(No. 9.)—The Province Of Jersey. Part Ii.

spared the trouble of in any way working the lodge . " I remain , dear Sir and Brother , " Yours fraternally , " YARBOROUGH .

" P . S . It was my intention , in my drive to-day , to have called on Bro . Hammond ; but , as I now learn of his absence , I will not do so . " There was also once a lodge of " Fidelity" in

Jersey , but it is said to have ceased to exist more than sixty years ago , and consequently all traces of it are lost . The Lodge of Fortitude , now extinct used to meet at St . Clement ' s , but subsequently was held at an inn called the " Old

Kent House , " and now known as the " Caledonian Hotel , " St . Helier . This lodge was at one time very influential , and numbered among its members the late Bailiff of Jersey , Sir Thomas Le Breton , and the late Attorney General Mr . Du Pre . There are still one or two brethren surviving who were connected with this lodge including "Father "'

Le Geyt ( the oldest Mason in the island ) , and , we are informed , Mr . Judge Le Quesne , and Mr . Judge Le Gallais . At one time there was a Hnion Lodge , but its ¦ existence is not remembered by even the oldest

brethren . The only relic of this lodge which we have heard of or seen , consists of a printed copy of the " Entered Apprentice ' s Song" pasted on card board , and which Bro . W . Adams was kind enough to jiresent to us . It- is headed " Hnion

Lodge No . 197 , " and the printing is in the old style of type . At first we thought it might not have been used in a Jersey Lodge at all , but having . carefully separated the song from the card-board , we found that the printer whoever he may have

been—jDeace to his ashes !—was an economical man , and had availed himself of some unused legal document of the Royal Court of Jersey . This version of the song differs somewhat from that now printed with the "Book of Constitutions . " Thus in the first verse , instead of

" Let ' s drink , laugh , and sing , Our wine has a spring ; Here ' s a health to an Accepted Mason . " This copy has it : — " To drink , laugh , and sing ,

Be he beggar or lung ; Here ' s a health to an Accepted Mason . " We fancy we know some Temperance brethren in whose opinion the latter version would be the

best of the two , provided water was the beverage used to celebrate the health . In the second verse , instead of " Till they ' re shown the light , They'll ne ' er know the right

Of a Free and Accepted Mason . " It ends : — " They ne ' er can divine The word or the sign Of a Free and Accepted Mason . " In the fifth verse , instead of "Itmaketh men just in their station . " It reads : —

" To keep tip our old reputation . " This version is , we believe , from "Preston ' s Illustrations , while that given in the " Book of Constitutions " is copied from Anderson . There was a lodge denominated " Charity , "

which held its meetings at the house of the late Bro . Deal—father of Bro . James W . Deal , at present Centenier of St . Helier—in Mulcaster-street . We are assured that Mr . Deputy Hugh Godfray is the only remaining member of this lodge , which

has been dead for forty years . The Very Rev . Mr . Du Pre ' , formerly Dean of Jersey , was connected with it . Another lodge , named "Harmony , " used to meet in Queen-street , St . Helier , at the house of a Mr . Clark , confectioner . This lodge died about--thirty years ago .

Under the Irish Constitution there was a lodge called " Leinster" some thirty years ago , which met at St . Peter ' s , and of which Bro . Asplet , " The Quaker Mason , " is believed to have served as W . M . The Rev . Mr . Durnaresq , a former rector

of St . Mary ' s , was another W . M . of this lodge . It is said that in addition to the Leinster , there were over two Irish military lodges in the island meeting at Bree ' s Hotel , in Hill-stret , but we have been unable to ascertain the names of these

lodges . The Irish Knight Templars had also an encampment at St . Helier , in connection with the Lodge Justice , still existing . The present Mr . Judge Le Quesne , the late Sir Thomas Le Breton ,

and the late Mr . Du Pre , Attorney » General , are stated to have been Sir Knights . At different times there have been a Mechanics' Royal Arch Chapter , now united with the Royal Sussex Chajiter , and a Pz-ince of Wales Chapter , which became merged in the Harmony Chapter . From the " Channel Islands Masonic Calendar , "