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THE MASONIC MIRROR . * # AU communications to be addressed to the EDITOB , at No , 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C .

ALTEEATION IN THE D AY OE PUBLICATION OJ ? THE MAGAZINE . —The Magazine will in future , be published on Saturday Mornings , instead of on Friday Afternoons ; this alteration has has been made in order to enable ns to meet the wishes of a large section of our readers , so as to allow of tbe insertion each week of Masonic reports reaching tho Editor on Thursday

mornings . THE NEW P OSTAL AEKANGEHENT . —On the 1 st of October last the new postal arrangement came into operation , by which the postage of the MAGAZINE is reduced one-half , of Avhich our subscribers will receive the full benefit . In future , those of our subscribers who pay one year in advance Avill receive the

MAGAZINE post-free . The price of the M AGAZINE will thus be reduced from" 17 s . 4 d . to 13 s . per annum . Under this arrangement the following will be the terms of subscription : — One year , paid in advance , 13 s . ; six months , 7 s . 7 d . ; single numbers , by post , 3 id . We hope that by thus giving the advantage to our subscribers thoy will , in return , use their best endeavours to

increase our circulation , by inducing their friends also to become subscribers . Anticipating a large increase in our circulation , arrangements are in progress for the introduction of specia new features in the MAGAZINE . SCOTLAND . —NOTICE TO SUBSCEIBEES . —The Agency for the Freemasons' Magazine in Scotland is now conducted hy Messrs .

Strathern and Stirrat , 33 , Renfield Street , Glasgow ; and any Subscriber not receiving the Magazine as usual , will please notify the fact to the above Firm , or to thc Company ' s Manager directed to the Office , 19 , Salisbury Street , Strand , London , AV . C

Masonic Mems.

MASONIC MEMS .

His Royal Highness the Priuco of Wales has named Monday the Sth . May next , for the Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , on which occasion His Royal Highnesss has consented to preside . We are informed that the installation of Colonel Lyne as R . W . Prov . G . M ., for Monmouthshire , will take place in the

large Room at the Town Hall , Newport , on Easter Thursday , April 13 th , and that Theodore Mansel Talbot , Esq ., R . AV . Prov . G . M ., for the Eastern Division of South Wales , will be respectfully invited to perform the ceremony . The next meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Suffolk s announced to he held at Ipswich in July next .

A petition has been forwarded to Grand Lodge for the formation of a new lodgo in Lancaster , to be called tho Duke of Lancaster ' s Lodge . A movement is on foot among the members of the Masonic Body , having for its object the presentation to Lord Dalhousie of a testimonial , in acknowledgment of tho distinguished services

he has rendered to the Craft during nearly half a century . It is proposed that the testimonial take the shape of a bust , in duplicate , one copy to be presented to the noble lord , and tho other to be placed in Freemasons' Hall , Edinburgh . St . Luke ' s Lodge of Instruction , No . 144 , has been remove from the Pier Hotel , Chelsea , to tho " Gladstone , " 202 anel 201 Brampton Road , S . W . The meetings aro held every Friday evening at 8 o ' clock .

Masonic Mems.

THE FUND OE BENEVOLENCE . —We are pleased to notice that Bro . Savage at the last meeting of the Board of Benevolence , a report , of which is given on another page of the present number , gave notice of a motion for consideration at the next Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge , for au amendment in the laws relating to the Fuud of Benevolence ;

we trust the motion will he carried , as , owing , under the present laws , to the long period , which must elapse , ere Petitioners whose recommendations have to go before Grand Lode , can be in receipt of the grant allowed to them , the sufferings and privations of the petitioners , become , painfully prolonged , seeing that in many cases the petitions are not made until the direst

necessity compels , and the old adage : —bis dat qiti cito dat especially applies in these cases . The fifteen sections will be worked on Thursday evening March 2 nd , at the Fidelity Loelge of Instruction , No . 3 , which s nowhrld at the Goat annd Compass , Fitzroy Street , Euston Road . Bro . T . A . Adams , P . M . P . Z ., P . G . V ., will take the

chair , and we trust there will be a large muster of the brethren . The roern in which the Lodge is held will accommodate at leas * seventy .

United Grand Lodge.

UNITED GRAND LODGE .

The following is the business to bo transacted in Grand Lodge , Wednesday , 1 st March , 1871 : — The regulations for the Government of Grand Lodge during the time of public business will be read . The minutes of the Quarterly "Communication of the 7 th December , 1870 , will be read and put for confirmation ,

including a grant of £ 250 to Bro . G . B ., Lodge No . 181 , London ; and a grant of £ 100 to the ' Refugees Benevolent Fund . " The election of a M . AA . * Graud Master . Election of a Grand Treasurer . By direction of the M . W . Grand Master , the Grand Secretary will announce that the melancholy intelligence has been received

from the AV . Bro . N . T . AV . Srnallenburg , Representative at the Grand Lodgo of the Netherlands , of the lamented death of Her Royal Highness Princess Louisa Augusta , Consort of His Royal Highness Prince Frederick , Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Netherlands . Also that a memorial has been presented to the M . W . Grand

Master by the Lodge of Benevolence praying permission for the meetings of the Lodge of Benevolence to take place at six , instead of seven o'clock as heretofore ; his Lordship has been pleased to comply therewith , and has directed that on and after AVednesday , the 22 ud day of March next , the meetings of the Lodge of Benevolence shall take place at six o ' clock . Report of the Lodge of Benevolence for the last quarter , in

which are recommendations for the following grants , viz .: — Bro . Frederick G . D . H „ of Lodge No . 191 , London , £ 50 ; the widow of the late Bro . G . A . B ., of the Lodge of Fidelity , No . 230 , Devonport , £ 50 . Report of tho Board of General Purposes . To the United Grancl Loelge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of

England . The Board of General Purposes beg to submit a statement of the Grand Lodge accounts at the last meeting of the Finance Committee , held on Friday , the 10 th day of February inst ., shewing a balance in the liahds of the Grand Treasurer of £ 3 , 695 12 s . 3 d . ; and in the hands of the Graud Secretary , for Petty Cash , £ 75 .