The Masonic Mirror.

conceive that a time might eome when , with a less scrupulous Board , the accounts might be so cooked as to deceive the most experienced professional auditor . ( Hear , hear , and " Shame ! " ) A Voice—Then you would only get them there on the supper night . ( Laughter . ) Bro . Stebbing also objected to the motion on account of the £ 20 expenditure it involved . He thought "Grand Auditors" should be elected ; the honour would

be valued ; hut for £ 20 they could nofc secure the services of a first rate man . ft ivas these reckless additions to their expenditure which raised up their Haringtons ancl Portals . ( Oh , oh I ancl laughter . ) He implored the Grand Master to let this be au honorary distinction , and then some ivortny and distinguished Mason would clo it for nothing , and would value a seat on that dais , Avhich he ( Bro . Stebbing ) did not , and , if he did , he should never get ifc ( laughter ) , at greatly more than £ 20 , or £ 50 , or even £ 100 . ( Laughter . ) Bro . Symonds supported the motion , and as to £ 20 being inadequate , he kneiv

of his own knowledge that the accounts of the commissioners of sewers , ivhich ivere very voluminous , ivere audited by a thoroughly competent professional auditor for £ 15 , although , it occupied him three whole days . ( Hear . ) The motion ivas put and carried .

THE SO-CALLED GRAKD LODGE Of TUBKEY . The President of the Board called attention to this illegal Masonic body , with ivhich , he regretted to say thafc several highly respectable persons had connected themselves . Ifc was stated that a Captain Atkiusou , who was at Smyrna at the end of the Crimean war , said that he was ( there is no proof that ho was ) in possession of an Irish warrant . He made twenty Masons , divided them into three Lodges , and they declared themselves the Grand Lodge of Turkey . ( Hearhearand laughter ) .

, , A number of gentlemen had been innocently entrapped into joiniug it . The Master of the regular " Oriental" Loclge had done the best he could , aud deserved much credit for the discreet and zealous manner in ivhich ho had acted , though he fell into some errors at first . Bro . Havers concluded by asking Grand Lodge to agree to a motion calling upon all regular Lodges to discountenance this so-called grand body , and to lead back its members into the right path by means provided for in the Book of Constitutions ( page 77 ) . Agreed to .

COLONIAL 1 SOAID ) . The report of this Board was taken as read , and ordered to be received and entered on the minutes . EOYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION . The report was received , ancl ordered to be entered on the minutes , THE PIUNTED MINUTE * .

\ V . Bro . Frederick Binckes , P . M ., So . 11 , moved— " That it is inexpedient to publish the discussions in Grand Lodgo in the minutes of proceedings of the quarterly communications as issued from the Grand Secretary ' s office . " The reason Bro . Binckes wished to have the printing and circulation of these minutes discontinued , appeared to be—because some year or so ago , he had been , as he conceived , inaccurately reported in them . AVhat Bro . Binckes was then ( June 16 , . 1858 ) reported to have saicl was , that he " supported the motion , and saicl that the

report of the Board of General Purposes did nofc represent the report of the committee . " Bro . Binckes ivould have been , ifc seems , content hacl the summary added the grounds on which ho contended that the report of fche Board did nofc represent the report of the committee , namely , "that he had been informed that the report of the committee bore testimony to the efficiency of the services rendered by the officers of Grand Lodge . " Another point iu the minutes , referred to by Bro . Binekes as being inaccurate , ivas in a subsequent passage , in which Bro . is

Havers represented as having charged Bro . Binckes with saying , that the report in question ivas eome to by a " narrow majority , " which Bro . Binckes denies having said , He protested generall y against what he called "the unfair and