Chips Of Foreign Ashlar.

Carl Tliure af AVirsen , Kabin .-Kammarherre , Ofversto o . Sekund-Clief vid K . Lif-Beg . Dragon-Korps , f . d . Kavaljer lios H . K . H . Arf-Fursten Frans Gustaf Oscar , B . S . 0 ., E . B . B . 0 ., R . 0 . Jevnkvone-O . 8-. o kl . Andreas Christian Conradi , B . S : t 0 . O . Hans Kirkgaard Fleischer , IC S : t 0 . O . I Andliga Siandet .

I 860 d . 28 Jan . Henrik Reuterdahl , Ledamot i Andl . Standet af IC M . 0 . 18 G 1 d . 2 Mars . Johannes Bohtlieb , T . D ., Kyrkoh . i Tyska forsanil . i Stockholm , L . ! N . 0 . UlIANDSKE . 1852 d . 19 Juli . H . K . H . Prins Fredrik af Nederlanderne . 1853 d . 1 Dec . II . M . Konungen af Preussen .

1858 d . 3 Maj . II . IC 11 . Kronprinsen af Preussen . 1865 d . 13 Juni . Christian Jakob Cosnius Brsestrup , IC N . 0 . II . Friniurarorden i Stockholm forehade i Sondags , heriittar Dag . Nh-. rett ovanlit hbgtidlit ocli anstriingande arbeteda

nemy , g g , ligen prinsen af Wales reeipierades uti icke mindro iin sex grader . Konungen fungerado sjelf vid receptionerna och begaf sig fcirdenskull redan kl . 12 pa middagon till logen , dit prinsen af AA ales ankom kl . half 2 . Endasfc etfc mindre , men valdfc siillskap deltog i arbetet . —Prinsen skulle i gar komina att ¦ saottaga iinmt flera grader i orden .

The Prince Of Wales A Freemason.

THE PRINCE OF WALES A FREEMASON .

( Prom the Daily Neios ) . Has the Prince of AVales been made a Freemason ? " AVho -can tell ? " is the burden of a ballad being warbled in many a fashionable drawing-room just now , and " who can tell ? " is the answer given by English Freemasons when asked tho meaning of a little paragraph now going the round of the

newspapers : — "Before leaving Stockholm ( says a despatcli from that capital ) , tho Prince of AA ' ales was made a Knight of the Freemasons of Charles XIII ., after having successively received the six inferior orders . " Such is the announcement which has set

the " blue , " that is tho ' orthodox , Masons of England wondering . AVhat are the six inferior Orders ? AVliat is a "Knight of the Freemasons of Charles XIII . ? " are questions repeated in every Masonic lodge in the country , and the manner in which they are received and the profound bewilderment of those propounding them would he conclusive as to the spuriousness of tho paragraph if it were not for one embarrassing fact , an irregular

Freemasonry exists . "Unrecognised by the Grand Lodge of England , its insignia tabooed , and its distinctions and orders of merit forbidden to be worn in regular lodges , it yet includes in its ranks some of the most distinguished Masonic experts in the world -who proclaim the beauty of its ritual and ceremonies with an ¦ ¦ enthusiasm which is evidently sincere . But to the Freemason

proper there is no such thing as a Knight of Charles XIII . ; no such thing as six inferior degrees . The title touches him no more than that of Perpetual Grand of the Glorious Apollos , so gracefully worn [ by Mr . Richard Swiviller , or the sounding nomenclature of the Odd Fellows , the Foresters , or the Ancient Druids . It is superfluous to add that a Free and Accepted

Mason has nothing in common with these , and that the Order he glories in differs fundamentall y in spirit and aim from all of them . This must he thoroughly understood at starting . Freemasonry is not a benefit society ; its members arc not allowed to canvass for recruits ; and it holds out no specific material advantages to those joining it . A general desire of knowledge ,

and a sincere wish to be more extensively serviceable to his fellow-creatures , must bo at least the professed motives of every candidate for initiation into its mysteries . The enthusiastic

Mason rather resents the assumption that his Brotherhood is convivial . Mr . Flowers , the police magistrate at Bow-street , in declining the other day to look at the Masonic certificate of the Scotch ex-soldier brought before him on a charge of drunkenness , was guilt } ' of a moral outrage upon fraternal susceptibilities . The remark that he did not doubt tho droughty-looking

toper ' s avowal , was , with the significant look accompanying it , as a dagger in the heart of every Freemason present . That eating and drinking arc the subordinate circumstances of lodgemeetings , and that the real business transacted is testhetic , learned , and occult , is the only basis upon which a Freemason , with a proper sense of dignity , will condescend to argue as to the usefulness

and merits of the Craft . Mr . Flowers : " I daro say you are one ; I don't at all doubt you—there are many members of the Order ! " implied that drunkenness and Freemasonry were not incompatible , and that the bench ' s estimate of the Craft was rather familiar than respectful . Yet a few paces from where Mr . Flowers sat—in Great Queen-street , Lineoln ' s-inn—wholo

libraries of moral and religious books may he purchased which are devoted to the exposition of Freemasonry , which the uninitiated may read legitimately , and which prove conclusively that the cardinal virtues were kept alive by the Order through the darkest times , that it was old and flourishing when King Solomon was admitted into it , afterwards to become its Grand

Master , and that the denizens of other worlds than this practice the mysteries of the Craft with the greatest benefit to themselves . The voluminous works of the learned Dr . Oliver , a venerable clergyman who only died the other day , set these things forth with great distinctness , and merit tho attention of all students anxious to acquaint themselves with Freemasonry from outside its pale . That the Prince of AA ' ales should have been made a Freemason

at Stockholm is possible , but if he has we can promise His Boyal Highness that no decoration pertaining to his possible knighthood will be allowed to be worn in the lodge 3 of his native land . The imagination can conceive few thing 3 more terribly subversive of the proprieties than that an irregular degree should be permitted to flaunt itself in high Masonic places ; and wc decline to dwell upon the position which the

Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland , and the Deputy Grand Master , tho Earl do Grey and Ripon , would feel bound to take up , if tho heir to the Crown presented himself before them in tbe fancy garb of an apocryphal degree . There are but throe degrees in tho only Freemasonry recognised by tho Book of Constitutions ; the third degree being for convenience divided

into two , and the second part of it only administered after twelve months waiting , and to those anxious to take it . The whole machinery of the Order here is supported by these degrees , those belonging to them administering some of tho finest and most efficient charities in the world ; disposing of large revenues , and assisting tho afllictcd and distressed in a spirit

and to an extent little dreamt of by the uninitiated . The great evil of English charity is that it is always ready—often too ready to put its hands into its pockets ; but that it stubbornly refuses to give up its time . It is the ill distribution , not the vast amount of the millions given away annually which does harm . It is the glory of Freemasonry that

it combats with this abuse successfully . Boards and committees sit regularly at the Freemasons' Hall , composed of men—often eminent , always capable—who devote hours to the driest business drudgery , simply that tho donations and subscriptions of the brethren may achieve their maximum of good . The Freemasons' Girls' School on AVaiidswortli-conunon , and the Freemasons' Boys' School at Tottenham , are model institutionsbecause their house committees , their school visitors , and their