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deuce in that gallant commander and p icked force of English and native soldiers who are moving on to avenge the death of Sir Louis Cavagnari , and to teach to all in Hindostan that the English flag is alike unconqtiered and unconquerable .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not bold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , tbe opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all , to permit—within certain necessary lim its—free discussion . ]
FREEMASONRY IM ROUMANIA . To the Editor ofthe "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — The following notes , compiled from an article in the Dcrrlchcs Mailings Blatt , of Berlin , respecting- the position of certain members of the Masonic body in Roumania may prove of interest to your readers . I may add that
the original article is vvntten by a Mason . "Before Roumania became independent of Turkey the numerous lodges in the country were affiliated to and under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orients of Fiance , Italy , or Germany , and there was in them , as in all other Masonic lodges , perfect social , reli g ious equality . Directly Roumania obtained her inilependence , the Masonic lodges met
and formed a Grand Orient of their own , which has hitherto remained unrecognised by the Giand Orients or Grand Lodges of other countries . The principle upon which this new Grand Orient and its affiliated lodges are working is entirely opposed to the fundamental laws of Freemasonry . Their organ in the press entirely repudiates the idea that Masonry is a Cosmopolitan Brotherhood , and
claims for Roumanian lodges that they shall admit no foreigners , either as guests or as members . Further than this , it is laid down that no German , and no person professing the Jewish faith , shall , at this or any other future time , even if he be a Roumanian by naturalisation or birth , be allowed to participate in the privileges of Roumanian Freemasonry . " I hardly think that these facts require much comment
on my part , but I would humbly suggest , that Grand Lodge take cognisance of the matter . When the Grand Orient of France repudiated the first principle of Masonry all lodges under its jurisdiction were debarred from joining in the working of English lodges ; surely in this , a verysimilar case , the Grand Lodge of England might with good effect administer a severe rebuke to the presumptuous and narrow-minded lodges of Roumania . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , S . H . D'AVIGDOR , J . W . of Kaiscr-i-Hind , 1724 ; Sec . of * Bayaid , 1615 .
Reviews.
Reviews .
BRITISH BARROWS . By WILLIAM GHEENWGLI .. M . A ., F . S . A ., Oxford . Clarendon Press : Andrews , Durham . This very elaborate work , most interesting and lucitl in itself , deserves a larger space than can unfortunately be * . afforded to its undeniable merits in the limited space of the
Freemason . But as the able writer of it , so well known to many , is an old and very genial member of our Order , it seemed to us when preparing this humble notice of a really great work , that lor once we may outstep the somewhat cutt and unsatisfactory limits to which reviews are condemned in our hebdomadal issue . CatioiiGreenwell ' s
work may fairly be divided into three divisions , which for the convenience of ourrcatlers we shall treat seriatim , as otherwise the facts are so many that they will crowd on us in their wonderful fulness , rendering our canvas blurred and indistinct , anil taking away from our review of so much recondite information any merit of clearness , and every claim for method and order . We will , therefore , confine
ourselves to-day to thc general question of Barrows , reminding our icade-rs that no more important topic connected with the early development of our individual life , , ot the progress of the civilization oi onr race , can be touched upon or treated , even by the skilful hand of the great " Opener of Bairows , " and that to all who wish to stud y the conditions of this human existence of ours , in various
epochs , whether as pre-historic or historic ages , must on this wide subject of " mortal burial" go to our Bro . Canon Green well ' s book for enlightenment and information , for all that can positivel y be known on customs and the life of our common humanity , shrouded in the dimness of past time , antl buried , so to say , in thc dark recesses of the earth . "We call attention , therefore , to the
fact at the outset , as not only one great modern source of information on a matter cf which we have all heard a good deal no doubt in our various localities , but as an exhaustive treatment of incontestable data and startling -facts , acquired by much personal labours , and through a long series of valuable and skilful explorations . The writer of the work on British Barrows points out to us in
words which are most true , that there has been from the earliest times an universal custom among men of raising a mound , the so-called Barrow , over the buried dead to mark their earthly resting places . Barrows are , let us remember , mounds ol earth , cairns , mounds ot stone . These Bairows , " under divers names , are found , as wc may
