Our Weekly Budget.

should be favourable to an early restoration of peace . Our Government is said to be untiring in its efforts to bring about this desirable consummation , and we trust , for the sake of all Europe , their efforts may be successful .

The following , which appeared in the Standard of Tuesday , needs no comment whatever . " Madrid , Monday . All the foreign and native Protestant missions , chapels , Bible societies and schools have received to-day an order from the Home Office to take down before sunset all the

external signs , placards , inscriptions , and every visible sign of faith . The parties interested have protested to their respective Embassies . " We merely ask is there a connection between this latest instance of Spanish religious intolerance and the return of the Ex-Queen Isabella ?

We have said that Her Ex-Majesty , if nofc exactly the pattern of domestic and queenly virtue we should select for imitation , has ever been remarkably attached to the religion of her fathers ; and we know that in Spain this kind of attachment means hostility to all other faiths .

WE are indebted to Le Monde Maconnique for the following interesting items of news : — The Grand Orient of Italy has granted Constitutions to ten new Lodges situated in the Orients of Capua , Naples , Viterbo , Castellamare , Mineo , Prato , Bari , Giurgevo , and Bucharest .

On the 15 th March , the three Lodges at Rome , the Chapter of Rose Croix , several members of the Grand Consistory and Grand Orient met together for the purpose of celebrating the anniversary of the foundation of the Masonic Temple at Rome . Bro . Joseph Petroni presided , and the

duties of Orator were fulfilled by Bro . Ulysse Bacci , who delivered a most excellent and appropriate oration , in which occurred the following admirable passage : —Prudence demands that Freemasonry should close its doors against those who are neither worthy nor capable of

fulfilling our difficult mission , who offer no proof whatever of the nobleness of their hearts , of the loftiness of their sentiments , of the manliness of their character . The Lodge is the school in which a man should perfect himself ; and

inasmuch as that perfection can in no wise be acquired without serious and unceasing care , the most important duty of our Lodge is to render the character of its members as perfect as possible .

The National Grand Orient of Spain has appointed Bro . the Marquis de Seoanne to the dignity of Grand Mater , in succession to Bro . Calatrava deceased . The hdletin official of the National Grand Orient of Egypt contains a decree of Grand Master Zola , announcing

the definitive constitution of the Supreme Council of Egypt and its dependencies , conformably with the patents of Constitution issued ( 1 ) on 13 fch December 1871 by the Supreme Council of Palermo , and Bro . R . Scarrozze , who has foregone the rights accruing to him under that

document in favour of the Grand Orient of Egypt , and , ( 2 ) on 31 st December 1875 by the Grand Orient of Spain . Bro . Beauregard is appointed Lieutenant Grand Commander . The same Grand Orient has just constituted a new Lodge —the first in Upper Egypt—afc Manfalnd , under the title of Ibraimia , and ranking No . 15 on the roll of Lodges .

The Neiv York Square announces that the Grand Lodge of Mississippi has in contemplation to establish a Masonic Asylum and Industrial School .

Erom the same source we learn thafc the Supreme Council 33 ° , for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States , met at the Kano Lodge Rooms on the 15 th ult . M . Josiah H . Drummond the P . Sov . Gr . Commander , presided . The attendance was very numerous , and included

representatives of the Supreme Councils of New Granada as well as of the Southern jurisdiction of U . S . The President ' s address was delivered in part on the opening , and part on the following day . On the third day of the session the election of officers for the next three years was held . The day following the session closed .

The Masonic Advocate ( Indianopolis ) announces that since the last communication of Grand Lodge there have been issued by the Grand Master dispensations for the establishment of four new Lodges , on the 6 th June , and 12 th , 13 th and 18 th July respectively .

Old Warrants.

Old Warrants .

We invite the co-operation of our readers to enable as to complete the series of " Old Warrants " of the " Ancients " and we furnish , for their guidance , a list of Lodges , formerly under that Grand Lodge , whose Warrants we desire to print . The London Lodges are given in one list , and the Country Lodges in another , for facility of reference .

