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Masonic Chit Chat.
and ball at Brother Rouse ' s , in the City-road , before the end of the month , I have selected the columns of your excellent , liberal , and patriotic journal , to apprize you , Sir , of the circumstance , feeling assured , that whether you are a Member of the Craft , or otherwise , when charity is to be advocated , it cannot meet with a warmer supporter than yourself . I remain , Sir , your obedient servant , Islington Terrace , Sept . 7 , 1841 . AMICUS .
MASONS IN PARLIAMENT . —Among those not generally known as Brethren in the senate , we may reckon the Earl Brownlow , who was initiated many years since at Lincoln ; but the preparation was so short , that either displeased or alarmed , he never proceeded beyond the E . A . degree . Sir James Duke is aMason , and Col . Sibthorp is a Member of the AVitham Lodge , Lincoln , over which he presided some years since as W . M . ; his opponent at the late election , Charles Seely , Esq . the mayor of that city , is also a Member of the same Lodge .
The inhabitants of Taunton have presented Brother Charles Haseler , P . M . of 327 , with a very valuable snuff-box , as a slight testimony of their estimation of his unremitting exertions in superintending and directing the Police of the town . It was manufactured by Brother Abraham , of Lodge 327 , and bears the following inscription : —* ' Presented to Mr . Charles Haseler , as a grateful acknowledgement of his important services in the establishment and maintenance of the Taunton Police , August 20 , 1841 . "
AN ILLUSTRATION WHICH THOSE WHO OUGHT TO KNOW WILL UNDERSTAND . —A letter from Tunis gives the following account of the punishment for forgery , in the sale of some property of a person of some note , the seller performing similar functions to those of a notary in France . Immediately after conviction of the offence his right hand was cut off " , rather dexterously , and the wrist was dipped in boiling pitch to check the bleeding . This being donehe was placed upon an
, ass , with his face turned towards the tail , and the severed hand suspended over his frtck , and paraded through the streets of Tunis , after which , he was taken to his house , without having lost public consideration , as , amongst the Mussulmans , the infamy of the crime does not out-live the punishment . —Daily Newspaper .
The following is extracted from No . 27 of " London , " a work published and edited by Charles Knight . " There is a curious question connected with the building of St . Paul ' s , regarding the origin of Freemasonry . Herder , in one of his fugitive pieces , asserts ( but without stating his authority ) that Freemasonry ( meaning thereby modern European Freemasonry—the Freemasonry of St . Johnas it is called ) had its origin during the erection of the
, cathedral , in a prolonged jest of Wren and some of his familiar associates . Herder ' s story is , that on the stated days on which Wren was accustomed to inspect the progress of the building , he and his friends were accustomed to dine at a house in the neig hbourhood ; that a club was thus formed , which by degrees introduced a formula in symbolical language , derived from the Masonic profession . Similar jocular affectations of mystery are not uncommon : an interesting instance is
mentioned b y Gothe in his 'Dichtung und AVahrheit , 'in which he took a prominent part during his residence in Wetzler . It seems rather corroborative of Herder ' s assertion , that , while the biographers of AVren mention the attendance of the Lodge of Freemasons , of which he was
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Masonic Chit Chat.
and ball at Brother Rouse ' s , in the City-road , before the end of the month , I have selected the columns of your excellent , liberal , and patriotic journal , to apprize you , Sir , of the circumstance , feeling assured , that whether you are a Member of the Craft , or otherwise , when charity is to be advocated , it cannot meet with a warmer supporter than yourself . I remain , Sir , your obedient servant , Islington Terrace , Sept . 7 , 1841 . AMICUS .
MASONS IN PARLIAMENT . —Among those not generally known as Brethren in the senate , we may reckon the Earl Brownlow , who was initiated many years since at Lincoln ; but the preparation was so short , that either displeased or alarmed , he never proceeded beyond the E . A . degree . Sir James Duke is aMason , and Col . Sibthorp is a Member of the AVitham Lodge , Lincoln , over which he presided some years since as W . M . ; his opponent at the late election , Charles Seely , Esq . the mayor of that city , is also a Member of the same Lodge .
The inhabitants of Taunton have presented Brother Charles Haseler , P . M . of 327 , with a very valuable snuff-box , as a slight testimony of their estimation of his unremitting exertions in superintending and directing the Police of the town . It was manufactured by Brother Abraham , of Lodge 327 , and bears the following inscription : —* ' Presented to Mr . Charles Haseler , as a grateful acknowledgement of his important services in the establishment and maintenance of the Taunton Police , August 20 , 1841 . "
AN ILLUSTRATION WHICH THOSE WHO OUGHT TO KNOW WILL UNDERSTAND . —A letter from Tunis gives the following account of the punishment for forgery , in the sale of some property of a person of some note , the seller performing similar functions to those of a notary in France . Immediately after conviction of the offence his right hand was cut off " , rather dexterously , and the wrist was dipped in boiling pitch to check the bleeding . This being donehe was placed upon an
, ass , with his face turned towards the tail , and the severed hand suspended over his frtck , and paraded through the streets of Tunis , after which , he was taken to his house , without having lost public consideration , as , amongst the Mussulmans , the infamy of the crime does not out-live the punishment . —Daily Newspaper .
The following is extracted from No . 27 of " London , " a work published and edited by Charles Knight . " There is a curious question connected with the building of St . Paul ' s , regarding the origin of Freemasonry . Herder , in one of his fugitive pieces , asserts ( but without stating his authority ) that Freemasonry ( meaning thereby modern European Freemasonry—the Freemasonry of St . Johnas it is called ) had its origin during the erection of the
, cathedral , in a prolonged jest of Wren and some of his familiar associates . Herder ' s story is , that on the stated days on which Wren was accustomed to inspect the progress of the building , he and his friends were accustomed to dine at a house in the neig hbourhood ; that a club was thus formed , which by degrees introduced a formula in symbolical language , derived from the Masonic profession . Similar jocular affectations of mystery are not uncommon : an interesting instance is
mentioned b y Gothe in his 'Dichtung und AVahrheit , 'in which he took a prominent part during his residence in Wetzler . It seems rather corroborative of Herder ' s assertion , that , while the biographers of AVren mention the attendance of the Lodge of Freemasons , of which he was