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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND OFFICER OF MUNSTER . —Circumstances , not necessary Co be entered into , compel us to be unusually early with our periodical intelligence , or we should , with much pleasure , have communicated with our esteemed correspondent on the subject of his very important communication , dated the 2 nd instant , but not received until the 7 th . We have elsewhere availed ourselves of the general intelligence conveyed in that communication ; and , should our construction of the subject vary , we shall be glad to open an early corre , spondence in explanation . A STAFFORD MASON , —Anonymous" correspondence should not disturb serenity ; yet there
is a wide distinction between the secreey arising from fear , and the base appetite of the slanderous "Gouls . " A MEMBER OF NO . 2 . —Lord Byron was probably a Mason ; there are frequent allusions to the Order in his works . The following occurs to
us" As , in Freemasonry , a higher Brother . " —Don Juan . A REPORTER considers the likeness of an illustrious Mason , in the Must rated London News , to be true to nature . We differ : in almost all the other " cuts " there is sufficient evidence ofartistical skill , but in that alluded to , there is an absence of graceful bearing ; the artist must have been admitted at an unlucky moment ; probably he trod on his own corn , and he thus imparted to the picture the expression of pain he endured in his own person . A PROV . G . OFFICER , NOTTS . —Your P . G M . is not singular ; few such like '' reviewing , " whether military or Masonic .
A FRIEND . —Now that you have declared yourself ,. we shall expect your confidence : to offend superiors , is unbecoming the office ; to cringe to them , unbecoming the man . FIVE COUNTRY FRIENDS { not Masons ) . —Let one be proposed in the nearest Lodge ; await his report—you will all follow his example : when you become Entered Apprentices , we will ailvise further . A MASON ' WIDOW . —We cannot recommend that office . Time will prove that we shall have saved much misery . It is not difficult to find a respectable and secure oflice . LYRICUS . —Injustice to our poetical correspondents who favour us with original
contributions , we do not republish from other prints , unless in some cases of great interest . A MASTER , PAST MASTER , AND OTHERS . —The quarterly complaints—like bills of mortality in a sickly season—are painfully numerous ; but , being unlike those bills , which are described and classed , we cannot venture on the task without name and address—then we will examine into them , and prescribe a probable remedy .
A MASON AND AN ODDFELLOW—The principles of the society being based on Charity deserve approbation ; but we must decline to extract so largely from the pages of the Magazine . A GRAND STEWARD is incorrect in his report of the G . S . L . Bro . L . H . Petit has resigned . Bro . Thos . Qish is the senior member , and Bro . W . F . Smith is the Secretary . The party so honourably named , was discontinued many years since for non-payment of dues ; but he still pranks and perks in secret slander ; and probably will do so until he becomes the tenant of the grave . The G . S . L . is fortunate in not having the unenviable name on its roll .
A MASON OF 25 YEARS' STANDING wonders that the moral Gouls are still permitted to gorge at their abominable trough ; minds that are but the sepulchre of rottenness and corruption are perhaps too revolting to notice . ALPHA . —The letter to the G . M . is too coarse , and is Masonically unjust . EXPOSITOR will find in the Lincolnshire report the best reason for not inserting the letter to the P . G . M . of that province . A PROV . OFFICER . —We cannot enter into the statement of the origin and circumstance of the " Bed Apron : " it will be sufficient to observe that , previous to the Union , the twelve Grand Stewards generally nominated their successors . At the Union , and for a short time after , the G . M . appointed eighteen ; and subsequently tbe G . M . selected eighteen Lodges , lo whom the Constitutions gave the power of nomination . There is no other stewardship
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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND OFFICER OF MUNSTER . —Circumstances , not necessary Co be entered into , compel us to be unusually early with our periodical intelligence , or we should , with much pleasure , have communicated with our esteemed correspondent on the subject of his very important communication , dated the 2 nd instant , but not received until the 7 th . We have elsewhere availed ourselves of the general intelligence conveyed in that communication ; and , should our construction of the subject vary , we shall be glad to open an early corre , spondence in explanation . A STAFFORD MASON , —Anonymous" correspondence should not disturb serenity ; yet there
is a wide distinction between the secreey arising from fear , and the base appetite of the slanderous "Gouls . " A MEMBER OF NO . 2 . —Lord Byron was probably a Mason ; there are frequent allusions to the Order in his works . The following occurs to
us" As , in Freemasonry , a higher Brother . " —Don Juan . A REPORTER considers the likeness of an illustrious Mason , in the Must rated London News , to be true to nature . We differ : in almost all the other " cuts " there is sufficient evidence ofartistical skill , but in that alluded to , there is an absence of graceful bearing ; the artist must have been admitted at an unlucky moment ; probably he trod on his own corn , and he thus imparted to the picture the expression of pain he endured in his own person . A PROV . G . OFFICER , NOTTS . —Your P . G M . is not singular ; few such like '' reviewing , " whether military or Masonic .
A FRIEND . —Now that you have declared yourself ,. we shall expect your confidence : to offend superiors , is unbecoming the office ; to cringe to them , unbecoming the man . FIVE COUNTRY FRIENDS { not Masons ) . —Let one be proposed in the nearest Lodge ; await his report—you will all follow his example : when you become Entered Apprentices , we will ailvise further . A MASON ' WIDOW . —We cannot recommend that office . Time will prove that we shall have saved much misery . It is not difficult to find a respectable and secure oflice . LYRICUS . —Injustice to our poetical correspondents who favour us with original
contributions , we do not republish from other prints , unless in some cases of great interest . A MASTER , PAST MASTER , AND OTHERS . —The quarterly complaints—like bills of mortality in a sickly season—are painfully numerous ; but , being unlike those bills , which are described and classed , we cannot venture on the task without name and address—then we will examine into them , and prescribe a probable remedy .
A MASON AND AN ODDFELLOW—The principles of the society being based on Charity deserve approbation ; but we must decline to extract so largely from the pages of the Magazine . A GRAND STEWARD is incorrect in his report of the G . S . L . Bro . L . H . Petit has resigned . Bro . Thos . Qish is the senior member , and Bro . W . F . Smith is the Secretary . The party so honourably named , was discontinued many years since for non-payment of dues ; but he still pranks and perks in secret slander ; and probably will do so until he becomes the tenant of the grave . The G . S . L . is fortunate in not having the unenviable name on its roll .
A MASON OF 25 YEARS' STANDING wonders that the moral Gouls are still permitted to gorge at their abominable trough ; minds that are but the sepulchre of rottenness and corruption are perhaps too revolting to notice . ALPHA . —The letter to the G . M . is too coarse , and is Masonically unjust . EXPOSITOR will find in the Lincolnshire report the best reason for not inserting the letter to the P . G . M . of that province . A PROV . OFFICER . —We cannot enter into the statement of the origin and circumstance of the " Bed Apron : " it will be sufficient to observe that , previous to the Union , the twelve Grand Stewards generally nominated their successors . At the Union , and for a short time after , the G . M . appointed eighteen ; and subsequently tbe G . M . selected eighteen Lodges , lo whom the Constitutions gave the power of nomination . There is no other stewardship