Masonic Notes And Queries.

crest , engraved on a scroll the word " Praises ; " the Senior Censor ' s , Censor primus ; " Junior Censor , Censor secundus . " The President aud Censors , during their offices , at public meetings , or elsewhere , shall wear their respective tokens , and no others . The tokens were then ordered to be depicted on separate pages of the book , and are beautiful specimens of drawing .

The minutes of proceedings come next , and contain , amongst many other things , the following entries : — " 18 Feb ., 1724 , T . Shuttleworth entreats the honour to lie made a member ; which was done , and he signed an undertaking approving , and promising to ohey , the fundamental constitutions . " Thomas Oliverson and John Guest were also admitted , they " claiming no right or privilege to act or direct in any affair relating to the society . "

Ordered , also , that " the first six solos of Corelli , made into concerto grossi by our Dictator , Signor Francesco ^ Xaverio Geminiani , be subscribed for by the society . " Ordered , on the 4 th of If arch , 1724 , " that a cedar pedestal , not exceeding with its ornaments in the purchase , twenty pounds , proper instruments and furniture belonging to it suitable thereto . Proper candlesticks , not exceedingill the purchase five pounds , and a case to keep and preserve them , as also our musical books , papers , and instruments , not exceeding

in the purchase ten pounds , be made according to the directions and approbation , of the President . " The next is so very carious that it deserves to be transcribed entire , and is " To the Eight Worshipful and highly esteemed the President , Censors , and Directors of the society entitled Philo-Musical et Architectural Societas Apollini . Gentleman and brothers , I am a member and Master Mason , belonging to the Bose and Crown Lodge in Westminster , and likewise to the Queen ' s Head in Hollis-street , intreat your honour to be admitted into this society in the lank and degree of one of the directors as Kfo . 10 , April 1 st , 1725 . THOMAS HAKBIX . "

Then made and admitted . On the same day J . 0 . Eversmau was also admitted . At the same time it was resolved that they should meet every other Thursday evening , at six o'clock , and break up at eleven , at the Queen's Head , near Temple Bar , the Censors to order the entertainment . There was , on the same day , a visitor from the lodge at Dicks' Coffee-house , but a blank remains for his name . From the Queen ' s Head Lodge , in Hollis-street , a visitor , " Thos . Fisher , a Master , " signed his name . On April 7 th , James

Murray to be admitted . Anthony Corville , " a member and Master Mason , belonging to the lodge at the Queen's Head , in Hollisstreet , " also petitioned . On the loth of April , ** Mi-. James Murray " did attend , and was made and admitted . " Bro . Anthony Corville " was also admitted . On the same day there was a visitor from the lodge at the King's Head , in Pall Mall , who signed as "Jno . Milxman , Master . " The following utensils were purchased , "A " basket hilt sword with a dented blade ; a brass drawing-pen ; a

square of brass and ebony . " April 20 th , 1725 . Joshua Draper petitioned to be received as a member . ' - " The 12 th of May , 1725 . Our beloved brothers and directors of this right worshipful society whose names are here underwritten , —viz ., Bros . Charles Cotton , Esq ., and Papillon Ball , were regularly passed Masters ; F . X . Geminiani was regularly passed Fellow Craft and Master ; James Murray was regularly passed Fellow Craft . Witness , William Gulstone , Prases ; Coort Knevit and William Jones , Censores . "

May 13 th , 1725 . The President requests the society to accept " a Bible , that was printed in the reign of Q . Elizabeth of glorious memory , bound in black leather and gilt , which this society have honoured me with making use of ever since it was founded . " The same day Mr . Joshua Draper was admitted , and "from the Lodge at Tom ' s Coffee house , in Clare Market , " as visitor , was "Peter lleffer , Junior Warden . " Here I will again break off , and return to the subject in another communication . —MATTHEW COOKE .

