To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

Booksellers in the Provinces wishing their names to appear as Agents for the " Masonic Mirror , " are requested to forward their cards to our Office , with the address of their London agents . Brethren having any difficulty in procuring the " Masonic Mirror , " are respectfully requested to forward their orders direct to the Office , and we will find an agent to regularly supply them .

H . J . J . —The Numbers of the "Masonic Mirror" are all in print , and your Bookseller must , we presume , have been misled by his London agent in stating that they were not to be had . We must request our correspondents to send their communications as early as possible in the month . Both delay and expense are incurred by a disregard of tliis rule . The " Reminiscences of a Freemason , " b y a past Master of Lodge ( No . 50 ) , Ireland ,

are unavoidably postponed until our next number . Several valuable communications must stand over until present arrangements are carried out . P . M . —Tin resolution prohibiting a Brother from , sitting as W . M . for two Lodges ai the same time , received the sanction of Grand Lodge , Nov . 29 , 1847 . We thiiik it a very unwise resolution , as the brethren are the best judges of the claims of their members to preside over them , and a Master of a Lodge in London may have quite a distinct connection amongst his friends in the country .

A Subscriber . —The number of Widows w 7 io now receive Annuities from the Eoyal Benevolent Institution , is 13 ; and it is worthy of remark , that from the establishment of the Widows Fund in 1849 , to the present time , not one of the Widows admitted to its benefits has died . H . —The Companion alluded to had no right , under the Constitutions , to wear such frippery as gold lace upon his collar , although he is a P . Z . We should doubt whether he would be allowed again to enter G . Chapter ivith it , us we know it was observed and

commented upon by others us well as H . J . J . C . —We certainly think that the Master of a Lodge has the right to ash Visitors to withdraw lohilst the Treasurer is making a financial statement , or during other private business , concerning ( he interests of the Lodge only , and which it might he detrimental to he made known . To the second question , regarding the power of a Master to delegate his duties lo a Warden , our correspondent will find hy the Book of Constitutions , that he has that powerand that the Wardenwhilst performing the ceremoniestakes his seat

, , , immediately to the right of the Master . Of course , should the Warden be a P . M . of ihe Lodge in which he teas acting , or . any other , he would take the chair . A P . Warden might he employed in tike manner to perform the ceremonies , should there not be a P . M . in the Lodge capable of going through the duties—a state of things which we trust exists only in a very few , if any , of the Lodges .

Ethee . —At a Masonic hall held under the sanction of a Lodge , with directions to appear in Masonic clothing , we should consider ourseiues bound to appear in tlie Craft Apron ; but ihe Arch sash is also very generally worn upon such occasions . E . B . —The is a very respectable and good Lodge . It is , however , in our opinion too numerous , and though we have the pleasure of the acquaintance of many of the brethren connected with it ; we should not recommend any person to become a member who wishes to progress in the order , the more especially as our correspondent informs us he does not

know any member of the Lodge . Is thanked for his kind communications . The R . A . jewels ought most certainly A-JV- t 0 be i ' accordance with the drawings in the Booh of Constitutions . The dif-V ' * ference observed originates in some old Jewels being still in use , and the too great £ >?~ _ . L fancy often shown for undue ornament . We did not defend thewearing of black ' y ' gloves , but merely stated that we would not turn a brother out of Lodge for it , though we did not believe they woidd be admitted into Grand Lodge .