THE FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REYIEW. " LIGHT." 1834. LONDON: SHERWOOÜ, GILBERT, AND PIPER, PATERNOSTER-ROW ; J CHURCHILL, PRINCES-STREET, SOHO! STF.VENSON, CAMBRIDGE : J. SUTHERLAND, CAI/I'ON-STREET, EDINJBURGH AND J. PORTER, GRAFTON-STREET, DUBI.IN. CONTENTS. P.1R' INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 1 ON FREEMASONRY ......•• ® TIIE MASON . . . . • • • ■ .18 LIST OF BOARDS, COMMITTEKS, ETC., NOT INCLUDED IN THE FREEMASONS CALENDAR . . . . .41 MASONIC INTEL LIGENCE 43 MASONIC OBITUARY ÖJ ESPECIAL GRAND LODGE AT NOTTINGHAM . . .53 GRAND LODGE AT LAMBTON CASTLE . . • • 55 MASONIC PROCESSION AT GLASGOW . . . . .58 OFFICERS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND . . .59 KNIGHTS TEMPLARS OF SCOTLAND . . . . 60 OFFICERS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND . • - ^ THE SECOND JUBILEE IN COMMEMORATION OF HANDEL . 61 THE FATE OF GENIUS ....... 67 LOVES OF THE FLOWERS ....... 71 THE TRAPPISTS 7^ THE BIRTH AND PROGRESS OF MUSIC . . • .77 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE . . . • -79 RKVIEW OF LITERATURE, FINE ARTS, EXHIBITIONS, DRAMA, ETC. 85 PARLIAMENTARY ANALYSIS . . . • • .94 CONTENTS. opinions of the public press 111 on freemasonry . . • • • • « h7 lanah, a tale of the flood - 126 freemasonry in the 46th regiment . . . 137 biographical sketch of the late peter gilkes . 140 boards, committees, etc. not included in the free- masons calendar ...... 147 masonic intelligence 149 female's school ...... 154 boy's school ...... ■ 159 grand chapter ...•••• 163 quarterly communication ..... 166 masonic chit-chat . . .... 166 subjects under consideration . . . .167 masonic obituary ...••• 167 provincial ...... • • 16" edinbdrgh . . . ... • • 172 dublin . 172 united states ....... 174 to correspondents . . 4 • • .182 tape stry-weaver of beauvais, a mystery . . 183 fate of genius . . 188 the puritans sister . 192 a morning meditation 205 miscellaneous 206 tieview of literature, fine arts, etc. etc. . . 213 -parliamentary analysis 229 CONTENTS. Paffe ON THE APPKOACHING ELECTION TO THE MASONIC CHAIRS 238 PARTHIAN GLANCES ------- 239 ON FREEMASONRY. SECOND EPOCII - - - - 242 ON MASONIC NUMBERj BY THE REV. GEORGE OLIVER - 251 FREEMASONRY VINDICATED ----- 259 THE SOUND TOWER OF BRECHIN, N.B., BY R. TYTLER, M.D. 2(55 THE PHILOSOPHER AND HIS PUPIL - - - - 272 JOHN FITZ, BY A. U. T. - - - - - - 279 BROTHERLY LOVE AND AFFECTION - 284 ON THE NECESSITY OF A BUILDING FUND - - - 285 LETTER FROM THE EDITORS TO THE GRAND STEWARDS OF THE YEAR ------- 289 ON *** ****'s GRAVE ------ 290 NOTITIJE TEMPLARIjE - - ... - 291 LETTER FROM A FIELD OFFICER ----- 293 MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER ----- 294 QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION - - - - 294 MASTERS' AND PAST MASTERS' CLUB ... 295 BOYS' SCHOOL ------- 295 GIRLS' SCHOOL ------- 296 MASONIC CHIT-CHAT ------ 301 SUBJECTS UNDER CONSIDERATION - - - - 301 MASONIC OBITUARY ------ 301 PROVINCIAL ------- 303 EDINBURGH 316 DUBLIN - -- -- -- - 310 VIENNA - - - - - - 319 UNITED STATES ------- 319 TO CORRESPONDENTS ------ 320 ON THE CAUSES OF THE DECAY OF OUR NATIONAL MO- RALITY - -- -- -- - 321 THE SLAVES FIRST AND LAST HOUR OF FREEDOM - - 334 LIBRARY OF THE VATICAN - - - - - 335 THE SPIRIT LOVER ------- 33g TO J**E 340 THURLOGH, THE MILESIAN ------ 341 MISCELLANEOUS ------- 358 TO ELIZABETH - - . - - - - - 360 LITERATURE AND THE DRAMA ----- 360 gTVLRTVIOO OP, ....... BToataua JAnawaa vro We ave informeel that the Freemason's Calendar and Pocket Book is in the press, and that some improvements are contemplated. The stamp duty being repealed on the almanacks, the price will, of coursei be reduced; and we trust that the Editor will excuse our expressing a hope that the forthcoming number will partake somewhat of the character of a Masonic Annual, and that its general execution will be improved. As far back as the year 1781, the Committee, vho had then the management of the Calendar, publicly requested any Brother to furnish them with articles, either Masonic or general, that could make it more useful or entertaining, and stated that the Grand Secretary would pay due attention to contributions. This suggestion may apply equally well at the present time. . HOTiaa ÏHT OT .3314301 IJ3TWI OlttOSAlf £I£ ... . . . HiïTiAH» nnA»a auraaqua The present number of the Freemason's Quarterly Review will, for the sake of regularity, complete the first volume. It is more seemly to end a matter with the current year, and to commence a new one with a second volume, under improved auspices and with renewed vigour. So that if our labours be productive, and they should prove so, for there is a most abundant vineyard, we shall hope to continue them long ere we make our valedictory address; this however, rests not with ourselves but with the r ratermty. An Index for the first volume will be given with No. 4. . • . aAHOAK! Üöè . . . . BTHaaHOIgHHJïO'J OT 8I8YJAHA YHATVraMAlJaA'i . . . . . . . asHoaaw SHT ...... HAIB3JIM 3HT .HOOjaUHT cBi- . ." . thoiwx saoaa-aaa ïht cha toos hht euoaHAJjaoam 88£ AMAHa 8HT anA aauTAaaTid ....... HAaï avioa-Ya sht . ..... . xaam CONTENTS. Paffe ON GENERAL SUBJECTS 363 ON FREEMASONRY . . • • • * FREEMASONRY VINDICATED 3/7 THE REDEEMED ..... ... 0«4 ON THE FREEMASONRY OF HOMER .... SOLOMON'S APE 35» THE GILKEs' TRIBUTE THE FREE VINTNERS, ....... 404 NOTITIiE TEMPLARIiE .....•• 407 A CHRISTMAS CHAUNT FOR THE CRAFT .... 410 MASONIC SONG 4J1 MORALITY OF THE TALMUD ....•• 411 TO THE MOON . . • • • • * ' 41 2 TO THE EDITOR . ., LODGES OF INSTRUCTION 41.3 TO THE EDITOR ...••••• 414 MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. SUPREME GRAND CHAPTEB . 41.) QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION , . • .417 MASTERS' AND PAST MASTERS CLUB. . • .417 ROYAL FREEMASONS CHARITY FOR FEMALE CIIILDREN 41fï ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . • • 489 MASONIC CHIT-CHAT 423 MASONIC OBITUARY 494 PROVINCIAL . 429 DUBLIN EDINBURGH 447 453 MAÜHAS 455 TO CORRESPONDENTS ....•• PARLIAMENTARY ANALYSIS ...... 457 THE WRECKER 407 THURLOGH, THE MILESIAN ...... 4/7 THE SCOT AND THE RED-CROSS KNIGHT ... MISCELLANEOUS ^8(> LITERATURE AND THE DRAMA . 4»H THE BY-GONE YEAR 490 INDEX 493 We have to apologise to the Rev. G. Oliver for the accidental omission of his article on the Ancient Places of Initiation. The excellent Sermon came too late;—it will he noticed in our next. We cannot omit, however, to acknowledge his kind testimony in favour of this Review. Province op Dorset.—We are informed that the Brethren of the province of Dorset are about to present their esteemed R. W. Prov. Grand Mas ter, William Williams, Esq., with amagnifieent candelabra, as a small token of their affectionate and fraternal regard to one who has most ably and diligently presided over their labours for so many years. In our next we hope to be able to give an account of the ceremony of presenting it, which is to be done at a Prov. Grand Lodge to be especially called for that purpose. The candelabra is to be of purely Masonic design, and will be executed by Brother Acklam, in the Strand. i The Freemasons' Calendar and Pocket Book is now published, price Three Shillings.—The Grand Lodge publicly recommend every private Lodge to have a copy; to which we add our eamest hope that 110 Brother will be without one. We more earnestly address the Grand Officers to patronise this Pocket-book, and can assure them that our M. W. Grand Master takes a personal interest in its circulation. Brother Philip Broadpoot.—It is with sincere regret that we have to announce that this highly esteemed friend and Brother is about to leavé London, whence he will carry with him, to whatever destination he may bè appointed, what few men can be said to have obtained, the good-will of all with whom he has been associated for so many years. Our regret is naturally qualified by the hope, that the change will probably advance his private interests, although no circumstances can advance his private worth. The Brethren of our Order will, we hope, declare their estimation of his meritorious conduct by some public meeting. It may not be generally known, that, a few years since, inany warm-hearted friends presented Mrs. Broadfoot with a tea-service of plate. It will not be brought against us, we believe, that in changing our intention of closing the first Volume with the last Number, we shall incur the charge of vacillation; as if so, he who from conviction may alter his opinion, should hesitate to acknowledge " he is wiser to-day than yesterday." We have had difficulties in the way, but some zealous friends have pleaded so forcibly that we feel pleasure in having elicited many additional proofs of their tact and experience. With this Number we therefore close our first volume, which embraces, as far as we have been enabled to glean them, the transactions of the year 1834. The present Number is dated December 31; and by anticipating one day in each Number, the future Volume may also contain a proportionate annual result. FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY ADVERT1SEK. N° IV. DECEMBER 31, 1834. Maurerische Bttclier - iammlung von georo hloss. é Nr0 des Catalogs / fctütei mJ N-" ^ ; '7 hi1 I.ONDON: TRINTED BY WILL1AM WLLCOCKfiON, WHITKKKIARh. TO THAT DISTINGUISHED jftcEtnason ( Whatever land may own him as a son, Or social rank in vest him with its claims,) WHOSE LEARNING AND RESEARCH HAVE ILLUSTRATED OUR ANTIQUITIES AND MYSTERIES ; WHOSE HEART HATH BEST DISCERNED, TIIROIGH THE VEIL OF ALLEGORY AND THE SACRED 9YMBOLS, ®\)t truc Ti)oltncSfi of J&asonrg ; WHOSE HAND, LIBERAL UNTO ITS MEANS, HATH RELIEVED THE WANTS OF OTHERS, THUS FULF1LLING THE THREE GRAND PRINCIPLES OF OUR ORDER Jörotfjcvlij Hobe, Hrltcf, anö THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED. Further, it is considered that, had any effort been made to take the sense of so widely extended an order embracing in its ramification the world itself—too mucli time would have been required; and that as the members of our profession include every class of the great family of mankind, from the crowned head to the yeoman, we would at once announce our readiness to afford to all a miscellany which it is confidently trusted will meet their approbation; and the conductors, while they thus offer free and unfettered their first number to the kind protection and honest judgment of the Brethren at large, ask no support but wliat it may be found to deserve—and anticipate no other success than that which the maturity of Masonic opinion may accord to it upon the clearest examination. It is neither our intention, or wish, merely to follow the arrangements pre-occupied by our literary contemporaries, or take undue advantage of their industry and experience. No—like the adventurous mariner, we launch our bark upon the vast sea of time, to tracé amid the billows of centuries, and the wrecks of nations, the rise, progress, and purposes of ancient Freemasonry. There are few sciences in the world, perhaps, upon which mankind have more speculated, or have been more generally in ei-ror, than Freemasonry. The antiquary lias pondered with admiration upon an institution whose origin his most anxious endeavours have failed to tracé. The legislator lias marvelled at the peculiar construction of those lavvs whose unity encircles the earth—whose ethics bind man indissolubly to man—which, pure and perfect in their operation, have descended through the fall of nations, the barbarism of the early ages, and the superstition of feudality, unimpaired to modern times. Although active hostility to the order in the British Empire has long ceased, many prejudices yet exist—that principle which in the intercourse between man and man is deemed the test of honour (secresy) is urged against the Mason as his greatest crime—the world, with a judgment that is an anomaly to reason, condemns him for that inviolable fidelity which in every other circumstance of life they would deem the surest proof of virtue. Not knowing what Masonry is, they have speculated in what it may be ; imagination has dressed up an idle chimera, and condemned, in the phantasy of its own creation, an order whose principles the just of all countries must approve, whose leading features are truth, knotvledge, and charity. " Truth shall yet be heard, no human power Can stifle or corrupt her purposes; Through superstition's gloom her voice is heard, It pierces through the veil of barb'rous ages. The prejudice of time—the venal lay Fall impotent before its godlike sound. It pierces e'en the silence of the tomb, Bursting the barriers of icy death, And injured virtue walks triumphant forth, Free from the taint of calumny or crime." To disabuse the world—to destroy this mental poison, and by advancing the interests of Freemasonry, advance the true interests of mankind, the Masonic Quarterly will be devoted. And here the conductors feel it their duty to assure the Brethren that the land-marks of the Order will be religiously observed. Such subjects as may fairly be discussed will find a ready insertion in its pages. Masonic literature, now a dead letter to the world, that curious relique of times past, will be carefully investigated, the prejudices of the world fairly arraigned, and the true principles of the Order displayed in their simplicity, truth, and beauty. It has long been a desideratum with the Craft to have the means of communicating generally with each other; it is lioped the present undertaking will form a nucleus round which the talent and interest of the Order will rally—an archive, where the events most interesting to the Brethren may be recorded, and regular biographies given of sucli worthy Masons who, by their zeal and industry, have advanced the interests of their art. To this end, communications from the Brethren are solicited, accompanied by the names and addresses of the writers, without which no communication can be inserted: this determination is far from being the result of idle curiosity, it arises from a sincere desire to preserve the pages of the magazine from all objectionable matter; these names and addresses will be confided to one gentleman alone, a Brother, whose Masonic character is pleaded as a sufficiënt guarantee that no improper use will ever be made of the confidence reposed in him. Still further to interest those who might possibly view the literary interests of the Order with indifference, the Brethren are informed that the conductors of this Review intend, after deducting the legitimate expenses of the work, to devote two-thirds of the entire profits to the advancement of the leading principle of the Order, " Masonic charity," while the remaining third part, it is honestly believed, will barely meet the contingent liabilities. As the Order expressly excludes all political or party discussions, the Masonic Quarterly Review will present merely a record of the proceedings of both liouses of parliament, unaccompanied by any editorial remarks of the conductors; thus the reader will only have facts laid before his unbiassed judgment, and draw such inferences as his private opinion or peculiar chain of reasoning may suggest. An equal vigilance will be exercised in the digest of foreign news: thus, while it presents to the reader all that is important in the history of modern events, it is presumed that it will be found of value as an impartial reference in future times. The Drama being a legitimate means of instruction to the people, and for the advancement of literature, due attention will be paid to its present state; impartial critiques will regularly appear, with such original papers on the ancient dramatists, and the Greek and Roman stage, as are likely to prove of general interest. The Fine Arts will be a subject of observation—the influence which their exercise has upon society, their rise and progress, and the various schools into which they may be resolved. The Useful Arts will be attended to, and every endeavour made to promulgate their advancement.—On these subjects we invite the communications of our talented Brethren. The Revieics will be conducted with strict impartiality, and due regard to the interests of the Public and the Authors. The conductors feel they would fail in their duty, did they not point out the advantage which must accrue, and the reliance which may be placed upon the opinions of a work intended to employ the attention of the largest society in the world, embracing in its community not merely individuals of the very highest rank, but so considerable a portion of the literary and scientific of all nations. Whatever Confidence we feel in our own resources, it must be acknowledged that we rely chiefly upon the assistance to be obtained from the intelligence and knowledge of others, to embellish our future pages. We, therefore, most earnestly solicit the co-operation of the Fraternity, and more especially of the Masters and Past-Masters of Lodges, requesting they will transmit to us whatever is useful, remarkable, and amusing, which their experience and information may have collected; so that our Magazine may give to the world its well-authenticated proofs of History, Knowledge, or Anecdote. As we shall be supported, our future Numbers will contain some embellishments characteristic of our Order and illustrative of its glorious tenets. With these preliminary observations we take our leave until the first of July. Errors will generally be found in all first attempts; we entreat a candid consideration, and should we be fortunate enough to secure support, it will stimulate us to renewed and more powerful exertions. ON FREEMASONRY. Freemasonry is a system of morality and wisdom, both practical and speculative; Truth is its centre; the eteinal point, whence its radii diverge, pointing out to its disciples not only a knowledge of the great Architect of the Universe, and the moral laws which hehas ordainedfor their guidance, but of those useful arts and sciences which alone distinguish civilised man from bis uninformed savage brother. It is coeval with the world—its speculative wisdom existed with our first parents while in a state of innocence— its practical principles were gradually taught them by the hard lessons of adversity; when driven from Eden, they became tillers of the earth, and watchers of its flocks. It is not assumed that, as a perfect system, Masonry flourished in the earliest ages. No—centuries of toil and discovery were wanting to complete its glorious knowledge. The arts necessary to life were first imparted; not, perliaps, by especial revelation, but by the constant exercise of those peculiar powers given to man, of invention, comparison, and imitation. That all minds are not equally capable of the application of these principles, our daily intercourse with the human race amply proves; even so in the infancy of the world, when mankind first congregated together for the mutual advantages of protection and society, the non-inventive and idle became dependent for many of their comforts upon their more gifted and persevering brothers, who, to preservre to themselves and their descendants a knowledge of their Creator, and the advantages which even their slight skill in the Arts and Sciences afforded, formed themselves into an Order, and imparted their wisdom to the just and virtuous alone. vol. i. c Encouraging eacli other by honest emulation, the Craft proceeded in their noble course; the barriers of savage life were gradually removed, and civilisation, like an early plant requiring the watchful care of ages to mature its beauty, put forth the first leaves of promise to an infant world. Man, the superior creature, endowed with powers above all created things, was left to his own resources for raiment and shelter; Nature was his instructress; twisted grass and plaited leaves formed his first robe-—the cave, or rude bower of bouglis, his banquet hall—the Universe his Church—a rock his altar. Habitations so rough, exposed to the whirlwind and the storm, scarcely a protection from the savage beasts of the forest, could not long content man's inventive genius, or satisfy his natural wants. The hut whose walls were piled with unhewn stones next arose, necessarily imperfect from the want of tools of sufficiënt hardness wherewith to render them suitable for the builder's purpose; this desideratum was at last supplied, the properties of metais became known, their hardness, fusibility, and strength. It is impossible, at this remote period of the world, to say in what manner the great Architect of all conveyed this wisdom; whether the lightning, acting on some metallic substance— the dreadful volcano—or any other natural phenomenon were the instruments of his instruction—enough for man to know that the knowledge so highly beneficial to the liuman race was imparted. The Creator first proclaimed man lord of his fair works, then gave into his hand an iron sceptre, whose power should lay bare the womb of earth, to rifle her hidden treasures, displace the lordly forest, compel the ground to yield its fauits in season, and, in place of the rude hut and leafy bower, bid temples, palaces, and wall-girt cities rise. Masonry now rapitlly advanced—the heavenly bodies were observed—the careful shepherds, as they watched their flocks by night, studied their varied course, till certain defined positions of the heavens became an unerring index of the seasons, whose changes their foreknowledge led tliem to anticipate and provide against; thusitwas that, engendered by observation in solitude and darkness, the infant science of astronomy had birth. Hitherto the knowledge and worship of their Creator had gone hand-in-hand with Masonry; but the descendants of Cain feil from the true God to idolatry; their imaginations, perverted by the prosperity they enjoyed, and the knowledge of the arts and sciences which they had gained, saw not in him the Author of all; the infection became general, and HE, deciding that the rebellious race were unworthy the enjoyment of his perfect system, determined to destroy the world. To will, with Omnipotence, is to perform. He gathered the clouds as a mantle round the earth—the secret springs of the deep were loosened— rivers burst their bounds—the ocean poured forth its many waters; and of all created things, Noah, and those preserved with him in the ark, alone remained to re-people the desert world. By them the great secrets of Masonry» in all their purity, were preserved. Once more the usefu] arts prevailed on earth, and time in its progress again saw towers and habitations rise. With a perversity which proves how strongly the principle of evil had become engrafted on man's corrupt nature, the descendants of Noah tempted their Creator, by building an enormous tower, whose height was intended to reach to heaven: their pride was justly punished by the overthrow of their impious design, the confusion of tongues, and consequent dispersion of mankind. Thus the world became more generally peopled, and nations were planted upon earth. Idolatry, die bésetting sin, again prevailed. In Egvpt, mixed with practical Masonry, it flourished—it uxisted in a less objectionable form, perhaps, with the Magi ot the East, who acknowledged the Sun but as their presumed visible emblem of the unseen God. By the Patriarchs alone was Masonry preserved pure in the midst of the idolatry of the surrounding nations—to continue it so was Abraham's motive in commanding the eldest servant of his house to seek a wife for his son Isaac from amongst the daughters of his own people, justly fearing that a union with a Canaanitish woman might endanger in his breast the true principles which he had implanted. By Isaac, the blessing and great secrets of die science were imparted to Jacob, the younger son. Esau having taken to wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon, bodi women of an idolatrous nation, that peculiar knowledge which had hitherto been the birthright of the eldest son, was permitted to pass from him. Fearing the wrath of his brother Esau, Jacob, by the advice of his mother, fled to Haran; on his way thither, the Almighty confirmed, by a dream, the promises made to his forefathers;—the miraculous ladder which appeared to him, and the stone on which he slept, and afterwards erected in token of the covenant, are beautifully typified in [Masonry. Joseph, being instructed by his fatlier Jacob, excelled his brothers in wisdom, which exciting their envy and hatred, they stripped him, and sold him for a slave. His miraculous interpretation of Pharaoh's dream gained him the royal favour; he became a ruler in Egypt, and was enabled, by his superior skill in the Craft, if not to free it from the false worship of Isis and Osiris, which debased it, to purify its practical knowledge, and free their system from many errors. The death of Joseph—the oppression of the Israelites— the cruel laws enforced to prevent their increase, together with the birth and preservation of Moses, are too well known to be dilated upon. But, though a favourite at the court of the Egyptian king, and deeply versed in the learn- ing and mysteries of their priesthood, he sympathised with the sufferings of his people: and after having slain, in a fit of indiffnation, one of their cruel taskmasters, Moses was ö 3 compelled for safety to fly to Jethro, the priest of Midian, whose daughter he took to wife. Under the instruction of the priest, he perfected himself in Masonic science, and was finally chosen by the great Architect of all as the instrument of Israel's deliverance from the dark bondage of Egypt. Masonry, pure and perfect, was transmitted by the great law-giver to Joshua and his successors. Practised alike by priests and kings, sanctified by prophets, it blazed forth in meridian splendour at the erection of the temple under Solomon, who had succeeded them in the high office of Grand Master of the Craft, and who, with the assistance of the King of Tyre, and Hiram, the most skilful practical Mason of the time, perfected, with the Brethren, that glorious structure, towards the completion of which each useful art and science lent their aid. This forms a remarkable epoch in Masonic annals. A knowledge of many of the peculiar plans adopted are preserved amongst us, and events highly interesting in their character, but concealed from the unenlightened world, are illustrated in the mysteries of omorder. In lands where the knowledge of the one true God was lost in the fables of man's corrupt imagination, practical Masonry flourished, though perverted bv priests and monarchs to the aggrandisement of their systems. Egypt, with her pyramids, whose caverned recesses were devoted to the celebration of Masonic rites, became a vast storehouse of science, a fountain whence sages from distant lands drank of the draught of knowledge. Strange, that with the revolution of ages, Europe should return to Egypt, now merging from ignorance and superstition, the light she gave. Not Egypt only; Babyion, Persia, and Chaldea were equally the seats of the Craft, whence architecture, geometry, astronomy, with music and poetrv, were disseminated to the world. The Brahmin of India, the Suevi, and the Hun, may tracé their rites to the same general source; it is equally discernible in the doctrines of Confucius, and the philosophy of Greece, whose sages, travelling for wisdom, transplanted to their own land the knowledge and practice of Masonry. Euclid was a distinguished Brother, to whose intimate acquaintance with the Masonic science the world is indebted for the celebrated Elements which bear his name. Plato, the divine Plato, was enabled, by the peculiar powers of his mind, to analyse and reject much of the error with which the Craft had been perverted, and approach the great and aicful truth. With time, Masonic science, thus happily introduced into Europe, became general. Rome, as Greece declined, received tlie sacred art, where, mixed with Paganism, it adorned her temples, flourished in her cities, and gradually became spread throughout her vast dominions. A new era at last dawned upon the world by that great change which for ever excluded polytheism—thus specula- caparisoned ; while die poles oi their late resting-place weie being struck. Just as they were preparing to inount, a paity of Cossacks were perceived crossing the plain at full speed towards them. " Fall in!" exclaimed the major, in that steady tone of command which the old soldier hears and obeys with confidence. " Count," he continued, " your life is of value to the emperor—to our country—you must fly, and leave us to make good your retreat." " But will that be honourable ?" demanded Lauriston : half anxious to be gone and yet ashamed to desert his bi av e companions. " Under any other circumstances, perhaps not," replied the major; "but you are in possession of information necessary for the safety of the army:—at all risks, your life must be preserved, whatever may become of ours. Florent, with corporals Jaques and Prerinet, will accompany you— I cannot spare more—they are the only two married men of our party, and deserve the chance—farewell!—no time is to be lost!" Lauriston instantly followed the advice of his companion; and accompanied by the young lieutenant and the two men, commenced his retreat. The old soldier formed his little party in the liollow lately occupied by the tent, which was protected on three sides by the embankment of snow thrown up in clearing the ground; his number amounted to eighteen men, besides Adolphe and himself. » How many do you count ?" enquired the veteran of his companion, as the enemy gained upon them: "my eyes are so dazzled by the snow, I can scarce see ten yards before me." " About thirty," replied Adolphe, coolly : "weshall have warm work of it—they are here !" " Steady, men," cried tlie major : " level high." As he spoke, the party, headed by their commander, reached the ground. The Cossacks were advancing with their usual irnpetuosity, wlien the first six were thrown into some slight confusion by the giving wayof the embankment, which yielded beneath their weight, and plunged them up to their horses' bellies in snovv. Tlie Frenchmen saw their advantage, and fired ; two feil: the others, by a desperate exertion of strength, backed, till they gained firm ground. The attacking party now divided into two separate bodies, and commenced wheeling round their enemy, each in a different direction. The effect of this manoeuvre was to distract their attention; for at the same instant one party poured in a line through the entrance of their little citadel, while the other, leaping the embankment in the rear, attacked them at a disadvantage. The struggle was now hand-to-hand—men encountered each other with all the bitterness of national hate and personal feud. " Our only chance," said the major to Adolphe, who was fighting near him," is to gain the open ground—we are cramped here;" and spurring his horse, he dashed past tlie enemy in gallant style, followed by the young officer and several men. The Cossacks were too much accustomed to this desultory mode of warfare to be easily taken by surprise: the party who had leaped the embankment in the rear, headed by their officer, immediately followed, leaving their companions to despatch the few who still struggled desperately within the frozen arena. The old major was the first who feil, but not before he had slain the soldier who had intercepted his flight. Adolphe was pursued by three of the enemy, who, with their long lances poised in air, yelled in anticipation of their victim. One, whose horse was of finer metal than his companions, was gaining rapidly upon him, when, as a last resource, he drew a pistol from his saddle, and fired. The arm of his pursuer feil powerless at his side; at this moment the officer and two men, who by a detour had gained upon his path, dashed before him. Adolphe—his sword broken, his path beset-—perceiving that all further attempt at flight or resistance would be useless, calmly awaited his f'ate. One of his pursuers was on the point of transfixing him with his lance, when a gleam of hope flashed across his mind-—törning towards the officer, he made that peculiar sign which, throughout the world, designates a Master Mason. Swift as an arrow the commander rushed between the Cossack and his destined victim, striking up his lance with his sabre just as it reached the young Frenchman's breast—the disappointed savage rode grumbling away. " I may not offer you my hand," exclaimed the Russian, in excellent French: " it is stained with the blood of your countrymen; but you have made a claim upon my mercy which, even here in the red moment of victory, with my spirit chafed with my country's wrongs, I must—at all hazards—will respect. Your parole—" " Is given," answered Adolphe, scarcely believing his good fortune, for the Cossacks were seldom known to give quarter. " Enough !" replied his captor: " follow me." On reaching the scene of the late action, he belield the enemy busy stripping the bodies of his former companions, not one of whom had been fortunate enough to escape. Laureston's baggage was already rifled, and scattered about the snow. A small casket, which he knew contained the count's orders in diamonds, lay at his horse's feet. His conqueror observed the direction of his eye, and commanded one of the men to reach it him from the grouiul. Without vol. i. e examining its contents he placed it in the pocket of his huge pelisse. " So," he exclaimed, after looking around, " my work is done—follow me, Frenchman." After giving some directions to his men in Russian, he clapped spurs to his horse, and proceeded at a rapid pace, till he had cleared the plain and entered a deep wood, -when reining his steed, he motioned to his companion to ride beside him. " I watched your eye, stranger, as it feil, just now, upon tliis trifle; is it yours?" " No," replied Adolphe, " it was the property of the chief of our party, and may be considered lawful spoil: it contains the different orders conferred upon him by Napoleon." " Take them !" exclaimed the Russian, with disgust; " you may, widiout sliame, accept them; but for me, there is not an icicle upon these trees that is not more precious than the richest gem your monarch could bestow. They are mine," he continued, observing that Adolphe hesitated to take them, " mine by right of conquest, and I give them to you freely. Once more receive my assurance—a Brotlier's assurance—that you are safe." After four hours' hard riding tlirough the wood, the intricacies of which seemed well known to his conductor, they arrived at an enclosure, surrounding a low stone building of considerable magnitude. Not a window appeared on the outside—the smoke rising from the high pile of chimnies alone gave indication that it was inhabited. " You are welcome," exclaimed the Russian, " to my home —to the bosom of my family, the hospitality of my hearth. You will not find the luxuries of Paris, but safety may reconcile you to its inconveniences." Tuking a rudely-carved hom, which luing suspended by a chain from the portal, he gave three distinct blasts. After being carefnlly reconnoitred by an armed domestic,. the gates were opened for their ingress. If the exterior of the building presented a desolate aspect, the court-yard into which they were admitted was scarcely less so. Large piles of wood, for winter fuel, nearly filled the area, and the windows of the principal rooms were • disfigured by rough outward casements, rendered necessary by the inclemency of the season. Adolphe followed his guide into a large hall, cheerfully lighted by a pine log fire, around which some dozen serfs were sleeping. An old man, who, from his dress, appeared the chief person of the houseliold, approached, and was directed to conduct the stranger to the principal apartment. The young soldier followed his conductor in silence, till he entered a room furnished with a degree of comfort, if not elegance, which surprised him. The floor was covered with warm skins neatly sewn together as a carpet, while the chairs and couches of dark wood, curiously carved, were furnished with down cushions, affording a luxurious seat to the weary traveller. The walls were hung with thick brown cloth, relieved only by a picture of some patron saint in an antique frame. Opposite the draperied window two book-cases were placed, one on each side of the fire-place, whence the stove diflfused a general heat. Tables, cabinets, and a silver lamp suspended from the ceiling completed the furniture of the apartment. Scarcely had Adolphe finished his survey, when a lady entered the room. Her manners, even more than the ricliness of her dress and jewels, indicated her rank—it was the mistress of the mansion into which he had been so. unexpectedly introduced. fallen upon the armies of France, it would be tlie opportunity it lias afforded me of judging riglitly of a noble enemy. Your time, I fear, madame, must have passed heavily, shut out from that society which you adorn. Your son, I have already proved, is too good a soldier to be ever by your side." " My campaigns," replied the Russian, " have not been many, and, thank heaven, are likely to be soon over—but, teil me, how are we to address our guest?" " As Adolphe Lesseau, a younger son of the noble house of De la Tour." " And mine," replied liis young host, "is Ivan of Dantzoff; and novv that we know each other, I will accompany you to your room, where you may remove all traces of this morning's work. As a Frenchman, you are too gallant a cavalier to appear before ladies without due attention to the mysteries of the toilette." His guest, bowing to the countess, followed Ivan to an apartment, where every thing necessary had been prepared for his accommodation. " It is natural," said Ivan, " for us to feel interested for tliose whom we have in any way served—nay, no thanks; perliaps I may one day ask a richer reward —your friendship—but I am strangely situated; educated by my mother in a manner different from the generality of our youths, I have in vain sought for that companion witli whom I could exchange confidence and feeling. Like yourself, I am a Freemason; but in Russia the Craft is so jealously watched by the government, that it is only in secret we can assemble; yet have I, as far as opportunity would allow, practised its mysteries, and cultivated its divine precepts. You are the first Brother, except the Masons of Moscow, whom I have ever encoun- tered, and I feel as if Providence had bestowed upon me a new de. You are of my own age—you have deep feeling, for I marked you when the bodies of your companions were being stripped before your eyes. While you sojourn here, I may learn much of that world I can never hope to visit. You must be my instructor, and endeavour to forget that even for a moment we have been enemies. Should peace be made, or opportunity offer, you shall return to your native country; but many months must elapse ere you can pass the vast empires which divide you from France; meanwhile, be happy here with us." Adolphe grasped his hand, and warmly expressed his gratitude. " I make no professions of friendship, dear Ivan, but time will show that I am not ungrateful." " Farewell," replied his host, "sleep and refresh yourself; you must require it after last night's hard bivouac. You will meet at dinner my cousin Catherine, and Ann of Crandstein, the daughter of a distinguished noble. Her father leaves her under the protection of my mother, while he is absent with the army. Adieu; and once more remember—we are Brothers." The rescued soldier closed the door as his host departed, and falling upon his knees, returned thanks to heaven for his almost miraculous escape. " Poor major," sighed Adolphe, as he threw himself upon the couch, " all thy bantering has found an end at last." The events of the day passed in rapid succession througb his brain, uil gradually becoming less distinct, his over-exerted spirit found refuge in sleep. After a short repose, he was roused from his slumber by a slight pressure of the hand, and found, on starting from his couch, Ivan standing by his side. « I regret to disturb you," exclaimed his host; " but the hour of dinner has arrived, and theladies expectourpresence." The young soldier followed him to the apartment where he had left the countess: Catherine, and her companion, the Lady Ann, were with her. Never had a more beautiful being met his gaze than Catherine Zerinski. Her form, just merging into womanhood, was cast in the full, voluptuous mould of perfect beauty; her blue eyes lit up a countenance of the most amiable expression, while a profusion of liglit brown curls, whose luxuriance the small fur cap she wore could not restrain, feil upon her shoultters, and gave a graceful contour to the liead and neck. " How!" exclaimed Ivan, gaily, observing his evident admiration, " a soldier, and taken by surprise. What reparation can you offer for having driven our divinities to seek refuge in these deserts ? But here," he continued, "is one whose anger you will find more difficult to propitiate; not that you have been an enemy, but that you have hitherto suffered her to remain unnoticed." The Lady Ann, whose age and appearance served as foils to her more juvenile friend, received Adolphe's apology and advances with that careless good-humour which at once restored him to himself. The ceremony of introduction being over, their conversation became general; and if at times the polished Frenchman smiled at his preserver's ignorance of the world and romantic enthusiasm, the elevation of his sentiment and goodness of lieart became more and more apparent. To Ivan, the young and ardent child of nature, the accomplishments of Adolphe were subjects of admiration: he gazed with respect upon the man who had visited the glorious capital of Europe—whose steps had wandered amid the gardens of Italy. His classic descriptions excited his imagination, and every hour he deemed himself more fortunate in the possession of such a companion, while the mysterious bond of fraternal union by wliich they were bound sanctioned the rapid growth of their mutual friendsliip. Frequently would the lovely Catherine desert her female companions to listen to their conversations, and hang, with attentive ear, upon every word the young soldier uttered. Sometimes he would sing to them the airs of his native land, descriptive of her vine-clad hills and old romance, or of those victories which had rendered her at once the terror and astonishment of Europe. The fair Rnssian possessed a rich natural voice, and was slightly skilied in music. At Ivan's request, Adolphe became her instructor: together they practised those lays whose passion-breathing strains, (before eitlier dreamt ofdanger) imparted the fatal sentiment they too well described—Adolphe and Catherine loved. The unsuspecting girl knew not the nature of her feelings— she fancied her interest for the stranger proceeded from friendship, and gratitude for his instruction ; but he, more practised in the feelings of the heart, saw his danger, without resolution or inclination to avoid it. The young Frenchman had been the guest, rather than the prisoner, of Ivan, about two months, when one morning his host entered his apartment with a letter in his hand— " Bad news, dear Adolphe," he exclaimed: " some enemy to our happiness lias informed the Governor of Moscow that a French officer of high rank has found refuge here; he writes to thank me for my services, and commands me to give you up to the general of the district." " Mine was a lot too fortunate to last," replied his friend : " but it is the fate of war, and I submit. If in the dungeons of Moscow I feel the privations of your hospitable home, the recollection of your generous friendship shall console me. When must I depart?" " Depart !" exclaimed Ivan: " can you tlien tliink so meanly of me as to desert you in the moment of danger ? are you not my friend—my hrother ?—consign you to the dungeons of Moscow ! not if the- emperor himself commanded it. You are my guest—a name sacred to the poorest peasant—you never have been my prisoner; I resign all claim upon your honour—I here restore your parole. I had not named this unfortunate affair, but prudence may compel us to adopt precautions for your safety, which, had you not been aware of the motive, must have appeared strange to you." " Generous Ivan, how shall I express my gratitude ! yet let not your zeal in my behalf compromise you with your government; you have a mother " " Who would blusli for me," interrupted his friend, " were I capable of violating the rights of hospitality. I will meet the general—he was my father's friend—I will appeal to his generosity; should that fail, we must descend to artifice: meanwhile, you must lay aside your uniform, and be content to disguise yourself in habiliments of mine— the ladies are already aware of the necessity of concealment, and will not be surprised at the exchange." " Unfortunate that I am," exclaimed Adolphe, to disturb the happiness and tranquillity of your family. Should I be discovered, the vengeance of the emperor would fall on them—and your domestics, they " " Have neither eyes or ears but as we direct. At the • worst, too, we have a chamber so curiously concealed that suspicion's self might pass it in her search. It was provided as a place of refuge for the females against an enemy—it may now preserve a friend: there we can conceal you till the arrival of Aran, a Jew merchant, who annually visits these wilds to purchase furs—disguised as his servant, you VOL. I. F may securely reach the frontier. Farewell!