Knight Templar Jottings.

to control these degrees , actually obtained them in a Knights Templar Encampment . We hope these and other facts will hasten the establishment of a " Council of Rites " to work and control all the degrees above the Royal Arch

( including the " Mark" ) , and thus place the whole on a legitimate , independent , and fair basis , as ably advocated in an excellent leading article in THE FREEMASON for May 14 th . W . J . HUGHAN . ( To be continued . )

The Symbolism & Significance Of Numbers.

The SYMBOLISM & SIGNIFICANCE OF NUMBERS .

BY BRO . WILLIAM CARPENTER , P . M ., P . Z . ( Concluded from page 248 . ) There has been entertained , from very remote times , a belief that the six days of creation multiplied by a thousand , the days being

interpreted as prophetic days , that is a day for a year , fixes the commencement of the sabbatism of rest promised to the people of God . This was a common opinion among the Jews . RabbiEliezer says , "The blessed Lord created seven worlds , but one of them is all Sabbath and rest in life eternal . "

And so , too , Bcrcschita Rabba , " If we expound the seventh day of the seven thousand years , which is the 'world to come , the exposition is , ' He blessed it , ' because that in the seventh thousand all souls shall be bound up in the bundle of life . So our Rabbins of blessed memory have said in their commentories on ' God blessed the seventh

day , ' the Holy Ghost blessed the world to come , which beginneth in the seventh thousand of years . " Plato held the like opinion , and amongst the early fathers holding the opinion may be mentioned Barnabas , Irenffius , Cyprian , Lastanlius , and

Ambrose . 1 he same opinion is now entertained by the most learned and sober-minded students of prophecy , and although most of them abstain from dogmatising about the year when the 6 , 000 will be completed , and the sabbatic thousand , or

millenmm , commence , they all look for it within the present century , or early in the next . It is a noticeable fact , that Captain Baker , by a process of rotation , peculiarly his own , and which has certainly brought out many dates exactly

corresponding with history , and Mr . W . C . Thurman , an American expositor ofthe "Sealed Book of Daniel , " who has tested the Hebrew chronology by strict astronomical verities , concur in placing the end ofthe 6 , 000 years in October ,

1875 . I mention the fact , as a very curious one , without venturing any judgment upon it . But , now , some one may ask , where is the utility of all this speculation on numbers ? And some may deem it trifling . That I believe has

been the case with many things ultimately found to be of great value ; and if it shall be found , as I think it will be , that numbers are used with great significance and emphasis in the sacred writings , who shall say , that as a means of exegesis ,

a knowledge of their symbolic value may not be of great importance ? But apart from this , the ancient mysteries cannot be read and understood without such knowledge . Many things otherwise insignificant , or even puerile , will be

found expressive of some hidden truth when read by the light which the symbolic use of numbers supplies ; and beyond that , and to bring the matter home to ourselves , it may be added , that a perfect knowledge of Freemasonry cannot be acquired without some study ofthe subject .

THE BLOOD PURIFIER . —Old Dr . Jacob Townsend ' s Sarsaparilla . Other Medical Testimony . — -In speaking of the "Mood Purifier , " old Ur . Jacob Town-end ' s Sarsaparilla , G . C . Kcrnuii , M . D ., I .. S . A . l . und , says : "I strongly recommend it in cutaneous diseases and all impurities of the blood . " March 2 . | , lS 6 y . —] n a lciler lo Uic proprietors , June 6 , 1 S 60 , Dr . Irvine , of Irvine ' s-lowii ,

says : " I have been in the habit of ordering your Sarsaparilla for my patients with the best results . Send me six quarts and six mammoth bottles . "—l- ' or all skin diseases , for purifyin ;; the system of mciciiri . il poisons , and building up the broken constitution il is the only safe and certain remedy . In bottles 2 s . lid ., 4 s ., 4 s . 6 d ., 7 > . 6 . 1 ., lis .

