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this comparison , and we press him for the information we have already asked , and for some particulars as to the Lodge in Stuttgart which meets in private rooms . The Chapter of Rosy Cross , in Edinburgh , which , as in England , includes in its body some of the most illustrious and distinguished , members of the Masonic bodyhas moved into the new Masonic Hall .

, The metropolitan Chapter of Rose Croix , and the Supreme Chapters of the high degrees , meet in Freemasons' Hall , as do the like bodies in Dublin , so that now the high degrees in all the Masonic capitals of these countries , and , we believe of Europe , are celebrated in Masonic buildings ; but we are not sure that the Supreme Council for England has enforced , any regulation requiring their provincial establishments

to conduct their affairs in Masonic buildings . This can be don e in Liverpool , Manchester , Birmingham , Bristol , Newcastle , and Bath . If it be desirable that ordinary Lodges and Royal Arch Chapters should not be held in profane buildings , it is an imperative condition with regard to the higher degrees , in - which the sublime mysteries are celebrated |; as tootheir members chiefly consist of men of high station

, , no pecuniary consideration can stand in the way . We shall be glad to hear that the Supreme Councils of England and Scotland , and the Grand Lodge and Supreme Council of Ireland have enforced such conditions throughout their jurisdictions , for it is their duty to set an example to symbolic Masonry .

The new Lodge room in the Freemasons' Hall at Edinburgh is much talked of , although not complete . Brother Lawrie , the Grand Secretary of Scotland , has taken much interest in it . We shall hope to have s , description , and the move particularly , as we fear the accommodation is restricted . It may give some good hints for the new buildings in London .

The Freemasons' Hall in Dublin has some architectural features in its fittings which are likewise worthy of study and imitation in this metropolis . Our own sources of information in the Magazine furnish us with an account of the new Freemasons' Hall in North Adelaide , a suburb of the city of Adelaide , in South Australia . The Lodge of Truth ( No .

053 ) in that suburb had heretofore met in a public house , at tho Queen ' s Head , Kermode-street , and being desirous to relieve themselves from tins reprehensible practice , have provided a new hall , opened and consecrated on the 27 th December . The exterior of the building is said to be handsome , and an ornament to that part of the city , but the interior is much more deserving of attention , for it

includes a hall eighty feet by forty feet , and twenty-four feet high , a saloon of sufficient proportions for the satisfactory conduct of ceremonies . Besides this there is another hall or Lodge room , forty feet by twenty-seven feet , but only thirteen feet three inches high- —rather too low . The sujiper room is twenty-seven feet by fourteen feet , on the right hand of the ground floor , apjiroached by an entrance hall , twentyseven feet by eight feet . There is a waiting room , fourteen feet ; by