Mlasonic Notes And Queries.

BRO . B . A 1 BANO . Can any one give me the -address of Bro . Benedict Albauo , a very worth y Mason , formerly an active member of Grand Lodge ? He was of late years living in the south of France . He was a Governor of the Charities ?—Q .

NOTES AND QUERIES . A point ill orthography . I see such queer remarks in your "Notes and Queries , " that I am tempted to ask whether the orthography is always " Notes and Queries " or sometimes "Notes and Queeries . "—Q .

CHARITIES . It is a laudable custom to devote a fixed portion of the income of a lodge , however small , to the Masonic Charities . —ALMONER . MASONIC HALX , DUBBAN , The Masonic Hall at DurbanNatalSouth Africa

, , , is at an end . It is now occupied by the Natal Bonding Warehouses Company . —Q . JIASONIC HALL , SMYENA . The new English Masonic Hall is about to he abandoned , after a considerable expenditure iu

alterations , and it is said the old English Masonic Hall , UOAV stationed in Frank-street , the Craft in Smyrna having taken a much larger edifice in a thoroughfare leading out of the Frank-street , and formerly the Levantine Casino or Club . It contains large rooms . —Q .

PAIACES . AVhat palaces have been occupied for Masonic purposes ? I have always understood the Duke of Sussex held Masonic meetings in Kensington Palace . -Q . MASONIC PHOTOGRAPHS .

AVhick is the best place in London to got Masonic photographs or cartes de visite , say , the M . AV . G . M . the Earl of Zetland?—Q . EXPOSITION MASONRY . I am rather surprised that no travelling brother

has given us his experience of tlie lodges of the Grand Orient or Supreme Grand Council during the Paris Exposition . It would be interesting . — A HOME BIRD .

BRO . H . B . WHITE . It is not possible for any one who desires to be thought a pious Christian to read the letter of Bro . White ( page 251 of the present volume ) without feelings of respect and attention . For myself , the circumstance that he is a brother Masonof course

, , serves to augment the warmth and intensity of these feelings . I most sincerely thank him for his considerate and kind letter , upon two passages only of which will I at present make any remark . As to the passage , " I unhesitatingly aver that there is no such thing in existence as natural reliion" I beg

g , my dear brother , first , to look at the late Archdeacon Paley ' s " Natural Theology . " It is a popular book . Lord Brougham and Sir Charles Bell have jointly edited it . It is hardly necessary to state that "Natural Theology" and "Natural Eeli gion" are

synonymous terms . Next , I beg my brother to consider what is the religion of those members of our lodges who are not Christians , Jeivs , Parsees , or Mahommedans . As to the passage "No man ever acquired a religion , bon-ever erroneous , except by revelation . " it is manifest that it contains some

mistake , for assuredly my brother cannot mean that man ever acquired an erroneous religion by revelation . — C . P . COOPER .

MASONIC INSTRUCTION AND ELOCUTION . There are Masonic instructors , lodges of instruction , and chapters of instruction , but our proceedings are often marred by men who have been apt pupils of the instructors , but who , being totally deficient iu educational training , pronounce our

solemn rites in a most barbarous way . The feeling produced is one of disgust , as it would be in a church under like circumstances . Is there no brother Avho will set up as a professor of elocution , and assist some of these erring brethren into the right path ? I think it would be a great resource , and it would pay , and there would he no excuse for the ignorant to parade their deficiencies . —AUDITOR .

MONOTHEISM . —MEANING OF THE WORD . A brother is right in his remark . The etymology of the Avord " Monotheism " may mislead . The philosophical meaning should always be borne in mind . Monotheism is not the belief in one God simply , but in one God , separate and distinct from the world ; ia

one God , of whom the world is not part , as in one kind of Pantheism ; in one God , who is not part of the world , as in another kind of Pantheism ; finally , in one God , possessing the attributes which man ' s reason , rightly used , shows must belong to the Supreme Being . The "Dictionnaire des Sciences Pliilosophiques'' treats Monotheism as synonymous with Theism . —CHARLES PURTON COOPER .

EULL MOON . In places not jjrovided with public lights , I have heard clays at or near the full moon advocated for lodge meetings , as being more safe and convenient than a fixed day . There are some toAvns Avhere the public lights are extinguished at or near the time of full moon . —A LUNAR OBSERVATION .

BERLIN UNIVERSITY STUDENT'S GOD . — TRUE FREEMASON ' S GOD . Bro . , 1 have received the letter of a student of the tTniversity of Berlin that you have had the goodness to send . His God is the God of Fichte , of Schelling , of Hegel ; ' ' - tin etre abstrait qui n ' est

rien , qui ne fait rieu , qui lie petit ni peuser . ni vouloir , ni agir . " The God of the true Freemason is the God of Socrates , the God AVIIO formed tlie world ana ' man , whose Providence is both general arid special , the all-seeing God , the God Avho knows cur mostsecret thoughts . —C P . COOPER .

LESSING A METEMPSYCHOSIS ! . See the communication to the Frccmasory- ' Mar / asiiie , "Lessing ' s publication on Freemasonry , " vol . x ., page 3 S-1-, and "Sp inozism and Freemasonry , '' vol . xi ., page 3 S 8 , and also the curious dialogue , article "Lessiug , " in the "Dictionnan-e des Sciences Pliilosophiques , " in which Lessiug discloses his y pinozism