Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS 239 Grand Festival 240 The New Graml Officers 241 Supreme Graml Chapter 243 Roval Masonic Institution tor Girls 2 . 13 The Marriage of thc Dnke of Albany 243 King ' s College Chapel and the Freemasons 243

CoRRESPOXnEXCETerritorial Grand Orient of Morocco and . Dependencies 244 A Latin Quotation 245 An Appeal 245 An Impostor 245 Reviews 24 S

Masonic Notes and Queries 246 Provincial Grand Lodge of Cumberland anil Westmorland 246 Provincial Grand Loilge of North Wales and Shropshire 24 G Provincial Grand Chapter of Cumberland and Westmorland 247

Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 243 Roval Masonic Institution for Roys sfl Presentation to H . R . H . the Duke of Albany 24 ; An Unvouched for Visitor 24 *) REI-IRTS 01-- MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 24 } Instruction 241 ]

Royal Arch 25 c Mark Masonry 2 $ \ Ancient and Accepted Rite 2 . -1 Knights Templar 25 : Red Cross of Constantine 252 Rosicrucian Society 252 Cryptic Masonry 252

Allied Degrees 252 Obituary 252 The Theatres 2 : 3 Music 2 J 3 Science and Art 253 Masonic and General Tidings 254 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 2 J 5

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THE Annual Festival of English Freemasonry took place on Wednesday last , with much eclat , and before a goodly muster of English Craftsmen . We refer our readers to the full and accurate report of proceedings elsewhere , which have not only a national but a world-wide interest .

A : * V / F . print elsewhere a long letter from Bro . PATTERSON , complaining of our remarks anent certain proceedings in Morocco . We pass over much that in very irrelevant and perfectly beside the question , in order clearly and temperately to confine ourselves to the points at issue . In the Freeemasou of

March 25 th , at p . 171 , appeared some Masonic tidings , under the heading " Freemasonry in Morocco , " which naturally attracted our attention , as they seemed to us very peculiar in form and very serious in precedent . The views we then propounded we apprehend are the views of all thoughtful English Masons on the subject , as the action of Bro . PATTERSON appears

to us utterly outside Freemasonry , and impossible to justify on any ground whatever . It seems that the attention of the G . M . of Manitoba was called from England to the fact that he had chartered a lodge in occupied territory , and the Grand Secretary of Manitoba then wrote to say lhat the lodge so chartered to meet temporarily in Gibraltar , ( occupied

territory ) , was to be at once transferred to Morocco . It seems , too , that the G . M . said , in reply , he did not know Gibraltar was " occupied territory , " as territory where there are more than one Grand Lodge | in | jurisdiction is considered in North America unoccupied territory . Gibraltar , a dependency of England , was occupied by a Prov . Grand Lodge of Andalusia ,

under the Grand Lodge of England , in 1731 , and though some years back that body became the District Grand Lodge of Gibraltar , it is practically one and the same body . And then what is the next step ? The Lodge " Al Moghreb el Aksa , " ordered to be transferred to Morocco , is constituted , not by Bro . PATTERSON as the Consecrating Officer commissioned by the Grand

Ledge of Manitoba , but by a territorial Grand Lodge , and occasional Grand Lodge , and the body thus formed was called first the Territorial Grand Lodge of Morocco , and then the Grand Orient of Morocco and Dependencies . What we want to know is , how and by what authority this so-called Grand Lodge was formed at all . What does this expression mean ? What are

the Dependencies of Morocco ? for that it is an utterly illegal body is perfectly clear . The special D EPUTY G . MASTER can have no authority but what he obtains from his G . M . and in Manitoba , and though under authority from his G . M ., he can aid in constituting a lod ge . it is patent that he cannot in any sense or shape constitute a G .

Lodge ... If there be one thing clearer than another in American Masonic proceedings it is lhat the G . Lodge is formed from lodges . We do not dispute the right of the Grand Master of Manitoba to grant a warrant for a Lodge in Morocco , clearly unoccupied , if the civil authorities permit the Masonic lodges to meet , but we dispute his

claim to form a territorial Grand Lodge out of nothing , except we presume the "eternal litnessof things" as represented by our worthy brother , Bro . PATTERSON . Had the Grand Master of Manitoba granted a warrant to a lodge at Tangier , and then Tetuan , and then Fez or Mogadore , supposing the authorities approved , then andonly then , could the threelodges have formed

themselves into a Grand Lodge . Bro . PATTERSON in his zeal , and he tells us he has had much experience in these matters , has put the cart before the horse according to Masonic law and precedent , and it is quite clear that our

English Grand Lodge never can recognize a body so formed as having legal status and Masonic jurisdiction . We hope to hear nothing more of such irregular proceedings , which do a great deal of harm to peaceful and legitimate Freemasonry .

