Notices To Correspondents.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS .

To THE PUBLIC PRESS , BOTH ENGLISH AND FOREIGN . —The reservation of the rights of re-2 > roduction , or translation , which we claim for our contents , wc desire may he construed in the most liberal manner . If our contemporaries can find matter in our pages which th . ii / would transfer to their own , so long as the : / will quote it as extracted from THE MASONIC PHESS , they are heartily welcome to republish it , and will have our thanks for so doing . Wc promise reciprocity . Where we quote we will always mention . our informant liy its recognized title . Our reservation of rights extends only to those who w-ould use our information , and deprive us of the credit of its publicity , by inserting such matter without

an acknowledgment . If ihe labourer is worthy of his hire , give him the full benefit of it , and be sure lie is never more gratified than to find his efforts have been successful , and that his exertions have been duly remembered and chronicled .

J . B . —Arc you serious ? AA e do not svant another Masonic jurisdiction . We doubt if you can , legally , obtain the degrees you mention in England . A little time back sve knesv something of a hyper-ultra-altitudinarian-Grand-Master , brother to the Moon , sister to the Sun , first cousin to Neptune , and Prince af the Gnomes , svho used to confer all unrecognised , obsolete , and impracticable degrees , but he has latterly shut up shop and laid aside his extra Imperial

vocation , and may be seen , any day , in a more legitimate avocation . The degrees you mention are not only of spurious manufacture but they are useless , being obsolete . P . Prov . G-. W . —AVe doubt if any one knosvs svhether , by the nesv reading of the Pooh ; of Constitutions , you are a P . Prov . G-. AA ardcn , or a P . District Grand AVarden . Some say the ss-ord "District" is intended only to apply to the Colonies ; others say it is meant for England and AVales as ss-ell . It is a

very important point , no doubt , for Grand Officers to have to discuss , but , in our humble opinion , if they cannot find anything more beneficial to Freemasonry , to make long speeches about , their zeal for the Order does them very little credit . Call yourself exactly ss-hat you please , and no one will quarrel svith you . 8 . A . —Our advice is , —precisely svhat Punch gas e to people about to marry —don't .

A Constant Beader . —For the future please to avoid such a hackneyed signature . To your first question—Yes . 2 nd . Brother Farnfield , Assistant Grand Secretary , Freemasons Hall , Great Queen Street , is the Secretary to the Institution , and you may depend on his courteously informing you of all you desire to knosv . ¦ J . J . P . ( Bombay ) . —Your letter to hand . AA e agree , entirely , with all you svish .

P . S . B . ( Toronto ) . —Thanks . AA e beg to offer you our best congratulations . Amicus Masonicus . —Declined svith thanks . The M . S . has been returned by post . The Indian Journal of Freemasonry . —Numbers 1—9 , safely arrived . M . M . —No . Emphatically NO . It Avould open a controversy betsveon the Ancient and Accepted Rite and Grand Lodge . Though sve think your demand is founded on a just appreciation of your Masonic rights , yet to enforce them ,

in the manner you propose , svould be highly impolitic and dangerous . K . T . —It is a fact . You have been rightly informed , but though the ssill is good the posver- is svanting . There is no clause in the Statutes ssliich can be construed us sanctioning any such authority . Marie Degree .- — -For an anssver to your question read the very excellent paper by Sir Knt . Yarker , in this number , and you svill find Bro . Dunckerley svas , as svell as many other dignities , Grand Master of the Ark , Mark , and Link degrees ; but don't imagine the Mark he ruled over and the Bedford Rosy Mark to have the most remote approach to the shadosv of a shade of resemblance