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To Correspondents.
• PILGRIM ' S notices are invaluable . We trust he will continue them down to the present day A MEMBER OF THE ORIENTAL CLUB will find a condensed account of Sumatra in Wallace '** Memoir of India , p . 61 . 70-A PAST GRAND STEWARD . —His "letter came too late . We give the following extract : ' ¦ Ofiicers of the late Board—Bros . G . B . Matthew , No . 4 , President ; H . T . Foreman , 233 , Treasurer ; A . U . Thiselton , Secretary , * Kemble , Hazard , Baldwin and another . Ladies' Stewards . !' A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER and his " Bag o * nails , " is too wire-drawn for publication , even had he given name and address .
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER ( 2 ) , in so kind a matter , ought to have given name and address . HONESTUS is right . Apostacy will always be despised by honourable men . The asking of a guinea for the new charity , that was voted for the Asylum , because the latter was * ' knocked on the head , " was as disgusting as contemptible . THE GHOST OF A NINE WORTHY on the Pawnbroker-Mania , has some fun ; but the letter might pain , where it might not convince ; a year hence , and , if we mistake not , the blush of the red apron will correct the mistaken ardour for gim-cracks . THE PURPLE BANDIT is now inadmissible .
HpiKy There are two Larreys ; which is meant , the dactyl or the spondee ? REPORTER is thanked for his report of the interesting proceedings of No . 2 , which are reserved for a forthcoming article on the Annals of that Lodge . BRO . SHIELI / S communications are duly acknowledged . A BROTHER is mistaken ; we never did advertise the wretched seheme , and for a reasontoe did not , and still do not consider it safe . <¦ A WARWICKSHIRE MASON is no lawyer , or he would know that our star-chamber would vote his letter a libel , and summon the familiar to prepare the rack : still , it Is * all" Truth , ''
yet , by an anomaly that apes ' ** Reason "—it would be ruled to be " Treason . " A GLASGOW MASON . —The printed letters relating to a recent ceremonial , are too discourteous to have been written by a minister of any denomination . Their republication would be repugnant to common sense . BRO . HOYLE is thanked for his communication , which , he will perceive , is alluded to in another place ; we have received a second letter , dated May 24 , referring to a new Lodge ; but as the hand-writing does not correspond with the first , we decline to insert it , until satisfied on the point . - VIGIL . —The motto for the article , page 168 , was not received in sufficient time to prefix-it . We now supply what is very appropriate : " Truth shall be heard , and these lords of a day
Be forgotten as fools , or remembered as tootse . T . MOORE . G . M . L . —We think our Brother sarcastic ; he should not allude to so many catastrophes ivhieh argue nothing against Masonry or " Number one . " Why a Brother resigned , and whose son was initiated elsewhere , are matters not germane to us . A MASON . —The Constitutions do not prevent a Master from directing the Lodge to put on mourning for a P . M . LYNX :. —We see no harm in the Brother ' s having assumed the purple on the 1 st instant ;
no doubt he felt cock-sure . LAYING DOWN THE LAW- — "A Satire , in imitation of Punch , l Sth June , " is clever and artistical , the scene well devised , and the characters admirable , in particular that of the satrap dog ; we fancy we hear his whine methodistical , while the large Cuba is evidently laying down his notion of the law ; the white dog is all attention , and the position of the paw conveys , on a sheet of paper , with the date 24 th April , a penlike attitude , as though he noted well the passing thoughts ; in the distance are spectral illusions , phantasmagorical , describing some former companions of the species canine , who seem to approve of the mystic conclave .
The poetry is declined . B . ( Erin ) . —Names of persons and places should be carefully written ; we are compelled to omit what even the printer cannot deeypher . FUSBOS considers Bombastes has been rumped , we differ , he is the rumpee . Jocosus ON CERTIFICATES might himself tell the G . S . that the words " we have subscribed our names" wouldread better in the singularnumber ; when the Siamese separation took place "between Chi and Cho , the alteration should have been made . THE COCKED HAT . —The Grand Bellows-blower , and other articles are postponed .
