"Pomeroy's Democrat," New York, And The " Freemason," London.

Chapter held a meeting for the purpose of conferring the 30 ° and 32 , it usurped a power which did not belong to it , and became in the eyes of all covenantkeeping and conservative members of the Rite , at home and abroad , " entirely illegitimate . " A correspondent of that truly conservative and respectably

conducted weekly , " the Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror , " London , m alluding to this act of the usurpers at Rochdale , says : " I am sorry to see that the force of evil example in Freemasonry , is soon felt , and thafc some of the members of the Rochdale Chapter of Rose Croix

have held a meeting for the purpose of conferring the 30 th and 32 nd degrees , which they have no more right to give than the M . A . or D . D . of Oxford and Cambridge . The Craft in general must have a very good idea of what these so-called degrees are worth , when I inform my brethren that I have learnt , on very good authority , that the sum charged to such candidates as may be gulled will not exceed Is . 6 d . " And yet with all these facts in our possession , the

" Freemason , " ( that organ of all the sore-heads , covenant-breakers , and usurpers in England ) , with the assurance of a man-milliner , or costumer for females seeking admission to Androgynous bodies , tells us , that we wrote upon " imperfect information as to the facts . " The remark is as insolent as it is false .

But we were in possession of other and official information when we denounced the Rochdale Chapter to justify us in doing so—information which the Freemason could have , without doubt , become possessed of , if it paid as much attention to legitimate

Masonry as it has to the spurious organizations in England , got up by the schismatics , covenantbreakers , and patrons of petticoat Harems , Chapters , & c , aut alio nomine guoqimiqite voearis . We had the following , contained in an official

Communication addressed by order of the Supreme Council , 33 ° , A . A . Rite for England , & c , under seal , and signature of the Grand Secretary-General , dated Feb . 25 th , 1871 , to the Supreme Councils , North and South , in the United States , and which will be respected by them , and their subordinates :

" I am sorry to report for the information of your Sup . * . Coun .- . that an illegal body at Rochdale , in Lancashire , is giving all the degrees of the A . and A . Rite , at about one shilling and sixpence each ; though every precaution has been taken to prevent the spread of this pernicious body , still it is thought but right our American brethren should be put on

their guard . " Was this imperfect information as to facts ? Immediately succeeding the extract we have already commented on , we find the following : We do not ourselves know the precise origin of the chapter , but if its non-adhesion to the S . G . C . 30 ° is to be accepted as primae faei evidence of a spurious basis , all we can say is—and we say ifc for

the especial benefit of " Pomeroy ' s Democrat—that the oldest Rose Croix Chapter in England , namely , the " Baldwyn , " at Bristol , has never acknowledged the Council in Golden Square , and yet no one presumes to stigmatise its members as spurious Masons . Ifc would have been wiser if Bro . Tisdall , the Masonic Editor of " Pomeroy ' s Democrat , " had

learned a little more of the past history and present status of Masonic degrees in England before he dipped his pen in gall and denounced a number of true and honourable Masons . In the first paragraph quoted , we are charged with acting on " imperfect information . " How did the " Freemason ' s " " Gold Lace man and Embroiderer ''

come to that conclusion , when in the first line of this second paragraph he ad mits : " We do not ourselves know the precise origin of the Chapter . " At this side of the Atlantic people of drains generally , nay universally , try to inform themselves on subjects before they express opinions on them . We therefore

hope thafc when hereafter he says anything for " the especial benefit of " Pomeroy ' s Democrat , " he will not so plainly show his insolent ignorance , and prove the truth of a homely adage : — " The higher a monkey climbs , the more clearly will he show his caudal extremitv . "

We have hitherto not mentioned the " Baldwyn '" ' at Bristol , but with all due deference to our contemporary , we will place it in the same category in which we placed the Antiquity Chapter , at Bath , in our issue of / April 12 th ult—CLANDESTINE-but we do so from conscientious motives , and a desire to benefit

legitimate Masonry , in which is contained enough to satisfy the most fastidious , unless they are speculators in Masonry , or its enemies . The " Freemason" then winds up its article by an attempted reply to our exposure of the " Red Cross

of Constantine , " in this manner : " Ifc may interest him to know that the Red Cross Order had a separate Grand Council in England , presided over by our best Masons , long before the Supreme Grand Council , 33 ° , was imported from

America ; that the strongest documentary proofs of its high-standing still exists , and have been procured from what even Bro . Tisdall will not venture to call a spurious source—the archives of the Grand Lodge of England . " We were aware that a degree called the "Red

Cross of Constantine , " or some such degree , was at one time worked in England , by a class of Cagliostros . It , as well as the Rite of Misraim , was suppressed , under the Grand Mastership of the Duke of Sussex , and | the rituals , booksletters , & cplacedaway in

, , , sealed packages in the Archives of the Grand Lodge of England , by the Grand Secretary , the venerable William White ; with the intent thafc they should never see the light ; and they never would have seen the light , and their spurious workings again beeu