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Masonic Chit Chat.
Highness ' s biblical library contains 1500 bibles in different tongues and editions , and estimated to be worth from 40 , 000 / . to 50 , 000 / . SUMMER LODGE for June , July , August , and September . — AA ' e are informed that a Loclge has heen established to meet in the summer season . It will afford an excellent opportunity for Masons who have been recently initiated , and are anxious to proceed in their Masonic career , to be passed ancl raised during the recess . We have no doubt , ancl the who
that hy the manner in which it has commenced , parties conduct it , that it will prosper beyond their expectations . Their meetings are to be held at the favourite resorts in the counties of Middlesex , Surrey , Hertfordshire , ancl Berkshire .
A JEW MISER . —On the 17 th April , an inquest was held at the Compasses , in Brick Lane , Whitechapel , on Samuel Josephs , an aged Jewmiser , who was found dead on Monday morning . The jury proceeded to view the body , when a scene presented itself which beggars description . On entering a most loathsome den , in Mason ' s Court , Brick Lane , which resembled a dog-kennel rather than the residence of rational beings , the jury were assailed by the loud
exclamations of " thieves . " " No business here . " " Brother not dead , " & c , which were found to proceed from the idiot sister of the deceased , a most unearthly looking being , who was huddled up by a small fire at the upper end of the place . The remains of the deceased were on the floor , with a dirty piece of blanket thrown over them ; and judging from the filthy appearance of the body , it ivould seem he had not washed himself for .
years Barnett Barnett stated that he went to the house of deceased , whom he had known for many years . On knocking at the door the sister opened it , hut at first refused to admit him . She then ashed him if he was a " Freemason , " ancl on his reply ing that he was , she immediately let him in . The place was so dark that at first he eould not discern anything , and on opening the window , which he had some difficulty in doingfrom its rusty statehe found deceased ling on a boxwith the
, , y , piece of blanket thrown over him , and a log of wood under his head . Verdict , ' Natural death . " It appeared that the deceased was a Freemason , and hoivever he might have neglected the tenets of the Craft , his poor idiot sister , in the gloom of her " mental night , " would only open the door to a Brother . '
THE SENATE OF LILLIPUT . —About fifty years since , the proceedings in Parliament , were published uncier this humorous title , by Mr . AA oodfall , when he was interdicted from i reporting them in a regular manner . The old London Magazine contains the best particulars extant . The Reporters have now a gallery ; and in the new building they are to have very convenient and extensive accommodation—tempora mxUantur . The readers of this Review will observe , that we , for the first time , publish some blanks—a measure we hope our Masonic senators will render unnecessary in future .
BROTHER A . GRANT , of No . 126 , Calcutta , is now in London , charged with a most important mission touching the state of Masonry in the East . BROTHER AV . T . HOPE , the late Secretary to the Girls' School , has given the very liberal donation of fifty pounds to that excellent institution .
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Masonic Chit Chat.
Highness ' s biblical library contains 1500 bibles in different tongues and editions , and estimated to be worth from 40 , 000 / . to 50 , 000 / . SUMMER LODGE for June , July , August , and September . — AA ' e are informed that a Loclge has heen established to meet in the summer season . It will afford an excellent opportunity for Masons who have been recently initiated , and are anxious to proceed in their Masonic career , to be passed ancl raised during the recess . We have no doubt , ancl the who
that hy the manner in which it has commenced , parties conduct it , that it will prosper beyond their expectations . Their meetings are to be held at the favourite resorts in the counties of Middlesex , Surrey , Hertfordshire , ancl Berkshire .
A JEW MISER . —On the 17 th April , an inquest was held at the Compasses , in Brick Lane , Whitechapel , on Samuel Josephs , an aged Jewmiser , who was found dead on Monday morning . The jury proceeded to view the body , when a scene presented itself which beggars description . On entering a most loathsome den , in Mason ' s Court , Brick Lane , which resembled a dog-kennel rather than the residence of rational beings , the jury were assailed by the loud
exclamations of " thieves . " " No business here . " " Brother not dead , " & c , which were found to proceed from the idiot sister of the deceased , a most unearthly looking being , who was huddled up by a small fire at the upper end of the place . The remains of the deceased were on the floor , with a dirty piece of blanket thrown over them ; and judging from the filthy appearance of the body , it ivould seem he had not washed himself for .
years Barnett Barnett stated that he went to the house of deceased , whom he had known for many years . On knocking at the door the sister opened it , hut at first refused to admit him . She then ashed him if he was a " Freemason , " ancl on his reply ing that he was , she immediately let him in . The place was so dark that at first he eould not discern anything , and on opening the window , which he had some difficulty in doingfrom its rusty statehe found deceased ling on a boxwith the
, , y , piece of blanket thrown over him , and a log of wood under his head . Verdict , ' Natural death . " It appeared that the deceased was a Freemason , and hoivever he might have neglected the tenets of the Craft , his poor idiot sister , in the gloom of her " mental night , " would only open the door to a Brother . '
THE SENATE OF LILLIPUT . —About fifty years since , the proceedings in Parliament , were published uncier this humorous title , by Mr . AA oodfall , when he was interdicted from i reporting them in a regular manner . The old London Magazine contains the best particulars extant . The Reporters have now a gallery ; and in the new building they are to have very convenient and extensive accommodation—tempora mxUantur . The readers of this Review will observe , that we , for the first time , publish some blanks—a measure we hope our Masonic senators will render unnecessary in future .
BROTHER A . GRANT , of No . 126 , Calcutta , is now in London , charged with a most important mission touching the state of Masonry in the East . BROTHER AV . T . HOPE , the late Secretary to the Girls' School , has given the very liberal donation of fifty pounds to that excellent institution .