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REVIEWS .

All Books intended for Review should be addressed to the Editor of Tho Freemason ' s Chronicle , 23 Great Queen Street , "W . C . The Tlisloiij of Freemasonry in the District of Malta , from the year 1800 to the present time . By W . Bro . A . M . Broadley , of Lincoln ' s Inn ,

Rarrister-at-Law ; P . M . 1717 ; W . M . 1835 ; P . D . D . G . M . Malta : P . G . M . M . M . for Tunis and Malta ; P . G . M . of the Cryptic and Allied Masonic Degrees for Tunis and Malta ; D . Intendant-General of the

Bed Cross for Malta and Tunis ; P . G . C . and G . P . and V . V . Prolate and Cliancollor K . T . and K . M . for tho Mediterranean ; andP . M . W . S . 18 ° . Published for the benefit of tho District Benevolent Fund . London : George Kenning , " Freomason" Office , 198 Fleet-street , E . C . 1880 .

[ Continued from p 117 . ] The third on the District Roll of Lodges is Zetland , No . 515 , which was founded in 1846 , and thus named in honour of the then Grand Master , the late Earl of Zetland . Some difficulties appear to have been encountered at the outset , owing to tho refusal of the W . M . ' s of the sister Lodges to take part in the consecration . The brethren ,

howevor , would not snbmit to be disappointed , and , having expended tho considerable sum of £ 180 on furniture and decorations , they formally met together and opened the Lodge . This happened on the 12 th January 1846 , when twenty-nine Masons were present , and several , among whom must be included Bro . G . Tamajo , now a Senator of Italy and Sov . G . Commander of the Supreme Grand Council of the

A . and A . Rite for Italy , became joining members . However , after some negotiations , these obstacles to the constitution of the Zetland were overcome , and Bro . Jerome P . M ., and acting W . M . of the Union Lodge , duly consecrated it , as No . 756 , and then installed Bro . Flack as its first W . Master . Bro . Flack was continued in office for a second term , and was then succeeded by Bro . Tancredi Sciberras ,

but , owing to tho latter ' s absence from the island , he appointed the Officers and fulfilled his duties till the autumn of the year when Bro . Sciberras returned , and attended a meeting on the 9 th October , on which occasion it is recorded that , the Lodge being in the third degree , the acting W . M . ( Bro . Flack ) requested all those who were not Past Masters to retire , unless they expressed their desire to take

that degree , when Bros . Piston , Samnt , Giovanetti , and Morris joined with Bro . Sciberras , and the degree of P . M . was conferred upon them . In December , Bro . Goodenough was elected and installed W . M ., and on the evening of the latter event a Bro . Steddall was named Expert , aud five brethren nominated for the R . A . degree—a charter for the formation of a Chapter of that degree having been

received in the September preceding . Bro . Flack was re . chosen W . M . for the ensuing year , and was succeeded in 1851 by Bro . Goodenough , during whose ( second ) Mastership a scheme was set a-foot for tho union of the three Lodges of Malta into one . On the 1 st Feb . 1851 , a joint meeting of the three was held , in the form of a Lodge , there being present sixteen members of the Zetland , with seven of

SS . John and Paul , and twenty-three of the Union of Malta . Bro . Goodenough presided , and a letter in support of the movement was read from Bro . McLeod Moore , a Past Master of the oldest Lodge in the island , and Grand Prior of the Order of the Temple in Canada at the present time . The proposal was fully discussed , and in the event adopted by an overwhelming majority , a committee , consisting

of tho three W . Masters , three Past Masters , and three elected representatives being appointed to arrange the details . This Committee met at an early date , and recommended that the new Lodge should be called the Grand Union Lodge , and its R . A . Chapter the Grand Union Chapter . Copies of tho resolution wore sent to the P . G . M . ( Bro . Burrows ) and the Grand Secretary of England . A second

joint Lodge was held on 10 th February , having been called by order of the W . M . ' s , when tho stops taken were confirmed , and a copy of tho terms of arrangement , accompanied by a petition , was determined on being forwarded to England . In tho latter it was stated " that mauy desire to amalgamate our existing warrants into ONE , to bear on your books tho No . 437 " ( now 349 ) " being that of our

