sentinel for my country, which now calls me, as well as many others similarly situated, to a closer co-operation for her regeneration amongst the nations of the earth. You have been so kind as to couple with my health that of my wife and my little ones. I feel very grateful for this kind remembrance of the dear and tender objects of my unceasing solicitude; and I will feel moved in the hour of struggle by the thought that I may yet live to share with them the pleasures of my native land, my long lost home, and my kindred. The splendid testimonial you this day presented me with, and which I now proudly and gratefully wear on my breast, shall be transmitted to my son, who, I trust, will, in his turn, hand it down to posterity unsullied, rejoicing in the virtuous and godlike principles of our Order; and to all and each I drink health, happiness, and prosperity-both in your capacities as men and as Masons. Bro. Bartkowski sat down amidst enthusiastic greeting and cheers of the brethren.

The health of Sir James Stewart was proposed and drank with liveliest expressions of respect and attachment. The health of the Vice-President, and several other toasts were drank and responded to; after which the party broke up, highly gratified at the proceedings of the evening.

Presentation of a Sword and Plate to Bro. John Bartkowski.April 15, at three o'clock, p.m., a numerous meeting of gentlemen was held in Corporation Hall, in order to present a sword and plate to Bro. Bartkowski, upon his leaving this country for his own. Both bore this inscription :

"Presented to John Bartkowski by his friends in Londonderry, as a token of respect for his virtues, and of their best wishes for his success in the cause of Poland.-April 15, 1848."

Mr. Barre M'Corkell having been called to the chair, and Bro. Bartkowski introduced, the Chairman, as representing those present and others, delivered an address to that gentleman, accompanying it with the presentation to him of the sword and plate.

During the reply, and at its close, Bro. Bartkowski was warmly cheered. Before separating, the company drank health, success, and happiness to Bro. Bartkowski, giving him three times three hearty cheers, which he feelingly acknowledged.

FOREIG N.

PARIS.-Bro. Bertrand was elected Prov. Grand Master on the 2nd of April, 1847, and installed as the second highest authority of the French Masons on the 30th of the same month; the members of thirtyeight lodges attended the ceremony, which was conducted with great solemnity. The Grand Orient has presented medals to Bro. Debans, of the Lodge Henry IV., for saving several persons from being drowned; to Bro. Ferrand, of the Lodge Isis-Montyon, for similar other heroic and humane acts; and to the Lodge Sincerity at Rheims, for the exertious and sacrifices made by it in the cause of Freemasonry.

ROUEN.-The Lodge Crowned Perseverance has had a medal struck, and presented the same in silver to Bro. Chappy, for risking his own life in saving that of one of his workmen who fell into a well. The five

lodges have united and established an infant protection society for children, of the ages of three months to three years, the object being to nurse and take charge of the infants while the mothers are enabled to go and work. Similar charities exist in Strasburg, Paris, &c. The Rouen infant charity commenced its operations on the 30th May, 1847. In conformity with a previous determination the united lodges of Rouen met on the 18th April, and distributed prizes to worthy workmen of the town-one weaver, one modeller, one founder, one brushmaker, and a foreman at a manufactory; each received one hundred francs and a silver medal for general good conduct and character.

BOULOGNE.-A new lodge-room was consecrated on the 7th August, 1847, by the brethren of the Augustus of Benevolence, who will hold their future meetings there.

CALAIS. The two lodges have joined, and from being opponents have become united, under the name of " Perseverance and Benevolence united."

LYONS.-A new masonic hall was consecrated at Lyons on the 19th December, 1847, by the Lodge Perfect Silence, which will in future meet therein; it has been built at their own expense.

By accounts received from Geneva, it appears great deceptions have been practised by a person calling himself a Freemason, named Peter Paul Gonnard, having levied contributions upon all the brethren he could find, and every lodge he could visit. The Lodge Star of Leman, having ascertained too late the character of the visitor, investigated the circumstances with which they had become acquainted the following day; but the gentleman had left the town, with a large bill remaining unpaid at the inn. The circular of the Grand Orient of France, which publishes the above, adds thereto-that a number of persons are travelling about making demands on the purses of the brethren to which they have no claim, and suggests that every lodge should investigate very strictly the certificates and the petitioners, as many of them will not agree in the ages and other particulars; some certificates are from suspended lodges, or otherwise irregular; and many have fallen accidentally into the hands of the persons presenting them. The Lodge of the United Brethren, at Strasburg, has recently adopted a mode of preventing, as much as possible, a continuance of systematic beggary by means of old certificates, having purchased them of the holders whenever the terms could be arranged mutually satisfactory. The Lodge Frederick of the Rising Sun, at Brieg, proposed sometime since to detain all such certificates if presented under suspicious circumstances. The "Latomia" (No. 21), argues upon the injustice of such a proceeding, but approves of the Strasburg plan of purchase, unless the certificate should be known to have been purloined, or to have belonged to a suspended or erased lodge or brother.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-ODER.—The Lodge Upright Heart, established here seventy years ago, took possession of the new temple on the 18th of December, 1846.

HAMBRO'. The hospital for the cure of diseases, established by the Grand Lodge of Hambro', received the sum of 26,322 marks during the year 1846, and expended 24,029 marks. Fifty men, and two hundred and sixty-seven women, were admitted to the hospital in that period; the funds have been enriched by several valuable legacies.

