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like amid non-Roman Catholic countries , amid ^" . called Protestant bodies , in the very midst of S , ur refined and reformed Anglicanism , rationalism , ' nil scepticism , doubt and disbelief , the axioms ' . [ the unorthodox sciolist and the arraignment t the illogical adversary are just as prevalent as in the __ .. Unman Catholic countries , in what vou nolitelv term

. he hotbed of Ultramontanism . " We do not deny the fact , but tivo causes , we believe , have led to this state of things : , fie excesses of Ultramontanism , anil the violence of ultra-Calvinism ( we are now speaking purely historically aI ]( l uncontroversially ) , which have thrown many minds back in fear and doubt , in hesitation and dismay , too often only to land themselves on the bleak and dismal

shore of positive unbelief , of a destructive negativism , of lhat substitution of humanity for religion , and of philosophy for truth , by which so many able intellects are captivated and enthralled . At this very hour amongst us , when Bro . Ferry talks () f a " dechainement de surnatural grossier et stupide , " iinid a salvo of applause , he may simply mean the excesses

of those who have been urging on the faith and conscience of man the developement of incredible and fictitious miracles , but when he adds , a little later , that " Le mysticisnne et le the ' ologisme contemporain repondent par I ' embrigadement general de la sottise humaine , " amid equally vivacious applause , we cannot possibly accept bis word , without much qualification .

In all the eloquence , then , of those able brethren who spoke so fully at the fete of the " Clemente Amitie ' , " we clearly discern , as we said before , the avowal , as we believe , of principles , however seemingly favourable to humanity , and progress , and enlightenment , and mental . leielopcment , in our humble opinion really most antagonistic to the peace and happiness of mankind . No realm

lhat we are aware of has ever long prospered which openly avowed a rejection of religion and of the Divine government of the world and of men , and simply sought to repose on " humanitarianism , " whatever that may be . There is no possibility f . r human laws to rest safely on purely social sanctions , and which are not built up as on a foundation-stone , sure and steadfast , namely , the

divine moral law . There is no teaching which can tend really and truly to the personal elevation and present well-being and future happiness of man , his spiritual salvation , renewal , and final restoration , which is not in accordance with Divine and inspired revelation . To hold that humanity can suffice or intellect can purify us , to contend that philosophy can elevate and social morality can

restrain , ( there is no social morality possible which is not founded on the divine ) , to disavow dogma and ridicule supernaturalism , may indeed be a proof of acuteness of intellect and the criticism of scepticism , but they must end by relegating men to the heathenism of the Greeks and the Romans , and to the eventual oblivion of those untold blessings which Divine Providence and Christianity have

ushered in for our suffering and toiling and dying race . With all due deference to our able brethren in France , we in England from a practical and religious point of view , especially as Freemasons , cannot concur in a teaching which , as we regard it , is fraught with untold dangers lo society , to civilisation , and to mankind , and which would apparently ridicule and reject , contemn and

contradict , all that we have been taught to revere as essential —actually essential—for the welfare of individuals and nations , for the preservation of the family , the country , the altar , and most conducive the present amelioration ami eventual happiness of us all , alike poor citizens of die world . If we have in any degree ascribed to the teaching of

this modern thought and action more than it will fairly bear—if we have in any way misapprehended the drift of lhe lemarks , or misapplied the illustrations of those facile orators—we shall gladly be told so , but we fear that the humble view we have offered of a striking pamphlet is

quite correct , and that wc have in this another proof of the great conflict going on as between faith and intellect , between dogma and doubt , between authority and assertion , kilween religion and philosophy , with which we , as English Freemasons , have happily nothing to do , and from wliich we shall rigorously keep ourselves aloof . —w . p . A .

The Brussels Exhibition.

THE BRUSSELS EXHIBITION .

