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Royal York Lodge ( No . 394 . )—The ordinary monthly meeting of this lodge was held at the Old Ship Hotel , ow Tuesday , the 6 th inst ., when two passings and two raisings took place . The very efficient TV . M . ( Bro . Freeman ) was again at his post , supported by the whole of his officers . As usual , the working was all that could be desired . StOYAL ARCH .

WEST YORKSHIRE . ' BRADFORD . —Chapter of Charity ( No . 379 ) . —On Monday , Nov . 12 th , a meeting wis held at the rooms ofthe Lodge of Hope , Dukestreet , presided over by Comps . Henry Smith , P . Z . 543 , as Z . ; Win . Gath , P . Z ., as H . ; Thos . Hill , P . Z ., ' as J . ; David Salmond , P . Z . ; John Walker , P . Z . 543 ; Henry Farrar , P . Z ., as Treas . ; Thomas TVoodhead , S . E . ; J . II . Buckley , P . Z ., Jan . ; and others . Previous

to the minutes being read , a request was made hy the Comps . of the Chapter of Moravia , 543 , Baildon , wishing the P . Z . s to install the officers of their chapter . The request was readily granted , and Comp . Henry Smith , Z ., deputed Comp . Henry Farrar , P . Z ., to undertake the performance of the ceremony of installation , ivhich was gone through in a verj' satisfactory manner . —Corau . Nicholas Walker was promoted to the 1 st chair . Comp . George Motley Wand to the 2 nd ; ancl Comp . William TV . Holmes to the 3 rd . The

ceremony being concluded , the companions were admitted , and the minutes of the last chapter read and confirmed ; after which Bro . James Pickard , M . M . 379 Hope , was balloted for and elected , and afterwards duly exalted to the second degree of R . A . M ., by the 1 st Principal , H . Smith , assisted by Thomas Hill , P . Z ., Comp . James Lumb as P . Soj ., and Comp . John T . Robinson , 1 st ass . Comps . David Salmond , P . Z . and W . Gath , P . Z ., were requested to state the result of their recent visit to London , when the report

was hailed as extremely satisfactory ; a vote of thanks was accorded to them , as well as to Comp . George Barrett and J . S . S . Hopwood , of London . The funds of the Chapter not being in a sufficiently prosperous state , a motion for making tho Chapter Life Subscribers to the Boys' and Girls' Schools was abandoned . The business concluded , the chapter was closed , after the Comps . of Moravia hacl returned their cordial thanks for the present and many previous land offices to the sister chapter .

BRADFORD . —Encampment of Faith ( No . 29 ) . —This meeting took place Nov . 19 th . The only business was the proposition of a member from the Chapter of Charity , 379 , Comp . Henry Farrar , P . Z . Sir Kt . W . M . Gath , E . G ., was assisted by Sir Kt . Henry Smith , 1 st Capt ., and Horatio Butterworth , 2 nd Capt . The business was closed at an early hour .

COLONIAL . SOUTH AUSTRALIA . The ceremony of opening a new lodge of Freemasons under the constitution ofthe Grand Lodge of Ireland took place on Thursday , August 30 th , at the Sir John Franklin Hotel , Kapunda . The R . W . D . Prov . G . M . Bro . TV . Fiveash , assisted hy the V . W . the

officers of the Prov . Grand Lodge , performed the ceremony of forming , consecrating , and dedicating the lodge in ancient form under the title of the Lodge of Light ; after which Bro . Fiveash duly installed Bro . M . H . S . Blood as W . M ., and invested Bro . James Huggins as S . W . ; Bro . TV . O'Hara as J . W . ; Bro . P . McLaren as S . D . ; Bro . Cossins as J . D . Five gentlemen were proposed as candidates . The lodge was then closed , and the brethren present , many of whom were visitors from Adelaide and

Gaivler , adjourned for refreshment , which was provided in Bro . T . R . Jones's excellent style . The usual toasts were given and responded to , ancl a most agreeable evening spent , enlivened by some good singing , regret only being expressed that parliainentary duties prevented the R . W . Prov . G . M . Bro . J . T . Bagot being present on the occasion . This makes the fourth lodge under the Irish constitution in this province . CANADA .

