The Knights Templars.

the possession of some monks of St . Augustine . In a church of the city , according to Addison , is still to be seen the celebrated statue of the Blessed Virgin , which Bro . Guerrege and three other Templars brought from the East , with the view of

placing it in the Temple Church on the Aventine Hill in Rome , but which they were obliged to leave in Sicily . The statue is of the most beautiful white marble , full length , and represents Mary with the Infant Jesus reclining on her left arm . From an

inscription at the base , it appears to have been executed by a native of Cyprus in the year A . D . 733 . In Denmark , Norway , and Sweden , the Order had no possessions , and they never sought to found a settlement there . { To he continued . )

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES IN FREEMASONRY . Thanks , 'Bro . " M . P . W ., " for tlio paper entitled " Curious Circumstances iu Freemasonry . " You should make the slight alteration suggested , and send it to the Freemasons' Magazine . I have looked , however , in vain for a circumstanco which , to my mind , is curious circumstance

as as any that the paper contains . Bro . Hyde Clarke has "founded a summer lodge for Smyrna at Ephesus , called the Eleusinian , where initiations have been held on the site , where initiations into the mysteries of Eleusis likewise took place . "—See Freemasons' Magazine , vol xvi ., p . 310 . —C . P . COOPER .

NATURAL CHILDREN . Under what misapprehension can it be asked whether natural children can iu any part of the world be admitted as Freemasons ? Can it he an erroneous interpolation of an early question ?—L . R .

MUSIC . There are some persons who suppose music in Masonry to be an innovation , and yet our records attest it is old enough , and no great ceremony has ever been considered complete without it . —L . E .

ORIGIN 03 ? INSTITUTIONS . In the Philosophy of History the origin of great national , or of world-wide , institutions is a study at once necessary , useful , imd interesting . —From one of Bro . Purton Cooper ' s Masonic Note-books .

TOWN S SPECULATIVE MASONRY . My answer to a correspondent at Liverpool is that this work is unknown to me except by the title . I have read the passage inserted in Fraemasons' Magazine , vol . xi ., p . 201 ) , "If from our moral principles we date the origin of Masonrywe must fix its era

, coexistent with the Almighty . " My correspondent should read some good treatise on Religious and Ethical Philosophy , and he will not make light of this passage . Moral principles are eternal ; they have always existed ; they can never cease to exist . —C . P . COOPER .

HELE—OYERHELE . In Longman's new edition of Dr . Johnson ' s English Dictionary , edition , edited by Dr . Latham , will be found a compound of Hele , namely , Overhele . —HYDE CLARKE .

MASONIC PICTURE . "Who is the draughtsman of the plate in vol . ii ., p . 501 , of CasselPs Illustrated Family Bible ? It represents the dedication of the Temple , and is worthy of being placed in a Masonic lodge . If the artist is not a Mason , it is extraordinary . I cannot point out thepeculiarity , but a Mason can recognise it . —E . R .

ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS . Analysis and synthesis are two very different operations of the mind , and are seldom performed equally well by the same individual . Certain writers on Freemasonry are tolerable analysts , but they are bad synthesists . They take to pieces with reasonable

skill ; hut iu their efforts to put together they arerarely successful . —From a bundle of memoranda in Bro . Purton Cooper ' s possession .

MASONIC BIBLIOGRAPHY . In the British Museum is to be found , among theworks of a voluminous American writer , a Masonicwork , the " Genius of Masonry , " by Samuel Lareuse Knapp , published at Providence , New Hampshire , in 1828 . Bro . Knapp is , therefore , to be enrolled as a literary Mason . —HYDE CLAUSE .

REGISTRATION . Can a Mason who is registered on the hooks of the Grand Lodge of Ireland only , be legally made a joining member by a lodge in England and charged with the quarterly contributions without having been first registered on the books of the Grand Lodge of England ?—INQUISITIVE .

MASONIC BIBLIOGRAPHY . Explication de la Croix Philosophique . By Antoine G-uillaume Chereau . Paris , 1806 . With a plate , 24 mo . [ Chereau describes himself as Hon . Officer of the-G-. 0 . of Francemember of the L . and Ch . des

, Chevaliers de la Croix , & c . This curious little pamphlet of 23 pages contains some curious matter on the Rite d'Orient , which seems to be the beginning of that of Memphis . ] Le Tombeau de Jacques Molai . Paris , Desenne . Tear V . of the Republic . Second Edition . 24 mo .

162 pages . [ This is the popular revelation book of Cadet Cassicourt . It is a catchpenny connecting the Templars with the Jacobius as a permanent conspiracy in the form of Masonry . ] HYDE CLARKE .

HORSE MEAT AND FREEMASONRY . Is it brotherly to give horse meat to brother visitors at banquets , as it might make them sick , if they had not horse stomachs like the members of the lodge ? Ought not something to be done to check the abuse ? Must a butcher who kills horse meat take a horsedealer ' s licence ? Is he not liable as letting out horses for hire ? A cabman has to take out a licence