—I must to horse—and remember that— ' By the mystic word and sign; By our secret art divine; By each point of fellowship; By the grasp and by the slip; By the rite we dare not name; By a Brother's sacred claim ' German Masonic Song. these walls are your home—your safety is my duty and peculiar care." While speaking the above lines, Ivan grasped the hand of his companion; at the conclusion he shook it warmly, and quitted the apartment. Ivan had left his home about two days, when Aran, the long expected Jew mercliant, arrived in the neighbourhood to purchase skins of the serfs and neighbouring boors. His caravan consisted of six sledges, wliich were well laden with the fruits of his long journev. To Adolphe's offers he turned a deaf ear. " The danger was too great—it would interfere with his trade." His scruples were eventually removed by a sight of Lauriston's casket. The eye's of the avaricious Israelite sparkled as he beheld the gems; and he consented, on condition that he received a considerable portion of the treasure, to allow the young soldier to accompany him in the disguise of one of his drivers—and even promised to shorten a portion of his rout, in order to facilitate his escape. It was finally arranged that they should depart in four days. Aware of his own feelings, and more than suspecting the nature of Catherine's, Adolphe was considering how he could best impart to her the intelligence of his departure. The countess being indisposed, had kept her chamber, and it was not till late in the evening that an opportunity presented to deceive. Hitherto I have deemed it the cynic's censure; I now find it the philosopher's truth. Yet, the false mistress and treacherous friend should not have been Catherine, and Adolphe Lesseau. How, gone!" he exclaimed, as looking round the apartment, he searched in vain for its late inmate: " can Catherine be the partner of his flight ?" His eye feil upon the letter—he trembled as he broke the seal; it ran thus: " Dear Ivan, " Condemn me not, that I have withdrawn from your hospitable home without bidding you farewell; but my honour and your happiness demand that I should act as I have done. Till a few moments preceding the writing of this, I knew not of my danger. May you and Catherine be happy! Farewell. " Adolphe." " He is true, he is true!" said Ivan, rapidly glancing over the paper; " human nature forgive me, that I doubted thee ! He loved, but knew not of my engagement to Catherine. I was to blame—he should have been forewarned." Ivan took no notice of the scene he had witnessed to Catherine or his mother, trusting that time would lessen her grief, and her heart gradually appreciate his devoted affection. By a tacit agreement, the name of Adolphe was never mentioned between them. As the spring advanced, the countess removed to St. Petersburgh, her palace at Moscow being destroyed. Here they visited, and gradually plunged into the fashionable dissipation of the court. But, although Catherine moved arnid the brilliant throng, her buoyancy of spirit was gone—she appeared to endure rather than enjoy, and Ivan found that the shaft had pierced deeper than he at first imagined. Two years rolled on, and die once blooming Catherine had become a delicate invalid. Apathy and languor, the forerunners of consumption, had gradually tainted the springs of health, and frequently obliged her to keep her chamber. She was one evening reclining upon a sofa, listening to a romance that Ivan was reading; it turned on France and her minstrel knights. A deep sigh from his auditor drew his attention; she lay pale ijnd gasping—a tear upon her cheek. His generous nature could endure it no longer. " Catherine !" he exclaimed, " we must change the scene; your health is too delicate for this cold northern climate— you shall travel—the genial airs of France will restore you." " France !" cried Catherine, half springing from the couch: " Can you be serious ? Should we meet " " Adolphe, you would say; wliy, you must punish him for his desertion. Yes, dear Catherine," continued Ivan, " I now look upon you but as a sister; my friend is worthy of your love—honour and gratitude alone prevented your union—they shall be rewarded. Nay, no words: I shall be repaid the sacrifice in your liappiness and again embracing my friend. Summon your spirits; in a few days, we will set out for France." In the summer of the same year, the military Lodge of St. Louis was assembled in Paris. The room was crowded with officers, and foreign Brothers of distinction. Count Laureston, as Master, was in the chair. The usual signal for silence being given, he thus addressed the assembly: " Brothers; it is my pleasurable task to record another instance of the advantages resulting from Masonry. A Brother here present, while escorting me, during the late war in Russia, from an interview with Prince Kutusoff, was attacked by a party of Cossacks. I had barely time to escape with my despatclies: bis men were slain, and one of the enemy about to despatch him, when it became apparent to the commander of the party that the Frencliman was a Brother—he saved his life—concealed him in bis own house, and finally enabled him to reach his native land. I find, by the list of tliis night's visitors, that, unknown to each other, the two Brothers are present." " How!" exclaimed Adolphe, rushing forward, " my friend here ?" A group of foreign officers at the same moment opened their circle, and Ivan was clasped in the embrace of his friend. Accompanied by Catherine, he that very day had arrived in Paris, and hearing that a Lodge was held in the hotel where he was staying, he sent in his name and certificate to the Master. We will not detain our readers by dwelling upon the happiness of Catherine, or the gratitude of Adolphe; the following announcement, from the journals of the same month, will conclude our tale :— " Married, at the chapel of his Excellency, the Russian Ambassador, Count Adolphe Lesseau, to Lady Catherine Horndoff. Count Ivan, of Dantzoff, gave away the bride." The above tale is founded upon a fact, communicated at Cambridge, during the autumn of the last year, by a Brother of distinguished character and literary reputation. BOARDS, COMMITTEES, &c. Not included in the Freemason's Calendar. GRAND STEWARDS, 1833, 1834. of No. Br. William Brown . . P. 6 " George Walford . . T. 2 " William E. Maclagan S. 1 " William Read . . . 4 " Wm. Wilson Scrimgeour 8 " Fredrick Bassett . . .14 " John H. Freer .... 21 " Robert Bell 23 " Edward Chuck .... 27 of No. Br. Samuel Odell .... 30 " Campbell W. Hobson . 32 " William Lucas Hanley . 37 " Wm. Cornèlius Jourdain 66 " James Smith .... 72 " James Green .... 108 " Edward Hugh Blakeney 116 " R. W. Arden .... 233 " Charles West Wheeler . 324 BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. R. W. Brother John Ramsbottom, M.P., President. R. W. Brother Lord H. John Spencer Churchill, Vice President. R. W. Br. Henry R. Lewis, " Henry R. Willett, " John Easthope, V. W. Br. William Meyrick, W.Br. John Henderson, " William Shadbolt, " Thomas F. Savory, " Henry Heath, " Sir John Soane, of No. Br. W. R. Key, Jun. W. M. 7 " Arthur L. Thiselton . 29 " Henry Rowe 70 " Robert T. Crucefix, M. D. 113 " William Martinson . . 215 " William Bolus .... 227 " George Price .... 229 " Peter Gilkes* .... 255 Thomas France . . .318 " Edward Evans .... 329 * Since deeeased. BOARD OF FINANCE. R. W. Brother John Easthope, President. V. W. Brother William Meyrick, Vice President. R. W. Br. Henry R. Lewis, " John Golf, " William W. Prescott, W. Br. R. W. Silvester, " Thomas Moore, of No. Br. W. R. Key, Jun. W.M. 7 " Henry Rowe .... 70 " Robert T. Crucefix, M.D. 113 '' William Martinson . .215 " William Bolus .... 227 " Peter Gilkes* .... 255 * Since deceased. VOL I. COMMITTEE, OR BOARD OF THE GRAND CHAPTER. THE THREE GRAND PRINCIPALS. Com. J. C. Buckhardt, W. W. Prescott, W. Meyrick, L. H. Petitt, Comp. J. Deans, " R. Spencer, " J. M'Cann, " P. Broadfoot. BOARD OF STEWARDS FOR CONDUCTING THE MASONIC ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH-DAY OF H. R. H. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, M. W. G. M., ON MONDAY, THE 27th DAY JANUARY, 1834. Brother W. Stuart, M. P., S. G. \V., No. 580 . President. " William Yatman . . . 6 . Vice President. " Charles Bayley . . . 2 . Treasurer. Edward Tribe . . . . 1 . Secretary. of No. of No. Br. Charles Hancock ... 2 Br. Charles Ward .... 233 " W. B. Bullock .... 4 Henry Hoar 237 " W. R. Key 7 " Rev. Thomas Moore . . 324 " John Hawley .... 8 " Thomas Archer . . . 343 " John G. Leigh .... 108 " Rev. James Macdonald> „ " Thomas Kittrick . . .183 (St. James's Chapter)^ of No. Br. Charles Ward .... 233 Henry Hoar 237 Rev. Thomas Moore . . 324 " Thomas Archer . . .343 " Rev. James Macdonald> ^ (St. James's Chapter)^ BOARD OF STEWARDS FOR CONDUCTING THE FESTIVAL OF THE ROYAL MASONIC BOY S INSTITUTION, MARCH, 12, 1834. Brother Richard William Jennings, No. . 2 . President. John Chanter . . . 107 . Treasurer. " George Richard Corner . 1 . Secretary. of No. of No. Br. John Cuff 14 Br. Percy William Earl . .108 " Edward Chuck .... 27 " Edward Hewson . . . 233 " William Lucas Hanlay . 37 " John Coles Fourdrinier . 237 " William Brooks ... 72 " Richard N. Gresley . . 324 (*4*T/ie Board of Stewards for the Girls' Institution have not yet associated—the Festival is appointed to take place on the 21 st of May.) / COMMTTTEE FOR CONDUCTING THE BXCUBSXON TO THE NORE, ON THE 17 til JUNE, 1834. Brother Lythgoe, President, liroadtoot, vice Jrres. Coe, Treasurer, Wray, Master of Cerm. Barnes, Secretary, Begbie, Burling, Carpenter, Clifton, Freer, Fuller, Brother Hoare, J ackson, Kelly, Lewis, Read, Captain, Sansum, Thisleton, Wallace, Walmisley, Wilson. The following Meetings are fixedfor 1834 :— R. A. M.—Fourth Wednesday in February, May, August, November. Knights Templars (No. 20.)—Third Friday in March, June, September, December. Rosicrusian (No. 20.)—MAY 8. MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Under this head, we propose to offer to our readers a general summary of Masonic intelligence, collected from such authentic sources, as can alone give it importance in the estimation of the Brethren, and serve not only for the purposes of present information, butas a valuable archive of future reference to the Craft. Such an arrangement has long been a desideratum which the quarterly communications do not afford; they chiefly relate to points of finance, and make occasional allusions to the transactions of the Order; yet they neither enter sufficiently into detail to satisfy the inquiring mind, or so condense their proceedings, as to offer even a partial synopsis of them. But, however anxious our desire to be explanatory, we shall, with the most assured caution, avoid such reference to any part or point of the matters under the consideration of the Grand Lodge, as would, in the slightest degree, compromise our tenets : our system will merely be an amplification and illustration of that which should, if published in proper time, always precede our own commentary. The quarterly communication of December last exhibits a satisfactory announcement of the state of the Order: its finances were improving— the Lodge of Benevolence voted various sums to sueh deserving objects as possessed a fair claim upon Masonic charity. Sueh was the general unanimity of the Craft, that " the Board of General Purposes" had no other report to make, than to recommend the more extensive circulation of the Masonic Calendar, by the sale of which the funds of the boys' and girls' schools would be essentially aided. The Grand Lodge perfectly coincided with the Board, and directed the Lodges to be addressed accordingly. Ilere, it may be as well to observe, that we shall carefully avoid trespassing upon the province of the Calendar: its existence is necessary to the Order, and its consequent success of too high value to be endangered by us. Should those who have the conducting of it, as editors, or the control of its operation through the press, use either our plans in effect, or our.pages in illustration of Masonry, or in extending its interests, they not only have our free permission to do so, but shall be aided by our best advocacy. The price of the Calendar, we admit, is not too high; but we are free, also, critically to confess, that as a means of information, it is neither sufficiently Masonic to interest the Craft, nor does it enter into sueh matters of general interest, as would ensure it a circulation among the other classes in society, who, even from curiosity, might purchase a pocket reference, in so many respects likely to excite their attention. May these remarks meet a kind notice from all quarters. January 27th.—This being the anniversary of the natal day of His Royal Highness, Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of Sussex, Most Worshipfiil Grand Master, K. G., &c. &c„ it was observed by a large assemblage of Brothers in Freemason's Hall, with the most marked demonstrations of respectful regard. Besides his royal highness— the illustrious guest—there were present the Hon. Twiselton Fiennes, Col. Wildman, P. G. M. for Nottingham, Rev. G. A. Brown, A. G. M. for C'ambridge, Huntingdon, and Suffolk, Lord G. Churehill, and, as usua!, a considerable number of Grand Officers. The cliairman, Col. Hugh Baillie, P. G. M. for Bristol, as soon as the cloth was removed, gave the customary loyal and sentimental tributes—•' The King, Grand Patron of the Order," " the Queen, Grand Patroness of the Female School;" " the Royal Family." He then arose, and in excellent taste addressed the Brethren upon the occasion on which they had assem bied, and drew their attention to the important services of his royal highness, the M.W.G.M., who, during a period of twenty years, had now presided over tliem, nearly completing, he observed, with great happiness of expression, three periods of apprenticeship, and who still, at a time when most men contemplated that retirement which a long life of active service justly entitled them to, continued in the unceasing exercise of his high duties. In the name of the Fraternity, he assured his royal higlmess of their continued attachment and dutiful regard for his person; of their high estimation of his character as a prince, and esteem of his principles as a man. The Chairman concluded his address by expressing a hope that his royal highness's life would be prolonged to preside over them for as many years to come, as those which had so happily been passed under his judicious and fraternal government. When the demonstrations had subsided which this effusion naturally gave rise to, his royal highness rose under evident agitation, caused, as he justly stated, by that kind and spontaneous ebullition of feeling on the part of his Brethren, which might well unman even so practised a Mason as himself; added to which, he stated, what he feit assured would be heard by them with regret, that his health, although improved since he last met them, was not sufficiently re-established to admit of his attention to many general duties which devolved upon him as a public man; and that for the future, he could hardly hope to be enabled to preside at any other assemblies than those of the Order, the interests of which were ever nearest his heart. Ilis sight, he added, was materially affected; but whether in Lodge, or in the solitude of his chamber, Masonry would ever receive his active and serious attention. His royal highness then significantly alluded to the improbability of his serving them again for the long period of twenty years, although hehoped their Right Worshipful Chairman, his friend, might live to serve the Order for even a longer period a wish not improbable, as his present health and robust constitution gave promise of a green old age. On entering into a review of his past conduct, his royal highness drew the attention of his admiring auditory to many interesting details connected with his deceased and illustrious brother, the Duke of Kent, as well as his late majesty, and our present gracious King. He concluded his address by thanking the Brethren for their kindness, and proposing the health of their worthy chairman, which was received with every mark of respect, and acknowledged in return by a suitable address. On the healths of the Grand Masters of Scotland and Ireland being given, his royal highness expressed his approval, and directed that in all Masonic meetings it should be remembered, and duly honoured. After several other toasts and speeches, the M. W. G. M. asked perrnission to give one, and in terms of courtly gallantry proposed, " The Ladies in the Gallery," gracefully complimenting them on their health and beauty, and invoked the great Architect to preserve the first blessing, as the only known means of prolonging the other. The retirement of the ladies was the signal for "Green grow the Rushes,O!" and soon afterwards his royal highness, attended by the chairman and grand officers, left the hall, after an evening passed in a most agreeable and satisfactory manner. (We speak from observation.) The liberality of the stewards call for our especial thanks. The dinner was excellent, the wines superior, and plentifully supplied; and we doubt not but their example will be emulated by their successors. The professional Brethren contributed their musical and vocal talent with their usual success. Sir George Smart presided at the piano. The following Glee, composed by Brother Edward Taylor, for the occasion, was admirably executed " The Warrior exults in his deeds of renown, And the brows of the victor with laurels we crown ; More peaceful, yet not the less noble our theme, A Prince's deserts, and a People's esteem. Chorus. Here's to Sussex, our Master, our Prince, and our pride, And long may he live o'er the Craft to preside ! " Fair Charity, hail! may we long at thy shrine A garland of love and goodwill intertwine! But how can we fail in our homage to thee, AVhen a Prince condescends thy vicegerent to be ! Chorus. Here's to Sussex, &c. " Success to the Craft! where united we find Worth, genius, and all that ennobles the mind: Here brother meets brother, and friend enjoys friend, And wit, mirth, and music in harmony blend. Chorus. Here's to Sussex, &c." They afterwards entertained the ladies with a concert in the gleeroom, which was soon filled by those who, by customary indulgence, are favoured with the entrée. The enjoyment of the ladies' society was heightened by their frank confession, that they had for some time anxiously expected the Brethren. Many of the grand officers availed themselves of their privilege by courtesy. The whole arrangements were well made, and led to the happiest results. Masonic festivals, we believe, are the only entertainments where the ladies are complimented by a general collation of the season, and afterwards by a concert. Jan. 22<1.—The annual ball and supper, under the sanction of the Bank of England Lodge, being appointed for this evening, was graeed by a more than usual assemblage of ladies. The evening passed off with every possible enjoyment. Feb. 26th.—The Most Worshipful Grand Master, as Worshipful Master of the Lodge of Antiquity (No. 2), presided in Lodge and at the banquet, both of which, in compliment to his royal highness, were most numerously attended. The Lodge was held and closed in the new hall. \ The banquet was afterwards served in the grand hall, which assumed more the appearance of a public festival, than the assembling of a private party. The scene, altogether, would have been of unmixed happine$s, had not his royal highness, in addressing the assembly, adverted to his indisposition ; he also stated, that when in Lodge, he had presented two silver trowels to the members, as a token of his favour, and trusted that their industry would keep them well employed. March 12th.—Anniversary of the Boys' Festival; the Right Hon. and R. W. Brother, Lord Dundas, D. G. M. in the chair. After the usual toasts of " the King, Grand Patron of the Order," and "the Queen, Grand Patroness of the Royal Freemason's Female School," the president, in very appropriate terms, proposed the health of " the Most Worshipful Grand Master," confined by ill health, and compelled to retire on account of a contemplated operation, to be performed upon his eyes. Brother Cabbell proposed the health of Lord Dundas, which was received with the most marked enthusiasm, and gratefully acknowledged. The Boys' committee now withdrew for the purpose of introducing the children, soon after which the procession commenced, headed by the Stewards, followed by the Treasurer and Committee, each of whom led in two children; the company standing, in testimony of their esteem for the institution. After the procession had twice passed round the hall, the children were arranged on the platform facing the chairman, who called upon the company to dedicate their next toast to the continued prosperity of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys; after which he invested the youth Rackstraw with the silver medal which had been voted to him as the best writer of the year. This interesting scene took place amid those plaudits of the heart and hand which may be feit, but can scarcely be described. The next toast, " Success to the Royal Freemason's Charity for Female Children," was received with equal approbation as the preceding one. The noble chairman next gave the health of " W. Brother, Thomas Moore," treasurer to the charity, who returned thanks with great feeling and elegance, and concluded by clearly demonstrating the financial state of the accounts of the charities, adverting particularly to the item of £100. 19s. paid into his hands by the committee who conducted the excursion the Nore last summer. Brother Meyrick proposed " the Vice-presidents of the Charity." The compliment was eloquently acknowledged by R. W. Brother Petitt. Brother Moore proposed " the President, Vice-president, and Committee, who conducted the excursion to the Nore," and stated, that the next trip was fixed for the 17th of June. Brother Coe, the indefatigable treasurer to the committee, returned thanks. Lord Dundas proposed "the Stewards of the day, and thanks to them for their entertainment," on which Brother Jennings, the President of the Board, rose, and in their names acknowledged the honour, concluding a very neat address by showing the value of perseverance in a good cause, stating, that on the first summons of the Board, tliey could only muster five stewards. Naturally disheartened at this cheerless prospect, their first impression was to dissolve as a body; and had such a step been decided upon, the festival could not have taken place, and a meeting so desirable to Masonic intercourse, and its happy illustration, by so many gratifying proofs of its utility, would have been prevented, and the funds of the charity materially injured. The five stewards*, with most praiseworthy zeal, impressed with its importance, determined, on consideration, to conduct the festival, at all hazards, trusting to the liberality of the Brethren that their efforts would not be disregarded. They were right in their conclusionfor the Board became, soon afterwards, sufficiently numerous to prevent the expenses proving much more than usually onerous. The health of " the Fair Visitors in the Gallery" was next given by the noble chairman, in terms of gallantry and politeness. When the ladies left the gallery, his lordship and the grand officers withdrew from the hall. For the first time since the Union, a new arrangement was ordered by the Most Worshipful Grand Master, namely, that the professional Brothers should not retire to the ladies' room, where a concert had always been given. We subjoin the proceedings of the stewards, in consequence of this edict, as published by them, a copy of which was found on every plate, on entering the hall. The Master of the Grand Steward's Lodge was requested to take the chair, and was supported by a considerable number of the Brethren, * Their names deserve to be recorded.—Ed. whose conviviality was aided by the exertion of the vocal Brothers present, viz.—Messrs. Hobbs, Fitzwilliam, E. Taylor, and Hawkins: the company separated about eleven. The number of Grand Officers present was very limited, but their liberality was never more conspicuous; had a greater number attended, the subscription might have equalled the contributions of last year. We regret to record any falling off' on the present occasion, but trust the deficiency wil! be amply made up on the Festival for 183.5. Grand Officers should not neglect to attend on these interesting occasions, as the want of their countenance and support cannot^fail to produce an ill effect on the subscription list, which the Treasurer found eonsiderably lessened. The following is a copy of the circular alluded to :— " The Board of Stewards feel it their duty to lay before the Brethren the communication, which under command of his Royal Highness the Most Worshipful Grand Master, was transmitted to them on the 8th instant*, by the Grand Secretaries, in the following letter:— " ' Freemnson's Hall, 8th March, 1834. ' SlR and brother, " ' We are commanded by the M. W. Grand Master, His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, to acquaint you, that .inasmuch as unpleasant circumstances have occasionally arisenby Brethren endeavouring to obtain admission into the Glee-room, on the days of the various Masonic Festivals, to hear the professional Brethren who are engaged to sing in the Ladies' room, and as those occurrences have tended to the detriment of the Craft, the Grand Master feels himself called upon to direct, that in future the attendance of the professional gentlemen in that room should be dispensed with. " ' His Royal Highness is persuaded that your Board will see the necessity for this direction, and will make their arrangements accordingly. "'We have the honour to be, " ' Sir and Brother, " ' Fraternally yours, " ' William H. WhiteI ., „ " ' Edwards Harper, i ' " ' To the Secretary of the Board of Stewards, for the Festival in behalf of the Masonic Institutionfor Boys.' " In consequence of the above notification, the President of the Board * The Quarterly Communication was held on the fith.—Ed. VOL. I. H of Stewards had the honour to wait upon his Royal Highness, and subraitted to his consideration the situation in which the Stewards were placed by this order, which was only commumcated to them at a period long subsequent to the completion of the various arrangements connected with this Festival, he represented the great disappointment and inconvenience likely to arise from his Royal Highness s recent order, whereby the Brethren were to be deprived of that portion of the entertainment which had invariably been regarded as a source of high gratification, and which they had for a series of years been in the habit ot receiving on occasion of similar Festivals, and, in conclusion, he stated to his Royal Highness the plan which the Board of Stewards had decided upon to avoid the recurrence of the evil which had occasioned his Royal Highness to issue the present order, and which they feel little doubt would have hail the desired effect*. His Royal Highness, in reply, expressed his conviction that the interest of the Craft would be best maintained by his confirming the order he had issued, and that to avoid any misunderstanding as to his determination upon the subject of the reference from the Board of Stewards, he would, for their guidance, direct a further Letter to be addressed to them, and on the lOth inst. the President received the following Letter:— " ' Freemasoris Hall, 10th March, 183+. " ' SlR AND BKOTHER, " ' We are commanded by the M. W. Grand Master, the Duke of Sussex, to say that his Royal Highness had very maturely considered the subject before he gave directions, that for the future the attendance of the professional Brethren in the Ladies' room should be dispensed with, and the more he has reflected on the matter, the firmer is his Royal Highness's conviction that the practice is attended with disadvantageous results to the Craft, he therefore cannot consent to vary his directions. " ' His Royal Highness thinks he made himself distin ctly uiulerstood upon this point yesterday, but lest that should not have been the case, his Royal Highness feels it better to convey his intention in writing. " ' We have the honour to be, " ' Sir and Brother, " ' Your obedient Servants, " ' William H. White, £ q g " ' Edwards Harper . S " • To the President of the Board of Steward». for the Festival nf the Masonic Institution for Boys.' * The plan bas not yet betome generalij- known.— Ed. " Under these circumstances, the Board of Stewards have to intimate to the Brethren that there will not be any Singing or Music out of the Hall; and to express their regret at being deprived of the pleasure of introduing their Brethren into the Glee Room*. Feb. 26th.—The Ark Mariners met, and renewed the objects of their order. March 21st.—The Knights Templars of No. èo elected their Commander for the ensuing year, who appointed his officers. The arrangements are proceeding with more than usual activity, and promise well for the continuance of this branch of our order. The Provisional Committee associated for the purpose of erecting a tablet to the memory of Brother Gilkes have frequently met, and we are requested to state that the subscription promises well for the object in view. The reports from the various Lodges of Instruction are most satisfactory. April 30.—The Grand Festival will be held on this day. The Fraternity should be reminded that the Anniversary Festival for the Female School will take place on the 21st May, when it is hoped that by a numerous and influential meeting a liberal subscription tor this most excellent charity will be ensured. THE NEW RED APRON LODGE. The Pilgrim Lodge liaving declined to send a Steward to the Grand Festival of 1834, they have of course lost the privilege of conferring this distinction for the future. The M. W. G. M. has, in consequence, einpowered the Jerusalem Lodge, No. 233, to return a Grand Steward. The Lodge has selected Brother R. W. Arden, who has been approved by his Royal Highness, and will officiate therefore as a member of the present Board of Grand Stewards. * The words in italics were not so printed in the circular, but in the usual type; we have placed them in italics, rather to mark our regret that the Board of Stewards should have themselves somewhat extended an order already sufficiently discouragiog; at the same time we must frecly admit they have been placed in an unusual, as well as in a most unpleasing, situatiën. iïlasontc ©bttuarj). 1832.—Mr. Brother Wm. Forrest, Lieut.-Col. H. E. I. C. S., a warm-hearted, liberal, zealous, and truly kind man. Colonel Forrest was a Grand Deacon, W. D. M. of the Prince of Wales's Lodge, and President of the Nore Committee. 1833.—Brother Meyer, of the Globe Lodge, a distinguished Mason, sincerely attached to the Order : this Brother has bequeathed legacies to both Charities as well as to his Lodge. Brother Farden, of the Lodge of Emulation. The Brethren have lost in him an attached friend; his death was sudden and awful. Brother Farden has also borne testimony to the merits of his Lodge by a pecuniary bequest. Funeral of the late Brother Peter Gii.kks, P.M.—On the 19th Dec. the remains of this distinguished Brother were consigned to the tomb in St. James's Church-yard, Piccadilly. The highest tribute of respect to departed merit was amply offered in the number as well as by the character of a larger concourse of the Fraternity, than were probably ever congregated at any Masonic meeting, whetherof a public nature, orupon any occasion of festivity. It was a melancholy satisfaction to perceive that one universal feehng of regret for the departed pervaded the whole assembly, who feit, indeed, that a master spirit had fled to those eternal mansions where alone the greatest secret is known. Even the public at large joined in the expression of general sympathy, and testified by their unusual attendance, üterally crowding the large and elegant church, how deep an interest they took in the interesting, though melancholy scene. Never was the beautiful service of the Church of England delivered in a more impressive manner—it was fearfully, awfully sublime—and at the final concïusion the clergyman appeared wrapt in his holy ministry. The pall was supported by the following Brethren, viz. Key, Thisleton, Pitt, Edger, Mott, Fenn, Shackle, Wilson, Price, Tate, George, and Patten, After the funeral the Brethren returned to Broad-street, when a committee was appointed to carry into effect a very general desire of erecting to the memory of their departed friend and Brother, some entablature, commemorative of his distinguished Masonic character. A deeply cherished hope had been feit by thousands that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex would have granted a dispensation to allow the funeral obsequies to be conducted according to the Masonic ceremonial; but the situation of the church being in so very great a theroughfare, would probably have caused much inconvenience, as the public curiosity would, no doubt, have been greatly excited ; and even the attendance of the Fratemity itself would have been considerably increased. It may be remerabered, that the day was most unpropitious from wind and rain; or, as it was, the assemblage would have been greater.—[This account is taken from the True Sun. In our next we propose to give a graphic illustration of the character of Brother Gilkes.—Ed.] 1834.—Brother Thomas Archer, Lodge of Good-fellowship, Chelmsford, Provincial Grand Officer. PROVINCIAL. at an especial grand lodge holden in the exchangeroosis, nottingham, on thursday, the 12'fh of september, 1833. present his royal highness prince augustus frederick, duke of sussex, k. g. &. &c. &c. m. w. g. m., on the throne. R. W. Br. Col. Thos. Wildman,Prov.G.M.for Nottinghamsh. as D.G.M. V. W. Br. W. F. N. Norton, Prov. S.G. W. as S.G.W. V.W.Br. John Strong, Prov. J.G.W. as J.G.W. R. W. Br. Rt. Hon. Lord Rancliffe, Prov. G. M. for Leicestershire. R. W. Br. Sir Frederick G. Fowke, Bart., P.S.G. W. R. W. Br. Lord H. J. Spencer Churchill. P.S.G.W. V. W. Br. T. M. B. Pigot, D. Prov. G.M. for Nottingham. " William H. White, G. S. The Rev. Luke Jackson, Prov. G. Chaplain for Notts. J. Smith Wright, Prov. G. Treasurer. Henry Percy, Prov. G. Registrar. " Edward Percy, Prov. G. Secretary. W.Br. Sansom, Prov. S.G.D. " Ludham, Prov. J.G.D. " James Fellows, Prov. G. Director of Ceremonies. Thomas Danks, Prov. G. Sword Bearer. Capt. R. H. Pigot, R.N., G. Pursuivant. The Masters, Past Masters, and Wardens of various Lodges. The Provincial Grand Lodge having been opened by the R. W. Prov. Grand Master, a Deputation was appointed to receive the M. W. Grand Mas ter in the Magistrates' Room, whence his Royal Ilighness was con- ducted into the Grand Lodge Room, and, having taken his place 011 the throne, the Brethren saluted his Royal Highness as Grand Master. The R. W. Prov. Grand Master took his place as. Deputy Grand Master, and his Royal Highness was pleased to direct the several other Prov. Grand Officers to retain their respective situations as his Grand Officers for the day. The Grand Lodge was then opened in ample form and with solemn prayer. The Provincial Grand Master begged permission to present to his Royal Highness an address which had been unanimously adopted by the Prov. Grand Lodge, and which he read as follows :— " Most Worshipful and Royal Sir,—We, the Prov. Grand Master, Deputy Prov. Grand Master, Prov. Grand Wardens, and Brethren of the Most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the County of Nottingham, in Grand Lodge assembled, this 12th day of September, 1833, gladly embrace the opportunity thus afforded us of approaching your Royal Highness with our expressions of profound respect, attachment, and gratitude, and of testifying to Your Royal Highness our most dutiful acknowledgments of the kind patronage you are now conferring upon us as members of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Nottinghamshire, and to assure your Royal Highness that we are feelingly sensible of the benefits the Brethren of this province will derive from the proof of your Royal Highness's fraternal regard and attachment to the principles of that noble Institution under which we are embodied,—principles so closely identified with the maintenance of social order and universal charity. " May the Great Architect of the L'niverse, under whose providence we are here assembled, long continue to us the fostering protection of so kind and vigilant a Grand Master, and crown the endeavours of your Royal Highness to promote the prosperity of our Institution, so entirely devoted to the purposes of good brotherhood, and of mutual and diffusive benevolence. " Under such auspices, the grand cause of Masonry can never fail to enjoy happiness and security, and we should especially feel deficient in that debt of obligation which we owe to your Royal Highness if we did not avail ourselves of so favourable an occasion to express to your Royal Highness how dgeply we appreciate that fraternal countenance and support, which, as members of the Craft, we have ever received from your Royal Highness. We are fully confident that, under the benefits of such influence and example, the mystic, ancient, and universally-extended Order in which we are enrolled, will, not only in this province, but in every other under your Royal Highnesss guidance an G. Captains. H. P. Steele, Esq. J R. T. Crucefix, M.D. ) D. Deuchar, Esq. 1 G' Standard-bearers. Murray Pringle, Esq., G. Treasurer. W. H. Blackie, G. Sec. and Registrar. OFFICERS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND. The King's Most Excellent Majesty, Patron. M. W. His Grace Augustus Frederick Duke of Leinster, &c. &c. Grand Master. R. W. W. White, Esq., Deputy Grand Master. R. W. The Most Noble Howe, Marquis of Sligo, S. G. W. R. W. Sir Coghill Coghill, J. G. W. R. W. Pierrepoint Ol. Mitchell, Esq. G. Treasurer. R. W. Sir Josias W. Hart, Bart., G. Secretary. R. W. Rev. J. A. Coglan, G. Chaplain. W. John Fowler, Esq., Deputy G. Secretary and Treasurer. Br. Fras. M'Dermott, Grand Poursuivant. Br. Rob. Braughall, Grand Tyler. FREEMASONS' CHARITY FOR FEMALE CHILDREN, 52, Jervis-street, Dublin. The objects of the above praiseworthy Institution, although on a limited scale, are the same as those which are so happily and successfully promoted in London. THE SECOND JUBILEE IN COMMEMORATION OF HANDEL. The intended Grand Musical Festival in honour of tliis celebrated composer having been suggested by his Majesty, and likely to take place shortly, it may not be uninteresting to our readers to carry them back to the former jubilee of 1784, a period of fifty years. On that occasion the profits were very bountifully applied in aid of two public charities, which we hope will partake again as largely, at least, of public liberality on the ensuing festival. His Majesty has directed the sum of £500 to be contributed, in his name, towards this desirable object. The Festival is to consist of four performances and four public rehearsals. The directors are Earl Howe, Earl Denbigh, Lord Cawdor, Lord Belfast, Lord Burghersh, Lord Saltoun, Sir B. Stephenson, and Sir Andrew Barnard, who have appointed Mr. Parry, the composer, their Assistant Secretary. The whole of the musical arrangements are under the direction of Sir George Smart. We shall, in the first place, proceed to give some account of the life of George Frederick Handel, and afterwards describe the interesting particulars of the jubilee of 1784. George Frederick Handel was born at Halle, a city in the circle of Upper Saxony, on February 24, 1684. His father was a physicianand surgeon at that place, and was more than sixty years old when this son was born ; he had also one daughter by the same wife, and a son by a former marriage, who was a domestic to the Duke of Saxe-Weisenfels, and resided at his court. The destination of Mr. Handel by his father, was to the law, but a superior propensity to music rendered every effort of his father to attach him to legal pursuits ineffectual. He is said, when forbid to touch musical instruments, to have found means to get a little clavichord conveyed into a room at the top of his father's house, to which he constantly resorted as soon as the family retired to rest, and, astonishing as it will seem, without any rules to direct his finger, or any other instructor than his own ear, he found means to produce from the instrument both melody and harmony. At the age of seven years, by perseverance and resolution, he may be said to have compelled his father to take him on a visit to his brother at the court of Saxe-Weisenfels, where he was allowed to indulge his fondness for music without interruption. By the recommendation of the duke, his inclination was no longer opposed; and on his return to Halle, he wasplaced under the care of Frederick Wiliiam Zachau, organist of the great church in that city. At the age of niue years he composed motets for the service of the church, and continued to make one almost every week for three years. By the time he had arrived at the age of thirteen years, he determined to visit Berlin, where he arrived in 1698. He continued there a short time, and then returned home; soon after which he lost his father. His attachment to his native place being much lessened by this event, he determined on another place of residence. He therefore went to Hamburgh, and performed at the opera there with great reputation. It was here, at the age of fourteen years, he composed his first opera, called Almeira, which was performed thirty nights without intermission. At Hamburgh he remained three years, and during that time composed two other operas, namely, Florinda and Nerone. He then resolved to visit Italy, and accordingly accepted an invitation he had received from the Grand Duke of Tuscany to go to Florence. After a year's stay there, he went to Venice, and from thence to Rome, at each of which places he composed some operas. From Rome he went to Naples, and then returned to Germany. He soon fixed on Hanover for his residence, and received particular marks of distinction from the Princess Sophia, and her son the Elector, afterwards George I. In the year 1710, by permission of his patrons at Hanover, he came to England, and engaged with Mr. Aaron Hill, who had the management at that time of the theatie in the Haymarket, where the opera of Rinaldo was performed, a work composed in a fortnight. It was represented with great success, and the person who printed the music is said to have got £1500 by it. Though mnch solicited to stay in England, he this time resisted the temptation, and returned to Hanover, where he remained two years. He then obtained leave to revisit England, upon condition of his returning within a reasonable time. He arrived in London about the latter end of the year 1712, at which time the negociations for the treaty of Utrecht were in great forwardness. On the restoration of peace, he composed a Te Deum and Jubilate, which were performed at St. Paul's Cathedral, her majesty herself attending the service. The queen died in 1714, and the Elector of Hanover came to the crown. Handel had given offence to his new sovereign both by his remaining in England, and by exerting his talents in celebrating a peace which was considered as a disgraceful one by the court of Hanover. To restore liim to the king's favour, Baron Kilmansegge contrived a party on the Thames, at which Handel produced his celebrated water music. Inquiry being made eoncerning the composer, he was soon afterwards introduced to the king, and restored to his former situation. Being now determined to make England his residence, he accepted an invitation to reside first with Mr. Andrews, of Barn Elms, in Surrey, and afterwards with Lord Burlington. With this nobleman he continued three years: he then received a pressing invitation from the Duke of Chandos to undertake the direction of the chapel at his superb mansion, Cannons. He went there in the year 1718, and resided with his Grace until the institution of the Musical Academy for the performance of operas at the Haymarket, under the patronage of the king, and most of the principal nobility. Of this exhibition Mr. Handel was appointed director ; and in that station he remained until 1726, when disputes arising between him and his employers, the academy was broke up, and a new subscription entered into with a new manager. On this event, Mr. Handel engaged with Heidegger, in opposition to his former friends, and they continued together for three years. At the end of that term he undertook to perform operas on his own account, and this scheme he persisted in, until he had expended almost the whole property he had acquired; his health, too, suffered in an equal degree. To get rid of that dejection of mind which his repeated disappointments had brought on him, he was advised to use the waters at Tunbridge, and a regimen calculated to assist their operation: his disorder was, however, too deeply rooted; his mental powers were even affected; and to complete his distress, the palsy seized his right arm, and he was rendered incapable of using it in any manner. Medicines being found ineffectual, he was prevailed upon to try the baths of Aix-la-Chapelle, which soon restored him to his former health. On his return to London, he again tried his fortune with some new operas, but not being satisfied with their reception, he struck out a new mode of entertainments. These were oratorios, which were for some time favourably received; but on a suspicion that the public were growing indifferent towards them, he determined to try the temper of the people of Ireland. Accordingly, he went to Dublin in the year 1741, and gave a performance of the Messiah, for the benefit of the prisoners in that city. He returned to London in the year 1742, and performed Sampson, which was received with such applause, as seemed to insure him success in his future attempts of that kind. From this period may be dated that almost uninterrupted flow of success which attended him in his oratorios, during the rest of his life. In gratitude for the favour shown him by the public, and actuated by motives of benevolence, he performed the Messiah for the benefit of an institution which then stood in need of every assistance, the Foundling Hospital; and this he continued to do for several years. At the theatre his Messiah was frequently performed to such audiences as he could no otherwiseaccommodate than by erecting seats on the stage to such a number as scarcely left room for the performers. In this prosperous state did his affairs go on, till he was afflicted with the misfortune of blindness, which, great as it was, did not totally incapacitate him from study, or the power of entertaining the public. In the beginning of the year 1751, he was alarmed by a disorder in his eyes, which, upon Consulting with the surgeons, he was told was an incipient gutta serena. From the moment this opinion of his case was communicatedjto him, his spirits forsook him ; and that fortitude which had supported him under afflictions of another kind, deserted him in this ; scarcely leaving him patience to wait for that crisis in his disorder, in which he might hope for relief. He submitted, however, to some operations, but without any beneficial effect. Towards the beginning of the year 1758, he began to find himself decline apace; and that general debility which was coming on him was rendered still more alarming by a total loss of appetite. AFhen that symptom appeared, he considered his recovery as hopeless ; and, resigning himself to his fate, expired on the 14th of April, 1759. