The New Grand Officers.

and , with one exception , is calculated to excite universal dissatisfaction aud resentment . I allude to the appointment of Bfo . John Savage , who has at length received a due acknowledgment of his many services ; but wc must in-this case adopt the old adage of " better late tliau never , " as the tardiness of the reward has robbed it of his grace . Bros . Jennings and Smith are doubtless worthy of the offices they hold , and there would be no

objection to their reappointment , were it not that they have for several years monopolized honours to the exclusion of other brethren , who arc equally deserving of them . The ' Grand Wardens , Lord de Tabley ancl Sir Thomas Hesketh , have evidently been chosen from consideration of their social station ; and as they have accepted honours in the Craft , wc may reasonably hope and expect that they will now show some zeal for its interests . Bro Gavin Pocock will no doubt merit in due course of time what has been prematurely assigned

to him , ancl in the mean time there are many ripe for honours , whose labours are ignored and unrequited . With reference to the appointment of Bro . Frederick Slight , I have as yet met with no one who can explain his claims to it , in any point of view . We would fain be enlightened as to his Masonic merits , assuming that private friendships are not weighed in the balance . If Grand Lodge were empowered to choose a portion of its own Grand Officers , the selection would have been vastly different , and the result

far more satisfactory . I hold this to be the only remedy against a repetition of these social evils , ancl I do not look upon it as an infringement of the Grand Master ' s prerogative , but , on the contrary , I am of opinion that it will release him from an irksome responsibility , ancl free him from much of the censure to which he is at present subjected through the injudicious advice ofhis privy council . I am , clear Sir and Brother , yours fraternall y .

May 6 th , 1 S 59 . Ax INDEPEXDEXT P . M . [ We give insertion to the above , in accordance with our rule to let every brother have an opportunity of being heard ; at the same time , we beg io say that we cannot entirely agree ivith our correspondent . In the course of the next week or two it is our intention to present to the readers of the Magazine n concise statement of the Masonic services and claim . ? of tbe newly appointed Grand Officers , —ED . ]

. POETRY .- —Pootiy lifts the veil from tho bidden beauty of the world , and makea familiar objects as if tbey were not familiar . It reproduces all that it represents ; and the impersonations clothed in its Elysian light stand thenceforward in the minds of those who have once , contemplated tbem , as memorials of that gentle and exalted content which extends itself over all thoughts and actions with which it coexists . The great secret of morala is love , or a going out of our own nature , and

an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exist . ; in thought , action , or person , not our own . A man to be greatly good , must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; be must put himself in the place of another , and of many others : the pains and pleasures of his species must become his oivn . The great instrument if moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to tbe effect by acting upon i-hc cause , Shelley .