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his own in a manner more or less civilised , but a 3 to French , German , and other foreign tongues , he is seldom either an apt or a willing scholar . Such of our countrymen will find the coupon for rail , boat , and hotel of infinite service . By tho exercise of a littlo patience they will be able , with the proper number of such documents , to traverse any Continental country in any direction with ease and comfort .

However , the system is well enough known , and has been well enough tried , not to need any encomiums from us . This particular guidebook is the theme of tho moment , and if the reader who has already marked out Switzerland for his holiday trip will provide himself with a copy of it , he will save himself a world of trouble . Not only will he , as wo have already pointed out , obtain information which is absolutely

necessary if he is to travel with any degree of comfort , but he will find also all else recounted which is likely to attract his interest . The cities and towns , the lakes , mountains , valleys , and passes , sites having connected with them a historical association , and the like—all are described herein , or at least mentioned , so that visitors may stop and inspect them , or pass on their way to scenes of greater attraction .

There are also a very good map and an appendix , containing full particulars about festivals , files , & c , the timo and cost of a tour , with a series of tours already planned , and last , but not least , a list of hotels , both in Europe and tho East , where coupons will be accepted as payment for accommodation . In addition , there is a good index , and the reader , by consulting it , will be able to find immediately what

ho is in search of . In fact , this handbook contains the kind oi information to be found in the ordinary guido , and corrected to present date , with a number of simple yet necessary directions , and full particulars of tho working of the coupon system . To the tourist , therefore , who meaus travelling in accordance with its provisions , the guide will bo not only serviceable but necessary .

The Englishman's Illustrated Guide Booh to the United States and Canada . Especially adapted to the use of British Tourists and Settlers visiting those countries . With full information as to the best routes to travel , most attractive scenery , hunting and fishing grounds , recommeudable hotels , fares , prices , & c . Third Edition . With Appendix , containing a description of the buildings and gronnds of the International Exhibition of 1876 , at Philadelphia . London : Longman , Green , Reader and Dyer . 1870 .

TnE paramount object of this Guide Book is to give , within modest compass , such precise information as will enablo the tourist to move about from place to place , and see what is worth seeing , without inconvenience , or with as little inconvenience as possible . But this is not the only merit it possesses . Tho author has compiled from numerous sources a largo amount of information , which any one contemplating a

residence in either country , or designing to purchase landed or other property , will find very useful . Wo shall best illustrate its value , however , by briefly describing the contents of Route I . — " New York and vicinity . " First are mentioned the leading hotels on the American and European Plans ; then tho particulars about post offices , hackney cabs or carriages , omnibuses or " Stages , " as they are called ,

and horse-cars , theatres , and railways . Thoso are followed by a short history , topography and description of the city , showing its leading thoroughfares , its most important public buildings , its eleemosynary institutions , its libraries , churches , principal places of resort , the Central Park with its terraces , promenades , reservoirs , lakes , & c , & c , together with the environs and all places and

buildings of interest they contain . Philadelphia , Baltimore , Boston , Portland , Washington , and Chicago arc described with the same amount of detail , full particulars being given of the great firo which consumed so considerable a portion of the last mentioned . As wo go further westward , the resources and scenic wonders of the country are dotailed at some length , and as it is to theso districts that a great

part of the immigrants wend their way with a view to settling down , this portion of the guide will prove invaluable . At the . end we have , in the form of an appendix , a full account of the Great International Exhibition , just inaugurated by President Grant with so much ceremony . The several buildings and their uses are first of all described , then the gronnds in which they are erected . But the most useful

part of this is the ground plan , showing tho position of the several buildings and the roads that intersect the park in which they stand , as well as the chief thoroughfares leading from the city . Any of our brethren who may be going over to witness or take part in the Grand Templar Re-union on the 1 st prox ., will do well to furnish themselves

with a copy of this guide-book , containing , as it does , so much trustworthy information as to travelling , and iu addition , this most interesting , and , we may add , important appendix . Tho illustrations are numerous and convey a fair idea of what they are intended to represent ; and there is also a carefully prepared index , so that nothing has been omitted to make the guide as complete as possible .

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Old Warrants.-No. 2.

Old Warrants .- No . 2 .

