"Freemasonry And The Law's Of The Land."

"Jewish , " Mahometan , and other Orders of Freemasonry is totally incompatible with the true principles of our institution . All who have the real interest of the Craft at heart should zealously guard against the slightest

encnichnient on the ancient landmarks of our Order , and especially prevent the baneful influences of sectarianism to take root and eventually spread destruction amongst us . I am , & c , E . GOTTIIEIL .

"A Caution."

"A CAUTION . "

( To the Editor of The Freemason . ) DEAR SIR AND BROTHER . —It appears to mo of the utmost importance that somo of the cases that come before the almoners of the different lodges should now and then be ' * reported" for the guidance of

others . Within the last fortnight application has been made to me by two persons , ami I beg to forward to you a short statement of the particulars of each case . The first called himself Louis Gounart , and said he was a Frenchman , he had been many years in New Orleans , was a merchant there at one time , had

served as a soldier in the Southern army ami was badly wounded on several occasions , he determined to return to his native country , and left Quebec ( so he stated to me ) not long ago in the ship Uftina , bound from Quebec to Liverpool with timber , but the ship was wrecked near the Isle of Wiujit , he saved himself

by clinging to a piece of the wreck , and after much exposure lie was picked up by a Prussian ship , the Minna , hound to Sunderland , she put into Burlington Buy from stre .-s of weather , and he was landed there . He at once ( so his story goes ) went to lhe W . M . and brethren ofthe lodge there , they , pitying his wretched

and lorlorn condition , at once sent him to a tempi rance hotel where he remained for three days to recruit his strength , they paid all his expenses ami also his railway fare to Hull . He waited upon me and stated that he was desirous of getting to London ami from thence to Paris , his mother who lately lived there was

dead and had left him property , but he had rot the means to pursue his journey . 1 put a series of questions to him , the answers to which were not quite satisfactory to me , and I determined to make enquiries respecting him , and therefore told him to call again . 1 then consulted a worthy brother here , the Secretary of

a society fur the relief of really destitute foreigners . 1 found that he had been lo him before he came to me , representing hiin-elf to be a German and I hat he wanted tu go to Mayence . 1 then wrote to the Almoner of the Burlington Lodge , he in reply stated when ho presented himself to them he said he had come

from a ' ship in the Bay ;'' he had no papers or documents of any kind to prove this , he was given three shillings und sixpence and told to make his way from there as soon as possible , he also got a shilling from some one else , ^ onie day s after that he presented himself airai . i to the Almoner with a message Iroin the

W . M . that he , the Almoner , was to lend him live shillings , and that the Muster would make it "all righl , '' LlnV he declined to do , at tl e same time giving him to understand that , if he did not go away soon he might In gelling into the hands of the police . He told

them lie was ivicckcd in a shi p hound from Sow York to Liverpool . He had lhe appearance of a Frenchman , he is clean shaved except a very large moustache and imperial , he is also lame of one foot the shoe of which has a thick sole , he has a walking stick which ho related he had saved from the wreck . W hen I

found that the several accounts he hud given of tho same circumstance varied considerably I of course declimd to hel p him , and as I consider it very probable that he will still he " working his way" I trust tl ^ e f .-iv notes may be ol service to those whom it may concern . The olh .-r case only occurred to-day ,

a person calling himself Johu Anderson , Master Mariner , late of Halifax , Nova Scotia , waited upon me with the fi . lliwing statement : 1 fe had been master and part owner of the bri g Hose of Halifax , Nova Scotia , she was run down oll'lleaeh y Head on the 27 lh October last , he and part of tho crew had only just

time to save themselves in the joll y boat , they were nicked i . p and taken to llauihuig and lauded there , he hud no documents to show any of thos . circiiinatunecs , the only proof he eoiilu give was a lettir containing a statement signed by several persons who had put their names down for donations from £ to