many of us have seen , by Mediterranean shore and Northern steppes ; are to be seen on the continent oi Hindostan * , are to be found in the Pyramids of Egypt , though the Pyramids were not , in our opinion , solely places of burial ; amid the errant Red Indians of the North American torests , as well as amid the ruined cities of Central
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America . They abound in England , Scotland , and Ireland and are to be " found in Brittany and numerous other portions of the earth ' s surface . Indeed , it is hard to ray where they are not . Curiously enongh they vary in size , from a few feet diameter , to Silbury Hill , Wiltshire , which covers fi * . c acres of ground , and measures 130 feet in perpendicular heig ht . As a rule they are
circular , though sometimes they approach an oval form , but a long shaped mound , common in some parts of England , has been " regarded , " Cation Greenwell says , with " much probability " as the earliest form of Barrow , and belonging to a period before the introduction of the use of metal into the country . They differ considerably , we are told , in outline , and even in shape . Those which remain
have no doubt suffered gn ally from either the ' encroaching hand of time , " or the inroads of the plough , and the farmer regardless of antiquities , but judging from some which seem to be still preserved intact in their original shape , Canon Greenwell thinks they may be fairly described as " being bowl shaped and conical , those of the former shape being , perhaps , the most numerous . "
In Wiltshire the wiiter allueles to the ' * Bell Barrows , " as they are called , and which some of us may have seen , and to what Sir Richard Colt Hoare terms " Druid Barrows , " whether " two barrows , " or more than two small ones surrounded by a ditch , and which , as a foot note points out , seem to take us back to the * 'Scma" of Homeric burials . On the '' wilds of Yorkshire , " where many
barrows exist , many of them had probably an " encircling mound or ditch , or both , at the back , " though in some c . ses , as we before remarked , the levelling plough has swept their last trace away . The Wold Barrows are of various sizes , and may be said to range from twenty feet to 150 in diameter , and from one to twenty-four feet in height . These barrows have been made , as Canon
Greenwell reminds us , of the materials which " came the nearest to hand , " more of earth than of chalk , but it is seldom we find any barrows withont some admixture of chalk or flint , the chalk having been frequently obtained from the grave . And then having realized the barrows , whether as great " landmarks of time " or quiet witnesses of a buried past , standing in their solitary grandeur on exposed hills
and lonely moorlands , idling us of dead men and vanished ages , the next question that necessaiily occurs is , what is their age ? Canon Greenwell thinks they can fairly and safely be attributed to a psrio . l which centres , more or lcs =, in B . C . 500 . That they belonged to a time before the Roman occupation seems also absolutely certain , and Canon Greenwell tines not doubt that they were erected by
a people who erected those burial mounds antecedently both to the Christian Era auel the Roman occupation of Britain . Antl here to-tlay we" pause , as regards the main question , hoping at a very early period indeed to point out to our readers what the Borrows were used for , why they were built with such care antl skill , as the age permitted , antl what was placed within them . But before we close
this first portion of our revie . * . * of a most important and enduring work , wc think it rig ht to remind our readers , as some of them , like ourselves , may have been fascinated by the same study in other yews , though cares and trials , many and great , may have made us forget that old earth lore we had once essayed to master , that other writers have treated upon the same subject , though none , in our
opinion , so clearly , satisfactorily , and fully as Canon Greenwell . Some of us may have poretl over in other days some of the glorious volumes of Sir Richard Colt Hoare ami revelled in his striking description of Wiltshire antiquities . Some of us may have seen Mr . Borlase's most interesting work , "Nenia CornubiaV' and Mr . Warne's " Celtic Tumuli of Dorset , " some of us may have looked
into Douglas's "Nenia Britannica , " some of us may have admired Bryan Faussett's " Inventoiium Sepulchrale . " But still , tlespite many lucubrations of the past , as regards funeral rites and modes of interment , some interesting French cursory notes , we have seen some general
works on intermvnts or leicd essays on the remains , for instance , of Brittany , we certainly are indebted to the writer of " British Barrows" for a work which constitutes a complete collection of facts on a subject about which much has been written , hut until his happy and ingenious explanation , great doubts and obscurity prevailed .
Freemasonry In The East.
