United Grand Lodge.

UNITED GRAND LODGE .

There was only one question on the agenda for Wednesday ' s meeting of United Grand Lodge which was at all calculated to arouse the interest of the brethren , and that related to the communication of the M . W . Grand Master concerning the conduct

of Bro . Sir ROBERT STOUT , P . A . G . D . C , Deputy District Grand Master of Otago and Southland , in establishing an irregular lodge in New Zealand under a warrant obtained from the Grand Orient of France . The circumstances having been

virtually admitted by Bro . Sir ROBERT STOUT , and an attempt made by him to justify his conduct , nothing remained but for Grand Lodge to adjudge the penalty which should be inflicted on him for his violation of our laws . Accordingly , the GRAND

REGISTRAR having laid the facts fully and carefully before Grand Lodge , and having cited the laws bearing on the subject , proposed a resolution , which was adopted by Grand Lodge unanimously , and which we consider will have the effect of

rendering it impossible for Bro . Sir ROBERT STOUT to insult our Grand Lodge on any future occasion . By the terms of this tesolution , Bro . Sir ROBERT STOUT is firstly deprived of his rank and privileges as a Past Grand Officer of United Grand

Lodge ; while in the second clause the attention of the Dist . G . M . of Otago and Southland is formally directed to the conduct to which Bro . Sir ROBERT STOUT , his Deputy District Grand Master , has pleaded guilty , with a view to his ( i ) removal from

the office of Dejouty District Grand Master , and ( 2 ) the further consideration of that conduct by the District Board of General Purposes . It appears to us that the simple course would have been for Grand Lodge to have expelled Bro . Sir ROBERT STOUT

from Masonry , but as the facts have been admitted , his expulsion will in all probability be the final result of the proceedings which have yet to be taken , the exact method of procedure in dealing with the case is of comparatively small importance .

A New Masonic Work.

A NEW MASONIC WORK .

A new volume is preparing for publication , and is expected to be ready in a month or so . The title is " History of the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons and Concordant Orders , " and the work is to be issued

b y " The Fraternity Publishing Company , " of Boston and New York , of which Bro . L . C . Hascall is the President . Bro . George Venning is to be the British publisher , to whom all orders may De addressed .

The peculiar feature of the massive volume is that it is written h J a ' < Board of Editors , " of whom Bro . Henry L . Stillson , of Bennington , Vermont , is the Editor-in-chief , and Bro . William J- Hughan , of Torquay , is the European Editor , who has Bro . 11 Lane , of the same town , as his associate Editor . The

inncipal authors of divisions , whose facsimile signatures are Ppended to their chapters , consist of some 20 in number , all of w iom are well informed on the subjects about which they write , may be said to be specialists in their particular departments ot great repute .

here are also over <> o more contributors , whose knowledge I eir ovvn individual Grand Lodges cannot be excelled , and e their statistics and general information relative to the , ait in their own St-at-pc will l-. ^ i , 4 i r > iiwi- <» i ; oi- > i » c ^ A ^ f ^ nC ;< i 0 r

_ G j ij ^ these we have but to mention brethren such as Can ^ becretarIes A . G . Abell , of California ; J . J . Mason , of m < la ; E . C . Parmelee , of Colorado ; J . K . Wheeler , of Con-

A New Masonic Work.

necticut ; L . L . Munn , Illinois ; T . S . Parvin , Iowa ; J . H . Brown , Kansas ; Dr . Batchelor , Louisiana ; J . H . Mediary , Maryland ; S . D . Nickerson , Massachusetts ; W . P . Innes , Michigan ; C . Hedges , Montana ; E . M . L . Elhers , New York ;

the Hon . W . Ross , Nova Scotia ; M . Nisbet , Pennsylvania ; J . H . Isaacson , Quebec ; C . Diehl , Utah ; W . G . Reynolds , Vermont ; besides many others of well-known ability , to assure our readers that statistically as well as historally the book will be especially authoritative , accurate , and exhaustive .

With respect to the chief portion of the great work , we understand that it will be divided into five parts , of 21 divisions , in all .

The first part will be devoted to " Ancient Masonry , " the divisions being allotted as follows : 1 , " The Ancient Mysteries /' Bro . W . R . Singleton ; 2 , "The Cognate Orders , " Bishop Perry , of Iowa ; 3 , " The Old Charges , " Bro . H . L . Stillson ; the general Introduction being by Bro . Hughan , with brief prefaces by the

Editor-in-chief throughout the volume , as required . Part II ., on "Cosmopolitan Freemasonry , " commences with —4 , " Lodges in America under the English Constitution and Masonic Charities , " by Bro . John Lane , followed by , 5 , " First Meridian" ( Antlantic Slope , & c ) , Bro . C . E . Meyer ; 6 , "Second

Meridian , Bros . Meyer , Schultz , and Gillett ; 7 , 2 nd Branch , by Bro . C . E . Gillett ; 8 , "Third Meridian , " Bro . E . A . Sherman ; g , " British America , " Bros . Dr . Graham and J . S . Robertson ; 10 , "Other Countries , " Bros . Colonel Hall , W . J . Hughan , and Dr . Graham ; 11 , "The Morgan Excitement , "

Bro . J . B . Anthony ; ' 12 , " Masonic Jurisprudence , " Bro . J . H . Drummond ; 13 , "The Capitular Degrees , " Bro . A . F . Chapman ; 14 , " The Cryptic Degrees , " Bros . Dr . E . Grissom and W . J . Hughan ; 15 , " Eulogiums of the Ancient Craft , " Bros . C . T . MacClenachan and Dr . Graham ; 16 , " Knights

Templars and Allied Orders , " Bro . F . Speed ; "British Templary , " Col . J . McLeod Moore ( his last effort !) ; 18 , " Scottish Degrees , " Bro . J . H . Drummond ; 19 , " Royal Order of Scotland , " Bro . W . J . Hughan , and " Heredom , " Bro . E . T . Schultz ; 20 , " Other Rites and Orders , " _ Bros . MacClenachan

and Rev . Dr . Engle ; and 21 , "Statistics of Freemasonry , " Bro . W . J . Hughan and others , particularly the Grand Secretaries of about 50 Grand Lodges . The illustrations will be both numerous and valuable , and it is but justice to state that no expense is being spared to render

the handsome volume , typographically , artistically , and generally , one of the most important works ever published in relation to Freemasonry . The sale will have to be enormous to clear the heavy cost of outlay and production , but the publishers are very confident of success , and we feel quite certain they have well merited the hearty support they anticipate .

The Lodges At Rome, Italy, In 1735-37.

THE LODGES AT ROME , ITALY , IN 1735-37 .

BY BRO . D . MURRAY LYON . Minute book of the Masonic lodge which existed in Rome , 1735—37 , and was suppressed by Pope Clement XII . in the latter year , when the officer of the lodge was taken to the Inquisition , though he was soon released .

Among other interesting MSS . preserved in the archives of the Grand Lodge of Scotland are the minutes of a lodge of Scottish Freemasons existing in Rome in the years 1735 and 1737—a lodge over which it has been said " Prince Charles

Edward presided as Right Worshipful Master . " There is no authority for such a statement . The minutes in question do not support it ; nor has evidence from a Scottish source ever been produced of the Pretender being a Freemason .

This relic of Jacobite Masons can scarcely be called a book . It consists of ten sheets of large post folio , placed loosely within a vellum cover , and attached to it by a piece of twine run