Rare Certificates.

No . 3 is a well-known design of French certificate , compose < ¦/ drare a Teanfoiies par le f . . F . ' . X . ' . Konis i , but its interest lies in the fact that it is used for a lodge styled les Eiifans de rHclvclic , in the Third Swiss Regiment , constituted in 1808 by the G . Orient of France . It was granted to

Lieutenant Charles Taglioretti , of Lugano , and dated at Lille April 4 th , 1811 . The seal is of metal , in a tin box , suspended from a light blue ribbon , and is

from one of the finest dies I have seen . On a tessellated pavement stands a

man in what 1 presume to be the uniform of the Regiment . His left forefinger is laid on his lips , and at his feet liesaswo ; d . His right hand rests on

and points out a draped and crowned shield . On a blue iield are a number of emblems surrounding a central group composed

of an irradiated star and G , with a compass and square , the latter inscribed . 1 MOI L :. E . ' . D . - . L . ' ¦ U . ' . Around the

seal is the inscription , LES EXEAXS DE L'HELVETIE A L'O .: DU . ? . - . REG .: SUISSE . On the back are endorsements showing that the

CF . RTIFICATK FROM THE LODGE IX TIIK Hun SWISS REGIMENT , UNDER THE GliAND ORIENT OF FRANCE .

Lieutenant visited the Lodge Ecossaisc de yernsaleni at Paris on January nth of 1818 , and ( curiously ) the same date in 1819 . The next specimen—also French—is of the so-called Masonry of Adoption . Lodges of this Order , which admitted

OLD FIIKNCII CKIITIFU'ATE OK THE KITE OF AIIOl'TION .

Relies to a sort of Masonic ceremony , were authorized b y the Grand Orient in 1774 , and , says Bro . Guild , " soon became most brilliant assemblies , that is , having regard to the persons who took part in them , especially under ( he Empire . " The oertihcate is printed , wi ( h rather crudely coloured and poorly

drawn symbols filled in by hand . At the top is Eve ' s fatal apple , surrounded by the words . Union , Viiinc , Silence . Six stars are inscribed respectivel y with the letters AC K— :-: BF F :-: — Ben — H :-: J —and E :-: . The motto under is , " By constancy they are united . "

The certificate is from the Lodge Dcs A mis Indirisahles at Paris to Sara Polak ( wife of Thomas Polak ) , aged ^ and native of

years , a Amsterdam , who possessed the Three Grades of the Alasonry of Adoption , and for her many virtues confers on her the dignity

of Sister Secretary . It is " made and delivered in the Garden of Eden " (!) the 23 rd of November , 1806 . In the lower lefthand corner Time , with

his sevthe and hourglass , reposes under a wonderful apple tree , round which is curled a green and black snake , with an apple

in its mouth . Next is Noah's Ark , with , apparently , a ( hatched roof and two glazed windows . Then the Tower of Babel , and , finally , on the right ,

a pillar surmounted by a flaming heart , and decorated with skull and

crossbones , and hourglass together with a crimson ribbon , inscribed , S :-: P :-: F :-: _ T :-: H :-: C :-: — and J :-: V :-:. The seal is , unfortunatel y , missing , but the red ribbon from which it was suspended remains .

No . 5 is the new certificate of the Grand Lodge of Scotland . Alasonry in Scotland being , as far as we know , of so much greater antiquity than in England or Ireland , it is curious thai i ( should not have adopted an official certificate until a much later dale than those of the Sister