Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS 609 Supreme Grand Chapter fuo Freemasonry in Egypt 610 Anchor and ' Hope f . odge , No . 37 , Bolton ... 611 CORRESPONDENCEThe Boys' School 612 Past Master of a New Lodge 612 Use of the Word " Cowan" 612 Errata 613 Exchange of Votes 613 Revision of Constitutions 613 Masonic Certificates 613 The Comet 613 Reviews 613 The Articles on the Revised Constitutions and Correspondence Thereon 613 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Cornwall 613 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Monmouthshire 614 Consecration of the Save and Scle Mark Lodge , No . 309 , at Belvedere 614

Frccmasonrv in Australia 614 Fimi-raJ of ' the Late lira . | olin Fawcett , P . P . G . M I Ci ; Death of Bro , Alderman Gregory 615 British Hospice and Ophthalmic ' Dispensary at Jerusalem aig A St . * . | ohn ' s Festival at Mainz 6 i £ New Zealand 615 REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry fiifi Instruction 619 Royal Arch G 20 Instruction 620 Kosicrucian Society 620 Masonic Concert and Ball at Manchester ... 620 Masonic and General Tidings 621 The Theatres 622 Music 622 Science and Art 622 Lodge Meetings for Next Week ... "' 623 Historical Calendar 249

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BRO . SIR GARNET WOLSELEY has returned safe and sound to his native land , and has been received with much enthusiasm by all classes . There can be no doubt or question but that all the military movements were most carefully and skilfully arranged , and reflect the greatest credit on the " Chief" as on all his subordinates , those who carried out his orders , and those who stormed

the entrenchments . As we have often said , we may well all be proud of our Army and our Navy .

* * THE reception of and entertainment of Bro . Lord CHAS . BERESFORD , as reported last week in our pages , were very genial and proper , and highly characteristic . The services of our gallant and distinguished brother have been most meritorious .

* * WE shall all be pleased to note the hearty and English enthusiasm with which our soldiers , and marines , and sailors have been welcomed from the recent scenes of their heroism and endurance , and shall feel that those who are yet to return in due succession will equally merit the same manifestations of sympathetic countenance and admiration .

* * * WF , are very much amused and edified by a recent editorial in our excellent contemporary , the Canadian Craftsman . How , like "Sam Slick , " when he wrote it , must he have given a sly wink of contented humour to his confreres and readers . By a most ingenious " Tu quoque , " for which our good and

kindly friend , Bro . GRAHAM , would tell the writer there was a recognised penalty of old , the editor adopts the "high moral line , " and accuses the meek and humble Freemason of " threats . " The Freemason is always most peacefully inclined , and its motto is , and always has been , " Defence , not Defiance . " Some time ago there came forth from some good Canadian

brethren long and loud complaints of the Grand Lodge of England , as well as official manifestos , couched in mystic if minatory tones , and some writers ( who could be named ) , and some who are still nameless , launched forth Culminations and open and veiled threats against the Grand Lodge of England . These amounted to

" boycotting , " suspension of relations , non-recognition by American Grand Lodges , and we were asked how should we like the " position of the Grand Orient of France ; " and were told , directly and indirectly , that unless the Grand Lodge of England " caved in , " justice (?) would take its course , & c , & C , & C . In reply , we stated then , as we state now , that the English

Masonic mind , essentially practical and essentially just , while it would never listen to a threat , would be willing to consider a real grievance ; and we recommended as " amicus curia ; , " the Grand Lodge of Quebec to approach the Grand Lodge of England in a friendly spirit , to accept the ' * status quo , " exchange representatives , and then negotiate in a friendly

tone and temper with the Grand Lodge of England . Now our friend and brother across the " dividing waters " turns round and accuses' us of " threats , " because we said what was the truth , that if by any unwise counsels the Grand Lodge of Quebec was led into public acts of "boycotting , " or excommunication , as threatened , the Grand Lodge of

England must , as in honour bound , defend its own children , who had apparently committed no crime , but loyalty to itself . Have we not truly characterized all this childish hubbub as a " storm in a teapot ? " Nay , is it not worse ? Have any of those who indulge in all this " tall talk " realized the intense absurdity , the " ridiculous outcome" of threatening to ostracise the Grand Lodge of England ?

