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Bro . Christopher John Carleton , K . R . C ., Dublin . Bro . Thomas McGorem , 18 ° , Dublin . Bro . D . Murray Lyon , M . A ., P . G . S . W . G . Steward of Scotland , and author of many valuable

Masonic works . Bro . James Wallace , G . Steward of Scotland and honorary member of 39 lodges in Scotland . Bro . R . Wentworth Little , Grand Recorder of the Red Cross Order and well known as a Masonic

author . It will be seen that the scriptural adage , as to a prophet having no honour in his country , scarcely applies to Bro . Porteous for the above names include those of the Ieadins" Craftsmen in and

around Glasgow . The name of Bro . William Smith , G . E ., at the head of the petition is a sufficient guarantee to brethren abroad that COSID mopolitan Freemasonry would have an able upholder in Bro . Porteous , while the names of Bros .

R . W . Little and D . Murray Lyon testify that literature would also be worthily represented . It is not merely as a member of Parliament anxious to cultivabe peaceful relations with Denmark , but as a Freemason desirous of uniting more closely

the brethren of all nations that Bro . James Merry , JLT . P ,, has appended his signature , and the eminent Irish brethren whose names appear have been only anxious to see Danish Masons honour a Bro . in whom the brethren throughout the world find honour .

Whether the prayer of this memorial be granted or not it cannot bat be gratifying to Bro . Porteous to find that his labours for the Graft have been so appropriately recognised by the memorialists . Had the petition been made public and

extensively circulated it would have been signed by large numbers of other brethren , but the circumstances of tlie case did not admit of such a mode of proceeding . Whatever may be the decision of Bro . His Excellency Governor Biiistrup the

memorial will always remain as a small but heartfelt acknowledgment of what Bro . Porteous has done to make Freemasons acquainted with each other .

Before we leave this subject we cannot but condemn the spirit of flunkeyism which has crept into some Masonic circles . We were lately conversing with a brother about a vacancy in one of the tliree Grand Lodges of the United Kingdom which shall be nameless . " Ah" said this be-jewelled and would-be aristocratic individual , who bore a strono-

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resemblance to the celebrated Pecksniff , " we must have a man of title . " This mean and fawning spirit is rampant in certain quarters . " A man of title" in the eyes of some people is superior to any man of merit . It may be that some of the

wirepullers of the Grand Lodge of Scotland would prefer to see " a man of title" representing Denmark , but we know our Danish brethren do not sympathise with such paltry senbiments . Scotchmen who love the memory of Burns surely ought

never to forget that : — " A Prince can make a titled Knight , A Lord and Duke and a' that , But a honest man ' s nbuon his might For a' that ancl a' that . " And above all let the descendants of Wallaca

and Burn ' s remember that in judging of men : —¦ " The rank is but the guinea stamp , Tlie man ' s tho grand for a' that . " If Bro . Sandie is true to the chivalry which has made glorious the annals of his country ; if

heretains a love for the literature which has made-Scotland honoured tln * oughoutthewoi * ld , and , above all if he desires to hand down to posterity a Freemasonry , which is not a name , but " a pure and undefiled brotherhood , then will every honour thafc may be conferred on Bro . Porteous be regarded as an honour to the brethren at large .

Address,

ADDRESS ,

Delivered by Bro . GEORGE EEYNOLDS , of Tynan Lodge , 330 ,. Springfield , Ills ., delivered before Potosi Lodge , 131 , Mo .,, on the 2-tth of June , We regret that our space will not permit a more extended extract than the following : — " Yet another cause of our origin was that

sociability which forms so essential a part of man ' s characber ; that desire for human sympathy , for intercourse and social relations with his fellows ; , that same feeling which was exhibited when men said to one another , ' Let us build a city and a

tower , whose top my reach to heaven , lest we- be scattered upon the face of the whole earth . ' " In its constitutional character , Masonry is essentially a moral institution . The uninitiated frequently ask : ' Has Masonry a creed ? Is it a

religious Order ? ' Some of my brothers will give different answers to these questions—many , I know , view it from a different stand-point than the one I take . In what I may say of it I wish to be understood as speaking but my own views . Our Order has no authorised mouth-piece ; no human oracle , whose voice of sentiments can bind , the