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daily to the business of his office . The amendment was ut and lost , the orig inal motion was put and carried . ^ pro . Bullard , District Grand Registrar , moved , seconded by Bro . Craven , District Grand Org ., that the salary of the District Grand Tyler be £ 8 for the ensuing year . Bro . Taylor said he thought the present salary of £ 4 „„ ite sufficient , it was at the rate of Xi for each meeting .

Bro . Bullard , in reply , said the salary at first paid the Ty ler by all the lodges , including D . G . Lodge , was £ too per annum , he now had only £ 9 6 . The salary formerly paid by D . G . Lodge was £ 8 , and was reduced in consequence of the state of its funds . The Tyler had a great number of emergency meetings to attend to for which he was not paid anything extra , D . G . Lodge could now

afford to pay the original salaiy to the Tyler , and he hoped it would do so . Bro . Taylor said he should not oppose the motion . The motion was then put and carried . Bro . Simpson , pursuant to notice , moved , " That the sum of £ 500 be taken from the cash balance and invested at interest for the District Grand Lodge . " Bro . Cassidy

seconded the motion . Put and carried . Bro . Simpson further moved , seconded by Bro . Cassidy , " That the District Grand Master and District Grand Treasurer be requested to invest the amount in such a way as they deemed most advantageous for the District Grand Lodge . " Put and carried . The District Deputy Grand Master said that this time

twelve months ago he had the honour to preside here and to invest the D . G . L . Officers in the name and on behalf of the District Grand Master . He trusted that the brethren who had that evening accepted office and been invested would attend punctually to their duties ; as the meetings of the District Grand Lodge were only held four times a year , he could not consider their attendance on those

occasions would be a very great tax on their time . He had to congratulate District Grand Lodge on the prosperous state t > f their funds . During the past year a very important event had taken place in the installation of His Royal Highness the Piince of Wales as their Granel Master . Masonry throughout the worlel has been making rapid advancement ef late , f <> r since His Royal

Highness ' s acceptance of office vast numbers had joint-el the Craft , no doubt owing to the Prince having proved its worthiness by bcoming its head , an event that is sure to tell most favourably on Freemasonry . He trustee ! while we hailed with much gladness the great increase to our numbers we should strictly guard the honour of our Onli r by being careful not to admit amongst us any who are

likely to prove unworthy membeis of our Craft . He pointed out that two portraits of H . R . H . the Grand Master had been obtained from London , one e > f which was placed in the lodge-room , and the other in the banquet-reiom . The District Grand Master had granted Wanants eif Dispensation for two new lodges , one to be nameil the St . Leonard ' s Samaritan Lodge , to be held at St . Leonard's ,

North Shore , and the other the Invere 11 Lodgu , to be held at Inverell . Bro . Bullard said before Distiict Grand Lodge closed he had an observation to make . He had been informed that the fee charged by the lodges for initiation was too small in comparison with those charged in England , and

especially since the accession to office of our Royal Grand Master . He was told that £ 10 10 s . was the fee charged for initiation in some lodges in Englanel . He considered if that was the case that in this ctilony the fee should be increased . He thought the matter worth consideration . The business being ended 'District Grand Loelge was closed in form .

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FACTS AND SUGGESTIONS ABOUT THE ANCIENTS AND MODERNS .

Bv B 110 . J ACOU NORTON . A statement appeareel in a New Yeirk paper about three months ago , that Albion Lodge at Quebec was chartered in 1721 . After some enquiry of the author of the article ,

who assured me that he had seen the charter , Sec , I was at first inclined to credit it as a fact , but subsequent reflection , however , induced me to doubt . I could nut understand how an English lodge coulel have found its way into Quebec at a time when the enmity between the English and French colonists in North America was such as

to make it doubtful whether an English resident at Quebec would have been tolerated . Further investigation showed that the said Albion Lodge was chartered bv the Ancients , hence it could not be older than 1750 or later . Moreover , Quebec was not conquered by the English before September , 1 759 i and the f aid lodge , which was originally nameel " Royal Artillery Lodge , " was probably introduced into Quebec by a military regiment , as its name implies . I hese and several other reasons induced me to send a

communication to the " Canadian Masonic News . " The MS . was mailed on the 15 th of April last , the day I sailed for Europe . For reasons which need not be explained , the article was sent from Montreal to the " Keystone , " at Philadel phia , where it was printed on the 29 th of April . For once at least , Bro . McCalla and myself agreed in opinion . Bro . W . J . Hughan , of Truro , Englandalso

