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( Contents . PAGE The Eoyal Visit to Ireland 141 The " Prince of Wales Own" Lodge , ( 151 ) Belfast 142 Increase of numbers in Masonry 143 The way to do tho Work 144

Masonic Jottings 145 Masonic Notes and Queries : 146 Masonic Sayings and Doings Abroad 148 Revieivs , 149 FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE : — MASONIC MIEEOE : — Masonic Mems 1 » ° Grand Lodgo of Ireland 150

CEAET LODGE MEETINGS : — Metropolitan 152 Provincial 152 India 153 Cape of Good Hope 155 Australia 155 Royal Arch 156 Ancient and Accepted Rites 156

Knights Templar 156 The Knights Templar Past and Present ,. 157 The Mark Degree in England 159 Notices to Correspondents J 80 List of Lodge , & c , Meetings for ensuing u-eek 160

The Royal Visit To Ireland.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND .

LONDON , SATURDAY , AUGUsT 19 , 1871

Whatever significance the Royal visit to Ireland may have , in a political sense , is a matter with which , as a Masonic Journal , we have no concern . "Whether Paddy , in the sunshine of a Royal visit , with processions , triumphal arches , and

illuminations forgets , as things of a remote and barbarian age , his hate of the Saxon , and his cry for '* Repale " is not a subject for consideration in our columns ; but it is a pleasurable duty to record the enthusiastic reception which our Royal Brother ,

the Prince of Wales , has met with from Masons of every grade in the Emerald Isle . As sister Lodges , the G-rand Lodges of England , Scotland , and Ireland , have ever been in close communion ; with the fact of the heir to the throne being at one and the same time a member of one or more subordinate lodges under

each Constitution j and holding under the English Constitution the rank of Past Grand Master ; under the Scottish Constitution that of Grand Patron , and a similar rank under the Irish Constitution , the Masons of the three several countries must

feel bound still closer than ever by the tie of brotherly love . The enthusiasm with which the Royal visitor was received was extended in a great measure to every individual member of the Craft hailing from the Grand Lodge of England , and it was an evident source of regret that the representatives were not

more numerous , being confined to the R . W . Bros . His Grace theDuke of Manchester , Provincial Grand Master of Northamptonshire ; Capfc . Brereton , R . N ., the Representative from the Grand Lodge of England to the Grand Lodge of Ireland ; V . W .

Bro . W . E . Gimbleton , Past Grand Deacon ; Bro the Marquis of Hamilton ; V . W . Bro . J . 0 . Parkinson , Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Mark Lodge of England ; Bro . Francis Knollys , the Private Secretary of His Royal Highness ( who

had just received his M . M . degree ); and Bro . Oonrfcenay Boyle , Private Secretary to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant . The manly outspoken extempore speech of His Royal Highness has given a subject for

consideration to all Masons under the sister Grand Lodges . " It is true , " he said " I have not been a Mason very long , still I will take the liberty of saying that during the short period that I have

been one of yourselves I may not be considered an unworthy member . "'"' At the time of the installation of our M . W . Bro . it may be remembered that we took some little exception to the fact that a newly-initiated brother should have

had the rank thrust upon him , which it had taken a quarter of a century of zealous hard work to earn hy the only other brother under this constitution , who was entitled to the same rank . At that time , we felt it would have been better for our

Royal Brother to have had the opportunity of doing something to " win his spurs / ' and that the rank of Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England should have been accorded him as a reward for services rendered , and not as the

natural result of the accident of birth which made him the heir apparent to the Throne of Great Britain . At the same time we expressed our hope that the confidence of the Rulers of the Craft was

not misplaced—that our Royal Brother would prove himself a worthy scion of a long line of Masonic Ancestors . ur hopes have been thus far realized . Although able to write at the end of his name the

highest rank which it is possible for a Craft Mason to attain , and with no further reward as an incentive , but the esteem of his brethren , out-Royal Brother has been most unremitting in the performance of his Masonic duties- Although

scarce eighteen , montli " . have elapsed since his reception into English Craft Masonry , His Royal Highness has assisted at the festivals of two of