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and ruled in Sicily . " From fche eleventh century , however , its history has been one of decay . The principal building is the Great Mosque in fche Northern suburb . Several illustrations are given of it , and a full description and an authentic p lan of the building made by the French engineering department . The Sonth-eastern end , wo are told , measures 85 yards ,
there being a single porch iu its centre exclusively for the entrance of the Bash . Mufti . In each of tbe sides , which are 143 yards in length , are fonr entrances , the finest of them facing the ramparts . Mr . Raedescribes it thns : * ' It has an outer horse-shoo arch , and an inner one which contains tbe door opening direct into the pvayerchamber . The exterior ia a finely proportioned piece of Saracenic
work : it has a row of arched panels along the upper portion of its sides , and the dome and interior of its arches are in plaster fretwork . " Midway , on the same side , is the sacred well of Kefayat ( Plenty ) fenced in by a low wall , and having its aperture lined with different colonred marbles . " Tradition asserts that it communicates directly with the spring of Zemzem at Mecca . " The north-west end is only
seventy-five yards across , and tbe Minar rises in tbe centre . In tbe interior are the prayer-chombcr , forty yards long by eighty-five yards broad , the vestibule adjoining it , and a great cloistered court . Iu the firsfc are 296 columns , in the vestibule are 3-1 , and in the covered arcade , surrounding the cloister , which is a " vast quadrangle paved with white marble , " are eighty-six on either side , and twenty-seven at
the end , making it no less than 439 . The Miliar , which has three storeys , and is about one hundred feet high , is ascended by means of a marble staircase , having one hundred and twenty-nine steps , and the view from its summit is described as magnificent . But even mora important and more beautiful still are the tomb and mosque of Abdullah Ben Wadib el Belawi , the companion of tbe prophet who
founded Islamism . Bro . Broadley tells us that be was " the first European who ever entered this Moslem sanctum sanctorum . " From his description , we gather that the tomb itself was surrounded by a high grating of bronze , and is sbut in by four marble columns about seven feet high . " From a rod , on a line with the grating , hung festoons of ostrich eggs and golden balls . Tbe cata .
falque above tbe grave is covered by two elaborately embroidered palls ; the first , of black aud white velvet , adorned with Arabic inscriptions in silver , was the gift of the late Ahmed Bey ; tbe second , of pink and blue brocade , was a votive offering from . Mubammed es Sadek" —the present Bey . " Over them hung thirteeu banners , rich in gold , silver , and needlework—the tribute of the sue cessors of Heussein Ben Ali "
There is ranch else in these volumes we should like to notice , especially tbe mystic rites , witnessed by the author , of the members of the Confraternity of the Aissaouia , but we have already gone the full length of our tether in respect of space . It is unquestionably a work of importance , valuable from a political point of view , and interesting from the graphic sketches it gives of the war of last year , as well
as from the description of places of importance m the Regency . Ifc is written in an easy , fluent style , and with its excellent illustrations , plans , and maps , will well repay the reader for the timo occupied in perusing it . Moreover , the narrative has the further advantage of having been written by one familiar with tbe country , and the habits and customs of its people . In short , of its kind we have seldom read a better or more ably written work .
Father Mathew . A biography by John Francis Magnire , M . P ., author of "Home : its Ruler and its Institutions . " People ' s Edition . London : Burns and Gates , 17 and 18 Portmau-street and Paternoster-row . 1882 . IT is a capital idea which has led Messrs . Burns and Gates fco publish a people ' s edition of Mr . Maguiro ' s biographical sketch of Father
Mathew , who , in his lifetime and during future ages , will be known as tbe " Apostle of Temperance . " Temperance , whether it is used in tbe more limited sense of moderation in-the use of strong drinks or in its general application as expressing moderation in the use of all things , is a virtue which evokes fche admiration of all true Masons , as it does of all true men . Personally , we are no advocate of
teetotalism . We believe that wine and other liquors were intended by the Creator of the Universe for fche use of men , and teetotalism is only excusable in the case of those who cannot control their appetite , those , in fact , whom it has latterly become the fashion to speak of as dypsomaniacs ; and it was to counteract fche sin of drunkenness and the terrible effects it exercises on its votaries that Father
Mathew laboured so zealously , and we rejoice to say , so successfully . Many and many a poor wretch has been weaned from an excessive indulgence in drink by the influence of his teaching and example . Bnt little more than a eroarter of a century has elapsed since he passed away gently to his last long sleep , aud the cause he preached so eloquently has been taken up by others . Yet his name remains a
tower of strength , aud will continue to exercise its weight for geuenitious yet unborn . The name of the high-minded , self-denying minister of abstinence from a degrading vice will always be a household iu the family of every right-thinking Irishman and Briton , and that ifc may so continue , while the English language lasts , is or should be tho prayer of every lover of humanity .
