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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

The following reports and other communications stand ovtr . — Chaucer Lodge , 1540 ; Polish National Lodge , 5 , 34 ; British Union Lodge , 114 ; Southport Lodge if Unity , l > i 3 ; Albany Lodge , 151 ; Union Lodge , 52 j Unanimity Lodge , 102 ; Joppa Lodgr , 18 K , Juvenile Fete and Ball ,

Surrey Masonic Hall . Report of Stockport Lodge is too long for our now tiowekd columns . Consecration of the Starkie Lodge , No . 16 , 16 , next week . Masonic Queii . s . — " A . T . " next week . Report * of the following Scotch Lodges to hand : —o , . ii . ?• io > . '( ° . 5 ° . J < Jt i 2 ' , l . 5 S 1 , ; , 02 .

Births, Marriages And Deaths.

Births , Marriages and Deaths .

[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . lor announcements , not exceeding four lines , under this heading . ] BIR'I HS . HAKKNKSS . —On Nov . 28 , the wile of F . Iltirkuct-s , Deputyl \ miiii .-sioner , l- ' la , Bengal , of a son . KAVMKII . —On the 2 nd inst ., at Abbot's-road , Kilburn , the wife of IV . S . G . Kayncr . Esq , of a son .

MARKIAGES . WEsr—Ji ' Ki-. s . —On the 1 st intt ., at Christ Church , Crouch-end , Fruit . rick Wist , of Ntrth-hill , to Caroline Augusta , daughter of the Bev . A . Jukes , of Highgate .

DEATHS . Bn . ' . r . SEY . —On the . ird inst ., Mrs . Brassey , mother of Bro . T . Brassey , M . " . FRANCIS . —On the 27 th ult ., Bro . W . H . Francis , Traai . Lodge i 2 ; 6 , at Liscard . Huoo . — On tlx . jist ult ., at the lUctory , West Hackney , Thomas Hugo , M . A ., priest and rector , aged 57 .

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The Freemason , SATURDAY , J . 6 , 1877 .

The New Year.

THE NEW YEAR .

With the new year we beg to offer to our many readers , in all parts of the known world , our hearty good wishes for a happy new year and as they say , " many of them . " The passage of time has ever been a favourite theme for the moralist and the sentimentalist , as well as for the serious

philosopher , or the impressive teacher . Indeed it is , we think , almost impossible for any one , unless entirely deadened to every sense of general or personal teaching , of external or internal impressions , not but to feel often much moved by

the remembrance of the flight of time , the departure of an old year , the advent of a new one . For time has a deep and abiding interest for us all alike , inasmuch as it constitutes the span and the limit of our own little evanescent life . As we

look . back to-day in our minds on th « " years that are past , " as we count each yearly calendar which makes up our own humble chronicle , as we survey the onward march of events , and the changes and perturbations of the world in which we live , we see how swiftly time has sped away ,

amid those hurr ) ing years which we have called our own . We were young and active , and hale and strong , but yesterday , as it were , in the panorama of life , and now we are weak and weary , tempest-tossed and time-tried old men to-day . Youth and matuiity have yielded to the

tottering steps of age , and our sands are running out apace . For us the change from the old to the new year must have many awakening considerations , may have some special and lastirg concern . And even those of us on whom no signs of decrepitude or decadence as yet appear ,

to whom life is still given in ample measure , aud in happy powers , even they must feel , we think , that every nsw year has a personal message full voiced if loving fur tltetn . We do not propose to preach a sermon , and therefore we will mertly add , without too much

of sentimentality , that each new year reminds us necessarily of the old—of old friends , old days , old scenes , old dreams . It is a very curious fact , alike in our human physiology and our human psychcology , that we are none of us the same as the tears pass over our heads . We

Seem to be so ; we go about our wonted duties ; we eat , sleep , speak , move , act like other men , and yet for us all a change , often imperceptible , is coming on us year by it-ar . But amidst all this tendency to physical and moral change , remember , one thing ever clings to us all—the

humanity of our being . For us , unless we are hopeless unbelievers , or dreary materialists , this world has ever a two-fold interest , in that it calls us for a time to a passing present , in that it is the pathway to another and a better , and an eternal existence . The friends we love , the

hopes we cherish , the affections we prize , the home we count so dear , the pleasant attractions which surround our pathway , and make life so welcome and so enjoyable to us ail , in its purest aspects—in all these things we have a most living

interest and concern , even though we know that they are at the best but " passing shadows " which fall upon " this fitful scene . " Still , without them life would not be life . Wanting them , mil ) would know neither happiness nor hope , neither refreshment nor rest here . And within

due bounds , not only is our regard for these earthly ties and sympathies allowable , most allowable , but some of the best emotions of man ' s nature come from this full play of the tidal waves of love , tenderness , devotion , reverence , affection . And if , as we said before , they , alas

