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in by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Canada East . Whether the president of the Board of General Purposes was present or absent , that has no bearing on the matter ; it was the manifest duty of the Board , as a body , to have introduced the subject into their report : their not having done so is indicative of discreditable neglect . The important question , however , to which I have referred , is the so-called re-election of the late G . M . As far as I am enabled from the report to

understand this singular proceeding , it seems to have taken place as follows : —The late G . M . was nominated to the office of G . M . for the ensuing year by a Brother , who , on the occasion when the nomination was to be formally submitted for the approval of the Brethren , was absent , and no Brother appeared to undertake the proposal for him ; on this ground alone the nomination was not regularly before Grand Lodge , and therefore could not be considered . Again , if the simple nomination held good , without the presence of the Brother who made it , still as it

found no seconder , the proposition could not be regarded as regularly before the Lodge . In a word , the whole proceeding connected with the re-election of the late G . M . was irregular , and quite opposed to all rules by which motions submitted to meetings are usually supposed to be governed . It does not appear that the Q . M .. pro tern ., ever put the question to the Lodge , but simply declared the late G . M . to be re-elected , " as there was only the Earl of Zetland nominated . " By this proceeding the Grand Lodge expressed no opinion on the subject , and the re-election , so called , was passed , not unanimously , but " nemine contradicente . "

As I regard the whole proceeding to have been irregular and contrary to all acknowledged rules , I have no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that the Earl of Zetland is not a legitimate G . M . of England , and his authority nil . Considering these circumstances , will the Earl of Zetland accept an office so conferred ? I apprehend that no man , wishing to stand well with the Graft , would accept any office , much less that of G . M . of England , conferred under such doubtful circumstances . —I remain , Sir and Brother , Yours , & c , April Zrd , 1856 . Elis .

TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —It seems to me , a humble member of the noble Craft , which teaches man all that tends to make temporal life pleasant and happy , and does some little to prepare the truthful adherent to its precepts for another and a better life , that there is something radically wrong in the upper story or garret life of Ereemasonry , when we find such results chronicled in your pages as arose from the last meeting of the Grand Lodge of England . Methinks that Provincial Grand Lodges and those private Lodges which go to make up the total

of the whole should look up to the Grand Lodge for a key to Masonic working , and that to the Grand Lodge should they look for the very essence of that brotherly love which is in every Brother ' s mouth , no matter what his vernacular tongue may he , and which is indeed one of the three grand points upon which Masonry is based—the pile , if we may so term it , that supports the superstructure and keeps it clear of the muddy sub—yet upper—stratum , that separates us from that upon which all that is good , temporally and eternally , most surely rests .

The world , the uninitiated world , should derive a , favourable impression from a perusal of the doings of the Grand Lodge of England—that which is thought to be the keystone of the Craft ; any unfavourable notions of Masonry arising to them from hearing petty disturbances in private Lodges would be more than counteracted by the knowledge , that in the Grand Lodge such things are not only discountenanced , but condemned as un-Masonic — therefore uncharitable

and un-Christian . But to my infinite regret , and to the grief of all the deepthinking members of the still honourable Fraternity with whom I have met , such a course seems totally departed from—such an example totally lost sight of ; and , for all good , useful , and practical purposes , the Grand Lodge seems—not a mere nonentity , for that would bo harmless , but the fountain or source from whence wells up neither brotherly love , relief , nor truth .