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Embassies and Foreign Courts . By The Kovxtfa EKG-LisMAisr , Since the subjects for examination o ? candidates for the diplomatic service have been now officially made known , we feel we are performing a Masonic duty to our younger Brethren in commending to their attentive perusal the work by the Eoving Englishman , entitled " Embassies and Eoreign Courts , " which we reviewed in a former

some of the letters are original . All intending emigrants would do well to read its cautions .

number * It is published by Bro . Routledge in Eamngdon-street , and will be found not only to point out the best books for tlie instruction of the candidates on the points required , but is itself a complete digest of their purport , analyzed with the well-known talent of their gifted writer , which has caused him to be looked upon as England ' s only author on diplomacy , and whose caustic expose of Home Office

abuses has drawn upon him the hatred of the official culprits . We hear that one little man therein located is so savage at the discovery of his peccadilloes as to pass his time chiefly in dropping juice of " slander ' s cursed henbane" in the ear of Lord Clarendon against the Eoving Englishman ; and in periodical attacks of the meagrims ?

whenever he hears of his opponent ' s rapidly-increasing fame . This virulence strongly reminds us of the passion of a jam-sick schoolboy against his doctor , who forbids his taking more ; the Downing-street nursery certainly resembles other establishments of infantine intellect in one particular—its inmates hate to disgorge .

PAMPHLETS . The Case of Meer Ja f ur Alee , Khan Bahadoor , of Sural . London : J . It . Taylor , 54 , Chancery-lane . —The perusal of this pamphlet suffices to make any one revolt with disgust at the dishonourable behaviour of the East-India Company , in evading and procrastinating the discharge of bounden conditions and just claims . We hear with

great pleasure that the injured nobleman is about to move the highest tribunal in the realm ; and perhaps the East-India Company , knowing that its charter hangs on a thread , which the repeated disclosures of torture and misgovemment under its rule render daily thinner , will be just from fear , if not from principle . We commend this pamphlet to the perusal of all who wish to learn how chartered

monopolies abuse power , and especially we trust members of Parliament will read it a and recollect that their duty is , when Indian malpractices are revealed , not to leave the House for the Opera , so that the wrong-doers escape punishment through the artful dodge of " counting the House out , ' but to stay , and do right to the claims of the persecuted and wronged .

The Masonic Advertiser . John W . Leonard and Co ., Now York . —The number of this miscellany amply maintains its character , and is full of interesting and instructive matter to the Craft . Its designs

“The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine: 1856-04-01, Page 23” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 8 July 2025, django:8000/periodicals/mmr/issues/frm_01041856/page/23/.
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LODGES IN THE WEST AND SOUTH, CANADA, MALTA, TRINIDAD-OUR DUTY. Article 1
FREEMASONRY IN GREAT BRITAIN. Article 7
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BALAKLAVA. Article 11
THE WONDERS OF NATURE. Article 14
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS. Article 19
FACES IN THE EIRE. Article 25
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 26
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZIN AND MASONIC MIRROR. Article 27
MASONIC CHARITIES. Article 29
NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 30
FINE ARTS. Article 30
THE MASONIC MIRROR. MASONIC REFORM Article 31
NOTICES OF MOTION. Article 36
THE BOYS' SCHOOL. Article 37
METROPOLITAN. Article 41
INSTRUCTION. Article 47
PROVINCIAL. Article 47
ROYAL ARCH. Article 54
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 55
SCOTLAND. Article 56
COLONIAL. Article 60
SWITZERLAND. Article 62
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR MARCH. Article 62
Obituary. Article 65
NOTICE. Article 68
TO COEEESPONDENTS. Article 68
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Embassies and Foreign Courts . By The Kovxtfa EKG-LisMAisr , Since the subjects for examination o ? candidates for the diplomatic service have been now officially made known , we feel we are performing a Masonic duty to our younger Brethren in commending to their attentive perusal the work by the Eoving Englishman , entitled " Embassies and Eoreign Courts , " which we reviewed in a former

some of the letters are original . All intending emigrants would do well to read its cautions .

number * It is published by Bro . Routledge in Eamngdon-street , and will be found not only to point out the best books for tlie instruction of the candidates on the points required , but is itself a complete digest of their purport , analyzed with the well-known talent of their gifted writer , which has caused him to be looked upon as England ' s only author on diplomacy , and whose caustic expose of Home Office

abuses has drawn upon him the hatred of the official culprits . We hear that one little man therein located is so savage at the discovery of his peccadilloes as to pass his time chiefly in dropping juice of " slander ' s cursed henbane" in the ear of Lord Clarendon against the Eoving Englishman ; and in periodical attacks of the meagrims ?

whenever he hears of his opponent ' s rapidly-increasing fame . This virulence strongly reminds us of the passion of a jam-sick schoolboy against his doctor , who forbids his taking more ; the Downing-street nursery certainly resembles other establishments of infantine intellect in one particular—its inmates hate to disgorge .

PAMPHLETS . The Case of Meer Ja f ur Alee , Khan Bahadoor , of Sural . London : J . It . Taylor , 54 , Chancery-lane . —The perusal of this pamphlet suffices to make any one revolt with disgust at the dishonourable behaviour of the East-India Company , in evading and procrastinating the discharge of bounden conditions and just claims . We hear with

great pleasure that the injured nobleman is about to move the highest tribunal in the realm ; and perhaps the East-India Company , knowing that its charter hangs on a thread , which the repeated disclosures of torture and misgovemment under its rule render daily thinner , will be just from fear , if not from principle . We commend this pamphlet to the perusal of all who wish to learn how chartered

monopolies abuse power , and especially we trust members of Parliament will read it a and recollect that their duty is , when Indian malpractices are revealed , not to leave the House for the Opera , so that the wrong-doers escape punishment through the artful dodge of " counting the House out , ' but to stay , and do right to the claims of the persecuted and wronged .

The Masonic Advertiser . John W . Leonard and Co ., Now York . —The number of this miscellany amply maintains its character , and is full of interesting and instructive matter to the Craft . Its designs

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