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IMPORTANT NOTICE . We have great pleasure in announcing that we have decided to publish THE FREEMASON —commencing with Volume III ., January 1 st , 1870—on toned paper , and with old-faced type , similar to that used b y the Pall Mall Gazette and other high-class publications . The size will also be permanentl y enlarged to Sixtee 7 i Pages , and , ivith other improvements contemplated , THE FREEMASON will then be the leading weekl y organ of the Craft throughout the globe .
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TO ADVERTISERS . THE Circulation of THE FREEMASON being now at the rate of nearly Half-a-Millioil per annum , it offers peculiar facilities to all who advertise . - It is well known that the Fraternity of Freemasons is a large and constantly increasing body , mainly composed of the influential and educated classes of society ; and as i £ ij £ Jxccmastfit is now the accepted organ of the Brotherhood in the United Kingdom , and also enjoys an extensive sale in the colonies « nd foreign parts , its advantages as an advertising medium can scarcely be overrated . For terms apply to GEOKGE KENNING-, 3 & . 4 , LITTLE BRITAIN , LONDON , E . C .
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§ h-f ( rs , lltttrrhirjcs , anir gf-afijs . . o BIKTII . HoUHE't . —On the 1 st instant , at loO , "Woodbridgo road , Ipswich , the wife of Urn . Enira Holmes , 31 ° , P . M ., & c , and sub editor " Universal Masonic Calendar , " of a daughter . MAW 1 IAGE . BASS—THORN icwii . t—On 28 lh ult ., at Stretton , by Rev . Jas . SliBttlewoith llolden , assisted by the Rev . Edward Arden , Arthur liass , Ksq , II . P . for East Staffordshire , eldest son of M . T . ] Jii « w , E . « j ., M . P ., of llnngemore , to Harriet Georgina , fourth daughter of tho late Kdward Thomewill , Esq ., of Dove Clill " . DEATHS . BOILKAU . —On the 2 nd inst ., at his residence , 1 , Clarenceterrace , Seven Sisters ' -road , Holloway , Brother Kugrne Boileau , a much respected member of the Lodge of Israel , 205 , aged £ 9 . PUI . I . KN . —On the 1 st inst ., nt 15 , Woburn-place , Russellsquare , Bro . John Stevens Pullcn , P . M . of Lodge No . id , aged GO .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
•> All communications for TUB FIIKKJIASOX should bo written Iti / Hily , oil one side of the paper only , and , if intended for insertion in Hie current number must bo received not later than 10 o ' clock a . m . on Thursdays , unless in very ipecial cases . The name and address of every writer must be sent to us in confidence
Lodges of Instruction meeting on Sunday , arc not inserted in the list of . \ la-onic meetings . J . F . Pum . iv . —Thanks for the report of presentation to tho Rev . S . U . Morrison , which .-hall appear in our next MASO . VO I . IFI ' . IIIIAT Fi'sn . —We have received several lcllers on this subjc . 1 , and will make a selection for our nojit issue .
CA . PT . V . G . Ir . wrx , Prov . S . O \ V . of Somersetshire . —Wc aro greatly indebted toyou fnrthepioccedings of thelodgc at Liege ; they are now being translated , and will appear as toon as possible . R . —Wc think it best not to publish vour letter at present .
Like Damocles , die unlucky wight in question has a sword impended over his head hy a single hair , and wc are unwilling to he his executioner b y fanning the gale that is gathering strength around him daily . A W . wiwicKsiiniK KKI > ( Juoss K . vioiir . —AVc entirely agree
with the sentiments expressed in your letter , although we do not deem it expedient to insert it . The remark * you allude to arc iruly lidkulms-and our advice is—1 ! I : MI : Mnnii THE MOTTO OP TUB CIIAKT . AUDI , Vim , TACK . . G . —It would he highly improper for the presiding officer
to permit any brother not an Installed Master to perform any of the ceremonies . The only exception is when one of the Wardens rules lhe lodge ; i » the absence of the W . M . and all the P . M . ' s ho ia entitled to do the work , but not lo lake the Master ' s chair . We have ourselves initiated and passed brethren when ruling our lodge as S . W ., and It was held by the authorities to be perfectly legal , as there was no P . M . iu the lodge .
