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» j _ Robt . Tarbet and Hen . Allan requiring , the one to sail for America , and the other to join his ship forthwith , on the section of the Grand Lodge Laws providing for their situation being obtempered , were passed to the Fellow Craft , and raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason „

RENFREW . Renfrew County Kilwinning Lodge ( No . 370 ) . —We are happy to say that this Lodge ( a notice of the installation of which appeared in the Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror ) , has met with a degree of success far above the most sanguine expectations of its originators , and most unprecedented in this quarter . Since the inauguration , a period of about four months , meetings have been regularly held every fortnight , and often every week , in consequence of cases of emergency . During

these four months there have been initiated between forty and fifty gentlemen into the mysteries of Freemasonry , besides the affiliating between twenty and thirty Brethren of sister Lodges . Some of the Brothers of the Renfrew County Kilwinning Lodge are now in the United States and Canada , some in France , and others in India . There have also been two lectures delivered in the Lodge ; the first by Bro . Taylor , on architecture in connection with Freemasonry ; and the second , delivered on MoncLay the 7 th April , by Bro . Miller , of Glasgow , St . Mark's , on

the history and principles of our ancient and honourable Order . Both lectures were read to large audiences of the Brethren , who listened attentively to them . The following is the list of office-bearers of theRenfrew County Kilwinning Lodge : Bros . James A . Mackean , W . M . ; George Napier , S . M . ; John Thomson , D . M . ; George Ronald , S . W . ; Thomas Hunter , J . W . ; Robert Rowand , Treas . ; William Murray , Sec . ; Rev . Neil McNeil , Chap . ; James J . Lamb , Architect ; John Ker , S . D . ; James Graham , J . D . ; William McArthur , I . Gr . ; Allan Scott , Tyler .

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ROYAL ARCH .

SUPREME GEAND CHAPTEE . Edinburgh . — On Monday , 24 th March ( postponed from 21 st , being Good Friday ) , the members of this body met at the Star Hotel , to elect office-bearers for the ensuing year , and to celebrate the festival of the vernal equinox . By the hour of meeting , 4 P . M ., a goodly number of the Companions were found to be in attendance . The Chapter was , in the absence of the First Grand Principal , opened in due form by E . C . Dr . Walker Arnott , Dep . Z ., who , having declared the offices vacant , and stated the object of the present meeting , thereupon vacated

the chair , which was occupied by Comp . William Gaylor , P . Z . for the United Chapter of Dundee , No . 6 , being the senior Chapter present and represented . The latter , having been put in possession of the previous minutes of nomination , stated that in consequence of arrangements which had taken place , agreeable and satisfactory to all parties , for the retirement from office of their late esteemed First Grand Principal , J . Whyte Melville , the pleasing duty devolved upon him of proposing as a successor to that office the eminent Companion who had for a long series of years discharged the duties of Dep . Prin . Z ., and on whom he felt

satisfied such appointment justly devolved , no less because it had been worthily earned , than it was also worthily to be bestowed . He accordingly moved , that the Chapter do now appoint to the office of First Grand Principal , Dr . George Arnott Walker Arnott , Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow , which , having been duly seconded , was carried by acclamation . The Grand Principal Z . now elected , having been obligated , invested with the insignia of office , and duly installed , resumed the chair , when the election of the remanent office-bearers was

proceeded with , and declared to stand as follows ; — John Whyte Melville , of Mount Melville , P . G . Z . ; Patrick Deuchar , R . N ., Dep . Z . ; William Dawson MacBitchie , M .. L \ , Gr . Prin . 11 . ; John Deuchar , of Morningside , Esq ., G . Prin . J - ; Robert Ramage , G . Scribe E . ; William Gaylor , Gr . Scribe , N . ; John Henry , Treas . ; Thomas Boog , Recorder ; John Gell ' atlcy , Edward Main , Alexander Downic , Sojourners ; Donald Campbell , (} . Ghana ; Alexander Beattie , Dep Chanc . ; George Darling , G . Sword Bearer ; Stewart Watson , William McBobert ,