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—?—The following singular notices have been sent to us recently . They appear to be a good hoax , yet such as they are we give them : — " Loyal'BrunswickLod ge . —Notice is herebygiven that application will be made for the Royal Authority

to form a Loyal Protestant Association under the above style and title ; whose object will be to promote the true interests , and to maintain the lawful privileges of the Protestant Churches of Great Britain and Ireland respectively , as by law established ; at the same time , not acting in an

aggressive manner towards that Church now in existence throughout the British possessions , supposed to have been built upon the plan of Ancient Rome ' s foundation . " The Loyal Brunswick Lodge will utterly repudiate the disloyal and sanguinary tendencies of

the so-called Loyal Orange Association ; and the former will have neither connection nor sympathy with the latter undertaking . " Instead of acknowledging William , Prince of Orange , afterwards King William III ., as their originator and founder , thc Loyal Brunswick Lodge

will delight to set up as the originator and founder of their order , His late Most Excellent Majesty , King George IV ., to whose glorious , pious , and immortal memory , the brethren of thc lodge will devote their best affections ; and will endeavour to carry out as far as in them may be , the truly

Christian , as well as soundly Protestant designs of that great ancl wise , but much maligned Monarch . " ( By command ) \ V . B . II ., "The Irish Williamite , holding the Cross Keys of St . John , the Beloved Apostle , Evangelist , and Divine . "

" The three Grand Lodges of Free ancl Accepted Masons of thc United Kingdom are henceforth to be styled , The Three Grand Lodges of Great Britain , France and Ireland .

"The three Grand Masters are : of Great Britain ( now vacant ) ; of France , His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , K . G . ; of Ireland , His Grace the Duke of Leinster . " ( By command ) W . B . H . "

What are the Prestonian lectures , and where are they delivered ? CEDII-US . [ The Prestonian lectures consist of dissertations on the three degrees , to be delivered annually by a competent " Master of Arts and Sciences . " Preston left . - £ 300 Consols , the interest of which is payable to tlie lecturer , but

the lectures have not been given since 1 S 62 , when we heard Bro . Henry George Warren deliver that on the second degree . It was rumoured for a time that the MSS . were lost , but it is now understood that they have been recovered . We must refer you to the Grand Secretary for information as to the probability of the revival of the lectures . —ED . F . ]

THE RED CROSS OF CONSTANTINE . As this degree has attracted great attention of late years both in Europe and America , it may be right to state that it was one of those conferred under the Ancient York Rite . The

seal of a lodge of Heredom Templars bears the arms of King Arthur , the reputed grandson of Constantine , and the devices and even the words of the degree are to be found on all old documents of the York brethren . A K . T , 30 ° , & KT . OI - CONSTANTINE .

It may interest some of your readers to learn that the "Princely Orderof the Red Cross " now worked in England under Lord Kenlis , was formerly well known in Scotland , as also tlie " Seven Steps of Priesthood , " which , I believe , is the same as the "Priestly Order of

Melchisedec . Tins , I am informed on the authority of a member of one of the "Early Grand Encampments of Knights Templar , " in which the degrees , though now obsolete , are preserved . The "Mark , Link , and Chain , " to which you referred in answer to R . A . M ., are also still worked in these emcampments . Ki I . MARNOCK .

MASONIC EMBLEMS . In thc Morning Advertiser of thc 4 th instant , I saw thc report of a meeting of a Court of Foresters at a public-house in St . Martin ' s-lane , and a statement that a set of shirt-studs with Masonic emblems was presented to one of their members . Could any of your readers inform

Multum In Parbo, Or Masonic Notes And Queries.

me whether the Foresters are in the habit of appropriating Masonic emblems on articles of jewelry , and why they do so , as I should have thought they would have invented emblems of their order without appropriating those of one they have no connection with . A MASON .

SYMBOLIC CHARACTER OF THE MOSAIC LAW . Faith enabled the Hebrew to pass beyond the outward meaning of the ritual law , and realizing the antitype in its symbolic or figurative precursor to enter into the design of God in the

economy of redemption , ancl to experience the power of grace . Thus , Abraham saw the day of the Christ , and thus the faithful sons of Abraham apprehended a spiritual import in external

symbols , and saw in ritual services a sublime and g lorious economy of instruction and blessing , which the utmost researches of the carnal and unbelieving could never discover . WILLIAM CARPENTER .

SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE . The loose and imperfect notions entertained upon the subject of symbolic language , have induced a very general conviction that it is , necessarily , of a vague and indeterminate

character ; uncertain in its meanings , ancl subject to no defined principles of interpretation . That such an opinion is erroneous , is demonstrated from the fact that it is a species of language employed to a considerable extent in the Bible ;

for , surely , it would be to impeach the divine wisdom to suppose that God lias adopted , as a medium of imparting important truths to His creatures , that which is liable , from its arbitrary , and therefore uncertain , meaning , to become

unintelligible * or to present after a lapse of time no certain meaning . Such is not the nature of symbolic language , for as Bishop Hurd has remarked , it is constructed on such principles as to make it the subject of just criticism and rational interpretation . —WILLIAM CARPENTER .

I 1 ROS . " LEO , " AND " CIPES , AND " THE MAIMED . I observe that Bro . Cipes in his last communication on this subject says that he will not again reply . Without saying as to which is right , I am inclined to think that the general

opinion of Freemasons throughout tlie country , coincides with thatof Bro . Cipes , from the fact that not many years ago , in a lodge in the West of Scotland , the Right Worshipful Master was suspended by the brethren for initiating a man who was minus a hand . M . A . B .

I am much interested in your account of the Ark Mariners ' . degree . Can you obtain the " Gill" warrant , and publish a copy of it in THE FREEMASON' ? A MARK MASTER .

A brother in a recent letter to me from abroad , says lie has taken the " Oriental Ordeis . " What are they , and how can they be obtained ? SIGMA . [ Some of the degrees of the A . ancl A . Rite

may be termed " Oriental , " but perhaps your correspondent has entered into other secret associations , many of which still exist in the East .

In the absence of definite information as to his whereabouts , and further particulars as to the context of his letter , we must refrain from committing ourselves by saying too much . —ED . F ]

A CLO-UNil CHARGE . At several R . A . Chapters which I attend , Comp . Brett , the worthy recipient of a recent testimonial , delivers a charge to the companions

with very beautiful effect . I think it ought to be printed in the book of regulations of the Grand Chapter , so as to enable R . A . Masons to learn it . A LEARNER .

[ The charge you allude to is an American compilation , anil was originally published by Bro . Harris in the Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts as a lodge address , It is well worth preservation . —ED . F . \

CHIVALRIC ORDERS . In my note-book I find the following entry , which may be of interest to some of your readers : — " Under the charters granted by the Grand

Multum In Parbo, Or Masonic Notes And Queries.

Priory of Scotland , subordinate priories arc permitted to form themselves into Masonic Encampments or Chapters of Knights of the Red Cross

of Constantine , Knights of Malta , with the preceding degree called thc Knights of St . Paul or Mediterranean Pass , and confer these degrees , as also that of the Priestly Order of thc Temple . "D . M . L . "

I presume tlie initials are those of the well-known and distinguished Masonic writer Bro . David Murray Lyon , of Ayr . —A MASONIC STUDENT . The Jerusalem Encampment of K . T . at Manchester possesses a remarkable banner , bearing

the Red Cross flag with the Jerusalem Cross or emblem of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre , together with the Cross of Constantine or St . George of Italy , in addition to the usual symbols

of the Temple . This is a nut for the would-be sceptics as to the authenticity of the ancient degree of the Knights of Constantine . A LANCASHIRE LAD .

THE KADOSH DEGREE . Though holding that all Templar Conclaves , whohavenotyetsurrendered their ri ght in a formal manner , are entitled to work the degrees of Rose Croix and Kadosh , yet many are content

to waive that right for the present . Many Freemasons are , however , unaware that most of the numerous Mosaic Rites had a Kadosh degree at its head , and the holder of this degree in any one of the Rites held an equal position

in all . Thus , tlie York Rite of the Temple had the degree of "Holy Wisdom ; " which represented tlie " Professed Knight" of Baron Hunde ; which again corresponded with the " Levite of thc Interior Guard , " of the Masonic branch of

the Ordre-du-Temple in France ; this again being represented as the equivalent of the Kadosh of the Ancient and Accepted Rite ; which clearly , from its including certain formula relating to the Vehm Gerichte , or Secret

