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To Correspondents.
ARCH MATTERS SIT Lux . —A Companion is NOT eligible for election to tlie Third Chair unless he b an installed Master , or a Past-Master . Avoid CLIQUE-ISM , as a parasite plant , hateful to the sight and poisonous to the touch .
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . MONMOUTH . —The names ofthe proposer and seconder of candidates should appear in the circular . It is not required by the Constitutions that a party putting in a black ball must give his reasons for so doing . JASON . —The nine questions have been so repeatedly put and answered , that we must rcfci Jason to our former numbers . SIT Lux . —A Provincial Grand Master cannot grant a dispensation to confer a furthci degree within a month ofthe preceding , under any circumstances whatever .
LUCULNUS—The Masonic banquet is decidedly an affair of taste and discipline , consequently we report those of public interest , but must protest against being expected to dilate on the pomp and circumstance of private orgies . Wc have no desire to curry favour . " Prawn curries , and London particular , " may be the most delicious things imaginable , but " shall the dust praise theo ? shal ! it declare thy truth ? " or , " is there not a lie in my right hand ?" A MEMBER OF 30 " . —It \ snot etiquette for any Brother ( Grand Officers excepted ) to wear their collars when visiting a Lodge ; it creates confusion , by preventing the officers of the Lodge at work from being readily distinguishable .
A PAST GRAND STEWARD . —The Book of Constitutions does « ofinterdict the chanting of the Masonic Anthem during ( he procession , nor the lifting the hat in token of obeisance to the P . G . M . while passing between the files . E \* OD . —A Grand Officer of one province is not entitled , ex officio , to be summoned to attend the Grand Lodge of another province as a G . O . thereof , merely because he may be a subscribing member to a Lodge in such province , without having b-.-en appointed or elected to any office in such P . G . L . —Vide Art . 2 , page 52 . The P . G . M . however , may grant permission for the P . G . O . of any other province to visit his G . L .
, WARWICK- —A candidate can be initiated as a serving Brother without expense . —Tide Constitutions , G 3 , 64 . It is not there ordered that the Tyler must be skilled as a Master ; indeed , how can he become so until he shall arrive at such dignity ? A Tyler has no other duty at the installation , than to attend outside the Lodge . A MEMBER OF A P . G . L . —A . moves that a dinner take place on the 26 th March . B . moves as an amendment for the 4 th April . C . wishes to move another amendment , but it is decided that he cannot do so until the first amendment has been put , which having been negatived , the original motion is declared to be carried , and C . is informed that his
amendment cannot be put . Is this a correct course , or when , and in what manner should C . have been allowed to proceed , and the sense of the meeting taken on his amendment ? What would have been the practice of the House of Commons , and does Masonic practice bear any analogy ? Am . C . could not move his amendment until the first amendment was disposed of . On the original motion being put , and before tlie votes of the meeting were taken , C . could thenlmove his amendment ; butif hefaile . ' i to do so at the proper moment , he lost the opportunity . The G . L . being of admixed nature , is not in strict analogy with the House of Commons , and we have witnessed much difference " of opinion . In the case referred to we give the Masonic practice . TEMPLARS .
Sm KNIGHT W . LAURENCE . —A continuance of correspondence is requested . A SCOTTISH KNIGHT . —The report of the eve of St . Valentine reached us too late for insertion . The circular , signed Fra . S . Melville , from the secretariat , is omitted for the same reason . AN ENQUIRER . —Sir Knt . W . H . White is the Grand Chancellor of the Grand Conclave of England . AN IRISH KNIGHT . —We have no desire to continue grievances , and therefore decline to interfere . Sir Knt . IT . O'Cnonor will no doubt aid our correspondent ; at any rate we name him as the most influential party .
THE ASYLUM . To VARIOUS CO - RESPONDENTS . —Mr . I-I . Rowe is removed from the trusteeship hy the Court of Chancery . The other four Trustees have resigned , and have received the grateful thanks of the Committee . Five new Trustees will be appointed , on the 2 nd April . The Anniversary Festival will he held on the 18 th of June , on which occasion Bro . B . B , Cabbell , P . J . G . W ., will preside .