NEW HASONIC HALE , QUEBEC . The Quebec Gazette of Oct . 31 says : —It will be fresh in the recollection of our readers that , some short time ago , the Masonic Hall Association advertised for plans of a new Masonic Hall , to be erected on the very eligable and central lot lately purchased by the Association , and forming the corner of St . Louis and Garden-streets . The committee appointed to examine and decide upon the designs submitted ( there being five competitors ) haveafter due

considera-, tion and a just and impartial estimate of the merits of each , unanimously adopted those furnished by Bro . Staveley , of Quebec . We have been favoured with an examination of the various drawings submitted to the Association and approved by them , and have no hesitation in saying that the intended building will not only prove

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highly creditable to the taste and enterprise of the Masonie Association of Quebec , ancl add to the dignity of the ancient fraternity generally , but will constitute a well-marked and unmistakeable architectural ornament to the city , ancl as such prove a worthy monument of Bro . Staveley's skill as an architect in combining , as in his design he has so thoroughly clone , the useful with the ornamental . The building is designed in a very superior style of the Grecian-Ionic order of architecture , ancient , simple , and

chaste , but most imposing in appearance . It will consist of a most commodious basement , containing ample cellerage , & c ., for the whole ot the occupiers , and four upper stories . The Masonic- , entrance will bo from Garden-street , leading into a spacious hall , from which an elegant winding staircase conducts to the various apartments above . The ground floor , on Garden-street is laid out for four handsome aiidcoiimiodiousoffices , and that fronting on St . Louisstreet for two large ancl elegant stores . The second and third floors

immediately above the shops , facingSt . Louis and Garden-streets , ar & appropriated as dwellings , which may be occupied either in connection with , or apart from , the shops below . Above the offices on the Garden-street front , one on each flat , will be two large ancl commodious rooms , with ante-rooms , & c , peculiarly well adapted for public meetings , for occupation by literary or other associations . The upper story is wholly devoted to Masonic purposes , with separate rooms for every purpose requisite in Masonryand to

, accommodate every description of lodge ; the various lodge-rooms being fitted up and ornamented in a most handsome manner , and corresponding to their several uses . Every modern convenienceand improvement will be introduced throughout the building , the cost of which is expected to amount to somewhere about 16 , 000 dollars ; ancl its construction will be commenced at as early a . period as possible .

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CONSTANTINOPLE . — Oriental Lodge ( No . 988 ) . — The first ordinary meeting after the recess was held on Friday , the 24 th Oct ., in the lodge-room , High-street , Pera . Bro . George Laurie , TV . jr . ; Hyds Clarke , W . M . / 1108 , as P . M . ; Evans , S . W . ; Pulman , J . W . Captain Watlebourn , R . C . of the Goecle Troun Lodge , Cape of Good Hope , was a visitor . One brother was raised , and ono candidate initiated . The W . M . announced that , as the day of election approached , and it was desirable that none but competent brethren should be appointed to office , he should hold a lodge of instruction every Wednesday .

THE PATIENT ASTRONOMER . —Caroline Lucretia Herschel , sisteiv and for a long time assistant , of the celebrated astronomer , Sir William Herschel , was born at Hanover on the 16 th of March 1750 . She is herself distinguished for her astronomical researches , and particularly for the construction of a seleno-graphieal glohe , giving in relief the surface of the moon . But it was for her brother , Sir William Herschel , that the activity of her mind was awakened-From the first commencement of his astronomical pursuits ,

herattendance on both his daily labours and nightly watches was put . in requisition ; ancl was found so useful , that on his removal to-Latchet , ancl subsequently to Slough—he being then occupied with his reviews of the heavens and other researches—she performed the whole of the arduous and important duties of his astronomical assistant , not only reading the clocks , and noting down all the observations from dictation as an amanuensis , but subsequently executing the whole of the extensive ancl laborious numerical ,

calculations necessary to render them available to science , as well as a multitude of others relative to the various objects of theoretical , and experimental inquiry in which , during his long and active .-career , he at any time engaged . For the performance of these ; duties , his Majesty , King George III ., was pleased to place her in receipt of a salary sufficient for her singularly moderate wants and ' , retired habits . Arduous , liowever , as these occupations must , appear especially when it is considered that her brother ' s observations ;

were always carried on ( circumstances permitting ) till daybreak ,, ivithout regard to season , ancl indeed chiefly in the winter , they proved insufficient to exhaust her activity . In their intervals she found time both for actual astronomical observations of her own and for the execution ot more than one ivork of great extent and utility . The observations here alluded to were made with a small Newtonian sweeper , constructed for her by her brother ; with which , whenever his occasional absence , or any interruption to the

regular course of his observations permitted , she searched the heavens for comets , and that so effectively as on no less than eight several occasions to be rewarded by their discovery . —Women of Worth .