India Civil Service.

10 . ISTo candidate will he permitted to proceed to India until he shall have passed the further examination , or after he shall have attained the age of twenty-four years . 11 . The selected candidates who at the further examination shall be found to have a competent knowledge of the subjects specified iu llegulation 9 , shall be adjudged to have heen passed , and to be entitled to he appointed to the Civil Service of India . 12 . The seniority in the Civil Service of India ofthe selected

candidates shall be determined according TO order in which they stand on the list resulting from tho further examination . 13 . No person will , even after passing the further examination , he allowed to proceed to India unless he shall comply with the regulations in force , at tbo time , for the Civil Service of India , and shall be of sound bodily health and good moral character . The Civil Service Commissioners will require such further evidence on these points as they may deem necessary

before granting their certificate of qualification . 11 . Applications from persons desirous to he admitted as candidates are to he addressed to the Secretary to the Civil Service Commissioners , Bean ' s Yard , London , S . W .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

DEFOE'S TOUR THROUGH GREAT BRITAIN . The following answer to the inquiry of an Bast Kent brother , is forwarded by his desire to the FREEMASOXS ' MAGAZINE . His informant's recollection of my copy of Defoe ' s Tour through Great Britain , is somewhat imperfect , which is not surprising , very many years having , it seems , elapsed since he inspected ifc . The four volumes

are in the state in which they were when purchased by nie at Oxford , whilst an undergraduate about 1811 . The memoranda are all in the same handwriting , and principally occur in tho fly-leaves of vol . i . With few exceptions they relate to Kent , one of the counties contained in ifc . The earliest date is 1753 , the latest 1790 . There is no memorandum that a Masonic sign , opportunely

made , saved the writer from an untimely end , in the Medway , to which some drunken sailors , part of a man-ofwar ' s crew , wore pursuing him . A story of that kind ivas , as I remember , told by an octogenarian brother , once a Thames pilot , at the banquet of some one of tho Kentish Lodges , visited by me a few weeks after my installation as Provincial Grand Master . But my correspondent has

been misled if he supposes that there is a jotting of the sort in my Defoe , unless , indeed , ifc be the following memorandum : — " Afc Chatham , Norwich , 74 guns , dined aboard . Somerset , 60 guns , dined aboard . Mem . —Very near flung overboard because I said I was a lawyer . " This

memorandum has no date . The memorandum immediately ensuing is dated 1 st July ; 1760 , ancl contains a very brief general description of the Isle of Thanet , succeeded by a- special notice of Margate , the "commodious umbrellas' ' of whose machines for bathing are much lauded . None of the memorandums , in my judgment , furnish evidence that the writer was a member of the Craft . Here this

communication would have terminated , had not a brother a Litterateur of this department , and occasional correspondent of the Monde Maconnique , proceeded with amusing 'persiflage bo comment upon some of the memoranda , and infer that the individual penning them plainly possessed : 1 st . Perception of female beauty . 2 nd . Observation as a travellerord . Church zeal . 4-fch . Wit ; all of which ,

, our brother , with continued gravity added , he had uniformly met ivith in those initiated in our mysteries , who have the advantage oi' being born on tbe English side of La Ma-ache . His suggestion that I should subjoin four of the memoranda , is made in so pleasant a way , that I cannot refuse to adopt ifc . However tho extracts can be usedor notas the Editor ofthe ably-conducted

periodi-, , cal to which they arc sent , shall think proper . " 1 st . Isle of Wight at Newport , 20 fch August , 1753 . My landlord ' s daughter the finest girl I ever saw , very civil , stayed a week . " Here our brother bummed some lines of a Vaudois' version of the Entered Apprentices' song . ¦ " 2 nd . At Dover , August , 1761 . The sea wonderful to

behold . Dover Cliff much improved by Shakespeare . North Foreland , on the top of ifc is the lighthouse , a strong building of flint and brick . On the top of thelighthouse is an iron grate , quite open to the air , in which is made a blazing fire of coals every night to direct ships , in their course , that they may keep clear of the Goodwin Sands . The wind keeps the coals constantly alight , and

the higher the wind , the greater the blaze . The lighterman told me the farmers fetch away the ashes for theirland , and pay him sixpence a month . 3 rd . Cathedral Canterbury , ' Sunday , 2 Sth August , 1763 . The choir handsome . N . B . —Only two Prebends afc Church . 4 th . Castle Dover , 20 th September , 1763 . Eoman bricks much harder than stone , but not so hard to digest as the Dover

wafers . " —CHARLES PURTOX COOPER , Chateau Frampas ,, 30 th October , 1862 . COWANS . I lately mofc wifch the following definition of a Cowan . " In Scotland when an operative Mason has not been initiated , or has not been regularly apprenticed to the trade , he is termed a cowan ?—P . T . A .

AXCIEXT AXD MODERN 1 IASOXS . Please to give some short summary of Ancient and Modern Masonry and oblige . —A COXSTAXT READER . — [ The schism amongst English Masons having terminated ,, by the Act of Solemn Union , in 1813 , no longer interests us otherwise than as au historical question , or as a caution against the clanger of disputing about trifles .

The denomination Ancie . ifc Masons , assumed by the schismatic brethren , yet continues to cause misapprehension in some minds and deserves some slighfc consideration . The facts appear to be these : —At the decease of G . M . Sir Christopher Wren , Ereemasonry in England lay iu a languishing condition , and would probably have died out had not Dr . Desaguliers , Antony Sayer , J .

Lambert , J . Elliott , George Payne , J . Oordwcll , T . Morris , T . Hobby and Richard Ware succeeded in reviving ifc , iu 1717 , when they formed the first Grand Lodge . Several years elapsed and tben divisions broke out ; the real courses of which do not appear , but fche abandonment of some old forms was tbe asserted reason

Bro . Millikin , au old Irish Mason , writing in 17-18 , says ,, speaking from his own observation of the working of both systems , —*' ¦ ' that the differences in the working of tho two bodies were trivial and not such as to perpetuate or justify a division . " This opinion is endorsed by many old Masons , ancl where the old style of the ancient Masons is carried on it confirms the writer ' s conclusions .

Millikeu gives it as his opinion that the reason of the omissions of the moderns was , that Dr . Desaguliers and his friends attached more importance to tho " science " " than the more forms that conveyed it , " ancl adds , that " they retained all tho essentials , such as the secrets , histoi' 3 ' and cements . " He also renders honorable testimony to their merit by expressing his "conviction that

to tbe moderns " we are indebted for the present prosperity of the Craft . " Ifc is pleasing also to find tho latter display the same consistent disregard to more terms when peace was at stake . In 1813 the " moderns " treated with the " ancients " under fche title the latter had chosen , to adopt and , sinking all difference of opinion , drew lots with them for precedence . ]

EXTRACTS H 103 I THE MIXUTE BOOKS OE THE ST . PAUL ' S LODGE , I'lloiiXGUAJi . —Continued from page 350 . December 27 fch . Bernard Sheppard Heat-on installed W . M . The St . Alban ' s Loclge sent a message that they chose , this time , to dine by themselves . All honours were paid to the W . M . 1789 . January 2 nd .- —Sketchley ordered to contrive

a piece of furniture to hold the regalia instead of boxes , ancl so relieve the Tyler ' s room from being over-crowded . January 16 th . —Proposed that , iu tho cases of charitable subscriptions in Loudon , the members of the lodge do not contribute private , but , as a body , through the lodire .