The New Order Of Merit.

nent peril of his OAVU life , as many as ei g ht human beings , the others tAvo and three . The man AVIIO plunges into the sea to save a fellow being may knoAV how to swim , and by this knoAvledge be more easily able to bring the rescued individual to land , but against fire , flameand smoke , no human

, practice , no art is available , consequentl y he who braves it , madly and defiantly , for any purpose but personal safety , or the protection of Avife or child , is , beyond question , a brave man , and just such a one as , in our estimation , is Avorth y of an Albert Medal .

To confine the Albert Medal merel y to those who save life from water is so narrow a line of operation that Ave can hardl y believe the subject has received the Queen ' s deliberate consideration . Whether or not , Ave feel assured she Avill not rest satisfied AA'ith alloAving the nationall y honoured and

illustrious name of Prince Albert to be associated Avith so half a measure as that at present contemplated in the Albert Memorial , namely a Medal for Courage and Bravery at Sea or ou Water .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

TIIE GOD 03 ? __ . KEEM __ Sa 2 . Er IS A PEIiSOXAI . GOD . A correspondent at Paris , desirous , as he alleges , of joining our Order , cites two ' passages of my communications to the FIIEEMASOXS' MAGAZINE ; the first , "that the God of Preemasonry is essentially a personal Godand that an adherent of Pantheism

, rejecting a personal God cannot properly be received into our Craft ; " the next " that tho followers of Hegel , forming what is called ' the left side , ' who founded on their Master ' s doctrines a negation ofthe personality of God , ought to be excluded from our lodges . " See my communication , "Pantheism and

Preemasonry , " vol . x ., p . 21 , and my communication , " ITegelianism and Freemasonry , " vol . xi ., p . 324 . My correspondent then states that he admits the existence of God , hut lie proceeds to argue at much length against the personality . AU that ho brings forward ma _ y be met with in the Avritiugs of the modern Pantheists . It would not be fitting or

convenient to discuss a question oH this kind in tbe columns of the EEEESIASOXS' MAGAZIXE . I will only observe that the recognition of a God without personality is not the recognition of the God of - Frceemasonry . In these times it cannot be too strongly or too frequently represented that the God of Preemasonry is a personal God . The very term

by whicli Ave in general designate the Deity—Great Architect of lhe Universe—implies the personality of God . I recommend to my correspondent ' s attention a work published last year , "Nourrisson la Nature ilttinaine . " Jfc Avas crowned by the Institute of J . ranee . In the fourth chapter of the second book

there is a good deal that my correspondent may read Avith advantage , for he does not seem determined to shut his eyes against tho truth . He doubtlessly will be someAvhat surprised that reasoning which ho admires is described in a treatise having such high sanction as " Galamatl as savant ou pompeux . "— - CHARLES TmiTON COOPEE .

Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

The Editor is not responsible for the opinions expresied by Correspondent * THE GLAMOEGAN LODGE AGAIN . 10 THE EDITOU OU THE EHEElUSO-tfS' HAGAZIUE AXD MASONIC XIBIiOB . DEAR Sin AXD BEOTHEB , —This somewhat notorious lodge , or rather the clique by which it is ruled ,, lias been again playing "fantastic tricks . "

It has been before my painful duty to expose iu your pages some of its Masonic vagaries , such as the farce of " Re-initiation ; " running a-muck with the EKEESIASOX ' S MAGAZIXE in general , and abusing its humble representative in this province ( Avhom , hoAVeverthey have never ventured to charge with a

mis-, statement ) iu particular . I haA'e now to narrate to you a few incidents relating to a " mock trial " Avhich has recently been perpetrated in this model lodge . A few Aveeks since you inserted a letter from me , not so much intended for publication as to elicit your

views and to solicit your guidance . Upon the judicious advice , in consequence afforded , I have acted ; but as the ruse hinted at in that communication , viz ., that of packing a lodge was actually successfully resorted to , I have to claim your sympathy and support Avhilst I carry my simple and just cause

before an impartial tribunal . The facts of the case " lay in a small shell . " A month or two since a hig hly respectable gentleman known by me , only to be esteemed and respected for thirty years , was proposed in the Glamorgan Lodgeat a meeting from Avhich I Avasfor a wonderabsent .

, , Being utterly ignorant of Avho Avere his proposer and seconder , but well knowing that the proposer could not conscientiously have affirmed that which he was totally ignorant he would be called upon to affirm ,

having been distinctly informed , by one who well knew , that he Avas unaware of his proposition , and as soon as he heard of it requested to be AV ith drawn ; and having heard the spontaneous exclamation of a true-hearted relative of the proposed , himself an old and thoroughly good Mason , " Well , he must have been a clever fellow that persuaded him into becoming

a Freemason ! " With this little stock of perfectly unsolicited information , I say , I committed the grave Masonic offence of expressing to two members of the lodge , both of whom , whilst in my own house , theniselA'es incidentally introduced the subject , a fear that from the information I had received this

Avas a case of Masonic touting ; and this a fortnight after the . facts were communicated to me , previously to which I had not taken the trouble to allude to the subject to a living soul . A similar sentiment I expressed in the ante room of the lodge to one other brother , aud to one alone . NOAV for the results : in

in the lodge the proposer gets up and begs to Avithdraw the proposed ( candidate I have always declined to call him ) not on the grounds that he had requested to be withdrawn long prior to my having opened my mouth on the subject , which I am fully prepared to prove , a fact , indeed , which one of the

Past Masters assured me had come to his knoAvledge at least five clays prior to his mention of the matter , but because it had come to the proposed ears ( the veritable brother being himself the informer ) that " some one had said" he had been touted for . I was then individualised and asked if it Avere true that I had made use of some such expression . I unheal-