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Masonic Chit Chat.
BROTHER DR . FLINT , Past Grand Master for Massachusets , U . S ., has been visiting various Lodges in London , and acquainting himself with all the arcana of our discipline and practice . EXTENT OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS . —The sun never sets on the dominions of the Queen ; before the evening rays leave the spires of Quebec his morning beams have shone for three hours on Port Jackson : ancl while sinking from the waters of Lake Superior , his eye has opened on the Ganges .
vi rp . TRUTH . —I hate funerals ( says Sir AA ^ alter Scott ) and always did . There is such a mixture of mummery with real grief : the actual mourner perhaps heart-broken , and all the rest making solemn faces , and whispering observations on the weather and public news , and heie ancl there a greedy fellow enjoying cake and wine .
TAUNTON . —The AVhite Hart Club in this town have received an interesting and valuable present in the shape of a very large silver tobacco box , beautifully fitted up , ingeniously enclosing a small one much prized by the members , the whole reflecting great credit to the taste and workmanship of Mr . Joseph Abraham . The club consists of a limited number of "townsmen , " who meet ni ghtly for the enjoyment of social intercourseand are generall"armed with a i" The intent ancl de
, y ppe . - scription of the box are best supplied by the following inscription , which is handsomely engraved on it : — " This smaller Tobacco Box was constantly used in this Club during a period of forty-six years , by the late Father of the Club , Mr . John White . It is thus presented to the White Hart Club , hy John Eales White , 1838 .
" Our Cares in a Whiff of Tobacco we'll smother . '— Old Song . " LIVERPOOLASSIZES , March 26 . —LODGE ORNAMENTS . —Broadbent v , Ledward . —This was an action of detenue to recover three oil-pictures belonging to the plaintiff . The defendant pleaded 1 st , that she did not detain the pictures ; 2 ndly , that the pictures did not belong to the plaintiff ; and 3 rdly , the statute of limitations . The damajj-es were laid at £ 1000 .
Messrs . Cresweil , Alexander , ancl Tomlinson were counsel for the plaintiff ; Messrs . AA'ightman ancl Crompton for the defendant . Mr . Cresweil said the plaintiff , Mr . Benjamin Broadbent , was a very elderly gentleman ; the defendant , Mrs . Mary Ledward , was a widow , and the circumstances ofthe case were rather singular . Mr . Broadbent was a Freemason . So long ago as 1814 , he was a Member of the Loclge , No . Ill , of which Mr . Duckinfield Astley was then Master , and also Provincial Grand Master of all the
Lodges in Cheshire , a gentleman who took great interest in the Lodge , and also in Freemasonry generally . Being necessarily absent sometimes , he had appointed Mr . Broadbent , Deputy Grand Master of the Lodge 111 , which met at Ashton-under-Lyne . On the 3 rd of January , 1814 , that Lodge was opened in what he believed was called the Third Degree of Masonry which was rather a more solemn occasion than ordinaryMrBroacl
. . - bent presided at the meeting , which was held at the house occupied by John Bradley , then the husband of the defendant , and known by the name of the " Old General . " A t that time there was a strong military taste in the country , and that was probably the origin of the sign , though whether it still existed or not , he could not tell . Mr Astley came into the Lodge , and remarked that the room looked very handsome with the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Chit Chat.
BROTHER DR . FLINT , Past Grand Master for Massachusets , U . S ., has been visiting various Lodges in London , and acquainting himself with all the arcana of our discipline and practice . EXTENT OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS . —The sun never sets on the dominions of the Queen ; before the evening rays leave the spires of Quebec his morning beams have shone for three hours on Port Jackson : ancl while sinking from the waters of Lake Superior , his eye has opened on the Ganges .
vi rp . TRUTH . —I hate funerals ( says Sir AA ^ alter Scott ) and always did . There is such a mixture of mummery with real grief : the actual mourner perhaps heart-broken , and all the rest making solemn faces , and whispering observations on the weather and public news , and heie ancl there a greedy fellow enjoying cake and wine .
TAUNTON . —The AVhite Hart Club in this town have received an interesting and valuable present in the shape of a very large silver tobacco box , beautifully fitted up , ingeniously enclosing a small one much prized by the members , the whole reflecting great credit to the taste and workmanship of Mr . Joseph Abraham . The club consists of a limited number of "townsmen , " who meet ni ghtly for the enjoyment of social intercourseand are generall"armed with a i" The intent ancl de
, y ppe . - scription of the box are best supplied by the following inscription , which is handsomely engraved on it : — " This smaller Tobacco Box was constantly used in this Club during a period of forty-six years , by the late Father of the Club , Mr . John White . It is thus presented to the White Hart Club , hy John Eales White , 1838 .
" Our Cares in a Whiff of Tobacco we'll smother . '— Old Song . " LIVERPOOLASSIZES , March 26 . —LODGE ORNAMENTS . —Broadbent v , Ledward . —This was an action of detenue to recover three oil-pictures belonging to the plaintiff . The defendant pleaded 1 st , that she did not detain the pictures ; 2 ndly , that the pictures did not belong to the plaintiff ; and 3 rdly , the statute of limitations . The damajj-es were laid at £ 1000 .
Messrs . Cresweil , Alexander , ancl Tomlinson were counsel for the plaintiff ; Messrs . AA'ightman ancl Crompton for the defendant . Mr . Cresweil said the plaintiff , Mr . Benjamin Broadbent , was a very elderly gentleman ; the defendant , Mrs . Mary Ledward , was a widow , and the circumstances ofthe case were rather singular . Mr . Broadbent was a Freemason . So long ago as 1814 , he was a Member of the Loclge , No . Ill , of which Mr . Duckinfield Astley was then Master , and also Provincial Grand Master of all the
Lodges in Cheshire , a gentleman who took great interest in the Lodge , and also in Freemasonry generally . Being necessarily absent sometimes , he had appointed Mr . Broadbent , Deputy Grand Master of the Lodge 111 , which met at Ashton-under-Lyne . On the 3 rd of January , 1814 , that Lodge was opened in what he believed was called the Third Degree of Masonry which was rather a more solemn occasion than ordinaryMrBroacl
. . - bent presided at the meeting , which was held at the house occupied by John Bradley , then the husband of the defendant , and known by the name of the " Old General . " A t that time there was a strong military taste in the country , and that was probably the origin of the sign , though whether it still existed or not , he could not tell . Mr Astley came into the Lodge , and remarked that the room looked very handsome with the