Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC "tfOUItXIXG-. What is the etiquette of Masonic mourning ? We all knoiv hoiv a lodge is placed in mourning , but how do individual brethren place themselves in the garb of " Masonic mourning " for a deceased brother ? and does fche term imply any difference of apparel from that which ive should assume for a friend or relative ?—LEFBAXC . IKE BANK OE ENGLAND DODGE POKTEAITS .

The Bank of England Lodge used , at one time , to have a respectable collection of portraits of its members . Will the secretary , or some officer or member of the lodge , favour me , through the columns of "Masonic Notes and Queries , " with a list of the names of such portraits ?—A PoimiAlT . PAINTEE . AUCHBISHOP HOWLEV .

It has been said that the Archbishop of Canterbury { Howley ) was a Mason ; if so , ivhere ivas he initiated ?—CLERICUS . —[ In the city of Bristol , afc a lodge called the Jehosophafc , long since extinct , ivhich met afc the Bush Tavern . He served all the offices , and passed the chair in that , his mother , lodge . ] BRO . EEKGUSOX ' S " ELEMENTS OE EREEMASONRY . "

Can anyone give an explanation of the symbols on the frontispiece of The Elements of Freemasonry Delineated , printed for Bro . R . J . Eerguson , afc Belfast , in 1802 ? Somo of the representations arc obsolete . —L . P . A .

THE GRAND GALA . What is meant by Preston ' s grand gala ?— D . See Preston ' s Illustrations of Masonry , the edition of 1772 . ] MASONIC IMPBIMATUE . In the second edition of Hutchinson ' s Spirit of Masonry occurs the folloiving imprimatur : — " The sanction obtained for the first ; edition . Whereas Brother William Hutchinson has compiled a book , entitled The Spirit of Masonry , and has

requested our sanction for the publication thereof , we , having perused the said book , aud finding it will be of use to this sociefcv , do recommend the same . " Petre , G . M . "Rowland Holt , D . G . M . "Thomas Noel , S . G . W . " John Hatch , J . G . W . "Rowland Berkley , G . T . " James Heseltine , G . S . "—J . K

KE-NTOIBEKING OE LODGES . HOAV many lodges were there on the roll of the Grand Lodge of England when they wero re-numbered by order of the Grand Lodge , dated April 18 th , 1792?—STATIST . —[ 51 » 2 . ] PRESIDENT OE TIIE ROSl ' -CUOSS . As we Masons are often said to bo tho successors of the Rosicrucians of the sixteenth aud seventeenth centuries , have there afc any time been individuals ivho have claimed to

belong to that fraternity ; and , if so , who has seen them ?— - HENRY S . T . — [ In 1626 there was a person sought an intervieiv Avith the king , AVIIO called himself I'liiUipus Ishberfcus , and his messenger , Origiues . lie promised all sorts of revelations , bufc never pub in an a-i-varaucv . For the letters ivhich passed on the subject see i he KVv . -Mepheii Collet ' s Belies of Literature , Svo ., 182 ;! , na ^ cs i ! li' -2 l . ]

GA 11 IBALDI A E 11 E 1 SMASON . In TJIE EIIEEMASONS M AGAZINE of fche 23 rd of June last , a cmesfcionis asked whether "Garibaldi is knoivn tobe aMason . " In none of your subsequent numbers AA'hich as yet have como to my hand have I noticed an answer to this question ; and Garibaldi UOAV sojourning in his islet , I was just about writing to Mr . John Goodwin , British Consul afc Palermo * , on this point and some other Masonic matters .

Accident , however , brought me a few days ago into the company of a Bourdeaux merchant trading with Buenos Ayres , a member of the Craffc , who communicated to me fche folloiving interesting fact : —He became acquainted wifch Garibaldi in South America , and he states that Garibaldi was initiated at Monte Yido , in a lodge entitled " Les Amis do la Patrie , " established under the Grand Orient of France . As well as he coulcl recollect , the initiation took place in the summer of 1844 . Garibaldi soon after lefs the country . I could learn no more . —CHARLES PURTON COOPEB .

