Masonic Sayings And Doings Abroad.

visitor shall he a brother in good Masonic standing , and an affiliated member of some regular lodge . With these qualifications , he is in a condition to solicit admission as a visitor into any lodge , when not engaged in the transaction of private business . And in the opinion of your committee , the request in such a case

cannot in courtesy or Masonic propriety , be denied , except for special and sufficient cause . That a member may object to the admission of any visitor , is undoubtedly true , if , as suggested , the objection is sound and such as should exclude kim . But how is this to be ascertained ? There may be important

considerations why the reasons for the objection should not he disclosed to the lodge . And here lies the difficulty in arriving at any satisfactory conclusion on the subject . Your committee , however , submit the following resolution for the consideration of the ¦ Grand Lodge :

" JResolved , —That it is the privilege of every affili " ted Mason , in good and regular standing , to visit any lodge , when not engaged in the transaction of private business ; but that it is also the right of a sitting member of the lodge , to object to the admission of a i . sitor , giving his reasons therefor , if required by a

majority vote of the members ; or , as the alternative , declaring upon his honour as a Mason , that they are such that he cannot with propriety disclose them to the lodge .

" Under this declaration , your committee believe the Master may properly , and for the peace of his lodge should refuse to receive the visitor . " LATAYETTE . '—The present generation will be

interested in the following account of the Masonic reception given to the friend of Washington , at Troy , in 1824 , by Apollo Chapter , No . 48 , Eoyal Arch Masons . We take it from the history of the Chapter , compiled hy Jesse P . Anthony .- —The general , accompanied by his suite , the Governor of tho State of New York

and his suite , ancl the Mayor and Corporation of the city of Albany , came up from Albany on the canal , in the packet-boat Schenectady . The party reached the sea-side at 2 p . m ., where they were met by a deputation from the Troy Committee of arrangements , and

the packet-boat , with all on board , was taken down through the locks into the river . Near the mouth of the canal eight boats were waiting to tow the Schenectady across to the city . This part of the spectacle was strikingly beautiful . After landing at the ferry , Lafayeto was welcomed by the Hon , Geo .

Tibbits , in the name of the committee on behalf of citizens , to which ho appropriately responded . A deputation from Apollo Chapter , No . 48 , B . A . M .,

waited on him with an invitation' to honour thenri with his presence . He accepted the invitation , and ,, having been admitted , he was addressed- by Com . H . Bud , Jr ., as follows : — " Illustrious Companions : In behalf of ftMs chapter

of Ancient Eoyal Arch Masons , I hail you as a welcomejguest . Having , from our days of ohildhood learned to associate the name of La Fayette withthat of Washington and the independence - of' ran ?' our country , we delight to mingle in these expressionsof gratitude and joy which have burst forth from

the hearts of ten millions of freemen upon your arrival in the land of your adoption , and we feel much honoured that you afford us this opportunity , of saluting you as a companion and brother in this place consecrated to beneyolence and social virtues .

Long may you lire to enjoy the gratitude of a nation indebted , for its independence and prosperity ; , to your patriotic exertions , and to assert , as you always have done , the principles of liberty , without fear and without reproach . And when you shall have finished the zoorJc allotted to you on earth by the G . A . O . T . U ..

may you he received as a companion in that celestialarch to which all worthy Masons hope to be exalted . Gen . La Fayette , in reply , remarked , " that it was a very agreeaWe circumstance of his visit to have received thehigher degrees of Masonry in America ; that he had . always respected the institution , and felt much gratified

by this interview with his "brethren . " Some time was then spent in social greetings with the companions , and . after coming from the ceremonies of the chapter , he sat down , with a numerous company , to a superb cold collation . —New Yorfc < Dispatch .

It is announced that the Crown Prince of Denmark , who has recently been made a Mason by Charles Y ., King- of Sweden , is to succeed the late M . W . Bro . C . J . O . Bnistrup , Privy Councillor and Minister of Justice and Public Worship , as the Grand Master of Danish Freemasons .

Hungary , where Masonry has been dormant for almost eighty years , through the prohibition of the Austrian Government , is rapidly throwing off its lethargy . The three lodges already established at Pesth , Temesvar , ancl Osclenburg , arc said to number fifty members each . The establishment of new lodges

at Presbnrg and Baja is under contemplation , and we hopo to bo able to announce the formation of a Grand Lodge at Hungary at no distant day .

The following paragraph , the truth of which we canno-t authenticate , is going the round of the papers ;—" The Lodge of Mount Sinai , at Paris , has expellecl from the roll of its members all Prussians hy birth ; snui has also resolved to admit no more Prussians , "