No . 208 ( Ancients ) ; 260 , A . D . 1814 ( at tho Union ); 185 , A . D . 1832 , and 159 from 1863 . Now held at Plymouth . ATHOLL , GRAND MASTER . WM . DICKET , D . G . M . R . DAVY , S . G . W . J . STEWART , J . G . W . Eo nit fobom it man ton-cent . Wt , the GRAND LODGE of the Most

Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons , according to the Old Constitutions granted by his Royal Highnes 8 PrinceEdwin . at York , Anno DominiNinellnndred Twenty and Six , and in the yearof Masonry Four Thousand Nino Hundred Twenty and Six , in ample form assembled , viz . —The Right Worshipful and Most Noble

Prince John ( the 3 rd ) Duke , Marquis , and Earl of Atholl , Marquis and Earl of Tullibasdino , Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle , Yisconnt of Balquider , Glenalmond and Glenlyon , Lord Murray , Belveny , and Gask , Heritable Captain and Constable of the Castle and Constabulary of Hincleaven , Hereditary Keeper of the Palace of Falkland , and in that

part of Great Britain called England , and Masomcal Jurisdiction thereto belonging , Grand Master of Masons ; the Right Worshipful William Dickey , Esquire , Deputy Grand Master ; tho Right Worshipful Robert Davey , Esquire , Senior Grand Warden ; and the Right Worshipful George Stewart , Esquire , Junior Grand Warden ( with

tho approbation and consent of the Warranted Lodges held within the Cities and Suburbs of London and Westminster ) do hereby authorise and empower onr trusty and well-beloved Brethren , viz : The Worshipful Henry Fearon , one of our Master Masons ; The Worshipful William Grayson , his Senior Warden ; and tho

Worshipful Daniel Ritson , his Junior Warden , to form and hold a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons , aforesaid , at tho Square and Compass ( or any other convenient place ) , in Workington , in the County of Cumberland , on the first and fourth Monday in each Calendar Month , on all seasonable times and lawful occasions :

and in the said Lodgo ( when duly congregated ) to admit and make Free Masons , according to the most Ancient and Honourable Custom of the Royal Craft , in . all ages and nations throughout the known world . And we do hereby further authorise and empower our said trusty and well-beloved Bretheren , Henry Fearon , William Grayson ,

and Daniel Ritson ( with tho consent of the Members of their Lodge ) , to nominate , chuse , and install their successors , to whom they shall deliver this Warrant , and invest them with their Powers and Dignities , as Free Masons , & o . And such successors shall in like manner nominate , chuse , and install their successors , & c . & c . & c .

such installations to bo upon ( or near ) every St . John ' s Day , during the continuance of this Lodge , for ever . Providing the above named Bretheren , and all their successors , always pay dno respect to this Right Worshipful Grand Lodge , otherwise this Warrant to bo of

no Force or Yirtne . Given under our Hand , and the Seal of our GRAND LODGE in London , this Sixteenth Day of February , in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy and Nine , and in the Year of Masonry Five Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy and Nine .

JAMES JONES , Grand Secretary . NOTE . —This Warrant is Registered in the Grand Lodgo , Vol . 3 , Letter C . Tho present title and number , & c , aro , " The Brunswick Lodge , No . 159 , Plymouth . " The titles of tho M . W . G . M . aro copied verbatim

et literatim from the transcript of tho Warrant sent us , and as we havo not seen transcripts of any two charters exactly alike in their description of His Grace the Duke of Atholl , wo prefer to let them appear as they are forwarded , leaving our readers to make tho necessary corrections . —J . CONSTABLE .

In reply to a Correspondent , C . H . L ., the New York Despatch gives the following : — Wo have your favour iu reply to our note of last week , and roiterato that our reply to an "English Freemason , " in a previous issue , is strictly and literally correct . The Lodges and Grand Lodges of colored men in this country are all irregular and clandestine , from the simple

fact that not one of them holds a warrant from any just and lawfully constituted Grand Lodge . It is quite truo that tho Prince Hall Lodge of colored men at Boston was originally chartered by tho Graud Lodge of England , but the warrant was merely that of a subordinate Lodge , and gave them no power but to make Masons , aud regulate their own private affairs ; nevertheless , they assumed the powers of a

Grand Lodge , and issued charters to Lodges in other places than Boston or Massachusetts , which it requires no argument to show , waa totally unlawful and irregular . JMoro than this , the Grand Lod ge of England recalled the original warrant , which was surrendered , and the document now in possession of tho Lodge is only a copy . 2 . E . D . Wo repeat , thero is no law , open or secret , iu Masonry , which

makes a distinction in candidates on account of race , religion , color , or politics , but it is tho right of every member of a Lodge to object to the initiation of a candidate for any reason sufficient to himself , and to object to tho presence of any visitor he may not choose to sit with , and theso reasons cannot bo inquired into by any one man or any body of men . That a majority of men in our Lodges are governed bv " tho

prejudices of birth , education , and social habits , is not to bo denied , but that is not a matter to be overcome b y legislation , but only by tho effects of time , patience , and perseverance . It is not probable that either our correspondent or onrself will live to see the timo when these prejudices will bo got rid of , but that timo will come in duo order , aud it will not be hastened by discussions tending to awake passion instead gf appealing to reason and awroumUug equities .: