Scotland.

-ihe-same Brethren as Wardens , and in presence of a large attendance of the Craft , entered Mr . Thomas B . Smithson ,, New York , an apprentice Freemason . The following members were then nominated to fill the various offices during the year succeeding their election and installation , viz . : —Bros . Donald Campbell , R . W . M . ; James Home , D . M . ; J . M . Rowan , S . M . ; Allan C . Gow , S . W . ; John Werge , J . W . ; Rev . Norman McLeod , Chap . ; David Houston , Treas . ; Robert Mitchell ,

Sec . ; J . N . Sutherland , S . D . ; Henry Johnston , J . D . ; John Laurie , J . K . Donald , Louis Rose James , and Alexander Paterson , Stewards ; W . A . G . McLeod , I . G . ; J . T . Rochead , Architect ; Alexander McDonald , Jeweller ; Alfred Maclure , Dir . of Music ; Robert S . Thomson , Master of Cer . ; John Aird , Clothier ; James Pollock , Tyler ; John Deuehar , of Morningside , Proxy M . ; Bros . William Forrester , Peter Hannah , David Boyd , and the Wardens John Reid and Robert Tomson , jun ., were appointed Auditors of the Treasurer ' s

accounts . Bro . Andrew B . Whyte , a M . M . of the Lodge Star , Glasgow , was affiliated . On the 3 rd December , Bro . Campbell presided at an Emergency meeting , the acting Wardens being Bros . John Werge and George McLeod . Bros . Smithson and Leggatt were , on a motion and certificate made in compliance wdth the Grand Lodge Laws , passed to the Fellow Craft Degree , and thereafter raised to the Sublime Degree of Free and accepted Masonry . Bro . Thomas Stout was also passed on this occasion . On the 4 th December , another

Emergency was ruled by Bros . Campbell , S . W . ; John Reid , and John Werge , the acting J . W . ; and other Office-bearers aiding in the work . Messrs . James Carmichael , Cotton , Hugh Robertson , and Wilfred Masson Robertson , all resident in Glasgow , were brought to light in legal manner as Apprentices . On the 8 th December , there was another Emergency meeting , and the D . M . occupied the chair . Bros . John Reid and Robert Mitchell , as S . and acting J . Wardens , performed their respective duties . After the routine business , Bro . John Risk was passed to

the Fellow Craft , and Bros . James Morton , Matthew Bullock , and John McLaren were raised to the Sublime Degree . On the 15 th December , Bro . D . Campbell , D . M ., officiated as R . W . M . ; and in the West and South , Bros . John Reid and John Werge marked the course of the luminary . The applications of Messrs . John Ferguson , Neil McGill , andJames Miller were considered , —the candidates

found admissible , and intrusted with the 1 st Degree of the ancient mysteries . Apprentices Archibald Bullock and W . M . Robertson were passed ; and Fellow Crafts Thomas Stout and II . C . McAusland wore , after examination , raised to the Sublime Degree . The Lodge , under certain conditions , agreed to pay a sum to meet any loss which the coinniittce might experience hi carrying out the festival of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Glasgow , in April next .

Oommcreicd Lodge ( No . < J 60 ) . —The Brethren of this Lodge assembled at their Lodge-room in Croy-place , on Thursday , December 4 th , when a lecture on music was delivered by Bro . Julian Adams . The subject was treated in a most masterly and interesting maimer , and was interspersed with many pleasing illustrations by the worthy Brother upon the pianoforte , concertina , flageolet , & c . The lecturer commenced by a reference to the earliest music mentioned in Holy Writ , and followed it through various grades , its rise and fall with various nations , its composers , and its effects upon the human system—the ear , nerves , brain , and

feelings . The lecture , wdiich occupied upwards of two hours in its delivery , was listened to with much attention , and was frequently applauded . At the close of which a vote of thanks to Bro . Julian Adams was proposed by the Rev . Bro . Graham , I ) . 1 ) ., in a very eloquent and energetic speech , which was very cordially responded to , and warmly applauded by the Brethren present , and which Bro . Adams gracefully acknowledged . There was a tolerable attendance of the members of the bodge and visiting Brethren , and under the able presidency of Bro . Davison , W . M ., Bros . McKcnsir , S . W ., Martin , J . W .

GREENOCK . Lodge Greenock , St . John . —The following have been elected Office-hearers of the Lodge Greenock St . John , for the current year : —John Mackenzie , R . W . M . ; Dugald Ferguson , S . W . ; Andrew 1 . Black , JAY . ; J . He riot , Treas , ; J . Black , Sec . ; J amoB Don , Tyler ,