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building , should lie divided as a dividend on the contributions of the brethren , those who may choose receiving the dividend accruing to them , and the residue not so claimed being carried to the sinking fund , many of the subscribers having already expressed their intention of not receiving any profit on their contributions . About six hundred pounds have alreadbeen subscribedand some

fury , ther contributions are expected from the wealthy countiy brethren , from whom , with the exception of the munificent donation of one hundred pounds "from Earl Howe , nothing has yet been received . Several of the I . picpstpv brethren have also not wt . cmiti-ihntod .

This leads me to make a few observations on your remark , that " the most liberal contribution is that of Bro . AV . Millican , Provincial Grand Superintendent of AVorks , who freely gives his time and talents for this labour of love , " implying that that worthy brother ' s contribution exceeds that of Lord Howe ancl others . Bro . Millican is of far too Masonic and generous a disposition to wish that an injustice should be done to others by his appearing in borrowed lumes and being thus placed in a false lihtwhichas a

p g , , precedent , may be the cause of affecting the professional emoluments of his architectural brethren , who may hereafter he engaged in similar undertakings elsewhere . Our worthy and talented brother , having a partner who is not a member of the Order , and whose interests he could not lie expected to sacrifice , has put his name down on the subscription list for , I believe , seventeen pounds ten shillings , being the amount of his own share of the commission on the work ; which is all that he could reasonably be expected

to do . I must not in justice omit to mention the liberality of another worthy Past Master , Bro . Morris , Provincial Grand Senior AVarden , who , in addition to a donation of fifteen pounds , is freely giving his valuable professional services as a solicitor in the conveyance of the property , and other legal matters . Tiie building is progressing very rapidland there is no doubt will be

y , ready for consecration at the ap ] woaching festival of St . John , when , I trust , means will be taken to comply with your kind wish for the insertion of an engraving and plan of it in the Magazine . I am , Sir ancl Brother , j'ours fraternally , DELTA .

ILLICIT FREEMASONRY . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . SIR AND BROTHER , —It cannot but be well known to you , that the Grand Orient of Belgium has so far isolated itself from our Order , as to proclaim ,

some years ago , that to interfere with politics was a part ofthe Freemason ' s duty . You know also , how from that moment it waged war with the clerical party in Belgium . Still it appears that , even in the opinion of the said Grand Orient , some of the Lodges under its jurisdiction did go too far . One of them , the " Philadelphes , " at A erviers , was accordingly erased from the roll . Some of its members , however , formed a new Lodge , to which the } ' gave the

name of " Loge des Libres Pcnseurs" ( Lodge of Free-thinkers ) , and which Lodge was placed by them under the allegiance of the " Grand Orient de Memphis a Londrcs" ( rite n /' orme )—I quote tcxtually . ' Of these facts I