The Order Of St. Constantine.

Since that period it has been considered as the second ; at present it is equally numerous ancl well composed . Sir William D'Arley , Captain of Marines in the service of his Britannic Majesty , is a Knight of

this Order . We are informed he commanded a company of that praiseworthy corps on board the ship which conducted their Sicilian Majesties from Naples to Palermo , and received this as a token of their princely gratitude .

Since this Order has been united to the crown of Naples , it is divided into four classes—those of Grand Crosses , Grand Commanders , Commanders , and Knights ; and these again into Cavalieri di Justizia , and Cavalieri di Grazia , or Knights

received in virtue of their being persons of ancient nobility , or in consequence of the favour of his Majesty . The Grand Crosses wear the Cross of the Order round the neck , pendant from a plain broad sky-blue ribbon . The Grand Commanders

and Commanders wear a similar Cross ; that worn by the latter is something smaller than the one worn by the former ; and so is that of a Grand Commander still less than that of a Grand Cross . Their ribbons are of a proportionate breadth

likewise . The Knights wear the small Cross from the button-hole of their coat ; it is attached to a narrow plain , sky-blue ribbon .

The dignity of Grand Prior is especially attached to the Archiepiscopal See of Nola , a city celebrated in history , since it was there that Augustus Cassar breathed his last .

Ears Of Wheat From A Cornucopia.

EARS OF WHEAT FROM A CORNUCOPIA .

Hy Bro . D . MURRAY LYON , A . M ., Masonic University of Kent % t , chj , JJ . S . ; Corresponding Member of the Union of German Freemasons , Leipsia ; one of the Grand Stewards in the Grand Lodge of Scotland ,- author of the " History of Mother Kilwinning , ! fc . LODGE JEWELS .

While retaining the first acknowledged badge of the Mason Craft , some of the symbolical lodges following the example of the head Masonic courts of Edinburgh and Kilwinning , inaugurated their erection by bedecking their officers with insignia distinctive of their rank and emblematic of the teachings of Masonry under the transformation its

constitution had undergone . In the jewel now shown—that of the Lodge Navigation ( No . 86 )—

manufactured in 1762-3 , are introduced emblems of a purely speculative import , viz ., the first in order of the " Greater Lights , " flanked on either side by one of the "Lesser Lights / ' the novelty oftlie system being further given effect to by the

introduction of the trowel and setting maul , the Masonic signification of which is well known to brethren who have . attained to the third degree . The lodge to which this jewel belongs is the second of those in Ayrshire which were originally

erected by the Grand Lodge of Scotland . Its charter , at first granted to Irvine , has also been worked in Monkton and Troon , but seems now to have left off its migratory habits and settled down in the latter place . No more prosperous lodge

exists in the province of Ayr , and for this position " Navigation , Troon" is mainly indebted to the judicious zeal and energy by which during the past ten years its leading office bearers have been characterised .

In the next illustration , which is taken from the jewel at present worn by the Master of the Troon Lodge , the insignia of Operative Masonry is less elaborately depicted than in the preceding onethe level and its companions having in this design

been replaced hy the sun in full glory , while the square rests on the letter G , which has for supports the silvery orb and blazing star . In addition to its value as a specimen of lodge jewels of