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Masonic Notes And Queries.
d'Encouragement , for a French chemist , named Pierre Francois Chabaneau . M . Jules Delanoue , who read a x » pev on the subject , showed that Spanish America sent platinum to Spain in the eighteenth century ; that Chabaneau , who had obtained some specimens of this new metal , succeeded in converting it into ingots ; and that Charles the Third ordered a medal of platinum to be struck , in 1785 , to commemorate Chabaneau ' s success , and granted
him a pension for the discovery . Platinum , we believe , was just made known in Europe in 1711 , by Mr . AVood , assay-master in Jamaica . Carl Haag , Esq ., has heen elected a member of the Royal Institution .
At the meeting of the Photographic Society , held on the 6 th inst ., at King ' s College , London , the Right Hon . the Lord Chief Baron , President , in the chair , Mr . Joubort exhibited specimens of his new process of photographs burnt in glass , by ivhich means they become as indestructible as the glass itself , and form transparencies surpassing ordinary glass painting in beauty . Mr . Mahme , who exhibited specimens of photographs taken by means
of [ electric light , observed that , although somewhat costly , he believed that electricity might often be used with great advantage where it was requisite to produce photographs in dull weather , or whenever the light of clay could not be available . About £ 800 has already been collected towards establishing a travelling architectural studentship , by way of memorial to the late A . AV . Pugin . £ 2000 is the amount required . The Rev . J . Foulkes Jones has a work in the press on Egypt and its Siblical Relations .
The Critic says : —From the United States , a rather singular literary announcement , or invitation , greets us . An Albany publisher proposes to issue by subscription a descriptive catalogue of American Genealogies , prepared by AA . II . AVhitmore , one of the publishing committee of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register . Genealogies in the Democratic United States ! Yes ; and the publisher informs us in his prospectus that
" the number of American Family Histories is now more than one hundred ancl fifty , " ancl that "the interest in this science is rapidly increasing " — -anintimation whichis enough to rouse Benjamin Franklin in his grave . A new book is just out , entitled , Expositions of the Cartoons of Raphael , hy Richard Henry Smith , jun .
By a breach of official secresy , a history of the serfdom abolition question has just been published at Leipsic , containing many documents not hitherto communicated to the public . The book , which is written in the Russian language , should not be overlooked hy alFdesirous of acquainting themselves with the details of the subject , or with the general condition of the Russian empire . At
the same city has been started a new weekly paper , ' also in the Russian language , under the name of Eudoushnostj ( The Future ) , the first number of which contains several trenchant and interesting articles on the personnel of the St . Petersburg G-overnment , from the pen of Prince Dolgorowki . Mr . Steele , of Edinburgh , has completed his model of the statue
of Allan Ramsay , and the marble is to be finished within a year . Next month we are to have , from the pen of the Rev . N . Davis , Carlliage and its Remains ; being an Account of Excavations and Researches on the site of the Phoenician Metropolis , and in other Adjacent Places ; conducted under the same Auspices as Her Majesty's Government .
The Rev . Dr . Hook , Dean of Chichester , has in the press Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury , from the Mission af Augustine to the Death af Rowley . The Right Hon . and Right Rev . the Bishop of Bath and AVells ia editing the Memoirs and Correspondence af William , first Lord AncHaml . The work will contain letters by Pitt , Burke , Fox , Gibbon , Hume , Archbishop Sutton , Lord North , Josiah Wedgwood , and other distinguished personages .
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
[ THE E DITOR does not hold himself responsible for any opinion entertained by Correspondents . ] ILSIFOBMITY OP WOEKIHG .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PKEE 3 IASONS MAGAZINE A 2 TD 3 USOITIC SnBBOE . DEAB Sin AND BKOTHEE , — Somewhat over two years since , I addressed you on the necessity of having an established form of ritual promulgated by authority , and an occurrence I witnessed , a few evenings back , has induced me again to direct the attention of the Graft to the subject . The Craft in London are now divided
between the disciples of Bros . Muggeridge and Wilson , as followers of the Thompson and Gilkes workings ; and there are few lodges you now can enter Avhere the followers of each are not to be found , those , living westward attending the lodge of Emulation , and the denizens of the east , the lodge of Stability . The desirability of uniformity became so apparent four years since , that , at the wish of several brethren ,
the two leading preceptors met for tho purpose of bringing the vexed question to a settlement ; and on the appearance of the article I have alluded to , Bro . Muggeridge assured me that several meetings had been held , and but little remained to complete the system they had agreed upon ; I have been told that the matter rested at this point , whatever it might be , and has e % 'er since remained . NOAV , seeing that these
great diffusers of light , east and west , are unable to direct the searchers after knoAvledge , let us look in some other quarter for the accomplishment of our desire , that the boasted oneness of Masonry shall not be merely a name ; for let it be observed , that in addition to the latitude allowed to the parties mentioned , Ave have others who take great liberties with tho language of our ritual , and who—their education being very limited—by the unwarrantable introduction of verbiage of their OAVU , create disgust in the minds of the older members of our Order .