FOR fear of being misunderstood , we think it right to return to original facts , to first principles , and shortly review the alleged Quebec difficulty . We wish

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to say that we make every . allowance for the position of Bro . GRAHAM , and we feel persuaded that if he had " carte blanche" to act , a " modus viveiidi" might be found . But extreme counsels and extreme measures will only throw back the settlement of the question , humanly speaking , for another Masonic generation . As we reconsider the whole subject to-day ,

calmly and without prejudice orie way or the other , we are struck , as all must be , we venture to say , who will exercize an independent judgment , with the honest and loyal and Masonic course of the Grand Lod ge of England . The original separation from Canada entailed mutual concessions , and Lord ZETLAND , then our honoured head , aided by competent and skilful advisers ,

stood out for the undoubted Masonic and legal rights of the warranting Grand Lodge , on the one hand , and the privileges of the warranted private lodges on the other . From the time when the Grand Lodge of England was duly organized , at any rate , the primal authority was the warrant or charter of constitution , granted by a competent body to a private lodge . This ,

so to say , has been the " unit" of Masonic action and calculation all through the subsequent years . Some have forgotten the fact ; some have abused it ; somehaveexaggerateditsmeaning ; somehavemisunderstood its importance ; but this one fact is clear and certain and indisputable , as clear and certain and indisputableas anything Masonic can well be , that a lodge has no Masonic

life except what arises front a living competent creative bod y . It is otherwise a clandestine lodge , without a " raison d ' etre" or means of claiming Masonic existence , or powers of Masonic perpetuation . The lodges in Canada were all of English , of Scottish or Irish chartering . When the Grand Lodge of Canada was formed , the English Lodges , with a few

exceptions , returned their charters . Some few refused to do so , and Lord ZETLAND , a truly constitutional ruler , felt that he was bound to safeguard the Masonic rights and liberties of those lodges . Their liberty of action and independence were guaranteed and acknowledged by the Grand Lodge of Canada without a question , and indeed with the express approval , " as a right" by

the Grand Lodge of Canada , as we have previously shown . When the Grand , Lodge of Quebec " swarmed " from the Grand Lodge of Canada , after a little the question was raised as to the position of the English Lodges . Then it was discovered , for the first time , that the status conceded by Grand Master WILSON and the Grand Lodge of Canada was essentially

wrong , and that the Grand Lodge of Canada was Masonically " out of court ' in conceding to this claim of independence of English Lodges , and that whether it was right or wrong , the Grand Lodge of Quebec had power in itself to ignore any such "concordat , " and to claim by the law in force on the American Continent , the submission of the English lodges to the

territorial and jurisdictional authority of the Grand Lodge of Ouebec . And here we are still to-day . The Grand Lodge of England has never recognised the American State-law of Masonic recognition , and cannot , against the will of the lodges , sever itself from the lodges it has itself warranted . " A priori , " the Grand Lodge has , fraternally , no interest in keeping up

connections and responsibilities which " ex necessitate rei" have passed beyond its control ; and there is no possible reason why , as Canada has responsible self-government , and has long ceased to be a colony in the original meaning of the word , the Masonic bodies should not be independent , and selfgoverning too . Hence everything has been said and done that can be said

and done in " mother country . " 1 he whole tone of the correspondence from the GRAND SECRETARY ' S office has been thoughtful and fair-dealing in the extreme , and every disposition has been manifested , if it only can be so , to evince a most friendly feeling for the Grand Lodge of Ouebec . But if that body is determined to try and force the "lead "

of the Grand Lodge of England , that body , the most ancient and Masonically governed in the world , must bring in its " strong hand . " It cannot depart from the first principles laid down by its old Grand Master , that it is bound to protect those of its offshoots which still , though far away , claim its Mgis , and are proud of their parentage . It would be the

act of a craven to do so . But , on the other hand , it is most desirous for Masonic peace and progress ; and we , therefore , once more advise our good friends in Quebec to abjure and throw over fiery orators and irresponsible advisers , and taking good , sound , calm advice show to others and themselves that , under all circumstances , Masonic moderation is a proof of wisdom , and an act of duty .

* * WE publish elsewhere , by request , an appeal for a Cosmopolitan Ophthalmic Hospice at Jerusalem , to be founded and maintained by the Order of St .

John of Jerusalem , in which our distinguished . Bro . Sir E . LECHMERE , Prov . G . M . for Worcestershire , takes a very active part . To all Freemasons , we venture to think , this movement will commend itself , both on account of the associations linked with the name Jerusalem , and also with