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OUR excellent contemporary , the Craftsman , disagrees with us as to our reading of our English laws . He thinks Bro . GRAHAM , Grand Master of Quebec understands them better than we do , and says so in polite terms and Masonic phaseology . We are very sorry to differ from our esteemed and able friend , but as we differ widely , we say so with all Masonic

courtesy and good will . The law alluded to was , as we before pointed out , never meant to say anything more than this , that all lodges which specially claimed to belong to the English Grand Lodge must either receive charters or be recognised as Time Immemorial Lodges . The lodge of S wallwell alluded to , was practically a Time Immemorial Lodge but wishing to avail itself of the

benefits of the Grand Lodge system it applied for a charter . But the English Grand Lodge goes no further . There are even now spurious lodges in England , such as the erased lodge at Wigan , "Les Philadelphes , '* * and probably other bodies ; and though if these bodies come into publicity the Grand Lodge warns its lodges privately that they are clandestine and illegal Masonic

organizations , it treats them with complete indifference , and would never condescend to notice them , or allude to them , unless appealed to on the subject , or unless they committed some overt acts which brought them into collision with the English Masonic lawful authorities , — lawful according to prescription ; lawful according ¦ lo precedent ;

lawful by long-continued " user " and normal Masonic law . We can only again repeat , we hope for the last time , that whatever be the merits or demerits of the point in issue between the Grand Lodges of England and Quebec , it cannot in the slightest way be affected by a forced and unnatural construction of a regulation which only applies to domestic matters , and

to the position of lodges , quoad the Grand Lodge of England , as participating in its privileges and benefits which are confined solely to lodges warranted or acknowledged by it . As an illustration of this , —supposing someof the High Grades , which claim the right to do so . chartered a Craft lodge , the English Grand Lodge , though it might warn its lodges against it , and would not recognize its

Craft origin , would certainly take no further steps about it . Above all , it would never menace , never talk of " excommunication . " It only legislates for itself and the lodges under its own jurisdiction , and always seeks , and it has sought unceasingly , not to interfere with other people ' s affairs . The

case of the lodges at Montreal is very difficult , because appealing partly to sentiment and partly to compact ; but if there be a real wish to have an amicable settlement of so " vexata a qurestio , " with prudence , moderation , Masonic temper , and Masonic principles , we have no fear of an eventual and peaceful solution of the question .

* ' * BUT we have observed , in reference to this question , not so much in Canada or Quebec as in : he words of injudicious friends and ill-omened partizans , a tendency to try and force the hand of the Grand Lodge of England in this confusedly intricate matter . Now , we wish to remark , once for all , that

whatever the Grand Lodgeof England may be disposed to do as " amicus curia :, " or for peace and goodwill , and for the sake of Cosmopolitan Freemasonry , it never will be bullied by any , and least of all by irresponsible and

mischief-making writers , into a surrender of any vital principle , its position and conditions of honour and of duty . There is just now a great deal of loose writing and tall talk on the subject , which we hope to have heard and seen the last of . ... ,..

IN the Masonic Tablet , a paper published at London , Ontario , Canada , and which is partly of the Forester Order , and partly of the Rite of Memphis , our well-known and able Bro ., Dr . RAMSAY , being editor of the portion relating to Memphis , we see some remarks in respect of our views of the Quebec question which we are sorry to notice , as savouring alike of that dreadful

stumbling-block of Masonic literature , —" personality , " and unjust to the Grand Lodge of England in marked measure . The whole course of the Grand Lodge of England has been dictated b y friendly feelings , and ai sense of Masonic honour and duty , which we regret much to see , are not realized or appreciated by our worthy Bro . Dr . RAMSAY and others in Canada and in America . *

IN the Sydney Freemason of February 22 , 1882 , appear some remarks based on a letter or communication of our very esteemed Bro . HUGHAN , which we should not have noticed except as coming from him whose words always have weight and value . Of course , the Sydney Freemason " improves the occasion , " with such an authority . Bro . HUGHAN is represented as saying :

" My impression is that when a Grand Lodge has been formed for several years , and has a fine future before it of usefulness and prosperity , as is the case in our colonies ( Quebec and New South Wales ) , that all subordinate lodges would do well to join it , and heartily and unitedly 'fall into line , ' and anyway , as far as we can judge , it is