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Prince , Hayti , or Brazil , are also excluded . Notwithstanding that there are , in Hayti , under the Supreme Grand Council of Erance , the following Masonic jurisdictions : Les Mages du Tropique , 30 th degree ; La Constance eprouvee , 18 th degree ; La Croix du Sud , 18 th degree ; Les Eleves de la nature lodge ; Les

Philadel phes , a lodge ; Les Philalcthes , a loclge . And the President of the Eepublic , Geffrard , is a member of the Supreme Grand Council , 33 rd degree . All these lodges , chapters , & c , are chiefly composed of men of colour and , as such , excluded from Masonic union in America . As an instance of this intolerant conduct

, Bro . Dr . Minus , Senior Grand Warden of the Provincial Grand Lodge of the Bahamas , holding under the British Constitution , presented himself at the George Washington Lodge , New York , with all his diplomas , & c , en regie , the tAvo Wardens opposed his entrance into the Temple on the ground that "he was

a black man , " and refused to assist the Worship ful Master in the working if he was admitted . Bro . Dr . Minus , who hacl studied at the University of London , and there taken his degree of M . D ., retired and protested a copy of Avhich has been fonvarded to the Grand Lodge of England , and by their Grand

Secretary , sent on to the Grand Lodge of NBAV Yorkwhose Grand Master , Bro . Simons , alleged as an excuse that Bro . Minus , had visited coloured lodges , before presenting himself to the George Washington Loclge . Coloiu-ed Masonry is an institution , standing by itself in the United States . It has its Grand Lodges in several Stateshut the other lodges do not recognise

, them as duly constituted , in consequence of the pre - judice of colour of which we have cited this example . WARRANTS OE MIEITART LODGES EST AMERICA . — New charters have been refused by the Grand Lodge of Michigan , to military lodges in the field on account of their owing allegiance to the State in

which they may be situated , for the time being , and so weaken the authority of the Grand Lodge of the state first granting such charters . DEATH OI ? BRO . KBUMPHOLTZ , OF DRESDEN . — Bro . Krunipholtv ,, the director of the Institution for the Education of Daughters of Masonsat Dresden

, , after a long and painful j . illness , recently died . He was a member of the Lodge of the Golden Apple of Dresden , and . is sincerely regretted hy his brethren , the children of the institution , ancl . a numerous family .

DEATH OI ? BRO . AITDRIESSEN OE UTRECHT . — This brother , AA'ho was Editor of The Weekly Masonic Journal and of The Acacia died in June last . He was bom at Dortrecht in 1805 , and established himself , at Utrecht , at the age of nineteen , as a printer and publisher . He was a member of the Lodge Ultra Jectinaof the Orient of Utrecht

, , whose orator , Bro . Elise , pronounced his funeral oration , in which he dwelt on the deceased brothers goodness of heart and disposition . Bro . Andriessen leaves two sons , both Masons ( and at whose initiation he himself assisted ) , to carry on the periodicals . ¦ CHEISTIA ] N ITV AND THE LODG-E URANIA AT

BTTTZOW . —A i ery pretty dispute has been lately carried on by Bros . Eindel and Drs . Zille and Seydell , with the loclge Urania at Butzow . That lodge has come to a resolution , to initiate none but professing Christians , and has been severely handled in consequence by the litterateurs referred to .

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MEYERBEER , THE COMPOSER , EEETJSED AEEIUA - TIOJT . —The Berlin lodges have covered themselves ivith immortal glory or shame by their unanimous refusal to affiliate Bro . Meyerbeer , whose fame- has travelled over both hemispheres , and whose operas , Les Huguenots , Eobert Le Biable , Binorah , Le Propliete & care known wherever music has been

, , heard ; and this gross insult to a man of genius is aggravated by the grounds on which the decision has been arrii'ed at—viz ., that he is a Hebrew . Eortunately this spirit is not cosmopolitan , . and Bro . Meyerbeer is to be received and affiliated in the lodge les Freres Unis Inseparablesat Pariswhen his

, , health permits him to return to that city . On the proposition being made there , it was greeted with wild and delirious shouts of acclamation . NEAV GERMAN LODGE AT CONSTANTIS - OPEE . —

A neAV lodge , under the constitution of the Grand Loclge of Hamburgh , is to be opened in Constantinople for the benefit of the Grerman brethren residents . It is to be called Germany at the Golden Horn , and its first Master is to be Bro . Treu , who proposes to inaugurate it in October , when the excessive heat of the season is likely to have terminated .

SuspES-sioir OE THE EDITOR OE THE MASONIC AK - - . — Ii'Annuaire Magonniqite , an almanac containing the addresses of the brethren , edited by Bro . Pinon , in an octavo volume , has just appeared . This has been folloAved by a decree of the Grand Master , Marshal Magnan , suspending Bro . Pinon for three months for Masonic disobedience . Whether this is on account of the publication or not , we are left in the dark .

MOSSIEUR PERSIGNT OIT . EREEMASONRT . —M . Persigny , one of the Emperor ' s ministers , has issued a circular , in which Bro . Gustave Halley , W . M . of the Lodge Erance Maconnique , is held forth as an example of Masonic honour and dignity , called forth hy his conduct in the Grand Orient . He has also been praised for the same by the Grand Master and " La Presse . "

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THE NEW STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE .

( From the Building iVejtis . ) Solomon , who , for twenty-eight centuries , has been regarded as the Avisest of men , declared there to be nothing new under the sun ; and Newton , who penetrated further than any one into the mysteries of creation , averred , on his death-bed , that his life had passed aAvay like the idle moments of a boy playing with pebbles on

the shore Avhile the vast and profound ocean lay unexplored before him . So does it appear that humility is the characteristic of true knowledge , and that its lack is the sure indication of ignorance . Eor the Teacher of Proverbs asserted the incapacity of man to create—using the word in its absolute sense—and the discoverer of the laws which govern the motion of the universe , felt how

humbly finite Avas the greatest human understanding in the presence of infinite knoAvledge and wisdom . When men talk of novelty , and clamour for originality , they make strange exhibition of their ignorance , and prove hoAV little they knoAV of the history of all human progress . Our advancement in the arts of civilisation has been gradualand ' slower than are apt to imagine The

, many . germ of each may be traced back to pre-historic periods . Western Europe boasts of the introduction of printing , but the Chinese practised the art upAvards of threethousand years ago ; for one of the Emperors , quoted by Du Halde , alluded to the use cf inked engraA * ed