The Boys' School.

But for this last piece of pettifogging we do not even g ive Bro . Cabbell the credit . We feel we know who were the instigators of it , and it ivas their duty , if the brethren through whose instrumentality the meeting for the 10 th was called had erred , to have warned them of it at . the meeting of the Committee at which the

notices of motion were given . A secretary who holds certain views neither does his duty to the Institution or the committee if he allows a wrong to be done without expressing his opinion that it is so . A secretary has no right to endeavour to control a committee , but he is

bound to warn them if lie believes they are overstepping the limits of the law . If the proposed alterations in the law must be postponed for a time , there is one thing that can ancl ought to be proceeded with . The Secretary has resigned his situation , and the General Committee ought at once to

take the necessary steps for filling it up , as no institution can flourish whilst its affairs are held in uncertainty . The discussion of the proposed alterations in the rules can wait , and so may the retiring Secretary for his pension ; and we warn his friends that , the more delays are interposed in the way of settling it , the less he will be likel y to obtain .

Bro . H . Greene , has given notice of his intention to move : — "To amend Rule ii , by omitting all the ivords that follow after tlie words " to be accompanied bv ; " on the fifth line as fir as , and including the ivords "beyond liis own control , " end inserting instead thereof the words following : — 1 . A certificate of tbe parents' marriage . 2 . A cert ' iiicate of the registry of the candidate's birth and baptism .

3 . Tho Grand Secretary's certificate of tlie father having been duly registered , and for what period , on the books of the Grand Lodge of England . 4 . A certificate from the Alaster and Wardens of the lodge or lodges to which the father is . or has boon a regularly contributing member for Rye years , and ( should he be deceased ) had continued so up to within five years of his deathunless it can lie shown to

, the satisfaction of the Genera ! Committee that his not having continued to subscribe for the entire period of five years , or until within five years of his death ( if deceased ) or tbe presentation of such petition ( if he be alive ) should havo arisen from altered circumstances , which precluded bis remaining a subscribing member of a lodge .

Memoirs Of The Freemasons Of Naples.

MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS OF NAPLES .

( Continued from page 262 . ) In 1786 , ive find there were at Naples no less than seven lodges under the Grand Lodge of Germany ; and about this time tlio Baron do Hund arrived there , and established an order called Beg hue de la

Stricte-Observanee , which occupied for several years so prominent a place in the secret societies of Germany . This Preach adventurer appeared first in Germany , with a patent under the sign manual of Prince diaries Stuart , appointing him Grand Master of tho Seventh Province , whichhe affirmedhad been made over to him bthe

, , y Earl Marischal on his death-bed , and with a plausible tale of the antiquity of his Order , which he said lie derived from Scotland . The ciiief seat of the Templars , he asserted , was Aberdeen ; and the delusions on tlie

subject took such a hold in Germany , that they were not dispelled until a deputation had actually visited Aberdeen , and found no trace among the brethren of any Templars , or even of any Ancient Freemasonry . The Neapolitan Masons , however , proud of having these high degrees conferred upon them without much trouble to themselves , were easily led by their false friends to join the Illuminati ; by so doing , they contradicted the fundamental principles of a Mason .

" It is sufficiently in proof , " says the London Beview for August , 1797 , " that the founders of different conspiracies , aware of the secresy permitted to the proceedings of the Fraternity of Masons , have assumed that character , and availed themselves of the credit given to that institutionin order to render unsuspected

, the tendency , and undetected the progress of their own abominable machinations . From what we have heard and read , we are persuaded that the fundamental princip les and practices of Freemasonry are as opposite to those of the Illumines , of the Propaganda , or of any other sect in hostility to good order and governmentas

, li ght to darkness , or good to evil . " ' It is possible , " says Dr . Oliver , "that the artful and daring heads of' the anti-Christian , the anti-monarchial , ancl the anti-social conspiracy , ' about whom so much has been written and said , may have assumed the name of Masonsand professed to shelter their secret meetings

, for p lots and cabals , under the pretence of holding a lodge . But God forbid that the innocent should be confounded with the guilty , or that Freemasonry should be accountable for projects , or condemned for practices which it could never countenance . Long and deeply shall we have to regret that the opinion ivhich the

public hacl entertained of a peaceable and undesigning society should be thus abused . But the candid observer will do us the justice to acknowledge that the harmless fold are not accountable for the mean duplicity , the base designs , or the bloody ravages of the wolves in sheep ' s clothing .

" The visionary fancies which modern philosophists may have annexed to Freemasonry , the absurd and extravagant errors they have attempted to father upon it , are foreign and illegitimate . We disavow and disown them . They bring discredit upon those who would incorporate such vanities with oar system ; but they debase not the purity of our original constitution .

They can be urged only to show the art and wickedness of intriguing men , and impeach not the natural tendency of an establishment whose every precept , form , and ceremony inculcates virtue , assists order , and disposes to peace . We are assured that genuine Freemasonry will long survive the imitations of imposture and the attacks of misrepresentation . " *

The French Involution was now beginning to develop itself , and secret societies were formed in every country , under tho garb of Freemasonry and Illuininisin , though in many instances in no way connected with one or the other . The chiefs of the revolution began by operating on the population of the German States on the ri g

htbank of the llhine . The celebrated George Forster , the naturalist , who had accompanied Captain Cook on one of his expeditions , was one of the ardent Secretaries of Propagandist Uluminism . He was at Mayence when lleubell was sent with the French army to beseige it , in his quality of representative of the people ; and , together with Merlin de Thionville , they organised