Stray Notes On The Livery Companies.

querors of Spain . The crest cf the Brewers is a deuil . Moorish woman , while that cf the Tobacco-pipe-makers is a demi-Moov , and their supporters " two young Moors proper . " Furthermore , the arms of the Silk-throwsters are supported by Janissary Guards , " habited in the dress of the country , " and of the time , it might be . added ( 1464 ); for this is importantasthough Eastern customs

, , and customs are said to vary , " Time has his avenges , " even amongst Tin-ks . Then we have elephants for the Cutlers , and camels for the Merchant Taylors as well as Coopers , aud leopards argent for the Painters . Wh y " leopards argent , spotted with various colours , " were chosen for this Craft is self-evident , but the phcenix as a crest is not so obviousunless it be that putty and

, paint so change the old face of things that houses may be said to rise from their ashes , bright as the day and fresh as the morn , and that people trusting to appearances may be greatly deceived as to fact , like the Greeks of old . — "An Old Citizen in the" City Press . "

Masonic Jottings.—No. 60.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 60 .

By A PAST PROVINCIAL GEAND MASTEE . THE INNER PART , AND THE OUTER PART OF OUR PREEMASONRY . Of the Inner Part of our Freemasonry , the Eevival Proceedings show restoration onl y ; but of the Outer Part they show creation also . CANDIDATES ADMISSIBLE AND INADMISSIBLE

INTO TRUE FREEMASONRY . A metropolitan Brother ' s enumeration and classification are not correct . The admissible candidates are Natural Theists , Christian Theists , Jewish Theists , and Mahommedan Theists . It is

assumed that these candidates hold the ri ght doctrine in reference to the souPs immortality There have , hoivever , been , in very recent times , some strange instances in which that was not so . The inadmissible candidates are Pantheists (

mystical as Avell as atheistical ) * Poly theists , Buddhists -j-Lamaists J , followers of Confucius , followers of Laotze , and Fetichists . OBLIGATION OP CHRISTIAN CANDIDATE IN

UNIVERSAL FREEMASONRY . In Universal Preemasonry a Christian candidate should be obligated in the same way as a Natural Theist is obligated . PRESTON—THE REATCA L . Bro . D . L . M . j part of a note annexed b y

Preston to his account of the Pievival is an answer to your inquiry . "The above particulars have been carefull y extracted from old records ancl authentic manuscri pts , and are , in many points ,

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confirmed by the old books of the Lodge of Antiquity , as "well as by the first and second editions of the Book of Constitutions . " "DYING OUT . " A Brother thinks it plain that there never has

been a " d ying out" of English Preemasonry . He insists that the unbiassed reader , who gives ordinary attention to the matter , must at once come to the conclusion that what some would designate a new Creation is Revival only . He refers to Preston and Findel .

THE OLD YORK LODGE . A learned Correspondent thinks that , during the long existence of the old York Lodge , there were alternately periods in which Speculative-Masonry was zealously cultivated , and periods in

which it was Avholl y neglected . AGGREGATE OP GOOD—AGGREGATE OP EVIL . The Great Architect of the Universe knows theaggregate of good and the aggregate of evil in the different periods of the world ' s history ; and

He knows ivhat each individual , during those periods , has contributed to the aggregate of good ,,, and Avhat he has contributed to the aggregate of evil .

THE UNIVERSE—THE HUMAN SOUL . The Universe may die , but the Human Soul cannot die . THE STRENGTH THAT COMES PROM WEAKNESS . Brother , the strength that , in old age , comesfrom weakness is increased wisdom .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

MAIN AGENTS IN THE ERECTION OP OUR ANCIENT EDIFICES . " The silence of history leaves us very much to conjecture concerning the main agents in the erection of our ancient edifices . The rearing of them as a trade would be in the hands of the Freemasons , ( that name impling ivorkers in freestoneor

freestoney , masons ' ) , and much would depend upon the wardens , ivho were foremen of parties often of them , and upon the masters "; but in a great undertaking , some presiding man of genius , ivbose skill alone qualified him , must have had the chief control . Priests possessing a taste for it " ; were not only

associated in Freemasonry , but readily initiated ; and from that class ivould sometimes arise the pre-eminent Architect . Architectural ability , indeed , seems to have worked its way to this position by association with , or development amougst , the Freemasons .

With the mysteries and emblems which have come down through this channel , ei'en from the B gyptians and Grecians , our inquiry has no concern ; but it is