Freemasonry In Portugal.

A . G . L . \ do . Sup . \ Arch . c . do . Un . \ S . ' . F . ' . U . - . To the Glory of the Great Architect of the Universe . Health , Strength , Unity .

To prevent any misinterpretation of its designs , the Grand Orient makes the following declaration in the first article of its constitutions . Article—I . The Lusitanian Order of Masons is an

association of free men , essentially philanthrophic , philosophical and progressive , having for its objects the pursuit of truth , the study of universal morality , the arts and sciences , and the exercise of benevolence .

" The Order holds the doctrines of belief in the existence of a God , the immortality of the soul , and the brotherhood of man . " It considers liberty of conscience as the inaleniable right of every man , and excludes no

persons for the peculiarity of their creeds . " The right of Portugal corresponds to that of France in the number and arrangement of grades , as will be seen by the second article of its constitutions .

Article—II . " The Grand Orieute of Lusitana recognises the three symbolic degrees , Aprendice—Apprentice . Companhiio—Fellow Craft .

Mestre—Master . " And the four sublime degrees , Eleita Secrete—Elect . Grand Eleita Escosez—Scotch Master . Cuvaleiro d'Oriente—Knight of the East .

Cuvaleiro Rosa Cruz—Rose Croix , it permits no other degrees to be worked iu the lodges under its jurisdiction . " The symbolic degrees are worked by lodges , the sublime degrees by chapters , but we must reserve the consideration of their mode of working and organisation for a future paper .

Chips Of Foreign Ashlar.

CHIPS OF FOREIGN ASHLAR .

By J . A . H . A WEEK AT THE OLD BIBLE HOTEL . Mr . John Camden Hot-ten in his deeply interesting work on the " Signboards of Inns , " has referred to none more curious than that which designates the hotel , which is most frequented b y

Englishmen and Americans visiting Amsterdam . Many are the queries which the name of Old Bible affixed to an Hostelry evokes , and one would imagine that Mr . Hardenberg , the courteous and gentlemanly proprietor , must be wearied with

explaining the matter . The Old Bible Hotel in Amsterdam obtained its title from the fact that the first edition of the-Holy Scriptures published in Holland , was printed in 1542 , in the very house now devoted to the

Hotel , by Jacob Van Liesveldt . A copy of this edition of the Holy Writ is still preserved by Mr . Hardenberg , and often exhibited to the gaze of the curious . In front of the Hotel is displayed a representation of a Bible , which at one time

contained a reference to that particular passage in the New Testament , which always evokes the enthusiasm of the Licensed Victuallers , and which gave rise some years ago at Nottingham to the singular

couplet" Old Saint Paul was a rare M . D ., He ordered wine to Timothy . " Mr . Hardenberg , relates that when the celebrated Mr . Spurgeon stayed at the Hotel , h e jocosely approved of the utilisation of the prescription imparted to Sc . Paul , in the manner

referred to . Whenever we go to Holland we piously seek the shelter of the Old Bible , and it is only just to add that it is one of the most comfortable Hotels on the continent . During our slay in Amsterdam ,

in February 1869 , the visitors included a goodly number of Freemasons—among whom were Bro , Cyril Wyche of London , Bro . Capt . Perkins of the United States , who was however initiated in the Leigh Lodge , London , Bro . J . W . Chudley ,

of Birmingham , an inimitable wag , Bro . J . JLundy of Leith , Bro . Lovett of Yarmouth , Nova Scotia , and another / ra-e from Yarmouth , England > who shall be nameless . Among such a muster of the brotherhood , Masonic subjects were sure to

receive a pretty Ml discussion . Bro . Lundy of Leith , is probably the only living mason who ever received the three degrees in an English Lodge on the same evening . The circumstances of this affair which happened twenty years ago ,

are no doubt still remembered by some of the members of the Craft in Yorkshire , especially as the Grand Lodge of England subsequently required Bro . Lundy to take the degrees againl Bro . Lundy possesses a certificate of the Roya . Kent Encampment of Knights Templar at New-