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Ireland.
Bro . M'CORMACK , of the Celtic Lotlge , Edinburgh , whose health had been drank to , observed , iu reply , that the Irish Brethren were always justly received with the most cordial welcome in Scotland , and none more so than such Prince Masons as Bro . M'Dona , by whom he had been brought to '' light . " The CHAIRMAN gave the health of Prince Mason Henry M'Dona , P . W . S . of the Grand Chapter of Ireland and P . M . of the Royal Albert
Lodge . Bro . M'DONA briefly returned his best thanks . Bro . MURPHY proposed the health of Bro . Geo . M'Dona , M . W . S . of No . 2 , under the Grand Chapter of Ireland . Bro . GEO . M'DONA , in return , replied at some length , ancl during his address took a rapid glance at the origin and effects of the dissension that still unhappily divided the Masonic community of Dublin , but
which the Grand Chapter hacl , to their honour , done all they could to put an end to . Other toasts followed , and the evening was enlivened by some excellent singing .
DUBLIN WAGGERIES . TO THE EDITOR . Sm AND BROTHER , —There is a stirring rumour in the present stagnation , ( nothing else flourishes here just now ) , of a Royal Road to conquest—but I must defer the particulars until my next letter . The news-market is unusually dull . I might perhaps send a notice to the
Masonic Mark Lane that Proselytism is lively , Councils of Rites ( or wrongs , query ) , beginning "do look up , " and Grancl Chapters rather flat . Some Cork business is said to be rather light , which has not however produced a corresponding depression , but on the whole a favourable turn is expected in the market . I think there is no danger of a fall of "invoice , " and above all Crucifixes ( excuse the pun ) , are in great demand . I may add that in consequence of the unsettled appearance of
the atmosphere the most experienced " Fowler" has grossly missed his aim in allowing himself to be seduced into a correspondence with the most courteous (!) and accomplished ( I !) descendant of that singular Freemason O'Connor ( King of Kerry 111 )
TO THE EDITOU . PERMIT me to solicit your attention to the resolution * passed on the 17 th of July in the S . Grancl Encampment of High K . T . in Ireland . By the second rule of the Constitutions of that body , the Grancl Master of the Craft Degrees is declared to be virtute officii , as such , the most excellent and S . Grancl Master ( upon being properly qualified ) .
, Now , by that resolution , the Duke of Leinster , G . M . of the Blue Degree , must accordingly be as strictly bound as by the resolution passed upon the 1 st of February in the Grancl . Lodge , which the present resolution condemns;—he is equally an assenting party to each , and is as responsible for either as its opposite . Is not this a lamentable state of facts ? And must there not be some-
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Ireland.
Bro . M'CORMACK , of the Celtic Lotlge , Edinburgh , whose health had been drank to , observed , iu reply , that the Irish Brethren were always justly received with the most cordial welcome in Scotland , and none more so than such Prince Masons as Bro . M'Dona , by whom he had been brought to '' light . " The CHAIRMAN gave the health of Prince Mason Henry M'Dona , P . W . S . of the Grand Chapter of Ireland and P . M . of the Royal Albert
Lodge . Bro . M'DONA briefly returned his best thanks . Bro . MURPHY proposed the health of Bro . Geo . M'Dona , M . W . S . of No . 2 , under the Grand Chapter of Ireland . Bro . GEO . M'DONA , in return , replied at some length , ancl during his address took a rapid glance at the origin and effects of the dissension that still unhappily divided the Masonic community of Dublin , but
which the Grand Chapter hacl , to their honour , done all they could to put an end to . Other toasts followed , and the evening was enlivened by some excellent singing .
DUBLIN WAGGERIES . TO THE EDITOR . Sm AND BROTHER , —There is a stirring rumour in the present stagnation , ( nothing else flourishes here just now ) , of a Royal Road to conquest—but I must defer the particulars until my next letter . The news-market is unusually dull . I might perhaps send a notice to the
Masonic Mark Lane that Proselytism is lively , Councils of Rites ( or wrongs , query ) , beginning "do look up , " and Grancl Chapters rather flat . Some Cork business is said to be rather light , which has not however produced a corresponding depression , but on the whole a favourable turn is expected in the market . I think there is no danger of a fall of "invoice , " and above all Crucifixes ( excuse the pun ) , are in great demand . I may add that in consequence of the unsettled appearance of
the atmosphere the most experienced " Fowler" has grossly missed his aim in allowing himself to be seduced into a correspondence with the most courteous (!) and accomplished ( I !) descendant of that singular Freemason O'Connor ( King of Kerry 111 )
TO THE EDITOU . PERMIT me to solicit your attention to the resolution * passed on the 17 th of July in the S . Grancl Encampment of High K . T . in Ireland . By the second rule of the Constitutions of that body , the Grancl Master of the Craft Degrees is declared to be virtute officii , as such , the most excellent and S . Grancl Master ( upon being properly qualified ) .
, Now , by that resolution , the Duke of Leinster , G . M . of the Blue Degree , must accordingly be as strictly bound as by the resolution passed upon the 1 st of February in the Grancl . Lodge , which the present resolution condemns;—he is equally an assenting party to each , and is as responsible for either as its opposite . Is not this a lamentable state of facts ? And must there not be some-