Masonic Notes And Queries.

Bart ., who was Provincial Grand JIaster of the Province of Durham in 1811 . She was born in 1794 , and married to the poet Lord Byron in 1815 . The only fruit of their union ivas a daughter , Ada , who was married to the Earl of Lovelace in 1835 , and died in 1852 , leaving three children , "Viscount Ockham , Ralph Cordon Noel King , and Ann Isabella Noel King . Lady Byron a few days before her death sent , £ 40 to the Garibaldi fund .

HIGH GRADES AND TEMPLARS . As it is not IIOAV permitted for brethren of the above to wear their clothing in assemblies of Jlasons , can you cite any instance where it ivas formerly done' ?—EXPERT . —[ On St . John's Day , 1790 , the first stone of the Mole was deposited in the sea at Jfoiitcgo Bay , in the island of Jamaica , the JIasonic procession being formed on landand proceeding to sea in boatsThe JIaster of

, . the St . James ' s Lodge applied the proper instruments and gave the word to . " Drop the first stone of the Mole , " which was done by the JIaster JIason , after which the brethren and corporation landed and went to church , and besides the corporation there was a separate JIasonic banquet , There were three processions that day winch were arranged in the following order ; and to shew "Expert" what he particularl y inquires about , we have italicised

the positions taken by the High Grade Jfasons ' aud Knights Templar . First came the peace officers , president of the corporation , directors two and tivo , treasurer , secretary , contractors for buildnig the close harbour Jlole , harbour-master bearing the Union flag , band of music of 83 rd regiment , two 'T ylers with swords , Stoivards of the St . James ' s and Union Lodges , tivo and two , in then- regaliawith white staves . The HolBible carried b

, y y an Entered Apprentice , and the symbolic flag of Craft -JIasonry borne by another , clergy , Entered Apprentices , Fellow Crafts . Book of Constitutions carried by a Fellow Craft , and the Loyal Arch banner borne by a brother of that Order , JIaster Jlasons , Brethren of the Higher Degrees , Knights ' Templar ' banner borne hy a Knight , and the Booh of Sacred Truths withxccensealscarriedhja M . E . of N . Knihts TemplarPast JIastersSecretaries of the three

, g , , Lodges , Treasurers of ditto , Junior Wardens of ditto , Senior Wardens of ditto , JIasters of ditto , his honour the custos , magistrates and gentry , tivo and tivo , masters of ships , headed by the rcmor masters , members ofthe corporation and inhabitants . ]

Notes On Literature Science And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ART .

THE Cambridge correspondent of a contemporary says thafc the surprise felt at the long delay in filling up the Professorship of Modern History at that Uiiii-ersity was great , but the surprise at the Eev . Charles Kingsley ' s appointment to tho office is far greater . The peculiar qualifications oi : the rector of Evcrsley fer this post arc afc present unknown lo the University , whilst it is remembered that popular novelists are not . as a rule , remarkable for historical erudition . After waiting eiht

g months , it ivas expected that Lord Palmerston would have chosen a man of known historical attainments . They say that tho offer of the Professorship was made to Mr . Arthur Helps and Mi-. Vcnables , by whom it ivas respectfully dec-lined , but there were plenty of other well-qualified gentlemen willing to accept ifc . Another ground of objection to Mr . Kingsley is that ho is in holy orders , and it ivas hoped that the

Professorship , which has been held by laymen for nearly a century . AA-ould not again have been given to a clergyman . It cannot be too often repeated that the fundamental fault iu the constitution ol the University is the immense preponderance of the clerical over the secular element , and it need not , therefore , bo matter of surprise that , when the most remunerative and exalted dignities aro exclusivelin the hands of the sacerdotal

y order , the laity should be jealous of clergymen being thrust into offices for AA-hich they themselves are eligible . They is a further objection to Mr . Kingsley ' s appointment . For the future the parish of Kversley will have a non-resident rector , or the Unii-cmfcy ivill have a non-resident Professor of Historv .

We . have to record the death of Sir Fortunatus Dwarris , ivho ivas extensively knoivn and respected in legal and literary circles . Sir Fortunatus was educated at Rugby and Oxford . He was called to the bar in IS 11 by the Middle Temple , and had been a bencher of that society for many years . In 1 S 22 he ivas appointed oue of the eommisj : ioners to inquire into the state of the law in the West India Islands , and on the passing of an act founded his report ( we believe he was

upon the only surviving commissioner ) , his services ivere ac-ltnoAvledged br kniglitliood . He Avas aftenvards a member of the corporation commission , and ivas subsequently appointed one of the masters of the Queen ' s Bench , which office ho held until his death , on the 20 th inst , He bad recently resigned the Jlceurucrship of XewcaBtle-uiidcr-Lyiie .

