Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

The EdUor is not responsible for the opiniom expressed by Correspondent-MARK MASONEY IN WALES .

TO THE EDITOB OE IHE IEEE 3 IAS 02 rS' JTAGAZia-E AND MASONIC I _ C _ -I _! OK . Dear Sir and Brother , —Observing in your issue of to-day a letter from my friend and Bro . _ Whittington , impugning the accuracy of a paragraph in one of your former numbers , I have simply to remark that the authority upon which your announcement relied was Master

that of the only Past Master , also a Mark Mason , who takes any active part in the affairs of Lodge No . 237 . I have not the least personal interest in the matter , and am only anxious , as an old and frequent contributor to the Magazine , that you should not be induced to suppose you have been misled by

YoUE COBEESPONDENT . 10 THE EDI toil OB THE _ . n _ sE _ IASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC UIliEOE . Dear Sir and Brother , —The correspondent who supplied you with the information contained in your issue of the 11 th inst . about the establishment of

Mark Master lodges at Neath and Swansea , has called my attention to that paragraph , and to Bro . AVhittington ' s letter on the subject . I corroborate the statement that it is wished to start a Mark Lodge in connection with No . 237 , and d the reasons for doing so .

appen It is a fact that the influential members of the Indefatigable Lodge mentioned by Bro . "Whittington have virtually seceded from that lodge , and are about forming a new lodge , under the style and title of the Talbot Lodge . It is a fact that the members of the Talbot Lodge

intend to act with the members of the Cambrian Lodge in working Mark Masonry . It is a fact that some thirty of the members Avho regularly attend the meetings of tbe Indefatigable Lodge are wishful to work the Mark Master ' s degree It is a fact that these thirty or more members do

not see why they should be put to the expense of having to go to Neath , when they are sufficient in number to establish a Mark Master's Lodge in connection with their mother lodge . It must , therefore , be a fact that the requirements of Mark Masonry in the western end of the province

will not be met by the establishment of a Mark Master ' s Lodge pro forma attached to the Cambrian Lodge . Yours fraternally , DAVID AVIEIIAMS , P . M . 237 .

THE KENNARD LODGE . TO THE EDITOR OF THE EltEEMASONs' MAGAZINE AND 1 IAS 0 NIC MI _ 1 R 0 _ 1 . Dear Sir and Brother , —On the 20 th inst . I attended a large meeting of the Kennard Lodge , Pontypool , No . 1 , 258 , when Bro . H . L . Kennard was installed as "W . M . The ceremony was impressively performed by Bro . Bartholomew Thomas , and about eighty brethren dined together at the town hall aftenvards , Avhen the

usual loyal and Masonic toasts were given and responded to . But the most extraordinary feature of the day ' s proceedings was a recommendation proposed and carried in open lodge , and afterwards most strenuously repeated in postprandial eloquence , that the W . M .,

Bro . H . L . Kennard , was the very man to fill the now vacant post of Provincial Grand Master for Monmouthshire . Probably at a future time the Masons of this province would be only too glad to see that excellent brother at the head of the Craft in this county ; but you will allow that to old Masonswith

, hearts still aching for the loss of their Provincial Grand Master , Bro . John Etherington AVelch Rolls , it ivas rather startling to find this young lodge calling loudly for an immediate successor to one who had been

buried but three weeks . They did not know his worth —they had never shared his liberality , generosity , and hospitality—they had never been receivers of his counsel , nor had they witnessed his kindly face presiding over the lodge , and participating in the cares as well as the joys of his loving brethren . The

consequence is that these juvenile brethren cry out in the enthusiasm of their youth , " The King is dead ! God save the king ! " while we seniors , in the depth of our woe , can only sigh out the expression , " Alas ! our brother ! " '

A gentleman will douhless be placed over this province in proper time by the Grand Master of England , but as yet matured Masons' hearts are too sore—the blow has been too heavy , the cut too deep , the bereavement too great , to allow of our entertaining the idea , of a successor to one who was no common manmuch

, less to dictate to our superiors as to who is to be that successor . Yours fraternally , A PAST MASTEE . Abergavenny , June 23 rd , 1870 .

MASONIC SAYINGS AND DOINGS ABROAD .

We clip the following from the Valparaiso and West Coast Mail : — " The residents of the Street de Peumo were startled out of their propriety on the morning of the 4 th inst ., by the shouts and yells of an infuriated mob of

men , women , and children , who were following a man guarded by four policemen , and half dead with fright . From time to time stones , mud , and other missiles were freely thrown , and the object of the fury of the mob , and more especially of the ivomen , was truly in

a pitiable plight . To borrow the expression of an eye-witness , he looked as if ho had been dragged through a hedge backwards . ' There he is ! that ' s the Freemason who has stolen so many children ! There he is . ' that ' s the fellow who steals children and

delivers thern up to those excommunicated wretches the Freemasons , who possess a house in San Fernando , where they fatten them and aftenvards eat them . Death to the Mason ! down with the Masons ! death