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France
of business , for the purpose of taking cognizance ofthe correspondence addressed the Grand Orient , to make a report thereof to us , receive our instructions , and to lay them before the council of the Grand Master if necessary , and to inform the Lodges of our resolutions and of those taken by the Grand Master in his council . Art . 2 . —In case of the absence ofthe two Assistant Grand Masters , one of the Honourable Grand Officers named in that decree shall be authorized to preside over the council .
Art . 3—In consequence of the preceding , all communications emanating from the Lodges of obedience , must be addressed to the Grand Master of the Order , or to the Grand Orient of France , Rue Cadet , No . 16 , Paris ; and all the demands for an audience must be addressed to the G . M . of the Order , who will himself receive in his office , or delegate some . ¦ ¦ person to represent him . By the same decree , the B . P . Rexes is appointed , as far as regards the new order , to the functions defined in the above decree .
According to the report of F . Maurice , read at the general assembly of the committee of the Civil Society for the preservation of the French Temple of Freemasonry , 27 th November , 1856 , the actif was 618 , 022 fr . ; the passif , 550 , 222 fr . At the date of the 1 st March , 1857 , the overplus of the actif was 67 , 800 fr . The property of the G . O . had considerably augmented . The front buildings in Rue Cadet are let for twenty-four years , at 10 , 000 fr . per annum , for the first twelve years , and 13 , 000 fr . per annum for the remainder of the term .
A new Lodge , the Lodge of Industry , is established in the large and brilliant saloons of No . 16 bis , Rue de Cadet . It was inaugurated on the 22 nd of November , by journalists , philosophers , and artists in useful and ornamental industry . This new Lodge cannot fail of being - . prosperous . The chiefs of this establishment manage the fetes and Masonic banquets , and during one or two months in each half-year the passing and repassing of so much provision for the culinary
department cause some scandal among the inhabitants of Rue Cadet , who only Irnow the G . 0 . by its dinners . At the dejeuner of inauguration , M . Halley , in a toast to the prosperity of the establishment , observed , that it was but just that the age of industry should succeed the age of wealth , as that had succeeded the age of war ; and that it was much better to found academies , build cities , and be employed in works of art and philosophy than in the destruction of mankind . —Franc-Macon .
Masonic Condemnations . —An official Bulletin contains , alas ! a long list of F . F . spread through the various Lodges , who are condemned by the CO ., and , not having appealed , are by virtue of that condemnation expelled from Masonry ,
Russia
RUSSIA
ST . PETERSBURG . The Emperor Alexander has authorized the Masonic Lodges of his vast empire to be reopened and work in perfect liberty . Introduced into Russia 1731 , in the reign of Queen Anne , there were 145 Lodges in the year 1789 . Proscribed and patronized by turns , tho Grand Duke Constantine , at the close of the last and commencement of the present century , had his Lodge , where he and his Masonic Brethren distinguished themselves by their politeness to strangers , and their
gallantry to the ladies whom they received in their fdtes . From that time to 1814 , and up to the present time , the Order had neither grandeur nor utility , only giving facilities to conspirators , who dishonoured the good name of Masonry . The Emperor Nicholas bought , a few years before his death , a line and rich Masonic library in Franco . The portrait of Constantino is to be found in many Polish Lodges , and our correspondents of St . Petersburg and Moscow , write that a grand personage is to be G . M . of Russian Masonry , and to come to Paris to put himself in communication with tho French G . M , — Franc-Macon .
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of business , for the purpose of taking cognizance ofthe correspondence addressed the Grand Orient , to make a report thereof to us , receive our instructions , and to lay them before the council of the Grand Master if necessary , and to inform the Lodges of our resolutions and of those taken by the Grand Master in his council . Art . 2 . —In case of the absence ofthe two Assistant Grand Masters , one of the Honourable Grand Officers named in that decree shall be authorized to preside over the council .
Art . 3—In consequence of the preceding , all communications emanating from the Lodges of obedience , must be addressed to the Grand Master of the Order , or to the Grand Orient of France , Rue Cadet , No . 16 , Paris ; and all the demands for an audience must be addressed to the G . M . of the Order , who will himself receive in his office , or delegate some . ¦ ¦ person to represent him . By the same decree , the B . P . Rexes is appointed , as far as regards the new order , to the functions defined in the above decree .
According to the report of F . Maurice , read at the general assembly of the committee of the Civil Society for the preservation of the French Temple of Freemasonry , 27 th November , 1856 , the actif was 618 , 022 fr . ; the passif , 550 , 222 fr . At the date of the 1 st March , 1857 , the overplus of the actif was 67 , 800 fr . The property of the G . O . had considerably augmented . The front buildings in Rue Cadet are let for twenty-four years , at 10 , 000 fr . per annum , for the first twelve years , and 13 , 000 fr . per annum for the remainder of the term .
A new Lodge , the Lodge of Industry , is established in the large and brilliant saloons of No . 16 bis , Rue de Cadet . It was inaugurated on the 22 nd of November , by journalists , philosophers , and artists in useful and ornamental industry . This new Lodge cannot fail of being - . prosperous . The chiefs of this establishment manage the fetes and Masonic banquets , and during one or two months in each half-year the passing and repassing of so much provision for the culinary
department cause some scandal among the inhabitants of Rue Cadet , who only Irnow the G . 0 . by its dinners . At the dejeuner of inauguration , M . Halley , in a toast to the prosperity of the establishment , observed , that it was but just that the age of industry should succeed the age of wealth , as that had succeeded the age of war ; and that it was much better to found academies , build cities , and be employed in works of art and philosophy than in the destruction of mankind . —Franc-Macon .
Masonic Condemnations . —An official Bulletin contains , alas ! a long list of F . F . spread through the various Lodges , who are condemned by the CO ., and , not having appealed , are by virtue of that condemnation expelled from Masonry ,
Russia
RUSSIA
ST . PETERSBURG . The Emperor Alexander has authorized the Masonic Lodges of his vast empire to be reopened and work in perfect liberty . Introduced into Russia 1731 , in the reign of Queen Anne , there were 145 Lodges in the year 1789 . Proscribed and patronized by turns , tho Grand Duke Constantine , at the close of the last and commencement of the present century , had his Lodge , where he and his Masonic Brethren distinguished themselves by their politeness to strangers , and their
gallantry to the ladies whom they received in their fdtes . From that time to 1814 , and up to the present time , the Order had neither grandeur nor utility , only giving facilities to conspirators , who dishonoured the good name of Masonry . The Emperor Nicholas bought , a few years before his death , a line and rich Masonic library in Franco . The portrait of Constantino is to be found in many Polish Lodges , and our correspondents of St . Petersburg and Moscow , write that a grand personage is to be G . M . of Russian Masonry , and to come to Paris to put himself in communication with tho French G . M , — Franc-Macon .