Taste And Want Of Taste In Decoration.

arc seated on the entablature ; and groups encrust the main columns , on a level with the front of the first tier of boxes , above the dress circle . The foliated scroll ivork , supporting birds of paradise , are exquisitely modelled in alto-relievo , and the arrangement on the front of the dress circle is highly artistic iu design . 'The front is formed by a bold ogee-shaped groundwork , on winch a continuous foliated scroll in basso-relievo is placed , suitably ornamented with wild cats and

serpents in alto-relievo . Thc whole of these embellishments arc manufactured in a durable material ( carton picrre ) , coloured and varnished to appear like china , etch gilt . AVe arc indebted to the exquisite skill of Grinling Gibbons in representing birds , in alto-relievo , for applied decorations ; he contributed greatly to render this superior class of art popular in this country down to thc end of thc eighteenth century , evidences of which may be practically gleaned from the cherubs ou the tombstones of nearly every village churchyard in England .

Archæology.

ARCH ? OLOGY .

BRITISH AUCILEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION . AT the meeting of this society on thc llth of January , the chair was taken by Mr . Pettigrew , one of the vice presidents . The Eev . Dr . M'Caul , of thc University of Toronto ; Mr . T . Grccnhalgh , of B olton-lc-Moors ; Lieut . Unwin , of Norwood ; ancl Mr . John Millard , of Charing-cross , were elected associates . Presents received from

were the Society of Antiquaries , of Scotland ; the Hoyal Dublin Society , & c . Mr . Briggs , of lung ' s Newton , sent a drawing of a mural painting , discovered on the north pillar , supporting the central tower of Melbourne church . It represents the '' Temptation of Our Lord by the Devil , " who , with his imps , is figured in a very grotesque manner . An inscription on it reads — " llie est rclictus a diabolo . " Mr . Brushfield sent a drawing of diminutive / ii

a egy , only eighteen inches in height , sculptured iu sandstone , and now in Zolgrave churchyard , where also are two diminutive scul ptured sepulchral slabs from Bakcwell church . Mr . Batcman sent some Celtic antiquities , found at AVilmston , in Cheshire . They consist of an urn , sixteen inches high and thirteen broad , a bone stud , and- a small bronze dagger . Mr . Bateman also sent a beautiful gold buttonof loS workmanshi

, Ang- . axon p , ornamented with garnets and ivory . Mr . Patrick produced rubbings from brasses in Bexley church , one of which was to Thomas Sparrow , a merchant , of 1555 . Mr . Allom exhibited an iron mount ofthe butt of a large pistol , richly chiselled , with a hinged lid in its centre , covering a little magazine in the stock , where the picker was deposited . It was found on the battlefield of Culloden . Mr . A . Syor dimming exhibited five brass medals relating to this battle Petti

. Mr . grew read the first portion of a paper " On Monumental Crosses , Copper Slabs , and Effigies , " illustrated by various drawings , executed by Edward Falkcner , Esq .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

SHAKSPEAHE LODGE , WARWICK , XO . 856 . Tins Lod ge , as it now stands in tlie register , was originally a travelling military Lodge in thc old Warwick militia . Turning to one of its early minute books , its working and meetings are recorded with its former number ( 501 ) in the following places : — Norwich , Gravcscnd , Chelmsford , Dublin , Drogheda , Colchester , Bury St , Edmunds , Huntingdon , Stilton , Norman Cross , Ipswich , Colchester and at last

again ; , in January , 1802 , home to Warwick , where the Lodge has rested , witli varied fortune , until thc present tune . It can now be justly called one of the first Lodges in thc province . I shall endeavour shortly to send an impression of the old Lodge seal , and send my communication with a query , viz . — Wiry was the Lodge styled "Royal Arch Lodge , Warwickshire Militia ? " AVe are not aware that Eoyal Arch Chapter

any was attached to thc Lodge until a few years ago .- —II . LOUD BROUGHAM A -1 IAS 0 X . As vou have inserted some particulars of the Masonic career of AVcllington and the elder Buonaparte , perhaps thc following note upon another S . va % uvttptav may be acceptable . —Hoit . mo NELSOX JENKINS .- — -Lord Brougham ' s name appears in the records of the Fortrosc Lod

ge of Storno way , under date 20 th August , 1790 . Henry Peter Brougham , Charles Stewart , Robert Campbell , and Putney Stroud , who were all raised to thc degree of Master Mason on that date , constituted a party who visited the island of Lewis in a yacht known as the Mad Brig , and the circumstance of their becoming Freemasons in a place so ' remote as Stornoway then was , originated no doubt in one of their wild freaks . It is a stock

anecdote ofthe Lodge , that when Lord Brougham was being initiated , he at first emphatically but irreverently demurred to one of the conditions , offering cogent reasons for remaining free , ancl completely posing for thc moment by his volubility and powers of argument the simple-minded brethren , who however eventually succeeded in binding him . LODGE OF FJ . 1 _ E 1 . 01 I ( XO . 91 ) , GKAVESl-Xl ) .

