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Scotland.
SCOTLAND .
EDINBURGH , June 21 . —Several Lodges met to celebrate the festival . The Cannongate Kilwinning elected Office Bearers , as usual ; two new ones were appointed , namely , Brother David Rhind , as Architect and Superintendent of Works , and Brother AVilliam Hay , as successor to the late lamented Ettrick Shepherd , in the chair of Laureate to the Lodge . Both these gentlemen , we are well convinced , will do honour to the Kilwinningwhich has chosen them . r I hey are both already
Cannongate , publicly distinguished : Brother Rhind as the successful competitor for the Glasgow memorial to Sir AValter Scott , ancl also author of a very splendid , though unsuccessful , plan for the new Houses of Parliament . Brother Hay is the celebrated translator of the Greek Anthology , in
Blackwood . . . . . The approach of the winter campaign begins to excite increasing interest , and from the mystic glances and significant hints of sundry leaders and pioneers of the Masonic corps , it is evident , even to the neutral world , that " great events are on the gale . " Comets have been thought to foretell impending changes or some extraordinary occurrence , whether for good or for evil . ' It remains for the wise and the wary to wait tor the event before they can safely ancl conscientiously say that the late not months
mysterious messenger that appeared in the heavens very many ago , was commissioned witli a tale Masonic to the wondering world . But , " non nostrum est . " One thing , however , we may certainly predict without pretending to be any great conjurors , that the installation ot Lord Ramsay on the grand Masonic throne , will be celebrated in a manner , and with a concurrence of circumstances , such as seldom have combined to render the occasion at once dignified and delightful—at once worthy of him whom his Brethren shall meet to honour , and of those principles which it is his and their g lory to consider as the brightest
jewel ancl ornament of humanity . That the Grand-mastership of Scotland was made hereditary m the family of the St . Clairs of Roslin , about the middle of the fifteenth century has already been mentioned in this Review The centenary of the formal resignation of these honours by AVilliam . bt . Glair , in 1736 , takes place on the 24 th of November next , and that of the election and installation of a Grand Master by the voice of a representaof Novemberbeing StAndrews
tive assembly , occurs on the 30 th , . day Something more , therefore , than the usual convivial celebration , is expected naturally to herald the events . No specific programme of the proceedings has yet been prepared and the period of the year is somewhat against the popular and prevalent practice of torch-light processions , which some anticipate as being intended The more : common isthat there will be solemn Masonic procession in
report , however , , a the forenoon , the Brethren to march from an appointed rendezvous , such as the Assembly Rooms , to the nearest church , ancl there hear service , as was the creditable custom in the good old times ; from whence they will proceed , in order , to the AVaterloo Hotel , or such other hall as may be agreed upon , to hold high conclave and convivial rites . The committee appointed to consider of the propriety or practicability of establishing an union between the three Craft Degrees and the Royal
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Scotland.
SCOTLAND .
EDINBURGH , June 21 . —Several Lodges met to celebrate the festival . The Cannongate Kilwinning elected Office Bearers , as usual ; two new ones were appointed , namely , Brother David Rhind , as Architect and Superintendent of Works , and Brother AVilliam Hay , as successor to the late lamented Ettrick Shepherd , in the chair of Laureate to the Lodge . Both these gentlemen , we are well convinced , will do honour to the Kilwinningwhich has chosen them . r I hey are both already
Cannongate , publicly distinguished : Brother Rhind as the successful competitor for the Glasgow memorial to Sir AValter Scott , ancl also author of a very splendid , though unsuccessful , plan for the new Houses of Parliament . Brother Hay is the celebrated translator of the Greek Anthology , in
Blackwood . . . . . The approach of the winter campaign begins to excite increasing interest , and from the mystic glances and significant hints of sundry leaders and pioneers of the Masonic corps , it is evident , even to the neutral world , that " great events are on the gale . " Comets have been thought to foretell impending changes or some extraordinary occurrence , whether for good or for evil . ' It remains for the wise and the wary to wait tor the event before they can safely ancl conscientiously say that the late not months
mysterious messenger that appeared in the heavens very many ago , was commissioned witli a tale Masonic to the wondering world . But , " non nostrum est . " One thing , however , we may certainly predict without pretending to be any great conjurors , that the installation ot Lord Ramsay on the grand Masonic throne , will be celebrated in a manner , and with a concurrence of circumstances , such as seldom have combined to render the occasion at once dignified and delightful—at once worthy of him whom his Brethren shall meet to honour , and of those principles which it is his and their g lory to consider as the brightest
jewel ancl ornament of humanity . That the Grand-mastership of Scotland was made hereditary m the family of the St . Clairs of Roslin , about the middle of the fifteenth century has already been mentioned in this Review The centenary of the formal resignation of these honours by AVilliam . bt . Glair , in 1736 , takes place on the 24 th of November next , and that of the election and installation of a Grand Master by the voice of a representaof Novemberbeing StAndrews
tive assembly , occurs on the 30 th , . day Something more , therefore , than the usual convivial celebration , is expected naturally to herald the events . No specific programme of the proceedings has yet been prepared and the period of the year is somewhat against the popular and prevalent practice of torch-light processions , which some anticipate as being intended The more : common isthat there will be solemn Masonic procession in
report , however , , a the forenoon , the Brethren to march from an appointed rendezvous , such as the Assembly Rooms , to the nearest church , ancl there hear service , as was the creditable custom in the good old times ; from whence they will proceed , in order , to the AVaterloo Hotel , or such other hall as may be agreed upon , to hold high conclave and convivial rites . The committee appointed to consider of the propriety or practicability of establishing an union between the three Craft Degrees and the Royal