The declaration you , Sir , made at the recent public night of the Grand SteAvards' Lodge , of the intention of that body to give more frequent opportunities of the Oraft seeing the mode of working there practised , induces me to hope that the subject will be taken up by authority ; and I , therefore , venture to ask whether the purpose for which the Grand Stewards' Lodge was formed—that of preserving the
mode of working sanctioned by Grand Lodge—should not be brought to bear on the question ? I may remark that for some years the Grand Stewards ' Lodge has been very inactive , or othei'Avise we should by this time have attained uniformity ; but , as the present officers haA * e shown more life and spirit , and arc disposed to follow out their vocation ivith integrity , I have a hope that
something will be dono . If the Grand Stewards' Lodge is warranted in promulgating the proper method of ivorking , let it be declared , and the Board of General Purposes compel everjr lodge to folloAV its teaching . If there does not exist this poAver , I trust that the Grand Lodge will confer it . I suggest that a committee of seven Past Masters be appointed by Grand Lodge to confer with the officers of the Grand
Stewards' Lodge , and their decision—reported to the Board of General Purposes—be presented to Grand Lodge , Avhich Avill thus be empowered to declare the laAV to be observed in future . I am , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , I . HOW , P . M .
Classical Theology.
CLASSICAL THEOLOGY .
TO THE EDITOR OP THE F _ . EE _ JASO . fS JtAGAZtXE AND MAS 03 STC JIIEBOE . DEAE SIR AXD BUOTIIEH , —IknoAV not whether it is contrary to precedent to admit in one number of a Magazine , a criticism of what has appeared in another , but really the astronomical paragraph in the article "Vesta" is such a tissue of intolerable nonsense , that my indignation is excited , and I do think it ought notin justice to tho many
, unlearned , who will read it , be left unnoticed . Lotmeromind the author , who , though evidently learned in mythological lore , is as obviously uninitiated in the mysteries of science , that the conclusions of science are not " beliefs , " but certainties ; that to doubt those conclusions is tantamount to confessing ignorance as to the steps of their
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
d'Encouragement , for a French chemist , named Pierre Francois Chabaneau . M . Jules Delanoue , who read a x » pev on the subject , showed that Spanish America sent platinum to Spain in the eighteenth century ; that Chabaneau , who had obtained some specimens of this new metal , succeeded in converting it into ingots ; and that Charles the Third ordered a medal of platinum to be struck , in 1785 , to commemorate Chabaneau ' s success , and granted
him a pension for the discovery . Platinum , we believe , was just made known in Europe in 1711 , by Mr . AVood , assay-master in Jamaica . Carl Haag , Esq ., has heen elected a member of the Royal Institution .
At the meeting of the Photographic Society , held on the 6 th inst ., at King ' s College , London , the Right Hon . the Lord Chief Baron , President , in the chair , Mr . Joubort exhibited specimens of his new process of photographs burnt in glass , by ivhich means they become as indestructible as the glass itself , and form transparencies surpassing ordinary glass painting in beauty . Mr . Mahme , who exhibited specimens of photographs taken by means
of [ electric light , observed that , although somewhat costly , he believed that electricity might often be used with great advantage where it was requisite to produce photographs in dull weather , or whenever the light of clay could not be available . About £ 800 has already been collected towards establishing a travelling architectural studentship , by way of memorial to the late A . AV . Pugin . £ 2000 is the amount required . The Rev . J . Foulkes Jones has a work in the press on Egypt and its Siblical Relations .
The Critic says : —From the United States , a rather singular literary announcement , or invitation , greets us . An Albany publisher proposes to issue by subscription a descriptive catalogue of American Genealogies , prepared by AA . II . AVhitmore , one of the publishing committee of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register . Genealogies in the Democratic United States ! Yes ; and the publisher informs us in his prospectus that
" the number of American Family Histories is now more than one hundred ancl fifty , " ancl that "the interest in this science is rapidly increasing " — -anintimation whichis enough to rouse Benjamin Franklin in his grave . A new book is just out , entitled , Expositions of the Cartoons of Raphael , hy Richard Henry Smith , jun .
