TJH E MASONIC MAGAZINE : % SMfrlg digest nf FREEMASONRY

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES ^

(SUPPLEMENTAL TO " THE FREEMASON. ")

VOL V.

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF

HIS EOYAL HIGHNESS THE PEINCE OF WALES, K.G. The M. W. Grand Master. ENGLAND.

SIR MICHAEL EOBEET SHAW-STEWAET, BAET., The M. W. Grand Master.

THE EIGHT HONOUEABLE THE EAEL OF EOSSLYN, The M.W. Past Grand Master. SCOTLAND.

COLONEL FEANCIS BUEDETT, Representative for Gmnd Lodge. IRELAND.

AND THE GEAND MASTERS OF MANY FOREIGN GEAND LODGES.

LONDON : GEOEGE KENNING, 198, FLEET STEEET. 1877-8. PEEFACE

L TO THE FIFTH VOLUME, n —?— i TXTE have arrived at our Fifth Volume, and a few words of Preface are customary and needful. Not, indeed, that Ave have very much to say. i- E , We betray no secrets, and we reveal no mysteries, when we mention once again ' ' that were Masonic Literature to be supported alone by the patronage of our Craft, we fear that the result would be a very limited " outcome " indeed,—very far from a " strong order." If our good Publisher only measured the " Supply " r ', he so liberally provides for the " pabulum mentis Latomicse " by the " Demand ," ¦*, which hails and encourages his sacrifices, we are inclined to fancy, though it is *; only our own private opinion, " quantum valet," that the status of Masonic Lite- rature amongst us would be neither very promising nor flattering ;—nay its very appearances, " like angels' visits," must he " few and far between."

Despite our excellent friend Bro. Hubert's complimentary estimate of English Masonic Literature, we feel hound honestly to admit that there is a " little " room for an improved taste and more extensive patronage ! But yet Ave do not i Avish to seem to write in a spirit of complaint or fault, especially at the conclu- sion of our Fifth Volume ! For with such a fact before us, we must really beg to congratulate our Order on gallant efforts, resolutely made, to diffuse amongst | | our Craft a sound, sensible, readable, healthy Masonic Literature. "We think Ave | | may fairly say this of the only English Masonic Magazine, and which we oAve t to the discernment and determination alone of our fraternal Publisher. Perse- M verance, we all knoAV, is a great virtue, and as it has been our Publisher's motto II in all his extensive and flourishing business transactions, so are we inclined to i f hope that it will reward one day his cheery expectations and his unselfish Wm m exertions for Masonic Literature, iv PliKFA.CE,

The Christmas Number for IS YV was a great success, and we hope to make the Christmas Number of 1878, as a separate and special publication, a still greater one. We have no fear but that the Sixth Volume will show a steady improvement in all respects.

Publisher and Editor beg once more to thank their kind contributors for many able Papers, as well as sympathetic subscribers for their unwearied support. They beg to commend Vol. V. to the notice of the intelligent and educated of their great Brotherhood, just as they venture to bespeak for Vol. VI. literary assistance and fraternal patronage.

( 1J8, FLEET STKEET, LONDON , E.C., June 1, 1878. INDEX.

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PAGE PAOE A Chapter on Oaks . ...283 , 361 Freemasonry in England, the True History of—• A Christmas Greeting 241 351, 404 A Day's Pleasure .' . . . . 371 Freemasonry in France . ...54 A Modern Novel Somewhat Undervalued . 300 Friendship and Brotherhood . . . 296 A Trip to Dai-Butsu 67 From Lisbon to Belem ....276 Adventures of Don Pasquale, The—13, 59, 110, Harry Watson ; or, the Secrets of .Freemasonry— 156, 200, 281, 344, 393, 446, 491, 537, 587 28 73 Alexander Puschkia 459 , Hermetic Work, An . 386, 434, 484, 530, 578 Amabel Vaughan 316, 367, 406, 457, 506, 546, 599 History of Education, The ...26 An Hermetic Work . 386, 434, 484, 530, 578 History of the " Prince of Wales Lodge " . 2 Ancient Libraries .....419 How Mr. Joss failed to be made a Mason . 314 Architectural Jottings . . . 116, 183 Arrivals, Survivals, aud Revivals . . 254 Important Circular . . . . . 481 Inconclusiveness and Aberration of Scientific Bro. Capt. Nathaniel G. Phili ps, S.G.D. . 242 Teachers, The 330 Bro. Jas. Newton's Sketch of the Concord In Memoriam 529 Royal Aich Chapter, No. 57, Bolton . 35 In Memoriam. Bro. George Frank Gouley 24 Is it a Promise or a Declaration . . 552 Christmas Greeting, A ....241 Civil and Mechanical Engineers' Society . 208 Jimmy Jackson an' his Bad Wife. . . 374 Cole's List of Lodges, 1763 . . . . 244 Contemporary Letters of the French Revo- Lost and Saved; or, Nellie Powers the Mission- lution ....128 , 185, 209 ary's Daughter 210, 323, 376, 425, 473, 568, 618 Country Churchyard Epitaphs, On . .87 Love and Masonry 607 Day a Pleasure, A . . . . . S71 Masonic Language of Flowers, The . . 164 Devonshire Lodges Prior to the " Union " of Masonry ; its Past and Future . ¦ . 290 December , 1813 . . . . . 103 Map of Europe in 1877, The . . . 327 DieteticB 363 Modern Novel somewhat undervalued, A . 300 Discovery of Roman Remains at Temple- Monthly Masonic Summary—1, 49, 97, 145, 193, borough 565 337, 385, 433, 577 Dr. Moon's Works for the Blind . 550 . . Mrs. Pembroke's " Lucky Bird " . . 261 Early Freemasonry in Ireland . . . 437 My Lord, The King . . . 118, 166, 236 Embossed Books for the Blind ...74 My Mother-in-law . . . , .82 Extracts from the Minute Books of the Notes on Literature, Science and Art—44,. 93, Carmarthen Lodge ....448 141, 190, 233, 332, 382, 429, 477, 527, 575, Extracts from the Records of an Old As- 622 sembly of Knigbta Templar Meeting at Bolton 298 Oaks, A Chapter on .... 283, 361 Objects, Advantages and Pleasures of Science - Forgotten Stories . 47, 85, 189, 177, 227 59, 98, 148, 195 PAGE POETRY—eontiimcd, PAOE On Country Churohyard Epitaphs . . 87 Masonic Hymn 649 On Selecting the Best Charity . . . 604 Masonic Ode 156 On the Testing and Strength of Railway Materials, Misery 288 466, 515, 560, 620 Mr. Sprechelheimer's mistake . . 144 Origin and References of the Hermesian Spurious Not Knowing .....350 Freemasonry, The-79, 186, 194, 338, 422, 0 Lady Fair 403 463, 557, 615 Only a Rose 124 Our Arohfflologioal Corner . 40, 125, 176 Reconciled 392 Shakespeare : Sonnets . . 30, 384 Papers on the Great Pyramid 438, 493, 534, 581 Solomon 66 Poetic Interpretation of Nature , The . . 309 Sonnet . . 1, 97, 169, 210, 298, 483 Pope and Medieval Freemasons, The . .69 Summer ...... 12 Prinoe Consort, The Late . . . . 846 The Chamber of Imagery . . . 490 Proposed Spelling Reform The . . 303 , „ Death of Alexander . . . 102 POETRY— „ Other side 203 A Birthday ...... 152 „ Shadows of Evening . . . 199 Absent Friends .....36 „ Three Great Lights of Masonry . 432 A Christmas Memory, 1877 . . 323 „ Tru e Freemason . . . . 20 A Farewell Address to the Minerva „ True Mason . . . . 163, 505 ' Royal Arch Chapter, No. 250, Hull 564 „ Tryst ...... 127 A Freemason's Christmas Thoughts . 334 Time's Flight . . . . . 370 , After the Last Scientific Lecture . 131 To Brother S. B. Ellis, W.M., Sheffield 145 ' A Good Honest Heart . . . . 329 To our next Happy Meeting . . 428 An Old.Fashioned Love Song . . 113 Upbraid me not . . . . . 109 A Portrait ...... 280 What Matter 1 446 A Story of Chinese Love . . . 480 Winter ...... 366 A Tale of Love 260 Women's Rights and Women's Work . 603 Bide a Wee and Dinna Fret . . 539 Work of the Craft . . . . 193 Cabinet of Masonic Curiosities . . 302 Wounded 450 Cara Imago ...... 27 Yearnings 49 Christmas Eve . . . . . 267 1877 and 1878 . . . . . 340 Dear Heart Mine . . . . 227 Double Acrostic . . . . 144, 240 Reaching after the Unattainable . . 305 Education ...... 72 Reviews . , . 41, 90, 217, 306, 415, 611 Every Year 30 Scot Abroad , The . . . . . 554 Flowers ...... 61 Shirts and Collars ' 37 For ever and for ever . . . . 177 Some Original Letters . ; . . 220 Forgive and Forget . . . . 354 St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter, Boston, U.S.A. Four-leaved Clover . . . .84 341 Freemasons' Wives ....465 Fritz and I . . . , . . 96 T. Ch. Baron Zedlite . . . . . 596 Hail and Farewell . , . . 556 The Adventures of Don Pasquale— 13, 59, 110 , Her Little Shoe . . . . . 233 156, 200, 281, 344, 393, 446, 491, 537, 587 How little we know of each other. . 89 „ Bible, its Authority ....146 Identity 79 „ History of Education . . . .26 In Memoriam 497 „ Inconclusiveness and Aberrations of Installation Ode . . . . . 414 Scientific Teachers . . . 330 Invocatio 54 „ Late Prince Consort ....346 I wish he would make up his mind . 567 „ Map of Europe in 1877 . . . 327 Jilted ...... 514 „ Masonic Language of Flowers . . 164 " Kick him Down " . . . . 586 „ Origin andReferences of the Hermesian Let there be Light . . . . 192 Spurious Freemasonry—79, 186, 194, Let us be kind .....253 338, 422, 463, 557, 615 Light . , ...... 240 „ Poetic Interpretation of Nature . . 309 Maimoune ....173, 214 „ Pope and Medieval Freemasons . : . 69 PAGK PAGE The Proposed Spelling Reform . . . 303 Ye Historie of ye Orygynal Knyght of ye „ Scot Abroad 554 Goose wyth. hys Deedesof Darynge and „ True History of Freemasonry in England Fayre Rewarde by ye Kyng Rufus . 322 351, 404, 470, 525 „ YistaofLife . . . . . 136 Zend Avesta and Masonry . . . . 170 „ Work of Nature in the Months—31, 62, 159, 203, 269, 355, 398, 451, 498, 540, 589 ENGBAVIN

