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The following communications unavoidably stand over : CRAFT LODGES—Euphrates , No . 212 ; Emblematic , No . 1321 ; Royal Savoy , N 0 . 1744 ; Empire , No . 210 S ; and Royal Victorian Jubilee , No . 2184 . ROYAL ARCH—Fidelity Chapter , No . 441 . Masonic Ball at Liverpool .

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S ATURDAY , J ANUARY 26 , 1889 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

"RULE 210 . " To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , 1 have read with much interest the correspondence in your esteemed paper about arrears of subscription and

Rule 210 . Herewith I enclose copy of notice , which , I think , meets the difficulty , and which I have found very useful . —I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , P . M ., SEC . January igth . ——

" Dear Sir and Brother , " Lodge , No . — . " In accordance with the By-law No . 10 of the above Lodge , I have to inform you that your subscriptions , amounting to £ : : are over twelve months in

arrear , and 1 shall be obliged if you will remit the same to me , here , on or before day , ——— , iS— , or attend the Lodge Meeting on that date at — p . m ., and state any reasons you may have against your name being returned to Grand Lodge as a defaulter . " I am , dear Sir and Brother , "Yours fraternally ,

" P . M ., Sec . " Brother .

" BYE-LAW NO . X . ¦ LODGE , NO . — . "' That no Member whose subscriptions are six months in arrear shall be allowed to vote in the Lodge or partake of any refreshment at the expense of the Lodge , and if he continue in arrear more than twelve months , he shall , after notice in writing , be liable , at the expiration of one month after such notice , to be excluded in accordance with Art . 210 , Book of Constitutions , and be returned to the Grand Lodge as a defaulter . '"

To the Editor of the "Freemason , " Dear Sir and Brother , When I wrote my first letter upon Bro . Woodward's motion , I did so simply to give that brother the benefit ( whatever it might be worth ) of my own experience of the way in which the difficulty in question is met by the by-laws of certain lodges in what was , until quite recently ,

the District of New South Wales ; and it was furthest from my desire to be involved in a prolonged correspondence . My letter was a simple statement of facts—facts which no amount of legal argument against their validity on the part of " Flej " can get over .

It is all very well , and I thank him for the copious quotations he has given from the Book of Constitutions ; but they do not alter the fact of such by-laws having been in existence for years past in that district , and of having been unflinchingly acted upon in cases too numerous to mention . Not only have such lodges the power to pass such a by-

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law , but , what is more , I find in four copies of by-laws in my possession a by-law ( variously numbered ) as follows : " The lodge shall have power to amend or alter these bylaws at any time . " The by-laws of the "Empress of India" were passed by the lodge in December , 1 S 77 , and are marked "Approved . John Williams , District Grand Master , 7 Jan ., 1878 . "

That is , of course , befo re 1884 5 but , notwithstanding the revision of the Book of Constitutions , the by-laws are the same to this day . The very stringent by-law which I quoted from the " Prince of Wales " Lodge is the outcome of a revision made 24 March , 1885 . I shall be curious to know when those amended by-laws were " approved by the Grand Secretary for the Grand

Master ; " likewise , in how many instances by-laws of private lodges in N . S . W . have been referred to him . If the practice of dealing with defaulting brothers in that district differs from that of private lodges at home ( and apparently it does ) , it has in all probably arisen from * the interpretation put upon the words " complaint , " in Rule

210 , by the Colonial authorities , who have seemingly not regarded ( and if I may humbly say so , I think rightly ) , how payment of dues , as coming under the heading of a " complaint , " in its strict Masonic sense , though a very bad complaint for any lodge to be afflicted with , no doubt it is .

