The Editor To The Craft.

gence , however , soon proved to us that we could not adequately do justice to it iu our limited space , and ire have consequently been obliged to give from fifty-two to sixty pages a month . The result of this , combined with the apathy of the general body of the Craft , has been , that we have suffered a very considerable pecuniary loss , which it is clear to us we should only be increasing were we longer to continue our exertions at the price

with which we started . It is true we could raise our price , and we doubt not that the majority of our patrons would continue their support ; hut should we do so , we should bo only carrying on a contest which now appears to us , from the improved management of the Magazine , to be altogether unnecessary . In thus taking leave of our friends , however , we are not about to lay clown our penor discontinue our exertions ; we

, are merely about to amalgamate our interests , and the means at our command , with those of the " Monthly Magazine , " which will henceforth be published as Hie " Freemason ' s Magazine ami Masonic Mirror , " and enlarged so as to meet the rccjuireinents of the Order . In thus blending our interests , so great is the congeniality of feeling between the Managers of the two publications , that we shall sacrifice none of the

independence which has marked the pages of the " . Masonic Mirror "we shall not hesitate to speak , as we have hitherto spoken , boldly of what we believe to be abuses , whether in our charities , or in the carrying

out of the principles of the Craft ; neither shall we refrain from calling attention to those brethren who , placed in high positions by the Grand Master , do not perform the duties of the offices they have been selected to fulfil . In the " Freemason ' s Magazine and Masonic Mirror , " the Craft will have the advantage of the combined energies , the combined interests , and the combined means of the Managers of the two

publications at present existing , which will be unsparingly used to give to the Order a Journal which , if it do not command support , will at least endeavour to deserve it . To those members of the Order who have favoured us with their patronage , and who have contributed to our pages , we return our most grateful thanks , and trust they will continue to honor us with their confidence in

the extended sphere of action which will , in January next , be opened up to our exertions , and by which we hope to be enabled to bring together a more diversified and complete reflex of the sayings aud doings in Freemasonry than lias ever yet been presented to the Craft . To our advertising friends , by whom we admit we have been most liberally supportedwe also tender our sincere thanks for past favours ,

, and we trust , if they continue to honor ns with their patronage , we shall henceforth be enabled to bring those favours under the notice of a more extended body of the Craft than it has hitherto been our good fortune to effect .