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all British people for home sanctities is proverbial , and may well excite curiosity and comment from every other nation . In no other part ofthe globe is home so greatly cherished and venerated as in the United Kingdom , and this circumstance goes a great way to explain the cause of

England ' s power and greatness . May the affection displayed by all classes for domestic interests ever be maintained in its integrity ! The habits and customs of American society would not be tolerated here , simply because they

are , in the mam , extremely offensive to good taste . Every one , who has a due regard for the moral code , will consider the Eastern Star Order peculiar to the exigencies of the American people .

The information communicated by Dr . Wheeldon , of Buffalo , at a debate of the Dialectical Society , a short time since , indicates the present aspect of public morals in the New World . He said that " the morality in the central and other parts of America is such that

he should be sorry to see anything approaching to it in this country . Divorce was perfectly free there , and women had sometimes children by several husbands . " Bearing in mind these facts , which are too palpable to admit of any doubt ,

the reader will probably see the urgent necessity for organising a tribunal having for its object the reformation of this state of affairs , and the inculcation of moral doctrines among citizens in general . The Eastern Star Order is calculated to lesson the evils known to exist in American

territory , but its presence in Great Britain is not essential to the present social condition of the people . In conclusion , the writer begs most respectfully to tender to the proprietary of this journal

his cordial thanks for their liberality and courtesy in reserving so much space for his disquisition upon the subject of Female Adoptive Masonry , with which a large majority of members of the Craft in the United Kingdom has for a long time been imperfectly acquainted . C . S .

The Morals Of Masonry.— Addressed To Ladies.

THE MORALS OF MASONRY . — ADDRESSED TO LADIES .

Bv F . J . ADAMS , M . D . I know many of your gentle bosoms heave with some little apprehension of your husbands , your brothers , your affianced , perhaps , becoming Freemasons , as if some impenetrable mystery

would henceforward veil them from our gaze , into which it would be all in vain to seek a solution . Cease , ye fair flowers of the creation ; cease for the future to have any vague doubts or fears upon this subject ; listen to the truth-telling

assertions of a Mason of some experience , who has seen its noble work in other lands , under various forms of government , and where many languages are spoken , yet he has ever found the prevailing principle to be that , which ye , fair

ones , so beautifully embody— " Love . " In a Freemason he has ever found a brother , and in his heart a home , genial and warm , from the chilling influence of the cold world without . Weary and friendless he may journey along ; he

arrives in a large and populous town , or , it may be , some out-of-the-way , obscure locality ; no eye to smile on him , no friendly hand to greet him , no welcome to cheer his exile ; he inquires , and meets a brother ; " seek and ye shall find ; " they

soon recognize each other , and , whether many or few , all their hearts are open to him , and he is no longer a stranger , but with those of his own household . Wherever the principles of our beloved Order are carried out , and men act

worthily of their profession , the cup of love always brims over , and the selfish ties of human nature are released . Oh ! it would do your loving hearts good could you but witness the friendly recognition one brother meets from another after he has proved

himself to be such . Sectarian prejudices arc quite unknown in Masonry , the Jew and theGentilelo . se their distinctiveness , and are one heart as well as handbrothers under one common Father , who , in His Word , has said : " Love th y neighbour as thy-

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But , ladies , ye may perhaps ask why all this mystery about it ? Ah ! let me tell you , ye hear ten times more about the mysteries of Masons than they themselves are acquainted with ; for strange tales are often told about them , always without foundation or regard to truth . We have

no mysteries beyond such tokens as are necessary to prevent us from being imposed upon by strangers ; and if ye knew them all , they would scarcely gratify you . AVe are a band of Brotherhood , formed to carry out our leading principle of " Brotherly love , relief and truth , " irrespective

of whatever a man may be , provided he be honest , free-born , and of good report . There is nothing in Masonry opposed to the Bible—which we call the "first great Light "—nor is there anything antagonistic to the religious prejudices of any man . As Masons , we recognize no

political parties ; and if I were a hot Tory , and my brother a hot Democrat , outside Masonry , within the pale of the Order we know nothing of such distinctions , because love cements our union , and love worketh no ill to his neighbour , and love is the fulfilling of the law . Masonry beautifully

chisels down the rough angularities of our nature , and is admirably calculated to develop our higher social , and better faculties . If a man acts up to the spirit of Masonry , he must necessarily become a better citizen , a better husband and father of a family , and , ladies , what most

assuredly you will not object to , a more devoted and admiring lover : "We ' re true and sincere , and just to the fair , Who will trust us on any occasion ; No mortal can more the ladies adore Than a free and accepted Mason . " The principles of Masonry are drawn from the

Bible ; its practices are sanctioned by it , and its discipline is most salutary and corrective . There are , it is true , bad Masons , and bad men who are Masons ; the same may be said of church members—and among even the twelve Apostles , one was a traitor , but in the principles and workings ofthe Craft , there is everything to make a man better than it found him .

The Discoveries At Jerusalem.

THE DISCOVERIES AT JERUSALEM .