* Stoni&Ig $gas0mr Sirmtrmrrr. We still cling to fh&JSepfeihat the good —0 sense of the majority of French Free- WB have little to report, or to note, except masons will refus e to allow Freemasonry tbat the last Quarterly Communication was to be drawn behind the car of irreligion I one of the most interesting we have had and revolution. 1 for some time. All our brethren will be Freemasonry has nothing to do with pleased to peruse the admirable remarks of politics or religious contests, and the lord Donoughmore, and the important sooner the French and Belgian Freemasons details of Bro. J. M. Olabon's seasonable well learn this fundamental truth of all address. cosmopolitan and true Freemasonry, tho Our Lodges are rapidly increasing ; -we better it will be for Masonry in General, are close upon, if we have not already ex- and the French and Belgian Lodges in ceeded, 1,700 ; and, if the present rate particular. continues, the end of 1877 will behold us rapidly nearing to 1,800. We do not take the alarmist views of SONNET. some good brethren in respect of this ON OUR " LITERARY NEW YEAR " great increase, (but then Bro. Peter JULY, 1877. Grievous likes to ah always his jeremiades,) and Ave are neither optimists nor pessimists. BY BRO. BEV. M. QORnO N. Like Mr. Samuel Weller we " likes to OOMMBNOIHO WITH THE FIFTH VOLU MB 01 THE eat our melting pears," we " asks no " MASONIC MAGA ZINB. " names," and we '' gets on pretty Avell." IN ev'ry scene, from vale The to mountain-glen, true philosophy, be it observed of Now flow'rs and blossoms, full of pro- human life ! mise, glow— : Some of our brethren seem fond of going As fair as flow'rs—for glad July doth : before the law courts just now, : and we show hope that they will attend to the sage and The brightness of her flushing : seasonable features, when reproof of Mr. Justice Field. "With this month's hues of beautv smiles It is becoming a great disgrace to us all, again and a complete burlesque on our Masonic Our literary new year—to professions. all, not so— —See the Freemas on of June For " Lodges "—are there not 1—alas 1 23. In the Monde Magonnique, for June, too slow, were is a very remarkable letter from a "Who "all too dear," our monthly "Maga's" ¦trench Brother in London, which also pen appeared in the Freemas on for June 23 At and , " sixpence " hold ;—some, if I ween which confirms entirely our view of the aright, insane struggle into which French Free- "Who ne'er have learn'd intelligently masonry has been plunged by an intolerant t'explore minority, and of the abnormal position it Its monthly lucubrations with delight 1 ™l inevitably be placed .in, tion, if this revolu- Nor heed Masonic Bounty's gen'ral store and this " Coup des libres penseurs " Be 'pov'rish'd by a miserable «e permitted mite, to get the upper hand. Monthly ieaerv'd to aid Masonic lore. HISTOEY OF THE " PEINCE OF accessible to the Masonic student, we self-imposed "WALES LODGE." hope to succeed in our labours. First, a Avord as to Bro. Fenn. As ROYALTY AND FREEMASONRY . Master of the Prince of Wales Lodge for 1868 and 1869, and Assistant Grand WILLIAM JAMES HUOHAN. Director of Ceremonies hi the Grand Lodge of England from 1864 to 1869 , few " From the " Voice of Masonry. brethren are better knoAvn, and none so AUGUST 20th, 1787, a warrant Avas granted competent to deal with its histoiy, by to the Et. Hon. Colonel Samuel Hulse as reason of his acquaintance Avith its records, W.M. ; the Hon. H. T. E. Stanhope, as and personal knoAvledge of its members. S.W. ; Colonel G. Lake, as J.W. ; and Before leaving this part of our subject, Ave BarlholomeAV Euspini and the Eev. W. must not forget to state that H.E.H. the Peters, to hold a Lodge, to be called Prince of Wales Avas graciously pleased to " The Prince of Wales Lodge," to consist appoint Bro. Fenn to the rank of Past Avholly of those " rvho Avere honoured Senior Grand Deacon of Grand Lodge, in with appointments under His Eoyal recognition of his most competen t services Highness, or men firmly attached to his as Assistant G. Director of Ceremonies on person and interests." The members to his Eoyal Highness' installation as Avhom the dispensation Avas granted (dated M.W.G.M., at the Eoyal Albert Hall, on early in the same year), assembled on the the 28th April, 1875. 16th April for Masonic business, and The proceedings of the Lodge furnish a ranked as follows : LeAvis Weltze, Che- very direct denial to the charge that valier Euspini, Eev. W. Peters (first Freemasonry is of a revolutionary and Secretary), James Farmer, and James irreligious character, for unless we suppose Bottomley. The list of members, how- that " Princes of the Blood Eoyal " Avould ever, commences with the name of H.R.H. conspire together to dethrone themselves, the Prince of Wales, accepted as a joining and clergymen assemble to promote oppo- member on the same day. On July 12th sition to Christianity, or religion gene- Colonel Hulse Avas elected a joining mem- rally, the records prove that Freemasonry ber, and the two Wardens on August is loyal and charitable, and numbers on 28th. The first meeting of the Lodge its rolls many brethren of the classes Ave subsequent to the real warrant, Avas caUecl have named as its most distinguished and on December 17th, for the initiation of honoured members. We Avill just glance Sir W. Addington, Bart., upAvards of at the princes who have been or are con- tAventy-eight years a magistrate at Bow nected with the Society in England :— Street, London. "Under such distinguished 1.—Frederick Lewis, XXIL, Prince of patronage, it Avill readily be supposed, the Wales, and Heir Apparent of King Lodge prospered very rapidly and perma- George II. (created P. of W. 8th Jan., nently. No history, hoAvever, of its pro- 1729), was initiated and passed on the ceedings has been Avritten until noAv, 5th Nov., 1737, at an occasional Lodge when tho energetic Secretary, Bro. Thomas convened for the purpose at the Palace of Fenn, P.M., etc., has issued an account of KeAv, the learned Dr. Desaguliers, F.E.S., its chief transactions for nearly a century, etc., officiating as W.M., and at another in a handsome and most interesting form. assembly under similar auspices, Avas Being published privately, f ew beyond the raised to the Third Degree. The second threshold of the Lodge Avill be any Aviser edition of the " Book of Constitutions " as to its internal history, unless some one Avas dedicated to H.E.H. by the Eev. (favoured Avith a copy and possessing pe- James Anderson, D.D. Beyond that we culiar facilities for the Avork), reproduces fail to trace aught noteAvorthy in H.E.H.'s its special features in a Avidely-circulated Masonic career, which, alas, Avas soon ter- Masonic magazine. We are enabled to minated by the iron hand of death ! discharge this duty, and enjoy ing as we do 2.—The author of " Multa Paucis " the valued assistance of the author, having states that his Eoyal Brother William, also access to many documents rarely Duke of Cumberland, was likewise initiated in 1743. If correct, the fact was over- Patron. As George. IV. His Majesty looked by Preston. accepted the title of Grand Patron from 3.—An " occasional lodge " was formed 1820, and a similar honour Avas conferred at the Horn Tavern, Westminster, in upon the Fraternity by His Majesty which H.E.H. the Duke of Gloucester, was William IV. graciously continuing the initiated on the 16th February, 1766, same title, as also did H.E.H. ' Albert Lord Blaney, M.W.G.M., being the W.M. Edward, the Prince of Wales, until his who presided, and who was most active in election as M.W.G.M., in 1874. the discharge of his duties. 8.—The Brittanic Lodge (now No. 33), 4.—H.E.H. the Duke of York was is the only Lodge which has had the admitted into the mysteries and privileges honour of initiating two members of the of Freemasonry while abroad during the Eoyal Family into Freemasonry. H.E.H. same year (1766), but exactly when and Frederick Duke of York Avas admitted in how Ave cannot find in our notes. due form therein on the 21st November, 5.—In 1767, H.K.H. Henry Frederick, 1787, and at the Grand Lodge held on Du'ke of Cumberland, Avas received as a the 28th of the same month, the pleasing member of our ancient and honourable event Avas communicated to the Craft, Society, at an emergent Lodge convened Avhen a similar presentation and position at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James Avere conferred on H.E.H. to those already Street, London, under the Mastership noted, and likeivise on the folloAving (pro tempore) of Colonel Salter, the then Princes, most of whom joined the '•' Prince Deputy Grand Master of England. H .E.H. of Wales " Lodge. was Grand Master from 1782 to 1790. 9.—On the 10th February, 1790, it Avas (In consequence of these three princes, stated in Grand Lodge that H.R.H. Ed- brothers of His Majesty George III , be- ward, Duke of Kent, had been regularly coming Freemasons, it was resolved by initiated into Masonry, in the Union the members of the Grand Lodge on tho Lodge at Geneva. FeAV Princes have 15th April, 1767, " That each of their done more for the Craft than this Eoyal Eoyal Highnesses be presented with an Brother, for to him, as M.W.G.M., of the apron, lined with blue silk, and that in " ancients " (for the month of December all future processions they do rank as only, 1813), we are much indebted for Past Grand Masters, next to the Grand the blessed union of the two Grand Officers, for the time being.") Lodges, but especially so to our next royal 6.—H.E.H. William Henry, Duke of notice. Clarence^ , when Lord High Admiral, Avas 10.—H.E.H. Augustus Frederick, Duke initiated! in the " Prince George Lodge," of Sussex, was admitted a member of the since defunct, at Plymouth, on the 9th " mystic tie " in a Lodge at Berlin, 1790— MaTch, 1786, Avhilst sojourning in that probably 1798—and certainly for appre- neighbourhood. By the decease of George ciation of the principles of Freemasonry, a IV., His Eoyal Highness became His ruler of the Craft, and for many years its Majest y William IV., in 1830, and before most distinguished exponent, H.E.H. Avas then acted as Deputy Grand Master of tho Prince of Masonic Princes. As England. Deputy Grand Master in 1812, and 7.—On the 6th February, 1787, H.E.H. M.W.G.M. from 1813 to 1842, it is George Augustus Frederick, XXII., Prince simply impossible to adequately describe of Wales (afterwards George IV.), Avas a tithe of the numerous fraternal deeds of lvas made a Mason at still another occa- that truly Eoyal Brother. sional Lodge, convened at the Star and 11. —H. E. H, William, Duke of Garter Tavern, Pall Mall, under the aus- Gloucester, " first saAV the light" before Pices of H.E.H. Duke of Cumberland, the Pedestal of the W.M. of the Brittanic MW.G.M., who acted as W.M.; H.E.H. Lodge, on the 12th of May, 1795 ; the *e Prince of Wales was Grand Master Earl of Moira (aftenvards the Marquis of «i succession to H.E.H. the Duke of Cum- Hastings), acting Grand Master, being berland, from 1791 to 181 2, when on the holder of the gavel on that occasion. assuming the dignity of Eegent, the office 12.—The King of Hanover (then Ernest was considered vacant, and H.E.H. became Augustus, Duke of Cumberland) . ivas the A 2 last member of the " House of Hanover Prince of the United Kingdom, became who joined the Craft during the last a student of Freemasonry on entering the century, viz., 1796. "Apollo University Lodge," Oxford, on 13.—H.E.H. Albert Edward, XXIII. the 1st of May, 1874, and subsequently Prince of Wales, was initiated at Stock- as W.M. of that Lodge (1876), and no\v holm by His Majesty the King of Sweden, as Provincial Grand Master of Oxford- in the year 1868, and subsequently shire, has taken a lively interest in the joined the various degrees of what is Avelfare of the Craft , subject, alas, to occa- known as the " SAvedish Eite ; " thus sional draAvbacks from weakness of health. making the third Prince of Wales, within For " fifteen Princes " of Great Britain a century and a half, who has been con- and Ireland, from 1737 to 1874, to have tent for a time to " figuratively represent been candidates for the mysteries and a seeming state of poverty," and learn privileges of Antient Free and Accepted the lesson of charity so aptly taught in Freemasonry, and, what is more, to have our Masonic ceremonies. In 1870 the generally taken an active part in the rank of Past Grand Master Avas conferred official and ceremonial observances of the —according to custom—on His Eoyal Craft, renders any further attempt to de- Highness ; and on the 28th of April, fend our time-honoured Society from the 1875 (as we all rejoice to remember, who attacks of bigots and fanatics wholly took part in that grand assembly), the superfluous. " Heir Apparent " to the throne of Great H.R.H. George, Prince of Wales (after- Britain and Ireland was installed, in the wards George the IV.), was Master of the Eoyal Albert Hall, London, by the Pro- Prince of Wales Lodge from 1787 until Grand Master, the Earl of Carnarvon, the 1820, the Deputy Master throughout that Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of period being Sir Samuel Hulse. The England, the oldest and largest Grand " Constitutions " provide that, on a Prince Lodge in the world ! After all, what of the Royal blood becoming the W.M. of a could possibly have been better for the Lodge, a Deputy Master shall be appointed real interests of the Fraternity than the who can officiate as W.M., and when out resignation of the Marquis of Ripon, as of office has all the privileges of a P.M. M.W.G.M.—much as Ave regretted the The same laAv prevails in England Avith event—and the succession of H.E.H. the respect to the Pro-Grand Master, who is Prince of Wales '! We merely stop noAv appointed whenever a Royal brother is to say that H.E.H. as W.M. of the elected M.W.G.M. The title formerly was " Apollo University Lodge," Oxford, the Acting Grand Master. Colonel the Right " Eoyal Alpha Lodge," and, lastly, of the Hon. Samuel Hulse, AVIIO was subsequently " Prince of Wales Lodge " from 1874 made a Knight, entered the Foot Guards (and Ave hope for many years to come), in 1761, cnmmauded the 1st battalion of has exhibited, in a marked degree, his his regiment at the siege of Valenciennes, preference for the science and art of Free- and served during the rebellion in Ireland. masonry. Long may the Craft flourish In 1789 he received the rank of Lieutenant under his Eoyal sAvay ! General, and in 1S03 that of General. He 14.—H.E.H. Arthur William Patrick was engaged in the expedition to the Albert, Duke of Uonnaught, was received Helder, and ill 1S20 became Governor of as an Entered Apprentice, under the Mas- Chelsea Hospital. Seven years before his tership of his brother, H.E.H. the Prince decease he Avas promoted to the rank of of Wales, in the Lodge of the " Prince Field Marshal, and during bis eventful of Wales," on March 24th, 1874, and in career held various offices in the Eoyal the presence of the M.W.G.M. the Mar- Household. Our distinguished brother quis of Eipon, and other Grand Officers. was Provincial Grand Master of Surrey, H.E.H. the Duke of Connaught received and apparently, also, of Kent (in 1815), the Second Degree on the 28th of April and a warm supporter of the Prince of in the same year, and became a Master Wales Lodge, of Avhich he was first D.M. Mason a year afterwards (27th of April). The Chevalier Bartholomew Euspini, Den- 15.—H.R.H. Leopold George Duncan tist to the Prince of Wales, was most re- Albert (Prince Leopold), the youngest markable for his generosity and benevolence, and to him we are indebted for the Eoyal Thomas Dunckerley joined Feb. 18th, Masonic Institution for Girls in the year 1788, and though not one of the first 1788. Bro Fenn thinks it probable that batch of members, we cannot forbear pre- the Lodge was formed by his suggestion— senting a short sketch of his career, strange at all events, he was its firm friend , having and eventful as it was. Although for a been Treasurer until his death, in 1814, a time in most humble circumstances, and period of twenty-seven years. He was ap- serving in the navy as a common sailor, on pointed Grand Sword Bearer in 1791, and the death of his mother it transpired that reappointed until 1813, and of the Grand he was the natural sou of George the Eoyal Arch Chapter Bro. Euspini was Second, and was acknowledged accordingly Third Grand Principal in 1778, and one of by His Majesty George III., who assigned its chief adherents. The first secretary of to him a pensioD and apartments in Hamp- the Lodge was the Rev. William Peters, ton Court Palace. He was a most who was the first and only brother who enthusiastic Mason, and his most A'aluable held the office of Grand Portrait Painter of services on behalf of the ritual and lectures the Grand Lodge from the 23d of Novem- received recognition from the M.W.G.M. ber, 1783 to 1813. The creation of the in an unusual manner, haAn'ng been office was due to the Duke of Manchester, appointed to the rank and privilege of a at whose request the honor was conferred Past Senior Grand Warden, without on the Eev. William Peters, "in serving the office , and he subsequently held testimony of the services which he had the position of Provincial Grand Master rendered to the society by bis elegant for the counties of Hampshire, Essex and present of the portrait of Lord Petre " * five others. In Eoyal Arch Masonry he (a distinguished Past Grand Master, and Avas a most energetic companion, and was Roman Catholic). Bro. Peters was also superintenden t of these Provinces and Provincial Grand Master of Lincolnshire, others as also " Past Grand Master Z." of the Grand Sword Bearer of the Grand the, Grand Chapter. He died at Ports- Lodge from 1778 to 1785, and 1788—90. mouth, 1795, Bro . James Bottomley was another of the H.R.H. Frederick, Duke of York, joined original members, and a well known mem- April 20th , 1789, " on the proposition of ber in the Grand Lodge. Colonel Lake, the W .M. (his brother), seconded by the who served bis country many years most whole Lodge, and admitted with three faithfully as a soldier, joined the Lodge huzzas." H.E.H. Avas W.M. of the Lodge August 28th, 1787, whilst under a dispen- from 1820 to 1827. The Deputy Masters sation. Bro. Fenn tells us, in a racy for that period were Sir Harry Verelst sketch of his career, that " Viscount Lake, Darrell (1821), Lord Dundas (aftenvards born in 1744, served in Germany during Earl of Zetland and Pro. Grand Master), the seven years' war ; in 1771 he was in Sir Frederick Fowke, and two others. America, under Lord Cornwallis, where he H.R.H. William Henry, Duke of signalized himself at the siege of New York, Clarence, joined May 30th, 1789, and Avas and in 1793 he went to Holland ivith the J. W . 1792. In 1827 he was elected W.M. Duke of York, to command the 1st brigade and continued in that office until 1830. of Guards, and was in several engagements. H.E.H. Duke of Sussex, succeeded and In 1798, having attained the rank of acted as W.M. from 1830 to 1843, having General, he had the chief command in a brilliant galaxy of Deputy Masters from Ireland during the rebellion, and in 1800 year to year to assist him in the duties of was nominated Commander-in-chief of the the Lodge, during which period he was also British forces in India. In September, M. W.G.M. In 1837 to 1839, the Hon. 1803, he gained the victory over Seindiah, Thomas Dundas, afterwards Earl of Zet- the Maharatta chief, and the French land, was Deputy Master, and succeeded General Perron, on the Plain of Delhi." H.R.H., as M.W.G.M. of England. His He was created Viscount Lake in 1807, Lordship was also for many years Provin- and died the year afterward. He was the cial Grand Master of the Province of " first J. W. of the Prince of Wales Lodge. North and East Yorkshire, and was suc- ceeded on his decease b ,„.," Preston's Illustrations," Spencer 8 Edition, y the present Earl 1861, 0. 229. - ' of Zetland, who is also a member of the Lodge. Sir David Pollock, D.M., 1833-4, 1858 was Robert Warner Wheeler, J.G.D. was S.G.W. of England in 1834, and in of the G.L. in 1860, and James Merry- 1846 Avas appointed Chief Justice of the weather, Avho Avas elected as Master in 1859 Supreme Court of Bombay. Thomas Field and 1860, Avas appointed to the same office Savory, who was a Grand Deacon, acted as in Grand Lodge as his predecessor, in 1865. D.M. the two years folio Aving. From William Simpson occupied the chair of 1839 to 1840, Kenyon Stephens Parker K.S. in 1862 and 1863, and Avas J.G.D. for Avas D.M., and was a S.G.D. of the G.L. the year 1863 ; similar honors being con- in 1840. Philip Hardwick, R.A., F.R.S., ferred upon Edward Barker Sutton by the etc., Avas the last Deputy Master having Lodge in 1864 and 1865, and by the Grand served for 1842—3. He was a Vice- Lodge in 1870. The present Treasurer, President of the Eoyal Institute of British Francis Robinson , was W.M. in 1866 and Architects, and in many inspects a remark- 1867, and the present Secretary as we able man and Mason. The Freemasons' have already stated, was W.M. in the tAvo Girls School Avas built from his design, succeeding years. Brother Fenn having and he Avas also Grand Superintendent of occupied the chair when several distin- Works for the Grand Lodge. Bro. Fenn guished Masons became joining members, states that his principal works are the Hall such as Lord Lindsay, the ardent astrono- of the Goldsmith's Company and the mer, S.G.W. of G.L. in 1871 ; Rev. entrance of the Euston Square Station. Arthur Bruce Frazer, Grand Chaplain Then folloAvs an interregnum (so to speak) (1872); the presen t Earl of Zetland, Prov. of 33 years, during which there were no G.M., Yorkshire, N. and E.; James Deputy Masters, the W.M.'s not being Ashbury, M.P. ; the Hon. Henry LoAvry " Princes of the blood royal." Cony, Lord de Clifford , and Colonel the The first W.M. after the decease of Hon. Somerset J. Gough Calthorpe. H.E.H. the Duke of Sussex, M.W.G.M. George Plunoknett, the last W.M. (as a (the W.M.), Avas L. C. Humphrey, J.G.W. commoner) was S.G.D. in 1864. of the G.L. in 1846, and Prov. Grand H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Master of Kent. The second W.M. Avas Wales on assuming the Mastership, and Thomas Henry Hall, who joined in 1842, having been installed by the Right Hon. and was Grand Eegistrar of the G.L. in the Earl of Limerick ( Prov. G.M. of Bris- the same j 'ear. Bro. Hall Avas Provincial tol), was presented Avith an address by the Grand Master of Cambridgeshire for Lodge, signed by the Master and Wardens, very many years, and ivas much respected . wherein the facts of the history of the The W.M. of 1849 was the well known Prince of Wales Lodge, under the patronage Dr. Henry Beaumont Leeson, AA'IIO Avas of Royalty, were graphically described, no the Grand Commander of the " Ancient less than four Princes having occupied the ancl Accepted Rite " for England and chair in times gone by, and it was also Wales until recently, and had scarcely an stated in the same document that " Her equal in his time for a general knowledge Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, has of the " hautes grades." He Avas in fact the herself given public proof of her confidence Albert Pike of Great Britain, and a favorite in the principles of the Craft by extendin g Avith all classes. We remember him Avell, to it the prestige of her name as patron of having received several degrees of that one of those flourishing educational in- Eite from him at a special convocation. stitutions, of Avhich the Freemasons of William Cubit, Avho followed Dr. Leeson England are justly proud." The Prince of as W.M. was Lord Mayor-of London, 1860 Wales in reply, made quite a long speech, and 1861. The next year William F. the gist of it being as follows, Ariz., that Beadon, one of the stipendiary magistrates " He quite agreed with that portion of of Middlesex, occupied the chair. He the address Avhich referred to the close joined in 1845, and Avas J.G.W. of the G.L. connection between the Throne and the in 1849. Frederick Dundas, M.P., AVIIO Craft, and felt assured that as long as succeeded, Avas S.G.W. in 1849, and Freemasonry remained true to the princi- Thomas Jones, Q.C., the W.M. in the tAvo ples of religion, and loyal to the throne, so folloAving years, viz., 1854-55, was S.G.D. long would it continue to flourish, which in 1856. The W.M. for the years 1857 and he sincerely hoped would be for ever. " H.E.H. appointed Robert Gray as his Avhich meeting H.E.H. the Duke of Sussex Deputy Master in 1874 and 1875, who was present, and the latter joined at the was invested as J.G.D. in 1875, following meeting, iu accordance Avith the We must remark here that it should be By-Law, Avhich provided that any brother remembered that these Deputy Masters, or must visit the Lodge once prior to his W.M's., have generally served as W.M. of election as a member. A similar rule one or more lodges before assuming the prevailed as to the candidates for initia- chair of the Prince of Wales Lodge, there tion, but Ave presume the latter must have being no limit to the number of lodges a referred simply to an introduction to the brother may join and subscribe to, and it members in the aute-room. The visitation, is usual for long service, in younger or less however, was compulsory, and the minutes distinguished lodges, to be the sine qua non in some cases actually record such in- for admission, even as a joining member in stances. It is a good practical common the old and especially select lodges of sense law, Avbich requires the attendance London, membership of such proving a re- of a member of the Fraternity at the ward for the attention to Masonic studies Lodge as a visiter, prior to his being pro- and labours on behalf of our charities, the posed as a joining member, for it enables Mastership or Deputy Mastership being the brethren to judge of his character, the crowning appreciative act of the Lodge, appearance, etc., for themselves. when members have particularly signalized The Lodge elected the Earl of Mount- themselves in the ceremonies and duties of norris, a joining member on June 19th, the Craft. 1800. His Lordship Avas Provincial On January 20th, 1791, General Grand Master for Huntingdonshire. The William Augustus Bowles, chief of the Creek office of Prov . Grand Master in Great Nation, Avas elected an honorary member Britain aud Ireland is somewhat on a par of the Lodge. It seems he was one of the Avith that of a District Deputy Grand leaders of the Creek Indians, and com- Master in the United States, only that manded the Creeks when they assisted the the former appoints a series of officers in British at Pensacola, in 1780. After a his Province, aud within his jurisdiction roving life, subsequently, he visited Eng- has nearly all the privileges of aM.W.G.M. land in 1790-1, and on his return to The office ranks immediately after D.G.M. to America, he became commander-in- Edward David Batson, who joined at the chief of the tribe. He ended his . days, next meeting, was S.G.W. of England hoAvever, in prison, having been captured during the same year. Waller Rodwell by the Spaniards. In the Calendar for Wright, elected as a joining member 1793, we find that this noted American during- the same evening, was one of the Avas then acting as Provincial Grand most zealous Freemasons of about three Master of the Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, quarters of a century ago, and was es- and ChoctaAv Nations, on behalf of the pecially distinguished as one of the most Grand Lodge of England. prominent members of the Red Cross of General Sir John Doyle, Bart., G.C.B., Rome and Constantine, subsequently pre- who was D.M. in 1822-4, was an en- sided over by H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex. thusiastic Mason and Provincial Grand He Avas also Provincial Grand Master of Master of Guernsey, Jersey, etc., and one the Ionian Isles, and the Grand Chapter of the founders of a lodge in those islands. of England voted J300 for the purchase He served with distinction throughout the of plate in testimony of his worth, prior to " American War," and afterwards on the his leaving England. During the Master- Continent under H.R.H. the Duke of York, ship of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, a and in Egypt, not escaping, however, valedictory address Avas voted to Bro. without severe wound3, " though covered Waller Eodwell Wright, Avho had been Avith glory." George Corry, who joined the Avorking Master of the Lodge for in 1797, Avas J.G.W. of the G.L. in 1795, some years, in Avhich the folloAving passage and on-February 21st, 1800, the Lodge occurs : " We know not where to look received as a member General Paoli, the for your equal in the united character of celebrated- Corsican Patriot. The Earl of a poet and a Mason." This was on March WigtoAvn' joined on July 16th (1800), at 18th, 1814, and was doubtless presented in consequence of his leaving for abroad. and Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge. John Hunter, who joined during the same " He died by his own hand in 1809." year (1810), was S.G.W. in 1797. George Charles Mathews was elected June 17th , Cory became a member Feb. 17th, 1797, 1808 (Hon. member Second Class). He and Avas the J.G.W. two vears earlier. was the son of a bookseller, and was Arthur Gore joined some six years later, educated at Merchant Tailors' School, and Avas S.G.W. the same year that Bro. subsequently apprenticed to his father's Hunter received his Grand Lodge business. The stage, however, proving honours. more attractive, he joined a provincial In 1805 (March 15th), the Rev. Lucius company for a time, but the great versa- Coghlan, D.D., joined the Lodge, H.R.H. tility of his talent soon placed him at the the Duke of Sussex, M.W.G.M., being in head of his profession. For the last six- the chair. Dr. Coghlan's name is never teen years of his life he entertained large likely to die out in Freemasonry, as he audiences by his single efforts in " Mathews was the acting Grand Chaplain at the ab Home." Charles James MatheAVS Union of the " Moderns '' and " Ancients " joined Feb. 15th, 1833. He married (or the Eegular aud Seceding Masons) in Madame Vestris in 1838, and became with Dec. 1813, having been Grand Chaplain her joint lessee of the Olympic Theatre in the Eegular Grand Lodge previously. He is the author of many successful pieces At this period (1805) there Avere forty- chiefly adapted from the French. He can three members on the lodge-roll ; sixty- perform as fluently in the French language four was the maximum number alloAved as in the English, and has appeared on by the By-LaAVS. many occasions in the theatres of Paris. Herbert Compton, elected a joining On April 19th , 1833, Charles Mathews member, Jan. 17th, 1806, was a Grand (the elder) ancl Charles James MatheAvs Warden in 1809, apparen tly in succession Avere present together in the Lodge. to one of the Grand Wardens Avho had Lord Eoebeck and William Henry White, died in office. " At this meeting the Avere elected members iu 1809 (March Prince of Wales Avas declared to bo ever 17th), the former being initiated then. presiding as Master," In addition to a Bro. White was for many years Grand Deputy Master, an Acting Master and Secretary in succession to his father, acting Wardens were appointed , the S.W. William White, and officiated in that ancl J.W. respectively being H.R.H. the capacity at the " Union " of 1813. Sir Duke of York, and H.R.H. the Duke of Alexander Johnstone (Chief Justice of Clarence (King William IV.) Prince Ceylon) was initiated April 13th, 1810. Marsico, better known as the Prince of There were but few initiations in the Molitern o, Avas accepted a joining member Lodge, the members accepted being in Jan. 16th, 1807. Bro. Fenn states of reality, in most cases, brethren well known him that " He fought in the Austrian army aud respected in the Craft years prior to against the French Avith great distinction." such election. The Chief Justice, in fact, He failed to free his country from the making but the twenty-eighth initiate French yoke, and died 1840. Sir William since the constitution of the Lodge, al- Beechy, a portrait painter of celebrity, though upwards of eighty joining members joined Nov. 20th of the same year. " His were received during the same period. first portrait exhibited at the Royal George Canning, Prime Minister of Academy, was that of the Chevalier England, 1827 (Foreign Secretary under Euspini. He painted the large portrait the Duke of Portland, 1807, and Earl of composition of George the Third, Avith the Liverpool, 1812), was elected a joining Prince, of Wales and the Duke of York, member at the same meeting as the brother reviewing the 5th and 10th Dragoons, previously noticed. " He became a member Avhich is now in Hampton Court Palace, of the Lodge the year after his duel Avith and is esteemed one of bis best Avorks. Lord Castlereagh, in which he was He became E. A. in 1797, and was knighted wounded in the thigh." George Canning the same year.'' The Eev. George Henry was initiated in the Somerset Lodge, ac- Glasse was initiated in the Lodge May 20th, cording to Dr. Oliver, in 1810, by the 1808. He was a classical scholar of repute, Earl of Mountnorris, W.M., who had pro- posed him. Lord Hawke and Colonel selected. Before the " Union," the regular O'Kelly joined June 21st, 1811. Sir Grand Lodge appointed, through the tAvelve Frederick Gustavus FoAvke was initiated Lodges selected for the purpose, twelve February 9th, 1813. He was the J.G.D. Stewards. The number in 1816 was in- in 1816, and the S.G. W. iu 1821. He creased to eighteen Lodges and eighteen was also President of the first Board of Stewards, hence the addition, and the Grand Stewards (appointed May 29th, choice of the Prince of Wales Lodge, it not 1815) of the " United Grand Lodge." having been previously so distinguished. The Gentleman' s Magazine thus describes Some have thought there were no " Red him : " Naturally generous and social, Apron Lodges," prior to the " Union of possessing more than a fair share of talents 1813," but that is a mistake, as we have and accomplishments, a humourist, a a list of such in 1798, copied from musician, a ready rhymster, handsome in " Browne's Master Key " of that year, as face and in person, affable , courteous, and follows : prepossessing in demeanour, young (Now) No. Frederick Foivke became a universal 4 2 Somerset House Lodge, 3 G. Stewards favourite. His sobriquet of "Fred Fun," 21 12 Lodge of Emulation, 1 „ iven to him by the Prince Regent best 23 H Globe Lodge, 1 „ g , 28 21 Old King's Arms, 1 „ expresses the idea his associates formed of 29 22 St. Albau's Lodge, 1 „ him. He was Provincial Grand Master of Extinct 26 Corner Lodge, 1 „ ' Leicestershire from 1851 to 1856. ¦ 91 117 Lodge of Regularity, 1 ' ¦ „ Captain Frederick Andre, who was 108 142 London, 1 „ initiated and passed May 19th, 1814, was The Eev. Samuel S. Colman , Prov. G.M. raised the following day. This is the only of Norfolk, was elected a member of the instance of such rapid advancement, in the Lodge, May 17th ; Sir Henry Wrighte records, and was doubtless, due to most Wilson May 22nd ; Major-General Campbell exceptionable circumstances. Soon after- Callander, December 20th ; as also Colonel wards, however, it was made illegal so to the Honourable Henry Caulfield , in the do, and we do not at the present time, year 1816, and Sir Henry V. Darell, Bart., know of a Grand Lodge that would tole- Sir George Alderson (Sheriff of London), rate such hasty work, save Scotland. and Sir Henry Thompson, were admitted March 18th, 1815 , it was resolved that directly afterwards. Sir John Scott Lillie, the Lodge should meet in the afternoons , C.B., who served in the Peninsular war earlier than usual, " for the purpose of under the Duke of Wellington, and dis- being instructed in Masonry, under the tinguished himself at Salamanca, jo ined orders of the Grand Lodge." This resolu- the Lodge January 17th, 1823, and Sir tion Avas in consequence of the " Lodge of George Naylor, Garter (Grand Director of Reconciliation," which was formed to Ceremonies at the Union of the two Grand secure uniformity of working in the Lodges) was accepted in May of this same United Gran d Lodge, and a most excellent year. Whilst noting the admission of this plan it was. distinguished " King of Arms," Ave may as The Lodge was constituted a " Red well also record the fact that the present Apron Lodge," by order of the M.W.G.M. " Garter King of Arms," Sir Albert the Duke of Sussex, aud Bro. Linley was William Woods, an old and universally the first Grand Steward (joined December respected member of the Craft, joined the 18th, 1807). There were peculiar privi- Lodge April 18th, 1874. " Bro Sir Albert leges attached to the office of Grand Woods " (as he is so well known in Masonic Steward. Apart from the " Red " Clothing, circles), is one of the most prominent because of which it was termed by that Masons in the Grand Lodge, and has been title, Grand SteAvards had the sole privilege Grand Dhector of Ceremonies in succession of joining the Grand Stewards' Lodge, to his father for many years. His services chartered in 1735, which is placed at- the have been so important on behalf of the head of the Roll of Lodges without a Craft that at the installation of H.R.H. number, but does no Masonic work, save the Prince of Wales as M.W.G.M., Bro. aa to charity, etc. From the Grand Woods was appointed to the rank of a Past Stewards formerly, the Grand Officers were Grand Warden, for upon him and Bro, Fenn the chief burden of .the arrange- more than usual of the M.W.G.M., that he ments in the Albert Hall had fallen, and was led to deliver certain MSS. into the nobly was the duty discharged. John care of H.R.H. the Dake of Sussex, which Nelson , who died in 1872, joined the once belon ged to the extinct " Grand Lodge Lodge June 20th, 1823, and was Treasurer of all England held at York." Some of for a period of thirty years. He Avas the these MSS. have since been returned to S.G. Deacon of the Grand Lodge in 1849, York by the Earl of Zetland as the and Avell deserved the honour. Edwards M.W.G.M. During 1829, Colonel C. S. Harper, Avho joined Jan. 16th, 1824, was Fagan, C.B., and John P. Larkins, Prov. join t Grand Secretary of the United Grand G.M. of Bengal, joined, aud on March Lodge, with Bro. William Henry White. 