Births, Marrings, And Deaths.

Births , Marrings , and Deaths .

BIRTHS . Boao . —On the 2 nd inst ., at Kose Villa , New Barnet , tho . wife of Bro . E . Beverley Uogg , 30 ° , M . D ., R . N ., prematurely of a son , still-born . SPKIRS . —On the 3 rd hist , at 14 , Eaton-place , the Lady Anne Speirs , widow of the late Captain Archibald A . Speirs , M . P ., Provincial Grand Master for Glasgow , and Past Grand Warden of England , of a son .

MARRIAGES . FOUIJDRI . VIEB—LENG . —On Iho 10 th inst ., nt Christ ' s Church , Sculcoates , Hull , by the Rev . F . F . Goc , Incumbent , Bro . Paul Fourdriuier , P . M ., No . 183 , and of No . 1 , 113 , only surviving issue of Bro . John Coles Fourdrinier , of * Hill-street , Peckham , S . E . ( P . M . No . 2 , 183 . 201 , 38-1 , 755 . and 1 , 113 ; P . G . Steward , P . P . G . W .

North Wales and Shropshire ) , to Ellen L . W . Leng , eldest daughter of Bro . Joseph Watson Leng , of Hull . ( " No cards . giiAw—YATES . — On the 2 nd inst ., at the parish church , Whiston , by the Rev . D . J . MacKimm , M . A ., Incumbent of St . Stephen ' s Kashclitfe . Huddersfield . assisted by the

Hon . and Kev . William Howard , Robert Bentley Shaw , of Moorgate Hall , Hotlierliam , the eldest son of Bentley Shaw , Esq ., J . P ., of Woodtield House , Huddersfield ( Past Grand Deacon of England , and D . P . G . M . for West Yorkshire ) , to Elizabeth Ellen , only child of Jas . Yates , Esq ., J . P . and D . L ., of Uakwood House . Rotherham .

DEATH . COOPEI ! . —On May 17 th , at Boulogne-sur Mcr , aged 73 , Henriette Amclie Madeleine Marie , Complcsse de Geslin , wife of Charles Purton Cooper , Esq ., Q . C ., Past Provincial Grand Masler of Freemasons for Kent , only daughtcr of Monsieur Lazare Dchesme , Conservator of Forests during the Fust Empire and only niece of General Comte Ouhcsine , Peer of France , who commanded tho Young Guard and fell at Waterloo .

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BOOKS RECEIVED . "Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Chivalric Order of the Red Cross of Rome and Constantine .. " " Proceedings of tho Supreme Council , 33 ° , for the Northern Jurisdiction ofthe United Slates of America . " Per 111 . Bro . A G . Goodall 33 ° . ( A most valuable compilation . )

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Spurious Masonic Bodies.

SPURIOUS MASONIC BODIES .

IN NO . 4 of IHE L < : KMASOK we expressed our opinions in strong , but , wc conceive , justifiable language , with reference to the spurious body designated the " Rite of Memphis , * ' and we then staled that those impostors claimed to

bo allied to the Supreme Council of the 33 rd degree nt Turin . From information which has since reached us through the medium of the Illust . Bro . Albert ( 1 . Goodall , 33 ° , of New * York , we learn that England is not the onl y

country in which spurious Masons have obtained a footing ; and . we observe further , that the alleged misconduct of the Italian Supreme Council in recognizing an illegal body on English soil , is not a solitary attempt on the part of

foreign jurisdictions to interfere with the ri ghts of regularly established Grand Lodges . The statement .- ; of BYo . Goodall allude more particularly to the so-called " Supreme Council of Louisiana , " the organization of which is a

positive infraction of tno laws under which thc Ancient and Accepted Rite is governed . A brief summary of its history is necessary in order that English Masons may thoroughly

understand the situation , and offer their sympathy to <• ir American brethren in their manl y determination not to submit to foreign domination , in a matter winch concerns their own domestic Masonic jurisdictions . The following

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extract from the official report of the two Supreme Councils in the United States , fully explains tbe ori g in of the pseudo-Council of Louisiana : — "In the year 1839 a body , claiming to be a Supremo Council for the State of Louisiana , was unlawfully established

at New Orleans , and continued to exist until the 17 th day of February , 1855 , when , by a Concordat on that day effected , it submitted to the Supreme Councel for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States , as the Supreme Authority of the Rite in all that Jurisdiction , including the f'tnte of Louisiana , and its members became members of the Grand

