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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

E . II . —Chas . Dickens was not a Mason , hut his brother was . Report of Royal Arch Ciiapter of Improvement will appear in our next .

Public Amusements.

Public Amusements .

Royal Polytechnic . Great Programme for Christmas . 1 . The History of a I'Ll'M PUDDING , with strikme , experiments bv Processor Gan ' . ncr . 2 . A Christmas Tale ; or , ' 1 K 1 W J . ' iXK " COXCjUEST R . WIi THK CELL : an Min , ( rated Poem , wilh leinarkabie eliecls . 2 . The "ZOO" Al Till' : " I'OI . Y , " :,:-. uixcilot . il discourse about tlie Zoological Gardens , b \ Mr , | . 1 ., Kinus v . itli Photographs lw Mr . York . ,. The THREE ROSES ; or , the Invisible

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Liverpool Theatres , &C.

LIVERPOOL THEATRES , & c .

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The Freemason , j SATURDAY , EI- ' MU' -IRY -:, 1873 . ' , I I

Bro. Emra Holmes's Lecture On The Orders Of The Temple And Hospital.

BRO . EMRA HOLMES'S LECTURE ON THE ORDERS OF THE TEMPLE AND HOSPITAL .

BY LLT-LS . ! - And so Bio . Holmes refreshing 1 / h-:-x . < - I am satisfied . I vcntiue to believe that the intclli- i gence of your readers will hare indu-ecd them t suppose that L am s . ilisiied in a very liomu .-p-iil . ii * 1 manner it 1 am content wilh what has been i advanced by Bro . Holmes fur their tinkle ,.. t ' e : i . j

Bro. Emra Holmes's Lecture On The Orders Of The Temple And Hospital.

Bro . Holmes ajipears to consider that the replies of Sir George Bowyer to certain questions , put by a distinguished friend of the brother , must jierforce settle the question and satisfy us all j

but I accept no dictum of Sir George Bowyer , and I have yet to learn why he is the oracle whose decrees are to settle the discussion which'Bro . Holmes has forced before the readers of The

Freemason . Your readers will see in these rejilies another of Bro . Holmes ' s unsupported statements , and will compare the negative of Sir George Bowvcr to the admission of heretics and

schismatics , with the facts , as published by known , competent , and accepted historians , who were both Roman Catholics , and both members of the Order . Thc question put by the distinguished friend is . " Can heretics and schimatics enter the

Order ?" DE BOISGELIN . — "The Order of Malta , though it regrets the circumstances that have occasioned its separation from the knig hts of a

different religion , does not refuse them a place among its members to lig ht against the enemies of Jesus Christ . " Again , lie says , that Pope Pius VI . " was ofthe same opinion , and apjiroved

the association of Russian Knights ofthe Creek Church with , the Order of Malta . " T . u- 'i- 'E : " One of thc latest acts at Malta was to receive both Protestant Germans and Greek

Russians into thc Order as integral members . Sin Gi-oiii-L- JJOWVKU : " No . " Ujion the last , and yoiu readers will probably ldd , the least of these rejilies , I may be excused

Ihe quotation , "Thy wish was father , Harry , lo that thought . '' 1 sujijiose De Boisgelin and Taafe are to be humbly accejited , in the jiresence of ihese oracular resjionses , as vcry minor

authorities , pour deluded members ol the Order , whose sjicctacles of jirejuilice were not of the requisite focus . Sir G . Bowyer settles the Duke of Manchester at once , as " nolliinu ; , " and this

lhd . Holmes kindly adds is " significant . 1 sujijiose it is not sufficient that George IV ., William IV ., Prince Albert , Sir J . C . Mcrcdyth , Count de Salis , Sir | . Lawrence , Sir H . K .

