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I 2 tb , until you hear some farther communication in answer to the report of onr Investigation Committee . At the close of the pamphlet before me he refers to tho formation of tho House Committee . Does Bro . Tew wish to got on that Committee ? If so , ho knows ( or ought to know ) how to proceed to get elected , and until he or some of his party have been refused admission ,

I say , it is most un-Masonio and ungentlemanly to attack the private character of that body . It has been said of many agitators that they rail against some supposed griovanco , but never take any real action and have no desire to remove it . Is this the case with Bro . Tew ? His grievance would be gone if he ( or any of his friends ) get on the Committee . See also his inconsistency—praising the Girls , consnring the

Boys Houso Committee , although several of the same brethren are on both . In writing this Ihopeitmay have some effect in arousing the dormant spirit of W . Y . I know there are many good men in the Province who disapprove altogether tho late proceedings . Bow is it therefore , they quietly sit to be led by the D . P . G . M . and his clique ? I have heard it

said that one high in rank—none more beloved in all tho Province" blushes " for it , and I have before me a note from another brother who stands high also , who would grace the D . P . G . M . ' s Chair , and would rule in Peace , Love and Harmony , and not in constant Strife , Envy and Hatred , and who writing to a Friend since the last Boys ' School Festival , says : — " I am quite delighted at the very marked success of the Festival , aud the damper , I may say , the severe rebuke

it has given to our D . P . G . M ., who has done his best to set the Province by the ears : surely it will read him a lesson . " Surely—surely there are many , many more , holding the same good honest opinions . Why don't they speak out and do away with the strife and ill-feeling engendered in our once proud and happy Province . Yonr 3 fraternally , JOHN SUTCLII-FE .

Old Warrants.

Old Warrants .

Boston , 18 th June 1876 . MY DEAR BRO . CONSTABLE , —The Masonic student is in every step baffled by puzzles . Thus , in 1768 Dermott sent two wan-ants to Halifax , respectively numbered 155 and 211 , the same Lodges and numbers may' bo seen on Bro . Hnghan ' s list of Lodges , 1814 ( "Masonic Memorials of the Union" ) . The puzzle is , why wero two

Lodges of the same date numbered so far apart ? Tho V . W . Bro . John Hervey , however , informed mo that while tho G . L . of England invariably ranked its Lodges according to seniority , the ancients followed no such a rule , and that Nos . of defunct Lodges were often transferred to new Lodges " for a consideration . " For instance , suppose that No . 10 ceased to exist , tho No . would then be sold to the

highest bidder ; and if No . 100 , wo will say , offered the highest prico , it would have No . 10 , and take precedence of No . 11 , though in reality it may have been twenty years the junior of No . 11 , and hence I suppose that the Halifax Lodge , No . 155 , must have received , / ora consideration , the No . of an extinct Lodge . I send with this a copy of one of these warrants , as the former

warrants of 1757 ( including the Provincial Grand Master ' s warrant ) were respectively numbered " in Halifax 1 , 2 aud 3 , this ono is No . 4 accordingly . On comparing No . 4 with the former , likewise with the warrant of tho Tranquillity Lodgo , given in your history of that Lodgo , you will notice that thoso of 1757 wero written either on parchment or paper , this one ( i . e . No . 4 ) is printed on a square piece

¦ of parchment from regnlar book type . Tho words " Grand Master " : and a couple of other sentences are printed in black letters , while tho wan-ant of the Tranquillity Lodge was engraved ou copper plates . 'Charter No . 4 is surrounded with a flowery border , in accordance with "the printer ' s fashion of those days . The seal of this wan-ant differs also from that of 1757 ; this one is not oval , but round , it contains the

same emblems , and in addition to the words " virtue and silence , " " Grand Lodge , London , " is engraved thereon . Again , the 1757 warrant did not specify the time of Lodgo meetings , but this ono does , and Bro . Brennan believes that the Lodge kept up the same days till now . The seal of the former was on wax , but this seal is impressed on two strips of vellum , with a wafer between

standing clearly in relief ( without wax ) . As I stated above , the form of the charter is printed , but blank places wero left for filling up with the pen . Tho latter are in italics to distinguish them from the printed parts . Another important difference in tho phraseology must be noticed . The Charter of 1757 begins with , " We , the Grand Lodge of Free and

Accepted ( York ) Masons , " and the same phrase is repeated in the closing part thereof , but in this one , the word "York " is omitted , and , " according to the old Constitutions granted by his Royal Highness , " etc ., is newly introduced . Tho reason for this change in the phraseology is simply this : —when the Ancients first startcd . ' they

claimed to have derived their authority from the Grand Lodgo of York . At that timo the York Grace ! Lodgo was dormant , and the Ancients could claim anything with impniiity ; but as the Grand Lodge of York resumed activity in 1701 , our Bro . Dermott found it iiecessai-y to claim his authority from somo other source , hence the language was changed as above stated . And now for the warrant .