We are indebted to our contemporary , the "Times , " foi l « following animated letter from Brussels : — ° ur Royal Grand Master , the Prince of Wales , the Honorary President of the British Committee of the Exhioition , paid on Tuesday his promised visit to the

Exhibi-- •••noyal Highness arrived lrom rans on Monaay ° " « noon , and became the King ' s guest at the Royal a'ace opposite the Exhibition . The King came in from ua . " morning , but was after all unable to accomn * ' his Royal guest to the Exhibition in consequence of ' rl > eumatism in his knee . The Kind ' s strength was

Tu I tas'c ° ^ P ' ' 2 at a State dinner on uesday given j „ honour of His Royal Highness . The inth ' lr 0 Ve over t 0 the Exhibition soon after half-past two of th " o " noon ' entered the building with the Queen Bath •2 lans upon his arm . There was a considerable . ;_ ,.. . } S of the public , and amone them a larsre

prouorn ' ''"{ pish . The Comtesse De Namur and Captain Stiffi {' . v ' er'l'Ordonnance , were in attendance ; Bro . Lord w '« e h ' h ' . hristo P her sykes > M - - > and Bro - F - Knollys atthe F v ! r ' ' s suite . The Royal party were received Kin „ j "x ™ Jition by General Renard , Aide-de-Camp to the to . p y ' warocque , President of the Exhibition , and Sal •: l ^ , '' member of the Administration : Mr .

U mi ' - "' mey , Her Majesty ' s Envoy , and Mr . John im medi t , cach <; > were in attendance . These gentlemen Secti 'J- ' y conducted the Royal party to the British Whtrc i ? Sh the Royal apartments and a little grove s "nple machine for escape from fire—the inven-

The Brussels Exhibition.

tion of a Belgian named Leysen—attracted attention . His Royal Highness ' s interest in the saving of life and property from fire is well known , and it was no slight compliment that the Prince paid to the representative of the inventor . At the entrance to the British Section the Queen of the Belgians and the Prince of Wales were received by Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd Lindsay and Mr .

Polydore De Keyser , members of the British Committee . Cheers were raised as the Royal party came in . - Colonel Lindsay , on his way to the Servian war as the trustee of the National Aid Society , with . £ 20 , 000 at his disposal for the relief of the sick and wounded , arrived at Brussels in the morning and stayed one day , not only to receive His Royal Highness , but to study the unparalleled

collection of ambulances and appliances for the relief of the wounded , which are to be seen here . Colonel Loyd Lindsay and his party go on to-night at eleven o ' clock to Vienna , where their purchases of material will be largely guided by experience gained here . The ambulance of Mr . Emil Meyer , of Hanover , has been particularly suggestive to them . Mr . MacCormac , Surgeon-General to the fund ,

was presented to His Royal Highness , who then proceeded through the British Section . The lighthouse of Messrs . Chance was the first thing to attract notice , and then there were passed in rapid review Dr . Porter ' s splints , the Admiralty , Board of Trade , and Trinity House marine apparatus , the splendid boat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution , the cumbrous and comparatively inconvenient

ambulance waggon of our own War Department , the Royal Humane Society ' s apparatus , and the fire-escape of the National Society . The Exhibition is particularly rich in contrivances for safety on railways , and two of these detained His Royal Highness longer than anything else . One is Saxby and Farmer ' s well-known set of signals , with which the Prince

of Wales was already familiar . His Royal Highness , however , was gratified to learn that they are as much appreciated in Belgium as in our own country . A map of the Belgian railways exhibited is studded with little flags , showing where this system is in operation . An invention less known , but which deserves the attentive consideration of railway engineers , is Mr . Brocklebank ' s

automatic coupling apparatus . I his very simple contrivance may be set by a handle in the carriages themselves without the dangerous work of a man between the carriages . When it is set one push from the engine is enough to couple all the coaches or trucks of a train without jolting . The large number of accidentsAvhich happen to railway servants in coupling make this model a most important

one ; and if the system it illustrates can be practically carried out on a large scale , the attention which His Royal Highness's notice will have drawn to Mr . Brocklebank ' s invention will be valuable iu results . The Royal party passed into the larger grove , or " Le Grand Bosquet , " as this lawn , shaded by tall elms , is called . Here the rain , which had been tl-eatcning all

day , came on , and a specimen roof , exhibited by a Belgian firm , gave opportune shelter to the party . Soon after they had returned to the building , Siemens and Halske's railway signals were explained to his Royal Highness in German , and an ingenious safety lift for mines raised by a little bucket and a long rope was explained in French . M . Gothek , the Austrian Minister ,

described the complete organization for the wounded of the Maltese and Teuton Knights of the Red Cross . The Prince congratulated M . Warocque upon his man-engine for mines . M . Errera , the Italian Consul General , showed the Milanese apparatus for cremation ; M . Guenther and M . Alphonse Oppenheim explained the canalization of Dantzic , accomplished by a firm of Englishmen ,

