Masonic Notes And Queries.

BT 7 ZZWINGS . In Notes and Queries for July 10 th there is a note in reference to the mysterious advertisements in the Times about the Society of Buzzwings , and the writer asks whether it is a secret society . —S . S . S .

WILLIAM SINCLAIR , EAEL OE ORKNEY AND CAITHNESS , AND BARON OE ROSSLYN , HEREDITARY GEAND HASTES , A . D . 1437 . A correspondent , thus entitling his letter , sends some extracts from the Memorabilia of the " British , Irish , and Colonial Masonic Calendar . " He should , in reference to one of his observations , look at a passage in our Bro . Hughan ' s First Analysis , Free masons' Magazine , vol . 17 , page 326 . —C . P . COOPEE .

AUSTRIA . Has Freemasonry established itself in Austria aud Hungary since the recent inauguration of the constitutional regime ?—ENQUTEEE . PACT , PEOOE , OPINION , HYPOTHESIS .

First , Masonic fact—Masonic proof ; next Masonic opinion—Masonic hypothesis . —From a paper iu Bro . PTJETON COOPEE ' possession , called " Freemasons' Table Talk . "

SOCIAL SCIENCE—PHYSICAL SCIENCE . Bro . " W . G . C , " in Social Science , inquire into the origin of a secular or religious institution , as in Physical Science you inquire into the cause of a phenomenon of nature . —C . P . COOPER .

PROTESTANT INTOLERANCE OE EEEEMASONEY . In the fifth of the series of interesting and instructive papers on Freemasonry in Prance , which appears lately in the Magazine from the pen " J . A . H . " there occurs the following passage in connection with the question of "Priestly Oppression to Preemasonry : "

— " ... A man cannot be a good Catholic in the sense of being an acknowledged member of the Boman Church , and at the same time be a Preemasonunless he has a special dispensation from Rome , which can only be obtained with great difficulty , and is never granted except to persons of very great

influence . On the other hand , there may he Protestants who ignoranty condemn Ereemasonry , but there is no case on record of a person having been refused membership in the Protestant Churches simply because he was a Mason . " The record of an instance of bigotry

such as that which " J . A . H . " thinks impossible on the part of a Protestant Church , need not now be awanting . Some two or three years ago a brother , personally known to us , being ( for family reasons and on the occasion of the death of a former pastor ) desirous of connecting himself with the Original Secession Churchcommunicated his intentions to the

, minister of the congregation he had elected to join , and received for answer that the Act of the Associate Sjnod excommunicating Freemasons being still in force , it was impossible to entertain his application for church membership unless under an obligation to withdraw from Freemasonrywhich he declined to

, give , and was thus refused membership in a Protestant church simply because of his being a Preemason . We were previously well aware of the sentence of excommunication passed upon Freemasons by the

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Church in question in 1757 , but did not think that such intolerance of Freemasonry could , amid the enlightenment of the 19 th century , be found to exist in the councils of any section of the Protestant Church . —D . MUEEAY LYON .

THE WOED OE GOD . I have received the letter of a Provincial Grand Chaplain . My words at a recent meeting have not been correctly reported . I have always understood that the decision of which he speaks was to this effect , that the phrase "the "Word of God" is not applicable to every statement contained in every part of the Old and New Testament . —C . P . COOPEE .

MIEACEES . Thanks , Bro . " D . I . M . " for your letter respecting my two communications , entitled " Miracles , " Freemasons' Magazine , vol . 18 , pages 66 and 249 . Say , then , that Miracle is the result of an unknown law of nature , the cause of such unknown law being the "Will of the Great Architect of the Universe . —C . P . COOPEE .

THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS . Our Freemasonry regards the Myths and Legends as our Church regards the Apocrypha . It finds in them " example , " but it applies them not for " establishment . "—From Bro . PUETON COOPEE ' S Memorandum Book .

QUE LATE BROTHER THE EEV . SALEM TOWN . ( See the communication "Town ' s Speculative Masonry , " Freemasons' Magazine , vol . 18 , p . 268 . ) Our late brother , the Eev . Salem Town , a distinguished American writer and lecturer on Freemasonry , who died February , 1864 , is the author of that work . A Correspondent will find an account of him in the Freemasons Magazine , vol . 14 , p . 362 . —C . P . COOPEE .

A FOLLOWER OT JACOBI . The brother , studying at the London University , who finds the essence of religion in the human soul , and calls Christianity the historical development of it , may not unfitly consider himself a follower of Jacobi . —C . P . COOPEE .

PEIMOEDIAE GEEJIS . A brother , whose letter is signed " Naturalist , " sends two remarks upon my communication , " Primordial Germs , " Freemasons' Magazine , vol . IS , p . 50 . My brother should look afc at a passage in Mons . Quatrefage ' s "Metamorphoses de l'Homme et des Aniraaus , " p . 12 . Had the theory of Epigenesis occurred to my mind , it is probable I should not have written " evolved . "—C . P . COOPEE .

Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

The Editor is not responsible for the opinion * expressed by Correspondents , GEAND LODGE . — FUND OF BENEVOLENCE . TO TH 2 EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND JIASONIO MIRROB . Dear Sir and Brother , —I fear I must not have been heard by your reporter , as his account is alto-