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Commercial Integrity.
with maintenance of any religious principles . A trade falsehood is regarded as no greater moral enormity than the conventional " not at home " of a person who is too busil y engaged to receive a friend . It is forgotten that in the wise cited no one is deceived by the subterfuge .
We all understand that the phrase really means that the party is engaged , and cannot be seen , but it is quits impossible to understand the reckless statements which a man feels justified in making when ho is selling his j ? oods . If he passes off an article of inferior qualitv for
oue of the very best , we have no means of detecting the fraud . If he tells us his profit is a farthing a yard or a dozea . or that he loses by the transaction , we have no means of testing his accuracy , and his statements , if contrary to fact , are , to all intents and purposesif judged
, by orir old-fashioned standard of morality , falsehoods . It would , however , be a monstrous injustice to hold up the retail trader as the chief transgressor against the moral code . A section of the mercantile classes in the Cit y is utterly reckless as to the truth of the statements which are
put xorth for the purpose of floating a company or gettin « up & foreign loan . Recent revelations have opened the eyes 01 the public to the sort of morality which rules the minus of " eminently respectable men , " and the knowledge we have gained is by no means edifying . It is a shock to
som « i ot us to find that some at least of the men who are respected and looked up to in the City are not ashamed to put their names to prospectuses which are mere baits to catch the unwary , and have no misgivings when widows aud orphans , who have been caught by tho specious
promises , have been brought to the verge of ruin . The getting up of bubble companies has actuall y developed into a profession , and there are persons in our midst who are famed for the skill with which they can prove to the public that an exhausted copper mine , for example , may , by
judicious management , be made to pay a splendid dividend upon the capital invested in it . It is no justification of this wort of thing to say that the public are to blame for trusting too much to specious promises , and an array of respectable names . The public , or at least that section of
it to which the bait is thrown , is usually utterly ignorant of tne merest rudiments of business . Thousands of people who might learn much from the recent revelations in the press , are no wiser and will never be wiser , simply because they do not study the events of the day with sufficient
attention . It is no easy thing , for example , to discover whether a foreign State , competing in the English market for a loan , is solvent or not . Nine-tenths of the non-commercial classes , and many of those who aro engaged in business , are ready to believe that an
investment must be good if a dividend is guaranteed by the responsible ministers of a government . Some knowledge of history , and of past and contemporary politics , Is necessary before an investor can form a sound opinion upon a question of this kind . But how few possess this
knowledge ; public writers , who may be supposed to be well informed , are restrained b y the law of libel from telling the world what they know . Investors of a certain class are at the mercy of the projectors of loans and bubble companies , and wo are not sanguine that any legislation
will Hver be of any utility in restraining the poetic fervour of some of the men of this stamp . It is , however , in the powor of society to place its ban upon the persons who venture , for mere gain , to palter with truth . If we merely smile at the sharp practice of those who stake their brains
agamnb the cash m the pockets of " gullible " capitalists , we are encouraging the misdeeds which ought to be frowned down . Society should sternly set its face against the tricks of trade and commerce which are now so common . Every honest man should be interested in stamping oub
a he -wneuever he meets with one . Until the public conscience be awakened , preaching will be useless . If an English merchant ' s word is to go forth to the ends of the
earth as the very seal and stamp of truth , we must resolutely punish , with all the severities of social outlawry , those whose evil practices are rapidly lowering the good namo and fame of the nation in the eyes of the world .
HOD . OWAT ' S OINTJIEJIT AWD PJLLS . — Safely and Securely . — When the seyeriUMof winter have yielded to the gonial spring , invalids should make a neteriiimed effort to regain their lost health ; when , through confinement indoor * , want of appetite , and disturbed sleep , the entire system has been weakenacl . and the spirits have been broken down . Hollowav ' s remedies urn i fln
eqnn . tho occasion . The Ointment ., rubbed over tho rejSfion of the stomach and lirrr , aided by the internal administration of his Fills , will rectify the i . igesti . ;>! , regulate the bile , and purify the blood , three sanitary actions which wm spe « aily confer renewed vigour , brace up the feeling nerves , confirm the exist nmS restore to tho ailing cheerfulness—that great charm of
The Press And The Installation.
THE PRESS AND THE INSTALLATION .