Tribunal of Westphalia , had a Germanic origin . This York degree of " Holy Wisdom " was governed by nine officers , who some suppose are the equivalent ancl origin of the nine officers of the 33 rd and last degree . It is quite certain that

no Supreme Council in the world can claim to interfere with the 1686 York Templar 11 cplus ultra , or degree of "Hol y Wisdom , " when worked by the Templars . One word as to Prince Charles Stuart . Is it not hasty , in the

present state of our knowledge , to assert that the Scottish Order of the Temple was not Masonic in 1 745 ? Regarding his connection with High Grade Masonry , I would refer " Querist" to particulars of a Rose Croix

warrant granted from Arras b y his father , in the Freemason ' s Magazine , 186 3 , page 406 , and may state that I have the most positive and satisfactory independent testimony as to the existence of such a warrant and as to its being a genuine

document . Hence any warrant granted to Arras in 1747 was , as is alleged , only one of confirmation , or given to constitute them a Metropolitan Chapter . It is very desirable , however , I admit , that careful copies of these

documents should be published . Most Heralds would admit that such charters granted by the Stuarts are as good , or better , than the same would be if granted by tlie Guelphs , and it is hejice important that we should know accuratel y

what privileges they confer . As the editors of a Masonic contemporary and of a non-Masonic paper , have given insertion to insulting personal attacks upon me on this head , I should like to refer your readers to three articles on the subject

in Notes and Queries of Jan . 29 th , 1 S 70 , pages 122 to 130 , and even to request their reproduction in your pages—they are by Bros . Matthew Cooke . William Pinkerton , and J YARKER . [ We will do so with pleasure . —ED . F ]

11 RO . "Cll'l ' . s" AND ST . JOHN THE BAPTIST . I think Bro . " Cipes , " in referring to my communication in THE PUKI ' MASON of 22 nd ultimo , might have given a little more definite

information on the subject therein referred to . lie appears to be well posted up as to who the brother was that made the assertion relative to St . John the Baptist , as not being worth a fig—

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Reports of Masonic Meetings. Article 3
ROYAL ARCH. Article 4
MARK MASONRY. Article 5
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ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. Article 5
LODGE OF BENEVOLENCE. Article 5
METROPOLITAN MASONIC MEETINGS Article 5
Foreign and Colonial Agents. Article 6
Answer to Correspondents. Article 6
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—?—The following singular notices have been sent to us recently . They appear to be a good hoax , yet such as they are we give them : — " Loyal'BrunswickLod ge . —Notice is herebygiven that application will be made for the Royal Authority

to form a Loyal Protestant Association under the above style and title ; whose object will be to promote the true interests , and to maintain the lawful privileges of the Protestant Churches of Great Britain and Ireland respectively , as by law established ; at the same time , not acting in an

aggressive manner towards that Church now in existence throughout the British possessions , supposed to have been built upon the plan of Ancient Rome ' s foundation . " The Loyal Brunswick Lodge will utterly repudiate the disloyal and sanguinary tendencies of

the so-called Loyal Orange Association ; and the former will have neither connection nor sympathy with the latter undertaking . " Instead of acknowledging William , Prince of Orange , afterwards King William III ., as their originator and founder , thc Loyal Brunswick Lodge

will delight to set up as the originator and founder of their order , His late Most Excellent Majesty , King George IV ., to whose glorious , pious , and immortal memory , the brethren of thc lodge will devote their best affections ; and will endeavour to carry out as far as in them may be , the truly

Christian , as well as soundly Protestant designs of that great ancl wise , but much maligned Monarch . " ( By command ) \ V . B . II ., "The Irish Williamite , holding the Cross Keys of St . John , the Beloved Apostle , Evangelist , and Divine . "

" The three Grand Lodges of Free ancl Accepted Masons of thc United Kingdom are henceforth to be styled , The Three Grand Lodges of Great Britain , France and Ireland .

