Soiree Of The Independent Order Of Good Templars.

Haldane , Young , and "Weir . The company broke up at an early hour , evidently highly gratified with their first soiree . The Order now numbers 15 lodges in Glasgow , besides others in Edinburgh and elsewhere , amounting in all to 22 . The membership in Glasgow numbers about 3 , 000 .

The Late Bro. Capt. Harby Barber.

THE LATE BRO . CAPT . HARBY BARBER .

TO THE EDITOE OP TEE EEEEITASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIBBOE . Dear Sir and Brother , —Allow me to have the melancholy satisfaction of adding 'to the account respecting our late lamented Bro . Capt . Harby Barber , which has been given in the Freemason's Magazine for Peb . 26 th , by our esteemed Bro . William Kelly , Prov . G . M . for Leicestershire and Rutland . Prom

my notes and records , and also with the assistance of Bro . Richard John , W . M . Mb . 131 , Truro , I am able to contribute the following details of the Masonic career of Captain Barber . Our deceased brother joined the Love and Honour Lodge ( Mo . 75 ) , Palmouth , Cornwall , on Oct . 2 th , 1865 from the John of Gaunt Lodge ( Mo . 523 ) ,

, Leicester , and was one of the promoters and J . W . nominate of the Love and Honour Mark Lodge ( Mo . 94 ) , Palmouth . Subsequently he was appointed S . W ., and would have been the W . M ., had it not been for his distressing illness . He joined the Portitude Mark Lodge ( Mo . 78 ) , Truro , Jan . 18 th , 1866 , was appointed

Prov . G . Sword Bearer of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Corn-wall for the Mark degree by Bro . P . M . Williams , M . P ., Prov . G . M ., on October Sth , 1867 , and was invested as Grand Steward of the Grand Lodge of Mark Masters , with a good prospect of much higher offices in store for him , as he was a most zealous and enthusiastic Mark Master . He was the founder

of the Marquis of Dalhousie Lodge , and the first J . W . ; also a very active member , and was the W . M . at the time of his decease . We feel sure that the members of this lodge will agree with us in stating that its prosperity was dear to his heart , and that he laboured hard from first to last to secure it a position amongst London lodges . The R . W . Bro . W . Kell

y says it was probable he took the Royal Arch degree in India . I know he did—viz ., in the Keystone Chapter ( No . 260 ) , Trichinopoli , -Madras , and subsequentl y became a joining member of the Cornubian Chapter ( Mo . 331 ) , Truro , on the 3 rd April , 1865 . Bro . Barber joined the Mark lodges in Cormvall from the

Powke Lodge ( Mo . 19 ) , Leicester . He was accepted as a candidate for the Encampment of Knights Templar meeting in the same town . In common with his many friends I mourn his departure from amongst us . Yours fraternally , WILHAM JAMES HTJGHAN , Prov . G . Sec , Cornwall . Truro , Peb . 26 th , 1870 .

Constantinian Order Of The Knights Of St. George.

CONSTANTINIAN ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF ST . GEORGE .

TO THE EDITOE OE THE EHEEMASONs' MAGAZINE AND MASONIO MIEKOE . Dear Sir and Brother , —I have recently received a letter from the Prince Rhodocanakis in regard to the two Giustinianis , about whom enquiry was made in the pages of the Freemason ' s Magazine . This enquiry , bearing , as it does , upon the alleged descent of the Masonic Red Cross Order from tho Abbe Giustiniani , is not inappropriate to your pages , and I therefore

Constantinian Order Of The Knights Of St. George.

send you extracts from this letter , on the principle that all sides ought to be heard iu a matter of privilege , imposition , or farce , such as the assumption by the Preemasons of claims , decorations , and even the title of Princes , of the Eastern Emperors . Yours fraternally , Jons YARKEE .

" My dear Sir and Brother , — " Having had the opportunity to consult various genea = logical works , amongst which mention may be made of Count Litta ' s " Faniiglie celebri Italiane , " in relation to the House of Giustiniani of Yenice , I have the pleasure to send the result of investigationsfrom which

yon . my , you will see that the Ambassador Sebastianus Giustiniani , and the Abbe Bernardus Giustiniani ( see Frecniasoitls Magazine , 13 th November , 1869 , page 398 ) , although both , belonging to the Venetian House of that name , yet held not the least relationship , for tho simple reason that the Abbe Bernardus was not legitimately born , his father having never married his mother . This circumstance

explains now , what to me appeared a mystery , why he , a member of the House of Giustiniani , so ferven tly defended the claims to the Grand Mastership of the Supreme Constantinian Order of the Knights of St . George , of the so-called ' Johannes Andreas Angelus Flavins Comnenus , ' who created him a Knight , although of illagifcimate birth , a misfortune which always excluded any man . from ,

receiving a chivalric order . The band of Freemasons who concocted the ridiculous Masonic Order , absurdly entitled the 'Red Gross of Borne and Constantine , ' were very unfortunate indeed in choosing for the founder of their Order a bastard , who could neither be a Freemason nor a Knight of the Order of Constantine , much loss create others as Knights . But to the point . " SEBASTIANUS GIUSTINIANI , the Ambassador from the Venetian Republic to the Court of Henry VIII . of England , from the year 1515 to the year 1519 , was the fifth

son of Marino Giustiniani and of Maria , second daughter of Pietro Gradenigo . He was born at Venice in the year 1467 , July Sth . Ho married twice ; first , in 1-107 , Juno 23 , to Henrietta , eldest daughter of the Doge Francesco Foscari ; and secondly , in 1512 , January 3 rd , to Maria , third daughter of Antonio Augustiui . He died in 1543 , March 13 th , at the advanced age of 76 , leaving an only

son , named Marino ( born 1-189 , June 4 th ) , whose last descendant , Giambatista Giustiniani ( boi-n 1585 , May 1 st ) , died , unmarried , in 1612 , January 21 st . This branch of the Giustinianian House of Venice became then extinct . " BEKNAKDUS GIUSTINIANI , the author of the indifFc » rently good work , ' Historic cronologiche deli' origins degl' ordini militari et di tutte le religioni cavalleresche '

, & c , was the youngest natural son ofthe Senator Leonardo Giustiniani ( bom March 4 th , 1602—died March 19 th , 1656 ) , and of his concubine , Catevma , Corbelli . His father Leonardo was the eldest son and heir of tho Senator Girolamo Giustiniani ( born July 9 th , 1576 ; married 10 th August , 1597 ; died November 13 th , 1620 )) , and of Marina , eldest daughter of Alessandro Ooutarini . Bernardus

Giustiniani was born in 1643 , May 13 th , and died in 1694 , May 2 nd . He had two elder brothers , also illegitimately born—Giorgio ( born 1637 , May 4 th ) , on whose death , in 1677 , June 23 rd , Bernardus succeeded to his Abbey of S . Leonardo di Malamocco , and Giovanni ( born 1640 , Dec . 1 st—died 1662 , Jan . 13 th ) . This branch of the Giustiniani House of Venice was named 'Di Callo del' Eidotto , ' and became also extinct iu tho person ofthe celebrated eccentric Abbe Antonio Giustiniani , who died in tho year 1 . 792 , 26 th March .

" Believe me to remain , with sincere regard , antl esteem , my dear Sir and Brother , " Yours faithfully and fraternally , '' RHODOCANAKIS . "