Father Mathew , to ju rl ge from the account given of him by his biographer , appears to have possessed especial qualifications for the office he undertook . He was a man of good family—people may sneer at rank as much as they please , yefc it has its influence on the multitude . He was handsome in person , of singularly engaging manners , and a model of gentleness in' his demeanour towards others .
" From his earliest years , " says Mr . Maguiro , " the desire to afford pleasnie to others , to be the means of conferring happiness ou some one human creature , was his most marked characteristic . " As a b > y he had an aversion for the sports in which boys ordinarily delight , though he was always gay aud cheerful . Ho had a strong attachment for his mother , but though this was " a source of constant ridicule to his brothers who called him ' fcho Pet , ' addressed hira as
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' Miss Molly , ' and accused him of being ' always tied to his mother ' s apron strings , '" still " he acquired an influence over them which they never attempted to dispute or resist , and whioh he retained and they felt to tho last moment of their connection in this world . " Not . withstanding , however , that he was thus devoted to his mother , he was , we are told , not unmindful of his brothers' interests , or "
iadifferent to their marked partiality for good things ; for he employed the influence he derived from his mother's love to coax from her the materials for a little feast , of whioh he was to be the proud dis . penser , and with whioh it wns his delight to surprise them , as they returned home , rosy with health and exercise , and with the appetites of young wolves . To procure a feast—fco preside over
itto witness the relish with which the sweet things were , not to say despatched , but devoured- -this was a kind of passion with this mere child . Not that he was by any means personally indifferent fco such delicacies—what healthy boy ever was—bnt that he derived more pleasure from bestowing them on his brothers than in sharing them with them . In after life , we are told , be was remarkable " for
his love of order , his neatness of dress , and the propriety whioh , in spite of his voluntary poverty , distinguishd the arrangements of his modest dwelling . " To find anything out of order was an offence against his " sense of order and regularity , " and an instance is men . tioned how , on one occasion , happening to see iu the breakfast
parlour at Thomastown—where he was born—a pair of silk stockings being aired on the back of a chair before the fire , he was so annoyed that he threw them iuto tbe fire , and , on being asked why he had done so , boldly replied that it was because they had no business to be there .
Theobold Mathew , or Toby , as he was familiarly called , was born 10 th October 1790 , at Thomastown , the seat of his relative the second aud last Earl Llandaff , and there spent his early years under the kindly offices not only of his parents—his father had been adopted by the Earl—but also of Lady Elisabeth Mathew , sisterof that nobleman . Five years later hia father , then married , and with a young famil y
growing up round about him , removed to a house called Ratbcloheen , close by Thomastown , and prospered famously . Having resolved on becoming a priest , aud gone through the preliminary course of instruction , he was entered at tbe College of Maynooth when barely seventeen years of age , but having broken one of the rules , by giving an entertainment to some of his fellow students , be voluntarily
quitted the College iu 1808 , and some time later placed himself under the care of the V . Rev . C . Corcoran , of Dublin , with a view to becoming a member of the Order of the Capuchins . On Easter Sunday 1814 , be was ordained by Dr . Murray , and preached his first sermon in the parish chapel of Kilfeaole , in his native county of Tipperary . His first mission was in Kilkenny , whe > e he joined the
small Capuchin community , and soon won for himself a high reputation . His labours for the poor were incessant , and his generosity most conspicuous . In April 1838 , when he was in his forty-eighth year , he resolved on advocating the cause of temperance , and thenceforward to the end of bis life worked , as few other men could have worked , to promote the good cause . Wherever he went his
reception was most cordial , and the results magnificent . High and low , rich and poor , took the pledge at his instigation , and he passed away with the satisfaction that he had striven his best to promote fche hap . piness of his fellow-creatures . Nor were his labours confined to Ireland . He visited England , and won numberless adherents fco hia cause , the value of his labours being recognised by the highest aud mightiest in the land . Be it added , that father Mathew was
no sectarian , there was no taint of bigotry in his mind . He worked with Protestants of every denomination as readily and harmoniously as with members of his own creed , and if ever a man had his reward in the love and respect of bis fellow . men , ifc was Father Mathew , " the Apostle of Temperance . " He d ' * ed in Queenstown , on the 8 th December 1856 , but the memory of his virtues still flourishes , and for ages will so continue , like the green bay-tree .
