Grievances Of Colonial Brethren.

Registrar immediately takes charge of a vacant province , but in the colonies , the evil is one of great magnitude . The brethren of Bengal will remember the disorder into which the province was falling during the interregnum consequent upon the death of the late Provincial Grand Master , Bro . A . H . E . Boileau . *

We are suprised that a remedy has not yet been applied to this defect in the law , considering that the subject was under the consideration of the Grand Lodge of England some years ago . On the 3 rd September , 1856 , the following

proposition was made by the Earl of Zetland to the Grand Lodge , which , if carried into effect , would have been very satisfactory to us -. — " With the vieAV of providing for the event of the Provincial Grand Master ' s death , the Grand

Master will deliver to each province such a document as will empower the Deputy Provincial Grand Master to preside and act for such a limited period

as will permit of a successor being appointed , or any other necessary steps being taken . " Unfortunately , it was moved by Colonel Burlton , Past Provincial Grand Master of Bengal , and carried by an overwhelming majority , that the paper

in which the Grand Master had made the above and several other propositions , should first be referred to the Colonial Board , of which Colonel Burlton was the Chairman , for opinion . Since then , Ave observe that some of the propositions of

the Earl of Zetland have become laAV , but not the one which would have provided for the government of a distant province on the death or resignation of its Provincial Grand Master .

What Freemasonry Is. Its Origin, Nature, And Tendency.

WHAT FREEMASONRY IS . ITS ORIGIN , NATURE , AND TENDENCY .

In our issue of last Aveek , AA ^ e referred to the address delivered by Bro . H . B . White , before the 'brethren of the Lodge of Lights ( No . 148 ) , upon the subject of " the origin , nature , object and tendency of Freemasonry , " and Ave promised to give the address insertion in this or the following

number of the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE . As , hoAYever , Bro . White some three years since in the same lodge , upon the occasion of the initiation of a brother , delivered au address upon the subject of Freemasonry , and in what it-consists , we here

giA ^ e Bro . White ' s first address , to be followed with that delivered on the 25 th ult . AN ADDRESS TO A NEAVLY INITIATED BROTHER , BY BEO . H . B . WHITE , W . M . OP THE LODGE OV LIGHTS ( NO . 148 ) WARRINGTON . The ceremony of your initiation is now at an

end ; you have had delivered to you the authorised charge , and such parts of the ancient charges , as relate to your Masonic conduct in the lodge at home and abroad , and so far all has been carried out in strict accordance with a prescribed formula , that certain invaluable and incomparable

landmarks might never be omitted or departed from ; but Masonry is so infinite in its application and teachings , that it is wisely left to the discretion or its presiding officers , to add anything by way oi illustration or admonition , that may appear advisableprovidedof coursethat in all things

, , , the ancient landmarks are respected . My particular object in thus addressing you , is to prevent your leaving the lodge this evening , with any of the mistaken impressions frequently entertained by newly made Masons . I would not have you go away with the idea that you have

been fooled , or that any one portion of the recent ceremony is unmeaning or introduced for the mere purpose of mystification . Freemasonry is truly a system of morality veiled in allegory , and illustrated by symbols , and the most apparently trivial incident , both in your preparation and initiation , has its deep and hidden meaning . It is

not reasonable to expect that you should at first sight , penetrate the outer or allegorical symbol , but I trust yon will make it your business , as a Mason , to arrive at these hidden meanings . Another and a most fatal delusion I would guard you against , is that of entertaining the idea , that

the information imparted to you this evening , has made you a Freemason . After my efforts to impress you with the importance of the ceremony , such a warning from me may create some astonishment in your mind , but what I would imply is , that Masonry is not a mere matter of secret

ceremonies , it is something far higher and holier than these . A man may have attained to the highest honours the Craft can bestoAV , and be perfectly up in all its lore and working aud yet be as far from being a Freemason as he Avas before his initiationand unfortunately there are too many who

, may be classed in this category . The rites and ceremonies of Freemasonry , are essential to its existence—they form the outworks whereby its treasures are , as they ought to be , guarded from the unworthy , aud , therefore , _ cannot under any circumstances be dispensed with ; but

true Masonry exists in the heart , and is composed of brotherly love , relief , ancl truth , ancl that heavenly consummation of all virtues , charity , so beautifully explained in the volume of the sacred law , as "bearing all things , hoping all things , believing all things , enduring all things , and thinking no evil , " and it is to the practice of this