No . 11 . No . 4 in Halifax . Thomas Mathew , Grand Master . L . DermottfortheS . G . W ., Wm . DickeyD . G . M ., L . DermottfortheJ . G . W . No . 155 ) in England ) fca nil fahom it nwii tomtrn . We the GRAND LODGE of the most Ancient aud Honourable FHATERNITJ - of FREE aud ACCEPTED MASONS ( according to the old constitutions granted b y His Royal Highness Prince EDWIN at York , Anuo Domini

nine hundred twenty and six , and in the year of Freemasonry , four thousand nine hundred and twenty and six ) in ample form assembled , viz . Tho Right Worshipful and Honourable Thomas Mathew of Thomas Town in the Kingdom of Ireland , Esquire , now residing in that part of Great Britain called England . GRAND MASTER OF MASONS .

The Worshipful William Dickey , DEPUTY -G RAND MASTER . The Worshipful Edmund - Battler , SENIOR GRAND WARDEN and the Worshipful Henry Allen Esqr ., JUNIOR GRAND WARDEN ( with the approbation and consent of the WARRANTED LODGES held withiu the Cities and Suburbs of LONDON and WESTMINSTER ) Do hereby authorise and impower onr Trusty and Well beloved Brethren , viz .,

Mr . John Cody , One of our MASTER MASONS , Mr . Thomas Me Lenon , his SENIOR WARDEN , and Mr . John Woodin , his JUNIOR WARDEN , to Form and Hold a LODGE of FREE and ACCEPTED MASONS afforsaid at the sign of the General Amherst in the town of Halifax ,, and Province of Nova Scotia , North America , upon the first Tuesday of every Kallendar month , and on all seasonable Times and

Lawful Occasions . And in the said LODGE ( when duly congregated ) to admit and mako FREE MASONS , according to the Ancient and Honourable Custom of tho ROYAL CRAFT , in all Ages and Nations throughout tho known World . And We do hereby farther authorise and impower Our said Trusty and Well beloved Brethren , Messrs . JoJm Cody , Thomas Mc Lenon , and John Woodin ( with the consent of

tho Members of thoir Lodgo ) to nominate , chuse , aud 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 . & o . & e . Such In » tallations to be upon ( or near ) every ST . JOHN'S-Day during the Continuanco of this LODGE for

ever . Providing the above named Brethren and all their Successors always pay duo Respect to this Right Worshipful GRAND LODGE , otherwise this WARRANT to be of no Force , nor Virtue . Given under our Hands and SEAL of our GRAND LODGE iu LONDON this Twenty sixth Day of March , in the Year of our LORD , One thousand Seven hundred and sixty and Eight , aud in tho year of MASONRY Five thousand Seven hundred Sixty and eight ,

Lau Dermott , GRAND SECRETARY . Note . This WARRANT is registered in the GRAND LODOE . Vol 6 th Lette F .

I shall only here add , that I copied the seal from the Philadelphia Dedication Memorial , wherein there is a copy of a Provincial Warrant sent by Dermott to tho Philadelphia brethren in 1764 , and as the seal is identical with the one on the Halifax charter , I copied it , and hope it will be engraved . Fraternally yours ,

JACOB NORTON . [ What would be a puzzle for Amcricau Masonic students to unravel respecting the " Ancients " has long ceased to trouble us in England , as we have long known that the number of an " Ancient" Lodge is no evidence of its antiquity , and the selling of the dormant Warrants to the " highest bidder" by that Grand Lodge , is not anything new to

us . We have pleasure in inserting Bro . Norton ' s interesting communication , and shall be still more pleased to print a transcript of tho " Albion " Lodge , Quebec ( late No . 17 ) , which Bro . Hughan has announced , in an American Paper , is in all probability of tho year 1756 ,

and not of 1721 as Bro . Tisdall erroneously claims . We take exception to Bro . Norton's ipse dixit that the Grand Lodge of all England held at York was dormant A . D . 1757 . It may have been , but certainly no one is as yet entitled to say so as a fact . Wo cannot be too careful in our investigations , aud therefore had better refrain from positive assertions in the absence of evidence . —EDITOR . ]

The Rev . Dr . I . Strauss , Jewish minister of Bradford , ha 3 been appointed Chaplain of the Lodge of Harmony ( 600 ) , of Bradford . Tho greater number i f the members of the Lodge ( including the Master ) are Christians , and the appointment is therefore all the moro gratifying . We cau only regret that there are still a few countries whero tho ruling principles of Freemasonry are disregarded by Masons , and Jews excluded by reason only of their faith . We

question whether the time has not arrived for English Jewish Masons ( an enormous number ) to take a more spirited action in this matter . The act of the late Mr . Faudell in the Grand Lodge of England about a quarter of a century ago iu raising an objection to tho admission of the Crown Princo of Prussia ( the present emperor ) on the ground of the exclusion of Jews from German Lodges is still remembered , and ils significance should not bo lost upon young and active Jewish Masons of the present day . —Jewish Chronicle .

HOT . LOWAT s PILLS AND OINTMENT . — Tlieso twin remedies exercise in a manner peculiar to themselves such an ei'i ' ect ou tho liver and excre ory organs of the body , that the preset , co of inspissated bile , or any foreign , effete , or morbidmaterial in the stomach and bowels , is reuderel almost impossible . It is scarcely possible to over-estimate tlie benefit conferred on mankind by such results , for if used in the commencement of bilious disorders aud intestinal irritations , the removal of the exciting cause would reduce to a minimum , if it did not altogether avert , the supervention of typhoid and enteric fevers , which are in tho present day so rife amongst all classes of the community , especially during the hot and sultry summer months ,