moting the interest of the Craft, but they fall far short indeed of those which I should wish to see carried out. I have been more than amply repaid, Brother; and, permit me to say, that however highly I may prize this Past Master's Jewel, as a testimony of your esteem, I appreciate far more the expressions contained in your kind and handsome address. „M“In conclusión, Brethren, I beg your acceptance of my sincere thanks for the lasting tribute of respect conferred upon me this evening; and permit me to assure you that I feel all those emotions of gratitude which your affectionate address and cordial wishes are calculated to inspire. Wishing you, Worshipful Sir, and the rest of my Brethren, prosperity and happiness, and trusting that the same kindly feelings which have existed will continue to be reciprocated among us,

"I am, Worshipful Sir and Brother, your attached friend and Brother,
Signed, ST. GEORGE JONES MARTIN, P. M.
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"Light of the West Lodge, No. 20.

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To Bro. J. C. Johnston, W. M. Lodge No. 20, Sligo."

Copied from the Carlow Sentinel of Dec. 6, 1851.

"Upwards of three hundred gentlemen have joined the Masonic body in Ireland since the denouncement of the Order by Dr. Cullen.→

Limerick Chronicle.

"Our Limerick contemporary should add, that very many of those who joined are Roman Catholics, connected with the Irish bar, with the banks, country gentlemen, and solicitors. So much for Dr. Cullen's excommunication, in the nineteenth century of the Freemasons' Order.”

DOWNPATRICK.-Dec. 17.-The W. Master, Wardens, and Brethren of the County Down Lodge, No. 86, gave a magnificent ball and supper to a large and fashionable assemblage of guests, in the County-rooms, Downpatrick. The preparations were on a scale of great brilliancy, and the proceedings were of the most interesting character.

FRANCE.-The following communication from Bro. Leblane de Marconnay, a member of the Grand Orient of France, has been sent to Bro. Lépée, P. M. and W. M. elect of the French Lodge, La Tolérance, No. 784, which we gladly bring before the notice of our Brethren.

PARIS.-La Clémente-Amitié.-This Lodge, which has attached to it a Chapter and a Council of Knights K. H. under the same title, is one of those French Lodges which show the most active zeal for the propagation of Masonic doctrines. It holds a correspondence with more than a hundred Lodges in different parts of the globe, and counts among its affiliated and free honorary members, nearly four hundred of the most distinguished Masons of all nations.

At the meeting of the 1st October, it affiliated and admitted as S. P. R. C. and Knight K. H., the respected Bro. Baron de Borroozun, Major of State to H. R. H. the Prince of Vallachia, Commander of the Order of Nickam of Turkey, Knight of the Black Eagle of Prussia. This

high personage intends to resuscitate the Masonic Order in Vallachia, which is only kept up by a few foreign residents in that country!

At the meeting of the 21st of October, the same Lodge initiated M. Guisoulph, a rich landowner of Cayenne, who intends to form a Lodge amongst the black men of the French Guyanne.

At the meeting of the 18th of November, the Lodge initiated® M. Abdelltre Velsby, a Turkish colonel (Effendi), who is one of those young noblemen sent to Europe by the Grand Seignior, to study European manners, and who will be able to plant the standard of our Order in his country.

BENGAL. CALCUTTA.-Provincial Grand Lodges were held at Calcutta, on the 21st March and 24th June, 1851, of which we have been favoured with the authentic reports. At the former meeting a Masonic Jewel was presented to Bro. John King, P. Prov. G. T., as a memorial of regard, and in testimony of the creditable manner in which he had discharged the onerous and responsible duties of his office. The Jewel bore the following inscription :-" Presented to R. W. Bro. John King, by the Officers of the Prov. Grand Lodge of Bengal and by the Brethren of the Lodges in Calcutta; as a token of their fraternal regard, on his retirement from the office of Prov. Grand Treasurer; the arduous duties of which he discharged for ten years, to the satisfaction of all, and with credit to himself.-1851." The business of the Prov. Grand Lodge on each occasion, with the exception of the presentation of the Masonic Jewel to Bro. King, was chiefly of a routine character. The affairs of the Province appear to be in a flourishing condition.

