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resolution , accompanying it also with tho charter of the Grand Chapter ; and , as will have been seen by the notice in the business paper for Wednesday next , the documents are now in the possession of the Grand Master . How far Bro . Toby and those who have acted with him have been . justified in the course they havo pursued , we are somewhat doubtful , as at page G-5 of tho Book of Constitutions , wo find the following words : —

. "Should the majority of any Lodge determine to retire from it , the power of assembling remains ivith the rest of the members who adhere to their allegiance ; but if all the members of a Lodge withdraw , the warrant becomes extinct •" ancl it is clear from Bro . 'Toby ' s statement that all the members have not withdrawn , there being a minority , or only a bare majority of

the restored members present , and amongst them , two dissentients to the proposition for dissolving , irrespective of absent Brethren who might claim to be allowed to work the Loclge . We have laid the . case dispassionately before the Brethren , to enable them tlie better to understand it when brought under their consideration on Wednesday , and we believe that they will agree with us that

both parties are to some extent in the wrong—if the one is too exacting and overbearing , so is the other too -impulsive ancl precipitate . What may be tho course recommeuded'hy the Grand Master , we shall not attempt to prophecy ; but we think that as the Hobart Town Brethren are not likely ever to work in common with Bro . Ewing , we may be allowed to entertain a hope that the Most Worshipful Grand

Master , looking at all tlie circumstances ofthe case , will feel that as head of the Craft he may exercise his authority so as to restore the Brethren of Hobart Town to their Masonic functions ( should they ask for that mark of favour direct from his lordshi p ) , without regard to the Provincial Grand Loclge of Tasmania ; as we feel that , according to the Book of Constitutions , with his lordship alone rest any future proceedings with regard to the restoring the returned , or the granting of new warrants .

A Tr . iA-. soLB i : ; A QUADRANGLE ; DE . KETTLE . —His brain was like a hasty pudding , where there was memory , judgment , and fancy , all stirred together . if you had to do with him , taking him for a fool , you ivould have found iu him great subtlety and research : & contra , it you treated him as a wise man , you would have mistaken him for a fool . A neighbour of mine told me he heard him preach once iu St . Mary's church , at Oxon . He began thus : — ,: It being my turn to preach in this place , 1 went into my study to prepare myself for my sermon , aud I took down a book that bad blue strings , ancl ' twas sweet St . Bernard . I chanced to read

such a part ol it , on such a subject , which hath made me to choose this text , . " 1 know not whether this was the only time or no , that he used the following way of conclusion : — " But now I sec it is time for mo to shut up my book , for I see the Doctors' men coming in , wiping of their beards , from the ale-house . " As they wore reading , aud circumscribing figures , said he , "I will show you how to inscribe a triangle iu a quadrangle . Bring a pig into the quadrangle , and 1 will set the college clog at him , and he will take the pig by the ear ; then eomc I and take the clog by the tail , and so there you have a triangle in a quadrangle . " — Avibmji