Ma $ onic Monthly Magazine . London : George Kenning , Freemason Office , 16 great Queen-street , W . C . THE second number of the new series of this Magazine fully sustains , if ifc does nofc surpass in excellence , the character of No . 1 . " Art and fche Builders of Monte Cassino , " & c . by Bro . George F . Fort ,
"Craft Customs of the Ancient Stouehewers , Masons , aud Carpenters , " translated , with notes , by Bro . Geo . W . Speth P . M ., and the " Legend of the Introduction of Masons iuto England , " by Bro . Rylauds , F . S . A . —to say nothing of the lighter material—are most praiseworthy contributions , and would do credit to any periodical .
The Installation Meeting and Annual Festival of the Metropolitan Council , Time Immemorial , Allied Masonio Degrees , will be held on Saturday next , ab the Mitre Hotel , Hamnton Court . The timo arranged for the
meeting is three p . m ., and when the degrees of St . Laurence and Grand High Priest have beeu conferred , the ceremony of installation , followed by thafc of the appointment and investiture of Officers , will take place . The banquet is fixed for five p . m .
A Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees will be held the same day , and at the same place , at 2 * 30 p . m- ) when the minutes oE the last meeting will be read for confirmation , a report of the progress of the Order will be submitted , and the Grand Officers for the year will bo appointed and invested .
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and ruled in Sicily . " From fche eleventh century , however , its history has been one of decay . The principal building is the Great Mosque in fche Northern suburb . Several illustrations are given of it , and a full description and an authentic p lan of the building made by the French engineering department . The Sonth-eastern end , wo are told , measures 85 yards ,
there being a single porch iu its centre exclusively for the entrance of the Bash . Mufti . In each of tbe sides , which are 143 yards in length , are fonr entrances , the finest of them facing the ramparts . Mr . Raedescribes it thns : * ' It has an outer horse-shoo arch , and an inner one which contains tbe door opening direct into the pvayerchamber . The exterior ia a finely proportioned piece of Saracenic
work : it has a row of arched panels along the upper portion of its sides , and the dome and interior of its arches are in plaster fretwork . " Midway , on the same side , is the sacred well of Kefayat ( Plenty ) fenced in by a low wall , and having its aperture lined with different colonred marbles . " Tradition asserts that it communicates directly with the spring of Zemzem at Mecca . " The north-west end is only
seventy-five yards across , and tbe Minar rises in tbe centre . In tbe interior are the prayer-chombcr , forty yards long by eighty-five yards broad , the vestibule adjoining it , and a great cloistered court . Iu the firsfc are 296 columns , in the vestibule are 3-1 , and in the covered arcade , surrounding the cloister , which is a " vast quadrangle paved with white marble , " are eighty-six on either side , and twenty-seven at
the end , making it no less than 439 . The Miliar , which has three storeys , and is about one hundred feet high , is ascended by means of a marble staircase , having one hundred and twenty-nine steps , and the view from its summit is described as magnificent . But even mora important and more beautiful still are the tomb and mosque of Abdullah Ben Wadib el Belawi , the companion of tbe prophet who
founded Islamism . Bro . Broadley tells us that be was " the first European who ever entered this Moslem sanctum sanctorum . " From his description , we gather that the tomb itself was surrounded by a high grating of bronze , and is sbut in by four marble columns about seven feet high . " From a rod , on a line with the grating , hung festoons of ostrich eggs and golden balls . Tbe cata .
