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Foreign.
sum , has been arranged here for the relief of Freemasons and their families . BASEL . —The third masonic congress will meet this year at Basel ( Switzerland ); the time has not yet been settled , but the probability is , that it will be sometime in August , if political events on the continent do not interfere to prevent the meeting . A ( new ) History of Freemasonry in England , Scotland , and Ireland , 1685—1784 , will shortly appear in German ; to which will be appended a Treatise on the Ancient Masons . By G . Kloss , M . D . ; procurable ancl published by Klemm , Leipzic .
CANADA , Montreal . —We are fairly at work in good earnest , and have set apart the annual contribution of four shillings and fourpence from every member of a private lodge to form a fund of benevolence , and have taken preliminary measures to establish a Female Orphan Asylum . Our new Masonic Hall will be ready in the autumn , and will contain loclge and chapter rooms not easil y to be surpassed . We reciprocate our Prov . Grand Lodge circulars with thc Grand Lod of the
ge United States . Bro . Harrington has won al ! hearts , and is for the third time Master of his Lodge as well as Z of the Victoria Chapter , which is in full and prosperous work . BERMUDA , Hamilton , May 20 . —The Atlantic Phoenix Loilge , No . 271 , is in a very flourishing state just now , and we have commenced building a masonic temple .
India.
INDIA .
The Agents in Calcutta for this Review are—Messrs . LATTKY , BROTHERS & Co ., Government-place ; and Messrs . THACKER & Co ., St . Andrew ' s Library . SINGAPORE , April 7 . — To the Editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . —Sir and Brother—It has afforded the brethren of this island no little satisfaction to find that the frost of indifference to the wants
ancl necessities of lodges on foreign stations , which has so long bound up the considerate feelings of our influential rulers beneath the dais in Great Queen-street , is at length disappearing under the genial influence of the Grancl Master , whose honoured name we rejoice in ; ancl I sincerely trust that the same kind and active interest in the welfare of his
distant lieges , which has induced him in his exalted place in the Grancl Loclge to propose an amelioration of the laws relating to the limited interval for the acquisition of degrees in Craft Masonry , will lead him to the consideration of the other points mooted in your correspondent , a Canton Zetlander ' s , letter of the 4 th September , and the much needed concessions therein contended for be granted . I quite agree in all that has been stated in that letter , and think the Grand Lodge would do a most laudable thing in thus fostering their distant brethren , by granting
permission to initiate candidates in foreign stations at the age of eighteen years ; rescinding the rule which requires a brother to be a full year a Mason before he can be qualified for the chair , and the time he shall be permitted to occupy it—declarations from the Master and Wardens of
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Foreign.
sum , has been arranged here for the relief of Freemasons and their families . BASEL . —The third masonic congress will meet this year at Basel ( Switzerland ); the time has not yet been settled , but the probability is , that it will be sometime in August , if political events on the continent do not interfere to prevent the meeting . A ( new ) History of Freemasonry in England , Scotland , and Ireland , 1685—1784 , will shortly appear in German ; to which will be appended a Treatise on the Ancient Masons . By G . Kloss , M . D . ; procurable ancl published by Klemm , Leipzic .
CANADA , Montreal . —We are fairly at work in good earnest , and have set apart the annual contribution of four shillings and fourpence from every member of a private lodge to form a fund of benevolence , and have taken preliminary measures to establish a Female Orphan Asylum . Our new Masonic Hall will be ready in the autumn , and will contain loclge and chapter rooms not easil y to be surpassed . We reciprocate our Prov . Grand Lodge circulars with thc Grand Lod of the
ge United States . Bro . Harrington has won al ! hearts , and is for the third time Master of his Lodge as well as Z of the Victoria Chapter , which is in full and prosperous work . BERMUDA , Hamilton , May 20 . —The Atlantic Phoenix Loilge , No . 271 , is in a very flourishing state just now , and we have commenced building a masonic temple .
India.
INDIA .
The Agents in Calcutta for this Review are—Messrs . LATTKY , BROTHERS & Co ., Government-place ; and Messrs . THACKER & Co ., St . Andrew ' s Library . SINGAPORE , April 7 . — To the Editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . —Sir and Brother—It has afforded the brethren of this island no little satisfaction to find that the frost of indifference to the wants
ancl necessities of lodges on foreign stations , which has so long bound up the considerate feelings of our influential rulers beneath the dais in Great Queen-street , is at length disappearing under the genial influence of the Grancl Master , whose honoured name we rejoice in ; ancl I sincerely trust that the same kind and active interest in the welfare of his
distant lieges , which has induced him in his exalted place in the Grancl Loclge to propose an amelioration of the laws relating to the limited interval for the acquisition of degrees in Craft Masonry , will lead him to the consideration of the other points mooted in your correspondent , a Canton Zetlander ' s , letter of the 4 th September , and the much needed concessions therein contended for be granted . I quite agree in all that has been stated in that letter , and think the Grand Lodge would do a most laudable thing in thus fostering their distant brethren , by granting
permission to initiate candidates in foreign stations at the age of eighteen years ; rescinding the rule which requires a brother to be a full year a Mason before he can be qualified for the chair , and the time he shall be permitted to occupy it—declarations from the Master and Wardens of