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the duties of the office , and they recommend to G . L . that the salary of the GRAND SECRETARY be raised to £ 400 per annum , and that such increase shall take place from the 1 st January , 1859 . " Six months after they had declared that no increase was necessary ! Are we content then that a clique of London Masons calling themselves GRAND LODGE , should thus be able

to squander away the money of the Craft at large , in subsidies to their own friends ? and what confidence can be placed in a Board which directly contradicts its own reports in the short space of one year' ? WE have again to direct attention to the persecution of our ROMAN CATHOLIC Brethren by the heads of that

denomination . When it was proposed to take steps to inform the hierarchy of the real principles of Masons , that course was opposed by Bro . HAVERS and his friends , for reasons which every one knows and appreciates , and the legitimate consequences have ensued . We must however express our conviction that the blasphemous parody of a Christian Sacrament , which has lately taken place across the Atlantic , under the name of Masonic

" Baptism , " coupled with the Socinianism which prevails at head-quarters in this country , go far to justify the Roman Church in the view she takes of our mysteries . THE opinion seems to be gaining ground that while exclusive and impi'oved accommodation must be provided for London Lodgesit is inexpedient that G . L . should

, apply for a wine and spirit licence on its own account , and unjust that a London Masonic Club , should be built with country money . WE beg to draw attention to the attempt that is being made to carry out the schemes of the new cabal by means of the Board of Masters . That body is

instituted for the reception of notices of motion , in order that no one may be taken by surprise in G . L . ; there is no power whatever given by the Constitutions either to the Board or to its Chairman , to reject any motion whatever of which due notice is given , yet motions have lately been rejected by the Chairman ( a Grand Officer ); and the G . M . has of course ratified such rejection . And now the orffan of the Executive contains this naive

announcement on the subject of Candidates for the Board of General Purposes being proposed anonymously , which has been always customary , though the Constitutions are silent on the point . " Such a practice is not only loose but very reprehensible , and we think the Chairman of the Board of Masters ought at once to reject lists so handed "in . At the Meeting at Bro .

Roxburgh ' s , one of the principles strongly insisted upon was , that no Brother should be put in nomination for any office , without the name of tiie nominator being on the nomination paper . " We recommend this to the notice of our country brethren . The Constitutions being silent" The Meeting

, at Bro . Roxburgh ' s" is to settle the point , and the country is to be bound by the decision ! As to the point in question , it is probably very advisable , but we do not understand what " the Meeting at Bro . ROXBURGH ' S" has to do with its decision more

than a Meeting at Bro . JONES ' at Liverpool , or Bro . BROWN ' at Southampton . THE APPOINTMENTS to offices in Grand Lodge , have been , this year , according to precedent , confined to those who enjoy the favour of the governing clique . Lord DE TABLET , the S . G . W ., was initiated in 1830 , and having filled no office in his mother Lodgenor rendered

, the smallest service to Masonry , retired into private life till a very recent period , when he joined a Lodge at Crewe , where he is about to take the J . W . ' s chair ! He is , however , said to be a distinguished Whig . Sir Thomas HESKETH , J . G . W ., has filled with credit the office of D . P . G . M ., in his own province . He

ishow-, ever , unknown in Grand Lodge ; in which assembly he has not appeared either for his installation , or since . The Rev . Bro . BOWYER , G . O ., is brother to the P . G . M . for Oxford , whose P . G . L . was one of the few that lately passed an adulatory address of confidence in the Executive .

BRO . SAVAGE , S . G . D ., has rendered good service to the Charities and to the Craft , and ought to have been appointed long ago . He probably would have been , could the Executive have foreseen how entirely his principles would coincide with his apron . BRO . SLIGHT , J . G . D ., is well up in Ms work as

Master of a Lodge , and so are hundreds of others ; but then BRO . SLIGHT has always echoed the speeches of the Executive , besides being profuse in his hospitality among influential Masonic circles . Bro . POCOCK , G . S . D ., has clone good service in Sussex to Masonry , and his appointment is unobjectionable : though ' in promoting a good Mason , the Executive have also rewarded a faithful adherent .

Probably when the plan adopted in every other G . L . throughout the Craft , is in force here—of a proportion of Grand Officers being appointed by G . L . itself—there will be less room for jobbing and corruption , and a better chance for meritorious and working Masons .

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BISCUIT S and sherry at Lincoln ' s Inn ! And some malignants dared to call this a party cry . ' A mere hint of Savoy and South African ;—and they pretended to hear in it the whisper of a faction . They remind one of the jury in Bardell v . Pickwick , who suspected a

double-entendre in the celebrated message , " Chops and tomato sauce , " and traced the foot-fall of intrigue in directions about a warming pan . Just as that honest but misguided twelve gave themselves up to the playful fancy woven for them by the Nemesis of confidential communications , and trampled on the respectability of

the maligned victim of their verdict , so unfeelingly have many plain thinking , every-day Masons dealt with the Grand Registrar . They have , in the heat of their imaginations dignified with the title of an intrigue a simple social gathering , and exalted into the importance of a plot , a coterie of innocents assembled to " commune " over the best interests of the order . What was the charge against Bro . ROXBURGH' ! That he had " considered it consistent with his duty to the