16th, 1832, Lord Henry John Spencer He also acted as Secretary of this Lodge, Churchill (Junior Grand Warden) was and formerly was connected Avith the elected as a joining member. The Rt. " Athol Grand Lodge." His attention Hon. Lord Monson, Major Graham, and to his duties as Grand Secretary did not GeneralCaulfield , C.B., were elected during equal his partner, Bro. White. Sir the same year Avith several other brethren William Rawlins, who was elected a join- as joinin g members ; Lord Saltoun and ing member in 1825 (Jan 21st), was the Abernethy being elected to that honour S. Grand Warden in 1802, and during the year afterwards. The Earl of Yar- the same evening Augustus Bozzi Gran- borough, Deputy Grand Master 1846 to ville, M.D. (P.G.D. of England), was also 1857 (previously Lord Worsley), was elected. The latter was the Physician in initiated Feb. 17th, 1837, and was Prov. Ordinary to H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, G.M. of the Isle of Wight. The Eev. (the W.M. from 1827 to 1830), and only John Vane was also similarly received at " departed in peace " in the year 1872, the following meeting, and subsequently though born at Milan in 1783. After his served in Grand Lodge as Grand Chaplain. death was published, " The Autobiography The Grand Registrar of 1840, William of A.B. Granville, M.D., F.R.S. ; being 88 Harrison, Q.C., joined as a member Jan. years of the life of a physician AVIIO prac- 19th, 1838 ; one year later the Lord ticed his profession in Italy, Greece, Charles Fitzroy, M.P., was initiated, and on Turkey, Spain, Portugal, the West Indies, May 17th, the Hon John Charles Dundas, Russia, Germany, France, and England." M.P., Avas likeAvise initiated. Frederick The former " Master in Chancery of the Dundas, also was initiated June 21st, Supreme Court of Calcutta '' (Edmund 1844 ; Avas S.G.W. 1849. The Rev. McNaghten) joined April 15th , 1825, and Josejjh Bowles, D.D., Avas initiated June Lord Yarborough on May 20th, when the 21st, 1844, and subsequently was ap- number Avas limited to sixty-four members. pointed Prov. Grand Master of Hereford. At the reception of two members June Two months before this the Rev. John 1 7th, H.E.H. the Duke of York presided , Charles Eidley joined the Lodge, who was and H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, Prov. Grand Alaster of Oxfordshire. Edward M.W.G.M., Avas present, and a similar Hodges Bailey, R.A., Avho joined April attendance Avas registered a few month's 18th, 1845, was a pupil of Flaxman's. later. John Williams, the oldest member " His Eve at the Fountain was produced at present of the Lodge, joined Jan. 20th, at the age of twenty-five, and was con- 1826. He was made an honorary member sidered a Avork of unrivalled grace and in 1839, and now resides at Debden Hall, beauty. The statue of the Duke of Sussex, Essex. May he long " Avear his honours." in Freemasons' Hall, and the colossal statue At the next meeting Philip Joseph Sala- of Nelson in Trafalgar Square, are also his mons Avas elected a joining member. He works. Lord Francis Egerton (Earl of was a Grand Sword Bearer of England, Ellesmere in 1846, became connected with an office which has rarely fallen to any the Lodge during the same year. " His but the most zealous Masons. Godfrey lordship was Prov. G.M. of East Lan- Higgins, the celebrated author of the cashire, Avas a Knight of the Garter, " Anacalypsis," became a member Dec, President of the Asiatic Society, and 21st , 1827 , and it was probably owing to author of several works of merit. • His his connection Avith this Lodge, and seeing gallery of pictures was considered the finest private collection in the Kingdom." Balfour, of Burleigh (S.G.W. in 1873), and During the same year Sir "William Napier, others. Baronet, and the Most Noble Henry, The year 1874 was rendered a " red Duke of Beaufort, were elected joining letter " period, not only from the initiation members. of H.E.H. the Duke of Connaught, but also In the succeeding two years several fro m the brilliant assemblage on that in- members were added to the Roll, amongst teresting occasion. H.R.H. the Prince of whom we might mention Lord Rendles- Wales occupied the chair, and was ham (an initiate), Lord Calthorpe and Sir supported by the M.W.G.M. the Marquis Charles Fergusson Forbes, M.D., Lord of Ripon , the Earl of Carnarvon (the Worsley (afterwards Earl of Yarborough), present Pro. Grand Master), the Grand was initiated March 27th, 1860. Wardens, Grand Chaplain and other On March 24th, 1863, H.H. the Grand Officers. The Marquis of Ripon Maharajah Duleep Singh, Avas elected soon afterwards resigned his connection as a member, and Avas passed and with the Craft, and was succeeded by the raised in this Lodge. This distinguished Prince of Wales, Heir Apparent to the brother was appointed a P .S.G.W . of the throne of Great Britain and Ireland, so Grand Lodge, A.D. 1864. Archibald the only loser by the exchange has been Alexander Spiers, M.P., who Avas initiated the Marquis himself. in the Lodge on May 24th, ivas J.G.W. April 28th, 1874, the Earl of Onslow in 1867. He Avas Provincial Grand Master and Sir Albert William Woods, Garter, of GlasgoAV a little while before his decease were elected joining members; and thus in 1868, and much beloved. John concludes our record of the distin- Anthony Rucker, an energetic member of guished Masons who grace the Lodge Roll. the " Mystic Tie," joined on April 29th , We should like to have presented a few 1867, and was S.G.D. in 1874. Lord more extracts from Bro. Fenn's excellent Lindsay joined Jan 28th, 1868. He was work, but already our paper has extended S.G.W. of England in 1871, and is still beyond the ordinary limits, and our OAVU Provincial G.M. of Aberdeenshire West. additions to the various quotations from At the same Lodge the Rev. Arthur Bruce the work have occupied no inconsiderable Frazer was elected (Grand Chaplain in space. 1872). On May 25th, the Hon. Henry The frontispiece to the work is a repro- Lowry Corry and Baron de Clifford were duction by the heliotype process of an en- initiated, and on May 24th of the folloAving graving of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales year Baron Ferdinand de Eothschild was (A.D. 1800), by the brother of the artist. permitted to " see the light " in the body Bro. Fenn states in a private letter to us, of the Prince of Wales Lodge. Sir George that the original was a water-colour paint- Elliot, Baronet, M.P., joined April 25th, ing by a Bro. Scott, artist of Brighton, and 1871, who is the newly appointed Pro- represents H.R.H. the Prince of Wales as vincial Grand Master of South Wales M.W.G.M., sitting in open Lodge, " in- (E.D.), in succession to the lamented Bro. vested with the insignia of that ancient T. M. Talbot, and was formerly Deputy and honourable Order." We notice that Prov. G.M. of Middlesex. At the same on Nov. 19th , " a portrait of H.E.H. the meeting _ Joseph Charles Parkinson Prince of Wales was presented to the (J.G.D. in 1874) was also elected a joining Lodge by Bro. Corry." This may have member. been a copy of the same engraving, but The year 1872 (Jan. 29th), was rendered the one herein alluded to is the property remarkable in the annals of the Lodge by of Bro. Fenn. the election of H.E.H. the Prince of Wales Various presentations made to the Lodge as a member, when an address was pre- from time to time, we have had to pass sented to H.R.H. through the Earl of over, as also numerous addresses, ending Zetland , then M.W.G.M., on the happy with the last of the latter, ivhieh ap* occasion of his recovery from a severe ill- parently concludes the history, viz., the ness. During the same year the member- address to H.E.H. the Prince of Wales, on ship of the Lodge was added to by the his happy return from India. election of Rear Admiral Selwyn, Lord The members have had the permission of the M.W.G.M. from the institution of Delight the eye, and lead the observing the Lodge, to Avear a " royal medal, having mind the Prince of Wales' plume and motto, ' Ich To contemplate with reverential aAve Dien,' Avithin a garter, containing another The splendid majesty of created things. well known motto, ' Honi soit qui mal y It is sublime, at noon, to climb the steep pense,' " and from February 23rd, 1875, And drink the senses full of soul-inspiring with the addition thereto " of a representa- sights. tion of the coronet of the Prince of Wales," BeloAv, in field and mead, the loAving herd which rests on the jewel proper . The Eefresh ancl feed among luxuriant grass, numbers of the Lodge have been as folloAvs : Ancl others, satisfied , have sought the At its constitutions in 1787, it was 503. hedge In A.D. 1792, it became 412. At the To rest, and chew the cud, in grateful Union of A.D. 1813, it was altered to 493. shade. In AD. 1832, it was 324, and from A.D. Away, far over deU and forest glade, 1863, it has been 259. And range of distant hills, the sweet re- pose Of hamlet, house, and cot, is undisturbed. The scintillating river winds and flows, And bears upon its silv'ry shining breast The swan-like yachts, for pleasure sailing to SUMMER. The ocean's path ; all animated things Discernible, appear to harmonize BY BRO. JOHN SAFFERY. And mingle with the landscape 's perfect calm. To gaze on such a scene, resplendent made Is summer-time the songs of many birds, By solar light and warmth enquiekening, Eejoicing loudly with their heartfelt joy, With joyous rapture fills the human heart. Are borne upon the gentle gale, and fill With leasant sounds the perfume-laden air. p And sweet it is How sweet it is To stroll at eventide where wild floAvers To wander forth upon a summer's day bloom At early dawn, and looking to the East And scatter fragrant odours all around ; From breezy downs with an expanding To watch the sun sink in the Western vieAV Deeps, Of boundless sea and sky, behold the sun And tint with aureate red the white- Emerge from the horizon's depths and shed flecked sky. A flood of orient light o'er all the scene. 'Tis then the glory of departing day HOAV straight and short reflection 's path A sense of sadness gives—foreshadowing Across the rosy rippling sea doth seem ; A Time when setting suns shall rise no 'Tis but a fancied span from shore to sun. more. The golden gates of heaven are centred in Fair Nature's chamis by land and sea and ¦ , The radian t orb methbiks, and open wide sky, At dawn, to light and cheer the world, with Exalt the soul, and to the " Still small . rays voice " Celestial from the Mighty Throne of God. Of man, e'en seem to say, " Prepare thy- The transient pictures made by passing self ships, "By faith and Holy Love, for better That " Sailing o'er a summer's sea " like things— birds " The glory of a brighter world to come." With Avings outstretched, give to the scene The balmy summer air with ozone charged, a touch, Is life and health and happiness to us ; A grace, enhanced by fleeting fleece-like We breathe and . live, and should have clouds. thankful hearts The sea-girt rocks along the coast complete For blessings well bestowed— Divinely With rugged grandeur, clothed with ver- given. dant shrubs, This is a world of joy, and wisely made, With precious gifts endowed for sinful should be undoubtedly quite wrong, as at man, this moment nothing is read so much, or That, living purely, he may pass this life is so lucrative " per se," as autobiography, Bereft of care, contented with his lot. whether of the great or humble. Whether The world, create, is perfect in each part, it is we like— And human misery but self-imposed. The good and Godly praise their Heavenly " To be iniquitously just, King, And rake up the ashes of the guilty dust," Extol His Works ; and ever 'tis to them, In summer-time, at morn, or noon, or night, or whether it is only that we desire " pour That earth and heav'n are one^wjlfesfary passer le temps," to moralize over the weaknesses, and littlenesses, and "bas- bright. /V^~~^-\\ /gf GRAND^ sesse," even of our friend , is a moot question. Yes, I think it is a very Sheerness-on-Sea. W L o o G c F \'" \ r difficult problem to solve, whether we r\L!BRARY /» desire most to " testify," or " take \o)v yby the high moral line," to strip off the " iron mask," or to penetrate into the " aporreta " of domes tic life,whenwe thus give up our " days and nights " to the THE ADVENTUEES OF DON study of " autobiography." PASQUALE. It is, in my opinion, a very vicious taste at the best, and one that will not last very long. But here it is, and my BY THE AUTHOR OP THE " OLD, OLD STORY." readers and myself must yield to it for the nonce, as it would never do to be " out of the fashion." CHAPTER I. Perhaps, if one seeks, as one always " Ich traum als Kind mich zuriicke, should do, to take a philosophical view of TJnd schuttle mein greises Haupt! things, much of this love of the " auto- Wie sucht ihr mich lieim, ihr Bilder, biographical line " may be traced to a Die lang ich vergessen geglaubt?" desn-e CHAMISSO. for historical accuracy and statistical information. These are highly commend- As autobiography is, so to say, the "idea " able characteristics, and are pleasurable in of the hour, which seems most to interest themselves, let us believe, to young, the mind and affect the imagination, which middle-aged, and old ; to ladies in the appears most to " pay," I think it well .to decline of life, to our matronly and young give to the readers of the MASONIC married women ; to old maids and bloom- MAGAZINE some very remarkable personal ing maidens, and, above all, to that "gang " papers, in the autobiographical line, which of aged boys, mature youths, and verdant have lately fallen into my hands, for young men,—who cackle just now rather purely autobiographical purposes. Indeed, like affected and dissolute ganders, than just now, everybody seems to Avish to live even the shrillest " swans of Meander." over again "in print." What "our Thomas" A poet has well described the philo- did, and what our " Ellen " said, appear sophical and striking love, not of '' lying," to interest greatly that "profanum vulgus," but of biography, which is always to bo which, revels iu scandals and delishtso commended :— in mysteries ; though why the lives and fortunes of Thomas Higginbotham and " I've often thought biography the neatest Ellen, (his lawful wife And most instructive kind of composition, ,) can concern any Especially if written (as is meetest) one, I cannot understand, as one should By literary people of condition. have been inclined to think "§, priori," I never liked the records (though completeBt) that they could hardly have a " scintilla " Of kingdoms, battles, wars, wounds, ammu- of interest leasure, or importance for nition : , p Preferring Plutarch, Charles the Twelfth, any mortal being. Munchausen, But in so saying or in so thinking, we Robinson Crusoe Valentine and Orson. "I own, too, that I Hke a little scandal ; " contretemps," some human infirmity, I like to know what heroes thought and said; some sense of the ridiculous confers upon I like to hear how Pitt put out his candle j the individual a " soubriquet '' which he What time, exactly, Fox got into bed ; or she never loses. And whether Burke preferred Mozart or Benedito Paesiello, Italian as he was, Handel ; was very fond of the opera and was What kind of nightcap wrapt Lord Kelson's , head. noted for his attendance at the perform- One loves to see all these important facts, ance of the masterpieces of the old and Elucidated by authentic tracts." new Italian schools, and, in fact, any school at all,—though Wagner then had But biography is not autobiography, not burst on the astonished world in the and Avhile I praise the one, I denounce the plenitude and harmony of the " coming other. Yet it is just possible, that man." So, Avhether it was that he was reason s like these I have recently quoted attracted by the " songs of sirens," the animated the author of this autobiography, energy of the orchestra, or the smiles of (in his usual kindly consideration for the the prima donna, must remain a mystery. frailties and feelings of others), when he Some facetious acquaintance, in an hour prepared his papers so carefully for public of exuberant mirth, and harmonious perusal, and Ave will therefore proceed with " furore," dubbed him " Don Pasquale," them. and "Don Pasquale " he has ever since That he is a man of uncommon parts, remained to friend or foe. the following chapters will shoAv I think Now our "Benedito," as I have said clearly, that he is a person of thorough before, was an Italian. He was a native veracity and reliability there need, I of a little independent principality, the apprehend, be no question. His Avords name of Avbich matters nothing, which, speak for themselves. I have taken the partly by its OAvn insignificance, politically liberty for obvious reasons, to suppress speaking, and partly by the happy the egotistical assertion of the first person arrangements of its rulera, hymeneally all through the chapters, aud if the words considered, had preserved its independence of this striking autobiography may lose a through many vicissitudes and through little in forcibility of individual utterance, changing years ! they yet gain I make bold to think, in It was quite a bijou principality after lucidity and terseness of expression. all, with its little capital and its little I may be Avrong in this, as in all other court, and so peaceable Avere the inhabi- matters, (for no one is infallible here,) but tants, that it Avas comfortably governed by the fact can, after all, only be decided by ten " sbirri," (Italian for a policemen,) and the suffrages of my readers, and I leave one Superintendent , one Inspector, and two the question, for the present, in the fullest detectives. Its army contingent consisted confidence m the hands of a critical and of twenty-five men, one lieutenant, and impartial jury ! one captain—a retired major was its Benedito Paesiello was the real name of commander-in-chief ; and its navy was my hero, (the Avriter of this autobio- composed of one gunboat and the royal graphy,) Avbich I have ventured to repro- yacht. duce and adapt for my readers—though But this Court had its officials and its he Avas generally called " Don Pasquale." little struggles nevertheless. Benedito's It is often very difficult to knoAV the father was the grand Arquebusier (unpaid), actual reason of this or that nickname, ancl a proprietor of some acres and a " lang Avhich sticks to a man—aye, and to a pedigree !" He was a very important per- woman, for the matter of that—for life. son in that slender coterie. Sometimes there is a cause, sometimes no He was a man, too, of singular clear- cause at all. It arises, as much as any- ness of vision and decision of character. thing, often, from the perversity of us all When the Prince, who had taken the alike, who like to invest the ridiculous " grand tour," and returned home to the and the passing Avith the attributes of the long galleries and orange groves of his permanent and the serious ! palace, found everything so humdrum and Some little incident, some ludicrous quiet, he determined on a great innovation, —a radical reform in his peaceable and his acquirements. For Benedito was conservative principality. always a lover of books, and : under that He summoned the officers of his Court sunny clime, and amid scented Oran ge together, (the Board of Pink Cloth,) he groves, surrounded by the songs of birds determined to hold and did hold, in the aud the perfume of flowers, he mastered ancient language of the legal documents, the great principles of a serene and prac- (borrowed, apparently, like a neAV fashion tical philosophy, Avhich he never lost, from Paris,) " a bed of justice," and pro- Avhich he never forgot, amid the trials of pounded his intention of dressing all his later years, in the " tourbillon " of Courtiers in nankeen small-clothes. He earthly society. He often used to say to had seen nankeen for the first time in himself and to his intimate friends in later London, and took a wonderful fancy to it. times, " I never can forget Avhat I OAve to This was henceforth to be the dress " de an interest Avhich never ceased, to an in- rigueur " for the Court. The old nobility tellect Avhich was ever active, to a wit and the " gens de la Cour," loudly objected . which was ever pleasant, and to a sym- Some of them were old, some of them were pathy which Avas ever abounding ! " thin ; some of them were fat, some of them We hardly often here realize, it appears Avere knock-kneed ; some disliked change, to me, Avhat Ave OAve to the mother's in- many suspected foreign interests; while not fluence, to Avoman's directing will, or intel- a few even went so far as to say that the lect, or cleverness—her ceaseless kindness, Jesuits had a " finger in the pie." And sympathy, and love ! For woman, strange thus began that famous feud which con- in her psychology, and differing vastly vulsed the little Court and principality for from man, is, no doubt, in the good many months. Parties Avere formed, and Providence of God, mindful when man is chiefs elected. There were three parties oblivious ; careful Avhen man is reck- mainly. The young and ardent, (if not less; pitying when man is contemptuous; verdant,) who went gallantly for the just when man is hasty ; loving when " small clothes ;" the timid and the old man is indifferent ; and conscientious who suggested " en pantalon ;" while the when man is lax. " great middle class," of the independent Some of our greatest heroes, many of and the educated, asked both for liberty the human " idols " of admiring genera- of conscience and fulness of trousers. tions, owe the very " contour," so to say, It was then that "Gaetano Paesiello," our of their characters, the great " primum hero's father, threw his great weight mobile " in them of all that is good, true, into the scale of the " via media," and admirable, heroic, to the tender nurture, declared for the unfettered rights of the the true heart, the wise aphorisms of the country and people—in the full , free, mother, or the female ! Yes, the female, comfortable, easy-going, neatly-fitting, often doubted, not unfrequently con- nankeen trousers. And such a mode- demned, but still, as God ordained, is rate and sensible view of course prevailed, man's helpmeet ever here, a truth Ave and for a long time such was the normal sometimes lose sight of, and around her regulation of that Court and Principality. innate tenderness, truth, faith, and love, Probably, in the changes of Italy, that circle, if I may so say, all the virtues little free spot has been swept away and of life, all the visions of the good, the absorbed, (that is the correct word,) and beautiful , and the true ! those old customs with it ; but, at any Poor Benedito lost his father through rate, numerous tracts are extant—in the an attack of malaria, and his mother, after British Museum, and the Library of the a feAV years peaceful Avidowhood passed Vatican—to demonstrate the vivacity and aAvay, too, amid the tears and regrets of her bitterness of the contest, the eloquence of son, leaving him just twenty-one, friendless, opposing patriots, the unanswerable argu- to Avage life's Avar comparatively all alone, ments of the pamphleteers, and the great- for his relatives Avere sparse, and his ac- ness of the question, and of the victory ! quaintances Avere feAV. Thus often ends the Benedito was happy in having an dream of life, when all seems fairest and educated woman for his mother, who brightest now. The blue sky becomes encouraged him in his studies, ancl lauded overclouded in a moment, the sea rises, the billows roar, aud the frag ile craft goes Engineers' Society, 7, Westminster Cham- down entombed in the pitiless main. bers, Victoria Street, the subject being Paesiello thought he had lost all happi- a very interesting one to the public :— ness, Avhen he bade farewell to his best and Conveyance by tram or 'bus now forms truest friends, but Time, which heals most such an important part of Metropolitan wounds here, partly healed his. and Provincial life, that a few remarks He never forgot the past, or dear faces of taken from the proceedings of this Society loving friends, indeed they were Avith him may be interesting. year by year, day by day, hour by hour. The weight of cars, of course, vary But he had duties to perform, and work according to their loads and the gradients to do ; aud he sought reverently and sub- for Avhich they are used. In Leeds some missively to carry out the one and accom- one-horse cars carry 18 passengers and plish the other. Luckily for him, he ever weigh 34 cwt. empty, and cars to carry was a firm believer in Providence, and so, 20 passengers, empty 47 cwt., and fully unlike «ome, he looked on through all loaded 4 tons. The weight of a London things here, to bright days beyond the Street-Tramway Company's Car, empty, to " clouds and thick darkness " now, to carry 36 passengers, is from 2 to 2 J tons to a peaceful time when the journey Avas at the outside, its cost is £200, and the over, and the rest was won ! duration of these cars it is expected will be But he Avas just tAventy-one, with a from 12 to 14 years. The North Metro- comfortable competence, a chateau on the politan Tramway Cars to carry 46 passen- hills, a house in town, a plenteous store of gers (22 inside and 24 outside), weigh " golden ducats," high health, good looks, about 2 tons 5 cwt. empty, and over 5 tons and fine youth ; and so he determined to 7 cwt. when fully loaded, and costs £220. see a little of " men and manners," to The life of tramway cars vary so much judge for himself in many things about with the quality of materials and work- Avhich he felt doubts and hesitations, and manship, size, shape, mileage, work, perfectly to realize, if he could do so, alike whether they have roof seats or not, that his true position, and his real mission in it is rather difficult to give an average. the world ! Cars have been in use on the North Metro- And Avho can blame him ? You won't, politan Tramway Company nearly seven I knoAV, kindly reader, and I cannot ; so years, and are in very good condition, let us give him credit, alike for goodness while others used for a less time are Avorn of heart, clearness of vision, and calmness out. This Company find an American firm of will. supply the most durable, and therefore the It is, then, his wanderings and adven- most economical, and they are estimated tures, which from his own authen tic MSS. to last 14 years. The three Metropolitan I have prepared for an indulgent audience ; tramway companies conveyed about and having finished my prologue, (pro- 48,000,000 passengers last year. The bably much to your satisfaction), I will, rapid growth of this particular branch of in the next chapter in the next month's industry is remarkable, and foreign manu- Magazine, draAv up the curtain, and range facturers find it to their interest to have my " Fantoccini" on the stage ! agents established in our midst. Until then, I offer you my best thanks The weight of an average London omni- for your past, and I ask for the continu- bus is about 24 cwt. empty, and over 3 tons ance of your future toleration. with a full load of passengers, and its cost is (To be Continued.) £140. Its life, if well built—as the London Omnibus Company make them at their own works—should be from ten to tAvelve years, but if badly built only seven or eight years. The London General Omni- TEAM-CAES AND OMNIBUSES. bus Company owns very nearly 8,000 horses, and in addition to its own vehicles THE following forms part of the opening supplies horse power to some of the tram- address of the President, Bro. E. M. Ban- ways, and carried in 1876 51,158,946 croft, before the Civil and Mechanical passengers. The cost of London tramway car and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, tho omnibus horses is from £39 10s. to £43. more so when Ave knoAV that from 1,600 The age when horses for this kind of to 1,700 London General Omnibus Com- traffic are considered capable of doing their pany's horses are broken down every work is rising five years, and with proper year. care and dieting of say 301bs. of food, Steam will, no doubt, supersede horse and running fifteen miles per day all the poiver for this work, at some future time ; year round, they will be good for their and we all must Avish our respected fellow- work in London or our large provincial member, Mr. Perrett, every success he toivns for an average of five years, although may desire in his endeavours to perfect on a level tramAvay and no Sunday work the steam tram-car he kindly shoived the they may last for twelve years. The members ancl friends of this Society in the London General Omnibus Company send last session. about 1,000 annually to the slaughterers, besides selling by auction 600 to 700 at AMEBICAN TRAMWAYS. £9 or £10 each. Horses which do not Age of Horses.—It is not considered die of disease, get worn and strained about judicious to put a horse at tranrway work their feet and legs, and have to be sold as at less than six years of age. A horse is at unequal to do this kind of work, and then his prime at about eight years old, and a used for purposes where pace is not re- good selection of horses will average a ser- quited. The chief maladies they suffer vice of four years, though many horses do from are similar to ordinary draught- better. Formerly three to three-and-a-half horses, such as colds, injuries, cracked years was considered the average service of heels, sand cracks, springs at their knees, horses, but improvements in the lightness and quitters, which latter is a hard round and easy running of tram-cars has become SAvelling upon the coronet, betAveen the relief to horses. heel and the quarter. Injury to Horses.—The feet of horses The foregoing remarks serve in a man- suffer from the constant travel on the ner to show the cost and wear and tear stone pavements, and the limbs from the gomg on with both live and rolling stock, strain in starting the car, enhanced Avith and anything that engineers or patentees us by the extreme loads carried. can do to reduce this to a minimum should Sickness.—Horses are also affected ivith be done. various diseases caused by the bad ventila- While so many schemes are being tried tion of their stables. to introduce other motive power than Weight of Cars.—The " Imperials," or horses, it would appear that until very top-seat cars, which Messrs. John Stephen- lately the idea has not been entertained of son and Co., of NeAV York, send to storing up that power used in breaking Europe, weigh 4,800 to 5,000 lbs. The and stopping the cars, so as to utilise it " TAvo-horse " cars, used in New York, of for starting and propelling. This is now their make, weigh4,300 to 4,800 lbs. ; but being tried by Mr. A. Squire, of Howland they make cars of the same seating capa- Street, Tottenham Court Eoad, with some city, weighing 3,700 to 4,300 lbs. These prospects of success. He proposes to latter are used in South America and in aPply it to both omnibuses and tram-cars, some of the continental cities of Europe. apd it is surprising to think that such a Weight of passengers added, about 1501bs. simple contrivance has not been used each, therefore the car with top seats, before ; it is only a pair of ordinary lami- seating 44 persons, aggregates about nated carriage springs, such as are used 11,600 lbs. The New York practise is for m every light carriage, being straightened cars 4,800 lbs., and eighty passengers at °at by means of a chain winding round a 1501bs. each, equals 16,800 lbs. The dif- dutch box on the axle, thus braking the ference in the efficiency of the horses is wheels and throwing out of gear, irhen largely caused by the form of the tram rail the , driver wishes to start the car, thereby the English practise being a groove rail, fisting to propel it, and saving much which causes almost unceasing contact strain upon the horses—a subject well of the wheel .flange, while the American worthy the support of the Society for form of rail being open at one side, per- B nuts freedom of flange, reducing resist- portion is not placed in tension. Car ance about one-third. wheels wear much longer in America than Life of Tram-cars. —We have no data in England, on account of the form of rail as to the life of American top-seat cars, as spoken of above. cars of that kind are not used there ; but The original street car manufactured in the cars of this character used on the tram- 1831 by John Stephenson, New York, Avays of Great Britain, of " home make," shoAVS in the drawing that leather springs have performed service of five years. We were then used, and was in appearance also understand the cars sent by Messrs. much like the old coaches before the J. Stephenson and Co. to Liverpool and advent of railways. London, for the opening of those tramways in 1869, are yet in good condition and likely to do many years' service. The American cars are calculated good for tAvent y-five to thirty yeaTS of such, service WONDERS OF OPERATIVE as Ave have named. The cars referred to are on a tramway connecting the business MASONRY. centre of NOAV York with the Grand Central Depot, from which radiate the V. great railway lines running east, north, and Avest, therefore the tram-cars at "train- WE continue our description of leading time " are subject to the most excessive Abbeys and Cathedrals in Great Britain loads. These cars have been in such ser- and Ireland, premising that in another vice for nearly twenty years, the platforms, and final article we shall conclude the hoods, and ventilators have been modern- series with an account of the exact con- ised, and they are now said to be good for nection of the Freemasons of the middle tAvelve to fifteen years more. ageso with the construction of these im- Cost of Horses.—Average about 150 portant edifices. dollars (£31 5s. English). This sum will SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, on the river IIOAV buy the best class. It is the custom Avon, 81 miles south-west from London, in America for the horse merchant to is a splendid Gothic structure, in the form furnish his tranvway company with horses of a Greek Cross, 419 feet long, Avith at a price agreed upon, and the tramway transepts of 232 and 172 feet respectively: officer will pick from each neAV drove of It was erected in the reign of Henry III., horses such as he fancies ; and should a A.D., 1220, about the same time as feAV days develope inefficiency in a horse, Westminster Abbey, Avith Avhich alone it it may be returned to the dealer as often can be compared in grandeur. The west as desirable until a satisfactory horse is front is a beautifully enriched specimen obtained. After horses become unfit for of pointed architecture, and has niches tram service, they are sold at reduced filled with many statues. The tower, Avith prices to farmers or others. spire, is exceedingly lofty, the Avhole Cost of Cars.