£ b each ; he further stated that he had come from Hamburg to Lynn iu a Dutch g . iliiott , but . on looking over his paper with an expert brother I found he had been to Norwich t > Kast Dereham , to Lynn , to Boston , and Grimsby , the . lodges of which places appear to have given him us-isUmee ; on being prtssed he said he had landed at Yarmouth ho Was then asked how loim it

took him to go from Hamburg to Yarmouth , lie said twelve hours , and as the passage by ste . m is generally forty-eight hours it , struck me that he must hive been on board of the " Flying Dutchman " to have iiiude JO wonderful a passage . The result of my examination ¦ was that I declined to ndd my nunc to kis already too long list of sympathizing brethren . No doubt he jJuo wil be " working his way . " If he had been the

"A Caution."

person he represented himself tn be I feel sure the English Consul at Hamburg would have sent him to Halifax , Nova Scotia , and not suffered him to be begging his way through Masonic Knglund . I am , Sir , yours fraternally , P . M ., 57 , And Almoner for the Hull Lodges .

Ancient And Modern Mysteries.

ANCIENT AND MODERN MYSTERIES .

JBY BRO . ROBERT WENTWORTII LITTLE , President of the London Literary Union , Editor of " The Rosier ucian , " die . ( Continued from page 229 . ) The Rev . Dr . Henry has collected all that is

interesting or valuable respecting the doctrines of the Druids , which he asserts were much the same with those ofthe Gymnosophists and Brahmins of India , the Moji of Persia , the Chaldeans of Assyria , the priests of Egypt , and all the other my stagogues of the ancient world . Their public theology differed from the dogmas revealed to the initiated , the one being

used as the means of attracting the superstitious multitude , while the secret rites bound their disci ples to the system by awful and irrevocable vows . I have already mentioned that the Sun may be considered

the earliest and most universal object of worship , and it will he found that the Druids were not exempt from this particular form of idolatry . Like the Shebers celebrated in Moore ' s poem , they worshipped inextinguished fire which was tended with the greatest

care . Iliggins in his " Celtic Druids , " page 283 , refers to one ofthe chief seats of this Sun-worshi p being at Kihlare in Ireland , where a famous round tower still exists in proximity to the ruins of an ancient abbey , part of which is now used as the parish church . I

have had an opportunity of inspecting this marvellous structure , which has for so many ages withstood the raviges of time and decay , and the impression it produces on the mind is melanchol y in the extreme . Pew can view so stately a relic of antiquity without reflecting on the past history of Immunity , ou the

constant succession ot races u . id religions , dynasties and empires which time has now almost utterly swept into oblivion , leaving hut liere and there a sculptured stone or marble column , to attest that such things were . The height of the Kihlare round tower is in itself most remarkable , and it must have been a most

commanding post for the Druids or rather Druidesses , as it was a female order of priests that officiated here as guardians ofthe sacred fire . In later days a sisterhood of nuns flourished in their turn ; now , all around hears the impress of ruin and desolation . A short account ol the dress and customs

of the Druids may be found useful in tracing the resemblance which , as many writers have professed to to prove , is to be perceived in the observances of Freemasonry at the present day . The garments of the sacrificial priests were extremely long , and when engaged in religious eeicinoni s ihey invariabl y wore a

surplice of the purest white ; they carried a wand in their hands , and their necks were decorated with gold chains , and while their hair was clipped very short , their beards , on the contrary , were of immense length . They worshipped the Supreme Being under the

name of r . siis or Ilesiis or the god of struigth , symbolised by the oak , and their temples , as I have alread y indicated , were simply woods or groves , unless on special occasions when they resorted to vast npiiilhrio temples like that on Salisbury Plain . No person was permitted to enter their sacred

recesses , unless he carried with him a chimin * a token of his entire dependence on the Deity . The consecrated groves in which they perfornud the exoti rie religions were guarded by inferior Druids , who suffered no stranger to intrude upon their privacy . By the > e means tiny maintained their hold over the minds ol

the people , and were enabled m secret ; o perfect their knowledge of the arts and sciences then practised amongst the wise and leu ned few . After the Roman invasion of Britain , Mona or Anglesey became their head quarters and seat of government , until the island was attacked b y Suetonius

Puulinius in A I > . Cl . This general having utterly defeated the Britons who attempted to defend lhe isle , cut down the sacred groves , demolislud the temples , and burned the Druids and Druid , sses in the fires which it is said they hud kindled for the . sacrifice ol the Woman prisoners , if the Britons had proved

siieccslul . Afler this event the power of the ancient Hritish priesthood was effectually broken , and they became emerged in the Welsh Bards , whose subsequent slaughter b y Edward I . bus been referred to previously . It is a curious fact that modern or convivial Druidisni is founded upon a legend in which Suetonius Puulinius plays a conspicuous part . ( To bc continued . )

Red Cross Of Rome & Constantine.

