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CHISWICK LODGE OF INSTRUCTION , No . 2012 . THE FIRST ANNUAL SUPPER Will take place at the BOLTON HOTEL , DUKE ROAD , CHISWICK , On SATURDAY , the 28 th FEBRUARY , 1883 , at 7 o'clock precisely . Tickets to be had of the following Brethren : — E . AYLING , P . M . 975 , Preceptor . G . GARDNER , S . W . 2012 , Treasurer . A . H . STRONG , W . S . 2012 , Secretary . F . R . HAYES , VV . M . 1767 . H . PERDUE , W . M . S 34 . J . SIMS , S . W . S 34 . F . SMITHER , 1567 . H . FURZE , l . G . 2012 . F . WALDEN , 2012 . V . WING , 15 S 5 . A . WILLIAMS , S 34 , Brethren are cordially invited .

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DAGGED SCHOOL UNION . PRESIDENTThe Rt . Hon . the EARL OF SHAFTESBURY , K . G . There are over FIFTY THOUSAND of the Children of the poorest of the City Poor gathered regularly in the One Hundred-and-Eighty Affiliated Ragged School Missions in the Metropolis . Help is urgently required to sustain these Missions of Benevolence in their work of mercy and true religion . Contributions may be sent to the Secretary , JOHN KIRK , Exeter Hall , Strand , W . C . ; or to the Bankers , Messrs . BARCLAY , BEVAN , & Co ., 54 , Lombard Street , E . C .

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, VJ " C VA 7 " ANYONE CAN PLAY THEM . IN CJ VV NO INSTRUCTION NECESSARYWILL PLAY ANY TUNE . PRICES IWTTTQTf ^ AT HYMNS , SONGS , FROM 20 / - 1 V 1 U olV ^ / iTLLv DANCES , AND WEEKLY OR MONTHLY PAYMENTS , QUADRILLES , IK DESIRED . EQUAL TO A PIANO . COMPLETE WITHOUT ONE . WOJM LJ-fcirvOOrguinette Music lid . per foot , New List . MUSICAL BOXES . INSTRUMENTS REPAIRED . Sewing Machines Half-price . J . N . WOOD & CO ., i , City-road , Finsbury-sq ., London , E . C .

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DER WASSERFALL . NEW WALTZ by ^ " Devonia . " Greatest Success of the Season . Played by many London and Country Bands . " A very pretty set of waltzes and much above the average . "Modern Society . * ' A bright and lively production . " —Hampshire Independent . WEEfCES & CO ., Hanover Street , London .

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ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY . 92 , CHEAPSIDE , LONDON , E . C . FIRE , LIFE ~ ACCIDENT . Capital—One Million Two Hundred Thousand Pounds . liutilutetl 1808 , and Empowered by Special Act of Parliament . The Company has been in existence more than 76 Years . Moderate Rates . PromptSettlements . Liberal Conditions . All its Funds are Invested in Great Britain . Transacts Home Business only . No Hypothecation of Funds for Foreign Policy Holders . Ample Reserves apart from Capital . LIFE DEPARTMENT—Whote-WorM Assurances . Liberal Surrender Values given in Cash or by paid-up Policies , Payment of Claims immediately on proof of death . All" kinds of Life Assurance transacted . ACCIDENTS—Assured Against , whether fatal or causing total or partial disablement , at moderate rates , and with liberal Compensation . FIRE—Policies issued tree of expense . LOSSES OCCASIONED BY LIGHTNING will bepaid whether the property be set on lire or not . LOSS OR DAMAGE caused by Explosion of Coal Gas in any building assured will be made good . Seven Years' Policies granted on payment of Six Years' Premiums . Active Agents Wanted . SAMUEL J . PIPKIN , Secretary .

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ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY , LIMITED , io , ST . SWITHIN'S LANE , LONDON , E . C . Ucneral Accidents . j Personal Injuries Railway Accidents . | Deaths by Accident . » C . HARDING , Manage :

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AN IMPORTANT FACT ! £ jr \ and upwards carefully invested «^? -L \ J in Options on Stocks and Shares is the safest and most popular way of rapidly making money on the Stock Exchange by the non-liability system . Explanatory Book ( tilth edition ) giving full details , gratis and post free . — Address , GEORGE EVANS and Co ., Sworn Brokers , Gresham House , London , E . C .

