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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

ODDY , F . F . —The additional information has unfortunately reached us ton late for insertion . T . S . G . ( New Zealand ) . —Thc information reached us too late . Eun . vrA , —In the report of Francis Burdett Lodge , No . 11503 , For "the W . M . raised Bro . Clarke to the degree of M . M . " read " I he Immediate Past Master raised " etc . In Notes and Queries , for Granel Lodge of "Holland " read " Scotland . "

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Births ,Marriages And Deaths.

Births , Marriages and Deaths .

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BIRTHS . EL MOT . —On the 26 th inst ., at Northallerton , the wife of G . W . Elliot , Esq ., M . P ., of a son . H EATON . —On the 23 rd inst ., at Worsley , near Manchester , the wife of Capt . H . Heaton , of a son . MARRIAGE .

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DEATHS . CoLLiNomocE . —On the 27 th inst ., at 31 , "Wilderness Row , Edmund Collingridge , after a lingering illness , aged 71 , deeply lamented . Friends kindly accept this intimation .

HALL . —On the 23 rel inst ., at Lloyd-square , London , Henrietta , the beloved wife of William John Hall , formerly of Newark , Notts . SWALLOW . —On the 19 th inst ., Mrs . Swallow , wife of Bro . B . H . Swallow , of Loelge 15 6 3 .

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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 3 , 1877 .

The "Freimaurer" And The Grand Secretary.

THE "FREIMAURER" AND THE GRAND SECRETARY .

The Freimaurer of Vienna for October is pleased to indulge itself in a very singular and ridiculous attack on our excellent Grand Secretary , Bro . Hervey , which will be at once indignantly repelled by all English brethren . It seems that Bro . Dr . Beigel , who ought to know

a good deal better , and who we are very sorry to see in such a false position , assumes in the Freimaurer that Bro . Hervey has something to do with the Freemason , and actually wrote , or " inspired " as they say abroad , a special article in this journal , which seems to have aroused the

susceptibilities of Bro . Dr . Beigel to the very uttermost . We need hardly assure our readers . , though it is a common mistake abroad , that Bro . Hervey has nothing to do with the Freemason , that he knows nothing of our articles , or that the Freemason belongs solely to Bro . Geo .

Kenning , and is a thoroughly independent Ma sonic newspaper . It does happen , indeed , that some of the views we have thought well to express from time to time relative to the Grand Orient of Fiance , and its unfortunate " Fiasco , ' ' have chimed in with the honest utterances of

our hard-working Grand Secretary . But even wilh respect to such opinions , which brought us into collision originally with Bros . Caubet and Grimaud , they were only expressed by Bro . John Hervey as Bro . John Hervey , not officially as Grand Secretary . We pointed

that fact out at the time , and are astonished to find that Bro . Dr . Beigel , with his knowledge of England and the English , and their free-spoken expression of manly independence of thought and opinion , does not realize the differ ence as between an official circular and a speech

delivered at a private lodge . But , as regards the special expression which seems so much to have annoyed Bro . Dr . Beigel , it was not written nor spoken even by Bro . Hervey at all . He has never said anything of the kind . The remark , such as it is , is purely our own , an expression of

individual Masonic opinion , and clothed with no official authority in the slightest manner , and not evenwithanv importance , except " quantum valet , " to the appreciation and intelligence of our brethren . All Englishmen and Masons are quite aware of the independence of the press in our

country , and of the mistaken notions which foreigners often entertain upon the subject . The Freemason is peculiarly independent , as it never seeks to represent any person or any clique , or any views , but is simply the organ of our brotherhood , impartiall y directed

and carefully edited , as far as our lights go . for the honour and welfare of our English and Cosmopolitan Freemasonry . What can Bro . Beigel mean when he says , or how can he venture to express an opinion , that Bro . Hervey ought to resign his office , because forsooth Bro .