Frequently a transcript of the Warrant prefaces the By-Laws of the Lodge , so that a copy of the latter would answer our purpose as well as a written transcript . We have already received so manyjcongratulations and

testimonies as to the value of this series of " Old Warrants , that we are anxious to prosecute our labours , provided we are kept furnished with the necessary materials , and we therefore urge upon the Craft the desirability of responding to onr invite as soon as possible . JOHN CONSTABLE . 13 SISK LANE , LONDON , E . C . " ANCIENTS . "

Warrants xvanted . —All London Lodge * . No . No . 1—Grand Masters' 143—Middlesex 3—Fidelity 145—Prudent Brethren 5—St . George ' s 173—Phoenix 1—Eoyal York 177—Domatic 9—Albion 180—St . Jamea ' 13—Union Waterloo 186—Industry 19—Eoyal Athelstan 188—Joppa 25—Eobert Burns 190-Oak 80—United Mariners 192—Lion and Lamb 34—Mount Moriab 193—Confidence 49—Gihon 194—St . Paul ' s 63—St . Mary ' s 198—Percy 65—Prosperity 201—Jordan 73—Mount Lebanon 205—Israel 87—Vitrnvian 211—St . Michael ' s 90—St . John's 212—Euphrates 95—Eastern Star 217—Stability 101—Temple 222—St . Andrew ' s 141—Faith 227—Ionic 142 _ st . Thomas 228—United Strength

Country Lodge Wan-ants wanted . 24—Newcastle-upon-Tyne 156—Harmony , Plymouth 31—United Industrious , Can- 158—Adams , Sheerness terbury 164—Perseverance , Sidmouth 32—St . George ' s , Liverpool 168—Mariners , Guernsey 36—Glamorgan , Cardiff 169—Temperance , Deptford

38—Union , Chichester 175—East Medina , Eyde 40—Dei-went , Hastings 178—Antiquity , Wigan 47—Newstead , Nottingham 184—Lodge at Old Brompton 50—Knights of Malta , Hinckley 196—Albion , Barbadoea 53—Eoyal Sussex , Bath 199—Peace and Harmony , Dover 54—Hope , Eochdalo 200—Old Globe , Scarborough

62—Social , Manchester 204—Caledonian , Manchester 68—Eoyal Clarence , Bristol 207—Kingston , Jamaica 74—Athol , Birmingham ' 209—Etonian , Windsor 76—Economy , Winchester 210—Duke of Athol , Denton 79—Pythagorean , Greenwich 213—Perseverance , Norwich

80—St . John ' s , Sunderland 214—Hope and Unity , Eomford 81—Doric , Suffolk 215—Commerce , Haslingdon 98—St . Martin's , Burslera 216—Harmonic , Liverpool 104—St . John ' s , Stockport 218—True and Friendship , Cal-107—Philanthropic , King ' s Lynn cutta 110—Loyal Cambrian , Merthyr 220—Harmony , Garston

Tydvil 221—St . John ' s , Bolton 113—Unanimity , Preston 224—Atlantic , Bermuda 115—St . John ' s , Gibraltar 225—St . Luke ' s , Ipswich 117—Salopian of Charity , Shrews- 226—Benevolence , Littleborongh bury 229—Humanity , Calcutta 119—Sun , Whitehaven 232—Marine , Calcutta 125—Prince Edwin ' s , Hythe , Kent 233—Prince Alfred , Bermuda

128—Prince Edwin ' s , Bury 234—Anchor and Hope , Calcutta 146—Antiquity , Bolton-le-Moors 239—Friendly , Kingston , Jamaica 147—Justice , Deptford 243—Loyalty , Guernsey 149—Peace , Meltham 244—Yarborongh , Guernsey 151—Albany , Newport , I . of W . 245—Mechanic's , Guernsey 153—Inhabitants , Gibraltar 246—E . Union , Cheltenham 155—Perseverance , Liverpool 247—Union , Demcrara , S . A .

The General Assembly of the Grand Orient of France will meet on Monday next , at 9 a . m . Our contemporary le Monde Maconnique announces thafc no specially important

question will occupy the attention of the assembly . The accounts will be examined , questions standing over from the last session will be determined , and the Vacancies in the Order , caused by the retirement of one third of ita members , will be filled up ,