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dourse we do not mean that a man is of any value who comes into the Craft merely for what he can get , but simply that the Homeric adage" a ' . tV iipcJTSl'EU' XCCl VTTSipo ^/ OV i ^ tucci ci ? , Auv " holds good in B ' reemasonry as iu other human affairs , and that" Si prteuiia tollas , spes concidit . "

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rirT 7 . i 77-T ~ i --TM . Ti . i-ijrriir . i ^ r « v , IN our last luimber there appeared the following paragraph , " The Freemasons' Magazine which has for a long time been in a failing condition , has been bought by the Executive . " We are sorry to find that this plain statement of two notorious factshas roused

, the violent indignation of our contemporary . It is an " offensive and insolent statement , " which " everybody knows to be utterly untrue . " Now we can easily understand that little credit attaches to any periodical from its connection with the Executive . Still it is scarcely fair to borrowor accept

, , money from a man , and then disavow his acquaintance . And the most ardent admirer of our contemporary may Well be thankful for so substantial a reason for the very sudden conversion which he has lately experienced . We should not however have thought for a moment of making such a statement , had not our contemporary

himself proclaimed the fact in his advertizing columns . What do we read there ? That Bro . WARREN convened a meeting on the 6 th of January . That he entered into an explanation of the financial position of the Freemason ' s Magazine . That the meeting entered into a subscription to enable the Editor to meet his losses . So much then for our

contemporary s " failing condition . And who are those men to whom Bro . WARREN is under pecuniary obligations to the amount of at least £ 130 , which we are -told was contributed in the room ? His own columns shall tell us . Bro . HALL , P . G . M ., for Cambridge , Bro . HAVERS , Bro . ROXBURGH , and seven other Grand Officersthe rest of the meeting being made up

, of well known members of their party in G . L ., e . g . Bros . PERKINS , BEAUMONT , WHEELED , GREGORY , & C . It is with the money of those brethren and their friends , that the Magazine is now being conducted ; and as a consequence of the inspirations received by Bro . WARREN from his new Proprietors , or Creditors , or Patrons , we

have a tone adopted in the new organ of the Executive , which is utterly incompatible with anything but the most extreme partizanship . For instance , any lodge presuming to differ from the policy of Bro . HAVERS in wishing the craft to become licensed victuallers , is immediately liable to an

admonition , more or less characteristic , from Bro . WARREN . The Royal Cumberland Lodge at Bath , is a case in point . Then any brother who has the misfortune to incur the displeasure of the Executive , is forthwith singled out for the impertinent remarks of their hired scribe . A noble , and a Rev . Brother were latel y favoured with some choice personalities , because they had not brought

forward any motions in G . L . ! we need not say what would have been their fate had they done so . The craft at large is after all the best judge of the merits of the publications it is pleased to support ; And we fearlessly leave to their decision the plain question , whether our contemporary has the sli ghtest claim to be considered anything else but the unscrupulous organ of an unscrupulous party .

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THE Committee of the Boys' School " feel sure that the members of the Craft will at once recognize the manifest advantage of having the whole of the Boys of the Institution under one roof , and under the control and direction of an adequate staff of Masters , who will be directly responsible to the Executiveinto whose hands

, the management of the School is annually entrusted . " We confess that , while we give full credit to the Committee for their good intentions and anxieties to fulfil the trust reposed in them , we more than doubt the policy of collecting all the Boys under one roof . And

for this reason—That where it can be had , there is nothing equal to home influence . It is notorious that half the sin and vice of after life , has had its beginnings in private schools . No Committee of tradesmen , however upright , can give that tone to a School , which nothing but high character , and a decided vocation for such a work in the masterwill produce .

, Such a man would never consent , for a single day , to be under the control of " the Executive" of the School . Since Dr . Arnold set the example , it has taken some of the cleverest and most religious men in England , the best part of their lives , to solve the problem of how a Christian education was to be given to boys . Anything

short of this , is a positive injury to them—it makes them clever , vicious devils . The difficulties of imparting a sound reli gious education to the class of boys which fills our Masonic School , are so great , as almost to have baffled every effort hitherto made .

We should regret , then , to see the Lome education abolished , for the sake of a centralization which , to say the least , is of very doubtful benefit . Rather let the sum paid for each boy at his own home , be such as to provide for his clothing and maintenance , and his education in the best Day School within his reach . And let those who have no home , be housed in the Boarding School , as at present .

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A HINT TO THE ARISTOCRACY . —At the recent P . G . L . banquet held at Banbury , Bro . Havers P . G . D . warned the members of the Apollo , that their only hope of advancement in G . L . lay in supporting his party . "No greater wrong could be done to the Order than to endeavour to poison the raindr , of the young Noblemen and aristocratic members of the Craft , on their introduction to G . L to do so was not only a wrong to the individualit was a crime against

, the Craft as leailiiu / to rob it of its liriij / itest ornaments ; if they wanted a safe and sure guide , lot them follow their P . G . M . " TUB COUNTRY LODGES A :-D GRAND LODC-. K . —It lias often been said , that G . L . under tile present system of representation , is little better Hum the Prov G . L . of London . The following fact corroborates tliis opinion . IntlieGL of March last , when the G .. M . was elected , there were present 40 Country Masons , and 213 from London . ^