TABLE OF CONTENTS But to digress—it must not be supposed that sophical teaching, and it is perfectly clear that as all secret fraternities in ancient times were of an speculative masons, we are not indebted to our Footsteps of Freemasonry 407 amiable and philosophic character, as may be operative friends for their tools. Consecration of a Rose Croix Chapter at Southampton 468 gathered from Livy's account of the destruction The same may be observed of the early A Kind Word to the Brethren 469 Christian writers C ORRESPONDENCE :— of the order of the Bacchanals. , some of the most eminent being What is Freemasonry ? 469 In this instance it occurred to an unscrupulous either stoics or platonists, and who carrying into Ancient Grand Lodge of York 470 Greek brother to invent a new order; we thus find their new calling their accustomed figures of Professor Rawlinson and the Ten Tribes 470 in the testimony of Livy, that inventors of new speech, called the Bible the "Sacred Canon" Libelling the Prime Minister 471 orders even then existed. literally the "Holy Level or Plumb Rule." This The Royal Order of Scotland 4/ 2 Into this order at first onl men, but subse- does not indeed prove them to have been masons, CRAFT M ASONRY :— y Metropolitan 473 quently, the young of both sexes, and at that but shows the phrases of the two bodies had one Provincial 473 immature age when the passions are least under common origin. R OYAL A RCH : control, were initiated. Instead, however, of I think we have already pretty clearly shown Provincial 474 pursuing virtue, they fell to vice, and such vice as whence our emblem of the Apron is derived , K NIGHTS T EMPLAR — brings all heathendom before our eyes. that it is not servilely copied from the working Scotland 475 No nation ever more excelled in virtue than mason, but that it is borne in memory of primeval The Grand Mark Lodge of England 475 peiiod , never times, precisly as our ritual expresses it, as a Freemasonry in Trinidad 476 did Rome in its earlier and better Freemasonry in Italy 477 did a people, not even Sodom itself, sink to such a badge of innocence and bond of friendshi p. Masonic Tidings 477 state of depravity and sensual indul gence as did I may here also, in passing, mention a fact West Lancashire Masonic Reilef Committee 47S that nation within a generation of its Augustan age. accidently omitted in its due place, viz., that our Artemus Ward 47S The Bacchanalian order, however , revolted even division of the day into three parts is essentially Masonic Meetings for next week 478 , and con- Roman. It was expressly so divided b the Advertisements 465, 466, 479, 480 then, and convicted of vice, perjury, y spiracy, its doom was signal, for by order of the "Laws of the twelve tables," and for nearly FOOTSTEPS OF FREEMASONRY Senate it was stamped out in ignominy, violence, 500 years remained the unchanged and only OK , and blood. practice, the hours were subsequentl y added. F REEMASONRY IN R ELATION TO A UTHENTIC It was probably the signal success ot violence Although 1 have not at all , myself, investigated H ISTORY . in putting down this association, that induced the the fact, and by no means vouch for it, "Masson" Emperors in the next age to try the same dealing is said to be a Coptic word, signifying Brother. By W. Vis EH H KI .OWE . M.D., J.D. 1322. l ion. Sec., Research would be interesting. Sph yux Lod ge of Instruction. with the Christians, but how different was the re- sult,—different as is vice from virtue. It may not In attempting to chronologise our system , I

(Continued Jroni pngr 382 J however be uninteresting to the Masonic brother should say that Freemasonry, up to and including In endeavouring to trace the Footsteps of Free- to bear in mind that the first systematic persecu- the first part of the third degree, is essentially masonry, it has ever been far from my intention tion , (for it extended through all Italy,) and by Roman in its character, and resembles the so- to suppose or leach that it existed of old under its success probabl y the forerunner of that of the cieties which existed there under the Republic, its modern name and denomination. Thus we Christians, was caused by a new order invented having been founded by Nuraa. speak of the British Constitution as existing and developed in folly, sin, and shame. There Secondly, under the Empire, B.C. 2S, and for before the " glorious Revolution ," and though it are few pursuits more interesting than to trace the a generation previously, i.e., after the conquest did not always bear that name, yet the traditions, sequences of history. of Greece, Grecian ideas penetrated, pervaded , laws, and customs, which we summarise by that We may also here notice that 111 this new and modified this equally with all other insti- appellation , modified only by time and circum- society, the slave-born were not excluded , anil it tutions. From this influence also arose our stances, have existed from time immemorial. became a rule to initiate none over twenty years. philosophy, and the introduction from the Stoic It is, as the French term it, the " analogue " of We all know the importance our " constitutions ' teachings of our Geometrical emblems. I believe what formerly existed , and, as the crocodile may attach to botli these points, and it is not impos- also that these institutions were finally arranged be said to be the " analogue " of the Saurian sible that the follies and destruction of this ordei about the second century of the Christian era. monsters of the geological periods, and is the form may have allbrded a warning never forgotten. I will request permission to make an extract under which their type has descended to our times, There is another subject I wish to refer to. In from a very great authority, the German writer so is our Freemasonry the " analogue " of those a previous article a quotation from Cicero's Ora- Tenneman , who remarks " the political , religious, ancient associations which formed , in fact, " the tion for Murena was given , describing Cato as and moral conditions of the Roman emp ire dur- basis and superstructure " of Roman society. squaring the conduct 01 his life by the " right ing the first century of the Christian era were The more Freemasonry is contemplated , the rule of reason," and but for want of space in that not such as to animate and sustain a sp irit of more wonderful does it seem , and a critical con- communication , should have dwelt upon its im- philosop hical research , but a mania for the sideration of the ritual, will soon convince the portance. Indeed, it is a very important fact for strange, and extraordinary neglect of the pop- most sceptical that, however modern may seem its us to ascertain that men , not being operative ular reli gion and superstition , and extinction of form, yet that its essentials have been handed masons, did actuall y profess to govern their lives all noble sentiments prevailed ; consequentl y the down from ancient times. This may have been symbolically by the square, level, anil plumb rule, endeavours of the wise and reasoning; amongst done ignorantly, by men who neither knew nor and used them as emblems. The literal trans- them were directed in various wafs : comprehended their meaning, for it is only when lation of what Cicero says is, that Cato regulated 1 st. To maintain and modify the schools we compare it by the li ght of history with the his life by the "normam ," that is , the mechanic's alread y existing. habits, institutions, and philosophical sects of the square, and the duties of his oflice, by the "per- antil y. To revive the neglected doctrines of ancient Romans, that we can detect its true and pendiculum ," that is, the mechanic's plumb their forefathers, as for example the " Pythago- ptoper significations. We may, indeed, put the rule. rean philosophy " (so much identified with Free- converse, and ask what have we which they had The very learned l'ortroyalist commentator on masonry). not, even to the very signs. In fact, ancient Free- this passage remarks that these were not only 3. To combine the various systems of Plato, masonry was the same as the modern, minus the proverbidl phrases amonst the Greeks in common Aristotle, ike., (not forgetting even Zoroaster and traditional history. I fearlessly assert that the life, but that the Stoics especiall y adopted these Hermes) and to trace the former ones back 10 men who, in modern times, have moulded its mechanical emblems, and used them commonly the ancient dogmata, or teachings of Pytha- forms and dictions, were altogether incapable of in their teachings. goras. inventing the scaffolding on which it hangs, and Here, then, we have, undoubtedly, the highest 4thl y. To combine also in one the spirit of I believe the question of its ancient existence to and clearest authority for the use of the square, " eastern and western philosophy." have a most important bearing on the well-being level , and plumb rule, and all seem to have been It was at this period , likewise, at the com- and influence of our institution. included under the term of " norma ," in philo- mencement of the second century , that Adnii.v first codified the Roman laws (an object not modern times, and the era of the council of Nice, A Rose Croix Chapter having been opened , yet attained in England) under the title of the by which in religious matters we are all more or the following candidates were introduced and ' "Edictum perpetuum," and Schlegel adds that less still bound. regularly admitted into the Order, viz. :—Bros. no longer bent upon conquest, the better Ro- It is not my object to describe the condition of Dr. Robert Welch, George T. Harper, Henry W. mans solely and exclusively devoted themselves affairs at this time, the policy of the state, or its Bull, and Robert Sharpe, and under dispensation to the regeneration of public morals, according effect upon the world at large. It is sufficient Bro. J. Biggs was obligated as Equerry. to those ideal conceptions formed of old Rome for us to say that all Roman institutions, natu- The Supreme Council then retired , and shortly in her earlier and happier days. rally, necessarily, and as history proves, were afterwards re-entered in procession , and were re- " When none was for a party, but all were carried there also. But history likewise bears ceived by the Brethren in the usual manner. for the state, • witness that the philosophy and literature , al- The ceremony of Constitution and Consecra- Then the great man helped the poor, and the though declined from its high state of Augustan tion then took place, it being performed most poor man loved the great perfection, spread abroad among the Roman solemnly by the Supreme Council, assisted by Then lands were fairly portioned , then spoils colonies, which under now Christianized Rome, Bro. Hyde Pullen, and evidently made very were fairly sold. assumed a degree of wealth and cultivation, great impression on the brethren assembled. The Romans were like brothers in the brave which the remains of towns, temples, roads, The new Chapter was then proclaimed under the days of old. brid ges, and aqueducts, spread over half of title of the " Canute " Chapter Rose Croix. This same condition of things, as above de- Europe, attest to this day. The M.W.S. designate, Bro. William Hick- fined , existed even up to the time of Constantine Rome's loss turned, therefore, to the advantage man, ,30° (Past A.D.C. of the Grand Lodge of the great, and the removal of the seat of empire of other cities, and in the wake of commerce and England) was then installed by Bro. Hyde to Constantinople in the fourth century of the cultivation flocked all the institutions which dis- Pullen, and the following brethren were ap- Christian era , may be looked upon as a mid- tinguished Rome, as now, in our days, do British pointed to fill the various offices 111 the Chapter point in history between ancient and modern institutions. by the M.W.S., viz. .—Bros. Rev. Basil Wilber- times. This is not a matier of inference, but capable force, Le Feuvrc, Pocoek , Harper, Stebbing, Our system bears the strongest evidence of the of the clearest proof , and that the masonic insti- Welch, Bull , Sharpe, and others. peculiar teachings of tin's period , and it may con- tutions of those days still flourished , even for ages, A vote of thanks was then proposed and fidently be said that at this same epoch Masonry we may be certain from the fact wc have already carried with acclamation to the Supreme Council proper plumed its wings for its flight through noticed , viz., that the sodality or brotherhood of for their having so kindl y attended and conducted time. the Lupercalii , was still nourishing in the 6th the proceedings on this interesting occasion. Up to this period it is most certain that no century, when it was actually strong enough to A similar vote was also most heartily awarded trace of our traditional history was to be found, require for suppression an imperial edict of the to Bro. Hyde Pullen , and in proposing it the that no vestige of Hebraism could have mingled Emperor Anastatius, it is presumed from savour- M.W. Sovereign referred to the many pleasur- with the brotherhoods of those days. It is only ing too strongly of heathen traditions, and for the able recollections of former meetings with him present we leave it. In stating this I consider it necessary to glance at the writers of those times— , in masonic work in the neighbourhood. ¦ full and efficient proof that those brotherhoods of at Horace, with his cutting ribaldry on the "cur- Bro. Stebbing having also added a few eloquent which Cicero gives so beautiful a description tailed Jew," or at Juvenal's smooth satires on remarks in recognition of the high appreciation " " existed also, and with the renewed love of the their " sabbaths and their " pigs, —to show in of Bro. Pullen by Hampshire Masons, the votes better and wiser Romans, for all which being what mockery they were held. Further, and as were very heartily responded to, and the chapter ancient was also good and virtuous, it cannot be if to prove that no Israelite of those days would was closed with the usual ceremonies. doubted that their masonic philosophy was culti- have entered into any institution embracing gen- A very sumptuous banquet was provided in an with that love which , rightly understood, it ought tiies, and that certainly no Jewish masonic insti- adjoining room of the Hall, and the Brethren ever to inspire. tutions existed , Tacitus expressly says, " they celebrated the opening of the new Chapter by Masonry, in fact, is either a philosophy, or it is will neither eat with, associate with, nor assist and spending a most enjoyable evening together round nothing, but as a philosophy, and as such alone, comfort any person whatever, save those of their the festive board, exchanging mutual congratula- do I exhort my brethren to guard its secrets, bj own faith ; to all others they show hostility and tions on the success of the meeting, and antici- practising them , and proclaim its mysteries b) hate. Juvenal , in another place adds, " they pating that the new Chapter will soon become a will neither direct the lost and wandering way- their lives, thus proving— very important and influential addition to the farer into the right road ,' nor the traveller , l hat some there be that by due steps aspire Masonic body in this neighbourhood. Many fainting with heat and thirst, to the fountain, To lay their right hands on that glorious key other candidates are desirous of joining the unless of their own sect." That ope's the portal. Order, but from other engagements were not We know very well that this feeling did not In our next we propose to continue the refer able to attend for admission on this day of meet- diminish, but rather increased , when Christian ence to the Hebraic tradition. ing. The banquet was provided by Bro. Dart- domination had produced Christian fanaticism nail (No. 130 Craft Lodge) in his usual excellent (for the old Romans were not intolerant) , and I manner, and gave entire satisfaction to all pre- believe, speaking criticall y, that the Jews never CONSECRATION OF A ROSE CROIX sent. The room was covered with flags and possessed even the mental power of forming any CHAP TE R AT SOUTHAMPTON. banners, and the table ornamented in the most masonic institution whatever ; there is no trace of On the 29th July, at the Masonic Hall in beautiful manner with ruby-coloured fruit and it among ilie ancient Jews, and it had been a Southampton , the ceremony of constituting and flower-stands, decorated with roses and other moral impossibility. Even if we consult their consecrating the Canute Rose Croix Chapter flowers, and massive candelabra , making a most great writer of thuse days, Philo-fudeus , who, took place. The following members of the elegant and appropriate appearance. like St. Paul , his contemporary, was a Pharisee Order were present :—III us. Bros. C. J. Vi gne, Letters of regret for non-attendance through and a platcmist , he makes no sign. 33°, G. Com. ; Gen. H. Clerk , 33°, G. Chan. ; other engagements were received from the mem- "Sure naught masonic lodges in that breast 0 J. M. P. Montagu , 33 G. Sec ; Hyde Pullen , bers of the Supreme Council who were not pre- And with no rapture moves the vocal air 0 0 0 0. ; Gen. Doherty, 31 ; C. A. Newnham, 31 . sent , and from Bro. Beach, ALP., the Prov. Grand To testisfy its hidden residence. 