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CANADA-Nov. 12. The half-yearly meeting of the Prov. Grand Lodge of Upper Canada, in connection with the Grand Lodge of England was held in the Masonic Hall, Toronto; the R. W. Bro. Thomas Gibbs Ridout, D. P. G. M., in the chair, in the absence of Sir A. N. MacNab, the R. W. P.G. M. After the transaction of other business of importance to the Craft, the following officers were duly installed, according to ancient custom, for the ensuing year, by the R. W. D. P. G. M.:

Bros. G. Cunningham, S. G. W.; C. Magill, J. G. W.; the Rev. S. Ramsey, G. G. WH. B.; Ramsey, G. C.; A. Wilson, G. R.; Bro. F. Richardson, G. Sec.; N. Gatchell, S. G. D.; W. H. Reid, J. G. D.; J. Tully, G. Sup. of Works; J. O. Heward, G. Dir. of Cer.; W. Jamieson, Assist. G. Dir. of Cer. ; J. P. Clarke, G. O.; T. Paul, G. S. B.; W. H. Weller, G. P.; J. R. Mountjoy, D. McDonald, J. Blackburn, A. H. Coulson, H. Piper, F. Stowe, Grand Stewards; J. Morrison, G. T.

JAMAICA.—A new Lodge under a fiat and dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Scotland, under the title of the Trelawney Atholl Lodge, was opened at the new Masonic Lodge-room, Falmouth, on the 21st of October.

AMERICA.

We have great pleasure in calling attention to the following circular address, and will gladly receive any amount of subscription which may be forwarded to us, for the purpose of advancing the cause, for which assistance is urged.-ED. F. Q. M. and R.

"To the M. W. G. Masters, Wardens, and Brothers of the Grand Lodges of the United States and of Europe, and to the W. Masters, Officers and Brethren of the Subordinate Lodges under their respective jurisdictions.

"At the Annual Communication of the M. W. G. L. of the State of California, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :

"Whereas, Several of the Lodges under this jurisdiction, and the members thereof, by their great liberality to strange Brothers, have become indebted for greater amounts than they are able to pay, therefore,

"Resolved, that a Committee of seven be appointed to address a circular to other Grand and Subordinate Lodges, setting forth the amount and nature of the embarrassments aforesaid, and for what cause incurred, which circular shall be published with the proceedings of this Grand Lodge.

"The undersigned were appointed that Committee, and in the discharge of their duties, beg your indulgence to state: That at an early period in the history of the immense emigration into this new country from every State in the Union, and from every part of Europe, it was found that vast numbers came without any adequate knowledge of the nature or extent of the wants to which they would become exposed, in the prosecution of the mining enterprises which they came to pursue, as well as without any idea of the causes which have been found to operate in breaking down their health and constitutions. They, therefore, came most lamentably unsupplied with any other means of providing for their necessities than their capacities for labour. It therefore happened in the autumn of 1849, and the succeeding winter, that large numbers were compelled to leave the mining districts, and repaired to Sacramento City for medical advice, and for attendance in sickness. As a considerable number of such sick and destitute persons were members of the Masonic Fraternity, they naturally and of right made their condition known to their Brethren, then established at that place.

"Under a most generous impulse, and a lively sense of their obligations, the Brethren undertook to institute a sanitary establishment, that should supply the place of a hospital. At that time municipal government had not been organised, and public affairs were conducted chiefly on the voluntary principle. So it was in the case of the health establishment set up by the Masons. They found, however, that the demands upon them were, in the course of a few months, increased to an extent greater than they had anticipated, and greater than their own means, and the contributions which they could collect, would enable them to meet. They could not, however, go back, nor could they abandon the sufferers whom they had been obliged to receive, and whose numbers were greatly

multiplied by the distress caused by the freshet which swept over the city in the winter of 1849 and 1850. As a consequence, they made themselves liable for the payment of bills, the payment of which would reduce some of them to absolute indigence. They raised and paid, for the purposes above stated, over thirty-two thousand dollars, and are now in arrears about fourteen thousand dollars.

