Grand Lodge.

GRAND LODGE .

LONDON , SATVEDAT , 1 TABCH : S . 1 SG 2 .

The length to which our report of Grand Lodge extends to clay—the late hour at which the meeting closed on " Wednesday evening—and the pressure of other matter upon our columns , prevents us doing more this week than merely referring to the

proceedings , reserving more lengthened observations until nest week , ivhen the Craft will have had the opportunity of fully considering the report which we this day lay before them . Fraught as were the proceedings of Wednesday night

with interest , there is no subject which deserves greater attention than the manifest carelessness , to use no stronger word , with which the Agenda paper is drawn up , as properly exposed by Bro . Stebbing , and if , as we are informed , the business naturally arises out of previous minutes , there is the less excuse for that

carelessness , as there are three months before the Grand Secretary to consider what notices should appear in the paper . The proposed testimonial to Bro . Havers was not proceeded with , the Grand Master withdrawing his resolution in consequence of a most graceful letter of

Bro . Havers , which touches on other topics of great interest to the Craft , and to which , for the present , we are content to refer the brethren . A brother , whose name we suppress , as it is sufficient it should be known in his own province , was most

unjustly brought before Grand Lodge on a charge which , if established , must have gone far to effect his entire ruin , and received such an acquittal as , whilst it must be most gratifying to himself , will , we hope , afford a fitting lesson to others how they prefer such charges in the future . It will be recollected that three months

since we ventured to express a doubt of the justice of the hasty decision come to by Grand Lodge in suspending the brother from his Masonic privileges without sufficient evidence , and it is gratifying to us that the opinion we then expressed , founded only on the ex parte statements made by those opposed to the

brother , have been fully vindicated by the result . The question of the Grand Lodge property was brought on in a very irregular manner at a late hour of the evening , and resulted in full powers being given to the Board of General Purposes

to consider the appropriation of the whole of the Grand Lodge property , either for Masonic purposes or otherwise , though a strong fight was made for confining the Board strictly to the resolutions of 1858 . Those resolutions might have been right enough at the time they were passed , but since then the lease of the tavern has fallen in , and it would be impossible

Grand Lodge.

fairly to consider what should be clone with one part of the property without regard to the other . After the strong opinions expressed on Wednesday we think we shall have a report at an early day , on which the whole question of the accommodation to be afforded

to the Craft , and the other appropriation of the property may be fairly raised , and we hope settled , if not for ever , at least for our time .

Masonic Facts.

MASONIC FACTS .

{ Gontmaed from page 146 . ) 110 . The church of St . Galgano , 20 miles from Sienna , finished in 126 S ; more than 80 monks worked at the building of this church . ' —Delia Vallc , Lettre Senesi , vol . 2 , p . 18 .

111 . The following regulations , as to masons ' wages . were in force in the City of London from 1275 to 1296 : ¦— -Qe Carpenters , Masons , Plasterers , Daubers , et Tylers preignent , entre les festes Seint Michel et Seint Martin iiii deniers le jour pur touz ehoses , ou i denier oblole et lour-table , a la voluntele Seignour ; et entre les festesSeint Mark et la Purifieacioun iii

, deniers pur toutz ehoses , ou i denier et sa table ; et . entre les fes del Purifieacioun et Pasche , iiii deniers pur toutz ehoses , ou iii deniers obole ; et entre Pasche et Seint Michel , v deniers pur tout , ou ii deniers , etc . Et Samady et Vigile preignent pur jour entier , . et travaillent tanges a soir ; et Dymange et jour de festes

riens ne preignent . Et qe lour Servauntez , et fesurs des mures de terre , preignent parentre Seint Michel et Pasche ii deniers pur touz ehoses , et entre Pas et Seint Michel , iii deniers pur tons ehoses . —Liber Alius , p . 72 S .

112 . In the introduction to the Issue Eoll of Thomas de Brantingham , pp . xxxii ., and xxxiii . are the following orders : —• 1 st . Edward I . ( 1272 ) . To Master Eobert de Beverley the King ' s Mason , £ 34 13 s . M . for erecting certain stages against the Eeast of the King ' s Coronation , to

be held at Westminster . To Master Eobert 26 * . Qcl . for a stipend to divers workmen for working at the Tomb of John de Windsor , the King's Son . 3 rd . Edward I . ( 1275 ) . Pay from our Treasury , to ' Master Eobert de Beverley , keeper of our Works at

Westminster and the Tower , £ 1000 for the works in our Church and Palace at Westminster , made there against our Coronation , viz : £ 24 13 s . 3 M- for grey freestone , lOSs . Q \ d . for timber , & c , with stipends to the carpenters , painters , plasterers , and stone masons , & c .

113 . The Church of Notre Dame , Mantes , commenced in 1280 , from the designs of Eudes de Montreuil . The vaulting of the roof of this church is pitched with an extraordinary boldness ; it is related that when the building was finished , the workmen refused to remove the centeringtill Eudesby sending his

, , nephew to assist them , quieted their apprehensions . The height of the roof from the pavement is 96 feet . —Mllm , Ant . Nat . Tom II ., No . 19 . Eudes de Montreuil , accompanied St . Louis to the