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TAT ANTED by a Past J . W . SITUAy V TION as Collector , Clerk , or any post of trust . Highest references . —J . B ., 41 , Wellbourne-road , Tottenham .

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A P . M . would be greatly obliged to any brother procuring him an APPOINTMENT as Surgeon to one of the Colonial Emigration Services , or to a steamer going to China , Australia , New Zealand , or New York . Has been to sea before , and can give excellent references . —Address , "Surgeon , " Neptune Villa , Sutton Grove North , Sutton , Surrey .

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BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES , CLAPHAM RISE . President : VISCT . HOLMESDALE , Prov , G . M . Kent . This Institution provides a home for those of the middle class who are unable ; through incurable disease , to maintain themselves . In certain cases pensions of £ 20 per annum are granted . At present there are 40 in and 261 out patients on the books of . the Charity , to tho support of which FUNDS are most urgently SOLICITED . CHAS . HOOD , Esq ., F . R . S ., Chairman . ROBERT G . SALMOND , Secretary . Offices , 37 , Cheapside . E . C .

To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

" The following' stands over ^ New Grand Lodges .

BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Jewish Chronicle , " " Die Hauhutte , " Hull Packet , " " Freemasons '" Chronicle , " "he Monitenr . de la Chance Universelle , " ' * Citizen , " ' Royal Cornwall Gazette , " " Bulletin du Grand Orient Ue France , " " Broad Arrow , " "Victorian Masonic Journal , " " I . a Aheja , " " Proceedings ot the Grand Lodge of New Brunswick /' "Masonic Advocate , " "' Allen ' s Indian Mail / ' " Semi-Weeklv Citizen " ( Ottawa ) , * ' Tricycling journal , " " La Reforma , "

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^ KSSS ^^ S i r ^ fee ^^ a ^^^^ a ^ ao ^^^ vv ^ iir ^ jii SATURDAY , AUGUST 16 , 1884 . . » . .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinionsexpressed by oar correspondents ^ but wewish in aspirit o £ fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion , ] ——

WEST YORKSHIRE . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I have had p laced in my hands a . circular which I am told has been issued to the various lodges in-the province of . West Yorkshire , a copy of which I enclose , and request you to insert with this letter . I cannot find

language strong enough to condemn such a proceeding as that taken bv the St . Oswald Lodge , and am surprised that our R . W . D . P . G . M ., who is a _ member of the St . Oswald Lodge , would allow such a circular to be issued , and I shall be equally surprised if our Prov . Grand Secretary presents any petition got up for the purpose of interfering with his Royal-Highness ' prerogative . 1 have

previousl y addressed you on appointments in this province ; this , I think , is the climax . —I am , dear sir and brother , yours faithfully and fraternally , Huddersfield , Aug . 12 th , 1 S 84 JUNIOR P . M . [ COPY J St . Oswald Lodge , No . qro . Bro . the Rev . 1 . J . Needham , M . A ., B . D ., W . M . Fraternal regards and greeting .

Dear Sir , —The W . M . and brethren of tbis lodge having heard with regret of the resignation of the R . W . P . G . M ., Sir H . Edwards . Bart ., have presented a petition to H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , Grand Master , in favour of the appointment of our Deputy P . G . M ., Bro . Thomas-William Tew , J . P ., P . G . Deacon of England , ' & c , to the vacant office .

Believing that the province will be unanimous as to the desirability of this appointment , 1 am requested by my lodge to communicate With you , asking for the co-operation of the brethren of your lodge in forwarding a petition of the same import to . his Royal Highness . If this project meets- ' with your approval , I would suggest

that there be as little delay as possible in taking the necessary steps , and that the petition be . forwarded to Bro . Henry Smith , P . G . Secretary , St . John ' s , Wakefield , for presentation . —I am , dear sir and brother , yours fraternally , W . J . BOOTH , Secretary . To the Worshipful Master of Lodge No . July nth , 1 . 884 .

POSITION OF A P . M . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In the revision of the Constitutions a great deal of discussion took place-with reference to the proposition that a joining P . M . should rank as a P . M . of the lodge , and the proposition was by a large majority repeated on the

confirmation of the minutes . As to the wisdom or unwisdom of the proposition and its . rejection I am not now dealing with , but on reading over the new constitutions I find by article 141 , page 69 , it is declared that " In the Master's absence the Immediate Past Master , or if he be absent , the Senior Past Master of the lodge present , or if no P . M . of the lodge be present , then the Senior Past Master who is a subscribing member of the lodge shall take the chair , and

it no Past Master who is a subscribing member of the lodge be present , then the Senior Warden , or in his absence the Junior Warden shall rule the lodge . " Does this not amount to . the same thing which was rejected ?—Yours fraternally , W . A . FEURTADO , S . W . 183 ( 1 . Kingston , Jamaica , - 7 th July , 1884 .

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DESERVING CASE . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and ' Brother , Being aware of the urgency of the case appearing inlast Freemason of the " Widow of a P . P . S . Warden , " might I ask you to forward the enclosed cheque as some little aid towards this case , which I can safely recommend to others . —Your fraternally , & 'c , as per enclosed card , H . G . C , P . P . S . Warden Cornwall .