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% \ t JreemaMit , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 6 , 1869 .
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THS FiiEiiMAsoi-r is published on Saturday Mornings in time for the early trains . The price of TUB FEBEMASOIC is Twopence per week ; quarterly subscription ( including postage ) 3 s . 3 d . Annual Subscription , 12 a . Subscriptions payable in advance . All communications , letters , & G . to be addressed to the EDITOB , 3 & 4 , Little Britain , 15 . 0 . The Editor will paycareful attention to allllSS . entrusted to him , but cannot undertake to return them unless accompanied by postage stamps .
Freemasonry On The Continent.
FREEMASONRY ON THE CONTINENT .
THROUGH the medium of a noble friend and brother who is intimately associated with the secret organizations of Freemasonry in Europe we are now in a position to give reliable intelligence , which is not to be procured through
ordinary sources , respecting the doings of the Craft in every part of the Continent . We publish in this week's issue a letter received from Bro . Hadjar Bey , a Spanish Mason of eminence , the information contained in which
will bo new to many of our readers , although from circumstances explicable to those who know the Machiavellian policy of Spanish statesmen it
has been considerably delayed in transitu . Our readers will observe that Bro . Hadjar Bey alludes to his lodge as the sixth in Madrid , whereas the secret advices which reached us last week state
explicitly that the number of lodges in that capital is now fifteen , thus clearly showing how rapid has been the progress of the Order in Spain . It may , however , be proper here to remark that so great is the circumspection observed by some
of our Peninsular brethren that until thoroughly proved and testtd by the Chiefs of the Supreme Junta , it is quite possible for one lodge to be ignorant of the existence of another meeting in its immediate vicinity : and , turain , the members
of tho lower grades have often no cognizance of their superiors . This rigime is , wc need scarcely say , by no means in accordance with our English ideas , but it is a necessity of the times in those countries where Governments arc as shifting and
uncertain as the sands on the sea-shore . For instance , although the Count de Beuss is himself a member of the Craft , it has been deemed prudent not to advance him beyond a certain degree , in order that he may not be brought in
contact with the leaders of the Democratic party , At the same time it is but fair to add that although the Freemasons of Spain advocate the
greatest freedom of thought and action , they aro far from adopting anarchical or revolutionary theories , nor have they as a body countenanced the recent disturbances in Valencia and
Catalonia . Still , in the present unsettled condition of thoir national existence , they wisely conceal from all but a chosen fow those cardinal principles of fraternity and progress which are the life and soul of Freemasonry . A
coup d etdt may at any moment restore tho hattd Bourbons , and shutter the fragile fabric of tho Constitution ; or the ambition of a military leader may produce equally destructive effects upon tho future of Spain .
We arc grateful to our Spanish friends for the clear and candid view of the situation with which they have favoured us , and wc are especially thankful to the powerful and fraternal aid by whose interposition tho revelation has
been made . Henceforth we shall see , as the groat apostle expresses it—not as " through a glass darkly , " but "faco to face" with the mighty spirit of Ultramontanism which seeks to rule tho earth—henceforth we shall bo able to make allowances for thoso divergencies from the
Freemasonry On The Continent.
straight path of Freemasonry which ; have sooften troubled us in our contemplation of other spheres of Masonic labour . LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN ! Through the secret sources of intelligence now placed within
our reach , we learn that it is not Protestantism , Rationalism , Spinozism , or Materialism that Papalistic Rome fears ; it is the teachings of " Freemasonry . The great bugbear of the "V atican is the Masonic Order , the hydra to be crushed
beneath anathemas , and persecutions , is the bond of Universal Brotherhood . Sinners that we areslet us bow down and worshij ) Baal—for the day of our destruction draws nigh . Infallibility wills it , and who shall gainsay its decree 1 All
this is very sadj it is humiliating , it is positively painful . Can human depravity sink lower than this abyss of Roman perversity and despotism ? Are men to be for ever the slaves of this flaming sword which bars the road to Paradise ? We
trow not , and henceforth we shall oast in our lot with those children of the light whose fortune it is to battle with the fiercest rage of bigotry in every land . Henceforth we shall lend the weight of that mighty weapon , the pan , to those who
struggle amidst difficulties and dangers to the refulgent altar of truth . We shall endeavour to encourage thoso who sit in darkness and in the valley of the shadow of death , for we know that the longest eclipse has an end , and that the
radiant dawn obliterates the trail of night with a flood of light and glory . Happily—and wo cannot be too grateful for the boon—happily we enjoy on English soil such an immunity from the legalized spoiler , and the rapacious sacerdotalist
—that wc cannot realize the position of our brethren who suffer from such plagues . We cannot sympathise thoroughly with their impatience , or at once commend their prospects of redress .
