Masonic Notes And Queries.

literary correspondents who might be glad of such a medium in a journal which they habitually peruse , and it might become a very useful auxiliary . —S . S . A 3 " OLD AiASOJttC CAED . I lately found among some papers dating not less

than half a century back , a card surmounted with the square , compasses , and letter G , "" Chas . IvnoAvles , Pilot for the North and South Channels , No . 5 , Newstreet , near St . Catherine ' s Church . "— - \ Y . K .

EOIXBAY . When was a Prov . G . M . for Bombay first appointed . There was formerly a Prov . G . M . for the Coast of Coromandel . —PSDOLPHTLUS . IXEAST ORPHANS . Could not a small charity be founded for tho

benefit of infant orphans of Masons , to give pensions of £ 5 a year , say from two years old to nine . This would take little money , and do much good . —H . E . H .

P . M . CALEN'DAE . On looking hack to old numbers of the Calendar and Pocket Book , one can hardly avoid making some reflections . It is published for a very good cause , being : published "for the benefit of the Charity Fund" but it is a very strange thing , that although

, Masonry has made much progress , the Calendar has made none . The preface issued in Nov . 1 S 14 , by the tivo Grand Secretaries states , that "the flourishing state of the Society of Freemasons and the consequent necessity of a more general circulation of its public transactions to individual lodgesthan had

, formerly been adopted , induced the Grand Lodge in the year 1777 to publish a Calendar , which has hitherto been continued ; but the form in Avhi ^ h ithas been printed being found inconvenient , H .. II . H . the Duke of Sussex , the Grand Master , has thought proper to direct that in future it shall he published

in a pocket size . By this alteration , and the great additional matter aud information Avhich the present work contains , it is hoped that the F . M . ' s diary Avill meet the general support and encouragement of the fraternity , whose natronaae is earnest ! v solicited , the

profit arising from the sale being appropriated to the General Fund of Charity , The fraternity and the public are therefore informed , that the old Calendar is discontinued , and the present Diary and Pocket Book substituted . " The title page states that the Calendar contains a complete list of all the regular

lodges and " a variety of articles concerning Masonry . " The variety of articles concerning Masonry was invisible in 1814 , and is invisible in 1 S 07 , unless the remarkable occurrences in Preemasonry he considered as the variety . In ISl-i we were promised a great quantity of additional matterand Ave yet await

, it . This year is the 90 th anniversary of the calendar , and it is to be hoped that before the centenary Ave shall obtain some improvements , as Ave have yet ten years till 1877 . The beginning of the Calendar is admirable , on account of the Charities - , but this might be extended . If space is Avanted for this and other

purposes , the abandonment of lists of peers , members of Parliament , & c , will afford ample means . "When we came to G . M ., a list of G . M . ' s might usefully be given . Provincial and District G . M . ' s are very good , but why not give the Deputies and the Secretaries ,

working Avhere the Deputy is the acting man ? It is obvious many improvements might he made in the lists of lodges , & c ., and some errors avoided . Geography has always been a weak point with the Calendar committee . According to the Calendar , St . Helena is not in Africa but in the East Indiesand so

, is the Mauritius ; British Columbia Ave believe to be in the neighbourhood of Prince Edward's Island , if Ave like , aud so is "Vancouver ' s Island , because that is an island , but how near to New Brunswick we are not sure ; "Western Australia comes in admirably after New Zealand , and Tasmania follows . Some

years ago the Canary Isles Avere in Europe , and New South Wales and South Australia were in the East Indies . There is no account of lodges under the Grand Lodges of Scotland and Ireland , and , consequently , the Calendar is of very little use to the visiting brother ; to the stay-at-home brother it gives

ii'hat he knows—the name and time of meeting of his own lodgo ; and these are not worth paying for . Many obvious improvements are not referred to . It would be curious to ascertain how many newlyinitinted brethren are persuaded by the Tyler to buy the Pocket Book , and never buy it aftewards . —F .

MASOSIO STATISTICS , No . 1 . LONDON LOUSES IN 1834 AND IN 1 S 67 . It may be interesting to nofco some of the movements of London lodges . Tho following show thoir distribution in 1834 and 1867 : — 1834 . 1867 .

Abchurcb-lane ... 1 0 Aldcrmaubury 1 1 Aldersgafcc-sbreeb or Albion 3 7 Basinghall-streofc , Masons' Hall ¦ 0 2 Bedford-vow 0 1 Bennondscy 1 1 Bishosojato-stvcofc or London Tavern ... 3 10

BJackii-iars or Eadley ' s ... 3 10 Bond-street 0 1 Brixton 0 1 CavGnd . isb .-srru . aro 1 0 Cheapside - 0 Cliofsca 1 1 Clare Market 1 0 Clerkenwell 1 1 Commercial-road ... ... ... •¦• 1 0 Cornhill , Gcorce and Vnlfcuro S 0

Covont Garden , 3 Piazza , 1 Bedford , 1 Joy ' s Hotel ... -J 0 Crutched Friars 0 1 Depfcford 3 4 Dnlwich 0 1 Fenchurch-sfcrecfc 1 0 Finsbury , 2 Old Cooper ' s Arms ,

Crownstreet , 1 Paul-street , New Artillery Co . 3 1 Fleet-street , 8 Andcrton ' s , 1 Dicks' ... 1 9 Fulham 0 1 Golden-square , 1 0 Great Qiiocn-strcct , Freemasons' Hall ... 21 41 Greenwich . ... 1 2 Hackney 0 1

Haggcrston ... ... ... ... 1 ' - ) Hammersmith ,.. ... ... ••¦ ' - ' 1 Hampstead 0 1 Hatton Garden ••¦ 1 0 Holborn , Geoi-n-e and Blue Boar ... ••¦ " ^ 0 Others ... f . ... 2 0 Hoxton 0 1 Islington ... ... 9 2 Kennington ... ... ... ... ¦•• ' - ' 2 Kensington ... ... ... ¦•• ... 1 1