Sketches From A Traveller's Journal.

But grief and remorse were alike vain , and with thafc undying , self-sacrificing affection , which , next to religion , forms the most prominent and beautiful trait of tho female character , Marie formed fche resolution of devoting herself to tho aged mother and helpless children of her once betrothed . And ifc was by no light labour this could be achieved . In Switzerland women labour with the men iu

the fields , ancl it was by such toil that Marie undertook to support the mother and children of Claude Gaultier . Time passed , and the winter snows again lay thick on mountain and on valley , and on the solitary hill tomb of Claude . Time , the soother , was probably here doing his irresistible work , for wo read that one day Marie was without

the door with Gaultior ' s children playing around her . Suddenly one of the little ones uttered a wild scream , and ran terrified to the door of the cottage , ancl the young girl turned to behold a man standing near them , pale , emaciated , and careworn , covered with rags , and having the appearance of one in great suffering . Yet in thoso wasted features there

was something familiar , something that brought to mind a departed clear one , ancl a buried chalet ; but they could scarce credit their own happiness that it was indeed the feeble and exhausted , but living Claude Gaultier , who was restored to them .

Ifc was a strange talc the preserved man told that day to tho mayor and elders of his village , and , no wonder the story of his return from that ovaille grave was carefully recorded by his canton . It appeared that after a time the consciousness that had afc first deserted him , returned , when to his surprise he found himself in total darkness . Then , there came back to him the remembrance of the ovaille which had

overwhelmed him , ancl ho felt yet more surprised that he Avas uninjured , and as he discovered by groping about that the chalet was still standing . As it proved , a mass of rock falling first , had rested against the ono afc whose foot the chalet was built , aud , by forming with it an angle , hacl protected it amid till the fury of the ovaille , which , passing over it , had

buried it fathoms deep without destroying it . Yet this ivas but to recognize himself buried alive within his grave , left apparently to await by slow and terrible degrees — -death , inevitable and horrible , yet the only conclusion to his misery . Hours came and passed , yet the death for which he waited , came , not , ' for through the looseness with which

tho earth had fallen , and the intermingled trees and supporting rocks , sufficient air came for him to breathe . It was this discovery first inspired the j loor prisoner with tho though t of attempting to work out his deliverance . Feeling his way to a corner of tho chalet where a pickaxe was kept , he began to work from one of the windows . He toiled ou zealously , as they do Avhose wage is life , until afc length hunger aud thirst overtook him , mid then a fresh

horror burst upon him , as he remembered that though there was some cheese in the chalet , there was no water , and he felt he must die of thirst before he coulcl release himself . Ifc wtts a fearful moment , one that might turn a man ' s br ; iin , _ or blanch his hair , and that neither befell Claude Gaultier , proved that he was not wanting in that nerve for

which his race is celebrated . But despairing though he was , thirst pressed upon him , and he groped about to find a little milk to quench it , and in the search lie found water—his comrades had , unknown to him , filled the pails in pity to his injury . None , the rescued man said , coulcl comprehend the depths of his gratitude for this merciful Providence . Ancl

perhaps none reall y could , save the traveller in the desert-, or the shipwrecked mariner on the plauk . True , there was so little of ifc to what he mi ght Avant , that he must use it sparingly , and for the same reason lie dared only consume sulltcient cheese to support life . How strongly is the princi ple of self preservation implanted tn tho heart , and how wonderful the powers of endurance of the human frame under peculiar circumstances . What else could have urged the poor buried alive to such an unheard o

labour , or supported his feeble arm in its execution . Well might he say thafc ifc seemed as if years were passing over his head as ho toiled unceasingly , though well nigh despariugly , excavating in inky darkness the niinelikc passage , which was his only hope of life . Penitent thoughts , too , ivere doubtless his companions , that he had allowed jealousy and anger so

far to master him , that he had left his aged mother ancl his children to the poverty and the want that his death would bring upon them . At length , to the unspeakable joy of the imprisoned man , the last fragments of earth fell away , and tho cold snowcrust alone was above him . That knoivledgo renewed both strength and energy , and in a few days more , the last barrier

was removed , ancl he who for three months had endured the darkness of the tomb , stood again iu the blessed sunshine , which almost blinded his weak eyes , and was free to return to his native village , though his limbs were scarce able to bear him thither . Thirty-five years afterwards another of those huge mountain teeth fell in fragments into the valleys ; but we read of

no fatality it occasioned , the most singular circumstance regarding it appearing to be , that he who had been the victim of the former ovaille was a safe spectator of this . For the last hundred years only three jjeaks of the proud Diableret chain have raised their lofty heads to heaven ; but the traces of the ovaillcs are still visible to corroborate the testimony of the chronicles of the cantons as to Claude Gaultior ' s fearful imjuisonment and wonderful escape . A . M ;

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

CAN any brother inform me what arc the probable sources from which "The Constitutions of the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons , containing their History , Charges , and Regulations , & c , by James Anderson , D . D ., aucl carefully revised , continued , and enlarged by John Eiitiek , M . A .- , " were derived ? The copy at present before me was printed for Bro . AVilliam Johnston , in Ludgatc-strcct , London , 1767 . The first contains

part " The History of Masonry from the Creation throughout the known World ; till true old Architecture , demolished by the Goths , was revived in Italy . " The next part contains "The History of Masonry in Britain , from Julius Caisar till the Accession of King James the First to the Crown of England . " It then , continues the history " from the union of the Two Crowns to the year 1706 . "

Bro . Preston states that , in 1712 , many tender conscienccd brethren destroyed . many valuable and curious old MSS . in their possession . Were those Constitutions , published in 1769 , the Duke of Beaufort , M . AV . G . M ' ., derived form them ? AVhat means are there by which any light can be thrown ou the subject?—K . B . AV .

Tuitiusii miuvismm AND latEHMAsoxuv . It is the general opinion in the East , that the initiatory practices of the several orders of Dervishes are of the same character as those of Freemasonry . At this moment the subject attracts considerable attention . An American gentleman , who had been initiated among the Dervishes , obtained initiation as a Mason , to study the pointand he states to the brethren that the connexion

, is close . He has 2 > rcpared for the press a history of the Dervishes . AV . Bro . Aznavour , of Constantinople , states , that he has ascertained the sign of one ofthe Dervish orders . There are supposed to be just now various Lodges of Turkish conspirators in Constantinople adopting the forms of secret societies . —HYDE CLAUKE , Smyrna .

"MASOXIC LODGE , HATII . From a printed copy of the plate inserted in the foundation stone of tlie Masonic Hall , Bath , now used as a chapel only , I am able to inform your correspondent "A ., " that the Lodge for which he inquires ivas the lloyal York Lodge of Perfect Friendship , No . 215 , and that in 1817 ( when the foundation stone was laid ) the AV . M . ivas Thomas AVhitnoythe S . AV . James Ashbyaud

, , J . AV . AVilliam Redman . —E . T . JOHX XOOKTHOUCK . There arc no records showing that this brother occupied any office in Grand Lodgo up to the time of the revision of the Constitutions in 1781- ; but that he was held iu high estimation both