With improved knowledge of the real situaation ; with better information as to the designs of the common enemies of mankind—priestcraft and superstition—wc shall bo able to render assistance in the strife , and in any case our
moral influence judiciously exercised will greatly aid the efforts of our Continental brethren . Without slaves , thero would be no tyrantswithout tyrants thero would bo no conspirators —this is tho phase of Fiejinasonry which we
have now to consider , aud with which we are called upon to deal . All Europe is a witness to the deadly animosity of the Papacy towards the Masonic Order , and it would be folly to ignore it becauso our branch
of tho Fraternity in Britain , happens to be wealthy and puissant , and cares not for Papal curses . In Rome , the priesthood aver that the Freemasons are making great efforts to corrupt the Pontifical soldiers so as to induce them to
desert in largo number . ? during tho meeting of the approaching Council , and thereby make a moral demonstration against the temporal power . This may bo true or not , but it proves that tho foe in our front is—ecclesiastical domination .
Let us grapple with ii boldly and unitedly , and the victory is ours . Jt may bo safely assumed that even in this article wc can give merely an outline of the plot Against our peace , but while avoiding revelations
that might com promise tho brethren in Spam or Italy , wc shall be prepared to givo fuller particulars from time to time . The ancient chivalry of England is not yet extinct , and whether amongst
Masons or non-Mnsons , we rely upon evoking such a spirit of resistance to priestly intolerance as shall prove to the world that Knglish Freemasonry is " not dead , but sleepeth . "
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Ad00605
IMPORTANT NOTICE . We have great pleasure in announcing that we have decided to publish THE FREEMASON —commencing with Volume III ., January 1 st , 1870—on toned paper , and with old-faced type , similar to that used b y the Pall Mall Gazette and other high-class publications . The size will also be permanentl y enlarged to Sixtee 7 i Pages , and , ivith other improvements contemplated , THE FREEMASON will then be the leading weekl y organ of the Craft throughout the globe .
Ad00603
TO ADVERTISERS . THE Circulation of THE FREEMASON being now at the rate of nearly Half-a-Millioil per annum , it offers peculiar facilities to all who advertise . - It is well known that the Fraternity of Freemasons is a large and constantly increasing body , mainly composed of the influential and educated classes of society ; and as i £ ij £ Jxccmastfit is now the accepted organ of the Brotherhood in the United Kingdom , and also enjoys an extensive sale in the colonies « nd foreign parts , its advantages as an advertising medium can scarcely be overrated . For terms apply to GEOKGE KENNING-, 3 & . 4 , LITTLE BRITAIN , LONDON , E . C .
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§ h-f ( rs , lltttrrhirjcs , anir gf-afijs . . o BIKTII . HoUHE't . —On the 1 st instant , at loO , "Woodbridgo road , Ipswich , the wife of Urn . Enira Holmes , 31 ° , P . M ., & c , and sub editor " Universal Masonic Calendar , " of a daughter . MAW 1 IAGE . BASS—THORN icwii . t—On 28 lh ult ., at Stretton , by Rev . Jas . SliBttlewoith llolden , assisted by the Rev . Edward Arden , Arthur liass , Ksq , II . P . for East Staffordshire , eldest son of M . T . ] Jii « w , E . « j ., M . P ., of llnngemore , to Harriet Georgina , fourth daughter of tho late Kdward Thomewill , Esq ., of Dove Clill " . DEATHS . BOILKAU . —On the 2 nd inst ., at his residence , 1 , Clarenceterrace , Seven Sisters ' -road , Holloway , Brother Kugrne Boileau , a much respected member of the Lodge of Israel , 205 , aged £ 9 . PUI . I . KN . —On the 1 st inst ., nt 15 , Woburn-place , Russellsquare , Bro . John Stevens Pullcn , P . M . of Lodge No . id , aged GO .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
•> All communications for TUB FIIKKJIASOX should bo written Iti / Hily , oil one side of the paper only , and , if intended for insertion in Hie current number must bo received not later than 10 o ' clock a . m . on Thursdays , unless in very ipecial cases . The name and address of every writer must be sent to us in confidence
Lodges of Instruction meeting on Sunday , arc not inserted in the list of . \ la-onic meetings . J . F . Pum . iv . —Thanks for the report of presentation to tho Rev . S . U . Morrison , which .-hall appear in our next MASO . VO I . IFI ' . IIIIAT Fi'sn . —We have received several lcllers on this subjc . 1 , and will make a selection for our nojit issue .
