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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

ConnESPONDENTs are respectfully requested to write their communications on one side of the paper only . We have received several other letters , besides those which appear to-day , with respect to the Fete at Trocaelero , which we elo not think advisable to print . We acknowledge with ihanks 11 . J . W ' . communication in this matter .

W . DARLKY . —On the whole , inadmissable . Brio . ALUEKT . —Received with thanks . INITIATION . —In light at the N . E . comer . A COLONIAL M . M . —The installation of H . R . H . the M . W . G . M , took place on the 28 th April , 1875 , at the Albert Hall .

PAST MASTEH . —We think it better not to publish your letter . P . P . G . W . —Answer in our next . P . PHOV . G . D . —Sir Henry Edwards was appointed Granel Superintendent of the province of W . Yorkshire May 23 rd of the present year .

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Births, Marriages And Deaths.

Births , Marriages and Deaths .

BIRTHS . BHEIIETON . —On the 1 st inst ., at Ucheldre , Holyhead , the wife t , f Captain Wm . P . B . Brcreton , of a son . TKF . LOAII . —On the 6 lh inst ., at Rivercourt-road , Hamm .-rsmith , the wife Mr . Robert Treloar , of a daughter .

MARRIAGE . SMITH—NOHMAN . —On the 1 st inst ., at St . Mary's Stafford , by the Rev . Canon Lonsdale , the Rev . Theodore Smith , tub-minister of St . Mary ' s , to Sarah J . B , Norman , daughter ol the Rector .

DEATHS . BENNETT . —On the 5 th inst ., at Buxton , Deibyshire , Mr , Thomas Bennett , in his Colli year . DunitANT . —On the 5 th inst ., at Braishfield Vicarage , Fanny , the wife of the Rev . John Durrant , Vicar of Braishfield , Hants .

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THE FREEMASON , SATURDAY , OCTOBER 12 , 1878 .

French Freemasonry.

FRENCH FREEMASONRY .

We have perused with great care and concern the report of the proceedings of the Grand Orient of France in the last Monde Mac . onnique , which in all probability will be found to differ but very little , if anything , from the official publication of the Bulletin du Grand Orient . We

have read , we repeat , this report with great care , but with greater pain , because it demonstrates to all alike too clearly , alas , in what direction French Freemasonry is rapidly tending . As our correspondent from Paris , describing the same meeting , well put it , it is hastening on with giant

strides to " something , which is not Fieemasonry ; We have also studied Bro . Hubert ' s elaborate report in the Chaine d'Union . We feel , that as far as we are concerned , we have but one path to pursue , one dutv to fulfil . We have endeavoured to place before our

readers from time to time a correct "coup d ' ceil " of the progress of pffairs in France , the real state of the . case , not only what is and must be patent to us as " outsiders , " but what is well known to French Freemasons as the real '' dessus des cartes , " to use a French term , the true

meaning , that is of all that is going on . in our humble opinion the French Grand Orient by its successive acts of folly and perversity , has , if we may so say , " unmasoned " itself , and has made a "tabula rasa , '' or '' clean sweep , " 1 f all the ancient and sacred teachings of Cosmopolitan

Freemasonry . We need hardly refer our readers to the startling revelations of an " eye witness" of the proceedings of the last " Couvent , " and which appeared in a recent Freemason , neither need we reiterate the account of Bro . Caubet , or the lucid report of Bro . Hubert to

convince our readers , we feel sure , how correct our own anticipations have been of what must be the inevitable " corollary " of previous pro ceedings , and which , therefore , have by no means taken us by surprise . Our readers will kindly bear in mind , that we have

always , though deeply deploring the fact , realized , to use a common expression , what the movement party in the French Grand Orient was " driving at , " and what it would inevitably achieve ; and our words have been verified in every little particular . Indeed ,

it would be a waste of time to seek to point out to our readers , not only how alarming is the situation , how dangerous the " outlook " for French Freemasonry , but how menacing and antagonistic are such revolutionary proceedings on the part of the French Grand Orient , to the peace ,

harmony , and welfare of the great family of universal Freemasonry . But having thus , as we think , done our duty , in this respect , openly , calmly , straightforwardly , with deep regret , and certainly with no persona ! resentments , or prejudiced opinions , wedonotfeel

called upon to continue in these peaceful pages of ours such painful and profitless discussions . Life is too short for such continual protests , for such abject reports of hateful controversies , and revolutionary resolutions . The syllabus of Ultramontanism is now eclipsed by the syllabus of

