Privileges Of Masonry.

Tier mysteries . It was never intended that the great mass of the people should be allowed to tread her courts . The order was made for the select few of every age who could properly ajiprehend its character and purposes , and were sufficiently elevated in intellect and society to do honour to the craftsmen and the Institution . But suppose the Entered Apprentice and the Eellow

Craft were admitted to full membership , aud that the work of the lodges were to be perfoi-med in those degrees ! What a mingling of sentiments and ceremonies , and characters , would such regulation produce J The Master ' s degree is really the wording degree , aud none but Masters can properly be allowed to place ashlars upon the temple walls . In performing labour in the lower

degrees , the Master ' s degree must he continually referred to , and points of Masonic character would sometimes be discussed that Masters only can understand and appreciate . When it is said that we call an Entered Apprentice brother , and therefore should not restrict him in the enjoyment of his Masonic privilegesor deny him his

, rights , we cannot understand the force of the argument . - —We may call the Entered Apprentice brother , with propriety , because he has been admitted into the outer court of the temple , and is on his way to the inner . Besides we accord him his full measure of right of an Entered Apprentice , hut must lead him into further light before we can admit him to full fellowship as a brother or

member of a lodge . A world of thought rushes upon us in our consideration of this subject , but time admonishes us that we must resist it , and proceed to other points in our review . We should like to say something in regard to the Baltimore convention in 1842 , and upon other points , but must forego the opportunity .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

TREDEEICK II . OF ritUSSIA AND THE AXCIEKT AND ACCEPTED , OH SCOTTISH , BITE . [ We have been favoured by the accompanying official documents about the Ancient and Accepted Eite , AA'hich tend to set the matters in dispute in quite another light . This is a proof of the value of an independent course , because in such cases both sides are shoAvn , and the

reader can draw his own conclusions unfettered by remarks or insinuations . The subjoined documents are of immense service in exposing the manner in Avhich the higher degrees were traded in previous to the inauguration of the Supreme Grand Council of Charlestown . ] Extract from an Act of Legislattire of the State of South-Carolina .

SECTIOI . 33 . And he it further enacted , that Isaac Auld , M . D ., as Grand Commander ; Moses Holbrook , M . D ., as Lieutenant Grand Commander ; Eev . Frederick Dp . lcho , M . V ., as Past Grand Commander ; James Moultrie , M . D ., as Secretary General ; Moses C _ LeA-y , Esq ., as Treasurer General ,- Horatio Gates Street , Alexander M'Donald , and Joseph M'Cosb , Fsqs ., with their associates and successors , be , and they are hereby incorporated and declared a body politic and corporatein deed

, and in law , hy the name and style of "Inspectors General of the Thirty-third Degree : " And the said Inspectors General of tbe Thirty-third Degree shall have power to regulate all Orders and Degrees of Masonry , from the Sixteenth to the Thirtythird ( inclusive ) , according to tbe Constitutions of the said several degrees ; and the said Corporation ,- by its name and style aforesaid , shah have a common seal , with power to alter the sameand to make all necessary by-laws for their better

, government ; and the said Corporation shall have power to purchase lands of personal estate , and to accept any devise , bequest , or donation ; provided , the same shall not exceed the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ; and provided also , that nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere Avith any powers , rights ,

or privileges heretofore granted to the most Worshipful Grand Lodge in this State , or any other Grand Lodge of Masons heretofore incorporated . In the Senate , the twentieth day of December , in the year of our Lord , one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three , and in the forty-eighth year of 'the Independence of the United States of America . JACOB BOND I'oir

, President of the Senate . PATBICK NOBLE , Speaker of the Souse of Representatives . The preceding extract is taken from an appendix to the Bylaws of the Princes of Jerusalem , established in Charleston , 1788 , and to the By-hvws of the Sublime Grand Lodge of South Carolina , established in Charleston , 1783 . —E . T . C .

Universi Terrarum orbis Architeetonis per Gloriam Ingentis . Dens Meumque Jus . Ordo ab Chao . In the name , and at the special request of the Grand and Supreme Council of the most Puissant Sovereigns , Grand Inspectors General of the 33 d degree , duly and lawfully constituted , under the celestial canopy of the Zenith ivhich answers to the-32 d degree , 45 minutes north latitude . ¦ : ¦

To our Illustrious , most Valiant and Sublime Princes of tiie Boyal Secret ; Knights of ______ ; Illustrious Princes and Knights , Grand , Ineffable , and Sublime , Free and Accepted , Masons of all degrees , ancient and modem , over the surface of the Two Hemispheres . To all those to whom these letters shall come : union , con . tentment , and wisdom .

Be it known and remembered , that whereas a certain individual of the name of Joseph Cerneau , a Frenchman , born at Villeblerin , aged' 50 , and a jeweller hy trade , residing at present No . 118 , William-street , in the city of New York ; did sometime this last spring , publish certain printed pamphlets , by the French called Tableaux , signed and sealed , -wherein he styles himself as " Most Potent Sovereign Grand Commander of the thirty-third Degree of the United States of America , their

Territories and Dependencies , " & c . And whereas , the only lawful body of the kind in the United States of America , Avas legally established on the 31 st May , 5801 , at the City of Charleston , South Carolina , and which is recognised all over the world ; I , therefore , the undersigned , Grand Inspector General of the 33 d , Grand Dignitary officer of the aforesaid Supreme Council of the 33 d degree in Charleston , South Carolina , do hereby , in their name , and at their special request , declare and certify , that having previously taken such measures as are expedient in all such cases ; having also ascertained that he is not

of , nor knows anything at all about the thirty-third degree ; and that having received no satisfaction whatsoever from the said Joseph Cerneau , for his assuming a Degree , Title , and Powers , to which he has not the smallest claim whatever ; in consequence thereof , and being in duty bound to stop , crush , and publish all such characters , so as to prevent their doing any further mischief , and continue to delude and impose upon otherwise Avorthy brethren unacquainted with the Supreme degrees

of Preemasonry . Be it known and remembered , therefore , that by , and in virtue of my High Powers , Eights , and Prerogatives , as a lawful Grand Inspector General of tbe 33 d degree in the United States of America , I do hereby publish and declare to the whole world , as well in my own name , as in that , and at the special request of my Supreme Council , in Charleston , South Carolina , the aforesaid Joseph Cerneaua Frenchman by birthand a

, , jeweller by trade , & c , as an imposter of the first magnitude , and whom we have expelled from Masonic Asylum within our Jurisdiction ; and further , that whatever Masonic Avorks or proceedings he may have performed , or put his hands to , ever since his arrival in this country from the West Indies , are also , hereby declared as unlawful , void , and totally vitiated by his last barefaced imposture and highly anti-masonic condnct . That all those symbolic brethren , and others who have been

raised by him and his associates , in what he or they have been accustomed to call his or their Sovereign Chapter of K . > J « , Grand Council of the 33 d , are hereby declared irregular and unlawful , and that unless thoy shall each of them , individually come forward , express their sorrow and abhorence of such unlawful , nefarious conduct , and submit themselves , according to the exact tenour of the laves , they shall also he published over the two Hemispheres , and declared , each of them , individually , as imposters , and accomplices in his nnlaivful deeds .