Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

. [ THE EDITOE does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondenls . J TIIE CALEiSTDAB . TO IMS EDITOR OP TIIE EBBEMASOKS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . DKAR Sn ; AXD BnoTiom—The Calendar Committee seem to

, treat all suggestions from brethren ivith perfect contempt . Eor several years past there have been letters in the Magazine from correspondents pointing out things that sadly required altering ; but still the Calendar is as useless as heretofore . Not only are there a number of Lodges that have ceased from their labour ^ , figuring away in the list , but with existing and working Lodges a very great evil is allowed to continue . In this list there is no

distinction made betiveen those Lodges which meet all the yearround ( which mi ght be done with a simple asterisk ) and those which have a summer vacation . The consequence is , brethren from a distance are often sadly disappointed . I will give yon an instance . A friend had occasion to visit a town not one hundred miles from here , and , looking at the Calendar , he found that on a certain date he could kill tivo birds with one stonethough at a

, personal inconvenience—transact his business , and enjoy the pleasures to be alivays found in a Lodge of good working Masons . Arriving there , lie found to his mortification that the Lodge met regularly during the winter months , but not at all in the summer . To make the Calendar really serviceable to the brethren , this difference should be clearly stated , and it would be a great improvement if the months of installation were likewise iven in a

g separate column . As the Calendar is issued by the Executive , we have a right to expect that it should be a perfect one ; but red tapeism seems not altogether abolished from the office of the Committee specially appointed to amend , revise , and correct this , at present , very useless pocketbook . I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , Dudley , Sept . 3 , 1859 . A Pnov . GEAXD OFFICER .

The Masonic Mirror.

THE MASONIC MIRROR .

MASONIC MEMS . A PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE is to be held at the Freemasons' Hall , at Leicester , on the 14 th , when the building will be consecrated and dedicated by the Eight Hon . the Earl Hoive , Prov . G . JI . The Prov . Grand JIasters of Derbyshire , Warwickshire , Staffordshire , aud the Channel Islands , and other eminent brethren , are expected to attend .

AVE understand that the brethren of Norfolk intend to invite Bro . B . B . Cabbell , their G . Ji ., to a grand banquet next month , to testify their respect for him as a brother , and their sense of the services he has rendered to JIasonry iu the province of Norfolk since his installation .

METROPOLITAN . SUPREME GP .. AKD LODGE . THE regular quarterly communication was held in the Temple , on Wednesday last , the 7 th inst ., the B . AV . Bro . Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis , Prov . G . JI " ., Hants , presiding as Grand JIaster , . supported by the 11 . AV . Bvo . Sir AV . AV . AVynnProv . G . M . for North AVales and Shropshireas

, , D . G . JL ; Bros . Col Browning , P . G . AV ., as S . G . AV . ; John Savage , S . G . D ., as J . G . AV . ; Hoxburgh , G . Keg . ; the Rev . AY ' entivorth Bowyer , G . Chaplain ; AV . Gray Clarke , G . Sec . ; King , P . G . D ., as S . G . D . ; Slight , J . G . D . ; Jennings , G . Dir . of Cers . ; Pocock , G . S . B . ; Daukes , G . Supt . of AVorks ; Horsley , G . Org . ; 1 ' arnfield , Asst . G . See . Bros . Havers , Scott , Hopwood , Potter , S . B . AVilson , J . X . Tomkins , T . R . AVhite , Faudel , and

Phillips , P . G . Ds . ; Bros . AValmsley , Spiers , Philipe , Masson , P . G . S . Bs . ; Chevalier Hebeler , & c , & c . The minutes of the last Grand Lodge having been read and confirmed , the Grand Secretary read the report of the Board of Benevolence , from Avhicb it appeared that in June , eight petitions were relieved by A'otes , amounting to £ 97 2 . f . and £ 30 recommended to be given to Bro . Noah

, Wardle , of No . 12 ] , Marple ; in July three petitions were relieved with £ 40 ; and August seven petitions , ivith sums amounting to £ 1 ) 0 10 s ., aud £ 30 , recommended lo be given lo Bro , AVm . !• , Loiye . of No . 05 , Sunderland ,

