Architecture And Archæology.

window and other dressings , and the roofs are covered with red and blue tiles . A clock-aiid-bell-turret rises to the height of 60 ft . The boys' and girls' schools are at right angles to each other , and are each 46 ft . by 18 ft . They may be thrown together ; and opposite tho girls' school and in the centre of the boys' an apse projects , containing a communion rail , tableetc . ; so that the building may be used

, for Divine service ; the apse forming a small chancel , the two parts of the boys' school transepts , and the girls ' school the nave . An infants' school , 35 ft . by 18 ft ., is at right angles to that of the girls '; and two class-rooms are provided for the boys and girls respectively . The playgrounds are extensive ; and , as the ground falls considerably in that directionadvantage has been taken of the

circum-, stance to erect cloisters in which the children may play in wet weather . Houses are provided for the master and mistresses at opposite angles ofthe building ; and each has a bay window in front . The interior height to the spring of roof is 14 ft , and 32 ft . to the top ; the roof being open and of stained wood . The building has cost £ 2 , 500 , exclusive of the land .

The foundation-stone of new parish schools at Newhaven , near Edinburgh , has been laid . The erection of these schools , the estimated expense of which is £ 1100 , has been promoted bj > - persons belonging to all the religious denomination , in the district .

The Three Counties Asylum is erected on a site in the parish of Stotford , Bedfordshire , and stands nearly north and south . The south and principal front consists of a largo centre building , covered with the clock tower , and containing the superintendent ' s residence , with private entrance ; committee-room , clerk ' s room and waiting-room , together with store-room ; surgeryand apartments for

, matron ; and two long wings , for the most part three stories in height . These are severally devoted to the patients ; the males being located in the west wing , and the females in the east wing . Those wings contain corridors communicating with large rooms , which , on the ground floor , form the day rooms for the patients . On the first and second floors tlie large rooms and corridors form the dormitories

out of which open smaller rooms , containing three or four beds a-piece ; and also single sleeping-rooms , every patient having a separate bed . The corridors ancl large rooms have all open fireplaces . To the several wards are appended sculleries , lavatories , bath-rooms , waterclosefcs , & c . The infirmaries are placed near the centre of the building . The north side contains the kitchen , larder , ancl store-rooms ,

beer-celler , dairy , bakehouse , coal-cellars , & c . ; and over the kitchen is the chapel , which is constructed to hold 400 persons . Three covered jpassages connect this building with the main building of the asylum . The water-towers rise to the height of 48 feet , and near to the top of each is a large tank , holding 10 , 000 gallons of water . There is also in each tower a smaller tank , which is supplied with hot

water from boilers , erected in the basement of the towers : from these four tanks the general distribution of hot and cold water throughout the asylum is made ; and fire-mains are placed in different parts of the building , from which , by the addition of hose , cold water can , by pressure , be thrown over any part of the asylum . Beyond the water-towers , on the male side , is an irregular wing , containing the tailor ' s ,

shoemaker ' s , and carpenter ' s shops ; and behind which are the brew-house , malt-stores , plumber ' s , and smith ' s shops , with a forge , ancl various offices . On the female side the corresponding wing contains the laundry , washhouse , & e . There are also farm buildings , with suitable yards , and a gashouse , & c . The buildings are all of white brick , having a line of red brick in the cornices and chimneys , with stone mnllions to the windows . The total cost of the

new asylum , including land , outbuildings , and contingent expenses , has been £ li 4 , 831 6 s . Id . The new Comity Lunatic Asylum , Cai-diff , may now bo said to be commenced ; The contract is to be completed in something under ei ghteen months , and the entire cost of the buildings will bo between £ 22 , 000 and 23 , 000 . The site selected is about a mile and a half from the town of Bridgend , on the road to Court Coleman , on elevated ground . The buildings will be of the native stone .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