AVill some brother of thc above Lodge tell me if they have among their records a copy of thc following pamphlet , of which I have seen the title page , viz ., "Two Masonic Addresses delivered in the Lodge of Freedom , No . 80 , Gravcscnd , December 27 th , 180 o , being the Anniversary of thc Festival of St . John the Evangelist , By Bro . Killick , 11 . AVM . ; and Bro . John Bryan , J . AV . Published at the request of the Lodge . 8 vo ., London , 180-1 ?"—EKOOC .

IIKIU-DOM , IR-UODKlI , OK IIAKOl . IJI . In Mackey ' s "Lexicon of Freemasonry" I find the following under thc word Herodcu . "lleroden , " says a MS . ofthe Ancient Scotcii rite , in my possession , "is a mountain situated iu the north west of Scotland , where the first or metropolitan Lodge of Europe was held . Hence thc term Sovereign Princes of Rose Croix dc lleroden . " Thc French Masons spell it llercdom ,

which I imagine is simply a Gallic mode of expressing the Jewish title "Harodim . " AVhich way is correct ? Is there a mountain in Scotland called lleroden ; and what is the Jewish title Harodini ? —Tniri-E TAU .

LODGE OF rF . i . FECTIOX . There is a Lodge of this rite existing in Paris . The degrees constituting tbe rite are considered the same as the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Kite . Now I have promised fealty to the Ancient and Accepted Rite of England ; should I , therefore , if in Paris , be acting contrary to my loyalty by visiting the Lodge of Perfection alluded to ?—KXT . E . AV .

CLINCH OX l- 'l-KEMASOXKY . InLawrie ' s " History of Freemasonry" there are frequent allusions to Mr . Clinch and his work on Masonry . Can you tell us thc title ?—SCOTIA . — - [ It is not a separate work , but consists of an "Essay on the Origin of Freemasonry , " by J . Bernard Clinch , and appeared in four numbers of the "Authologia Hibernica , " Svo ., Dublin , 1704 ] .

FJCKXCJI All . IKE VIATIOX . What is the meaning of "A . - . L . - . G . ' . D . . G . . A . . D . . L'U . . " which I recently received at the head of a brother ' s note ?—D . 1 ) . MooitE . —[ It is the French method of abbreviating " A la Gloirc du Grand Architccte dc I'Univers , " ivhich is thc heading of all Masonic documents , and is formed by taking the first letter ofthe words of sentence wish to condenseand inserting

any you , between each three dots in a triangular form , thus : — . . ] . JOIIX C'ODl . IXGTOX , ESQ . Wanted particulars of the life of John Codringtoii , Esq ., D . Prov . CM ., of Devon , in 1770 . The inquiry is made more with a view to identify him with one of the worthies of the comity than for any other object . —J . C .

EARLY IIRITKI ! IIIS'I'OI . IAXS . I propose to read some of the early English historians , such as those printed in Bonn ' s " Antiquarian Library , " for the purpose of endeavouring to trace from them any of the doctrines or principles of Freemasonry ; but how am I to ascertain who they were ancl what works they wrote' ?—II . E . I . —[ AVe doubt our correspondent ' s finding much to repay his labour in wading through

some two hundred or move folio volumes of crooked English , and still more crabbed Latin ; but if he chooses to do so , he may find all of them and their works enumerated iu the Eev . AV . D . Macray ' s "Manual of British Historians to A . D . lfiOO . " Svo . Loud ., 1815 . ] HOYAL AI 1 CII KEVISIOX . AVhen , and by whom , was the ceremony and ritual of the Hoyal

Arch last revised?—A NEW Co . i . i'Axiox . —[ In 1 & 15 , hy the Rev . Adam Brown , who was one of thc chaplains of II . 11 . II . the late Duke of Sussex , G-. Z . ofthe Order . ] FI _ . ! ST LODGE IX FRANCE . AVho established the first Lodge in France , and when ?—X . Y . Z . —[ Charles Eatclilf , titular Earl of Derwentwater , in 1725 , and he became thc first Grand Master of France . The Lodge was held at the house of one Iluse , a traitcur , in thc Hue de Boncherics . ]