Masonic Processions.

testantism , and rampant in their political creed , and they are nothing else . Their very name must be offensive to a thinking Freemason , and the objects of their union tend to provoke those very passions which it is the grand aim of Freemasonry

to allay . If a " Conservative Association " may be admitted into a Masonic procession , then a Liberal , or a Radical , or a Chartist society may with equal right claim the same privilege . " The fact is that this affair at Falinge , so far as Freemasonry is concerned , is a huge and deplorable mistake . If the corner stone of the church

is to be laid with the grand ceremonial which Freemasonry provides for such occasions , let the affair be , at least so far as the procession is concerned , Masonic likewise , or let the Freemasons abstain from exhibiting themselves in company

so questionable . We are at a loss to understand how the necessary consent for the appearance of the Freemasons in such an ommiun gatherum of societies has been obtained . The Provincial Grand

Master could not have been aware , when his permission was asked , that he was sanctioning an exhibition so thoroughly opposed to the first principles of Freemasonry iu everything but the mere ceremony of laying the stone . We know

that the announcement has given cause for regret to many Freemasons , who see in it a departure from the fundamental precepts of the order , and who have consequently refused to take any part in the proceedings .

Remembering- that not long since permission for the Manchester lodges to attend with the emblems of Freemasonry a sermon preached on behalf of the Masonic charities in Manchester was , and we think properly , refused , there is danger

of apparent inconsistency in allowing this absurd procession to take place . We are averse to such processions being made too common , as likely to engender the familiarity that breeds contempt . We prefer that Freemasons should remain as unobtrusive and as secluded from the public as

gaze their principles demand , and above all that they should shrink from exhibiting themselves in company with ploughboys and gardeners , Conservatives and Orangemen .

AIIOXGST the curiosities of poultry breeding may be mentioned tho adoption , in several parts of Franco , of perambulating fowl-houses ; these are constructed like omnibuses , the interior being fitted np like a fowl-house , and are taken on to ploughed or other land where there is a plentiful supply of ' insects ; thus the fowls obtain food which they enjoy , and the farmer has the aid of valuable assistants without charge . —Pood Journal .

Masonic Jottings.—No. 19

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 19

BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . TWO MASONIC LANGUAGES . A learned correspondent says there are two Masonic Languages , of which less is known than of the inscriptions on the Babylonian tiles : the

one , represented by Masons' marks , thought to be as old as the first great edifice ; the other > represented by a combination of numbers and architectural devices , said to have been invented by Albertus Magnus , in supposed imitation of

Pythagoras . MASONS' MEDALS AND COINS . The two following are the only works upon this subject that I have any recollection to have met with : —¦

Zacharias—Numotheca Numismatica Latomorum , —Dresden , 1846 . Merzdorf—The coins of the Freemasons' Fraternity recorded and described . — Oldenburg ,,, 1851 .

THE ROMAN BUILDING COLLEGES AND THE SUBSEQUENT BUILDING FRATERNITIES . The Roman Building Colleges and the subse « quent Building Fraternities . —Brother * * * Is it not the direct continuation rather than the close resemblance which is denied ? Consult Brother Findel's History .

WORTH OP TRADITION . If you desire to form a judgment respectingthe worth of a Tradition of an event , you should ascertain two things : first , the time when the event is alleged to have happened ; next , the time when the Tradition first made its appearance .

A COMPARISON . Brother E . G . C . —The Human Race has been compared to a single man— " qui subsiste toujours et qui apprend continuellement . " But can we yet compare the Craft to a single Mason never

dying and always learning ? There are contributors to the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE who will answer this question affirmatively .

THE FRATERNITY A . D . 1326 . A . D . 1326 . At this period , it is recorded , that the members of the Masonic Fraternity met annually , bound themselves by oath mutually to love and assist each other , wore a costume , had

certain well known and characteristic signs and countersigns , and chose a President , whom they promised to obey .