. PROVINCIAL CLOTHING . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and- Brother , May I be allowed to join issue with you upon your ruling in the note to the letter from " Observer " in your journal of August Cjth ? I hold that , as Rule 9 6 says nothing as to the continuing to subscribe to a lodge in the province being necessary , in

order to retain the right to wear Provincial clothing , that qualification is not necessary . ; A brother who has held any Provincial rank is , for all his life , entitled to call himself "Past Provincial so-and-so , " this formula being simply a statement of a fact . If a Past Master ceases to subscribe to the lodge of which he is Past Master , is he no longer to wear the levels ? I am aware of no other rule which , being read with No . 9 6 , can be held to alter its ' meaning . —Yours fraternally ,

G . M . M . C . O . . THE GRAND LODGE OF QUEBEC .

To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I have received by post a copy of the Montreal Herald of July 26 th , in which is reprinted a letter of mine ( which you were good enough to insert some weeks ago , on the subject of the recognition of tho Grand Lodge of South Australia ) , with an introductory anonymous note , claiming

me as an adherent of the Grand Lodge of Quebec in its unfortunate quarrel with the Grand Lodge of England . Will you allow me to say that 1 have never taken any part whatever in this unhappy controversy between ruling bodies , and desire utterly to disclaim any " adherence " whatever to any Masonic party or body , save that loyal

support which 1 trust always to give to the ruling organisation under which I live . I presume that it is both possible and proper to entertain , and even to enunciate , views regarding points of Masonic history without being ranked as 1 partisan in current collisions . —I am , yours fraternally , York , August nth , 1 SS 4 . T . ' B . WHYTEHE AD .

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CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE M . E . G . Z . OF THE GRAND CHAPTER OF OUEBEC AND THE GRAND LODGE OF MARK "StAS I'ER MASONS OF ENGLAND AND WALES . . We think our readers will agree with us that this is a dreadfully trying correspondence to read , very wearying , and very long-winded . In reply to Bro . Binckes ' courteous and conciliatory letter of February 2 Gth , this pamphlet , of

24 closely-printed pages , constituting one letter , seems to us—amid the trials of hot weather—we say it respectfully , a waste of time to have written , and even a still greater waste of time to read . After all it becomes a logomachy . ' Like the female immortalized in history , the G . Z . dt Quebec will have trie last word , and after all is said and done what a childish controversy it all is , and " much ado ibout nothing . " When the Grand Mark Lodge concedes

this point , —that the authority is to be limited to the English lodges in Montreal , —practically the Grand Chapter of Quebec has got all it wants . The English lodges in Montreal are , both Masonically and legally , in a better position than the Grand Chapter of Quebec , and as it was only absolutely reasonable they should have Royal Arch chapters , so in the present state of affairs it is not unreasonable they should have Mark lodges . The . English system , as regards the

Arch and the Mark , has always seemed to us the best , and we have never approved of the system in vogue in America of mixing up" the Mark and the Arch . Of course , a good deal depends , as we have always contended , on the terms of the Concordat . In England it is asserted that such Concordat was never meant to abrogate the claims of the Grand Mark Lodge over its lodges in Canada . There it seems to be . regarded as an absolute recognition of

jurisdiction according to the American system . We believe the English authorities never contemplated such a position of affairs , and we hope therefore that all will speedily settle down into an " entente cordiale . " But our dear friends are dreadfully long-winded , and often all about nothing . One amusing feature is the hyper-reality of menace . These

threats of " boycotting " seem to arise from one or two irresponsible agitators , who , with everything to gain and nothing to lose , do not seem to care how they irritate or how they pain , and whose language too often is marked by vulgar coarseness , without a trace of gentlemanly forbearance or Masonic good . feeling .

HENRY IRVING'S IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA . By J OSEPH HATTON . Sampson , Low , and Co . We always we confess take up " impressions , ' . ' " recollections , " " experiences , " of America with fear and trembling . " There seems to us something of great " bad form , " in availing yourself of famil y hospitality and fondness of a friendly reception and a kindly intere . it , and then at once rushing into print with those thousand " nuisances" of

elaborate confession , of audacious commentary on the private life of your quondam hosts , of which certainly the Americans have good reason to complain and to condemn . Few such hasty and presumptuous publications give us , or can give us , a true idea of the life , manners , feelings , and tastes of a nation , and we have always regretted the publication of thess vapid entries of the travellers' and-visitors ' diary , which might be true , or whichjnight be the reverse ,

exaggerated in the fact , jotted down in splenetic mood , or , like Count Smorltork ' s invaluable notes , the outcome of misunderstanding and incapacity combined . The Americans are a very hospitable and friendly people , especially kind and considerate to strangers , and they feel that too often such too evident "padding" for the publishers' needs is an unjustifiable return for attentions and . sympathies lavished on Ithe . too curious or too credulous ,