Sold by all llnifj . nisis . Pills ami Ointment each in boxes . Is 2 . 'id ., 2 > . <) I , . | s . 6 . 1 . Testimonial .- a ' s 1 from ilic Hon . the llvMi ) uf UMIIOJV ; Ocni-ivd William ( iil ' ocrl , ol the Indian Army ; ordered al > o by Apothtcaiics' Hall , London . Caution —Get the red and Iriue wrappers , with the old Doctor ' s head iu the ceulrc . No oilier genuine .

Obituary.

Obituary .

EARL HOWE , P . D . G . M ., and P . Prov . G . M . Leicestershire and Rutland . The town and county of Leicester have sustained a poignant and irreparable loss . A nobleman who , for more than half a century , attracted to himself an amount of respect and veneration

which it falls to the lot of but few among us to attain , has been removed from our midst . We allude to the removal by death of Earl Howe . The sad event , although long anticipated and for some time seen to be inevitable , has nevertheless fallen upon the population of our borough

and county with all the force of a sudden and unexpected calamity . On the evening of Thursday , the 12 th inst , Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe , G . C . H ., P . C ., first Earl , expired at his lordship ' s town residence , 8 , South Audleystreet , full of years and honours , esteemed by all

classes , lamented by all parties , and leaving behind him a memory which will continue to be respected , as long as any merit is attached by men to a faithful discharge of the duties of the public , or of the kindly amenities of private , life . The immediate cause of death was , be believe , his

old enemy , the gout , but for several years his lordship ' s health has been seriously deranged , and this , coupled with his advancing years , had prepared the public mind and that of his friends and relatives for his decease . His lordship was son of the Hon . Penn Asheton Curzon

( eldest son ofthe first Viscount Curzon ) and tlie Baroness Howe . He was born at Gopsall , December nth , 179 6 , and succeeded his grandfather as Viscount Curzon in 1820 , and his mother as Baron Howe in 1835 . In l & 2 5 he married Lady Harriet

Georgina Brudenell , second daughter ofthe sixth Earl of Cardigan ( who died in 1836 ) , by whom he had seven sons and three daughters . His lordship married secondly ( in 1845 ) Anne Gore , second daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Sir George Gore , K . C . B ., Maid of Honour to Queen

Adelaide ( the late Queen Dowager ) , by whom he has two sons and one daughter . The family creations are the Baron Howe , of Langar , 1788 , Baron Curzon , of Penn , 1794 , Viscount Curzon , 1802 , and Earl Howe , 1821 . His lordship was the patron of thirteen livings—the vicarage of

Actonand incumbency of Charsfield , Suffolk ; the incumbency of Curzon Chapel , London ; the vicarage of Penn , the incumbency of Penn-strect and Tyler ' s-green , and the vicarage of Little Missenden , Buckinghamshire ; the rectory of Gotham , and the vicarage of Radcliffc-on-Soar ,

Nottinghamshire ; the rectory of Congerstone , the vicarage of Shackerston , the incumbency of Twycross , Leicestershire ; and the incumbency of Nether Whitacre , Warwickshire . His lordship ' s predecessor was his grandfather , Assheton , Curzon , Esq ., first Viscount Howe , who was born

February 22 nd , 1733 , and was raised to the barony 1794 , and afterwards advanced to the viscountcy 1802 , and who married , first , 1756 , Esther , daughter ol William Hanner , Esq ., ( died 1764 ) , and by her had issue one son and two daughters : second !) -, in 1766 , Lady Dorothy

Grosvenor , sister of the first Earl (> rosvenor , and by her had issue two sons and two daughters ; and thirdly , Anna Margaretta , daughter of Thomas Meredith , Esq ., and died 1820 , without issue from the last marriage . Her ladyship , as above stated , died in 18 35 . His lordship was

Lord Chamberlain in tlie household of her Majesty Queen Adelaide , from her accession to the throne in 18 30 till her death , and was one of her Majesty ' s most faithful and confidential servants . At the memorable commemoration at Oxford in 1835 . when William IV . and his illustrious consort attended , Lord Howe was honoured with

the degree of D . C . I .. In his capacity of Lord Chamberlain to Queen Adelaide , lie accompanied her Majesty to Malta , and subsequently to Madeira and Germany . Having filled for some years a prominent position in the Court of the Queen Dowager , lie tool ; no part in tlie political matters of the d ;> y . J le was a Trustee of Rugby School , a Governor of the Charterhouse ( we be-|

