Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS 437 Supreme Grand Chapter 43 K Provincial Grand Lodge of Essex 43 8 Jamaica 439 Bro . D'Azevedo 439 Summer Outing of the Henley Lodge 439 Annual SnmmerOutingof tlie Metropolitan Lodgeof Instruction , No . 1 * 07 439

CORRESPONDENCEUro . VV . ( 1 . Weber 440 Money or Ability 4-10 The dirts * School 44 ° The " | ohn Hervey " Jtenevolcut F 11111 I ... 440 Return * uf the lews to Palestine and the

Rebuilding of the Temple 440 TheSt . tusof P . AI . ' s 440 Arch Names 440 Bro . Mackenzie 4-1 ' Reviews 44 ! Masonic Notes and Queries 441

Provincial Grand I . odge of Hertfordshire ... 442 ! Provincial Grand Mark I . odge of Middlesex and Surrey 443 The Deputy Grand Alaster on Church Work 443 REI' -. RTS OF MASONIC MEETINISSCraft Masonry 444 Instruction 444 Royal Arch 445

. Mark Masonry 442 Ancient and Accepted Rite 443 ; Knights Templar 440 Red Cross of Constantine 440 ; Quebec and the Grand I . odge of Kngl .-iiid ... 440 ; Obituary 440

The Theatres 447 ; Music 447 ; Science and Art 447 i Masonic and General Tidings 44 0 [ Lodge Meetings for Next Week 449 j Historical Calendar 450

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THK departure of the Household Troops , cavalry and infantry , has been alike remarkable and not a little striking . We who know them so well in London are fully confident that they will do their duty as they have always done it , and earn theadmiration of their fellow countrymen and the approval

of their sovereign . The whole of our fine army embarks with the warmest aspirations of all classes for ils health and its prestige . We have many brother Masons in the ranks of the army and the navy , and our hearty good wishes accompany them . Wc must all feel the highest admiration for our gallant countrymen of the fleet and army now at Alexandria .

WE regrfet to note the appearance in some of our contemporaries of a great want of patriotic caution and consideration . A short time ago there was circulated a " special" containing the account of an action which had never been fought , and on Wednesday evening there was announced in conspicuous

letters , " Flight of a British Picket , " which is not true . We think it right to observe that many . of the telegraphic dispatches require to be received with the greatest caution , as some clearly are animated by no friendliness towards England , and others are probably prepared in this country by certain friends of A RABI PACHA .

* * WE have received from Bro . J . C . D'AZEVEDO , St . Thomas ' s , a printed extract from the " Sentence Protocol of the Police Court of St . Thomas , " which we print elsewhere ,. and to which , without note or comment on our

part , we call attention . There have been some proceedings before our Colonial Board , & c , and Bro . AZEVEDO wishes English brethren to know what the Police Court of St . Thomas thinks and says about him . We will only add that we should have been glad to see the original decree .

* * As we have been told that we have taken an " ex parte " and prejudiced view of the Grand Orient of Morocco fiasco , we think it right to give here the deliverance of the Canadian Craftsman on the same subject . That Masonic journal , curiously enough , agrees with us " in toto " in our view of the

situation : " M . W . Bro . STEWART PATTERSON , 18 , Special Deputy Grand Master of Morocco , P . G . M . G . L . of Manitoba , and P . D . G . M . G . L . of Canada , has a long letter in the Freemason of April 29 th , regarding the 'Territorial Grand Orient of Morocco and its Dependencies . ' We would ask , is this body a ' Territorial ' Grand Lodge , and has it assumed

the power of granting charters to subordinates ? Or is it merely a lodge on the roll of the Grand Lodge of Manitoba * ' We utterly fail to understand upon what authority our M . W . Bro . PATTERSON could establish a ' Territorial Grand Lodge , ' which he subsequently termed , as far as we can make out , 'the Grand Orient of Morocco and its Dependencies . ' We should

like to hear from the Grand Master or Grand Secretary of Manitoba as to the * status' of this body , and its connection with the Grand Lodge of Manitoba . The position of this Grand Orient , as far as we can now see , is very questionable . Does it claim to be a sovereign bod } ' , or a subordinate organization under the Grand Lodge of Manitoba ?"