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guest . If we doubt the accuracy of "John Bull et son lie , " how much more have we reason to question the "Diaries" of dyspeptic travellers . Mr . Hatton in this work gives us the impressions of Bro . Irving , well-known to us all alike in his Masonic character and his histrionic form . As Bro . Irving ' s reception has been the cheeriest possible , and the

pleasantest and most successful ; his impressions are "couleur de rose . " Indeed , we cannot see how it could have well been otherwise . His tour was a great triumph , and he , with Miss Terry and his company , was feted everywhere . A great portion of the " Impressions" is purely theatrical , and will have much interest for intending visitors to America as a company or as individuals . We rather wish the

anecdote ' s of individual and general character had been more numerous , as we judge from them the character and proclivities of a great people , rather than from any " impressions , " however clear or full . The following story , taken from others , is a good specimen of the lighter portion of the work . The story of "The Inquisitive Broker and the Queer Bundle" was read out at the dinner of the

Papyrus Club , where Mr . Irving and Miss Terry were guests : — "An inquisitive old broker noticed a queer bundle upon th ^ lap of a man sitting opposite him in the horse-car . He looked at the bundle , in wonder as to what it might contain , for some minutes ; finally , overmastered by curiosity , he inquired :

" ' Excuse me , sir ; but would you mind telling me what is in that extraordinary bundle ?" " ' Certainly ; a mongoose , ' replied the man , who was ¦ reading ' Don ' t , ' and learning how to be a real , true gentleman . " ' Ah , indeed ! ' ejaculated the broker , with unslacked curiosity . . . 'But what is a mongoose , pray ?' "' Something to kill snakes with . '

But why do you wish to kill snakes with a mongoose ?' asked the broker . " ' My brother has the delirium tremens , and sees snakes all the time . I ' m going to fix ' em . ' ' "' But , my dear sir , the snakes which your brother sees in his delirium are not real snakes , but the figments of his diseased imagination—not real snakes , sir' !' '" Well , this is not a real mongoose . ' Moral : Ask me no questions and I'll fell you no lies . "

VICTORIA ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER . This is a very lucid exposure of a great deal of "bunckum" and childish frivolity which have been going on in re Quebec , & c , as well as an answer to certain audacious statements calmly reiterated until people began to believe them . The alleged surrender of the charter to D . G . S . Badgely is now proved to be a mvth . and

we regret to find that I' reemasons are to be found still alleging what this-pamphlet clearly establishes to be an untruth . We feel bound to say that we rise from all these documents with very painful feelings , and lower views of what Freemasonry , so great and useful in itself , in un < scrupulous hands may be made . In our opinion , the

best course the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter of Quebec can pursue is to proclaim a " general peace , " and an " universal amnesty " to let bye-gones be bye-gones , by a judicious and friendly arbitration reknit the bonds * of Masonic goodwill and consideration with some greatly aggrieved and unjustl y treated brother Freemasons in Montreal .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

3 S 3 J THE DEFENCE . OF MASONRY . Can any Masonic student , echoing Bro . Gould ' s query in the Freemason , give us a clue to the original pamphlet said to be published first in 1730 ? Bro . Gould ' s highly ingenious theory that Bishop Warburton , whose classical tastes and special studies are well known as exemplified in

the Divine Legation , was the real author , and not Anderson , deserves most careful consideration . All must be struck by the verbiage and views of the Defense , and so far I am not aware of any work by Anderson which demonstrates similar ideas or equal . knotvledge . His genealogies is a very remarkable work and honestly speaks of him in terms of commendation : There seems always to have

been an idea , however , that Anderson was the author of the Defense and Euclid's letter . Why should they know ? Bro . Gould points out firstly that if Euclid's letter be bona fide the writer of the Defense was not a Freemason at all , and if Bishop Warburton was a relation of Bro . Hugh Warburton , the likelihood that he was the writer is

greatly increased . Undoubtedly Bishop Warburton ' s peculiar studies . as regards the Mysteries had perhaps led him to find analogies . and allusions , when analogies and allusions were onl y imaginary after all , arid the position now . of the assumed virgilian evidencts is very striking in the Defense as in the Divine Legation . Bro . Gould has raised a very interesting and most important question . MASONIC STUDENT .

3 S 4 ] ANDERSON . The following passage from a very able review in the Philadelphia Keystone of Bro . Gould ' s work so entirely accords with the views I have already expressed here , that I make no apology for quoting it : "A word , now , in reply to Bro . Gould's attack upon the credibility of certain points of Anderson ' s " Constitutions . "

This work was prepared by order of the Grand Lodge of England . What was Anderson ' s duty ? Simply to draw up a homogeneous digest of the Gothic traditions , preserved in the manuscript histories of the Craft accessible to him . These MSS . were closely followed down to a period ' within the personal knowledge of Freemasons living at the timehe wrote his famous treatise . There can be no doubt he followed the earliest of these annals with slavish fidelity .

How is it , then , that the later portion of his work , nearest to the time when by the oral testimony of persons who must ' have known whereof he wrote he could obtain his facts , and be criticised in return , has now been impeached in its integrity j while Bro . Anderson is himself gravely accused of falsifying the records ? Is it in order that a theory 6 f . historic transmission may be supported , which the acceptance of Bro . Sir Christopher Wren ' s Grand Mastership