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Foreign.
FOREIGN .
$ 2 T Bro . Robert Chalmers , No . 8 , Great St . James ' s-street , Montreal , is an Agent for the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review , " and will execute all communications . AA'e confidently refer our subscribers , therefore , to our respected Brother . PARIS . —On the 20 th of May lasta new Lodge was consecrated
, , called The Star of Bethlehem . Bro . Quentin is the first AVorshi pful Master the number of subscribers is at present sixty-seven . A commission was appointed some time since , by the G . Orient , to enquire into the cause of the decline of Freemasonry in France ; from the report that has been sent in , it is attributed to the carelessness in proposing and admitting members , whose characters are as little regarded as their minds or pockets . An order for more rigid enquiry has been
issued , in which the Craft is requested to consider in future that Freemasonry should be participated in by men of talent , worth , character , and property . General Duke of Fernig , First Officer of the Grand Loclge of France , has written to the editor of the " Revue Macimnique , " requesting that the same might be published , expressive of the surprise that has been caused by the system adopted in Prussia of excluding Brethren from Masonic Lodges on account of their religious opinions , ( we published a translation of the letter in our last number ) .
ROUEN . —A Loclge here has decided upon presenting , yearly , to the most distinguished ancl praiseworthy individual , either male or female , 300 fr . The person to be selected from among those who work for or at a manufactory , and who have shown themselves honest , sober , and industrious during the year .
BERLIN . —The centenary of the first Grand Lodge in Prussia , called ( to distinguish it from two ether Grand Lodges that exist there ) The Three Globes , was celebrated last year ; it having been consecrated and patronised by Frederick the Second in 1744- The Grand Loclge determined to appoint representatives at Sweeden and Denmark , and to receive from those kingdoms , delegates , if they were sent .
Jewish Freemasons . —Immediately connected with this subject , is a highly gratifying record of Jewish gratitude which has lately come under our observation . The Jews in Berlin , upon being informed that the subject of their exclusion from the Masonic Lodges hacl been publicly commented on in England , at the great assemblage of the Fraternity in September last , summoned all the Jewish Freemasons then in Berlin to attend a meeting . The name of the gentleman who mooted the question having been ascertained , the first business of the day was to carry unanimously the following address , which has been transmitted in due form .
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Foreign.
FOREIGN .
$ 2 T Bro . Robert Chalmers , No . 8 , Great St . James ' s-street , Montreal , is an Agent for the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review , " and will execute all communications . AA'e confidently refer our subscribers , therefore , to our respected Brother . PARIS . —On the 20 th of May lasta new Lodge was consecrated
, , called The Star of Bethlehem . Bro . Quentin is the first AVorshi pful Master the number of subscribers is at present sixty-seven . A commission was appointed some time since , by the G . Orient , to enquire into the cause of the decline of Freemasonry in France ; from the report that has been sent in , it is attributed to the carelessness in proposing and admitting members , whose characters are as little regarded as their minds or pockets . An order for more rigid enquiry has been
issued , in which the Craft is requested to consider in future that Freemasonry should be participated in by men of talent , worth , character , and property . General Duke of Fernig , First Officer of the Grand Loclge of France , has written to the editor of the " Revue Macimnique , " requesting that the same might be published , expressive of the surprise that has been caused by the system adopted in Prussia of excluding Brethren from Masonic Lodges on account of their religious opinions , ( we published a translation of the letter in our last number ) .
ROUEN . —A Loclge here has decided upon presenting , yearly , to the most distinguished ancl praiseworthy individual , either male or female , 300 fr . The person to be selected from among those who work for or at a manufactory , and who have shown themselves honest , sober , and industrious during the year .
BERLIN . —The centenary of the first Grand Lodge in Prussia , called ( to distinguish it from two ether Grand Lodges that exist there ) The Three Globes , was celebrated last year ; it having been consecrated and patronised by Frederick the Second in 1744- The Grand Loclge determined to appoint representatives at Sweeden and Denmark , and to receive from those kingdoms , delegates , if they were sent .
Jewish Freemasons . —Immediately connected with this subject , is a highly gratifying record of Jewish gratitude which has lately come under our observation . The Jews in Berlin , upon being informed that the subject of their exclusion from the Masonic Lodges hacl been publicly commented on in England , at the great assemblage of the Fraternity in September last , summoned all the Jewish Freemasons then in Berlin to attend a meeting . The name of the gentleman who mooted the question having been ascertained , the first business of the day was to carry unanimously the following address , which has been transmitted in due form .