In answer to "P . M ., " I would , in the first instance say —and I trust he will excuse me for so saying—that I think it scarcely within the limits of courtesy , for a brother writing anonymously , to so flatly and curtly contradict , as he does , and he must pardon my declining his ipse dixit . Bro . Hitehins is not entirely mistaken as to the powers

of District Grand Lodge , and in spite , also , of what the brother , signing himself " Flej , " brings forward , still maintains , that the powers , until lately , exercised by dhe District Grand Master of N . S . W ., were not simply coextensive with those given to a Prov . Grand Master in England . Thirty years ago , Bro . John Williams exercised jurisdiction over the whole of Australasia , Tasmania , and

New Zealand , and even his district of New South Wales alone would , in its extent , swallow up the whole o £ the Masonic Provinces of England . To tell me , therefore , that such an officer , with such a wide jurisdiction , was clothed with no more authority than that which pertains to a puny province of the Old Country , at all times , within 24 hours' hail of the Grand Lodge , as

compared with the 16 , 000 miles of ocean washing between the same Grand Lodge and her distant Deputy in Australia , is to tell me something which , my own common sense and my active experience in Masonry there for some 14 years alike con tradict . I could , but that it would be un profitable , say very much more upon the same subject , and which vvould show that the D . G . Lodge has not always been in strict accord

in its practice with the Grand Lodge of England , and had at times grave reason to complain of the way in which both its wants and its representations were treated by the latter ; but these are things of the past , and later intercourse has only , from year to year , more firmly rooted the feeling of cordiality on the one side , and of trust and confidence on the other .

In fact , the whole "legality" question may very well drop , inasmuch as the District Grand Lodge has , of its own motion , ceased to exist . 1 heartily agree with " Flej" that the matter lies in a nutshell . " Let us then , without wasting more words , legalities and validities , or contrariwise , crack the very hard shell which surrounds Rule 2 ioby such an amendment

of the Rule as will be hailed with satisfaction by numbers of W . Masters and Secretaries of lodges , and if it be not an impertinence to suggest , make it somewhat to assimilate to the by-laws of the reprobate lodges from which I hail . The learned Registrar the other ni ght spoke , and , no doubt , with much truth , of the great care that had been

bestowed upon the revision of the Book of Constitutions , " even to the dotting of the i ' s and the crossing of the t ' s , " to use his own words . But there is an authority which says that the letter of the law ( by itself ) killeth , whereas the spirit maketh alive . Sir , I perceive that the beginning of correspondence is like the beginning of strife , and with your permission and

with that of those who differ with me , I will , with this communication close the floodgates , and will trouble neither you nor them with any further remarks . In all that we say and all that we do may vve ever have but one object in view—the good of the Order—and to that end may the correspondence which has arisen upon this subject likewise conduce . —Dear Sir and Brother , Your faithful Brother and Servant ,

E . LYTTON H 1 TCHINS . January 22 .

OLD EDITIONS OF THE BOOK OF CONSTITUTIONS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Referring to Bro . Lamonby's note , No . S 25 , my copy of Noorthouck ' s Edition 1784 Book of Constitutions is bound in a similarly splendid manner as that to which he alludes ; the emblems are elaborately tooled at the back

and sides ; the name of the Iodge , " Lodge of Concord , Southampton , " is also lettered on a black centre piece , surmounted by the Prince of Wales ' s feathers and motto . This leads me to think that the edition was thus originally issued . Will brethren possessing this splendid book , with Bartolozzi's frontispiece , kindly say if theirs are similarly bound?—Yours fraternally , J . E . LE FEUVRE . January 20 th . ——

GRAND PORTRAIT PAINTER . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In Bro . Stephen Jones ' s " Masonic Miscellanies " a list of the Grand Officers appointed in iSu is given ; among them appears the name of the " Rev . William Peters , Grand Portrait Painter , " immediately after that of

the Rev . Dr . Coghlan , the Grand Chaplain . Would Bro . Hughan , or some other of our talented historians who have access to ancient lists , enlighten us on the duties , institution , and cessation of this no longer existing office ? In the same little curious collection is given a " Ceremony and service at a Masonic funeral ; " and to the preliminary service in lodge these words of instruction occur ; "The body