From BELI ' S WEEKLY MESSENGER , 1 st May . SUCH a scene , a 3 that which -was beheld last Wednesday within the walls of tho Albert Hall , by not less than , nine thousand men and Masons , it may most confidently be asserted , was never before witnessed in this country , and , in all human probability , in no other country of the world—the Installation of His Royal Highness , tho Prince of Wales , as the Most Worshipful tho Grand Master of
the ancient and mysterious Fraternity or Freemasons . It may nofc be generally known that His Royal Highness , so long as seventeen years ago , was induced to feel an interest in tho Masonic Order , because of his having received such information , as it was lawful to convoy , from an old and experienced member of tho Grand Lod ge , with whom be accidentallv became acquainted , and to determine ,
whenever he should reach mature age , to become a member of the Craft . We have this fact , however , npon authority , which we believe to bo indisputable ; but , whether this were so or not , it is certain that , so soon as the Princo of Wales became of mature age , he sought admission into the Craft , and , most wisely , nsed the opportunity of his visiting Sweden to obtain tho benefit of initiation and
advancement at the hands of the then most learned , energetic , and experienced Mason in all Europe , His Majesty the late King of that country . On the return of his Royal Highness to England , with that good taste which invariably marks his conduct , he by no means paraded his admission into tho Order , and , least of all , did ho seek for any such pre-eminence , as that to which his high and exalted rank entitled him .
It IS no violation of the secrets of the Craft to state , that , whenever the Princo was induced to visit a Lodge , and to witness its working , he maintained , most scrupulously and persistently , ono of tho grandest principles of tho Order—that of perfect equality—he , the highest person of the country next the Throne , setting a bright and noble example to all who obtain tho privilege of association in tho practico
of Masonic principles and duties . So positively did tho Prince of Wales—whilst always maintaining that dignity of demeanour , combined with affability , which endears him to all , who have tho privilege of personal acquaintance with him , and for which he has rendered himself universally beloved—manifest his strict adherence to tho time-honoured principles of tho Craft , that the desire for his
becoming its rnler began universally to prevail . With a still further adherence to Masonic principles—on this desire being mad p known to him—ho most modestly declined to assume that position , to which he was justly entitled , and was content to accept tho rank of a Past Grand Master , whilst tho then Grand Master , tho Marquis of Ripon , remained at the head of the Order . Iu that capacity His Royal Highness
nobly and liberally supported tho great Masonic Charitable Institutions , and gave proofs to the whole Fraternity that ho was actuated by tho determination to uphold and maintain its brightest jewels . When tho Marquis of Ripon seceded from the Church of England , and became a pervert to that of Rome , tho very iivst indication that nobleman manifested of tho thraldom to which lie had been so misled as to submit
himself , was his resignation of tho Grand Mastership of Masons . That resignation was accepted by the whole Craft with dignity , mingled with regret—with regret that such a course had been determined upon ; with dignity , in that no outward manifestation of displeasure , which could be taken hold of by those , who had worked , so successfully , upon his mind , was apparent . Lord Ripon's resignation being accepted , every
eye naturally looked towards tho Prince of Wales as that Grand Master ' s immediate successor , and the desire having been expressed to His Royal Highness that this should be , he at once accepted tho office , with every manifestation of a ilesivo to discharge its functions earnestly , faithfully and judiciously . The office of the Grand Master is annually elective , the appointment , and re-appointment , being in
the hands of the lawful representatives of every Craft Lodge in tho Kingdom . At the nomination of His Royal Highness in March last , he was both unanimously and enthusiastically elected , and on Wednesday the necessary and time-honoured benefit of Installation , as wo have said , took place under such circumstances as can never bo forgotten by those of the Fraternity privileged to be present , who came
from the four cardinal points of tho country to participate therein . All that took place at the Albert Hall last Wednesday—so far as the outer world is permitted to know—will bo found fully recorded in another column , and need not , therefore , bo here repeated . But , inasmuch as some persons may be inclined to ridicule tho whole of that day ' s proceedings , and others may be disposed to apply tho term " absurd" to tho maintenance of a secret Societv in this
nineteenth century ; and , moreover , as much has been written by many of our contemporaries about Masonry , not only in connection with this event , but of its secret arts and hidden mysteries , which are not only fallacious , but , in some degree , mischievous , it may nofc be out of place , at such a time , for us to state so much as it is lawful to disclose , concerning what Masonry really is , and what it is not .
It is impossible for any one , who is in tho least degree informed respecting the working of a Lodge , to doubt that Masonic traditions , arts , aud mysteries are derived from tho building of tho Temple at Jerusalem . When the Temple , however , was reared—it is manifest to every well-instructed Craftsman—the circumstances attendant upon that event itself , and the ceremonies which accompanied it ,
were not the origin , but rather tho development of the " order , regularity and beauty , " which had preceded it . " The volume of the Sacred Law " relates that the Temple was built after the pattern of tho Tabernacle , which had been erected by the Great Law Giver in tho wilderness , from whom unquestionably—instructed as he was , by
Divine tuition , and " learned" as he also was " in all tho arts of tho Egyptians "—the form and fashion of that " moveable house" had its primary emanation . But if Moses had become versed in the secret arts and hidden mysteries which ou every side surrounded him , it is but fair to assume that , even to times much earlier than those ia which he lived , the birth of those " mysteries and arts " is to be
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Commercial Integrity.
with maintenance of any religious principles . A trade falsehood is regarded as no greater moral enormity than the conventional " not at home " of a person who is too busil y engaged to receive a friend . It is forgotten that in the wise cited no one is deceived by the subterfuge .