Messrs . Aird . The Russian models for sanitary education were fully illustrated ; they are most interesting , and will merit a fuller description . The Prince admired some of the foreign fire engines , and here it is painful to say that all the Liege fire engines have been bought up for the city of Moscow , so famous in the history of public fires . There is no doubt that English makers can beat the

manufacturers of Liege , but they thought fit not to compete here and so lose a valuable connection . The awards of the juries are not yet out , though all are understood to be decided except in the maritime class . The Prince left the Exhibition alter nearly two hours ' stay ; and after repeatedly manifesting a warm interest in what he saw , His Royal Highness on leaving said to General Renard that the Exhibition as a whole was most

successful , and that it could not have been better . As to the British Section His Royal Highness himself is President of the British Committee . He is understood to have said that he was well pleased with the exertions of the Exe cutive in bringing about so creditable a representation of this country . The Prince left this city on Wednesday for Spa , and after one day goes to Ostend , whence the yacht Osborne is to convey him to Woolwich .

Multum In Parbo; Or Masonic Notes And Queries.

Multum in Parbo ; or Masonic Notes and Queries .

"HERODIAN" on "RIIOUIAN . " A correspondent of the " Pall Mall Gazette " Writes as follows : — " Mr . Freeman must have forgot his ' Hamlet , ' or he would not ask why Mr . Disraeli spoke of Sir . W . Harcourt ' s overwrought invectives against the Turks as Herodian eloquence . Did not Hamlet tell the players with what scorn he had heard ' a rebustious pcriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters '—adding , ' Oh I it outdoes

Termagent , it out-IIerods Herod ' ? " So far our correspondent . The truth is however , that what Mr . Disraeli said was not " Herodian , " but " Rhodian eloquence . " That Mr . Freeman would have understood perfectly well . Sir William Harcourt ' s long-drawn and profusely ornate peroration would have deli ghted an orator of the Rhodian school , and might even have pleased Cicero Mmsfclf before he was taught better things at Athens ,

British Archæological Association.

BRITISH ARCH ? OLOGICAL ASSOCIATION .

On Monday , the 14 th , the proceedings of " the Congress of the British Archaeological Association in Cornwall were formally opened by a visit paid by its members to Cothele , the ancient seat of the Edgcumbe family , on the river Tamar , between Saltash and Calstock . Bro . Lord Mount-Edgcumbe and several members of his

familyaccompamed the party up the river from Plymouth , and on arriving at Cothele and having welcomed the Association to Cornish ground and to his own property , his lordship read a short paper on the historical associations of the place , showing how it was first acquired by one of the Edgcumbes nearly five centuries ago by his marriage with the heiress of the O-theles , and had been enlarged and

remodelled by Sir Richard Edgcumbe . a celebrated Lancastrian in the early period of Henry VII . 's reign . Lord Mount-Edgcumbe traced the subsequent connexion of his family with the place down to a time subsequent to the building of Mount Edgcumbe , when Cothele came gradually to be less and less inhabited . Still in the last century , as well as in the present , it has been honoured by Royal visits ,

and there was a tradition , though , perhaps , a doubtful one , that it had given shelter for a ni ght to King Charles . Of late years one side of the quadrangle has been restored and refitted , and it is now the residence of the Dowager Lady Mount-Edgcumbe . His lordship was followed by Mr . E . Loftus Brock , F . S . A ., who read an essay on the architectural features of the house , in which

he described its general character as exhibiting a sort of transition from the fortified castle of the Middle Ages to the Elizabethan mansion , at the same time pointing out those parts which were of earlier date and rougher materials . The old chapel , the halls , the Ladies' Chamber , the Priests' Room , and the old retainers' yard were then visited by the company , who also inspected the pictures , the

tapestry , the old china , and ancient plate belonging to the house , as well as the collection of arms of various ages and countries which hung as trophies of the war or of the chase on the walls of the hall . Among t ! . ese were some bull ' s hide shields , some exquisite Spanish rapiers , and some large Irish horns of brass , which it is supposed were used by chieftains in the sister island to terrify opponents .

