Broadway, Anderton 's Ho., Fleet-st. ; Mac Donald , Hd. Qrs. 1st Surrey ton; TVelling ton , Lord Duncan Tavern , Volunteer Corps, lirunswiek-rd., Camberwcll. Deptford ; Florence Nightingale, Freemasons' Tav., AVoolwich ; Ranckigh, Windsor Castle Hotel, King-st., Hammersmith ; Thursday, March 3rd. Belgrave, Duke of Wellington , Spring-gardens, Charing-cross ; LODGES.— AVestminster and Keystone, F.M.H.; Egyptian, St. James's, Gregorian Arms, Jamaica-row, Bermondsey ; Anderton's Ho., Fleet-st. ; Strong Man, F.M.H. ; Good Doric, Three Cranes, Mile End-rd. ; Rose of Denmark, White Report , City Terminus Ho., Canuon-st.; Lion aud Lamb, Hart , Barnes, Surrey ; Victoria, George Ho., Aldermanbury ; City Terminus Ho., Cannon-st.; La Tolerance, F.M.H- ; Yar- Hervey, George Ho., VValham-greeu. borough , Green Dragon , Stepney : Victoria Rifles, F.M.H. : Saturday, March 5ft, Excelsior , Sidney Arms, Leivisham-rd .; Perfect Ashlar, Grego- CHAPTERS .—Mount Sinai , Union Tav., Air-st, Regent-st. ; rian Arms, Bermonilsey. CHAPTERS .—St. James's, F.M.H. ; Domatic, the Horns, Kenning ton. Sincerity, Cheshire Cheese Tav., Crutchcd Friars ; Westbnurne, New Inn, Etlgware-road ; Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace, PROVINCIAL. Sydenham. Monday, Feb. 28th- Friday, March itli. LODGES.—Isaac Newton, University, 29.., Green-st., Cambridge ; LODGES .—Florence Ni ghtingale, Ma. Ha., AVilliam-st., AVool- St. Ma rk's, F.M.H., 213, Buchanan-st., Glasgow; Union ancl wich ; Hornscy, Anderton 's Ho„ Fleet-st. ; Star, Marquis of Crown , F.M.H., 170, Buchanan-st., Glasgow; St. Clair , Granby Tav., New Cross-rd . CHAPTERS .—Fidelity, London F.M.H., 25, Robertson-st., Glasgow. Tav., Bishopsgate-st. ; British , F.M.H. Tuesday, March 1st. Saturday. March Olh. LODGES .—Newall , F.M.H., Islington-square, Salford ; Merit, Masonic Arms, Whitefleld , Lancashire ; Furness, Masonic General Com. Boys' School , at F.M.H., at 4 LODGE .—St. Temple, Diversion ; Antiquit Royal Ho., AAfgan ; St. John Thomas's, Hadlcy 's Do., Brid ge-st., Blaekfriars. CHAT TER y, , . F.M.H., 213, Buchanan-st., Glasgow; Thistle and Rose Rose of Denmark , Star and Garter Ho.' Kew Bridge. , F.M.H., 170, Buchanan-st., Glasgow; Govaudale, F.M.H., 207, METROPOLITAN LODGES AND CHAPTERS OF Govan-rd., Glasgow ; Marquis of Granby, F.M.H., Durham ; INST RUCTION. AVaiden, Royal Ho., Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire ; Alfred, Ma.'Ha., Oxford. CHAPTER.—St. John of Jerusalem, Ma. Monday, Feb. 28th- Te., 22, Hope-st., Liverpool. le, Old George Temp , St. Mary Axe, E.G. ; Justice, Royal Albert, Tl 'ectnesci a?/, March 2nd- New Crossod, Deptford ; Old Concord , Turk's Head, Mont- LODGES.