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To Correspondents.
ARCH MATTERS SIT Lux . —A Companion is NOT eligible for election to tlie Third Chair unless he b an installed Master , or a Past-Master . Avoid CLIQUE-ISM , as a parasite plant , hateful to the sight and poisonous to the touch .
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . MONMOUTH . —The names ofthe proposer and seconder of candidates should appear in the circular . It is not required by the Constitutions that a party putting in a black ball must give his reasons for so doing . JASON . —The nine questions have been so repeatedly put and answered , that we must rcfci Jason to our former numbers . SIT Lux . —A Provincial Grand Master cannot grant a dispensation to confer a furthci degree within a month ofthe preceding , under any circumstances whatever .
LUCULNUS—The Masonic banquet is decidedly an affair of taste and discipline , consequently we report those of public interest , but must protest against being expected to dilate on the pomp and circumstance of private orgies . Wc have no desire to curry favour . " Prawn curries , and London particular , " may be the most delicious things imaginable , but " shall the dust praise theo ? shal ! it declare thy truth ? " or , " is there not a lie in my right hand ?" A MEMBER OF 30 " . —It \ snot etiquette for any Brother ( Grand Officers excepted ) to wear their collars when visiting a Lodge ; it creates confusion , by preventing the officers of the Lodge at work from being readily distinguishable .
A PAST GRAND STEWARD . —The Book of Constitutions does « ofinterdict the chanting of the Masonic Anthem during ( he procession , nor the lifting the hat in token of obeisance to the P . G . M . while passing between the files . E \* OD . —A Grand Officer of one province is not entitled , ex officio , to be summoned to attend the Grand Lodge of another province as a G . O . thereof , merely because he may be a subscribing member to a Lodge in such province , without having b-.-en appointed or elected to any office in such P . G . L . —Vide Art . 2 , page 52 . The P . G . M . however , may grant permission for the P . G . O . of any other province to visit his G . L .
, WARWICK- —A candidate can be initiated as a serving Brother without expense . —Tide Constitutions , G 3 , 64 . It is not there ordered that the Tyler must be skilled as a Master ; indeed , how can he become so until he shall arrive at such dignity ? A Tyler has no other duty at the installation , than to attend outside the Lodge . A MEMBER OF A P . G . L . —A . moves that a dinner take place on the 26 th March . B . moves as an amendment for the 4 th April . C . wishes to move another amendment , but it is decided that he cannot do so until the first amendment has been put , which having been negatived , the original motion is declared to be carried , and C . is informed that his
amendment cannot be put . Is this a correct course , or when , and in what manner should C . have been allowed to proceed , and the sense of the meeting taken on his amendment ? What would have been the practice of the House of Commons , and does Masonic practice bear any analogy ? Am . C . could not move his amendment until the first amendment was disposed of . On the original motion being put , and before tlie votes of the meeting were taken , C . could thenlmove his amendment ; butif hefaile . ' i to do so at the proper moment , he lost the opportunity . The G . L . being of admixed nature , is not in strict analogy with the House of Commons , and we have witnessed much difference " of opinion . In the case referred to we give the Masonic practice . TEMPLARS .
Sm KNIGHT W . LAURENCE . —A continuance of correspondence is requested . A SCOTTISH KNIGHT . —The report of the eve of St . Valentine reached us too late for insertion . The circular , signed Fra . S . Melville , from the secretariat , is omitted for the same reason . AN ENQUIRER . —Sir Knt . W . H . White is the Grand Chancellor of the Grand Conclave of England . AN IRISH KNIGHT . —We have no desire to continue grievances , and therefore decline to interfere . Sir Knt . IT . O'Cnonor will no doubt aid our correspondent ; at any rate we name him as the most influential party .
THE ASYLUM . To VARIOUS CO - RESPONDENTS . —Mr . I-I . Rowe is removed from the trusteeship hy the Court of Chancery . The other four Trustees have resigned , and have received the grateful thanks of the Committee . Five new Trustees will be appointed , on the 2 nd April . The Anniversary Festival will he held on the 18 th of June , on which occasion Bro . B . B , Cabbell , P . J . G . W ., will preside .