3 Capt. Thayre, A'. A'., ,30°; Rev. P. H. Newnham, Master (who was abroad), Bro. J. Hervey (the This also brings us to an important crisis in 0 °; Willet Adye, 30 W . Hickman , .30° ; F. Grand Sec. of England), Bro. Coombs ° the history of the world .30 ; J. J. , 32 ; , a crisis big with the 0 0 Starkey, 30 ; J. Read , 30; Montague Guest, Bro. R. Spiers, 32°; Capt. Burgess, 30 (M.W.S. fate of masonry and of Rome, when Rome itself, 0 M.P., i8° ; Rev. Basil Wilberforce, 18 ; J. R. St. George's Chapter, London) ; Bro. F. -C. the proud mistress of the world , gorged with lust J Stebbing, iS' ; W. H. Ford , 18°, M.W.S. Royal M'Calmont ° Bro. C. F. Arden 0 AI.W.S. and crime, and blood , 30 ; , 30 , , was to see her empire pass J 0 away, and give place to a hated rival. 1 refer to Naval Chapter; T. G. I .[order , i8 , M.W.S. Vigne Weymouth ; Rev. Bro. Pettat , 18 ; Prov. G. 0 the removal of the Roman capital to Constanti- Chapter ; J. K. Le [•'euvre , 18° ; J. N. Pocoek , Chap lain ; Bro. George Kenning, 30 ; and nople in the 4th century, the very threshold ol 18° ; George Lungley, i8° ; and other brethren. others. A KIND WORD TO THE BRETHREN to abstain utterly,—for when a brother has once Let us do our dut3' to our brethren and our fallen, there is no certain remedy but in total fraternity, to the wives and children of our Ma- Not that we are receiving too many members abstinence. If he hear not individual brethren, sonic household, and to a world to be influenced into our Order, for the greater number, consis- let the. Lodge, in a spirit of kindness and brother- by our example. tent with thorough instruction and Masonic ly love, appoint a good and benevolent member Is not drinking healths becoming to common discipline, the more servicable to the great to talk officially with him, and if unsuccessful, here and throughout the land ? Is not a gentle- principles we advocate. But are we not frequent- increase the number of the committee, and pro- man and a brother sometimes denominated un- ly receiving persons and hastily urging them on, test and multiply effort to save the brother. sociable unless he repeats it again ? We cannot of whose character, habits, and reputation we Find out where the temptation lies, and apply better illustrate the absurdity of this practice than know but little ? We have before adverted to the remedy. Let the Lodge persevere in doing by the case of the German nobleman who once the exclusion ot the selfish, for how can they good. Let exclusion be the last resort. Thus paid a visit to Great Britian , when the practice engage in any great work for the relief of a may we do our duty to the erring brethren, ancl of toasting and drinking healths was at its height. brother or humanity ? We always find such at the same time to the brotherhood. Thus Wherever he went, during a six month's tour, imposing some obstacle to charitable purposes will something be done to save the Craft. he found himself obliged to drink, though never and benevolent action. We have frequentl y But more is necessary. A drunken brother so loath. He must drink with every one who referred to the importance of truth as a qualifica- will be very likely to attract those like himself would be civil to him, and with every one, too, tion. Can a man who is guilty of prevarication , into the Lodge. Be constant in watchfulness who wished a convenient pretext for taking who is dishonest in his opinions, who has no here. Use the blackball in every case where another glass. He must drink a bumper in honour conception of princ i ple in politics or reli gion, the probabilities are of evil result. We would of the King and Queen, in honour of Church and engage in search after truth nnd in its propaga- also suggest that the Lodge censure any brother and State, in honour of the army and navy. How tion ? recommending a petitioner known to be of often did he find himself retiring, with throbbing But are we not now in danger, great danger, unstead habits. temples and burning cheeks, from these scenes of suffering as a society from the vice of intem- y Generally in this matter are we doing our of intrusive hospitality. At length his visit drew perance ? Are we not in clanger of the repetition full duty ? While seeking to promote that to a close ; and to requite, in some measure the of the scenes preceding the anti- Masonic , temperance, which forms one of the noblest attention that had been lavished upon him, he tornado ? We may have provided against the and most comprehensive of the Christian vir- made a great entertainment. Assembling those credit system then so much in use in the Lodges, tues, are we staying drunkenness, with its who had done him honour, he gathered them and thus have saved the Order from the influence legion of ills ? We know how it diseases the around a most sumptuous banquet, and feasted of men in debt to it, a burden and ready to body and disturbs the equilibrium of the intellect, them to their utmost content. The tables were become its enemies, finding it easier to cancel and poisons the springs of generous affection in then cleared. Servants entered with two enor- the obligation by abjuration. We have for ever the heart, and lays a ruthless hand upon the mous hams ; one was placed at each end ; slices escaped the repetition of a violent and gross whole moral and and spiritual nature, what it were cut and passed round to each guest, when persecution ; but we doubt whether this was an does to its poor victim (and he a brother some- the host rose and with all gravity said evil to Freemasonry. Persecution and adversity , "Gentle- times), and its ravages in Masonic households. men, I give you the King ! please eat to his are as essential, occasionally, to a society as to an We know its blight on happiness and virtue, and honour." His guests protested. They had individual. Have we escaped the ravages of even hope. We know the palpable shame, ancl dined ; they were Jews they were alread sur- intemperance in our midst r We may boast of ; y misery, ancl guilt, about the drunkard's home ; charged through his too generous cheer. But our comparative freedom in this regard, and that the desolate hearts and cold hearths, where want he was inflexible. " Gentlemen " temperance prevails among us to a greater degree , said he, " for breaks in as an armed man, and the wife (or six months you have compelled than in any other institution ; but are we free— me to drink at sister) is heart-broken or debased, ancl the your bidding Is it too much that are we doing our duty ? Shall Masonry contri- . you should children are demoralized, where ribaldry , blas- bute in the least to the encouragement of now eat at mine ? I have been submissive ; why and obscenity abound. Do we not intemperance ? God forbid. With her claims phemy, should you not follow my example ? You will realize that we have a duty, and ' are we not please do honour to your King ! You shall then for regard as a means of temperance, can she resolved that the vice of intemperance shall find be served with another slice in honour of the endure an evil official example ; Can our society no sanction nor protection from our Order ? Queen, another to the prosperity of the Royal for a moment tolerate drunkenness in any of famil , its officers ? Should partiality for friends, or There is no hope for those who have once y, and so on to the end of the chapter — fallen but in total abstinence Michi commiseration for the unfortunate, permit the , and fearful is the gan Freemason. account of those brothers who place temptation retention of a man who is not perfectly sober, in any post of honour or distinction ? Should we before such. We know the case of a young brother not be immovable here, and in no case yield- , of ©tiginiil <&Mmp)xtimct no ordinary promise, ing ? Tempted by no great capability of serving who unhappily had con- as officers ? Better never have a degree conferred, tracted habits of intemperance. His excess WHAT IS FREEMASONRY ? than to give countenance to this vice in our brought grief to a large circle of friends ancl To the Editor of the Freemason. Dear Sir, and Brother, distinctl understand relatives, ancl to the Lodge of which he was a midst. Let such officer y This is a question often asked, and very member. The earnest and kind remonstrances that he must promptly resign or be tried and easily answered by any Freemason, who will tell degraded. Let no personal tenderness intervene. of friends and the Lodge led him to desist, and you, that it is a " peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated b symbols." Such officers are men of noble social traits, understanding the philosophy of his case, he y ¦ I was initiated into the mysteries and privileges firmly resolved to abstain the rest of his who gather around our sympathies, and it is of Freemasonry in the year 183j, and I then de- difficult to act. Love the man no less, but the days. termined to learn " what it was all about." I learnt the working of a Lod , and soon became the whole Brotherhood more. Not long after, in a social circle, he was urged ge whole Order, its W.M. I was a subscriber and an occasional to drink and be agreeable. A brother urged him , Do what you can to save the Brother, but let correspondent to the " Quarterly Review " and ' no tenderness stop you in your duty to the Lodge, and a brother s wife. Yes, these unwittingly read every new work by Dr. Oliver and other Masonic writers and not onl read, but took oc- for fear this example may prove contagious, and urged this brother, lately so lost, and a brother so , y casional notes of my readings, and I would say to marvellously redeemed. Yes, they became the and the Lodge become like the Master. my Brethren in the Craft, if you wish to Jefferson once expressed his conviction, the instrument of his downfall. With banter he become Masons in the proper sense of the word, Editor, there result of long and varied experience, that no man was cheated out of his noble purposes. He fel t go and do likewise ; you know Mr. ge and the demon waking from temporary sleep, and he are hundreds of Masons who attend lod should be entrusted with office who drank. So banquet, and then think they have done all that our experience admonishes us in Freeemasonry. said to a brother, " Now I have tasted once is required of a Mason, and have nothing more to " of Masonry . Again, what shall be done with erring brothers more, and I must drink on. He did drink on, learn. What, can such an one think ' who take any in- and died a drunkard's death, and was borne to a I advise all young Masons, holding no official position ? Try to reform and terest in the Craft, to subscribe to your paper, as save. Talk, with them, urge them to decision, grave of shame. a stepping stone to the study of Masonry, and I have no doubt that in the end, some of them, at The only degrees practised in York, were the he has formed of his own capabilities for disposing any rate, will become experienced and good Three Craft Degrees, the Royal Arch, and quite of the question , and the assurance he feels of Masons. late in last century, about 1780, the Masonic being able to dissipate, by a few strokes of his I will now give you answers to the question at Knights Templar Degree ! pen , the delusion by which, he believes, many thehead of this letter, given by some of our Brethren 2. I fail altogether to follow Bro. Norton's deep-thinking and learned men are led astray ! experienced in the Craft, which I have from time argument as regards the comparative price of That the question upon which the Professor to time, in my readings, noted down, should you wages. now writes is one of much interest, he shews, think them worthy of a place in your paper. In the fourteenth century, the Master Mason in calling attention to the published literature of The Rev. Dr. Oliver , in a note to his Historical was a person of hi gh education and high wages, the subject , which " is so large ," he says, " that Landmarks of Freemasonry, says that " Free- and ranked generally as a " genirosus," or gen- even a condensed account of it, would occupy masonry is an institution sift generis ; no other tleman , while the Masons " ensmentarii ," and more space than can be afforded to it, within the society can be compared with it, it exists solely their assistants, were all very well paid , indeed, limits of this article." of itself. It eclipses all the institutions and orders and above the average of common workmen T.his is not overstating the fact, and it might in the world, which have been on shall be elsewhere. be thought that a writer who thus calls attention (Christianity alone excepted). The numerous Bro. Norton falls into the mistake he has, by to it, would have been restrained from speaking or attempts which ever have been made at different forgetting a very important question , the value writing contemptuously, not only of those who periods to expose it to public derision , and destroy of money then and now. happen to differ from him in the view he takes of its existence have all signall y failed. Every If we want to ascertain to-day the compara- the subject, but of those who " waste their powers attack has produced an effect contrary to the tive value of money and wages, say as regards of ratiocination upon a question that has been wishes and antici pations of its projectors. The the fourteenth century, we must add fourteen examined, sifted, argued out, and put away as most vindictive assault has tended to enlarge the times to the amount then, to get the present 'done with.' "' In like manner,the Professor speaks place of its tents, to stretch forth the curtains of value, or some writers even say, fifteen times ! of a book which has received the most respect- its habitation , to lengthen its cords and strengthen If we take this test, and study the York ful attention and called forth expressions its stakes," His Royal Highness the Duke of Fabric Rolls of 1370 , and onwards, we shall of profound admiration , for both its sub- Sussex (our former G.M.) thus described our soon see that the Masons were well paid. stance and its sty le, from scholars, if not so excellent institution :—" Masonry," said he, " is If we descend to 1 r.8j, we may freel y add ten deeply read in history as the Camden Professor , one of the most sublime and perfect institutions times, and about seven times to 1 600, so as to yet having a reputation for much learning, critical that ever was formed for the advancement of get the comparative value of wages and money. acumen, and sound judgment, as being made happiness and the general good of mankind ; There is, therefore, reall y no force in the argu- up of " arguments of the most flimsy and un- creatine in all its varieties universal benevolence ment that the Masons were too poor to go to substantial kind ," the book being " after a short and brotherly love. It holds out alluivmerits so York to attend the Grand Assembly, as they time forgotten , no traces of the op inions put captivating as to inspire the brotherhood with were always ;i well paid body , and were, in forth in it having been adopted by any writer of emulation to deeds of glory, such as must command truth, the skilled artizans of those days. any (or even of no) reputation "; that is, between throughout the world veneration and applause, 3. With regard to the earliest mention of 1843 and 1870. What has the Professor been and such as must entitle those who perform them York as the place of the meeting of the Masons, doing,during the quarter of a century he speaks of? to dignity ancl respect. though it is not in Halliwell's MS., or Matthew Have Babylonian bricks and Assyrian cylinders so It teaches us those useful , wise, and instructive Cocke's, yet we find it in Dowland's copy, absorbed his attention that he has been wholly doctrines, upon which alone true happ iness is which represents a very old form , and that " cyte," oblivious of what has occup ied the minds and founded ; and at the same time affords those easy mentioned both in the poem and the additional engaged the pens of hundreds of learned ancl de- paths by which we attain the rewards of virtue. MS., may fairly be assumed to be " York." vout men, who have been induced to adopt the It teaches us the duties which we owe to our Dowland's form represents a very old ori- opinions he writes so disparag ing l y of, ancl puts neighbour, never to injure him in any one situa- ginal (not yet found), not later than 1300 , and I away as " done with "? To be ignorant that the tion, but to conduct ourselves with justice anil see no reason whatever for rejecting the old question has, during the years the Professor impartiality ; it bids us not to divul ge the mystery Masonic Legend of York being the place of speaks of, been treated as a topic of great interest, to the public, and it orders us to be true to our meeting of the Grand Assembly. in the religious world, at home and' abroad , may trust, and above all meanness \\w\ dissimulation , 4. Alhelstan is mentioned in all the MSS., not be a matter for censure ; but it is a disquali- and in all our vocations lo perform reli giously and as his date was about 927, it is hardly cor- fication for writing upon it, ancl especiall y for that which we ought to do." rect to say that nothing is found of his date writing upon it in a tone of disparagement and Brother Robinson , D.P.G.M. for Cornwall , until 1717. almost of contempt of those who " waste their in an address to the brethren at Falmouth , thus j. It is quite true that St. Alban is not men- time and and thought " in reading what may be describes our ancient fraternity :—•" Its profes- tioned in the poem , so far as memory serves written on the other side. sion," he said , " instructs and enjoins us to wor- me now, without any book to refer to, but lie To enumerate the names of those who have shi p and adore our Almi ghty Maker, to honour is mentioned in Matthew Cooke's MS. about espoused and written in furtherance of the views and obey the soverei gn of our country, to be 1490 . put forth in " Our Origin ," during the twenty- peaceful and order!)' in all our stations, dili gent 6. And though it is quite true that no Charter five years the Professor speaks of, would far in our callings, upri ght and honest in our deal- from Alhelstan has yet turned up, 1 am not exceed the limits within which I must confine ings, obedient and respectful tow ards our superiors, prepared to admit that such never existed , or myself, but I may mention Professor Piazzi gentle ancl condescending to our inferiors , merci- may not even yet exist , as I have already pre- Smyth , Astronomer Royal of Scotland , author ful towards our enemies, considerate, mild , and viousl y shewn, the a pri ori probability of Alhel- of several learned works on the Great Pyramid, indulgent in our censures, and kind , courteous stan granting a Charter to the Masonic guilds. and Ancient Egyptain Life ; Dr. George Moore, ancl obliging in all the relative duties of life." A M ASONIC S TUDENT . of Hastings, author of " the Use of the Body The Rev. Brother John Russell , P.G., in relation to the Mind ," " The Lost Tribes, or Chaplain for Devon , in his sermon before the the Saxons of the East ancl West." " The ancient P. G. Lodge at Barnstap le, said , " The precepts PROFESSOR RAWLINSON AND THE Pillar Stones of Scotland," ike. ; the Rev. of the Gospel were universally the obli gations of Tomlin TEN TRIBES. Jacob , author of " A Comparative Vocab- masonry : so far from containing aught that was ulary of 48 Languages," "An exposition of the inconsistent with the Gospel , the love of the To the Editor if the Freemason. Apocalypse," ike.; the late Rev. Alexander Dallas, brotherhood , the fear of God , and the honour of Dear Sir and Brother,— Dr. Marsh, and Dr. Campbell ; Mr. R. Govett , the Queen , were three of the bri ghtest Jewels of We may be tolerabl y certain that when a author of " English derived from Hebrew, with Masonry—three of its richest ornaments—three man of piofound learning, who has many im- glances at Greek ancl Latin ; " and Mr. Robert of its first and leading princi ples." perative calls upon his time, and who occup ies, Mimpriss, whose " Gospel Treasury and Ex- I am , Dear Sir and Brother, moreover , the chair of a Professor in the University pository Harmony of the Four Evangelists," Yours faithfull y and fraternall y of Oxford , turns aside from his usual course, to partly the work of Mr. Wilson, whose views ) J. T. S IIAI ' LANI , P.M. 421. address himself to a subject that does not properl y on the Israelites pervade it , and of which R.A., 312 , and M. M.( 9 fall in his way, it must be because he attaches there have been editions, in different sizes, South Moulton, some importance to it , either for its truth ancl the sold to the number of more than 30,000 cop ies. July 29th , 1S72 consequences resulting from it, or for its sup- These are all men of some reputation ; and it posed erroneousness and the mischief it is likel y may be safely affirmed , because the proof is at THE ANCIENT GRAND LODGE OF to produce. hand, that during the period that Professor YORK. In the " Leisure Hour" of July 6th, which a Rawlinson supposes thequestionof "OurOrigin" Bro. Jacob Norton 's letter in the last number friend lias been good enough to send to me, I to have been dead ancl put away as " clone with," of the Freemason , appears to me to require a few find a paper, bearing the name of Professor it was exciting a very livel y interest throughout remarks .-mil rnrtvrtinnQ Rawlinson, "' author of the Five Great Mon- the United Kingdom, in America, where the i. There never has reall y been any question archies," and sundry other erudite works, some work was republished and largely circulated , ancl among those who have looked into the .subject of which , especiall y his " Five Great Monarchies," in such distant regions as Syria and Palestine. for sometime past , about the " York Rite." They would induce one to believe that he is one of the But as if awaking out of sleep, Professor Raw- have long known that it is a complete misno- men most likely to throw some li ght on the in- linson finds that afte r a lapse of five and twenty mer, in as far and inasmuch as it claims to ori- teresting question he has chosen to dilate upon , years, Mr. Wilson 's " views have been reas- ginate at York, or to be a product of the York " Where are the Ten Tribes r " And the sty le serted," in a a sort of reproduction of his work— Grand Lodge. in which he writes, and the supercilious terms in " Our Israclitish Origin—in a modern form ; " The York Rite, as it is called , has really which he speaks of those who have given to the but though " the brochure is having a wonderful nothing whatever to do with the York Grand enquiry the most dili gent study, and have circulation ," it " is not," he says, " calculated to Lodge, but is a production of the middle of the written the most largel y and intelli gently upon it, produce the slightest effect on the op inion of last century. evinces, very unmistakeably, the high estimate those competent to form one," but " only on the ignorant ancl unlearned ; and to refute it, there- made in the Assyrian ruins, that it is no question in numbers as to be termed a remnant , the Judaites fore, " would be waste of labour, for which " as to what Assyrian king completed the conquest with whom they had so long lived in 'enmity . the Professor has " no inclination. " Nevertheless, of Israel. We are not left in doubt whether it and with whom they were engaged in a desolating Professor Rawlinson , animated by a praiseworthy was Shalmaneser or Sargon, for the discovery of war, up to the crowning of their calamities by the desire to do good, leaves his professor's chair, Sargons' Palace, at Korsaban , by M. Botta, in Assyrians, would never have been permitted to and his profounder studies, for a time, in the. 1842 , and the decyphering of an inscription on march through the land unmolested , and " break hope of " preventing, in the future,the recurrence the wall of the great hall there, and which, there down the altars and the groves, and beat the of such idle and unprofitable exercitations as the is reason to believe was written or dictated by graven images into.powder , and cut down all the ' ' identifications ' on our Israelitish Origin," and Sargon himself, says, " I besieged, took, and idols, throughout all the land of Israel." (2) "The in " checking such speculations , and curtailing occupied the city of Samaria , ancl carried away great Passover celebrated by Josiah was attended the waste of time and thought which at present 37,280 persons who dwelt in it. " Thus much not only by all Judah , but by the children of takes place in the reading of them." for the Professor 's precision ; now for his facts, Israel that were found," (ch. xxxv. 17, 18.) But , Those who are so unfortunate as to entertain arguments, etc. I submit here, as I have done on the Professor's the views thus characterized and tabooed by the What may be meant by the phrase, " carried first proof, that the argument points in the other Professor, might readily submit to the imputa- away wholly into captivity ," I will not under- direction. Indeed, the very phraseology em- tions of stupidity or folly, of unlearning and igno- take to determine ; if it be meant that every indi- ployed to represent the presence of Israelites rance, thus put upon them, if, in following this vidual Israelite was not carried away, it is not to at this great Passover in itself determines the great luminary for " more light," or in the hope be disputed. But that is not the question. question. Upon the approach of Shaltuanezer of finding something which might induce them Was the carrying away such as to transplant the upon Samaria , many of the Israelites, no doubt , to re-examine the foundation upon which they ten tribes, as a nation, into the territories of the tied into Judea , as well as into the coasts of Tyre rest, they did not, instead, find themselves in the Assyrian conqueror ; or was it that only the ancl Sidon , and such as were at Jerusalem and condition of the poor countryman who wearied flower of the people were taken away, leaving a such of the remnant as were left in the cities of himself, all day, in toiling up " a long rode that considerable portion of them in their own land ? Israel, as were disposed to do so, joined in the led noware." The " teachings of history," by I submit, with all deference to so great an autho- celebration of the great festival. The authorised which the Professor undertakes to correct our rity, that the carry ing away of the people was version says " such of the children of Israel a.-> errors and stop " our waste of time and thought," so general as to justify the statement, that Israel were present , i.e., in Jerusalem , kept the Passover do not comprise a single fact or incident with was carried away wholh) into captivity, leaving at that time ;" or, as the translators have it in which those who have studied the subject have the land in a state of desolation. My reasons are the margin , more literally, such as were foj nd.— not long since become familar; and which I may (1) That it is so stated in the only record to their number being so few in the land , that they add, have not all and often been " thoroughly dis- which Professor Rawlinson refers. When the had to be " searched for," "and found." cussed, examined, sifted , argued out , and put wife of Jeroboam went to consult the Prophet One may certainly concede to the Professor away as ' clone with.' " Ahijah, the old man uttered this terrible and to Dr. Davidson, whom he quotes, that " th.; It is somewhat mortilying when looking for a threat , " the Lord shall smite Israel , as a reed is country had not been so depopulated as to posses-; piece of bread t:> have a stone thrust upon one ; shaken in the water; and He shall root up Israel no Israelite whatever," but we cannot permit anv and scarcely less so, when a learned Professor , out of this good land, which He gave to their mere inference from the fact just noticed, to s*-.i who, in his own department of knowledge, is fathers ; ancl shall scatter them beyond the river, aside the unequivocal statement of the sacred inferior to few, condescends to go out of his way, because they have made their groves, provoking text, that " the Lord was very angry with Israel , with the laudable purpose of " putting down " the Lord to anger."' (i- Kings xiv. 13.) Surely and removed them out of his sight, so. that there false and ignorant teachers, who are causing men no language could more clearly pourtray the ex- was none left The Lord rejected all. the to waste their time and strength, but who, though tinction of the nation, and the scattering of the seed of Israel , and delivered them into the hand opening in a style which makes one tremble as people beyond the river, whither they were after- of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his in the presence of an infallible authority, gives wards carried. Nevertheless, we have in chap. xvii. sight Until the Lord removed Israel out one nothing but the chaff" which has been of the Second Book of Kings, language if possible of his sight So was Israel carried away out thrown aside, as waste, by manv labourers , who still more explicit , as describing the carry ing of their own land, to Assyria unto this clay ," (2 have been in the field before him. The Pro- away of the people : " Therefore the Lord was Kings xvii. 18-23.) In these verses the total fessor 's exevciuvtitm is as barren of arguments as very angry with Israel , and removed them out of carrying away—the entire removal of Israel out it is of facts ; and furnishes another proof that a his sight; there wtis none left, but the tribe of of sight—is four times repeated, as if in antici pa- man may be an industrious student of history and J udtih 011 f it . ' " And the Lord rejected all the tion of such objection thereto as that urged by an accomplished arch.-rolog ist , revelling amongst seed of Israel, and delivered them into the hand the Professor. cuneiform writings, and exploring the ruins of spoilers, until He had removed Israel , out it/ I must ask for a little iurther space to com of ancient cities, and yei no. be able to read or trul y His sight." So was Israel carried away out of plete what I have to say in reply to Professoi apprehend the text of a book which is familar to their own land into Assyria." If this language Rawlinson. millions of his fellow countrymen , who know no is not intended to describe the carry ing away of Yours fraternall y, ' more of Assyria or Baby lonia , where Professor all Israel into captivity, no language could do so. W ILLIAM CARITNTER . Rawlinson is at home, than they do of Timbuctoo Once more, Jeremiah , depicting the desolating or Japan. jud gment that was coming upon Judah , uses Bui lei me glance at the Professors " teach- these expressive words ; " And 1 will cast you LIBELLING THE PRIME MINISTER. ings of history," which are produced with as out if my sight, as I have cast out all your breth- much apparent confidence, ancl as little attempted ren, eeen the whole seed of Ephraim ; " that is, the proof, as if they had not all been examined and Ten Tribes, (Jer. vii. 13). If words have any The following paragraph appeared in the answered, over and over again, between 1845 and meaning, or were intended to be understood in Echo. As it might have led some to suppose 1870. their ordinary meaning, both the historian and that the Freemason had so far strayed away from Professor Rawlinson's first " teaching of his- the prophet describe the carry ing away of the tory is, that the Pen I ribes were " not carried tribes, as a whole, and the utter extinction of the its legitimate course as to take part in politics, it away wholly into captivity by Tiglath-Pileser and kingdom. (2) The same conclusion is to be was deemed necessary to request a correction :— the Assyrian King who took Samaria whether he , drawn from these two circumstances, first the " Colonel Knox, amid great laughter, drew were Shalmaneser or " Sargon. Before I offer a Assyrian king sent people from his own do- attention to an article which had appeared in the word on this " teaching ' " 1 ol history, may be minions to colonise the kingdom of Samaria , Freemasons ' Journal reflecting upon the charac- permitted to say that the sentence I have quoted instead of the children of Israel, whom he had ter of the Prune Minister, charging him ' The affords no favourable example of sty le 111 an his- , deported , (2 Kings xvii. 24) ; and second , that People's William " with persecuting the priests, torical investi gation. It is on the contrary, care- even after this immi gration, the land was so sparse ancl stifling the attempts made for their defence. less, loose, and calculated to produce a false im- of people that the wild beasts multi plied in the The hon. member wished to know whether it pression. A mere child who has read his Bible towns and villages, and slew many (ver. 25). was the intention of the Irish Government to knows that Ti lath-Pileser g did not carry away After looking at these circumstances and the prosecute the newspaper in which the scurrilous wholl into captivity y the Ten Tribes of Israel , authority upon which they rest, we are hardl y pre- article appeared." for he has read in 2 Kings xv. 29, " In the days pared, at the Professor 's bidding, to admit that of Pekah, King of Israel , came Tiglath-Pileser, the carry ing away of the Israelites into the At our request the Editor of the Echo King of Assyria, ancl took , Ijon , and Abel-beth, dominons of the Assyrian king was so partial as courteousl y inserted the following correction :— Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, to represent onl small community or several y a " " PARLIAMENTARY R EPORT .—The editor of ancl Gilead " , and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali , small communities there—that being the infer- the Freemason asks us to correct a misprint in and carried them captive " to Assyria. He could ence we are suggested to draw from the circum- our Parliamentary news of Thursday last. The not have read the historical books of his Bible stances of the captivity. newspaper in which the alleged libel on Mr. and not have known that these were but a few But Professor Rawlinson finds proofs in Gladstone appeared was the Freeman ' s Journal , laces in the extreme north of Galilee and of the " p " many passages of Scripture, that the deporta- and not the Freemason , from whose columns all trans-Jordan country. This was not the over- tion ot the Israelites was but a partial one. (1) articles of a political nature are excluded." throw of the Israelitish nation, though a prelude The first of these is deduced from the fact , that, to it. That was accomplished by a subsequent eighty years after the captivity, Josiah, king of king of Assyria, and it is a proof of the careless- J udah, made " a progress through the cities of "After some days' severe suffering with neural gia and ness with which the Professor has treated this Manasseh, Ephraim , and Simeon , even unto influenza in the head , I was induced to try your Vegetable subject, to find him writing, " the Assyrian king Naphtali , cutting down all the idols throughout Pain Killer for it. In less than five minutes it gave me who took Samaria , whether he were Shalmanezer all the land of Israel," (2 Chron. xxxiv. 