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, the Dean, Dr. Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, assisted by the choir, performing the funeral solemnity. Over the place of his interment is a monument, designed and executed by Roubiliac, representing him at full length in an erect posture, with a music paper in his hand, inscribed, " I know that my Redeemei liveth , with the notês to which those words are set in his Messiah. He died worth about twenty thousand pounds, almost the whole of which he bequeathed to his relations abroad. As the Commemoration of Handel gave rise to one of the most splendid exhibitions which has ever been seen in thiskingdom, we think it our duty to communicate to our readers the particular circumstances which first led to its being adopted. In a conversation which took place in the beginning of the year 1783, between Earl Fitzwilliam, Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, and Joah Bates, Esq., one of the Commissioners of the Victualling Office, at the latter s house, it was lamented, that, as London contained a greater number of erainent performers on different instruments of musie, than any other city in Europe, there was not some public periodical occasion which would bring them all together ; by which means a performance might be exhibited on such a scale of magnificence, as could not be equalled in any part of the world. The, death of Handel naturally presented itself to three such enthusiastic admirers of that great master, and it immediately occurred that the next year (1784) would be a proper time for the introduction of such a custom, as it formed exactly a fourth of a century since his death, and a complete century since his birth. The plan was soon afterwards communicated to the Managers of the Musical Fund, who approved it, and promised their assistance. It was next submitted to the Directors of the Concert of Ancient Music, viz.: Earl of Exeter, Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Dudley and Ward, Viscount Fitzwilliam, Lord Paget, Right Hon. H. Morice, Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart. Sir Rich. Jebb, Bart., who, with a readiness that did honour to their feelings of humanity as well as of music, voluntarily undertook the trouble of managing and directing the celebrity. The design at last coming to the knowledge of the king, it received the sanction of his patronage. Westminster Abbey was fixed upon as the properest place for the performance, as Hanjlel was buried there; and application was made to the Bishop of Rochester for the use of it, who readily consented, as the scheme was honoured with the king's patronage ; and who only requested, that, as the performance would interfere with the annual day of the Westminster Infirmary*, a part of the profits might be applied to that charity. This was agreed to, and it was afterwards settled that the profits of the first day's performance should be equally divided between the Musical Fund and the Westminster Infirmary. The profits of the other days were applied solely to the Musical Fund. The organ was taken down, and a grand gallery erected in the room, for the reception of the king and queen, and all the younger branches the royal family of an age capable of relishing the performance, together with the royal attendants. This gallery was hung with crimson velvet fringed with gold. Over the western door of the Abbey was erected a large new organ, built by Mr. Green for Cantërbury Cathedral, but fixed up in the Abbey for this occasion. The base of the orchestra, which contained a band of about five hundred vocal and instrumental performers, was seven feet from the ground. In short, the whole formed a coup d'ceil, equally novel, magnificent, and splentlid. * Now called the Westminster Hospital. VOL. I. K The arrangement of the performance of eaeh day was as follows:— FIRST DAY. IN fVESTMINSTER ABBEY. PART I. Coronation Anthem, to introducé the king. Overture of Esther. Dettingen Te Deum. PART II. Overture and Dead March in Saul. Verses selected from Handel's Funeral Anthem on the death of Queen Caroline, with a few slight alterations in the words, to adapt them to the occasion. The Anthem of " O sing unto the Lord." The whole to close with the last Chorus of " Israël in Egypt." SECOND DAY. The performance of this day was held at the Pantheon*. This assembly differed in many essentials from the preceding one. The music was sprightly, to contrast it with the solemn style of the Abbey selection, and consisted of a miscellaneous collection from his operas, oratorios, and other works. The brilliancy of the place, and the time of the performance, which was evening, contributed to heighten the effect. Several improvements were made in the Pantheon, to give every possible dignity to a building of unrivalled elegance and beauty. Here, as in the Abbey, a gallery was erected for the king and queen and the royal family. The hangings, drapery, and fumiture, were in the first style." THIRD DAY. This day closed the Festival. The Jubilee on this day was resumed in the Abbey, and concluded with the Messiah, which was selected as alluding to the Resurrection. The number of voices and instruments which were united in the performance of this oratorio, produced an effect that those best versed in the power of sounds had but a very imperfect idea of. The number of performers were as follows:—Violins, 96 ; Tenors, 30 ; Violoncellos, 30; Doublé basses, 20; Oboes, 30 ; Bassoons 28; Trompets, 14; French-horns, 12; Trombones, 3; Kettle-drums, 5; Total, 268. Yocal performers, 325. » In Oxford-street. THE FATE OF GENIUS. " Envy will merit like its shade pursue." Stbanoer of earth—inmate of heaven— Young Genius, at thy birth was given A hand, whose nerves are strung by fire, A breath, whose melting strain the lyre Responsive answers, as her strings Echo the soui's bright wanderings; An eye, whose range encircles o'er The star-wrought sky—the rugged shore; Earth opes her bosom wide to thee, The varied wonders of the sea; The hidden gem, transparent, bright, Illumined in its living light; Each coral—shell, of lovely hue, Of morning blush, or ocean blue ; Produce of every distant clirae, Nurtured by art, or bom with time ; All that we feei, or dream to be, Fair Genius, still are known to thee. Tis thine the envied lot to tracé Man's fever'd, strange, and chequer'd race; To view him in his desert wild— Creation's lord, and Nature's child ; Free from the world's dissembling gulle, Free from the hollow, cheating smile ; Free from the tongue, whose every tone, Tutor'd by craft, is craft s alone; Free from each stain or vice that can Distinguish him from social man. If, 'mid the herd of human kind, One warm, unfetter'd, generous mind Should linger yet—and such there are, Blooming like desert flowers afar; Ere hope decays, ere manhood, worth All that should be the pride of earth— The feelings of ingenuous youth, The impulse high—the voice of truth, Are wreek'd upon the treacherous sea— The rock of worldly infamy. Hence let him fly—the burning plain— The Arab's tent—the Helot's chain— His nature will not more debase Than commune with the human race. Friendship and love, how fair ye seem, When pictured in some poet's dream : Earth's baser passions fade away ; We feel as when in Eden's bower; Confiding truth knew no decay, Nor dreamt of change in every hour. We feel as when the heart's warm thought In every glance of love was spoken ; When woman's faith could not be bought, Or for the lust of gold be broken. 'Tis but a vision—let it pass; A dream too bright to last for ever; A vapour's breath upon a glass, A bubble dancing on a river. The well-school'd tongue of glowing youth May breath the vow of seeming truth; Love light her torch in each bright eye— The dew-gemm'd tear—the half-drawn sigh ; Should speak the language of the heart; But trust them not—she acts the part. Burst the soft chain—her vows restore— Her lips have breathed them oft before. Should man the open palm exteml, Woo thee with smiles, and call thee friend; Praise thee for merits not thine own— Condemn thy foes—their fault unknown; See as thou seest—hear with thy ears— Re-echo back thy doubts and fears ; Shrink from that man—avoid him—fly— Friendship, like love, can mask and lie. O God! that thus we should profane The noblest feelings thou hast given— Polluted by the world, should stain Virtues that drew their birth from heaven We turn thy good to deadly ill, Insult the blessings we receive, When love or friendship at man's will Are used as weapons to deceive. Yet in this world—this lazar tomb— Hearts pure and free will sometimes bloom ; Hearts form'd for virtue's noblest deed, Hearts that with indignation bleed To see fair freedom's rights divine Prostrate at foul ambition's shrine ; Eyes that still drop a generous tear T o consecrate a patriot's bier. Such were the tears that genius shed When Sidney bow'd his honour'd head ; Earth's victor on his gorgeous throne, Whose rule extends from zone to zone, Whose navies sweep the distant sea, Whose vassals bend a Helot knee, Might cast his gaudy robe aside, And envy Sidney as he died. Others there are of different caste, Oer whom thy wings bright shadow pass'd, Nor rested there—whose souls retain A portion of that grov'ling flame, That grosser fire—whose incense turns To ashes in the shrine it burns. Envy, with such, delights to dweil, Their hollow hearts her fitting cell; Should one appear of nobler worth, Of talent more of heaven than earth— Young passion's warm—energetic child— As ocean rough—as desert wild— Each human trait, by which alone His fellowship with man is shown— They magnify, and seize with joy The meaner part—the sad alloy— The taunt—the brand—the curse of all— The heritage of Adam's fall. Superior talent is a mark For Calumny to aim her dart; Should Genius wear a vestal veil, Live pure as ice—the guard would fail; Envy would still some crime invent— Distort his fairest, best intent: Malice would prompt some dastard slave, To whisper slander o'er his grave; Or Wife be found, so lost to shame, To breathe some hint to blast his name. That woman's breast, fair as the snows, Tinged with the blush of Spring's first rose, The seat of every soft desire, A temple for Love's living fire, Weak in regret, and prone to change, Should nourish a revenge so strange, So wild and fiendlike, it would seem The horrors of a maniac's dream Passes my thought:—mid weakness still— Mid jealousy and wayward will— I deem'd one spark of feeling given, Worthy alike her sex and Heaven. Come, Geinus! come—from Byron's tomb— Spread thy wings' bright shadow o'er me ; The venom'd foul engender'd gloom, By falsehood raised, shall fly before thee: I ask thee for no laureate wreath, I court no lasting deathless fame— One ray of light—one kindling breath— To vindicate the Byron's name. Come—and though this mortal form Should perish in the dazzling rays, Like Semele I'd hail the storm, And die with transport in the blaze. (To be continued in our reet.) LOVES OF THE FLOWERS. ZEPHYR AND LOTUS. LOTUS Fr.OWER. Zephyr, Zephyr, whither straying, Leavest thou thus thy longing bride ? With some brighter flowret playing, Dost thou now my frown deride ? ZEPHYR. Hither, hither to thee flying, Zephyr comes to dry thy tears; Cease then, love, O cease from sighing!— Zephyr all thy sorrow hears. LOTUS FLOWER. Come and sip my fragrant breath ; From Nilus tide I spring to meet thee : With thee is life—when from thee, death— My fairy spirit longs to greet thee. ZEPHYR. Over valley—over mountain— Gathering dew, I 've known no rest ; My wings are gemm'd in Flora's fountain, I come to shake them o'er thy breast. rrom nus nut i spring tu mcci wiet. THE TRAPPISTS. The monastic establishments are generally the first objects which excite the attention of the Enghsh traveller. Their gloomy grandeur and solitary situation, so different from the simple temples of his own country, render them subjects almost of fear as well as admiration. To his mind no punishment would equal that of perpetual incarceration within their walls; and unless he is sufficiently versed in that great mystery the huraan heart to comprehend the enthusiasm which has led, and still leads, men to prefer the solitary privation of the cloister to the social enjoyments of life, he passes them over as subjects which have excited his curiosity, but whose purposes and philosophy are too deep for his investigation. Profound and many were the cogitations on this subject of a simpleminded north country baronet whom 1 stumbled upon in Rome, where some extraordinary caprice, or still more extraordinary accident, had misplaced him. The pope did not so much puzzle his judgment; he readily conceived him to be a sort of king in petticoats, and the red-legged body of cardinals his house of lords; but the monks, with their shaven crown and bare feet, he candidly confessed he could not comprehend. They were too serious for jesters, and too dirty even for Roman gentlemen ! They lived in palaces, yet begged like mendicants. As we were frequently thrown into each other's society, I became the confidant of his thoughts upon the subject, and was amused by their ingenious speculations. He arrived at last at this conclusion—that the monks were priests who had been guilty of crimes, and were sentenced to the monasteries as a sort of ecclesiastical hulks. Delighted with the originality of his discovery, he became a champion of its truth, and finding all argument upon the subject thrown away, I left him to the enjoyment of his opinion. His last words to me on my quitting the eternal city were, " Rely upon it, the monks are no better than they should be." By a singular coincidenee we met again at Amiens, just as I was on the point of setting out to visit an establishment of Trappists situated in its immediate neighbourhood. The very name was sufficiënt for the baronet; it was an order he had never visited, and he immediately offered to accompany me, entertaining me with a history of his adventures during our ride to the place of destination, a description of which may not be uninteresting. Within seven miles of Amiens stands the Monastery of La Trappe, wliere, by the rules of their patron and founder, St. Bruno, hospitality is extended to all who demand it after the hour of sunset. Anxious to behold a society of men who had renounced all the social ties of life for penitence and silence, never to be broken but in prayer, I determined to avail myself of the privilege, and pass one night within their walls— a resolution which I forbore" to acquaint my companion with, whose English notions would have been scandalized at the idea of receiving a bed and supper from charity, when he had plenty of cash to pay for the accommodation. On our summons at the lodge, the porter, with his shaven crown, in the white dress of his order, presented himself at the gate, and after listening to our request in silence, communicated by signs to a lay brother, who acquainted his superior with our arrival; on his return, the iron barrier between us was removed, and we entered the gloomy precincts. The monastery, a fine building, is situated in an extensive park, rauch of which is cultivated by the brothers for domestic purposes ; it at once reminded me in its architecture of the chateaux so comraon in Normandy, although evidently, from its ecclesiastic form and arms upon its grand porch and key-stones, intended for religious purposes. The chapel, a Grecian building of modern date, is connected with the great square by means of a gothic cloister, the interior of which serves as the cemetery of the order. In our progress through the park we passed several of the brothers variously engaged ; some were weeding the ground, others gathering fruit, and one old monk, with a venerable white beard, was wheeling a heavily laden barrow towards a ruined oratory, now used as a storehouse for their winter fruit; my companion proceeded to address them, and was only convinced by repeated failure that silence was most religiously observed by them. Having followed our guide through the park, we entered the hall, and from thence were conducted to the reception room; here he left us to announce our arrival to his superior. Scarcely had we time to look around us and observe the word Silence written in large letters upon the wall, when the father of the hotel, so called from his office of receiving strangers, entered the apartment, followed by several novices and lay brothers bearing a repast of vegetable soup, fish, fruit, and a sweetmeat. I was about to ask some question, when the father placed before me a board with the rules of the house written upon it both in French and Latin. I found by them that even visitors were enjoined the strictest silence during their meals—a circumstance which evidently occasioned no slight annoyance to my talkative companion. Scarcely had we finished our dinner, when the bell commenced for VOL. I. ' L vespers; being anxious to beliold the brotherhood assembled for the exercise of their faith, we hastened to the chapel, which charmed meby its fair proportions and chaste frimplicity ; it forms with the ante-chapel a room about three hundred feet long, adorned on either side by deep windows of richly stained glass between Corinthian pilasters; the altar, with its rood or crucifix, is entirely of white marble—no gaudy saints in brocade robes disfigure it; the candlesticks and ever-burning lamp before it alone were of silver: the fraternity having taken their seats when we entered, the effect was picturesque and beautiful. Between seventy and eighty monks were ranged on either side of the prior in richly carved oaken stalls, black with age, against which their white robes and graceful scapularies presented a bold relief. Vespers were chaunted without the accompaniment of music, and produced upon the mind an effect at once soothing and solemn. At the conclusion ot the service, the superior gave the signal to depart, by striking his oaken crosier upon the pavement, when the brotherhood slowly left the chapel in procession, each bowing as he passed the altar and the elevated chair of the prior. As we were leaving the chapel, a fellow-countryman, whose angular habiliments like our own, had appeared misplaced when contrasted with the flowing robes of the Trappists, addressed me. In the course of our walk through the cloisters he informed me that his name was Spencer, that he had resided as a boarder at the monastery for some months, but expected to quit it in the course of a few days in consequence of his approaching ordination. The name instantly caught the attention of my companion, who remembering the sensation created just before by the conversion of the Hon. and Rev. Spencer to the Church of Rome, plainly asked liim if he was Lord Althorp's brother, and received his denial, which was rather equivocal, with disappointment and doubt. We accepted his offer, however, of showing us over the establishment, with pleasure, nor did he at all seem disinclined for a companion. The long silence which he had been compelled to observe towards the monks must have been irksome to one, however religiously inclined, who had no intention of entering their order. The first department to which he conducted us was the refectory, a large Gothic Hall, with a finely-painted window, and curiously carved roof. The evening repast of the monks was placed on platters of wood ; it consisted only of bread, fruit, and water ; the name of each brother was attached by a label to his seat. On my observing that most of the fraternity bore names honoured in the Roman calendar, our conductor informed us, that on taking the vows, the nameby which they had been previously known in the world was never mentioned, a more suitable and religious one being always adopted. We retired just as the fra- temity entered in procession, with their superior at their head, chanting a Latin grace. The library is a long gallery leading from the refectory to the prior's apartraent. The books, chiefly old fathers of the church, are arranged in presses. The only valuable one's are a few missals and an exquisitely illuminated MS. of Virgil, most laboriously illustrated with the pencil. Above the presses are a number of pictures, representing the Ufe of St. Bruno, copied from the celebrated series by Le Sceur, in the gallery of the Louvre, commencing from his retirement from the world, his being summoned to Rome, his refusal of the mitre from the hands of the pope, his miracles and death in the full odour of sanctity. Just as we were on the point of leaving the library, Spencer remembered a curious volume of English poems in MS., written by a brother of the name of Eloi: his original one it was impossible to ascertain. Some of them were curious, and reminded me of the monkish rhymes: a short specimen may not prove uninteresting. It is from a poem called the Messiah, and particularly excited my companion's attention. " A god, and yet a man, A maid, and yet a mother; We wonder how wit can Conceive this, or the other. " A god—and can he die ? A dead man—can he live ? What wit can well reply, What reason Reason give ?' It concludes by an exhortation to faitli. The prior s apartment was by far the best furnished in the building, the walls hung with portraits of his predecessors, the windows of rich stained glass. We afterwards visited the dormitory; the beds or hard mattresses were placed on wooden frames, which caused me to express a hope that ours would be a little more suited to our previous habits. This was the first intimation to my companion of my intention of passing the night within the walls, whose opposition and horror were loudly expressed; nor was he reconciled to the arrangement, till he found that the hour when departure was permitted had passed, and the gates fastened for the night. We were soon afterwards summoned to our evening repast. Previous to retiring for the night, I once more visited the chapel, to be present at the funeral service of a brother, who had expired the evening before. The body was placed, in a rude coffin, upon a bier in the centre; the monks, with the superior at their head, forming a circle round it. The dim light of the tapers on the altar, and the torches carried by the brothers, gave a mellow tone to the scene which a painter's hand could alone do justice to, or a poet's tongue deseribe. A priest read, in a most impressive manner, the awful service of the dead, and the ashes of the deceased were consigned to their parent earth. Returning through the cloisters, I encountered the father of the hotel, who conducted me to the apartment where I had left my companion, who seemed all the better pleased at my return, observing, that two Englishmen would be a match for any six of them. We soon after retired to our cells, where we found the accommodation much superior to what we had ventured to anticipate. At midnight I was disturbed by the chapel-bell summoning the brothers to their devotions. 1 would willingly have witnessed them, hut was prevented, my cell being barred on the outside. This, however, excited no alarm, and I slept soundly till morning. After an early breakfast, we took leave of our countryman, Spencer, whose manners, whatever his previous rank in life, gave indication of a gentleman. The baronet gave him a warm shake of the hand, and advised him to return to Old England, and leave the half-starved set with wliom he was associating. We then departed, much pleased with our first, and perhaps last, visit to the far-famed monastery of La Trappe. Sir Colquhoun Grant, the present colonel of the lSth hussars, being in command of a corps at Clonmel, gave offence to an honest shopkeeper named Mulcahy, who struck him on parade, in presence of the whole regiment. The officeis rushed forward to seize the delinquent ; but Sir Colquhoun interposed, declaring that he had been the aggressor, and as the gentleman thought proper to resent his conduct in so gross a manner, it remained for him to seek the usual reparation. " Oh !" exclaimed Mulcahy, " if it's for fighting you are, 1*11 fight you, but it shall neither be with swords nor pistols, nor any thing else but my two fists(and fine big mutton fists they were, sure enough.) "Well, then," replied the gallant officer, "with all my heart. By insulting you, I have put myself on a level with you, and of course cannot refuse to meet you on your own terms. Come along, sir." The men were dismissed, and Sir Colquhoun, accompanied by his adversary, and some mutual friends, repaired to the mess-room, where he very speedily closed up Mr. Mulcahy's peepers, and sent him home perfectly satisfied. That was the proudest day of Mulcahy's life; and many a day lias he boasted of the black eye he got from a K.C.B., as if it were an honour emblazoned upon his escutcheon. " Ever since that morning," would he say, " let me meet Sir Colquhoun Grant where I might, in town or country, among lords or ladies, dressed in plain clothes, or dizened out in gold and scarlet, he woidd give me his hand, and say, ' Iiow are you Billy ?'" THE BIRTH AND PROGRESS OF MUSIC. / Lono ages since—when Time was young, Ere sin or sorrow dimm'd its birth, Music from heaven delighted sprung, To seek a resting place on eartli. In Eden's vale—'mid blooming bowers, And happier scenes than man can dream, She pass'd those sun-bright golden houis We picture from the poet's theme. Happy awhile there dwelt the maid, Her home a rose-tree by the spring, Her draught beneath its cooling shade The dew brush'd from an angel's wing. A blight at last feil o'er the world, I blame not woman's wayward will, For when with man from Eden hurl'd, She was his joy—his blessing still. IMusic deeply mourn'd the change, Her note of joy awhile had flown, 'Mid rocks and caves she loved to range, On earth as Echo only known. Tired once with idly straying, Through the forest and the glade, Or with wanton sun-beams playing, The maiden ventured from the shade. Genius saw her straying near, His step was swift, his spirit brave, Half won by hope, subdued by fear, She yielded—and became his slave. With him her step, from clime to clime, Pass'd oer the earth, the joy of all, Spreading around her art sublime, From humble cot to regal hall. Her strain was heard when Greece was free, When Persia's banner kiss'd the sun— Was heard at famed Thermopylae, And on thy plain, O Marathon! Italia, too, hath heard that strain, Borne oer the Adriatic Sea, Hath cursed proud Austria's galling chain, And wept, fair Venice—wept for thee. To Gallia's vine-clad hills she came, When driven forth by tyrant power, Each cot received the sacred flame, And sang her strain in freedom's hour. Albion caught the strain at last, (The refuge of the brave and free) The songs of Greece, each danger past, Revive, and breathe once more in thee. MISCELLANEOUS. Tiie Queen's Drawing Room.—The Queen held a Drawing Room on Thursday, the 20th March, at St. James's Palace; the first this season at which her Majesty received presentations. The King's Guard were on duty in the Standard Court, and their band played alternately with that of the Life Guards. The Duchess of Kent came in state, with a guard of honour from the Ist regiment of Life Guards, attended by Lady Catherine Jenkinson and Sir John Conroy. Her Royal Highness entered the Palace by the Colour Court, where she was received by the King's Guard with the usual honours. The Duke of Glouccster arrived at the Palace directly after the Royal Duchess. At two o'clock, the Queen having taken her accustomed station in the Throne Room, the Drawing Room commenced. Her Majesty was attended by the Dowager Duchess of Leeds, Mistress of the Robes; Marchioness of Westmeath, Lady in Waiting; Miss Boyle, Maid of Honour in Waiting; Earl of Denbigh, Lord Chamberlain; Earl of Erroll, Master of the Horse. In her Majesty's suite were also the Countess of Mayo, Lady Clinton, and Countess Howe, Ladies of the Bedchamber; Miss Hope Johnstone, Miss Eden, Miss Bagot, and Miss Mitchell, Maids of Honour; Lady Caroline Wood, Lady Gore, Mrs. Berkeley Paget; Sir George Hoste, Lieut.-Col. Wilson, and Major Wright, Gentlemen Ushers; Ilon. C. Grimston, Page of Honour. The King was attended by the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Monsieur Tricoupi, the Minister from Greece, had an audience of the Queen, to whom he was introduced by the Earl of Denbigh her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, the Master of the Ceremonies. The portrait of the King, which was painted by Sir Martin Shee, at Brighton, will be exhibited at the Royal Academy, in May. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Riglit Hon. Sir T. Denman, Knt., Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Denman, of Dovedale, in the County of Derby. The newly-created Baron Denman has selected his title from an estate which, we believe, his lordship possesses in the county of Derby. One of his lordship's sisters married the late Sir Richard Croft, and another was the wife of the late eminent Dr. Baillie, who has a very numerous family. One of the noble and learned lord's sons, now the Hon. Josepli Denman, is a lieutenant on board his Majesty's sloop Snake, on the South American station. All his lordship's predecessors have been Peers—Lords Kenyon, Mansfield, Ellenborough, and Tenterden, having been called up to the House of Lords after their elevation to the Chief Justiceship of the King's Bench. His Majesty has been pleassd to command, that the Hon. Band of Gentlemen Pensioners shall be in future called his Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. Opening of the Trade to China.—On Monday a numerous meeting of the merchants, ship-owners, and others interested in the trade to China, was held at the City of London Tavern, to receive the report from the committee appointed to correspond with his Majesty's Government, on various matters of great importance to the commerce of the country, particularly as regards the trade to Canton, under the regulations adopted by Government for that purpose. John Horsley Palmer, Esq., in the chair. After an address from the chairman, the report was read, and subsequently approved. It gave the following information as derived from Government:—X. That the East India Company will give instructions to their agents in China, and to their governments in India, presuming no unforeseen impediments to arise from the state of the Indian finances, to make advances upon the cargoes to be shipped in India and China for this country in the course of the present year, under certain regulations, which may be seen at the secretary's office at the East India House, such advances for the year 1834 being limited to about the sum of 1,000,000/. or 1,200,000/. sterling, a moiety of which will be applicable to the shipments from China. The committee were further informed, that in future years the amount of the advances will probably be considerably increased. That the rates of exchange for bills taken in India and China will be fixed at the time of making the advances at the rates then current. That parties wishing to avail themselves of the opportunity of fixing the rates of exchange upon the commencement of their operations in this country, may take advantage of the East India Company's offer to draw direct from London upon their government at Calcutta. 2. Tliat the East India Company will limit their sales of tea in 1835 to 16,000,000 of pounds, unless the market value should, during that year, exceed the proposed upset prices now advertised for sale in June next, in which case they reserve to themselves the right to put up for sale at such upset prices any further quantity which they may deem to be expedient. 3. That his Majesty's Government will not at present make any alteration in the proposed scale or mode for collecting the duties upon tea after the 24th of April next. 4. That his Majesty's Ministers will recommend to I'arliament to withdraw the duties proposed to be levied by the late orders in council upon the British trade and shipping in the port of Canton, provided the East India Company will concur in defraying one-third of the charge for maintaining the consulate establishment at that port. Lander's Expeuition.—It appears that the expedition has failed as a mercantile speculation, and suffered great loss of life from sickness; but has otherwise proved the easy accessibility of the interior of Africa, and the probability that other expeditions, fitted out at less expense, and embracing a greater number of objects, would be more successful. The natives were, in the main, willing to trade, and their country was so exuberantly fertile, that they could not long want the means of doing so to great advantage, if only the slave trade were effectually abolished. But at present they scarcely thought of other exportable produce than their fellow-men; and sold them, both up the river to the Fellatahs, and down the river to the Ebo, Bonny, Benin, and Calabar tribes, for further transfer to European slavers. Mr. Laird describes the population on the river as dense, and some of the towns as large; Ebo having 6,000, Atta 15,000, and Funda even 70,000 inhabitants. There is no union, however, among them, each attacking and plundering the other as opportunity or provocation instigate. Moliammedanism is on the increase among them; but there is little bigotry and much superstition. In form they are stout and well-built, but undersized. The females are plump and good-looking when young; but being married at about twelve, they are old at twenty, as among the coast tribes. Cattle are small, and not numerous; sheep and goats abundant, and of middle size; poultry very small, but sweet and good. Royal Society.—Last week, a paper giving an account of the operations resorted to in order to recover the specie and other property on board H.M.S. Thetis, which sunk in Cape Frio in 1832, was read. These operations were carried on by Commander the Hon. J. F. F. de vol. l. m Roos and crew of H.M.S. Algerine. Owing to the remote position of the Cape, the means employed were of necessity simple—a capstan, oable, and diving-bell, one-fourth of a ton, made from a ship's tank. During heavy swells, the oscillations of the bell were from twenty to twenty-five feet in extent, consequently little could be done; in heavy weather the party was employed in devising means to blast and rend the rocks around the wreek, which was accomplished by cylinders, &c. After some search, the divers discovered the bed of the treasure, and first found a quantity of specie and old church plate, mixed up with decayed meat, the stench of which was most disgusting. Whales sometimes visited the Cape. One of these monsters occasioned no small alarm in the minds of those of the party who were conducting the operations on the surface, for it approached within ten yards of the spot where the bell had been let down; luckily, however, it turned away. By a great and simultaneous effort, another rock was blasted, and a large sum of money was found. In short, from repeated exertions, about 15-16ths of the whole property was recovered, after which the captain and his companions departed to Rio de Janeiro. British Museum.—In a recent return to Parliament, respecting old coins purchased by the Museum in 1833, it stated that no coins were sold during this period; but it is now generally known, that a sale of duplicate coins is contemplated, of the value of £500.— Vide Annual Report to Parliament in 1832. Would it not be better that these coins, as well as all duplicates of books, prints, and objects of natural history, instead of being sold, as they must be, at a very great loss, and many of them for a mere trifle, should be ordered by Parliament to be presented to some of our provincial libraries and museums, as those of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, the Ipswich library for the use of the county of Suffolk, &c. At the late conflagration in the house of Mr. Fairburn, book-binder, Duke-street, Adelphi, a considerable quantity of valuable manuscripts were destroyed, and among them that of the School for Scandal, in the handwriting of the late R. B. Sheridan, Esq., which Sir G. Chetwynd had taken the day previously to Mr. Fairburn to be bound up with others, and which he intended as a present to the British Museum. It was rendered still more interesting, having several interlineations and emendations in the handwriting also of Mr. Sheridan, which marked the quickness of his conception in improving several passages which, in their original state, it seemed almost impossible to mend. As a curiosity, the destruction of the manuscript is a literary loss which cannot be repaired. At Antwerp, lately, a picture, about a foot high, and a foot and a half wide, was bought by a glazier of that town for ten sous. On the following market-day he sold it for seven francs and a half, and the Jatter purchaser, having ascertained that it was a Holy Family, by llaphael, re-sold it to an amateur at Bruges for 3,200 francs. Judge Bouldin, of the House of Representatives, New York, feil down and suddenly expired, while in the act of eulogizing his eloquent predecessor, the late Mr. Randolph. His wife, who was in the gallery, witnessed the distressing event. Greece.—Late accounts state that the government is actively engaged in the revision, commenced under Capo d'Istrias in 1830, of all the ordinances of the Emperor Basilius Mazedo, which form the basis of the civil rights of the Greeks. All such of these laws as are to remain in force will be collected into one code. It is also occupied in searching for all that is not to be found in the Basilica, which have great authority with the Greeks, and which even are refe'rred to by the Turks to decide their differences with their enemies. It is lioped that the scattered fragments of these laws will be easily discovered. It is added, that nothing will be admitted into the new legislation of Greece, but such laws as are completely in accordance with the manners and habits of the people. Turkey.—Accounts from Constantinople state that matters there have again taken a very grave aspect, and that the Government is evidently much embarrassed. It is said that our representative there lias assumed a more decided tone, and to have peremptorily required the sultan to do that which he will not do unless compelled; and it is affirmed that cur ambassador, Lord Ponsonby, lias lately presented a memorial to the Porte, stating the objections of his government to the treaty of the 8th of July last, and requiring that attention shall be paid to it. The Augsburgh Gazet te states, that the Russian government had fixed April 15th for the final evacuation by the Russian troops and authorities of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. The emperor, it is added, had given up his claim to the instalment due by the Porte, and on account of which the two principalities had been held by him as security since the last war. The Dardanelles.—A Russian brig of war, lately about to pass the strait of the Dardanelles, without being furnished with a firman from the Porte, was stopped by the commander of the first fortress, and compelled to veer about. The Turkish government wished, it is said, to prove, by this act, that it did not grant greater privileges to Russia than to the other powers.—French Paper. Earthquake and Famine in the East Indies.—Extract of a letter from the Rev. A. Leslie to the Rev. F. Franklin, of Coventry" Monghyr, East Indies, Oct. 10, 1833. We have latterly been exceedingly disturbed by earthquakes. On the 26th of August last, at eleven at night, we had a most fearful shaking; almost all the houses of the British inhabitants have been more or less injured, and several ruined. Among the latter is our poor unfortunate dwelling, nearly every wall is split. It has been, by a committee of gentlemen, pronounced unsafe as a place of residence, and is consequently condemned to be taken down. We had, during that night, about twenty shocks, two of them most awful. The earth literally ' reeled to and fro, and staggered like a dronken man.' There was one simultaneous shout of constemation throughout the whole city: every peison ran to the open plain. I, in my night clothes, rushed out at the first door I found open, and jumped over a high wall. Poor Mrs. Chamberlain was lying in the other side of the house in the agonies of death, attended by her daughter, another lady, and two native women. I had just lain down to rest. M hen I had jumped over this wall at the back of the house, my first thoughts were of dear Mrs. Chamberlain and her attendants; as soon as I was able, I ran round to the side where they were. We pulled the bed on which the dying woman was out of the room, under the veranda which protects the house from the sun, and there we had to keep her amidst the awful shocks, until the morning light, when they became less frequent. Poor woman! she was only once, and that for a moment, sensible of what was going on. She died the following night. Since that awful night we have had many shocks, though none of them so severe as then. The last we had was on the 4th of October, when we, in common with all the other inhabitants, had to fly from our house. No injury, however, was done beyond the rents in the houses being made wider. When or how they will end who can teil ? A little higher up the country the earth opened, but to no great extent. The earthquake has been feit throughout India, but, with one exception, in no place so severely as at Monghyr. Many of the poor natives have had their houses thrown down—happily no lives have been lost. But in the other place to which I have alluded, many, from the buildings being higher and more crowded, have been killed. Several of the English rcsidents here have slept out, under light and temporary erections, ever since the first grand shock. 'Tis an awful time in India; in addition to the earthquakes, the people are dying in different parts of the land from famitie. In one or two cases the parents have actually boiled and eaten their children ! The cholera, too, has raged frightfully— in the district of Cawnpore 30,000 have died, and in the city of Lucknow no less tlian 50,000. So the newspapers teil us. In Calcutta forty Hindoos were burned daily—there has, too, been great mortality among the English—and besides all this, there has been great distress among all classes, in consequence of three of the largest mercantile houses failing." Serious Laughter.—La Lanterne Magique relates the following: —" A few days since a young man at Lyons laughed so heartily at a joke uttered in his hearing, that his laugli became convulsive, and continued upwards of two liours. The medical men found great difficulty in calming this nervous crisis, and but for their success lie would positively have died of laughter." REVIEW OF LITERATURE—FINE ARTS—EXHIBITIONS—THE DRAMA, &c. The Pilgrims of the Rhine.