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standing is much hurt , lie imagines that the contemplated measures involves personal reflections on him , and the unfortunate reformer is made to feel very uncomfortable . Amidst dire threats of some worthy members withdrawing , and the Lodge being broken up , the motion is once more made , and , to the astonishment of the reformer and of his

chief opponents , it is carried by a great majorit y , and it may be , not a hand is held up against it , for tho medicine lias worked , the proposition is found true , just , and convenient , and it is felt that it would ho disgraceful to persist in rejecting it . This is the natural course of reform , and we cannot help it . Wo

have received many letters of thanks from those who see tho good we are doing , and whom we have assisted in that , great work of Masonic regeneration now in progress , but we have had letters and expressions strongly condemning our proceedings . From no fault of ours , the result of our account and comparison of the province of Norfolk is to show that it is in as bad a condition as a province can be , aud at the

bottom of a list of ei ght provinces as yet investigated . This has caused much consternation in the great province of Norfolk , and we are not surprised to learn that the Masons in the district generall y disapprove of what we have done , and the way we have done it ; but we are very much mistaken , if ; when our turn of inspection come

round to Norfolk again , some two or three years hence , we shall not find a very different state of affairs . Indeed , we tire told Masonic reform ' is alive in the province , and we are promised that something will be done ; with the picture we have drawn before the eyes ' of the Provincial Grand Lod ge , we believe this promise will be kept . '

There is one thing we can tell the province of Norfolk , that in the course of the examination of the many provinces , Norfolk will be regularly brought forward in the comparative table , and its relative position seen , and as the figures of two of the provinces are already amended , and give a hi gher result , us this article will show , so will the position of Norfolk be affected .

Our reverend and Very Worshi pful brother , the Provincial Grand Chaplain of Norfolk , comes to the rescue , and the following letter from him will be read with attention by the brethren , as it lias been by us , with due respect for his zeal and the worth y motives which animate him : —

TO TOR EDFTOB OP CTIK HIEEJIASONS' MAOAlirSE ASD MASOSIO MMlOIt DEAIJ SIR AXD BBOTIIKR . -OH Tuesday evening , May 17 th , in open f ? Fdf \ ° f J . 10 rcprcwiitatioii made in the Freemasons' Marine of the 2 | th April , touching the . Norfolk district , and the government of the venerable and deservedl y respected Provincial Grand Muster . T believe that die Masons in the district generally disapprove , and most strongly ,