, sided with us , and the only chance of upsetting our united belief depends on the publication of the charter , and I hove the Quebec brethren will ere long comply with our united request , and send a verbatim copy of the Albion Lodge charter to some Masonic journal for publication . Should the charter not be forthcoming we shall certainly take it

or _ 8 ranted that we were hot mistaken in our belief . I he investi gation of that question , however , brought to , ny notice several other subjects , which I proceed to give ist . On carefully re-examining the list of lodges of the united Grand Lodge in 1814 , in Bro . Hughan ' s "Masonic memorial , " I found that besides the Royal Artillery , No . V . on the list of the Ancients , 1813 , and No . 17 on that of

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the United Granel Lodge , in 1814 , that two other Quebec lodges were respectively numbered by the Ancients , viz ., 56 and 240 , while not a solitary Quebec lodge can be found on the Grand Lodge of England list before the Union in 1813 . This itself seems to indicate that the Ancients monopolized Quebec , and gives strength to our opinion that thc Royal Artillery was also chartered by

them . 2 nd . I can also find that the late Charles W . Moore claimed that the so-called St . John ' s Grand Lodge of Boston chartered a lodge at Quebec "before 1764 " , ( see Mass . Cons . 1857 ) . Bro . Moore gave neither name nor date for the alleged Quebec lodge , except the somewhat dubious "before 1764 . " I am very much inclined to place

that Massachusetts Quebec , lodge side , by side with the charters said to have been sent from Boston to Philadelphia , Charleston , S . C , Halifax , N . S ., to the West Indies , Sec But yet it may be true , and if so , I hope the Quebec brethren will enlighten us upon the subject . 3 rd . During my late visit to London , my esteemed friend , Bro . Hervey , Grand Secretary of England ,

informed me that the policy of the Ancients and Moderns in numbering their lodges differeel in this . After certain intervals the Grand Lodge of England used to erase all its defunct lodges , and tt e numbers were re-conferred , according to the seniority , on the ether lodges . That the Grand Lodge of England did re-number part of its lodges several times previous to 1814 can be proved ; first , from

the African Lodge , Boston , which was originally numbered 459 , and was afterwards changed to 370 ; and second , the first Boston , now St . John ' s Lodge , known in England as Royal Exchange Lodge , was numbered at its first registry , about 1735 or 6 , No . 126 ; in 1740 its number was changed to 110 , and later still it was re-numbered 65 , and at the time when it was stricken off , in

1814 , it was No . 42 . But I have no evidence that the Ancients had ever re-numbered their lodges en masse , and what is more curious still , on the elemise of any of its old lodges its number was sold to the highest bidder , or in other words , the lodge that offered the highest sum took the number of the defunct lodge , and was entitled to precedence of the oldir leielges , and that at the Union in 1814

the United Grand Lodge took the numbers if the lodges e : f ihe Ancients , as they then existed , without any regard to seniority o' their respective elates of charters , and placed No . 1 eif each eirganization next to each other , changing the number uf erne of them to No . 2 , etc . Another fart about the lodges of the Ancients and Moderns at the time of the Union in 1814 must be noticed ,

viz ., that on Bin . Hughan ' s list , as well as on all the lists of loel ^ es published in the English calendars since the Union , the lodges of pre-union Moderns have the respective years of their constitutions annexed , while the loelges of the Ancients are minus of the year when constitute !! , pie reason of this omission" ! must leave to Bro . Hughan to unriddle . But anyhow , while we are certain that No . 1