"The three Grand Masters are : of Great Britain ( now vacant ) ; of France , His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , K . G . ; of Ireland , His Grace the Duke of Leinster . " ( By command ) W . B . H . "

What are the Prestonian lectures , and where are they delivered ? CEDII-US . [ The Prestonian lectures consist of dissertations on the three degrees , to be delivered annually by a competent " Master of Arts and Sciences . " Preston left . - £ 300 Consols , the interest of which is payable to tlie lecturer , but

the lectures have not been given since 1 S 62 , when we heard Bro . Henry George Warren deliver that on the second degree . It was rumoured for a time that the MSS . were lost , but it is now understood that they have been recovered . We must refer you to the Grand Secretary for information as to the probability of the revival of the lectures . —ED . F . ]

THE RED CROSS OF CONSTANTINE . As this degree has attracted great attention of late years both in Europe and America , it may be right to state that it was one of those conferred under the Ancient York Rite . The

seal of a lodge of Heredom Templars bears the arms of King Arthur , the reputed grandson of Constantine , and the devices and even the words of the degree are to be found on all old documents of the York brethren . A K . T , 30 ° , & KT . OI - CONSTANTINE .

It may interest some of your readers to learn that the "Princely Orderof the Red Cross " now worked in England under Lord Kenlis , was formerly well known in Scotland , as also tlie " Seven Steps of Priesthood , " which , I believe , is the same as the "Priestly Order of

Melchisedec . Tins , I am informed on the authority of a member of one of the "Early Grand Encampments of Knights Templar , " in which the degrees , though now obsolete , are preserved . The "Mark , Link , and Chain , " to which you referred in answer to R . A . M ., are also still worked in these emcampments . Ki I . MARNOCK .

MASONIC EMBLEMS . In thc Morning Advertiser of thc 4 th instant , I saw thc report of a meeting of a Court of Foresters at a public-house in St . Martin ' s-lane , and a statement that a set of shirt-studs with Masonic emblems was presented to one of their members . Could any of your readers inform

Multum In Parbo, Or Masonic Notes And Queries.

me whether the Foresters are in the habit of appropriating Masonic emblems on articles of jewelry , and why they do so , as I should have thought they would have invented emblems of their order without appropriating those of one they have no connection with . A MASON .

SYMBOLIC CHARACTER OF THE MOSAIC LAW . Faith enabled the Hebrew to pass beyond the outward meaning of the ritual law , and realizing the antitype in its symbolic or figurative precursor to enter into the design of God in the

economy of redemption , ancl to experience the power of grace . Thus , Abraham saw the day of the Christ , and thus the faithful sons of Abraham apprehended a spiritual import in external

symbols , and saw in ritual services a sublime and g lorious economy of instruction and blessing , which the utmost researches of the carnal and unbelieving could never discover . WILLIAM CARPENTER .

SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE . The loose and imperfect notions entertained upon the subject of symbolic language , have induced a very general conviction that it is , necessarily , of a vague and indeterminate

character ; uncertain in its meanings , ancl subject to no defined principles of interpretation . That such an opinion is erroneous , is demonstrated from the fact that it is a species of language employed to a considerable extent in the Bible ;

for , surely , it would be to impeach the divine wisdom to suppose that God lias adopted , as a medium of imparting important truths to His creatures , that which is liable , from its arbitrary , and therefore uncertain , meaning , to become

unintelligible * or to present after a lapse of time no certain meaning . Such is not the nature of symbolic language , for as Bishop Hurd has remarked , it is constructed on such principles as to make it the subject of just criticism and rational interpretation . —WILLIAM CARPENTER .

I 1 ROS . " LEO , " AND " CIPES , AND " THE MAIMED . I observe that Bro . Cipes in his last communication on this subject says that he will not again reply . Without saying as to which is right , I am inclined to think that the general

opinion of Freemasons throughout tlie country , coincides with thatof Bro . Cipes , from the fact that not many years ago , in a lodge in the West of Scotland , the Right Worshipful Master was suspended by the brethren for initiating a man who was minus a hand . M . A . B .

I am much interested in your account of the Ark Mariners ' . degree . Can you obtain the " Gill" warrant , and publish a copy of it in THE FREEMASON' ? A MARK MASTER .

A brother in a recent letter to me from abroad , says lie has taken the " Oriental Ordeis . " What are they , and how can they be obtained ? SIGMA . [ Some of the degrees of the A . ancl A . Rite

may be termed " Oriental , " but perhaps your correspondent has entered into other secret associations , many of which still exist in the East .

