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To Correspondents.
nearly eight pounds ! This reminds us of tlie wager between certain Irishmen , that one would not carry the . other in a hod up a high ladder ; on reaching the destination Pat demanded the wager ; there 'tis , said Murphy * , but faix I had nearly won , for you slipped at one time . BIRMINGHAM . —We have a singular correspondent in this town , who indulges in some pseudo-eharitaDIe ideas ; we recommend him to eschew all morbid feeling , and act ope ? ilyon the square . CORK . —An anonymous correspondent is too late ( the 22 nd ) . We had previously arranged the best materials at hand . A CATHOLIC MASON , BUT NO ROMAN * —The account of the escape of the Limerick Nun , beautiful as rich , is certainly graphic ; and the circumstance may account , as our correspondent intimates , for tlie " Bnttumfulmeri' of the disappointed ; had it , however , reached us in time , we should have hesitated to publish the statement in its present shape .
AHCH MATTERS . . A ROVAL ARCH MASON . —Companion J . Harris , 40 , Sidmouth-street , can supply his wants , and on reasonable terms . A SOJOURNER complains that there has been unnecessary delay on the part of the Committee of Laws . Perhaps so ; but there is an ' " imperium in imperio , " and the Committee have more musters titan one . The document presented at the last Grand Chapter requires explanation .
TEMPLARS . 2 f"fiwp , —At present the Supreme Grand Encampment is not likely to resuscitate ; its laws and regulations , if ever they existed , are out of print . Applications for charters shouldhe made to the Grand Recorder , or Grand Sub-Prior , at Freemasons'" Hall , either of whom j on Tiayment of fees , about five guineas , will piocure or grant a charter . Into what exchequer these fees drop we do not know . 11 has been stated that a bill has been outstanding for thirty years , and that certificates , & c are droits in satisfaction ; but the bill itself has never been rendered , " Credat Judsusi "
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . A GRAND STEWARD ELECT is not entitled to the badge until he is presented at the especial Grand Lodge in April . : ¦ - ¦¦ - TVHO . —Approving the principle we . insert his letter—had he given his name and address ( in confidence ) , we would have gone a step further . ONE OF THE SUMMONED . —The unfeeling remark to a near-sighted Brother , to " take his spectacles with him in future , " had more in it than met the ear > and came from an eye-sore in the Craft , Fwvs . —We look to he excused fot delaying the " critical remarks on the revised Constitutions , " in all of which we agree , and hope to find room for them ' la our next . ¦
v A FORWER M-KJUB . BR OF B . G . I * . —The better plan would-be to direct the Grand Secretary to issue annually a printed paper to every Lodge , containing a short abstract from the Actof Parliament , with ruled lines , and ample instructions , so that the clerks of the peace may have no trouble , but to cast an eye , or both eves , on the several papers , instead of endeavouring to decypher such illegible scrawls as have been sent to us . . ;
ASYLUM . AN OLD FRIEND . —The festival is fixed for the 15 th June , at Freemasons' Hall , and the Board of Stewards is forming ; A STEWARD FOR 1840 . —We differ in opinion—the honourable chairman did not exceed becoming generosity in his advocacy of the Asylum ; neither did he omit due respect to the Grand Master . We have never heard him disclaim the Asylum ; at any rate , he . was apparently noblc-mmded and generous , and if arrested for a time in his progress , he may retrace lus former steps with honour and advantage . < ¦ - . > ¦ ONE PRESENT J * GRAND LODGE , Dec . lH 37 . ~ The question is delicate . —The G . R . of that time suggested an amendmentand for the sake of unanimity that suggestion adopted in
, was the original proposition , and unanimously carried . Could agentleman—a Brother universally acclaimed as such , be a party to" confusion worse confounded , " —could he as a legist tamper with a resolution of Grand Lodge , and be unmindful of the gladness his conduct achieved ? however , our correspondent ' should understand that the Brother alluded to was , on the 2 nd instant , absent on the northern circuit . THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL WILL TAKE PLACE AT FREEMASONS' HALL , ON WEDNESDAY THE 15 TH JUNE NEXT .