—The best top-seat cars height from the pavement to the top of the cost on an average about 1,100 dollars cross being 400 feet. The following lines (£229 English), and the cost of cars as convey a popular description of the in- used in NeAV York is about 1,000 dollars terior of this cathedral : (£201 6s. English) each. The lighter cars " AB many days as in one year there be, cost less. So many windows in this church we see ; The car bodies, with its appertenances, As many marble pillars here appear, constitute the most durable As there are hours throughout the fleeting part of the car. year ; The Avheel, costing 6 dollars each (25s. As many gates aB moons one year does view— English money), performs an average ser- Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than vice of about 30,000 miles ; the axles true." 200,000 to 300,000 miles. Its front, with tall spire and multi- The best wheels for tramway cars are tudinous pinnacles and towers, is as cast-iron wave-plate wheels ; this allows beautiful as that of York Minster. Among the outside rim to cool while the centre the ancient tombs in the aisles is that of Longs word, Earl of Salisbury, and son of of the nave is used as a parish Church. Fair Rosamond, in chain mail ; another One of the gate houses has been converted of a Crusader, indicated by an effi gy with into a dAvelling house, and is the occasional legs crossed ; and on one tomb there is a residence of the Duke of Devonshire. recumbent skeleton. The noses of several Opposite to the east AvindoAv, the river on of the statues, strange to say, are un- which it is situated strikes a high rock, broken. The Chapter House is remark- from the top of Avhich there descends a able. Its roof is sustained by a single fine water-fall. It Avas long a tradition, great central pillar, which at the ceiling that after the dissolution of Bolton gushes out Avith a beauty that overflows Priory a Avhite doe at divine service made all the walls—as if the pillar had been a a pilgrimage to the adjacent churchyard. petrified fountain. Upon this story Wordsworth founded his LICHFIELD CATHEDBAL is in Stafford- romantic poem of " The White Doe of shire, 119 miles north-west from London, Eylstone." Wordsworth thus refers to and was founded by Oswy, King of the present Chapel in his " White Mercia, in A.D. 656. The present edifice Doe :" was erected A.D. 1128, and exhibits a " In the shattered fabric's heart combination of Norman and Pointed Remaineth one protected part— architecture. The west front is eminently A rural chapel neatly dressed, beautiful In covert like a little nest ; , rich in tabernacled statues, and And thitheryoung and old repair having three tall, shapely and highly On Sabbath-day for praise and-prayer." ornamented spires. Twenty-four kings are represented on the front, in effi gy, One of the most marked features of wearing regal crowns. The central spire this structure is the Avestern tower, begun is after a design by Bro. Sir Christopher by the last Prior before the Dissolution, Wren, intended originally for Westminster but never completed. It contains a fine Abbey. In the interior the clustered receding arch, and is embellished with columns of the naves have foliated shields, statues, and a window of exquisite capitals, each differing .from the others, tracery. supporting the pointed arches and a WELLS CATHEDRAL is 121 miles south- vaulted roof, which is curiously and west from London, at Wells, an ancient elegantly embossed. city, that owes its name to three springs or wells that are near the east end of the " Like a cluster of rods, Cathedral. The west front is 235 feet in Bound with leaf-garlands tender, length and one of the grandest in The great massive pillars , Eng- Rise stately-and slender ; land, being of the purest Early English Rise and bend and embrace architecture. It is full of niches, which Until each ownB a brother, contain over 300 statues, 150 of which As down the long aisles are of life size, or colossal being effi They stand linked to each other. , gies of Unity ! Mystery ! kings, queens, bishops, knights, and Majesty ! Grace ! princessess. The effect of these is remark- Stone upon 6tone; able. Some of the statues are quite And each stone in its place." quaint. For example, Noah is represented BOLTON PRIORY is in Yorkshire, on in a working dress, with a cap on his the river Wharfe, 46 miles west of York, head, and the flaps tied under his chin. and 222 miles north from London. This This west front, however, is a sculptured Priory was founded A.D. 1121, at Em- page of biblical, ecclesiastical and political hassay, two miles from Bolton, but in history, and a masterpiece of art, without 1154 was removed to Bolton, as a memo- a parallel in England, and only equalled at rial from a mother,—the wife of Wm. Eheims and Chartres, in France. The *itz Duncan, of a son, who was drowned. central tower is 160 feet high (completed It was a magnificent monastic establish- in A.D. 1321), and the Cathedral is 371 ment, of which there are now picturesque feet in length, with transepts of 135 feet. remains. It Avas dissolved in A.D. 1540, As compared with other buildings of a yhen its revenues were £444. Its like character, the interior of Wells transepts and choir are in ruins, but part Cathedral is not especially remarkable for B 2 grandeur, but its west front, composed of 127 feet long, by 60 feet wide. Bro. Sir three decorated toAvers, all rich in niches, Walter Scott graphically described it in pedestals, statues, and canopies, is of un- his "Rob Roy," and it is the alleged surpassed elegance, and an architectural meeting place of Eob Roy and Francis wonder. Osbaldistone. The stained glass through- GLASGOW, or ST. MUNGO CATHEDRAL, out the Cathedral is very rich. GlasgoAV, is one of the most venerable For some years Glasgow St. Mungo edifices in Scotland that has been pre- Lodge of Freemasons statedly assembled served in its completed state. St. Mungo, in a room in St. Mungo Cathedral, and its founder, was contemporary with St. we have seen one of its Lodge notices con- Columbo, Abbot of Iona. He was a son taining at its head a fine engraving of this of the King of the Scots, by a daughter ancient edifice. In this notice the mem- of the King of the Picts, and died A.D. bers of the Lodge were summoned " to 601. The first church was destroyed, but harmonize in the Light "—a phraseology afterwards restored in the twelfth century that is peculiarly Masonic. by King David I., and finished A.D. 1136. It was burnt and rebuilt A.D. 1197. Subsequent bishops and patrons extended it greatly, some in the fifteenth century. At the period of the Reformation the Cathedral Avas in its present state, and THE TRUE FREEMASON. escaped the destruction dealt out by the populace to most of the monastic edifices of that epoch. Oliver Cromwell, after his BY BRO . W. CORBETT. victory over the Presb terians at Dunbar y , Mariner ' s Lodge 249, Liverpool. made a formal procession to the Cathedral , ancl attended service. The minister, Eev. Zacbary Boyd, preached and boldly in- WHO is the true Freemason 1 He veighed against Cromwell ancl the Inde- Who speaks the truth, disdains to pendents. " Shall I pistol the scoundrel?" slander ; Avhispered the Secretary to his master. Who scorn s deceit, hypocrisy, " No," said the General, " we will manage And will not into bye-laws wander ; him in another way ;" and having asked Who keeps his Avord ; Avho keeps his him to sup Avith him, Cromwell concluded place ; the meal with a prayer of some hours' Is true and trusty in his dealing, duration, so that they did not separate till Has honesty upon his face, three o'clock in the morning, Avhich so And is a man of tender feeling. pleased the minister that he declared Cromwell to be one of the " elect." He is a Mason good and true Glasgow Cathedral is architecturally, a Who neither Avily is nor double, fine example of undecorated Gothic. John And who is very best will do MOITOAV, Avho built Melrose Abbey, Avas its To help a worthy man in trouble ; architect. Its length is 319 feet, its in- Who owns a modest, moral mind ; terior height 90 feet, and it has a spire of A hand that firmly grasps another, 225 feet. In the Church and crypts there A heart that kindly feels inclined are 147 clustered columns ancl 159 Ev'n to the failinss of a Brother. windows. While cruciform in shape, its transepts are short, projecting but little A Mason good and true is he beyond the side aisles. The Lady Chapel Who lives by plumb-rule, square and is very rich, with clustered columns skirrit, having beautiful foliated capitals. The What e'er his sphere of life may be crypts of this cathedral excite equally the His is the true Masonic spirit ! admiration of the architect, the antiquary Within due bounds Avith all he lives, and ordinary visitor. In extent, con- And travels on his path of duty— struction and ornamentation they are A path which many a vista gives Avithout an equal. Joceline's Crypt is Of sweetest scenes'of moral beauty ! TOM HOOD. stances. It was a practical illustration of Longfellow's noble lines :— "' How sublime a thing it is " Ha sang the Song of the Shirt." To suffer and he strong !' He possessed the most refined taste and A Lecture by Bro. Emra Holmes, delivered appreciation for all the little luxuries and at Ipswich, Colchester, and Saxmund- comforts that make up so much of the . ham, and rewritten for the MASONIC enjoyments of life ; and the cares and MAGAZINE. annoyauces that Avould be scarcely per- ceptible to a stronger and rougher organiza- THE subject of my present lecture was a tion, fell with a double Aveighfc on the living proof of the truth of the Latin mind overtasked by such constant and axiom, " Poeta nascitur non fit." Nature harassing occupation. He literally ful- stamped him as a genius—as a poet— filled his own words, and was one of the Avhen the world would have it he was only " master minds at journey work ; moral a comic Avriter, a mere punster, who could magistrates greatly underpaid ; immortals make you laugh and nothing more. without a living ; menders of the human Eobert Chambers, in his '• Encyclo- heart breaking their OAVU ; mighty intel- paedia of English Literature," says Thomas lects Avithout their mite. Hood appeared before the public chiefly as " The income his works HOAV produce to a comic poet and humorist, but several of his children might then haye prolonged his composition s showed that he was also his life for many years ; although when Ave capable of excelling in the grave, pathetic, looked on the calm, happy face after death," and sentimental. He had thought " too she says, " free, at last, from the painful deep for tears," and rich, imaginative expression that had almost become habitual dreams ancl fancies, which Avere at times to it, Ave dared not regret the rest so long embodied in continuous strains of pure prayed for and hardly Avon ." His life and exquisite poetry, but more frequently like that of most modern literary men, thrown in like momentary shadoAvs among Avas very barren of incident ; there is, his light and fantastic effusions. therefore, little to relate save the ebb and His daughter, in the " Memorials of floAV of health and strength— Thomas Hood," which she compiled, and which her brother (the late talented editor " As in his breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " of Fun, and of the new series of Hood' s Comic Annual, which delights the lieges With the distinct and even minute at Christmas), prefaced—thus opens the foreknowledge of organic and mortal dis- story of his life, in the interesting book ease, liable at any moment to a fatal and which I have quoted, and to Avhich I have sudden termination, it must, indeed, have gone for most of the matter in this brief been a brave spirit to bear so cheerfully sketch of a great man :— and courageously as he did that life, " The public record of Thomas Hood which was one long sickness. He kueAv has been long before the world—either in that those , dearest to him were dependen t the quaint jests and witty conceits that on his exertions, and his mental poAvers enlivened many a Christmas fireside, or in were cramped and tied down by pecuniary the poems which were his last and best necessity; while his bodily frame was en- legacy to his country. All that remains feebled by nervousness and exhaustion. is the history of his private life—that Of Hood's birth ancl parentage Ave can ' long disease '—as it Avas truly called—so glean but few particulars. His own long and so severe, that it Avas only Avon- joking ac'ccunfc Avas that as his grand- derful that the sensitive mind and frail mother was a Miss Armstrong, he Avas body had not given Avay before. descended from tAvo notorious thieves, i.e., " From his earliest years, with the excep- Robin Hood and Johnnie Armstrong ; tion of a few bright but transient gleams, Avhich reminds one of the gentleman AVIIO it was a hand-to-hand struggle with said he was named John after his Aunt straitened means and adverse circum- Sarah. His father's name, however, is men- of the author, and so Avith several other of tioned in " Illustrations of the Literary Hood's poems, is not generally knoAvn to History of the 18th Century," by J. B. be his. Shortly after his death it appears Nicholls, F.S.A., as having died at Isling- that a Latin translation of the "Deathbed" ton, of a malignant fever. He Avas a ajipeared in the Times. bookseller of the Poultry, ancl Mr. Nicholls An opening that offered more congenial says he was a native of Scotland, and came employment presented itself at last, when to London to seek his fortune, where he he was about twenty-one. By the death of Avas in a humble position for four or five Mr. John Scott, the editor of the London years. Mr. Hood Avas one of the asso- Magazine, who Avas killed in a duel, that ciated booksellers AVIIO selected old books periodical passed into other hands, and for reprinting. The firm consisted of became the property of Hood's friends, Messrs . Vernon, Hood, and Sharpe, and Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, who soon sent they Avere the publishers of " The Beauties for him, and he became a sort of sub-editor of England aud Wales," " The Mirror," of the magazine. Bloomfield's (the Suffolk poet) poems, and Mr. Hessey describes him when young those of Kirke White. as a singular child, silent and retired, Avith Mr. Hood married a Miss Sands, sister much quiet humour, and apparentl y deli- to the engraver of that name, to whom cate in health. his famous son was afterwards articled. He was educated at a school at Clapham At his house in the Poultry on the 23rd or Camberwell ; ancl it appears Avhilst May, 1799, Tom Hood Avas born. there Avas the hero of many schoolboy The elder Mr. Hood Avas a man of culti- tricks and adventures, which might go vated taste and literary inclinations, and among the exempla minora to prove the was the author of tAvo novels, Avhich rule, " the child is father of the man." attained some popularity in their day, He Avas articled at fifteen or sixteen to although now their very names are for- his uncle, but the confinement not suiting gotten. No doubt his favourite pursuits him, and his health beginning thus early and his business avocations influenced in to suffer, the engagemen t Avas put an end no small degree the amusements and in- to ; he was sent to a relative in Scotland clinations of his children ; and for those —at Dundee, I believe—aud it Avas here days they must have been a very fairly that his first literary productions appeared intellectual family. in the Dundee Advertizer. His first As I have before stated, Tom Hood was introduction to the literary world, hoAv articled to his uncle as an engraver, pre- ever, was no doubt the London Magazine, ferring the drudgery of an engraver 's desk and here he amused himself by concocting to encroaching upon the 3mall family humorous notices and answers to corre- store, and he Avas subsequently transferred spondents in the Lion's Head. The "Echo " to one of the Le Keux. His elder brother in Hood's magazine was a continuation of James died early, a victim to consump- this idea, ancl some of them are very tion, which ultimately carried off his quaint and amusing. I cannot do better mother and two sisters. than quote one or tAvo ;— His father had died rather suddenly, and the widoAV and children—there were six VnniTY.—It is better to have an enlarged heart than a contracted one, and even such a in all—Avere rather slenderly provided for. hemorrhage as mine, than a spitting of spite. He was a most devoted and excellent A CHAPTER ON BUSTLES is under consideration son to his mother, and the last days of her for one of our back numbers. widowhood and decline Avere soothed by N.N.—The most characteristic Mysteries of his tender care and affection . .Many of of London are those which have lately pre- the readers of the MASONIC MAGAZINE vailed on the land and the river, attended by collisions of vessels, robberies, assaults, acci- will remember the SAveet verses he wrote, dents, and other features of Metropolitan " To a Child Embracing his Mother." interest. If N.N. be ambitious of competing The lines entitled the " Death-Bed," in with the writer whom he names, let him try the Englishman' s Magazine, Avere written his han.i at a genuine, solid yellow, Novem- ber fog. It is dirty, dangerous, smoky, at the time of her death. The poem has stinking, obscure, unwholesome, aud favour- been frequently quoted ' without the name able to vice and violence. This was evidently aimed at " Reynold's performance she took off her Avreath and Miscellany," the " Mysteries of London," threw it into the body of the house. The and other like publications. following verses were mitten by Tom His first original paper came out— Hood, as from a young farmer in the " Verses to Hope "—in July, 1821, and country ;— in the November number, the humorous " Ode to Dr. Kitchener " appeared. From MISS FANNY'S FAREWELL FLOWERS. that time he became a regular contributor, I came to town a happy man, and some tAventy-four papers were pub- I need not now dissemble lished, the last coming out in June, 1823 ; Why I return so sad at heart, since which he wrote no more in that It's all through Fanny Kemble. Ah, when she threw her flowers away— paper. What urged the tragic slut on His connection with the Magazine led To weave in such a wreath as that, to his introduction to Mr. Reynolds (son Ah me !—a bachelor's button ! of the Head Writing-Master of Christ's None fought so hard, none fought so well Hospital), whose sister he afterwards mar- As I to gain some token. ried, and also to the other contributors to When all the pit rose up in arms, the Avork, amongst whom we notice the And heads and hearts were broken ; names of Charles Lamb (the gentle Elia), Huzza ! said I, I'll have a flower, As sure aB my name's DuiJton. Allan Cunningham, Hazlett, Horace I made a snatch—I got a catch— Smith (author of " Rejected Addresses "), By Jove! a bachelor's button ! Justice Talfourd Barry Cornwall , (the I've lost my watch, my hat is smashed, poet) ; Thomas De Quincey, one of the My clothes declare the raoket ;¦ most polished writers of English England I went there in a full dress coat, has ever known ; Hartley Coleridge, one And came home in a jacket. of a gifted family—and others. My nose is swell'd, my eye is black, My lip I've got a cut on ; One of the most humorous of his poems, Odd buds ! and what a bud to get— knoAvn, no doubt, to many of the readers The deuce ! a bachelor's button ! of the MASONIC MAGAZINE, appeared in My chest's in pain ; I really fear June, 1822, in the magazine—" Faithless I've somewhat hurt my bellows, Sally Brown." By pokes and punches in the ribs Amongst others of his graver and more From those herb-strewing fellows. charming pieces is a picture which most I miss two teeth in ray front row, My corn has had a fut on; mothers—I fancy, and many fathers—will And all this pain I've had to gain think exquisite : " To a Sleeping Child." This cursed bachelor's button ! It was published, I think, in the magazine Had I but won a rose—a bud— for 1822. A pansy—or a daisy— Perhaps, as a descriptive poem, the A periwinkle—anything " Romance of Cologne " is as effective a But this—it drives me crazy ! piece of versification My very sherry tastes like squills, , in its way, as any- I can't enjoy my mutton ; thing of the kind in the English language. And when I sleep I dream of it— I Avonder it is not oftener introduced into Still, still—a bachelor's button ! Public Readings, etc. You must judge My place is booked per coach to-night, for yourselves as to its merits. But oh ! my spirit trembles Mr. Hood's brother-in-law, Mr. Rey- To think how country friends will ask nolds, himself wrote in the London Of Knowleses and of KembleB. Magazine, and it was in the pleasant If they should breathe about the wreath, spring When I go back to Sutton; tide of their friendship, and with I shall not care to show my share, the old partiality for the writings of each That all ! a bachelor's buttsn ! other , which prevailed in those days, that My luck in life was never good, many pleasant versified encounters took But this my fate will harden ; place. I ne'er shall like my farming more,, This may be instanced by the folloAving I know I shan't the garden. verses The turnips all may have the fly, which were inserted in the The wheat may have the smut on; Athenmum. When Miss Fanny Kemble I care not, I've a blight at heart— took leave of the stage, at her farewell Ah, me! a bachelor's button ! To this Mr. Reynolds replied in the fol- IN MEMOEIAM — BRO. GEORGE lowing :— FRANK GOUL EY. LINES TO MISS F. KEMBLE, OK THA SLOWER SCUFFLE ET COVENT GAItUEN " Ws mourn, in common with the entire THEATRE. Craft in the United States, and indeed hout the Masonic world the sad and Well, this flower strewing I must say is sweet, throug , And I long, Mis3 Kemble, to throw myself con- tragic death of Bro. George Frank Gouley. siderably at your feet ; He was one of the first victims of the ter- For you've made me a happy man in the scuffle , rible conflagration at the Southern Hotel, when you jerk'd about the daisies, And ever since the night you kissed your hand to St. Louis, Mo., on April 10th." me and the rest of the pit, I've been chuck Such are the Avords with which our con- full of your praises ! temporary, the Keystone commences its I m no hand at writing, though I can say several obituary of Bro. Gouley, and we think it things that's handsome ; well to reproduce them here, as a suitable But that ignorance, thank my stars, got me off " In Memoriam " of an able confrere and Avhen I Avas tried for forgery upon Ransome, I didn't try to get the flowers, which so many of a zealous Mason. your ardent admirers were eager to snatch ; " Conflicting accounts have appeared of But I got a very good going chronometer, and for the disaster, but the following Ave have your sake I'll never part with the watch ! reason to believe is correct :— I've several relics from those who got your relics— a snuff-box, a gold snap, " The body of Bro. Gouley was found on A silver guard and trimmings, from a very eager the sidewalk of the Walnut Street front young chap ; of the hotel, with skull fractured, chest Two coat-flaps with linings, from a youth, who, crushed, and one arm and one leg broken. defying Wows It was soon taken in charge And oaths, and shovings, was snatching at—and of by friends. I am sorry to say missing—the front rose ! Bro. Gouley had dressed and found it im- possible to make his escape through the One aspiring young man from the country, ruBhed at the Avreath like a glutton, house, full of smoke and flame. He then But retired out of the conflict with only a returned to his room, and raising the bachelor's button ! window, Avaived his arms and called to the Another in a frenzy fought for the flowers like then scattering people in the street beloAv. anything crazy, An attempt even to throve Avater to But I've got his shirt pin, and he only got two reach black eyes and a daisy. him Avas useless. One or two of his ac- quaintances who happened to be there and The thought of you makes me rich; oh, you're a real friend to free trade ; knew his room recognized him. All other You agitate 'em so, and take their attention off. means of escape being cut off, it was evi- If you keep farewelling my fortune'd be dently his purpose to attract the attention made. of the fire department to his situation Oh, how I shall hate to make white soup of the and silver, or part with anything, for your sake ! possibly get a ladder raised for his release. I'll wear the country gentleman's brooch, on your But the ladders Avere too late coming. Bro. account, it's so very pretty a make 1 Gouley was driven to the Avindow for air, I didn't get a bud ; indeed, I was at that moment and finally becoming suffocated , lost con- busy about other things ; sciousness and fell out of the window into I wish you'd allow me to show you a choice assortment of rings. the street. His watch which he bad put You understand the allusion ; hut I'm in earnest, on was still running when the body was re- that's what I am; covered by his friends. In his pocket were And though I'm famous a little, domestic happi- his port-monnaie which contained some ness is better than all fame ! pills and a leather match-box nearly full Well, you re going over the water (it may be my of matches, which had been exploded by turn one of these days) ; the concussion of the fall, while the wood Never heed what them foreigners the Americans says ! remained uuconsumed. But hoard your heart up till you come back, and " Bro. Geoz-ge Frank Gouley Avas a man if I luckily can of more than ordinary capacity and attain- Scrape up enough, you shall find me yours, and a ments. He Avasborn in Wilmington very altered young man. , Deb, February 15, 1832, andAvas forty-five years (To be Continued.) of age. He received a good academic education, studied laiv m the office of mind—was a Master of Masonic law, a Senator James A. Bayard, and was ad- fluent speaker, and an able writer. He mitted to the bar. Soon after he went to was of an essentially charitable nature, Washington and filled a position in the and no appeal for aid Avas ever made to him land department from 1858 to 1860. He was in vain. Figuratively speaking his heart for a time private secretary to Stephen A. Avas larger than his body. Bro. George Douglas, and became well acquainted with Frank Gouley was in the prime of life ancl the public men of the country and national usefulness, and his tragic death will be politics. About 1861 he went "West, and mourned by the Masonic Fraternity every- was a short time in Nebraska on business where. It is reported that he had his life connected with public lands. Eeturmng insured for 20,000 dols. in favour of his thence to St. Louis he engaged in the com- Avife. He had made provision for his mission business, after which he entered funeral, directing that the services be con- the service of Messrs. Berthold, Smith & ducted by Missouri Lodge, No. 1., of Avhich Co., as book-keeper. he was Fast Master. " Bro. Gouley was made a Mason during " Bro. Xenophon Uyland, of Lexington, his residence in Washington. Soon after Grand Master of Masons of Missouri, ar- settling in St. Louis he became a member rived in St. Louis shortly after Bro. of Missouri Lodge, No. 1; St. Louis R. A. Gouley's death, to make preparations for Chapter, No. 8, and St. Louis Commandery, the funeral and vest the office of Grand No. 1, Knights Templar. In l86i he be- Secretary in suitable hands Until the next came the assistant of Bro. Anthony O'Sul- session of the Grand Lodge in October. livan, Grand Secretary of the Grand " Bro. Gouley's wife escaped unhurt, and Masonic bodies of Missouri, and im- owes her safet y to her coolness and mediately after Bro. O'Sullivan's death in presence of mind in the hour of her immi- 1866, Bro. Gouley was chosen Grand Sec- nent peril. She and Bro. Gouley .had retary of the Grand Lodge, A.F. and A.M. spent the evening pleasantly together, of Missouri, to which position he has been laying plans for trips and excursions, and annually elected ever since. He also suc- visiting neAv places next summer. Mrs. ceeded to the office of Grand Secretary Gouley Avas awakened by the smoke. and Grand Recorder of all the other She aroused Bro. Gouley, and the tyro Masonic bodies of the York Rite ; and Avas began to make preparations to leave in appointed chairman of the various com- case of danger. Both were calm and col- mittees on foreign correspondence, year lected, and apparently in equal readiness after year, for eleven successive years. to leave. The smoke became suffocating. Bro. Gouley Avas also Past Grand Com- Mrs. Gouley saturated a towel with Avater, mander of the Grand Commandery of and placed it over her head and face, told Knights Templar of Missouri. He filled her husband to do the same and folloAV all his Masonic offices Avith marked ability her. She left the room, supposing he Avas and honour, and performed ah his Masonic folloAving her. It Avas totally dark, but duties with zeal and fidelity. He Avas an she found the head of the stairs, which Avas acknowledged power in the Masonic fra- near at hand, and began her descent. At ternity of Missouri, and Avon a national the first landing she called to Bro. Gouley reputation as a Masonic writer. For to come on, and a voice further down said several years he edited and published the " Come." She supposed it was that of her St. Louis Freemason, a Masonic Journal, husband, who had passed her in the dark- Avhich gained a wide circulation and in- ness. She went on and was met by Mr, fluence among the Craft. This Magazine Miles, manager of a Cincinnati theatre, Was merged into the Voice of Masonry, Avho commenced hurrying her along out of of Avhich Bro. Gouley became a regular danger. She Avould have gone back for editorial contributor. Last fall he had a her husband, but the strong man Avho had severe attack of illness, and for a time his taken charge of her Avould not permit her life hung in the balance, but he had fully to throw away her life by returning. She recovered from this and Avas again enjoying was finally told that Bro. Gouley Avas safe robust health. outside, and thus hoodwinked was got " Bro. Gouley had an original and active into the street, and escaped without bodily harm. Mrs. Gouley was taken to the " The following was the order of the residence of Bro. Wm. C. Defriez , a long funeral exercises : time friend of Bro. Gouley and family. " Prayer. Hymn. Address by M. W. Here the deeply stricken Avidow, unable to Xenophon Ryland, Grand Master of the realize the terrible situation, received Grand Lodge of Missouri. Address by W. every attention that friendship and sym- Bro. John Goodin, P.M. of Missouri pathy could suggest. Bro. Gouley was Lodge, No. 1. childless. They had one child, a daughter, " Missouri Lodge, No. 1, having]the place who died years ago. They Avere a most of honour, then took the casket in charge, harmonious couple, and were greatly loved and the funeral procession formed with the by all their friends. Knights Templar in front of the hearse and " There are several theories of Bro. Gou- pall bearers, followed by the Master ley's fate. It seems somewhat strange that Masons. The procession was a very large his Avife should have been able to escape one. The body was taken to Bellefon- Avhile he was not. Bro. George Frank taine Cemetry and placed in a vault, where Gouley Avas a fearless and generous man. it is to remain for" ten days, Avhen it will Some who knew him best supposed that, be brought East, and finally interred in not knoAving the danger to be so imminent, Wilmington, Delaware." and seeing bis wife in a fair way to escape unharmed, he delayed following her in order to help some friends who were in dis- tress on the same floor, and stayed too long. Others think that he may have made an effort to save some papers or other property THE HISTOEY OF EDUCATION. in the room, and coming out was stifled and bewildered, and had to return to the room as his only refuge, to Avait for ladders that never came. Whatever the cause, we ME. OSCAR BROWNING delivered on Friday mourn in Bro. Gouley's death the loss of evening, June 1st, a discourse at the Eoyal an ardent, learned and noble Freemason— Institution, choosing for his subject the one Avho made friends Avherever he Avent, " History of Education." We read in the and whose works will live after him to Times of the 4th :— testify to his Avorth. He Avas a model " He gave an interesting description of Masonic editor and writer, and a noble the young Phsedrus or Theatetes in the man. Peace to his ashes. Greek gymnasium, who in tho intervals of " Bro. Gouley's body was taken after the running or the bath walked under the accident, to the Masonic Hall, Avhere it was cool shades of trees to answer and learn laid in state from Friday until the burial from the rapid questions of the philo- on Sunday. It was placed in a handsome sophers. Plato Avas the first writer upon casket mounted upon a catafalque, and education, and was the author of three surrounded with flo wers arranged as Ma- theories on the subject. Quintilian's sonic emblems. The coffin lid bore the essay, the next step, differed from his pre- inscription : " George Frank Gouley, Past decessor's work, as the Roman official and Master Missouri Lodge, No, 1, E.W. general, sparing neither himself nor others, Grand Secretary, M.W. Grand Lodge, of defending his client in the forum, or ex- Missouri, A.F. and A.M. Died April 11, ploring unknown countries at the head of 1877. Aged 45 years." an army to annihilate the enemies of " A guard of honour of Knights Templar Home, differed from the Greek, quick in was in attendance, detailed from St. Louis argument and feeling, enjoying the things Commandery, No 1; Ivanhoe, No. 8 ; of this bfe, but elevated by the constant Ascalon, No. 16, and St. Aldemar, No. seeking for the highest ideal. In the 18. Missouri Lodge conducted the ser- Middle Ages the monkish schools and the vices at the hall. A Lodge Avas opened at training of the young knight maintained a 1 p.m., and the members escorted to the similar autonomy. Harshly disciplined, large room under escort of the Grand looking upon Avoman as the deadliest f oe, Commandery of Missouri. the student of the monkish schools trod the seven years path of the trivium and and acted on, and the first generation of quadrivium ; grammar, dialectics, rhe- Emiles were thirty when there happened toric ; music, arithmetic, geometry, astro- the French Revolution. Goethe's theories nomy. The young knight, Avho looked to on education were to be found in the the lady of the castle as his patroness, second part of " Wilhelm Meister ;" we learnt to ride, to shoot the bow, to swim, were indebted to James Mill for a valuable box, hawk, play chess, and make Pro- essay on the subject. Mr. Herbert Spencer vencal songs. A colony of men in the and Professor Bain had studied it in our Northern Netherlands made the first im- OAvn time ; but we still preserved in our provements in education. At Deventer schools methods which all educational re- and elsewhere they had large schools. formers had scouted for the last 200 years. Gerhard Groote (who flourished in 1360), Education must be folloAved as a science might be named among them. In the of observation, and teachers wanted the brighter light of the Italian Renaissance, same kind of organization that members however, they came to be called obscu- of the medical profession have." rantists. Luther carried education into the cottage. John Sturm, of Strasburg, Without endorsing all the views, or the diplomatist and schoolmaster, founded accepting all the facts of the Lecturer, the methods which were preserved in we think his Avords worthy of note. English public schools till Avithin living To say the truth, some of his conten- memory. Unlike Erasmus, who Avas con- tions appear to be somewhat rash, his tent with " lingua franca," he stickled for " reforms " are a little empirical. It is so " Ciceronian " Latin. All the great easy to pull down, but so very difficult to teachers were Protestants till the Jesuits build up. turned their attention to education and produced edition's of the classics Avhich are still used. Their aim was to satisfy the demand for knowledge by amusing it, not CARA IMAGO. to stimulate research. In discipline, they exercised the minutest surveillance. Mon- taigne protested m favour of freedom and I DREAM, but, alas ! my dreaming the French language. A hundred years Is nought but a fading gleam, later Locke followed in the same direction Of a face most bright in its seeming, as Montaigne. Busby's date was 1606, A soft shadoAv on Life's dark stream ; aud Milton's 1608. Milton drew a fasci- For I look and listen in sadness. nating picture of a college m Avhich As the vision flits away, everything was studied, and yet the Ancl that little glimpse of gladness, scholars rode out in companies to see all Dims with the duller day. famous and fair things in the land. SpeakiDg to the teacher, he said, " this is Dear face of departed hours, not a bow for every man to shoot Avith." Thou seem'st to be smiling now ; While Milton was writing, the Jansensists No frown on thy forehead low'rs, realized his ideal at Port Royal. It was No cloud on that calm broAV ; their " garden of Greek roots " which But Avith all of compassion beaming taught Gibbon Greek. The Jesuits pre- Thy sunny face appears, vailed, although Ffenelon and Eollin owed And though it be only dreaming, much to Port Royal. Eousseau's Emile 'Tis a dream of pleasant years. Avas a great epoch. Even Kant departed from his regular habits to read this AVOU- Methinks we are standing together, derful book. Emile, the hero of it, was And o'erlooking yon far champaign, not to see a book until he was twelve. It Mid fair and boisterous Aveather, was enough if he could read at fifteen. Through pleasure and through pain ; He Avas to be strong and hardy, a good Oh, truest of mates I greet thee, judge of distances, a natural boy, not As I greeted thee once of yore ; knowing obedience, but only good com- But, alas ! thy shadoAV leaves me, radeship. The ideas were easily seized Thy dear presence charms no more. Yet even now on this hazy scene, nightfall, but had lingered to listen to her Thy bright face seems to shine, voice translate to his enchanted ear the And on the trust which once has grand conceptions of the old bards sublime, been, or to hear her own tuneful measures in Thy glad smile beams benign! song thrill his soul with the sweetest ac- So that neither desolate nor forlorn, cents. Should he join the Lodge, he When hope is fled and vain, would go to its meetings and she would I still look on to a radiant morn, be deprived of her audience, and the When I shall see thee again. lonely hours would hang heavy on her hands. Then, too, her pastor was vio- No longer only a vision lently opposed to ail secret societies, and In shadoAvy form supreme, she feared his saintly frown when it was No more in sad transition known that Mr. Watson had plighted faith Thou art only a fading dream ; and entered into covenant with a society But full of thy fond affection deemed by his reverence as sacriligious. Which lightened each hope of dust, All these things were gently gone over in Beyond fear and dark dejection , a trembling tone that seemed to be pathos Thou livest for love and trust ! itself, ancl each sentence Avas punctuated with a bright sparkling tear while the NEMO. , , liquid eyes gazed pleadingly into those of the husband. Harry Watson felt sorry that he had applied for admission, and could he have Avithdrawn his petition that moment he HAERY WATSON ; would doubtless have done so, but he had been balloted for and elected, and the OR, THE SECRETS OP FREEMASONRY. Craft had congratulated him on the clear ballot he had received, and a special meet- BY H. A, M. HENDERSON. ing had been appointed for his initiation, and an expert in conducting the ritual From the " Kentucky Freemason." exercises had been invited from abroad, and to parley then with hesitation seemed "AND are you going to join the Masons and to him unworthy of a resolute man, and have secrets you cannot tell your Avife 1" treachery to those who had honoured him said Mrs. Watson to her young husband, with their votes and provided the very as he got up from the tea-table and in- best conditions for his introduction to the formed her of his purpose to unite with venerable Order. So mustering up the Lodge that night. The question was courage, he engaged in the first argument put in a pouting Avay, and loaded with with his wife, and said : " Darling, my that tone of remonstrance which women father was a Mason, and for many years en- knoAV so well how to use, and which is gaged in the benevolent labours of this an- more poAverful than the words employed. cient Craft , haA'ing a most exalted opinion Let a Avoman put her heart into her of the nature, design and Avorks of the in- speech, and words seem to take on fresh stitution. Many times have I heard him forms as they fall from her ruby lips, and detail it labours of mercy. When he died even common ideas are transformed into he requested that I should take his place poetic fancies as they pass through the in the Lodge. He was borne to burial alembic of her mind. by his brethren, and from the hour I Mr. and Mrs. "Watson had been married turned from his grave, I have had a pur- but a year, and during this time he had pose to unite Avith the Order he loved so told his Avife all his troubles and plans, and Avell in life, and that had laid him in Ms entrusted to her keeping everything he grave with such tender fraternal hands knew, or felt, or learned. She, therefore, when dead. could