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MEMORY AND SUCCESS . What Contributes to Success ? A Good Memory . What Causes Failure in Life ? A Poor Memory . What can all obtain from Prof . LOISETTE ' S Discoveries ? A Good Memory The Physiological Art of Never Forgetting—using- none of the "Links , " "Pegs , " "Localities , " or "Associations" of Mnemonics . Lost memories restored—the worst made good , and the best better . Any book learned in one reading . Fluency promoted . Speaking without notes guaranteed IMPORTANT TO MASONS . Prospectus post free , giving opinions of Mr . RICHARD A . PROCTOR , Dr . ANDREW WILSON , and others who have studied the System . A Day Class in Never Forgetting and for cure of Mind-Wandering commences every Monday at 3 p . m . An Evening Class every Tuesday at 8 p . m . Great inducements to Correspondence Classes in above in all parts of the world . Lectures in Families of the Nobility . Also Private Lessons by Post and by Personal Instruction . Professor LOISETTE , 37 , New Oxford-street ( opposite Mudie ' s ) , London , W . C .

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ROSE CROIX CHAPTER OF INSTRUCTION . —THE INVICTA CLUB ( Chapter No . 10 ) has Resumed its Instruction Meetings at the Masonic Hall , 33 , GOLDEN-SQUARE , , W ., to which all Members of iS ° , owing allegiance to Supreme Council of England . & c , are invited . SEVEN p . m ., on 3 rd March , 7 th April , 5 th May , 2 nd June , 6 th Oct ., and ist December ; being the ist Tuesday in the aforesaid months . —George Powell , P . M . W . S ., Hon . Treasurer and Recorder , 30 , Moorgate-street , E . C .

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NOW READY . Bound in Cloth , Price 15 s . Vol . 17 , / or 1 SS 4 , of " HTHE FREEMASON , " Containing A acomplete record of Masonic doings throughout the Year , with a copious Index and Table of Contents . Vols . 1 to 16 can also be obtained .

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INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXHIBITION , SOUTH KENSINGTON , 1881 . a OLD MEDAL awarded for EXCELLENCE OF QUALITY TO OALT and Co ., EAST INDIA PALE and BURTON ALE BREWERS , Stores and OEices , 21 to 31 , PANCRAS ROAD , LONDON . LIST OF PRICES to bo obtained oE all the Principal Dealers .

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MARGATE . Nursing Home for Gentlemen ' s Children . HIP , SPINE , AND ALL OTHER DISEASES OF BONES , JOINTS , GLANDS , & c . Family Life , Home Comforts , Hospital Nurses , Morning Lessons . Address G . W . SPETH , Cliftonville .

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A SUITE OF MASONIC ROOMS TO LET AT 16 AND I 6 A , GREAT QUEEN STREET , ( Opposite Freemasons' Hall ) , NEWLY DECORATED AND FITTED von LODGES , CHAPTERS , PRECEPTORIES , CONCLAVES , CHARITY COMMITTEES , ARBITRATIONS , & c . For particulars apply at THE " FREEMASON " OFFICE , 16 , GREAT QUEEN STREET , W . C .

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( BJfcucattonaL HIGH-CLASS PRIVATE SCHOOL THEOBALD'S PARK , WALTHAM CROSS , LONDON , N . PRINCIPAL : Rev . J . OSWALD JACKSON , Assisted by Five Masters . Limited number of Gentlemen ' s Sons ; motherly care for delicate pupils j individual teaching for backward ones ; playground of six acres . First Class Honours gained at last Cambridge Local Examinations , with Distinction in Mathematics . References kindly permitted to Rev . Dr . Reynolds , Principal of Cheshunt College , Herts . Rev . Charles E . Mayo , M . A ., Nottingham . Sir Thomas Chambers , M . P ., Recorder of London . Richard Toller , Esq ., Solicitor , Leicester . George Kenning , Esq ., Little Britain .

To Correspondents.