In the absence of definite information as to his whereabouts , and further particulars as to the context of his letter , we must refrain from committing ourselves by saying too much . —ED . F ]

A CLO-UNil CHARGE . At several R . A . Chapters which I attend , Comp . Brett , the worthy recipient of a recent testimonial , delivers a charge to the companions

with very beautiful effect . I think it ought to be printed in the book of regulations of the Grand Chapter , so as to enable R . A . Masons to learn it . A LEARNER .

[ The charge you allude to is an American compilation , anil was originally published by Bro . Harris in the Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts as a lodge address , It is well worth preservation . —ED . F . \

CHIVALRIC ORDERS . In my note-book I find the following entry , which may be of interest to some of your readers : — " Under the charters granted by the Grand

Multum In Parbo, Or Masonic Notes And Queries.

Priory of Scotland , subordinate priories arc permitted to form themselves into Masonic Encampments or Chapters of Knights of the Red Cross

of Constantine , Knights of Malta , with the preceding degree called thc Knights of St . Paul or Mediterranean Pass , and confer these degrees , as also that of the Priestly Order of thc Temple . "D . M . L . "

I presume tlie initials are those of the well-known and distinguished Masonic writer Bro . David Murray Lyon , of Ayr . —A MASONIC STUDENT . The Jerusalem Encampment of K . T . at Manchester possesses a remarkable banner , bearing

the Red Cross flag with the Jerusalem Cross or emblem of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre , together with the Cross of Constantine or St . George of Italy , in addition to the usual symbols

of the Temple . This is a nut for the would-be sceptics as to the authenticity of the ancient degree of the Knights of Constantine . A LANCASHIRE LAD .

THE KADOSH DEGREE . Though holding that all Templar Conclaves , whohavenotyetsurrendered their ri ght in a formal manner , are entitled to work the degrees of Rose Croix and Kadosh , yet many are content

to waive that right for the present . Many Freemasons are , however , unaware that most of the numerous Mosaic Rites had a Kadosh degree at its head , and the holder of this degree in any one of the Rites held an equal position

in all . Thus , tlie York Rite of the Temple had the degree of "Holy Wisdom ; " which represented tlie " Professed Knight" of Baron Hunde ; which again corresponded with the " Levite of thc Interior Guard , " of the Masonic branch of

the Ordre-du-Temple in France ; this again being represented as the equivalent of the Kadosh of the Ancient and Accepted Rite ; which clearly , from its including certain formula relating to the Vehm Gerichte , or Secret

Tribunal of Westphalia , had a Germanic origin . This York degree of " Holy Wisdom " was governed by nine officers , who some suppose are the equivalent ancl origin of the nine officers of the 33 rd and last degree . It is quite certain that

no Supreme Council in the world can claim to interfere with the 1686 York Templar 11 cplus ultra , or degree of "Hol y Wisdom , " when worked by the Templars . One word as to Prince Charles Stuart . Is it not hasty , in the

present state of our knowledge , to assert that the Scottish Order of the Temple was not Masonic in 1 745 ? Regarding his connection with High Grade Masonry , I would refer " Querist" to particulars of a Rose Croix

warrant granted from Arras b y his father , in the Freemason ' s Magazine , 186 3 , page 406 , and may state that I have the most positive and satisfactory independent testimony as to the existence of such a warrant and as to its being a genuine

document . Hence any warrant granted to Arras in 1747 was , as is alleged , only one of confirmation , or given to constitute them a Metropolitan Chapter . It is very desirable , however , I admit , that careful copies of these

documents should be published . Most Heralds would admit that such charters granted by the Stuarts are as good , or better , than the same would be if granted by tlie Guelphs , and it is hejice important that we should know accuratel y

what privileges they confer . As the editors of a Masonic contemporary and of a non-Masonic paper , have given insertion to insulting personal attacks upon me on this head , I should like to refer your readers to three articles on the subject

in Notes and Queries of Jan . 29 th , 1 S 70 , pages 122 to 130 , and even to request their reproduction in your pages—they are by Bros . Matthew Cooke . William Pinkerton , and J YARKER . [ We will do so with pleasure . —ED . F ]

11 RO . "Cll'l ' . s" AND ST . JOHN THE BAPTIST . I think Bro . " Cipes , " in referring to my communication in THE PUKI ' MASON of 22 nd ultimo , might have given a little more definite

information on the subject therein referred to . lie appears to be well posted up as to who the brother was that made the assertion relative to St . John the Baptist , as not being worth a fig—

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