The Masonic Mikkor.

in Canada , will follow , should immediate action on their just complaints be longer delayed ;—that this Grand Lodge would suggest that the said resolution be modified so as to provide that the election of the G . M . he made by this Grand Lodge , with this proviso—that if disallowed by the Graud Lodge of England within six months after it shall have taken place , it shall be void , but otherwise have full force , and effect . "

Resolved unanimously , — "That the foregoing resolution be transmitted by the G . S . to the Grand Lodge of England , and that copies he forwarded by him to each of the Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge of England , and to Bro . the Rev . G . R . Portal , with a request that they will be pleased to support the same at the next session of the Grand Lodge of England , after its receipt . "

The following is a copy of the report prepared in accordance with resolution No . 1 ; and which has been forwarded to all the G . Ms , and G . Ss . of all the Grand Lodges with which this Grand Lodge is in communication : — To the M . W . Grand Lodge ot It having been brought under the notice of this Provincial Grand Lodge , that

for several months past various Grand Lodges in the United States and elsewhere had been applied to for recognition by a new Masonic body , styling itself the Grand Lodge of Canada , and this Grand Lodge being induced to believe , from the sentiments expressed in relation to this schismatic movement by our American Brethren in their numerous Masonic publications , that they could not he in possession of the true facts of the case :

Therefore , it was unanimously resolved , at a half-yearly meeting held at Toronto , on Wednesday , the 21 st inst . : — " That the Grand Secretary be directed , under the supervision of the Board of General Purposes , to publish , for the information of the Masonic Fraternity at large , a statement of the facts connected with the recent movement of insubordination on the part of certain Lodges in this Province , under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of England , the said Lodges , or certain members thereof , having , in order to gain recognition from the

various Grand Lodges with which this Grand Lodge has long been in friendly communication , made use of statements which are not borne out by facts—these being to the prejudice of a very large portion of the Fraternity who have and who do still remain true to their mother Grand Lodge . "

In furtherance of this object , they ( the self-styled Grand Lodge of Canada ) state that at the convention held at Hamilton , on the 10 th of October last , there were 41 Lodges represented , and that the action taken at that meeting was unanimous , with one exception ; whereas , of the 41 Lodges there represented , 15 were from the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge , 10 from Canada East , acting under warrants from England , 1 from Quebec , under the Grand Lodge of Scotland , and 15 under warrants from the Grand Lodge of Ireland . The number of

Lodges belonging to this Prov . Grand Lodge at the time the convention met was 50 , since which time only 7 have given official information of their affiliation with the new body ; so that at the present time there are 43 of the original number still true to their allegiance , to which may be added 3 new Lodges under dispensation , making the present number 46 . Of the 40 Lodges who ., as stated in their published report , voted with the body , there were delegates from two belonging to this Grand Lodge—the mover and seconder of an amendment to the original motion respecting the formation of an independent Grand Lodge , made at the

said convention—who did not vote in its favour ; and this Grand Lodge has since ascertained that in a great many instances the delegates who voted in favour of the movement ( and by one a direct fraud was practised ) , on returning to their Lodges were not sustained in the action they had taken ; so that it may ( leaving the Irish Lodges out of the question ) be fairly assumed that not more than half of those Lodges hailing from the Grand Lodge of England , and represented at the convention , do in reality belong to the new body . By this statement it will he at once seen , that a very great majority of the Canadian Masons remain true to their allegiance . The alleged cause which immediately led to the formation of the new body , was the refusal of the R . W . D . G . M ., at a special meeting of this