CONTINENTAL LODGES. We have great pleasure in presenting to our readers lists of the working and dormant Freemasons Lodges at present registered in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, and their colonies, and are persuaded they will be found not only useful but of considerable importance to every traveller on the Continent. It has long been a desideratum that lists of Lodges abroad should exist in the English language, in order that the members of the Craft when visiting a continental town may know if a Masonic Lodge existed therein, in order that a closer intimacy might be created by the interchange of visits. We had hoped to have been enabled to give the days and places of meeting, but as we are not authentically or officially informed, we deem it better to abstain from giving the information we possess, which might be found incorrect and mislead the Brethren; it will be very easy for them now, knowing that a Lodge is at work in the town they happen to be, and likewise having the name, to ascertain where and when its meetings occur. We are mainly indebted for the information herein contained to the Latomia, and also the Globe, a French Masonic periodical; Annuaire Massonique, a Belgian, and the Netherlandish Year Book, a Dutch Masonic publication. A short history of continental Freemasonry will be found in the volume for 1844, of the present series of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review. Hope (a) 1805 Breda Bergen, Holland, Inseparables Bengal, East Indies, Solomon (a) Berbice, America, Coelum non Mutat Genus (a) 1767 Het Vrij Geweten 1789 1759 Firmness (a) 1773 1799 Briel, Holland, Aurora (a) . 1761 Constancy 1808 Liege Perfect Intelligence and the United Star (c) 1775 Leeuwarden, Holland, Liberal Truth 1782 1757 1800 1758 1770 1876 1800 1833 Discreet Friends Defenders of Leopold and the Country (Namur) 1834 Holland, Neufchatellers United Military Union Namur, Belgium, Good Friendship Nivelles Nicholas, St.. Pleasantness (c) 1836 1790 1799 1771 1807 1819 Negapatnam, India, Wished-for (b). 1774 Oudernarde, Belgium, Aurora 1811 Puntogale, Ceylon, Conqueror (b) 1772 Purmerend, Holland, Louise Auguste 1826 Rotterdam Unity 1781 Royal Frederick 1786 Paris, Grand Orient of France. Supreme Council (Scotch ritual). College of Rites (under the G. O. of France for the 33rd degree). Admirers of the Universe 1808 doubtful 1829 VOL. IV. Bayonne, Pyrenees, Zeal Bedarieux, Herault, True Friends Reunited Bernay, Eure, Intimate Reunion Besançon, Doubs, Constant Friendship Sincerity and Perfect Union 1841 1810 1803 1804 1771 Beaume, Cote D'or, Friends of Nature and Humanity 1805 1821 1811 1812 doubtful Beziers, Herault, Reunion of Chosen Friends Blois, Loir Cher, United Friends Union of Arts and Trades Bordeaux, Gironde, United Friends. English Candour 1810 1813 1803 1804 1778 doubtful 1785 |