CA . PT . V . G . Ir . wrx , Prov . S . O \ V . of Somersetshire . —Wc aro greatly indebted toyou fnrthepioccedings of thelodgc at Liege ; they are now being translated , and will appear as toon as possible . R . —Wc think it best not to publish vour letter at present .
Like Damocles , die unlucky wight in question has a sword impended over his head hy a single hair , and wc are unwilling to he his executioner b y fanning the gale that is gathering strength around him daily . A W . wiwicKsiiniK KKI > ( Juoss K . vioiir . —AVc entirely agree
with the sentiments expressed in your letter , although we do not deem it expedient to insert it . The remark * you allude to arc iruly lidkulms-and our advice is—1 ! I : MI : Mnnii THE MOTTO OP TUB CIIAKT . AUDI , Vim , TACK . . G . —It would he highly improper for the presiding officer
to permit any brother not an Installed Master to perform any of the ceremonies . The only exception is when one of the Wardens rules lhe lodge ; i » the absence of the W . M . and all the P . M . ' s ho ia entitled to do the work , but not lo lake the Master ' s chair . We have ourselves initiated and passed brethren when ruling our lodge as S . W ., and It was held by the authorities to be perfectly legal , as there was no P . M . iu the lodge .
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% \ t JreemaMit , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 6 , 1869 .
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THS FiiEiiMAsoi-r is published on Saturday Mornings in time for the early trains . The price of TUB FEBEMASOIC is Twopence per week ; quarterly subscription ( including postage ) 3 s . 3 d . Annual Subscription , 12 a . Subscriptions payable in advance . All communications , letters , & G . to be addressed to the EDITOB , 3 & 4 , Little Britain , 15 . 0 . The Editor will paycareful attention to allllSS . entrusted to him , but cannot undertake to return them unless accompanied by postage stamps .
Freemasonry On The Continent.
FREEMASONRY ON THE CONTINENT .
THROUGH the medium of a noble friend and brother who is intimately associated with the secret organizations of Freemasonry in Europe we are now in a position to give reliable intelligence , which is not to be procured through
ordinary sources , respecting the doings of the Craft in every part of the Continent . We publish in this week's issue a letter received from Bro . Hadjar Bey , a Spanish Mason of eminence , the information contained in which
will bo new to many of our readers , although from circumstances explicable to those who know the Machiavellian policy of Spanish statesmen it
has been considerably delayed in transitu . Our readers will observe that Bro . Hadjar Bey alludes to his lodge as the sixth in Madrid , whereas the secret advices which reached us last week state
explicitly that the number of lodges in that capital is now fifteen , thus clearly showing how rapid has been the progress of the Order in Spain . It may , however , be proper here to remark that so great is the circumspection observed by some
of our Peninsular brethren that until thoroughly proved and testtd by the Chiefs of the Supreme Junta , it is quite possible for one lodge to be ignorant of the existence of another meeting in its immediate vicinity : and , turain , the members
of tho lower grades have often no cognizance of their superiors . This rigime is , wc need scarcely say , by no means in accordance with our English ideas , but it is a necessity of the times in those countries where Governments arc as shifting and
uncertain as the sands on the sea-shore . For instance , although the Count de Beuss is himself a member of the Craft , it has been deemed prudent not to advance him beyond a certain degree , in order that he may not be brought in
contact with the leaders of the Democratic party , At the same time it is but fair to add that although the Freemasons of Spain advocate the
greatest freedom of thought and action , they aro far from adopting anarchical or revolutionary theories , nor have they as a body countenanced the recent disturbances in Valencia and
Catalonia . Still , in the present unsettled condition of thoir national existence , they wisely conceal from all but a chosen fow those cardinal principles of fraternity and progress which are the life and soul of Freemasonry . A
coup d etdt may at any moment restore tho hattd Bourbons , and shutter the fragile fabric of tho Constitution ; or the ambition of a military leader may produce equally destructive effects upon tho future of Spain .
