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Scotland.
SCOTLAND .
TO CORRESPONDENTS . DELTA . —We are obliged by tbe communication sent through Dr . Crucefix ; but why omit mime and address ; confidence enhances the value of a kindness , distrust has a contrary elTect . ' A SCOTTISH MASON . —We refrain from replying to his lengthy but very proper letter on the Scottish Freemasons' Life Association ; being altogether ignorant as to that part of it ¦ which calls onus to state the precise manner in which the office-hearers are remunerated , which appears to he the principal requirement , as the printed statement itself is , in most of the points , a su 0 ieient answer . As to the profits of life-assurance , they are enormous . The patronage of the Grand Lodge of Scotland is doubtless of great advantage to the Company ,
although , as a body , its own productiveness is of little avail ; where is its fund of benevolence . its charities } in fact , its proof of the true principles of the Order ? The prospectus states ( page G ) " that it has a direct interest in the ivelfare of the Association ,- " how does not appear , unless by the loan of names ; and he it observed , that the SKVKN-TEN-THSof THB WHOLE REALIZED rnoF _ TS in favour of the members , are contingent on the previous payment of dividends , salaries , & c . Further it would appear that one-fifth ( or two-tenths ) is to he applied to Che Guarantee Fund in perpetuity , and that the last tenth , at first applicable to the . redemption of capital of members , will , on the completion of such redemption , bo available ! but for what purpose is not stated— " Prudent and thrifty Scotland should look to this . The prospectus appears to he well drawn up , hut it could be wished that in the copy sent , the pencil marks in various parts had remained ; they might have enabled us to have touched more pointedly on the subject .
GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND . The 30 tli of November falling this year on a Sunday , the Annual Meeting took place on Monday the 1 st of December , in the AVaterloo Roorns , at two o ' clock , when the following were elected office-bearers for the ensuing year : Uro . Rt . Hon . Lord Glenlyon , M . AV . Grand Master Mason . Bro . Lord Frederick FitzclarenceGCHPast Grand Master
, . . . . Bros . Samuel Hay , esq ., Grand Treasurer , AV . A . Laurie , esq ., Grand " Secretary . Bros . Revs . A . Stuart and J . Boyle , Grand Chaplains ; R . Gilfillan , esq ., Grand Bard .
The Grand- Master and his Officers dined with several Brethren at six o ' clock ; and afterwards at nine the Grand Lodge was opened in the great hall , where a large assemblage of the Brethren attended ; many country Lodges were also present . In the course of the evening , the gratifying intelligence was communicated to the assembled Brethren of the extension of Scottish Masonry during the past year , in different quarters of the world , particularly in the East and AVest Indies , in Australia and Nova Scotia , and that a charter bad been passed that clay in favour of a Lodge in Jamaica , which the Brethren there had named the " Glenlyon Lodge , " in honour of the Grand Master .
THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE . —( Extract from Circular , dated Oct . 30 , 184 o . )— "Motion intimated , 3 Ab . 727 , That it shall be in the power of the Grand Master , with the advice of the Grand Council , to nominate a class of Honorary Knights Grand Crosses , to consist of such f . monarchs of Christendom , or princes of the Blood Royal of any Chris- . tian State , as may visit the chief seat of the Temple , now in the Scottish capita ] . That such monarchs or princes shall not necessarily require to " have been previously received into this religious and military Brother-
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Scotland.
SCOTLAND .
TO CORRESPONDENTS . DELTA . —We are obliged by tbe communication sent through Dr . Crucefix ; but why omit mime and address ; confidence enhances the value of a kindness , distrust has a contrary elTect . ' A SCOTTISH MASON . —We refrain from replying to his lengthy but very proper letter on the Scottish Freemasons' Life Association ; being altogether ignorant as to that part of it ¦ which calls onus to state the precise manner in which the office-hearers are remunerated , which appears to he the principal requirement , as the printed statement itself is , in most of the points , a su 0 ieient answer . As to the profits of life-assurance , they are enormous . The patronage of the Grand Lodge of Scotland is doubtless of great advantage to the Company ,
although , as a body , its own productiveness is of little avail ; where is its fund of benevolence . its charities } in fact , its proof of the true principles of the Order ? The prospectus states ( page G ) " that it has a direct interest in the ivelfare of the Association ,- " how does not appear , unless by the loan of names ; and he it observed , that the SKVKN-TEN-THSof THB WHOLE REALIZED rnoF _ TS in favour of the members , are contingent on the previous payment of dividends , salaries , & c . Further it would appear that one-fifth ( or two-tenths ) is to he applied to Che Guarantee Fund in perpetuity , and that the last tenth , at first applicable to the . redemption of capital of members , will , on the completion of such redemption , bo available ! but for what purpose is not stated— " Prudent and thrifty Scotland should look to this . The prospectus appears to he well drawn up , hut it could be wished that in the copy sent , the pencil marks in various parts had remained ; they might have enabled us to have touched more pointedly on the subject .
GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND . The 30 tli of November falling this year on a Sunday , the Annual Meeting took place on Monday the 1 st of December , in the AVaterloo Roorns , at two o ' clock , when the following were elected office-bearers for the ensuing year : Uro . Rt . Hon . Lord Glenlyon , M . AV . Grand Master Mason . Bro . Lord Frederick FitzclarenceGCHPast Grand Master
, . . . . Bros . Samuel Hay , esq ., Grand Treasurer , AV . A . Laurie , esq ., Grand " Secretary . Bros . Revs . A . Stuart and J . Boyle , Grand Chaplains ; R . Gilfillan , esq ., Grand Bard .
The Grand- Master and his Officers dined with several Brethren at six o ' clock ; and afterwards at nine the Grand Lodge was opened in the great hall , where a large assemblage of the Brethren attended ; many country Lodges were also present . In the course of the evening , the gratifying intelligence was communicated to the assembled Brethren of the extension of Scottish Masonry during the past year , in different quarters of the world , particularly in the East and AVest Indies , in Australia and Nova Scotia , and that a charter bad been passed that clay in favour of a Lodge in Jamaica , which the Brethren there had named the " Glenlyon Lodge , " in honour of the Grand Master .
THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE . —( Extract from Circular , dated Oct . 30 , 184 o . )— "Motion intimated , 3 Ab . 727 , That it shall be in the power of the Grand Master , with the advice of the Grand Council , to nominate a class of Honorary Knights Grand Crosses , to consist of such f . monarchs of Christendom , or princes of the Blood Royal of any Chris- . tian State , as may visit the chief seat of the Temple , now in the Scottish capita ] . That such monarchs or princes shall not necessarily require to " have been previously received into this religious and military Brother-