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could we have dreamed of a DUNDAS upon the tripod . No future critics on the Masonic literature of the period would , we are convinced , ( but for Bro . Lord PANMURE ' 3 assertion , ) have ascribed these epistles to the now avowed authors , and we hope the majority of the Craft will share with us a feeling of disappointment at the discovery . But , the ground of originality in composition

being thus cut from under his feet , and the pungent sarcasm having been thus laid bare as mere second-hand bluster , have the present G . SECRETARY ' few months of place entitled him to claim that which was earned as a good service pension by his predecessor after many long years of ministry ? This was the question raised

by the economists in G . L ., and we make bold to think it was wrongly answered . In our judgment the Board was stultified and the brethren misled , and the transaction savoured of jobbery . Now , however , that the point has been decided , we will not add a word on' the abstract question . May Bro . CLARKE , moderating his tone with experience , live to perform more gratefully the duties of his position , and to reap its emoluments .

That Bro . HAVEBS , as President of the Board which last year recommended that no increase of salary should be made in this department , sacrificed , on the occasion to which we refer , the decencies of ordinary consistency to the divinities of nauceuvre , and trampled under foot Ids own matured convictions in the iutoxication of a party divisionwill astonish few . Of his reply in this

, debate he . must himself , on retrospection , be heartily ashamed . We will not condescend to argue against such a tissue of incoherent contradiction and insolence . His peroration , perhaps , he considered a model of Masonic expression and oratorical taste . " As to the only charge brought against the G . SECRETARY , I shall

add to the words of the DEPUTY G . M . that , 'Harington is to Canada what Portal is to England . '" That our astute cotemporary the Mirror softens this asperity of idiom proves that some one who breathes the upper air with Bro . HAVERS has blushed for him by proxy . Occasionally , however , even in corrected sheets , the vigorous Saxon facetia ? are allowed to appear in their naked charms . " How about the Charities now ? " is bellowed

from the dais during a speech of a brother on the floor . " Who ' s your hatter ? " or some other bloom of cabstand " chaff , " may be shortly expected from lips that so habitually degrade G . L . by gratuitous personalities . Bro . HAVERS has been reported to have expressed regret and surprise that brethren of social position and rank do not interest themselves more in the affairs of

the Craft and attend the Quarterly communications . Will somebody tell him in a friendly spirit that himself is a living answer to the enquiry ? That , where gentlemen are at variance weapons may be used more refined than privileged invective , and shield more becoming than placeman ' s sneer . That it is no boast to

English Masonry in the nineteenth century that the spirit of Thersites , vexed so long by the memory of its rough usage among barbarian Greeks , has at length found refuge and security near the throne of its august Parliament .

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WE glad to see that the P . G . L . of the Channel Islands is taking steps to prevent the initiation of persons in Lodges where they are unknown without a certificate of respectability from the Lodge of the place where they usually reside . THE Pr . G . M . for HANTS ., haswe regret to

seeper-, , suaded his P . G . L . not to entertain the question of the present monopoly of power by the London Brethren , but to refer its consideration to the * Private Lodges . In accordance with which Bro . SHERRY has brought forward a series of sensible resolutions in an admirable speech , which seems to have met with universal

approval in Lodge No . 90 , Winchester . We hope the question will be generally taken into consideration throughout the Provinces . The D . Pr . G . M . for SOMERSET has prevented his P . G . L . from considering the building scheme of the Board of General Purposesthough in Hampshire a

, Special P . G . L . was called for the express purpose . Perhaps , when English Masons have obtained the same share as their Colonial Brethren in the appointment of their Pr . G . M ., these scandals will be of less frequent occurrence . STEADY PROGRESS is being made in the cause of the

Charities throughout the Provinces , and the Boys ' School is soon to be able to accommodate its members in the House . We have before stated our conviction of the justice of placing all the boys upon an equal footing , so as to allow those who wish it to live at home , upon an allowance equal to what is expended upon the Boarders .

Grand Lodge.

GRAND LODGE .

[ Published by the permission of the M . W . the G . M , , upon the Publisher ' s responsibility for the accuracy of the report . ] The regular quarterly commimicatiou was held in the Temple , on Wednesday last , the 7 th inst , the R . W . Bro . Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis , Prov . G . M ., Hants , presiding as Grand Master , supported by the R . W . Bro . Sir W . W . Wynn , Prov . G . M . for North Wales and Shropshireas DGM

, ... ; Bros . Col . Browning , P . G . W ., as S . G . W . ; John Savage , S . G . D ., as J . G . W . ; Roxburgh , G . Reg . ; the Rev . Wentworth Bowyer , G . Chaplain ; W . Grey Clarke , G . Sec . ; King , P . G . D ., as S . G . D . ; Slight , J . G . D . ; Jennings , G . Dir . of Cers . ; Pocock , G . S . B . ; Daukes , G . Supt . of Works ; Horsley , G . Org . ; Farnfield , Asst . G . Sec . Bros . Havers , Scott , Hopwootl , Potter , S . B . Wilson , J . N . Tomkins , T . R .

White , JToudle , and Phillips , P . G . Ds . ; Bros . Walmsley , Spiers , Philipe , Masson , P . G . S . Bs . ; Chevalier Hebeler , & c , & c . ¦ The minutes of the last Grand Lodge having been read and confirmed , the Grand Secretary read the report of the Board of Benevolence , from which it appeared that in June , eight petitions were relieved bvotesamounting to £ 07 2 s

y , ., and £ 30 recommended to be given to Bro . Noah Wardle , of No . 421 , Marplo ; in July three petitions were relieved with £ 40 ; and August seven petitions , with sums amounting to £ 90 10 s ., and £ 30 , recommended to be given to Bro . Wm . D . Lowe , of No . 95 , Sunderland .