For that, they feel justified in calling upon the Grand and Subordinate Lodges of the Fraternity, to aid in relieving them. No record has been kept by which it can be known what exact amount any one sufferer received, belonging to any particular Lodge, of all that have been provided for. But this is certain; no sick, destitute, and suffering Brother has been permitted to suffer or die in their midst, uncared for. The noble generosity and disinterestedness with which a few Masons in one of our new cities, have contributed so largely to the wants of the Brethren coming in upon them from all parts of the civilized world, has afforded a brilliant illustration to the world of the excellence and strength of our principles, and has been most effective in commending our Order to the respect of those who are not of us. Inasmuch as the effort has produced a common good, and its benefits have reached members of such a great number of Lodges, it seems but right that the existing pecuniary obligations should be discharged by a common effort of Masons.

"This circular is therefore designed to appeal to the several Subordinate Lodges, for a contribution from each, of from five to ten dollars, or more, as their circumstances shall warrant; to be forwarded through the Secretaries of their respective Grand Lodges, to be concentrated in the hands of the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of New York, in N. Y. City, and by him transmitted to the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of California, or through any more direct channel, as may

be most convenient.

"BROTHERS, we do not think we ask too much, nor can we doubt you will give a prompt response to this appeal in behalf of these noble few, who have become embarrassed by their devotion to those who have acquired in your Lodges, the right to value upon their Brethren on these western shores.

Respectfully and Fraternally,

JOHN A. TUTT,

L. STOWELL,

T.A. THOMAS,

E. J. WILLIS,

J. D. STEVENSON,

P. A. BRINSMADE,
B. JENNINGS,

Committee.

LITERARY NOTICES.

Second Lecture on Freemasonry, regarded in its Social influences, delivered in St. Paul's Lodge, No. 51, Birmingham. By Bro. Dr. Henry Hopkins, W. M., Oct. 27. A.L. 5851. A.D. 1851. London. Spencer.

Bro. Hopkins' second address is an appropriate sequel to his first Lecture, and is an eloquent and manly defence of the principles of the Order. If these addresses have the circulation they deserve, they cannot fail to raise a favourable opinion of Freemasonry, and to dispel the few prejudices which remain against it. The concluding paragraph so fully developes the object of the publication, that we do not hesitate to give it. It speaks for itself, and bears upon its face far higher encomiums than any observations of our own, can bestow upon it.

“And now, to bring my remarks to a close, which, though far from exhausting the subject, I fear have been sufficiently long to be wearisome; if I have at all succeeded in drawing a true picture of the social influences of Freemasonry, I trust that the result must be self-evident, that in all relations of life, it ought to exert a beneficial effect, that it contains within itself all the essentials to produce such an end; and that its obligations are admirably, and, indeed, wonderfully calculated, as must all Institutions be which can boast of Divine origin or sanction, to contribute to the general good of society; to promote domestic and social happiness; and to prepare such as enter it in a true spirit, and conscientiously endeavour to carry out its principles, for the approbation of that Great Being, who alone can know the thoughts of the heart, and the secret springs of action, and who will reward or punish, according as we have obeyed or disregarded his Divine commands."

The Pursuivant at Arms. By J. R. Planché. London. Wright.

This is not only an amusing, but a highly instructive book, for it not only abounds with clever writing for which all Mr. Planché's literary productions are justly celebrated, but it enters into the mysteries of Heraldry in a manner, which shews him to be equally a proficient on this subject, as in those matchless comedies, which are the perfection of the modern comic drama. Mr. Planché, in this book, wisely breaks through all the constraints with which pedantry has trammelled the subject of Heraldry; he looks at its details in a common sense and practical view, and though his ideas may shock the nerves of some of those old fashioned individuals, who never "travel out of the record," in which they were indoctrinated in early life, even these will acknowledge that the cleverness, with which Mr. Planché has discussed the questions of their science, is bold, original, and convincing. We shonld have been glad, had Mr. Planché discussed the connection between Heraldry and Freemasonry; but he has, perhaps, postponed the consideration of their relationship for a second edition, to which his book will, we feel sure, inevitably and very speedily run.

The House on the Rock. By the authoress of "Old Jolliffe," &c.

London. Wright.

The authoress of this charming little tale has exceeded all her former efforts, and grasped another laurel, of which neither time, nor envy can deprive her. It is very long since we perused a work of warmer sympathies, of brighter intelligence, or happier design. The good, which such a book is calculated to produce, cannot be estimated; but wherever it circulates, it will lay a foundation, which will secure for the authoress a popularity as firmly fixed as any house that has been based upon a rock.