We all understand that the phrase really means that the party is engaged , and cannot be seen , but it is quits impossible to understand the reckless statements which a man feels justified in making when ho is selling his j ? oods . If he passes off an article of inferior qualitv for
oue of the very best , we have no means of detecting the fraud . If he tells us his profit is a farthing a yard or a dozea . or that he loses by the transaction , we have no means of testing his accuracy , and his statements , if contrary to fact , are , to all intents and purposesif judged
, by orir old-fashioned standard of morality , falsehoods . It would , however , be a monstrous injustice to hold up the retail trader as the chief transgressor against the moral code . A section of the mercantile classes in the Cit y is utterly reckless as to the truth of the statements which are
put xorth for the purpose of floating a company or gettin « up & foreign loan . Recent revelations have opened the eyes 01 the public to the sort of morality which rules the minus of " eminently respectable men , " and the knowledge we have gained is by no means edifying . It is a shock to
som « i ot us to find that some at least of the men who are respected and looked up to in the City are not ashamed to put their names to prospectuses which are mere baits to catch the unwary , and have no misgivings when widows aud orphans , who have been caught by tho specious
promises , have been brought to the verge of ruin . The getting up of bubble companies has actuall y developed into a profession , and there are persons in our midst who are famed for the skill with which they can prove to the public that an exhausted copper mine , for example , may , by
judicious management , be made to pay a splendid dividend upon the capital invested in it . It is no justification of this wort of thing to say that the public are to blame for trusting too much to specious promises , and an array of respectable names . The public , or at least that section of
it to which the bait is thrown , is usually utterly ignorant of tne merest rudiments of business . Thousands of people who might learn much from the recent revelations in the press , are no wiser and will never be wiser , simply because they do not study the events of the day with sufficient
attention . It is no easy thing , for example , to discover whether a foreign State , competing in the English market for a loan , is solvent or not . Nine-tenths of the non-commercial classes , and many of those who aro engaged in business , are ready to believe that an
investment must be good if a dividend is guaranteed by the responsible ministers of a government . Some knowledge of history , and of past and contemporary politics , Is necessary before an investor can form a sound opinion upon a question of this kind . But how few possess this
knowledge ; public writers , who may be supposed to be well informed , are restrained b y the law of libel from telling the world what they know . Investors of a certain class are at the mercy of the projectors of loans and bubble companies , and wo are not sanguine that any legislation
will Hver be of any utility in restraining the poetic fervour of some of the men of this stamp . It is , however , in the powor of society to place its ban upon the persons who venture , for mere gain , to palter with truth . If we merely smile at the sharp practice of those who stake their brains
agamnb the cash m the pockets of " gullible " capitalists , we are encouraging the misdeeds which ought to be frowned down . Society should sternly set its face against the tricks of trade and commerce which are now so common . Every honest man should be interested in stamping oub
a he -wneuever he meets with one . Until the public conscience be awakened , preaching will be useless . If an English merchant ' s word is to go forth to the ends of the
earth as the very seal and stamp of truth , we must resolutely punish , with all the severities of social outlawry , those whose evil practices are rapidly lowering the good namo and fame of the nation in the eyes of the world .
HOD . OWAT ' S OINTJIEJIT AWD PJLLS . — Safely and Securely . — When the seyeriUMof winter have yielded to the gonial spring , invalids should make a neteriiimed effort to regain their lost health ; when , through confinement indoor * , want of appetite , and disturbed sleep , the entire system has been weakenacl . and the spirits have been broken down . Hollowav ' s remedies urn i fln
eqnn . tho occasion . The Ointment ., rubbed over tho rejSfion of the stomach and lirrr , aided by the internal administration of his Fills , will rectify the i . igesti . ;>! , regulate the bile , and purify the blood , three sanitary actions which wm spe « aily confer renewed vigour , brace up the feeling nerves , confirm the exist nmS restore to tho ailing cheerfulness—that great charm of
The Press And The Installation.
THE PRESS AND THE INSTALLATION .
