Monthly Masonic Summary.

Monthly Masonic Summary .

WE have not a great deal to report at home or abroad . At home , Freemasonry pursues the " even tenour" of its way , in a full tide of material prosperity .

Abroad , a good deal of unsettledness seems to pervade some of the Continental Grand Lodges , in consequence of proposed changes and considerable alterations in their Constitutions .

But we do not find enough of general interest to submit to our readers . IN Scotland the Craft has lost a very able and distinguished Brother , a P . G . M ., in the Earl of Dalhousie , better

and longer known as Lord Panmure , where his services to the order had been great , though our distingtushed and deceased Brother had also been Deputy-Grand Master in our English Fraternity .

IN Ireland , the Grand Lodge has wisely rejected the proposed regulation , No . 133 , in the revised Constitutions * about which there has been much discussion , and adhered to the far simpler

and truer regulation which renders Craft Masons amenable to the Craft Grand Lodge alone .

By this most unprecedented section , a Craft Mason could for any charge have been removed from one of the High Grades , according to then . ' laws unknown to the Craft Grand Lodge

and this High Grade sentence was to be registered without appeal in the looks of the Craft Grand Lodge , and

a Craft Mason , thus deprived , unheard and uncondemned of all the priveleges of Freemasonry . No wonder such an unheard-of proposal , especially in this era of light and

justice , should have been unequivocally condemned by the best friends of the Irish Grand Lodge , and rejected by Irish Craft Masons .

A very ancient relic of antiquity has been shewn to the Editor of the " Freemason , " by Bro . S . G . Bake , an Officer of Her Majesty ' s Control Department

It purports to be a very old statuette of some great Chinese , Confucius him-Iself is suggested , and was taken from | the Summer Palace in the expedition ! which went up to Peldn .

: To Freemasons it is very interesting , as notwithstanding its very great antiquity of many hundred years at the ; least , it has on it , what the Editor of the "Freemason "unhesitatingly pronounces

with Bro . Bake to be Masonic symbols . A full account of this Masonic and archaeological relic may be read in the " Freemason" of June 11 th .

THE distribution of prizes to the Boys ' School was a great success on the 8 th . The new regime promises very well , and we congratulate the House Committee and Craft , on the proficiency

of the pupils and the interest evinced by the friends of our " Masonic Alumni , " and by the Order generally . May all of good ^ jje « iIc | hi 3 excellent Institution . ^ Q ^ NJQITOB .