—The talented author of " Pelham" and " Eugene Aram" has evidently been crippled in his genius by the task assigned him, that of writing a tale illustrative of certain scenery of the majectic Rhine and Pays Bas. The work before us bears internal evidence of having been adapted to the illustrations, not the illustrations to the work. The tale is of two lovers who are attached with that fervency and purity which characterises the beautiful creations of the poet s mind, but is so seldom found in real life. Gertrude is the victim of that fatal disease which draws life from the veins of beauty as in a dream, which lights up the cheek with a false lustre, and veils the approach of the grim monster, death, beneath the roses of apparent health —consumption. To alleviate, if possible, by change of scene, the rapid progress of the fatal disorder, attended by her lover and father, the voyage of the Rhine is undertaken ; and the tales, which form the principal feature of the work, are related by Trevylyan to wile away the time. The reader is first introduced to a courtly circle of fairies, who, had Shakspeare never written his " Midsummer's Niglit's Dream," might have struck us by their grace; then follows the " Maid of Malines," an episode to the well-known tale of " Valerie," which the exquisite acting of Mademoiselle Mars has rendered familiar to most of our readers. The following, one of the virtues, is more original in its construction, and conveys a highly useful moral. The cunning of Mas ter Fox is illustrative of a style known only to the English reader; by the fables of Gay, and the adaptations of iEsop, animals are made to perform the offices, and are placed in the situations of men, have reasoning powers assigned them, and fall into adventures. This has long been a favourite mode in Germany, where political events and opinions are often disguised by allegory, but scarcely suited to our English taste. Perhaps the passages most worthy of the author are the death of Gertrude and the beautiful pathetic scenes which precede it. The illustrations are of the most exquisite description; the frontispiece of Thurinberg is honourable to the art of the engraver; perhaps the one we are least satisfied with is the Hotel de Ville, Louvain, of which only the east end is given instead of its magnificent front. In the present view the fine old cathedral might have been introduced, it stands directly opposite it. The church of Cologne and the tomb of the three kings are exquisite. The drawings are all by Mr. Robberds, who has long been favourably known as an artist. The work has been produced regardless of expense, and will, we doubt not, receive the patronage its high character and beautiful gems of art deserve. The Royal Mariner, and other Poems, by Charles Doyne Sillery, Esq., have been favourably received. This gentleman possesses a rich vein of imagination, joined to a classical mind and acute observation. There is a freedom and raciness in several of the sonnets which reminds us of some of our earlier poets; he has evidently thought much, and stored his mind with the best efforts of those who have preceded him in the world of letters. Although young, he has been rocked by the tropic billows, wandered beneath the palms of India, and philosophised by the tomb of the mighty master spirit at St. Helena. Most appropriately his work is by permission dedicated to the Queen, and we cannot dismiss it from our hands without expressing a hope that its success will be such as to encourage our poet to persevere. By a careful revision of his style, and the correction of those slight errors which evidently proceed from an excess of sensibility and redundancy of imagination, he will arrivé, we confidently predict, at that eminence which true genius, if aided by industry, seldom fails to achieve. Portrait of H. R. H. the Duke of Sassex.—By Brother J. Harris. This lithographic engraving represents the Royal Duke as M. YV. G. M. in his full Masonic dress, and seated on the throne. As a work of art it is chaste and correct. To the members of the Order it is interesting as a cliaracteristic delineation of their illustrious Master in Grand Lodge. The official minutise are carefully and faithfully preserved. The Medica Sacra; Or, Diseases mentioned in the Bible. By Thomas Shapter, M.D. This book is one of those curious productions which display acute reasoning and deep research, without being applied to any purpose that can possibly be productive of benefit to mankind. Many from curiosity may read it, but few will be interested. It belongs to a class of literature not generally appreciated by the world ; too profound for common speculation, and too learned for any to comprehend its critical acumen but men versed in the original languages of the sacred writings. While we thus candidly express our opinion, we fully acknowledge the great industry and evident learning of its author, and can readily promise that his valuable time and attainments, if applied to subjects which can more readily associate with general interest, will find a useful success. FINE ARTS. The exhibition of pictures near the Haymarket presents a galaxy of talent highly creditable to the state of the arts. England has gradually been forming a school of painting, in which the excellencies in the old masters are combined with the peculiar tone and chasteness of its own; the rich colouring of Claude revives in our modern Turner, while Lawrence and his successor, the president of the Academy, as portrait painters, stand unrivalled in Europe—David, the idol of the Frencli school, sinks into insignificance beside them. Martin has a splendid picture for the ensuing exhibition. We know not which to admire most in this extraordinary man; the rich, classical imagination embodied in his designs, his architectural wonders, which strike the admiring beholder as reliques of a world forgot, or the gorgeous tone of colouring which pervades the wliole. Justly may England be proud of a man who has created a school of so peculiar and intellectual a character, combining in its beauties the passion of a Raphael, the bold light and shade of a Rembrandt, and the brilliancy of a Rubens. The celebrated statue called the Prophet, from the chisel of the Danish sculptor, Thorwaldson, has just been purchased in Rome by an English amateur. We know of few specimens of that great man in this country, except those at Chatsworth. The Emperor of Russia has, for several years, been adding to his collection: his agents, both in France and Italy, have bought up several gems on liis account. He is in treaty for the celebrated Raphael, the property of Edward Bertie, Esq. We trust it will not be permitted to leave this country, as it would form a splendid addition to our new national gallery. Vernet valued the picture, some years since, at £16,000. The French government, previous to the valuation, were in treaty for the purchase. This Raphael formerly belonged to the Royal Chapel, and was removed by the all-powerful Cardinal Mazarine. It is one of the pictures which Napoleon was so anxious to recover. THE DRAMA. The Kino's Theatre.—Laporte has already commenced his campaign, but from the present incomplete state of his arrangements, criticism would be hardly fair, and might be prejudicial to the prospects of his season. Several of his greatest attractions have not yet been able to reach England; meanwhile, Taglioni and her assistant artists have proved stars for the fortunate manager, and delighted the lovers of the ballet with their grace and beauty. By our next, his campaign will be more than opened, and we shall be fairly enabled to enter into the merits of his arrangements. We hear a German company are engaged. The union of the two great theatres has, contrary to expectation, proved advantageous to the manager. The novelty of Gustavus at Covent Garden Tijeatre, heralded, as it was, to public notice, by reports of its continental success, answered Mr. Bunn's most sanguine expectations. Like all vehicles for music, its character does not fairly bring its dramatic merits within the range of criticism. Phillips executed his beautiful music in a style which delighted every lover of the science, and added to his reputation. The choruses were worthy of our national theatre. At Drury Lane, the principal features has been Jerrold's interesting drama of the Wedding-Gou-n. On reviewing the merits of this gentleman, we scarcely know which to admire most—his terse and polished writing, his fine, manly sentiments, or that consummate skill which, without violating probability, excites and keeps alive the interest of his audience. Farren's acting was natural, and like every efFort of that most accomplished artist, presented a finished picture. Had Mrs. C. Jones, Messrs. Meadovvs and Webster more to do, the WeddingGown would have been an almost faultless production. We opine that their respective parts have been curtailed " of their fair proportions" to suit the stage business; it is not possible that such powerful outlines were not in the manuscript as delicately shaded as " Bees'-wing" itself. The Minister and Mercer has been highly successful. The acting of the above-named gentleman has, in our opinion, not only added another leaf to his f'aine, but entirely supports the piece—the likeness of a wellknovvn diplomatist is admirable. Knowles, at the Victoria, has brought out his Blind Beggar of Bet/mal Green—more beautiful, we confess, as a poem than a drama. Its success was worthy of its author's deservedly established fame. The Adelphi closed a prosperous season, after the usual number of translations and melodramas, and Easter now gratifies the holiday-folks by Ducrow and his superb stud of horses at Astley's, while the Surhey, receiving an accession of strength by a union with the Adelphi company, offers, certainly, an unrivalled attraction. The other minors take the field with every promise of success. COVENT GARDEN THEATRICAL, FUND DINNER. The customary Anniversary Festival of this useful Institution took place on the 7th of March at the Freemasons' Tavern. The Right Hon. Lord Saltoun presided on the occasion, surrounded by many of the nobility and patrons of the drama. The chairman adverted to the absence of the Duke of Sussex, whom the meeting would regret to learn was suffering from severe indisposition, which alone prevented him from presiding that evening, and ably advocating the merits of the Institution. The usual toasts were drunk. " Better health to Mr. Fawcett" (who, we are sorry to say, was prevented giving his usual talented assistance to the fund), being proposed from the chair, was drunk amidst great cheering. Mr. Mathews rosé, and in a lengthened speech stated, that having in his previous song put forth his feelers to try the disposition of his audience, and found he could make them laugh when he wished, he should now attempt to make them serious. Mr. M. then proceeded to show the origin of this fund ; and after exposing the false notions of the public respecting the remuneration to actors, he animadverted with great severity upon the conduct of a Sheffield clergyman, who was accustomed to send his clerk to a printing-office in the town to get timely advice of the arrival of the players, in order that the minister might have a " fling at them from the pulpit. He also commented, with great force and equal severity, upon a statement he had seen in the newspapers, wherein a member of Parliament was reported to have said, on the occasion of the debate on the Dramatic Bill, " that the time of the House ought not to be squandered away in legislating for the 'outcasts of society.'" Mr. M. indignantly asked, was Garrick an VOL. I. v outcast, or was Shakspeare an outcast? For himself, he woukl ratlier be the most degraded of outcasts than the utterer of that opprobrious epithet. He then appealed to the press to vindicate the drama from those unfounded attacks, and he called on the members of the profession to be urged by such calumnies to greater exertions for their distressed brethren. He called upon them to come fonvard to the aid of the widows and children of those men who had raised the profession to its present dignity, and he trusted that every one of them had a tear of pity, and a hand open as day to melting charity. Mr. Mathews sat down amidst immense cheering. The party broke up about eleven o'clock, after an evening which cannot have failed to gratify the most fastidious. DRÜRY LANE TIIEATKICAL FUND DINNER. The 5?th anniversary festival of this Institution, which emanated from the exertions and under the auspices of David Garrick, in the year 1777, was celebrated at the Freemasons'Tavern on the 19th of March. The assembled friends of the fund amounted to at least 300. The Marquis of Clanricarde was in the chair, supported by Lord Dungarvon, Lord Edward Poulett, Lord Graves, the Hon. Mr. Macdonald, Sir Paul Jodrell, Sir AVilliam Curtis, Sir Vincent Cotton, Sir Thomas Harvey Farquhar, Sir Andrew Barnard, &c., and a host of the most distinguished pat rolis of the drama. lm media tely after the removal of the cloth and the drinking of the usual loyal and appropriate toasts, it was stated by the noble Chairman that he was happy to congratulate the company on the flourishing state of the fund. He regretted that illness had prevented his royal highness the Duke of Sussex from attending, and that the task of filling his situation had devolved on so incompetent a person as himself. He would refrain from going into a detailed state of the amount of subscriptions about to be announced, because that was a task which peculiarly devolved upon Mr. Harley, who would address the company. Mr. Harley then rose and spoke in substance as follows: " My lord and gentlemen,—According to the system of Dr. Gall, my bump of locality must be more than ordinarily developed, for on every anniversary of this institution I am found in the same place; I return you my thanks for your repeated forbearance. My task this evening is a pleasing one: it is to express to you how many hearts you have gladdened, how much distress you have alleviated, and the deep gratitude that warms the bosoms of those who have distributed and of tliose who have shared your bounty. Yet the pleasure is dashed with feelings of pain; that pain is excited by the many additional claims that have been made upon the funds during the interval that has elapsed since last we met, and those claims require renewed exertions on your part. This fund may vie with the proudest in alleviating calamity, in a judicious administration of its resources, in the deserving character of its recipients, and in the generous sympathy it has awakened. The stage hokls up the mirror to nature; reflects the virtues, the follies, and the vices of mankind. Virtue is its friend and patron; Folly stands self-reproved, blushes at her own ridiculous figure, and reforms; but Vice alone has no delight in its instructive impersonations, and is consequently its inveterate foe. Unless that you pronounce that the theatre is a vain amusement for the frivolous, you cannot but feel an interest in the welfare of its professors ; and until the actor shall be raised above the common lot of humanity, this fund, wliich goes to mitigate the evils of poverty, can hardly require a more eloquent advocate than its own merits. It asks your support for those who have softened the asperities of life by their humour, and taught the unthinking how to feel by well counterfeited woe. To those who were in extreme cases we have afforded temporary relief; we could not turn a deaf ear and a cold heart to the touching remonstrances with which we have been implored. Many have been rescued from pecuniary embarrassment, provided with an outfit, recommended to engagements, and restored, grateful and happy, to their families and profession. Familiar as many of us are with the tragic scene behind the curtain of life's drama, truth may almost be said to transeend fiction. W'hile I deplore the loss of my immediate predecessor, Edmund Kean, as master of this fund, let it be a subject of congratulation that the dramatic evergreen who preceded him in this lionourable office lives in the full enjoyment of that which should accompany old age— ' As honour, love jbcdience, hosts of fr.e uls,' with only one enemy—an obstinate one—that has never left him in toto —the Autolicus and Touchstone of cur youthful days—the inimitable Jack Bannister. Pleasant is the recollection of the days that are past. In that chair the Duke of Clarence called upon the rich and powerful to uphold the drama by a liberal support of its indigent members, and seconded the appeal with his princ.ly munitieence; the same condescension that shed a lustre on his eharity accompanies the ' King's' equal bounty this day. I regret with your lordship that indisposition prevents the Duke oi Sussex from presiding. May renewed hea'th enable his lloyal High ness to resume the situation at our jiext anniversary, which your lordship has ably filled this day." The subscription exceeded X'i'200. Madame Maltbran and the King of Naples.—Malibran is now at Naples. The Petit Courier des Dames says that there has been " a row" between her and the King of that country, and thus accounts for itSome time since Othello was performed. The pathetic Desdemona had excited the feelings of all and the tears of many who heard her ; when the King suddenly stopped the opera before its close, and ordered the ballet to commence instead. One of the first lords of the Court of Naples gave a fête to the élite of that capital, and invited his Majesty. " What do you give this evening?" said the King, after ha ving graciously accepted the invitation.—" Sire, a spectacle, concert, and ball." " Yery well; some good buffoonery, without doubt, for the spectacle. " Sire, the most amusing that can be had." " And who sings at your concert?" The courtier named the most fashionable singers of the theatre and city, but like a skilful courtier, reserved the name of Malibran to close his sentence, and prove to his Majesty how much he wished to please him. " Take care," was the King's answer, "that she sings before my arrival." An eruption from Vesuvius could not excite more talk and speeulation in Naples than this intimation. At. the close of the fourth act of Robert le Diable, the machinery which forms the vault of the cathedral gave way, and feil with great force upon the head of Nourrit, who was playing the principal cliaracter and so completely stunned him, that he was obliged to relinquish the' character for the remainder of the evening. Alexis Dupont went througli the close of the fourth act with the book in his hand and Lafont appeared in the fifth. It was reported that Nourrit was killed, but we are happy in being able to state that the accident is not likely to be followed by any serious consequences. PUBLIC EXIIIBITIONS. The Exeteii Clock.—One of the most complicated and ingenious productions of mechanical science perhaps ever exhibited, is now to be seen in Regent-street. It is the work of an English artisan, Jacob Lovelace, born in the city of Exeter, 15th March, 1656, who, to the disgrace of the age, ended his days in great poverty in that city, April 1, 1716, aged sixty years; after devoting thirty-four to the completion of this singular monument of his mechanical skill. The clock contains thirteen distinct and accurate parts, the principal of which are:— , . A perpetual almanack, showing the day of the month on a seimcn- cular plate. The index returning to the lst day of every month, on the close of eacli month, without a stop on even in leap-years. A circle, showing the leap-year, the index revolving only once in four years. Within the circle, which indicates the twenty-four hours, the sun is seen in lus course, with the time of rising and setting; and underneath is the moon, showing her different quarters, phases, age, &c. To these works are to be added chimes, automata, organs, and a panorama representing Apollo and Diana as day and night, each followed by their respective hours. The bare enumeration of these various powers suffices to show that the object is a wonderful one. We have been told that it surpasses the famous clocks at Strasburgh and at Lyons, and this may be true, although we confess our inability to offer a decided opinion upon the subject. It is, however, a most complete production, and well worthy of an attentive inspection. The Concordia.—This is Mr. Niggl's model of an instrument, now on exhibition in Old Bond-street. It is a striking and interesting novelty, and cannot fail of attracting the attention of the musical world. Mr. Moschelles, the celebrated pianist, has thus expressed his opinion of it: " It is a grand piano-forte with a doublé row of keys, the lower one having the sound of the ordinary piano, whilst the upper one happily imitates the tones of the stringed and wind instruments. lts construction seems to be the most simple, and so is its management; as an additional pedal, without the aid of bellows, is all that is required to set forth its qualities. I think this new invention may be considered as an enlargement upon the effects of the piano-forte, and as leading also to future improvements." Indeed, one great excellence of the concordia is its simplicity of construction, by which it is not liable to get out of tune; and another, that its mode of management may, as Mr. Niggl, states, be perfectly acquired in eight lessons. To exemplify the effect, it may be stated, that, with one hand, a person may perform violin variations upon one row of keys, while, with the other, he accompanies himself on the piano-forte. Thus the effect of the two instruments is produced. By placing both hands on the upper row of keys, we have a quartette of stringed instruments. When perfect, the concordia constitutes an orcliestra, as it were, of ten instruments; the piano-forte, violin, harp, violoncello, &c. The harp, as well as the violin, is beautifully distinct; and, as we have observed, all is accomplished by means of the ordinary strings of the piano-forte, without the aid of bellows, cylinders, or other machinery. The instrument is of German manufacture, and, admirable as it is, we are confident it may be yet grcatly improved. The price, we understand, is moderate. PARLIAMEJNTARY ANALYSIS. HOUSE OF LORDS. v Tuesday, Feb. 4.—His Majesty opened the Session of Parliament in person. He was very well received by a numerous assemblage of the populace, on going to and returning from the ceremony. The House was almost entirely filled by ladies of rank and fashion, elegantly attired. His Majesty entered the House shortly after two o'clock; he looked very well, and appeared in excellent health. After the Commons had been summoned, his Majesty read the following Speech in a distinct and audible voice:— " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " In calling you again together for the discharge of your high duties, I rely with entire confidence on your zeal and diligence, on your sincere devotion to the public interest, and on your firmness in supporting, on its ancient foundations, and in the just distribution of its powers, the established Constitution of the State. " These qualities eminently distinguished your labours during the last Session, in which more numerous and more important questions were brought under the consideration of Parliament, than during any former period of similar duration. " Of the measures which have in consequence received the sanction of the Legislature, one of the most difficult and important was the Bill for the Abolition of Slavery. The manner in which that beneficent measure has been received throughout the British Colonies, and the progress already made in carrying it into execution by the Legislature of the Island of Jamaica, afford just grounds for anticipating the happiest results. " Many other important subjects will stiil call for your attentive consideration. " The reports which I will order to be laid before you from the Commissions appointed to inquire into the state of the Municipal Corporations, into the administration and effect of the Poor Laws, and into Ecclesiastical Revenues and Patronage in England and Wales, cannot fail to afford you much useful information, by which you will be enabled to judge of the nature and extent of any existing defects and abuses, and in what manner the necessary corrections may, in due season, be safely and beneficially applied. " It has been the constant aim of my policy to secure to my people the uninterrapted enjoyment of the blessings of peace. In this I have been much assisted by the good understanding which has been established between my Government and that of France; and the assurances which I receive of the friendly disposition of the other Powers of the Continent, give me confidence in the continued success of my endeavours. " I have, however, to regret that a final settlement between Holland and Belgium has not yet be.'ii effeeted, and that the civil war in Portugal still continues. " You may be assured that I will be careful and anxious to avail myself of any opportunity which may afford me the means of assisting the establishment of a state of security and peace in countries, the interests of which are so intimately connected with those of my dominions. " Upon the death of the late King of Spain, I did not hesitate to recognise the suceession of his infant daughter; and I sball watch. with the greatest solicitude the progress of events which may affect a Government, the peaceable settlement of which is of the first importance to this country, as well as to the general tranquillity of Europe. * " The peace of Turkey, since the settlement that was made with Mehemet Ali, has not been interrupted; and will not, I trust, be threatened with any new danger. " It will be my object to prevent any change in the relations of that empire with the other powers, which might affect its future stability and independence. " GENTLEMEN OP THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, " I have directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you. They have been framed with the view to the strictest economy, and to such reductions as may not be injurious to the public service. " I am confident I may rely on your enlightened patriotism, and on the cheerful acquiescence of my people for supplying the means which may be required to uphold the honour of my crown, and the interest of my dominions. " The accounts which will be laid before you of the state of the Revenue, as compared with the Expenditure, will be found most satisfactory. " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " I have to lament the continuance of distress amongst the proprietors and occupiers of land; though in other respects the state of the country, both as regards its internal tranquillity, and its commerce and manufactures, affords the most encouraging prospect of progressive improvement. " The Acts passed in the last Session for carrying into effect various salutary and remedial measures in Ireland, are, now in operation, and further improvements may be expected to result from the Commissions which have been issued for other important objects of inquiry. " I recommend to you the early consideration of such a final adjustment of the tithes in that part of the United Kingdom as may extinguish all just causes of complaint, without injury to the rights and property of any class of my subjects, or to any institution in Church cr State. " The public tranquillity lias been generally preserved, and the state of all the provinces of Ireland presents, upon the whole, a much more favourable appearance than at any period during the last year. "But I have seen, with feelings of deep regret and just indignation, the continuance of attempts to excite the people of that country to demand a repeal of the Legislative Union. " This bond of our national strength and safety I have already declared my fixed and unalterable resolution, under the blessing of Divine Providence, to maintain inviolate by all the means in my power. In support of this determination, I cannot doubt the zealous and effectual co-operation of my Parliament and my people. " To the practices which have been used to produce disaffection to the State, and mutual distrust and animosity between the people of the two countries, is chiefly to be attributed the spirit of insubordination, which, though for the present in a great degree controlled by the power of the law, has been but too perceptible in many instances. "To none more than to the deluded instruments of theagitation thus perniciously excited, is the continuance of such a spirit productive of the most ruinous consequences ; and the united and vigorous exertions of the loyal and well-affected, in aid of the Government, are imperiously required to put an end to a system of excitement and violence, which, while it continues, is destructive of the peace of society, and, if successful, must inevitably prove fatal to the power and safety of the United Kingdom." His Majesty then retired, and the House adjourned during pleasure. THE ADDRESS. The Duke of Sutherlano raoved the Address in answer to his Majesty's Speech. (The Address, as usual, was merely an echo of the Speech itself.) , ' Lord Howard of Effingham seconded the Address, which was carried unanimously. Feb. 6th. The Lord Chancellor communicated his Majesty's Answer. Feb. 7th.—Lord Dacre presented a petition from several denominations of Dissenters, praying relief in respect to the ceremonies of baptism, marriage, and burial, for free admission to the l niversities, and for exemption from clerical rates. March 3d.—The Marquis of Westminster gave notice of motion relative to votes by proxy. March 7 th.—House entirely occupied with petitions from Dissenters, complaining of grievances. March 10th, 11 th, 13th, 15th—Various petitions were presented: some for the better observance of the Sabbath, some for church reform, church protection, &c.; but the Dissenters' petitions were by far the most numerous. March 17th.—Several petitions were presented by their lordships. The North American Postage Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Marquis of Lansdowne laid on the table four Orders in Council for the regulation of the trade with China. March 18th.—Lord Skelmersdale took the oaths, and subscribed the Parliamentary Rolls. The Mutiny Bill, and several other bills, were brought up from the Commons. The order for taking into consideration,°on Thursday, the Report and Resolutions of the ParliamentOffice Committee was discharged, on the motion of the Marquis of Lansdowne. Lord Wynford presented a petition against the Borough of AVarwick Bill. After a long conversation, Lord Durham gave notice that lie should move the second reading of that bill on the 24th of April. The English and Irish Judgments Bill was read a second time. March 20th.—On the motion of the Duke of Richmond, a Select Committee was appointed to inquire into the expediency of substituting declarations in lieu of oaths, in certain cases. VOL. I. ° Lord Wh arncliffe gave notice that, after the recess, he would bring forward a motion respecting secondary punishments. The Irish Juries' Amendment Bill and the Mutiny Bill were read a second time. The Lord Chancellor presented the last report of the Common Law Commissioners, of which he expressed his high approbation, so far as he had been able to consider it. His lordship suggested, at the same time, that he had much doubt whether the country ought to accept the services of the commissioners gratuitously. The report was ordered to be printed. March 21 st.—The Liverpool Disfranchisement Bill was read a first time. Earl Grey presented a petition from Cambridge in favour of Dissenters. The Duke of Wellington cautioned the House against interfering with the statutes of such corporations. After some further discussion, the petition was ordered to be laid on the table. March 22d.—Their lordships sat to-day for the first time on a Saturday since the opening of the session. The Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed. Some members of the House of Commons brought up the report of the committee, together with the minutes of evidence upon which the Liverpool Freemen Disfranchisement Bill is founded, in conformity with the message of their lordships.—Laid on the table. March 24M.—The Marquis of Lansdowne presented the copy of Order in Council, adopting the Act of the Legislature of Jamaica for the total abolition of slavery. March '26th.—The Lord Chancellob, in presenting a petition from the Dissenters of Edinburgh and Leith, expressed his dissent from that part of the prayer which contemplated the separation of church and state. His lordship afterwards introduced a bill for extending the criminal jurisdiction of the metropolis. Their lordships adjourned till the 29th, when they met for the hearing of appeals. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Feb. Ith.—ïhe House, after hearing his Majesty's speech (see proceedings of the House of Lords), adjourned, and again met for the despatch of business at 4 o'clock. After several notices of motion by various honourable members, MrLepevre moved the Address, and was seconded by Mr. Morrison. Mr. Hume moved as an amendment, " ïhat the House should consider the state of the established Church, its temporalities, and the maintenance of its clergy, with a view to the removal of the complaints made by Dissenters, and thus carry into effect the recommendation proceeding from the throne at the commencement of the last session. For the amendment 39—against it 191 ; majority against the amendment 152. Mr. Hume then moved, " ïhat this House pledges itself to cause such reductions to be made in all the civil, military, and naval establishments as shall bring home to all his Majesty's subjects an immediate and large reduction of taxation, the practical advantages and blessings of a continued peace, which this House rejoices to learn is not likely to be disturbed." Seconded by Mr. Warbirton, and negatived without a division. Mr. O'Connell moved that a paragraph in the Address " expressing indignation at the continued attempts to excite the people of Ireland to demand a repeal of the Union," be entirely omitted. After much discussion, there appeared to be for the amendment 23—against it 189; majority 166. The Address was then agreed to. Feb. ith.—ïhe report on the Address was read a first time. On the second reading Mr. Cobbett moved an amendment, which was negatived without a division. CHARGE AGAINST CERTAIN IRISH MEMBERS. Mr. Finn proposed an amendment to that part of the Address which expressed regret that attempts had been made to excite the people of Ireland to demand repeal of the Union. He denied that there existed any connexion between political agitation and prfedial outrage. Mr. Littleton maintained that there was a connexion between them ; and vindicated the Coercion Bill by a comparison of the number of crimes committed immediately before and after the passing of that measure. Mr. O'Conn ell said nothing could be more fallacious than such a test of the efficacy of the Coercion Bill; and remarked, that the periods of the greatest political agitation in Ireiand had uniformly proved to be those least remarkable for pra:dial outrage. Before the passing of the Coercion Bill, crimes had diminished from three to one; whereas that bill left nearly the same proportion remaining. The measure about to be brought forward, regarding tithes, would, it was said, give relief to the people, without lessening the amount of their burthen, which was something like playing a game at which every body would win. Their attention having been called to the Coercion Bill, he would allude to a circumstance in some degree connected with it. It had been publicly stated that votes had been procured in support of that measure in a manner so disreputable as to be scarcely within the bounds of belief, but he did not wish Ministers to suppose that he believed the part which was attributed to them in the transaction. He wished, however, to give them an öpportunity of refuting the charge. 1 he utterance of the calumny was attributed to the Hon. Member for Huil, who was represented to have said,—" It is impossible for those not actually in the House to know all the secret machinery by which votes are obtained. I happen to know that an Irish Member, who spoke with great violence against every part of that bill, and voted against every clause of it, went to Ministers and said, ' Don't bate one single atom of that bill, or it will be impossible for any man to live in Ireiand.' ' M hat, said they, e this from you who speak and vote against the bill ? ^ es, he replied ' that is necessary, because if I don't come into Parliament for Ireiand, I must be out altogether, and that I don't choose.'"—The constituency of Ireiand had a right to know whether there was such a person as was thus described. He believed that it was totally untrue. He therefore inquired of the Noble Lord, whether he or any other Member of the Cabinet had ever stated that an Irish Member had acted in the manner described, and whether any Irish Member ever went to the Noble Lord, or any other Minister, and made the imputed statement? Lord Althorf said that, to the first of the questions he could answer positively for himself, and, to the best of his belief, for his colleagues, that no such assertion had ever been made. With respect to the seeond, as far as he was aware, no Irish Member had made any such statement to a Cabinet Minister. [The Xoble Lord placed a strong emphasis on the word " Cabinet," which was remarked by the House, and elicited loud cries of " hear."] But he should not act a manly part if he did not declare that he had good reason to believe that some Irish Members, (certainly more than one) who voted and spoke with considerable violence against the bill, did in private conversation use very different language.—Mr. O'Connell, starting up, exclaimed, " The Noble Lord is shrinking—state the names of those Members ? " —Lord Althorp (across the table). Does the Hon. Member accuse me of shrinking? — Mr. Shiel. Teil us the name of our accuser ("Order.")—Mr. O'Connell.—I retract the word "shrinking." I feel that I ought not to use a harsh expression towards the Noble Lord. I now ask the Noble Lord who are the Irish Members who have acted as he lias described ? Lord Althorp.—I am answerable for what I say, and I have no right tó shift the responsibility upon others. I am perfectly ready to name the Irish Members to whom 1 have alluded if they choose to call upon me; but unless they do so, I think I sliould not be justified in doing it (cheers).—Mr. O'Connell. I am authorized by every Irish Member now present (" No !") — then I ask the Noble Lord whether I am one of the Members to whom he alludes ?—Lord Althorp. No.— Mr. Finn. Am I one?—Lord Althorp. No.—Mr. Shiel and several other Irish Members rose with the view of putting the same question. Great eonfusion prevailed, and shouts of " Order" and " Chair." Mr. Hüjvie thought that the discussion must now terminate. He appealed to the Chair whether his Hon. and Learned Friend could proceed further in the matter.—Mr. O'Connell said that after the imputation on " more than one" Irish Member, an opportunity of clearing themselves ought to be given to those who demanded it.—Mr. Shiel. Am I one of the Members to whom he alludes ?—Lord Althorp. The Hon. Gent. is one (eonfusion).—Mr. Shiel, And I, in the face of this House, in the face of my country, and in the presence of my God—I say, if any individual ever communicated that I expressed my approbation of the Coercion Bill, he has been guilty of a scandalous falsehood (cheers). As the Noble Lord has intimated his own responsibility for the allegation, I shall not now dweil upon the subject further.—Mr. O'Connell, after what had just passed, feit it his duty to retract the language he had applied to Mr. Hill, and to beg his pardon for having used such language.—Mr. Hill said he was satisfied with this retractation. He lamented the time chosen, one of domestic calamity to him, by Mr. O'Connell for his attack on him. (Hear, hear.) The Speaker feit it to be impossible that the subject could terminate where it then was, but he was sure the House would agree with him that it could only be set at rest within those walls.—Mr. O'Connell concurred. If he had known that Mr. Hill was suffering under a domestic calamity he would have abstained from any remarks whatever, until such time as they might be used without the pain to his feelings which the presence of a domestic calamity would create. He now thanked him for accepting his apology.—A long and stormy discussion then ensued as 10 the meaning and extent of the " responsibility" which Lord Althorp took upon himself. The Noble Lord's own explanation of it was as follows:—He had assumed the responsibility, but had not undertaken to vouch for the truth: what he meant was this— that though he had heard such a statement, he would take upon himself not to give up the name of the person from whom the information proceeded. This observation he had made in reply to a question put, and if his saying so gave offence he was answerable for that.—Col. L. H ay had heard similar representations respecting other Irish Members, and took upon himself the responsibility of saying so.—Sir F. Burdett now declared that if his Noble Friend and the Hon. Gent. did not come forward and pledge themselves that they would not further depart from the rules of the House, he should move that they be committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. The Speaker impressed upon both the Hon. Members (Lord Althorp and Mr. Shiel) that what they should be required to do had in it nothing in the slightest degree degrading. In the course of some further discussion Mr. Cobbett gave the following account of the matter: It is as if a man came into a company, and said, " There is a person in this room who has stolen a horseone of the party requires him to be more explicit; he replies, " You stole the horse; the other rejoins, " It is a lie; teil me your authority." The answer to that is, " I will not give up my authority, 1 take all the responsibility upon myself." Is not that the same thing as standing in the place of the person who first uttered the accusation ?—The Speaker, after a temperate exposition of his duty, called upon Mr. Shiel to assure the House that the matter now before it should not be prosecuted by him without its walls, but remain, as at present, entirely confined to its sole jurisdiction.—Mr. Shiel remained silent; but Lord Althorp immediately declared, that as he had not taken offence in consequence of any thing which had been said, he was quite ready to assure the House that he should not adopt any hostile proceedings without the walls of the House (hear, hear).—This heightened the indignation of Mr. O'Conxei.i,, who declared, that though the Noble Lord had not taken offence, he had given great offence. The Noble Lord was not plaintiff but defendant in the cause.—The Speaker considered the call of the House to have been, that the Noble Lord would not out of its walls himself any further prosecute or respond to any call (cries of " No, no !) To that exent, at all events, he considered himself charged by the House to call upon the Learned Gent., as well as upon the Noble Lord, to declare their intensions.—Lord Althorp would not promise that he would not respond to a call.—Sir F. Burdett moved that both parties be taken into custody, which was done. The matter then dropped, and the amendment having been negatived, the Address was finally agreed to.—Subsequently Lord Althorp through Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Shiel through Mr. H™e, severally declared their willingness to give the required assurance, and were conseqüently released from the custody of the Serjeantat-Arms. Feb. C>th, The Sppaker communicated to the House the answer of his Majesty to their Address. THE CHARGE AGAINST CERTAIN IRISH MEMBERS. Mr. O'Connell called the attention of the House to a breach of its privileges, requiring, after what occurred last night, a very serious and dehberate investigation. He had read last night, in the Exarrdner of the 10th Nov., an extract from a speech alleged to have been delivered by Air. Hill, at a public meeting at Huil, imputing to certain Irish Members that they had privately expressed their approval of the Irish Coercion Bill, against which they had spoken violently and voted ; and he moved that the paragraph be now read by the Clerk of the House preparatory to referring the matter to a Committee of Privilege.—Mr. Stanley mterposed. Before the paragraph was read, he wished to ask whether the necessary consequence of reading it would be any step against the printer or publisher of the newspaper. If so he took the earliest opportunity of stating unhesitatingly that he should object to the preliminary motion.-The Speaker was understood to say that the reading of the paragraph would not necessarily implicate the printer and publisher, unless it should turn out that he had misrepresented information denved from and attributed to another quarter.—Mr. Stanley portrayed most forcibly the dangers and the difficulties which must necessarily attend the institution of such an inquiry; and his solemn warmng as to the consequences of the inquiry in case the denial of Mr. Shiel should not be fully made out.—Mr. O'Connell however, gave notice that he should bring the matter before the House on Monday, as a breach of privilege. Leave was given to amend a clerical error in the Factories' Regulation Bill, which was read a first time. Feb. 17th. Mr. Behnal brought in a bill to prevent bribery and corruption in the Borough of Hertford-read a first time. SUPPLY. The House went into a committe, pro forma. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. On the motion of Mr. Hume, a return of punishments in each regiment for 1831, 1832, and 1833, was ordered. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. The Speaker called on Mr. O'Connell, but Mr. Shiel rose and advanced to the table. Without intending to interfere with the discussion he took the opportunity of repeating, with the simple strenuousness ot one whose conscience was pure, that he was innocent of the charge imputed to him. He left his fate in their hands; and threw himseli with a perfect confidence on British generosity and good faith ; but he du hope than in entering upon that inquiry the tone of acrimomousness which had betrayed itself a few days back would not be agam exhioited. Mr. Stanley said, that as it was the intention to sift the charge, it was important to know distinctly what it was that was to be rebutted e charge which had been made was, that the hon. and learned Membei had used language out of the House which was at vanance wirti h* declared and avowed sentiments in it. He wished to know whether Mr. Shiel assented to the statement of the charge ? Mr O'Connell characterised this as a most insidious attempt to shun the real merits of the question. The delay interposed had been attended by two advantages; one, that the House could now approach the discussion with calmer feelings; the other, that he had had «me to make uP his mind to the infinite difference between the statements of the noble Lord (Althorp) and those of the hon. Member for Huil. On » former occasion he had stated that he acquitted the hon. Mera^for Huil of stating what he was unable to prove, but he feit he had been too hasty in making such an achnission. The pubhcation in which the speech of Mr. Hill was reported contamed an allegation, which he i lenged him to justify. Mr. Hill had stated that one Irish Member had betrayed his country and his conscience, but the noble Lord in one sense gone further, for he had included many Members in his charge. This he beheved was a miserable slander ; he had char e many of the Irish Members-Lord Althorp. Some.—Mr. O Con.nell. Now, he thought that even one was too many. The scale in w ie ï hon. Members mightmeasure the difference between "some and many was too nicely balanced for his feeble understanding. There^ere three newspapers in which the report of Mr. HiU's speech appeared; one the Huil Packet, he was informed, was a steady supporter o tie ion. Member.—[An Hon. Member, The Huil Rochingham.-\-Moreovw, the speech had the appearance of having been communicated by the hon. Member himself. The speech had the advantage of appearing in the first person. But he (Mr. Hill) had not denied that the report was a true one; and he would not only have to show that he believed the charge, but to satisfy the House that it was well-founded. It was not a hasty expression, dropped at Brookes's or in the Street, but a distinct intimation to «Ministers, urging them to proceed with a measure fatal to Ireland. He would pass over the admission made that it was not to a cabinet minister that thisad vice was given; he would give the hon. Member all the latitude that the word " Ministry could convey. The right hon. Secretary had thrown a shield over his learned friend, which he had turned into a weapon of offence; but his learned friend would not go to that right hon. Gentleman for a character. Adverting to the course taken by Lord Althorp, he said, he hoped the House would not protect the noble Lord, but would ascertain the grounds upon which he rested his firm belief of the accusation. Above all things, he was desirous to get at the original reporter of the story. Mr. Hill reminded the House that on Wednesday last Mr. O'Connell stated that he (Mr. Hill) was perfectly justified in every thing which he had said. The hon. Member now seemed to wish to retract or explain away what he had then said. Did he (Mr. Hill) not now, in the opinion of the hon. Member, stand perfectly justified in every thing which the newspapers had represerited him to have said at Huil? (" Oh !" and a laugh.) Was he to have the hon. Member's retractation or not ? Did the hon. Member withdraw that retractation or did he not ? He would have either one thing or the other; he would not accept half a retractation. Let there ba a full retractation or none. He understood the hon. Member on Wednesday to mean that whether right or wrong, whether accurate or mistaken, he (Mr. Hill) was sincere in what he had said at Huil—that he firmly believed the story, and, believing, merely repeated it. KING I/EOPOLD's ANNU1TY. Feb. 11 th.—Mr. Robinson moved for " an account of the sums paid into the Exchequer, or otherwise received by the Government out of the annuity granted by act of Parliament to Prince Leopold, of Saxe Cobourg, since the accession of his Majesty to the throne of Belgium, specifying the time of such payments." Mr. Guest seconded the motion, which, after some observations, was agreed to. Feb. 12th.—It was agreed that Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Hill should be added to the Committee of Privileges appointed to inquire into the case of Mr. Shiel. p THE BUDGET. Feb. 14th.—Lord Althorp moved that 14,000,000/. be raised by Exchequer Bills, and to repeal entirely the House Tax, which yielded 1,200,000/. The motion was agreed to. LAW OF LIBEL. Mr. O'Connell moved for leave to bring in a bill to araend the Law of Libel, which was granted. PENSION LIST. Mr. D. W. Harvey moved for a select committee to inquire into the grounds on which the several pensions on the Civil List had been granted. After an animated debate, there appeared for the motion 182—against it 190; majority 8. ADJUBTMENT OF TITHES IN 1RELAND. Feb. 20th.—Division in favour 219—against 12 ; majority 177. Feb. 21 st.—Sir E. Knatchbull moved for the rescinding of the previous order respecting Baron Smith. On a division, the motion was carried by 161—against 155. Feb. 27th.—Sir W. Ingilby moved for a committee of the whole House to " take into consideration the partial or total repeal of the Duty on Malt," which was lost by a majority of 101. ARMY ESTIMATES. Feb. 28th.—Mr. Ellice moved that 88,950 men should form the effective force of the army for the year, which was agreed to by a division of 281 to 45. March 3rd.—In a committee of Supply, Mr. Ellice moved that 3,056,873/. be granted to defray the charges of his Majesty's lar.d forces at home and abroad (except the regiments in the East Indies). Agreed to. Mr. Elmce next moved for 12,848/. for general officers, &c., and 90,313/. for the affairs of the army in England and Ireland, and 6,977/. 3s. 3(1. for the Royal Military Asylum, which were respectively allo wed. CORN LAWS. March 6th.—Mr. Hume, pursuant to notice, moved the following resolution:—" That this House do resolve itself ir.to a Committee, to consider of the Corn Laws, and of substituting, instead of the present graduated scale of duties, a fixed and moderate duty on the import, at all times, of foreign corn into the United Kingdom; and for granting a fixed and equivalent bounty on the export of corn from the United Kingdom, with the ultimate view of establishing a free trade in corn." After a very animated discussion, an adjournment was moved by Mr. Ewart, and agreed to. March 7th.—Debate resumed on the Corn Laws, and the motion lost by a majority of 157. REMUNERATION TO CAPTAIN ROSS. March 10th.—An interesting conversation took place on the subject of a petition presented by Mr. C. Ferguson from Captain Ross, praying to be indemnified for the expenses incurred by him in his voyage to the North Pole. A variety of opinions were offered, and it was ultimately agreed that the subject should be brought forward on the 12th. SUPPLY. In a Committee of the House, Mr. Ellice moved for 82,179/. for the volunteer corps; 16,547/. for rewards, &c.; 114,000/. for general officers, not being colonels of regiments; 81,240/. for half-pay, &c. to officers of disbanded foreign corps, and other parties. Several other votes were also agreed to, and the House resumed. March 11 th.—Mr. O'Connell brought on his motion respecting the Oaths taken by Members of Parliament, and urged their abolition. After a protracted discussion, the hon. member withdrew his motion. OBSERVANCE OP THE SABBATH. Sir Andrew Agnew moved for leave to bring in a bill to promote the better observance of the Lord's-day. After a conversation of some length, leave was given. The hon. baronet then obtained leave to bring in a bill to explain and amend certain acts relative to the observance of the Lord's-day in Scotland; after which he further moved for leave to bring in a bill to enable local authorities to change Saturday and Monday fair and market-days to other days. This, however, was negatived by a majority of 182 to 137. March I2th.—The Hertford Borough Bill was read a second time '1 he Liverpool Freemen Bill caused much personal recrimination fmong some hon. members, which was subsequently explained. assuredly necessary; and he hoped it would be reniembered, that they were not new works to be begun, but old works to be completed. Mr. Cobbett said, that the money was not to go to fortify the harbour of Halil'ax: oh, no ! it was not for that—it was to build a citadel. Hon. members did not know, and he was sure the right hon. gentleman opposite did not know (a laugh), that thirty years ago this citadel was considered as complete as could be. He saw it himself thirty-four years ago, when the Duke of Kent commanded there. Col. Maberley said, that when he came into office, he thought it right to carry to perfection the works which the House had thought it necessary to construct; and if any part were now left unfinished, it would be a complete throwing away of money, and would render nugatory the decision to which the House had come. With respect to the value of Halifax, and the province to which it belonged, he must remind the hon. member that it was not the same as when he saw it. If the hon. member had an estate there, he would find that his property was very valuable. It was a rich country, and its resources were very great. It was necessary that there shoukl be a citadel to protect the town on the land side. As to the fortifications in the Mauritius, they came recommended to the Ordnance on the principle of economy. Their completion would enable us to do with fewer soldiers there, and thus a great saving would be effected. The House afterwards divided, and the votes were carried by a majority of 54. The Exchequer of Receipt Bill was re-committed and reported.— The Stafford Borough Disfanchisement Bill was read a third time and passed.—The Hertford Borough Bill was re-committed.—The second reading of the House-duty Repeal Bill was postponed till the 14th of April. March '25th.—The debate on the Cambridge University petition was resumed, and again adjourned. In the evening, Mr. Brocklehurst moved for a return of the state of the South Sea Company's aftairs, down to Jan. 1. Agreed to.—Sir J. Tyrrell inquired whether the Government had made any representation respecting the outrage on English fishermen by a French vessel? —Lord Palmerston replied, that the Government had instituted inquiry; that a correspondence on the subject was now proceeding ; and that the subject was one on which Government feit all proper anxiety.—Colonel Evans presented a petition for the relief of the I'olish exiles.—Lord Palmerston said, that Government had all possible sympathy for the Poles, but it could not propose any grant upon the subject. March 26th.—The debate on the Cambridge petition was again renewed, and adjourned to the first sitting after the recess.—Mr. Bückingham gave notice, that on the 24th of April, he should move an address to the Crown, praying for relief for the distressed Poles residing in this country. The House then adjourned to Monday, the 14th April. the FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW. JULY 1, 1834. OPINIONS OF THE PUBLIC PRESS. The spirit in wliich we began our labours has not, we have been gladdened to experience, been misinterpreted tlie subjoined opinions (and some of them possess internal evidence of being the emanations of brethren eminently qualified to bear such testimony), whilst they fully discern our motives, rightly appreciate their final end and aim. Our attempt, if not intimately understood, must have excited the opposition of the lionestly zealous : in numbering, however, amongst our subscribers brethren as celebrated for their profound knowledge of our mysteries as for the virtue and benevolence with which they practically illustrate them, we have the surest and most animating conviction of the purity and usefulness of our design. all that we reguired was to be fully and per- fectly understood, conscious that our success couldonlv be commensurate with the most undisguised and ample knowledge of our intentions. We have a two-fold pride in our hopes of prosperity: First, that we have been the means of affording to the United Craft, and to the World in general, something more than a dry register of Masonic news; and Secondly, that in so doing we have in no iota violated those sacred and eternal principles which are the vital essence of our glorious mystery. vol. i. 2 With some pride and equal satisfaction we call the attention of our readers to the following extracts:— Morning Post.—To see freemasonry enlisting the publicity of the Press in its cause is, no doubt, calculated to excite a feeling of surprise. It appears, however, that the principles of the craft may be openly avowed and advocated without endangering its secrefs. This being the case, it certainly does appear singular that so numerous and powerful a sect should have remained so long without a reeognised and accredited organ. For the mere purpose of carrying on ordinary and official intercourse between distant lodges, of teiegraphing eaeh other, as it were, by notices and signals intelligible to the initiated only, one would have thought the obvious utility of such a publication would have suggested its establishment at a much earlier period. Independently of these advantages in a work devoted to masonic intelligence, the Freemasons Quarterly aspires to compete with other periodicals in the wide field of general literature and science; and, inasmuch as Masons are men who thirst after knowledge, and seek to distinguish themselves by acquirement without the boundary line as well as within the confines of their craft, this attTibute of the work has been wisely resolved upon. From the specimen furoished by No. 1 of this Quarterly, we have very little doubt of its success. The original papers are written in a very superior style, one in which foree and ele^ance combine, and thcre is a rich vein of philosophic thought in the matter. This observation will apply to the first article on " Freemasonry," deducmg that " craft and mystery" with considerable ingenuity, from the days when the Great Architect of the Uni verse planted Adam in Paradise, down war ds in one eontinued unbroken stream, to the present time. The story of •' The Mason," founded upon fact, is full of romantic interest, and powerfully told. There is also a very pleasing biography of Handel, and a detailed account of the Grand Musical Commemoration in Westminster Abbey. for a repetition of which, preparations are now making. The poetry is original and good, far above the usual order of periodical versification. Notices of theatricals and the fine arts, with spirited criticisms, and the usual digest of Parliamentaiy and general intelligence, have also their proportionate share of space. We have no hesitation in saying that well-directed exertions, and a liberal supply in the general department of the work, will ensure the proprietors a very extensive circulation. Morning News.—It is now fourteen years since we joined the fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons. Many and strange have been the mutations of our fortune since then,—pursued by adversity,—chastened by affiiction,—anon, cheered by brighter prospects,—sometimes even in the actual enjoyment of prosperity's " all sunny sheen,"—again, perchance," sinking amid sorrows,''—yet, in eaeh and all, our attachment to the craft has always afforded either enjoyment or consolation. How can we, then, but feel exceeding gratificatiën at beholding, within the mysterious precincts of editorial location this outward sign of the still more mysterious—this right hand, as it were, of Freemasonry, disarming, (because grasping) the right hand of criticism ? Critical, in such a case, we could not be; nor is there need, for this first, as we would fondly rely, of a vigorous and long-lived race, has in it so much deserving of praise, that to be critical w^mld be unkind, not to say unjust. We commend the whole design of the Freemason's Quarterly: it will go far to convince the uninitiated that the fraternity are bound together not less by sentiment and affection than by symbolical ties—that their aim is happiness—the means they use peace, truth, and brotherly love; and it will aid in the diffusion of instruction, and in drawing still moreclosely together the bonds of amity among the craft, by obtaining a place in the library of every lodge in the United Kingdom. Courier.—It may be considered as a sign of the times that the secret society of Freemasons wish to avail themselves of the press, to give publicity to their proceedings, and to establish a periodical of their own. One of the objects of the Freemason's Quarterlj/ Revietv, of which this is the first number, is stated to be, to disabuse the »orld respecting the prejudices which exist against the society of Freemasons, and " by advancing the interests of Masonrv, advance the true interests of mankind." Those, however, who expect to find in this publication all the secrets of the craft at length exposed to view, will be disappointed, for the conductor expressly states, that," the landmarks of the order will be religiously observedand the signs of the Zodiac and other emblems are exhibited on the cover, in resemblance of the mystical circles drawn by the professors of the black art, as an i:itimation, we presume, that the work, so far as the mysteries of the craft are concerned, will be a sealed book to the uninitiated. The flrst artiele is " on Freemasonry," whieh is deseribed in glowing colours. The other articies in this Ileview consist of a taie entitled " TheMason," iilustrative of the advantages attendant on being a member of the craft, with stories of a genera! charaeter several pieces of poetry, a variety of Masonic inteliigenee, information on miscellaneous subjects, and a summary of the leading events of the past quarter. Sun—As the Freemasons constitute a social, close-knit Corporation, and this periodicai is for the most part dedicateil to their interest, giving full reports of the procecdings of their iodges, &c. from time to time, we have littledoubt that it will rapidly get into circulation among them. Among the contents is a singular and interesting tale entitled the '* Mason,'* which the author assures us is founded 011 a fact cominunicated at Cambridge during the autumn of the last year, by a member of the masonic fraternity, of distinguished charaeter and literary reputation. This tale is well worth a perusal, and we regret we have not space to do it justice by making an extract or two from it. There are many pleasing snatches of verse in this number; the best of which is a fragment of a poem on the old subject of the fate of genius, which, however, contains not a few novel thoughts. The magazine is neatly got up J and, considering the body for whose amusement it caters, is by 110 means dear in point of price. True Sun—Just at this critical juncture, the Freemasons have brought out the first number of a magazine, as if with the view of being upon their guard, and securing as far as possihle the means of defence. And why not ? As the introductory address reminds us, Law hath its Magazine, Medicine its Magazine, the Church, its Magazines, the Naval and Military Services their Magazines—literary as well as warlike; and even the Parliament hath its " Mirror" and '• Review." Why should not the Freemasons be as free as any of them to institute and maintain its Magazine? The first number affords a fair promise of success to the project. It contains various interesting articies, and plenty of masonic inteliigenee for its readers, whether at home or abroad. Jge—At first sight weexpected to find some mystical writing, interesting to the order alone. We have been agreeably disappointed. The articies on Freemasonry are so agreeable as tó prove equally interesting to the general reader, who will, in this Review, find some well written, if not elegant, tales iu prose and verse. This Quarteily deserves that success which the fraternity are morally bound to ensure. Beits Messenger.—Amongst the many periodieals which are almost daily issuing from the press, we have to notice a work devoted to Freemasonry. It contains many interesting arti. cles, and we have no doubt will prove an amusing treat to the general reader, as well as to those to whom it is more particularly dedieated. There is an artiele called " The Mason," written with great power and effect; it has reference to the war in Kussia under Napoleon, and is full of forcible and picturesque writing. It is our duty to add, that this work is exeeednigly well got up, and the masonic inteliigenee of the quarter must be full of interest to the several ehapters and brethren of the lodges throughout the kingdom. New Beits Messenger— The Freemason's Quarterly Review! Well, there does appear to have been a desideratum in periodicai literature, unknown to us before, which the work upon our table promises fully to supply. Why ought not the Freemasons to have a Review of their own ? They are, both in numbers and importance, able to support such a publication and we are inclined to think that success will crown the exertions of the spirited conductors of this. It contains a great variety of inteliigenee of interest to every Mason, and some literary articies of merit. Court Jotit-nal.—The Freemasons' Quarterly Review, is produced in a very neat form.with excellent paper and print, and containing apparently a variety of matter that will prove aeceptable to the fraternity for which it is designed. Weelcly Dispatch.- This first attempt is worthy the importance and extent of an Order whose general proceedings are conducted with such seereey that little has transpired but their aeknowledged umon and charitable regulations. The work proposes to treat upon those general principles by which the support of the fraternity over the whole world is to be propitiated, and enters into an examination of Freemasonry from the carliest data to the present era. Interesting anecdotes areintroduced, and there are several poetical articies which exhibit a cultivated and superior taste. The intelligent reader, who may not be a Mason, will a.preciate the general interest which a perusal of the Review must naturally ereate: but the reemason Wl11 gladden at the details of the craft, which are (low, for the first time brought Bath Chronicle.—Th:s is a publication entitled not only to the support of the craft, but to the patronage of the lilerary world in generai. It is written with considerabte spirit, force, and judgment, and it is weil calculated to amuse as well as to instruct. lts extenor character is attractive: in short, it presents all the requisites for makiiig it a favourite with the reading public. Bath Journal.—We have an addition to our periodical literature, and of such talent, as will find with many a welcome reception. Fulfilling the promise of the title, the editor gives us a copious supply of masonic intelligence; but renders his book by no means deficient in matters of generai interest—political, scientific, literary, «Sic. Bath and Cheltenham Gazette.—The appearance of this new work adds another to the list of proofs, that our national appetite for literature continues unabated. Following the exumple of many large and influential bodies of people, the Freemasons propose to have a magazine of their own, and the present number is the auspicious and promismg commencement of the undertaking. Bath Herald.—It is well known that there are many subjects upon which the venerable order of free and accepted Masons, with all the solemn and impenetrable secrecy which distinguishes it, can openly commune. There are many operations, also, wilh which the whole Craft require to be made acquainted, and a medium has at length been adapted by the esta blishment of this Review, which is ealculated to effect this in the most complete, satisfactory, and entertaining form. Bristol Gazette.—" The Craft" alone seems to be uniepresented in the great witenagemot, or parliament of literature. To remedy this defect, •' The Freemasons• Quarterly Review has emerged from " darkness to light." As it has hut just now fallen into our hands, we have been able only to cast an eye over it, but from what we observe, it will be " a moveable jewel," and, with a little graveling, will in a short time become " a perfect Ashler." The brotherhood will understand us. Bristol Mirror.—We hail with great pleasure the appearance of a work which has long been a desideratum. The clergyman—the lawyer—the doctor—the sailor—the soldier—even the operative, has long been in possession of an exclusive publication, by which, as upon a modern rail-road, there is a quick conveyance of opinion and of knowledge; in fact, a beneficial interchange of commodities in the several professions and callings. Brighton Guardian.—Amongst other new publications which have lately come before us, is one bearing the above title, which will doubtless prove highly acceptable to the *« brethren of the mystic tie." It is got up very neatly, and of course is principally devoted to Masonic subjects and intelligence. An iuteresting article on " The Trappists " contains some curious specimens of the religious poetry of these ascetics. Dubin Morning Register."—" The Freemasons' Quarterly Review." We havereceived the first number of this periodical, the object of which is fully described in its preface. From the manner in which the Review is conducted, it is well calculated to attain the objects of its projectors, and there can be no doubt that its popularity with the uninitiated will be greatly increased if it affords them similar amusement and entertainment as may be found concentrated in the well-told tale of" The Mason," and " The Trappists. Gloucestershire Chronicle.—That so large and influential a body as that of the Freemasons should have remained without either organ to develop its principles or medium to communicate generally with its members, must be a matter of surprise and admitted to be a deficiency. Its inconvenience has been feit, and an effort is now made to obviate it in the establishment of a Quarterly Review, pledged to its principles and devoted to its interests. Henceforth this miscellany is to tracé, amid the billows of centuries and the wrecks of nations, the rise, progress, and purposes of ancient Freemasonry—to investigate masonic literature, that curious relic of times past but now a dead letter to the world—to become an archive, wherein shall be recorded whatever may most interest or affect the brethren; an arena upon which the prejudices of the world against the noble science shall be fairly arraigned to be fully dissipatcd, whilst its simplicity, truth, and beauty, are triumphantly established. But whilst thus faithful to its mission and true to its principles, it will combine all that extraneous information, whether relating to the drama, fine and useful arts, home and foreign intelligence, which so much add to the interest of other periodicals—but this without a touch or taint of party spirit or private feeling so dissonant to the principles, so opposed to the practice of enlightened Freemasonry. Before we close our short notice of this new accession to the strength and numbers of the Quarterlies of the day, we cannot refrain from expressing our satisfaction of the general conduction and execution of this inaugral number, alike creditable to the editor and publishers, and worthy of the interest it represents, and which bids fair to secure for it a large patronage and support Gloucester Journal.—This publication supplies a want which has long been feit amongst the " Craft.' As an eligible medium of conveying masonic information it will be cordially received; and we have no doubt, therefore, adequately and ex ten si vel y supported. Nor is its interest entirely eonfined to the brotherhood, for it contains literary articles of a miscellaneous nature, suitable to the general reader. We cordially wish success to the undertaking. Norwich Metcury.—The first number of a periodical, entitled The Freemason's Quarterly Review, has appeared, which proposes to combine general information upon passing events, with more particular attention to the subject of Masonry. The topics of which it treats will be found valuable to the brethren, who are invited in an introductory address to support an undertaking which has for its object the advancement of the interests of the body, and the disabusing the world, upon a subject which, taking truth, knowledge, and charity for its basis, deserves respect rather than the prejudice it encounters. In the first number we may more particularly point out the articles headed on Freemasonry and Masonic Intelligence, and a tale called The Mason, which is well imagined and elegantly written. Norfolk Chronicle.—Among the advertising columns of our paper will be found the announcement of a new periodical, entitled " The Freemasons' Quarterly Revicw." Of this publication we have been favoured with a eopy of the first number, which came out at the commencement of the present month, and willingly call the attention of the Masonic Craft in this city and county to its pages. Nor would we decline to say something more, as of ourselves, respecting it, ———————— " But, alas! To their own bards must leave the mystic class." " In vain" (adds Crabejb, in his admirable poem of (The Borough)— " In vain shall one, and not a gifted man Attempt to sing of this enlightened clan, I know no word, boast no directing sign, And not one token of the race is mine." Alike disqualified with the poet, both for singing and for saying much on such a subject, we can only undertake to express our saüsfaction that the opinions of our London contemporaries have b en so generally favourable to the merits of the work. Oxford ilerald. Ihis work is published with a view to disabuse the world respecting the nature of Freemasonry, and to give the craft the meansof communicating generally with each other. It is handsomely printed, and contains much interesting information, not forgetting amusing matter, which will afförd great pleasure to all classes of readers, the uninitiated as well as the initiated. It commences with a concise yet well written history of Masonry which flourished in the earliest ages, and has continued improving until the present time. This history is followed by a tale called " The Mason," which the writer states is founded upon a fact, communicated at Cambridge, during the autumn of the last year, by a brother of distinguished character and literary reputation. We are sorry that we cannot at present find sufficiënt space for this story of real life, which proves the utility of the mystic brotherly association even amidst the horrors of warfare. The present number contains also a very curious account of a Trappist's Monastic Establishment in the neighbourhood of Amiens, and a very full programme of the grand Musical Jubilee of 1784, a repetition of which will sliortly take place. To Masons we most particularly recommend this periodical, as it contains what has long been with them a deuideratum, viz. Masonic Intelligence from all parts of the united kingdom ; to render which the more complete, the co-operation of tl.e Fraternitv.and more especially of the Masters and Past Masters of all Lodges is earnestly solicited by the Editor. We look that our work shall rapidly grow, for it is planted by the river of Truth; so that it shall be said of it, as of the cedar, " 1 hus was he fair in his greatness; in the length of his branches; for his koot was by great waters." ON FREEMASONRY. IIaving traced Masonic science in its progress from the creation of the world, through the Antediluvian, Patriarchal, Jewish, Heathen, and modern ages, it now becomes our duty to divide it into its different epochs, and illustrate each by such evidence as may best establish its divine origin and high antiquity. We shall commence vvith its first grand epoch, from the creation of the human race to the destruction of a guilty world by the deluge; but it may previously be necessary to offer a few observations upon the nature of the evidence by which we are supported. The true value of tradition lies in an appeal to the common sense of all mankind, and is a reliance upon the testimony of men without reference to their nation, or religion, but drawn from principles which the whole species alike partake of, and uninfluenced by such as are peculiar to their community or faith. It may fairly be considered admissible proof, when it contains nothing improbable or inconsistent with Scripture and reason ; and ought to be received as genuine, when the authorities from whence it is derived are not suspected of being themselves deceived, or of wishing to deceive others. This may fairly be presumed of the Hebrew Patriarchs, through whom alone Masonry is asserted to have been transmitted in its purity. Its gradual deterioration amongst heathen nations is universally admitted. Oral tradition often affords assistance to history by supplying the loss of monuments and records, even at the present time, in countries where letters are but little known; it hands down events with an artless simplicity which bears internal evidence of their truth: but our records stand upon a yet firmer basis, the bond of fidelity by which Masons in all ages and countries have been united: its value may be inferred from its surviving those revolutions of time, government, religion, and manners which have shaken all other institutions. Before the time of Moses, it is presumed that tradition could scarcely err; and that inspired legislator modelled Masoniy into so perfect a system, and even circumscribed its mysteries by landmarks so peculiar and unalterable, that from him its transmission was little liable to perversion. The length of life in the early ages of the world too, was such, that our traditions may safely be relied on, proceeding from Amram, the father of Moses, from Joseph the son of Jacob, who received it from Isaac, who received it from Abraham, to whom it had been communicated by Shem, who had it from Lamech, who was cotemporary with Adam—thus the links, forming the vast cliain of Masonic truth, were preserved. Masonry, as we before observed, is both a speculative and operative science; the first is founded upon the knowledge of the existence of a God, and the code of etlncs which for the guide of man he has commanded to be kept holy. The latter embraces a practical acquaintance with those useful arts rendered necessary to man after liis fall, by which the means of life are provided, the inclemencies of the season averted, the mind cultivated, and taught to tracé, in the wonders of creation, the divine wisdom of the great Architect of all, the bond of civilisation preserved, and the still dearer one of social life ornamented and adorned. The first work of the Almighty at the creation of the world was Light, in honour of which circumstance and to show the connexion between its great founder and the ancient science of Masonry, it was designated by the word Leah was anxiously watching by tlie side of her boy, when Japheth and her husband entered her dweiling. Mornine had seen him strong and active as the mountain O 0 roe, but ere the setting sun had lengthened the shadows of the earth, a pestilence had smitten him, and the fond father beheld his only son stretched on a bed of leaves, the fever burning in each vein, his limbs distended in O ' mortal agony. Affection was the most powerful passion of Lanah's heart; he cast himself beside the helpless sufferer, and tears rolled down the strong inan's cheeks. His total abandonment to grief was beautifully contrasted with the enduring patience of the heart-broken mother, who, while the sighs of bitter anguish convulsed her bosom, still rendered the necessary offices to her offspring, and moistened his parched lips with the juice of the pomegranate. " Mourn not," exclaimed Japheth, " he is spared the awful doom ;— rather rejoice at the dispensation of Omnipotence, and let this affliction soften thy heart." " I know thee, man of God," replied Leah,—" I knew thee while yet a dweller in my father's tents. My boy hath never bent the knee to idols; I have trained him in my father's faith: pray for him, that he may live !" " Pray, sister, rather, for his departing soul—for thine own state ; the end of flesh is near." " Dreamer," said Lanah, starting from the rude couch, " he shall not die! 1 have wisdom far above thy thought— the flowers, the roots of the field are known to me—I will express their precious virtues. Were the death film on his eye, I coukl recall its parting sight; were the last sigh on his lip, I know a medicine to arrest its flight ! Leah, my beloved, watch thou by his couch: I will return ere the sun shall rest upon the distant plain." Imprinting a kiss upon the brow of the sufferer, he rushed from the dweiling, and sought the woods beneath. " Teil me," said Leah, fixing her gaze on Japheth, " is there hope ? Lanah is skilled in plants and flowers, may not our boy " " The doom is spoken," he replied; " but grieve not thy son will be returned to earth :—how many thousands as young and fair, as loved as he, will feed the monsters of the deep, the huge leviathan—the ravenous shark; for the measure of the earth's iniquity is full. Soon shalt thou follovv him. Thou mournest! Kneel—kneel and pray with me; pray for the departing soul of thy offspring, for the death-struggle is upon him." Deep and holy were the supplications of Japheth and the heart-broken mother of the departing child. When Lanah returned, the life had fled, nothing but dust lay before him. " Now, prophet of evil," he exclaimed, as he entered the dwelling with the simples he had culled, " to prove thine augury false !" Japheth pointed out the corse, beside which the mother was absorbed in prayer. " Dead !" shrieked the agonised parent: " it cannot be. The breath yet lives upon his lip; his eyes are closed in sleep, not death—not death !" And the father cast himself on the bed of leaves, by the side of all that remained of his lost son. Feeling, that in the paroxysm of his grief, reason would be unheard, Japheth left the dwelling, and slowly descending the mountain, returned to the home of his fathers. " Thou art late, my son," said the venerable Patriarch Noah, addressing him as he reached his dwelling: " let not thy love for the beautiful beings of earth tempt thee from thy father. This day have two of all created tliing taken refuge in the ark. The lion with the lamb, the eagle and the dove, dweil there in peace : it is a sign that the great doom is near at hand. This is the last night thou mayest pass on earth ! Let us then adore the great Arthiteet of all, and praise him for his mercy." Surrounded by his children, Noah offered saerifice: the last till his deliverance should be accomplished. Fervently did he pray for his race—for the doomed children of the earth. With sad and melancholy thought the brethren sought their rest. Each had some favourite tree or flower to grieve for; even the virtuous Noah, as he cast his eyes upon the green fields and waving trees, almost repined to think that they, unconscious and incapable of sin, should suffer for the guiltiness of man, first created for his pleasure, and condemned to destruction for his crimes. " Farewell," exclaimed the aged patriarch, " thou beautiful but guilty world ! W ould I could love thee less—or that thou wouldst more deserve the love of that Great Being whom I serve !" And leaning on his staff, the holy Patriarch wept in bitterness of soul. At last the awful morning dawned brightly, as unconscious of the impending desolation. Japheth resolved once more to seek the dwelling of Lanah, and save, even at the last hour, if possible, one from the doom of death. " Alas !" he exclaimed, as crossing the plain he beheld his fellowcreatures following their accustomed occupations, " Alas, for the guiltiness of earth!" Such was the infatuation of mankind, that all warnings were neglected, and each, even (o the hour of destruction, pursued the imaginings of his heart. But, oh ! that world all lovely then, As at Creation's early day, Thought cared not how, the way or when, lts dream of guilt should pass away. The bride received her biidegroom's kiss; The raaidens cull'd the nuptual flowers; Life's rosy cup seem'd heap'd with bliss; Pleasure employ'd the passing hours. The aged rich, still sought for gold, Base gain was all the miser's care ; He thought not once of growing old, His hope, his fear, his heaven was there. Alas! that such a guilty scene Of frailty, passion, hope and fear— So unprepared should now have been The awful hour of judgment near. The Sun, that fatal mom arose, In cloudless splendour o'er the sea; But ere he reached his final close Hail'd the great doom of destiny. Yet ere he left that eastern clime, Where Eden's earliest flowerets sprang, Where he first mark'd the march of time— In sorrow o'er those scenes he hung. Each vived ray, that drank the dew, A parting summons seem'd to teil, And ling'ring, took a long adieu, As conscious of his sad farewell. All was silent when Japheth reached the dwelling ot Lanah. Twice did he strike his staff against the door; 110 voice replied to him, or bad him enter: he raised the latch, and found his worst forebodings realised. Leah had taken the infection from her child, and had already passed away from earth. Lanah, stronger in frame, had longer resisted the contagion; but at last even his iron constitution yielded to its inervating influence, and the fever was raging in his veins. He was kneeling between the bodies of his wife and son when Japheth entered. FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY ALWERTISER. freemasonry. HPlie Anniversary Festival in celebration of the liirth Day of the M. W. G. M. His Royal Highness the DUKE OP SUSSEX, K.G. &c. will take place at Freemason's Hall, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's inn meius, on I uestiay, January 27th, 1835. stewards 1 Brother Lord II. John S.Churchill, P.S.G.W. and W.M. Lodge of Friendship, No. 6, President. Brother Richard W. Jennings, I.G. Lodge of Antiquity, No. 2, Vice-President. Brother Joseph Arden, P.M. Lodge of Nine Muses, No. 286, Treasurer. Brother John Coles Fourdrinier, Lodge of jinuquicy, r\o. 2, necretary. JSi'other (j. li. Corner, Grand Master s Lodge, No. 1. Brother Samuel Cartwright, St. James's Chapter, No. 2. Brother Robert Maitland, S.D. Somerset nouse Jjoclge, JNo. t. Brother Samuel W. Darke, W.M. (elect), Tuscan Lodge, No. 14. Brother W. L. Hanley, S.D. Corner Stone Lodge, No. 37. Brother John Chanter, P.M. St. John's Lodge, No. 107. Brother Richard E. Arden, S.W. Jerasalem Lodge, No. ë33. Brother John Peter Robinson, Prince of vvaies i.oüge, jno. 321. Dinner Tickets, 15s. to be had at the Grand Secretaries Office, and of the Stewards.—Brethren are requested to attend in full Masonic Costume.—Dinner to be on lable at Five o'Clock precisely.—None but luauuetB ui ine rraternity will öe admitted. J. S. FOURDRINIER, Sec. Fenchurch Buildings. freemasonry. TJOYAL FREEMASON'S 11 SCHOOL FOR FEMALE CHILDREN.—A Quarterly General Court of this r'VlQM+TT *ir» 1 I l,,, U„l.l iL . O .1. 1 TT uc uciu m me ocnooi nouse lil Westminster Road, on Thursday, January 8th, 1835, at 12 o'clock precisely. WM. FLETCHER HOPE, Sec. In consequence of Christmas Day falhng on the last fhursday in December, the Meeting of the General Committee is postponed until the 8th of January, at 11 o'clock. freemasonry. y?OYAL MASONIC INSTITU- TION, for Educatin<ï. Clotliine. and Apprenticing the Sons of Indigent and Deceased Freemasons. A Quarterly General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers of this Institution will be held at the Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Mondajr the 12th of January, 183.5, at Seven o'clock in the evening precisely, when the Election of Ten Boys will take place. AUGUSTUS U. THISELTON, Sec. 37. Goodtre Street. Fitzrov Snuare. '1 he Anniversary Festival of this Institution will take place on Wednesday, the llth day of March, 1835. freemasonry. T P. ACKLAM, MASONIC JE WEL • and Clothing Manufacturer. resnect- fully solicits the orders and patronage of the Craft. He has always ready on sale a collection of Jewels and Clothing, for Craft and Royal Arch Masonry, of every dsscription and variety. Lodges and chapters supplied with the entire necessary furniture and paraphernalia.