The Masonic Mikkor.

Prov . Grand Lodge , held at the Clifton House , Niagara Falls , on the 19 th of July last , to submit a motion from the chair , which , if carried , would have led to immediate and open rebellion on the part of the Canadian Craft to their mother Grand Lodges . He , in common with nearly the whole of the Lodges under his control , determined to remain true to their allegiance , hut at the same to employ every legitimate means for obtaining from the mother Grand Lodge those further

privileges and immunities which this Grand Lodge had some two years previously asked for . This was the unanimous feeling of the Prov . Grand Lodge at an adjourned meeting on the following morning , when the disaffected Brethren were not present ; and , in furtherance of this object , it was moved by Bro . W . M , Wilson ( the Master of the new Grand Lodge ) , That Bro . R . H . Townend be appointed the special agent of this Grand Lodge , and requested to use his best endeavours to obtain an answer to the petition of this Grand Lodge , and that he be invested with full power to act in the matter . ' *

About a month prior to the half-yearly communication of the Grand Lodge held in Toronto , on the 23 rd of October following , a summons for the said meeting was issued , which informed the Craft that Bro . Townend , our special agent , had brought the subject matter of our grievances before the Board of General Purposes of the Grand Lodge of England , and that matters were in a fair way towards a satisfactory result , begging us to wait patiently a short time longer , and assuring us that we should have ail our requirements granted to us . This

summons was sent to all the Lodges under this jurisdiction ; hut the recusant Lodges being unwilling to wait longer , at the convention at Hamilton on the 10 th of October , assisted in the formation of the new body , which at the meeting of this Prov . Grand Lodge , held on the 23 rd of October , was declared illegal , and all Masonic intercourse was by a unanimous vote strictly forbidden . Thus matters remained until the meeting of this Prov . Grand Lodge on the 21 st instant , when

further information was received from Bro . Townend , to the effect that he had succeeded in bringing up the subject of our complaints before the Grand Lodge of England , and that the Craft throughout England were fairly aroused to our position , and fully alive to the justness of our demands , as will be seen by the following notice of motion to be made at the next quarterly meeting of the Grand Lodge of England , to be holden on the first Wednesday in June : —

" That , in the opinion of this Grand Lodge , it is expedient that the Provincial Grand Lodge of Canada West should enjoy all the immunities and privileges of an independent Gi ^ and Lodge , save and except , that it shall once in every three years submit the names of two or more Brethren to the M . W . the G . M . of England , who shall appoint one of them to be Prov . G . M . ; and the Prov . G . M . so appointed shall exercise the same powers within his province as are exercised by the M . W .

the G . M . in England . That it is further expedient that the same pr % v % teges be accorded to other foreign Provincial Gi ^ and Lodges on their petition ; and the M . W . the G . M . is hereby respectfully requested to carry this resolution into effect at as early a period as possible ; " and also , " That the thanks of this Grand Lodge are due , and are hereby given , to those Canadian Lodges which have maintained their allegiance to the M . W . the G . M . and the Grand Lodge of England . "

From the above statement it will be evident that the disaffected portion of the Masonic Fraternity in this province is comparatively small , although nearly the entire Craft agree in the belief that an independent organization is essential to the proper and effectual working of the Craft in this province ; yet this Grand Lodge is fully determined to obtain this position in a legitimate manner , and not by violence , as in the case of the Canada Grand Lodge , whose existence as a Masonic body this Grand Lodge entirely repudiates . Tobonto , May 28 , 1856 .

The following is an extract from the address of the M . W . the G . M . of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York , delivered at the annual meeting hold on the 3 rd July : — "During the last fall , a number of Lodges in Canada , under the Prov . Grand Lodge , seceded from those bodies , and formed a Grand Lodge , declaring itself