The New Masonic Hall At Southport.

Boothroyd , Son , aud Rimmer . For the lighting of the room , gas brackets of singularly appropriate design have been furnished by Messrs . Pidduck and Griffiths . The furniture is also of a very handsome ancl complete character , ancl the room

sumptuously carpeted , presenting a total appearance of elegance aud comfort very rarely to be met with . Taken altogether , we believe we are warranted in saying that there is not , at least in Lancashire , a room , of similar dimensions , which

can claim any superiority in comfort or appearance . Adjoining the lodge-room are a convenient ante-room , lavatory , & c . For the greater convenience of the members of the Lodge of Unity , 613 , and the more efficient

keeping in good order of the lodge-room and the furniture , & c , an arrangement of a satisfactory character has been made for the occupation of the spare portion of the premises by a member whose duty it is to keep everything in good ancl

fittingorder—an arrangement very conducive to the due execution of the business of the order , and which there is no doubt will be efficiently performed .

The new Hall has been used on only two occasions since its opening , ancl the brethren who have moved and carried out the arrangements for its establishment have received the commendation of their fellow-members , and the many

visitingbrethren who have seen the result of their labours , for the very efficient manner in which the original purpose has been accomplished . —Southport Independent .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

UNION 01 ? JUBISDICTIONS . I consider the jurisdictions should he united , hut that instead of . Sir Knight Stuart taking the precedence as K . T ., suggest Lord Kenlis should take the precedence , as being the head of the older Order and the most ancient in existence . —RED C .

MOTHEE KII . WINNING . Bro . Buchan has got hold of another scandal to Masonic history—the fables about Mother Kilwinning , aud he is sure to handle it with accustomed straightfonvardness . The invention is very modern . It will erhaps be found to have come from France in

p the last century . —R . Y . MOTHEE LODGES . Is there any list or record of Mother Lodges . Some lodges have rendered ejood service in this way . —NB . J

JPEOGEESS . Allow me to say " Ditto repeated , " and to repeat something in your last number , which may otherwise he lost . At one of the meetings of Chivalrous Masonry , the toast was given of "The Queen and Christian Masonry , " drunk in the usual manner

observed in the Order , but I do not perceive the association between the Queen and Christian Masonry or Prince Masonry , drunk among Prince Masona , and should like to make it out , also whether , " the cloth having heen withdrawn , " as likewise there recorded , the cloth was drawn in the usual manner observed in the Order . —J . M .

MASONIC CHAETEES ( page 329 ) . Bro . A . 0 . Haye observes that he can see nothing " said as to the builders " in the 1190 Charter from William the Lion . Perhaps that may ( unconsciously ) be partly owing to the circumstance that Bro . Haye hails from the Kilwinning ideas . Had he hailed

from St . John ' s , possibly Bro . Haye might have been able to see something more in it than he says . Mr . A . D . Robertson ( to whom Kilwinning is no more than St . John , aud St . John no more than Kilwinning ) when reading over the remarks in the Magazine of July 25 thpages 68 and C 9 to my

, , astonishment aud pleasure ( it being an unexpected corroboration of my own ideas ) observed , " certainly it is to operative Masons , and observe where the distinction comes in . " I have my own ideas about it , and have hacl them for some time back , but before giving further

expression to them or saying more about it , I ivould desire to possesss certain information I want . After which I might lead off in a bout with Bro . Haye , or " any other man ; " in fact , if I could get Mr . Robertson to back me up , I think I might in this matter , with some hope , enter the lists ivith Bro . Haye , who would naturally have our learned Bro . D . Murray Lyon to back him up , not forgetting R . Y ., who has already done good service . —W . P . BUCHAN .

BEO . 3 IAEBIS AND HIS NEW "MASONIC OEDEBS ( p . 370 ) . Cannot certain brethren perceive that Bro . Harris's new Orders are purely and simply satires upon the higher Orders of Masonry ? Bro . Harris is , to speak plainly , making a fool of all new degrees which desireunder the name of Masonryto form bodies

, , with high sounding titles and fine jewellery . Bro . Harris , when pretending to create neiv Orders ia simply taking his fun off such titles as Sir Knight of the North and South , Most Excellent and Illustrious Grand this , that , or tho other thing . Imagine ( a quite probable circumstance ) two

chimney-SAveeps ( no offence intended to that highly necessary profession ) meeting on the top of a house on a frosty morning ( a meeting in high quarters of companions of the high degrees ) . " How d'ye do , Sir Knight A . ? " " Thank you . How d ' ye feel , Most Excellent and Illustrious B . Strong turn out last

night of Sir Knights—very . I overheard a remark about some one , who it ivas said must have been rather hurried in his preparations to attend tho meeting , as he

had"A wreath of orange blossoms around his snoivy brow . " I don't know what they meant , but I was glad I had not to take the chair , because , beiug busy , I had