Scotland.

SCOTLAND .

GLASGOW . St . Maries Lodge ( No . 102 ) . —At the meeting on the 26 th of January , Bro . Donald Campbell , D . M ., occupied the chair , it being an emergency meeting . His Wardens were Bros . James Home and John Reid . D . Prov . G . M . Bro . G . A . Walker Arnott and several office-bearers and other Brethren were present . Mr . Andrew Stein , jun ., C . E ., London , was found duly prepared , and initiated ; and being about to leave for Madras , was passed and raised to the Sublime Degree : the Instructors appointed to Bro . Stein were Bros . G . A . W . Arnott and C . J .

Hughes , London . On the 4 th of February , D . M . Bro . Campbell presided as R . W . M ., Bros . John Reid and Robert Thomson , jun ., the Wardens : other officebearers and Brethren were in attendance . Messrs . Walter Easton , Jonathan Thomson , John Graham Galbraith , David Boyd , William Alexander , William Bunten , and John David Campbell , merchants , Glasgow , and Isaac Parr in gtou and Dudley Haynes , of the U . S . Merchant Navy , all well recommended , were initiated , and had Instructors appointed . A motion of sympathy and condolence

with the Grand Lodge and Mrs . Woodman , on account of the sudden and impressive manner of the death of Bro . James Lenning Woodman , Grand Clerk , was made by Bro . Campbell , seconded by Bro . J . M . Rowan , and unanimously carried . Bro . John Werge read a paper , entitled the " Manufacture of Poetry , " which , notwithstanding its unpoetical title , proved very satisfactory . He showed that there was a " method in the madness" of attempting to manufacture poetry that shall live : and insunoort of the assertion that the late Samuel Rogers was a that shall live ; and in support of the assertion that the late Samuel Rogers was a

manufacturer , and not a poet by inspiration , contrasted lines written by Byron and Rogers on " Venice , " and read several pieces where the subjects treated by both were of kindred nature . A vote of thanks was returned to Bro . Werge for his essay , and the appointment of Committees on the proposed decoration of the Lodge and the April festival terminated the business proceedings . On the 11 th of February , an emergency meeting was held , at which P . M . Bro . James Millar acted as R . W . M ., Bros . Robert Thomson , jun ., and John Werge , as Wardens .

Bros . Isaac Parrington and Dudley Haynes , requiring to sail for the United States in a few days , were passed to the Fellow Craft , and , along with Bro . John Laurie , raised to the Sublime Degree . On the 18 th of February , D . M . Bro . D . Campbell as R . W . M ., the Wardens , Bro . Thomson and Reid , and many other Brethren being present , inter alia , Bro . Campbell read letters from Mrs . Woodman and the Grand Secretary , in answer to the motion of sympathy , which had been extracted from the minute of the 4 th current , and sent to them . He intimated ,

also , that the remains of Bro . Woodman having been removed to England for interment , a Masonic funeral would not occur . Bros . David Boyd , Capt . William Miller , William Bunten , Walter Easton , Francis Younger , William Alexander , J . G . Galbraith , and John Borland , were found qualified , and passed from the Apprentice to the Fellow Craft Degree . On the 3 rd of March , Bro . Campbell as R . W . M ., assisted by the Wardens Bros . Reid and Thomson , and many other Brethren , initiated Messrs . Patrick Fleming and Ralph S . Boyd , merchants in Glasgow . Bro . Campbell read a paper on the " Lodge Furniture and Tracingboards , " and for the sound and valuable information contained in it the Brethren

testified their heartiest applause . A vote of thanks to Bro . Campbell was moved by Bro . James Home , S . M ., seconded by Bro . John Reid , S . W ., and unanimously carried . On separate motions regularly carried , Bro . John . Laurie wan elected and installed as a Steward ; Bros . John Reid , Robert Thomson , jun ., J . N . Sutherland , William Luldell , William Forrester , and Donald Campbell , were appointed a committee to manage the preliminaries of the annual assembly , to be held on the 28 th current ; and John Mitchell Ma u bray , M . M ., of the "Thistle and Rose , " was affiliated . The labours of the evening were closed by Rro . I \ M . llannay taking the Ob . of a Steward . On the 10 th , Fellow Crafta David Haire ., David