FREEMASONRY IN THE EAST .
We have , says the Times , been favoured with the following extract from a letter written by an Englishman of high position in Egypt : — " Cairo , Sept . 8 . "Vou will remember , of course , the name of Sheikh Jam . M ed Din , whose violent articles against England were
translated by Dr . Badger . This man has been lately delivering most revolutionary lcctuies , and has gotten together a number of disciples , in whom he has instilled principles ct atheism and communism . About a fortnight ago the Sheikh was arrested and sent off to Suez , where he was placed on board a steamer bound for Jedclah . All his papers were seized h \ thc police , and a day or two
afterwards a paragraph , communicated by the Prefecture of Police , was published in the native journals . This paragraph alluded to the exile of the Sheikh , to the revolutionary principles he had taught , anil to the secret society he had founded , and warned the Egyptians of the peril incurred by following such a leader , & c . Jam ;\ l ed Din had been W . M . of our lodge , antl , in consequence of his
unMasonic conduct , we hail applied to Grand Lodge for his explusion . But thc native Masons were filled with fear and trembling on reading the ' communique , ' and applied to me to make matters smooth for them . Nobody would take any step . They were all affaid of coming forward and desirous that their connection with Masonry should be ignored and even denied . I did not know the
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exact light in which the new Khedive would regard Masonry among the natives , but hoping to be able to convincc his Highness , and rely ing on his own good sense , I entered the arena as the champion of Oriental Masonry . " I obtained a private audience with the Khedive , congratulating him upon the wise step he had taken in expelling Jamil ed Din , but hoped hc would not attribute to Masonry the principles held by one member of the
fraternity . He replied , ' No , on the contrary , mon Bey , I know all about it . Masonry is a society for doing good and does not enter into religion or politics ; and as Jamal ed Din would lecture on these forbidden topics you expelled him from the lodge , and for the same reason I have expelled him from Egypt . He was only here on sufferance , having been already sentenced in Constantinople to expulsion from the Ottoman dominions . Vou need not fear that I shall confound his principles with those of
Freemasonry . ' " I thanked his Highness , but added that , although we European Masons knew that we could always justify our meetings , thc natives had not the same means of making their feelings known , and it was on their behalf that I came to speak to him . His Highness replied that I mig ht assure them of his protection so long as they acted as Masons ;
but that any Egyptian , whether Mason or not , who sought to cause intrigues and conspiracies would be punished . I then asked his Highness for the papers belonging to the lodge , which he promised should be restored to me . "I subsequently drove to the lodge and found the ' Concordia ' holding a meeting , in which a painful discussion was going on with regard to this business . But when I
was announcetl I was admitted as a visitor with immense honours , antl , communicating to them the substance of my conversation with the Khedive , I received the heartythanks and applause of the meeting . And I have since receivetl all the papers belonging to the lotlge . I had only attended one meeting at which the Sheikh presided , after
which there vvas a banquet , at which the health of the Prince of Wales was proposed . But the W . M . ( Sheikh Jamal ) refused to drink it , saying that all Princes , Kings , and Khedives were tyrants . Whereupon I rose from the table . e | uitteil the room , antl wr te to the lodge , and afterwards to the Grand Lotlge , for his expulsit n . " I have succeeded him by unanimous acclamation . "
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
The General Committee of ihis Institution assembled on Thursday afternoon at Freemasons' Hall . Bro . H . A . Dubois presideti . There were also present Bros . James F . Corben , Col James li . Peters , F . R . W . Hedges , Secretary , and H . Massey ( Freema-mi . )
After the reading ami t onfirmatmn of the minutes , the recommendations of the House Committee were adopted , anil notices of motion were received for the October Quarterly Court . A letter purporting to come from Bro . Dick Radcliffe for approval of his scheme for the " Masonic Scholars ' Assistance Fund" was read , but as the letter enclosing the
circular was not signed , it was ordered to lie on the table . On the motion ot Ceil . Peters , seconded by Bro . Corben , a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Bro . Joshua Nunn and his nephew , Mr . A . Rowland , for entertaining the children of the Institution with a vocal and instrument il concert , which several of the House Committee attended , on Monday last . The Committee then adjourned .