Ultrapositivism , by the fashionable ineptitudes of the " Morale Independante , " by the fiery pro . posals of angry partizans . Freemasonry in all this " embroglio " cuts a sorry figure , and seems to be forgotten . And , therefore , we give up these painful reports of what is not and neper can be

Masonry , which is something , we know not what , " uncouth , unclean , " and we wash our hands of it , and will have none of it . We shall leave henceforth French Freemasonry to the patronage of its own friends , and the sympathy of its own acolytes . We cannot afford as a

Masonic journal to occupy our crowded columns , which contain so much to interest and edify English , Scottish , Irish , Canadian , and American Masons , and our brethren " all the world over , " with the sayings and doings of a non-Masonic body , with the programme of a " secret political society , " with the proceedings of an association

French Freemasonry.

ashamed to avow its belief in God , and which is now intent on erasing from all its circulars the venerable and reverent ascription to the Most High ' . To French Freemasonry until better days , until a happier epoch , which , we trust , may yet providentially arrive for it , the Freemason says to-day , sorrowfully , but seriously , "VALE . "

The Tows Commissioners Of Mullingar.

THE TOWS COMMISSIONERS OF MULLINGAR .

Mullingar is a town of no " mine pritinsions , " in county vVestmeath , in " Oireland , " which boasts among other articles of "bigotry and virtue" of a most intelligent body of "Town Commissioners . " It seems , that these sapient worthies have " been passing" a resolution

about thos . } " wicked fellows " the " Freemasons , " who , it is Will known , are miny of them ' ' mighty bad characters " . and "extramely disrespectful to the Pope and Cardinal Paul , " and not only this , but they are " inemies to religion , to morality , to decency , and to respectability ! "

Accordingly this highly respectable and cultivated Roman Catholic board has had a " slap " at these " haythen and worse nor haythen . " [ mitating the upright and admirable and benevolent action of a Roman Catholic Board of Guardians which lately refused to allow a little

Roman Catholic girl from the workhouse to enter the service of a respectable mistress , but who was base enough to be a Protestant , this Roman Catholic Board of Guardians , objecting " on principle , " or probably on no principle at all , to the promotion and propagation of

Freemasonry in Mullingar , has asked the promoters of a new Masonic Hall , to " abandon an undertaking , so painfully offensive to the inhabitants " of that well-known town ! Our contemporary the " Leeds Dail y News . " ( for which we are indebted to a correspondent , and to whom we

tender our thanks , ) particularly asks " is it one of the functions of a local board to sit in judgment and to publicly denounce or ' repudiate ' the principles of their fellow-burgesses , and to presume that all the evil consequences mentioned must necessarily result from the propagation of

principles of which they can form no opinion except from the fact that they are bound to repudiate them by a foreign mandate ? " So far it seems that these wise men of Mullingar understand that the " principles of Freemasonry , which every Roman Catholic is bound to repudiate , must

tend to promote an estrangement in the amity and good-will which have hitherto existed between Roman Catholics and Protestants , and must of necessity cause a disru ption of social and business intercourse which we shall be pained to see introduced . "

Anything more absurd we have never read , anything more absolutely ridiculous we have never yet encountered in all that garbage of Ultramontane folly and violence , which it is our painful lot to have constantly to peruse . We quite agree with our contemporary when he says ,

The responsibility for any unpleasant feeling which may arise in Mullingar is more likely to be laid at the door of those who have taken this extraordinary step for promoting a kindly social feeling and an amicable business relationship amidst the various classes of Mullingar . "

That the Freemasons of Mullingar will be affected by such a beautiful " outcome " of rampant intolerance , we do not believe , but quite endorse the words of our contemporary , when he says , " The Freemasons of Mullingar will probably feel that their civil

governors have misunderstood their functions , and those outside the mystic circle may regard this gratuitous condemnation of private opinion as a meddlesome interference with the liberty of the subject . " " Any how , " as they say in Ireland , this proof of an unchanged " animus " of

hostility and bigotry which marks " Rome everywhere , will not be withenit its use to those who seem disposed to carry on a flirtation with that remarkable but dangerous body , which , unchanged in its destructive theories , and consistent

in its hearty intolerance , too often only smiles but to betray , only blusters but to intimidate . " Semper eadem , " it never loses sig ht of its unvarying hatred of freedom of conscience and true civil and religious liberty , and like as in