6. ease, and by continuing the use of it according to the 7.) and my on Sargon." He knoivs—for no man, perhaps, But this surely furnishes an argument the other directions. I have quite lost the pain , general health has since rapidl y improved.—S. J. SMITH , tea- is more familiar than he with the results of the way, for had not the kingdom been completely dealer, Norwich , Feb., 1870.—To Perry Davis & Son, Lon- researches which Mr. Layard and others have overthrown, and the Israelites reduced to so few don , W.C." 0 the Scottish brethren for coming so far to inaug- NOTICE. 33 ; Capt. N. G. Phili ps, M.I.L.G.C., 33 f urate this Provincial Grand Lod The pro J. M. P. Montagu, Sect. Genl., 33° ; Sir ge. 0 ceedings were then brought to a close, and the The Subscription . Matier, " ; Rev. 1. V. Kavonshaw , All communications for The Freemason should be written lcgibl y 30 30 founded by Robert the Bruce after the battle of on one side of the paper only, anil , if intended for insertion in the ° Mackenzie ; Sir Xepean, Bart ; number, must be received not later than 10 o clock a.m. .3° 5 J- J- J. Bannockburn , and conferred by him upon certain current The name and address on Thursdays, unless in very special cases. T. Starkey, 3 of every writer must be sent to us in confidence. J. C. Angus ; J. 30 . masons who had assisted him on that memorable The following candidates were received and occasion. He, so the tradition goes, gave power G. KOHLBERO.—Money not received. J, E.—An introduction to a lodge is necessary by a admitted into the ancient order of H.R.M.. the to the Grand Master of the Order for the time brother. quaint and impressive ceremonial being per- being to confer this honour, which is not inherent formed by Brother and Sir Knight Geo. Murray, in the general body itself, but is specially given Freemason , in an admirable manner, lie being ably assisted by the Grand Master ancl his Deputy, and The by Brothers Hay and Mann. The beautifu l room can be conferred onl y by them, or Provincial 1 SATURDAY, A UGUST 3, 872. and the handsome and appropriate furniture , ap- Grand Masters appointed by them. The number pointments, and regalia all added doubtless to of Knights is limited , and formerl y only The Freamason is published on Saturday Mornings in time for the solemnity of the proceedings : Bros. S. Raw sixty-three could be the early trains. appointed , and they Scotch- Thf price of the Freemason is Twopence per week; annual son , 0 : C. C. Pole, °; Maj. S. II. Clerke " 10s. (payable "ni advance.) ¦ 32 32 32 men ; now, however , that number has been much inscription , ,, , 0 Alt communications , letters , &c, to be addressed to the Editor , R. Costa, C. A. Newnham, 31'"; Gen. If. V. 108, Fleet-street , E.C". 3a ; increased , and distinguished Masons of all coun- The Editor will pav careful attention to all M>S. entrusted tolnm , ° , ° ; but cannot undertake to return them unless accompanied by postage Doherty, 31 ; Rev. P. H. Newnham -;o Capt tries are admitted to its ranks. We believe that stamps. J. Burgess, 30 ; G. Lambert , 30". a lod ge or Chapter of this Order met in London At the conclusion of the ceremony, the Earl so long ago as 1686, and Brother Reitam says ROYAL ORDER OF SCOTLAND. of Rosslyn, as Deputy Govenor of the Order, we have indubitable evidence to show that in H. R. M. OF K ILWINNING AND R. S. Y. C. S. conferred the honour of the Knighthood of the 1730 there was a Provincial Grand Lodge of the This old Order, which is said to have been re- R.S.Y.C.S. upon the brethren , giving to each Order in South Britain , which met at the Thistle newl dubbed Sir Kni ht the characteristic which established by King Robert the Bruce in 1314. y g and Crown, in Chandos Street, the date of whose he would henceforth bear in the. Order. The formerly had a home in London, when chapters of constitution was then so ancient as to be called H.R.M., held under the Grand Lodge of the Order Sir Kni ghts having taken their seats in the Chap- " from time immemorial." At this time the in Scotland, occasionally met during the early ter of the R.S.Y.C.S., the noble Earl proceeded to order had become almost extinct in Scotland, and part of last century. invest the following as the first office-bearers in the Provincial Grand Lodge obtained permission At the close of the eighteenth century the tide this Provincial Grand Lodge. from the Deputy Grand Master and Governor to of events seem to have set against the Order in Office Bearers in the Provincial Grand Lodge grant charters, and on the nth December, 1743, Scotland, where it had nearly become extinct , and of London , and the Metropolitan Counties, Royal a warrant for a Chapter of H.R.M. was granted we believe that members from the metropolis Order of Scotland , appointed Jul y 26, 1S72. to certain brethren, who met at Cannon Street, of the British Empire, were foremost in restoring Dr. R. Hamilton Prov. G. Master. Southwark, and in 1750 a Scotchman obtained a it to its old home. Genl. H. Clerk D. Prov. G. Master Charter for Holland , which is now in the posses- In course of time the London Chapters ceased Capt. N. G. Philips Prov. G.S. Warden sion of the Order in Scotland. to meet and it is now, we believe, nearly a hundred Rev. T. Rnvenshaw Prov. J. G. Warden The Book of Records, containing lists of mem- years since a Chapter of the Royal Order has been R. Costa Prov. G. Sec. bers, &c, commencing prior to 1763, is still in held in London. Major S. H. Clerke Prov. G. Treas. existence, but it is supposed that many of the On Friday the 26th ult., a Provincial Grand H. Dubosc Prov. G. S. Bearer. older documents were destroyed in the rebellion Lodge was opened at 33, Golden Square, in the Emra Holmes Prov. G. B. Bearer »f I 74.'i- presence of some of the most distinguished mem- Hyde Pullen Prov. G. Marischal Bro. Reitam says, " It must not be forgotten bers of the Hautes Grades , and under such favour- Capt. C. J. Burgess D. P. G. Marischal that in 1747 Prince Charles Edward Stuart, in his able auspices that we cannot but predict a glorious C. A. Newnham Prov. G. Steward. celebrated Charter to Arras, claimed to be the future to the Royal Order, which boasts of so G. Lambert. Prov . G. Guarder. Soverei gn Grand Master of the Royal Order, noble a past. ]. Read Prov. G. Organist. " Nous Charles Edouard Stewart, Roi d' Angle- A preliminary meeting had been held on the Lord |Rosslyn expressed his deep regret that terre, de France, de 1' Ecosse . et d' Irlande, et en previous day for the reception of the members of important duties in the House of Lords pre- eette qualite , S.G.M. du Chapitre de H." Prince 0 the 33 —the following being present and taking vented his banqueting with the brethren, and Charles goes on to say that H.O. or H.R.M. is the degrees—111. Bros. C. J. Vigne, M.P.S.G.C. » Dr. Hamilton briefly thanked his Lordship and known as the " Pelican and Eagle." " Connu sous le titre de Chevalier del'Aigle et de Pelican , Order, but who will be excluded by this means. REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS. et depuis nos malheurs et nos infortunes, nous In Edinburgh Royal Arch Masons are alone celui do Rose Croix." Now there is not the admissible, but wc are sure it will be to the toft UltosMtg. shadow of a proof that the Rose Croix, says Bro. advantage of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Reitam, was ever known m England till 20 years London, if the Knights Templar are admitted to after 1747 ; and in Ireland it was introduced by its ranks. METROPOLITAN. a French chevalier, M. L' Aurent, about 17S2 or We are quite aware that in Scotland the R OYAL OAK L ODGE (No. 871).—The brethren 1783. The Chapter at Arras was the first con- Milites TempH are not looked upon as a Masonic of this Lodge met at the White Swan Tavern, High-street, Deptford, on Thursday ult. stituted in French—" Chapitre primordial de body at all by many members of that Order ; 25th Present :—Bros. ]. W. Reed, W.M. ) W. Myatt. Rose Croix," and from other circumstances (the but then the R.S.Y.C.S. is presumably a civil S.W.; G. Andrews, J.W. ¦ W. Andrews, P.M., very name Rose Croix being a translation of order of knighthood, and the Order of Charles and Treas. ; F. Walters, P.M., Sec.; S. O. Lewin, R.S.Y.C.S) he is forced to the conclusion that XIII. of Sweden also, but they must be con- S.D. ; H. T. Tuson, J.D.; T. J. Pakes, I.G. ; R. Harman, D.C. ; H. G. Skinner, W.S. ; J. sidered, in a sense, masonic, inasmuch as they are the degree chartered by Prince Charles Edward Hawker, P.M. ; H. A. Collington, P.M. ; J. was, if not the actual Royal Order in both points, conferred on Masons onlv. Truelove, P.M. ; F. R. Hood, W.A. ; R. Harris, P.C. ; H. Wilkier, C. Wood, W. Shaw, G. a Masonic ceremony founded on and pirated from The King of Scotland is hereditary Grand Clark, J. G. Vohmann, C. Letton, H. J. Dowe, that most ancient and venerable order. Master of the Royal Order, and a chair is always J. Woollat, G. Harvey, H. J. Wells, E. C. Kilsby, This is said to have been done by that celebrated kept vacant for him at all assemblies of the J. H. Wilson, and others. Visitors :—Bros. E. Mallett W.S., 141; A. Smith ; W. Abbott , Scotchman, the Chevalier Ramsey, for political Knights. The Deputy Grand Master and . J. ,548 588 ; J. Carver, J.W., 11 55 ; and others. The and Jacobite purposes. Bro. Reitam is led to the Governor of the Order is Bro. Whyte-Melville minutes of last regular lodge and two emergencies 0 conclusion that to the Royal Order of Scotland 33 , P.G.M.M. of Scotland, father of the well- were read and confirmed. The ballot box proved unanimous in favour of Messrs. Wason, R. we are indebted for all those degrees called known novelist. The Earl of Rosslyn , °, the 33 Hadley, E. Good , and C. Kedgley, as candidates but which were invented, in his inion Ecossais, op , present Grand Master of Scotland, is Deputy- for initiation. Mr. J. Baxter Langley was unable in France or Prussia towards the close of the 18th Governor of the Order. to be present. Bros. G. Clarke, and E. C. Kilsby were passed. It was resolved unanimousl to century. In this, however, we are disposed to Provincial Grand Lodges are held at Glasgow, y hold an emergency meeting August 1 ¦;. A differ from our worthy and esteemed brother— Rouen in France, in Sardinia, Spain, the Nether- banquet followed the proceedings. except in name there is onl the -smallest because, y lands, India , viz., Calcutta and Bombay, China, CAPPER L ODGE (NO. 1076).—An emergency trace of any connection between the Rose Croix and New Brunswick. In Sweden the King of meeting of this prosperous Lodge, was held on and the Royal Order. Scotland is Provincial Grand Master. Wednesday, the 24th inst, at the Marine Hotel, Victoria Docks, West Ham., E. The W.M., Bro. There is a connection , we admit, but it is very In Clavel's History it is said the Royal Order C. W. Ashdown, occupied the chair of K.S., remote. In the first place the whole ceremonial of Heredom of Kilwinning is a Rosicrucian supported by his officers as follows :—S. Gaskell , is different, and different in essentials. Most of Degree, having many different gradations in the I.P.M. ; E. West, P.G.S.D., Herts ; and H. G. Sisley, P.M.'s; Bros. T. Pincombe, as S.W. ; B. the language used in the Royal Order is couc hed ceremony of consecration. The kings of F2ng- B. Brayshaw, J.W.; A. Knox , S. D.; W. W. in quaint old rhyme, modernised, no doubt, to land are de jure, if not dc facto, Grand Masters : Noot, J.G. ; G, Park , Treas. ; I. Henderson, make it " undcrstanded of the vulgar," but still each member has a name given him denoting P.M. and Sec. ; and W. Allison , Tyler. The lodge having been opened in due form, to stamp its genuine the retaining sufficient about it some moral attribute. In the initiation the ballot was taken for Alessrs. Hesslewood and antiquity. The Rose Croix degree we believe to sacrifice of the Messiah, is had in remembrance, Hobbs, which proved unanimous in their favour. be the genuine descendant of the old Rosicrucians, who shed his blood for the sins of the worl d, The lodge was opened in the second degree, and Bros. Williams, Swift, and Fairlie, of this lodge, and no doubt has always had a more or less close and the neophyte is in a fi gure sent forth to seek and Bro. Maltley, of the Nelson Lodge, No. 700, connection with the. Templars. Findel himself the lost word. The ritual states that the order being candidates for the third degree, were ex- admits that the occult sciences were formerly was first established at Icomkill , and afterwards amined as to their proficiency in the former de- grees, entrusted , and retired. The lod was practised b the brethren, and we ourselves have at Kilwinning, where the King of Scotland ge y , opened in the third degree, and those brethren seen a very old book written in French, containing Robert Bruce, took the chair in person, and oral being re-admitted were raised by the W.M. to the " vrai histoire du Rose Croix ," and which tradition affirms that in 1314 this monarch again the sublime degree of Master Mason. The W.M. then vacated the chair, which was taken contained a cabbalistic plate with the names of re-instated the Order, admitting into it the by Bro. Gaskell, I.P.M., who passed Bros. Ralph, the seven angels upon it, and other evidences of Knights Templar who were still left. The Royal and Foley, to the degree of Fellow Craft. The itsconnection with the Hermetic philosophers, and Order, according to this ritual , which is written chair having been re-taken by the W.M., Messi s. Hesslewood and Hobbs were admitted, and dul believers in the transmutation of metals. in Anglo-Saxon verse, boasts of great anti quity. y initiated into the mysteries and privileges of The book we allude to is in the possession of Bro. Findel , of course, disbelieves in the Royal ancient Freemasonry. All Masonic business Bro. W. Bowden, of Bristol , an enthusiastic and Order, as he does in all the Christian degrees. being ended, the lodge was closed in due form, refreshment followed labour, and a pleasant even- learned Mason, through whose courtesey the He remarks that the Grand Lodge of Scotland ing was spent by the brethren , who separated at of this article was enabled to see many of author formerly knew nothing at all about the existence an early hour. About twenty-five brethren and the old records in connection with Masonry in of this Order of Heredom , as a woof of which ten visitors were present, notwithstanding the the higher degrees in the old city of Bri;tol. he adduces the fact that Bro. Laurie, in the first extreme heat of the weather. Dr. Oliver had a great opinion of the Royal edition of his work, the history of the Grand J' UKDETT L ODGE (N O. 1293). — The Jul y Lodge of Scotland , has not mentioned the Order. meeting of this lodge was held at the Mitre Order and had no doubt of its antiquity. , Fancy arguing that because no mention is made Hotel , Hampton Court, on Saturday last, there Its place by right is side by side with the of the high degrees in the Masonic Calendar being a large attendance of members and visitors. Rose Croix and Knights Templar degree, to our published by the English Grand Lodge, that In the absence of the W.M., the chair was taken therefore they do not exist in this country. by Bro. Dr. Self, who, in an able manner, raised thinking, and we hope that the members of the One might as well do so, according to Bro. Bros. Bmdolf and Coalbank to the degree of latter order will be considered as eligible to take Findel, whose ill-disguised hostility to the /unites Master Masons. The lodge was then resumed it , as the former. grades is thoroughly understood and appreciated to the first degree, when Bro. R.W. Little initiated at its Mr. James William Berrie into the mysteries At Glasgow, where there is a Provincial Grand proper value. We cannot conclude this article without con- and privileges of Antient Freemasonry, the Lodge, it is or was only necessary to be a Master gratulating English Masons, and especially our duties of the Senior Warden 's chair being well Mason to be eligible, but if we remember right , brethren in London, on the establishment in discharged by Bro. S. Rosenthal ; the funior Warden being our well-known Bro., D. R. Still. certain privileges were granted to Knights Tem- their midst of this beautiful, interesting, and venerable Order, and we feel sure that it will be The lodge was then closed, the brethren retiring plar and Rose Croix Masons in seeking admission as successfull y propagated as it deserves to be to banquet , when a pleasant evening was spent, to the Royal Order. known. enlivened by the vocal talent of Bros. Adams, Baxter, Hobson, and others. In England we learn it is intended to restrict It is in the right hands, at all events, and the distinguished brethren at its head are not likely Membership to those onl y who have taken the lo forget its chivalnc origin and exclusive ESSEX. 