Bro. Binckes On Things In General.

which Bro . Binckes and his friends appeared to be actuated—and hence —not from the indifference of brethren—arose the "triumph claimed for the Grand Registrar . " We cannot , however , believe that a division would have improved Bro . Binckes ' s position , seeing that in the ballot which immediately followed for the Board of General Purposes , tho total number of votes recorded in his favour was thirty-eihtthere

g , being upwards of one hundred and fifty brethren present ; whilst had his friends been strong enough , nothing could have been a more pointed censure on the Grand Registrar and those who took part in the preparation of the list of candidates—which gave rise to the motion of Bro . Binckes—than the election of that brother to the Board . We pass by the assertion that the election of the Board of General

Purposes was the success of a party move , as a purely gratuitous insult to the large majority of the members of Grand Lodge , who by their votes endorsed the choice of the brethren who originally prepared the list ; whilst the statement that " the ruling powers have obtained a board moulded entirely , or very nearly so , to their own views , " is a . reflection on the honour and independence of the members of the . Board , as unbecoming as it is impertinent .

We now come to a pavb of Bro . Binckes ' s letter which we approach with great disinclination , because we have repeatedly stated that we do not wish to bring anything personal to gentlemen connected with the Magazine continually before our readers ; but we ore constrained to do so because , with regard to the . non-submission of Bro . Warren ' s name to the Grand Lodge Club , Bro . Binckes gives us the " lie direct , " he states

as , in the strongest terms " consistent with the laws of good breeding . " To this we can only repeat that Bro . Binckes did , in our own office , inform Bro . Warren that his name was not submitted to the ballot at the Grand Lodge Club , and that , moreover , he ( Bro . Warren ) could not have expected it to be so . submitted . We do not quarrel with Bro . Binckes ' s definition of the word " tergiversation , " h it certainl

thoug y does not agree with that of any author with whom we are acquainted ; and Bro . Warren has no right to complain of his conduct being described as " candid , open , and manly ; " though we again deny , in the name of Bro . Warren , that he ever was a member of the party with which Bro . Binckes is connected—or ever enjoyed their confidence ; having never one occasionbeen consulted

, upon any , upon any matter of policy , and having been most carefully excluded from every list of candidates for the Masonic Boards supported by them . It is true , however , that Bro . Warren , in common with many other independent members of Grand Lodge , voted with that party on questions in which he agreed with them in opinion , and continued to support them until he became convinced that personal objectsand

, not the true interests of Masonry mainly actuated the course they adopted in Grand Lodge . It is now many months since we warned those brethren that in their combination they were degenerating into a mere party faction—aud that they must expect no support from us

or from the independent thinking members of Grand Lodge in the