Masonic Celestial Mysteries.

length force John , the sun-king to comply . They unite their forces at 111 with those of IOC , that is they strike out for dies non in Cancer ( which is usually done in Capricornus *) and then reduce the year of 365 days to be 360 the same as the

degrees in the solar circle . Thus the pen is with John ' s hand and closiug the 15 degrees of David , 121 reaches 106 , so there is the actual document the Magna Charta , with the X for signature at 106 . It was intended for publication for it is on

the compositor ' s frame as copy to be set up for Guttehberg ' s press along side , and this can be confirmed by looking at any globe or celestial atlas , unless of very modern publication . At 106 is the right hand of Hiram who pro temp , is

Grand Registrar , and has the custody of the privy seal which any intelligent brother can now discover , the bee , producing the wax with compasses from the equatorial pole , will be his guide . This then is the true Magna Charta recording the

conjunction of the planets in the Gemini , aud thus delineated by Ptolomaei in 1237 , that is twentytwo years before the appearance of Fabian the historian .

Celestially there can be no difficulty for initiated Masons to understand Grafton's version of the toad , the monk , the penknife , and the cup of wine and the death of the monk and the sun king John , nor the least difficulty in comprehending

the metamorphosis of the fish of "unwonted shape" Cetus , whose brilliants became armed with the helmet and shield of Mars , thus resembling " armed knights , saving that they were far greater in proportion . "

How I Spent My Five Weeks' Leave.

HOW I SPENT MY FIVE WEEKS' LEAVE .

Being a journal , kept during an Excursion to Syria and Palestine in the month of May , 1868 . PiOtite . — Leave Malta , April 29 th ; Joppa . to Upper Bethovon , May 4 th ; Bethoron to Jerusalem , 5 th ; Jerusalem , 6 th ; Bethany , Bethlehem , Marsa ' oa , "th ; Bend Sea , Jordou , Jericho , 8 th ; Bethel , 9 th ; Sheehem , ( Nabulus ) , 10 th ; Jenin , 11 th ; . Tezreel , Mt . Tabor , 12 th ; Sea of Galilee , Tiberias , Cana ,

Nazareth , 13 th ; Carmel , Haifa , 14 th ; Beyrout , loth ; Beyrout , to Somma , over Lebanon , 18 th ; Baalbek , 19 th , 20 th ; Ain Pijeh , 21 st ; Damascus , 22 nd ; Damascus to Beyrout , Antilebanon , 25 th ; Arrive at Beyrout , embark , 2 , 1 th ; Bliodes ' 29 th ; leave Rhodes for Malta , June 1 st ; arrive at Malta , 4 th . LEAVE MALl'A—JOPPA TO UPPER BETHOPvON . The gaieties of the Malta season are over , or nearly so ; the winter visitors are making off like rats from a sinking ship : all the officers who can

get leave , are packing up their mufti ; young ladies are ruefully putting by their finery for another season ; the mail steamers are crammed to suffocation , the walls are placarded with announcements of numerous auctions , the opera is to close

in a week or two , and those unfortunate individuals who , like myself , cannot possibly get away for the summer , are making up their minds to settle down into that dreary state of

chrysalislike inanition , in which people here manage to exist , through the scorching sun , and sweltering siroccos of the hot season . Imagine , then , the joy , with which I accept the hospitable offer of Capt . Whitethorn , of H . M . S .

Cupid to take a passage with him to Jaffa , in order to see Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land ! I feel that , as he says , "it is the very thing to set me up for the summer . " There is no time to be lost , however , as he starts in two

days , so I hastily forward my application for "Five weeks' leave , " to which colonels and generals proving propitious , I quickly pack my carpet bag , pocket Murray , stick a box of cigars under one arm , a huge green-lined white umbrella

under the other , and run off . I rather astonish the orderly , who , order-book in hand , is waylaying me at the door , by briefly telling him that I dont want to see it , nor need he trouble himself to bring it for the next month . Hastening on board , for it is getting late , and we are to start at

sunset , I find that four other officers besides the captain , form our party . We almost immediately sit down to dinner , and hardly are soup and fish removed , when the quick motion of the paddles , and the refreshing draught in at the scuttles ,

warn us that we are under weigh , and the beautiful little vessel begins to jump about , like a spirited horse , which has had no exercise for a month . I . must mention for the information of those ignorant in such matters , that the Cupid is one of the

fleetest boats in the navy , and beautifully fitted up with cabins , and a charming deck-saloon , a capital place for a cigar . In short , that everything about her , from the maintruck to the keel , from the skipper to the cabin boy , is simply perfection .

Coming up after dinner for a post-prandial cigar in the deck-saloon , I am startled by a ghostly apparition , springing up from one of the sofas . It was an unhappy Maltese telegraph clerk , very seasick , whom we had taken on board to convey with some two hundred messages to Syracuse , the submarine cable between that place and