Presentation To Bro. Fountaine, Lodge 948.
PRESENTATION TO BRO . FOUNTAINE , LODGE 948 .
On Wednesday , the 17 th inst ., thc brethren of the above lodge performed the very pleasant duty of presenting Bio . Bernard Thomas Fountaine , Esq ., of Stoke House , a Past Master of the lodge , with a very handsome portrait of himself . The object of the present was twofold . It was intended as a te ^ imonial to Bro . Fountaine for the
ve < y efficient services he had rendered this his mother lodge , in acting for a long series of years as Treasurer of its funds , and in filling all the offices—even tbe highestwith so much distinction to himself and benefit to the lodge ; an'l also to be a weeding present to his eldest daughter , Mrs . Fountaine , of Paris . The portrait is threequarters in length , and most life-like , the countenance
having a warm and be-nevolent expression . The clothing ( purple and gold ) is that of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Berks and Bucks , of which lodge Bro . Fountaine is a Past Grand Treasurer . The jewels depicted on his breast are indicative of the honour with which he has passed through the various degrees of Masonry . . The portrait was painted by Myall , of Regent-street , and is mounted
in a handsome gilt frame , with glass , surrounded by a margin of velvet . It is quite , a work of art , and does much credit to the firm from which it emanates . The presentation was made at Stoke House by thc Testimonial Committee , Bros . McCubbin , Poynter , King and Morgan . Bro . Fountaine , who was accompanied by Mrs . Fountaine antl family , together with a few select Masonic and other friends , received the present at the hands of the Committee ,
and in a . neat and appiopriatc speech expiessed his pleasure antl thanks on be-half of his daughter and himself . By the kintlness of the host and hostess the brethren and friends dined together , and in the post-prantltal speeches great desire was expressed that 'I . G . A . O . T . U . would grant long life , happiness , antl prosperity to Bro . Fountaine , and his family , as well as to the ntwly-wedded pair in Paris .
Bro . W . H . Saunders , of 27 , "Walbrook , London , will be happy to receive votes on behalf cf Percy Herbert Stone , candidate for the Boys' S"S * , it
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deuce in that gallant commander and p icked force of English and native soldiers who are moving on to avenge the death of Sir Louis Cavagnari , and to teach to all in Hindostan that the English flag is alike unconqtiered and unconquerable .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not bold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , tbe opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all , to permit—within certain necessary lim its—free discussion . ]
FREEMASONRY IM ROUMANIA . To the Editor ofthe "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — The following notes , compiled from an article in the Dcrrlchcs Mailings Blatt , of Berlin , respecting- the position of certain members of the Masonic body in Roumania may prove of interest to your readers . I may add that
the original article is vvntten by a Mason . "Before Roumania became independent of Turkey the numerous lodges in the country were affiliated to and under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orients of Fiance , Italy , or Germany , and there was in them , as in all other Masonic lodges , perfect social , reli g ious equality . Directly Roumania obtained her inilependence , the Masonic lodges met
and formed a Grand Orient of their own , which has hitherto remained unrecognised by the Giand Orients or Grand Lodges of other countries . The principle upon which this new Grand Orient and its affiliated lodges are working is entirely opposed to the fundamental laws of Freemasonry . Their organ in the press entirely repudiates the idea that Masonry is a Cosmopolitan Brotherhood , and
claims for Roumanian lodges that they shall admit no foreigners , either as guests or as members . Further than this , it is laid down that no German , and no person professing the Jewish faith , shall , at this or any other future time , even if he be a Roumanian by naturalisation or birth , be allowed to participate in the privileges of Roumanian Freemasonry . " I hardly think that these facts require much comment
on my part , but I would humbly suggest , that Grand Lodge take cognisance of the matter . When the Grand Orient of France repudiated the first principle of Masonry all lodges under its jurisdiction were debarred from joining in the working of English lodges ; surely in this , a verysimilar case , the Grand Lodge of England might with good effect administer a severe rebuke to the presumptuous and narrow-minded lodges of Roumania . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , S . H . D'AVIGDOR , J . W . of Kaiscr-i-Hind , 1724 ; Sec . of * Bayaid , 1615 .
Reviews.
Reviews .