—138, Strand, opposite Catharine Street. freemasonry. TOIIN CANHAM, Sen., DEALER in Masonic Anrons, Sashes. Collars. Rib¬ bons. Jewels. Books X-r K-n Rrr Mn 7 Bennett's Hill, Doctors' Commons, respectfully solicits the patronage of the Craft. Country Orders punctually attended to. N. B. The Brethren in Edinburgh and Dublin will find this advertisement deserving their attention. *** ^ casb remittance, or a reference for payment to a London house, is requested to accompany all orders from the country. freemasonry. Greid, working silver• SMITH AND jeweller, 18, Cross Street, Hatton Garden (formerly of Dean Street) takes this opportunity to return his sincere thanks to the Craft at large for the many Favours conferred on hiin as Manufacturer of Masonic Jewels, and begs to solicit an Inspection of his Assortment of Jewels, which, in point of Price and Workmanship (himself being the Manufacturer), will, he has no doubt, on trial, give the utmost Satisfaction. N. B. Country Agents supplied on the most libsral Terms. FREEMASONRY. SARAH GODFREY, (WIDOW OF the late Brother L. Godfrey, p.m.) 103, Strand, Masonic Embroideress. Every description of Masonic Clothing and Embroidery on reasonable terms. FREEMASONRY. -jrnjn AI pnvuv ROOKBINDER, ■ J» IIV/. ATX. ^ ? J -D 3, Minerva Terrace, Hackney Koad, ,+A,iUr o^iïr-ï+c tV»p natrnriaffe of the Fra- xeswci-uuijj avxiv-ivö V..V- x 0 *.—,Utt fiio lint» nf V»nsinpss. Books neatlv tciiiity J." w ~ . . - and elegantly bound, with every description . , . • i .11 "\\T Pnvpv W111 ot Masonic emDemsiimeui&. »» . * — feel obliged by a Twopenny Post letter from ^.,'tiutnon wVin mftv have any orders, however small, which will meet immediate attention. „ Portfolios, music Cases, Albums, &c. &c. FREEMASONRY. ROBERT TATE feels great pteasure m embracing the opportunity afforded him bv the Freemason's Quarterly Re view to .ƒ. thanks to the Fraternity, expresa iud . c -r feoth in London and the Frovmces, for the vi i hpstowed on him uu- rins; the last six years. He further hopes to _„:i. enTmnrt. nf the Brethren, by mern me xuvun, 0«rjr— -— - - improving, as far as may be done, according to the Book of Constitutions, the decorations imnnilc Oivlprfi nf Masonrv. Robert (JI LUC vaiiuua -- - ■ Tate has always ready for sale an extensive stock of Jewels, Badges, and Clothing suit,, r nf (Iraft and Arch aDie iui ocij r— -- , , r Masonry, as well as the several grades oi Kniühts Templars, Rosierucians, &c. and will be at all times ready to supply new ae- ■ i.„ j.: \ Inilo C ATf signs for Honorary£i'reseniauuu — 204, Regent Street, London, opposite Conduit Street. .. „f Onlpr .1. H. besrs to state ItlASltft wa ~ that he has prepared some coloured plates, I . . . . 1 1. __ 1 Pi 1 c nn /^lï which he can suppiy as ww <** «»*<«• • . „;pi i o A few prooi impressions sim remcuu, <*t ai.w. Hiehlv illuminated plates, in appearance like . ° . J 1 1 1 ,1 r.t Pd Oo drawings, may De nau tu uuici, ^ In consequence of the demand for the I ortrait of the late Brother Peter Gilkes, J. H. can supply prools at 7s. anti pnnis ai zó. oa. 1 T 1 rp • _ nf oll rlfmPTI- eacn. i^oage i racmg uuaiuo, sions, executed in the most splendid style, on the most reasonable terms. i uckci i iciui^ Boards of the three Degrees, handsomely coloured, at lOs.; illuminated ditto, ISs.; ditto in cases, il. Is. i\u uruers uumcutately attended to 13, Jielvoir j.erruvv, » Roud, Pimlico. Dedicated (by Permission) to His Majesty, the King. T-kDnT>nt: AT.S for Pnhlishins bv Sub- L scription. a Volume of SERMÓNS by Brother the Rev.THU.UA5 tt .vcüi'iFi n T\ O . Rector of txoading- Iton, Oxfordshire, late Felfov.- of Corpus Christi College, Oxtord, ana lu h. — — ÜUKe 01 ''1 j W Rtrnlrpr. Subscnbers names recw*cu ... — , 443, West Strand; J. Churchill, Pnnces-street, ' J . rP Ctm-oncnTl Soho; J. Vincent, uv »; '■ - . Cambridge; F. A. Wall, Richmond; and P. Norbury, Brenttord. ______ FREEMASONRY. nF.O UNDERTON I» /\T» XT A AT17XTT A T, BRASS, OR- MOLU, AND BRONZE MANUFACrpTTnT?D io iVTncpnm St.rp.p.t. Bloomsbury. 1 UIVXilV, 7 , Candlesticks, Lamps, Columns, and every Description of Furniture for Masonic and Druiti ljoages, ^napters, B FREEMASONRY. ROTHER JOHN HARRIS, 13,, Bel..«t« ToiTor»P VmTvhall Bridee Road, VUU xtijuvvj . I- , . 1'imlico, takes this opportunity to return his _ iU.vi.n 4-n i. f « X hnnk which may be considered one ot the most extraordinair that has, vn om* day, come from the press.; « Richly iraugnt wnn „ redolent with all the perfumes ot Hindostan. " Astonishing talents, wonderful learning, ^ . „1, otm\ mpntal SCODe. —* powers oi aeep * Mctrap. Mag- , . , ... " Marvellous anaiogies, a..u Qur wonder at the. unparalled^yanety of resources.. .. A rans irom be deposed by envy or oy —• "He is evnoenuy au "...i». , enthusiasm is of a genereus and exalted kmd ; he has made a labonous pilgnmage to te™PWith a comprehensive grasp he has seized and resolved into _ absurdity all that learned men have hitherto believen, —uwm» - " His interpretations of the Mosaic revelations, and of other portions of the Sacred scriptures, particuiariy concerning tne creation, the fall, the deluge, and the coming of the Messiah, are not only ingenious, but, in some respects, reany startnng.—irun jnonthtyMag. " The truth of which he has, in our opinion, established by proofs which his opponents may be loth to admit, but will find it diflicult to overthrow."—Satirist. " rroots (lrawn trom every possiule branch of human learning.' '■—Spectator. " iivery position in tne dook Demg directly 111 tne teem, or ratner corrective or tne errors of the old school notions."—Monthly Mag. 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Circulatina Library. E CREWS PUBLIC LIBRARY, • 97. T.iimhs Oonduit Street: consisting ,of a very extensive collection of Standard Works, as well as of Novels, Tales, &c, to which every new Publication of interest is supplied as soon as published. Terms of Subscription: £ d- First Class 4 4 O per annum. Second 3 3 O Tl.:...l 9 9 0 AI111U - - The Second Appendix to the Catalogue just publisnen. . . Bookselling and Stationery in aU tlieir branches. QTGHT RESTORED, NERVOUS Ö HEAD-ACHE CURED, and CHO'LERA PREVENTED.—Under the Patronage of his Majesty and the Lords of the Treasury— Dr. ABERNETHY used it, and i... .-x,..*- „Anfiamon \t wne tprmed the Facultv's uy iuai gciiMc»'"» - Friend, and Nurse's Vade Mecum. I)r. Ai\DREWSalso recommends its use as a preventive. Mr. A. MACINTYRE, aged 65, No. 3, Silver-street, Golden-square, cured of Kutta serena. Mr. f. bAUl No. 10, üarper-streeu, jueeu», cmcu ^ ract. Mr. H. Pluckweli, Tottennam nousc, Tottenham, JVIiddlesex, cured ot uptnaimia. Miss S. Fntrlefield, Park-street, Windsor, | cured of Nervous Head-ache. Original testi- monials from medical gentlemen anu iaiuuiw of the first respectability, provmg the above, may be seen at No. 39, Broad-street, Blopjns- •' - ni ~rr: T .nnrr A pro bury, and ino. ^ .— • . . , _ nüiMCTf»\'l<.,.< KV l', I he Ingii patronage J , , j SNUF F has attained is a testimonial beyond 'ruic /T^lio-litfiil herbacious CO 111- SUhUlClUii. O. 1110 pound is the most wholesonie snuff taken, and lis highly recommended for its benigii intluence on all who use it. Many hundred sinnlar may be seen. , Copv of a Letter sent to mr. unm«tunK. "Leeds, July 4, 1834. i< SiK) I have received great benefit from your eve snuff. J Have oeen anucieu u-u yc...» with cataract, and was given up by the medical men, but was recommended to use your snutt, which completely curea me m » T' You may make use of my name it it will do you any good. Exeuse my wnting. " IÜU1S, CÏCI lanu.m.;, " PETER SANBERSON. " No. 10, Harper-street, Leeds." nnmnnnnd ot hichlv aromatic ims iicu^IIUU» w..T^ i oA O 1/1 I herbs is sold in camsters, at is. ód., £s. 4s. 4d., and 8s. each, or loose at 6d. per ounce. Look to the Signature of the fnventor, with the above patronage, and may be obtained in every town in the world. Some old Snuff and Cigars as imported. Letters, post paid, with cash orders on London Agents, to Mr. Grimstone, No. 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury. ASTHMA, Shortness of Breath, Weazing Couglis, and most Affections of' the Chest and Lungs, relieved in ten minutes, br taking one dose of WOODHOUSE'S BALSAMof SPERMACETI or PECTORALCOUGH DROPS. Persons doubting the efficacy of this Medicine may talce a dose in the Proprietor's shop before they purchase. The Proprietor earnestly recommends a trial of these Drops to persons afflicted with the above complaints, but he does not introducé tliem as being an infallible cure (as many do), but is warranted in asserting tlieir efficacy from the extensive reliet attorded in numerous cases of the above description. Constitutional coughs of tliree, four, and more years standing, have been cured in the course of a week by the use of these Drops. To be had of D. Woodhouse, 18, King William-street, New London Bridge; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; and all medicine venders. In Bottles, ls. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lOs. bd. each. To the Public. OF all the disorders that attack and ravage the Ifuman Constitution, few or none are so harassing and painful in their ertects as those havirig their ongin in the Impurity of the Blood. In particular may be named those distressing complaints, Scrofula, Sypbilis, and Scurvy, wliich too often bafile the science of Medical Treatment, and become a source of misery and anguish to thousands. Notwithstanding the different forms of Mercurial Treatment that have been adopted for the cure of' these Disorders, experience has +1. „c icj»caicuij ciuuyvu me vv uiiuci i m aujiu iwiilv ui the VEGETARLE SYRUP OF DE VELNOS in effecting a perfect and permanent cure. The surprising inherent properties that fnore peculiarly distinguish this mild, efficacious, and salutary Preparation, is its truly extraordinary power in Cleansing and Purifying the Blood, thus gradually destroying all unhealthy secretions, and establishing a firm and healthyaction in the different functions of the body. The Original and only Genuine SYRUP OF DE VELNOS is prepared and sold by Mrs. CANHAM, 52, Bernersstreet, Oxford-street, at 13s. per Bottle, and sold by all the respectable Medicine Venders in Town and Country. Magna est veritas et pravalebit. p ALL'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, so highly recommended for removing BILIOUS COMPLAINTS The daily increasing demand for the above invaluable medicine is the surest proof of their general utility as a sovereign purgative medicine. The proprietors confidently recommend them for most diseases incidental to the human frame, whether natural or induced by irregular modes of living. Bile, Indigestion, Costiveness during pregnancy, Habitual Costiveness, Flatulency, Asthma,Gout, efFects of intemperance, &c. &c. all yield to their sovereign power; their salutary effects have been fully authenticated by the experience of forty years. They contain neither mercury or any deleterious drug, and may be taken by the most delicate constitution without restraint or confinement—sold in boxes at ls. 1 ~d. and 2s, 2d. each. HILL'S LITHONTRIPTIC PILLS. for the gravel, pain in the back and loins, and all affections in the uninary passages. Prepared from the original recipe of the late Mr. Thomas Hill, of Hatcheston. The salutary effects of this admirable medicine are too generally known to need any recommendation. In boxes 1$. 1 ^d. and 2s. 9d. each. GALL'S NIPPLE LINIMENT, an effectual cure for that painful disorder, Sore Nipples. In bottles ls. 1 ^d. each. FENN'S EMBROCATION, for rheumatism, rheumatic gout, sciatica, lumbago, chilblains, &c. In bottles 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d. and 8s. each —Sold wholesale by the proprietors, at Woodbridge and Bury, Suffolk; and by their appointment, by Messrs. Sutton and Co. Bow Churchyard; Newberry and Sons, 45, St Paul's Churchvard ; Edwards, 6G, St. Paul's Church¬ yard ; Barclay and Sons, 95, Fleet Market; Butler and Co. 4. Cheapside; Evans 42, Long Lane, West Smithlield; Johnston, Greek Street, Soho ; and retail by most venders of Medicines in the United Kingdom. CAUTION. To prevent imposition, the public are re- quested to observe, these Medicines cannot be genuine unless the name of BENJAMIN and ABRAHAM GALL are engraved in the Government Stamp, by permission of his Majesty's Honourable Commissioners of stamp Liuties, to counterreit wnicn is ielony. Address to the,Public* IT is with feelings of no ordinaiy satis-1 faction, and with the proudest emotions of gratitude, that the proprietors and original inventors of the Macassar Oil, presume to offer their Annual tribute of thanks to a liberal and enlightened public, for the unprecedented and munificent patronage with which they have been honoured. Many years have elapsed since the Macassar Oil was first introduced to the notice of the Public, and each revolving year has produced renewed testimonials of its pre-eminent virtues, and its increasing popularity has surpassed the most sanguine expectations of the Proprietors. Its celebrity has extended throughout Europe, and to the most distant regions of the Globe. It can excite little surprise, that an article so highly appreciated by the public, should be fraudulently imitated; but A. Rowland & Son, sole proprietors of the Original Macassar Oil, are happy to state that every attempt to injure or curtail the sale of that article has proved abortive, oiving to the discernment and liberal conduct of a generous public, actuated by enlightened principles of justice and equity. Messrs. Rowland & Son cannot close this address, without again making their grateful acknowledgments for the favours conferrcd upon them, and humbly soliciting a continuation of that patronage with which they have been so highly honoured. ROWLAND'S KALYDOR Protects the Skin and Compi.exion from Cold Winds or Damp Atmosphere, possesses properties of surprising energy, in producing delicate White Neck, Hands and Arms, and imparting a beautiful juvenile Bloom to the Complexion. lts soothing and ameliorating properties immediately allay the smarting irritability of the skin produced by Cold Winds or damp atmosphere; assuages inflammations ; it heals harsh and rough skin; removes cutaneous eruptions, and Pkoduces a Beautiful Complexion ; it affords soothing relief to Ladies nursing their Offspring in healing Soreness of the Breast. Gentlemen after Shaving will iind it allay the smarting pain, and renders the Skin smooth and pleasant, thus to the Traveller, whose avocations expose him to various changes of the weather, it proves an infallible specitic—a prompt resource—and, as conducing to comfort, a pleasing appendage and invaluable acquisition.—Sold in half pints at 4s 6d. each, and pints at 8s. 6d. Caution.—To prevent imposition, and by Authority of fthe Hon. Commissioners of Stamps, the .Name and Address of the (Proprietors are engraved on the Government Stamp, affixed on the cork of each genuine bottle, " A. Rowland & Son, 20, Hatton Garden." ROWLAND'S ODONTO, ob PEARL DENTIFRICE, Recommended by the most eminent of the Facultv as the mildest, yet as the most salutary and efficacious Dentifrice that was ever discovered, forming an efficient Vegetable White Powder, composed of ingredients the most pure and rare, selected from Eastern soil, and a never failing remedy for every disease to which the Teeth and Gums are liable, eradicating all deleterious matter, at the same time healing, strengthening, and firmly fixing the teeth in their sockcts, realizing a Beauti. ful Set of Pearly Teeth, and on the Gums operate as an anti-scorbutic, restoring and sustaining their healthy appearance, and gives fragrance to the breath. Price 2s. 9d. per box, duty included. ROWLAND'S ALSANA EXTRACT, For immediately relieving the most violent Tooth-Ache, Swelled Face, &c., it is also an excellent Stomachic, in cases of Flatulency, Spasmodic Affections, &c. and gives lnstantaneous Relief. — Price 2s. 0d., 4s. 6d. and XOs. 6d. per bottle; also ROWLAND'S CERELiEUM, For the Head-Ache. the FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVI'EW. APRIL 1, 1834. INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. In the present state of our periodical literature, with the finest talent of the country engaged upon its pages, the fresh candidate who enters the arena of public opinion, and courts its favour, will have to contend with obstacles of no ordinary character, and should, therefore, be armed with pretensions of a peculiar class. In the Profession of the Law—the almost mystic Art and Science of Medicine—a medium of communication amongst its members has been found absolutely necessary: indeed, to this recognised power they owe, not merely the sources of improvement, but of discussion, and the consequent prevention of abuses. The Naval and Military Services have derived those signal advantages from the Magazine they support, which ensure a unanimity among each other, and bring before an admiring world many authenticated facts and matured opinions, which tend to raise public spirit while Vol. I.—No. 1. b they effect a still more desirable object in the removal oi public prejudice. The Senate itself, to a certain degiee, acknowledges that a " Mirror of Parliament, and a " Parliamentary Review," are useful appendages and records of legislation; and even the different professions of doctrinal subjects have their own peculiar and useful media of receiving and imparting information. Surely it will not be urged against the conductors of the Freemason's Quarterly Review, that its first number is ushered into the world unheralded by the customary announcement of vaunted promises or assurances of high support and illustrious patronage; rather may it not be inferred that, should this infant attempt prove the offspring of a just and honourable union, the conductors may fondly anticipate for it a zealous and warm-hearted friend in every Freemason, and that its steps, directed by the good wishes and support of the Fraternity, may lead their child of promise, as it attains its maturity, to repay the obligation by proving instructive and useful to many, and amusing to all. Promises, however well-intended, become illusive from many circumstances; a support confidently relied upon may be withheld, even withdrawn, and the mind hithert® balanced by the hopes, nay, the expectations, of future security, may lose its equipoise, and its efforts become consequently abortive. It is better, therefore, that the Patronage which can alone ensure support, should follow than precede the attempt—this, at any rate, is fair play. tive Masonry became purified, and, without losing its universal character, disabused of Paganism ; and the knowledge of one true only God was restored. In time, many of the useful arts and sciences, once the exclusive secrets of the order, became known, and practised by the world at large, though Masons were still considered as their legitimate conservators, and unrivalled as architects. In Lodges the Craft traversed Europe, disseminating in their progress wisdom and science, rewarded for their toil by the improved condition of mankind, and the assured approbation of their own hearts. Employed by kings and prelates in the erection of churches, palaces, and other stately edifices, Masons flourished, and were respected till the rise of that monstrous system of feudal power, which, subdividing the interests of nations, enslaved the humbler classes of the people—and crushed, with an iron hand, those liberal arts and sciences which could not be prostituted to its purposes. During this dark era the order was alternately raised or depressed as its usefulness was "called into action by the powerful, or the tenets condemned by the ignorant and superstitious; —now protected by enlightened monarchs, who lionoured it by charters, and were initiated into its mysteries—now persecuted by their successors upon the most frivolous pretences. As the feudal power declined, Masonry became better appreciated, and pursued its useful career. England is particularly indebted to the Craft—many of its most splendid worthies, past and present, adorn its annals; and, as proofs of operative utility, most of its architectural beauties may be cited as the work of Freemasons; nor will it lessen the general esteem, to be informed that the erection of the Cathedral of St. Paul was commenced and perfected by one master-hand, the entire plans of whicli were given by Sir Christopher Wren, the then Grand Master of the Order. Tlius, without entering into the minutia of detail, we have endeavoured to tracé the progress of Masonic science through the early ages of the world—the superstitions which debased it in the East—the intellectual philosophy which, in the more polished nations of Greece and Rome, mystified and rendered its operation subservient to polytheism, —the darkness which succeeded the inroads of the barbarians of the North, and the oppression of feudal tyranny, down to these, our modern times. The following illustration may not prove unacceptable :— In Time's young mom, ere the scarce peopled earth Witness'd the dawn of taste—ere Science's birth Had shed its halo o'er the mind of man, Or Art, magnificent, her course began, The Mason's Craft arose ! and hand-in-hand Wïth Genius, talent spread from land to land A human engine to improve mankind, Whose plan the Architect of all designed ; Where'er its benign influence was spread, The desert smiled—and barbarism fled ;— The savage saw before his startled eyes The stately dome and graceful column rise, In cavern'd wastes no longer deign'd to dweil, Left the cool grotto and the shady cell. Then first the palace rear'd its gorgeous fane, And wall-girt cities rose from plain to plain— Israel's famed temple—the Ephesian pile— The Doric column, and the fretted aisle— 1'almyra's city—Balbec's lofty shrine, Proclaim, as architects, our Craft divine. Nor was the Mason's art to these confined, lts rays shed light and knowledge o'er the mind : Language ! the first, the noblest gift to man, No longer rough in half-form'd accents ran, But soon in polish'd verse was taught to flow— Now sportive wild, or musically slow; Religion's aid—which lifts the soul to heaven; Music—to man, by Masons first was given ; Eacli infant art was in our Lodges taught: The ancient Craft, by noblest impulse fraught, Sought to improve mankind—let hist'ry's page Record our wonders in Time's earlier age. Witness the pyramid—the eastern dome— The classic sculptures of immortal Rome ; Our art with time or place decay'd not then, It flourish'd greatly with our modern Wren ; London's St. Paul's by his great art was plann'd, Begun—rear'd—finish'd—with one master-hand*. Kingdoms have fallen ! Empires have pass'd away ! Colossal sceptres fall'n 'neath Time's decay ! Yet still we flourish, united heart and hand, Our band of Brotherhood yet firmly stand, And shall endure till that last signal's given, Whose trumpet-sound shall rend the arch of heaven ! Age feels our moral—it gives strength to youth— Our prop is honour—our foundation truth. * Sir Christopher Wren was the only architect employed, and his life was prolonged to the completion of the building. VOL. i. D THE MASON. It was during the late war, towards the close of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia, tliat a party of French officers were assembled in a rude tent, refreshing themselves after the fatigues of a hard day's march. Moscow had already been abandoned, and the hitherto victorious armies of France were in full retreat, amid all the horrors of a Russian winter. The ground was covered with a deep snow, which yielded crisply beneath the tread: the men, in clearing the space for the erection of the tent, had piled it in form of a circular enibankment, into which the outward stakes were driven. The night was intensely cold, not a cloud obscured the heavens; the stars, shining with that peculiar brilliancy which distinguishes tlieni in a northern latitude, lit up the distant plain, that, trenched by the drifting winds into billowy forms, appeared like a sea of foam, relieved only with the red glare from the w atcli fires of the neighbouring piquet. Wrapped in fur cloaks and pelisses, the spoil of the abandoned city, they were seated on the ground, enjoying their repast with that true zest which only hunger gives. The party consisted of Count Lauriston, Major Guillet, Captain Adolphe Lesseau, Lieutenant Florent, who, with several inferior officers, had attended their chief in his unsuccessful interview with the Russian general, Prince Kutusoff, when, commissioned by Bonaparte, he went to propose an armistice, and treat for peace. The supercilious manner in which he had been received by the prince, who refused either to grant a cessation of hostilities, or forward Napoleon's letter to the emperor, chafed the fiery spirit of the count, and during their long day's march he had scarcely exchanged a word with any of his officers. Even a sullen disposition must yield at last to the contagion of good-humour and a desire to please. A Frenchman's is not the most obstinate in the world, and Lauriston, roused by the cheerf'ul gaiety of the party, and their peals of laughter at each fresli sally, gradually forgot his spleen, and joined in the conversation. " I wonder," exclaimed Adolphe, gaily, " what the fair dames of Paris would say, could they behold us in our winter bivouac—the snow our carpet, and the bare canvas our only shelter from the keen frost: many a fair bosom would commiserate our fortune." " Ay," interrupted Florent, " and envy us our furs; these sables would distract the lieads of half our belles; the empress herself cannot boast of such. Should I ever see our dear country again, I will preserve mine in lavender till I become a peer of France, and then line my robes with them." " Take care that it does not first become your windingsheet. That soldier will have something to teil of, who again sets foot upon his native soil. We are encompassed with dangers—not only the enemy, but their accursed climate to contend with—even I," continued the major, "veteran as I am, begin to feel its influence; how, then, will the dainty limbs of youth resist it ?" " Faith, major, you are severe on Florent; he stands not only fire, but frost, like a hero—I have seen him expose his uniform to the snow rather tlian derange the graceful folds of his cloak." " And I, count," added Adolphe, " within the last month have twice seen his ungloved hand " " It must have been when he was bathing it with eau de Cologne, then," interrupted the major, with a slight sneer. " \ ou may behold it, gentlemen," hastily exclaimed the lieutenant, nettled at the observation of the last speaker, " grasping the hilt of my sword, if either of you presume to question the spirit of its master." The mischievous major seemed more amused with the anger of the young man, than disposed to take up the quarrel, while Lauriston elevated bis eye-brows with the hauteur of a conscious superior. " My foolish observation has occasioned this," said Adolphe, after a slight pause; "but in truth, I meant not to offend —come, give me your hand." Florent still looked gloomy. " What! man," he continued, " resent a jest—so slight a one—and from me, too !—You can't be serious; come, give me your hand, friend—brother." A smile of peculiar meaning passed between the young soldiers, and each instantly grasped the other's hand. " Humph !—Brothers—" said Guillet, after a pause— " this comes of Freemasonry; I have known many a pretty quarrel spoiled in a similar manner; there was Marlet, of our regiment, he, I remember, had a dispute with an Austrian colonel, just after the battle of Austerlitz; they were to have met the next morning, and I should have been bis second, had not the fooi gone to a Lodge the same night, where he encountered bis man; what passed, heaven and the brotherhood alone can teil-—all I know is, that instead of meeting like soldiers, they entered the café armin-arm like priests—Bah ! don't talk to me of Masonry, it only tends to make men " " What ?" passionately demanded Florent, anticipating some reflection upon bis courage. " Brothers" coolly answered the old soldier: " it has done so in the present instance." " Faith," said the count, laughing, " he has you there— the major is too old a campaigner to be caught by youngsters; but, teil me, since you think so highly of Masonry, what are its peculiar claims to the consideration of mankind ?" / " It is universal," replied the young soldier: " travel where you will, there Masonry has spread its branches, diffusing in its progress a knowledge of the useful arts; it is equally cultivated in the tents of the wandering Arab, and the palaces of the more enlightened European. Even here," he continued, " in this cold and inhospitable region, despite the jealous prohibition of a despotic government, the Craft still flourishes." " Does it ?" exclaimed the major: " it must be a sturdy plant, then ; for this infernal frost would destroy vitality in anything less hardy than a bear :—we only have escaped, I suspect, from having robbed him of his skin." " You are in error, major," replied Lauriston, shrugging his shoulders in contempt—" you forget the natives—they surely live here." " Exist, you mean, count," grumbled the old soldier ; " besides, they are too nearly allied to the species to require a distinct classification. Look at your Don Cossack, now—he is your bear on horseback; and in truth a most determined savage, who scorns all civilised modes of warfare, and fights after the manner of a wild Indian, appearing when you least expect him, and like the whirlwind, sweeping all before him. It was only in our last affair old General Bellont, that prince of tactitians, was completely baffled : he had formed his regiment in fine order; his position was unimpeachable, his right being protected by a heavy battery, which, ac- cording to all mie, the enemy should not have attempted. While waiting patiently for the attack, a junior officer observed a party of Cossacks defile towards the wood which flanked the battery, in order, as he justiy imagined, to effect a surprise. Bellont, knowing how apt boys are to imagine themselves wiser than their elders, paid slight regard, unfortunately, to his suggestions. Well, the action commenced, the regiment manceuvred till it had drawn the enemy under the battery, when, to their astonishment, it commenced its deadly fire upon them. Bellont found that, contrary to all tactics, a party of those flying devils had turned his strong point of defence into the certain means of his defeat." " Well, major," said Adolphe, half asleep, " brothers though some of them may be, heaven defend us from a visiting party of these bearded gentlemen ! The sentinels have replenished the fires, I perceive; so, without fear of either wolf or Cossack, I have taken up my position for the night;—it will soon be day-break, and a few hours sleep wil leave us all the better for to-morrow's march." " You are wise, youngster," replied the veteran—" nothing like rest; Lauriston has already taken your advice— good night—good night!" and in a few minutes the little party were buried in sleep. The last star was fading in the heavens when Lauriston awoke; he was still a day's march from the army, and well knew that the emperor would be impatient to learn the success of his mission. " Come, gentlemen," he exclaimed, waking his companions, who, wrapt in their cloaks, still enjoyed their slumbers, " we have played the sluggard :— to horse, and away ! Laurent, call in the men." All was soon bustle and confusion in the little encampment; the horses were led from the rude tent where they had passed the night with the men, and waited, ready " My son, monsieur, will return as soon as he lias given ilirections to my household; in his absence, permit me to assure you that you are in safety, and welcome to our humble roof." The young soldier could only bow his thanks—everything tended to increase his surprise—his own language so purely spoken—the evident rank of his hostess—the unexpected humanity of his conqueror, when hopeless of mercy. She called him her son, too. Was it possible that the rough Cossack who had preserved his life was the son of the elegant woman before him ? His doubts, however, were soon ended, for in afew moments a handsome young man entered the apartment, and cordially bade him welcome. From his voice, Adolphe recognised his preserver, but so changed since their hostile encounter, that otherwise it would have been impossible to recognise him. The high jack-boots and horseman's cloak had given place to fur-lined slippers and a light, embroidered vest; the hair, which had been carefully gathered beliind tlie bear-skin cap which disguised him, now feil in thick curls round his open, manly countenance—at the utmost, he appeared three-and-twenty. " You appear surprised," he exclaimed, observing his prisoner's countenance: " war gives an appearance of age even to the youngest of us. A party of Cossacks bivouaced near our home last night, and informed me of your encampment. Fearing your vicinitv might bode us 110 good, I determined to conduct their attack—you know the rest. And now permit me to present you to my mother, the Countess DantzofF, who, compelled by your victorious armies to fly from her palace at Moscow, has found shelter upon this remote estate, where, surrounded by faithful serfs, she has lived during the horrors of war in safety." " Could anything reconcile me to the stain which has itself. He was seated at his guitar, playing a Russian air from memory, when Catherine entered the apartment. " Is it possible," she exclaimed, smiling, " that so accomplished a troubadour can descend to the savage strains of the frozen North can anything Russian dweil upon your memory ?" " I must indeed be cold, Catherine," he replied, " ere I forget the generosity of Ivan, or the beauty of his fair country-woman," he added, checking himself, lest his too pointed meaning should bring on the declaration he deemed it most honourable to avoid. " A compliment," replied Catherine, " at the expense of poor sincerity—you are detected, I can read the heart—as a punishment, you shall sing some lay of your own dear country." " Willinglv," he replied; and striking a slight prelude on the instrument, he sang the following words, not inapplicable to his own feelings— " Farewell! farewell! I would not fling, Around thy brow the veil of sorrow: Brightly for thee the mom may spring, And mirth and pleasure wait thy morrow ! The words of love thy lips have spoken, Each buming thought alike forget, Keep not of me one parting token To wake the strain of vain regret! Strike not the lute, whose chords for me Breathed music's strain or passion's spell: Each note would breathe again in thee The memory of this sad farewell! Gay hours of bliss—long happy years— And love'sbest joys—fair maid ! be thine:— Ilis broken heart, his buming tears, And sighs of vain regret are mine !" '1 he deep manly voice of the young soldier trembled at the concluding stanzas. From his emotion, even more than the words of his strain, Catherine feit he was about to depart. " \ ou are going to leave us!" she exclaimeü, bursting into tears; " and I shall see you no more." The undisguised feeling with which these few words were uttered, betrayed too plainly the state of her feelings. Adolphe threw himself upon his knee before her, and declared his love. " Honour," he exclaimed, " has hitherto bound my tongue in silence; as a captive and enemy, I dared not ask your heart—but these cruel wars must end; I will return— I can rely on Ivan's friendship—I shall demand your hand " " \ou will find me his wife!" passionately interrupted the agitated girl; " know you not I am betrothed to him ?" " God !" exclaimed Adolphe, " what have I done !—there wanted but this, wretch that I am ! Is this my return for his generous friendship ? Forget me, Catherine," he continued, " better we had never met—think not of me:—I were a monster, unworthy of the name of man, could I gratify my own passion at the expense of his happiness. He is gentle, affectionate, formed to be beloved—you will soon recall your heart from this wandering, wayward choice, and learn to look upon him as your husband." " Never, never," replied Catherine, " can I love Ivan but with a sister's love ! You never feit the passion, or you could not coolly resign me to another! But, go," she continued, more calmly: " in your own land, doubtless, you will find one worthier of your heart than the deserted Catherine " " Never loved !—You wrong me. Witness these tears, that shame my manhood—the pangs that rend my soul!— Nothing but the powerful call of gratitude and imperious honour could tear me from you. My heart may break with the effbrt, but it must be accomplished! One embrace: —the first and last of happiness I ere may know." At this moment, Ivan, who had unexpectedly returned, entered the apartment, but started as if a serpent had stung him, on beholding Catherine in the arms X>f his friend— Unperceived, he quitted them. " Farewell, for ever !" exclaimed Adolphe, as he disengaged his arm from the trembling form of Catherine; " think of me but as a dream." He imprinted upon her brow a single kiss, and rushed from her presence. " 'Tis over, thank heaven!" he murmured; "the struggle's past;" as sinking upon a coucli in his own room, he begun to reflect upon his future course. " Here I must not remain another hour—we must never meet again. I owe it to her peace—to Ivan's friendship—to my own honour." Hastily writing a letter, which he left upon his table, he threw his cloak around him, and placing Lauriston's casket in his bosom, he silently and unobserved quitted the liospitable mansion which had so long concealed and sheltered him. The niglit-fires guided him to Aran's tent, who, won by the gift of the jewels, consented to depart instantly. The arrangements were soon made. While his people were striking tlieir tents, Adolphe changed his dress for the meaner habiliments of a sledge-driver. An hour before midnight every tliing was prepared, and the party silently commenced their journey. " Thus ends my dream of friendship," said Ivan, as starting from his feverish slumber, he prepared the next morning to visit the deserted chamber of Adolphe. " I have read, it is the nature of woman to be false, and man B1SHOPS IN PA8LIAMENT. March 13th.—Mr. Rippon brought forward his motion for leave to bring in a bill to relieve the bishops of the established church from the exereise of their legislative and judicial funetions in the House of Lords. On a division, for the motion, 58, against it, 125; majority against it, 67. COOPERs' COMBINATION, Mr. Hume moved for copies of the correspondence on this subject, which was subsequently agreed to. March 14th.—In a Committee of Supply, Lord Althor p moved that a sum not exceeding 700,000/. be granted from the Consolidated fund for the service of the ensuing year.—Agreed to. March 24ft,—The Cambridge petition, for the admission of Dissenters to degrees in the Universities, was discussed at great length, and adjourned till to-morrow. Captain Gronow brought m a bill for erecting an iron bridge from the Horseferry, Westminster, to Churchstreet, Lambeth, In the evening, on the report of the Ordnance Estimatesbeing brought up, Major Beauclerk objected to the grants of 10,000/. for Nova Scotia, 10,000/. for Kingston, and 8,000/. for the Mauritius. Mr. Stanley observed, that the importance of the works at Kingston, was so highly rated at the time they were begun, that even his hon. friend, the member for Taunton, than whom a more rigid economist did not exist, ofifered no objection to the grant. He (Mr. Stanley) thought that when a vote had been sanctioned by successive parliaments, it would be very bad policy, when 60,000/. or 70,000/. had been expended on these works, to permit them to crumble to ruins. »V ïth respect to HaUfax, he, of course, knew nothing of its military capabilities; but he understood that the fortifications now erecting diere v.ould be finished in the year 1837 or 1838, and they were highly necessary for protecting the town and shipping, particularly on the land side. If the House refused to lay out the necessary sums to finish what was now in the course of completion, all that had been already spent would have been thrown away. The works at Kingston were necessary to protect the canal and the internal Communications with Canada, and fortified the side on which we were most subject to an attack. Next to Quebec, these works were the most important we possessed in that part of the globe. This portion of the vote wat to public view. This publicatiou will, if we are not mistaken, make many proselytes to the Order, by removing the prejudiees of the sceptic, while it tends to coafirm the union of the brethren by an honourable appeal to their understandings. Sitnday Herald.—'This is the first number of a work, the want of which has long been feit by ■' the brethren." All the advantages expected from a like publication are more than met m the Review before us; which cannot bat be most weleome as well to the old and learned Mason, as to the variest tyro ia the " craft." The professed object of the woik is " to disabuse the worid—to destroy thk mental poison [i. e- the ignorant prejudiees against the eraft], and by advancing the interests of Fïeemasonry, to advance the interest of mankind.*1 The article On Freemasonry is penned in a learned spirit: the mindof the writer is evidently deeply embned with the magnificent mysteries of its " Religion." The Mason rs a welltold, animated tale; though somewhat too lengthy. In Masonic Intelligente we have an admirable digest of the proceedings of all lodges, &c. &e. The Fate of Genius displays considerable poetic powers; there is in it a kindling imagioation with deep thought. The Trapfiets contains some most interesting information on that singular order. Altogether the Review appears to have been the work of much lalxiur, much thought, and we have not the slightest doubt of its obtaining instant popularity. The News.—" Another, and another, and another!" we are tempted to exclaim on seemg the novelties in periodical literatuie which press upon us. •• Come like shadows, so depart," may be said of most of them; but not so, we both hope and believe, of the present. True, it is devoted to one class, Masonic brethren ; but so have been some of out most prosperous modern attempts of the sort-TOe Mechanics' Magazine, The United Service Journal, ie.: and, by addressing themselves peculiarly to a large class, success has been the consequence. "U'e prediet a similar result in the present instanee. All that may be told of the proceedings of the Masonic Society is bere giveo, with lighter articles, such as tales, poetry, to relieve the attention of the reader by turning his mind to matter of another and pleasing description; even to the general reader it promises to afford much to interest and amuse him. The writer of this noüce does not pretend to know more of Masonry than what he has been told of itnamely, that it bases itself on the great principles of social brotherhood, charity, and benevolence ; and that theonly " secret" theyprofess is that of knowing one another, and in adversity, helping, so far as is not inconsistent with their domestic duties, to relieve the wants of thei'r less fortunate brethren. Any publication, therefore, possessing their patronage, and for such objects, should have the support of all who prefer virtue to its opposite, and love man because he is a brother. There is a great fund of facts which the Lodges, throughout the united kingdom, ought to possess in a less perishable form than merely tradition. VVeeKly True Sun.—This spirited periodical has just started into existence, and promises well for the objects it professes to support. It has often struck us that something was wanted in the order itself as a medium of pubKc communication-which this review will admirably supply. As a first number, it is surprisingly well got up: it contains the happiest allusions to the principles of Freemasonry, and is sufficiently general to interest every intelligent reader—while to the practical Freemason it seems to us to be indispensable. Among its ehief beauties are, " An Ode on Freemasonry," containing some pleasing and pointed versification; " A Tale, founded on an anecdote in real life;" " The Fate of Genius;" " The Birth of Music," and •' The Trappists." Heartily do we wish our new Freemason friend success. . . Satirist. This is the first number of what promises to be at onee a useful and an interesting periodical. To the fratemity of Masons such a work must prove most acceptable. It will afford the faeilities of communication between the brethren, and if conducted, as we have reason to believe it will be, with talent and energy, there can be no doubt of its utility, and less of its success. The present number may be improved, but it, nevertheless, possesses much matter of general as well as of exclusive interest. We wish it success. Toicn.