RED CROSS OF ROME & CONSTANTINE .

INAUGURATION AND DEDICATION OF THE KENLIS CONCLAVE , No . 20 , AT KENDAL .

For some time past a general desire has existed amongst the leading members of the Craft in Westmorland , for the establishment of a Red

Cross Conclave at Kendal , in the vicinity of which town is situated Undei ley-hall , the seat of Lord Kenlis , who is the Chief of the Order , and also Provincial Grand Master for

Cumberland and Westmorland . It was therefore resolved to confide the preliminary arrangements to Pro . Edward Bushcr , whose high jiosition in the chivalric Order as G . S . General of England , and Inspector General of the local division , emineutlv qualified him for the pleasing task .

With his usual zeal and ability Bro . Busher left nothing undone that mi ght add to tha success of the conclave . The magnificent room at the Albert-buildings , the property of Bro . Busher ' s firm , was fitted up superbly for tho

Inauguration Ceremony , which it was arranged should take p ' acc at one o ' clock on Thursday , the ISth instant . Accordingl y at ( he hour

appointed a Grand Conclave was opened b y tho M . 111 . Lord Kenlis , G . Sovereign , assisted by the V . 111 . Edward Bushcr , G . S G ., Inspector General for Cumberland aud Westmorland ,

Robert "Wentworth Little , G . B ., Inspector General for Middlesex , and 111 . J . Daniel Moore , JI . IX , Inspector General for N . Lancashire . The following brethren being in attendance wero then admitted , received , constituted , and

installed Knights of the Order and founders of the Kenlis Conclave , viz .: — Colonel John Whitwell , M . P . for Kendal , Deputy Provincial Grand Master for Cumberland and Westmorland .

Samuel Iredale , P . Dep . I rov . Grand Master lor Cumberland and Westmorland . Lieut . Samuel Gawith , W . M 120 , P . S . G . D . John Holme , S . W . 129 , Prov . G . D . C . Dr . Robert T . Leeming , . J . D ., 129 .

Dr . William Jones , Z ~\ , Prov . G . Steward . John Pearson , P . S . W . 11 ) 02 , P . P . G . D . Henry Rauthuiell . S . D ., 129 James Summers , I . G . 129 , P . G . Purst . Richard Robinson , W . M ., 1002 .

Thomas V . Taylor , S . W ., 1002 . William Taylor , S . D . 1002 . Edward Friend , P . M . 101 ; $ , W . M . 1289 . Nearly ail these bietbren hold office in tlio Prov . G . Lodge . Lord Kenlis conferred tho accolade of Knighthood in each instance .

The formal inauguration of the Conclave was then proceeded with , urn cr the presidency of tho Grand Recorder , IL \\ eiitworth Little , assisted in a nio .-t masterly manner by Inspi - ( . tor-General Moore , of Lancaster , who acted as Hi g h Prelate ,

and delivered the prayers and orations in a faultlessl y perfect style ; in fact we may say with truth , that tins working of this important ceremonial on this interesting occasion has never been excelled .

The Conclave was then dedicated and constituted as No . 20 ou the roll ol the Grand Council of Ltigl . ind , and tho members were called upon to name the first M . !' .. *> . and V . E ., when Col . Whitwell , J / . /' ., was unanimously chosen for tho post of Sovereign , aud J ohn Holme , for that of

V . E . A Collego of Viceroys was then opened for the reception of several candidates upon whom the G . Sovereign pioposed to confer the sccrnd grade of the Older , and afler the usual

preliminaries , seven Knig hts were admitted to the rank of Viceroy , after which a Senate was held for tho enthronement of Col . Whittle as M . P . S . of No . 2 " , honorary rank being also conferred upon other representatives of lodges in Cumberland

and Westmorland . The Conclave was then resumed . It was proposed , seconded , and carried by acclamation , that the 111 . Bros . Little and Moore , be elected Don . Members of the Conclave for