The report was received , and the IAA-O sums recommended , granted . The report ofthe Board of General Purposes which appeared at p . 176 of our last number , was then read . The President of the Board of General Purposes said it became his duty to move " That the report just read be received , " and in doing so he felt it due to Grand Lodge to make a few remarks on two statements in the report Avhich did not require confirmation . The report stated that it had been brought under the notice of the Board that the members of

certain Lodges were in the habit of emblazoning on their aprons emblems not wan-anted by the Book of Constitutions . This Ai'as so directly opposed to the spirit and laws of JIasonry , that the Board had called the attention of the Prov . Grand JIaster to it . The next subject to which he had to direct attention was , the future publication of the official reports of the proceedings in Grand Lodge . Complaints had been made by many members that they did not receive those reports until about ten days before the following Grand Lod These laints appeared so

ge . comp reasonable , that the Board , having given their attention to the question , had made arrangements for issuing the report as early as possible after each quarterly communication . ( Hear , hear ) . Bro . AA . P . Scott , P . G . D ,, having seconded the motion—Bro . the llev . Gr . 11 . Portal rose to ask a question relative to the Lodge at Littlehampton , but AA-as stopped on a point of order , the only question before Grand Lodge being the reception of the report .

The resolution having been put and carried , The President of the Board of General Purposes said it now became his painful duty to move a resolution on the subject referred to by Bro . Portal . It AA'as with great regret that he felt called upon to move a resolution asking Grand Lodge to confirm the suspension of Bro . Heward , of the Mariners' Lodge , No . S 78 , at Littlehampton , from his Masonic duties . The Board had received a complaint from the D . Prov . Grand Master that Lod No . 878 had lected to make the usual

ge , , neg returns . On inquiry they found that Bro . Cheriman had been the last JIaster , and that Bro . Heward had been the proprietor of the house at which the Lodge was held . The Lodge had fallen into difficulties , and Bro . Heward , AVIIO was the Secretary , had left the house , taking with him the charter and furniture of the Lodge . The Board summoned Bro . Heward to appear before them , when he wrote a very proper letter ,

in which he stated that the Lodge , consisting principally of the masters and mates of vessels , had fallen into difficulties during the Crimean war AA'hen the trade of the toiA-n AA-as much interfered AA'ith , but that if time were given him he ivould call a meeting and endeavour to revive the Lodge . Time AA-as given him ; but nothing being done , a second summons AA-as sent to him by the Board , in May or June , when he again asked for time—promising to call a meeting in a fortnight . That he had not done , and since that time he had taken no notice of the communications

of the Board of General Purposes beyond simply writing a letter acknowledging that he held the furniture and charter of the Lodge , by ivhich he stated he had lost money . ( Hear . ) This was an instance among many of the great inconvenience which arose from alloiving the master of a house where a Lodge was held to become the custodian of the charter and property of a Lodge . ( Hear . ) Whether Bro . Howard should even have been appointed the Secretary of the Lodge was another question ; but he held a letter in his hand from that brother , stating that

he held the charter and regalia , and declining to give it up . He therefore would IIOAV move that the suspension of Bro . Heward be confirmed . Bro . Roxburgh , G . Beg ., seconded the resolution , thinking it most , important for the interest of JIasonry that the authority of the Board should be upheld . Bro . the llev . J . 11 . Portal said there could not bo two opinions ivifch regard to the justice of suspending Bro . Howard ; but he objected to the present motion upon two technical points . In the first place , ho did not see the necessity of the motion at all , as all that the Board of General Purposes had to do , according to the Book of Constitutions , ivas to

report that they had suspended a brother ; and Grand Lodgo was not called upon to express any opinion upon the subject unless an appeal ivas made against the decision of the Board . In the second place it ivas laid down at p . 45 , that all subjects of Masonic complaint against Lodges or individual brethren were to be heard and determined by the ProA ' . Grand JIaster or his deputy , and it was not shown why this case had been allowed to conic to London , whilst the Prov . or D . Prov . Grand JIaster might much more easily have arranged it on the spot .

Bro . Savage , S . G . D ., fully concurred ivith the last brother that the suspension was justified , bufc was of opinion that Grand Lodge ought not to bo called upon to express an opinion unless an appeal was lodged against the suspension as laid down at p . 100 of tho Book of Constitutions . Bro . Spiers , P . G . S . B ., stated that in a case which occurred in his province no report of a suspension of a brother ivas made to Grand Lodge . Bro . Stebbing was of opinion that this subject ought never to have

been brought before Grand Lodge or the Board of General Purposes at , all . It ought to liave been adjudicated upon by tho Prov . Grand JIaster or his deputy , when probably local interest might have been brought to boar upon the brother , and led to a conclusion which might have rendered tho suspension altogether unnecessary . A great deal might be done through the influence of neighbours and friends ivhich could not be effected through the Board of General Purposes . Some further discussion ensued in which Bros . Gregory , JIason , Adlard , and Symonds , took part , and in which it-was shown that the complaint ivas laid before the board of General Purposes by the D , Prov .