Provincial.

Partridge , 0 . Davis , J . Grinsell , J . F . West , J . Darwen , W . Page , & c . The usual loyal and Masonic toasts were gone through , and in responding to the health of the W . M . Bro . Cohen delivered an eulogistic speech in relation to the Order . The musical arrangements , under the superintendence of Bro . A . J . Sutton , assisted by Bros . Glyd-on , Gaul , Pursall , and Davis , added greatly to the pleasure of the evening .

Scotland.

SCOTLAND .

LANARKSHIRE ( MIDDLE WARD ) . PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE . The usual quarterly meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of the Middle Ward of Lanarkshire was held at Motherwell on the 4 th ult ., Bro . Major Barbour , D . P . G . M ., presiding . The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and eonfirmed , the other business before the lodge was proceeded with , the most

important being the consideration of the case of the S . W . of Lodge No . 177 for having officiated at a meeting of Lodge No . SS in tbe initiation of a candidate who had been black-balled in another lodge in the province . The S . W . of No . 177 at once admitted that he bad done so , but in ignorance of its being an infringement of Masonic law , when a " vote of censure was passed upon Lodge No . 88 . The lodge then proceeded to take up an appeal by Bros . Ellis , M'Kenzie , and

Mackinnon against the arbitrary action of the B . W . M . of Lodge No . 177 in suspending them from Masonic privileges without grounds or due notice of such intention . Tho appeal was sustained and the petitioners were ordered to be reinstated . The nomination of a Secretary to succeed the late Bro . Eobt . Bruce brought the business to a close , when the lodge was closed in due form . LANARKSHIRE .

GOVAN . — -Lodge Govandale ( No . 437 ) . —This prosperous young lodge held its annual festival on Friday evening , the ISth inst ., in the Govan Hall , which was filled with the brethren , their friends , and a goodly number of the softer sex . Bro . Knighton occupied the chair , and amongst those on the platform were the following : —Bros . J . D . Porteous , J . Hinshehvood , E . Ewing , Thomson , J . C . Stirraf , and the Revs . McCorkindale and The earlier of the devoted

Boag . part evening was to a soiree , and the chairman , Bros . Porteous , " Hinshehvood , and Rev . McCorkindale , made a few remarks . Some of the members of the lodge sang some glees and catches in capital style , and several other singers helped to enliven the evening . An assembly was held immediately after the soiree , and dancing was . kept up to an early hour , the whole festival having passed off most harmoniously and successfully .

Ireland.

IRELAND .

DUBLIN . MASONIC ORPHAN BOY ' ScnooL . The usual monthly meeting of the executive committee was held the 7 th inst ., at the Freemasons' Hail . The following brethren attended : —William E . Gumbleton , J . P . ( in the chair ); H . Oliver Barker , L . L . D . ; P . C . Smyly , M . D . j liev . HJWestb Ollhainand

. . y , S . B . , Captain M . Harte . The secretary announced that the subscriptions and donations now received amounted to £ 1 , 665 17 s . 6 d . A form of memorial for applicants fin- admission into the school was approved , and ordered to hi ; printed . It was unanimousl y resolved that Bro . George H . Porter , G . M . L ., President of the Royal College of Surgeons , be requested to act as surgeon to the institution . Bro . Westby gave notice of bis intention to move the followresolution at the next monthl

ing y meeting of the committee : — " That this committee are of opinion that it is just and reasonable that the brethren who have qualified as annual governors for the year 1 S 67 or 18 CS should be entitled to vote for candidates at the election to take place in January next ; and that at said election said brethren shall be entitled to au extra vote for every £ 1 paid as subscription for 18 G 9 , before the day of election , according to rule 21 . "

British America.

BRITISH AMERICA .

CANADA . KKIGHTS TEMPLAR AND KNIGHTS on ? MALTA . The annual assembly of the Grand Priory of the Dominion of Canada , was held at Head Quarters at the East , ( Montreal ) , on Wednesday 12 th day of August , 1863 , under V . H . & E ., f Fr . Col . W . J . B . McLeod Moore , Grand Prior , by patent from the Grand Conclave of England and 'Wales . The attendance of Fratres from subordinate

encampmentsand priories , was larger than usual , and the proceedings were of a highly interesting character . After preliminary business had been disposed of , tl \ 3 Grand Prior delivered the following address : — Fratres of the Temple and Hospital : —It affords me much gratification and pleasure to meet you again in our annual Grand Conclave , to deliberate on and refer to such matters as will promote our general and individual interests and prosperity ,

and elevate the dignity of those ancient and chivalric Orders in Canada to that position to which they are so justly entitled The year past I fce . 1 assured will be regarded as an important one in our history , consequent on the political changes which have taken place in Canada . Since our last annual assembly I have been in frequent correspondence with tbe Grand Chancellor Sir Patrick MacC . de Colquhoun , and the recipient of most gratifying and interesting communications relative to the

administration of the Order in tho dominion . The Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master , who has at all times by si uniform courtesy shown himself most willing and anxious to meet our views and wishes by exery concession in his power , has been pleased to confer upon me as your chief officer the style and dignity of Grand Prior of tbe combined Orders for the dominion of Canada , made doubly more gratifying by presenting me from himself with the insignia of this hih office .

g Canada will now become a Grand Priory , with the power of self-government , enacting rules and laws for the guidance of their own affairs , with which tbe Grand Conclave of England does uot interfere , or the Supreme Grand Master himself when not contrary to the Common Law and Statutes of the Order . The Grand Master and Grand Conclave hare decided that this

Grand Priory be permitted to retain , for local purposes , half the fees and so much of the benevolent fund as is collected within its jurisdiction , which should be reserved for persons of recognized position . The Grand Chancellor assures me that every effort will be made to carry out the administration of the Order to thogeneral satisfaction of the Fratres . He has himself taken the matter into his own hands and introduced a system of general

responsiblity , which must ultimately prove perfectly successful . It , therefore , becomes our duty to assist by all means in our power the Grand Chancellor in carrying out his views , and show every consideration to an honorary officer , who can have no other object at hoart but tbe good of the Order . At the meeting of the Grand Conclave in May last at London , the Committee , in their address to the Grand Master , referred to tbe Craft in Canada having separated from the parent stock and forming

themselves into an independent body , and alluded to a leaning by our Order in the same direction , but congratulated us on remaining true to the old allegiance . I perfectly agree with tho committee that any separation would but diminish the dignity of the Order in Canada , and be in no way beneficial . The late pitiable and fruitless efforts on tbe part of a misguided and reckless rabble , to shake the power of the realm , the attempt on the life of the sailor Princethe son of our beloved

, Sovereign , and the foul assassination of a late talented and amiable statesman of this Dominion , calls upon us imperatively to cling more closely to our ancient institution , and support by every means in our power , the honour and dignity of the mother country . It should also be born in mind that in the ancient time , when the Order of the Temple was at the height of its power and prosperity , that there was but one supreme head , but one grand master : hut it is true that at the revival of the Orders

of Chivalry , for the purpose of perpetuating and commemorating the ceremonial of reception of a novice into those Christian Orders , which took place some time after the Reformation , when the Temple and Hospital Lauds in Scotland were ceded to the Crowu , that independent bodies sprung up in England , Scotland and Ireland , and subsequently on this continent , known as . Templar Encampments , attaching themselves to the Masonicfraternity , with which previously it is now clearly proved they