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ent places , to the height of about nine inches , by six large ventilators , so shown off as if each one had a large poster on its breast with the inscription 'I am a ventilator ! ' Then as a representation of ' chaos' we have the circles of a shooting-target with a thunderbolt striking the bulls-eye ; and for ' liht' we find a large

g gowan , or ' sun' about two feet in diameter pasted up against a lot of dirty muslin alias ' clouds ' I suppose ; the effect being rather more allied to the ludicrous than the sublime . So much for Masonic artistic decoration and architectural forethought and propriety in Glasgow !

I sincerely hope that any such sham gingerbread work will not be again attempted in Glasgow . It may perhaps please the vulgar and ignorant to see a lot of gaudy naming colour stuck-up all around them , but any person of good taste is sure to be dis-appointed .

The proper plan to have done would have been to improve upon St . Marks , just as the old thirteenth century cathedral builders did upon the works of their predecessors : and paltry copying , or attempted revival of an old dead style , is seldom satisfactory . We might as well go back to the old Egyptian style in the carriage of our goods . I am , & c , M-ASOUICUS '"

Bro. W. E. Walmsley.

BRO . W . E . WALMSLEY .

10 inE EDITOR OF TEE FREEMASONSMAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —It was but yesterday even - ing I read the obituary notice contained in your paper of the 17 th of December last on my ( supposed ) death . Permit me to offer my especial thanks for the very hind and brotherly feeling evinced by you in your notice . It is far to flattering merits are

, my poor quite unworthy of such friendly eulogy . In announcing in the " Times " the death of my brother , Henry Walmisley ( which happened on the 25 th of November ) , was added " Principal Clerk for Bills of the House of Lords , " an office for many years held by mehut which had been granted to brother

, my on the 21 st of July , 1 S 66 , by Sir John George Shaw-Lefcvre , the Clerk of the Parliaments , who on that day had nominated me to the office of Clerk of the Journals of the House of Lords ( which had been in . abeyance since 1849 ) . . Negligence on the part of the proper authority to

correct the Imperial Calendar m respect of these appointments has doubtless led to the mistake , which first appeared in the " Civil Service Gazette " reporting the office of " Principal Clerk for Bills of the . 'House of Lords , vacant by the death of W . E . Walmisley . "

I am sorry to intrude myself upon you , but your very kind article necessitates thanks on my part which thanks I sincerely offer . I greatly regret the error into which you have been led . Believe me to be

Dear Sir and Brother , Yours fraternally , tWlLLIAJI ElTAED WAI / HISHST , 30 ° ,

Bro. W. E. Walmsley.

THE LEGAL OBLIGATIONS OE OUK LODGES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother . —I am glad to see attention called , in the article at p . 21 , to the legal registration of our lodges . We often speak of the loyalty of Masons , and we certainly ought not to omit the

observance of those laws which we distinctly and especially pledge ourselves to obey . I have long since called attention , by a letter addressed to the proper department , to the provisions of the 31 st and 32 Victoria , cap . 72 , part 2 , paragraph 3 . But my communication has received no attention . An offence

against this act is committed by every lodge in the kingdom . LUPUS . [ We append the extract from the Act referred to by our Correspondent . —Ed . F . M . ] 31 st and 32 « c ? Vict . cap . 72 , part 2 , par . 3 .

Where before the passing of this Act an Oath was required to be taken on or as a Condition of Admission to Membership or Pellowship or Participation in the Privileges of any Guild , Body Corporate , Society , or Company , a Declaration to the like Effect of such Oath shall be substituted ; provided that if any Two

or more of the Members of such Guild , Body Corporate , Society , or Company , with the Concurrence of the Majority of the Members present and voting at a Meeting specially summoned for the Purpose , object to any Statement contained in such Declaration on the ground of its relatinto Duties which b

g y reason of Change of Circumstances have become obsolete , they may appeal to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to omit such Statement , and the Decision of such Secretary of State shall be final .

Masonic Sayings And Doings Abroad.

MASONIC SAYINGS AND DOINGS ABROAD .

Here is another evidence of " What is Masonic Charity . " Those who believe the giving of a few pence to some applicant is charity , will , if they read below , learn what constitutes that great Masonic virtue , Charity : —

" The Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home" of Kentucky , the corner-stone of which was laid at the meeting of the Grand Lodge in October , 1869 , was recently dedicated Avith great ceremony at Louisville , during the session of the Grand Lodge . This home

has been inaugurated and carried forward with a will over all obstacles ; and when the building is erected , according to the designs , it will he one of the largest and most magnificent edifices of the kind in America . The Grand Lodge has appropriated thirty per cent , of the Grand Lodge dues to the Home . "—Bitital .

The Board of the Grand Lodge of New Brunswick has kept steadily in view the subject of a Masonic Temple . The great necessity existing for the erection