Monthly Masonic Summary.

Monthly Masonic Summary .

WE have not a great deal to chronicle since our last- report . The G . M ., has appointed , it is understood , Bro . Thomas Frederick Halsey , of Great Goddesplan-place , Hemel Hempstead , Herts , P . P . G . S . W .

of Hertfordshire , as Provincial Grand Master , vice the R . W . Bro . Wm . Stuart who has resigned .

THE Provincial Grand Lodge of Hampshire , has paid a visit to the Portsmoiith Lodge , No . 487 , at then- newly-restored and well-arranged lodge-room . The meeting was marked by a large attendance of the brethren , and hy excellent speeches

from many of the brethren present , especially the W . M ., Bro . Hickman , Bro . the Hon . Somerset Calfchorpe , the P . G . M . ; E . W . Bro . Beach , M . P ., and our excellent Bro ., the W . D . P . G . M ., J . E . Stebbing .

THE House Committee of the Girl ' s School has met and carried a resolution to be confirmed by the Quarterly General court , that fifteen candidates should be admitted next April . This is a very wise

and judicious proposal , though we think that before long , owing to so many demands for admission , the Girls' School will still have to be increased .

A GOOD deal of correspondence has taken place about Charity Voting , but we feel persuaded that much of the recent movement reforms on the charities is purely sensational , and that most of the reforms

are quite uncalled for , and . utterly unpractical . WE hear from Scotland of a new lodge having been consecrated at Port William , Wigtonshire , called the " Myrton Port

William , No . 539 , and the installation of the office-bearers of the lodge by the P . G . M . of Wigton and Kircudbright , Captain Harriett of Killiemore . All seems to have passed off most successfully .

WE also hear from Scotland of a testimonial to Bro . Wm . Bryce , the Grand Tyler , from the late G . M ., the Earl of Eosslyn . FROM abroad we have little Masonic

news reported this month . The Masons at New Brunswick , New Jersey , U . S . have lately erected at considerable cost a new and very handsome Masonic Hall .

WE have to deplore the removal from Masonry , by death , of several worthy brethren , among them Bro ! Chas . W . Moore , of Boston , U . S , corresponding Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of

Massachusetts , and editor of the "Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " the oldest Masonic periodical in the United States .

WE have also to mention the decease of Bro . Schnider , Grand Tyler , Pensylvania , of Bro . John Turner , Liverpool , and of Bro . Wm . Dawson of Bolton . THE EDITOR .

WE are glad to learn from our Western contemporary that the members of Lodge " Orion in the West" Poona , have voted to W . Bro . P . Callaglian , P . M ., a valuable gold -watch " as a memento uf the regularity and punctuality with which lie ruled our lodge during his year of office . " "W HILE all things change this glows Ihe same ,

By love and truth for ever fanu'd j And burns a bright and lambent flame , O ' er this and ev ' ry other land ! Then join in heart as well as hand , Ye who from bonds are now made free ; And round the magic circle stand , To spread the Light of Masonry . ' ' r .