Monthly Masonic Summary.

very materially . The Grand Orient was composed of delegates of 270 lodges , and of representatives from 56 " ateliers " of the high grades . Of the 270 lodges , 25 are in other countries . It has recently been decided in the

Grand Orient in its General Assembly , which began Monday , September 22 nd , and ended Saturday , September 37 th , by 111 votes to 99 , to exclude the " ateliers , " which represent the high grades , from tlie rejjresentation , and to abolish all payments except from the lodges . Thus it would seem as if the Grand Orient bad fallen

back upon the organization simply of Craft Masonry . But as this resolution has been carried by the small majority of twelve votes , it is just possible that it may bo yet reversed . We shall watch the future proceedings of the Grand Orient with deep interest .

THE Dutch Freemasons are a very flourishing body , but of their proceedings we know little or nothing . Before long we hope to present our readers with some items of intelligence from Holland .

FKOJE Mexico comes the account , sad in itself , that Freemasonry there , instead of being a harbinger of peace , is as it were tho cause of continued enmit } and opposition amongst tho Brethren . Surel y it is a deplorable fact , as Bro . Hubor justly calls

it , that the three Mexican Orders or jurisdictions , the "Ancient and Accepted Scotch Eite , " the "National Mexican Eite , ' ' and tho " Ancient Modified Scotch Eite , " have mutually excommunicated each other , and

have forbidden the Masons of one organization to associate with the members of the other two rites . It puts us in mind of the triangular duel in " Midshipman Easy , " and in a remarkable degree of the Kilkenny

cats . We only hope that they may not lose—as in that flourishing country the contesting cats are said to have done—their " caudal appendages . "

IN Brazil the struggle is still continued between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the Freemasons , but we have no doubt whatever of the eventual triumph of Freemasonry .

IN Roumania the lodges seem to be slowly forming , but have to contend with many obstacles .

WE have received a very interesting publication from Montevideo , called the "Acacia , " of which some extracts appear in a later page of the Magazine . It would seem that there are nine lodges in

Montevideo , under a Grand Orient ; one under the Grand Orient of France , and the Acacia under , it is stated , tho Grand Lodge of England .

WE have also received a Masonic magazine from St Domingo , by which it would appear that there are four apparently coequal organizations , " cuerpos constituticntes" ( constituent bodies ) , under a " Grand National Central Orient" of all

the Orders . Of this Grand Orient , Jacinto do Castro is the G . Master , and the G . S . Fedetico Ramirez y Morales . Of the Symbolical Order , Domingo Rodriguez is the G . Blaster , Noel Henricjuez the D . G . M ., and Jose do Jesus Castro the G . S . Of the

Perfect Order , Manuel do Jesus Garcia is tho G . M ., and Andres Maria Aybar the G . S . Of the Philosophical Order Luis Cambiazo is the Grand Commander of the

Grand Consistory , the Deputy G . Com . Jose de Jesus Castro , and George Mansfield tho G . S . Of the Administrative Order there is at present no head , but Eederico Eamires y Morales is its G . S . Freemasonry in St . Domingo seems therefore to

ho a union of Craft Masonry with the high foreign grades , formed probably on some of those systems which at one time had such an extensive existence in Continental Freemasonry . THE EDITOR .