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Birth.
BIRTH .
On Friday , the loth of Sept ., Mrs . R . J . Spiers , wife of Bro . R . A . Spiers , P . G . S . B ., and Mayor of Oxford , gave birth to a son , being her eleventh child . The ladies of Oxford are about to present the Mayoress with a silver cradle to commemorate this happy event .
Notices To Correspondents.
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS .
THE EDITOK requests that all original articles for approval , may be sent to him before the first of each current month , and that all Correspondence , Masonic Intelligence , Reports of Lodge Meetings , & c ., may be furnished b y the 21 st of each month , which will be THE LATEST DAY to insure their insertion . The attention of Contributors is earnestl y requested to these directions , who are also desired to retain copies of their MSS ., as the Editor cannot undertake to return , or to be accountable for , any which are sent to him for perusal or
approval . CAELISLE . —UNION LODGE , NO . 389 . —AVe have given the letter transmitted to us every consideration , and are compelled to decline its insertion . AVe have been at the pains to inquire , also , whether any formal communication was transmitted to G . L . respecting the poor Brother ' s case , who came to so lamentable an end . We find that the document submitted to that tribunal was chiefl
y confined to the recommendation of a London Brother for the Prov . G . Mastership of Cumberland , and merely related the circumstances of the investigation at the meeting of the Union Lodge , of March 13 th . Although at that meeting the D . Prov . G . M . intimated that he would take the opinion of the M . AV . the G . M . pn the Brother ' s case , the document submitted to G . L . cannot be considered in any sense whatever to have been a reference , and could receive no answer . The recommendation of that document respecting the Prov . G . Mastership was simply impertinentand was evidentlthe principal object of the individualwho
, y , transmitted it . MASONIC MENDICITY . — MEECIA . — AVe print your letter under the head of " Correspondence ; " but as you ask for advice , we prefer giving it in this portion of our publication . Our fixed rule is , never , on any consideration whatever , to relieve a mendicant Mason without examining a G . L . certificate , which can be proved to be authentic . We believe that in nine eases out of ten , beggars pretending to be Masons are impostors , and that an application to the Mendicity Society would
bring sufficient information to prove that they are so . It is somewhat singular that charity is rarely asked by Englishmen . The mendicant tribe consists chiefl y of Scotch , Irish , French , and Hungarians . The really poor Brother tries to hide his sufferings ; the persevering beggar is always an impostor . We would advise , as a general rule , when a Masonic mendicant applies for relief , that no acknowledgment he given to any sign which is offered . We have detected several impostors by their manifest astonishment at uot finding their supposed token taken up , and being asked to give proof of " the perfect points of their entrance . "
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Birth.
BIRTH .
On Friday , the loth of Sept ., Mrs . R . J . Spiers , wife of Bro . R . A . Spiers , P . G . S . B ., and Mayor of Oxford , gave birth to a son , being her eleventh child . The ladies of Oxford are about to present the Mayoress with a silver cradle to commemorate this happy event .
Notices To Correspondents.
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS .
THE EDITOK requests that all original articles for approval , may be sent to him before the first of each current month , and that all Correspondence , Masonic Intelligence , Reports of Lodge Meetings , & c ., may be furnished b y the 21 st of each month , which will be THE LATEST DAY to insure their insertion . The attention of Contributors is earnestl y requested to these directions , who are also desired to retain copies of their MSS ., as the Editor cannot undertake to return , or to be accountable for , any which are sent to him for perusal or
approval . CAELISLE . —UNION LODGE , NO . 389 . —AVe have given the letter transmitted to us every consideration , and are compelled to decline its insertion . AVe have been at the pains to inquire , also , whether any formal communication was transmitted to G . L . respecting the poor Brother ' s case , who came to so lamentable an end . We find that the document submitted to that tribunal was chiefl
y confined to the recommendation of a London Brother for the Prov . G . Mastership of Cumberland , and merely related the circumstances of the investigation at the meeting of the Union Lodge , of March 13 th . Although at that meeting the D . Prov . G . M . intimated that he would take the opinion of the M . AV . the G . M . pn the Brother ' s case , the document submitted to G . L . cannot be considered in any sense whatever to have been a reference , and could receive no answer . The recommendation of that document respecting the Prov . G . Mastership was simply impertinentand was evidentlthe principal object of the individualwho
, y , transmitted it . MASONIC MENDICITY . — MEECIA . — AVe print your letter under the head of " Correspondence ; " but as you ask for advice , we prefer giving it in this portion of our publication . Our fixed rule is , never , on any consideration whatever , to relieve a mendicant Mason without examining a G . L . certificate , which can be proved to be authentic . We believe that in nine eases out of ten , beggars pretending to be Masons are impostors , and that an application to the Mendicity Society would
bring sufficient information to prove that they are so . It is somewhat singular that charity is rarely asked by Englishmen . The mendicant tribe consists chiefl y of Scotch , Irish , French , and Hungarians . The really poor Brother tries to hide his sufferings ; the persevering beggar is always an impostor . We would advise , as a general rule , when a Masonic mendicant applies for relief , that no acknowledgment he given to any sign which is offered . We have detected several impostors by their manifest astonishment at uot finding their supposed token taken up , and being asked to give proof of " the perfect points of their entrance . "