Proposed Masonic School For India.

which will suggest themselves to the members of lodges , but this is left to each lodge , only begging them to bear iu mind that the more money is funded , the sooner and more efficiently will the work of this gigantic charity be commenced .

5 th . For the immediate working , it is proposed that each lodge that joins , should nominate some one as member of a central committee to make final arrangements , and to offer any suggestion that may strike them in furtherance of the scheme .

For the present , all communications should be addressed to the W . M ., Lodge Charity , Umballa , who will appoint a provisional committee . This committee will report quarterly to all subscribing lodges and brethren , and publish their

proceedings in the Indian Masonic Journals . It is anticipated that , if this scheme meets with the support of the brethren that it deserves , a sum of at least 30 , 000 Rs . will be at once raised . Such a sum Avould enable the good work to be at

once started , and instead of a scheme , a reality would exist , and the children of our needy brethren be really provided for .

In conclusion , it may be considered advisable to mention the object of giving a vote for a certain fixed payment . It is suggested that children for this school be elected by vote , the child obtaining the most , being first admitted , and so on . Lodges

must , therefore , co-operate heartily in the matter , aud by inquiries obtain the names and a short history of the child they wish to put forward , and submit it to the committee , Avho will report the number of vacancies , and call in the votes for the

several candidates . The orig inators may perhaps be too sanguine as to the support this scheme may receive ; they therefore put forward a further proposition , that if the funds be not sufficient to give separate

accommodation to receive elder boys and girls , " that children of both sexes be received up to the ages of 6 or 7 , and then placed at some of the other schools as Mason wards . " But this and several other points that have been , suggested are

dependent on the amount collected , and it is hoped it may be left to the discretion of the committe to determine .

Bro. The Rev. Salem Town.

BRO . THE REV . SALEM TOWN .

The late Bvo . the Rev . Salem Town ' s account of the " Probable origin of Freemasonry , " first published in Spanish in the Espejo Masonico , had been given in an English translation in Nos , 341

to 34 / of the FREEMASON ' S MAGAZINE , and reproduced by the Scottish Freemasons' Magazine , in its issue of last March . Some statements made in Bro . Town ' s paper having been questioned and impugned by " A Fellow of the Society of

Antiquarians of Scotland , " Bro . D . Murray Lyon writes to our contemporary as follows : — The reproduction in the March number of the Magazine of an article " On the Probable Ori gin of Freemasonry , " is exciting some attention . Believing it is high time that the history of the Order should be cleared of the mists under which

certain of its epochs are enveloped , I quite agree with " A FelloAV of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland , & c , " as to the necessity of having statements purporting to be historical Masonic facts , backed by " an authoritative chapter and

verse . " The traditionary stuff permeating many so-called Histories of Freemasonry , is discreditable to a Fraternity embracing in its membership men of mark both in science and literature , and ought to be repudiated . The articles of Avhich the paper

recently appearing in these pages was a digest , were , " under the disabilities of fourscore years , " prepared by Dr . Salem TOAVU at the request of Dr . Rob . Morris . Their learned author being now beyond the reach of our antiquarian friend ' s

voice , the proof of the correctness of his " Historical Facts , " must fall to another . Thinking that your readers might wish to knoAV something of Dr . TOAVU ' S Masonic antecedents , and in Avhat estimation he was held by the brethren among

whom he sojourned , we have culled the undernoted extracts from Bro . Rob . Morris's Freemason ' s Almanac for 1865 , and beg the favour of their insertion in the Magazine . " SALEM TOWN , LL . D .

" The death of this author , lecturer , and exemp lar of Masonry must not be passed by couched in a mere notice in a necrological table . Salem Town Avas one of the feAv Avho confer honour , dignity , and veneration upon the most honoured ,

dignified , and venerable institution in the Avorld . He had been a Mason for sixty-two years . More than forty-five years ago he published his work upon ' Speculative Masonry / which run through tAvo editions , and after a lapse of nearly forty

years , a third . There is no better work upon Masonic morals , in the book catalogues of Europe and America , than this . And Avhat gives the createst value to it is , that its author acted out its princip les ! For nearly sixty years Dr . TOAVU was