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GRAND LODGE was opened on Wednesday the 2 nd inst . by the D . G . M . After the minutes had been confirmed , certain resolutions of the P . G . L . of CANADA WEST were read , in which it was stated that independent organization was necessary for their prosperity , and that formal steps were ordered to be taken at the ensuing P . [ , '

G . L ., to be held on the 9 th of this month , for carrying it into effect . These resolutions were adopted on the 30 th of June , hut by some strange neglect on the part of the Provincial authorities—possibly sympatheticthey were riot received in England till a week before the . meeting ofjfe ' L .

Bro . HENDEBSON , G . R ., took jnst exception to a statement contained in the resolutions , that no "definite answer" had been returned to the last Memorial to G . L . The misgovernment of our own authorities having thus resulted in its legitimate consequence—the secession of the misgoverned—it only now remains for them

to complete the damage they have caused to our Order , and to give permanence to the ill-feeling of their creation , by parting in a bad humour with Canada , instead of holding out to her the right hand of Masonic fellowship . The reception of the Report of the COLONIAL BOABD

upon the documents submitted to them at the last G . L . ( and which we publish to-day ) was opposed by the adherents of the Executive , to whom truths so honestl y stated were doubtless unpalatable . The feelings of the G . M . were as usual made the stalking-horse ; a most unfair proceeding towards his Lordship , who is far too good a Mason to feel injured by an investigation into

existing calamities , even if , the neglect of his own advisers shall be proved to be their cause . After a lengthy discussion—in which Bros . HAVERS , POETAL , HEBVEY , MASON , the G . R ., and the D . G . M . took part—and a protest from Bro . WABEEN against the unfairness of providing one member of G . L . —Bro .

HAVEES—with a copy of the Report under discussion , which had not been printed for general distribution ; the adoption of the Report was negatived . A return of the number of P . G . Lodges held during the last ten years was laid on the table by the G . S . . A motion bBro . STEBBING for allowing DPG

y , ... M . ' s to sit upon the Dais , was lost : as was another by Bro . WIGGINTON , for sending all communications from G . L . to the private address of the W . M . of each Lodge ! The D . G . M ., in a few appropriate words , gave notice

on behalf of the M . W . the G . M „ that a grant would be proposed in December , in aid of our Brethren who are sufferers from the Indian Mutiny . This proposition will meet with universal sympathy ; and we only hope that the relief will not be confined to Masons , but as in the case of the Patriotic Fund , he extended to all distressed persons , not only of the Masonic , but of the great human family .

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IT is at last , as we long since prophesied it must be , all over . On the 9 th of September the P . G . L . of Canada will , or , by the time that the words we write have assumed the form of print , did proclaim its iudependance . In the ordinary vicissitudes of life few men

can expect to see and enjoy the fruits of long labor . Our Executive are more fortunate . Four years have been sufficient to bring their exertions to an issue , and to drive Canada from her allegiance , and at the end of four years they still hug the office tofwhich they have clung with a tenacity worthy of a better cause . They

can never again be charged with indolence . Impotent to construct , they are most capable in pulling down . Within four years they have ruined a policy , which was the work of half-a-century . Belencla est Carthago . They have razed to the ground , and sown salt alike upon the sympathies and the principlesupon the

, ornament and the substantial strength , of English Freemasonry ; and their policy of systematic neglect and misrule has been crowned by a result , which everyone , except themselves , must feel to be humiliating and disastrous .

But we would be just , and whilst we blame the shortcomings of our Executive , we are not blind to the faults of the Canadian Lodges . The P . G . L . of Canada has resolved , that " whereas no definite reply has been vouchsafed to that respectful memorial ( the last ) , it is resolved , that with unfeigned grief this P . G . L . in fidelity to the order within the

, province , is constrained to declare that separate organisation is necessary to the efficiency and stability of Freemasonry in Canada : " resolved that , "this P . G . L . shall at the next ensuing meeting ( Sept . 0 th ) declare itself an independent G . L ., " & c „ & e . Now the statement contained hi this" resolution is hardly correct . On

the 10 th April , 1857 , a despatch was addressed by the Colonial Board to the P . G . S ., at Toronto , expressing regret for the past , and hopes for the future ; pointingout those changes in our Colonial administration , which