Masonic Sayings And Doings Abroad.

engaged promulgating the . art and mystery of the Craft . GARIBALDI AND THE HI / TRAMONTANES . —Garibaldi having been declared Grand Master of Italy , the Ultramontane journals have taken the matter up ,

and endeavoured , in the hostile spirit so rampant in the Romish Church since Clement the Twelfth ' s bull , to throw every impediment and stumblingblock in the Avay of Freemasonry , that Avonderful organisation Avhich contributed in no small way

to the Reformation . Garibaldi having been nominated and accepted the office of Grand Master of Italian Freemasons , he has nominated Bro . Antonio Mordini to be his representative in assemblies . One has been formed at Florence , AA'here

it has been declared , in order to carry out the principle of national Masonic unity , that all rites are equal . That the Italian rites and Ecossais should be equally represented in the Supreme Council of the Order . That the Grand Orient

should , be in the political capital of the State ; and , as Rome is not yet in that position , a provisional capital must be adopted , and it was settled that this capital , for the purposes of Masonry , should be Turin . That the Grand Orient should

consist of forty active members , elected from four divisions , Adz ., Turin , Florence , Naples , and Palermo . That the Rite Ecossais and the Italian Rite are to be represented in this Grand Orient of forty members , by twenty of each of those bodies .

GENEA \ A . —Reports haA'e been spread about by several of the Genevan journals , that some correspondence of Calvin and the puritanical reformers , has lately come to light , and that in several portions are some matters which , if not absolutely

Masonic , certainly have a bearing in that direction . This has given rise to some little controversy respecting the alleged forgery of the document known as the charter of Cologne , its advocates arguing that the Calvin correspondence

jooints in that direction , whilst the opponents of Freemasonry set' the whole down as mystical , and the charter in question as a barefaced imposture . A volume is to be published embracing an examination of the letters , and an enquiry as to how far they can be claimed as Masonic .

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The Poetry And Variety Of English Masonry.

THE POETRY AND VARIETY OF ENGLISH MASONRY .

Many a summer ' s day may be pleasantly and profitably spent in reading the stories told by ancient stonework . Fashioned by different races in distant centuries , there are vast gradations of feeling expressed in masonry . As in music , as in architectural ornament , as in art of all kinds , there

is an indisputable stamp , ° or style , that marks the work of different ages in the same country : in the Avork of different nations the points of divergence are still more easily distinguishable . Can you see upon the Kentish coast , about a mile from red-roofed Sandwich a mass of ruddy

walling standing up amidst the corn ? That is a fragment of Richborough Castle , all that remains of the most frequented haven and port in all Britain in the days of the Roman occupation , Partus Rutupensis . Of the sea frontage of noble edifices , the temples , baths , schools , wharfs , arsensal , magazine , and amphitheatre , there is but one monument—this fragment of Availing . The

river Stour , then wide and deep , has shrunk up into a stream , and the sea has receded and left dry and bare the bottom of the bay upon which the Roman navy floated . But still , guided by this grass-tufted fragment of ruddy masonry , one may say it was here that Vespasian came ; it was here

that Claudius Contentus and Flavius Sanctius , both prefects of Britain , were buried ; it was at the foot of this hill that Hengist and Horsa landed Avith their forces : it Avas here , more than 500 years afterwards , that King Sweyn came and burnt and slew all before him ; it was here , too ,

that a tonsured monk landed , carrying , we may be sure , the sign in his hand that was to endure in the land for evermore—the cross . St . Augustine must have looked upon that ruddy walling with a wistful gaze after his sea voyage , for the Saxon kings had made the old fortress into a palace , and the holy father was to find King Ethelbert his most influential convert . And now the crowd

upon the landmg-place is gone , the bronzed warriors on guard are gone , the streets are silent , the buildings are overthrown , for the mighty sea rose and left a barrier of silt it never more overflowed . Some workmen digging to lay the foundation of a sluice , some time back , came upon the

old seashore , strewn with shells and seaweeds , just as Italian workmen at Pompeii , digging into the lava , came upon the old , old surface of thatcity . Besides the shells and seaweed on this strip of shore there lay a small shoe , with a fibula in it , lost there or thrown there hundreds and hundreds

of years ago . Corn ripens upon the site of this busy port ; poppies flaunt where men wrought and lived ; blue-winged moths are fluttering in the air ; the peewit and corncrake make monotonous music where crowds chaffered and people came and went , and ships were made fast , laden and unladen ; and the plough turns up countless coins