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failed in his attempt to get a return ticket , and was expelled from Bristol st tion as a lunatic , because he did not tap the left side for the up journey . This

may be true , or not , but it is not very far fetched , even if a fabrication , for we read in some of our Provincial summonses that the "booking clerks Avill issue return tickets at a single fare and a quarter

on Masonic clothing being produced . " Who initiates the different booking clerks into the secret of what is Masonic clothing ? or do they take the word of any one who shows them some little gee-gaw which he designates as such ' ? What a pity the Eailway Companies do not make this concession at all times , without waiting for some important Masonic meeting on their line !

We congratulate our Devonshire brethren on the satisfactory report recently presented by the finance Committee of the Devon Masonic Educational Fund , the balance showing an increase of about - £ 100 as compared with' the previous year . This was considered so gratifying that an addition of two was made to the pupils , who will now number twenty , maintained at an outlay of £ 300 per annum .

The unseemly squabble at the Brighton Town Council in regard to the price paid by Freemasons for the use of the rooms at the Pavilion , and to which we referred in a recent issue , still continues to attract attention . We . this week publish an extract from the Briahton Guardian in reeard to the matter , while the

views of the opposite party are expressed in another cutting , from the Brighton Gazette , which devoted a considerable portion of its space to the question . Whatever is done we should like to see Masonry kept out ofthe quarrel ; the Town Council should treat the matter as a question of business , and their tenants should do the same—no matter what the accommodation is wanted for .

Masonry should have no connection with the workhouse , but unfortunately members of our Order are not always able to keep outside of it . We were recently in conversation with one who has been obliged to seek the cold shelter of the Union in place

of the comforts of better days , and he told us his only ofience in his new home was that of having spoken in church , he having commented to his neighbour on the shortness ofthe prayers rendered by the Chaplain , as compared with the version printed in the book of

¦ uommon Prayer with which our informant was iairly familiar . Perhaps the Chaplain curtailed his remarks out of sympathy for the strength and power of endurance of his auditors , but there ought not to be any penalty , even in a workhouse , for pointing out sins of omission in others , particularly those whose duty it is to be patterns of regularity and good order .

There has jnsfc been sent to St . Helena a handsome cross in grey granite , to be placed over the grave of Bro . F . C . Fishboumo , a member of the Bar and of tho Daily News Parliamentary corps . Early in the present year Bro . Fishbourne , when on his way ont to the Cape for the

benefit of his health , was landed at St . Helena iu a dying state . His colleagues iu the Press Gallery ancl on the London Press have subscribed for the monument , which ,

with a suitable inscription , is to mark the place of his interment . Ifc is gratifying to know that the brethren on the island have undertaken responsibility for the proper erection of tho memorial .

A two days Masonic bazaar at Stromness , arranged for the purpose of reducing the debt un the local Masonic Hall Buildings , resulted in a gain of £ 170— £ 145 of which was taken in the bazaar , the balance of £ 2-5 beinir •presented by Bro . Sheriff Thorns .

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (Vi. Part 2).

ARS QUATUOR CORONATORUM ( VI . PART 2 ) .

BY BKO . R . F . GOULD . ( Continued from page 187 ) . FROM Scotland to Mexico is a far cry , and the two countries aro not wider asunder than the systems of Masonry that are peculiar to them respectively . After

much disorder , thero sprang into existence in the Mexican Republic , as ordinarily happens iu what wero Spanish Colonies of old days , a Supremo Council , a Grand Orient , and a variety of Grand Lodges , together with what ia unusual , a strictly local or National Rite .

All those bodies , except the Supreme Council , -which was supposed- to strictly confine itself for the future , to tho business of the A . and A . S . R ., wei-e . recently said to havo

met in convention , and organised a Grand Symbolical Diet ( or general Grand Lodge ) , after which they severally and voluntarily went out of existence .

Such was tho account delivered ( in substance ) to Grand Master Tyler of Texas , and it resulted in the " Treaty of Monterey , " executed 2 b ' th October 1891 , and subsequently ratified by his Grand Lodge and the Grand Diet of Mexico .

By thia instrument , the two Grand Bodies mutually recognised each other as the sovereign and supreme authority in Texas and Mexico respectively . The sagacity and enterprise of G . M . Tyler were warmly

applauded in other American jurisdictions , notably in that of Missouri , and afc the annual meeting of tho Grand Lodge—llth October 1892—Bro . B . H . Ingram G * M . ; observed in his Address : —" Some years ago this ' Grand

Lodge granted a Charter for the establishment , in the City of Mexico , of Toltec Lodge , No . 520 . Two or three years ago an organisation was effected in that country under the *

name and title of tho ' Grand Symbolic Diet , with fchei President of the Republic of Mexico afc its head as Grand ' Master .

" I understand that all the Lodges of Mexico , except Toltec , have come under obedience to ifc . The Grand Lodge of Texas and , I believe , some other American Grand Lodges have recognised it , and are now in fraternal correspondence with it .

" I addressed a communication to Toltec Lodge , advising them to either accept a Charter from the * Grand Symbolic Diet' of Mexico , and come under obedience to it , or else

surrender its Charter . My communication has not beon answered . I now recommend that the Grand Lodge order tho Charter to be withdrawn . "

The Special Committee , however , to whom was referred the above portion of the Grand Master's addresd , reported : — "We cannot require Toltec Lodge to join a Grand Lodge organisation , of whose legality we avo in

doubt , or at least have not sufficient information to form a proper opinion . " They recommended , therefore , that the matter should be further referred to a Special Committee of three , with instructions to report thereon at the Annual

Communication in October 1893 , which recommendation was adopted . Theso proceedings in the Grand Lodge of Missouri were

read with deep interest by its remote pendicle in tbe city of Mexico , and resulted in the publication of a remarkable pamphlet , entitled An Inside Vieio of Mexican Masonry .

The writer , Bro . Richard E . Chism , occupies afc the present moment the Chair of Toltec Lodge for the second time . He has resided in the conntry more than twelve

year ? , is well acquainted with the Spanish language , and with the social classes . Also , he has , during fche Jasfc three years , made a special study of Mexican Masonry .

His first point is the want of union among fche Mexicans themselves , and he states that tho Mexican National Rito , the Reformed Scottish Rite , and the Grand Lodge of the Federal District , all protest againsfc the Supremacy of tho Symbolic Diet .

He nexfc observes , — " that the organisation of the Grand Dieta , which now claims exclusive jurisdiction over Symbolic Masonry , was nut the result of any convocation or

convention of Masons . It was the act of tbe Supreme Council , A . and A . S . R ., which called the Grand Dieta into existence , and it still exists by the will of that Supremo Body . " Wo are also told , on the same authority , fortified , ifc sh Juki he slated , by the depositions of lour Auiuriuau Masons resi-