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' 1 ruined by cautious practitioners of the law , and there is no redress . The world does not hear you . The world , if it did , would not care for you . It would not trouble itself about the punishment of rogues who have not hurt it . They have not actually committed felony . They have not stolen any little absolute thing . The whole has been

done by rule , and according to law . The whole method has been respectable . They have only plundered you with less necessity , but with more politeness , than highwaymen . Their great grace is that they have taken a longer time about it . They have only committed moral offences against your purse and person . Worse , perhaps , these

may be thought than the deed of the violent , because , to their errors , you must add ingratitude and betrayal , while the undisguised robber selects you according to chance as his victim . And , having once made up his mind to the commission of the deed , he owes you u ° more respect or forbearance than he does any other person .

" Such characters as these curious professionals abound , and the money-making world grows generally too like them . There are dignified exceptions . We , indeed , do not accuse all . We speak of the struggle for life as exhibited in the perfection of civilisation , where any man may hold any office of the State , ay , or of the . Church , and be stained black as an Ethiop with legalised vices . There is , indeed ,

public opinion ; but that is slow , and easily to be appeased by the wealthy and plausible . Be your pocket deep , your voice sonorous , your front not too brazen , and you need not fear real indictments . The false indictment of the opinion of the world has a very large hole through which you can creep . We will put it fairly to our readers whether there is not a great deal of truth in this which we say ?

The society of the present age , though it may shudder at the duel or the outrage , has established no real rigorous censor of the heart or conduct , and boasts ( and it , itself , regrets it ) no recognised tribunal of equity or of honour . " Children of Ishmael ! Lawyers ! think of these things , and throw us not down ( other people will not , we are sure ) because we happen to speak a little unpalatable truth !

Masonic Union . —We would not disparage the nearness of the universal Masonic tie , or the strength of that cement which unites the whole fraternity into a society of friends and brothers . Still no one can deny the operation , in Masonry , of that principle which forms a part of our human nature , and which receives , as dearer to us , those who belong to our immediate family , than those more distantly connected—a brother , than sx friend . We may go to the house of a hospitable neighbour or acquaintance , and feel all the ease and freedom of a

welcome ; but when we go to the house of a brother , we feel that it is next to home . Likewise it is in Masonry . Those who realize that their interests and destiny are common , are bound by cords which draw them most closely together , arid feel a sympath y otherwiseunfelt and unknown ; a more ardent desire to " promote each other ' s welfare . " This feeling , too , is capable of expansion ; and by means of a national organization , instead of being confined to the limits of a state , would be bounded by the limits of the Union . —( From the National Masonic Convention , held at Washington . )