Masonic Hall At St. Heliers.

described the course pursued b y Bie Howe Lodge in Birmingham , and now the opportunity occurs of giving details of ] ilans differing in some respects from those then adopted . Thc report shows thc difficulties which arise in thc progress of such a work , and thc manner in which they may be overcome , besides affording means for the avoidance of mistakes that may afterwards g ive rise to serious trouble . Thus , wherever a body of Freemasons may desire to accomplish the same object , great facility will be afforded b y

reference to thc course adopted elsewhere ; and it may be strongly recommended to any such , to direct their architect to examine buildings recently erected for Masonic purposes , that they may sec how the requisite provisions are made—for instance , those at Bristol , Hull , and Liverpool , of which I have heard a high character , A little expense thus incurred would probably be real economy . Though not , adopted in the present instance , I cannot but think , as stated

in a former communication , and worthy of being again impressed on thc projectors of Masonic temples , that a _ large sum of money mi g ht be easily raised for such a purpose , by allotting shares of from five to twenty pounds each , among thc brethren , who would probably be content with an interest of two and a half or three per cent , instead of five per cent ., which an indifferent person would require . The burden would by this distribution be easily borne , and they mi g ht ultimately be disposed at death , or even

during lifetime , to give np their shares entirely for the benefit of the Lodge , a result which I have known to he extensively produced in at least one case . Yours faithfully and fraternally , II . 11 ., Jersey , May Mst , 1859 , A P . M ., and Past Prov . G . S . W .

KINEDAY 'WONDERS . —Wo laugh at tho old worshippers of sticks and stones , potherbs and onions ; yet these are really good and reasonable things , and display a wise aud benign power in the production of them ; but soft , fashionable sentiment , popular swaggering phrases , arbitrary dogmas , the generalized lies of proverbial cunning , which pass for truths by being lies comprehensive , are utterly worthless . They are the dregs and scouring of whatever in man is diabolical . Yet these are the true gods of millions who read tracts , newspapers , and novels . Tlie . se are the

invisible powers on which they rely and on which they try to build their existence . For anything I know , an old Egyptian who worshipped a cabbage may have been less absurd in doing so than this or that sensitive aud fantastic idolater of landscapes and size coloured daubeiy of tinsel , talents , and melodramatic greatness . An Irish peasant , honouring with his mouth a glorified potato , would be performing a more reasonable , service than that to which he often submits himself . — Blackwood- ' s Magazine .

ENGRAVINGS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS . —Amongst our portrait engravers , Mr . W . Ifoll takes very elevated rank , and perhaps his happiest effort is one of his most recent works , a portrait of Professor liolloway ; this is from a photograph , and is pronounced by competent judges equally excellent as a life-like portrait , as it is beautiful as an artistic effort . Wo are informed that Mr . liolloway lias been requested to publish a portrait of himself by his foreign friends . Those persons who wish to possess the counterfeit presentment of this famous individual can obtain it in a very unique frame , elegantly got up , for half a guinea , by sending a post office order , or posiagc stamps , to Mr , Holloway ' s establishment-in the Strand .