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India.
INDIA .
The Agents in Calcutta for this Review are—Messrs . LATTEY , BROTHERS & Co ., Government-place ; and Messrs . TRACKER & Co ., St . Andrew ' s Library . Madras , Bro . PHAROAH . CALCUTTA . —Persecution is still rife against Scottish Masonry in the
city of palaces , ancl yet we have as head patron of the Anglo-Indian Craft no less a personage than the Most Honourable and Most AVorshipful the Marquis of Dalhousie , Past Grand Master-Mason of Scotland !
The following letter will speak out for itself ;—Extract from a Letter of Brother J . G . D ., Lodge No . 353 , dated Calcutta , Julg 2 , 1849 . Inclosed is a letter in original from an up-country Mason , who came down to Calcutta on business , and as he was only an Entered Apprentice , he signified his intention of being passed and raised in LodKilwinning
ge in the East , No . 353 , and as many more as we were empowered to confer , previous to his going up again . The English Masons at Calcutta informed him that if he joined the Calcutta Scotch Lodge , or even received any of the degrees from us , none of the English lodges in Calcutta would receive him amongst them—and further , that he would be deprived from again entering his mother lodge , the " Zetland , " somewhere in the upper provinces . However , his letter to Townsend will speak for itself . We
muster now about forty-five members ( the strongest in Calcutta ) , and would have heen nearly doubled but for the threat held out , that the members of Lodge " Kilwinning in the East , " No . 353 , holding of Scotland , will not be admitted into any of the lodges working in the Hiram
of England throughout India . Those only who fear not the mighty , and are entirely independent of them , join our standard ; but those who are in poorer circumstances keep aloof for the present , for fear of their prospects in life being blasted . Such is Masonry in India ( English I mean ) . I am not aware whether I mentioned in my last about Bro . Jacobs , Tyler to No . 740 . The poor man is without a situation ; we accordingly , to assist him , gave him the Tyler ' s berth in our lodge , and ,
considering the manner in which candidates for initiation were pouring in , and we working twice a-week , sometimes the poor man made more by us in one month than he did in three in the other two lodges , viz ., two rupees for each candidate . AATien it was reported that he also was our T yler , he was at their next meeting summoned to the Pedestal , and asked whether he did not tyle the Scotch Kilwinning . He said , that he thought from Abraham ' s time Masonry was free and universal , and being all brothers together that he did not see that he was doing any harm ; but he was told by the Master , that there was a great deal of
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India.
INDIA .
The Agents in Calcutta for this Review are—Messrs . LATTEY , BROTHERS & Co ., Government-place ; and Messrs . TRACKER & Co ., St . Andrew ' s Library . Madras , Bro . PHAROAH . CALCUTTA . —Persecution is still rife against Scottish Masonry in the
city of palaces , ancl yet we have as head patron of the Anglo-Indian Craft no less a personage than the Most Honourable and Most AVorshipful the Marquis of Dalhousie , Past Grand Master-Mason of Scotland !
The following letter will speak out for itself ;—Extract from a Letter of Brother J . G . D ., Lodge No . 353 , dated Calcutta , Julg 2 , 1849 . Inclosed is a letter in original from an up-country Mason , who came down to Calcutta on business , and as he was only an Entered Apprentice , he signified his intention of being passed and raised in LodKilwinning
ge in the East , No . 353 , and as many more as we were empowered to confer , previous to his going up again . The English Masons at Calcutta informed him that if he joined the Calcutta Scotch Lodge , or even received any of the degrees from us , none of the English lodges in Calcutta would receive him amongst them—and further , that he would be deprived from again entering his mother lodge , the " Zetland , " somewhere in the upper provinces . However , his letter to Townsend will speak for itself . We
muster now about forty-five members ( the strongest in Calcutta ) , and would have heen nearly doubled but for the threat held out , that the members of Lodge " Kilwinning in the East , " No . 353 , holding of Scotland , will not be admitted into any of the lodges working in the Hiram
of England throughout India . Those only who fear not the mighty , and are entirely independent of them , join our standard ; but those who are in poorer circumstances keep aloof for the present , for fear of their prospects in life being blasted . Such is Masonry in India ( English I mean ) . I am not aware whether I mentioned in my last about Bro . Jacobs , Tyler to No . 740 . The poor man is without a situation ; we accordingly , to assist him , gave him the Tyler ' s berth in our lodge , and ,
considering the manner in which candidates for initiation were pouring in , and we working twice a-week , sometimes the poor man made more by us in one month than he did in three in the other two lodges , viz ., two rupees for each candidate . AATien it was reported that he also was our T yler , he was at their next meeting summoned to the Pedestal , and asked whether he did not tyle the Scotch Kilwinning . He said , that he thought from Abraham ' s time Masonry was free and universal , and being all brothers together that he did not see that he was doing any harm ; but he was told by the Master , that there was a great deal of