" perish with the using , " if they still are earthly and decaying , yes , and d ying all , yet tliere lingers with them the breath of primeval innocence , there resides in them a germ of eternal growth and fruition . Yes , Hope , like a meteor star , and with uplifted hand , points ever

through this world to the next , from time to eternity , amid bli ghted hopes and faded hours , and broken hearts , and haunting sorrows , to that far off land , where the " wicked cease from troubling , " where the " weary are at iesr , " and where all that was good and true , and beautiful

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here , is destined to adorn and beatify we humbly hope and believe the eternal destiny of our moral heing . What a wonderful thing , then , isTime , how full of temporal responsibilities , how pregnant with immortal aspirations . If today we look back on past hours with a sigh , remembering faded yeais , and parted friends ,

if vve regard the new year with mingled feelings of doubt and fear , as ignorant of what remains for us behind Ti . ne ' s mysterious veil , we still can learn , in faith and trust , to look on , through all these outer signs and things , to that greater future , when all shall be made plain and enduring for evermore . Each new year tells us that we have reached another milestone on our

journey , another turning on our road . How much longer we shall travel on who of us all can say ? Leave , then , we must , and leave we will , the future pathway of our feet to the infinite goodness and wisdom of the G . A . O . T . U ., and amid the tumults of time , the revolutions of the world

the progress of years , the passing away of those we love , amid the inevitable changes and chances of this most mortal state , we as faithful Craftsmen can commit , without a fear or hesitation , all our plans and hopes and joys and longings , and our future and present life to the good Providence cf an Eternal God .

Time And Change.

TIME AND CHANGE .

It is impossible , though we be purely Freemasons , and in no sense of the word , however remote , politicians , that we cannot but feel deeply interested in tho < e general events of public life which tlw old and new year bring before us all Without expressing opinions , westill can deal with

facts , and these facts , in our view , are very wei ghty ones , indeed ! We leave 1876 , and enter yn 18 77 , in the midst of anxious solicitude for the peace of Europe . A cruel war has devastated some fair provinces , and deeds of license and barbarism , always evoked by the ruthless genius

of war , have made humanity shudder , and left us a tale of horror which other generations will denounce and deplore . In the interest of Peace , all Europe seems at last agreed , and we can only trust that by some well-adjusted measures the Conference at Constantinople will secure the

pacification and good gc \ eminent of Bulgaria and the Herzegovina , and the tranquil progress of Servia and Roumania . Not only this , but we , who that in Turkey itself identical rights may be meted out to all creeds and classes , and tli 3 t good government and uncorrupt

legislation may be the heritage of Mussulmans and Christian and Hebrew equally . It is impossible but as Freemasons we should desiderate the prevalence of peace , and fervently pray that in the great cause of civilization and humanity , the sword will be sheathed which has wrought

such havoc amid an innocent and sti tiering people , and that for the future any repetition of the dreadful atrocities which have afflicted us all alike so greatly , may become an utter impossibility in the history of man . May our hopes and wishes all be realised , alike

humanitarian and Masonic in the New Year , now before us , and may Peace , with its benign blessings and brighter progress , efface the sad me mories of the past year , and restore hope and safety to now desolated and ravaged regions , and fiive relief to Europe , and spread good will amongst mankind .

Bro. Caubet's Remarks About Bro. Hervey.

BRO . CAUBET'S REMARKS ABOUT BRO . HERVEY .

In the Monde Muconnhjue for December occur the following , in our opinion , very foolish remaiksofBro . Caubet at page 346 . Having given the able and seasonable speech of our distinguished brother the Grand Secretary in extenso , Bro . Caubet bays , after a good deal

very little to the purpose ;— " Thus we are warned . If the French Masons do not get rid of the unbelievers who are among them , if they do not make a sufficient provision of Bibles , ( there exists in England a society which will

furnish them at the cheapest price ) , they must expect to be excommunicated by English Masonry , and the United Grand Lodge of England will have nothing for them but contempt , perhaps worse , so long as Bro . Hervey is the all-