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CORRESPONDENCE .

Tfic Editor is not responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents , THE ILL . BEO . HYDE CLARKE , S . G . I . G . 33 ° OF EEANCE . XO THE EDITOIt OF THE PKEE 3 TASONS' MAGAZINE AWD MASOIflO JSIIltltOR . SIR , —In your issue of the 24 th June , iu reply to a

correspondent from this city , signing " Past Master , " with reference to our 111 . Bro . Hyde Clarke , of whose Masonic qualities you very properly speak in high terms , you take occasion to say that there is still living a Grand Master for Turkey . It will be interesting for the Craft to know who he is .

Unfortunately we are all here in complete ignorance of such a M . W . M . being in existence , or that there is such a thing as a Grand Lodge in this Empire . We all look forward hopelessly for such a governing body to be formed , but if it is in existence , as you state , you , or any of your readerswill confer a signal favour by

, informing us of its whereabouts . I deeply regret that you should have written in such very disparaging terms as you have done of the Provincial ( District ?) Grand Lodge of England in Turkey , of which the 11 W . Bro . Sir II . L . Bulwer is so distinguished a District G ' - . M ., aud Bro . Hyde

Clarke his Deputy . We certainly are a body recognised and known . Can the same be said of the Grand Lodge of Turkey ? Yours fraterually , A MEMBER OP THE D . G . L . OE TUBKEV . Constantinople , July 12 .

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TO 1 KB BDITOH OS THE jniEESIABONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC SIIRKOR . DEAB . SIR AND BROTHER , —I know nothing of the current affairs of our Masonic world except from public information , which is open to all the world . Erom the scanty record of events which crops out from time to time I glean all the knowledge I have ,

when I read the paper in your issue of July 15 th respecting the inauguration of the Boys' School , and it struck me that it affected the sportive character more than the official or even editorial . To tell the truth , I had entirely forgotten the result of the exhibition of some thirty designs for the proposed new

school at this time two years ago , but I read in the paper before adverted to , with the homage of great and deserved praise to Bro . S . B . Wilson , this passage : " Justice requires a faithful chronicle , to record the name of the architect who won the first prize at tho competition two years ago , but defect of memory may

perhaps cause a miscarriage of justice in attributing the original design to Mr . Edwin Pearse . " When I read this , I also , having lost sight of the fact , turned back to your pages to ascertain the truth , as I said , from the sources open to all the world . In the number of your Magazine for August 1 , 1863 , 1 find ,

" The following is the award in the late competition for designs for the building : —1 st premium , Mr . Edwin Pearse , Clapham ; motto , Knowledge is power . . . . Mr . Pearse ' s design is to be carried out , perhaps with modifications . " Collating these passages , I of course concluded that they were consistent with the fact .

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In the course of my pursuit after knowledge , I came upon a paragraph in the Illustrated London News for last Saturday , July 22 nd , in reference to an illustration given in the number for the previous week , of the Dining Hall , which , however , does not do justice to its admirable proportions , ov to the appropriate roof . This paragraph statesex cathedra" We

, , are desired by Mr . Edwin Pearse to say that the building , with the exception of certain additions and modifications , has beeu carried out by Mr . S . B . Wilson and himself as joint architects , from the original design for which Mr . Pearse obtained the first premium two years ago . "

Afterwards I li ghted upon a letter from Bro . S . B . Wilson , in the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE for the same Saturday , July 22 nd , wherein he adverts to the statement made in the previous issue , that Mr . Edwin Pearse furnished the " original design " for the building , which , he says , " is incorrect , and calculated to

mislead . I feel called upon to contradict that statement , and deny its accuracy . " Now , Sir , as a student of current Masonic history , aud no way interested in either position , for I am ashamed to acknowledge that I never heard of Mr . Edwin Pearse except through your columns , and certainly never saw him to my knowledge , I ask you ,

how can these discordant statements be reconciled ? Your paper of July 15 gives every honour and credit to Bro . Stephen Barton Wilson for carrying the original design into practical execution , but , with some misgivings , states that Mr . Pearse won the first prize two years ago for the original design ; your paper of August 1 st 1 SG 3 confirms thisas also does

, , , the paragraph quoted from the Illustrated London JVews . Now , in face of all this evidence , and as an entirely disinterested party , except as an advocate of fair play and justice , I beg to ask is Bro . S . B . Wilson justified in writing to you that it is incorrect to state Mr .

Pearse furnished the original design for the building , aud that he feels called upon to contradict such statement , and to deny its accuracy ? and if the words he uses mean anything , he denies that Mr . Pearse won the first prize at the competition . Bro . S . B . Wilson ' s claim to the respect and

esteem of the Craft is so undeniable , and so universally acknowledged , that he can well afford to share some of the credit of the new building in question with Mr . Edwin Pearse , of whom , as I said before , I know nothing personally , aud it is the abrupt tone of the denial which led me to make this inquiry . Your fraternally , July 24 th , 1865 . IGNORAMUS .

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TciNG WINES . —Tho practice of icing wines may he truly said to be destructive to every kind except champagne mid other effervescent wines ; ami even these , ltepfc long in ice , are not to be compared to the same wine when brought out of a cold cellar . Pew bouses have cold cellars , and in such cases , in warm weather , cooling becomes necessary ; but ten minutes or a quarter of an bour in the ice is quite sufficient to render it frappeas our French neighbours call it . The practice of

, putting lumps of ice into the wine itself is a barbarous one . The individual must indeed be a Goth who would in this way spoil " Creaming Sillery " or " Pearl of the Rhine , " and should he condemned to bad wine for the rest of his days , since it is evident that to him quality must be a matter of perfect indifference . —Sheen on " Wines and other Fermented Liquors . "