® o © rjmgpotttients ,

The following communications stand over—In consequence of the pressure on our space caused by the lengthy report of the Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , we are reluctantly compelled to hold over many reports and articles of interest , including the following :

CRAFT LODGESSomerset House and Inverness , 4 ; Industry , 4 S ; Palatine , 97 ; Southampton , 359 ; Philanthropy , 940 ; Hemming , 1512 ; St . Augustine ' s , 1941 ; Army and Navy , 1971 ; Temperance , 206 S . LODGES OF

INSTRUCTIONConstitutional , 55 ; Faith , 141 ; Clapton , 1365 ; Hyde Park , 1425 ; Ubique , 17 S 9 ; Wanderers , 1604 . ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERSRoyalty , 1051 : Ley Spring , 159 S . MARK LODGESAldershot Military , 54 ; Excelsior , 226 ; Prince Leopold ,

Prov . Grand Lodge of Leicestershire and Rutland .

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IRQ ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^— ^^ SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 28 , 1885 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

L \ Ve do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . l

"IN REBUS MASONICIS . " To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Your leaders in yesterday's Freemason and Notes and Queries 512 and 514 , lead me to make a request I have long wished to make . Will you , or Bro . Hughan , or Bro . Speth , or some other well qualified brother kindly give us an idea of a course of Elementary Masonic reading ? If two or three brethren of standing would give us their

idea ot a tew standard explanatory works , or the order in which they should be read , where they can be obtained , and the price , I hope that a few brethren , at all events , may be shortly in a better position to understand one of the most interesting parts of your paper , and be relieved from such a humiliating position as the present writer was recently placed in , when , having rashly ventured an answer in Notes and Queries , he received a very kind letter from Bro . Speth , which made him ( knowing his utter ignorance of the veriest elements of Masonic historvl feel such an

utter humbug and impostor that he has never ventured even to thank Bro . Speth for his kindness , and now asks Bro . Speth ' s forgiveness for his seeming rudeness . But my difficulty , and I have no doubt that of other young Masons , is not knowing where to begin , so as to get any intelligent bird ' s-eye view of the ground before going into detail . —Yours fraternally , February 22 nd . S . R . B . [ We will consult with our Bros . Hughan , Gould , and Speth , and see if we cannot set out a "syllabus" of Masonic reading and study . —ED . FMi ]

THE GORMOGONS . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Such a lively interest appears to be excited by my

last communication , as evidenced by the correspondence X have had on the subject ( to only one of whom I can at present privately reply ) , that I send you a further transcript , which , besides being interesting in a Masonic sense , will be partially explanatory of my remarks . One valued Iriend and brother in the South takes me to task for an expression which a few additional lines would doubtless have made clearer ; but I could not have imagined any such construction being placed upon it .

Of course I don't hold any such absurd idea as that wealth and position unfit any one to be a Mason , but exactly the contrary . I have the honour to know personally many such of whom the Craft may well be proud . I referred , of course , to wealth and position alone , or with positive disqualifications . —Yours truly and fraternally , J . RAMSDEN RILEY .

Extract , Plain Dealer , September 14 th , 1724 . " I will not be so partial to our Worshipful Society of FREE and ACCEPTED MASONS , as to forbear reproving them on this occasion , for the unaccountable Pother and Noise they have lately made in the world . " What Stories have been told to amuse and engage the Credulous ? What Reflections , what Reproach , have they brought upon That Ancient ORDER , by making Proselytes , in so cheap and so prostitute a manner ? It afflicts

me sensibly , when I see Coxcombs introduced into out Lodges , and made privy to our Secrets . I have often entered my protest against this Abuse , in private Society ; and must use the Freedom to offer this Memorial in my public Character . * ' 'Tis my opinion that the late Prostitution of our Order is in some measure the betraying it . The weak Heads of Vintners , Drawers , Wigmakers , Weavers , & c , admitted into our Fraternity have not only brought Contempt upon the Institution , but do very much endanger it . " if

w - * r w „ " My Female Readers , and I ' m afraid some of the Brotherhood may stop here , and stare as if I had blabb'd out the whole Mystery . They may be doubtful whether the above words and dashes may not be deciphered into the famous Mason Word . But I leave thr » iimorant to

their Wonder ; and proceed to assure my Brethren that they have promoted Superstitution and Babbling , contrary to the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King , by their late Practices and Condescensions . "Alarming Reports , and Stories of Ladders , Halters , Drawn Swords , and Dark Rooms have spread Confusion and Terror , and-if the Government does not put the Laws against us in execution it will be an extraordinary Favou '