BRITISH BARROWS . By WILLIAM GHEENWGLI .. M . A ., F . S . A ., Oxford . Clarendon Press : Andrews , Durham . This very elaborate work , most interesting and lucitl in itself , deserves a larger space than can unfortunately be * . afforded to its undeniable merits in the limited space of the
Freemason . But as the able writer of it , so well known to many , is an old and very genial member of our Order , it seemed to us when preparing this humble notice of a really great work , that lor once we may outstep the somewhat cutt and unsatisfactory limits to which reviews are condemned in our hebdomadal issue . CatioiiGreenwell ' s
work may fairly be divided into three divisions , which for the convenience of ourrcatlers we shall treat seriatim , as otherwise the facts are so many that they will crowd on us in their wonderful fulness , rendering our canvas blurred and indistinct , anil taking away from our review of so much recondite information any merit of clearness , and every claim for method and order . We will , therefore , confine
ourselves to-day to thc general question of Barrows , reminding our icade-rs that no more important topic connected with the early development of our individual life , , ot the progress of the civilization oi onr race , can be touched upon or treated , even by the skilful hand of the great " Opener of Bairows , " and that to all who wish to stud y the conditions of this human existence of ours , in various
epochs , whether as pre-historic or historic ages , must on this wide subject of " mortal burial" go to our Bro . Canon Green well ' s book for enlightenment and information , for all that can positivel y be known on customs and the life of our common humanity , shrouded in the dimness of past time , antl buried , so to say , in thc dark recesses of the earth . "We call attention , therefore , to the
fact at the outset , as not only one great modern source of information on a matter cf which we have all heard a good deal no doubt in our various localities , but as an exhaustive treatment of incontestable data and startling -facts , acquired by much personal labours , and through a long series of valuable and skilful explorations . The writer of the work on British Barrows points out to us in
words which are most true , that there has been from the earliest times an universal custom among men of raising a mound , the so-called Barrow , over the buried dead to mark their earthly resting places . Barrows are , let us remember , mounds ol earth , cairns , mounds ot stone . These Bairows , " under divers names , are found , as wc may
many of us have seen , by Mediterranean shore and Northern steppes ; are to be seen on the continent oi Hindostan * , are to be found in the Pyramids of Egypt , though the Pyramids were not , in our opinion , solely places of burial ; amid the errant Red Indians of the North American torests , as well as amid the ruined cities of Central
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America . They abound in England , Scotland , and Ireland and are to be " found in Brittany and numerous other portions of the earth ' s surface . Indeed , it is hard to ray where they are not . Curiously enongh they vary in size , from a few feet diameter , to Silbury Hill , Wiltshire , which covers fi * . c acres of ground , and measures 130 feet in perpendicular heig ht . As a rule they are
circular , though sometimes they approach an oval form , but a long shaped mound , common in some parts of England , has been " regarded , " Cation Greenwell says , with " much probability " as the earliest form of Barrow , and belonging to a period before the introduction of the use of metal into the country . They differ considerably , we are told , in outline , and even in shape . Those which remain
have no doubt suffered gn ally from either the ' encroaching hand of time , " or the inroads of the plough , and the farmer regardless of antiquities , but judging from some which seem to be still preserved intact in their original shape , Canon Greenwell thinks they may be fairly described as " being bowl shaped and conical , those of the former shape being , perhaps , the most numerous . "
In Wiltshire the wiiter allueles to the ' * Bell Barrows , " as they are called , and which some of us may have seen , and to what Sir Richard Colt Hoare terms " Druid Barrows , " whether " two barrows , " or more than two small ones surrounded by a ditch , and which , as a foot note points out , seem to take us back to the * 'Scma" of Homeric burials . On the '' wilds of Yorkshire , " where many