falque above tbe grave is covered by two elaborately embroidered palls ; the first , of black aud white velvet , adorned with Arabic inscriptions in silver , was the gift of the late Ahmed Bey ; tbe second , of pink and blue brocade , was a votive offering from . Mubammed es Sadek" —the present Bey . " Over them hung thirteeu banners , rich in gold , silver , and needlework—the tribute of the sue cessors of Heussein Ben Ali "
There is ranch else in these volumes we should like to notice , especially tbe mystic rites , witnessed by the author , of the members of the Confraternity of the Aissaouia , but we have already gone the full length of our tether in respect of space . It is unquestionably a work of importance , valuable from a political point of view , and interesting from the graphic sketches it gives of the war of last year , as well
as from the description of places of importance m the Regency . Ifc is written in an easy , fluent style , and with its excellent illustrations , plans , and maps , will well repay the reader for the timo occupied in perusing it . Moreover , the narrative has the further advantage of having been written by one familiar with tbe country , and the habits and customs of its people . In short , of its kind we have seldom read a better or more ably written work .
Father Mathew . A biography by John Francis Magnire , M . P ., author of "Home : its Ruler and its Institutions . " People ' s Edition . London : Burns and Gates , 17 and 18 Portmau-street and Paternoster-row . 1882 . IT is a capital idea which has led Messrs . Burns and Gates fco publish a people ' s edition of Mr . Maguiro ' s biographical sketch of Father
Mathew , who , in his lifetime and during future ages , will be known as tbe " Apostle of Temperance . " Temperance , whether it is used in tbe more limited sense of moderation in-the use of strong drinks or in its general application as expressing moderation in the use of all things , is a virtue which evokes fche admiration of all true Masons , as it does of all true men . Personally , we are no advocate of
teetotalism . We believe that wine and other liquors were intended by the Creator of the Universe for fche use of men , and teetotalism is only excusable in the case of those who cannot control their appetite , those , in fact , whom it has latterly become the fashion to speak of as dypsomaniacs ; and it was to counteract fche sin of drunkenness and the terrible effects it exercises on its votaries that Father
Mathew laboured so zealously , and we rejoice to say , so successfully . Many and many a poor wretch has been weaned from an excessive indulgence in drink by the influence of his teaching and example . Bnt little more than a eroarter of a century has elapsed since he passed away gently to his last long sleep , aud the cause he preached so eloquently has been taken up by others . Yet his name remains a
tower of strength , aud will continue to exercise its weight for geuenitious yet unborn . The name of the high-minded , self-denying minister of abstinence from a degrading vice will always be a household iu the family of every right-thinking Irishman and Briton , and that ifc may so continue , while the English language lasts , is or should be tho prayer of every lover of humanity .
Father Mathew , to ju rl ge from the account given of him by his biographer , appears to have possessed especial qualifications for the office he undertook . He was a man of good family—people may sneer at rank as much as they please , yefc it has its influence on the multitude . He was handsome in person , of singularly engaging manners , and a model of gentleness in' his demeanour towards others .
" From his earliest years , " says Mr . Maguiro , " the desire to afford pleasnie to others , to be the means of conferring happiness ou some one human creature , was his most marked characteristic . " As a b > y he had an aversion for the sports in which boys ordinarily delight , though he was always gay aud cheerful . Ho had a strong attachment for his mother , but though this was " a source of constant ridicule to his brothers who called him ' fcho Pet , ' addressed hira as
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' Miss Molly , ' and accused him of being ' always tied to his mother ' s apron strings , '" still " he acquired an influence over them which they never attempted to dispute or resist , and whioh he retained and they felt to tho last moment of their connection in this world . " Not . withstanding , however , that he was thus devoted to his mother , he was , we are told , not unmindful of his brothers' interests , or "
iadifferent to their marked partiality for good things ; for he employed the influence he derived from his mother's love to coax from her the materials for a little feast , of whioh he was to be the proud dis . penser , and with whioh it wns his delight to surprise them , as they returned home , rosy with health and exercise , and with the appetites of young wolves . To procure a feast—fco preside over
itto witness the relish with which the sweet things were , not to say despatched , but devoured- -this was a kind of passion with this mere child . Not that he was by any means personally indifferent fco such delicacies—what healthy boy ever was—bnt that he derived more pleasure from bestowing them on his brothers than in sharing them with them . In after life , we are told , be was remarkable " for
his love of order , his neatness of dress , and the propriety whioh , in spite of his voluntary poverty , distinguishd the arrangements of his modest dwelling . " To find anything out of order was an offence against his " sense of order and regularity , " and an instance is men . tioned how , on one occasion , happening to see iu the breakfast
parlour at Thomastown—where he was born—a pair of silk stockings being aired on the back of a chair before the fire , he was so annoyed that he threw them iuto tbe fire , and , on being asked why he had done so , boldly replied that it was because they had no business to be there .
