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Contents . PAGE . Masonic Greed 461 The Byzantine Succession 461 The Lodge of Glasgow St . Jolm—By Bro . W . P . Buchan 461 Masonic Celestial Hysterics—By Bro . Henry Melville 463 How I Spent my Five Weeks' Leave 466 Short Address—By Bro . tho Rev . P . J . Syrde 408

Masonic Notes ancl Queries 469 Correspondence 470 Masonic Mems . 4 / 2 CEAPI LODGE MEETINGS : — Metropolitan 472 Provincial 472 Scotland < 175 Royal Arch 476

Mark Masonry 477 Ancient and Accepted Kite 478 Royal Order of bcotland 478 Poetry 478 Theatrical and Musical Notes 479 Literature , Science , and Pine Arts 479 Scientific Meetings for the Week 479 List of Lodge , & c ., Meetings for ensuing week 479 To Correspondents 4-80

Masonic Greed.

MASONIC GREED .

LONDON , SATURDAY . DECEMBER 11 , 1869 .

In a contemjDoraiy of a recent date is given a notice of tire Earl of Zetland , accompanied with a " cartoon . " Although there is nothing in the notice to call for cavil , it being complimentary in the extreme , the cartoon is so ridiculously

outrageous that we feel constrained to enter a protest against it , on the ground that a , caricature , to be good , should at least be , as the novelists say , " founded upon fact , " Now the cartoon in question is not so in any sense , as it represents a

person awkward , ill-dressed , and in every way outre , which , it is well known , has no foundation in truth in the case of our M . W . G . M .

That any man , especially a Mason ( as the designer of the sketch must have been ) , should have pencilled so vile and wretched a production seems incredible ; but the fact that journals who devote a portion of their columns to the

diffusion , of Masonic information , ( with the sanction of the M . W . G . M . ) , should greedily swallow the bait held , out to them in the shape of a few shillings for advertisements giving publicity to such a scandal , we must express both surprise

and indignation ; ancl we can only account for such conduct by supposing that , on the principle of the American gamblers , they had made up their minds , in this instance , as in others , to " go it blind , " and get all they possibly can out of

Masonry , which they seem to have entered not entirely uninfluenced by mercenary or other unworthy motives .

The Byzantine Succession.

THE BYZANTINE SUCCESSION .

We have received and continue to receive communications upon the subject of the succession to the Byzantine empire , which promise to run to so great a length in a discussion which we do not consider suitable to our pages , as not bearing

upon Masonic subjects , that we must decline to insert any further communications upon the matter , especially as some of our correspondents seem inclined to import into the discussion a measure of personality ancl acrimony which we cannot but consider un-Masonic .

The Lodge Of Glasgow St. John.

THE LODGE OF GLASGOW ST . JOHN .

By Bro . W . P . BUCHAS , P . S . W . NO . 3 Ms , ancl Grand Steward , Grand Lodge of Scotland . As I perceive by the minutes , I was proposed as a member of the Lodge of Glasgow St . John ( No . 3 Us ) , upon the 4 th February , 1862 , the

proposer being the late Bro . W . Lawson , who was then Treasurer , and seconded by Bro . Gavin Park , P . M ., who was then Dep . M . At that time I was presented with a copy of the by-laws , to which were prefixed what was considered a history of the

lodge . The date of this production was 1858 , ancl its author . Bro . James Oruickshank , P . M . This production contains little regarding tho lodge except a " translation " of the pretended " original charter " from Malcolm III ., and a portion of the

correspondence that took place in 1849-50 between the members of St . John ' s and the Grand Lodge of Scotland , relative to their nnion with it . Bro .

Oruickshank was then utterly unaware of the existence of a minute-book of the incorporation extending from A . D . 1600 to 1681 . He seems also to have entirely ignored the minutes , & c , of the " Glasgow Freemen Operative St . John '

Lodge , " which I am now about to give . Therefore , although a few years ago I had considerable faith in this history of the lodge by Bro . Oruickshank , " more light" has not only forced me to acknowledge this pretended " original charter " to

be forgery , and all the remarks based thereupon useless , but the discovery of other material has led me to attempt to give a few extracts not yet published , and also to make a few remarks , which I trust will bear the test of historical

investio-a-tion ; however , if I do make any mistakes they will at least not be intentional , and I shall ahvays be obliged to my fellow Masonic students to poin t