Mount Moriah has been found to be a sharp crag or ridge , with so little space on the top as scarcely to afford room for a temple of small dimensions . On all skies it fell off rapidly and very steeply , except from northwest to . southeast , the direction in which the ridge ran . The area

on the summit was enlarged by walls built along the declivities , the outside walls deep down the valleys , from too to 150 feet below the area on which the temple buildings stood . One hundred feet again below this lay the original bed of the brook Kidron . The foundations of the temple ,

therefore , were 250 feet above the deep defiles around . This area , originally built by Solomon and enlarged by Herod , still exists , running on the south along the valley of Hinnom 1 , 000 feet and along the Kidron 1 , 500 feet . This inclosure was originally covered with

splendid edifices . First were the porticos or covered walks , built along the outer walls , and overlooking the Kidron and Hinnom . They were magnificent structures , resembling the nave and aisles of Gothic cathedrals . The middle walk , or nave , was 45 feet broad , and thc two

aisles 30 feet . The aisles were 50 feet high , and the nave , rising like a cleve-story between the two , was more than 100 feet high . Add now terrace walls to the height ofthe porticos , and we have a solid and continuous wall of Masonry 250 feet high . But these were only thc outer

buildings of the temple area . The porticos opened inwardly upon a court paved with marble , and open to the sky . Steps led up to a second court . Beyond this again , through beautiful gateways , was a third , and rising above them all was a fourth , in which stood the temple proper , ascending story above story , and said to have

been 100 or even 150 feet high . These horizontal measurements have been verified Of course we cannot vouch for the correctness of the reputed height of these immense structures . We have the less reason , however , to doubt the last , as we have established the first . If one looked upon Mount Moriah from the Mount of

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Olives opposite , coming round the brow of Olivet on the way from Bethany , as our Lord did when beholding the city , it must have been a sight which , for architectural beauty and grandeur , perhaps , has never been equalled , certainly not surpassed , It was an artificial mountain from

the deep ravines below , wall , column , roof , pinnacle , culminating in the temple within and above all , and probably measuring between 500 and 600 feet . The palace of Solomon , too , added to the impressiveness of the sight . It is settled by

recent discoveries that this pile of buildings was on the southeast corner of the area , joining on the House of the Lord above , and extending below to the King ' s gardens , where the two valleys met and " the waters of Siloam go softly . "

All these buildings , porticos , columns , pinnacles , altar and temple have perished . " Not one stone remains upon another which has not been thrown down . " The area alone remains , and the massive sub-structure that for three thousand

years have been sleeping in their courses . Ihe preservation has been due to the ruin . Buildingsso vast have toppled down the slopes ofthe Moriah that the original defiles and valleys have been almost obliterated . What had been regarded as

the original surface has been found to be debris from 70 to 90 feet deep . With pickaxe and shovel British explorers have been down to the original foundations . Fallen columns have been met with and avoided

or a way blasted through them . The cinders of burnt Jerusalem have been cut through and turned up to the light—rich molds deposited by the treasures of Jewish pride . The sealof Haggai , in ancient Hebrew characters , was picked up out of the siftings of this deposit . The first courses

of stones deposited by Phcenician builders , have been reached , lying on the living rock . At the southwest corner of the area , debris has accumulated to a depth of not less than 125 feet—the accumulation of ages , made up of the ruins of successive Jertisalems ; and here some of the

most interesting discoveries have been made . Here is the famous arch of Robinson , shown now to be an arch , as he conjectured , by the discovery ofthe pier upon which the first span rested . It is the remains of a bridge which crossed the valley on arches , and connected Mount Moriah with the mountain opposite—the modern Zion .

It is the skewback or abutment that slopes to receive the end of the arch . Three courses remain . The stones are five or six feet thick , ancl 20 or 25 feet . The valley here is 350 feet wide , and this must have been the length of the bridge connecting the temple with the royal palace on the other side .

AN election for a Sheriff took place on Friday , the 20 th inst ., at the Guildhall , under the presidency of the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor , who was supported by the Senior Sheriff , Bro . F . W . Truscott ( P . G . S . ) , the aldermen , law officers , and a numerous attendance of the livery . T .

Chambers , Esq ., Deputy Recorder , announced that they had assembled to elect a sheriff in the room of the late lamented Bro . Jones ( whose death we recorded last week ) . Mr . Jones proposed , and Mr . H . Spicer seconded , John Bennett , Esq ., citizen and spectacle-maker , for the office , and that gentleman being declared elected , was duly

sworn in , as also was Bro . Thomas . Beard ( P . M . Temple Lodge ) as Under-Sheriff . The latter brother has , by an event unprecedented , been Under-Sheriff three times in one year—first , by Bro . Jones , the retiring Sheriff , afterwards by the late Sheriff , and then appointed by the newlyelected Sheriff .

ROOTS of the Period at BLAKEY ' , Lime-street , Liverpool ( under the Alexandra Theatre ) . —[ Advt . ] HOLLOWAY ' S PILLS . —Weakness and Debility . — Unless the blood be kept in a pure state , the constitution must be weakened , ami disease supervene . These wonderful I'ills possess the power of neutralising , and

removing all contaminations of the blood and system generally . They quietly but certainly oveicomeall obstructions tending to produce ill health , and institute regular actions in organs that are faulty from derangement or debility . They improve the appetite , and thoroughly invigorate the

digestive apparatus . Holloway s Pills have long been known to the surest preventives of liver complaints , dreadful dropsies , spasms , colic , constipation , and many other diseases always hovering round thc feeble and infirm . —[ Advt . l