Pojihain , K . C . ]? ., Sir W . Sidney Smith , G . C . 15 ., Sir VV . 11 . Tonkin , ( thesis last of whom added tlieir names to tlw Roll of the English L ( iii » i ( t' ) , cum niultis n / iis , all sad heretics werc members of the

Order from Roman Catholic sources r f stijipose there is no significance in Ihe jieriocl and practical knowledge of Dc Boisgelin and Taafe . " Does history lie when it tells us that on the 1 ith [ une ,

r . ; . ')' :, tha festival of . Sr . bYniad- 's , an agreement , was concluded at llcimbaeh , between the Prior of Gcnr , ; : nj ' , C'onr ,: d vo : i Braun berg , and the Bailli of the . Marqr . isate of Bandeiiburg , Bcrncdt

at a C 1 'aji'er General at Yaicnci-i , coiivoai : ny the G . and Master lvrdinand ven ikr-di-i , and that ii subsequently ivec : \' . d Hill r :: ; iiic . it , 1 / . 1 ? V / ii . 'i ' :, iiicii . b-. 'i ' cr . ie :-. of Sir ; . . JJowyer ' : . pecial jileading would object that , ( he Prote : io'iit

von der Schulenbiug , in wliicli J : c ;; ei ding and evangelical liailiwick was fully recognised , and it it " . vas exjucssly stnied lhat th . * Knigiits ofthe I ? ailiwick should hav . at aii tiin < r , .-mtiit r :-y and powi : to elect their Baiiii ' : 1 .: it ivitcve Uiai this . 'E '' i '' - -- . ' -inent wa ' - ; couiinu . d in the sam . vciir

iiaili-. viei ; of liranilen ' our : ' ; wa ¦ ih :::. o !' . v * d by th edict of the Ki : ; g t . f Pritiiia ^ or . th . > jc ' . ii c

Bro. Emra Holmes's Lecture On The Orders Of The Temple And Hospital.

October , , Sio , and then converted into a Royal Order ; but , unfortunately for this view , the present Emperor , by mandate of the 15 th of October , 18- , 2 , restored the Bailiwick to its former

constitution ; Prince Charles informed the Lieutenant-Master , the Baili Count Coloredo-Manslield , by letter , that the Bailiwick was

restored ; and that he , the Prince , was elected Herren-meistcr ; and in the return he received the congratulations of Bailli : And this is " irregular and unrecognised ! "

Bro . Holmes , . with a singular disregard of proof as against mere unsupported assertion , compels me again to trouble your readers with these evidences and facts , which utterly refute

the opinions ot Sir G . Bowyer , and I greatly marvel that so asnl-c a gentlemen should venture such replies if the- } - were [ to be made public . If the Langue of England has been revived , as I

have shewn , and Bvo . Holmes has admitted , then the Duke of Manchester is its present Prior . Sir G . Bowyer seeks to infer that it cannot have existence , inasmuch , as in his private

opinion heritics and schismatics cannot enter the Order , a position which the whole Order , by its jmblic and notorious acts , declares to have no foundation .

Bro . Holmes must have been very hard up when he resorted to this joint-stock method of bolstering up his drooping case , but he has adoped a course fraught with dangers we should

till desire to avoid : ] le is treading in unhappy proximity to the religious cry , and it looks much as if he did so in consequence of my plainly intimated desire to avoid such a misfortune . Thank

Heaven 1 can , I hope , be lair enough to hold the Roman Catholic Knights in respect , and have already said so ; I did not originate this controversy , nor did 1 desire it , but I will not

standby whilst ( 1 say advisedly ) unsupported statements are put forward iu a gratuitous attack upon an honourable and lawful bod y of the Order of St . John , without raising my small protest

against such an unwarrantable and unnecessary proceeding . At jiagc ; ti Bro . Holmes told us that the Order of St . John " was sjilit up into several

independent bodies , " and he supposed that the Masonic Knights had " as good a claim to the title as the others , " but Bro . Holmes now modifies his supposition , and opines only that

they have as good a claim as the " Protestant Gentlemen . " Whence this curious and shifty (••¦ aii'je of belief : Is this a trimming of tho sails : o . suit the new allies , whose proffered aid shall

waft his bark into the waters of safety at the opportune moment when on his hist legs : Bro . Holmes in his despair has cried aloud , and the distinguished friend has heard him . I 3 rc .

Homies has a "learned ana a "trenchant ' friend also ; I have no objection to his being ¦ ' earned , to his being a knight of several Orders ,

nor to his declining the knighthood of thc Holy Sepulchre , but I distinctly object to his being so " trenchant '' as to calumniate the memory ofthe

dead . I envy him not his charity , which dictates a libel ¦ ¦ " . : tlie iate Sir Robert Peat , and I express piv ceovi i I ' p . at Bro . Holmes should have

condcfcc' .-idcd lo ti-. o ignoble position or moutiijuece to such a scurrilous " -. taicmciit . Sir Robert Peat , U . D ., was a clergynian of the Church of Ens