barrows exist , many of them had probably an " encircling mound or ditch , or both , at the back , " though in some c . ses , as we before remarked , the levelling plough has swept their last trace away . The Wold Barrows are of various sizes , and may be said to range from twenty feet to 150 in diameter , and from one to twenty-four feet in height . These barrows have been made , as Canon
Greenwell reminds us , of the materials which " came the nearest to hand , " more of earth than of chalk , but it is seldom we find any barrows withont some admixture of chalk or flint , the chalk having been frequently obtained from the grave . And then having realized the barrows , whether as great " landmarks of time " or quiet witnesses of a buried past , standing in their solitary grandeur on exposed hills
and lonely moorlands , idling us of dead men and vanished ages , the next question that necessaiily occurs is , what is their age ? Canon Greenwell thinks they can fairly and safely be attributed to a psrio . l which centres , more or lcs =, in B . C . 500 . That they belonged to a time before the Roman occupation seems also absolutely certain , and Canon Greenwell tines not doubt that they were erected by
a people who erected those burial mounds antecedently both to the Christian Era auel the Roman occupation of Britain . Antl here to-tlay we" pause , as regards the main question , hoping at a very early period indeed to point out to our readers what the Borrows were used for , why they were built with such care antl skill , as the age permitted , antl what was placed within them . But before we close
this first portion of our revie . * . * of a most important and enduring work , wc think it rig ht to remind our readers , as some of them , like ourselves , may have been fascinated by the same study in other yews , though cares and trials , many and great , may have made us forget that old earth lore we had once essayed to master , that other writers have treated upon the same subject , though none , in our
opinion , so clearly , satisfactorily , and fully as Canon Greenwell . Some of us may have poretl over in other days some of the glorious volumes of Sir Richard Colt Hoare ami revelled in his striking description of Wiltshire antiquities . Some of us may have seen Mr . Borlase's most interesting work , "Nenia CornubiaV' and Mr . Warne's " Celtic Tumuli of Dorset , " some of us may have looked
into Douglas's "Nenia Britannica , " some of us may have admired Bryan Faussett's " Inventoiium Sepulchrale . " But still , tlespite many lucubrations of the past , as regards funeral rites and modes of interment , some interesting French cursory notes , we have seen some general
works on intermvnts or leicd essays on the remains , for instance , of Brittany , we certainly are indebted to the writer of " British Barrows" for a work which constitutes a complete collection of facts on a subject about which much has been written , hut until his happy and ingenious explanation , great doubts and obscurity prevailed .
Freemasonry In The East.
FREEMASONRY IN THE EAST .
We have , says the Times , been favoured with the following extract from a letter written by an Englishman of high position in Egypt : — " Cairo , Sept . 8 . "Vou will remember , of course , the name of Sheikh Jam . M ed Din , whose violent articles against England were
translated by Dr . Badger . This man has been lately delivering most revolutionary lcctuies , and has gotten together a number of disciples , in whom he has instilled principles ct atheism and communism . About a fortnight ago the Sheikh was arrested and sent off to Suez , where he was placed on board a steamer bound for Jedclah . All his papers were seized h \ thc police , and a day or two
afterwards a paragraph , communicated by the Prefecture of Police , was published in the native journals . This paragraph alluded to the exile of the Sheikh , to the revolutionary principles he had taught , anil to the secret society he had founded , and warned the Egyptians of the peril incurred by following such a leader , & c . Jam ;\ l ed Din had been W . M . of our lodge , antl , in consequence of his
unMasonic conduct , we hail applied to Grand Lodge for his explusion . But thc native Masons were filled with fear and trembling on reading the ' communique , ' and applied to me to make matters smooth for them . Nobody would take any step . They were all affaid of coming forward and desirous that their connection with Masonry should be ignored and even denied . I did not know the
Freemasonry In The East.