oldest Lodge , unless , indeed , the nobleness of our purpose , and its high Masonic character should lead you " ( the Grand Secretary ) " to consider us as deserving of a very high number on the records of the Grand Lodge of England . " At tho April meeting of the Zetland a letter was read from Archdeacon Barrows , P . G . Master of the Province of Andalusia , Malta , and Gozo , in which he expressed his

approval of the scheme ; but , strange to say—and it speaks but ill for the courtesy of our then Grand Secretarial functionaries—no notice whatever was taken of the petition by Grand Lodge . Equally strange is it that the proposal is barely hinted at in the minutes of the other two Lodges . lb is , perhaps , not greatly to bo regretted that nothing camo of the suggested nnion . Tho United Lodge would

have been excessively numerous , and brethren meriting advancement to the principal offices would havo been obliged to wait an unconscionable length of time . In tho year 1 S 52 Bro . Chapman presided over the deslinics of tho Zetland as W . M ., and dnring his term of office Bro . Goodenough presented to the Lodge a . costly dinner service of stone china , which is

still in use , after the lapse of close on thirty years . Bro . B . Douglas was chosen Master for tho year following , and it is worthy of note that at his installation , as at that of his predecessor , again in 1856 , aud at the eud of the year 1857 , when he was for the second time installed in office , the degree of Past Master was conferred on several Master Masons , our present Grand Secretary , Bro . Shadwell

Gierke , being one of twenty so honoured on the last-named occasion . The minute book for the next four years appears to be missing . It seems , however , that early in 1856 the Lodge was visited by Bro . Captain Philips , who shortly afterwards became a member , installed Bro . Giagell in the chair of K . S ., himself becoming S . W . But , his association with the Lodge was of no great duration , as duty required

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him to return to England . During his membership he enjoyed what to him mnst ever be a source of gratification , of having seconded the nomination of Bro . Shadwell Clerke as a candidate for initiation into the mysteries of Freemasonry , and before he left the island a farewell dinner , which we are told ho was unfortnnately prevented from attending , was given in his honour , while an address was presented to

him as " an acknowledgment of the very great services rendered by him to the Lodge . " During Bro . Gingell ' s second Mastership , £ 20 was voted by tho Lodge to the Indian Relief Fund , whilo in Bro , Douglas's second Mastership , 1858 , a difference of a serions character arose between that brother and Bro . Past Master Flack , through " tho appointment of an Expert , contrary to the Book of Constitutions . " As

no further mention is made of the difference , we presume it cannot have been of a very enduring charactor . It was during this year also tho Ledge was visited by Bro . Tristram , P . M . of the Atlantic Phcenix Lodge , No . 271 ( now No . 224 ) , who recorded an event which had happened to him some time previously , and was likely to prove of interest , as showing the general diffusion of Masonry and

its benefits . Bro . Tristram then related how , when travelling in " the south of the Djereed ( south of the Tunisian frontier ) , his party were brought to a stardstill for the want of fresh camels as well as provisions . This perplexity was increased by falling in with a hostile tribe , and Bro . Tristram , on being conducted to the seat of the chief , perceiving the personal danger they were in , and finding

all other means fail , tried to commnnicate with him by one of the higher degrees of Masonry , which was immediately responded to , and although in their interchanges some differences were found , chiefly arising from the difficulty of language , yet sufficient was made known to engage the hospitality of the Arab Sheihk , who not only furnished them with means of fresh transport , but entertained them

for some days free of expense . " It was also during this year Bro . W . Kingston , the present D . G . M ., first visited the Lodge , that Bro . Laferta presented to it an engraving , of President George Washington in Masonic costume , and that delegates from all three Lodges met together , and determined if possible to hold their assemblies under the same roof . Bro . Gingell—to whom , by the way , had been presented

a Past Master ' s jewel , in recognition of his valuable services in the chair daring the years 1856-7—again occupied the post of Master in 1859 , being succeeded by Bro . Delamore in 1860 , Bro . M . Drake being W . M . in 1861 , with Bro . Armstrong as his S . W ., and Bro . Dr . St . John Edwards , afterwards D . G . M ., as his J . W . Bro . Edwards filled the chair in 1862 , and Bro . Armstrong in 1863 , when