From BELI ' S WEEKLY MESSENGER , 1 st May . SUCH a scene , a 3 that which -was beheld last Wednesday within the walls of tho Albert Hall , by not less than , nine thousand men and Masons , it may most confidently be asserted , was never before witnessed in this country , and , in all human probability , in no other country of the world—the Installation of His Royal Highness , tho Prince of Wales , as the Most Worshipful tho Grand Master of
the ancient and mysterious Fraternity or Freemasons . It may nofc be generally known that His Royal Highness , so long as seventeen years ago , was induced to feel an interest in tho Masonic Order , because of his having received such information , as it was lawful to convoy , from an old and experienced member of tho Grand Lod ge , with whom be accidentallv became acquainted , and to determine ,
whenever he should reach mature age , to become a member of the Craft . We have this fact , however , npon authority , which we believe to bo indisputable ; but , whether this were so or not , it is certain that , so soon as the Princo of Wales became of mature age , he sought admission into the Craft , and , most wisely , nsed the opportunity of his visiting Sweden to obtain tho benefit of initiation and
advancement at the hands of the then most learned , energetic , and experienced Mason in all Europe , His Majesty the late King of that country . On the return of his Royal Highness to England , with that good taste which invariably marks his conduct , he by no means paraded his admission into tho Order , and , least of all , did ho seek for any such pre-eminence , as that to which his high and exalted rank entitled him .
It IS no violation of the secrets of the Craft to state , that , whenever the Princo was induced to visit a Lodge , and to witness its working , he maintained , most scrupulously and persistently , ono of tho grandest principles of tho Order—that of perfect equality—he , the highest person of the country next the Throne , setting a bright and noble example to all who obtain tho privilege of association in tho practico
of Masonic principles and duties . So positively did tho Prince of Wales—whilst always maintaining that dignity of demeanour , combined with affability , which endears him to all , who have tho privilege of personal acquaintance with him , and for which he has rendered himself universally beloved—manifest his strict adherence to tho time-honoured principles of tho Craft , that the desire for his
becoming its rnler began universally to prevail . With a still further adherence to Masonic principles—on this desire being mad p known to him—ho most modestly declined to assume that position , to which he was justly entitled , and was content to accept tho rank of a Past Grand Master , whilst tho then Grand Master , tho Marquis of Ripon , remained at the head of the Order . Iu that capacity His Royal Highness
nobly and liberally supported tho great Masonic Charitable Institutions , and gave proofs to the whole Fraternity that ho was actuated by tho determination to uphold and maintain its brightest jewels . When tho Marquis of Ripon seceded from the Church of England , and became a pervert to that of Rome , tho very iivst indication that nobleman manifested of tho thraldom to which lie had been so misled as to submit
himself , was his resignation of tho Grand Mastership of Masons . That resignation was accepted by the whole Craft with dignity , mingled with regret—with regret that such a course had been determined upon ; with dignity , in that no outward manifestation of displeasure , which could be taken hold of by those , who had worked , so successfully , upon his mind , was apparent . Lord Ripon's resignation being accepted , every
eye naturally looked towards tho Prince of Wales as that Grand Master ' s immediate successor , and the desire having been expressed to His Royal Highness that this should be , he at once accepted tho office , with every manifestation of a ilesivo to discharge its functions earnestly , faithfully and judiciously . The office of the Grand Master is annually elective , the appointment , and re-appointment , being in
the hands of the lawful representatives of every Craft Lodge in tho Kingdom . At the nomination of His Royal Highness in March last , he was both unanimously and enthusiastically elected , and on Wednesday the necessary and time-honoured benefit of Installation , as wo have said , took place under such circumstances as can never bo forgotten by those of the Fraternity privileged to be present , who came
from the four cardinal points of tho country to participate therein . All that took place at the Albert Hall last Wednesday—so far as the outer world is permitted to know—will bo found fully recorded in another column , and need not , therefore , bo here repeated . But , inasmuch as some persons may be inclined to ridicule tho whole of that day ' s proceedings , and others may be disposed to apply tho term " absurd" to tho maintenance of a secret Societv in this
nineteenth century ; and , moreover , as much has been written by many of our contemporaries about Masonry , not only in connection with this event , but of its secret arts and hidden mysteries , which are not only fallacious , but , in some degree , mischievous , it may nofc be out of place , at such a time , for us to state so much as it is lawful to disclose , concerning what Masonry really is , and what it is not .
It is impossible for any one , who is in tho least degree informed respecting the working of a Lodge , to doubt that Masonic traditions , arts , aud mysteries are derived from tho building of tho Temple at Jerusalem . When the Temple , however , was reared—it is manifest to every well-instructed Craftsman—the circumstances attendant upon that event itself , and the ceremonies which accompanied it ,
were not the origin , but rather tho development of the " order , regularity and beauty , " which had preceded it . " The volume of the Sacred Law " relates that the Temple was built after the pattern of tho Tabernacle , which had been erected by the Great Law Giver in tho wilderness , from whom unquestionably—instructed as he was , by
Divine tuition , and " learned" as he also was " in all tho arts of tho Egyptians "—the form and fashion of that " moveable house" had its primary emanation . But if Moses had become versed in the secret arts and hidden mysteries which ou every side surrounded him , it is but fair to assume that , even to times much earlier than those ia which he lived , the birth of those " mysteries and arts " is to be