Masonic Notes And Queries-

BELIGI 0 N 03 ? ENGLISH EEEEMA SONET IN 1732 . "In 1732 the Rev . Martin Clare , A . M ., was instructed by the Grand Lodge to prepare a system of lectures which should be adapted to the existing state of the Order , without infringing on the ancient landmarks . This commissionof courseresulted in

, , an amplification of the Andersonian system , and contained many improvements Avhich were so much liked that the practice of them Avas enjoined on all the lodges . Without , however , denuding them of all Christian allusions , many such were modified , and the Jewish brethren ' s peculiarities of faitli Avere taken

into account . Still they remained essentially Christian , recognising the Trinity , the institution of our Sunday , and the ecclesiastical symbolism attached to the numbers three , five , and seven . " —See Freemasons ' Magazine , vol . ix ., p . 34 . The foregoing is the passage respecting Avhich Bro . " N . P . E , " makes inquiry . — C . P . COOPEB .

SALONIKA . The first lodge founded in Salonika appears to have been one recorded by us , St . Jean d'Ecosse de l'Amitie , under warrant from the Grand Mother Scotch Lodge of Marseilles , dated 1801 ! This must have been long since defunct ; there is now an Italian

lodge , with an English W . M . BE 0 . HUeHAN . "All Masonry requires of its candidates is , that they must be of some religion or other , and must take some kind of O . B ., whatever that may be ,

and on what . "—See Bro . Hughan ' s commucication , " Bro . A . 0 . Have and Bro . H . B . White , " page 2 SS of the present volume . A correspondent , who Avrites from a college at Oxford , thinks this a very singular proposition , and in terms of great respect for Bro . Hughan , ventures to ask for some explanation of it . - —¦ C P . COOPBE .

SltXENA . Smyrna is known to be an ancient seat of Masonry , as will be found in the Freemasons' Magazine . Above 100 years ago a lodge was founded by au English traveller . In 1771 ( as we record elsewhere ) a lodge was founded under the name of St . Jean d'Ecosse des

Nations Reunies , reputed to be existent in 1 S 01 ; but this is doubtful . It is possible that this lodge was the French lodge working some years before the Greek troubles in 1826 , and of which its surviving members do not even recollect the name . In this lodge Lord Howden was initiated .

HOEDO AND MELEOSE . Above a door there used to be a compass with this inscription : — "So gayes the compass ev'n about , So truth and laute do but doubt , Behald to the end . —JOHN MUBDO . "

—ANTHONY ONEAL HATE . THE LATE HONSIEUE PEHDHON . My answer to the observation of - 'E . L . M . " is that 1 could have prayed God that a change might be wrought in the head and heart of Monsieur Prudhon , but , until such change had taken place , I could not have called him "brother . "—C P . COOPEB .

ST . JOHN AND AECH JIASONEY . Bro . Hughan , in his "Analysis , " says : "I cannot see , though , how a Master Mason , under the Grand Lodges of England and Scotland , can be complete Avithout taking the Royal Arch in this epoch of the Craft . " I think Bro . Lauriein his history , signally

, disposes of this Avhen he says : "Its ( theRoyal Arch ' s ) object is to supplement the third degree of St . John ' s Masonry ; bat this is entirely unnecessary , as it is known to every intelligent Master Mason that this Order is complete in itself , and that which Avas lost can only be found beyond the veil of time , towards

which the eye of the aspirant is directed . Moreover , it has never been recognised by that Order , but , on the contrary , carefully prevented from being in any Avay attached to it . " And this opinion is the opinion of every aged Mason Avith Avhom I have conversed . The late Bro . Cay , Sheriff of Linlithgow , a Ereeuiason of more than half a century , in a conversation

which I had Avifch him relative to the high degrees , said : " One can easily understand how in Masonry an universal brotherhood could exist , even with the third degree , for death is the end of every religious teaching ; but when you make Preemasonry sectarian by bringing in the Rose Croix , then it ceases to serve that purpose . Iand many others of my timewho

, , have considered the matter , think every degree above the third not only inimicable to pure Masonry , but a mass of falsehood and absurdity , which Avould disgrace even the imagination of a Yahoo . " Scotland rejects the Royal Arch from her Masonry , andif she was to admit itas a consequence she

, , Avould admit all the rest . A nice Grand Lodge it would be with the thirty-three degrees of the A . and A . Rite , or the ninety of Misraim ! Wine , and water are very good ; but , for my part , I like the wine in a different glass from the Avater . —ANTHONY ONEAL TTWE .

ROBERT BRUCE . The ancient Grand Lodge of Kilwinning- is said to havo been governed by Robert Bruce as Grand Master . —( Prom one of Bro- Purton Cooper's note-books . ) THE SCOTS GREYS . Our learned and esteemed Bro . Murray Lyon , in his

interesting account of a lodge formerly held in the Scots Greys , or 2 nd North British Dragoons , mentions that the regiment Avas formerly commanded by Colonel Napier , a distinguished brother of tho " mystic tie , " and I am sure he , as well as other readers of the Magazine , will be glad to learn that the corps is fit present commanded by a gallant officer who is also a Freemason , viz-, Colonel George Culvert Clarke , si brother of the Grand Secretary of England , Bro . William Gray Clarke . —MILES .

HEREDITARY GRAND MASTERS . Ill Scotland the Barons of Roslin Avere hereditary Grand Masters . —( Erom Bro . Purton Cooper ' s memorandum , book , No . 3 . ) MOTHER KILAVINXIXG AS A GllAXD LODGE . Bro . Murray Lyon ' s "Mother Kilwinning" communications to our periodical contain all the information upon this subject that a Devonshire correspondent desires . — C . P . COOPER .

TIHSHE is a refinement which even wit and knowledge of the world cannot teach their votaries , who often wound tho heart without violating perfect politeness .