Beigel supposes him to have said something about the ill-omened position ot the Grand Orient ? We must say to Bro . Beigel frankly and distinctly , that such a remark constitutes a direct insult , not only to our esteemed Grand Secretary , but also to our whole English

brotherhood . And the reason Bro . Dr . Beigel gives is no less curious than astonishing . He says the Grand Orient of Hungary has done the same , but he forgets that " two blacks don ' t make a white , " and if the Grand Orient of Hungary likes to " follow suit , " and equally do wrong ,

how does that affect us who are trying to do right and maintain the truth ? If the Grand Orient of Hungary has done as Bro . Beigel avers , all we can say is , " tant pis" for the Grand Orient of Hungary , and that all our remarks relative to the Grand Orients of France

and Belgium equally apply to the Grand Orient of Hungary . Indeed , " forewarned is forearmed , " and if , as Bro . Dr . Beigel declares the lodges under the Grand Orient of Hungary openly reject the name of God , we English brethren must equally give its such lodges a wide berth . We , however , have doubts on the subject , as we

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know there are very many worthy Hungarian brethren who will deeply grieve at such a servile and baneful imitation of the mistaken and un-Masonic proceedings of the Grand Orients of France and Belgium ! As far as we ourselves are

concerned , we care nothing for childish criticism or unfounded assertion , but we leave them to the appreciation of the intelligent and the animadversion of the just , to the kind and fraternal consideration of all true Freemasons at home and abroad .

A Justificaton Of Persecution.

A JUSTIFICATON OF PERSECUTION .

We live in strange times , and have often to listen to painful paradoxes . But , perhaps , one of the most distressing of theories , and the most outrageous of perversities we have recently come across , is the justification , by a certain sect amongst us , of Roman Catholic persecution . We

had left behind us for ever , we had hoped , those dark and dangerous days , in which persecution was assumed to be , though ignorant ] y and irreligiously , the normal duty of Christianity . We had banished from amongst us , never to return , we had fondly trusted , the unhallowed sword

of Dominic and the sanguinary " Auto-da-fes " of a hateful and ruthless Inquisition . Certain unsavoury allocutions and not a few silly speeches of fiery Ultramontanes seemed to bear witness that the massacre of St . Bartholomew was not objected to , " en principe" as the French say ,

and that the zeal was'not wanting , only the power , to burn a fellow-creature , who differed from those angry exponents of Truth , in this " ism , " or that " ology . " Yet we confess we treated the matter as a little hasty outburst of

fanaticism on the part of a few , riot the result of deep conviction or abiding teaching , as regards the many . But as nothing so instructs however , as good example , so nothing is so contagious as false teaching . It seems that this revival of the basest " outcome " of Rome ' s

darkest days has found an exponent in the Church of England . Some preacher , of more or less fame , older or younger , we know not , 01 care not , has not long- ago preached a sermon in the good old church of St . ' Mary , Southampton , when be " thanked God for raising up St .

Dominic and St . Francis , who , by sharp treatment , put an end to the heresy of Albin . " A Dr . Sheppard , of London , objecting naturally to such " burning questions , " asks for an explanation , which he does not receive : and Oh ' . yo shades of William and Samuel Wilberforce , such a

thoroughly un-English act and irreligious proposition is neither repudiated nor repiobated by the Rector apparently , though we should be very happy to hear , for his own sake , that it is so . at once and fully . Such an expression ought never to have been permitted from apulpitof the tolerant Church

of England , which knows nothing of persecution , which favours liberty of conscience , which holds the priceless right of private judgement , and condemns alike the " iires of Smithfield" and the tortue chambers of the Inquisition . Now we say this , for two reasons . First we have many

enlightened brethren at Southampton , to whom this outburst of ignorant and excited Ultramontane folly in the Church of England will be productive of great grief , and not a little dismay . All we can say to them is , that such idle raving is the hopeless monomonia of a " windbag" or a

mountebank , who either is so fanatical as not to realize the wickedness of his own proposition , or so entirely " non-compos mentis , " as to be rather a subject for pity than reproach . And we allude to to it in the second place , because we have 3 large number of Chaplains amongst us , educated

cultivated , intelligent men , nearly all members of the Church of England , who will equally regret such impertinence , and disavow such indefensible intolerance . As Freemasons , we abhor and denounce the " debasing practice of persecution , " and that any one in this 19 th century can deliberately , before a congregation of Christians , ot

laud the sanguinary and pagan barbarities the Inquisition , says a great deal for the patience of the congregation , and the perversity of the preacher . We , however , have done our duty , as before our Southampton brethren , our Ang lican Craft , and our Cosmopolitan Order , in branding such words , by whomsoever spoken , as an outrage on common sense and decency , a grie "''