Mastai Ferretti.

MASTAI FERRETTI .

rpHAT the late Pope of Rome was regularly initiated , passed and JL raised a Freemason is beyond question . We have conversed with those who sat in a Lodge , with him and have given to our brethren , through the Corner Stone , the substance of these facts ; further , at a semi-annual communication of the Grand Lodge , sitting at Palermo , Italy , on the 27 th day of March 1865 , Pope Pius

IXMastai Ferretti—was expelled from the Order . The decree of expulsion was pnblished in the official Masonic paper at Cologne , Germany , and is preceded by the minutes of the Lodge in which he was initiated , and is as follows : A man named Mastai Ferretti , who received the baptism of Freemasonry , and solemnly pledged his love and fellowship , and who

afterwards was crowned Pope and King , nnder the title of Pio Nono , has now cursed his former brethren and excommunicated all the members of the Order of Freemasons . Therefore , said Mastai Ferretti is herewith , by the decree of the Grand Lodge of the Orient Palermo , expelled the Order , for perjury . The charges against him were first preferred in his Lodge at Palermo , in 1865 , and notification and copy thereof sent to him , with

a , request to attend the Lodge for the purpose of answering the same . To this he made no reply , and , for divers reasons , the charges were not pressed until he urged the Bishops of Brazil to act aggressively against the Freemasons . Then they were pressed , and , after n regular trial , a decree of expulsion was entered and pnblished , the same being signed by Victor Emanuel , King of Italy , aud Grand Master of the Orient of Italy . —Exchange .

On Saturday last H . R . H . the Duke of Albany laid the foundation stone of anew parish church for Hammersmith , among those present being the Bishop of London and the Vicar , the Rev . J . Hampden Snowden . In addition to tho usual offertory , a nnmber of purses collected b y ladies and children were placed on the stone towards the expenses of building .

At the meeting of the Dalhousie Lodge of Instruction , No . 860 , to be held at the Sisters' Tavern , Pownall Road , Dalston , E ., on Tuesday evening next , Bro . James Stevens , P . M . P . Z ., on the invitation of the Lodge , will deliver his Lecture explanatory of the Rituals and Ceremony of the First Degree . Lodge will be opened at 7 : 60 , for 8 o ' clock precisely , when the attendance of Craftsmen is invited .

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THE THEATRES , & c .

COVENT GAEDEN . —KOYAL ITALIAN OPKKA . This oveninff , 1 IIGNON . On Monday , LA TRAVIATA . On Tuesday , MEFISTOFELE . On Thursday , VELLEDA . "DBUBY LANE . —MACBETH . LYCEUM . —At 8 , ROMEO AND JULIET . ADELPHI . —At 8 , RICHELIEU .

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TOOLE'S—At 7 . 30 . DEAF AS A POST . OFF THE LINE . At 9 , THE VILLAINOUS SQUIRE AND THE VILLAGE ROSE . ROBERT MACAIRE . ST . JAMES'S—At 8 , MEDUSA . At 8 . 30 , THE SQUIRE . CEITEBIOIT . —At 8 , CUPID IN CAMP . At 8 . 45 , FOURTEEN DAYS . On Monday . THB WEDDING RING .

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