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To Correspondents.
• PILGRIM ' S notices are invaluable . We trust he will continue them down to the present day A MEMBER OF THE ORIENTAL CLUB will find a condensed account of Sumatra in Wallace '** Memoir of India , p . 61 . 70-A PAST GRAND STEWARD . —His "letter came too late . We give the following extract : ' ¦ Ofiicers of the late Board—Bros . G . B . Matthew , No . 4 , President ; H . T . Foreman , 233 , Treasurer ; A . U . Thiselton , Secretary , * Kemble , Hazard , Baldwin and another . Ladies' Stewards . !' A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER and his " Bag o * nails , " is too wire-drawn for publication , even had he given name and address .
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER ( 2 ) , in so kind a matter , ought to have given name and address . HONESTUS is right . Apostacy will always be despised by honourable men . The asking of a guinea for the new charity , that was voted for the Asylum , because the latter was * ' knocked on the head , " was as disgusting as contemptible . THE GHOST OF A NINE WORTHY on the Pawnbroker-Mania , has some fun ; but the letter might pain , where it might not convince ; a year hence , and , if we mistake not , the blush of the red apron will correct the mistaken ardour for gim-cracks . THE PURPLE BANDIT is now inadmissible .
HpiKy There are two Larreys ; which is meant , the dactyl or the spondee ? REPORTER is thanked for his report of the interesting proceedings of No . 2 , which are reserved for a forthcoming article on the Annals of that Lodge . BRO . SHIELI / S communications are duly acknowledged . A BROTHER is mistaken ; we never did advertise the wretched seheme , and for a reasontoe did not , and still do not consider it safe . <¦ A WARWICKSHIRE MASON is no lawyer , or he would know that our star-chamber would vote his letter a libel , and summon the familiar to prepare the rack : still , it Is * all" Truth , ''
yet , by an anomaly that apes ' ** Reason "—it would be ruled to be " Treason . " A GLASGOW MASON . —The printed letters relating to a recent ceremonial , are too discourteous to have been written by a minister of any denomination . Their republication would be repugnant to common sense . BRO . HOYLE is thanked for his communication , which , he will perceive , is alluded to in another place ; we have received a second letter , dated May 24 , referring to a new Lodge ; but as the hand-writing does not correspond with the first , we decline to insert it , until satisfied on the point . - VIGIL . —The motto for the article , page 168 , was not received in sufficient time to prefix-it . We now supply what is very appropriate : " Truth shall be heard , and these lords of a day
Be forgotten as fools , or remembered as tootse . T . MOORE . G . M . L . —We think our Brother sarcastic ; he should not allude to so many catastrophes ivhieh argue nothing against Masonry or " Number one . " Why a Brother resigned , and whose son was initiated elsewhere , are matters not germane to us . A MASON . —The Constitutions do not prevent a Master from directing the Lodge to put on mourning for a P . M . LYNX :. —We see no harm in the Brother ' s having assumed the purple on the 1 st instant ;
no doubt he felt cock-sure . LAYING DOWN THE LAW- — "A Satire , in imitation of Punch , l Sth June , " is clever and artistical , the scene well devised , and the characters admirable , in particular that of the satrap dog ; we fancy we hear his whine methodistical , while the large Cuba is evidently laying down his notion of the law ; the white dog is all attention , and the position of the paw conveys , on a sheet of paper , with the date 24 th April , a penlike attitude , as though he noted well the passing thoughts ; in the distance are spectral illusions , phantasmagorical , describing some former companions of the species canine , who seem to approve of the mystic conclave .
The poetry is declined . B . ( Erin ) . —Names of persons and places should be carefully written ; we are compelled to omit what even the printer cannot deeypher . FUSBOS considers Bombastes has been rumped , we differ , he is the rumpee . Jocosus ON CERTIFICATES might himself tell the G . S . that the words " we have subscribed our names" wouldread better in the singularnumber ; when the Siamese separation took place "between Chi and Cho , the alteration should have been made . THE COCKED HAT . —The Grand Bellows-blower , and other articles are postponed .