exact light in which the new Khedive would regard Masonry among the natives , but hoping to be able to convincc his Highness , and rely ing on his own good sense , I entered the arena as the champion of Oriental Masonry . " I obtained a private audience with the Khedive , congratulating him upon the wise step he had taken in expelling Jamil ed Din , but hoped hc would not attribute to Masonry the principles held by one member of the
fraternity . He replied , ' No , on the contrary , mon Bey , I know all about it . Masonry is a society for doing good and does not enter into religion or politics ; and as Jamal ed Din would lecture on these forbidden topics you expelled him from the lodge , and for the same reason I have expelled him from Egypt . He was only here on sufferance , having been already sentenced in Constantinople to expulsion from the Ottoman dominions . Vou need not fear that I shall confound his principles with those of
Freemasonry . ' " I thanked his Highness , but added that , although we European Masons knew that we could always justify our meetings , thc natives had not the same means of making their feelings known , and it was on their behalf that I came to speak to him . His Highness replied that I mig ht assure them of his protection so long as they acted as Masons ;
but that any Egyptian , whether Mason or not , who sought to cause intrigues and conspiracies would be punished . I then asked his Highness for the papers belonging to the lodge , which he promised should be restored to me . "I subsequently drove to the lodge and found the ' Concordia ' holding a meeting , in which a painful discussion was going on with regard to this business . But when I
was announcetl I was admitted as a visitor with immense honours , antl , communicating to them the substance of my conversation with the Khedive , I received the heartythanks and applause of the meeting . And I have since receivetl all the papers belonging to the lotlge . I had only attended one meeting at which the Sheikh presided , after
which there vvas a banquet , at which the health of the Prince of Wales was proposed . But the W . M . ( Sheikh Jamal ) refused to drink it , saying that all Princes , Kings , and Khedives were tyrants . Whereupon I rose from the table . e | uitteil the room , antl wr te to the lodge , and afterwards to the Grand Lotlge , for his expulsit n . " I have succeeded him by unanimous acclamation . "
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
The General Committee of ihis Institution assembled on Thursday afternoon at Freemasons' Hall . Bro . H . A . Dubois presideti . There were also present Bros . James F . Corben , Col James li . Peters , F . R . W . Hedges , Secretary , and H . Massey ( Freema-mi . )
After the reading ami t onfirmatmn of the minutes , the recommendations of the House Committee were adopted , anil notices of motion were received for the October Quarterly Court . A letter purporting to come from Bro . Dick Radcliffe for approval of his scheme for the " Masonic Scholars ' Assistance Fund" was read , but as the letter enclosing the
circular was not signed , it was ordered to lie on the table . On the motion ot Ceil . Peters , seconded by Bro . Corben , a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Bro . Joshua Nunn and his nephew , Mr . A . Rowland , for entertaining the children of the Institution with a vocal and instrument il concert , which several of the House Committee attended , on Monday last . The Committee then adjourned .
Presentation To Bro. Fountaine, Lodge 948.
PRESENTATION TO BRO . FOUNTAINE , LODGE 948 .
On Wednesday , the 17 th inst ., thc brethren of the above lodge performed the very pleasant duty of presenting Bio . Bernard Thomas Fountaine , Esq ., of Stoke House , a Past Master of the lodge , with a very handsome portrait of himself . The object of the present was twofold . It was intended as a te ^ imonial to Bro . Fountaine for the
ve < y efficient services he had rendered this his mother lodge , in acting for a long series of years as Treasurer of its funds , and in filling all the offices—even tbe highestwith so much distinction to himself and benefit to the lodge ; an'l also to be a weeding present to his eldest daughter , Mrs . Fountaine , of Paris . The portrait is threequarters in length , and most life-like , the countenance
having a warm and be-nevolent expression . The clothing ( purple and gold ) is that of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Berks and Bucks , of which lodge Bro . Fountaine is a Past Grand Treasurer . The jewels depicted on his breast are indicative of the honour with which he has passed through the various degrees of Masonry . . The portrait was painted by Myall , of Regent-street , and is mounted
in a handsome gilt frame , with glass , surrounded by a margin of velvet . It is quite , a work of art , and does much credit to the firm from which it emanates . The presentation was made at Stoke House by thc Testimonial Committee , Bros . McCubbin , Poynter , King and Morgan . Bro . Fountaine , who was accompanied by Mrs . Fountaine antl family , together with a few select Masonic and other friends , received the present at the hands of the Committee ,
and in a . neat and appiopriatc speech expiessed his pleasure antl thanks on be-half of his daughter and himself . By the kintlness of the host and hostess the brethren and friends dined together , and in the post-prantltal speeches great desire was expressed that 'I . G . A . O . T . U . would grant long life , happiness , antl prosperity to Bro . Fountaine , and his family , as well as to the ntwly-wedded pair in Paris .
Bro . W . H . Saunders , of 27 , "Walbrook , London , will be happy to receive votes on behalf cf Percy Herbert Stone , candidate for the Boys' S"S * , it