Recent Increase In Masonry In The Colonies, &C.

warranted within the stated time ; threo of these are included in the District Grand Lodge of Jamaica , the Warrant of one bearing date 1879 , of another 1880 , and of the third the present year . The other three Lodges form no part of any District Grand Lodge ; two were constituted in 1878 , and the i * emaining ono belongs to the current 1881 .

In the North and South American Groups , but few additions are possible . There are independent Grand Grand Lodges in British North America , and it is a wellunderstood law that the Grand Lodge of England , though it may retain its daughter Lodges in allegiance , if they prefer

to remain under its banner , must not issue any Warrants for new Lodges . Such conduct would be tantamount to trespassing on the rights of such independent Grand Lodges . Of the eleven Lodges in South America , two

located in the Argentine Republic have received their Warrants during 1875-81 , namely , one in 1875 , and the other in 1878 . Thus , of these twenty-four Lodges , three come within the period over which our inquiry extends .

So far the increases we have noted , have not , with the exception of South Africa , been very considerable , or indeed more than could have been looked for , having regard to the great popularity which has attended the Craft since the resignation of the Marquis of Ripon , and the accession

to the Grand Mastership of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales . At the Antipodes , however , the picture is somewhat different . Thus , taking the first in order , namely , the District Grand Lodge of New South Wales , it comprises in all forty-four Lodges , of which as many as twenty have

been constituted within the last seven years . Of these Nos . 1552 , Sydney , 1568 , Liverpool , N . S . W ., 1569 , Glen Inues , N . S . W ., were warranted in 1875 ; Nos . 1652 , 1653 , 1654 in 1876 ; Nos . 1682 , 1727 in 1877 ; Nos . 1761 , 1762 , 1795 , and 1796 in 1878 ; Nos . 1830 , 1831 , 1844 , 1845 , aud

1846 in 1879 ; 1864 in 1880 , and two others in the conrse of the present year . Of the twenty Lodges in Queensland nine are of recent origin : —Nos . 1546 and 1554 belonging to the year 1875 ; Nos . 1595 , 1596 and 1628 to 1876 ; No . 1680 to 1877 ; and Nos . 1819 , 1825 , and 1850 to 1879 .

In South Australia , which has only eighteen Lodges , there are only four of recent creation , namely , one of 1878 , one of last year , and two of the year 1881 . Victoria , with its seventy-two Lodges , is even more fortunately circumstanced , as there are but eight outof the whole number which

have been warranted since 1875 , namely , Nos . 1699 , 1700 , and 1701 belonging to the year 1877 ; No . 1786 of 1878 ; Nos . 1880 and 1881 of last year , and two of the current

years creation . Western Australia , which has no District Grand Lodge has had two new Lodges warranted in the stated time , namely , No . 1683 in 1877 , and No . 1840 in 1879 . Tasmania has no new Lodges .

Of the twenty-one Lodges in Canterbury , New Zealand , there are fourteen new Lodges , No , 1651 of 1876 , No . 1666 of 1877 , No . 1737 of 1878 , No . 1811 of 1879 , Nos . 1856 , 1857 , 1858 , and 1877 of 1880 , and six during the current year ; no less than five of these belonging to the

last quarter . Of the eleven Otago Lodges two are new , one being of the year 1876 , and the others of last year . Nos . 1689 and 1690 , consecrated in 1877 , are the newly warranted Lodges , in Westland . Nine of the thirteen

in Auckland , North Island , come within the period stated , namely , No . 1530 warranted in 1875 , Nos . 1647 and 1655 1876 ; Nos . 1710 and 1711 in 1877 ; No . 1801 in 1879 ; No . 1878 last year ; and two this year . Nine of the fifteen Lodges belong to the period 1875-81 , * No . 1577 , of

1875 ; No . 1646 , of 1876 ; Nos . 1677 , 1720 , and 1721 , of 1876 ; Nos . 1812 , 1813 , of 1879 , and two of the present year . The Fiji Islands Lodge belongs to the current year . We have now gone through the -whole of the Colonial Lodges , and it will be found , on closer examination of our articles , that as regards numbers , there has been an amazing addition during the past seven years . Whether such addition is wise or not is a question to be argued .

