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pvessively performed by Bro . Clark ; aftenvards a lengthened discussion took place on the proposition oftlie Board of General Purposes , respecting the contemplated alterations of the Masonic property in Great Queen-street , London . After a variety of opinions from the brethren , it ivas ultimately thought that the alterations AA'ould cause a serious diminution of funds applicable to the charities , which could not be consistently spared , such money having been subscribed solely for the purposes of relief and charityand that the contemplated alterations Avould not be of auy

; great advantage to the country hrethren ; neither Ai'as it thought that tho objects for Avhich the alterations Avcro intended would tend to elevate the character of the Craft , ivhen it Ai'as considered that au ornamental building ivas erected at the cost of relief aud charity . AVith these views the brethren passed an unanimous resolution condemnatory of the project , Avhich ivas ordered to bo sent up to Grand Lodge . Two candidates wore proposed for initiation , after which , the brethren , ivith Bro . Hoi-ton , AV . AL of Lodge Xo . S 3 S , ancl Bros . Bradley aud Dickens , repaired

to the evening banquet , ivhero the usual toasts and harmony prevailed . YORKSHIRE ( NORTH AND EAST ) . APPOINTMENT :.. — Lodges . — . Mondai-, March 21 st , Union ( 2 S 7 ) , Masonic Half , York , at 7 ; AVednesday , 23 rd , Minerva ( 311 ) , Masonic Hall , Hull , at 7 ; Friday , 25 tb , Morth York ( 870 ) , Station Hotel , Middlesbrough , at 7 . Chapter . —Friday , 35 th , Humber ( 65 ) , Freemasons' Hall , Hull , at 8 : Miner ™ ( 311 ) , . Alasonic Hall , Hull , at S . YORKSHIRE ( AVEST ) .

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Mark Masonry.

MARK MASONRY .

AtETROPOLITAN . TIUSTLF LonoF . ( Holding- under AVarraut from tho Grand Lodge of Mark At asters of England and " Wales , and the Colonies and Dependencies of the British Crown)—The Brethren of this Lodge assembled at Dick ' s Coffee-house on Friday March 4 th . The Lodge being opened and the minutes of the last meetinc- read and confirmed . Bro . Cottrell , AV . AL , addressed the members as follows Brethrenit will be in recollection that at a meeting of this Loelgeheld on

" , your , the "Sth September , last year , a committee was appointed to confer with the other Lodges on the subject of a communication from the Masters of certain Mark Lodges holding under Scottish Constitution , and to report thereon . You will also remember that the subject of such communication was the unsatisfactory condition ofthe Alai-k decree in this country , arising from the anomalous position ivhich the Atark Lodops under different jurisdictions bear to each other , and urging the desito unite with the English Mark Lodges . It will also

rability coadopting measures be in ' your recollection , that at a subsequent meeting of the Lodge held on the 3 rd December Vast , the comvmUw . brought AAp their report , whieh was cordially . weed to , and ordered to be entered on tho minutes . On that occasion the brethren unanimously concurred in the recommendation of the committee , as to withdrawing allegiance from Scotland , and uniting at once AVith the Lodges holclin" under English authority . Furthermore , the Lodge fully empowered me take such for ing out that objectas might appear expedient .

-o steps carry , Having waited since December last in the hope that the whole of the Anglo * Scotch Locb-es ivould iu a body pass over to the Grand Mark Lodge of England , or that some one of those Lodges ivould take the initiative m tho matter , and 2 L 2