Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-22
FOREIGN TNFORMATION.

Is to us given,
Till an eternal day
Greeis US in heaven."l
FOREIGN INFORMATION.
From the Masonic Trowel.ls
We have received the Bulletin Of the
! Grand Orient Of France for January,
| lie Monde MdcORnigue for March, and
| La Ctaine d' Union for April, 1867. The
two former are published monthly at
Paris, and the latter semi-mOnthly in
London, in the French language. From
them we extract some items of interest
to the Craft.
The Grand Orient of France has
formed an organization for the promo
ton of education by offering prizes to
the most worthy teachers and scholars.
The work is to be supported by vOlun-
tary contributions. The prizes will be
agreed upon each year, and are to be dis
tribUted 20 the teachers and SCHOLARS OF
both sexes, aud are both honorary and
peeuniary. The whole is to be under the
direction of a committee, with the
Grand Master as head.
Each Mason who subscribes ten francs
per annum, for five years, will receive
the title OF " Founder Any person,
whether a Mason or not, who contributes
enc hundred francs, will be entitled a
4" Benefaet0r," The Grand Orient will
also receive other sums from any per-
sons, who will be registered as "Adher-
ents.n
Propositions will be received from the
Lodges in regard to the prizes to be be-
slowed in their localities, and on these
propositions the Central Committee will
base their DEGREES. The prizes are to be
delivered through the Lodges, and where
there are several Lodges they are to ap-
point Committee to take charge of the
matter. The Central Committee will re-
port annually to the General Assembly,
first submitting such report to the Grand
Council.
In October the Grand Master issued
circular calling on the Masons to sub
scribe to the relief of sufferers by mum
dations, and the amount realized, up TO
January Slst, was i6, ,906 francs.
The Municipal Council OF poulon,
which had previously voted medal to
each member of the Lodge at that place,
"Ia Reunion" who had been dist!n-
guished for their labOrs during the prev
alenee Of the cholera there, on the ocea-
sion of the celebration on June "a, 1866,
also presented the Lodge itself with
medal in commemoration of its services
as q Lodge during the same period. The
medal bore this inscription: To the
Lodge Ia Reunion, the city of Toulon is
grateful
81. Johns Lodge, of Glasgow, having
claimed to have been formed in the year
1857, Ie Monde MdcOHligtt6 asserted that
the pretensiOn was without foundation
in history whereupOn, a member makes
the following 2 Rement " We possess IA
charter from Malcolm CompE@ge, dated
1857, which / have seen. Ygter
has been submitted to theE 4Tin.-
several learned antiquaris ststf.5I mi ?e
pronounced it genuine. st1As eaalso
special charter, gEsH state, tara
the Lion about the g2af hfft -pPFoaqSh /
have not seen, but Of which a copy is
cited Tp, lsePsppendix 20 the Descrip-
flOn fty,@reESheTifdlity Of L0ndrE and
Renk Ks+'by Hamilton of Wishev'.
There exists a third charter from the
reity council, dated 1851, that have
seen. A fourth charter, given by the
Scotch MasOns to Sir William st.
Clair in the year 1923, is signed ty
the Master and Wardeus Of this
LODGE To this le Monde MdeOq-
aiqtte replies, waving the question Of
authenticity, that the privileges
granted BY Malcolm Commore or VIII
liam the Lion are not addressed to phi
losophical Freemasops, as they have ex-
listed since the 18th century, bpt to
corporation of operative AasOBs nearly
always presided over by, or under the
patronage of, persons of rank-and such
as are seen in our day in the corporations
still existing in England-but altogether
different, in its objects, its tendencies, its
organization, and its method of recruit
ing, froHi real FreemasOnry.
From Italy We learn that the Grand
Council in February elesed al the Lodges
in that kingdom until the 20th Of March.
ha as reply to the insinuatiOns of those
who. ealumminating Masonry, wished
TO make it appear that the LOCs s''s, In
violation OF their statutes, were occupy
ing themselves with political matters"
At Tunis there is a Lodge under the ju-
risdietion of the Grand Orient Of Italy.
A correspondent of le Monde, writing
from Alexandria, Egypt, says:
"The brethren of the Lodge Les Re
oeneTdtettrS a. EqJpte are cOngratulating
themselves upon the quiet which
has, amongst them, succeeded the strife.
They have Witnessed the closing of the
greater part of the elanaestine Lodges
which have for some time troubled
them"
At Kingstown, South Africa, the Fra
ternity laid the corner stone af the town
ball.
A chief of one of the native tribes of
lava has been initiated in the Lodge
there. His name is RadiO-Maes-ATio
SOrio-T TaiOndro Negoro. It is believed
that if other native chiefs should decide
to follow his example, a great service
will be rendered to the cause Of civiliZa-
ton iB that country, yet subject to the
most barbarous customs.
ia Par6dite Sincerite" Lodge, at
Marseilles, last February celebrated its
centennial anniversary.
Last October two new Lodges were
established in Moldavia--one at llassy,
the other at Roman. These make five
new Lodges established in that province
and Wsllaehia during 1866.
In December last, Lodge was consti-
tuted at Constantinople, and, judging
from the names of the officers, 1t APP
pears to be composed Of natives Of the
Ottoman empire.
We find in the Bulletin, q very favor
able notice of new work translated
from the German of J. @. Findal, enti-
tied " History of Freemasonry, from its
origin to the present day.n 1t Is also
highly spoken of by the FTeeHIdson's
Md0dziyge of London.
Three new Lodges have been author
lied in Egypt-at Suez, Ismaih and
Port Said.
Among the questions discussed in the
Lodges of France are "the abolition Of
capital punishment" T" the erection of a
statute to Voltaire, I" the utility an inu-
tility of the higher grades" ''the estab-
Iishment of a life insurance company"
"FreemRsonry-what has it been, what
is it, and what may it becomes ?" "Hired
servants, should they be admitted
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or less practical.
The Masons of Hanover are discussing
the important question whether, after
the changes that have been made by the
late war, the ex-King George ought TO
continue to preside as Grand Master OF
the Lodges in his late kingdom, a dig
nifty to which he was not called by the
Grand Lodge, but which he elsimed as
sovereign. The appointment OF a Dep
aty Grand Master by the ex-king would
seem to indicate that be has no intention
of abandoning his functions
By way of France we have news of
our Brethren in England, the postal IA
eilities on printed matter being much
better. than by the direct route. The
annual festival of the 'sRoyai Institu4
ton for Indigent Freemasons and their
Widows took place in London on the
S0th of January. The amount realized
was, in round numbers, $4,000.
From the Masonic Eclectic
THE SAINTS JOHN
BY Bro. JACOB NoRT(EN.
The discussion IN Masonic journals in
relation TO the question Of JohRnnite, or
sectsrian ia Masonry, has thus far
accomplished at least one good result,
viz diffesion Of Masonic information.
The readers OF the Eclectic inust have
been surprised 10 learn from the articles
reprinted from the 4cdcid, that the
Saints John were introduced as "paral-
Iels " and "patrOns as late as the mid