Honorary Life Governors Of The Charities.

so many votes created by this moans as really to make am appreciable difference ; and even if there were , we should look upon them as but a fair commission paid in consideration for services rendered . It should be borne in mind that recognition in the form proposed really costs the

Institution but very little ; but in cases of this character prizes are not valued according to their cost , but rather from tlie point of view that somo notice is taken of labour done in n good cause . We have but little doubt that a letter of thank ? won Id satisfy many brethren who work year after year ;

hm . on the other hand , we are of opinion that a liberal policy is the best . We do not expect that the alteration will make much difference in the . amount raised , but it will show that the Institutions are mindful that they are under some sort of obligation to those brethren who do what they

can for the Chanties . We should like to see the proposal extended before being finally settled , as we think it a mistake to stop rewards

after the first £ 100 has been recognised ; surely if it is worth while to give two votes for the first £ 100 , it is also good policy to give two for the next £ 100 , or one for each £ 50 . But these are matters which we believe will be

discussed at the meetings . We can only now hastily refer to them , the time during which the subject has been officially notified to the Craft being so short . We have on previous

occasions pointed out the inconvenienee of . the rules in this respect , and think the discussion of such subjects as the present clearly show that some further notice might advantageously be arranged .

Scotch And Irish Masonry In The Colonies.

SCOTCH AND IRISH MASONRY IN THE COLONIES .

IN the course of certain articles on the subject of Freemasonry in the British Colonies and Dependencies , we have more than once referred to the existence in them of many Scotch and Irish Lodges , and it must be obvious

to our readers that the picture of Bntisb Ireeinasonry abroad must be incomplete without some sort of numerical sketch of the Lodges holding under the sister jurisdictions of Scotland and Ireland .

As far as we can make out from the scanty materials at our command there are some 171 Lodges in Colonial and foreign parts which have been warranted by the Grand Lodge of Scotland . These , like our own , will be found scattered everywhere over the face of the globe , a large proportion

being at the Antipodes , where English , Irish , and Scotch Freemasonry would seem to flourish amazingly , even like the green bay tree of the Psalmist . These 171 Lodges are distributed among fifteen Provinces , of which we find from Bro . Kenning ' s Cosmo that Hindustan heads the list . The

number of Lodges in this Province is seemingly twentyfive , of which eight have been consituted since 1872 . Bombay and Calcutta are favourite abodes of the Scottish Craft . There are four Lodges constituting the Prov . Grand Lodge of Trinidad , and some nine Lodges—those in

Jamaica being excepted—in the West Indies , in which there would appear to be three Provincial Grand Lodges , namely , those of Bahamas , Bermudas , and West Indies . Jamaica musters as many as nine Lodges . South America seems to be highly favoured by Scotch Masons , at all

events , we can make out a round dozen Lodges in the Republic of Peru , most of which are located at Lima and Callao , and there are also Lodges in Chili and Columbia .

China has four Lodges , and Japan two , while Aden , Beyrout in Syria , Greytown , Central America , Newfoundland , and other parts haye one or more Lodges which acknowledge the supremacy of the Grand Lodge of Scotland .

We have already said that one of the great strongholds of Scottish Freemasonry is the Antipodes , in proof of which we may mention that the Australian Colony of Vic . toria has some half score of Lodges on the roll of its Provincial Grand Lodge , New South Wales some twenty-five and Queensland and South Australia four each . In New

Zealand , the Craft is even more strongly represented , as there are over thirty Lodges constituting two Provincial Grand Lodges . There are some four Lodges at the Cape

of Good Hope , but without any Provincial organisation , and till lately there were a few Lodges in Montreal , but these now form part of the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Quebec .

Scotch And Irish Masonry In The Colonies.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland , though not so formidably represented abroad , has nevertheless some seventy-one Lodges in foreign parts , there being as many as five Provincial Grand Lodges . In Queensland there are ten Lodges , two of them being located at Brisbane . South Australia

likewise boasts this number , having ten Lodges , of which two belong to the capital , Adelaide . Victoria has seventeen Lodges , among them one without a number , to wit , the Prov . Grand Master's Lodge . New South Wales has fight Lodges , the half of them meeting at Sydney ; while New

Zealand musters thirteen Lodges , two being located at Auckland , where the Provincial Grand Lodge meets , and one at Dnnedin . These make up together fifty-eight Lodges , and besides there are four in Ceylon , three in Tasmania , one at Gibraltar , one in Malta , one at Constantinople , two

in Lima , & c . In conclusion , if we add the 171 Scottish and 71 Irish Colonial Lodges to the 495 on the roll of the Grand Lodge of England , we have a grand total of 737 Lodges , or in round figures say 750 Lodges , which owe allegiance to the three Grand Ledges of the United Kingdom . It should be

remarked that the increase in the number of Scotch Lodges during the last ten years has been , in proportion , far greater than in English Masonry , while the additions to the Irish Colonial Lodges have been but few in number .

Our Brother Is Dead.

OUR BROTHER IS DEAD .

FEOM THE " KEYSTONE . "

OUR Country and our Craft are bending m sorrow together—our Brother—the President of the United States , is dead . The habiliments of mourning are everywhere , betokening unfamiliar grief . Confessedly , the greatest man who has occupied the Presidential chair since . Jefferson—one who was at once a statesman , a warrior , and

a man of letters—is now no more . As Freemasons , we mourn a Brother , a Companion , and a Knight , who sincerely loved our Fraternity , and illustrated in his life the

sublime principles which it inculcates . He died on Monday last—we write on Tuesday . Everywhere business is suspended , and the rulers of the civilized world by cable condole with the American nation .

President Garfield was both a great man and a good man , and no less good than great . He was a sincere lover and humble worshipper of the Grand Architect of the Universe . He acted nobly here , because he expected to live hereafter . Life was his school , and death his

graduation to the higher life . Now he has passed the Grand Overseer ' s examination , his work is approved , and he has received the white stone . Bro . Benjamin Franklin , the sagest philosopher America has produced , once said : " I look upon death to be as necessary to ouv constitution

as sleep . We shall rise refreshed in the morning . " How refreshed must Brother Garfield be , after his eighty days of continuous , poignant , and almost unexampled suffering ! Now there is for him no more anguish of body or mind , no more death . He enjoys , at last , in a higher sphere ,

" The rest from all fever , the peace from all pain , The one antidote certain for life ' s bitter bane . " He is happy ; but the American nation is inconsolable on account of his loss . Had he died an ordinary death , our grief would be less poignant ; but he was murdered . The

man who was without a personal enemy , it is scarcely too much to say , the best man in the nation , and justly at the nation ' s head , was stricken clown by the assassin ' s bullet . Expecting his death on the first day after the bullet was buried in his body , on the eightieth day thereafter we

hoped for his continued life . Hence , after we were so Jong prisoners of hope , his death was most sudden , and we are almost dumb with grief . Seviegne said , on the death of a great minister of State : "lam so cast down by the news of the sudden death of M . de Louvois , that I know not

where to begin to speak of it . Behold him dead , this great minister , this mighty man , who occupied so high a place , who was the central point of so much power . What affairs , what plans , what projects he had in view . 0 ! my God , allow me a little time ! No , was the reply , you shall not have one single moment ! " And so it was with

Garfield . But we mourn especially as Craftsmen . We have lost a Brother Mason , a Companion Royal Arch Mason , a Knig ht