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Municipal Fame *—The High Bailiffs of this town on retiring from office , have received a handsome compliment at the hands of their fellow townsmen . At the last Borough Court , which comprises persons of every shade of polities , it was unanimously resolved—" That the thanks of the Burgesses be given to Robert Badcock and Eales White , Esqrs ., the late bailiffs of the borough , for the able , dignified , and liberal manner in which , they discharged the duties of their office

during the past year , and that the resolution be entered in the records of the borough . "—( Bro . Eales White is Grand Treasurer of the Province of Somerset . ) The Patbiotig Fund , —The Lodge , No . 327 , Taunton , have contributed five guineas to this , which have been paid to the active Treasurer to the local Committee , Bro , Eales White . The celebrated Dr . Shaw has recently been initiated into Masonry in Lodge 327 , Taunton ,

SURREY . Frederich Lodge of Unity , No . 661 , Greyhound Hotel , Croydon . —The members of this Lodge assembled , under the presidency of the W . M . Bro . J . W . ShiUito , on Monday , November 20 , when Robert Stewart , Esq ., of Streatham , was initiated into Preemasonry . The Brethren , fifteen in number , afterwards adjourned to an excellent banquet provided in Bro . Bean ' s usual excellent manner .

SUSSEX . After a lapse of nearly thirty years , the Grand Lodge of this Province was held under the banner of the Royal Clarence Lodge , No . 338 , at the Old Ship Hotel * in Brighton , on 17 th November , when nearly one hundred members of the Craft were in attendance . Prior to the assembling of the G . L , the Lodge No . 338 was ( in the absence of Col . McQueen , its W . M . ) , opened by Bro . Wilkinson , P . M ., in the 1 st and 2 nd Degrees , when Bro . T . K . Fitzgerald was duly passed ; the Lodge was closed in

the 2 nd Degree , when Bro . Fitzgerald having retired , it was announced to the Brethren , that the "V . W . P . D . G . Master , Bro . McQueen , was approaching ; whereupon the Masters and Past Masters in attendance of Lodges Nos . 45 , 47 , 338 , 3 S 0 , 394 , 426 , and 878 , proceeded to the portal , ranged in procession , and conducted the WW . Bro . Col . McQueen to the * chair of the Lodge , the Brethren all standing . On taking the chair , the D . GM . handed to Bro . Folkard , the Senior Past Master , the patent of his appointment to the office of D . G . M . for the

Province of Sussex , commanding him to read it aloud in open Lodge ; at its conclusion , it was directed to be entered on the minutes of the Royal Clarence Lodge . Bro . Folkard then called upon the Brethren to salute the V . W . D . G . Master with the accustomed honours . Lodge 338 was then closed . Previous to the opening of the G . L ., the V . W . D . G . Master delivered the following address : — " Brother Past Provincial Grand Officers , Past Masters , Masters and Wardens of Lodges , Members of the Provincial Lodge of Sussex ; Brethren of the Province ,

and Brother V isitors : —By virtue of the Patent just read to you in the Royal Clarence Lodge , No . 338 , and in accordance with my letter addressed to each Lodge in the Province , bearing date 19 th October , 1854 , I have convened this Prov . G . L . ; and now let me crave your indulgent consideration on the difficulties that attend my position . I question whether there is a similar instance in the annals of Freemssonry , of a Prov , G . L ., instituted as that of Sussex , in the year 1801 , having sustained a lapse of twenty-seven years without assembling ;

and had it not been tor the unceasing and zealous exertions of several energetic and worthy members of the Craft in effecting the present arrangement , this , our G . L ., might have continued from year to year in comparative abeyance . In May last , I sent to each Lodge in this Province a notice of my appointment ; since then diligent inquiry has been instituted after the minute-book of proceedings , the by-laws and regalia of the Lodge , but nothing belonging to the Prov . Lodge can be found , except some papers and Treasurer ' s documents , handed to me by his Grace the Duke of Richmond , our R . W . P . G . M ., on my appointment in April last