18°, but there are many estimable Masons who character, so that only those who are tried and S OUTHEND .—Prion/ Lodge (No. 1,000).— 0 trusty will we are confident be admitted to its have not yet come under the S.G.C. 33 , and , , The regular monthly meeting of the Priory ranks. Lodge, l\o. 1,000, took place a few evenings ago who might yet desire admission to the Scottish VECTIS. at the lodge room in the Middleton Hotel , Southend. The W.M., Bro. S. Cox, R.A., as W.M. Bro. Richard Jones, W.M., opened liogal Iwij. being supported by his Officers as follows :— the lodge in due form , and after the confirmation Bros. Wardell, S.W .; Henmann, j.W., P.M., of the . minutes, and the transaction of some CUMBERLAND . Treas,; W. S. Cox, P.M., Sec. ; Rowley, P.M., formal business, the. W .M. elect was solemnly W HITEHAVEN .—Sun, Si/unre and Compasses Dir. of Cers. ; Lucking, S.D. ; Frost, f.D. ; ancl efficiently installed by Bro. Hamer, P.P.G.T. ' Chapter (No. 1 19). —On Monday, the i _ .-th ult., Chaplin, I.G. ; Notley, P.M., Tyler. A large The following officers were subsequentl y in- a meeting of this Chapter was held at the Free- number of members and visitors were also vested :—Bros. Dr. Worthington , S.W. ; John masons' Hall, Whitehaven, at two p.m., for the present. The ceremonies of passing Bro. Evans, T. W.; Hughes, S.D. ; Fisher , |.D. ; purpose of installing officers for the ensuing Bellis and raising Bro. Cop inter were performed Bush, I.G. ; T. Tellett, Sec. ; J. W. Baker, year. Companion A. C. Mott, P.P.J.G.D., West by the W.M. in the same excellent manner in Treas. : Raw and Aspinall , Stewards, ancl W. 'Lancashire (Craft Lodge), and P.P.J.W. Grand which during his term of office lie lias carried Robertson , Tyler. Ihe first degree was subse- Chapter of Lancashire, performed the ceremony out all his work. The I.G. gave the lecture of quently given by the newl y installed W.M. in a of installation in a most impressive manner, the second degree, illustrated by references to the very effective manner. Bro. W. S. Vines, P.M., assisted by Companions E. Rusher, P.G.S. tracing board, in a manner which proved he had 220 and 1299 ; Bro. J. Cant, P.M., 1086 ; seve- Bearer, England , P.M.E.Z. Kendal Castle ' well studied and was completely master of his ral other P.M. s, officers, ancl a large number of Chapter, No. 129: J. W. Baker, P.M. 220 and subject. A well-deserved compliment came other brethren were present during the interest- 24 1 ; P.G.S. West Lancashire and M.E.Z. ' next, when, by desire of the W.M.., the father of ing proceedings. During the afternoon , a P.M. s Chapter 241; Companion W. B. Gibson , P.M. the lodge (Bro. Wood) rose, and , after a hi ghly jewel was presented to Bro. R. Jones, I.P.M., as 119 and P.P.G.S.W . Cumberland and West- eulogistic speech, presented W. Bro. William a token of the esteem and respect in which he morland, was installed First Princi pal of the Pissey, P.M., of Rochford Lodge, No. 160, and was held by the brethren. A superb banquet Chapter; Companion G. W. Kenworthy, P.M. P.Prov.J.G.W. of Essex, in the name of the was subsequently provided by the hostess (Mrs. 119, ancl P.P.G.J.W. Cumberland and West- Southend Lodge, with a very elegant Past Birkett), the grapes at dessert being from the moreland , Second Princi pal ; ancl Companion ' f. Master s jewel of solid eighteen carat gold , world-known vineyard of Mr. Meredith , in the Bavr , P.M. 1 19, P.P.G.S.B., Cumberland avid which bears the following inscri ption :—¦" Priory immediate neighbourhood. With an excellent Westmoreland, Third Princi pal. The following Lodge, No. 1,000.—Presented to Bro. William dinner, abundant dessert , happy and complimen- Companions were then chifv invested :—Comps. Pissey, P.M., as a token of esteem, and in ap- tary speeches, and capital songs, the brethren McKelvie, P.M. 119 and P.P.G.J.D. Treasurer ; preciation of efficient and valuable services ren- silent a pleasant evening. E. Fenron , P.M. 119, P.S. ; E. W. Henry, P.M. dered by him in installing several Worshi pful 119, E.; \V. Sandwith , W.M. H9, N.; E. Tyson, Masters of that lodge.—J uly, 1872. " Bro. LANCASTER .— Duke of Lancaster Lodge (No. S.D. 119, Asst. S: P. Quin, janitor. Alter Pissey returned thanks in a suitable manner ; 333). —The regular monthl y meeting of this the imsiness of the chapter, the companions and the brethren subsequentl y adjourned , after Lodge was held in the ?\Iasonie Temple, partook of an excellent banquet , the chair being- St. Leonard-gate, on Wednesday, the in- spending a most happy evening. 17th taken by the M.E.Z., Comp. Gibson , who was stant. The following brethren were present : supported right and left by Comps. Mott, linker, C. Hardy, I.P.M.; ]. Barrow, W.M.; f. Bell , Kenworthy, and Barr ; the vice-chairs being LANCASHIRE (WEST). S.W.; W". Heald , \W| .; Joseph Barrow , Sec; ' occupied by Comps. Henry and Sandwith. LIVERPOOL .—Hamer Lodge (No. 1393).— f. Acton, S.D.; ]. Conlon . j. D.; R. Wolfenden , The usual loyal and masonic toasts were An emergency meeting of this young but highl y I. G.: J. II. Williams , Sis.; J. Tay lor, Org.; proposed and responded to in due course , prosperous and promising lodge was held on Carr , Foster, Ellerslmv , Kent , Heath, ike.; Visit- after which Com]). 1'Varon proposed " The Tuesday evening, the 2,3rd July, in the handsome ing Brother, P. Dickinson , Royal Standard , 129S , Health of Comp. Mott ," to whom, he said , lod ge room , No. 2 A , Windermere-street , Beck- and J. Watson , Tvler. The Lod ge was opened every member of the chapter was deep l y in- road, Everton , at which there was a troodly in the first degree in clue form , when the minutes debted , he having, at considerable inconvenience gathering of the brethren. The chair of S. was of the former lodge and emergency meetings to himself, come from Liverpool to install the. y confirmed. occupied by Bro. W. T. May, W.M., who was were read and unanimousl An First Princi pal , and invest the officers. Now, supported at the opening (shortl y after six answer was read from Mrs. Tronghton to the although the chapter had been formed for o'clock) by the following officers :—Bros. James letter of condolence sent to her from the Lodge several years, true it had not for some time past Jones, -J94, P.M. ; John Jones, S.W. ; John on the demise of her husband , when , on the mo- been in full working order. This was the first Harr nmm' , Sec. ; K. H. Evans, J.D. ; II. Jack- tion of Bro. Heald, J. W., seconded by J. Bell , occasion on which a regular installation of offi- son , I.G.; W. F. Johnson , S.S. ; T. Dilcock , S.W., it was unanimously agreed to place it on cers had taken place ; and Comp. Mott had J.S.; W . G. VcalJ, (),-g. ; and Mr. William- the minutes of the Lodge. The Lodge was now gone through that beautilul ceremony in such an son , T. The members present were Bros. |. opened in the second degree, when Bro. Kent effective and impressive style, that the proceed- McCarthy, T. Bluek , D. R. Charles, C. Tyre'r, was questioned , ancl the answers given proving ings of that evening had endeared him to the T. Rumskilf, W. S. Hare, C. Edward Dutch , satisfactory, was entrusted by the W.M., and hearts of the companions. The health was then R. W. Rowlands, K. Wilson , R. C. Buck , W. M. retired. The Lodge was now opened in the drunk with full honours. Comp. Mott , in re- Welsh, J. A. McRobie, Jonathan Roberts , G. A. third degree, when Bro. Kent was readmitted sponding, thanked the companions for their Asp'mall, T. Roberts, J. I Umld'mg, 11. Roberts, and raised to the sublime degree of a Master kindly expressions, and -Assured them that it R. Parry, and 11. Burrows, The visitors were Mason by the W.M. in a most effective manner. always gave him pleasure to be present on all The Lod closed clown to the Brothers J. T. Callow, W.M. 673; T. Gamut, ge was then First occasions which appertained to Freemasonry in 673 ; J. Hunter, 673 ; Evan Parry, J. B. cilery, Degree ; a candidate was proposed tor initiation ; general , and to Royal Arch Masonry in par- J wishes were given b S23 ; W. Bradshaw, 673 ; J. Yates, 673 ; F. hearty good y C. Hartley, ticular. He also threw out some valuable hints Handcock , ; J. Peters, I.P.M., Treas. ; I.P.M., from Lodge Fortitude , 2S1 ; J.Tay lor, to the new officers, touching their respective 594 f. 397 P R. Williams, ; Wood , Treat;. 1094 ; Org., io-j i; and by . Dickinson , 1 298 ; and duties, which will be of great assistance to them ^94 " J. Holland , W. M. S23 ; K. Price, S23 ; the Lodge closed in peace and harmony. during their yeat of office ; and so well were his and T. Chuck , S. W. 1013. The serious remarks received , that ere long he predicted that portion of the evening 's proceedings con- the Sun , Square and Compasses Chapter would sisted of one initiation and three raisings, the MIDDLESEX. rank amongst the best worked in the kingdom. work being efficientl y performed by the W.M.; H AMPTON . -— Lebanon Lodge (No. 1326). — but not the least interesting feature of the after LANCASHIRE (WEST). proceedings was the banquet given as a mark of The brethren of this lod ge met at the Red on Monday, the H KYWOOD .— Chapter of Naptlm/i (No. 266). respect for Bro. James Jones, I.P.M. of the Lion , Hampton , 29th ult. P.G.S.D., —A meeting of this Chapter was held on Hamer," and P.M. who is about to pro- Present : Bros. J. T. Moss, Middle- " 594, last , y , in the Masonic rooms, ceed to America. The W .M.. in alludine lo the sex, W.M. ; W. Hammond , P.M. as, S.W. ; H. Thursday Jul 25th Hey wood under the presidency of Comps. Wm, departure of their brother, spoke in high terms of A. Dubois, |. W.; S. Wiekens, P.M., Treas.; , P Roberts P. P./., Prov. G.P. Soj. , as Z.; Win. the valuable services he had rendered to the Ma- F. Walters, P.M., Sec. ; J. C. Peckham , .M. ; , Montgomery Ashworth, P.Z., Prov. G. 1st A. Soj., as IT. S. sonic cause, and wished him prosperity in his F. Holmes, J. T. H. Moss, G. , |. ; W Lord, P.'/., as when the following brethren new sphere and future home. Bro. Jones , in . Baldwin , J. Hayward, J. Ricnardson , E. G. J., Wood R. Lawrence E. Bouts T. Pallet of the Napthali Lodge were dul y exalted to the repl y, thanked the Brethren for their invariable , , , , T. degree of Hol Royal Arch Masons :—Albert kindness, and wished success to the Lodge which Clarke, W. B. Smith , J. Marsh , J. R. More, G. y Wolstenholme, John Bell , John Partington , he was about to leave, but which he would never Godfrey, R. Gower, and others. The visitors P.G.R. Middlesex William Stott. The ceremony was very ably forget , wherever he mi ht be. He concluded by were Bros. C. Horsley, , g f, ( ¦ Comp. Wm. Bri , P.P.Z., Chapter proposing in happy terms the health of the W.M., W.M. 811; W. Long, W.M. j G. J. Hill- performed , ggs of Benevolence No. 266. acting Princi pal Soj. who, in responding, thanked the brethren for the stead , 21 ; Capt. W. IT. Hawkes, 34.5 (I .C.) ; , as ' 6 After the ceremony of exaltation had been com- honour and cordiality of the toast, ancl assured W . H. Burton , 933 ; D. B. Raw, P.M. 9 9, and leted the officers for the ensuing year were them that the lodge would lose none of its lustre others. The work was done by the W.M. in p follows :—Comps. while he held the proud position of its W.M. an efficient, correct , and able manner, and com- ballotted for and installed as W. B. |ames Mills , Princi pal Z. ; Simeon Ljrd, VI. The toast of " The Visitors " was responded to prised the. initiation of Messrs. Smith ; (hie R.N.), Marsh R. Moore, R. God- j . Cass, ; Albert Wolstenholme, Scribe E. ; by Bro. J. Holland , W.M. 823. An extremely J. , J. J. and R. Gower. Five brethren were pro- Richard Gorton , Scribe N.; C. Oldham , social and enjoyable evening was spent by the frey, J. Princi pal ohn Bell , First Assistant Soj. : Brethren. posed for initiation. Banquet and dessert were Soj. ; J served under a tent. Bro. S. Beck, Bandmaster Wm. Stott , Junior Assistant Soj. ; J. Parting- GARSTON .—Lodge of Harmony , (No. 220). of the London Scottish , was elected as Organist , ton, Janitor. The ceremony of installing the The brethren of this suburban lodge assembled and recommended by the unanimous vote of the several officers was performed by Comp:-",. in the room at the Garston Hotel, at 2 o'clock lodge as the brother whom they would like to Roberts and Ashworth , of the Chapter of Unity, on Wednesday, the 24th ultimo, the principal see appointed Organist of the Provincial Grand 298, Rochdale, and Comp. Bri ggs, of Little- business being the installation of Bro. W. Jones, Lodge of Middlesex. borough, to each of whom the Companions in open chapter gave a vote of thanks for their it to be done under the present American I contend that so long as the representative of attendance ancl assistance. The business of the organisation?" I answer simply thus : Let the Mark Grand Lodge is a Royal Arch Mason , evening being ended, the chapter was duly and Grand Chapters recognise the Mark Grand there is nothing contrary to Masonic law—when solemnly closed, when the companions adjourned Lodge as the legal governing body in England interpreted in the light of past experience as well to refreshment. land the colonies of the British crown) for the as present legislation—in such representation , Mark Master's degree, and then all we virtuall y especially when it is for the good and prosperity ask from you as our brethren will be conceded. of the same degree which the Grand Chapter tillijjljte ©CllljDliM". The Supreme Council of the Ancient and Ac- recognizes. 0 cepted Rite, 33 , for England and Wales have With respect to representation , I make bold to SCOTLAND. done so, as also Ihe Grand Conclave of the say that all the laws relating thereto in connection Knights Templar, the Grand Chapter of with the Royal Arch and Mark Masonry, are all GLASGOW .—Girvan Encampment (No. .31).-— Canada, ancl the Grand Chapters of Pennsyl- arbitrary, and made this century. I presume An emergency meeting of this encampment was vania ancl Iowa. that Representatives are appointed to fraternall y held on Monday, Jul y 22nd. Sir Knight R. It affords me much pleasure to be informed aid in disseminating correct information with Bell., E.C, presiding ; assisted by Sir Knight of your recognition of our claims as the legal respect to their own jurisdiction, and to unite in J. E. Spiers, C.G. ; G. W. Wheeler, Sec, acting head of the Mark Master 's degree in England, the bonds of fraternal love more closely, all the as Prelate ; M. Claurchen, CC. ; D. Butler, and though we do not agree on the representa- severa l parts of each body, so as thereby to J.C. ; when the following seven companions, tive question , let us, at all events, unite to secure cement the two—as one bod y—speaking Mason- having been properly examined and vouched for, recognition freel y and fully for us, from every ically. I cannot see why we should refuse were initiated, dubbed and created Knights of Grand Chapter in the United States. representation then to the body acknowledged the Order, namely :—James Balfour, J. A. Fer- If these bodies prefer not to exchange repre- to be below in point of rank or order to Grand gsuon, W. T. Shaw, of Chap. 73, T. Ellis, D. sentatives, well, all I can say is, brethren , follow Chapters, seeing that its degree is a part of the Barr, T. H. McDonald, and H. S. Bosworth, of 3'our own inclinations. If , on the other hand , Royal -Arch system, and that its seeking recog- Chapter 87. The ceremony w-as performed in any say we not only recognise yon, but let us nition, and being a Grand Body at all , are simpl y that impressive style which always distinguishes exchange representatives, we will say, " Cer- due to peculiar circumstances existing nowhere Sir Knight R. Bell's working. Arrangements tainly, with much pleasure. " Either way, we as else in the world. were then made for a deputation to proceed 011 a body are satisfied , so long as the thousands of 2. With respect to Bro. Parvin's decision, and the following morning to Edinburgh, to attend members under our jurisdiction may safely cal- that of the M. E. Companion , J. H. Drummond the meeting of the Supreme Grand Priory of culate on their certificate s being recognised in —whom I acknowledge to be a high authority Scotland. your country, ancl wherever the English language —it appears to me that they are not applicable to is spoken. the present case, as the Grand Commandery In your " notes " to my letter you say, "We degrees are not worked under the Grand Chapter , consider the Mark degree below ancl not above and consequently do not in any way affect or THE GRAND AIARK LODGE OF the Third." Why do you so consi der ? What concern them, wdiereas, in the case of the Mark ENGLAND. evidence have you of the Mark Master's degree Grand Lodge, the Mark Master's degree is legally (not the " Mark Man ") being ever worked in a worked only under its authority in England , and (From Pomeroy s Democrat.) Craft Lodge as lower than the third , or as part under the authority of the Grand Chapters in the The following letter is from the pen of one of of the second degree ?J" ' No evidence has ever United States. It is therefore