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lodges have united ancl established an infant protection society for children , of the ages of three months to three years , the object being to nurse antl take charge of the infants while the mothers are enabled to go and work . Similar charities exist in Strasburg , Paris , & c . The Rouen infant charity commenced its operations on the 30 th May , 1847 . In conformity with a previous determination the united lodges of Rouen met on the 18 th April , and distributed prizes to worthy workmen of the town—one weaver , one modeller , one founder , one brushmaker , and a foreman at a manufactory ; each received one hundred francs and a silver medal for general good conduct and character .
BOULOGNE . —A new lodge-room was consecrated on the 7 th August , 1847 , by the brethren of the Augustus of Benevolence , who will hold their future meetings there . CALAIS . —The two lodges have joined , and from being opponents have become united , under the name of " Perseverance and Benevolence united . " LYONS . —A new masonic hall was consecrated at Lyons on the 19 th
December , 1847 , by the Lodge Perfect Silence , which will in future meet therein ; it has been built at their own expense . By accounts received from Geneva , it appears great deceptions have been practised by a person calling himself a Freemason , named Peter Paul Gonnard , having levied contributions upon all the brethren he could find , and every lodge he could visit . The Lodge Star of Lcu _ an , having ascertained too late the character of the visitor , investigated the
circumstances with which they had become acquainted the following day ; but the gentleman had left the town , with a large bill remaining unpaid at the inn . The circular of the Grand Orient of France , which publishes the above , adds thereto—that a number of persons arc travelling
about making demands on the purses of the brethren to which they have no claim , and suggests that every loclge should investigate very strictly the certificates and the petitioners , as many of them will not agree in the ages ancl other particulars ; some certificates are from suspended lodges , or otherwise irregular ; and many have fallen accidentally into the hands of the persons presenting them . The Loclge of the United Brethren , at Strasburg , has recently adopted a mode of preventing , as much as possible , a continuance of systematic beggary by means of old
certificates , having purchased them of the holders whenever the terms could be arranged mutually satisfactory . The Lodge Frederick of the Rising Sun , at Brieg , proposed sometime since to detain all such certificates if presented uncier suspicious circumstances . The " Latomia " ( No . 21 ) , argues upon the injustice of such a proceeding , but approves of the Strasburg plan of purchase , unless the certificate should be known to have been purloined , or to have belonged to a suspended or erased lodge or brother .
FRANKFORT-ON-TIIE-ODEU . —The Lodge Upright Heart , established here seventy years ago , took possession of the new temple on the 18 th of December , 1846 . HAMBRO ' . —The hospital for the cure of diseases , established by the Grancl Lodge of Hambro ' , received the sum of 26 , 322 marks during the year 1846 , and expended 24 , 029 marks . Fifty men , and two hundred and sixty-seven women , were admitted to the hospital in that period ; the funds have been enriched by several valuable legacies . Ujur . —A fund of benevolence , already amounting to a considerable
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Foreign.
lodges have united ancl established an infant protection society for children , of the ages of three months to three years , the object being to nurse antl take charge of the infants while the mothers are enabled to go and work . Similar charities exist in Strasburg , Paris , & c . The Rouen infant charity commenced its operations on the 30 th May , 1847 . In conformity with a previous determination the united lodges of Rouen met on the 18 th April , and distributed prizes to worthy workmen of the town—one weaver , one modeller , one founder , one brushmaker , and a foreman at a manufactory ; each received one hundred francs and a silver medal for general good conduct and character .
BOULOGNE . —A new lodge-room was consecrated on the 7 th August , 1847 , by the brethren of the Augustus of Benevolence , who will hold their future meetings there . CALAIS . —The two lodges have joined , and from being opponents have become united , under the name of " Perseverance and Benevolence united . " LYONS . —A new masonic hall was consecrated at Lyons on the 19 th
December , 1847 , by the Lodge Perfect Silence , which will in future meet therein ; it has been built at their own expense . By accounts received from Geneva , it appears great deceptions have been practised by a person calling himself a Freemason , named Peter Paul Gonnard , having levied contributions upon all the brethren he could find , and every lodge he could visit . The Lodge Star of Lcu _ an , having ascertained too late the character of the visitor , investigated the
circumstances with which they had become acquainted the following day ; but the gentleman had left the town , with a large bill remaining unpaid at the inn . The circular of the Grand Orient of France , which publishes the above , adds thereto—that a number of persons arc travelling
about making demands on the purses of the brethren to which they have no claim , and suggests that every loclge should investigate very strictly the certificates and the petitioners , as many of them will not agree in the ages ancl other particulars ; some certificates are from suspended lodges , or otherwise irregular ; and many have fallen accidentally into the hands of the persons presenting them . The Loclge of the United Brethren , at Strasburg , has recently adopted a mode of preventing , as much as possible , a continuance of systematic beggary by means of old
certificates , having purchased them of the holders whenever the terms could be arranged mutually satisfactory . The Lodge Frederick of the Rising Sun , at Brieg , proposed sometime since to detain all such certificates if presented uncier suspicious circumstances . The " Latomia " ( No . 21 ) , argues upon the injustice of such a proceeding , but approves of the Strasburg plan of purchase , unless the certificate should be known to have been purloined , or to have belonged to a suspended or erased lodge or brother .
FRANKFORT-ON-TIIE-ODEU . —The Lodge Upright Heart , established here seventy years ago , took possession of the new temple on the 18 th of December , 1846 . HAMBRO ' . —The hospital for the cure of diseases , established by the Grancl Lodge of Hambro ' , received the sum of 26 , 322 marks during the year 1846 , and expended 24 , 029 marks . Fifty men , and two hundred and sixty-seven women , were admitted to the hospital in that period ; the funds have been enriched by several valuable legacies . Ujur . —A fund of benevolence , already amounting to a considerable