Australia.

The toast was drunk with all the honours , the band playing the usual air . Bro . Pitt , of Richmond , returned thanks for the ladies in a somewhat discursive , but highly emphatic and intensely poetical speech . The last toast was " Our Poor and Distressed Brethren . " This was proposed by Bro . Bullarcl , and drunk with all due honours . The programme having thus been brought to a termsnation , the brethren began to leave the hall , and so terminated the banquet in honour of the installation of D . G , Master Holroyd .

Royal Arch.

ROYAL ARCH .

METROPOLITAN . CANONBUBV CHATTER ( NO . G 57 ) . —Tho mombors of this chapter mot in convocation at tho Goorgo Hotel , Aldcrmaubury , on tho 22 nd inst . Comp . AV . AVatson officiated as Z ., with Comps . Ough , H ., and AA / oscombo , J . ; Cary , S . E . ; Apploboo , E . Clark , Decent , Maydwoll , Berri , Snow , & c . Visitors;—Comps . Fox , Z . 19 ; Cooko , Z . 53-1 ; R . AV . Littlo , P . Z . 975 , and J . 177 . Thero boing

no businoss boforo tho chapter tho companions adjourned to tho banquet table , and a vory pleasant ovoning was spent , onlivonod considerably by tho capital singing of Comps . Fox . Maydwoll , and Decent . A P . Z- 's jowol was prosontod to Comp . Chancellor , I . P . Z ., for his vory officiont sorvicos in tho chair during tho past year , and tho worthy companion oxprossod his acknowledgments in fooling and appropriate tonus . Comps . Fox , Littlo , and Cooko ropliod soriatim for tho kind roeoption accorded to tho toast ol tho visitors .

Mark Masonry.

MARK MASONRY .

DURHAM . WEST HARTLEPOOL . —' Electric Lodge ( No . 39 ) . —Tho regular mooting of this lodgo was hold on tho 27 th inst . Tho W . M ., Dr . Mooro , G . M . O ., occupied tho chair . Tho following brothron woro prosont : —R . B . Harploy , S . O . ; E . Hudson , J . 0 . ; Dr . Kirk , Hog . ; J . W . Cameron , Soc . ; M . Rickinson , Troa . ; Dr . Gomloy , S . D . ; J . Millor , Steward ; G . Carter , J . G . ; G . Mowbray Tyler , and visiting Bro . Larkumacting as S . W . Tho lodgo was oponod

, , and tho minutes of tho previous meeting road and confirmed . Bro . Sutton , who had boon previously ballotted for , was then introduced and advanced to tho honourablo degroo of a Mark Master . Bro . Honry Thompson , P . M . ( No . G 02 ) , North York Lodgo , Middlosborough , was balloted for and accopted . Tbo lodge was closod with solomn prayer , and tho brethren adjourned foi refreshment .

Knights Templar.

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .

SCOTLAND . AVR . —Priory of Ayr ( No . 4 ) . —At a mooting of this priory Bro , John Burns Millor , chief engineer iu tho United States navj-, was rocoived as a Knight of tho religious and military Order of tho Tmnplo , Bro . "D . Murray Lyon , as Prior , otliciatvng at tho roeoption . Bro . Dr . Gray , of Irvino , St . Andrew's , Bro . A . Glass , and othor well known members of tbo Ordor , woro also prosont . Bro . Millerwho woro tho United States uniformhad tho

grati-, , fication of loarning that tho recollection of his distinguished stragetic skill in somo years ago rescuing tho American steamship Maria from tho possession of a crow of Chiuoso pirates , was fondly cherished , and in tho cordiality with which his health was pledged ho had strong ovidonco of thoostoom iu -which ho is held by tho Craft in tho land of Burns .

Obituary.

Obituary .

AMERICA . DEATH : OF Br . o . MAJOR M-LET . TA > -, U . S . ARILY , AXD FORiiEitrr or GLASGOW . The New Torh Herald of a recent date contains the following notice of tho above highly-esteemed Bro . : —

Obituary.

