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Ireland.
IRELAND .
TO CORRESPONDENTS . AN OLD CORRESPONDENT OF FIFTY . —Even a newspaper is hetter than nothing ; but it was not thus formerly . BRO . A . GRANT . —Many thanks , thou steady and firm friend . KANGAROO . — " Simius is the Latin for ape , * ' not for " ass / ' —ergo , the point U lost . AVe can make out " Fushos , " but not " Bombastes . " The words in ' ¦ Norman" character require explanation . Is the " Fidus Achates" ofthe evergreen Fowler related to the late celebrated physician noted for bottle-stopping in ] Norwich , or to a K . S . of Dublin ? ONESIMITS . —We still think you are mistaken 5 a P . G . M . would not dare to pay for hired yoters in Grand Lodge . If Ave are mistakenOnesimus becomes a participex criminis in
, not exposing such baseness by carrying it into the Grand Lodge . P . G . OFFICER , CORK . —We are duly favoured by the report and opinion . Fmus * present letter to the Grand Lodge of Ireland is withdrawn—a happy presage of tiie future . P . M . 50—G M , L . 4—and others , enquiring the whereabouts of the pseudo-Verax . We know nothing of the man . "An anonymous scribbler isaften a scoundrel , and ahvays a cuivard "
THE ( LATE ) MASONIC DIFFERENCES IN DUBLIN . To explain the last move ofthe " clique , " we give the following from the Leinster Express : — " AVe have received a copy of a very scurrilous pamphlet , entitled ' A Brief History , & c , by Verax , ' purporting to be a reply to a publication issued about eighteen months since in Dublin , entitled ' A Few
AA ' ords / & c . The subject is one which we are desirous , under existing circumstances , to exclude from our columns—as no other motive would now , more than at any former period , induce us to render it matter for Editorial consideration , save a sincere desire to force some honourable and amicable settlement of ' differences , ' unhappily widened by the infamous production which has been submitted to us . While it affects
to reply to the * Few Words / it does not advance a single argument by which any intelligent person could be influenced ; hut contains , throughout every page , a tissue of the lowest blackguardism—attributing corrupt motives to citizens most exemplary and respectable in their various pursuits of life—denouncing one a wine-merchant , as having obtained a hawking licence for ' selling drink / and reproaching another with
using the name of his predecessor in his house of business , for the purpose of extracting money from the family of the gentleman whom he succeeded . In short , our available space would not permit us to give a fraction of the slanders which have been heaped together by the cowardly wretch , who has availed himself of the ' liberty of the press / in its concealed and most licentious operations ( there being no printer ' s
name to the libel , ) while he indulges his ' file-biting' propensity , by giving a ' stab in the dark' to a highly respectable periodical in London , for having expressed its legitimate opinions as well as to this journal ,
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Ireland.
IRELAND .
TO CORRESPONDENTS . AN OLD CORRESPONDENT OF FIFTY . —Even a newspaper is hetter than nothing ; but it was not thus formerly . BRO . A . GRANT . —Many thanks , thou steady and firm friend . KANGAROO . — " Simius is the Latin for ape , * ' not for " ass / ' —ergo , the point U lost . AVe can make out " Fushos , " but not " Bombastes . " The words in ' ¦ Norman" character require explanation . Is the " Fidus Achates" ofthe evergreen Fowler related to the late celebrated physician noted for bottle-stopping in ] Norwich , or to a K . S . of Dublin ? ONESIMITS . —We still think you are mistaken 5 a P . G . M . would not dare to pay for hired yoters in Grand Lodge . If Ave are mistakenOnesimus becomes a participex criminis in
, not exposing such baseness by carrying it into the Grand Lodge . P . G . OFFICER , CORK . —We are duly favoured by the report and opinion . Fmus * present letter to the Grand Lodge of Ireland is withdrawn—a happy presage of tiie future . P . M . 50—G M , L . 4—and others , enquiring the whereabouts of the pseudo-Verax . We know nothing of the man . "An anonymous scribbler isaften a scoundrel , and ahvays a cuivard "
THE ( LATE ) MASONIC DIFFERENCES IN DUBLIN . To explain the last move ofthe " clique , " we give the following from the Leinster Express : — " AVe have received a copy of a very scurrilous pamphlet , entitled ' A Brief History , & c , by Verax , ' purporting to be a reply to a publication issued about eighteen months since in Dublin , entitled ' A Few
AA ' ords / & c . The subject is one which we are desirous , under existing circumstances , to exclude from our columns—as no other motive would now , more than at any former period , induce us to render it matter for Editorial consideration , save a sincere desire to force some honourable and amicable settlement of ' differences , ' unhappily widened by the infamous production which has been submitted to us . While it affects
to reply to the * Few Words / it does not advance a single argument by which any intelligent person could be influenced ; hut contains , throughout every page , a tissue of the lowest blackguardism—attributing corrupt motives to citizens most exemplary and respectable in their various pursuits of life—denouncing one a wine-merchant , as having obtained a hawking licence for ' selling drink / and reproaching another with
using the name of his predecessor in his house of business , for the purpose of extracting money from the family of the gentleman whom he succeeded . In short , our available space would not permit us to give a fraction of the slanders which have been heaped together by the cowardly wretch , who has availed himself of the ' liberty of the press / in its concealed and most licentious operations ( there being no printer ' s
name to the libel , ) while he indulges his ' file-biting' propensity , by giving a ' stab in the dark' to a highly respectable periodical in London , for having expressed its legitimate opinions as well as to this journal ,