on the list of the Moderns is older than its No . 2 ; with the lodges of the Ancients , it is actually imprssible to know which is the oldest , as No . 1 may have become defunct , and No . 200 may have bought its number , and may in reality be fifty years the junior of No . 2 . Now , the Quebec Lodge Albion , or Royal Artillery , was in 1814 No . 9 on the Ancients' list , but who knows whether the elate iif

its charter may not be 1770 , and that either for money 01 for some other consideration the No . 9 of a defunct lodge might not have been conferred upon it . ' The fact is , the only way we can learn the date of a charter of the Ancients is from the charter itself , or from a well authenticated copy thereof . 4 th . On analyzing Bro . Hughan ' s li't of l . dgesin 1814

I found that the bAal number of loelges of the Uniteel Grand Lodge of England was 647 , out of which 250 were contributed by the Arcienrs , and 397 were constituted by the Moderns . Out ot the 250 lodges of the Ancients , eight lodges were chartered by militia regiments in various parts of England , and about thirty were regular military lodges , while among the lodges originated by the

Moderns I founel but two militia lodges respectively dated 1794 and 1810 , but not a solitary military lodge could I find there . Ic is evident , therefore , that all the military lodges of " English Registry " we read of in our colonial times , were chartered by the Ancients ; for in the first place if the Granel Lodge of England hail chartcreel military lodges befeire the Union , it would not have bjen without

any in 1814 , and secondly , no prov s on whatever about military lodges was marie in any Constitution ofthe Grand Lodge of England published previous to the union with the ancients . But the first Book of Constitutions published by the United Granel Loelge of England contains regulations for military lodges . Of the 2 so loelges of the Ancients who united

with the Grand Lodge in 1813 , 127 of these lodges were still subordinate to the Grand Lodge of England in 1874 ( when Bro . Hughan ' s memorial was published ) , and out of the thirty military lodges chartered by the Ancients but one of these is living , viz ., St . John's , Gibraltar , 2 nd Royal Battalion of Artillery . Its number on the Ancient ' s list at the union in 1813 was 148 . On the United Grand

Lodge ' s list , in 1814 , it was No . 181 . In 1832 it wa numbered 132 , and in 1863 it was made 115 . And o the 397 lodges contributed in 1813 or 14 by the Moderns I counted but 205 still acting under the English jurisdiction . Most of the old loelges of both wings have doubtless dissolved since the Union , 'but still we know that a few of them have seceded and are no . v working uneler the jurisdictions of Nova Scotia and Quebec .

And now for anothe : fact about the Ancients that worked in Boston before the Revolution . In 1870 , Bro . Gardner , the G . M . of Massachusets , called my attention to the following paragraphs in an American reprint of " Calcott's Disquisition . " After giving the nights it the meetings of the lodges working under the Englifh Provincial Grand Lodge , and of the Scotch Provincia G . M ., Joseph Warren , it then goes on to say : ; i

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" Under the jurisdiction of the Right Worshipful , & c , John , Duke and Marquis of Athol , & c . " Ancient York , No . 16 9 , the first atid Third Tuesday in every month , at Mr . Alexander ' s Battery—March . " This is the only evidence that the Ancients had a lodge in Boston . Of course , we imagined that it was a civilians ' lodge . Recently , however , I found the following in " The

Early History and Transactions of the Grand Lodge of New York , " page 13 . " Minutes of Lodge 169 , Ancient York Masons , held at their loelge-room on Tuesday evening , the 23 rd of Jan ., 57 81 . " I am firmly persuaded that the No . 169 of Boston was the identical Lodge No . 169 of New York ; it was

doubtless a military Lodge , and it left Boston with the British troops in 1736 . Its lodge nights were on Tuesdays in . both places . And as No . 16 9 is not given in " Hughan's Memorial " on the list of the Ancients , and as the minutes of that lodge remain in New York , the charter and lodge must have remained at New York after the war was over . I may be wrong , but such is my opinion . — " Jewish Record . "

Down With Masonry.

