Correspondence.

These brethren being situated under most unfavourable circumstances , at a great distance from the seat of the supreme government of the Craft , their position becomes one of additional hardship , when , at meeting after meeting , their cases are deferred . They are certainly entitled to some consideration .

A reform here is certainly needed ; and it only shows the absurdity of a governing body which attempts the supreme rule of the Craft , embracing some half-million of members , scattered over the most remote quarters of the earth , and involving considerations of the most weihty character .

g I call it a complete farce for any a body of men to imagine that the business of an institution like the Grrand Lodge of England can be transacted between the hours of seven and ten o ' clock once in three months . Although necessarily forwarded late for insertion , I hope you will find a space for this in your next

issue , as I know that many of your Indian readers will he looking anxiously forward to the settlement of this question . Tours fraternally , FIAT JUSTITIA .

The Templar And Rose Croix Degrees.

THE TEMPLAR AND ROSE CROIX DEGREES .

TO THE T . BIIOK OT THE IRIEMASOSs' MAGAZIKE AXD HASOXIC 1 IIEEOE . Dear Sir and Brother , —Will some of your correspondents kindly enlighten me as to the principle upon which the Templar degree ranks higher than the Eose Croix ? Tour correspondents , by common consent , appear to give the Templars the place of honour , but I should have thought their positions ought to

have been reversed . If the Templars rank before the 18 ° , why not also before the 30 or 33 ° . Tours fraternally , E . A . M .

Masonic Sayings And Doings Abroad.

MASONIC SAYINGS AND DOINGS ABROAD .

Concerning " Adoptive Masonry , " the Grand Master of Ohio says he is informed that "There is a growing disposition on the part of brethren in certain sections of the Slate to confer degrees on the wives and daughters of Masons , and giving them to understand that they are a part of Masonry , ancl urging in

extenuation that they would insure the recipients the benefits of Masonic sympathy . In the long series of years through which we trace our Masonic history we find no warrant for conferring on women any Masonic degree , and 3 ci have the widows and orphan

of Masons ever found the fullest sympathy from the institution . " The Constitutions of that Grand Lodge provide that any brother conferring the so-called " side degrees" is , iu all cases , a subject for Masonic discipline .

The Grand . Chapter of Missouri have adopted new jewels , without collars , but hung by pin attachments . The following remarks will tend to show the feeling

of the American press on the Masonic schism in Canada : — "The so-called Grand Lodge of Quebec is occupying considerable of the attention of many of our Masonic editors and Grand Lodges in the United States , The policy of this country indicates neutrality till new

Governments show , by their prowess or the recognition of the parent Governments , that they have a right to independent existence . At present , a large majority of our Grand Lodges ancl editors look upon the would-be Grand Lodge of Quebec as clandestine .-

—Michigan Freemason . "The newly self-created body styling itself the Grand Lodge of Quebec must feel tho hopelessness ' of its cause when it becomes necessary for the or gati in Toronto to abuse every American journalist who

does not take sides with that body . The attack on our contemporary , the Keystone , will not help the cause in Pennsylvania . "—JVeto Yorlo Sunday Courier . " The Freemason ' s Magazine , published at Montreal , Canadaand started to advance the interests of the

, Quebec secessionists , is faithfully doing its work , striving to make the gap -which no ' -v divides our Canadian Masonic brethren as wide as possible . —Figaro ( NewTork ) .

In the Grand Lodge of Maryland in i 860 a resolution was adopted imposing a tax of two dollars per member on all affiliated Masons in that jurisdiction , which created much dissatisfaction . This session it was repealed , and the amounts collected ordered to be refunded .

Some of the lodges iu Ohio seem to bo in a bad way , and consequently are getting stirred up hy the Grand Master , which they highly deserve . Ho having heard that "Warren lodge ( No . 2- > J ) was in the "habit of conferring degrees on the Sabbath , he promptly arrested the charter of the lodge , giving as his reason

that he " reccguises the principle that Masons , to be consistent with their teachings , as found in the Great Light , should remember the Sabbath day and keep it '• "ly . " The Muster of Bethel Lodge was suspended for the same reason .

The Grand Lodge of Ohio has rescinded the resolution adopted in 1817 , denying the admission of persons of colour into the fraternity . It also adopted resolutions prohibiting intercourse with the Grand Orient of France , until such time as that grand body ceased violating the jurisdictional rights of the Grand

Lodge of Louisiana . The Scottish Masons recently held their 13 th annual reunion in Cincinnatti .