* * WE call attention to a letter elsewhere as regards thc situation in Canada , signed " EDELWEISS , " which appears in the Canadian Craftsman ( though rather long ) , and we also think it well to make some remarks upon it . We

fancy that its really unconscionable length will indispose many brethren now reading it , as all that it really contains might be summed up in a few telling words . In this hot weather , and these holiday hours , long epistles and needless repetitions are a bore . The argument of the writer may be summed up in one sentence : the Grand Lodge of Quebec has asserted it to

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be so , and it is , and it shall be so . The writer begs the whole question when he talks of the law of the Grand Lodge sovereignty being universally accepted and of Masonic authority . It is , on the contrary , quite a modern doctrine arising out of the state sovereignty of America , and is not recognised in England nor in Europe . As far as we in England

are concerned , we are simply , in the first place , asserting our own ancient and unfailing principles of Masonic law ; upholding lodge rights ; ancl in the third , and last place , keeping our part of the compact . I'or llicre was a compact ; and , as lawyers know , the English Grand Lodge being no party to a breach of the compact , if one of the

parties hands over a portion of the right to a third part }' , it is " without prejudice" to the original compact . The Grand Lodge of England made a compact wilh the Grand Lodge of Canada , which is still binding legally on the Grand Lodge of Quebec , as it is another axiom of law undoubted that no " ex post facto " legislation can have a restrospective effect . The Grand

Lodge of England has been most considerate and forbearing by its official representatives ; most courteous and conciliatory , most legal and Masonic , in every step it has taken , and every assertion it has made ; and from such a position it cannot , and will not , recede , happen what may . It is well known that the Grand Lodge of Quebec , by the efflux of time , will obtain all that

it could legitimately expect , and any hasty or foolish procedure on the part of the Grand Lodge of Quebec can only augment the difficulty , and may immeasureably prolong the struggle . Were , for instance , the English lodges in the Quebec jurisdiction , acting legally , and having broken no Masonic law , their only fault being loyalty to their old mother country and their

chartering Grand Lodge , to be placed , ( as is threatened ) , under Masonic interdict , absurd as the menace really is , it might be even the duty of the English Grand Lodge , in self-defence , to strengthen their own lodges by vivi . fying the power of the Provincial Grand Lodge . For such a breach of all Masonic courtesy and amity might compel the Grand Lodge of England to

withdraw from the compact altogether . As regards the English Grand Lodge itself , it can afford to smile at this little " storm in a teapot , " and even hear with equanimity the loud tali talk of those bellicose Masonic (?) writers , who venture to speak of " excommunicating " and " ceasing Masonic intercourse " with the oldest and greatest Grand Lodge in the world . But we

think better of the good sense and justice of our Quebec brethren , and having a great regard for the ability and merits of our worthy Bro . GRAHAM , G . M ., especially , we yet hope that all this excitement may pass away , and a full , friendly , and kindly intercommunication exist between the Grand Lodges of England and Quebec . In our opinion it would be a tar better

course for the Grand Lodge of Quebec to pursue , to make friendly overtures to the Grand Lodge of Kngland to have a mutual representation , to withdraw , " pro tem , " all matters affecting the English lodges , and leave , them to the efflux of time , as we said before , and the gradual emulsion of

sentiment . The Grand Lodge of England , though it maintains , as it i . s in honour bound to maintain , the " status quo , " will do nothing to perpetuate any question which keeps up unfriendly feelings between its Canadian brethren and itself . We say all this as " amicus curi ; e , " and , as many know , always anxious to speak words of peace and goodwill .

* * WE feel it to be our duty a / so to say that we notice in the Craftsman , however several evidences of a desire for independence and severance from the Grand Lodge of England , which we do not profess to understand , and which we regret to record . Now it is the Templars who are bid sever themselves ; now

it i . s the English lodges and New South Wales who are entreated to join the so-called Grand Lodge of New South Wales . Our worthy confrere , like DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER , has evidently been asleep , The English Grand Lodge has unanimously refused to recognise the last unhealthy little bantling of precocious independence , and for the best of all reasons , the

utter absurdity and illegality of the whole outcome . There were , when this remarkable little Masonic revolution culminated in the Anti podes , three jurisdictions at work , English , Irish , Scottish . The so-called Grand Lodge was formed out of a few Irish , one or two Scottish , and no English . Now , can that be a legal creation , even according to American or Canadian Masonic law ?

We ask our esteemed confrere , how are Grand Lodges formed in unoccupied territory ? Let us take any tract of country , three lodges are the smallest numbers , and they must represent all the jurisdictions extant . Supposing there were four lodges , two of one jurisdiction , one of a second ,

and one of a third , could the two and one of two jurisdictions only create a a Grand Lodge ? Surely there can be but one American or Canadian answer , as we know . The Grand Lodge of England has always , so far , acted on this principle , that there must be a majority of the three consentient jurisdictions in our colonies , or such an immense universal majority of our