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART . We liai'e lieard much outcry , and deservedly , about Austrian : brutality in flogging women but tbey are not the only men ivlio liai-e been ungallant in that respect ; for the old Pilgrim Fathers flogged a female Quaker who went from England to preach to them ; and that our polite Gallic neighbours before the revolution indulged

in the same practice , the following extract from The Journal and , Correspondence of William-, Lord Auckland , just out , ivill shoiv : — " Madame Lamotte ' s sentence was executed yesterday morning . She AA'as called up at five , and informed that the court ivished to ses her . She had no suspicion of the judgment , which is not communicated here , except in a capital sentence . She went in an undress , without stays , which proved convenient . Upon the greffier's

reading the sentence , her surprise , rage , ancl shrieks , were beyond description . The borreau and his assistants instantly seized her , and carried her into an outward court , Avhere she ivas fastened to a cart , with a halter round her neck . The borreau talked to her like a toothclrawer , and assured her most politely that ifc would soon be over . The whipping ivas slight and pro forma , but the marking was done with some severity ; after which she Avas carried to the Saltpetriere , Avhere her hair ivas cut oftj ancl she was put in the uniform of the house . "

The Rev . John "Worfcabet , Missionary of the United Presbyterian Church , Aleppo , in his recently published book , ' Religion in t 7 ie Hast ; or , Sketches Historical and Doctrinal of all tiie Religions Denominations of Syria , drawn from Original Sources , gives the following description of the Hkkal , or initiated , among the Druses : — "The general conduct of the higher grade of Ukkal is goodThe } ' are almost always temperate ancl abstemiousand in

. very , tlieir morals are generally very correct . In their manners , they are dignified ; ancl in their social habits , kind , respectful , and hospitable . During disease and other afflictions , they generally manfully bear pain ancl sorrow , attribute all to the inscrutable wisdom and goodness of the Almighty , and wear a calm , air of perfect resignation . As a work of penance , some of them deny themselves the luxury of eating fresh meat and fruits , or sleeping on a bed , through life . One of this class was observed to eat only one of each kind of the

fruits of the season ; and on being asked why he did so , when he denied himself this privilege throughout the . year , he replied , That I may not he elated Avith pride . ' Mending a bad piece of the road , and other works of useful charity , are also ways of displaying their piety . It is related of a famous person of this character , that he one clay left his hocise lor tlie mill with a sack of corn on an ass Avhich belonged to him . He had not left the village when he was met ba woman ivho told him that they had no flour at homeancl

y , that she had just set out for his house to borrow the ass , nofc knowing that he was going to use it himself . He at once set down his sack on the road , and , in spito of all her remonstrances , ivenfc to her house ancl laid her corn on the ass , ancl having proceeded ivith ifc to the mill , ground ifc and brought it back . On another occasion he went to pick his olive trees , and found a strange woman , ivho did not know he ivas the owner , picking them . He politely saluted her , ancl asked her whether the trees belonged to her . She

answered that they did : ancl on offering to help her , she accepted the proffered kindness . When they had filled the sack , he assisted her to carry ifc , and on parting tolcl her that he had good reason to believe that the trees did nofc belong to her , ancl that she had better not come again to them , as the rightful owner might not like ifc . " The olcl custom of the boys at Westminster School annually performing a Latin play in the dormitory , is to be revived this year , the Trimimmu . s of Plautus being the piece selected by the

authorities . Punch says , that Mr . Gladstone "is the mosfc extraordinary Medium in England , "because ! lie lias raised spirits all over the country . " The following extract from a new work by tho Rev . E . 11 . Pusey , D . D ., Regius professor of Hebrew , and Canon of Christ Church , entitled , Tlie Minor Prophetsyicitli a Commentary , Explanatory and

Practical , and Introduction to lite Several Books , ivill he pnrticuliirly interesting to the thoughtful Craftsman : — " No one image can exhibit the manifold grace of Gocl iu those who are His oivn , or the fruits of that grace . So the prophet adds one image to another , each applying a distinct likeness of a distinct grace or excellence . The lily is tho emblem ofthe beauty and purity of the soul in grace ; the cedar of Lebanon , of its strength ancl cleep-rootedtiess , its immovableness and uprig htness - the evergreen oliee tree , Aviiich . ' reniaineth in its beauty both ivinter and summer , ' of the unvarying