not well bear the thought of his "It is selfish for a man to live for him- coming into possession of facts or prin- self, and exhaust his heart upon his family, ciples that he could not disclose to her. It is true that ' Charity begins at home,' Then he had never left her sight after but it should not end there. All vital forces work from the centre outward. her child. No wonder that she held the ' JsTone livefch unto himself and none dieth venerable gospeller in the profoundest es- unto himself.' I feel that I should unite teem, ancl dreaded to offend him, or to with niy fellows in effort to ennoble man- have her husband provoke his ire. He hood and to mitigate human suffering, began to inquire for Mr. Watson, and she, and, as for secrets, I understand the with faltering accent and quailing heart, Masons have none except the drama of blundered out, in broken syllables and the Order and passwords, grips and signs, hysterical sentences, the awful fact that by Avhich its members may knoAV each at that A'ery moment he was in the dread- other, and thus be protected from im- ful toils and secret den of the sacriligious posture." Masons. The groan that escaped the thin Mrs. Watson did not reply, but kissing lips of the clergyman seemed as if it might her husband good-bye, turned with a have beeu an echo of the sigh which nature heavy heart to the cradle of her babe and gave when at first she yielded the sign that spent a full hour humming the lullaby : all Avas lost. The parson announced his regret and the startling penalty that Harry " Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber, Watson AVOUM have to renounce Masonry Holy angels guard thy bed ; Heavenly blessings without number or be expelled the communion of the Gently fall upon thy head." church. To Mrs. Watson this was equiva- lent to social degradation and eternal woe, There was a rap at the door, and the and, so burying her face in her hands, she servant announced the Eev. John Peek- burst into a flood of grief, in the midst of snif, her pastor. She trembled like a reed which her husband returned from the shaken in the wind, for she had a pre- Lodge. Imagine the tableau —a sleeping sentment that the venerable clergyman babe, a weeping woman, a stern old clergy- had been made acquainted Avith the fact man, and an Entered Apprentice Mason of her husband's intention to unite with —looking none the worse for his first goat the Masons, and had come to read the ride. church riot act to the family. He bad a The first impulse of Harry Watson was very grave visage when his feelings were to sternly rebuke the old divine who had the brightest, but on this occasion he wore intruded his unwelcome presence upon his his most funeral expression. His saluta- wife at this unusual hour, and added to her tion Avas in a deep, sepulchral tone, sug- disquietude of mind by informing her of gesting by its coarse, gutteral accent : the dire penalty to be visited on him for having joined the Masons, but an "Hark ! from the tombs, a doleful sound." implor- ing look from his wife who seemed His step was measured, befitting the intuitively to read his heart, enabled him solemn tread that accompanied the dead to restrain his purpose and choke back the march in his soul. His very breath seemed words that had nearly reached and became reeking Avith sulphurous fume. NOAV, vocal on his lips. After Mr. Peeksnif had Avhile Protestants theoretically ridicule the expressed his disapprobation and his Roman Catholic confessional, and affect purpose to inflict a severe ecclesiastical contempt for the papal anathemas, there punishment, Harry told him that at an is a large class of timid people Avho are as early stage of the initiation he had been much under the domination of their own assured, by men of the strictest probity of preachers as Avere ever the most priest- character, whose truthfulness and honour ridden people of Southern Europe. Many were well knoAvn to Mm, that nothing there are Avho dare not think or act, with- would be imposed upon him as a matter of out first inquiring what the minister will either faith or practice that would in any- say. Mrs. Watson had been brought up wise conflict with his relations or duties to a Presbyterian of the strictest sect. Her God, his country, his neighbours or his memory run not back to the time Avhen family, and that, should he find anything she could not answer every question in which his conscience protested, be could the shorter catechism. Parson Peeksnif at any stage withdraw. Thus assured, he had baptized her, buried her mother, had completed the first step in Masonry. married her to her husband, and baptized He had not seen or heard anything but what was calculated to refine thought, EVERY YEAE. sublimate feeling, enoble affection, and, ' indeed, broaden both a man s mind and BY BRO. ALBERT PIKE. heart. He had seen present only men of the strictest morality, and whom he was accustomed to respect in all the relations THE Spring has less of brightness of life, and all the miscellaneous subjects Every year, he had heard talked of Avere in connection And the snow a ghastlier Avhiteness with the relief of the poor, the education Every year ; of the orphaned, the watching of the sick, Nor do Summer's floAvers quicken, and the comfort of the widoAved. He had Nor Autumn's fruitage thicken met men of the opposite party to himself As they once did, for Ave sicken in politics, representatives of all the Every year. churches, for whom he bad had always It is growing darker, colder, kindl feelings and Avas lad to meet them y , g Every year, on some common fraternal latform , p , As the heart ancl soul grow older where relationshi p would not be disturbed Every year. by the rivalries of business the rancour of , I care not now for dancing, partisan strife and the hostility engendered , Or for eyes Avith passion glancing, of sectarian bi gotry. He said "I revere Love is less ancl less entrancing the Church as Christ instituted it. Ma- Every year. sonry is neither a rival nor a substitute for it. All she asks of the Church is a kindly Of the loves and sorrows blended recognition of her works of mercy, and an Every year ; humble seat upon her footstool. But Of the joys of friendship ended rather than yield to the dictation of un- Every year ; reasoning prejudice, or the passion of Of the ties that still might bind me, bigotry, ancl thus surrender my private Until time to death resigned me, right of judgment, I will adhere to Ma- My infirmities remind me sonry and be expelled from your congrega- Every year. tion. Understand , however, that I draAV a clear distinction between Christ's free Oh ! how sad to look before us Church and your narrow Church. Besides, Every year, Presbyterianism is too liberal to propose to While the cloud grows darker o'er us measure all men Avith a two-foot rule. Every year ! Her's is no Procrustean policy. Your When Ave see the blossoms faded, individual hostility to Masonry, the pro- That to bloom Ave might have aided, duct of ignorance of the characteristics and And immortal garments braided, ends of the Order, is not regarded by me Every year. as an exponent of the great catholic To the past go more dead faces Presbyterian church—many of whose Every year ; ablest and most pious ministers are ardent Come no neAV ones in their places supporters and active members of our Every year. institution. I would appeal from your Everywhere the sad eyes meet us, the session' dictation and s action to the In the evening's dusk they greet us, " Presbytery. And to come to them entreat us, The old parson was surprised at the Every year. vigorous response of his young parishioner, and, as he was a promising young laivyer, " You are groAving old," they tell us, and bade fair to achieve distinction in his " Every year ;" profession, and erelong to become a pillar " You are more alone," they tell us, of the Church, he concluded to let the " Every year ;" matter drop. " You can Avin no neAV affection , You have only recollection, (To be Continued.) Deeper sorroAV and dejection, Every year." Thank God ! no clouds are shifting evidently revealed what our own great poet Every year, saw and understood— O'er the land to Avhich Ave're drifting Every year " Tongues in trees, bookB in the running hrookB, ; Sermons in stones, and good in everything." No losses there Avill grieve us, Nor loving faces leave us, Nature's lessons, then, as deep as perfect, Nor death of friends bereave us, are good for profit, but are they too for Every year. pleasure ? What says our poet yet t— " This life more sweet Than that of painted pomp. ******** I would not change it." THE WORK OF NATURE IN THE Yet once again, its security and happiness MONTHS. insure alike for mind as body— " Are not these woods BY IRO. REV. W. TEBBS. More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The season's difference , a3 the icy fang I.—JULY. And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, To Mason?, whose delight equally with Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say their duty it is to explore " the hidden 1 This is no flattery; these are counsellors mysteries of nature and of science," the That feelingly persuade me what I am.' pages of the Eternal Architect's great Sweet— ****** world-book are never open in vain. Of this our life exempt from public haunt." its study we cannot tire, for its daily We must not, however dAvell too long lessons are ever over-flowing with fresh ly , on these moial lessons taught us b varied beauties. In its domain there is y nature ' OUT a place for every student superficial or pro- of that nature s God, for purpose now is , rather to cull some of the myriad SAveets found; food , light or solid, for every mental from her bounteous lap—Ave say cull " appetite ; charms to suit every varying " for touch we ever so li mood, advisedly, ghtly, we cannot in the space and time now at our " From grave to gay, command, mention one thousandth part of From pensive to serene." her varied gifts ; nor can we look at any of Ever since the Great Architect laid out them from even a slightly scientific point in symbol the plan of man's life, with its of view ; the forms and structures varied hours of work and rest, labour and of plants, the natures and habits of the refreshment, mental as well as bodily, in insect world, the species and instincts of the very acts of creation, have His ap- the animal kingdom, we must pass over, pointed teachers gone to the great store- or, at best, touch on but lightly, for eur house there provided for texts whereon present purpose is rather to briefly indicate to found their lessons, for threads and what is most commonly to be observed in pearls alike wherewith to string the a summer-day's ramble, than to teach with ohaplets of His jewelled lore. From the the minuteness that requires the space of first recorded object-sermon—Jotham 's the many-paged volume to describe, and Parable of the Trees that went forth to the long hours of patient study to acquire. anoint a king,—to those of Our One and Our way, then, lies just now through Only Perfect Master, every imaginable the leafy woods, of whose blossoms we can subject that can affect the creature has say but little, for but few are in their been symbolized and shadowed forth in greatest state of beauty now ; one tree, that the Creator's eloquent, though seem- however, demands our attention if only for wgly silent, kingdom. True, its objects the exquisite perfume exhaled by its sweetly- 'oay be to outward seeming dumb, but if scented flowers, we mean the Lime or one but possesses, as every Brother should Linden, whose yellow bloom-clusters are m his heart possess, the key, there will be always alive with the music of the multi- tudinous insects attracted by their rich its waving feathery boughs and spikes of store of honey. First and foremost of small white flowers, as it will lend us a these, Ave find the Honey-Bee, Avhilst step doAvnAvards towards the humbler amongst the more brilliant, if less useful shrubs. frequenters of the plant, Ave find the Lirne- Many a hedgerow now, especially if the HaAvk-Moth, the Kentish Glory, the large season be late, is thickly adorned Avith the Emerald, the Buff-tip, the Lobster Moth, Honeysuckle, whose perfume is as sweet as Orange Moth, Dagger Moth, Brindled its flowers are lovely, whilst, if the soil be Beauty, and many others too numerous to chalky, we shall find hanging in profusion mention. The Lime is a tree that in the sweet white flowers of the Traveller's Britain we rarely see except as a cultivated Joy or Clematis : this plant is one of favourite, ranged in trim avenues or those boons of vegetation which render belting those sacred spots Avhere— every season beautiful—its clusters of " The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. " trailing light green foliage in the spring, its abundant perfumed floAvers in summer, its There is, however, a small land abundant silver-haired fruit, earning for it its rural in a Avild state, especially in Sussex and name of Old-man's-beard in autumn whilst Essex ; but, if we would see this tree in in winter its stem-tracery is a marvellous surpassing luxuriance, we must seek such study of nature's handywork. Nor specimens as those at Moor Park, in Hert- is another sense, and that by no fordshire, or that vrell-known example at means an unimportant one, left ungratified, Knowle Park, in Kent, which might well for we can readily find the grateful fruit be designated the British Banian. This of some of the bramble-tribe, the .Wild unique specimen sends out luxuriant Raspberry, and others, whose berries, if branches, which, bearing hard upon the small, possess a flavour often sought in ground at their extremities, have rooted vain at the hands, or rather of the branches, and sent up daughter stems ; these stems of their more favoured garden rivals. Nor have again branched out and rooted like must we forget the Queen's or Cloud-Berry, the parent stock, until this single tree, to- which, if its fruit affords us but small gether with children and grandchildren, gratification directly, does so indirectly, covers ground of well-nigh a fourth of an acre for it is the favourite food of that royal in extent. As the denizens of this tree are bird, the grouse. Talking of this right- numerous, so too are its uses to man, both royal bird, at once brings to mind the Ling useful and ornamental ; for turnery and or Heather which, now makes many a hill- toys it is invaluable, so too it is for sound- side of the far North extremely beautiful : ing-boards of pianofortes and for carriage- where, too, panelling ; whilst to its soft , smooth-grained '" Still keeps the Ling its darksome grtan. and light wood, we are indebted for the ex- Thick set with little flowers.'' quisite carvings of Grinlling Gibbons, which, though executed two hundred years ago, are We shall find , too, especially if the ground still to be seen at St. Paul's and. Canterbury be marshy, the large rose-coloured blooms Cathedrals, Windsor Castle, and Chats- and prettily cut foliage of the Dwarf Red Avorth, as delicate, as sharp, and as beauti- Rattle, Avhich, by the way, is found through- ful as when they left that master's hand. out almost the Avhole of Europe, and is as Humbler 'uses too the tree deigns to serve plentiful in the moist grounds of Siberia —the bastmatthig of the gardener and the as those of our own land. Here, too, we packer is prepared from its inner bark, find the aromatic Wild Thyme, that prime whilst its blossoms yielded to our grand- favourite of " Ann Page." mothers one of those simples, which, if they Downwards again to the less aspiring, were not useful for the purpose well-enough but not less beautiful, family the Bind- intended, still did perhaps but little harm, weeds. With this wild convolvulus eveiy a quality that we cannot as readily accord hedgerow is now ablaze, and the stalks to many of the nostrums of this our vastly of corn in nearly every cornfield firmly more learned age. bound together to the farmer's no small The Tamarisk we can hardly call a tree, disgust. perhaps, but it will be well to notice here If noAr the sickle has not already taught its lesson of the brevity of our existence in variously-colourecS^&t^fjy^and the sus' this beautiful Avorld, as bright as brief for picious green-floAvered Dog Mercury ; here us, we shall gather a splendid nosegay of too, Ave find the dingy-yellow Ploughman's summer floAvers, than Avhich no product of Spikenard, Avith the wrinkled Wood Ger- green-house or conservatory can be more mander or Garlic Sage, the pale Nipple- lovely, if even it be more proudly grand. Wort, and the splendid MalloAV—there Here is the upright stem and the croAvn of living apparently on nothing is the Biting bloom of the deep red Corn-cockle, close Stonecrop or Wall Pepper, and here the by stands the bright Blue-bottle andhard by acrid but delicately beautiful Wood Sorrel ; the gloAving yelloAv heads of the Corn-Mari- next to our hand rises the Viper's Bugloss, gold ; here, too (and, indeed, almost Avhilst hard by is the once vaunted simple everyAvhere), Ave may learn weather-Avisdom blue Common Agrimony ; but little less of the Shepherd's Warning, or Scarlet Pim- precious in the herbalist's catalogue is tho penell, whose property of keeping close in Yarrow or Nose-bleed, Avhilst no less damp Aveather ivas noticed by Sir Francis valued in the butler's list comes the blue- Bacon ; nor is it by any means a bad clock, spangled Borage ; another pretty purple- for it opens and closes most punctually, blossomed plant is the Hedge Wound- although it does shut up shop someAvhat wort, Avhilst close , to us is the Soap-Avort, early in the day, being never more than a with its delicate, rose-coloured petals—do minute or tAvo past tAVO-o'clock. Another we want a charm, here is Vervain; do Ave hnlliant addition to our posy is the blue seek beauty, even in a seeming freak of Succory, a variety of which plant affords nature, here is the Bee Orchis ; Avhilst, if the Chicory, which issuchadecided addition we. Avant bringing back from the flights (pardon ! not improvement) to our matutinal of fancy to the realities of our mundane Coffee . Would we add next a lilac floAver existence, here is a reminder ready to our to our bunch, there are the little tufts hand in the formidable shape of the Great of Field Madder ; whilst of all the crimson Nettle. A peep over this hedge, in Avhich blossoms none can equal for intensity the the profuse white blossoms of the Guelder Adonis or Pheasant's eye. Another hand- Rose or SnoAvball Tree have given place to some lilac floAver is the Knautia, Avhilst a those handsome clusters of berries, Avliich deeper purple is afforded by the Knap- though now green, will soon ripen into a Aveed ; one more to give sweet perfume, so vivid crimson, and Ave shall see in the ad- we pluck the Marjoram, and, leaving the joining clover-field one of the most cornfield , take to the lane, whose banks extraordinary objects that Dame Nature and waste-places are positively covered presents to us in her vegetable kingdom. with such a profusion of floAvering plants, We have but feAV native parasitic plants, that we can do little more than mention but here is one of the most singular. The a few by name. There is the Red Dead seed of the Broom Rape or Strangle Vetch, Nettle, as well as its white sister, of which frequently lies dormant in the earth for Bishop Mant has spoken— years, until some plant favourable to its ' And there with whorls encircling graced, groAvth springs up near it, Avhen it germi- Of white and purple-tinted red, nates, and striking its suckers into the The harmless Kettle's helmet head ; root points of its neighbour, quickly es- Less apt with fragrance to delight tablishes that most profitable of all The smell, than please the curious sight ." partnerships, a participation in profits There, too, is the Trailing Tansy or Silver Avithout sinking capital in the Avorking Weed, the SoAvthistle's yellow bloom, the machinery. Clover is the favourite stock hnght golden Avens, the climbing Tufted upon which this parasite battens, and it vetch, the primrose-coloured COAV-wheat, may be easily seen for the stem even of the , Black Horehound with its purple buds, the lesser variety is generally more than a with Wild Parsnep, fragrant Basil Thyme, foot high. It presents a strange Avithered roe heat-resisting YelloAv Bed-straw or appearance, being leafless, but having on bheeae Eennet, the Musk Thistle, the its stem scales of a dull, reddish brown •burdock, the dingy cream-coloured ancl colour : its blossoms are of a dingy evidentl purple y dangerous Henbane, the equally cast, mixed Avith yehW. Jatal but surpassingly beautiful and If Our collection is not complete, let us c seek the meadow, but pause one moment engaged attending to the wants of a second and gather the clustering fruit of the Wild brood. Cherry, decidedly more pleasing to the As Ave glance across the stream, hoAv- sight than gratifying to the taste. ever, and our sight falls upon the ivy- Amongst the grass, then, Ave may pluck mantled toAver of the church, our eyes arc the YelloAv Goat's Beard and the pale blue attracted by a singular spectacle. On Flax, the purple Self Heal, and the de- every projection and every cornice, and ceptive green Wild Mignonette ; if we are indeed on every point that will afford a in luck's Avay, we shall find' the Deptford lodgement, cluster numberless SAvalloAvs Pink and the golden Ragwort, the Hawk- and Martens, getting ready for their long, weed Picris and the curious SundeAV ; long journey, whither ? Ave knoAV not, Avhilst near the Avater's edge we are sure save that the Avide salt sea is no bar to of finding the glorious Willow-Aveed—the their progress, for the rigging of many a Bird's-foot Trefoil will reward our search ship has afforded a temporary resting place Avith its ladies'-slippers, or pattens-and- to the birds in the midst of their long clogs, of our childhood's day's; the yelloAv journey, upon Avhich they will enter Vetchling is here in force Avith its toAvards the latter end of the month . neighbour, the Woad-Avaxen or Dyer's The day is noAv rapidly closing in, and GreenAveed ; next come the Meadow weed, the honey-laden bees are wending their the Hemp Agrimony, and the magnificent way hive-wards for the last time 'ere purple Loosestrife ; we must not forget nightfaU, and Ave can but hope that our that general favourite, the turquoise Forget- day's work in culling the SAveets of knoAv- me-not, with its touching story, dear to leclge may prove as productive as the lovers' hearts— labour of those tiny Avorkers ; truly do thej commend themselves to our respect, and " Then the blossoms blue to the bank he threw bid us follow the example of their cease- Ere he sank in the eddying tide ; less industry ; but Avhilst Ave render them And ' Lady, I'm gone, thine OAVU knight true, Forget-me-not,' he cried. every possible honour for this estimable quality, Ave cannot forget that there is one " The farewell pledge the lady caught, very disagreeable trait in their character And hence, as legends say, which takes an exceedingly practical turn The flower is a sign to awaken thought in the last week of the month, Ave mean Of friends who are far away." their great selfishness, turning everything ancl everybody of their acquaintance into In the water itself Ave observe the con- profit, and as soon as they have made all spicuous Water-plaintain ; close under its they can out of it, getting rid of the object lofty stems nestles the handsome patches, to Avhich they have paid hitherto such resembling miniature Water-lilies, of the scrupulous, but Ave fear hypocritical, at- white blossomed Frogbit ; Avhilst, last but tion. Need Ave say that Ave mean the by no means least important, Ave cull for dreadful murder of the husbands by those our alfresco luncheon, the cool delicious lady-bees, Avho have turned their talents Water-cress. into other than maternal directions. We Time Avill not serve us to describe the often compare our own busy country handsome flags and rushes, or enter into to a hive of bees, but it Avould be rather the study of the myriad grasses, and so Ave hard lines for some of us if the simile Avere must linger only to add to our list of insect to be carried out in its entirety ; the friends fluttering over the grassy mead— " shrieking sisterhood " are there, and their the Tortoise-shell Butterflies (larger and instincts are doubtless someAvhat allied to smaller), the gorgeous Purple Emperor, the those of these bloodthirsty " neuter bees, White Admiral, and the Painted Lady; Avoe betide us poor '' drones," as they con- Avhilst to our Moths we add the Tiger, the sider us, if they should ever get the upper- Oakeggar, and the Dark Crimson Under- hand. HoAvever, this hive of ours is not Aviug. Of birds, then' eggs, and nests, Ave yet altogether converted to the faith that must this month say little more than that the greatest talkers are invariably the most of them, having started successfully greatest doers, and so we may Avend out one family into the world, are busily peaceful way liomeAvards for a little longer yet, our solitary Avalk brightened still by cashire, and three at Bolton—viz., 51, one of Nature's tiny marvels, for— 242, and 386. The Lodge itself met in a private room " Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, A.D. 1734, and has for years happily re- The glow-worm lights his gem, and through the dark turned to such suitable associations. A movintr radiance twinkles. Evening yields We should much like to know who Bro. The world to Night." Michael James Boyle Avas (a companion and " Mason of the world "), and Ave expect our Bros. Newton and Ellis would also be glad to be aAvare as to his Masonic history. The seal mentioned by Bro. Newton (page 515) was in all probability, BRO. JAMES NEWTON'S SKETCH used by the said Bro. Boyle, who was OF THE CONCORD ROYAL ARCH likely enough a member of the " Royal CHAPTER , No. 37, BOLTON. Arch Union Lodge," No. 211, Grand Lodge of Scotland. This Lodge was constituted in 1785 (Feb. 7), and was held in the 3rd WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAN. Regiment of Dragoons, its number being subsequently altered from 211 to 159 . IF any brethren a feAV years since con- The Lodge has been for some time dor- sidered that Bros, the Rev. A. F. A. mant ; but ive should say .that if the Woodford, M.A., D. Murray Lyon and records are preserved, it will be found to ourselves were mistaken in the belief that have been with the Regiment at Bolton or there Avas yet a mine of Masonic wealth neighbourhood, at the period in question , to be found in our Lodge and Chapter and possibly Bro . Boyle Avas connected Records, their doubts must have long ere with these Dragoons. The seal evidently this, have fled. Month after month Ave Avas that of the Lodge; and though the hear of fresh discoveries, and important Grand Lodge of Scotland has never re- links being prepared for our universal cognized the Arch, and in fact not any History of Freemasonry, and should the degrees save the three first and the rapid progress be maintained, we may " Mark," yet at the time stated a very free soon hope for material sufficient being use was made of the Lodge Avarrant, and accumulated whereupon to base the Avork. it was generally considered that the Bro. Newton, P.M., 37, of Bolton, is presence of such a document made all the another labourer in the field, and Ave give proceedings regular, for Avhich reason the him a most hearty Avelcome as a com- Avarrants Avere often lent for a few hours, petent Avriter and accurate scribe, for he when meetings were held in the Mark and has done his work well for the Records of Royal Arch degrees. the Concord Chapter, and deserves the The " Super Excellent Masonry " spoken thanks of his numerous readers. of, Avas evidently something additional to The first note we have of the " Anchor the ordinary " Royal Arch degree," and and Hope " Lodge by name is of 1777, and was Avhat is termed the "higher order." it also occurs in the Grand Lodge Calendar As the warrant of No. 45 did not tor 1784. The Chapter it appears, met authorize the Avorking of" Super Excellent nuclei' the wing of the Lodge, for being Masonry," it is just possible that Bro. under a separate charter of the " Moderns," Michael James Boyle Avas the medium of it could not be held directly by its authority, as his name frequentl y occurs authority. Its number Avas 45. From as some one of consequence in the Records 1823 to 1863 it has been subject to three of the Chapter , at Bolton, as also at changes of numeration in connection with Sheffield. The title of the "Moderns " the Lodge, to which, after the Union of Gran d Chapter was the imposing one of the Grand Chapters on 18th March , 1817, " The Grand and Royal Chapter of Jeru- rt became attached , viz., Nos. 51 (1823), salem." Its constitutions or regulat:ous "W (1832), and 37 fro m 1863. In 1823 Avere issued in 1778 (A.L. 5872) and there were in all 38 chapters for the Royal 1782 (A.L. 5786), and, as we have seen , Arch, meeting in the Avhole of Lan- it united with the " Ancients " soon after o 2 the union of the two Grand Lodges in *39 Industrious, Hull. 1813. Since then there have been issued 36 Mount Moriali, Chatham. those of 1817, 1823, 1843. 1852, 1864, 38 Concord, Canterbury. and 1875. 41 Prudence, Ipswich. The three officers ivho signed the Records 43 Rectitude, Boking. 30th November, 1787, with simply the 45 Concord , Bolton-le-Moor. letters P., A., and E., attached, Ave take 46 Harmony, Kingston. to mean Principal Sojourner (i.e. P.), As- 47 Union , BridgAvater. sistant Sojourner (or A), and Scribe E. 49 Hope, Deptford. (or E.) These names are in accordance 51 Concord , Durham. Avith the titles of the various officers . 52 Land of Calces, Eyemouth. The By-laAvs as quoted by Brother 53 Goodwill, Braintree. Newton , are valuable and curious, and 56 Fortitude, Darlington. form an interesting feature of his enter- 60 Union, Gateshead. taining sketch. The " H.R.A. of the Earl of Antrim " (page 565), it will be as Avell to note, refers to brethren of the " Ancient " constitution, or seceders, Avho on joining the Chapter " ABSENT FRIENDS." of the " Moderns," disobeyed their own LaAvs as promulgated, A.D., 1801. How- THE clans are met I The yearly feast ever, such was frequently done. Upon the board is spread ; We hope that Bro. NeAVton's ' sketch The holly and the mistletoe will form the herald of many subsequent Hang mingled overhead. histories of our old Lodges aud Chapters. For 'tis our birthday gathering, We append a list of country Chapters Looked forward to each year ; in existence A.D., 1792 , , under " The Ancl, save Avith here and there a blank, Grand and Royal Chapiter of Jerusalem " We all of us are here. aforesaid :— From granddad Avith his silver head, 3 Friendshi p, Portsmouth. Who fourscore years hath seen ; f 4 Nativity, Burnley. To air-haired Dora, Avho hath reigned 5 First Miracle, Colne. For just four years our queen . 6 Manchester. Ring out sweet childhood's trebles shrill, 7 Unanimity, Bury. And joyous is the sound ; 8 Swansea. And elders smile as the red wine 9 Charity, Bristol. Goes moderately round. 12 Unity, Colchester. Hushed for a moment is the mirth, 13 Concord, Southampton. Grave for awhile the gay ; 14 Liverpool. As, glass in hand, old grandsire gives, 17 Union, York. " The dear ones far away !" 20 Harmony, Salisbury. • 21 Amity, Poole. There's dark-eyed Frank in India's clime, 22 Durnavarum , Dorchester. Bluff Walter on the sea ; 23 Unity, Plymouth. And Nell, Avho married in the spring, 24 St. Michael, Chester. », Another home hath she ! 25 Benevolence, Plymouth. We'll pledge the dear ones, each and all, 27 Fortitude, 1st. Reg. Dragoons. Although no answering hand 28 Cumberland , Bath. Can press our OAvn, no answering voice 29 Resolution, Exeter. Can join our joyous band. 30 Friendship, Dartmouth. Full many a " toast " we'll drink to-night 31 Science, Salisbury. Ere our blithe gathering ends ; 32 Britannia, Whitby. But none so sAveet, and none so dear, 33 Fortitude, Birmingham. As that of " Absent Friends !" 34 Weymouth. 35 Minerva, Hull. * Sie. SHIRTS AND COLLARS. didn t ask you to buy me a whole suit. Take this back and get me another." He returned in a few minutes, saying (From the " Keystone.") the store was closed, and the boss had gone to church. I put the shirt on again, WRITTEN EXPRESSLY IN MY OWN BEHALF determined to do the best I could under FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE OF THE the eireum stances. OPPRESSED RACE USUALLY CALLED MAN. Just at this moment, I noticed a stir among my collars, and a suppressed laugh [W E take this amusing skit from our ex- cellent contemporary, to Avhom we are of the late Judge, Avhom I kept in torture for a half-hour, breaking all his fin ger- often indebted.—ED.] nails in trying to fasten the back button. HAVE you ever had any trouble with Having accomplished this, I told him to your linen, dear reader 1 I say dear reader, button the front. NOAV, if you have never after the style of religious writers, for Avho heard a coloured judge deliver an ojunion, knows but that many otherwise pious you ought to have been present. men have been made to exclaim, " Darn " Boss, this shirt am a cutaAvay, and the shirt and collar !" the collars are six inches too short, sure I" If ever man was afflicted Avith shirts My patience becoming , exhausted, I and collars, so that he Avould forget his ordered him to sew tAvo of .the collars own identity, and have to call on his together, and bring my breakfast to my mother-in-laAvto tell him his wife's maiden room, determining not to be made fun of name, I am he; yes, I am HE. Let me by the other guests...... ; give you a few of my many experiences : On my return home I sent.the shirt to I was once stopping at a hotel in Rich- a charitable institution, the matron of mond. Having arrived late on Saturday which, in acknowledging the donatidD, night, and being vary tired, I slept in my said she had made one dozen nice sheets only shirt. I might here say that I had and a linen table-cloth; out of it. . She a half-dozen different sizes of collars Avith thanked me kindly on behalf of the Board me, not knowing whether my neck would of Directors, and of the little children of contract or expand in that warm climate. the Institution. After a LIVELY night's rest (I was Being one of the proprietors of the amused most of the time Avith some kind Commercial List (the only paper devoted of a bird that insisted on calling me to the commercial interests of Philadel- cousin) I arose and prepared for break- phia), I received as part of my dividend fast Looking into the mivroi: before me, an order on a Gents' Furnishing Store, what a sight J I had forgotten to remove and with this I hastened to get measured the tobacco from my mouth on retiring, for one-half-dozen shirts of the latest consequently the bosom of my shirt pre- style. sented a forlorn appearance. I immedi- When the shirts came home, my wife ately rang the bell for a servant ; one remarked, "Why did you get shirts appeared shortly. First asking him his with collars on them, when you knoiv you name (he called himself the late Judge must have a clean collar each day 1" " I Frisby) I said : did not order them so, my dear ; but guess " Can you buy me a shirt V this must be the new style. - I will wear " Oh, yes, Boss, get you a nice one for one to-day, and see how I like them." five dollars." My wife (always wishing me to look nice) Handing him the money, and telling him said, "My dear, I would, but remember, do to hurry up, I Ayaited patiently for his re- not spit on your bosom." turn. He arrived shortly and said : I had not proceeded far from the house, "Boss, dis am de nicest shirt out, sure. when the boys commenced to yell " Look No trouble to put it over de head ; but at that sport !" " Jakey !" "New York !" buttons all down de side." and such like expressions : and not wishing Putting it on, the Late Judge asked me to be made sport of, I returned home to see if it was large enough. what was the matter with the shirt. On " Well, I should think it was. most ; I examination, my wife found that the man Avho made the shirt had drawn too much " Now, my dear, don't bother me Avhen muslin up in the neck, to the detriment I am putting on a collar. Tow hwio it of the lower end. Without getting angry makes me mad '' however, I took off the shirt and put on " Well , I have never been to the opera an old one—sending the fashionable ones in my life." back to be altered to the old style. " Wade Hampton and Florida Water ! In a few days they were returned to me, don't bother me !" cut bias in the back and gored . " Now," My wife seeing me get angry, said, said I to my wife " I think they are all " Deary, perhaps I can fix it for you." right," putting on one which fitted " Eh ! Avill you go to bed , or do some- splendidly. thing 1—anything, but don't annoy me." But, alas, my trouble ended not here, M y Avife UOAV began to get mad too. as I had forgotten to order collars with " Why don't you go to a decent place the shirts—not knowing that every collar and get your shirts and collars ? I don't ought to fit a shirt, and every shirt fit a make them." collar. Nevertheless, I thought myself " Did I say you made them 1 I will equal to the emergency, having collars of go to another room Avhere I can put my all sizes on hand. collar on in peace." I Avent to the drawer took out a half- , I Avent at once ancl after Avalking up dozen collars—thinking one of them would , and down the room for half an hour, fit. I first tried the " Captain "—my tAvisting and screAving at my collar and favourite, but it Avas no use, for as fast as , scarce knowing Avhat I was about I heed- I would button in front, it would come off , lessly walked out of the open door and behind. I next tried " Lord Byron," the , this was the result .- old standby, but it would not fit ; then I tried the " Grant," but it was frayed out on the edges, from long usuage, and re- fused to be tacked on a new administra- tion. My patience becoming almost exhausted, I determined to nail the next one fast, and had already secured the back, and was with my left hand fastening the fron t part, when my wife came to me and saicl, " Deary, won't you take me to the opera to-night ?" Avhen aAvay went the collar !

