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Independent Grand Lodge For Victoria.
INDEPENDENT GRA ^ ND LOD GE FOR YICTOBIA ,
lJlp > Eit ' . y : this head we publish to-day a letter from Melbourne , signed " A Past Master of English . Lodges , " and which pressure of matter has alone prevented our laying before our readers at an earlier date . W in this letter ; as
well as to the observations m for 'Victoria , at a farewell Banquet given to him on the occasion of his leaving the colony ( also to be found in our present number ) as telling their own tale , and showing the dangers by which English Lodges are surrounded in the colonies , and the influences at work to induce thdhi to throw off their allegiance to the Grand Lodge of
the mother country , Whatever may be said to the contraryand whatever grievances the Canadian Lodges holdin g from England may have suffered under , which we have always acknowledged to : be many , and laboured most assiduously to remove —there can be no doubt that the first cry for independence- — -the first outbreak against supreme authority in Canada—came from the Irish
and Scotch Lodges , and not from the English . The readiness with which the Grand Lodge of Ireland hastened to acknowledge the independent Grand Lodge of Canada led to the spread of the disaffection ; and hence the throwing off of its allegiance to England by the Prov . Grand Lodge of Canada , and the formation of the so called Antient Grand Lodge ; and hence , after considerable difficulty , the union qf the two , and the formation of the present Grand Lodge of Canada ,
te which we are sure we only echo the sentiments of every Brother in fcngland , from the most exalted in position downwards , when we say we wish them every future prosperity and a speedy acknowledgment of their position , when it can be arrived at consistently with the dignity of the Grand Lodge of England and tho safety and interests of those Lodges in Canada still truthful in their allegiance to England .
As it has been in Canada , so are we now threatened in Victoria , through the like influences—the Irish and Scotch Lodges—though th ^ jf stan d in a miserable minority in numher com p ared with English voh . v , 3 n
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Independent Grand Lodge For Victoria.
INDEPENDENT GRA ^ ND LOD GE FOR YICTOBIA ,
lJlp > Eit ' . y : this head we publish to-day a letter from Melbourne , signed " A Past Master of English . Lodges , " and which pressure of matter has alone prevented our laying before our readers at an earlier date . W in this letter ; as
well as to the observations m for 'Victoria , at a farewell Banquet given to him on the occasion of his leaving the colony ( also to be found in our present number ) as telling their own tale , and showing the dangers by which English Lodges are surrounded in the colonies , and the influences at work to induce thdhi to throw off their allegiance to the Grand Lodge of
the mother country , Whatever may be said to the contraryand whatever grievances the Canadian Lodges holdin g from England may have suffered under , which we have always acknowledged to : be many , and laboured most assiduously to remove —there can be no doubt that the first cry for independence- — -the first outbreak against supreme authority in Canada—came from the Irish
and Scotch Lodges , and not from the English . The readiness with which the Grand Lodge of Ireland hastened to acknowledge the independent Grand Lodge of Canada led to the spread of the disaffection ; and hence the throwing off of its allegiance to England by the Prov . Grand Lodge of Canada , and the formation of the so called Antient Grand Lodge ; and hence , after considerable difficulty , the union qf the two , and the formation of the present Grand Lodge of Canada ,
te which we are sure we only echo the sentiments of every Brother in fcngland , from the most exalted in position downwards , when we say we wish them every future prosperity and a speedy acknowledgment of their position , when it can be arrived at consistently with the dignity of the Grand Lodge of England and tho safety and interests of those Lodges in Canada still truthful in their allegiance to England .
As it has been in Canada , so are we now threatened in Victoria , through the like influences—the Irish and Scotch Lodges—though th ^ jf stan d in a miserable minority in numher com p ared with English voh . v , 3 n