Masonic Notes And Queries.

I say again to our learned Bro . Crux that these ceremonies must be studied under the light of contemporary knowledge of their day , and not by the new standard of ours . —H . C . NOTES ON PARIS NAMES . I send you a few notes on names of Paris lodges

, which differ much from ours : — Acacia . Admirers of the Universe . Beneficent and Admiring Friends of Osiris Eeunited . [ This is one of the Egyptian titles . ] Friends of Tolerance .

Triumphant Friends . The Future . Eeunited Benefactors . Clement Friendship . [ Founded in 1805 , a famous Lodge , Chapter , and Areopagus , worked in two rites . ]

_ Cosmopolite Clement Friendship . [ A name imitative of the last famous name . ] Council of the Gauls . [ Claiming to be founded in 1721 , an historical title , and one of the few old dates . ] Tbe Disci ples of Fenelon .

The Disci ples of Progress . The Mutual School . Masonic France . The Fraternity of Nations . The United Inseparable Brethren . [ This beats our 'Prudent Brethren . ]

The French Hospitallers . Isis Montijon . [ Founded 1808 , another E gyptian and historical name . ] Jerusalem of the Egyptian Valleys . [ Founded 1807 , and a curious combination of Jerusalem with Egypt- ]

The Oriental [ is about the only Lodge of the Eite of Mizraim . Toleration has killed this rite . ] Persevering Friendship . The Philadel phes . [ A . restoration in 1863 of an old historical name . ] Progress . New Birth by the Emulators of Hiram .

Eose of Perfect Silence . The Philosophic Hive . Saint Anthony of Perfect Content . [ As this was founded in 1785 , it gives some notion how the name of a saint came to be applied ; for saints are out of date in French Masonry . ]

St . Peter of True Friends . [ 1780 ditto . ] St . Peter of True Experts . [ 1 . 787 ditto . ] The Sectaries of Menes . The Temple of the French Friends of Honour . [ Thoroughly French . ] Work .

The Trinosophs of Bercy . Perfect Union of Perseverance . Masonic Union . Polar Star . Friends of Humanity . The Zealous Philanthropists .

Indivisible Hearts . Beneficence and Progress . The Benovators . Solidarity . The Workers . Philanthropic Union .

A few such as Hope are omitted . It will be seen there is full recognition by our French Brethren of Brotherly Love , Belief , and Truth . It is to be noted that few of these titles are of the last century , and that most are relatively new , and represent the recent aspirations of French Masonry . —K

FREEMASONRY AND BRO . SANDERSON . Bro . Sanderson agrees more with Bro . Buchan , we think , than he at first imagines . Both are of opinion that the third degree was unknown anterior to the 18 th century , and putting aside the mere word " speculative" they no doubt concur in believing

, Freemasonry since 1717 to be vastly different to what it was before that date . We base our opinion on the interesting letter that Bro . Sanderson wrote in the Freemasons' Magazine ( 22 nd August , 1868 ) , entitled " Antiquity of the Third Degree . " From that letter it is evident that the lodge at Houghfoot , although

more speculative than usual , was , after all , of a similar nature to the other operative lodges by which it was surrounded . JE . g ., What characterizes the old lodges chiefly was the absence of an elaborate Eitual , as also the fact that the third degree was never worked or known . In this respect the lodge at Houghfoot

was an operative lodge , however much it might have altered from its original basis . That it was partly speculative but accords with the experience of operative Masonry , not only in the 18 th but also in the 17 th centuries . One hundred years before th ( 5

Eecords of the Lodge of Houghfoot commence ( A . D . 1600 ) , Thomas Boswell , Esq ., was made a Warden in St . Mary ' s Chapel , Edinburgh ; and in 1641 the Hon . Eobert Moray joined the same lodge . What we mean by speculative in contradistinction to operative Masonry , is the system of Grand Lodges , Grand Mastersand Grand Officers of the Eevivalists ,

, without any operative intention , and solely for oilier pursuits than operative Masonry . We have , but to glance over the records of the ancient lodges , and those under the modern Grand Lodges , to witness the essential differences in the two systems , and the facts of Masonic history decidedly point to year 1717

as the line of demarcation between them . Would Bro . Sanderson kindly continue his account of the lodge at Houghfoot iu the Freemasons' Magazine , as his remarks and excerpts have been of much value already , and more of the same character would increase our indebtedness to him for his kindness .

Perhaps Bro . Sanderson would say whether if the " Grip and word" is mentioned in the records he refers to before A . D . 1720 ? — WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAN .

THE ROYAL ORDER . It is singular that the Eev . Mr . Spurgeon has adopted for the title of his religious magazine The Sivord and the Trowel , a name of peculiar significance to the Knights Companions of the Eoyal Order of Scotland . —J . A . H .

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON III . I am informed b y a respected brother that a friend of his met the present Emperor of the French on several occasions in some London lodge , and I shall be glad if any correspondent of the Magazine can afford me the name of said lodge . —J . A . H .