Some people may think this is a funny picture. I don't. After lying there for half an hour, I was asked by my wife if I had broken anything on the way clown, and, almost in the same breath, the servant girl cameyibj and told me that the black hen Avanted to set. I immediately replied : ¦ " Give her thirteen collars !" (I but no, I won't tell you, look for your- would add, that the old hen is still setting self. without avail). Talk about corruption in high places ; All this time my wife was bathing my woman at the bottom of it; here was the head and calling me kind and endearing " old fellow " himself ancl all his book- names. Such as: keepers, tormenting me beyond all human " Oh, you old simpleton ! I hope you —yes, even spiritual endurance. are satisfied noAV !" etc. (I was more than I returned home utterly demoralized , satisfied.) when my Avife came to my rescue once After listening to all this, I started up more. Said she, " Come hear, dear, I bet stairs to get another collar, when to my I Avill fix that collar so it will stay on, I utter horror, some thirty or forty collars will sew it fast." seemed to be dancing and Avriggling I answered by running my hand down about, putting themselves into all manner my back, and pulling collar, shirt, and all of shapes, evidently rejoicing over my an- off , and then said, " Take it, do Avhat you noyance. please with it," and I fell back on the bed Talk about your " Society for the Pre- exhausted. Presently, I fell asleep, when vention of Cruelty to animals "—if I had I dreamed of a new country. just at that moment been the happy There I saw about one hundred mil- possessor of " Jerry McSweeny's Centen- lions of collars, trying to fit themselves on nial bull dog," I Avould have set him on the to one man, each, offering money for the collars, bureau and all, so exasperated privilege of being tried on first. I thought was I. 1 saw a man, and he was lame, who had a After the collars got quieted down, I very thin neck, and who Avas being tor- picked up one and said, " Perhaps you mented Avith a very large collar, which would like to go doAvn town to-day." It looked to be about eight hundred feet making no particular objection, I dipped Avide. I drew his picture on the spot just the band in water, so that my neck might as he emerged from one of those estab- not be worn through before night, and then I started down the Street, feeling in about as good a humour as a man can after en- during so much torture, when happening to think I had my cane instead of my umbrella, and it was then, raining bard, I turned back hurriedly, when I beheld—

