reflect a lustre on the annals of Masonry.

"Miss St. Leger was directly descended from Sir Robert De St. Leger,
who accompanied William the Conqueror to England, and was of that high
repute that he, with his own hand, supported that prince when he first
went out of his ship to land in Sussex.

"Miss St. Leger was cousin to General Anthony St. Leger, Governor of
St. Lucia, who instituted the interesting race and the celebrated
Doncaster St. Leger stakes.

"Miss St. Leger married Richard Aldworth, Esq., of Newmarket, a member
of a highly honourable and ancient family, long celebrated for their
hospitality and other virtues. Whenever a benefit was given at the
theatres in Dublin or Cork for the Masonic Orphan Asylum, she walked at
the head of the Freemasons, with her apron and other insignia of
Freemasonry, and sat in the front row of the stage box. The house was
always crowded on those occasions.

"The portrait of this estimable woman is in the lodge room of almost
every lodge in Ireland."

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia.

* * * * *

WEATHER RULES.

(Vol. vii., p. 522.)

Your correspondent J. A., jun., invites further contributions on the
subject to which he refers. Though by no means infallible, such prognostics
are not without a measure of truth, founded as they are on habits of close
observation:

1. "Si sol splendescat Maria Purificante
Major erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante."

Rendered thus:

"When on the Purification sun hath shin'd,
The greater part of winter comes behind."

2. "If the sun shines on Easter-day, it shines on Whit
Sunday likewise."

To this I may add the French adage:

"Quel est Vendredi tel Dimanche."

From a MS. now in my possession, dating two centuries back, I extract the
following remarks on "Times and Seasons," as not wholly unconnected with
the present subject:

"Easter-day never falleth lower than the 22nd of March, and never
higher than the 25th of April."

"Shrove Sunday has its range between the 1st of February and the 7th of
March."

"Whit Sunday between the 10th of May and the 13th of June."

"A rule of Shrovetide:--The Tuesday after the second change of the moon
after New Year's-day is always Shrove Tuesday."

To these I may perhaps be permitted to add certain cautions, derived frown
the same sourc