The Knights Templars.

BesffiEgoa , Nazareth , and Mont Royal , with the Bisl & Hijps -of Beavais , Salisbury , Cambrai , Acre , ani BetMekem , assumed the helmet and cuirass , aa / lfesl an bodies of warriors bravel y to the field . So * redoubtable an appearance did the army

preseatf & asfe -a Kni g ht , in a moment of excitement , esrMsaed , "Let God remain neuter , and the victory Is ours 1 " An impious and detestable sentiis . en . tj says Yinisauf , for it placed the issue of the baffefe is . man . and not in the Deity ; when man

can . efo nothing without God , as the issue of affairs SKEII proved . ( To be continued . )

Masonic Notes And Queries

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES

si & temi part of the letter written hy me on the occasion of the project of the Freemasons' Magazine Company is here subjoined : — "Masonic increase aud -amelioration would , in my judgment , suffer much delay and injury by the discontinuance of the Freemasons' Magazine . The Craft in the metropolis ¦ oug ht to know what is done by the brethren in the

provinces , and the Craft in the provinces what is done by the brethren in the metropolis . This is effected at present entirely by that journal . Besides , it is only by it that the Masons of England become acquainted with the proceedings of Masons of other countries . Take , for instance , France and Germanv . There are probably not half-a-dozen English Masons to whom the Monde Maponnique or the Bauhutte is sent . See the Freemasons' -Magazine , No . 194 , JTarch 21 st , 1863 . —0 . P . COOPER .

STEEEIIASOXS' JIAGAZIXE . Xa compliance with the request of " H . B ., " all the

MASOHS MARKS ( 3 rd S . xii . 431 ) . Very little that is reliable seems to have been ¦ written on this interesting subject . The Rev . Mr . Woodford , Swilliugton , Leeds , published a collection of marks in the Freemasons' Magazine of 1862 . I . notice that many of the most ancient marks are identical with

letters of the old Teutonic or Runic alphabet ; and the system may possibly have originated in initial letters of that al phabet , which Rasfc says was used late in Christian times in stone carvinc ¦ on . account of its greater adaptability . I hope to see someone follow out an inquiry in " this direction . — Jons- TAEKEE , Jun .

SOURCE EEOil WHICH A STATELIEST IK" SOilE 3 IASOXIC ME 3 I 0 EABILIA IS nEEIVED . "I . G-., " you say that in some Masonic Memorabilia , which have lately come in your way , there is a statement that , after Im ' go Jones had been appointed Grand Master bJames I lod took

y ., our ges the form of " seminaries of instruction on the sciences U ! » P ° W arhij aftel' the m ° del 0 f the £ taliaD S ? 2- 1 ' make { t an earl > ' point in your Craft studies to find from what source this statement is derived . —C . P . COOPEE .

Masonic Notes And Queries

CAGLI 0 STR 0 . The address of this impostor , inviting Masons to meet him at Reilly ' s Tavern , Great Queen-street , on the 3 rd of November , 17 S 6 , at nine p . m ., is said to have been inserted in the Morning Herald of Thursday , Nov . 2 nd , 17 SG—E . T .

BEO . EIJS " DEl ' s LETTER . Bro . Pindel's letter , respecting which a correspondent inquires , is dated July 18 th , lSGi . He will find it in the Freemasons' Magazine , vol . xi ., page ' 72 . The legends mentioned are those of King Solomon ' s temple and the third degree . — C . P . COOPEE .

MASOSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY . In the library of the late Bro . Comtede Falkenberg , 33 ° , was a volume , 16 mo ., "Reglement Particulier de la T . R . L . de St . Jean d'Ecosse des Preres Eeunis , " published at Tournay , in Belgium , in 5 S 18 . This is rather larger than lodge by-laws generally — -containing 327 articles . The lodge was founded in

5770 , and was one of the old Scotch lodges . Prom such an origin it has some peculiarities as compared with Continental regulations . Thus the tenth chapter is devoted to the very venerable , that is the P . M . He has the same place as in English lodges—replaces the TF . M ., and is a member of all committees . He was charged with the special mission of

investigating all complaints . This book is preceded by a charge . It does not appear under what Grand Orient the lodge was placed . Jt had a regular chapter , professing several rites , and a sovereign tribunal of Grand Inspectors of the 31 st degree . —R . T .

A PROPOSAL RESPECTING THE HIGH GRADES . "J . "W ., " the proposal to which allusion is made in the first of my communications entitled "The High Grades , " page 49 , vol xvii , of the Magazine , is designed to injure , probably to destroy . It is silly to call it "inefficient . " This word is a misprint , occasioneddoubtlesslj by illegibility of handwriting .

, , The epithet employed was " inexpedient . " I proceed to say it is "injudicious , " and I then add " perhaps something worse . " That the proposal is something worse than inexpedient and injudicious would , I am persuaded , were its nature fully disclosed , be the opinion of thousands of Freemasons in every part of the globe . —C . P . COOPER .

PORTUGAL . In 1 SG 0 it appears there was in Portugal a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient , presided over by the III . Senhor Dom Egas Moniz , gentleman of the Prince Regent's household , knight of the Order of Christ , member of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Tribunal of Lisbon . Be is called G . M . de la Mac . L . du

C . du P . R . This will be Grand Master of Lusitauian Masonry of the C . of the Prince Regent . "What 0 . means is a query . It is a question whether we pre- „ served the Rite of Memphis , as a book was dedicated to him by Bro . Chereau . —E . T .

I 5 T 0 LKIIAXCE . Monsieur X ., if there be intolerance in the refusal to receive a Frudhom into the lodge , then charge our modern English Preemasonry with intolerance . A ribald scoffer of the Great Architect of the Uuiverae can never become one of U 3 . —C . P . COOPEE .