not a parallel England's brightest Masons, Bro. William James been submitted in this country (or in Scotland case, and does not meet the point. I may also Hughan, of Truro, England , who has already and Ireland) of such an occurrence, although state that the Grand Commandery, being subject done so much for the unravelling of many of the many consider that the degree is " below the to the Grand Encampment, is also an objection , musty Masonic manuscripts and records of Great third." But mere considerations are worthless, as though the Grand Commander may not be Britain. The title of this article indicates the when facts lead to the reverse conclusion ! allowed to exchange Representatives ; the Grand nature of the communication :— 1 am tolerably conversant with the history of Encampment might feel quite competent to do so. T RURO , E NGLAND , June 7, 1 872. Freemasonary in America, and make bold to say I quite think that Grand Commandenes being Dear Bro. Tisdall , you cannot produce the records of any Lod ge ' subordinates of the Grand Encampment cannot In Pomeroy s Democra t for March 30th, you which worked the Mark Master's degree in your legall y exchange Representatives at all , as they kindl y inserted a letter from me respecting the country as " below the third ," or in a Fellow- correspond to our Provincial Grand Lodges in Mark Grand Lodge of England , and to which Craft 's Lodge. If you can do so, and f will be England , ancl Provincial Grand Encampments, you appended some editorial remarks. In the the first to retract, and acknowledge my error, who are powerless without the consent of their same paper for the 13th April you quoted from but until then I shall believe that your " consider " chiefs. It may be styled " folly " to maintain the the Evergreen (edited by Bros. Parvin and Lang- is opposed to facts, and until the proof is forth- Representation to be legal that we advocate, but ridge), an opinion expressed by Bro. Parvin , in coming, it will be idle to speculate about the mere assertions will not do. Let us know who own unison with your , relative to representation nature of the "lopping off" process you mention, decides what is, and what is not a correct Repre- fiom and at the Mark Grand Lodge; and in the which at the present time I utterly deny ; be- sentation, and why ? Let us also know why we issue of the 2 .G1 May you greeted the Free- cause, so lar as my researches go, the Mark in the present clay cannot liberall y exchange Re- mason s Monthly Alugu&ine very warmly, ancl Master's degree never has been a portion of the presentatives with all Grand Bodies working to insert Bro. C W. Moore' promised . s article Second degree, but only the " Mark num." You similar degrees, so long as their Constitutions are " in reference to the Grand Mark Lodge of mention that the " sticking point " is the repre- legal ? England." sentation of Mark Masons in a Grand Chapter. 3. As I presume you will shortly insert the With respect to the foregoing I desire to make " If all the representatives are R. A. Masons, learned Bro. Moore's article from his " Monthly a few observations in the most fraternal spirit , they take their seats in our Grand Chapters as Magazine," allow me to say that its consideration and I hope the editors of your various excellent such, and not as Mark Masons." Precisely so. requires too much time for me to do justice to it Masonic papers in the United States who dilfer As Royal Arch Mason, they take their seats, as now, as it would involve a long inquiry into the from me will kindly insert the following (with without it they could not attend , but I cannot antecedents of Masonry. Bro. Moore seems to replies) in their columns ancl mail me copies. for the life of me see that on that account they consider the Mark was a " waif" in America Should they require anything explanatory from are precluded fro m acting as Representatives until incorporated with the Grand Chapters. me , I will write them direct on the subject, as from the Mark Grand Lodge; in fact, 1 cannot Well , so it was, ancl so was the Royal Arch until time permits. see that they are necessaril y mutually destructive then. In fact until A.D. 1756 in England, and It savours somewhat of presumption for me whenever found together. J I can only say that A.D. 179 J in the United States, both degrees to engage in a friendly discussion with three in one of the largeot and best managed Grand were alike " waifs " on the stream of unrecog- such able brethren as Bros. C W. Moore, T. S. Chapters in the United States the princi ple is nized Freemasonry. Bro. Moore incorrectly Parvin, and yourself, but as my course appears admitted for Representatives of Mark Masters and takes it for granted that we are anxious to have to me to be just, and truth is not always with Excellent Masters. Lodges are expressly provided Mark Grand Lodges. Far be it from us any such the greater number, I do not fear the result of for in their Constitutions, and they are admitted to intention. We do not believe in such bodies at the fraternal conflict. Believe me, my desire is the Grand Chapter as suck, whenever it is opene d, all , unless as a matter of necessity, such as exists to elucidate truth , and I care nothing for any- though of course, they are Royal Arch Masons also in England , and therefore we fully admit the thing but that, masonically or otherwise. I refer now to the Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania , force of Bro. Moore's well-expressed objections 1. In your editorial notes, March 30th, you in whose " Proceedings " for 1871, I have com- to such a body at all if its institution can be state, "We have no objection at all to the Mark municated a few facts relative to Capitular avoided. I could write for a long time, but it Masters of England being recognised ancl Masonry, in England , Ireland and Scotland , would end virtuall y in this, that the Mark degree, fraternised with the Mark Masters of " America. which 1 would like the Craft in the United as also the Knights Templar, and the Ancient Thank you ! We lad of this, are g ancl shall be States to peruse. and Accepted Rite, will never be recognized by exceeding ly glad to hear that the brethren of the You say, "As well might a Grand Lodge of the Grand Lodge and the Grand Chapter of United States have all decided to receive our cer- Entered Apprentices (could there be such a England , because of the binding and exclusive tificates as evidence of the Mark degree having thing) ask of a Grand Lodge of Master Masons nature of the "Articles of Union " of A.D. 1813. been legally given under our Grand Lodge.* for an exchange of representatives on an They have, however, exchanged official relations Then, in the case of affiliation of an English equality." Could there be such a thing, ancl by virtue of a Treaty executed lately, in which companion , who is also a Past Master under the there was such thing, under circumstances they recognize each other as the lawfu l heads English Constitution, there would remain only similar to the Mark Grand Lodge, there would of their respective elegrees under the English the " " Excellent Master to be taken before the be nothing absurd about the matter at all, but as Jurisdiction. membershi p was completed in one of your there cannot be such a thing, would it not be as Bro. Moore says. Our Brethren of the English United States Royal Arch Chapters. You then well when making known your views to use Mark Lodge, in seeking an interchange of Repre- state that " the troublesome question is, how is comparisons within the bounds of possibility ? sentatives with our Gnind Chapters, seemed to have overlooked the important fact , whatever may the said degrees; The eiltry oil the minute book titles obtaining for officers in the G. Chapters be its antiquity, or its former relative Masonic of St. John's Lodge No. 1 of May 23, i8os, under the G. G. Chapter of the United States, position, the Mark Lodge has had, for more reads tlius :—" The balance of tiie funds belongs but did not claim jurisdiction over the Past than half a century, its fixed and permanent ing to St. John's Mark Lodge was paid over to Masters' (so-catled) degree. Therefore any action place in the Masonic Government in this country the Treasurer of St. John's Lodge." This can of the G. Chapter of Pennsylvania had in refer- and that it now holds a dependent existence also be found in the history of the Lodge, printed ence to the Grand Mark Lodge of England only." We haye not overlooked this fact , ancl we in 18157. It was, therefore, below the third , and Would have no weiglit among any bodies hold- are equally anxious that our able Bro., the editor when the Lodge, as a Mark Lodge, discontinued ing allegiance to the Gen. Gr. Chapter of the of the Freemasons ' M. Magazine, should not to confer the degree (probably owing to the United States, or any other Grand Chapter in overlook another fact, viz.: That we do not ask establishment of the General Grand Chapter) , America, for it is " std generis." any Mark Lodge to recognise (and exchange the funds were paid over to the Treasurer of the As regards Bro. Hughan's further appeal for Representatives with) us, but Grand Chapters, Master Masons' Lodge, which controlled it pre- representation, and his arguments to sustain the who are independent and have the power to do viously. Our " consider "' then , is not opposed same, we have seen nothing to induce us to what we seek from them. We are, as Mark to facts, and our reference to the " lopping off" change our long since expressed opinions, or to Masons.under as independent a body, Masonically process, was something" more than idle specula- view as not conclusive against him, the articles speaking, as any Royal Arch Grand Chapter, ancl tion. of beloved Brothers Charles W. Moore and T. we are simply solicitous for a friendly inter- The very structure of the Mark Master's degree S. Parvin. On the contrary, the more we have change of Representatives to promote the highest proves it to be a part, nay, the perfection of the 1 ooked into the subject, the more fully have our object of our beloved Order. Fellow Craft , for without the use of the imple- opinions been strengthened. Fraternally yours, ments of the Mark Master, the operative could As the Grand Chapters in the United States W M . T AMES H UGH \ X . not fashion the stone for the builder's use. The acknowledging the Gen. G. Chapter hold a pre- *We have not as yet heard from any American plumb, the square, and the level could never cisely relative position to the same, as do the G, source, entitled to consideration , any doubt re- perform the operation. The mallet ancl chisel Commanderies under the G. Encampment, to garding the legitimacy of the Grand Mark Lodge were required. A gain , the founders of the that supreme head, Bro. Hughan will readily of England, and as a consequence, that among American Capitular System must have con- perceive, that they also " are powerless without brothers of that grade, every certificate it may sidered- the Mark Master s degree as below the the consent of their chiefs." issue ought to be received and accepted as evi- third , else they would not have made it precede We believ e in recognition, but not in affiliation dence of regularity, entitling the possessor to just the Past Master's (so called) degree. A symbolic by representation. as much credit as would inure the holder of a lodge: when at labour in its highest degree is but a F, G, T JSIXVLL . Grand Lodge or Grand Chapter certificate of a bod y of Master Masons. The ceremony of the constitutionally formed body of either. Ancl installation of a Master of a lodge, does not make should the bearer of the same pass the Tyler's him a fourth degree Mason. He only becomes examination ; welcomed as cordiall y as the usages for the time beinsr. the Chief Master Mason, ancl TRINIDAD. of Masonry demand. But he could onl y be when his term ol office expires, he falls back recognized as a Mark Master, ancl in a lodge of again to his membership as a fellow among his T HE LAYING OE THE FOUNDATION STONE such when at labour. When the lodge was about fellows, a Master Mason among Master Masons. OF ATHOLE LODGE , SAN FERNANDO . to be opened in a higher degree, the Mark Master Therefore, as a Past Master is but a Master The announcement that St. John's day, the would have to retire, his credentials being then Mason , distinguished by having been chosen to 24th instant, was fixed for the laying of the exhausted of their force ancl viaour ; for a lodge fill a certain station : and as the Mark Master's corner stone of the new building, for the accom- of Mark Masters bears the same relation to a degree precedes it , by the commonest rules of modation of the members of Lodge Athole, No. Royal Arch Chapter, as does a lodge of E. A. P.'s logic, it must be of an inferior grade, next below 438, was wide and generally known long ere the to a lodge of Master Masons. There is no in rank , or in other words, the Fellow Craft com- time arrived, with all the i nclemency of a regular equality between the two, and where there is no pleted. So much for the elucidation of Truth, wet season day, appointed for the meeting of equality there can be no representation. The rule ancl that Truth based upon common sense, and the members of the fraternity for that purpose, in that respect is arbitrary. tmdisputable facts. and despite the uninviting appearance of the I'We have the best evidence in the world, not- Dr. Albert G. Mackey, an authority of no mean streets, and the unceasing rains, between the withstanding our -esteemed friend and brother order, in his excellent work, " The Masonic hours of four ancl five, a large gathering of Masons asserts—and his assertion may be entitled to Lexicon," in .speaking of the Mark Master 's de- of Lodges Athole, and Royal Trinity, 572 , met credit—that " no evidence has ever been sub- gree said :— above the store of Mr. J. P. Thatcher. Shortly mitted of such an occurrence, as the conferring " Mark Masters were the Masters of Fellow afterwards His Worship the Mayor, the Town the Mark before the Master's degree, in England , Craft Lodges, at the building of the Temple. Clerk , ancl Messrs. Geo. Lambie and Bro. James Scotland , or Ireland. " They distributed the Marks to the workmen, and Wharton, in a double capacity, arrived , represent- We (F. G. T.) had the honour of being made the first inspection of the work, which was ing the Corporation , closely followed by the Master of St. John's Lodge No. i , New York afterward to be approved by the overseers." members of the Harmonic Society. City, in 1848, '49, and '50, ancl for the fourth The samedistingnishedauthor said that " Mark Partly on account of the rains, (and partly from time in 18 37, the lod ge at the close of that year .Men were the Wardens." j the non-arrival of the R.W. Bro. J. A. Tench, the celebrating its centennial anniversary . For many In regard to the G. Chapter of Pennsy lvania, Provincial Grand Master of Grand Lodge of months previous to the December 7, 1837, when so flattering l y alluded to by our Bro Hughan , we Scotland , who, we regret to say, did not attend,) the celebration took place, we were engaged in have only to remark that it has never been a the forming of the procession was delayed until preparing a condensed history of the lod ge from component part, or representative of the American some time after five o'clock, when it moved off, its records. These records o-ave the fullest evi- system of Capitular Masonry . Nor is it now. headed bv the band of the Harmonic Society, in dence that what was asserted by the older Masons From the earliest history of that G. Chapter as the following order :— of the Lodge as well as of other lodges was a body of R. A. Masons down to the year 1824, Tylers with drawn Swords. correct, and that the lodge originall y conferred it was controlled by the Grand Lodge of Sym- Band. the Mark degree. bolic Masons of Pennsylvania. It was an isolated Members of the Corporation. On the 24th October, 1794, the lodge (as per body, the Companions of which could not, from Entered Apprentices. records) determined that the sum for initiation the nature of its organization affiliate or associate Fellow Crafts. of modern Masons (including Mark degree) be with the Companions owing allegiance to the Master Masons. reduced from £4 to 40s. In 1 793, the minutes General Grand Chapter, especially as it did not Inner Guard s with wands. show that one modern Mason was thus healed require of its members the possession of the de- Stewards. and admitted a full member of the lod ge. gree of Mark Master and M. Excellent Master. Secretary with Jewel, &c. The Minute Book of the Lodge at the close of The Past Master's degree it has never controlled , Treasurer. year r /96 read thus : " The accounts of St. the G. Lodge still retaining sole control over Deacon, with Wand. John 's Mark Lodge No. 1 , made up to Decem- that , even to. the conferring of the same by dis- Orator and Bard with Book of Constitutions. ber 23, 179 6, show a balance due the Treasury pensation ; the revenue derived from which last Past Officers. of £0 18s., '' meaning the treasury of the Masters' year amounted to over S6.000. Wardens with Columns. Lodge. These records also showed not only that lo relieve itself from its isolated position , it, 111 Brethren with Corn, Wine, and Oil. the Mark degree was