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The GRAND CHAPTER of Scotland , from whom the authority to hold MARK Lodges emanates , is exactly forty years old , and no older . It was only on the 23 rd of September , 1842 , that the G RAND CHAPTER first resolved to issue MARK warrants . Which , then , is the oldest authority , to say nothing of the most respectablethe Scotch GRAND CHAPTERor

, , the time-immemorial Lodges which are to be found in England , and which have joined in the formation of a GHAND LODGE of MARK MASTERS under the Mastershi p of the R . W . Lord LEIGH ?

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GRAND LODGE .

[ Published by the permission of the M . W . the G . M ., upon the Pub-Usher's responsibility for the accuracy of the report . ' ] The Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge was field on Wednesday , the 3 rd insfc ., in tlie Hall , the M . W . G . M . on the Throne , supported by tlio D . G . M . ; the R . W . Bro . Dundas , M . P ., as S . G . W . ; R . W . Bra . Fenwick , P . G . W . ; V . W . Bro . Moore . G . C ; the G . K . W . Bros . Roxburgh and Wilson , G . Deacons , & c . Grand Lodge having been opened , and the regulations for its

government read , as required by the Book of Constitutions , PRIVILEGE . On the motion being put that the minutes of the last G . L . be confirmed , Vi . Bro . BINCKES moved for the production of the paper containing the authorized report of W . Bro . Havers' motion relative to the nonreception of the report of the- Colonial Board , and stated that he had found , on reference to the official documents , that his version of that motion was the correct one . The M . W . the G . M . said , ho should be happy to hear Bro . Binekes when the motion before the chair was disposed of . The minutes were then confirmed .

THE POWER OP THE BOARD OF MASTERS . W . Bro . BEACH , M . P ., wished to direct the attention of G . L . to a subject well worthy their consideration , and his doing so would perhaps be the moans of settling the law in reference to the matter . He wished to know the extent of the power vested in the Board of Masters . He knew that it was constituted to receive notices of motion to be brought forward in G . L ., and then to submit them to the G M ., for him to allow them to be put to the Brethren in that room . If however they were allowed to express their own opinions upon the

matters brought before them , that power would completely alter their character , and make them a deliberative body ; besides being a usurpation of the rights of G . L . He wished to know the extent of the power delegated to them , and to have read from the Book of Constitutions the detail of their duties . The M . W . the G . M . said . that , he believed that the question of Bro . Beach arose out of the fact that the chairman of the Board of Masters had refused to receive a notice of motion referring to two of the Masonic chanties . In his opinion the chairman of the board was

perfectly right in taking that course . It was a motion , as he had already stated , having reference to two of the Masonic charities with which G . L . had nothing more to do than as subscribers . If a notice proposing to interfere "with the British Orphan Asylum , at Clapham , had been put before the Board of Masters , there could be no doubt that they would be justified in refusing to receive it . G . L . had little more to do with the Masonic charities than with the British Orphan Asylum . That was to say that it had nothing more to do with them than had any individual subscriber . If the Board of Masters was to

send up to G L . everything which might be put before them , whether it referred to the Craft or not , it would not answer the purpose for which it had been formed . It was his , the G . M . ' s opinion , that the Chairman had , in this instance , exercised a wise discretion ; still , that was but his individual opinion , and if Bro . Beach wished'it he Could take the decision of G . L . upon the subject . The matter then dropped . The M . W . the G . M . then called upon Bro . Binekes for his motion . Bro . BINCKES said , that on the last occasion of the meeting of G . L . he

had moved the non-confirmation of so much of the minutes of the preceding meeting of G . L . as related to the report of the Colonial Board . Ho considered that the report of the Colonial Board had been disrespectfully treated ; part of it only having been adopted , and the

