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there were many reminiscences connected therewith , of a pleasing character . He had watched its firm aud steady growth , and congratulated the Chapter on its accession of numbers , likewise on the continued zeal of the officers in the assiduous and faithful discharge of their respective duties . After an evening spent in true brotherly feelings , the Companions separated .

America.

AMERICA .

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR . AVE have just received a very elegantly printed report of the proceedings at the ' Grand Commandery of Knights Templar , held at New York , in September last , from which we extract the following annual address of the Most Eminent Grand Commander - . —

Templars of New York ,- —Another ' round of seasons , with their varied changes of autumn and winter , seed time and harvest , their encouragements and disappointments , their many and important events , have passed , and we are once more , under an allwise and superintending Providence , permitted to assemble around the sacred altar , to renew to each other our congratulations , aud unite in gratitude to Him " who rides upon the whirlwind aud directs the storm , " for the many and varied blessings vouchsafed to us during the period of our separation . The past year has been au eventful one . Although an appearance of general

prosperity pervaded the land when last we met , with every encouragement to hope for its continuance in the various branches of commerce , mechanics and manufactures , which unite to support and give employment to the masses comprising this community , —yet but a few short days had passed ere there came a crash , which in its results prostrated many who at that time supposed themelves on the highway to fortune , paralyzing every branch of business , and giving us a year of anxiety and suffering . And although the entire country is teeming with the luxuries and

necessaries of life , in an unprecedented degree , aud our banks overflowing with the precious metals as never before , yet a general apathy seems to pervade the entire community , in a want of that spirit and energy which has hitherto characterised our people in the prosecution of the various enterprises of life . During this period of depression , have been consummated some of tho most important events of the age , among which are the practical demonstration that our canals can be navigated by steamthe successful laying of the Atlantic telegraph cablethe

, , opening of Chinese ports to American and other commerce ; events of themselves calculated to give a new impetus , aud add new incentives to renewed action to overcome aud dissipate the apathy which has prevailed throughout the length and breadth of the land . That such a consummation may be realised , is our earnest desire .

Many new orders or societies are springing up m the land , in this our day and generation , some of them assuming names and emblems calculated , and perhaps intended , to convey the impression that they are allied to Templar Masonry—we can only say of them , " that all that are called by our name are not of us . " Many there are who have no knowledge of tho higher and more , interior sense of Masonry ; with them it is , at best , but a social organization ; good , most excellent , but embodying no deeper principles than appear on its surface—possessing no moral powerno help to purification . On these its lessons fall like seed upon stony

, ground , like water on a rock , rebounding by the force of its own impetus , and leaving no impress behind ; jagged stones are these , loosely builded together with no cement , a blot and a blemish to our spiritual temple . Having no higher aim in Masonry than the mere outward advantages of the system , thoy purify not their lives , nor beautify their characters . The took of our