given under the authority preparing its Constitution in 1823 (one year be- Architect with plans ancl tools. of the Lodge Warrant , and that a special fee was fore it became an independent Body : Past Masters. paid for the same, but that the officers of the Resolved , That it be recommended to all Chaplain with Bible, Square and Compasses. Masters' Lodge were the officers of the Mark brethren who now are, or hereafter may become W. Master with Charter. Lodge, the conferring of the degree preceeding Royal Arch Masons to make themselves ac- Provincial Grand Junior ancl Senior Wardens. the conferring of that of Master Mason. This quainted with the honorary degress of Mark Deacon with Wand. degree was continued to be conferred until M ay Master and Most Excellent Master, as the means The Band struck up Brother Charles Renaud's 20, 1802, under the Lodge Warrant , or for some of enabling them to meet ancl act with their Masonic March , ancl the procession marched up four year ancl four months after the establish- brethren in Arch Masonry throughout the United High-street, and ascend Penitence-street, at ment of the Gen. Grand R. Arch Chapter of the States. the top of which it opene d and pro- Northern States of America (since 1806 known On the 1 7th May, 1824 the Grand Chapter of ceeded in inverted order , along Harris's Pro- as that of the United States) which latter bod y Pennsylvania , as an attache of the G. Lodge of menade, to the intended site, where there was a embosomed in itself the several elegrees of Mark that State, closed sine die ; and on Ote same day dais or platform erected for the special accom- Master, Past Master (virtual or honorary), M. Ex. did organize themselves into a Gutxn H OLY modation of the members of the Municipality, Master and Royal Arch ; declaring that it , and R OYAL ARCH C HAPTER , under and by virtue of ancl the Princi pal members of the Craft , There the State Grand Chapters acknowled ging it, had the said Constitution ," meaning the one alluded was also a derrick erected, from which was sus- " riie sole government ancl superintendence " of to above. It then assumed, for the fi rst time the pended, by a set of patent differential blocks, a stone of about fifteen to eighteen inches square. he believed in this, as in all other matters, " what's FREEMASONRY IN ITALY. The ceremony was then opened by Brother worth doing, is worth doing well," he trusted ' William Cuthbert, W.M., of the Lodge Athole, that the members would persevere and reach as We have received the following document who, in becoming language announced the ob- near perfection as possible. He wished them from Rome :— ject of the meeting ; whereupon the Rev. R. C. every success. Neilson, as Chaulain, invoked a blessinsr on the Mr. Edward Boucaud , the President of the I.T.N.O.T.G.A.O.T.U. proceedings of the day. The Band then struck Harmonic Society, m his usual graceful sty le, Universal Masonry, Italian Family. up the " National Anthem," after which the returned thanks for the compliment paid to him , Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Worshi pful Master called upon the Brother and the members of the Society over which he Grand Lodge of Freemasons in Italy and in its Secretary, George H. C. Allen, to read a copy of had the honour to preside; he animadverted with Masonic colonies. the inscription contained in a bottle, which was pleasure to certain things which had fallen from Circular No. 1. subsequently deposited below the stone, and the Past-Master Corrie, but he felt more pleasure To all the Grand Masonic authorities of the which was as follows :— in being there enjoy ing the hospitality of the two hemispheres, on terms of alliance, or of This Corner Stone of brotherhood , to whom, on his part, and on behalf friendshi p with us. "ATHOLE MASONIC HALL" of the Society, he wished all happiness. Very dear brethren , Was laid on St. John's Day, 24th June, A.D. The Rev. Bro. Burr, in a very humourous and The desire which the different Italian Masonic 1872., A.L. 5872 , by Bro. William Cuthbert, suggestive address, thanked the brethren for their Centres have entertained to become united as R.W.M. of the Lodge Athole, 438, S.C., in the reception towards the strangers. He was in one one body, is at length consummated. The con- presence of the Mayor, Charles Leotaud, Est]., sense totally a stranger to them , having only stituent assembly, held at Rome on the 28th of and several members of the Borough Council of arrived in the Island a short time ago ; and in last April , of which you , very illustrious San Fernando ; of the W .P.M. and brethren of another sense was probably less so than the brethren , have been already apprised by the said Lodge Athole, 438, whose names are— worth}- Mayor standing beside him—whom he usual circulars of summons, has achieved this (Here foll owed the names of tin• Members.) also thanked for his kindness to him as a stranger noble object. And in the presencealso of the W.M., Bro. Joseph in this community ; he trusted ere long to make All the lodges, and all the Masonic Bodies Richards, the W.P.Master, P.C. Corrie, and other himself well-known to them all. previously scattercd over the Italian peninsula , brethren of the Lodge Royal Trinity, 572 , E.C, The Mayor and suite having requested to be were represented in the Assembly by legitimate viz :— allowed to retire, did so accordingly, ancl the proxies, all of which, joining in the indissoluble (Here followed the names of Alembers.J brethren then continued to entertain , with a bonds of fraternal union, have established at In the XXXIVTH year of the reign of Queen Banquet , the members of the Harmonic Society, Rome the fundamental bases of the Italian Ma- Victoria , His Excellency James Robert Longden who, at intervals , enlivened the meeting with sonic fraternity, as a part of the universal bro- beino- Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this several appropriate airs. therhood of the world. Island of Trinidad. The business of' the evening being closed , the Very clear and illustrious brethren, The Worshipful Master afterwards requested usual toasts were given and responded to, ancl the We are convinced that you cannot fail to appre- Bro. James Wharton, as Provincial Grand Junior brethren retired about ten o'clock , shewing evident hend how important to the welfare of the uni- Warden, to plumb the stone, which duty was signs of mingled satisfaction and joy. versal Masonic Association is the fact which we duly performed. Bro. Joshua Palmer, the In conclusion , we can only add that all things have the pleasure to announce to you. W. Past Master, as Senior Grand Warden, considered , the ceremony was well conducted, Ihe Constituent Assembly, not forgetting at the request of the Worshi pful Master, tried ancl the proceedings a perfect success. It is that it is a part of one great whole, and having the stone with the jewel of his office , and found gratifying to add, that notwithstanding the very- provided f or what it considered as its individual it level. Bro. Phili p C. Corrie, W. Past Master heavy rains that fell, several bright and cheerful interest, by the proclamation of Italian Masonic of Trinity Lodge, applied the square to the faces of the softer sex, who lent by their presence unity, has felt that it was its duty, within the corners of the stone, and declared it square, where- an encouragement to labours which would be limits of its sphere of action, to discuss all sub- upon the Worshipful Master concluded the heavy at best, it they failed to receive the en- jects which concern the Order in genera l ; and ceremony by the sprinkling of corn , wine, and couraging and appreciative smile of the partners with this object , it has given a commission to the oil, as is usual on these occasions. This portion of our moments of labour and refreshment. The Grand Master to take the initiative in issuinp- of the ceremony might have been advantageously Stewards deserve much praise for the handsome summonses for an international Masonic Con- prolonged, but the approaching darkness, and manner in which their portion of the work was gress. the very threatening appearance of the evening prepared and attended to.—New Era. Henceforth we indul ge in an earnest hope that tended to curtail it. the Masonic authorities will entertain and strive 1 hat concluded, the Worshipful Master oflered to promote this idea , will bring all their attention thanks to His Worshi p the Mayor and Bur- 4ti;isoiuc j&ibut gs and intelligence to bear upon it, and that, in ac- gesses, for their kind and cordial assistance in BRITISH , I-'OREIGN , AND COLONIAL. cordance with our views, finding it useful , oppor- the duties of the day ; in reply to which the tune, ancl glorious in the interests of the Order, Mayor in very few words, with becoming eam- An interesting ceremony took place on the 29th ult., the meeting of the St. Clement Danes they will endeav our to carry it into execution in nestness, wished the Craft " Unity of action. " the manner, and at the period which Lodge, No. 13 15 viz : — the initation of a , in their The Band then struck up " Rule Brittania ," the most desirable and member of the Burmese Embassy, Mr. John judgment, may appear after which the procession moved on to the lodge, suitable, thus reducing to action a notion which passing on its march through Penitence, St. Scheffer, Chief Dragoman and Attache to the Embassy. The ceremony was performed by the evidently may powerfully affect the general in- James, and Cuenca-strects. terests of the Order. On reaching the Lodge, the Temple was W.M. Bro. W. Hale, at the place of meeting of the lodge, Carr's Hotel, Strand ; and after the Not only do Masonic habits and customs make thrownopen for the gratification of the "profanes." it a duty , but we also feel it an honour to inform Shortly afte r the Lodge met, closed the labours initiation the brethren entertained their newly- you of the result of the new elections made by of the day, and invited the Mayor and Council- made brother at a banquet. the representatives who met together. lors to join them in refreshment. —Mr. Augustus Smith, Lord and proprietor of the The following have been proclaimed hono- The Arms being prepared , the Worshipful T Sicil y Islands, died onTuesday night,at the Duke of rary Grand Masters for life :— Master proposed the health of His W orship the Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth, after a severe illness. The very illustrious and puissant brethren Mayor, and in suitable terms repeated the lea- p ihe deceased sat 111 several Parliaments as M.P. Joseph Garibaldi , 33°, General. sure which he and his officers and members ex- 0 for Truro. He was Provincial Grand Master for Joseph Mazzoni , 33 , Member of Parliament. perienced in the interest he, the Mayor, had Cornwall, and took an active interest in the affairs Frederic Campanella, 33°. taken throughout the proceedings ; and he called of the Craft. He was in his 69th year Mariano Maresca, 33°. upon the Brethren to join him in a tri ple plaudit The following- were afterwards electetl :—- - and a full bumper to his, the ' Mayor s health and Grand Master, Bro . Joseph Alazzoni ° "A VISIT TO K IM S'S COCOA AlAMiiAc roiiy.—Through , 33 , prosperity. The toast was drunk with fervour ' Member of Parliament. and repeated acclamations. Ihe kindness of Messrs. Kp|>s, J recentl y had an opportun- ity of seeing the many complicated and varied processes 1st Deputy Grand Master, Bro. Jos. Massi, Past-Master P. C Corrie, then proposed J the tiie Cocoa hean passes through ere it is sold for public use, ' , Member of Parliament. health of the President and Members 33 of the and being both interested and hi ghly pleased with what 2nd Deputy Grand Master Bro. Mariano Harmonic Society. He 1 saw during my visit to the manufactory, I thought a J made allusions to the in- Maresca , 3.; , Member of Parliament. fluencing charms of music over all conditions of brief account of the Cocoa and the way it is manufactured 3rd Deputy Grand Master Bro. Geo. Tanrejo, life, and all classes of society : he acknowledged by Messrs. Kpps, to lit it for a wholesome and nu- tritious beverage, mi ht be of interest to the readers of 33' , Member of Parliament. how much of the success of the day' g s proceed- Land and tinier.— See Aitide in Land anil tinier, Grand Secretary Bro. Louis ings Castella/.zo, 33°. was due to the enlivening strains of the October 14. Grand Treasurer Bro. Louis band. He then Pianciani , 33°, proceeded to propose the health Member of Parliament. and prosperity of the Harmonic Society , iloi.i.owAv ' s Pn.i.s.— In general debility, mental de- and re- The Council of Order is quested the brethren to support the same with pression , and nervous irritability, there is no niediciiu composed of the fol- which operates lowiiiir brethren :— acclamation. so like a charm as these pills. They purif y the blood , soothe and strengthen the nerves and sys- Manro Macchi , Member of Parliament. The Chaplain , Brother the Rev. tern R. C. Nelson, , g ive tone to the stomach , eleyate the sp irits , and , in Pierre La Cava , ditto. said he could not do better than support all that fact , make the patient sensible of a total and most delight- Geo. Asproni , ditto. had been said by brother Corrie : lie felt satis- ful revolution ' in his whole system. They may be com- the very Simon Larcher, Advocate . fied that on this special occasion , and in such mended most unreservedly as best family medi- cine in existence. - Though so powerfully efficacious, they C. Finoechiaro weather as this, the work would , Homme de Lettres.. have been very are singularl y mild in their operation , and might be given C. Zi/.zi, Member of Parliament. dull and wearisome indeed, were it not for the with peifeet confidence to delicate women and young chil- Jos. Stagno, Merchant. life which was derived from the beautiful music dren. They contain net a grain of mercury, or any other Jos. Avez/.ana, General , ;?nd of the band. He added that it was well-known noxious substance, and cannot do harm. Delicate females, Member of Par- and .all liament. that he was a great lover of music, and that as persons of sedentary habits, wi'l find tlie-.e | ills a blessing.—A m i". B. Odicini , AI.D. Antoine de Witt, Member of Parliament. has rendered to the " Craft " through this Com- Strong Man Lodge of Instruction (45), Old Jerusalem Tavern , St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, at 8; Bro. Andrea Crispo, Homme de Lettres. mittee. James Terry, Preceptor. Jn. Nicotera, Member of Parliament. The Annual Grant is now due, and can be Camden Lodge of Instruction (704), Adelaide Tavern, Frs. Degli Azzi Vitelleschi, Landholder. Haverstock-hill, at 8; Bro. T. A. Adams, Preceptor. L. Grecco Cassia, Member of Parliament. paid to the Treasurer or Secretaiy, any Friela}' Eastern Star Lodge of Instruction (95), Royal Hotel, Mile- Fabius Cannella, ditto. lease elect end-road , at 7.30 ; Bro. E. Gottheil, Preceptor. evening at six o'Clock , and you will p British Oak Lod of Instruction, Bank of Friendship Jn. Delia Rocca, ditto. ge three members of your Lodge as representatives Tavern, Mile End, at 7 for 8. Antonio Facci , M.D. St. James's Union Lodge of Instruction (180), Horse and Frs. Bennicelli , Landholder. on this Committee, forwarding their names and Groom Tavern, Winsley-street , (opposite the Pantheon), Jos. V. de Zugni, ditto. addresses to the Secretary. Oxford-street, at 8 ; Bro. J. R. Stacey, Preceptor. Jos. Petroni, ditto. Wellington Lodge of Instruction, White Swan Tavern , On behalf of the Committee, Deptford , it S; Bro. C. G. Willey, P.M. nsi;, Corrado Tomassi-Crudelli, Professor of Medi- Preceptor. W ILLIAM LAIDLAW , Chairman cine. St. John of Wapping Lodge of Instruction (1306), Gun De Virte, Landholder. R OBERT WYLIE , Hon. Sec. Tavern, High-street, Wapping, at 7 ; Bro. T. Mortlock, Members of one great family, the deputies to Preceptor. Masonic Hall, 22, Hope Street, Liverpool. the Italian Masonic Constituent Assembly, have West Kent Lodge of Improvement (1297), St. Saviour's Col- regarded as being present with them in spirit all 5th July, 1872. lege, Stansted-road, Forest-hill, at 7.30 ; Bro. H. W, Lindus Precentor. their brother Freemasons scattered over the , whole surface of the globe ancl in order, b ex- T UESDAY, Ace. 6. , y Colonial Board at o'clock. ternal and marked manifestions, to express the 3 ARTEMUS WARD, M.W.G. M.S.M Lodge 16 7, St. Joh n's, Holly Bush Tavern , Hamustead. sentiments of esteem and affection which link „ 1257, Grosvenor, Caledoni an Hotel , Adelphi. Italian Masonry to that of the whole world, they We have been furnished with a speech from „ 1259, Duke of Edinburgh, New Globe Tavern , Bov have sent salutations from Rome to all the Free- Artemus Ward , said to have been delivered at road. masons in the universe, and have given a tri ple Baldwinsville , Inch , June 24, in the year of ,, 1261 , Golden Rule, Masons' Hall, Masons -avenue. „ 129 8, Royal Standard , Marquess Tavern, Canonbury. Masonic fire, with all the honours, as a token of Grace, 1859. It may be a matter of surprise Chap. iG y, Temperance, White Swan Tavern, Deptford. respect for all the authorities and powers who to our readers that this distinguished showman „ 507, United Pilgrims, Horns Tavern , Kennington. rule over the various branches of the universal hath attained to the high position indicate d by Metropolitan Chapter of Instruction, Portugal Hotel , Masonic fraternity . the letters attached to his name above, which all Fleet-street, at 7 ; Comp. Brett , Preceptor. Very dear and illustrious brethren, will readily understand. The speech is written Domatic Lodge of Instruction , Palmerston Tav., Grosvenor- ' park, Ca mbenvell, at 8; Bro. John Thomas, Pre- We feel assured that you will receive, with in the author s best style, but its great length ceptor. infinite satisfaction, these tokens of our esteem precludes our lay ing it before our readers at this Faith Lodge of Instruction , Refreshment Rooms, Victoria-st. and affection. They are the bonds which unite time. We srive the closing portion :— (opposite Westminster Palace Hotel) at 8 ; Bro. C. A. tis, and which, by proving that we are a portion, " But I return to the day we celebrate, It is Cottebvunc, Preceptor. however insignificant , of a vast association , fur- the 24th of June, St. John's clay. St. John was Yarborough Lodge of Instruction , Green Dragon, Stepney, nish us with strength and encouragement to one of our Order, ancl a good showman in at 8 ; Bro. Isaac Saqui, Preceptor. Prince Fretlk. William Lodge of Instruction (753), Knights labour in the promotion of the great object of our the Judee country ; and were also a hard-shell of St. John Tavern, St. Joh n's Wood ; Bro. F. G, institution, that is to say, the intellectual and Baptist , who preached in the woods, as we do to- Baker, Preceptor. moral progress of the human race. day. He was persecuted for our sakes and Dalhousie Lodge of Instruction, King Edward, Triangle, Very dear and illustrious brethren , driven into the wilderness, where he had nothing Hackney, at 7.30. Bro. J. Saunders, Preceptor. We pray yon to afford a cordial reception to to eat but locusts (which is a cuubell lor grass- Florence Nightingale Lotlgc of Instruction , Masonic Hall, William-street, Woolwich, at 7.30. these documents, which we now lay before you , hoppers) ancl wild honey. The honey was good Prosperity Lodge of Instruction , Gladstone I avtrn, and to stamp with your Masonic authority all enough, but it is the speaker's op inion the grass- Bishopsgate-st. Within, at 7.30; Bro. Bolton , (W.M. those portions which may bear good fruit by hoppers were might}' hard feed for a showman. 