DOWN WITH MASONRY .

A large number of Christians , or philanthropists , or Christians and philanthropists , have been in session in Chicago for several days . The object of their gathering ; is to put down Masonry—not brick and stone masonry , but that dreadful oath-bound association whose members once killed Morgan . That is to say , killed him till after

election . The world watches the proceedings of this body with intense interest , fully believing that in the suppression of Masonry it has a mission , a great work to perform . The association numbers somewhere from 50 to 100 members . Masonry has anywhere from five millions to fifty millions of members . This will oblige every member of thc

anti-Masonic society to do some heavy work . Each of these has to dispose of from five hundred thousand to one million Masons . It ' s big odels ; but there is do doubt they have the will , the desire , the inclination to succeed . All they lack now is the ability . There is no doubt of the fact that Gen . Blanchard , in his crusade against the Masons , is doing God seivice—or

at least he thinks he is . Masonry is a dubious article , anyhow . Able-bodied men who appear on the streets aproned like pastry cooks or butchers occupy an equivocal position . What right have they to wear white aprons ? What right have they to wear aprons at all ? Are nist these aprons worn so that deeds of blood can be committed withntt messing their clothes with gore ? What terrible

signification is there in all these stalwart , mysterious men going about with this unfathomable attachment ? In truth , any man who Vvill make a spectacle by marching up one street anil down another , in broad day light , with a little white apron strung around . him , ought to be suppressed cither by Blanchard or the police . Again , what is meant by other Masons going about in

uniform , and wearing pewter swords ? What dire project is entertained by these men with plumed hats , gauntlets , and glittering sabres ? It may be plunder . It may be rape . It may be something worse than either of these . Whose watch or throat is safe when gloomy-looking bands of men in funeral black , and armed to the teeth with a falchion of glittering pewter , are allowed with impunity to

drill in secret places , and to march through the streets at any hour of the elay or night ? Where is Mickey ? Where are the police ? Call out the ist Regiment , anil let us have this menace removed at the point of the baytmet ! Blanchard is right every time . Every few days a dripping body is fished from thc river . What proof is there that , in every case , thc body is not the victim of Masonic

hate and vengeance ? Who has been able to satisfactorily prove that Masonry did not set fire to Chicago ? Anil see here , Mr . Blanchard , can ' t you guess who abelucteel Charlie Ross ? Do you twig ? Masonry , my boy , dark , secret , silent , implacable Masonry ? Anel did it never occur to you , Mr . Blanchard , to think of Masonry , when you have revolved that sphinx of problems , that hitherto

unanswerable question which has been so long calling vainly for answer , from out the gloomy crypts of the past , Who struck Billy Patterson ? For all the mysterious crimes that have escaped detection ; for the explanation of bloated corpses far out on the sea , recking idly on the swell , and coming , no one knows whence , and drifting no one knows whither ; for gashed throats yawning horrielly as grey

morning first discovers them in the out-ways of life ; for all these let Masonry answer—if it can ! Widit ? Knot , Mr . Blanchard , then abolish its members , and may Hiram Abiff have mercy on their souls . The Masonic business has gone on long enough , for thousands of years Masonry has existed , and during all that time tempests have swept the earth ; volcanoes haye

inundated us with igneous wrath ; wars have prevailed ; grasshoppers , the murrain , the itch , measles , elrunkcnness , divorce , murder , suicide , shipwrecks , and termagant women have abounded and have coursed the earth , like fierce hounds , rending , tearing , afflicting humanity . Who can fail to see the connection between Masonry and all these

specified evils ? No one . It is as clear as it is that hunger causes nakedness , or that water creates thirst . Down with the acacia ! Let it be dug up all throughout the world , and be thrown over the fence . It is a weed which takes up place which might belter be occupieel by the shamrock , or some other vegetable of a thrifty growth . — " Chicago Times , " June 23 .

The foundation stone of the new School of Art to be erected on Green Hill , Derby , was laiel on Tuesday by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts in thu prjsence of a distinguished company .