Reconciliation.

RECONCILIATION .

LONDON , SATURDAY , JANUARY 7 , -1865 .

It gives us much p leasure , m issuing our first number for the New Tear , to be enabled to lay before our readers the following official communication from the Deputy Provincial Grand Master of the Eastern Division of South Wales : —

Margam Park , Taibach , Jan . 2 , 1865 . "VY . SIR AND BROTIIEK , —I have the pleasure to acquaint you that the B . "W . the Prov . G . M . of the Eastern Division of South Wales has removed the restriction which he imposed upon the lodges in this province , against reporting their proceedings to the Masonic press .

I am , "VY . Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , T . M . TALBOT , D . Prov . G . M . The notification is the more gratifying because it has been unsolicited , and is acconrpanied hy a private letter from the Deput y Provincial Grand Master , hi ghly complimentary to us for the manner in which the MAGAZINE has been conducted .

With regard to Bro . Tynte , the Provincial Grand Master , we have no personal feeling , and can tender him our thanks for the withdrawal of his restriction , though we think it was ori g inall y imposed without due consideration . We can assure the a'allant brother—and in fact all the

brethrenthat if anything appears in the MAGAZINE to which they can take exception , we shall always be happy to receive any communication from them , and endeavour to correct it or avoid the fault in

future j and had Colonel Tynte so honoured us m the first instance , we believe that he would himself have seen there was no cause for further action . To Bro . Talbot , the Deputy Provincial Grand

Master , our thanks are especially due for the course he has taken in the dispute now happily brought to a close . He did us the honour to call iii our office a short time since , and frankl y discuss certain matters connected with his province and

the laws of Masonry ; and left we believe full y impressed with the feeling that we had no object in the course we had taken , other than the interests of the Craft and the assertion of our own independence , and that of our Correspondent , when

we felt we were unduly attacked . We cannot close this notice without thanking our esteemed Correspondent for . the support he has rendered us both in and out of the province , and also those brethren who have kindl y written to congratulate us on the withdrawal of the interdict of the Provincial Grand Master

Reconciliation.

— the sincei'ity of which congratulations are proved b y the reports from the province , which appear in another column of this day ' s MAGAZINE .

Mother Kilwinning.

MOTHER KILWINNING .

Bx BKO . D . MuititAX Inroir , K . T ., OITB OP THE GKANB STEWAEDS IS THE G-KAND LODGE 01 ? SCOTLAND . No . XIV . During Sir Alexander BoswelPs short sojourn in the Orient of the mother lodge , he was at once

its Master and its Laureate ; and his versatility of talent * rendered him peculiarly qualified for holding such pluralit y of offices , as was evidenced in his conduct of the Masonic ceremonial , as well as in the discharge of presidential duty in the conviviality which followedon the occasion of p

lant-, ing the corner-stone of Bnrns ' s monument at Alloway . On his health being proposed at the St . Thomas ' s Day festival succeeding his resumption of the gavel , Sir Alexander begged , instead of a speech , to be allowed to give a song ' , which ,, he remarked , had never been committed to paper ;

and a burst of applause having greeted the soughtfor permission , the genial-souled baronet sang , to the tune of "Bonnie Dundee" the followingverses , which , from their flow of genuine Masonic feeling , are worthy to be rescued from the oblivion into which they have been , allowed to relapse : —

Te Sons of Kilwinning , our mother revered , While memory lasts we shall honour her still ; And here , in her hall , to each other endeared , The warm grip we'll give , and the goblet we'll fill .. The cobwebs of life shaken hence from each frame , Bemember'd no more , or remember'd with shame For here , ranged all round in Masonic array , We'll celebrate gaily St . Thomas ' s Dav .

Though discord divide in the cankering round , Still friendship unites where the Temple has power ; And sooner a Phoenix again shall be found , Than one angry thought at this genial hour . While virtue endures and fidelity lives , We'll cherish the blessings which Masonry gives ; And here , in its spirit , and under its sway , We'll celebrate gaily St . Thomas ' s Day .

It was Sir Alexander Boswell who poured the oil of consecration upon the altar of " Blair Dairy " —a lodge erected in 1821 under the auspices of Colonel Blair ( the brother chiefl y by whose influence was brought about the union of Mother Kilwinning with Grand Lodge ); and in proof of