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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

REMITTANCES RECEIVED . £ s . d . Austin , A . E ., The Cape ( P . O . O . ) 2 12 9 Bligh , G . M ., St . Catherine ' s ( B . of E . ) o 12 o British Kaffrarian Lodge , The Cape ( P . O . O . ) ... 1 4 9 Camana , C . ( P . O . O . ) 1 7 8 Coy , John W ., St . Catherine ' s ( B . of E . ) o 12 o

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EKRATA . —In the Report of the St . David ' s Lodge Jubilee at Bangor last week , for " Bro . R . Lloyd " read " Bro . R . Lloyd Owen ; " and in the date of the changing the number of the lodge from 811 to 540 , for " 1852 " read , " 1832 . "

BOOKS , Sec , RECEIVED . " The Freemason ' s Repository , " " Keystone , " " Le Piramide di Menfi , " " Masonic Journal , " " New York Dispatch , " "Craftsman , " "True System of Wood Pavement , " "The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners . "

Births, Marriages And Deaths.

Births , Marriages and Deaths .

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BIR' ! HS . BABBEH . —On the 2 nd inst ., at Shawland Villa , St . James's Road , Brixton , the wife of Bro . William Henry Barber , ( Secretary Eclectic Lodge , 1201 ) , of a son . DONKIN . —On the 25 th ult ., at Oxford , the wife of W . F . Donkin , Esq ., prematutely , of a daughter .

MARRIAGE . UNITE—KING . —On the 5 th , at St . Mary ' s , Islington , George Duthy Unite , son of John Unite , of 291 , Edgware Road , to Emily , daughter of the late William King , of Canonbury . No cards . SILVESTER—METCALF . —On the 27 th ult ., at St . Michael's , Chester-square , James Silvester , of Penge , to Mary , daughter of John Metcalf , late of Macclesfield .

DEATHS . HOLLOWAV . —On the 29 th ult ., at Brighton , Lieut-Col Edward Vere P . Holloway , aged 71 .

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The Freemason , SATURDAY , APRIL 7 , 1877 .

Our Royal Grand Master's Visit To Malta.

OUR ROYAL GRAND MASTER'S VISIT TO MALTA .

For the following statement we are indebted to our contemporary the Lancet -. " The Prince of Wales is suffering from an abcess attributed to the effects of an injury received while hunting . His Royal Highness ' s stirrup slipped , and a severe strain resulted . The abscess has been

opened , the patient being under the iufluence of an anaesthetic , administered by Mr . Clover . Perfect relief has ensued , and the Prince is doing weil , although some time must elapse before the healing process is complete . The locale of the present injury is probably determined by the

fact that induration—the result of inflammation , which first appeared after the attack of typhoid fever to which his Royal Highness was subjected some years ago—still affects the seat of the abscess . The inflammatory induration recurred two years after the fever , and it reappeared

previously to the departure of the Prince for India . Some return of the affection was experienced about a fortnight ago , and the strain received , as above narrated , caused considerable echymosis . His Royal Highness is under the joint care of Sir James Paget and Mr . Oscar Clayton . "

The Medical Examiner announces the uninterrupted progress towards recovery of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . There has not been a single unfavourable symptom , and Sir James Paget and Mr . Oscar Clayton confidently hope that their Royal patient will be able to start for the Continent early next week .

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales left Marlborough-house last evening shortly after 9 o ' clock on a visit to the King and Queen of Greece at Athens . The Princess , attended by Colonel Teesdale and Miss Knollys , drove to the Charine-cross station of the South-Eastevn

Railway , where a special train had been prepared for the conveyance of her Royal Hi ghness to Folkestone . Her Royal Highness , on alighting , was received by Count SchouvalofF , the Russian Ambassador , Lord Colville , General Probyn , and Colonel Ellis , Sir Edward Watkin , M . P ., the

Chairman , Mr . J . Shaw and Mr . Cockburn , representing the South-Eastern Railway Co . The Royal train , under the charge of Mr . John Shaw , manager and secretary , and Mr . Cockburn , superintendent of the line , quitted the station at 9 . 20 p . m ., and proceeded bv the short and direct

route to Folkestone , which was reached at 11 . 15 p . m ., and upon the saloons arriving at the harbour the Princess and suite embarked immediately on board the South Eastern Railway Company ' s steamer Victoria , Captain Dane , in which Her Royal Highness' luggage , which had

been despatched from Charing-cross at 4 . 45 p . m ., was already stowed . A special cabin had been erected upon the deck for the use of the Princess . The Victoria left Folkestone without delay , and steamed across the Channel to Boulogne . Her Royal Highness would leave Boulogne at 2 . 13

on Thursday morning and travel by the mail train over the Chemin de Fer du Nord , via Amiens , to Paris , which would be reached at 6 . 20 a . m ., the journey from London being accomplished in eight hours and fifty minutes , with a saving of 28 miles . On Thursday the

