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IJOXDOX , SATURDAY , AUGUST

OUR article under the above title appearance in the Freemasons' Magazine corroboration of our statement as to the ofthe Order which exist the FALLACIOUS VIEWS OF

27 , 18-59 .

hacl scarcely made its , before a singular curious misconcepuninitiatedappeared TLIE CBAFT . ABOUT the to have genius , named author we that he was souls was

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because Mr . "Whiteside , in the full torrent of his parliamentary eloquence ( on tho question of setting aside certain jurors in county of Antrim ) , stated the said McCaldin to be an atheist and a violent political agitator . McCaldin thereupon writes to the Times denying the charges in indignant ; and accidents the bent of up and dispose great distress

N o \ v we can sympathise with the wounded feelings of Mr . McCaldin , and ive consider also that the steps ivhich he has taken to vindicate his fair reputation , are proper ancl manly . the proofs ivhich he has adduced in support of his counter-Whiteside ever to reach him in tho not only of tion of merit

Mr . " non sequiturs thafc we quote them for the benefit of such of our readers as may have overlooked this epistle iu their daily Times reading . " As to my being an atheist' ( our injured friend ) I am the friendly to have here under the those studies tions .

, -known in Belfast as a Presbyterian , not altogether without for my religion . I have from childhood been a systematic attendant on public worship , ami since I arrived at a suitable age have been a regular communicant . So much for the ' atheism ' which Mr . Whiteside has branded my character in the It is well land abounds winter are the Eden , the sometimes

House of Commons . As to my being ' a violent party man , ' during a life of twenty-five years in active business I never ivas a member of any political association , never having been an Orange - , a Freemason , or a member of the Odd Fellows , or any other society . " Wo should much like to know what idea this worthy very deceive the eye guide . It was ] iroved fatal to said , often dwell poor Murdoch

Freemasonry . ging somewhat incoherent document which we have quoted , it is far from being a favourable one as it is from being correct . assures us that he is not an atheist , which we arc ghted to hear ; he also further gratifies us by the infor- winter , to flower of his It is deepl should have

that he is nofc a " violent party man "; and in support of these assertions he declares himself to be totally unconnected with the Masonic body , which lie lumps towifch such societies as the Odd Fellows ancl Orange- public benefit matics was the refuted Dr . pointed out

—thereby implying that hois neither a political agitator an atheist because he is unconnected with Freemasonry those two societies . and a , differential was the author Leibnitz claimed

, , charitably point out to him those passages in our antient charges whieh are suited to his beni ghted ' " condition ; from he may learn that a genuine Craftsman can neither be id atheist involve is of little the same reply , and he

nor plots and conspiracies against the government of tho country where he dwells . would be as well also to explain the vulgar error of classthe Order in the same ; category with , such modern and y dissimilar societies as those mimed above ; ancl to mform Mr . James McCaldin that his being a Freemason , tor of the al Leibnitz did no tion of the philosopher Boyal Society

y - , as a far greater security for his being a worthy nicuiiber society , than even his being a " zealous Presbyterian" or a attendant upon the ministry of tho Bev . John Machten . Of one thing he rest assuredthat n and report their in his favour . if they did justice tee of the

may , a man knows the world so well as Mr . Whiteside will not be y to class him as a violent party leader—since his total inabilit y to lead his fellows in either for good or bad and other papers Mr . Oldeiiburg was tho inventor

any way , , y no means faintly shadowed forth in that ignorance of phases of life which are passing around him—which would fatal to any am . ivisliirag * either to lead the minds or enlist sympathies of hw fcHoV-citiwn ? . their opinion to Murdoch ' s ihe poivei- of theory , nrovided

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SCOTTISH ARCHIMEDES . 1768 there livedbut hardlbe said

, y , in the v / orld of literature , a self taught Martin Murdoch . Of the early career of this but little ; his own account of his origin was son of a Scottish clergyman , whose cure of

g . Murdoch taught his son the principles of mathehim at his death a little flock on a small alone flourished with Martin . Misfortunes and the tin suitableness of his occupation to

mind , compelled him in a short time t ' o break of his stock and farm . Finding himself in . and without any prospect of ameliorating his he was , he determined upon going to London get a living there by teachingarithmetic

. London , however , lie was not destined at Cleator , in Westmorland , fortune threw of a benevolent clergyman , who was possessed considerable wealth but also of a keen appreciaand sincere love of science to

solicitations of this good j priest , Murdoch appears terminated his travels , and to have remained protection of his benevolent patron , pursuing which are the subject of thVfbngyving

observaknown that the picturesque county of Westmorin lakes and impetuous streams , which in the occasionally so swollen as to overflow their banks ; Dove , and Winandermere , are all beautifulbut

perilous ; being remarkably deep and clear , they of those who attempt to ford them without a one of these treacherous streams which at last this endowed Scotchman . Mathematicians , it is iu the seventh heavenand forgetting earth

, became a victim to the other element . In a , he- neglected , in crossing a river in the * due caution , and was drowned in tho intellect at the age of thirty-six .

one so accomp unrewarded an untimely death , as he was a society . At the period he adorned , mathechief subject ; of the day ; it was then that he

' s ( Bishop of Cloyno ) philosophy , ancl he great truth the difference between a fluxion . He clearly showed that Sir Isaac Newton this method of calculationwhich the learned ?

, , , Differential Calculus . Leibnitz received two Newton , in 1677 , upon this subject ; however , ifc consequence , as both great authorities arrived at conclusions . This treatise excited Dr . Keith to made it appear very plainly from Sir Isaac ' s

by P . Wallis , that Newton was the inven-, or practical rules of fluxions , and that more than publish the same with an alteraand of notationThe

. quarrelled with . Dr . . Keith , and appealed to the against him , that they would be ] ileased to ' s vain babblings and unjust calumniations ,

But this was not in the power ofthe Societ y , , for ifc appeared quite clear to tho commitappointed to examine the ori ginal letters relating to the matter , which were left b y and Mr . J . Collins , that Sir Isaac Newton effluxionsand

; y that effect , which determined the affair . plicity was his great charm , for he had . making the youngest- persons andeHtaad Ms tlviV eli . vnb , <* d fhe ia / iae ; - of kiwwled & i -with