The timber roof of the hall and of other rooms were much admired , and also were sundry specimens of ancient lace , and the trappings of the horse ridden by one of the Edgcumbe ladies , when a Maid of Honour to the " Virgin " Queen . A handsome luncheon in the old hall , to which abbut 100 guests sat down , and a hurried visit to the chapel built by Sir Richard Edgcumbe by the river side as

a thank-offering for his escape from the Yorkist party , were all that time and tide allowed before the trumpet summoned them to start on the return voyage down the liver to Saltash , where the whole party took the train for Bodmin , reaching that town about seven o ' clock . Dinner over , the Association was received by the Mayor and Corporation at the Guildhall , where Lord Mount-Edgcumbe

delivered his inaugural address as President . He dwelt on the contrast of Cornish scenery , Cornish legends , and early Cornish antiquity to those of the rest of England ; and after warning his hearers against the fault of too hasty generalization , explained at some length the programme of the week , and the reason why Launceston , Tintagel , Lostwithiel , Restormel , Penzance , and St .

Michael ' s Mount respectively were interesting to the antiquary , andjconcluded by paying a tribute of gratitude to late Poet Laureate and the late Rev . R . S . Hawker for the interest in the ancient history of Cornwall , and especially of King Arthur , which they had evoked by their poems . A vote of thanks to Lord Mount-Edgcumbe for his address , as well as for his hospitality at Collide , was passed

with acclamation . A paper , by the Rev . William Jago , on the pre-historic and ecclesiastical antiquities of Bodmin , including its Priory of St . Petrock , its friary , its lazar-house , and its noble parish church , brought the proceedings of the day to a conclusion . The fine weather with which this year's Congress was inaugurated on the 14 th , at Cothele , has lasted till now ,

and the sun shone , if the truth must be told , even a little too hotly and brilliantly on our expedition of Tuesday to Tintagel and Camelford . Under the guidance of the secretaries , Mr . Loftus Brock and Mr . George Bright , the members started on Tuesday morning , at nine , a party nearly a hundred strong , in omnibuses , breaks , and open carriages , for the headquarters of Arthurian romance—a

locality which few , if any , had visited before . In the way thither they quitted the beaten tourists' track along the Cornish high road , in order to pass , by special invitation of Lady Molesworth , through her charming park of Pencarrow , where they were able to bestow only a passing glance at the triple vallum and fosse , which is crossed by her carriage drive . At about noon they reached

Llanteglos , where they inspected the parish church , under the guidance of the rector , the Rev . J . J . Wilkinson , and also two curious Cornish monoliths , of a Saxon , or , rather , perhaps a Celtic type , in the rectory garden , the inscriptions on which were interpreted by the Rev . William Jago . The whole party were then entertained at lunch by Mr . and Mrs . Wilkinson , under a marquee in the rectory

grounds . Lunch being over , and the health of the Queen and of the Prince of Wales ( as Duke of Cornwall ) having been drunk with all honours , the bugle was sounded , and the party were off to Tintagel , or ( as it is here always calkd ) " Dundagel . " At Tintagel Prebendary Kinsman was ready to explain the architecture and history of his church , parts of which , including the font , the northern

doorway , and the southern transept , he claimed as of " Saxon , or at all events , prc-Norman architecture ; " but his views were stoutly combated by at least one member of the Congress , who declared that he could see in their details nothing but early and rude Norman work . A livel y discussion ensued , but the matter was left sub judice , and will probably be considered by the Congress more leisurely at one ol its subsequent sittings . From the ' ehurch