Consistory of Louisiana , under ihe obedience of the Supreme Council at Charleston ; and two of them , afterwards , became members of that Supreme Council . " After the surrender of its powers by the body claiming to be a Supremo Council for the State of Louisiana , Jacques Foulhouze , once a member of that body , but who had retired

from it before the cirectmg of the said Concordat associated with himself two or three others , who claimed to be 33 rds , and set up a body , which ho styled , ' The Supreme Council of the 33 d Degree for the Free , Sovereign , ami Independent State of Louisiana . ' That State had always been within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council for the Southern

Jurisdiction , the necessary consequence of which was that the body so established was not only illegal and illegitimate , but spurious . Mons . Jacques Foulhouz received his 33 d degree from the Grand Orient of France , which then was and still is in alliance with both our Supreme Councils , our 111 . Bro . Albert G . Mackey , Sec . Gen . II . E ., being its Grand

Representative and Garant d amitie near that for the Southern Jurisdiction . Consequently , on the 4 th of August , 1 S 5 >* , the Graud Orient of France addressed iiself to the said Jacques Foulhouz , apprising him of his alliance with that Supreme Council , and its recognition of it 'as the Supreme Constitut ing and Governing Authority of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United

States ; and claiming hisnllegiance , sworn to itself , it invited him to dissolve innnedia ' ely tlie organization which he had formed , on pain of its condemnation , and forfeiture of his rank as an Inspector General . "The said Foulhouz , refusing to obey , was by the Grand Orient formally divested ol * his rank and character of

Inspector-General , and the body created by him declared illegitimate . " Nevertheless , the said body , though thus denounced , condemned as spurious by both our Supreme Councils , anil acknowledged by no lawful Masonic power in the world , continued to exist , and still continues to maintain a

precarious and unlawful being , under the presidency of M . Eugene Chassaignac . From I he beginning it violated Ihe Mnsonic Common Law of the United States , by establishing and chartering lodges of . Master . Masons witleii the jurisdiction of the M . W . Grand Lodge of the State of Louisiana , and

was therefore denounced by that sovereign body ; and all the temples of symbolic Masonry in the United States were closed against all who pretended to be Master Masons , were members of the illegitimate lodges created by tho said spurious Supreme Council . "

" If llie Grand Orient should think lit to persist in its recognition of the spurious body in question , it will in fact divest itself of its Masouic character , by an alliance with a spurious body of expelled Master Masons , and by reeoguiz ing as Masons , and receiving as visitors , and allowing its subordinates to receive those who have been denounced as

clandestine Masons by the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , and whose organization is pronounced spurious by both of our Supreme Councils , and by those of South America ; and it will in that case , Iind all the Grand Lodges of the United Stales making common cause with the Graud Lodge of Louisiana . "

A pjrusal of this doc'iment will convince our readers of the indefensible line of conduct pursued by the Grand Orient of Franco in supporting a spurious bod y of expelled Masons . There is also another view of the ease , to which we invite special attention . The soidisaut

Grand Council of Louisiana assumes the power of chartering symbolic lodges and making Masons—pretensions which would be unwarrantable even if the council were a legally organised bod y of the Ancient and Accepted Rite . In England , the brethren who compose the Supreme

Council of the Iliirty-third Degree would never dream of invading the rights and privileges of Grand Lodge , by an assertion of jurisdiction over Craft lodges , and , moreover , if they attempted s ' . ich an assumption , they would simply be committing moral suicide . It behoves us , however , co watch with care the development of

those Masonic bodies which trench upon the legal status of onr Grand Lodges , by claiming the Craft degrees a * part and parcel of their system of grades . Iu pronouncing this warning , wc desire , however , to distinctl y disclaim antagonism to any established rite , or governing bod y , in Freemasonry , by which the just supremacy of every

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Grand Lodge over the three degrees within its own jurisdiction is acknowledged and respected . We must , therefore , join our American brethren

in protesting against the recognition , b y the Grand Orient of France , of the preposterous pretensions of the Grand Council of Louisiana , and we feel assured that when the true facts of

the case are made known to General Mellinet , the Graud Master of France , that illustrious brother will see the necessity of withdrawing all countenance and support from such a clandestine and illegal organization .

Multum In Parbo, Or Hasonrc Notes And Queries.