—The appearanee of a periodical of this nature is quite a novelty in the literary world. It had long been a matter of astonishment that a society so ancient, numerous, and respectable as that of the Freemasons, should not have originated some publication through which to diffuse its opinions, and represent in a true light its objects. This has now, wc think, been succcssfully done, and we have much pleasure, therefore, in rccommending the first number to the favourable consideration of the public. Lux, and know bv its equivalent in all languages; the term Masonry is merely a corruption from the Greek Murovpxna—Sum in medio Cceli, first applied to the science by Pythagoras, wlien, after travelling through Judea, he returned to Greece and instituted a lodge of Geometricians upon a new principle, and purified the mysteries of his native country from the gross errors which debased them. After the flood, the professors of Lux were called Noachidae, although the science itself retained its primitive name for centuries afterwards, and is still so designated in all our Latin records. The Evangelist St. John, the great patron of Masonry, recognises it by this title; for, speaking of Christ, he says, he was the true light (cf>Z(): Yet a little while the light is with you (S{). Walk while ye have light, that ye may be the children oflight (vlo) The great work of creation being perfected, Adam was placed in Eden as lord of the fair world, and taught with the knowledge of the Most High that science now known as speculative Masonry. Enjoying the companionship of angels, and a holy communion with God himself, the first pair passed their time in worship and innocence. After the fall and its consequent misery to mankind, Adam still retained the knowledge imparted to him in paradise, and practised it upon earth; in illustration of his unhappy dereliction from purity are founded some of those characteristic insignia of Masonry, which convey a remembrance of our degenerate state, and the glorious promise of redemption that cheers it. Such tokens were unnecessary when man was in a state of innocence, but after the fall they were instituted by the great Father of mankind, and remain the immovable landmark? of the order, even to the present time. vol. i. it As the number of the human race increased, their bad passions were called into action; and Cain, influenced by envy, apostatised from the principles of Masonry, and took the life of his brother. The judgment and sentence of a justly incensed Deity followed, the fratricide and his family were driven forth, Cain being protected from personal violence by a peculiar mark which distinguished him from the rest of mankind. Of the nature of this mark or brand many have been the conjectures of the ancients; some have imagined it to have been the word Abel imprinted on his forehead; others the four characters forming the word (iTlïT) Jehovah; others that he trembled so as scarcely to be able to devour his food—an absurd notion drawn from the LXX. who translate fugitive and vagabond (Tievuv V.CCl T péfAUV. With his decendants Cain peoples the land of Nod, where they gradually forsook every good and laudable pursuit, as well as speculative Masonry, devoting themselves only to the practical science, which they retained and exerted for their benefit. Thus Jabal, the sixth in descent from Cain, first invented tents; Jubal, his brother, music; Tubal-Cain, his half-brother, the art of working metais. With their assistance Cain constructed the first city—rude and imperfect, no doubt-—and named it after his eldest son Henoch. The recollection of his guilty deed perpetually haunted him, he lived in continual fear lest the race of Adam should revenge the death of Abel; and the better to defend himself, fortified the new built city and trained its inhabitants to arms for its protection. Rough and inhospitable in their nature, the descendants of Cain soon became remarkable for their licentiousness. Lamech, according to Eusebius, first introduced bigamy, and even more hideous vices; pure Masonry was entirely abandoned by ihem, and cultivated only by the line of Seth, the son of Adam, who received it from his father, and practised it in all its beauty and truth. From a knowledge of the true God, tliis virtuous race proceeded to investigate his altributes; of these the celestial orbs appeared the most prominent. They were contemplated in solitude and silence, their positions gradually defined, their transits observed; and thus the sublime science of astronomy had birth. Seth continued to preside over the craft until the time of Enoch, whom he installs shortly before his death grand superintendent, and died happy in leaving the science under the direction of so excellent a master. The degeneracy of mankind increasing from the union of the lines of Cain and Seth, which even the autliority of Adam was unable to restrain, God communicated to Enoch the knowledge that they would eventually become so wicked as to compel him to destroy the world. From this information he formed his plans for preserving the knowledge of the sasred science, amidst the devastation necessarily attending the predicted calamity. The mysteries committed by Seth to his charge occupied his most anxious consideration; being inspired by the Great Architect of the Universe, and in commemoration of a vision on the holy mountain, he built a temple in the bowels of the earth, the entranee to which was through nine porches, each supported by a pair of pillars, and curiously concealed from human observation. Enoch, Jared, and Methuselah, were the three who constructed this subterranean structure; but the two latter were not acquainted with the secret motives which inspired Enoch to this purpose: it was formed in the depths of a mountain afterwards called Calvary, in the land of Canaan, and dedicated to the living God. Enoch next made a plate of pure gold in form of an equilateral triangle, each of whose sides was eighteen inches, this he enriched with precious stones and encrusted on a triangulai agate of the same dimensions. On this plate he engraved the ineffable characters that he had seen in his vision ; and alone, in silence and solitude, he descended into the temple, and placed this invaluable treasure upon a cubical pedestal made of the purest marble. He afterwards formed nine doors with rings and closed up the whole, that the secrets there deposited might be preserved amidst the impending destruction of mankind, for the contents of this secret temple were not communicated to any of the human race. Anxious to preserve those useful arts and sciences which were embodied in practical Masonry, Enoch next erected two pillars—one of marble, the otlier of brass on both of which were engraved the elements of the liberal arts. the former, he conceived would withstand fire; the latter, water. A notification was afterwards added to each that he had concealed a treasure of inestimable value in the bosom of the earth:—" Let him that hath wisdom find it." After solemnly admonishing mankind Enoch expired, leaving the government of the craft to his son, Lamech . with him all restraint ended, and the sons of Setli gave themselves up to the idolatries of the Cainites, who had impiously exalted Tubal-Cain to the rank of a god, and worshipped him under the name of Vulcan : to him, after the flood, the Egyptians afterwards assigned power, prescience, and immortality. Lamech, unable to reform mankind, resigned the government to Noah, who openly rebuked the crimes of the human race; but finding his efforts vain, under the direction of the Great Architect, he commenced building the Ark of gopher wood: in it, when completed, the few just among mankind, together with two of every living thing, were preserved aniidst the destruction of the world. The cities stained by the vices of their inhabitants, even the brazen pillar erected by Enoch, were swept away before the raging waters of the deep, which overwhelmed the proudest monuments of human art, and removed the solid rocks from their foundation. The pillar of stone alone remained; and by it the science of practical Masonry was preserved to a future world. " Let there be light," the Great Creator said: His will was spoken, and His will obey'd, Vast, ancient Chaos with obedience heard, And trembling own'd His presence in his word, From her deep wound, divinely fair and young, In the dark east the youthful stranger sprung : Led by His hand, in smiles and blushes drest, Traced her first progress to the glowing west; Bounded the reign of chaos and of night, Creation's first-born child, and blessing—light. Hail! sacred type of essence more refined, Whose rays were destined to improve mankind: 'Twas thine to view the Architect's great power, To share the wonder of creation's hour, That saw each star with holy lustre burn, The young-born earth on its strong axis turn, Fair vegetation her bright mantle spread, Clothing the valley's depth, the mountain's head. Didst thou not hang enamour'd o'er the scene ? Tinting each leaf and shrub with brighter green ? Kindling the dew-drops with thy living rays ? Till morning's gems outvied the diamond's blaze In that dread hour ? when first the awful word Proclaim'd that man was nature's sovereign lord, Who call'd to being by the Godhead's breath, While yet obedient subj eet not to death; Gifted with energies, which time alone Can bound or span, with this fair world his own; Woman, his sweet companion from her birth, His joy alike in paradise or earth. Was, ere the Architect, 'mid songs of love, Resumed his throne in the vast lodge above, Pronounced, with all that breathe in land or flocd, Created pure, and in his judgment good. Transient man's innocence, 'twere vain to teil How weakly tempted, he as weakly feil, Though wrath omnipotent the sentence gave, His love as infinite resolved to save; And death, the punishment, was changed to be The birth of future immortality. This was his hope when Eden's distant bowers Were but remember'd, like the sun-bright hours Of faded youth, which oft to age appears Through the long vista of receding years. This sacred pledge—the great Creator's name, And holy worship with our parent came, Who in the progress of revolving time, Gave to his race that mystery sublime, That science pure, with deepest wisdom fraught, Which angel lips in Eden's vale had taught; That secret art, that illustrative rite, First named in honour of its emblem, light; Bnt known to modern ages as our free, Accepted, ancient science, Masonry. Brightly it flourish'd, till man's innate pride Sullied its purity, and God denied ; Offering that homage to mere wood and stone, Which reason claims as due to Him alone ; Enoch, ere yet the dreadful doom was hurl'd, That brought destruction on a guilty world, Conceal'd within the cavem'd womb of earth, The awful symbols that from God had birth ; In darkness shone the light in that lone spot, The darkness feit, yet understood it not. Now framed the ark, foredoom'd the just to save From nature's universal watery grave; Burst were the bonds, that held the mighty sea, Unchain'd the tempests and the winds set free; Onward the waters came, in that dread hour, C)'erwhelm'd alike the palace and the tower; Then bow'd the mighty, e'en the fearless pray'd, Confess'd their God, and call'd aloud for aid; O'er their despairing heads the billows past, Till nought was seen but waves and skies at last, And that lone bark, that on the mighty deep, Lay like some huge leviathan asleep, ltound it the waters smooth'd their ruffled crest, The lightning's forked fires were laid at rest, O'er it the tempest's wings were calmly furl'd, The ark of safety to a future world. The Mason, versed in the literature of the craft, will doubtless perceive that advantage has been taken of the industry and reseach of those who have preceded us in the vineyard of Masonic science; far from wishing to deily our obligation, we record with pleasure the assistance afforded us by Smith, Da Costa, and the learned Oliver, whose time and diligence have been most praiseworthily employed in illustrating the beauties and antiquities of that order whose origin is truth, and whose benefits to the human family are like those of a mighty river, increasing their means of communieation, watering the earth, and refreshing the dwellers upon its banks. LAN AH, A TALE OF THE FLOOD. (a vision.) The awful fiat of an incensed Deity was pronounced, and the hour predestined for the destruction of earth s guilty race drew near. Noah, who with liis sons, were faithful followers of Lux, or that pure Masonic science which teaches the knowledge of the one, true, only God, had completed the ark of safety and awaited the appointed time when lie and his race alone should be preserved amid the strife of waters and the wreek of a lost world. Japheth his youngest son, was deeply imbued with the love of his Creator; it was a feeling calm yet so intense, that it gave the tone to his existence. Each flower whose perfume gladdened his grateful sense, or gemmed winged insect that nestled in its fragrant bosom, was precious in his sight, for He had made them and pronounced them good. But deeper far than for the soulless wonders of creation was his regard for his fellow-creatures: he gazed upon them the lost — the young — the beautiful—and his heart yearned to save them. He had warned them of their idolatries, expostulated with them, prayed for theni' but in vain: proud of their strength and lustiness, they turned his words to scorn and bade him hold his peace. The ark was finished, the vast labour of years was accomplished, and Japheth knew that the hour of desolation was at hand " Yet once more will I seek them," he exclaimed, as he descended from the mountain home of his father to the plain beneath, inhabited by the now united race of Cain and Seth, " once more warn them of the wrath to come. It was the great festival of their worship,—the day 011 which the licentious priests selected their dupe, the bride of tlieir false god. Beneath an oak, whose aged roots were coeval with the earth, stood the idol of Tubal-Cain, first deified by his descendants for his skill in working metais, and in after ages adored by the Egyptians and Grecians under the name of Mulciber or Vulcan. Crowds of his infatuated votaries were seated on the sloping hills that rose like a natural amphitheatre on either side of the primeval wood that skirted the back of their rude deity, and enclosed the scene. Young maidens, the most beautiful of earth's daughters, with their long tresses braided with flowers, were dancing to the timbrel and the lute in honour of the god, wliile bands of priests sang hymns and waved their censers in his praise. The bride—the victim—crowned and o-ar- Ö landed, sat, surrounded by her friends, gazing upon the scene; the fire of false enthusiasm was in her eye—burnt «pon her cheek. Japheth shuddered, as at a distance he beheld the scene, and hastened his steps, lest the vengeance of an outraged God shoukl fall upon them before his warning could be heard. As he approached the hymn of the idolaters feil upon his ear:— Io triumphe-H-aise the strain, And wave the streaming censer high ; Breathe on the silver lute again Praise to the God who rules the sky. Young priestess, with thy flowing hair, Thy step of pride and eye of fire, Golden thy locks thy forehead fair— Hail! worthy of a god's desire. Flowers before thy feet we cast, Countless the joys that soon are thine; Within a god's embraces claspt, With him immoratal and divine. VOL. I. , The priests advanced toreceive the maiden, when Japheth, who had reached the unhallowed circle round the idol, interrupted the ceremony. « Hold," he exclaimed, « while vet the hour is given for repentance; for the time of desolat'on and destruction is at hand. Dash to the earth yon impious idol; fall on your knees, and call for mercy to your father's God, to him who formed you." Surprise at the first moment chained their tongues, but soon the anger of the hardened multitude found words, " He blasphemes the worship ofgreat Tubal-Cain! Listen not to the dreamer—hence with him, they ciied. In vain he entreats for a hearing; though an angel spake, they had been deaf. With threats and curses they drove him from their presence, and completed the rites of their idolatry. Grieved at the result of his mission, Japheth wandered m the depths of the forest, to meditate upon the beautiful works of creation, so soon to be destroyed.—" And must ït be ?" he exclaimed :—" is the irrevocable doom indeed pronounced . Must all thatnow appearsso bright and beautiful, so joyous in existence, be overwhelmed by the dark flood—the stately trees—the innocent flowers—the creatures of the air, must they all perish a sacrifice for man's impiety ?—No," he continued, throwing himself upon his knees, " at the last hour, Thou wilt relent—the fearful doom will be arrested: Thou wilt respect the world thy love hatli formed, and turn the hearts of men with signal mercies !" As Japheth bowed his head to the earth in adoration, a rusding in the thick underwood attracted his attention, and instantly the awful roar of the fierce monarch of the wood warned him of lus danger; with one bound the huge monster cleared the opposing branches and interlacing shrubs, and stood before him, lashing his sides and erecting his dark mane in savage ■ fury. Even in this fearful moment, the enthusiasm and deep religion of Japheth sustained him—he remembered the promise made by Jehovah to his father that his race should be preserved: fixing his eye calmly upon the lion, he awaited the result. The enraged animal, excited by hunger, couched for the deadly spring:—at that instant an arrow, from an unseen hand, pierced the monster's brain, and stretched him powerless on the earth. Japheth's first impulse was to return thanks for his preservation; his next to seek his preserver, who having advanced to ascertain the effect of his aim, stood calmly gazing upon the scene. " No thanks," exclaimed the stranger, as Japheth was about to speak, " thou owest me none; hadst thou but moved a limb, or blinked an eye, I had not stirred to save thee: 'twas thy disdain of life, thy readiness to cast the burthen from thee, nerved my arm—I did not mean thee kindness." " Whate'er the motive, I am bound to thee," replied Japheth, " not less that thou art of the fearful race of Cain, the rather that I may hope to save thee from the general wrath that soon too surely will overwhelm the earth." " What," interrupted his hearer, scornfully, " art thou one of Noah's dreaming race, that pratest of death and desolation ?—Fables ! the earth is firm as it hath ever been; the seasons are the same; the laws which regulate them still unchanged: who then is he, wliose unknown power shall compass this and bring such desolation ?" " The Architect who framed the earth, who gave the seasons their appointed time, whose will hath spoken to my father Noah;—witness the ark." " Bring some other proof," replied the Cainite: " I too am versed in the great mysteries taught by Adam to my father Cain. The laws to regulate, construct yon wooden temple are to me well known; bring me the wisest . of earth's sons, I'11 name with him each star; grows there a plant beneath the moon whose properties I am unacquainted with ? The ductile metal 'neath my skill becomes the useful instrument of life.—Go, visionary ! Lanah is too wise to be deceived." " Oh the pride, the accursed pride of knowledge! Deeply deeply earth's children feel the serpent's curse ! W orm," continued Japheth, addressing Lanah,—" what is thy wisdom opposed against His word ?—Thou canst name the stars, but canst thou teil what power sustains tliem in their splieres?—thou canst describe the virtues of each plant, but canst thou teil the mystery of its being, or why the perfume of the violet differeth from the rose ? thou art skilled above men—the sciences our father Adam taught thou hast remembered; but that Holy one, that crowning gift to man, the Creator's name and awful worsliip, thou art a stranger to. Brother in promise, canst thou abase thy nature, and rejecting the faith thy fathers followed, bow to idolatries of wood and stone ?" " No," replied Lanah, proudly, " the inventions of man's hands I scorn as you do. Tubal was a man wise beyond his race; he lived and died I ne'er have bowed my head to kindred earth, nor will I reject one fable to take up another. On yon mountain's peak lies my secluded home: Leah expects me; she is of your race, and worships as her father taught her: wilt share the homely feast, and teil her of her friends ?—she will rejoice to meet thee." « Willingly," answered Japheth, " my soul yearneth to behold and warn her of the coming wrath, that the hour may find her watching." " Be it as ye list," replied his companion, and together they ascended the steep path that led to the mountain home of Lanah. "Tliou art come again, (lark prophetof evil!" exclaimed Lanah, as he stood before him, " Thy predictions are powerless now—they are gone—nothing can harm them more; and I am left a blighted tree in the lone wilderness without one leaf to shelter me ! But 'tis thou hast wrought tliis—I feel thou hast. I was happy till I met thee; and shall I not be revenged? Shall I not tear thee like thelion in the wilderness, or with tliis staflf dash out the brain that hath wrought tliis crueltv ?" Calm and unmoved the son of Noah stood erect before him—Lanah dropped his weapon. " I cannot harm thee," he continued; " that look of conscious security and firm demeanour unnerve my hand— teach me thy faith; yet no—no," he continued rapidly, " let me die, and forget my miseries." " Canst thou forget them in the grave?" said Japhetli. " Dost not feel that thou art immortal ?" " Ay," replied his hearer, " immortal in the elements into which I soon shall be resolved: immortal in the air that animates tliis heart: immortal in the fire that warms, that burns in every vein." " Peace ! such is the immortality of brutes; man hath a liigher promise, a purer hope — to mix with angels, to live before liis Creator, and rejoin in biest communion those he hath loved on earth." " That were indeed to live ! To listen to the voice that charmed us liere, to gaze again upon the eyes that loved us —that were a hope divine. Man — prophet—Brother, teach me thy faith !" Lanah cast himself upon his knees, and bowed his head before Japheth. # # # # # The gates of the earth and the windows of heaven were opened, the waters rose, and the tempest was heard afar; vol. i. n, still Lanah prayed, and listened to the instructions of hls companion; darkness overspread die earth, and morning still found the solitary penitent and Japhetli kneeling on the mountain. The gloom of despair had disappeared, and the humbled Cainite, meek as a cliild, trembling yet with hope, awaited the approach of death. " Brother," he exclaimed, the bitterness of death is passed—thou shalt behold a better world, arise, and teach it wisdom. I ara going, pray— pray for my departing soul!" His companion prayed aloud, and in a few moments the death-struggle was past. Already had the waters covered the face of the earth, overwhelming its guilty race—the mountains and high places alone were visible: a lion, frightened with the roar of death, and an eagle, whose tired wing had sought in vain for rest, rushed into the dwelling ; but, respecting the sanctuary of man, fled from it and perished; — the waters had overwhelmed the rocks and high places, reaching unto the level of Lanah's habitation. With a serene and unshaken faith Japheth prayed, the ark at last approached and received him in its refuge, leaving the remains of Lanah, his wife, and child, alone upon the rock of the dead. FREEMASONRY IN THE 46th REGIMENT. Were it possible to awaken the departed nations of the earth, and, gi ving to the Egyptian, the Syrian, and the Chaldean a tongue, bid' them declare the vast benefits that have accrued to mankind from the silent but powerful operations of Preemasonry, how would the cynic and sceptical philosopher start to find that the sciences, whose pursuit had strengthened their mental powers— the learning, whose possession had made them proud—the refinements of civilization, which habit had rendered necessary to their existence—were but the vigorous offspring of that venerable parent, whose claims they had so scomfully rejected. Eternal as the benefits conferred would be the gratitude of the whole human race to those early brethren, who devoted their time and energies to improve the condition of mankind, could they but tracé the progress of the Order through the persecutions of cruelty, the opposition of bigotry, and the equally fatal darkness of ignorance and prejudice. To encounter these enemies to human happiness, to destroy this hydra, the good, the enlightened and benevolent of all nations enlisted under the sacred banner of Masonry; lessening by their inventive genius, the wants and miseries of savage life, and gradually adorning it with those social charms which form the great bond of union through the worhl. Should the sceptic still ask the utility of our Order now, when the art of printing has rendered oral learning vain, when science lias descended from her pedestal to become the playmate of the cliild, and the youth of to-day is wiser than the sages of old,— let him ask of the hundreds of innocent children, whom Masonic charity hath clothed, whom Masonic virtue liath trained in the paths of respectability and truth ? There will he find his answer.— Let him seek the proscribed wanderer from distant lands, whose exile hath been cheered by the hand of fraternal fellowship. Ask of the venturous mariner, whose vessel, tossed on the foaming waves, the sport of the tempest and the storm, has cast him helpless on some unknown shore :—faint and exhausted, he finds a home where kindred never dwelt; a means of communication where language weie unintelligihle; help where all seemed to have deserted hirn. How ofteu, amid the horrors of war, havé desolation and death been averted by the grasp of Masouic brotherhood! lts influence is feit equally by the soldier and the civilian. Several of our regiments have lodges attached to thein; and the annals of one, No. 227, under the Grand Lodge of Ireland, held by the distinguislied 46th, furnish facts alike honourable to the Craft and the human heart. During the services of the above regiment in America, General Washington was initiated into Masonry in tlieir Lodge. Well can we imagine the gush of lioly feeling with which his benevolent inind, so deeply imbued with the love of his fellow creatures, received the sublime tenets of our Order. That the impression was of a liigbly wrought character, his after conduct proved; for when war broke out between the States and the Mother Country, and he became divided from the brothers of his adoption ; in feeling—in communion of soul, he was their brother still. The Masonic chest of the 46th, by the chance of war, feil into the hands of the Americans : tliey reported the circumstance to General Washington, who embraeed the opportunity of testifying his estimation of Masonry in the most marked and gratifying manner; by directing that a guard of honour, under the command of a distinguished officer, sliould take charge of the chest, with many articles of value belonging to the 46th, and return them to the regiment. The surprise, the feeling of both officers and men may be imagined, when they perceived the flag of truce that announced this elegant compliment from their noble opponent, hut still more noble Brother. It was a scene of moral beauty ; a triumphant vindication of the purity of Masonic principles. The guard of honour with their flutes playing a sacred march—the chest containing the constitution and implements of the craft borne aloft, like another ark of the covenant, equally by Englishmen and Americans, who, lately engaged in the strife of war, now marched through the enfiladed ranks of the gallant regiment, that with presented arms and colours hailed the glorious act by cheers, which the sentiment rendered sacred as the hallelujahs of an angel s song. This lodge offers another proof of the excellence and useful influence of Masonry, nearly as distinguished as the former. When in Dominica, in the year 1805, the 46th was attacked by a French force, which it gallantly repelled; but in the action had the misfortune again to loose the Masonic chest, which the enemy succeeded in securing on board their fleet, without knowing its contents. Three years afterward, the French government, at the earnest request of theofficers who had cominanded the expedition, returned the chest with several complimentary presents ; offering by that act the acknowledgment and homage of an enlightened nation to the purity, value, and usefulness of Masonry. Among the archives of this lodge are many interesting records of high value to its Masonic character. It lias been the parent of three other military lodges; and has had the honour of enrolling among its members many characters distinguished as much by their Masonic attainments, as their gallantry in the field, or value in the society which their highly polished manners and intellectual qualities adorned. The memory of one member of their lodge is partic nlarly endeared to his Brother Masons by the bequest of a series of lectures on Masonry; which, although not exactly based upon those delivered in the grand stewards lodge, or the London lodges, are beautiful illustrations; and serve as lionourable proof that Captain James Saunderson considered the gallant hearing of the soldier derived additional splendour from the sentiments of the Mason. The regiment has now about twelve brethren Masons in its community, who have addressed the grand lodge of Ireland for a renewal of their original charter, setting forth their honourable claims upon the Craft. Their request has been acceded to, on condition of sending in the names of three original members ; but, alas ! time and the too hazardous events of a military life, have left but one survivor of this honourable band of brothers, wliose name has been returned with the two senior Masons of the regiment. They are now anxiously awaiting the return of their warrant to enable them to emulate the Masonic examples set them by their noble brother Washington, and their gallant brethren of France. The military brethren have ever shown themselves anxious to maintain the hospitality and fellowship of the Order. At Canterbury, where the 46th has been stationed, they have frequently honoured the United Industrious Lodge, No. 37, with their pre- sence, and repeatedly had occasion to compliment tliem upon their courtésy, good fellowship, and pure Masonic discipline. It had been suggested that His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex should be petitioned for a warrant; but so many proud and honourable associations are crowded upon their recollection to sanctify their allegiance to the grand lodge of Ireland, that it was finally detennined to renew it from the same authority. May every Brother who may read these honourable testimonials of Masonry deserve and maintain the dignity of the Order, as w ell as our brethren of the gallant 46th ! BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE BROTHER PETER GILKES. « An honest man 's the noblest work of God." The biographies of men, who have devoted themselves to one peculiar branch of science or literature, are generally characterised bv the influence which one absorbing pursuit necessarily acquires over the mind, directing its energies, and controlling its operation. Thus we find that the mathematician acts more frequently upon the sober demonstration of wisdom, than the less dignified incitement of mere impulse; while the painter and the poet, enwrapt in the ideal and beautiful, create for themselves a visionary world, in which imagination too often supersedes the use of reason. The principles by which the merchant is guided in the private relations of life, are generally analogous to his proceedings in commerce; while the ardent temperament of the soldier, or equally venturous mariner, leads them to seek for happiness in those exciting busy scenes, so anxiously avoided by the student and the churchman. Taking it, therefore, as an axiom that the study on which the mind is most exercised imparts its tone to the character, the sincerity of a man's pursuit may be judged from their mutual affinity: tried by this test, the life of our late brother will be found alike honourable to lnimanity and Freemasonry,—to wliose science lie was an ornament, to whose principles his exertions were devoted. Brother Peter, William Gilkes was born on the lst of May, 1765, in the neighhourhood of Carnaby Market, and baptised a mémber of the Catholic church in the same year ; lie was named after the late Lord Petre, who had been an excellent friend to his family. His parents were respectable persons in an humble line of business, which he himself followed till the death of his mother. By his industry and perseverance he acquired a small property, the interest of which amounted to about nine shillings per day. Finding himself independent, and being of an unambitious nature, he determined to retire from business and devote himself to pursuits more congenial to his disposition; his accounts were soon closed. He engaged a single room, which he furnished plainly, and arranged with Hannah, an old faithful servant of his late mother, to attend to his apartment, and prepare his frugal meals. Few lives present a lesson of more perfect contentment and real philosophy than the conduct of our late brother; young—in possession of a business in which a competency had already been gained, and in which comparative wealth appeared utterly attainable, he resigned the tempting prospect for leisure to cultivate liis mind, and improve the interests of his fellow-creatures. The funeral of a distinguished brother, whom the Craft honoured by a public procession, first directed his attention to Masonry; enquiry satisfied his mind of the utility and benevolent views of the Order, and he was initiated in the year 1786, at the age of twenty-one.. in the British Lodge, now No. 8 of the Craft. Delighted with the science, he devoted his energies and time to qualify himself for those honours which Masonry holds out for the deserving, and to the attainment of which vice and idleness present the only barrier; as a fact honourable to the Order, it cannot be too generally known, that its highest offices are equally open to the honest intelligent citizen as the prince and peer.* The Lodge of Unity, now 82, satisfied with his * The power vested in the Most Worshipful Grand Master to confer peculiar distinctions does not invalidate this position, inasmuch as the holiness of Masonry invariably points to the motto, " detur digniori." attainments and general conduct, first elected him their Master, wliich office he discliavgcd with reputation to himself and advantage to the Craft. During his Masonic life he filled. successively the chairs of 23, 188, 201, 211, 318, 259, and 7, several times each, and died the Worshipful Master of the St. Micbael's Lodge, No. 255. For the last sixteen years of his life he was a distinguished member of the Board of Benevolence, to qualify himself for wliich, he, during that period, annually filled the chair of a lodge, and discharged its arduous duties. Here it was that the true cliarity of his character displayed itself: the petition of the widow and the orphan found in him a zealous adv ocate,—indeed, it has been advanced by many, that his anxiety to promote the object of petitioners frequently exceeded his judgment, as his known character for punctual attendance at tbe Board of Benevolence led almost every petitioner to propitiate his interest, and no doubt Brother Gilkes could not always sufficiently discriminate between the respective merits of all, and he was the more especially moved to vote liberally froni a personal acquaintance with almost every petitioner,—and in this sense, but only in tlüs sense, could his general judgment be considered questionable. So praiseworthy was his conduct, not only at the Board, but on the Masonic committees, of most of which he was a member, that it procured for him the notice and approbation of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, our Most Worshipful Grand Master, a fact alike honourable to the condescension and urbanity of the prince and the virtues of the Mason. Such was his reputation, that many distinguished foreign brothers, who were members of his lodge, No. 7, on their departure for the Continent, requested his signature to their Grand Lodge Certificates, with a hst of the different lodges of which he was so distinguished an ornament. The difficulties Brother Gilkes had encountered in perfecting himself in Masonry, made him resolve to toach gratuitausly such brethren as were disposed to attend him every day from one o'clock till time to attend some lodge or -other, where his eveniugs were generally spent j he was always ready to receive them for this purpose, and even made several journies into Lincolnshire, Cambridge, and Norfork, refusing all remuneration further than the merè expenses of his visit. In imparting instruction his manner wa? impressive, anil his language peculiarly correct; he frequently regretted that his circumstanees would not allow him to support the Maso iic schools; hut as they were in a prosperous condition, he considered that his trifling charities were as well bestowed upon unfortunate brethren or poor individuals whom he had known under more fortunate circumstances. Many a wandering Mason lias received assistance at his hand—his lieart was as charitable, and his views as expansive as the cönfined nature of his means would possibly admit: his little gifts naturally partook of his own particular character. On one occasion he sent ten shillings to a poor woman in distress, wlio was taken suddenly ill in the foom adjoining the one he occupied, and on her demise five shillings more to the family; this sum he had reserved for a ticket for the grand festival in honour of the Grand Master's birth-day. His absence caused inquiriés to be made, when this interesting fact was at last elicited. In the year 1822 several of his pupils admiring his truly disinterested Masonic zeal, subscribed a handsome sum for the purchase of a je wel, whicli was designed by brother Harris, one of the subscribers, who also executed his portrait,* as well as the portrait of the Grand Master, Lodge Tracing Boards, &c. To this splendid token of esteem the veteran Mason would frequently refer with pride, and show it to younger brothers, who were presented to him as an incentive to persevere. This jewel he intended to leave to the late brother Meyer, of the Globe Lodge, for whom he entertained so sincere a respect as to have appointed him his executor; but in consequence of brother Meyer's decease, the trust afterwards devolved upon brother W. li. G. Key, Past Master of No. 7, to whom he bequeathed his craft medal. In 1825 he received from some brethren in Lineolnshire, whom he had instructed in Masonry, another elegant and valua'ole jewel, which he left to one of his pupils, H. S. Cafe; a small arch jewel he bequeathed to companion A. L. Thiselton. Some pupils, who ultimately domiciliated in the West Indies, and propagated most advantageously the instruction of their respected tutor, sent him over a cask of rum, which was very acceptable, as it enabled him to entertain his * A very striking likcness of brother Gilkes. VOL. I. U London pupils on tlieir first visit occasionally witli one glass, (life never would offer more tbat lie might be enabled to make the compliment more general.) He would advert witb lionest pride and pleasing jocularity to tbe circumstances of the glass bemg made a bond of union among bis pupils thus separated. Every subscriber to his jewel received a bottlé of his sanctum, as be termed it, in token of his thankfulness. Afler attending one of the Romford Lodges about two years since, his foot slipped in getting into a coach, and a bad leg ensued, which reduced him excessively; he rallied for a short time, during a visit he paid to Reading, for the purpose of opening a new lodge, but on his return to London he gradually declme . The last lodge in which he officiated was the Robert Burns, No. 25, but the task was too much, he was compelled to request brother Key to complete tbe ceremony, After this he never went into Masonic business, but resigned the Globe Lodge, ot which he had been a member upwards of thirtv years. His deatli was worthy the tenets he professed in life,—when asked 1 e wished anything further done for him, he expressed his thanks ior the kindness of all around him, declared that he was pertectly happy, forgave every one who had ever injured him, and trustmg that no one owed him any ill will, he died in peace and chanty with all men, and resigned his breath to the Great Architect oi All, who gave it. . By his will he left a legacy to the daughter of his old servant Hannah, who, on her mothers death, succeeded to the office of his attendant, and faithfully discharged the duties of her station. With the exception of some trifling legacies, he left the remainder of his little property to bis brother and family. Several interesting circumstances, very creditable to t ie < aracter of our friend, transpired after his decease-one in parücular deserves notice ; a widow appüed to the executors to know if any lesacy was left her, and grounded her hopes upoii the circumstance, of baving regularly received from him 51. for many years vast. As his illness was short, and bis will made onlv precedir „ his decease, the object of his bounty unfortunately escaped his re- collection. . . , , Brother Gilkes was a bachelor, but always practised the g. loiitry he feit for the fair sex. In opening a new lodge he woultl place the ladies in the chair before commencing the solemnities, complimenting them upon their sanction to the furtherance of our mystical rites, by their precedence on the throne, In early life he lost the sight of his right eye, in consequence of a severe attack of fever. His features were handsome, his countenace intelligent and expressive,—his habits, as we before observed, unobtrusive and kind. He was in a manner something Johnsonian in regard to Masonry,—no advantage could be taken of him in lodge, — he would not allow the slightest deviation in word, or manner, or matter, to please the most learned or the most accomplished in other subjects : we have observed him correct many men of rank and influence for deviatio'ns from the Standard of Masonic illustration, and who, to their credit, acknowledged the reproof with all the courtesy wliich became their allegiance to the craft. He resembled the great lexiographer in his personal appearance, being somewhat slovenly in his habits, which no doubt was owing to his inordinate addiction to smoking, and a privation from the happier and more joyous comforts of wedded life. In his habits he was abstemious, never taking at dinner more than a boiled potatoe if about to attend a supper lodge. His memory was extraordinary: he bad an excellent smal! library, and could repeat the whole of Scott's and Byron's poetry,—a fact well known to several of the brethren. He was a great smoker, and used to declare, that for the last thirty years of his life, he averaged thirty pipes of tobacco and coltsfoot per day ; he generally used the same pipe for three montbs, and when completely black would give it to somebrother,—one of them is at present tobe seen in the museum of brother A. L. Thiselton, who was present at his decease. In his y outh he must have been an extremely powerfulman ; for when in his 67tli year, on his return from the Blackfriars Lodge, he was attacked in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields by four men, three of whom he knocked down; he generally carried a cook's knife to defend himself with in case of an attack, but fortunately he had left it at home on the night of the attack. Although universally held in esteem amongst Masons, his conduct was always characterised by good sense : he liever aspired beyond his station in life, and decUned the honour of an o ffice in the Grand Lodge, because he considered that his eircuinstaiices in life were not equal to the appointment. He was exalted in the Caledonian Chapter, but did not attend arch Masonry frequently; he often expressed the highest satisfaction at the manner in which companiou Broadfoot elucidated the historica!, symbolic, and fiducial mysteries. We have given a faint but honest outline of the life of our deceased brothér,—those who had the happiness of knowing him will appreciate its truth, while the moral which his course has taught, will not, we trust, be thrown away upon those to whom the same honourable career lies open. H BOARDS, COMMITTEES, &c. Not included in the Freemasons' Calendar*. GRAND STEWARDS, 1834, 1835. T> T , 0fN°' Of NO. Br. George Leach .... 1 Br. Wïlliam Sansum . . . 30 " George Birnie .... 2 " John Smith 32 Frederick Braithwaite . . 4 " John Brayne 37 " Henry James Prescott. . 6 " Henry Rowe . . . ! 61 Francis J. Robotham . . 8 " Richard Lea Wilson . . 72 Samuel W. Darke . . .14 " Jos. Copland Bell . . 108 William Bolus .... 21 " Hugh Fraser . . . . 11 (; " H. Langley .... 23 " Ferdinando Jayes . . 233 John M. Carrow ... 27 " Richard N. Gresley . 324 (The officers of this board are not gcnerally elected until February.) BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. R. W. Bhother Lohd Chubchill, President. R. W. Br. Lewis, " 1 Petit, H. R. Willett. B. B. Cabbel, V. W. Br. William Meyrick, W. Br. Rev. W. Fallofield, W. Shadbolt, Thomas F. Savory, John Henderson, Sir John Soane, of No. Br. Giraudj W. M. o. s. l. " Wilson . . " . . 19 " Rowe . . " . . 23 " Cooper . . " . . 40 " Crucefix, M.D. " . . 49 " Robottom . . " . . 70 " Wheatley . . " . . 