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" By your respect for our laws you will render easy of exercise the authority you have confided to me , and the Government , whose unresting solicitude requires , with just title , to know what we are and at what we aim , will only see in our lodges and workshops a noble exercise of the highest prerogative of human reason—the right to do well !" Bro . Leblanc de Mariponnaya member of the G . O . de France
, , honorary member of the French Lodge la Tolerance , No . 784 , has favoured us with the following intelligence , which we gladly communicate to our readers : —¦ " SWITZERLAND . —The G . Lodge , Alpina , and the Supreme Helvetic Roman Directory , have addressed several serious expostulations to the G . 0 . de France , on the existence of the Lodges , which it had constituted in Switzerland , whilst that country composed a
part of the French territory , and which have continued to remain under its obedience . Those Lodges , being uncontrolled , create disturbances in the Swiss Masonry by initiating candidates , who are unworthy of the Masonic mission . The G . 0 . had issued a solemn order , which has enjoined the duty of those Lodges to re-enter the jurisdiction of the national powers . This resolution has not been attended to ; so that the Swiss authorities complain , with just cause ,
of a negligence which is very prejudicial to the Order . " The Supreme Helvetic Roman Directory has just appointed , as an honorary member of its Masonic Senate , Bro . Le Blanc de Marconnay , to whom the Masonic insignia are about to be sent . "
PARIS . — Clemente-Amitie . — This Lodge , which continues at the head of French Masonry , and is distinguished by its correspondence with every part of the globe , elected its officers in January last ; Resp . Bro . de Sanlis , late President of the G . 0 ., has been appointed Master of the Lodge , and Bro . Leblanc cle Marconnay re-elected as General Secretary . This Lodge has added to its numerous alliances several Lodges of Switzerland ; I'Hospitalite
Grenadienne , O . de Carthagenc ( New Grenada ) ; the Ionic Lodge , London ; La Chretienne des Alpes , 0 . d'Aigle ( Suisse ); Kosm ' os , 0 . d'Elseneure ( Denmark ) . Prince Murat , the present G . M . of the order in France , is a Member of this Lodge , as well as the ex-King Jerome Napoleon . The Feast of the Order was celebrated with the greatest solemnity on the 17 th of February . Amongst the guests invited was the Resp . Bro . Dr . A . Normand y , a Member of an English Lodge , who rejilied to the toast given to our English Brethren .
DENMARK . —A new Lodge has been founded at the 0 . of Elseneure , under the title of Kosmos , and under the jurisdiction of the G . L . of Denmark . It was opened and consecrated ou the 9 th of April , 1851 , with a grancl ceremony by the Resp . F . Levetzan , the Resp . Bro . Tuxen , President of the Masonic Directory , & c , and the Resp . Bro . K . Gad , a most distinguished Mason .
NEW GRENADA . —A Grancl Lodge has been founded in the Republic of New Grenada , at Carthagena , since 1822 . This power , which holds a large number of Lodges under its obedience , has recently asked for recognition from the G . 0 . de France , under the title of G . O . and Supreme Council of New Grenada . The G . M . is the Resp . Bro . Fraucisa de Zubiro .
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Foreign.
" By your respect for our laws you will render easy of exercise the authority you have confided to me , and the Government , whose unresting solicitude requires , with just title , to know what we are and at what we aim , will only see in our lodges and workshops a noble exercise of the highest prerogative of human reason—the right to do well !" Bro . Leblanc de Mariponnaya member of the G . O . de France
, , honorary member of the French Lodge la Tolerance , No . 784 , has favoured us with the following intelligence , which we gladly communicate to our readers : —¦ " SWITZERLAND . —The G . Lodge , Alpina , and the Supreme Helvetic Roman Directory , have addressed several serious expostulations to the G . 0 . de France , on the existence of the Lodges , which it had constituted in Switzerland , whilst that country composed a
part of the French territory , and which have continued to remain under its obedience . Those Lodges , being uncontrolled , create disturbances in the Swiss Masonry by initiating candidates , who are unworthy of the Masonic mission . The G . 0 . had issued a solemn order , which has enjoined the duty of those Lodges to re-enter the jurisdiction of the national powers . This resolution has not been attended to ; so that the Swiss authorities complain , with just cause ,
of a negligence which is very prejudicial to the Order . " The Supreme Helvetic Roman Directory has just appointed , as an honorary member of its Masonic Senate , Bro . Le Blanc de Marconnay , to whom the Masonic insignia are about to be sent . "
PARIS . — Clemente-Amitie . — This Lodge , which continues at the head of French Masonry , and is distinguished by its correspondence with every part of the globe , elected its officers in January last ; Resp . Bro . de Sanlis , late President of the G . 0 ., has been appointed Master of the Lodge , and Bro . Leblanc cle Marconnay re-elected as General Secretary . This Lodge has added to its numerous alliances several Lodges of Switzerland ; I'Hospitalite
Grenadienne , O . de Carthagenc ( New Grenada ) ; the Ionic Lodge , London ; La Chretienne des Alpes , 0 . d'Aigle ( Suisse ); Kosm ' os , 0 . d'Elseneure ( Denmark ) . Prince Murat , the present G . M . of the order in France , is a Member of this Lodge , as well as the ex-King Jerome Napoleon . The Feast of the Order was celebrated with the greatest solemnity on the 17 th of February . Amongst the guests invited was the Resp . Bro . Dr . A . Normand y , a Member of an English Lodge , who rejilied to the toast given to our English Brethren .
DENMARK . —A new Lodge has been founded at the 0 . of Elseneure , under the title of Kosmos , and under the jurisdiction of the G . L . of Denmark . It was opened and consecrated ou the 9 th of April , 1851 , with a grancl ceremony by the Resp . F . Levetzan , the Resp . Bro . Tuxen , President of the Masonic Directory , & c , and the Resp . Bro . K . Gad , a most distinguished Mason .
NEW GRENADA . —A Grancl Lodge has been founded in the Republic of New Grenada , at Carthagena , since 1822 . This power , which holds a large number of Lodges under its obedience , has recently asked for recognition from the G . 0 . de France , under the title of G . O . and Supreme Council of New Grenada . The G . M . is the Resp . Bro . Fraucisa de Zubiro .