rest rejected . He had been however overruled by his lordship , and he had ' been told that no part of the report had been rejected . Upon that , lie , Bro . Binckes , asked the G . M . to appeal to the minutes , and they , lie was bound to say , seemed to tell against him . Subsequently , however , he had had au opportunity of inspecting the authorised report of the proceedings of G . L ., as sanctioned by the G . M . himself , and ho there found , iu print , that which bore out , to the letter , what he , relying upon the authority of the Freemason ' s Magazine , had stated to be the case . He much regretted the invidious position in

which he had been placed at the last meeting of G . L , and he now wished to know , from the G . M ., if he , Bro . Binckes , was in a position to move that the authorised report be read , that Ire might prove to the Brethren that what ho had stated to them iu December last was perfectly correct . W . Bro . IIAVEKS said , he was extremely sorry that Bro . Binekes should have thought it necessaiy to refer again to this matter . 1 he question could not by any manner of means be made one of privilege ; indeed it was altogether irrelevant and improper . Ho would not

, however , base his answer on that objection , but would venture to reply to the whole statement . W . Bro SINGER rose to order , and requested the G . M . to suppress the discussion , as there was no notice of it on the business paper . The M . W . the G M . had no objection to give any Brother the opportunity of a personal explanation , but if a matter of this kind was to be reopened it could only be done by regular notice of motion . The subject then dropped .

ELECTION OF M . W . G . M . W . Bro . F . SLIGHT rose and said , that he had great pleasure in proposing the re-election of the M . W . the G . M ., the Marl of Zetland , as G . M . for the ensuing year . Ho should not , in making that motion , detain them farther than by saying that every member of the Craft who had the privilege of attending G . L , must have had ample opportunity of observing the ability , courtesy , and dignity , with which bis lordship presided over them ; and those Brethren who were admitted more intimately to his counselsbore testimony to the care and the

, attention which his lordship bestowed upon everything concerning the welfare of the Craft . He should say no more than now propose that the Kight Honourable Thomas Dundas , Earl of Zetland , be , tor the fourteenth time , re-elected G . M . of the united G . L . of England . ( Cheers . ) W . Bro . HAIGII seconded the motion . The R . W Bro . I ord PANMUUE , as D . G . M ., then put the motion to the Lodge , and id was unanimously agreed to . W . Bro . CiiAr . MAN , as S . G . Die . of Cer ., then proclaimed the

reelection of his lordship in the usual form , and called upon the Brethren to pay him the customary salutation . The M . W . the G . M . returned thanks to the Lodge for having again unanimously re-elected him to fill the throne . He would repeat , he said , what he had stated on former occasions , that so long as he thought he possessed the confidence of the Craft , he would devote all his endeavours to promote its interests . Never on any former occasion had he experienced a more gratifying exhibition of that confidence than he had on that eveningand in return for it he could onl

, y say that his utmost exertions were at the service of the Brethren . On the motion of W . Bro . BAKKKTT , W . Bro . Tomkins was reelected Grand Treasurer , and his re-election was proclaimed from the Dais in the usual maimer . GRAND LODGE OF HANOVER . The M . W . the G . M . then announced that the King of Hanover had nominated H . E . H . the Prince of Jolmes Brauenfelds , representative from the G . L . of Hanoverat the united G L . of England ; and that

, he , the M . W . G . M ., had appointed Bro . the Earl of Durham representative of the G . L . of England at the G . L . of Hanover . The M . W . the G . M then laid before G . L . the correspondence with respect to the resignation of the office of P . G . M . for Quebec , by Bro . T . D . Harrington [ for which see our Colonial Intelligence ] .

RECEPTION OF PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM . The M . W . the G . M . then said he would now propose according to notice a resolution expressive of his own satisfaction and the satisfaction of G L ., for the able and efficient maimer in which the W Bro . Richard , W . Jennings , Grand Director of Ceremonies , made all the arrangements for the reception of His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia , on the occasion of His Royal Highncss ' s visit to Grand Lodge in December last . He had no doubt most of the Brethren present had been witnesses of the manner in which Bro .

Jennings had made the preparation for the reception of H . R . H . Nothing could be more satisfactory or better conducted , and he therefore hoped that G . L . would record its approval of them on the minutes of G . L .