Masonic Notes And Queries.

eipal floor , which is seventy-eight feet long by thirty-six feet wide ; the ceiling ( highly ornamented in stucco ) twenty-two feet in height ; the centre , spandrills , aud soffits , are very beautiful . The music gallery is at the eastern end . On this floor are two other neatly finished apartments , one of them twenty-two by thirty-three feet , and the other seventeen by thirty-three feet . The division of the height of the first story in the southern part of the building into two parts , furnishes two

other commodious rooms , immediately over , and of the same dimensions as those just mentioned . The ascent to the second story is through a spacious hall , to which there are entrances from the east aud west sides of the building , as well as the front , by a geometrical staircase with mahogauy handrail , supported by a neat balustrade of curled maple . " The northern division of the second story is appropriated to the accommodation of the Grand Lodge and the stated meetings of the subordinate Lodges , and consists of one splendid room sixty feet in length by thirtsix feet four inches in breadth

y- , with various adjoining apartments , adapted to the business of the institution . This room is finished in a style of superior elegance , and the furniture and decorations are uncommonly splendid . They are probably not surpassed by those of any similar society . "The southern part of tho second story is divided into a banqueting room thirty-six by twenty feet ; a room for the accommodation more especiallof the several Chapters of ltoyal Arch Masonstwent-nine b

y , y y thirty-six Feck ; and several smaller apartments . The Chapter room is fitted up and furnished iu a style of equal splendour and beauty , though of dissimilar character of architectural decorations and insignia , with the Grand Lodge room , combined with every peculiar convenience required by that interesting degree of tho Order . "This edifice is undoubtedly a considerable addition to the many rapid improvements in architecture which have taken place in this city within a few years past , and is highly honourable to the laudable zeal

and enterprize of the respectable society who are its proprietors . The addition of its beautiful spire took place on the suggestion of several respectable citizens , who regretted our deficiency in au article of embellishment so essential to the beauty of a great city . "

CIIAIK MASTER- LODGES . I confess myself nuzzled to know what is meant by our Scottish brethren in speaking of a Chair Master Lodge . In the laws of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland , among the forms appended , No . o is a "Form of Petition for a Chair Master Lodge . " It is given thus : — "Unto tho Sffi'

REME GRAND KOYAL ARCH CHAI'TE B or SCOTLAND ; ' ¦ The PETITION of " Humbly sheweth That your petitioners are all Mark and Past Masters , aud arc desirous of obtaining a warrant constituting a Chair Master Lodge at , by the name of the Lodge of Chair Masters . The Master of the said Lodge to be * . * S . W . * . . J . iv .

" May it therefore please the Supreme Grand Boyal Arch Chapter of Scotland to grant a warrant accordingly , aud your petitioners will ever pray . ( Signed ) ( Date ) ¦ " This petition must be signed by the three , at least , who are proposed to be office bearers . Their names are inserted at tho mark * , aud if they be Koyal Arch Masons they there add the Chapter of which they are Companions ; or , if they be no higher than Past Masters , the warranted Lodge of which they are members . Iu the event of Past Masters being the petitioners , the following certificate must be added by a Eoyal Arch Companion : —•

I , A . B ., a Mark and Past Master , and a duly exalted Royal Arch Companion , belonging to the Chapter , Jfo . on the roll of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland , do hereby certify that sufficient evidence has been laid before me that the above petitionee are members of the warranted Chair Master Lodges they profess to be . ( Signed ) " A . B . " Will some Scotch brother or companion tell me what constitutes a Chair-Master ' s Lodge V It may he that it is only a

designation peculiar to our Scottish brethren , or , it may be a side degree with which many of us are unacquainted . Information on the subject will be acceptable to—AN ENGLISH R . A . COMPANION . FRENCH SONG WANTED . Is there any French song that corresponds with the Grand Master ' s soug , published by Anderson , in the " Book of Constitutions ] ' ?_ A . F . B T . —[ Yes ; a chanson , " Pour cole'brer

