Masonic Sayings And Doings Abroad.

Susan , Deputy Chairman ; Bello , Treasurer ; and Wesfcenenck , Secretary . Bro . J . A ^ an Lennep informs us that the fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Mastership of Bro . . Prince Frederick of tlie Netherlands , will be

celebrated with great solemnity at Amsterdam , on the 29 th May next . Prince Frederick was elected Grand Master for the then united Kingdom of Holland and Belgium , on the 29 th May , 1816 .

GERMANY . Leipzig . —The fiftieth anniversary of the Sunday School of the "' Balduin ztir Linde " Lodge ivas celebrated on the 11 th of February . This institution , the first Sunday School of Germany , Avas

opened on Feb . 11 th , 1816 , by Bro . J . B . Limburger , its object being to assist adults whose early education had been neglected , and AVI . O might be anxious for further improvement . At the commencement the School , conducted by Bros .

Taschaer and Clauss , counted but eleven pupils ; in 1820 it had made such progress as to warrant the establishment of a second , and in 1821 a third

class . The number of pupils amounted m 1820 to seventy or eighty ; at present it exceeds 143 . Since the foundation of this School , 4 , 758 pupils Iaave been instructed in it . The amount of expenses varies from 700 to 800 thalers ( £ 120 ) .

Scldesiuig Iiolstein . —The Bauhiitte informs us that the oldest lodge of the Elbe Duchies , Karl zum Felseu , of Altona , has suspended its labours oiving to the unfavourable state of the times . The Bauhiitte kopes that after the resumption of its activity , this

lodge Aval abendon its Swedish system on which it kas been working hitherto , and join a German Grand Lodge ; at present it belongs to the province of the Grand Land Lodge of Copenhagen .

The irederik Lodge , of Flensburg , founded three years ago , Avhrch had been completely paralysed during the Avar , has resumed its labours , and is progressing very favourably ; at present it counts some eighty or ninety members . The

former W . M . having transferred his residence to Copenhagen , Bro . Neilsen ivas elected W . M . some eig-ht months ago , and has conducted the labours with tact and dignity ever since . A numerous deputation from the lodge attended

at- the inauguration of tlie Nordstern Lodge , of Eendsburg , last year . The latter met at the outset with a rather unfavourable reception at the . hands of the someiA'hat scrupulous and suspicious population of Holstein , but it is eyed with more

favour at present ; it counted twenty-one members at the beginning of February , and its future seems to be Avell secured by this time . The lodges of Flensburg and Eendsburg are continually in a most fraternal communication ;

on the 18 th of January , tivelve brethren from Flensburg , headed by their W . M ., attended a meeting of the Eendsburg Lodge . The interests of the Craft are greatly advanced by such intercourse . There are several other members living

in intermediate places in which no Masonic lodges exist as yet , such as Kiel , Schleswig , Neunriinster , & c .

EGYPT . We are indebted to the courtesy of an Italian brother for the communication of the last issue of " La Squadra , " a new Masonic periodical , published in Italian at Alexandria , under the auspices

of the Lodges Cajo Gracco , Caprera , and Pompeja . We consider the appearance of this neiv Masonic publication as a gladdening sign of the times , showing the progress our Institution is making in those neglected countries of the East ,

In our last number ive reproduced the oration delivered by Bro . Figari at the inauguration of a new lodo-e at Cairo : and Ave shall now extract

irom our new contemporary the most salient passages of a discourse ivhich was delivered in the Lodge Les Pyramides d'Egypte by Bro . N . Lenghi , the W . M . of the Caprera Lodge , at its last St . John's Festival .

Bro . Lenghi , having alluded and done' due honour to those brethren ivho had been taken aivay from our midst during the past year , goes on to say : — The desire of discharging their most sacred duties has united hero men of every nation and creed . Our

presence in this sacred enclosure , and the painful motive that has caused us to gather here , is a solemn refutation , of the false accusations of our rovilers and a plausible illustration of our dogma of humane and fraternal love . But it is not in our aspirations towards mutual improvement that our chief duty consists ; we should also oppose most energetically the doings of those who ,

by degrading and adulterating our institutions , estrange and keep aloof from us the masses which ive are called upon to enlighten . The Freemasonry of the present day should resign some of thc habits and manners of its infancy , that the innate instinct of the profane world may not judge it merely by its appearance . For what is the use of a

progressive doctrine , unless its practice be in keeping with the spirit and wants of the age ? It is time to modify in part the forms of our Institution ; it is time to lilt up tho order of the veil that covers Freemasonry , but without tearing it . The social conditions of our century have become such as to dispel all apprehension of a hostile invasion of our dominions . Lot ns therefore lay open to the gaze of all the essence of our