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To Correspondents.
nearly eight pounds ! This reminds us of tlie wager between certain Irishmen , that one would not carry the . other in a hod up a high ladder ; on reaching the destination Pat demanded the wager ; there 'tis , said Murphy * , but faix I had nearly won , for you slipped at one time . BIRMINGHAM . —We have a singular correspondent in this town , who indulges in some pseudo-eharitaDIe ideas ; we recommend him to eschew all morbid feeling , and act ope ? ilyon the square . CORK . —An anonymous correspondent is too late ( the 22 nd ) . We had previously arranged the best materials at hand . A CATHOLIC MASON , BUT NO ROMAN * —The account of the escape of the Limerick Nun , beautiful as rich , is certainly graphic ; and the circumstance may account , as our correspondent intimates , for tlie " Bnttumfulmeri' of the disappointed ; had it , however , reached us in time , we should have hesitated to publish the statement in its present shape .
AHCH MATTERS . . A ROVAL ARCH MASON . —Companion J . Harris , 40 , Sidmouth-street , can supply his wants , and on reasonable terms . A SOJOURNER complains that there has been unnecessary delay on the part of the Committee of Laws . Perhaps so ; but there is an ' " imperium in imperio , " and the Committee have more musters titan one . The document presented at the last Grand Chapter requires explanation .
TEMPLARS . 2 f"fiwp , —At present the Supreme Grand Encampment is not likely to resuscitate ; its laws and regulations , if ever they existed , are out of print . Applications for charters shouldhe made to the Grand Recorder , or Grand Sub-Prior , at Freemasons'" Hall , either of whom j on Tiayment of fees , about five guineas , will piocure or grant a charter . Into what exchequer these fees drop we do not know . 11 has been stated that a bill has been outstanding for thirty years , and that certificates , & c are droits in satisfaction ; but the bill itself has never been rendered , " Credat Judsusi "
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . A GRAND STEWARD ELECT is not entitled to the badge until he is presented at the especial Grand Lodge in April . : ¦ - ¦¦ - TVHO . —Approving the principle we . insert his letter—had he given his name and address ( in confidence ) , we would have gone a step further . ONE OF THE SUMMONED . —The unfeeling remark to a near-sighted Brother , to " take his spectacles with him in future , " had more in it than met the ear > and came from an eye-sore in the Craft , Fwvs . —We look to he excused fot delaying the " critical remarks on the revised Constitutions , " in all of which we agree , and hope to find room for them ' la our next . ¦
v A FORWER M-KJUB . BR OF B . G . I * . —The better plan would-be to direct the Grand Secretary to issue annually a printed paper to every Lodge , containing a short abstract from the Actof Parliament , with ruled lines , and ample instructions , so that the clerks of the peace may have no trouble , but to cast an eye , or both eves , on the several papers , instead of endeavouring to decypher such illegible scrawls as have been sent to us . . ;
ASYLUM . AN OLD FRIEND . —The festival is fixed for the 15 th June , at Freemasons' Hall , and the Board of Stewards is forming ; A STEWARD FOR 1840 . —We differ in opinion—the honourable chairman did not exceed becoming generosity in his advocacy of the Asylum ; neither did he omit due respect to the Grand Master . We have never heard him disclaim the Asylum ; at any rate , he . was apparently noblc-mmded and generous , and if arrested for a time in his progress , he may retrace lus former steps with honour and advantage . < ¦ - . > ¦ ONE PRESENT J * GRAND LODGE , Dec . lH 37 . ~ The question is delicate . —The G . R . of that time suggested an amendmentand for the sake of unanimity that suggestion adopted in
, was the original proposition , and unanimously carried . Could agentleman—a Brother universally acclaimed as such , be a party to" confusion worse confounded , " —could he as a legist tamper with a resolution of Grand Lodge , and be unmindful of the gladness his conduct achieved ? however , our correspondent ' should understand that the Brother alluded to was , on the 2 nd instant , absent on the northern circuit . THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL WILL TAKE PLACE AT FREEMASONS' HALL , ON WEDNESDAY THE 15 TH JUNE NEXT .