Theobold Mathew , or Toby , as he was familiarly called , was born 10 th October 1790 , at Thomastown , the seat of his relative the second aud last Earl Llandaff , and there spent his early years under the kindly offices not only of his parents—his father had been adopted by the Earl—but also of Lady Elisabeth Mathew , sisterof that nobleman . Five years later hia father , then married , and with a young famil y
growing up round about him , removed to a house called Ratbcloheen , close by Thomastown , and prospered famously . Having resolved on becoming a priest , aud gone through the preliminary course of instruction , he was entered at tbe College of Maynooth when barely seventeen years of age , but having broken one of the rules , by giving an entertainment to some of his fellow students , be voluntarily
quitted the College iu 1808 , and some time later placed himself under the care of the V . Rev . C . Corcoran , of Dublin , with a view to becoming a member of the Order of the Capuchins . On Easter Sunday 1814 , be was ordained by Dr . Murray , and preached his first sermon in the parish chapel of Kilfeaole , in his native county of Tipperary . His first mission was in Kilkenny , whe > e he joined the
small Capuchin community , and soon won for himself a high reputation . His labours for the poor were incessant , and his generosity most conspicuous . In April 1838 , when he was in his forty-eighth year , he resolved on advocating the cause of temperance , and thenceforward to the end of bis life worked , as few other men could have worked , to promote the good cause . Wherever he went his
reception was most cordial , and the results magnificent . High and low , rich and poor , took the pledge at his instigation , and he passed away with the satisfaction that he had striven his best to promote fche hap . piness of his fellow-creatures . Nor were his labours confined to Ireland . He visited England , and won numberless adherents fco hia cause , the value of his labours being recognised by the highest aud mightiest in the land . Be it added , that father Mathew was
no sectarian , there was no taint of bigotry in his mind . He worked with Protestants of every denomination as readily and harmoniously as with members of his own creed , and if ever a man had his reward in the love and respect of bis fellow . men , ifc was Father Mathew , " the Apostle of Temperance . " He d ' * ed in Queenstown , on the 8 th December 1856 , but the memory of his virtues still flourishes , and for ages will so continue , like the green bay-tree .
Ma $ onic Monthly Magazine . London : George Kenning , Freemason Office , 16 great Queen-street , W . C . THE second number of the new series of this Magazine fully sustains , if ifc does nofc surpass in excellence , the character of No . 1 . " Art and fche Builders of Monte Cassino , " & c . by Bro . George F . Fort ,
"Craft Customs of the Ancient Stouehewers , Masons , aud Carpenters , " translated , with notes , by Bro . Geo . W . Speth P . M ., and the " Legend of the Introduction of Masons iuto England , " by Bro . Rylauds , F . S . A . —to say nothing of the lighter material—are most praiseworthy contributions , and would do credit to any periodical .
The Installation Meeting and Annual Festival of the Metropolitan Council , Time Immemorial , Allied Masonio Degrees , will be held on Saturday next , ab the Mitre Hotel , Hamnton Court . The timo arranged for the
meeting is three p . m ., and when the degrees of St . Laurence and Grand High Priest have beeu conferred , the ceremony of installation , followed by thafc of the appointment and investiture of Officers , will take place . The banquet is fixed for five p . m .
A Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees will be held the same day , and at the same place , at 2 * 30 p . m- ) when the minutes oE the last meeting will be read for confirmation , a report of the progress of the Order will be submitted , and the Grand Officers for the year will bo appointed and invested .