The funeral services consequent upon the death of Major David M'Lellan , of the 79 th Regiment , were hold at the Janestreet United Presbyterian Church , New York . They were attended by tbe New York Caledonian Club , under the direction of Chief Thomas Barclay , and by Mechanics' Lodge , No . 31 , of tho Order of Freemasons , in both of which the deceased was a prominent member , by many friends , and also by numerous Masonic brethren of the Scotia and Eastern Star Lodges .

Major David M'Lellan , principal member of the firm of D . M'Lellan and Brothers , lithographers , died aged forty-two years . He was born in Glasgow , Scotland , and has been a citizen of the United States some twenty years . He was for five years Chief of the New York Caledonian Club , and was also P . M . of the Eastern Star Lodge , No . 227 , of Freemasons . At the breaking out of tho rebellion ho was conspicuously active

in organising the 79 th Regiment , which he accompanied to the field , and at the terrible first Bull Run battle took command after the fall of Colonel Cameron . Among the Scotch citizens of New Y ork his name is a household word , being universally known , and as universally respected . His friends refer with feeling to the kindness of his disposition , saying that he had not a personal enemy in the world . He was especially

interested and active in whatever related to the interests of his Scotch brethren of the city , by whom his death is universaly lamented . The remains were interred in Greenwood Cemetery , the following persons officiating as pall-bearers : —From the New York Caledonian Ciub : Ex-Chief Mitchell , ex-Chief Captain Manson , Engineer Douglas , of the Navy Department , and Mr . ConncW . From the Mechanics' Lodge of Masons-. Messrs . Frederick Umpelly , James Slavin , George Odell , and George Miller .

Reviews.

REVIEWS .

The Origin , of Hie Poyal Arch Order of Masonry , Historically Considered , < f"c . A new edition . By the Rev . GEORGE OLIVER , D . D ., & c . London : Richard Spencer , 26 , Great Queen-street . 1 S 67 . Tbo present edition is dedicated to Bro . the Duke of St . Albans , the Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire , " From my retired domicile in Eastgate , Lincoln , 1867 . " Tho author

says : " The origin of the Royal Arch Order of Masonry is admittedly a maiden subject , which excited the curiosity and employed the attention of the Craft during the early part of the presont century without producing any satisfactory result ; and I now oiler for your Grace ' s consideration the following solution of the problem , under the assurance that I have been unableon mature reflection and lima labor et morato detect

, , any error , either in the arguments or the conclusion . " He adds -. " I have had no preconceived hypothesis to establish , but have taken the facts simply as they were presented to my notice ; and their existence appears amply sufficient to set this vexed question at rest for ever . And it will not be believed that I have deliberately attempted to promulgate a fallacy at my time of lifewhen I am shortly to be initiated into the

, Greater Mysteries , or , in other words , Death ; the arcane secrets of which no mortal man has ever been able to reveal , although perfectly familiar with the exoteric form of the Lesser Mysteries , that is Sleep ; while their esoteric secrets , Dreams , still remain beyond his comprehension . " Our late Bro . did not inaccurately estimate the probable duration of his valuable lifefor ho died on the 3 rd day of

, March last , greatly beloved by everyone who had the great privilege of his personal acquaintance , and much lamented by the entire Order of Freemasons . An interesting notice of the late Dr . Oliver , and of the funeral ceremony , & c ., will be found in page 21 G of the last volume of the FREEMASONS' MAGAZIXE . Tho author iu tho profaco states : — " Tho work now offered to tho Masonic public in a now

and improved form originated in an oxtendod private correspondence with ono of tho most oniiuontMasons of tbo day , on tho terms of tho article in tho Freemasons' Quarterly Review , * tho gist of which is contained in tho following passago : — " 'Previous to tho commencement of tho oightconth century , tho Royal Arch has not been traced with any plausibility . But