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tempt and ridicule amongst the more intelligent members of the human family . Moreover , his Holiness , it is said , Avas led into the commission of this grave error of policy and religious blunder by that portion of his council Avho are , if report

speaks truly , members of that greatest of all the secret societies in the Avorld , knoAvn in Rome as the Religious Order or Society of Jesus—better knoAvn wherever the Anglo-Saxon tongue is spoken as Jesuits—than by Avhom ancl through whom the

entire civilised Avorld has suffered the largest amount of misfortune , misery , ancl possibly bloodshed .

This so-called religious order is hated alike by the truly enlightened Roman Catholic as an enemy of his Church , ancl by every other religious denomination , sect , or body of men throughout the world ; yet the Pope , in his blind rage , fails to see

that the most accursed of " secret societies " — those plotters against the Avelfare of individuals and states , ancl of princes and peasants alike , the avoAved enemy of eA ery other Church but that to Avhich it professes allegiance , and under the banner

of Avhich it trades , the Jesuits—must be included in his general condemnation in the mock thunder of his allocution ; or he Avishes it to be assumed and taken for granted by the Avorld at large that the society of Jesuits is not a secret society—a

supposition upon Avhich the Avorld at large will laugh his Holiness to scorn , as being quite iu keeping Avith the holloAvness and jugglery invariably belonging to such pitiful exhibitions as papal allocutions and such like theatrical thunder , as issued from the Vatican .

As Ave have stated , public attention having been called to the subject of secret societies and their constitutions , objects , & c , it may be Avell to give , for the enlightenment of the public , some evidence not only of the secret character

of the Societ y of Jesuits ( to Avhich Order several of' the cardinals and heads of the Romish Church belong ) , but also to point out , by extracts from published documents issued by authority of the heads of the Order , the dangerous character of

that secret society , and the avowedly immoral and degrading practices AAdiich are not only permitted to be practised by them , but are insisted upon by the heads ofthe Order as being necessary under their Avell-known plea that the ( C end justifies the

means ; " and Ave propose , from time to time , to give portions , as Ave aro enabled to complete the translation of the Avork in question , and so to

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give , in the course of a short time , the entire of the precious document . MeaiiAvhile , it may be interesting to his Holiness to be informed that , in this country , although the society of Freemasons is a secret society , its

existence is recognised by the State , and the lodges of Freemasons meeting throughout the kingdom and elsewhere , under British rule , are especially exempted from the pains and penalties to which secret societies are liable , and that , by the Act

of Parliament of the thirty-ninth year of the reign of George III ., chap . 79 , art . 5 expressly excepts " all lodges holden under the said denomination , and in conformity to the rules prevailing : amone : the said societies of Freemasons . "

Furthermore , for the purpose of preventing illegal bodies from meeting under the denomination of Freemasons , and also the holding of irregular lodges , certain formalities are required to be performed , as directed by articles 6 and 7 , amongst

Avhich is the compulsory furnishing by two or more members of each lodge , once in every year , of a certified list of the names of the members of such lodge , and the time and place of its meeting . This certificate is to be deposited Avith the clerk of the peace . We shall return to the subject next week .

Public Entertainments.

PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS .

It has been an acknoAAdedg-ed fact , since the nature of the mental faculties has been at all studied that they , in common Avith the physical ones , cannot bear to be under a constant strain , but need relaxation in order that they may retain their proper vigour , but much discussion has

arisen , and is likely to arise as to the mode in AA'hich such relaxation should be obtained . The proper development of the physical man is a matter , tolerably simple , beingMisually attained by an uniform exercise of all the physical poAvers , sufficiently strong to call into lay all the organic

p elements and the vital forces by Avhich they are ruled Avithout taxing them too severely . These exercises may as experience SIIOAVS be gradually increased up to a certain point or limit depending upon strength of frame and of constitution . In some degree the action of the mental powers

may be regarded as parallel with that of the physical ones , but the former being far more delicate , far more incomprehensible , and far more intrinsically valuable than the latter , demand a most searching and diligent consideration on the part of anyone Avho professes to " minister to a mind diseased" or even to maintain the , " Mens sana in corpore sana . " _ Every mind has some peculiar physiognomy of