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Births, Marriages, And Deaths.

Births , Marriages , and Deaths .

DEA TIIS . IIUSTWICK . —On the 27 th ult ., at 9 , West Derby-street , Liverpool , aged 5 years and 4 months , William Jessou , eldest surviving son of Bro . T . II . Hustwick , J . D . 292 . MUGGEltinr . i-.. —On the 21 st Jan ., at Brighton , Bro . Samuel Muggeridge , aged 65 . He faithfully served the London Dock Company 45 years . Masonic and other friends will please accept this intimation .

Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

—•—R . A ., Annan . — -We have , unfortunately , mislaid your letter , but not before we had noted its contents . The Royal Caledonian Chapter was formed , as you state , in 1796 , and continued ils payments to the Grand Chapter of England till 1 S 17 . Canyon explain under

what charier it worked afterwards ? The case , we should say , is unique , and a full account would be very interesting . A . C . WATCHMAN . —An index has been issued for both Vol . 1 . and Vol . 2 . We will send you one of the latter if you have not received il . Your suggestion as to reviews shall be attended lo in future .

W . M . —lhe lodge 642 , at Darjeeling , Fast Indies , has been extinct for some years , the number given by our correspondent was erroneously printed as 6 42 ; S 26 is also extinct . MONTKA . —The ceremony observed at the installation of m English W . M . is not , strictly speaking , a "degree , " a we explained in a recent article on " . Vi-onic Riles , "

avid no special charter is required for working i ; , provision bun ; , ' made in the warrant of way lodge for Ihc «' . ue installation of successors to the first Master . No brother , however , can be installed unless three " Installed Masters" are present to form a " Board j" but we arc unable to give lhe " regulations for conducting the same , ' inasmuch as they comprise part of the secrets bclomrine to the chair .

MASTER MASON . --The ancinit laws of the Craft did not contemplate the creation of "honorary membership " in . Ma-onic lo ' . l » es ; and Masonic jurists al the present time arc by no means at one in their opinions as to the real status of honorary members . In England all the nilicers of a lodge must be " sub .-cribing members , " except lhe Secretary , whose services are reckoned an equivalent for hir subscription . And by the laws of

the Grand Lodge of Scotland , it is enacted that when an annual subscription is required in any lodge-, the members of such lodge shall be bound lo pay it , ' and if ;; i arrear three years or more shall not be eligible lo r . old olfice . As , we believe , nearly all Scottish lodges liuw exact an annual contribution , however small in some insiaiices , it follows that an honorary member cannot be an office-bearer in such ledge ? .

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Freemasonry In Canada

FREEMASONRY in CANADA

OUR brethren in Canada are in difficulty and danger . It is our duty to unite with them in forming a column of mutual defence

and support . A cloud , once little " bigger than a man ' s hand , " has burst within their borders , and Freemasonry is deluged with the storm-drops of dissension and strife .

How is this ? our English readers may ask . But a few years have elapsed since the Craft in Canada achieved their independence of foreign control , and their new career commenced under the most

favourable auspices . Since then we have heard of nothing but the success of the Canadian Grand Lodge — we have witnessed with pleasure the great increase in its numerical

strength , and wc fondly hoped that it was long destined to maintain the same ratio of progress and to become one of the most powerful Masonic bodies in the world .

Unfortunately , these hopes have not been realised ; the horizon of Canadian Freemasonry is now strangely overcast , and its foundations are shaken to their very centre .

Let us briefly explain . Until the 1 st of July , 1 S 67 , the whole of Canada—Upper and Lower — formed one Province , over which the Grand Lodge of Canada held

sway , and District Grand Lodges under England or Scotland existed in the maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia . From the date mentioned , however ,

all British North America was welded into one confederation , designated the" Dominion of Canada ; " and separate provinces— "Ontario , " "Ouebec , " "Nova Scotia , " and "New

Brunswick "—were created , each possessing a separate legislature over which the " Dominion Parliament" was to exercise supreme jurisdiction . From various causes , to which

it is unnecessary to refer al length , the brethren in the maritime provinces resolved to erect independent Grand Lodges of their own , but , as in dutv bound , they first sought

the sanction of their mother Grand Lodges . Owing to some miscarriage or inadvertence , the appeal of the New Brunswick lodges to this end never readied the authorities of the

Grand Lodge of England ; but the petition of the Nova Scotian brethren having been duly received , was calmly and dispassionately considered , and in one of the most

numerously-attended Quarterly Communications ever held in Great Queen-street , London , the Grand Lodge of England acceded to the request of its daughter lodges ;

recognised them as a governing body in Freemasonry , and held out to them the right hand of fraternity and good-will . The Grand Lodge of Scotland , true to its traditions , followed suit , and the District

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Grand Master , under both England and Scotland , became the first Grand Master of Nova Scotia . The brethren in the newly-constituted

Province of Ouebechave also recently determined to avail themselves of their altered political status , and to set up for themselves ; but they do not , so far as we can judge , appear

to have adopted the wise and judicious example of their confreres in the maritime provinces . Upon the question whether a second Masonic Jurisdiction was required

in a territory which , in spite of arbitrary boundaries , \ vill ever be designated "Canada " we do not profess to give an opinion , but we conceive that the rules of propriety and

the principles of Freemasonry have been alike violated in this hasty formation of a "Grand Lodge of Ouebec . " It was the bounden duty of the promoters of this

division to lay their statements in Masonic form before the Grand Lodge of Canadait was their duty to leave no stone unturned to obtain the sanction of the Supreme Body

whose warrants they held—prior to raising the flag of independence , and defying the public opinion of the Order throughout the world . It is a sad state of things to

contemplate—authority defied—fraternity disregarded — the sacred obligations of the Craft profaned or forgotten—when all the teachings of Freemasonry inculcate

forbearance , truth , and brotherly love ! Now , we cannot be supposed to sympathise with any movement which tends to weaken a friendly Masonic Power , but at the same time \ ve

earnestly call upon our Canadian brethren to reconcile their differences , for while blaming our Quebec brethren for remissness in their mode of procedure , we arc on the other hand unable to conceal the

obvious fact that wholesale suspensions or expulsions of brethren for errors of judgment will not be tolerated in this enlightened age .

If the Grand Lodge of Canada cannot win back to its Masonic fold by kindness the twenty-one recalcitrant lodges in the province of Quebec , it will never accomplish

that object by harsh measures . "Secession " and " rebellion " are convertible terms , and the magic of success produces strange changes of opinion . We have before us

now , the " Proceedings of the-Grand Lodge of Canada , " held on the 1 st December , 1 S 60 , at Montreal , on the one side , and the

" Proceedings of the Convention , held in the same city , on the 20 th and 21 st October last , by the leaders of the " Grand Lodge of Ouebec " on the other side . We have ¦

also received a " Manifesto of the latter body , through the courtesy of its Grand Master , Bro . J . H . Graham , and tile conclusion to which we deliberately arrive , is that

there must be a separation between the two provinces of Ontario and Quebec . The feelings which have been evoked on both sides are too powerful to be subdued ,

and we cannot advocate the adoption by the Grand Lodge of Canada of coercive measures , whi ' .-h would not only ft . il to reach theirobjects , but would excite the sympathies