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India.
INDIA .
The Agents in Calcutta for this " Review , " are—Messrs . LATTEY , BROTHERS and Co ., Government-place ; and Messrs . THAOKER and Co ., St . Andrew ' s Library . Our general correspondence from all the Presidencies is unusuall y meagre—chiefly arising from the effect of the changes in the army . The Grand Master of Bengal is in England , where it is hoped he is engaged with Bro . Alexander Grarft in maintaining our ground with
the authorities at head-quarters . We are most anxiously awaiting advices from these zealous Brothers . The demise of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England has caused a deep sensation in India , and much anxiety is felt on the subject of the future Grand Master . Unless some satisfactory reason is given for refusing a warrant for an Encampment , it is the intention of those qualified to seek other protection . *
The Lodge of Kindred Hope , Nusserabad , has met , and among its other excellent resolutions , subscribed 5 l . 12 , ? . Gd . in aid of the Masonic offering to the Rev . Dr . Oliver ; which sum is remitted to Brother Alexander Grant , P . Prov . G . Secretary of Bengal—agent of our Grand Lodge , ( and also our own agent ) , to be by him paid over to the Treasurer of the London Committee .
Review Of Literature, &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , & c .
Latomta . j No . III . For January . Weber , Leipsig . The editors and contributors to this excellent periodical are evidentl y men of learning and research ; their information upon the state of Freemasonry on the continent of Europe , is very general and authentic . From the first number to the present , the editors of " Latomia" seem to be carrying out the system they laid down for their adoption—that of making the real objects of Freemasonry known , understood , and
appreciated . We congratulate them upon their success , and hope it may be enduring . The present number commences with the " History of Freemasonry , and its Statistics in Belgium and Holland . " The author appears well acquainted with the subject he is treating upon : he , however , only admits the possibility of Lodges having been in existence there in the 16 th and 17 th centuriesand observesthat the onloriginaltraceable
, , y , , and regular Lodge is the Mons Lodge of Perfect Union , under the warrant of the Duke of Montague ; from that nucleus it gradually increased , but principally in the south . In 1731 , the Grancl Duke of Tuscany ( afterwards the Emperor Francis I . ) was introduced into Freemasonry by the English ambassador at the Hague , Lord Chesterfield ; but the Lodge , with one exception , consisted of Englishmen . It appears that on the 30 th September , 1734 , Brother Vincent de la Chapelle , held a
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India.
INDIA .
The Agents in Calcutta for this " Review , " are—Messrs . LATTEY , BROTHERS and Co ., Government-place ; and Messrs . THAOKER and Co ., St . Andrew ' s Library . Our general correspondence from all the Presidencies is unusuall y meagre—chiefly arising from the effect of the changes in the army . The Grand Master of Bengal is in England , where it is hoped he is engaged with Bro . Alexander Grarft in maintaining our ground with
the authorities at head-quarters . We are most anxiously awaiting advices from these zealous Brothers . The demise of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England has caused a deep sensation in India , and much anxiety is felt on the subject of the future Grand Master . Unless some satisfactory reason is given for refusing a warrant for an Encampment , it is the intention of those qualified to seek other protection . *
The Lodge of Kindred Hope , Nusserabad , has met , and among its other excellent resolutions , subscribed 5 l . 12 , ? . Gd . in aid of the Masonic offering to the Rev . Dr . Oliver ; which sum is remitted to Brother Alexander Grant , P . Prov . G . Secretary of Bengal—agent of our Grand Lodge , ( and also our own agent ) , to be by him paid over to the Treasurer of the London Committee .
Review Of Literature, &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , & c .
Latomta . j No . III . For January . Weber , Leipsig . The editors and contributors to this excellent periodical are evidentl y men of learning and research ; their information upon the state of Freemasonry on the continent of Europe , is very general and authentic . From the first number to the present , the editors of " Latomia" seem to be carrying out the system they laid down for their adoption—that of making the real objects of Freemasonry known , understood , and
appreciated . We congratulate them upon their success , and hope it may be enduring . The present number commences with the " History of Freemasonry , and its Statistics in Belgium and Holland . " The author appears well acquainted with the subject he is treating upon : he , however , only admits the possibility of Lodges having been in existence there in the 16 th and 17 th centuriesand observesthat the onloriginaltraceable
, , y , , and regular Lodge is the Mons Lodge of Perfect Union , under the warrant of the Duke of Montague ; from that nucleus it gradually increased , but principally in the south . In 1731 , the Grancl Duke of Tuscany ( afterwards the Emperor Francis I . ) was introduced into Freemasonry by the English ambassador at the Hague , Lord Chesterfield ; but the Lodge , with one exception , consisted of Englishmen . It appears that on the 30 th September , 1734 , Brother Vincent de la Chapelle , held a