Our Architectural Chapter.

Our correspondence brings us very interesting particulars as to Lodges and halls abroad ; a fuller account of the Masonic Hall at Copenhagen is however desirable . For the present there is some compensation in the fact that for the practice of the hig h degrees a king has assigned his palace , and that the high degrees of Sweden are worked in the royal palace of Christiansborg , at Copenhagen .

We should feel obliged by an account from " X , " of the Masonic Hall at Stockholm , and its library ; and likewise of the Masonic Halls at Berlin and Rostock . Even in the middle of the last century the Grand Lodge or mother Lodge of Berlin was known for the splendour of its adornments ; and the description of some of these buildings might be of use at a time when there is some doubt whether the Grand

Lodge of England is not too well lodged in a tavern . Not so think the Brethren of the John of Gaunt Lodge , No . 766 , at Leicester , for they say , in answer to the questions of the Board of General Purposes , that as their Lodge has contributed largely amongst its members towards a Masonic Hall in Leicester , which hall is entirely sejiarate from any tavernso it would view with regret any

, extension of the tavern system in connexion with either Grand Lodge or any Masonic body whatever . We cannot equally approve a resolution of that Lodge accepting an invitation for the Master and Brethren to dine with the annual

congress of delegates of the United Order of Odd Fellows . This countenance ot" mock Masonry by the constituted authorities of Masonry is only calculated to confirm the public in the belief that there is no difference between them . Bro . F . W . Breitling has responded to our appeal respecting the Masonic Hall of the Lodge Wilhelm of the Rising Sun , at Stuttgart ,

which we had read Ausgehend . It will be seen what a number of rooms is therein contained , whereas an English Lodge would consider three rooms as a wonderful provision . We are glad to notice the exertions being made to found a Masonic Hall at Gateshead , and that the two Lodges , Nos . . 56 and 614 , are in conference for that purpose . There are Masonic Halls at Newcastle

, Hartlepool , and Sunderland , so that there is every encouragement for Gateshead to be on an equal footing ; though practically , Gateshead is a suburb of Newcastle , but forming a parliamentary borough , as Sjuthwark does with regard to London , Salfbrd to Manchester , and as Birkenhead is proposed to be constituted in relation to Liverpool . We have received a valuable communication from Worshi pful Bro .

G . W . W . Ingram , W . M ., No . 345 , at Gibraltar , and Prov . S . G . D . of Andalusia , Our Gibraltar friends are annoyed to find their cit y , in our Architectural Chapter of J Sth April , included in the list of those which adopt the umnasonic practice of holding Lodges in taverns . On our number reaching Gibraltar Bro . Ingram was charged to write to us in vindication , and he states that there are now at Gibraltar the following Masonic bodies . The Provincial Grand Lodge of Andalusia ,