Address To Our Readers.

ADDRESS TO OUR READERS .

THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR .

WITH the issue of the Number for June 26 th , the Twentieth Volume of the Quarto Weekly Series of the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR -will be completed . In the Address issued with the Eighteenth Volume on its completion , the following passage will be found— " With a view to carry out the proposal some time ago started for enabling the publishing price of the MAGAZINE to be reduced , and its circulation greatly increased , the preliminary

steps have been taken , and it now only remains for our friends and the well-wishers of the MAGAZINE to come forward ancl aid us in completing the project , in the successfully carrying out of which , all the members of the Masonic fraternity , whether holding under the English , Scottish , or Irish Constitution , are interested to a much greater extent than those who have hitherto been connected with the MAGAZINE as a property . " The time having arrived when the arrangements , for carrying

out with effect the proposed reduction in the price of the MAGAZINE , could be completed the announcement was made early in the present month that with the commencement of the Twenty-first Volume of the Quarto Weekly Series of the MAGAZINE the price would be reduced to THREEPENCE ; from and after July 3 rd , therefore , the promised reduction will come into operation , and we refer our readers to the Advertisement relating to that subject , which will be found in the numbers for June 19 th and 26 th .

The FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE orig inated and was established from purely Masonic motives ; it has , during the entire period of its long ancl useful career , been in the hands of and conducted by brethren who have had no mere selfish of other improper objects to serve by their connection therewith ; its influence has never been used to promote the personal ambition of any individual connected with it , at the expense of the best interests of the Order ; nor

has its power or influence been prostituted for trading purposes . The MAGAZINE has not been allowed to pass into the hands of a Masonic jeweller , tailor , or furnisher , that it mig ht be used to puff his wares , ancl under cover of its Masonic character serve as an advertisement card to carry the " shop " into every branch and department of Masonry , and , under the guise of honest independent journalism , trade upon what should be recognised as a sacred calling .

THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , during its long existence , has been carried on independently of any aid from Grand Lodge , ancl without courting either official , private , or back-stairs' influence ; and , although information , which has been freely supplied elsewhere , might frequently have been supplied to us for publication at an earlier date , we have hesitated not to risk the realization , of covert threats rather than forfeit our entire freedom of action ancl independence . As the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE is not interested in the manufacture of new , or in establishing

or maintaining Orders of chivalry , or Knightly or other Orders , assumed to be of ancient origin , either for the profit and advantage of those connected with the MAGAZINE , or of any other persons whomsoever ; ancl neither the proprietors nor any of the staff having any manufactory or other trading or shop-interest to serve , we feel assured that no better claim to the general support of the members of the Masonic Order can be put forward than those which wo have upon the whole Fraternity , and we look , forward to such an extended appreciation of our