Sir I ortunatus was a member of tho Royal Society , and of tho Society of Antiquaries ; a vice-president of the Archaiological Association , and a member of the Archaeological Institute . He was favourably known in the legal world as the author of a valuable work " On the Construction of Statutes . " He also published many pamphlets on literary and legal subjects , and some dramatic and poetical pieces . The neiv work by Mrs . Harriett Beecher Stoive , to be published by

Messrs . Sampson Low and Son , will , Ave understand , have for its subject the Italian peninsula , in AA-hich the authoress of " Uncle Tom ' s Cabin " has been for some time a sojourner . We ( Critic ) have to announce that Mr . if . E . S . A . Hamilton , of the British Museum , is engaged in preparing a rejoinder to Mr . Collier ' s defence , ivith the result of further investigations . It is also likely that in a very short time our suggestion that the Dulivieh documents shall

be submitted to the scrutiny of a competent tribunal ivill be acted upon . " The May Exhibition , a Guide to the Royal Academy , " by Mr . Walter Thornbury , the well-known art-critic and coming biographer of Turner , is published by Virtue . Mr . Thorubui-y ' s brochure includes a notice of Jlr . Holman Hunt's great picture at the German Gallery . Messrs . Blackwood have published a neiv edition of the late lamented Professor Johnson's popular and in struct ive '' Chemistry of Common

Life . " The editor is Jlr . G . H . Lewes , who has borrowed from Professor Johnston ' s work , the title of his OAVU , "Physiology of Common Life , " the publication of ivhich the Messrs . Blackwood have recently completed . It is announced that Mr . . Erskine May , whoso name will be familiar to many of our readers as the author of the best work ive have on Parliamentary and Constitutional Laiv and Usage , in consideration of the valuable services so long rendered by him in the conduct of the business connected with his post as clerk-assistan t in the House of Commons , has had conferred on him by her Majesty tho companionship of the Civil Order o £ the Bath , This is a Avorthy recognition of services worthily

pei'lormed . The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury says , that Mr . Walter is not the only great proprietor of the Times ; a Mrs . Anna Brodie is nearly , if uot equally , as much concerned in its prosperity , though she is too great an invalid to sit at that fearful council boai d Jlr . Horsman speaks of . The paper is , hoAvever , divided into sixteen sharesaud there are even sub-divisions of those shares . "Among the

, names ivill be found Hogg ' s , Garden ' s , Tito ' s , Wood's , Sec ., and , in fact , it is a little joint-stock company , in which there is no Rothschild , as rumour some time since asserted . As regards the influence of Jlr . Walter , I may mention instances enough when smart and damaaiiie article ; - have been written in the ' Times against some political policy in the morning ' s paper , and Mr . Walter ' s name has been afterwards found

ill the list of those ivho voted for tho measure . " Tiie Journal of Ike Society of Arts announces that the amount of the Guarantee Fund promised up to 9 th May , was 221 , 900 / . M . Arsene Houss . iye , the author of the "Hoi Voltaire" and other popular and clever works , has written a history of French art in the thirteenth century , which attracts considerable attention . It is not a mere dry book , but rather a collection of biographies of artiststheir

, works being considered iu connection with the story of their lives . This gives the volume a great charm , and will ensure it a large number of readers , for artistic life in France presents more salient points than any other . It is in the studios that the true characteristics of French society are to be found in the state nearest nature . And this not in a bad sense , but the reverse . The artists ot Franco—or at least those of the last century—retained much of that originality ivhich other classes

so soon lose . They then lived in a world of their OAVU ; and even those who ivere not true Bohemians had generally enough eccentricity to give them a picturesque character , and to isolate them from society at large . These peculiarities have found a fortunate illustrator in M . Houssayo , Avho has hmm-1 ? much of : the artistic element in his composition .

An enterprising Paris publishing house has just entered into an arrangement for a French translation of Carlyle ' s " French Revolution " and of a portion of the Essays of the same author . This will be a difficult job for the translators , and Avould seem almost a hopeless task , but that it has been undertaken by two gentlemen in conjunction , one of whom may be described as an English-Frenchman and the other as a French-Englishman . The w-ork will appeal- in the course of Hie

summer or am ' unnu . M . Antoine Francon has published another of bis ' ¦ 'O puscules , " on a subject the very mention of which is ominous . There must be something wrong . somewhere , when a French litterateur can persuade himself to publish a ' ' ¦ History of the Physical Degeneration of the French , "