Freemasonry And The Pope.

and his council to turn attention to evils at their own doors , by putting down brigandage in Italy . However , to return to that which interests ourselves as Masons , being concerned in conspiracies against Governments , we challenge the bitterest reviler to fix upon any Mason so foul a charge . That an institution which is founded on love to God

and love to man , whose glory is to reward m its virtues which are most friendly to their own internal tranquillity , and most beneficent and happy to the vforld , which declares and repeats to all its candidates and in all its lodges that it can never

countenance anything contrary to Morals , Religion , or the State , which expects and requires the highest reverence to the Supreme Being , obedience to rulers , respect to superiors , kindness to equals , and condescension to inferiors ; we say that such an

institution should be declared to interfere with , eleven suspected of militating against religion , peace , and social order , is a matter of astonishment .

The best advice we can give Pio Nono is to set his own house in order , as tho hour is fast approaching when Idiots , eremites , and friars , with all their trumpery , black , white , and grey ,

Cowls , hoods , and habits , with their wearers tossed And fluttered into rags , their reliques , beads , indulgences , pardons , bulls , The sport of winds will be—The absurdity of attributing to Masonry the subversion of civil governments and religion , is

best answered by the fact that all the sons of George III . save one were active members of the Institution , and for ages the nobility and the foremost leaders in religion , arts , aud science are enrolled among its members . At the present

time , among others , we may name the Dukes of Newcastle , Manchester , and St . Albans , the Marquises of Downshire ancl Hartington , the Earls Zetland , Dalhousie , Carnarvon , Howe , and De Grey , Lords Leigh , Holmesdale , Methuen ,

Sherborne , Kenlis , Powerscourt , Skelmersdale , Kilworth , & c . Many of our dignified clergy are proud of their connection with Masonry . We shall return to the subject next week .

Something- About Aberdeen.

SOMETHING- ABOUT ABERDEEN .

Between 500 and GOO miles of a railway ride is no joke , even in these days of swift locomotion , and not at all calculated to improve one ' s temper ; hence it is , perhaps , that we find a page or two of our note-book full of bitter complaints and invective against all railway management whatsoever .

but more particularly directed to that glaring mismanagement wliich is so conspicuous when we cross the Tweed . The North British Railway seems to be in a sadly neglected condition . The rails , for example , at the Berwick station , were worn through the flanges ; and the station at

Edinburgh would disgrace a third-rate manufacturing town in Lancashire . In the first place , it ia beastly dirty ; and , secondly , it is quite unfit for the traffic . A poor woman has been crushed off the platform and killed a day or two before we passed through ; and the only wonder is that such

fatal accidents do not occur more frequently . As for time being kept , that seems out of the question : we were nearly an hour behind time on our arrival at Aberdeen ; in fact , the line between Perth and Aberdeen is one of the slowest and worst appointed on which it has been our

misfortune to travel . If Mr . Gladstone's proposal to subject the railways to the control of the State should ever be carried into effect , we are quite certain that it would bring an improvement in Scotland , at all events . But to our subject . The scenery from Perth

to Aberdeen is tame and uninteresting . Here and there , indeed , a bright spot may be seen ; we get a good view of the busy little seaport town of Montrose ; a glimpse of the distant round tower of Brechin ; a glance at Stonehaven , the very small county town of Kincardineshire , near which is the mined and dismantled fortress of Dunnottar Castle

—the ancient seat of the great Earl Marischals of Scotland , and the prison of the persecuted Covenanters . As we approach the Northern capital , the country becomes remarkably bleak and sterile . We are now traversing the broad , low , moorish outskirts of the Grampian mountains , at the most

rugged and inaccessible part of the north-eastern coast . Numerous moraines and vast quantities of glacial detritus are easily observed . At last the prospect becomes perfectly barren and dismal ; and it is with a sense of very high gratification and relief that we descry the Girdleness lighthouse and

the smoke of tall chimneys ; and then , all at once , see burst into view the broad expanse of the river Dee , the long railway viaduct , the forest of masts , and the city of Aberdeen . While enjoying the hospitable " Lemon Tree , " —the oldest inn in the place ( like our friend

Cornelius O'Dowd , we are fond of the old "inn" )—we shall , with the assistance of the guide-books and the " Gazetteer , " give our readers some account of the history of this remarkable city—of which we may say , en passant , that it is a place of great enterprise and originality , and that its

inhabitants have positively worked wonders , both within the city and on the surrounding soil . Although it is not our primary purpose to demonstrate these facts , we cannot prevent them incidentally appearing in the course of our report . The origin of a town proceeds often from the most accidental and sometimes unaccountable cir-