Princess of Wales and suite will rest at thc Hotel Bristol , in the Place Vendome , where a handsome suite of apartments had been prepared , and in the evening Her Royal Highness would leave the French capital shortly after 8 o ' clock by the Mediterranean line , the Princess travelling from

Paris , via Mont Cenis , Turin , Bologna , and Ancona to the port of Brindisi , where the Royal yacht Osborne has been waiting , and whence Her Royal Highness will proceed at once to Athens , where , as already stated , she will be the guest of the King and Queen of Greece for a

week or two . The Prince of Wales is expected to leave London on Tuesday or Wednesday next , should His Royal Highness ' s health permit , and will proceed to the South of France , returning in about a month with the Princess of Wales to England . We take this from the Times .

Our Royal Grand Master's Visit To Malta.

A telegram from the Boulogne correspondent ofthe Times ( Thursday ) , adds : —The Princess , accompanied by Miss Knollys , Colonel Teesdale , and suite , landed here at 1 . 40 a . m . after a passage of one hour and fifty minutes from Folkestone on board the steamer Victoria , Capt .

Dane , which experienced a strong wind and heavy sea . The landing was strictl y incognito , being witnessed only by the officials on dut y . A supper-room and two retiring-rooms have been specially fitted up at the railway-station , and tastefully decorated with flowers .

The Struggle In France.

THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE .

In the Chaine d'Union for April we find proof , if proof be needed by any dispassionate observer , of the extreme folly and unseasonableness of the revolutionary agitation in the French Grand Orient . It will indeed be very lucky if the effect be not to throw back Freemasonry into the chaos

of atheistic and socialistic reveries altogether , and to make it " stink in the nostrils , " so to say , of all religious and reverent minded Frenchmen . There never was , in our humble opinion , and we have studied the question very carefully , alike from its historical and actual point of view , a

more senseless and hurtful movement , without any real basis or meaning , or possible utility , or probable good , than the present one , by which Freemasonry is convulsed from one end of France to the other , and which can only result , in our opinion , in plaving into the hands of the

Ultramontane party , isolating the French Grand j ] Orient , and discrediting French Freemasonry generally in the appreciation of intelligent and serious Frenchmen of all classes . Bro . Hubert declares himself , in the Chaine d' Union , manfully against the change on his own

ground , though he admits that he is somewhat afraid that the popular current of the hour * is carrying the French lodges and brethren in just the opposite direction . He , like us , declares the change to be meaningless , mischievous , and inopportune , and equally agrees with us that

French Freemasonry , like English , has always declared a belief in God , The Great Architect of the Universe , a needful and pre-requisite condition for admission into our great brotherhood . He mentions that in one lodge in Paris , the " Alsace and Lorraine , " the question of the

" rejection ofthe formula" had been shelveo ' by the acceptance of the "Ordre du jour , " 01 " the previous question . " He gives us an account of a debate on the subject in the Lodge " Emules de Montyon , " Orleans , which practically negatives the proposal .

The lodge had remitted the matter to a commission of five , ( representing a special committee with us ) , by whom the " Ordre du Jour , " or previous question , was also proposed unanimously . Two modifications of this proposition were submitted , simply denying the

opportuneness , which were rejected , and then the Venerable ( W . M . ) Gavot proposed the following amended " order of the day r '— " La Loge les Emules de Montyon , Or . d'Orleans , considerant que la philosophic deiste et de traditions dans la Maconnerie decide qu'il n ' y a pas lieu de supprimer

lesec 2 del'Article 1 , de la Constitution . " This " Ordre du Jour " was carried by 17 white balls to 10 black , and the Lodge " Emules de Montyon " of Orleans therefore votes against the change . When we look into the discussion we shall see at once the unwholesome agitation thus

fostered by this love of revolutionary alteration the sad " inopportuneitc " of the entire question , and the harm itmust inevitably do to Freemasonry even in France . What the effect may be outside France we do not profess to estimate or realize . One brother , A , says he is a " Positiviste ;

another , B , declares he is a " Materialiste , - a third , C , affirms that he is a " Deiste ; " a fourth . D , repeats that he is a " Materialiste j" and a fifth pronounces himself a " Voltaireian , " thoug h he makes a very sensible speech , and these unanimously desire to shelve the question . The

argument of the W . M . is simply this , that "'' French Freemasons reject the formula of thebeh in God , there will bs produced , not only am ? Freemasons , but in the profane world , a grea re action against the Grand Orient , and it * ' } , simply fatally become a school of positivism-( Tbe leading positivists in French Freemasonry