1227), Preceptor. drawing the bonds of union more closel y toge- But we have no fear that such evil will befall us; St. Marylebone Lodge of Instruction (1305), British Stores ther for to all the persecutors of our show, we can 'l'avern , New-street, St. John's Wood , at 8; Bro. T. . A. Adams, Preceptor. Done at the Grand Lodge of Rome, May , th , raise our brazen fronts and exclaim in the words ¦ ol our great national poet— W EDNESDAY , Auo. 7. 1872. Grand Chapter at " Hail Columbio ! who's afeered , 7. Guiseppi Mazzoni , Grand Master. , Pythagorean Lodge of Instruction (79), Prince of Orange- Guisepp i Mussi, 1st Deputy Grand Master. Look on our cimbells and be skeered." Greenwich , at 8 ; Bro. J. Robt. Nash, Preceptor. Mariano Maresca , 2nd Deputy Grand Master. But 1 see by the sign, which we all understand , United Strength Lodge of Instruction (228), the Grafton Geo. Tornado, 3rd Deputy Grand Master. that our dinner is ready, This is the most im- Arms, Prince of Wales's Road , Kentish Town, at 8 ; Manro Macehi , Grand Chamberlain. portant and pleasing event connected with our Bro. J. N. F'rost, Preceptor. Israel Lodge of Instruction , Rising Sun Tavern , Globe-road, Frs. Bennicelli , Grand Registrar. show, an appeal to the inner man that can never at 7.30 ; Bro. Isaac Saqui , Preceptor. Luig i Castellazzo , Grand Secretary. be resisted. Wc may stand here before an admir- New Concord Lodge of Instruction , Rosemary Branch ing world, and speak like Hannibal or Plutarky of Tavern, lloxton , at 8. the wonders, and glories , and age, and dominion Confidence Lodge of Instruction, Railway Tav., London- WEST LANCASHIRE MASONIC of our beatific show. We may clothe ourselves street, City, at 7.30. in simbells ancl fantasticals mount on horses, or Royal Union Lod ge of Instruction, Horse and Groom RELIEF COMMITTEE. , 1 avern , v.mslcy-street, Oxford-street , at 8. Bro. T. A. proudly walk on foot, looking with contempt on A NNUAL kr.r-oirr. Adams, Preceptor. all around us, while we represent the great cim- Peckham Lodge of Instruction , Maismore Arms, Park-road , Brethren. —A gain your attention is called to a beJl of simbells. Yea, we may even spread on Peckham at 8 ; Bro. David Rose, Preceptor. , otir abdomins all the symbolical of our Order ; Temperance in the East Lodge of Instruction, George tiie statement of receipts and expenditure from Fouith but a good warm dinner taken innardl y, is better , Catherine-street , Poplar. which it will be seen that during the past yeai Stanhope Lodge of Instruction. Thicket Hotel, Anerly, at than them all. Aye, my fellow showmen ; now 7.30. p.m. ; Bro. II. W. Lindus, Pieceptor. the usefulness of this Institution has not de- I see, I've touched your feeling with a Past I iiuusDAY, Act;. 8. creased. Grand Master's hand , and deepl y stirred the yearnings of your bowels. And in the full glow Lod ge [227, U pton , Spotted Dog, Upton , Essex. The non-attendance of representatives Irom „ 1 2S8, Finsbury Park Finsbury Park 'l'avern ! lollovvay. iving , , of this excitement , I will conclude by g you Temple Cressing K. T. Encampment , Horns Tavern , Ken- most of the Lodges, while it shows the great the following national and patriotic toast, that nititon. confidence with which this Committee is gene- may he cut silting : 'Die R.A. Chanter of Improvement, Freemasons' Hall, rally regarded , is nevertheless a cause for regret. " All hail Columbia , and each Columbiana , at 7 ; Com]). Brett , Preceptor. Ceremony, explanation And hail the bri ghtest gem , the blushing In- of R.A. Jewel and Solids , part sections. as it throws a large amount of responsibility diana. '' Fidelity Lodge of Instruction (3), Yorkshire Grey, London- is ¦—Ala •si., Tottenham Couit-road , at 8; Bro. T. A. Adams, upon a few regular attenders, the necessity sonic Advocate. Preceptor. again urged upon you, of appointing those onl y Panmure Lodge of Instruction (720), Balham Hotel, Bal- ham, at 7 30 ; Bro. John Thomas, Preceptor. who will attend the Meetings. Finsbury Lodge of Instruction METROPOLITAN MASONIC MEETINGS. , Jolly Anglers' Tavern , Bath-street, City-road ; Bro. Stem, Preceptor. Intercommunication with the Committees 111 ' I- or.the Week ending Friday, August 10, 1873. United Mariners' Lodge of Instruction , Three Cranes, Manchester, Birming ham and Leeds still con- Mile-end-road , at 8 ; Bro. T. J. Barnes, Preceptor. tjnues to be the means of preventing imposition , S ATUHDAY J A C :. 3. Whittington Lodge of Instruction (862), Crown Tavern, I lolborn , at S; Bro. Lewis Alexander, P.M. 188. and thanks are heartily accorded to the Secre- General Committee Hoys' School , Freemasons' Hall , at 4. Preceptor. Star Lod ge of instruction (1275), Marquis of Granby Chigwell Lodge of Instruction , Bald-faced Stag Hotel , taries of those Committees for their co-operation New Cross-road, at ; Bro. C. S. Dilley, Prcccptoi 7 Buckhurst Hill , at 7. 30. S hinx Lodge of Instruction (1329), Castle l'avern , and assistance. p Doric Chapter of Instruction , Rising Sun Tavern , Globe- Camberwell-road , at 30; Bros. Thomas and Wor- 7 road , BcthnalGrcen , at 8; Comp. T. J. Barnes, Pre- One circumstance has caused much general thittgtou. Preceptors. ceptor. sorrow, and that is the retirement of Bro. Thomas Mount Sinai Chapter of Instruction , Union Tavern , Air- street , at 8 ; Com;). Brett , Preceptor. K HIUAY , Act;. 9. Marsh , P.P.G.A.D. of C, from the office of Manchester Lod ge of instruction , Yorkshire Grey, London Unions Emulation Lodge of Improvement for M.M.'s .Street Fitzroy-square, at 8; Bro Ash , P.M., Precen- which he so abl filled from , Freemasons' Hall, at 7. Honorary Secretary, y tor . Temperance Lodge of Instruction , Victoria Tav., Victoria the formation of the Committee, being twelve M«s»iVi .\cu. j; . road , Dey.tford, at 8. Lod ge 1319, Asaph , Freemasons' Hall. Burdett Coutt-j Lod ge of Instruction pproach and the best thanks (1278), A years, up to the present time, Sincerity Lod ge of Instnietion (1 74) , 'Railway Tavern , Tavern , A pproach-toad , Victoria-park , at 8 ; Bro. Geo, of the Lociies are due to Him for the sei vices he Fcndiuidi-iAi'cct tuition , at 7. W. Yeuy, Preceptoi. Clapton Lodge of Instruction, White Hart, Clapton, at 7.30; Bro. John Saunders, Preceptor. M. A. VERKRUZEN, (Growers' Agent), Hoya l Standard Lod ge of Instruction (1298), The Castle /f' OfX /\ Invites attention to liis Fine and Extensive Stock of Tavern, Holloway, at S; Bro. R. Lee, (P.M. 193, W.M. ^ 129 8,) Preceptor. Pythagorean Chapter of Instruction (No. 79), Prince of ^Y<4s PURE AND SELECTED GERMAN WINES Orange Greenwich-road at 8 ; Com]). W. West Smith, ¦ Including the , , < /f . Preceptor. '' LIGHT KEFRESIIING DINNER SORTS, and all Grades up to the Greatest Growths. Westbourne Lodge of Instruction (733) Horse ancl Groom, Certain of these ha\e acquired celebrity lor their curative effects in cases of stone ami gravel Winsley-street, Oxford-Street, at 8. Wine* , they act beneficially on the liver anil kidneys, counteract const i pation , promote, skin action, are imalnable in cases of dropsy, rheumatism and gout, tone and purify Metropolitan Lodge of Instructio ^, Portugal Hotel, Fleet- the blood , greatly assist digestion, and did'nse throughout the .system, even in the coldest weather, an agreeable sense of gentle warmth. street, at 7 ; Bro. Brett, Preceptor. Belgrave Lodge of Instruction, Duke of Wellington Hotel , Nothing is so refreshing, nothing gives such zest to a meal. Spring-gardens, Chariug-cross; Bro. Pulsford , Preceptor. Doric Lodge of Instruction, Three Cranes Tavern, Mile- DELICIOUS DINNER DESSERT CLASS. SPARKLING. end-road, at 8 ; Bro. Isaac Saqui, Preceptor. SORTS. VEltY FINK . I GRANDEST . HOCK. I MOSKU.E. Robert Burns Lodge of Instruction, Union Ta v ern , Air- Front 1 ;s. 6d. to ,-;6s, per doz. 40s. to 72s. doz . | 78s. to 150s. doz. 30s. to 78s. doz. | 30s. to 60s. doz. street, Regent-st., at 8 ; Bro. W. Watson, Preceptor. Packing and delireri/ irilliiii three mites ratlins free. Burgovnc Lodge of Instruction, Graf ton Arms, Prince oE ' Wnlcs's-road, N.W., at S. WhoIesaleDepot: 3,FeII~street, Wood-street, London, E.C. St. Luke's Lodge of Instruction (144), Gladstone Tavern, Brompton-road, S.W. Can also be ortleied through the Trade. United Pilgrims Lodge of Instruction, Duke of Edinburgh, I r.arh bottle bears the name of M. A. YERKRU/BN as a guarantee. Shepherd's-lane Brixton at ; Bro. Thomas P.M., , , 7 J. , "VKRY FINK CHAMPAGNES '(bv special contract) 34s., 40s., 40,., tSs., 70s . per dn/cn , Preceptor. SHKUUIKS I PORTS. | CLARltth. Duke of Edinburgh Lodge of Instruction , Sil ver Lion , 2Us. to nils. I JOs. to 72s . I 12s. to 36s. Other Wines of Supcrini ijnalUy, at lowest prices (tiie Wines may be tasted at tse Depot). Penny-fields, Poplar, at ; Br. D. S. Potts, Preceptor. 7 Detailed Price. Current faruarded an application. Terms Cash. ChetjUes crossed " Bank of England.' St. James's Lodge of Instruction, Gregorian Arms Tavern, Jamaica-road, Bermondsey, at 8 ; Bro. Howes, P.M ., Wines for Invalids, specially selected according to the case. Preceptor. gbfrertiscutcnts. JVow ready. Demy 121110, 20S pages. Handsomely bound in Cloth, price 2s. 6d. THE GEORGE KENNING, ISRAELITES FOUND IN THE ANGLO-SAXONS. 198, Fleet Street, E.G. The Ten Tribes supposed to have been Lost, 'traced from the Land of their Captivity to WATCH & CLOCK MANUFACTURER their Occupation of the JEWELLER, &c. ISLES OF THE SEA. 1: f . it. Strong Silver Watches fro m 1 1 o With an Exhibition of those Traits of Character and National Characteristics assigned to Israel Sil ver English Levers (own make) from 3 10 o in the Books of Ladies Goltl Fnglish Levers ,, fr om 9 9 o Gents Gold English Levers ,, front 12 12 o THE HEBREW PROPHETS. 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COHEN , Guildhall Tavern Company ( Limned), 32 and 33, (jTcshavtWreet , SPECIAL AGENT, uTHE FREEMASON '' OF ST. LOUIS. , Guiu.iK C H.WVKOKD , Manager and Secretary . ¦*- —The Lnriics-t Masonic Monthly in the World. Published Masons Hall Tavern , 76 & 77, CHEAPSIDE , E.C. at St. Louis, M IL , by Cienree I*'r;\nk tmnley, on ," lor their Mectinirs , Dinners , Suppers, &e., and every attention will ASSOCIATION. 19 S, h'leet-streel. tie i>aUl to their comfort and enjoyment by ttie new Proprietor. FsTAin.isni-ai 18 6. 5 Turin MUM P KLVAH ,."—Common Sense. The Alexandra Restaurant, SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL £100,000. Lamps, Baths, Cutlery, Brushes, Eenders and Eire Irons Electro- 7, CONDUIT-STREET , REGENT-STREET. p late and Nickel-Silver Good>. For Insuring against Public and Private Dining Rooms lurst-dnss Cooking and Wines. Open for Suppers after the Theatres. ACCIDENTAL DEATH , R. D. PARR, With Hro. P. HiLmticii , Proprietor. General Housti Furnishing Ironmonger, Injury, Compensation for Personal 4:, BLACKMAN STREET, LOROUGIL Second Edition , revised and enlarged , with a Copious Index. Caused b Accidents y f^FFERS nothing" extraordinary, but R KALLY Hound in Cloth and Lettered , 1 os. 6d. C HIEF O IVICKS —ST. GILES'S STRFKT, NORWICH. (Idiin Articles at fair and reasonable prices. He does not - BOOK 1'OR INVESTORS. — " but suiliciently large for anv person to [-TANDY CHAMBERS. keep an " Immense Stock , Second Ktlition , LONOON : 10, OLD JEWRY select from. He docs not sell " cheaper than e\ery other bouse in 530 pages. Secretary : Cn.\iti.i:s R. G II . MAN , list]. the Trade ," but er Yard. Railway Passengers' Assurance Company , 4/,^ AGAINST ACCini'.XTS OK ALL Kl.\:>S. MASONIC DEPOTS, 2 , .V UTT I.K BRITAIN , TJTSTORY cf the HANK OF ENGLAND.— 3 4, .Sec Handy-Book for Investors. Art Annual Payment of £3 to £(\ cs. iiiMiies ^1,000 at Death , or an AND 19 8, I-I.I -: I-:T STREET, E.C. Allowance at the rate of /'d per week lor injury. CTOCKUROKERS and the STOCK EX- £650,000 liave Hen paid :is Compensation, ° CI 1ANGE —SeeHandy-Book for Investors. One out of every 12 Animal Policy Holders becoming a claimant ROSE CROIX TRACING BOARDS, each vear. Five Guineas the Pair. TJISTORY and STATISTICS of the CO- I'cr part!cuJars ap(>lv U> rhc t k:k- at the Kailwav Station ^ , to the 1 l LONIICS and their Debts.—Sec I landy-Book for In- Local Ai » eut> , or at the Oilici; *.. MASONIC DEPOTS , 2 , 3, ic 4, LITTLE BRITAIN , vestors. 64, CoitNini. ]., and 10, K I .CKNT S TKI -: I -.T , LONDON . AVILLIAM J. VIAN , Secirl;ny. AND inS , l'LEET-STHEET. pOREIGN STATES and their DEBTS.— See I landy-Book for Investors. CAUTION. TJISTORY of JOINT-STOCK COM PA- Mr. JAMES STEVENS , tiie intention of the Trade to a recent decision - In ci'llintf NIKS.—See I landy-Book lor Investors. AUCTIONEER AND SURVEYOR , in the I louse ot Lords, in the case, of " Wotliaspoutt v. Cur- 1 if ," whereby unr exclusive ri jf l.-! to the use of the word TJISTORY of BRITISH RAILWAYS.— House nn inlimate 'to those who nia\ - ha\e been induced to buy it , TJISTORY and POSITION of JOINT- that to sate them from total loss we will allow 20/ per cut. JL X STOCK BANKS.—Sec I landy-Book for Investors. MASONIC FLAGS for it , at tile Glenlieid Starch Works, Paisley, in exchange TJISTORY and POSITION OF FINAN- for the ireiinitie aitide , at the current price. 'Phis will XX CIAI. COMPANIES.—See I land y-Book for Investors. FOR HIRE. entail a loss upon ourselves, as the packets will he broken 'Knights Templar Anns t;,lt. by 12ft. up and sold (or I taste Starch , but it will at the same time CHIPPING and MERCANTILE COMPA- Freemasons' Arms i .v l. by 12ft. he the means of rendering- the Aiticle useless for finther NIKS.—Sec 1 landy-Book for Investors. Red Cross of Home and Constantine Arms 15 ft. by 12ft. deception. Any information that will lead to comiction TJ I STORY and POSITION of INSIJ- City of London Arms 1 0ft. by 7 ft. will he rewarded. K. W OTIII - ISSPOON ee Co. J- X ' RANCE AND ASSURANCE COMPANIES.—Sec Square and Compasses, with Prince of Wales s 1 2ft liv i) fl. Handy-Bool : for Investors. Feathers in Centre POSITION, PROFITS , and PROSPECTS of Union Jack y CHURCH SERMONS. MINING COMPANIES.—Sec I landy-Book for In- vestors. KENMNG S MASONIC DEPOTS , lly l'.MlNhNT ei.KHCYYIKN. nnllK METALLIFEROUS DISTRICTS of Little Britain, Fleet Street and Liverpool. " KKKI.Y XUMlil'.RS contain two Sermons. X yy the KINGDOM.—See I landy-Book for Investors. 1' iit- e One IViniy ; .Moiillily I'.ut:., l'i\i' |iL'iii.'.- . THE NEW MASONIC CANDLES, A /JTNES in Cornwall, Devon, Shropshire, Isl e Fulili. .hi.'il liy li' i:i:\ i:s , SON . anil Co., I'lny lKiiiM . 'inl Jimie , Doric and Corinthian , Kml'lcinalicalli i Arra ng ed for ' '-v. of Man , and Ireland.—See I land y-Book for Investors. l.iiil j;';ilc-liill , l.'.imhm , und may be li.nl of all Uook- IForshipfttl Muster, Senior mid Junior Wiirdeiii. sc lk-Vs . COMPARATIVE PROFITS of INVEST- 1. per set of 3 one-pound Candles. Racking Cases (id. each MENTS.—See I land y-Book for Imestors. jM STKN TO Til!-; .MOCKiXG I11K1 ) .— BartlctuV Chapman , 3d. Cornhill , E.C. lino. GEORGE KEWIXG' S AiiR-iK -an liislniiiK-itt , in:.taiuh' niastt-icd , t-ii.-tbVin.i;- pcissf^'-Di- N I D imil'ite birds , animals, \cn!iil