By a breach of official secresy , a history of the serfdom abolition question has just been published at Leipsic , containing many documents not hitherto communicated to the public . The book , which is written in the Russian language , should not be overlooked hy alFdesirous of acquainting themselves with the details of the subject , or with the general condition of the Russian empire . At
the same city has been started a new weekly paper , ' also in the Russian language , under the name of Eudoushnostj ( The Future ) , the first number of which contains several trenchant and interesting articles on the personnel of the St . Petersburg G-overnment , from the pen of Prince Dolgorowki . Mr . Steele , of Edinburgh , has completed his model of the statue
of Allan Ramsay , and the marble is to be finished within a year . Next month we are to have , from the pen of the Rev . N . Davis , Carlliage and its Remains ; being an Account of Excavations and Researches on the site of the Phoenician Metropolis , and in other Adjacent Places ; conducted under the same Auspices as Her Majesty's Government .
The Rev . Dr . Hook , Dean of Chichester , has in the press Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury , from the Mission af Augustine to the Death af Rowley . The Right Hon . and Right Rev . the Bishop of Bath and AVells ia editing the Memoirs and Correspondence af William , first Lord AncHaml . The work will contain letters by Pitt , Burke , Fox , Gibbon , Hume , Archbishop Sutton , Lord North , Josiah Wedgwood , and other distinguished personages .
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
[ THE E DITOR does not hold himself responsible for any opinion entertained by Correspondents . ] ILSIFOBMITY OP WOEKIHG .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PKEE 3 IASONS MAGAZINE A 2 TD 3 USOITIC SnBBOE . DEAB Sin AND BKOTHEE , — Somewhat over two years since , I addressed you on the necessity of having an established form of ritual promulgated by authority , and an occurrence I witnessed , a few evenings back , has induced me again to direct the attention of the Graft to the subject . The Craft in London are now divided
between the disciples of Bros . Muggeridge and Wilson , as followers of the Thompson and Gilkes workings ; and there are few lodges you now can enter Avhere the followers of each are not to be found , those , living westward attending the lodge of Emulation , and the denizens of the east , the lodge of Stability . The desirability of uniformity became so apparent four years since , that , at the wish of several brethren ,
the two leading preceptors met for tho purpose of bringing the vexed question to a settlement ; and on the appearance of the article I have alluded to , Bro . Muggeridge assured me that several meetings had been held , and but little remained to complete the system they had agreed upon ; I have been told that the matter rested at this point , whatever it might be , and has e % 'er since remained . NOAV , seeing that these
great diffusers of light , east and west , are unable to direct the searchers after knoAvledge , let us look in some other quarter for the accomplishment of our desire , that the boasted oneness of Masonry shall not be merely a name ; for let it be observed , that in addition to the latitude allowed to the parties mentioned , Ave have others who take great liberties with tho language of our ritual , and who—their education being very limited—by the unwarrantable introduction of verbiage of their OAVU , create disgust in the minds of the older members of our Order .
The declaration you , Sir , made at the recent public night of the Grand SteAvards' Lodge , of the intention of that body to give more frequent opportunities of the Oraft seeing the mode of working there practised , induces me to hope that the subject will be taken up by authority ; and I , therefore , venture to ask whether the purpose for which the Grand Stewards' Lodge was formed—that of preserving the
mode of working sanctioned by Grand Lodge—should not be brought to bear on the question ? I may remark that for some years the Grand Stewards ' Lodge has been very inactive , or othei'Avise we should by this time have attained uniformity ; but , as the present officers haA * e shown more life and spirit , and arc disposed to follow out their vocation ivith integrity , I have a hope that
something will be dono . If the Grand Stewards' Lodge is warranted in promulgating the proper method of ivorking , let it be declared , and the Board of General Purposes compel everjr lodge to folloAV its teaching . If there does not exist this poAver , I trust that the Grand Lodge will confer it . I suggest that a committee of seven Past Masters be appointed by Grand Lodge to confer with the officers of the Grand
Stewards' Lodge , and their decision—reported to the Board of General Purposes—be presented to Grand Lodge , Avhich Avill thus be empowered to declare the laAV to be observed in future . I am , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , I . HOW , P . M .
Classical Theology.
CLASSICAL THEOLOGY .
TO THE EDITOR OP THE F _ . EE _ JASO . fS JtAGAZtXE AND MAS 03 STC JIIEBOE . DEAE SIR AXD BUOTIIEH , —IknoAV not whether it is contrary to precedent to admit in one number of a Magazine , a criticism of what has appeared in another , but really the astronomical paragraph in the article "Vesta" is such a tissue of intolerable nonsense , that my indignation is excited , and I do think it ought notin justice to tho many
, unlearned , who will read it , be left unnoticed . Lotmeromind the author , who , though evidently learned in mythological lore , is as obviously uninitiated in the mysteries of science , that the conclusions of science are not " beliefs , " but certainties ; that to doubt those conclusions is tantamount to confessing ignorance as to the steps of their