To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine And Masonic Mirror.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EREEMASOHS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I observe in your number , to-day , that the Sherborne Lodge and Chapter are in work . I beg to assure you no Lodge is in work , or even in existence , at Sherborne , as all their furniture , & c , are sold ; and surely the proper course would be to order the warrant to he

returned . All this is quite correct , from my own personal knowledge , Believe yours , very fraternally , Yeovil , June Wi , 1859 . ' THOS . CAVE .

The Grand Officers.

THE GRAND OFFICERS .

TO THE EDITOR 01 ? THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . DEAR , SIR AXD BROTHER , —I did not purpose addressing you again upon the subject of " Grand Officers" ( at least during the present year ) , until the publication of your number for May IS , when I found that Bros . "K . T ., " and "John II . Scott , W . M . of No . 338 , Brighton , " had , with more zeal than discretion , impugned the statements in my letter of the fith ultimo ; and in

doing so , I will first state that I have no wish to hurt the feelings of any brother , being actuated solely by a deep interest for our Order . The recipients of our honours are justly and fairly open to criticism ; and if our practice is to be consistent with our principles , it is surely of the first consequence that those honours be worthily conferred . I have read in your Magazine a full account of the Masonic services of Bro . F . Slight , the J . G . D . of Englandand am willing to admit thatas a Masonhe has been

, , young , very zealous , but he has been initiated only five and a half years since ; ant ! your pages might be filled for months to come , in record of the labours of other brethren who have served our Craft long and faithfully , but who have no prospect of ever receiving the purple of Grand Lodge , simply because they lack the private friendship of those iu authority , by whose intervention Bro . Slight has been placed over the heads of older and far more deserving-Masons than himself .

Iii my former letter I simply observed that Bro . G . Pocock would no doubt merit , in due course of time , what had been prematurely assigned to him , nor should . ' [ have alluded to him again , but that the letter of the W . M . of No . 338 ( of which Lodge Bro . Pocock is a P . M . ) , calls for a reply . It stands thus : — "The propriety of this appointment rests upon this one question , Are provincial brethren to be excluded from holding office in Grand Lodge ? If not , there is no provincial Mason more worthy than himself

, " & c , & c . There , however , I join issue with Bro . Scott . I am aware that during the short time that Bro . Pocock has been a member of the Craft , he has earned a hi gh reputation for zeal in the province of Sussex ; but 1 maintain that his appointment to Grand Office is " premature , " and consequently misplaced , and , by comparison , ' ' - undeserved . " I do indeed desire to sec upon the dais of Grand Lodge a larger number of provincial Masons ; but I would bestow the rank upon the hard working and much esteemed Deputy Provincial Grand Masters . Take , for instance , the Deputies of the provinces adjoining Sussex—Bro . Harcourt , of Surrey ; Bro . Deacon , of Hampshire ; Bro . Hyde Pullen , of the Isle of Wight , & c .