Address To Our Readers.

ADDRESS TO OUR READERS .

THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE

AND MASONIC MIRROR .

WE have again to address our friends on the close of another Yolunie of THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEROE . The six months , the events of which this volume records , have not been marked

hy any event of importance , if we except the conferring the power on the M . W . Grand Master of marking his sense of the services of brethren who have distinguished themselves in Masonry by bestowing upon them brevet rank , as Past Officers of tlie United Grand Loclge of England . No sooner had the power been given to the

M . W . Grand Master , however , than it was claimed also for . the Provincial Grand Masters , leading to an appeal to Grand Lodge , and a very marl-zed declaration that it was intended to apply to the Grand Master alone .

We had hoped that ere this the Board of General Purposes would have been prepared AA'ith a scheme for the proper laying exit of the Grand Lodge property , and giving increased accommodation nofc only to the Metropolitan brethren meeting

at the Freemasons' Tavern , but to the Masons from the Provinces on their visits to London , whereby they might have a fitting place to meet and commune with their London brethren . In that we have been disappointed ; but as attention has been again directed to the sxxbject , after a sleep of three years , Ave have yet a hope

that another twelvemonth will not be allowed to pass withoxit some plan beinglaid before the Craft which may meet with general approbation . In the mean time fitting Masonic Halls are raising their heads in various parts of the kingdom , ancl we have now before us the prospectus of a UOAV Masonic Hall Company at Manchester ,

with a capital of £ 10 , 000 , to be raised in shares of £ 5 each , two-fifths of AA'hich weare assured have been subscribed for , though as yet the scheme lias not been officially

brought under the notice of the Lodges of the district .