Multum in Parbo , or Hasonrc Notes and Queries .

—?——The Stuarts and Freemasonry . —It is well known that Prince Charles Edward Stuart was installed Grand Master of the Order ofthe Temple , at Holyrood , in 1715 , and that Earl Mar held the dignity in 1715 . 1 am inclined to credit the traditions and documents of Freemasonry , which attribute

a much earlier connection than this between the two Orders ; but the following extract from Notes and Queries of last week will interest many of your readers . —JOHN YARKER , Manchester . " I may add that the original warrant of the Derbyshire Lodge of Ancient Freemasons , whose head quarters arc at Longnor , was signed bv Charles Edward , as Grand Master ,

while at Derby , in 17-15 . JOHN SI . KIGII . " Thornbridge , Bakewell . " Old Masonic Jug . —The following piece , torn from a recent newspaper , fell into my hands to-day ( Saturday , June 5 ) . Is any of your readers aware to what " catalogue " the extract refers , and what arc the Masonic symbols mentioned ?—JOHN YARKER .

* ' A large tyg , or wassail cup , with three handles , fs inscribed in raised letters with the maker's name , Richard Meir , Burslem , who flourished about 166 U-. Smaller cups of the same date have also nised letters , and soius have grotesque faces or figures in relief at the base of the handle and beneath ( he neck A puzzle jug of red earth , with Masonic symbols in pierced work , is supposed to have been made for

a lodge of Masons about the year 1610 . The butter trade , and how cheating was prevented in the 17 th century , are shown by an earthenware pot ] crhaps eighteen inches deep , and a quotation from Dr Plot iu the catalogue . Writing in 108 C , the doctor said : — "The butler they buy by the pot , of a long cylindrical form , made at Burslem in this county , of a certain size , so as not to weigh above six pounds at

most , and yet to contain at least fourteen pounds of butter , according to an Act of Parliament made about fotuteen or sixteen years agot , for regulaleing the abuses of this trade in thc make of pots and false packing of the butter , which before was sometimes laved good fornlittlc depthat topandbad at the bottom ; aud sometimes set in rolls only touching at at the top , and standing hollow below at a great distance

from the sides of the pot . To prevent these little Moorlandish cheats ( than whom no people whatever are esteemed moro subtile ) , the factors keep a surveyor all the summer here , who , if he have ground to suspect any of the pols , tryes them with an instrument of iron , made like a cheese-taster , only much larger and longer , called an auger or butter hoare . with which ho makes proof , thrusting it obliquely to Ihe bottom of the pot . "

Bro . James Clarke—Tn the year 1787 , Bro . James Clarke , a land surveyor at Penrith , in Cumberland , published " * A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland , Westmorland , and Lancashire ; together with an Account , Historical , Topographical , and Descriptive , of the adjacent Country . To which is added a Sketch of the Border Laws ami Customs . " It is a

folio volume of 194 pases , and contains the following Masonic dedication : "To His Royal Hig hness Henry Pre leriek , Duke of Cumberland and . Strathern , Earl of Dublin , Ranger of Windsor Great Park , Admiral of the Blue Squadron , Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter , Grand Master , & e ., & c , tec . * the Right Honourable Thomas Howard , Earl of Ellingham , Lord Howard , Acting Grand Master ; Sir Peter

Parker , Bart ., Deputy Grand Maslcr ; thc Grand Wardens , Past and Present Grand Ollicers of the Grand Lodge of England , and Brethren of the Most Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons : this Book is humbly Dedicated , by their most obedient Brother and Servant , James Clarke . " I will be glad to rwive any further particulars relating to Bro . James Clarke cither as a man or a Mason . —GEORGE MAHKIIAM TWKDDBLL .

AT the Rose Show at the Crystal Palace on Saturday last , the first prize was awarded to Bro . XV . S , Dobson , of St . James' -street , for his beautiful designs i . i glass for ornamental ( lower stands for the table . The ( lowers were very beartiful , and were supplied by Mr . J . Dickson , of the Centre Avenue , Covent Harden . Bros . Bertram and Roberts , tlio well known caterers

to tho Crystal Palace , exhibited a table magnificently laid out with fruit and flowers , suitable for a dinner alaJliissc ; it was labelled '' Not for competition , " and reflected great credit on their exquisite taste . It was one of the great attractions of thc day .