ADELAIDE EXHIBITION . —The Gold Medal has just been awarded to the Montserrat Lime Jnice and Cordials . The sole consignees , Messrs . EvanB , Sons and Co ., of Liverpool , are to be congratulated npon this result , whose enterprise in placing this before the public has met with such snecess , as is witnessed by the fact that in the conrse of a few days 60 , 000 gallons of Lime Juice were imported into Liverpool alone . —Liverpool Journal of Commerce .

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Occasional Papers.—No. I.*

OCCASIONAL PAPERS . —No . I . *

Written expressly for delivery at Lodges of Instruction .

THE SCHISM IN ENGLISH MASONRY .

THE era of Speculative Freemasonry commenced with the establishment of Grand Lodge in 1717 , when the " Four Old Lodges , " which then existed in London , met together and appointed one Anthony Sayer , gentleman , Grand Master of England . This was not the only Masonic body at the time in the country . There was a Lodge iu

the City of York , which styled itself the Grand Lodge of all England , and when the brethren of the South began busying themselves in the Constitution of Masons' Lodges in different parts of England , it likewise bestirred itself , and resumed its meetings with some approach to regularity .

With this reference to the York Grand Lodge , 1 shall content myself just now , for the best of all reasons , namely , that its influence and the work in which it engaged itself had little , if anything , to do with the famous Schism . Well , our Grand Lodge in England having been f stablished in

London by the ' Four Old Lodges , " Bro . G . Payne , who was chosen Grand Master in succession to Bro . Sayer , that is , in the year 1718 , and rechosen to the same office in 1720 , set about compiling a number of regulations for the government of our Society . Later , Grand Lodge itself entered

upon a similar task , and having resolved on the compilation of a new Code of Laws , based on the old Gothic Constitutions , entrusted the work to the Rev . Bro . James Anderson , a Scotch Presbyterian clergyman , resident in London , and another of our earliest Masonic worthies . So

much zeal and ability did the reverend gentleman display in the work , that in a very short time a Book of Constitutions was submitted and approved , and in the year 1723 it was published . As , however , new Lodges were constantly being established , both in London and the Provinces , it

was only natural that in time certain additions and emendations should have been found necessary , and some years later , the same brother was charged with the duty of preparing and publishing a second edition of the Book of Constitutions . This made its appearance in the year 1738 ,

and it is just about this time that those internal dissensions broke out among the brethren of the Grand Lodge of England , which culminated in the establishment of the second Grand Lodge in London , nor was it till three * fourths of a century—dating from the year 1738—had

passed that the brethren of the rival Masonic sects became animated by a wiser and more fraternal spirit , and joined together in building up our present " United Grand Lodge of England . " What were the true reasons which led to this Schism will never probably be known . Though the

Masonic Fraternity is generally supposed to be , in a preeminent degree , an harmonious body of brethren , this has not always proved to be the case , and some of the changes which were introduced into our system of government between 1717 and 1738 appear to have caused

dissatisfaction in the minds of some members . Or , more likely still , a certain amount of jealousy may have sprung up among the Lodges , and these changes in our laws may have been made to answer the purpose of a convenient peg on which the discontented brethren might hang out their grievances .

However this may have been , the breach , which no doubt was of a very trifling character , and might with the exercise of some tact and judgment in the first instance been in all probability healed , rapidly widened . The number of the malcontent Lodges—for so I think I must

call them now—increased , and somewhere about 1753 , they set up a Grand Lodge of their own , which they called the " Grand Lodge of England according to the old Institutions , " or for brevity ' s sake , the Grand Lodge of the " Ancients , " in contradistinction from the Grand

Lodge from which they had seceded , and which they contemptuously designated the Grand Lodge of "the Moderns , " though , in reality , of course , the two titles should have been transposed , the Grand Lodge founded in

1717 being in truth the " Ancient" Grand Lodge , and its younger rival , the Grand Lodge of the " Moderns . " There is also another name by which the new Grand Lodge was known , though it was not till many years after its estab-