The Freemasons Magazine.

THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE .

ZONJDOl ? , SATURDAY , JUNE 20 , 1863 .

A meeting of brethren , favourable to the continuance of the EBEESIASONS MAGAZINE , under the auspices of a Limited Liability Company , was held at the Freemasons' Tavern on Tuesday . Bro . Stebbing , Vice-President of the Board of General Purposes , ami Chairman of the Company , was called to the Chair

and was supported by Bros . Havers , P . G . "W . ; Mclntyre , G . Eeg . ; Symonds , P . G . D . C , ; Erazer , Brackstone Baker , Charles Beaumont , E . E . Leeks , E . Spencer , & c , & c . The CHAIEJIAN said the object of the meeting was to

consider the prospects of taking up the EEEEITASONS MAGAZINE , and working it under the provisions of the Limited Liability Act . It had now been some time before the Craft , but owing to its having been introduced in the Spring instead of the Autumn—the delay

having originated in the necessary preliminaries in forming a direction , & c . —the Eestivals of the Charities which diverted the attention of the brethren , and other causes , though it had made considerable progress it had not advanced so rapidly as could be desired . A considerable number of shares had been promised

to be taken up , and the deposit upon about one-half of them , had been paid to the bankers . Still the Directors felt that the number of shares promised to be taken , must be doubled before they would be justified in entering into final arrangements for taking the MAGAZINE into their hands , and it was with that view

the present meeting was called . There was no doubt the Craft had arrived at that position , that it must have an organ in the press , and it was far better that they should maintain a journal , the policy and management of which they knew something , than run the

risk of any publication being started under the auspices of brethren of whose lona fides or views they knew nothing . Bro . SYMOND s thought that the time had arrived when they should d etermine what course they ought

to pursue . The present volume closed with this month , and it was most desirable that they should , if possible , commence it under new arrangements in July , and at the same time , make such improvements in it as would render it more acceptable to the brethren , when he believed that a fair , if not a great success , might be obtained .

Bro . HAYEKS also believed that with a sufficient amount of capital behind the conductors of the MAGAZINE , it might be rendered not only a useful organ of the Craft , but commercially successful . There had , no doubt , been drawbacks in the management , but he must repeat his opinion that of late years , it had been conducted with an impartiality and

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firmness that rendered it worthy of the support of the brethren . Bro . BBACKSTONE BAKEE felt that they ought to able to support a good MAGAZINE , but at the same time he believed it had not been made sufficiently cosmopolitan—in fact , it did not tell them enough what

was doing in America and on the continent—whilst too much prominence was given to mere after-dinner speeches . Bro . 'WAEBEN explained that as regarded America , some seven or eight Masonic papers which he used

formerly to receive , had been suspended through the war , and regular correspondents had also withheld their letters , apparently from the same cause . With respect to the continent , he had always been alive to the importance of Eoreign Intelligence , and was now making arrangements to receive it , which would be

completed if the Company were organised . After some further conversation , in which a pledge was given that the liability of the shareholders should be most strictly limited , under the articles of Association , to the amount of subscription . It was resolved that the brethren present should form themselves into

a Committee to canvas their friends to take np the necessary capital to enable the Company to take the publication of the MAGAZINE into its hands , at the earliest possible period , and the meeting was adjourned until Thursday , the 26 fch inst ., at one o'clock . We had almost omitted to mention , that letters were

received from Bro . LI . Evans , President of the Board of General Purposes ; Bridges , P . G . S . B . ; Spiers , P . G . S . B . ; Banister , G . S . B , ; Biggs , P . Prov . G . Eeg ., 'Wiltshire ; Tarker , P . G . D . ; Lane , and others , regretting that other engagements prevented their attending the meeting ,, but promising their active support to the Company .

Geometrical And Other Symbols.

GEOMETRICAL AND OTHER SYMBOLS .

( From the Builder . > Having thus far paved the way for some further remarks on Ereemasonic and other symbols , I must now revert , as I before proposed to do do , to Mr . Godwin's very suggestive letters in the Arcliceoloqia ; and also to what others have said of some of the

symbols , including the hexalpha , not yet here treated of ; before I can conclude with any suggestions of my own more especial origination on the general subject of geometrical symbols . It will have been seen , by the selection , in my last letterfrom the collection of Mason-marks in the

, Archosologia , that a symbol resembling the letter N assumed a variety of modifications in the hands of the working guilds of the Freemasons . The N thus in fact becomes distorted , reversed , and compounded into a multiplicity of shapes , as for example thus : —•