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Masonic Chit Chat.
MASONIC CHIT CHAT .
OUR learned Brother , William Henry Adams , Esq ., P . G . S . W . of Lincolnshire , and ex-mayor of Boston , where he filled the civic chair two years in succession , has just been called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple .
SLAVERY . —The following inhuman advertisements appear in the later numbers of the Brazilian journals : — " Opportunity of ohtaining a waiting-woman for 1 *! To be raffled for , a waiting-woman , with a child eight years of age , and other subjects of value . Tickets may be had at No . 91 , Rua do Rosaria . " "To be sold , a little Mulatto , two years of age , very pretty , ancl well adapted for a festival present ( Christmas-box ) . No . 3 , Rua dos Latoeris . " "Tobe sold , a wet-nurse , Mulatto
girl , aged 20—has very good milk , her first child now four ' months old . Rua da St . Pedre , No . 108 . " " To be sold , a black woman , five months gone , and fit for all kinds of service . Largo de Poco , No . 5 . " " To be sold , a waiting-woman , with milk , and with a son eight months old . She may be had either with or without the child . Has the qualification of a good waiting-woman , and is without vice of any kind . " THE SLAVE TRADE . —From a return of last session , it appears that
in the year 1842 there were 58 ships employed for the suppression of the slave trade ; the number of guns , 945 ; and the men engaged in the service numbered 8554 . The total expence of the ships was £ 575 , 466 , of which the wages of the men were £ 261 , 319-INTERESTING SCENE —On Sunday week sixty-nine fishermen , who had been saved from shipwreck during the awful storm of the 28 th October , publicly returned thanks to Almighty God , in Cromer Church , Norfolk They all rose when their names were called over by the officiating minister , and then , on their knees , joined in the beautiful form of thanksgiving in our church service .
PUSEYISM . —We have just heard of a circumstance evincing in a most decided manner the opinion entertained on this subject in the university of Leipsic . On the occasion of the Rev . Dr . Slade recently proceeding to his degree of D . D . the learned faculty of theology there , among the exercises to be performed , required a dissertatio de natura et officio Filii Dei , with a specific declaration from Mr . Slade that he was not a Piiseyite . Had this test been declined , it was announced that the degree would have been refused .
THE MR . STRADLING SO favourabl y mentioned in the narrative of the perilous sufferings of the passengers and crew of the ill-fated Memnon , and who was selected to accompany Lieut . Balfour , in the adventurous voyage , in a small boat , to Aden , is a great nephew of the late Brother Francis Adams Stradling , whose interesting memoirs enrich our pages , and nephew to our valued Brother William Stradling , of Chilton Priory , Prov . Grand Treasurer for Somerset .
To THE EDITOR , —Sir , —Permit me to rectify an error , which may he of some importance , in your last number of the Quarterly . In the notices of Births , appears , " The lady of Bro . William Tucker , Esq ., S . W . Lodge , 327 , of a daughter . " The lady of our hi ghly esteemed
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Masonic Chit Chat.
MASONIC CHIT CHAT .
OUR learned Brother , William Henry Adams , Esq ., P . G . S . W . of Lincolnshire , and ex-mayor of Boston , where he filled the civic chair two years in succession , has just been called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple .
SLAVERY . —The following inhuman advertisements appear in the later numbers of the Brazilian journals : — " Opportunity of ohtaining a waiting-woman for 1 *! To be raffled for , a waiting-woman , with a child eight years of age , and other subjects of value . Tickets may be had at No . 91 , Rua do Rosaria . " "To be sold , a little Mulatto , two years of age , very pretty , ancl well adapted for a festival present ( Christmas-box ) . No . 3 , Rua dos Latoeris . " "Tobe sold , a wet-nurse , Mulatto
girl , aged 20—has very good milk , her first child now four ' months old . Rua da St . Pedre , No . 108 . " " To be sold , a black woman , five months gone , and fit for all kinds of service . Largo de Poco , No . 5 . " " To be sold , a waiting-woman , with milk , and with a son eight months old . She may be had either with or without the child . Has the qualification of a good waiting-woman , and is without vice of any kind . " THE SLAVE TRADE . —From a return of last session , it appears that
in the year 1842 there were 58 ships employed for the suppression of the slave trade ; the number of guns , 945 ; and the men engaged in the service numbered 8554 . The total expence of the ships was £ 575 , 466 , of which the wages of the men were £ 261 , 319-INTERESTING SCENE —On Sunday week sixty-nine fishermen , who had been saved from shipwreck during the awful storm of the 28 th October , publicly returned thanks to Almighty God , in Cromer Church , Norfolk They all rose when their names were called over by the officiating minister , and then , on their knees , joined in the beautiful form of thanksgiving in our church service .
PUSEYISM . —We have just heard of a circumstance evincing in a most decided manner the opinion entertained on this subject in the university of Leipsic . On the occasion of the Rev . Dr . Slade recently proceeding to his degree of D . D . the learned faculty of theology there , among the exercises to be performed , required a dissertatio de natura et officio Filii Dei , with a specific declaration from Mr . Slade that he was not a Piiseyite . Had this test been declined , it was announced that the degree would have been refused .
THE MR . STRADLING SO favourabl y mentioned in the narrative of the perilous sufferings of the passengers and crew of the ill-fated Memnon , and who was selected to accompany Lieut . Balfour , in the adventurous voyage , in a small boat , to Aden , is a great nephew of the late Brother Francis Adams Stradling , whose interesting memoirs enrich our pages , and nephew to our valued Brother William Stradling , of Chilton Priory , Prov . Grand Treasurer for Somerset .
To THE EDITOR , —Sir , —Permit me to rectify an error , which may he of some importance , in your last number of the Quarterly . In the notices of Births , appears , " The lady of Bro . William Tucker , Esq ., S . W . Lodge , 327 , of a daughter . " The lady of our hi ghly esteemed