We arc grateful to our Spanish friends for the clear and candid view of the situation with which they have favoured us , and wc are especially thankful to the powerful and fraternal aid by whose interposition tho revelation has
been made . Henceforth we shall see , as the groat apostle expresses it—not as " through a glass darkly , " but "faco to face" with the mighty spirit of Ultramontanism which seeks to rule tho earth—henceforth we shall bo able to make allowances for thoso divergencies from the
Freemasonry On The Continent.
straight path of Freemasonry which ; have sooften troubled us in our contemplation of other spheres of Masonic labour . LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN ! Through the secret sources of intelligence now placed within
our reach , we learn that it is not Protestantism , Rationalism , Spinozism , or Materialism that Papalistic Rome fears ; it is the teachings of " Freemasonry . The great bugbear of the "V atican is the Masonic Order , the hydra to be crushed
beneath anathemas , and persecutions , is the bond of Universal Brotherhood . Sinners that we areslet us bow down and worshij ) Baal—for the day of our destruction draws nigh . Infallibility wills it , and who shall gainsay its decree 1 All
this is very sadj it is humiliating , it is positively painful . Can human depravity sink lower than this abyss of Roman perversity and despotism ? Are men to be for ever the slaves of this flaming sword which bars the road to Paradise ? We
trow not , and henceforth we shall oast in our lot with those children of the light whose fortune it is to battle with the fiercest rage of bigotry in every land . Henceforth we shall lend the weight of that mighty weapon , the pan , to those who
struggle amidst difficulties and dangers to the refulgent altar of truth . We shall endeavour to encourage thoso who sit in darkness and in the valley of the shadow of death , for we know that the longest eclipse has an end , and that the
radiant dawn obliterates the trail of night with a flood of light and glory . Happily—and wo cannot be too grateful for the boon—happily we enjoy on English soil such an immunity from the legalized spoiler , and the rapacious sacerdotalist
—that wc cannot realize the position of our brethren who suffer from such plagues . We cannot sympathise thoroughly with their impatience , or at once commend their prospects of redress .
With improved knowledge of the real situaation ; with better information as to the designs of the common enemies of mankind—priestcraft and superstition—wc shall bo able to render assistance in the strife , and in any case our
moral influence judiciously exercised will greatly aid the efforts of our Continental brethren . Without slaves , thero would be no tyrantswithout tyrants thero would bo no conspirators —this is tho phase of Fiejinasonry which we
have now to consider , aud with which we are called upon to deal . All Europe is a witness to the deadly animosity of the Papacy towards the Masonic Order , and it would be folly to ignore it becauso our branch
of tho Fraternity in Britain , happens to be wealthy and puissant , and cares not for Papal curses . In Rome , the priesthood aver that the Freemasons are making great efforts to corrupt the Pontifical soldiers so as to induce them to
desert in largo number . ? during tho meeting of the approaching Council , and thereby make a moral demonstration against the temporal power . This may bo true or not , but it proves that tho foe in our front is—ecclesiastical domination .
Let us grapple with ii boldly and unitedly , and the victory is ours . Jt may bo safely assumed that even in this article wc can give merely an outline of the plot Against our peace , but while avoiding revelations
that might com promise tho brethren in Spam or Italy , wc shall be prepared to givo fuller particulars from time to time . The ancient chivalry of England is not yet extinct , and whether amongst
Masons or non-Mnsons , we rely upon evoking such a spirit of resistance to priestly intolerance as shall prove to the world that Knglish Freemasonry is " not dead , but sleepeth . "