lishments, which if taken at flood tide, leads on to destruction. I looked again, and lo ! the sign Avas changed, and in its stead I , saAv this figure, and below were the words, "IN MEMORIAM." my wife standing over me, bathing me with a mixture of South Carolina and Louisiana Avater, and holding blue glass to my nose. She said, "My dear, you have been dreaming and talking in your sleep." Well, said I, " I think I have." Said my wife, " Take my handkerchief and wipe the perspiration off your face !" " What ! a handkerchief, did you say 1 better bring a bucket and see that it is large." At this point an alarm of fire was sounded. I rushed to the door and asked a boy who Avas proceeding to the scene of conflagration what ivas on fire, he replied it is " Longshortness's Collar Factory." Then, I am happy, said I.

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ST. KATHARINE'S GILD AT COVENTRY, I asked the Spectre Avhat he was looking at, said he, " Behold ! young man, a THOMAS DE SOHYNTON, Nicholas Pake, supero-lateral vieAV of a crushed cranium , William de Tuttebury, William de Over- ancl interior part of the body. My pec- ton Clerk, Peter Percy, Eichard de Dar- toral bone appears as a sagittiform plate kese, Simon Wareyn, John Vincent, and Avith thin edges, and rounded , lateral angles. John de Pakynton, gave a fine to the A thin , median prolongation , the greater king for a license to found in the seven- part of the border of my collar, is distinct teenth year of King EdAvard III. a gild in and displays the continuity of the supra- Coventry to the honour of St. Katharine, temporal regions. (I thought he said but this shortly aftenvards, says the author infernal). of " Ancient Eeliques," became united to " Its ramits mandibidi is longer than my those of the Holy Trinity, the Virgin neck proper, the number of frayes on the Mary, and St. John the Baptist. There edges of the collar cannot be determined, Avas, and still is, a beautiful Gild but they are rather large, and traces of Hall at Coventry. them extend all around the neck. The oath which the Master of the Gild " The length of the anterior mandibidi took on coming into office, was as fol- in the back part of the collar is 7 mm., IOAVS :— and the diameter is at the base 47 mm.— " That I shall be good ancl true to the diameter of base of superior maxillary, Brethren and Sistern of the Trinity Gild, 00 mm,—the approximate length of the St. Mary, St. John, and St. Katharine, of mandibular ramus is 37 miles longer than Coventrie, and all hvwful points and ordi- a Mississippi freshet. The one angle of nances of this place, afore this time or- the collar projects and gives a surface deyned, truly to keepe to my power, and somewhat ribbed rather than of a con- in especiall all the ordinances that been or tinuous character." At this point the shall be the general days ordayned truly spectre disappeared , and I awoke, finding keep and observe. Also I shall truly re- ceive and truly accompt, yield as well of Air—" I'll fill my pipe again."—SYDNEY. me receipts as of all other things that " Come, brothers, ere to-night we part, longen to the master of this gild ; and In perfect harmony, arrerage of my accompt, if any be, truly Let's sing success to every heart, pay, or I depart from my accompt ; and all That keeps our precepts three. other things truly doe that longen to the The Chisel, Mallet, Guage I sing, office of the said master : So help me God And other emblems rare ; and All Saints. Also I shall once before You know we prize the truth they bring, Candlemas next coming, Avith six or four With Compasses and . Square. brethren of this Gild, oversee all the tene- ments of the same Gild." Chorus—With Compasses and Square, We have mentioned the Trinity Gild. With Compasses and Square, This Avas also founded in the thirty-eighth We cannot err when guided by year of King Echvard III. by Henry de The Compasses and Square. Kele, and Thomas Orme, of Coventry ; " The Gauge it tells of passing time, but in the sixteenth year of Eichard II. Going never to return ; united to that of St. John the Baptist and It teaches us a truth sublime, Our Lady, and henceforth to bear the Our lamps let's brightly burn. conjoint name. Ancl as we pass along the road It is very important to collect and pre- So let us all prepare serve all these " bene notanda " of the old Our minds to learn the maxims good, Gild life of England. Of Compasses and Square. ED. " The Gavel, too, instruct the mind, To purify and free Of thoughts that none of us can find Deduced from Masonry. Thus may we wiser each one grow, $Wbfafo. That happiness to share, % That's taught us as we try to knoAV The Compasses and Square, A Selection of Masonic Songs. By Bro. " The Chisel shows us how the power E. P. Philpots. Poole : Tilsed, High Of conscience should us rule ; Street. And mighty is the Mason's power, Who uses well that tool. There are many collections of Masonic As better men and Masons too, Songs, and all more or less interesting to To be' Ave Avould prepare ; the Freemasons as witnesses of that love , Let's try what can the Chisel do, of melody and harmony which has ever With Compasses and Square. been a characteristic of our Order. With- out at all entering into the question of " From all the three we learn to know that someAvhat florid style, and excess HOAV KnoAvledge, Truth, ancl Light, perhaps of sociality, which marked Masonic Guide Masons wheresoe'er they go, gatherings like the world generally, say fifty If they AVOUM use such might. years ago, we think all reasonable persons As on the Level Ave have met, will admit that Masonic songs are welcome As Brothers true and fair, adjuncts to the friendly gathering, to the So let us keep the precepts yet, inner circle of the Lodge. Bro. Philpots Of Compasses and Square." is an effective writer of Masonic songs ,— We also take the sentiment of Song his words are sensible ancl his rhythm is VII. :— good. We think it therefore well to make a few selections from his recent Air—" My Native Highland Home." brochure, which merits the patronage " I sing the song of hearts as true and perusal of our readers. As ere were in our land ; We take Song No. IV. as a good exam- Who always keep one aim in view, ple of reality and harmony of verbiage :— Fast to their vows to stand. And faithful to the Craft they own, All loyal Freemasons amongst us, and Their actions bright we see : Ave are all loyal, will greet warmly the No brighter virtues ever shone, Avords of Song XIV. :— Than those of Masonry. Air—" God Bless the Prince of Wales." Chorus—Let heart and hand united stand, Avhilst firm and free, " We're met once more together, With Square and Compass, too; To join in social throng, We pull together ; none like Ave Ancl praise the Art that can impart Can be so just and true. A bond of union strong. Then let us all, as Brothers, " When cares oppress, and 'gainst the Upon the Level part, stream As on the Square we love to meet, The vessel labours hard, With true Masonic heart. Masonic Light shall brightly gleam Ancl have its own reward. Chorus—From pole to pole resounding, The Sacred Law shall hel p us on, Let nations all incline, Life s journey Avand ring through, To learn the Art Ave love so Avell , To cheer us as the night comes on, Freemasonry divine. A Compass sure ancl true. " Our secrets are a Avonder " And Avhen the lamp of age grows dim, To those Avho will not learn ; And life seems ebbing fast, Our virtues all are noble, We shall not fear death's shadows grim, Bright as the sun they burn. If Masons to the last. Our Craftes,men Avork together, For bright shall shine the beams of love A Temple high they raise, To those, Avho just and fair, And all unite with powerful might, Look upward to the Lodge above, To celebrate its praise. " Ancl act upon the Square. " Our Lodge is consecrated , We all shall appreciate, Ave think, the It stands on Holy Ground ; truly Masonic sentiment of Song XL:— And favour in His perfect eyes, ¦Air- " Jock 0' Hazeldean ." Freemasonry has found. Built on the Truth so stedfast, Let's sing the well-knoAvn theme of old, Kept by the Craft secure That Masons love to hear ; , To endless ages distant far 's many a time ancl oft been told That , Our work shall aye endure " To those assembled here. . 'Tis " Prosper Avell our noble Art," Song XIX. is very animated aud Far o'er the earth and sea ; pleasant, and we shall equally approve of For dear to every faithful heart, Song XXI. Is good Freemasonry. SONG XIX. " The wisest king that ever reigned, Air—"Le Petit Tambour Has firmly laid the stone, ." That true for ages has remained, " No matter Avhere I chance to go, From which our Craft has groAvn No place has charms for me, And though The Temple is no more, When I can to a Lodge repair, By heathen's base decree, Of Masons true and free. The Art that built it 's as before, Then I can learu of virtues rare And called Freemasonry. That brightly ever glow ; .No sect Avith Masons can comj>are, to the Architect " Then glory , So to the Lodge I'll go. Whose rule for ever stands, Whose Name the Craft with awe respect, Chorus—Then to the Lodge we'll go, And all our praise demands. Then to the Lodge we'll go ; And may He, ruling from On High, f And to the Lodge of , ) Still present with us be, ( And to Lodge number—¦—, j Whene'er Ave square our actions by We often like to go. The rules of Masonry." " There is a sort of sacred tie, We'll welcome them all, for they re Together us to bind ; Brothers we know, We cannot sever, though .we try, We'll soothe the afflictions they bear ; However we're inclined. Our friendship Masonic shall full over- A band of brothers happily flow , We journey on, and knoAV And we'll help them to banish their The truth will always present be, care. • So to the Lodge Ave'll go. . Chorus—We'll weleome them, &c.

