Address To Our Readers.

was made the favourite for the year , whilst the Girls' School received more than wsual , and the Benevolent Institution , though not so well supported as for the last two years , had no reason to complain that the amount subscribed was not more than a full average .

The Board of General Purposes have at length made a report on the Grand Lodge Property , though not unanimously ; as perhaps , looking at the differences of

opinion existing on the subject , was scarcely to be expected . The report now stands for discussion by Grand Lodge , and , notwithstanding those differences of opinion , we trust that before we next address our readers , on the conclusion of a volume , a satisfactory settlement of the question may be arrived at , though we are threatened

mth some animated discussions in the meantime . During the half year we have lost , by the hand of death , the Right Hon .

Brother the Earl of Yarborough , P . D . Grancl Master , and Prov . Grand Master for Lincolnshire , a brother than whom there were none more highly honoured and respected in the Craft , whilst many other brethren have also been taken from amongst us , closing their earthly pilgrimage with the prayers of the brethren that

they may arrive at those mansions of bliss to which we are all taught to aspire . The Earl of Yarborough has been succeeded , in his office of Prov . Grand Master for Lincolnshire , by a young nobleman of great promise—the Duke of

St . Albans—who we trust may prove as useful and as popular as his predecessor . As on former occasions , we shall make no professions of what may be done by the PREEMASONS' MAGAZINE in the future , resting , as heretofore , on our past

exertions , as our best recommendation to the support of the brethren , merely assuring our friends that we shall never shrink from the independent expression of our opinions on any subject which we believe to be of interest to the Craft .