83 " Paxon . . " . . 196 " France . . " . . 215 " Lewis 227 BOARD OF FINANCE. R. W. Brother Richard Percival, President. R. AV. Br. H. R. Lewis, W. W. Prescott, V. W. Br. William Meyrick, " George Cuthbert, " Thomas Moore, " Henry Heath, of No. Br. Giraud, W. M. g. s. l. " Wilson . . " . . 19 " Rowe . . " . . 22 " Crucefix, M.D. " . . 49 " Robottom 70 " Wheatley . . " . . 83 * As the officcrs of the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter for 1834-1835, will appear in the 1' rcemasons' Calendar, we do not insert them; but the proceeding of their appointinents and elections will be found in the proper place.—Ed. GRAND CHAPTER, c0mm1ttee of genebal pubposes. Comp. Prescott, " Meyrick, " Warre, " Pollock, " Buckhart, Comp. Broadfoot, " Crucefix, M.D. Key, " Maccallum. 'c0m3iittee op 1jjquiby into ceremonies, etc. M. E. C. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. E. C. Rt. Hon. Lord Dundas, " J. Ramsbottom, M.P. " Rt. Hon. the Earl of Durham, M Colonel Tynte, E. C. Rev. G. A. Browne, JL. aavory , W. H. White, Buckhart. BOARD OF STEWARDS. for conducting the annivebsaby festival of the boy al fbeemason's chabity fob female childben, may 81, 1834. Brother Joshua Walker, . . . No. 6 . President. Richard W. Jennings, . 2 . Vice President. AlexanderDobie, . . 1 • Treasurer. George Franks, . . 195 . Hon. Secretary. of No. I Br. William Haslewood . . 12 „ R. T. Hall 17 „ George Henekey ... 21 „ N. Ashman 30 „ Hugli James .... 32 „ William Lucas Hanley . 37 „ Jonah Wilkinson ... 37 „ F. Buckingham ... 54 „ John Chanter . . . .107 „ John Godfrey .... 108 of No. Br. Hugh Frazer . . . .116 William Hogg .... 156 „ James Herne . . . .167 „ Rev. David Morgan . . 233 „ George Price . . . .237 „ John Coles Fourdrinier . 237 „ William Day . . . .317 „ John Hamilton . . . 324 „ James Andrcw . . . .593 MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Recent circumstances of a public nature, which it is not necessary to enlarge upon, have drawn the attention of our zealous and indefatigable Grand Master to the Act of Parliament which recognises and protectg our order ; and in consequence the following communication has been addressed to the Masters of lodges by H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex. For the information of all we shall append an extract from the act itself. -rr Freemasons' Hall, London, April, 26 th 1834. W. Master, We are especially commanded by the M. W. Grand Master to direct that you will, immediately upon receipt of this, register with the Clerk of the Peace for the County, Stewartry, Riding, Division, or Place, in which your Lodge is situated, a correct List of the Members of your Lodge, with their Titles, Professions, Trades, or Business, and also their Residences; in which Return you are also to state the Times and Place of your Meetings: and you will forthwith apprise us, for the Grand Masters information, when you have complied with this direction. In default of your so doing, your Lodge will be liable to erasure. For your guidance and instruction, a Form of the Return to be made to the Clerk of the Peace acompanies this. By Command of the M. W. Grand Master, William H. White, { , , q Edw. Harper, 5 ' FORM OF CERTIFICATE. Name of the County (to wit) We, the undersigned, 0f in the County of an(j of in the County of , two of the Members of the Lodge of Freemasons, held at the House of in the said County, called the Lodge of and being No. in the list of Lodges, do hereby certify and declare, pursuant to an Act of the 39th Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, " An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Societies " established for seditious and treasonable Purposes, and for better pre" venting treasonable and seditious Practices," that the said Lodge of which we are respectively Members as aforesaid, hath been usually held, and now is held, under the Denomination of a Lodge of Freemasons, under the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of England, and in conformity to the Rules prevailing amongst the Societies or Lodges of Freemasons, in this Kingdom, and that the said Lodge meets on the in every Month, at the House above stated, and is composed of the following Members. (then the names to follow). Extract from Act, 39 Geo. III., c. 79. Sect. 5. And whereas certain Societies have been long accustomed to be holden in this Kingdom under the Denomination of Lodges of Free Masons, the Meetings whereof have been in great measure direeted to charitable Purposes; be it therefore enacted, That nothing in this Act shall extend to the Meetings of any such Society or Lodge, which shall, before the passing of this Act, have been usually holden under the said Denomination, and in conformity to the Rules prevailing among the said Societies of Free Masons. Provided always, That this Fxemption shall not extend to any such Society, unless two of the Members composing the same shall certify upon Oath, (which Oath any Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate is hereby empowered to administer,) that such Society or Lodge has, before the passing of this Act, been usually held under the Denomination of a Lodge of Free Masons, and in conformity to the Rules prevailing among the Societies or Lodges of Free Masons, in this Kingdom; which Certificate, duly attested by the Magistrate before whom the same shall be sworn, and subscribed by the Persons so certifying, shall, within the Space of two Calendar Months after the passing of this Act, be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the County, Stewartry, Rilling, Division, Shire, or Place, where such Society or Lodge hath been usually held: Provided also, That this Exemption shall not extend to any such Society or Lodge, unless the Name or Denomination thereof, and the usual Place or Places, and the Time or Times of its Meetings, and the Names and Descriptions of all and every the Members thereof, be registered with such Clerk of the Peace as aforesaid, within Two Months after the passing of this Act, and also on or before the T wenty-fifth Day of March in every succeeding Year. And be it enacted, That the Clerk of the Peace, or the Person acting in his Behalf, in any such County, Stewartry, Riding, Division, Shire, or Place, is hereby authorised and required to receive such Certificate, and make such Registry as aforesaid, and to enrol the same among the Records, of such County, Stewartry, Riding, Division, Shire, or Placc, and to lay the sa me, Once in every Year, before the General Sessions of the Justices for such County, Stewartry, Rilling, Division, Shire, or Place. GRAND FESTIVAL OF THE ORDER. April 30*.—This day being appointed for the Anniversary of the Grand Festival, about two hundred and fifty of the Brethren assembled at Freemasons' Hall to celebrate the day. Present, His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Most Worshipful Grand Master, in the chair; supported by His Grace the Duke of Lienster, Grand Master for Ireland; Lord Durham, the newly appointed Deputy Grand Master; LordMonson; Lord John Churchill; C. K. ïynte, Esq., M.P.; J. Rarasbottom, Esq., M. P.; John Penlease, Esq., M. 1'.; numerous present and past Grand Officers, Provincial Grand Masters, and other distinguishe:! Brothers. At six o'clock the Grand Officers entered the Hall, and marched thrice round to the accompaniment of the organ, on which Sir George Smart played a Masonic march. As soon as the cloth was removed and the ladies had returned to the gallery, his royal highness gave the customary toasts: first, the Ring, Grand Patron of the Order; the health of her Majesty, Grand Patroness of the Masonic School for Female Children, folio wed. Lord Durham, having obtained permission of the Grand Master, rose and addressed the Brethren. He called their attention to the number of years which his royal highness had presided over them his zeal, undeviating eourtesy, and anxiety to promote the interests of the Order. " On this occasion," continued his lordship, " we are more than usually bound to him:—we all know and lament his royal highness s indisposition; but, not studying his personal convenience, thinking of nothing but the welfare of the Craft, he has this day come amongst us, to preside over our festivity, and direct us in our more serious duties. Not that I feel it necessary to remind our Brethren of this disinterested devotion on the part of our Grand Master—they have doubtless appreciated it; and I call upon them to joiii in drinking his health, on this occasion, with all the enthusiasm and affectionate regard that his high character and endearing qualities demand. His lordship was iistened to with the utmost attention and respect; and when the applause which followed the toast had at last subsided, his royal highness rose to return thanks. In eonsequence of his in- « A grand lod;;e was previoiuly heldin th2ticw Masonic Tempte, where the appointmen of grand officers for the year took place. vol. i. v disposition, he wore, during and after the banquet, a black skull cap; and the resemblance between his royal highness and his late father was strikingly apparent. He commenced his address by assuring the Brethren that it afforded him pleasure to meet them upon all occasions, and that he deeply appreciated the compliment which he had just received. The noble lord had alluded to his indisposition, and certainly at some personal risk he had attended the festival, even at a time when he was excused from court; but he feit it is duty to be there, and had obeyed the summons. " In consequence of late events," continued his royal highness, " I have deemed it advisable, by a circular to the Master of every Lodge, to call the attention of the Craft to that Act of George III. which protects the assemblies of Masons, and directs that the number and place of meeting of every Lodge should be left with the Clerk of the 1'eace. That complied with, Masons are exempt from all interference by the statutes which have been enacted for the suppression of secret societies. In this proceeding I have been actuated by a desire to preserve a due obedience to the laws by which the order has been protected and supported, and extend the respectability and high character of the Craft." In proposing the health of the Duke of Lamster, his royal highness observed : —" On this occasion we have been honoured, Brethren, with the presence of the Most W. G. M. for Ireland; and it has ever been my wish to mark the fraternal union between the three Grand Lodges, by paying respect to the authorities of the Sister Orders. I beg you will therefore join with me in drinking the health of the Duke of Leinster, M. W. G. M. for Ireland; and also that of the M. W. G. M. for Scotland. His Grace the Duke of Leinster, in returning thanks, briefly alluded to the mutual desire of fraternal concord which existed between the Grand Lodges; and assured the Brethren that he but performed his duty in being present on the occasion of the festival; and that the Masons of Ireland would look but coldly on him on his return, had he neglected so important a point of his Masonic duties. His royal highness next callecl the attention to an appointment which he had found it necessary to make in consequence of his increasing indispcsition, that of Pro-Grand Master, and proceeded to inform the Brethren that, for that high office, he had selected Lord Dundas, the late deputy Grand Master. In alluding to the severe bereavement with which that distinguished nobleman had been afflicted, he trusted that he sufficiently explained the cause of his absence; and concluded^by propcsing, that as a token of sympathy and respect, his health as ProGrand Master should be drank in solemn silence—a tribute which all sincerely paid to the worth of that distinguished brother. 1 n proposing the health of Lord Durham, the Dcputy Grand Master, flis Royal Highness observed, that from the many years whieh he had known him, and from the knowledge that Masonry flourished so well in ths province over which he presided, he had the highest confidence in the manner in which he would discharge the duties of that distinguished office. His lordship, in returning thanks, warmly eulogised the M. W. G. M. and called upon the Order to observe with what prudence and unremitting zeal his Royal Highness watclied over the interests and respectability of the Craft: instancing the late necessary circular issued by him as Grand Master, and rendered of importance by the proceedings of parties to whom he coukl not there more particularly allude; but thus ^ much he would observe, let those who had borrowed the language of their societies from them, imitate their love of order, their obedience to the laws, and ever peaceable conduct; and neither of the parties would regret, the Mason, that his precepts had been copied, or the communities that they had followed such pure examples. The Grand Master next gave the health of the Grand Officers for the year ensuing, with an exordium upon the duties of their appointments. Brother Da vul Pollock, Grand Warden, in returning thanks, assured his Koyal Highness, not only on his own part, but that of his brother o cers that their best exertions should be given to promote the welfare ot the Craft: and concluded, by thanking the Brethren for the courtesy they had shown him and his colleagues in office. After a variety of songs and glees from the professional Brethren, the Grand Master, in a speech full of gallantry and feeling, complimented the ladies in the gallery. He could not see them, he observed, but he feit the cheering influence of their presence. Their health was drank with the warmest enthusiasm, during which they retired. ■ hortly afterwards his Royal Highness, attended by the Grand Master for Ireland, Lord Durham, and the Officers of the Grand Lodge, withdrew amid the plaudits of the Brethren. To compliment the Board of Grand Stewards on their liberality would be only to insult their judgment; we shall draw a veil over the parsimony which, or the first time in our recollection, governed the regulations of a festival, that for a long series of years have been cha- Indwed, Z1 m°St C°Urte0US a"enti0n and unbounded liberality; that 7h 1 m°re readily fr°m 3 Str°ng imPrcssiün o» our minds, hat the disappointment of this year will be more than compensated by the exertions of the present Grand Stewards, who have expressed them selves most anxious to renew the festival in its original spLdor ROYAL FREEMASONS' CHARITY FOR FEMALE CHILDREN. April, 10.—General Court.—Lord J. H. S. Churchill, in the chair. The foliowing sub-committee for the revision of the By-laws were requested to continue their services ; and J. Ramsbottom, Esq., to whom the thanks of the Governors were unanimously awarded for liis past kindness, was solicited to continue in the office of Treasurer. committee of by-laws. Mr. Baumer Mr. S. Staples Dr. Crucefix „ G. Stone Mr. Franks „ Taylor „ Shadbolt ,, ^ hite. The following thirty Annual Governors were elected to be added to the General Comraittee of Governors for the year ensuing. Mr. Acklam Mr. Hawley „ Begbie „ Jackson „ Bossy „ Laurence „ Bolus » Lovell ,, Cardozo „ Mawley „ Cotterell ,, Odell „ Crew „ Rodgers „ Cox „ Serjeant „ Cragg „ Sheiman ,, Froggatt Stalschmidt ,, Fenton „ Trevor „ Freer „ Taylor „ Farncorab „ Wallas „ Field „ Warter „ Hogg ; ,, WMting. An animated conversation ensued upon the subject of the falling off in the subscription at the anniversary of the Boys' School (vide p. 49, No. l.),and it was stated that His Royal Highness the Most Worshipful Grand Master,had been addressed by the board of Stewards for the ensuing festival of the Female School, soliciting a revocation of the orders issued upon the Boys' anniversary—but the reply of His Royal Highness had not been received*. * The reply was afterwards sent to the Vice-president of the board, but it being exprcs^ly commanded that it should be considered as a Masonic communication, and not to be promu.gated througli the Hall in print, we cannot publish it. Suffiee it, th< refore, to ï-ta e, .hat His R^yal Highness still cntertained the samc sentiments, and the Board afterwards acted in full conformity with his former directions. The follow'ng children were successful on the ballot, and admitted into the school. Carritt, Hanson, Fordyce, Tulk, Cox. April 24. At a general Committee of Governors, held this day, the iollowing gentlemen were elected on the several sub-comraittees. The public examination of the children will take place on the 24th of the present month (July). We earnestly invite the attendance of the (rovernors and their friends, and can assure such ladies as may be disposed to honour the charity with their company, that they will derive real pleasure in observing, not merely the personal appearance of our interesting young friends, but that the result of their general examination in education, domestic duty, needlework, &c., will prove highly creditable to their excellent matron. anniversary festival of the female school. May 21.—A numerous assembly of the Brothers sat down to the anniversary banquet of the Female School, at Freemasons' Hall, the Rt. Hon. and Rt. W. Lord Durham, in the chair, supported by Brothers Lord John Churchill, J. Ramsbottom, M.P., David Pollock, G. W., and Stone, J. W., together with many present and past Grand officers, and other distinguished Brethren. After the customary loyal tosts of the King and Queen, as Patron and 1 atroness of the charities, the noble chairman, in a speech replete with eloquence and feeling, introduced the name of the Most Worshipful Grand Master, the Duke of Sussex, to the notice of the company, marking his own sense of personal obligation to his Royal Highness, by the reverential esteem and terms of affectionate regard in which he charactensed his many virtues, stating that his acceptance of the exalted office of Deputy Grand Master, to which he has been recently appointed, was equally occasioned by his wish to relieve his Royal Highness, then absent from indisposition, from some of his onerous official house. Lord J. S. Churchill M. Baumer Dr. Crucefix Captain Deans Mr. Franks „ Gordon „ Lewis „ Dr. Moore ,, Staples, S. ,, Stalchmidt ,, Taylor „ Tubbs „ White. Br. Acklam ,, Baumer „ Bossy „ Cordozo „ Harper „ Rodgers „ Shadbolt audit. ,, Mr. Prescott „ Shadbolt i3 G. Stone „ White duties, and the earnest desire he feit to identify himself even more immediately with the fraternity at large, than could be permitted by his provincial rank. This sentiment met with its usual demonstration of enthusiastic respect. His lordship next gave the health of Lord Dundas, Pro-Grand Master. The health of the Yice-Presidents next followed ; which compliment was ably acknowledged by Brother L. H. Petit, who advocated the advantages of the female school, advancing some happy, but forcibly defensive arguments in favour of an institution that opposed the shield of education to the allurements of the vicious and profligate, who well might be expected to be hostile to those whose meetings began and ended in prayer. Could those, he observed, who would destroy the barriers of religion and morality, witness the scene about to follow, how would they shrink appalled by its glorious holiness, to behold sixty female children protected from want, and removed f:om the temptations of vice to a virtuous and honourable domicile, where their prospects are still further cheered by the approbation of the good and beautiful of their own sex, whom he saw assembled in the gallery on this interesting occasion. After Brother Petit's eulogium and thanks, the Treasurer and House Committee retired to superinlend the introduction of the children, who, preceded by the stewards of the day, shortly afterwards entered the room, to whom succeeded the treasurer, leading the two younger children; the procession was closed by the members of the House Committee. After parading twice round the room, the children were arranged on the platform facing the gallery. Some of the children sang the following hymn from the orchestral gallery When warlike music swells the gale, And bids the patriot victor hail ; Each heart with joy triumphant bounds, Exulting in the glorious sounds. Yet envy not these prouder strains, Ye who can feel for other's pains; AYho ope the fount which heals our woe, And bid the streams of mercy flow. For higher transport here you prove, Here at this social feast of love ; If Charity awake the lyre, And gratitude the notes inspire. Poor though the tribute which we pay, In simple and untutored lay ; 'Tis all that infant voice can give, All that the noblest hearts receive. The Earl of Durliam, in aclverting to the soul-stirring scene before him, took a laudable opportunity of drawing the attention of his hearers to the necessity of a liberal subscription, if they hoped and wished to perpetuate the best interests of the order, which never could be more worthily shown than in supporting the weaker sex, who repaid them by the natural munificence of a grateful and joyous love. He conclude.l by proposing « Prosperity to the Pemale School." When the plaudits had at last subsided, the children withdrew. The health of the Treasurer, " Brother Ramsbottom, M. P. was next given, and at the desire of the worthy brother, the House Coramittee rose with hira. In acknowledging the compliment, the treasurer feit that he could only share it with that committee whose anxiety and personal attention were so conspicuous, and at the same time, so suecessful. In a brief address, he laid before the meeting the eminently praiseworthy conduct of the matron, to whom the governors were deeply indebted for upwards of thirteen years' faithful services, a period of time far exceeding the general duration of such appointments. Such had been her conduct, that the children always looked up to her more as a mother than a governess. He conduded by announcing a pecuniary bequest, through the interest of the matron of the Magdalen. The healths of the Grand Masters of Scotland and Ireland were then given and drank with every demonstration of respect. Brother David Pollock, S. G. W. then rose and proposed the health of the Chairman in a very neat and appropriate manner, adverting to the advantages attending his provincial government of the Craft, and anticipating many happy and fraternal ones by the accession of so distinguished a Brother to the Deputy Grand Mastership. The Earl of Durliam eloquently returned thanks, and adverted to the holy and glorious principles of Masonry, as far as was admissible in a popular assembly ; indeed, oi:r noble Brother s sentiments were so happily illustrative of our glorious career, that we shall not weaken their power by giving an imperfect sketch of them. The medical officers of the institution were then noticed, and the compliment acknowledged by Dr. Granville. The stewards of the day followed, for which Brother Joshua Walker, President of the Board, returned thanks; after which, as a coneluding toast, the noble Chairman gave " the Ladies in the Gallery," and thanked them for their attendance, assuring them, that the only cause he could ass'gn for their exclusion from lodge duties, arose from the conviction on the minds of the Brethren, that the charms of their beauty, and the true feelings of love, would prevent the brethren from becoming good and industrious workmen in the craft. His lordship finally acknowledged the pleasure he had enjoyed, and retired, after which the company separated. The musical department was well supported, and the stewards merited every praise for their liberality. The wines were of excellent quality, and care taken to supply them cool; and what was still more satisfactory, the Past Grand stewards were admitted without reservation to the ladies' room: but what a different scene awaited them there; instead of the cheerfulness and pleasurable satisfaction which the Concert always caused, the ladies, beautiful as ever, could not but acknowledge how highly they should have enjoyed the delight which the vocal Brethren always inspired. One arch beauty ventured to hint that she would address us on the subject; we now invite her to do so, and promise every attention to her correspondence. The following verses by a Member of the audit Committee, were spoken before the Ladies by Sophia Deaken:— When Nature her unerring course began, And planted Reason in the soul of man, Truths in succession open'd to the view, Till on their solid bases Knowledge grew: Knowledge to Reason thus became a friend, And both united for one glorious end— To raise the soul, to elevate mankind, Till Wisdom sprang to being in the mind. Thus one truth brought another to the test, Till Charity, benignant as the rest, With meek and lowly heart and open hand, Appear'd to bless the world at God's command. Why heaves her breast ? what bids the sad tear flow ? Feeling hath made her sensible of woe. 'Tis hers to sympathize with hearts distress'd, And sooth the pangs that rend the mourner's breast; To raise the crush'd, to bind the broken reed, And succour mis'ry in her hour of need ; To seek the wretched, and with patience mild, With Education train the orphan child. To you, then, generous Patrons, who pursue The dictates here that Virtue holds to view, Who spread the balm that charity provides, That reason honours, and that virtue guides. Our thanks, our heartfelt thanks are due— All that of good we have proceeds from you. Heaven will approve each off'ring this night, And crown the donor with a pure delight; A blessing nobler far than earth bestows, Futurity's sublime and bright repose. royal masonic institution fob boys. April 14.—Quarterly General Meeting.—After the annual business was gone through, a discussion took place upon the diminished subscription at the late festival; and a sub-committee was appointed to regulate some plan which might obtain the sentiments of the Governors and subscribing Lodges on the subject. The following circular was addressed to the Governors, consequent upon the appointment of such committee; the majority of whom having declined to act, the remaining members, at a monthly meeting of the general committee, were requested to report progress at an especial general meeting. " May is, 1834. " A Special General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers of this Institution will be held on Friday next, the 23rd of May, at Freemason s Ilall, Great Queen Street, at one o'clock precisely ; to take into consideration the subject matter referred to a sub-committee at the last quarterly general meeting; and the report made thereon. " By order. " A. ü. THISELTON, " Secretary." May 23. A special general meeting of the governors and subscribers of this institution, convened by public advertisement, was held this day, at Freemason's Hall. Present, His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Most Worshipful Grand Master, and president, Lord John Churchill; J. Ramsbottom, Esq. M. P.; many Grand Officers, and a few other governors and subscribers. I he resolution of the last Quarterly Court, from whence the present meeting emanated, was read. Mr. Lythgoe opened the business of the day, by a liberal and enlarged examination into the results of the late regulations of his royal highness, to whose well merited consideration by the whole fratemity of Freemasons, he paid a just and warm eulogium, congratulating the meeting upon the presence of that illustrious individual which must convince the most sceptical, that his readiness to meet public questions was the surest criterion of his inviolable adherence to the interests of the charity. And although it was a subject of regret, to differ from the Royal President, he did so with a perfect conviction, that the sincerity of his motives were unquestionable. That he considered the effect of the late regulations had been injurious to the funds of the charity in vol. i. y causing a lessened subscription on the late anniversary festival. And that it had created some distrust, whereby a difficulty would occur in securing Stewards on a future occasion, and that already one Lodge had declined to send a representative. Mr. Lythgoe concluded his admirable address with the appropriate and courteous expressions of his hopes, that as the Most "SVorshipful Grand Master had been graciously, although (to him) unexpectedly pleased to attend, that no discussion should take place on the subject; and conceiving it better to wait the further effect of time, he moved " that this meeting do not think it necessary to take any further steps relative to the late sub-committee, which proposition was seconded by Mr. Moore, the Treasurer. Before the question was put, Mr. L. Thompson rose and deprecated the mode of the proposers' address, which he considered founded in sophistry, and adverted to the festival of 1831, when some irregularity occurred, he perfectly coincided in the new regulations, which were fully justifiedby expediency. He characterised the convening of the present meeting results of a hole and corner system, advocated by a few who would fan the flame of discord; declaring that eamest summonses had been circulated to ensure a full attendance of the go ver nors."* His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, President of the Institution, then addressed the meeting at considerable length, reverting to the period of his election to the Masonic Throne, dwelling with especial force upon the nature of the former festivals, and explaining the manner in which the entertainments had gradually assumed the character of a concert in the ladies' room. He declared most emphatically that he acted from information, that at the festival of 1831, there had been irregularities which could only be prevented by such measures as would effectually check their repetition; and that on the recent promulgation of his orders, he had personal proof, that it was necessary to exercise the power with which he was invested. But that, at the Boys Festival, his order only went to stop the concert in the glee room; but not to prevent those brethren, who had for a long custom been privileged with the entree, from associating with the ladies. That therefore he was not answerable for the conduct of others who exceeded his directions, doubtless from a misconstruction of them; although those directions were addressed to them in writing, to prevent their * Mr. Thompson, wesincerely hope, had been imposed on by someperson. If circulars were issued, how came it that so few of the governois who invariably attend to conduct the business of the charity, on otlier occasions, were absent on this ?- was it owing to the order of attendance being reverswi ï The meetings of the charity are always held in the «Taling. The present order was for one, precisely. And how happened it, that the Grand Officers who seldom attend on general matters of business, were in the proportion of three to one at the present meeting. The hole and corner allusion, indeed, was a most unliappy one. Ed. benig misunderstood.* His royal highness gave full credit to the proposer of the resolution for his motives, and, although he did not fully approve of the manner in which the present meeting had been convened, without any eommunication with him as the President; yet he lioped the explanation he had given of his reasons, and his determination to abide by them, would dispel every doubt, and tend to unite all in uiuon and peace. His royal highness appeared much moved during his eloquent address, and visibly affected his hearers by the earnest and impressive manner of his delivery. It was suggested that the minutes of the last meeting should be rescinded, to which an objection was taken, that the present meeting had no such power. His royal highness coincided in the objection, and preferred leaving the matter in the hands of a general quarterly meeting. Dr. Crucefix then observed, that as one of the General Committee, it was only fair to exonerate Mr. Lythgoe from individuality in the late proceedings, as the minutes were passed unanimously; and that such Committee acted upon what they considered to be best for the interest of the charity, although the explanation of the illustrious president would, no doubt, satisfy the committee, that the information by which they were regulated was, to a great degree, incorrect. The original motion was then unanimously agreed to. EXCUBSION TO THE NORE. Tuesday, the 17th of June, being the day appointed by the Committee for the annual excursion to the Nore. in aid of the funds of the Boy s School, a party of about three hundred and seventy of the brethren with their families and friends, embarked on board the Albion, where they were received by the President Brother Lythgoe, Brothers Coe, treasurer, Broadfoot, Thompson, Hoare, and Wray; the latter brother officiated as Master of the Ceremonies. The morning broke gloomily, but the bnght rays of the sun dispersing the threatening clouds, the dance and song became the order of the day. During the intervals of the dancing, which was kept up with great spirit and regulated with every possible good taste by Brother Wray, several Irish comic songs were sang by Brother Bryant, with such fun and humour as to keep the company in roars of laughter. The appearance of several of the boys, with one of the principal masters, heightened the interest of this * We alluded in our last to this circumstanee, being then of opinion that the Most orshipful Grand Master did not convey any command to exclude the brethren from the oiee Room. See nole to page 51. «leasing excursion. Altogether the day was passed in unmixed enjoyment; even the occasional shower added to this feeling, by suspending the dance that it might be resumed with increased ardour. At four o'clock the President and many of the Committee sat down to dmner in the state cabin. On Brother Coe making his appearance, he was received with that applause his exertions in the cause of the charity so warmly merited. A handsome silver cup richly chased, presented to him as a tribute of gratitude by the Committee, was filled with wme, and placed before Brother Lythgoe, who availed himself of the opportunity of proposing the health of Brother Coe, the founder of the excursion, by which nearly one thousand pounds had already been collected for the laudable purpose of furnishing education to tfie unprotected orphan—snatching him from the temptations of vice an ignorance, and placing him in a situation where he might by mdustry and perseverance, hecome a useful member of society. The address of the President was received with that good feeling which characterises the conduct of the members of our order to each other. rot er oe rose and returned thanks, declaring that that day was one of the happiest and proudest of his life. An orphan bay himself, he had early been taught the value of education, and cheerfully devoted his best exertions to prcmote the interests of an institution that snatched the unfriended child from the streets, and gave not only food to his lips, but what was of more consequence to his happiness foo to is mini . He called upon all to aid him, and concluded by observmg, that with charity in their hearts, they might hope to meet in the Grand Lodge above. The health of the President was then given, with many thanks for his condescension in accepting the office, to which he ga\ e a resPec from his urbanity and attention to the comfort of the guests. The Brother returned his thanks in a short but eloquent address. The health of Brother Wray followed, the Master of the Ceremonies who acknowledged the compliment by thanks, observmg, that at all times his services were at the command of the Brethren, when ïey could contribute to their happiness or to the interests of the charity. At half-past nine the party landed off St. Cathennes pier, higlüy delighted with their excursion. , . „ , Not the least gratifying result of the day, is the hope that the funds of the charity will be benefited to the same, (or nearly so,) oi the last year's profits, which exceeded one hundred pounds. SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER. QUARTERLY CONVOCATION, MAY 7. As the annual circular has not been published, we cannot give those ample particulars which may be expected. This delay on the part of those on whom the duty devolves is much to be regretted; and we earnestly call upon the newly appointed Committee of general purposes to remedy this inconvenience. The investiture of the companions, nominated as Grand Officers by the M. E. Z., took place after the confirmation of the minutes of the preceding ehapter. Sorae resolutions of forraer convocations were directed to be printed in the forthcoming circular. A committee of general purposes was elected to meet on the first Wednesday in July at three o'elock, at Freemason's Hall, to arrange the plan for their future proceedings. (See page 148.) The Committee of enquiry into the ceremonies of the order appointed by H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex, were requested to continue their sittings, and to report to the next Grand Chapter. (See page 148.) By a Resolution of the Grand Chapter, of 2nd August, 1826, it is declared " that no Companion shall be eligible to be elected into either of the Principal Chairs of a Chapter, unless he be the actual Master or a Past Master of a Craft Lodge : nor shall any one be elected into the Second Chair, until he has duly served in the Third Chair, nor into the First Chair, until he shall have duly served in the Third and Second, for the full period, from one annual election to another respectively." A List of Chapters in the London District, with Times and Places of Meeting. 2. St. James's Chapter, Freemasons' Tavern.—First Thursday, Fe- bruary, March, April, May, November, and December. 3. Chapter of Fidelity, Crown, Clerkenwell.—Third Friday, January, April, July, and October. 5. St. George's Chapter, George and Vulture Tavern, Comhill. Fourth Monday, January, April, July, and October. 6. Chapter of Friendship, Thatched House Tavern, St. James's street.—Fourth Friday, February, May, and June. 1. Royal York Chapter of Perseverance, George and Blue Boar, Holborn.—Fourth Tuesday, January, April, July, and October. 8. British Chapter, Freemasons' Tavem.—First Monday, February, March, and. May. 9. Moriah Chapter, Freemasons' Tavem.— Fourth Monday, January, March, May, and November. 12. United Chapter of Prudence, Green Man, Berwick Street, Soho. —Fourth Tuesday, January, February, March, September, October, November, and December. 13. Union, Waterloo Chapter, Red Lion, Woolwich.—Occasionally. 21. Cyrus Chapter, George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill.—Fourth Tuesday, January, February, May, October, and November. 49. Mount Sinai Chapter, Bedford Head Tavern, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.—Second Monday, January, February, March, April, May, September, October, November, and December. 98. Albion Chapter, Albion Tavern, Aldersgate Street.—Occasionally. 109. Moira Chapter. 169. Mount Sion Chapter, George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill. —Fourth Tuesday, January, March, May, July, September, and November. 196. St. John's Chapter, Radley's Hotel, Bridge Street, Blackfriars. Occasionally. 206. Domatic Chapter, Fitzroy Hotel, Charlotte Street.—Occasionally. 218. Jerusalem Chapter, George and Vulture Tavem, Cornhill.— Second Tuesday, January, February, March, April, September, October, November, and December. 248. Chapter of Hope, Deptford.—Occasionally. 324. Prince of Wales's Chapter, Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street.—First Friday, February, April, June, and December. May 8.—The solemn convocation of the Rosicrucians, attached to the Cross of Christ Encampment, was held this day, in Clerkenwell; as was also the Annual Council of the ne plus ultra, for the admission of new members. The veteran principal, M. E. C. Goldsworthy,* presided on the occasion, and completed his arduous duties with that exemplary attention and singular precision, which marks his superior attainments in these exalted degrees. We were still more gratified to observe him in the enjoyment of improved health; and that although naturally fatigued from a journey of upwards of a hundred miles, undertaken for the express purpose of attending the rites of these convocations, his cheerfulness added much to the pleasure of the afternoon. It is our further gratifying task to state that a vote of thanks to this * This exccIlcnt Mason was a member of th« board of reconciliation at the periotl of the umon. worthy Mason was passed at the last encampment, and that it is to be accompanied by the present of a silver chalice. May 24.—The Committee appointed by the M. W. G. M. to examine into the subject of the Act of Parliament, referred to in a late promulgation by his royal highness, met this day; Brothers Meyrick, D. PoHock, and Henderson attended; the result of their deliberation has not transpired. May 26.—At the chapter of observance a solemn convocation of Rosicrucians was held this day, and seven members introduced under the auspices of the M. E. Brother Lewis, who we understand officiated as principal, with every possible satisfaction to the august assembly. May 28. The Ark Mariners held their quarterly meeting. June 20. At the Cross of Christ Encampment several distinguished Companions were this evening installed Knights Templars by the E. C. Baumer. The Gilkes' Tribute.—We have the pleasure to state that the subscriptions received are sufficiënt to enable the Committee to determine upon the design, and that the monument will be erected in September next. April 20.—A probationary sermon was this day preached at the Magdalen Hospital by the Rev. Thomas Haverfield, lij)., candidate for the office of alternate preacher to that Institution. The objects of the charity are too generally known to require comment, and they afford to the spiritual reasoner a field for the display of powerful talent, almost to be coveted by those who, under similar circumstances, wish to make a strong impression upon a committee of governors. Our reverend brother was, indeed, fully equal to the task. The beautiful allegory—the pointed metaphor—and the endless benevoleuce of the Most High, were touched upon with such peculiar reasoning, as conveyed conviction and consolation to the many whose hearts, we can believe, bad writhed under severest affliction that woman can teel. But who shall attempt to describe the awful picture that the preacher drew of the means used to desecrate the loveliest and best of God's works, and then to leave her to perish in disgrace—in despair. Brother Haverfield's address will be long remembered by those who heard it; and although he has not proved thesuccessful candidate, he must have impressed the governors with a high opinion of his superior qualifications for the office on a future vacancy. QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION. June 4.—The Grand Lodge assembled this day. The general business of the Society was gone tlirough, and the new Grand Officers took their seats; after which the election to the different Boards was proceeded in. CSeèp. 111The M. W. G. M. addressed the Society at greatlength; but we have to regret, that as the circular has not been published, we cannot give such details as we could wish.—There are no less than three circulars due. Masonic Chit Chat.—The furniture of the Grand Lodge has received an addition of two handsome chairs for the Grand Secretaries, with appropriate table covered with purple cloth, in front of which the arms of the Grand Lodge are very tastefully embroidered. As a specimen of art, the work will bear a critical examination, and is highly creditable to thé fair artist, Miss Watts, who executed it. We have heard some whisperings regarding the establishment of a Masonic Club. Something of the sort would, in particular, be highly advantageous to our country and foreign brethren, and the subject is worthy of attention. , There is a more stirring rumour of a Master's and Past Master s Quarterly Club, which promises well, and would prove very beneficial to the interests of the craft. His present Majesty, King William the Fourth, our gracious Patron, having conferred a mark of his royal favour on the Prince of Wales's Lodge No. 324,* over which he presided after the decease of lus ïllustrious 'brother, the late Duke of York, who also succeeded the late King on becoming Regent, the Most Worshipful Grand Master has been graciously pleased to present to the Lodge of antiquity, the Go i Square, which he has worn for twenty years, to be for the future worn by the Djputy aster of that Lodge. Lord Monson has presented to the Prince of Wales's Lodge, three beautiful ivory gavels, elegantly carved, and bearing the emblematica devices correctly displayed. They are worthy of inspection, and we advise the cognoscenti of the craft to pay the Lodge a visit, were it only io know how well Brother Acklam can turn out his work as a craftsman. s„ïwb rp.nnEATiox.-The Strong an Lodge will celebrate their centenary, 011 Thursday next the 3rd inst. at the Star and Garter, l utney. Every arrangement is making to ensure a happy (lay. The Bank of England Lodge, have engaged the large room at the Star and Garter Richmond, for the 23rd., a large party are expected to join them, and a great treat is expected. * The members are now directed to wear their aprons half-edged with purple. The Lodges of Regularity, and Nine Muses, have not yet flxeil their