L ' election du G-. M ., par la Frere DuBois , en 1750 , " commencing "D ' une commune ardeur , " and sung to the air "Dela Bcquille . " There is also one on the same subject by a Dutch brother , dated 175 G , commencing " Quel sujet plus favorable , " to an air specially composed for it . ] THE TEMPLE CUURCH AND MASONRY . It was reported at the time the Temple Church was undergoing the process of restoration , some years since , that there were many inscriptions aud devices discovered on various portions of the building . I should like to be informed if any note of them was

made at the time , and if there were any Masonic emblems among the number . —A MASONIC RESIDENT IN THE INNER TEMPLE . MASONRY AND THE 11 EGISTERS OF THE CITY COMPANIES . Any information that can be acquired regarding the early revival of Masonry , in 1717 , must be acceptable to every studious Mason , and it has occurred to mc that in the registers of some of

the companies of the City of London there must be notices of the Craft , particularly when we find the following companies granting the use of their halls for the installations and grand feasts in the years annexed" . — Duke of Montague , G-. M ., installed , 2-lth June , 17 : 21 , at Stationers' Hall . Duke of Wharton summoned a meeting , to celebrate St , John ' s

day , 24 th June , 1722 , at Stationers' Hall . Duke of Bucclcugh installed , by proxy , at Merchant Taylors ' Hall , June , 1723 . Earl of Leicester installed , in Mercers' Hall , March , 1721 . This list mi ght be considerably extended , but will suffice for the purpose iu view , viz ., exciting the inquiry of brethren who are liverymen of the various companies to sec if there arc any entries

, preserved in the records of the city companies from 1720 to 1770 , which refer to the use of the halls by the Free and Accepted Masons ; and if such entries can be traced , to beg the searchers to make them public to our fraternity through these columns . —¦ Cms .

MASONRY IN THE 11 . E . I . C . AliMV . I want to know what were the ranks of several brother Masons who were in the Hon . East India Company's Military Service about the year 1812 . How can I procure the information ?—A . v ANGLO-INDIAN . —[ If our "Anglo-Indian" had confided to us the names of those he was desirous of tracing , we mi g ht have assisted him ; but , in the absence of such information , we can only refer

him to Dodwcll and Miles ' s List of Officers of the Indian Army , from 1760 lo 183-1 ; corrected to 1 SS 7 . London : 8 vo ., ISoS . ] THE SCALD MISERAULES . Where shall I find any account of this society?—J . A . B . —[ See MoyartiCs Work * Illustrated with Biographical Anecdotes , by . 1 . Nichols and G , Stevens , o vols . Ito . Loud . 1808-17 . For an

epitome of their charges against the Masons take a Prologue written , hi / Richard Gardiner , Esq ., and spoken by Mrs . D' / cr , before the Plug of ' Love for Love' performed by desire of the tireot Lodge at Swaffham , Norfolk , May Glh , 170 ' 5 , a portion of which runs thus :

" Yes , 'tis a barn—yet , fair ones , take mo right , Ours is no play—we hold a Lodge to-night ! Aud should our building want a slight repair , You see we ' ve friends among the brethren there . [ Pointing to the Masons on the SUigc . ' ] lieply the Scalds , with miserable frown , ' Masons repair ! they'd sooner pull it down . A set of ranting , roaring , rumbling fellows ,

Who meet to sing 'Old Rose and burn tho bellows !' Champagne and Claret , dozens in a jerk ; And then , O Lord , how hard they ' ve been at work ! Poker ancl tongs ! the sigu ! the word ! the stroke I 'Tis all a nothing aud 'tis all a joke . X-onseuse on nonsense ! let them storm and rail , Here ' s the whole hist ' ry of their mop and pail . For 'tis the sense of more than half the town

, Their secret is a bottle at the Crown . " WAS CHRISTOPHER . WREN , ESQ ., A MASON ? I should be glad to be informed if Christopher Wren , Fellow of All Souls' Coll ., Oxford , and the author of Parentalia ; or , a History of the Family of Wren , was a Mason ? The reason I ask it isthat in all the histories of St . Paul ' s that I have seen it is

, stated that the last stone on the top of the lanthorn of that cathedral , was laid in 1710 , by the Grand Master's son , Christopher Wren , Esq ., as deputy for his father , and in the presence of the Grand Wardens , Bro . Strong , and other Free and Accepted Masons employed on the work . JAMES O'F . . . .

OLD DUNDEE LODGE . AVhen this Lodge was founded , where did it first meet?—A MEMBER . —[ The Old Dundee , now numbered 18 , and meeting at the London Tavern , Bishopsgate-street , was originall y No . 9 , without a name ( names being but of recent adoption ); ancl as it increased in importance , wishing to be known , but desirous of sinking its eastern origin , called itself the Old Dundee , from its having met on the second and fourth Thursdays at the Dundee Anus , Wapping New Stairs . ]