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To Correspondents.
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Post Office Regulations . —We copy the following from the American Mnror and Keystone : — ^ \ > OUTRAXn 30 US Imp package mailed to our address by some friend i ^^^^^ coi ^ iiiing two printed pamphlets . The post-office Apartment demanded ; $ |^||| wof dollars and twentyeight cents as due on this package . We , of course , ^^ i ^ S ^^ jBiy- i ^ Ms ^ : ^ x 6 xfei > i'bazi ' t .
sum , and aske & an explanation , as we saw the postage in England had beeft paid by the person who mailed it . W ^ e were given in explanatioh that ' ' The gdstage on the packet amounted tor twenty-four cents , and ^^^; i billy .:, tweatj * ¦ : cents had been paid on it ; that as the : fftll postage was not pald \ ^ i & e fti ^ J letter postage , and not as printed matter . " To dcsmand ^ W ^ l ^¦ ¦ ;^^¦ : ^ ap ]¦ ar $ ¦ : ¦^ d twenty-eight cents to pay four cents , is > a ^ less than , downright robbery . We have no doubt "that l ^ ^ el are often fleeced in this way ; indeed we were told so at the post-ofilce ^ th ^ t persons sonl e ^
several dollars postage on English publications ; which were marked letter postage . Let us examine the operation of this mbde of imposition . T ^ London has received ; twenty cents postage ~ -we have not received the paftjpfiliets' ---what will be done with them ? Will th ^ package be returned to Bn ^ marked refused ? If so , what will be do ^ the few pence added to the government coffers . Will the department seek the person who mailed , thepamphlets ? It may have been Jibe publisher who mailed it . In any case the person is robbed of his goods and his money /'
[ By a subsequent number of the Mirror and Keystone , we find that the pamphlets lost were Nos .. 22 and 23 of the Freemasons' Magazine , on which Ave paid the full postage of 2 d per ounce ; the packet having been weighed at the Post-office where it was posted . „ But this . is riot all ; we , have received complaints from America of the loss of no less than 12 or 14 of our monthly parts within the last three months , on each of Avhicja we have paid Is . Sd : to 2 s . postage , according to the weight , as directed by the regulations laid down in the guide pablishect officially by the
Post-office . ' The postage of pamphlets and publications between England and America is regulated upon anything but a spirit of equity or justice . If under two ounces , thfe postage isi only Id . ; but as our Magazine Aveighs from " 2 £ to 2 f ounces / the postage is 6 d , and even then there is no security for'its reaching its destination . We are endeavouring to make arrangements for the publication of a special American edition , upon a paper which will bring it Avithin the Id . rate , when we will supply our Transatlantic Brethren direct from home with the Magazine at tl ^ e * English price . —En . ]
Bro . C . Foster is thanked for his communication . Could lie oblige us with a copy as originally written . " * R . S . " —Blue Masonry in Scotland is the same as Craft Masonry with us . A Young Mason .- —In England there are no intermediate degrees between the Craft and Arch . The Mark degree , though worked in separate Lodges , is not acknowledged either by the Grand Lodge or Grand Chapter .
"S . "—We have no authentic records to prove that Sfiakapeare was a Mason , though we believe it is generally held that he was so , and hence the Shakspere Lodge . Sj | - u B . B . " —Oxford certainly produces more Masons of distinction than Cambridge . Bro . Cole . —By an error of our reporter , this Avell known Brother , who holds so distinguished a position in tlie High Grades , was last week ancl the week pre - vious , spoken of as Bro . Henry Beauchamp Cole , whereas it sjipuld have been Bro . George Beauchamp Cpje .
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To Correspondents.
v ; \ ... .. , . ; . ' ¦' ¦ . ' ' ¦"¦¦ . . " ¦ . TO t ^ RRESPOHlbtsrTS .
Post Office Regulations . —We copy the following from the American Mnror and Keystone : — ^ \ > OUTRAXn 30 US Imp package mailed to our address by some friend i ^^^^^ coi ^ iiiing two printed pamphlets . The post-office Apartment demanded ; $ |^||| wof dollars and twentyeight cents as due on this package . We , of course , ^^ i ^ S ^^ jBiy- i ^ Ms ^ : ^ x 6 xfei > i'bazi ' t .
sum , and aske & an explanation , as we saw the postage in England had beeft paid by the person who mailed it . W ^ e were given in explanatioh that ' ' The gdstage on the packet amounted tor twenty-four cents , and ^^^; i billy .:, tweatj * ¦ : cents had been paid on it ; that as the : fftll postage was not pald \ ^ i & e fti ^ J letter postage , and not as printed matter . " To dcsmand ^ W ^ l ^¦ ¦ ;^^¦ : ^ ap ]¦ ar $ ¦ : ¦^ d twenty-eight cents to pay four cents , is > a ^ less than , downright robbery . We have no doubt "that l ^ ^ el are often fleeced in this way ; indeed we were told so at the post-ofilce ^ th ^ t persons sonl e ^
several dollars postage on English publications ; which were marked letter postage . Let us examine the operation of this mbde of imposition . T ^ London has received ; twenty cents postage ~ -we have not received the paftjpfiliets' ---what will be done with them ? Will th ^ package be returned to Bn ^ marked refused ? If so , what will be do ^ the few pence added to the government coffers . Will the department seek the person who mailed , thepamphlets ? It may have been Jibe publisher who mailed it . In any case the person is robbed of his goods and his money /'
[ By a subsequent number of the Mirror and Keystone , we find that the pamphlets lost were Nos .. 22 and 23 of the Freemasons' Magazine , on which Ave paid the full postage of 2 d per ounce ; the packet having been weighed at the Post-office where it was posted . „ But this . is riot all ; we , have received complaints from America of the loss of no less than 12 or 14 of our monthly parts within the last three months , on each of Avhicja we have paid Is . Sd : to 2 s . postage , according to the weight , as directed by the regulations laid down in the guide pablishect officially by the
Post-office . ' The postage of pamphlets and publications between England and America is regulated upon anything but a spirit of equity or justice . If under two ounces , thfe postage isi only Id . ; but as our Magazine Aveighs from " 2 £ to 2 f ounces / the postage is 6 d , and even then there is no security for'its reaching its destination . We are endeavouring to make arrangements for the publication of a special American edition , upon a paper which will bring it Avithin the Id . rate , when we will supply our Transatlantic Brethren direct from home with the Magazine at tl ^ e * English price . —En . ]
Bro . C . Foster is thanked for his communication . Could lie oblige us with a copy as originally written . " * R . S . " —Blue Masonry in Scotland is the same as Craft Masonry with us . A Young Mason .- —In England there are no intermediate degrees between the Craft and Arch . The Mark degree , though worked in separate Lodges , is not acknowledged either by the Grand Lodge or Grand Chapter .
"S . "—We have no authentic records to prove that Sfiakapeare was a Mason , though we believe it is generally held that he was so , and hence the Shakspere Lodge . Sj | - u B . B . " —Oxford certainly produces more Masons of distinction than Cambridge . Bro . Cole . —By an error of our reporter , this Avell known Brother , who holds so distinguished a position in tlie High Grades , was last week ancl the week pre - vious , spoken of as Bro . Henry Beauchamp Cole , whereas it sjipuld have been Bro . George Beauchamp Cpje .