ULM.-A fund of benevolence, already amounting to a considerable

sum, has been arranged here for the relief of Freemasons and their families.

BASEL.-The third masonic congress will meet this year at Basel (Switzerland); the time has not yet been settled, but the probability is, that it will be sometime in August, if political events on the continent do not interfere to prevent the meeting.

A (new) History of Freemasonry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1685-1784, will shortly appear in German; to which will be appended a Treatise on the Ancient Masons. By G. Kloss, M.D.; procurable and published by Klemm, Leipzic.

CANADA, Montreal.-We are fairly at work in good earnest, and have set apart the annual contribution of four shillings and fourpence from every member of a private lodge to form a fund of benevolence, and have taken preliminary measures to establish a Female Orphan Asylum. Our new Masonic Hall will be ready in the autumn, and will contain lodge and chapter rooms not easily to be surpassed. We reciprocate our Prov. Grand Lodge circulars with the Grand Lodge of the United States. Bro. Harrington has won all hearts, and is for the third time Master of his Lodge as well as Z of the Victoria Chapter, which is in full and prosperous work.

BERMUDA, Hamilton, May 20.-The Atlantic Phoenix Lodge, No. 271, is in a very flourishing state just now, and we have commenced building a masonic temple.

INDIA.

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SINGAPORE, April 7.—To the Editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review.-Sir and Brother-It has afforded the brethren of this island no little satisfaction to find that the frost of indifference to the wants and necessities of lodges on foreign stations, which has so long bound up the considerate feelings of our influential rulers beneath the dais in Great Queen-street, is at length disappearing under the genial influence of the Grand Master, whose honoured name we rejoice in; and I sincerely trust that the same kind and active interest in the welfare of his distant lieges, which has induced him in his exalted place in the Grand Lodge to propose an amelioration of the laws relating to the limited interval for the acquisition of degrees in Craft Masonry, will lead him to the consideration of the other points mooted in your correspondent, a Canton Zetlander's, letter of the 4th September, and the much needed concessions therein contended for be granted. I quite agree in all that has been stated in that letter, and think the Grand Lodge would do a most laudable thing in thus fostering their distant brethren, by granting permission to initiate candidates in foreign stations at the age of eighteen years; rescinding the rule which requires a brother to be a full year a Mason before he can be qualified for the chair, and the time he shall be permitted to occupy it-declarations from the Master and Wardens of

pany set to with appetites only whetted by the delay, to do ample ice to the good things placed before them; a pleasant task, which y promptly and fully accomplished. But a few minutes elapsed er the clatter of the knives and forks, before the Hon. Chairman made appearance, and took his seat amid the cheers of the company. The ies, as soon as the banquet fairly began, retired to a collation prered for them in another room, and though what passed there is of irse a mystery to us, we have no doubt that they were well cared for d satisfied. After the edge had been taken off hunger, and the cloth awn, the ladies re-peopled the gallery. Wines, plentiful and good, ade their appearance with the desert, and the business of the evening mmenced.

The CHAIRMAN gave the first toast, "Her Majesty the Queen," ssing a warm eulogy on the public and private virtues of that illusious lady, drank with three times three, and followed by the national them by a number of professional ladies and gentlemen, who enerously and kindly proffered their gratuitous services.

The next toast from the chair was "Her Majesty the Queen Dowager," "Prince Albert," "Albert Prince of Wales and the rest of he Royal Family," drank with three times three.

The CHAIRMAN said the next toast was the health of the Most Worshipful Grand Master, the Earl of Zetland," whose conduct he was glad to know had the cordial approbation of the Order, because he was certain that every one was aware that it was of the greatest importance to the fraternity to which they belonged to have a person at their head to whom they could look with respect and confidence for the fulfilment of his duties with earnestness, zeal, and satisfaction to those for whom they were undertaken. The Earl of Zetland, filled a position in which the eyes of the greater portion of the world were upon him, and that position was rendered still more difficult by his following that illustrious personage to whom they were so deeply indebted, his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. He was glad to propose the health of the Earl of Zetland, and felt sure that they would receive it with the applause that it merited. The toast was done due honour to.

A Ballad by Miss O'Connor.

The next toast was the "Grand Masters of Scotland, Ireland, and all over the world."

The Messrs. Distin gave one of their beautiful performances on the Saxe-horns.

The CHAIRMAN rose to give the toast of the evening, but before he said anything upon that subject he must apologise for not being there at the time appointed. He regretted the delay exceedingly, but it was caused by some pressing business. In proposing the Asylum, he trusted that all would believe his being there for the second time in the character of Chairman would evince his anxiety for the success of the Institution, upon the anniversary of which they had met-(cheers). He sincerely wished that the position which he filled had been in the hands of one more able than himself to advocate and explain the great objects of the Institution (no, no). He knew that it was unnecessary to the company whom he had the honour of seeing, the large number that had assembled proved that they had in their breasts the firm determination to carry out those objects. He believed that the Institution was first proposed in the year 1835; it would, perhaps, appear to some that there had been considerable delay in carrying out the benevolent intention; but when