the number of the Lodge was altered from 756 to 515 . Bro . Edwards was Master for the second time in 1864 , on the 27 th April in which year he was nominated as the first resident D . G . M ., after the lapse of close upon forty years . In 1865-6 , Bro . Dewar was W . M ., and it was during the latter of these two years that Bro . Rosenbnsch , the pre . sent D . D . G . M ., was initiated . But it is unnecessary to give the full

list of Masters . Among those who have occupied the chair since Bro . Dewar should be mentioned Bro . Conolly P . D . D . G . M ., who was W . M . in 1867 , 1868 , and 1871 , to whom two years after was presented a D . D . G . M . ' s jewel of the value of £ 10 ; Bro . R . Mowat W . M . 1872 , who was honoured with the presentation of a D . G . J . W . 's regalia , in recognition of his services ; Bro . Gorham W . M . in 1870 , to whom was

presented a scroll and marble timepiece , and Bros . Segond W . M . in 1879 , present D . G . Treasurer , towards a testimonial to whom , in his D . G . Tresorial capacity , the sum of £ 5 was in 1874 voted by the Lodge , Since the constitution of the Lodge in 1846 there have been 671 initiates and joining members , while the number of subscribing members at the time of publication of Bro . Broadley ' s sketch is set down

as being twenty-six . We havo thus far given a brief sketch of the history of the three Lodges in Malta , but it is within the recollection of our brethren that in the year 1877 a Lodge was chartered , bearing the style and title of Ancient Carthage , No . 1717 , and meeting at Tunis , North Africa , near the site of the famous city from which its name is

derived . We shall therefore depart from the order of Bro . Broadley ' s treatment , and complete our notice of English Craft Masonry before passing to tho notice of tho Arch , Mark , and other branches of Masonry in the District . Wo will , first of all , however , glance at tho information whith Bro . Broadley has collated respecting Freemasonry in this neighbourhood before 1877 . In 1821 , owing to

a revolntiou in Naples , a large emigration to Tunis took place , and among the emigrants were many members of the G . O . of that State , who , in spite of the objections of the Bey of Tunis , held secret meetings in the suburbs of the capital , and especially " under the friendly shelter of the great Roman cisterns amidst the ruins of Carthage . " In 1830 the name of the working Lodge was " Figli

Addottioi di Cartagine Ed Utica , " the W . M . being Bro . Plass . In 1845 this became merged in the " Figli Scelti di Cartagine ed Utica , of which Bros . Colin and Payen successively filled the presidential chair . The eighteenth degree of the A . and A . Rite was worked at this time , and the Lodge issued a most beautiful and artistic certificate in the French langnage . " These wore succeeded by the "La

Novella Cartagine , with Bro . Dr . Ducord as W . M ., and tho " Attilio Rugolo , " the W . M . being Bio . G . Morpnrgo . In 1860 the G . O . of France chartered a Lodge with Rose Croix Chaptor attached , named " La Perscverenza . " These flourished for some seven or eight years under the presidency of Bros . S . Garsin W . M . and P . Sulcma M . W . S . respectively . In 1865 tho G . O . of Palermo

constituted the Cartagine cd Utica , " with Bro . Magnaini as W . M ., and about the some time the Grand Council of France chartered " La Segretez / . a . " In 1867-8 the G . O . of Italy , then located at Florence , authorised a Lodge and Chapter to be known as " Concordia ed Progresso . " None of these , however , Bro . Broadley tells us , have had an active existence since 1870 . In 1877 , the idea of seeking , from

the Grand Lodge of England , a Warrant for a Lodge to be styled thci Ancient Carthage Lodge , No . 1717 was started , the initial difficulty caused by only one of tho seven would-be petitioners being an English Mosou , being overcome b y the affiliation with SS . John and Paid , No . 349 , Malta , of the Wardens designato , Bros . Rev . E . BFrauckel of jNo . 293 , Jerusalem , G . O . Canada , aud J . E . L . Barker of