—Glasgow Kilwinnin a', F.M.H., , Buchanan-street combe-st., Bclgrave-sq. ; Sincerity, 170 , Railway Tav., London-st.; Glasgow; Thistle , F.M.IT., 19, Croy-pl. Glasgow; St. Joh n St. James's Union , Swan Tavern Mouut-st., , , Grosvenor-sq. ; Shettleston , Glasgow ; Caledonian Railway, F.M.H. , 213, Industry, Dick's Codec House, Fleet-st. ; Crystal Palace, City Buchanan-st., Glasgow; Duke of Athol Arms Tav., West-sq., , Nottingham Castle Southwark ; AVesthourne , the Grapes, Inn, Donton; Earl Ellesmcre Church Inn Faruworth Duke-st., Mauchcster-sq.; Hi , , , , near gh Cross White Hart Ho., Totten- Bolton ; Phoenix , F.M.H., Sunderland ; Amity. Ma. Ha,, ham ; Tower Hamlets Engineers , Duke of Clarence, Com- Thamus-st., Poolo ; Athole, Ma. Ha., Severn-st„ Birmingham. mercial-rd., East ; Eastern Star, Koynl Ho., Burdett-rd., Mile- Thursday, March 3rd. end-rd. ; Camden , Adelaide Tav Haverstock Hill; British ., L ODGES.— St. Mungo, Oak, Bank of Friendshi p Tav., Mile Mud . F.M.H., 213, Buchanan-st., Glasgow ; Commercial , F.M.H., 19, Cray-place, Glasgow; St. Andre w, Tuesday, March 1st. P.M.H., 75, Kennedy-st., Glasgow ; Tees, Masonic Court, Faith, Fisher's I!es:nurant, Metrop. Dist. Rail., Victoria Station ; Stockton , Durham; Fidelity, Angel Inn , Blackburn ; Prince Domatic , Palmerston Arms, Grosvenor-park , Camherwell ; of AVales', Derby Ho., Bury, Lancashire ; Commerce, Com- Jordan , Alwyne Castle, Canonbury ; Yarborough , Green mercial Inn, Haslingden ; Affability, F.M.H., Cooper-street, Freedom Dragon , Stepney ; Prince Frederick William , Kni ghts of St. Manchester; Probity and , Bull's Head Inn, Small Brid near Rochdale ; John's Tav., St. ,'fohn 's-wood; Dalhousie, Royal Edward, ge, Mariners', Ma. Te., 22, Hope-street , Triangle, Hackney ; Ih-yal Albert , White Hart, Abclrarch- Liverpool. CHAPTE R .-—Perseverance, Old Bull Inn, Black - hme; City of London , Shepherd anil Flock Tav., Bell-alley. burn. Moorgate-sfroot ; New Wandsworth , Freemasons' Ho., New Friday, March ilh. AVandsworth ; I! use of Denmark , George Ho., Aldermanbury ; LODGES .—Sefton , Ma. Te., 22, Hope-st,, Liverpool ; All Soul's Mount Sion , AVhite Hart, Ihshopsgate-st. ; Royal Union, Ma. Ha., AA'eymouth. Duborg's Ho., Ilaymaikot . CHAPTER .— 'Robert Burns, Sussex Stores , Upper St. Martin 's-lane. [This information is extracted from the "Universal Masonic Calendar ," published at 19, Salisbury-street, Strand , and brethren WeJ.iw.sday, March 2nd. who may detect any inaccuracies (and there are, doubtless, Confidence, Railway Tav., London-street ; United Strength, many), are respectfully requested to communicate the same to Bull and Gate, Kentish Town; New Concord , Rosemary Branch the Editor at the Office, No. 19, Salisbury-street, Strand,] Tav., Hoxton ; St. Al ark's, Mawby Arms, Mawhy-st., S. Lam- beth ; Peckham , Edinboro ' Castle Tavern , Peckham Rye; Pythagorean , Pi:, ice of Orange Hotel , Greenwich ; Temperance TO COKKESPONDENTS in the East, Gen-g e the Fourth , Catherine-st., Poplar ; Pros- perity, Gladstone Tav., Bish.-ipsgate-street. CHAPTER OE *#* All Communications to be addressed to 19, Salisbury IKSTRUCTIOX .—St. James's Union, Swan Tav., Mount-st,, street, Strand, AV.C, Grosvenor-sq. SEVERAL communications stand over till our next.