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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
§@* We are requested to state that Dr . Crucefix has altogether retired from London . His address is , Grove , Gravesend , Kent ; where all communications should be addressed that are intended for his personal observation—indeed , letters for the Editor , under cover to him , will more immediately reach their destination . It is most earnestly entreated that , wherever possible , all communications may be written only on one side of the paper ; also that all be most written
German and other foreign words may legibly . We are requested by Dr . Crucefix , who is preparing for the Press an account of popular events in English Freemasonry , to he favoured by any Masonic papers ; more especially as relating to York and Athol Masonry—the trials of Preston , Whitney , Bonnor , and others . His own escapade is complete . THE AFRICAN PRINCE . —The account of the initiation of this . prince at Bristol contains so
many improbabilities , that we decline it . and hope some intelligent Brother will favour us by a better version . A MEMBBR . —If our correspondent had written the "farrago . " purporting to he a report of the meeting of the 12 th October of a Lodge in Liverpool , the name and number of which we suppress for obvious reasons of Masonic propriety , we shbuld , had we known his name and address , have admonished him ; as , however , he has merely forwarded a printed report from a newspaper , we can only regret tbe trouble he has taken . Some silly wight has imposed on the editorwho might have been more circumspect than to have allowed the description
, ofadinner ( purporting to have been Masonic ) in such inappropriate terms . But we must protest altogether against the following paragraph , as a libel even on the mere " knife and fork" Masons . Verily the members of 55 will blush as they read j "Masonry may well prosper when its secrets lead to such exquisite enjoyments as those which have been described , and of which the Brethren of are the frequent participators . " We preserve the report as a
proof to what length absurdity can go . A LOOKER ON . —There are more strange matters in Liverpool than meet the eye ; but for the present we defer the article . E . M . —Among our pleasing duties is to chronicle grateful compliments to merit . A LINCOLNSHIRE Tyito The Right Honourable (!) P . G . M . has disclaimed his conversion to another faith . We cannot , therefore , insert the paper ; which , although somewhat caustic , is , we opine , insufficient to remove the unseemly effects so justly complained of . We are not converts to phrenology , and have not felt the K . VV . cranium . BRO . CLARKE . —Thanks for a very interesting paper . A DISTRESSED WIDOW enquires who is the , most amiable Mason to retain in her cause . We should say that Bro . Salmon is the most likely to inform her . " No mortal can more the ladies adore
. - - Than a free and an accepted Mason . " _ ARISTIDBS enquires who is the most subtle reasoner , the ' cutestdialectitian , and the clearest logical debater in the Masonic witenagemot . We should say that Bro . Havers is the most likely party to solve the triad question , " We are just and sincere , and are kind to the fair .- " A SUMATRA PEON enquires where his ch ief is now visible , having failed , even by the aid of Lord Rosse ' s telescope , to discover his planetary mightiness . We refer him to Bro . " Nobody , " whose responsibility being universalcan answer " Everybody . "
, BRO . FISH . —It was not a Masonic party , but a celebrated living actor , who observed in reply that his demand was exorbitant , that if there was but one cock-salmon in the market , it must , and would fetch its price . T . K .. —A-void exposing your opponent too glaringly . When so much dirt'is flying about , some particles may fall on your own person . The Board of General Purposes will require more proof than we have received . A . B . —An honorarium to the Asylum is all wc expect or even hope for .
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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
§@* We are requested to state that Dr . Crucefix has altogether retired from London . His address is , Grove , Gravesend , Kent ; where all communications should be addressed that are intended for his personal observation—indeed , letters for the Editor , under cover to him , will more immediately reach their destination . It is most earnestly entreated that , wherever possible , all communications may be written only on one side of the paper ; also that all be most written
German and other foreign words may legibly . We are requested by Dr . Crucefix , who is preparing for the Press an account of popular events in English Freemasonry , to he favoured by any Masonic papers ; more especially as relating to York and Athol Masonry—the trials of Preston , Whitney , Bonnor , and others . His own escapade is complete . THE AFRICAN PRINCE . —The account of the initiation of this . prince at Bristol contains so
many improbabilities , that we decline it . and hope some intelligent Brother will favour us by a better version . A MEMBBR . —If our correspondent had written the "farrago . " purporting to he a report of the meeting of the 12 th October of a Lodge in Liverpool , the name and number of which we suppress for obvious reasons of Masonic propriety , we shbuld , had we known his name and address , have admonished him ; as , however , he has merely forwarded a printed report from a newspaper , we can only regret tbe trouble he has taken . Some silly wight has imposed on the editorwho might have been more circumspect than to have allowed the description
, ofadinner ( purporting to have been Masonic ) in such inappropriate terms . But we must protest altogether against the following paragraph , as a libel even on the mere " knife and fork" Masons . Verily the members of 55 will blush as they read j "Masonry may well prosper when its secrets lead to such exquisite enjoyments as those which have been described , and of which the Brethren of are the frequent participators . " We preserve the report as a
proof to what length absurdity can go . A LOOKER ON . —There are more strange matters in Liverpool than meet the eye ; but for the present we defer the article . E . M . —Among our pleasing duties is to chronicle grateful compliments to merit . A LINCOLNSHIRE Tyito The Right Honourable (!) P . G . M . has disclaimed his conversion to another faith . We cannot , therefore , insert the paper ; which , although somewhat caustic , is , we opine , insufficient to remove the unseemly effects so justly complained of . We are not converts to phrenology , and have not felt the K . VV . cranium . BRO . CLARKE . —Thanks for a very interesting paper . A DISTRESSED WIDOW enquires who is the , most amiable Mason to retain in her cause . We should say that Bro . Salmon is the most likely to inform her . " No mortal can more the ladies adore
. - - Than a free and an accepted Mason . " _ ARISTIDBS enquires who is the most subtle reasoner , the ' cutestdialectitian , and the clearest logical debater in the Masonic witenagemot . We should say that Bro . Havers is the most likely party to solve the triad question , " We are just and sincere , and are kind to the fair .- " A SUMATRA PEON enquires where his ch ief is now visible , having failed , even by the aid of Lord Rosse ' s telescope , to discover his planetary mightiness . We refer him to Bro . " Nobody , " whose responsibility being universalcan answer " Everybody . "
, BRO . FISH . —It was not a Masonic party , but a celebrated living actor , who observed in reply that his demand was exorbitant , that if there was but one cock-salmon in the market , it must , and would fetch its price . T . K .. —A-void exposing your opponent too glaringly . When so much dirt'is flying about , some particles may fall on your own person . The Board of General Purposes will require more proof than we have received . A . B . —An honorarium to the Asylum is all wc expect or even hope for .