THE DUKE OP SUSSEX AND THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR . The following extract from official documents in my possession will settle the long disputed question , whether H . R . H . the Duko of Sussex was Grand Master of the Order of Masonic Knights Templar in England and AVales . " Grand Conclave of Emergency of Masonic Knights Templar of St . John of JerusalemFreemasons' TavernGreat Queen Street

, , , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields . Thursday , 6 th August , 1812 . "The minutes of the last Grand Conclave , May 5 , were duly read and confirmed . The presiding Grand Master , Sir Knt . W . R . Wright , then addressed H . E . H . the Duke of Sussex , Grand Master Elect , in an appropriate speech , after which H . R . H ., kneeling before the altar , repeated the oath of office as read to him in Latin . H . R . H . was then conducted with great solemnity to the foot of

thealtar , ancl there repeated in an impressive manner the oath of oifice as read to him in the original language of the Order by the most eminent Grand Chancellor , ancl having duly sealed the same upon the Holy Evangelist , subscribed his name thereto . " The Presiding Grand Master now quitted the throne , and installed H . R . H . thereon , on which the Grand Heralds proclaimed H . R . H . Most Eminent Supreme Grand Master of the Orders of the Holy Temple and Sepulchreand St . John of Jerusalem—H . R . D . M . —

, K . D . S . H . " The Duke , I believe , was elected afterwards Grand Prior of the French Chilvalric Order of Knig hts Templar , of which Sir Sydney Smith was Grand Master , and during the latter part of his life greatly discouraged the English Order . —M . H . SHUTTLEWORTII , G . K . C .

BRO . JOHN STONE . The Critic for June 15 th , quotes , " as a specimen of that punning so often found iu epitaphs of the 17 th century , " the following " from the tablet in the chancel of Sidbury Church , Devonshire , to the memory of John Stone , a Freemason , who died January 1 , 1617 . " "On our great Corner-stoue this Stone relied .

For blessing to his building , loving most To build God ' s temples , in works he died Ancl lived the Temple of the Holy Ghost , In whose hard life is proved and honest fame , God can of Stones raise seed to Abraham . " From this it is evident that before the divorce of Operative and Speculative Masonry , the latter was far from being

neglected by tho brethren . —GEORGE MARKH . UI TWEDDELL . COMMON SOLDIERS . What is the reason that lodges are prohibited from initiating common soldiers into the mysteries of the Craft ? I hope some good ancl sufficient reason can be shown for it , though I confess I cannot find it out by my own sharpness . —BRO . PETER .

BRETHREN AMONG THE ABORIGINES OE AUSTRALIA . Allow me to call the attention of the brethren , and also of Knt . Templars , to the enclosed very interesting extract from Dr . Lang ' s new work on Queensland . Who could have expected to have found brethren amongst the Aborigines of Australia . Knt . Templars will understand the allusion to theKibah . —E . W . S ., Leeds , July 9 .

"The ceremonial of making kippers , as it is called , or initiating youths into tho Society of men , is nearly identical with that described by Captain Collins , as having been practised by the natives in the vicinity of Sydney , shortly after the first settlement of the colony , the identity of the ceremonial may even be inferred from the name given it by Captain Collins , viz -. ke-barra , from kibah , a stone . It is atrial of patience , strength , and endurance ; and reminds

one ofthe ceremonial of the middle ages at the admission of Knights . ] S o female or European is allowed to see the stone . * * * " Nay , utterly incredible as it may seem , there is nevertheless pretty good reason to believe that the mysterious ceremonies iii use among the Aborigines , for the initiation of young men into the society ancl immunities of their elders , ceremonies which it is death for any female to witness , are nothing more nor less than the Australian edition of the ancient institution of Freemasonry

, ancl as such , one of the evidences of an extinct and long forgotten civilization . " Mr . Stuart , the zealous and successful discoverer of much eligible country to the Northward of the colony of South Australia , came in contact , about latitude 20 ° , in Central Australia , with a tribe of black natives , with whom , to his own utter astonishment , he exchanged Masonic signs , and established the bond of common