JIASONlC AND CHIVALBIC TMIPLABS . I thank Sir Knt . Shuttleworth for his reply ; such courtesies often remove misconceptions . He is wrong in supposing I wished to fasten upon him what I cannot but consider aii in vidimus distinction ; at the utmost he could only be blamed for endorsing it . I cannot , however , consider the French Templars a spurious body , but on the

contrary the legitimate head of our whole Order , and I have looked at the subject in all its bearings . With respect to this there may and will be different opinions ; not so as to the fact of which Sir Knt . Shuttleworth professes ignorance , that this body requires from , or confers several Masonic degrees including the 18 th on all postulants . My authority is Clavel , _ who is full y borne out . In an account of their clothing inserted about twelve months ago in the MAGAZINE , the jewels of the different grades will inform Sir Knt . Shuttleworth what the Masonic degrees arc . —t

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

Mr . S . O . Beeton , one of the most enterprising of modem publishers , announces a new weekly journal for the 7 th of September , under the title of Tlie Queen to be particularly addressed to-Englishwomen . It is to be an illustrated journal of news , literature , and art , and is to be accompanied with photograph supplements-A photograph of her Majesty , by Mayall , will accompany the first number . The name of Mayall is a sufficient guarantee for its excellence .

The Hon . Grantley F . Berkeley , in his English Sportsman in tie . Western Prairies , relates the following : — " I had not been long in the society of gentlemen from the United States before I learned that to tell untruths was not to lie . To tell an American 'he lies / is to bid him draw a knife or revolver ,- but pleasingly to show himthat you guess ' he ' s pitching it in considerably smart , ' and departing from nnsmart fact , is no insult whatever . * Do you shoot with

rifle ? ' said one of my conversationally playful friends to me . ' Yes , ' I replied . * Guess you think then you're a pretty good shot / he continued . ' Guess I do / was the rejoinder . ' Guess you'll not come up to our Kentucky men / continued my companion ; ' betternot try your hand there unless you can come nigh their doings / ' What do they do ? 'I enquired . 'Just this , yes , sir ; they place an old pea rifle barrel , horizontally at one hundred yards , and then , with their other rifle fill up the small barrel with bullets without

without missing a shot , I reckon ; yes , sir ! ' ' I can't do that / I replied ; ' yet I have not the least fear but that at the living thing they will not get far ahead of me . ' ' Eeckon we shall see / and my friend then whistled and walked the upper deck . " The committee for erecting a Crimean monument at Sheffield .

has adopted a design hy Mr . G . Goldie . Mr . John Younger the St . Boswell's shoemaker and fly-fisher , in- , his Bicer Angling for Salmon and Trout , says : — " The grand mistake of all the authors I have seen on fly Ashing , is their supposition that the flies are alighting on the water from above , whereas , could they catch up the idea , or be persuaded when told , that the flies arise to the surface from the bottom where they are

bred , sheets of useless speculation might be saved ; such as about making your cast of flies alight softly on the surface , like living flies alighting from the air above , & c . AVater flies do arise from the . surface occasionally , as well as for sexual contact , like midges , bees , and birds , such as snipes and swallows , and sometimes alight on it again . One of a thousand may do this , and on alighting be met by a ready trout , but this is rather an accidental alighting than a general case , as the trouts are really rather feeding on those arising

from the bottom upwards , while those ascending into the air aredone with the water , not requiring to return . " A new penny weekly newspaper for South Durham and Cleveland , the Stochton Journal , is abour to be commenced at

Stockton-on-Tees . In a recent volume of poems , Mr . Whittier , the American poet , preserves the beautiful legend of " Skipper Ireson's Eide " in what will be something more than Some Ballads . Floyd Ireson was a master-mariner or " skipper" of Marblehead , and his crime and . fitting punishment are well told in the following verses : — Body of turkeyhead of owl

, , Wings a-droop like a rained-on fowl , Feathered and ruffled in every part , Skipper Ireson stood in the cart . Scores of women , old and yonug , Strong of muscle , and glib of tongue , Pushed and pulled up the rocky lane , Shouting and singing the shrill refrain : " Here's Find Oirsonfur his horrd horrc

, , Torr'd an' futherr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morble ' ead 1 " AVrinkled scolds with hands on hips , Girls in bloom of cheek and lips , AVild-eycd , free-limbed , such as chase Bacchus round some antique vase , Brief of skirtwith ankles bare

, , Loose of kerchief and loose of hair , With conch-shells blowing and fish-horns' twang-, Over and over the Misnads sang : " Here ' s Flud Oirson , for his hoord horrt , Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morble'ead !"