" We like to vieAv the times gone by, " 'Tis the toast of the Tyler in silence so When first the Craft so free, deep, Was built, since Avhen it's firmly stood, We'll drink ere refreshment time's And boasts antiquity. o'er; The Avisest King that ever reigned, Our poor and distressed in our minds Devised it long ago ; we Avill keep, And since the structure's firm remained, Ancl we'll welcome them back to their So to the Lodge we'll go. shore. Let's think of the pledge we have vowed we Avill keep, " Then prosper Avell the Art so free, And prosper every man, And the hand of a Brother firm hold ; Whose mind is set on Masonry, That a friendship may groAv as the ocean Who loves its depth to scan. as deep, And may our Lodge in strength increase, And our virtues once more may be And never fail to grow; told. Masonic virtue ne'er can cease, Chorus—Let's think, &c." So to the Lodge we'll go." We cannot pass over Song XXVII. Avhich is very effective : — SONG XXI. Air—" It goes against the grain." (The Tyler's Song.) " As we go through this Avorld of strife, Air—" Believe me will all those endearing young No matter what our station, charms ;" or "The spring-time is coming." We ought to act to all men fair, ' " 'Tis the toast of the Tyler, my Brothers, To Brother Masons on the Square. Ave'll sing, Our Art should be Freemasonry, 'Tis a theme well befitting a song ; Our greatest admiration, Some our Craft are adorning, who fortune To higher still ascend the hill, may bring And mind the golden rule. Nought to cheer them or help them Chorus—The ties Ave cannot sever, along. Freemasons we are ever ; Let's wish them success in their path- Forsake the Craft we'll never, way of care, Accepted, Fair, and Trne. May their sorrows and griefs be but few, " Should sickness, grief, or poverty, And may the Great Architect for them Be cast upon a Brother, prepare A friend sincere he's sure to find , A road smoothly levelled anew. To sympathy the Craft's inclined. For love, relief and truth, our grief Chorus—" Let's wish them," &c. Shall soften for each other ; And ties thus sure shall long endure " 'Tis the toast of the Tyler, the poor and Within the Circle true. oppressed , Who've wandered aAvay far from home; " Then, Brothers all, unite with me, May they find from their sorrow a In daily celebration , SAveet time to rest, Of all the virtues we possess, And back to their Fatherlan d come. None equal them that we profess. As Masons true, we'll keep in view Noble minds the work engages, The Craft's perpetuation, Founded long ago by sages, Until we see Freemasonry It shall last for many ages, By every one adored." And a joy impart ; We also greatly approve of Song Mighty men declaring, ' XXXII.:- That it's good they re sharing, Bri hter far than morning star, Air— ' Free and easy. g With Orders none comparing, " Through the Avorld my journey taking, Virtues high to beautify, Many " ups and doAvns " I've seen ; With other Arts it well can vie, Luck Avas often me forsaking, Masonry can never die — Yet contented have I been. , Then prosper well the Art. Taking one time with another, Well with others I compare, " Let the ties which firmly bind us, For I aimed to be a Brother Of our solemn vows remind us, Who Avould act upon the Square. Let the world as Masons find us, " Chorus—True to the Craft I'll remain " Acting on the Square. Thus to live Ave are contented till the end, , To be faithful we've consented Whilst every Brother's a Mason , None of us have ere repented and a friend ; That the badge we Avear. Ahvays ready, sure and steady, Virtues high attend us, Mason's virtues knoAV no end . And our deeds commend us, " If the wind is fairly blowing, Whilst we " act upon the Square," And my vessel journeys on; Brothers shall defend us. Many a Brother's grief is shoAving High we'll see Freemasonry, Fortune on him never shone. Shall bear us towards eternity, Could I pass him by in trouble ? So our motto still shall be, No,—my help is at his call ; To " act upon the Square." I may be reAvarcled double, We cannot close our short extracts Though hel my p may be but small. without commending Bro. Philpotts' pro- " Though my riches are not many, duction to the notice of all Masons, Avho Still I have a mite to spare are interested in Masonic harmony, or For the man who has not any, appreciate Masonic sentiments. If a Mason on the Square. Those among us whose position We may envy, from renown, Soon may change their hi gh condition, NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE And be suddenly cast doAvn. AND ART. " Let united every Brother, By the ties of Masonry, BY BRO. GEORGE MARKHAM TWEDDELL Seek new virtues to discover, , As a Fellow-Craftsman free. Author of Shuksjiere , his Times, and Contem- Aiming as a good Freemason, poraries ," " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham," " The Peop le' s History of Thus to act, to live, to die ; Cleveland and the Vicinage ," " The Visitors' So that he can take his station Handbooh to Itedcar, Qoatham, and Saltbum- After in eternity." by-the-Sea," " The History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway," &c, isc. We conclude, as we think, not inaptl y, MR . Eobert E. Brown with Song XLV., as it is a very , an experienced good factor and estate agen t resume" both of Masonic teaching , in his able Booh and of the Landed Masonic duty:— Estate, remarks, that " taking farmers as a class, there are few, Air—" Men of Harlech.'' in comparison to their numbers, who have " Brothers all of every nation, made rapid strides in the improvement of High or lowly be your station, their farms, and who occupy, consequently, Drink success to every Mason, a high standing in their line of life. This Prosper well the Art. is no doubt owing to the Avant of proper training and education, Avhereby their Raine, I believe, has really done the greater minds can be made to comprehend the part of the labour of the curatorship. Mr. advantages arising from superior modes of Kenrick Avas the author of tAvo octavo culture ; partly to the want of sufficient volumes on Ancient Egypt under the, capital to enable them to carry out farm- Pharoahs ; of' one, Avith maps and illus- in" on better principles ; and, perhaps, trative plates, on Phoenicia ; of a small partly to the fact that, generally speaking, Avork on Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions, the beef, mutton, ancl grain belonging to their relations to Archceology, Language, the man who rears them in the ordinary ancl Religion ; and of an interesting way, meet with as ready a demand iu the Selection of Papers on Subjects of Archce- market as these commodities do when ology and History, communicated to the reared and sold by the improver, the dif- Yorkshire Philosophical Society ; the latter ference in the profits lying more in the of Avhich opens Avith the best treatise I quantity than in the quality—of course, all have seen on " The Rise, Extension, ancl other points being equal." But he adds, Suppression of the Order of Knights Tem- " Generally speaking, and with some ex- plar in Yorkshire ;" from which we learn ceptions, even where farmers are inferior that the Templars had possessions at in intelligence, ancl possessed of but small Allerthorp near Bedale, Ampleforth, capital, if they are liberally dealt Avith, and Appleton-wisk, Alverthorp near Wake- under the direction of liberal landlords, field , Bagby, " Baggaflete," Barton St. and judicious agents, they may be made to Mary's near Croft , Brotton, Brough near carry out and follow such a system of Catterick, "Burnebam," Burrell near cultivation on their respective farms as Bedale, " Calvertune," Carlton near Arn- Avill be found highly conducive to the cliff, Carlton near Stamvick, Cattal, Catton, interests and prosperity of both landlord Cliff, Cold Kirby, Copmanthorp, OOAV- ancl tenant." thorp, CoxAVold, Craik Hall near Bedale, An eminent classical scholar and an- DreAvton, Etton near Beverley, Faxfleet, tiquary, the Eev. John Kenrick, M.A., FenAvick near Campsall, Great Langton, F.S.A., has just passed aAvay, at his HaAvslovell near Leyburn, Hayton in the residence, No. 38, Monkgate, York, in his East Riding, Hunsingore, Huuton near ninetieth year ; dying of natural decay, and Patrick Brompton, Ilkley, Ingleby, remaining in full possession of his fine " JerneAvic," Kellington, Kiklale, Kirby intellectual faculties to the very last. He Fleetham, " Kirdintarie," Leerning Bridge, Avas a native of Exeter, took the degree of Leyburu, " Lindebi," Lund in the parish M.A. at GlasgoAv, ancl afterwards studied of HaAves, Kewbiggin (near Temple New- at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. some), North Cave, North Ferriby, Nun- In 1810, he Avent to York, as professor of nington, Oldfield near Studley, Osgodby classics in the unitarian college Avhich had near Thirsk, Patrick Brompton, Penhill, boen removed to that ancient city from Ribston, Richmond , Riplingham near Manchester, and there married the South Cave, Scawton, Scruton, Skelton daughter of the principal, the Eev. Charles near Temple NeAvsome, Sowerby near Wellbeloved, the eminent antiquary, Thirsk, Stamford Bridge, Stanghow near whose Eboracum is the best account of Gisbro', Startforth, Stonegrave, Temple York under the Romans known to our CoAvton, Temple Hurst, Thimbleby, Thirsk, literature. On the removal of the college Thornton Watlass, Thorp near Buruiston , back to Manchester, in 1840, Mr. Kenrick Waldby, Westerdale, Wetherby, Whitkirk , continued his connection with if. for a few Whitley, Willetoft near Bubwith, Wilton , years, but never gave up his residence in Wimbleton near Harum, Winmore, Yarm , the Yorkshire capital. On the 4th of and York. " Mount St. John near February, 1858, he Avas elected a Fellow Thirsk," says Mr. Kenrick, " has some- of the Society of Antiquaries, London, to times been reckoned among their pos- Avhich he was formally admitted, and con- sessions, but it seems from the first to have tributed several valuable papers. He Avas belonged to the Hospitallers." I have one of the founders of the Yorkshire taken the trouble to .arrange the names of Philosophical Society, of which he was the places in alphabetical order, because vice-president and curator of antiquities ; they are thus easier of reference ; and but, in his latter years, the Rev. Canon where the modern name is certain, 1 have given it. Of those where the ancient name Reverend, he never officiated as a minister) is retained, marked by being given in in- is one more proof that study is not injurious verted commas, I will be glad of any to longevity. assistance to fix their exact locality ; but " It is America," remarked a writer in I must mention that Mr. Kenrick con- the Atlantic Monthly, a few years ago, j ectured " Burnebam " to be Burniston ; "that we may reasonably look to for a new "Calvertune," to be CaAvton near Gilling ; type in architecture—the type that will be " Jernewic," to be Gervic near Skelton in generated by the necessity of accomodating the North Riding ; " Kirdintane," to be immense masses of people under one en- Kirklington near Sinderby; and " Lin- closure for purposes of political discussion, debi," to be Lindrick near Ripon ; but of religious service, of legislative debate, with " Baggaflete," he seems to have been or of the administration of justice—a type fairly baffled. The whole article is full more majestic than that of the Roman of information on the Templars, and Basilica, and capable of the highest em- Avritten with great fairness. " The Tem- bellishment by sculpture and painting." plars," says he, " had not even the consola- I sincerely hope the performance may be tion of dying with arms in their hands ; equal to the promise. England has cer- they were the victims of treachery and tainly seen a wonderful revival in her chicane." And, having shown the gross architecture of late years, but still we cruelty ancl injustice of confessions made seem only capabl e at best of imitating the under torture, aud the rapacity of their Ancients, and that too often at a great persecutors, he remarks : " The proceed- distance. Though I have never had the ings against the Templars Avere so contrary least desire to see our noble Craft return to all principles of jurisprudence, that in from its fine speculative Masonry to that of a purely judicial point of view the evidence a mere trade guild, I have long felt that against them is Avorthless. As a question Ave, of all men, ought not merely to cul- of historical probability, their partial guilt tivate all the liberal arts and sciences that or entire innocence is not so easily lay Avitbin the compass of our cable-tow, settled." Mr. Kenrick Avas interred in the but a knoAvled ge ancl love of architecture York Cemetery on Saturday, May 12th, in particular : else the valued ceremony and besides great numbers of the religious of laying the foundation-stones of public body with Avhich he had been through life buildings with Masonic honours is a connected, Canon Raine and many members privilege to' Avhich we are no more entitled of the York Institute Avere present ; but than our excellent sister organizations, perhaps the most touching part of the the various Orders of Oddfello\A's, Foresters, whole ceremony of paying the last token Druids, Free Gardiners, Ancient Shep- of respect to a Avorthy man ancl scholar, herds, and such-like. Had the Craft been Avas when the pupils from the Wilbeiforce true to its history and traditions, the ugly School for the Blind, of Avhich he Avas ecclesiastical edifices, for instance, AVOUI CI vice-president , dropped their floral offerings never have risen under Anne and the on his coffin. Though kindly invited by Georges, when, " to prevent starving," as the aged antiquary to pay him a visit in George Alexander Stevens humourously the event of my again going to York, I expresses it, in his Lecture on Heads, had not the pleasure of his personal ac- " Architecture hired herself as a brick- quaintance, but his kind correspondence I layer's labourer. " Mnny of our recently- found to be useful to a humbler labourer erected Masoni c Halls are positively in that great field of usefulness Avhere disgraceful to the tastes of the brethren of there is room alike for the man of one the Lod ges that erected them, being talent and the man of ten. I ought eclipsed in beauty of design by the adjoin- perhaps to mention that, besides con- ing schools and meeting-houses. Every tributing to the publications of his Freemason ought to feel with the German oAvn denomination, he Avas a con- critic, Frederick von Schlegel : " To me tributor to the Edinburgh Review, to the sight of a sp lendid edifice or a lovely the Philosophical Magazine, and to the country is an ever-springing source of Cambridge Philological Museum, then pleasure : I feel its grandeur more, and edited by the late Bishop Thirlwall. Mr. love its beauty better, the more frequently Ken rick (for though he bore the title of I behold it; an cl, in the same manner, the continual contemplation of a fine building was his usual practice to walk at that unconsciously elevates a susceptible mind, hour, in order to mock the fears of his and maintains it in a fit frame for ap- future bride. He was just winding round preciating the beauty of other works of the thicket which opened to him a view art, whilst a taste for architecture seems of the cottage where Effie dwelt, when he indeed to form the basis of every other heard a light step behind him, and, in an artistic taste." instant his feet were tripped up, and he was laid prostrate on the turf. Upon Cottage Stolccsley, Yorkshire. Rose , looking up he beheld a tall muscular man standing over him, who, in no courteous manner desired to see the contents of his pocket. " Deil be on ye," exclaimed the young forester , " I hae but ae coin i' the $mgothn 3>iaf u8. warld." " That coin maun [ hae," said THE BOGLE OF ANNESL1E. his assailant. " Faith ! I'se show ye play for't then," said Andrew, and sprung upon OR, THE THREE-CORNERED HAT. his feet. Andrew was esteemed the best cudgel- [We take this pleasant little tale, which player for twenty miles round, so that in Avill be quite new to most of our readers, brief space he cooled the ardour of his from a forgotten work of much merit.] antagonist, and dealt such visitations upon his skull as might have made a much " AN' ye winna believe i' the Bogle 1 " firmer head ache for a fortnight. The said a pretty young lassie to her sweet- man stepped back, and, pausing in his heart, as they sat in the door of her assault, raised his hand to his forehead, father's cottage one fin e autumn evening. and buried it among his dark locks, It " Do you hear that, mither, AndreAV '11 no returned covered with blood. " Thou hast believe i' the Bogle ?" cracked my croAvn, he said, " but yet ye " Gude be Avi' us, Effie !" exclaimed sha' na gang scatheless ; " and, flinging Andrew—a slender and delicate youth of doAvn his cudgel, he Hew on his young about two-and-twenty—" a bonny time I foe, and, grasping his body before he Avas wad hae o't, gin I Avere to heed every auld aware of the attack, whirled him to the Avife's clatter." earth Avith an appalling impetus. " The The words " auld Avife had a manifest Lord hae mercy on me ! " said Andrew, effect on Effie , ancl she bit her lips in " I'm a dead man." silence. Her mother immediately opened He was not far from it, for his rude foe a, battery upon the young man's prejudices, was preparing to put the finishing stroke narrating IIOAV that on Anneslie Heath, at to his victory. Suddenly something tea o'clock at night, a certain apparition stirred in the bushes, and the conqueror, Avas Avont to appear, in the form of a turning aAvay from his victim, cried out, maiden above the usual size , with a wide " The bogle ! the bogle .' " and fled preci- three-cornered hat. Sundry other parti- pitately. Andrew ventured to look up. culars were mentioned, but Andrew was He saAv the fi gure Avhich had been de- still incredulous. " He'll rue that, clearly scribed to him approaching ; it came Avill he rue't! " said Effie , as he d eparted. nearer and nearer ; its face was very pale ' , Many days, hoAvever, passed aAA'ay, aud and its step was not heard on the grass. Effie was evidently much disappointed to At last it stood by his side, ancl looked find that the scepticism of her loA'er doAvn upon him. Andrew buried his face gathered strength. Nay, he had the in his cloak : presently the apparition audacity to-insult, by gibes and jests, the spoke—indistinctly, indeed, for its teeth the true believers, aud to call upon them seemed to chatter with cold— This for " the reasons of their faith. Effie Avas is a cauld an an eerie night to be m a terrible passion. sae late on Anneslie Muir ! " and im- At last, hoAvever, her prophecy was mediately it glided aAvay. AndreAv Jay a fulfilled. Andrew was passing over the few minutes iu a trance ; and then arisin" moor while the clock struck ten ; for it from his cold bed, ran hastily towards the cottage of his mistress. His hair stood "In that horrible three-cornered hat, on end, and the vapours of the night sunk which may I be blinded if ever I seek to chill upon his brow as he lifted up the look upon again ! an' in a lang blue latch, and flung himself upon an oaken apron." seat. " Green, AndreAv !" cried Effie, tAvisting " Preserve us!" cried the old woman. her OAVU green apron round her thumb. "Why, ye are mair than aneugh to " HOAV you like to tease ane !" said the frighten a body out o' her Avits ! To come lover. Poor Andre AV did not at all enter in Avi' sic a flaunt ancl a fling, baresconced, into his mistress s pleasantry, for he la- and the red bluid spatter'd a' o'er your boured under great depression of spirits, new leather jerkin ! Shame on you, and never lifted his eyes from the ground. Andrew ! in what mishanter has thou " But ye hae na told us what she said, broken that fule's head o' thine ? " lad !" said the old woman, assuming an " Peace, mither !" said the young man, air of deep mystery, as each question Avas taking breath, " I hae seen the bogle !" put and ansAvered in its turn. The old lady had a long line of re- " Lord ! what signifies it Avhether she proaches, draAvn up in the order of march, said this or that ? Hand your tongue, between her lips, but the mention of the and get me some comfort ; for, to speak bogle Avas the signal for disbanding them. the truth, I'm vera caulcl." A thousand questions poured in, in rapid " Weel mayest thou be sae," cried succession.—"How old Avas she ? HOAV Effie , " for indeed," she continued, in a was she dressed ? Who was she like 1 feigned voice, "it was a cauld an' an What did she say ?" eerie night to be sae late on Anneslie " She was a tall thin Avoman, about Muirl" seven feet high !" AndreAv started, and a doubt seemed to " Oh , Andrew ! " cried Effie. pass OA'er his mind. He looked up at the " As ugly as sin ) " damsel, and perceived, for the first time, " Other people tell a different story," that her large blue eyes Avere laughing at said Effie. him from under the shade of a huge three- " True, on my Bible oath ! and then cornered hat. The next moment he hung her beard " over her in an ecstacy of gratitude, and " A beard, Andrew ! " shrieked Effie, smothered with his kisses the ridicule " a Avoman Avith a beard ! for shame, Avhich she forced upon him as the penalty Andrew!" of his preservation. " Nay, 111 swear it upon my soul s salva- " Seven feet high, Andrew !" tion ! She had seen saxty winters and "My clear Effie!"— mair, afore e'er she died to trouble us ! " " As ugly as sin ! " — " I'll Avager my best new goun ," said " My darling lassie ! "— the maiden, " that saxteen Avould be " And a beard!"— nearer the mark." "Na ; na ! now you carry the jest o'er " But wha Avas she like, Andrew ?" far!" saicl the old woman. " Was she like auld "And saxty wintere !'' Janet that Avas drowned in the burn fore- " Saxteen springs ; Effie ! dear, de- naint 1 or that auld Avitch that youi lightfu ', smiling springs ! " maister hanged for stealing his pet lamb 1 "And Elspeth, the cobbler's wife ! oh ! or Avas she like—" AndreAv, Andrew, I never can forgie you " Are yon sure she Avas na liko me, for the cobbler's wife !—and what say you AndreAv 1 " said Effie , looking archly in UOAV, AndreAv ! is their nae bogle on the his face. muir 1" " You—Pshaw ! Faith, guicl mither, "My dear Effie , for your sake I'll she Avas like to naebody that I ken, unless believe in a' the bogles in Christendie ! " it be auld Elspetb, the cobbler's Avife, that " That is," said Effie, at the conclusion Avas blamed for a' the mischief or misfor- of a long and vehement fit of risibility, tunes o' the kintra roun', and Avas droAvned " that is, in a' that wear ' three-cornered at last for having sense aboon the lave." ' hats.'" " And how Avas she dressed, Andrew 1" A. M'F.