Scotland.

A mere bagatelle ! Many English Lodges pay five pounds a-year in the shape of subscription . Were we to make a regulation that five shillings a-year should be subscribed by each member , we should raise 100 ? . instantly ; and this , together with our initiation fees , would give us a fund of 200 / . or 250 / . at once , and would furnish the nucleus of . a Fund of Benevolence such as those wliich are possessed by England and Ireland . I do hope that we shall soon have some such fund as this , and support tho poor sons and daughters of deceased or distressed Freemasons . ( Cheers . ) So much

for St . Mark ' s Lodge . As members of Chapter 50 , Ave are but the tenants of St . Mark's Lodge ; and in this chapter we have members of other Lodges : for we have in Glasgow sixteen Lodges , but only four Chapters . We have as companions in this chapter brethren from five or six different Lodges . When I first joined this Chapter , a few' years ago , we had a fund of only 6 / . Since that time we have spent 70 / . in regalia —( hear , hear)—and we have money in hand yet . ( Hear , and cheers . ) After a brief interval , which ivas occupied by a song ,

lhe M . ni . Z . Campbell said , companions , while in Scotland the Grand Lodge recognizes no degree beyond that of a Master Mason , in England they recognize also the Royal Arch ; but if yon step across the water to Ireland , the Grand Lodge there recognizes all the degrees , including Templarism , up to the 33 rd degree . ( Hear . ) I have now to ask you to join with me in drinking to the prosperity of the Grand Lodge of Ireland , with which I shall ask you to couple the name of a Companion now present , who is now a member with us , but AVho is also a member of a Chapter holding of the

Supreme Grand Chapter of Ireland . I mean Companion Sharman , ivliom we are happy to receive here in the same spirit in which ive ourselves hope to be received undeisimilar circumstances . Our working in Scotland is a little different from the Mark Master Masonry which he may have seen in the Irish Mark Master Masons Lodge to which he belongs ; our working of the Royal Arch degree , also differs from that with which he may he familiar in England . But thelandmarks are the same : ( hear ) and I should greatly rejoice to see the day when our ivorkings in England , Ireland , Scotland , France , and throughout tho world , become as nearly alike as they can possibly be made .

( Hear , hear . ) We have the same deplorable differences in the profession to which I belong ; there is one pharmacopoeia for England , another for Ireland , and a third for Scotland ; so that if an Apothecary here should make up the prescription of an English Physician as it is written , what in England would effect the cure of the patient , would here become a dangerous dose . ( Hear , and laughter . ) I hope , however , that the day is not far distant when we shall not only have uniformity of Masonic ritual , but also a National Pharmacopoeia . ( Hear , hear . ) I shall now ask you to drink " Prosperity to the Grand Chapter of Ireland , anil the health of Companion Sharman , member of a Chapter holding of the same . "

The toast having been drunk with great cordiality , — Comp . Sharman said , M . E . Z . and Comps ., he " felt exceedingly grateful for the lienor conferred upon him in coupling his name with the Grand Chapter of Ireland , to tho prosperity of which they had drunk so cordially . His connexion with Irish Masonry was but slight , though his attachment to it was great . One Saturday evening at tho banquet table of his mother Lodge ( Phoeinx , 202 , London ) , there safr nexttohima brother wearing the exquisitel chaste little jewel wliich belonged to

y the M . M . M . degree . It attracted his attention , and he began to make enquiries of the Brother respecting the degree . The result of the conversation was that he promised to propose"him ( Br . Sharman ) a member of a M . M . M . Lodge with which he was connected . He was greatly pleased at the time , but he had since learned that the Lodge in question had no legitimate authority for acting ; only a warrant from a daughter Chapter , whereas in England they recognized no warrants from anybody but Grand Lod then looked

Supreme ges or Chapters . He forward to his introduction to that Lodge ( known as the Bon Accord M . M . M . Lodge , meeting in London ) , with great pleasure ; but , alas for the uncertaint y of sublunary affairs , the brother who was to introduce him went home apparentl y in full health , and the next day—which was the Sabbath—he suddenly expired ! Some time after this , still desiring to take the M . M . M . degree , ho discovered , whilst on a visit to Jersey , that there was a M . M . M . Lodge held there . He asked to be allowed to take the degree , and the