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lieve the oldest governor of that institution ) , and since i 86 ohadbeen Lieut .-Colonel Commandant of Prince Albert ' s Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry . The deceased nobleman is succeeded by his eldest son , Viscount Curzon , who was born 1821 , was educated at Eton and Christ Church , Oxford , where he took the degree of

B . A . in 1841 , is Colonel Commandant of Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry , a magistrate for Leicestershire , M . P . for South Leicestershire in the Conservative interest , since 1857 ( when he was elected without opposition ) , and who married in 1846 Harriet Mary , daughter ofthe late Charles Stuart , Esq ., of Critcher House , formerly M . P . for Dorsetshire .

In his political sentiments he was Conservative , and although not an active politician , his support and interest were always given to that party . He never aimed at playing a conspicuous part in politics ; he was through a long life a remarkable feature in our social existence as a nation . His position , indeed , constitutes a more

curious illustration of English society , and ofthe combination of circumstances that tend to give a man influence under it , from the fact that he was not a man of leading intellect and oratorical acquirements . Amongst the population of South Leicestershire he was held in the highest consideration by all classes , and enjoyed a social influence little inferior in its indirect effects to

the sway winch his feudal ancestors enjoyed . Xot only was he esteemed as a landlord , not only as a man distinguished for his high honour , for his hearty English hospitality , for the graceful courtesy of his bearing , but also for his genial and generous sympathy with the pleasures ,

occupations , and feelings of his neighbours . In fine , in all the relations of life he was distinguished by a scrupulously considerate attention to the feelings of others—a quality equally exhibited in matters of the gravest consequence and of the most trivial import . He was charitable in the

highest degree ; he supported all useful institutions in a munificient manner , and was ever ready to assist the needy to an extent which never , perhaps , can be fully known . He was a sincere friend to the Church of England , and his purse was continually open to all objects which

had for their aim the relieving of distress and the promotion of religion . He was by no means intolerant towards Dissenters , and manifested an active interest in everything which tended to the welfare of his native county . In the demise of this deservedly respected nobleman—one whose

example all , rich or poor , will do well to imitate —Leicestershire will miss a much valued friend . He had a kind word for every one , alike for the artizan as for the peer , and he has gone to his grave having earned the laurels , with which a good and holy life is always accompanied ,

namely the respect and esteem of all who knew him . His memory will long be cherished in this district . Amongst Freemasons his lordship ' s decease lias caused a gap which will not be easily filled . As the Provincial Grand Master of

Leicestershire , he fulfilled all the duties of his office with a kindness and courtesy which made him beloved by the " Craft . ! ' They ever welcomed his genial presence amongst them , and the fact that he was to preside at any of their meetings was participated in by all the brethren with the greatest

satisfaction . A few facts respecting his Masonic career may not be uninteresting to our readers . He was initiated in the Tyrian Lodge , Derby , September 25 th , 1815 ; passed and raised in St . John ' s Lodge , Leicester , in September and October , 1821 , of which lodge until the day of

his death he was the oldest member . He was W . M . in 1822-3 , and as such laid with Masonic honours the foundation-stone of St . George ' s Church , Leicester , on the 23 rd August , 1823 . He was exalted in the Chapter of Fortitude attached to that lodge , October 22 nd , 1822 ; was second Principal 1823-1826 , and succeeded

HSir F . G . Fowke , Bart ., as M . E . Z ., 1831-1833 . Ij He was one of the founders of the John o'Gaunt | Lodge , in 1846 , and the Chapter of St . M Augustine , at first attached thereto , but since J to the Ferrers and Ivanhoe Lodge , at Ashbyirde-h-Zoncb .. He was appointed P . G . M . of « Warwickshire in 1 S 44 , and retired on account ja of ill-health in 1852 . He was appointed D . G . M ,