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there be no such degree as that of Mark Master , a great many brethren have wasted much time and circumstance in supporting an immense fungus , and the sooner they be informed of their true position the bettei- for them anil their connections . Before proceeding further , I will await the remarks of any brother who will kindly give his attention to the subject . I am , clear Sir n ; :. ) : } rother , yours fraternall y , - 21 st April . 1800 . K . E . X .

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— — ~ — ME . AOTISI-W AMOS died at Downing College , Cambridge , on Wednesday . He was educated at Trinity College , graduating as fifth wrangler in 1813 . He took the degree of M . A . in 1816 , having previously been elected a fellow . In November , 1318 , he was called to the bar by Lincoln ' s Inn . Subsequently lie was chosen . Downing Professor of Laws in this university , and Professor of English Law iu the University of

London . He was also for some time a member of the Supreme Council of India . On his return to this country be took up his abode near Hitchin , and was a most useful county magistrate , till ill health obliged him to retire from the bench . He likewise acted as judge of the Marylebone County Court . His works , which are numerous , are principally of a legal or historieo-legal nature . The salary of the Downing Professorship of Laws is £ 200 . the electors being the Archbishops of Canterbury

and York , and the Masters of St . John ' s , Clare , aud Downing colleges . Mrs . Gore , the novelist , who for some time past has been afflicted with blindness , has just undergone an operation which , it is hoped , will eventually restore her to sight . The anniversary dinner of . the Royal Literary Fund will take place on the 16 th May ; the bishop of St . David ' s will preside . Messrs . Blackwood ( says a paragraph in the Critic , which must be

received with caution ) give " George Eliot" ( Miss Evans ) for her new work , "The Milt on the Floss , " £ 2 , 000 down , £ 61 , 000 for the second edition , and £ 1 , 000 when the work reaches the fourth , with an extra bonus on its reproduction in a cheaper form . A meeting of the British Literary and Scientific Institution was held a fortnight ago . in the British School-room in Pera , for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing y-ear . The Rev . C . Curtis was called to

the chair . On the motion of Mr . Teasdale , ^ seconded by Mr . Knight , the following scrutineers were appointed for the ballot : —Captain Ward , Messrs . Teasdale , Glover , Hopper and Baker . On a ballot being taken , his Excellency Sir Henry Bulwer was elected president , and the Rev . C . Curtis and H . T . Woroth , Esq ., vice-presidents . The election of the

committee and other officers was not declared till a late hour . The lion , secretary , Mr . Knight , has delivered the concluding lecture of the first course , subject— ' ' ¦ Four Hundred Years in Stamboul . " Tiie Stamford i / ercioy / records the death of Mr . Jos . Weils , well known in the vicinity of Boston as the " Fen Poet , " who was originally an agricultural labourer , but by assiduously using the scanty means at his command , fitted himself at the age of twenty-eight , to enter upon

the duties of a village school-master , which honourable post lie filled with great credit for more than sixty years . In common with other village school masters ho took up the work of land surveying , and did a great deal of work in the way of drawing up agreements and making out wills , being in fact a sort of fen lawyer . As a poet be contributed for a series of years to the far-famed " Noble ' s Compendium . " He was very benevolent , and much respected .

Wo iiave some interesting literary news from Paris ; M . de Lamartine ' s complete works will appear shortly , published by himself , in an " Edition Parsonelle , Definitive , Unique . " They will comprise forty volumes , of (' com 5 ( 10 to GOO pages each ; in the course of four years the work will be complete . The price will be three hundred franca for the whole if paid in advance at the delivery of the first volume ( " Meditations Poetiques et Religieuses " ); otherwise , every yearly course of ten volumes

will cost eighty francs . Every subscriber will receive Lumartine ' s portrait with his autograph . M . Barba , the enterprising publisher , has recently issued an excellent popular "History of the War in Italy , " and he has added as a pendant to the same a " Life of Garibaldi , " from the pen of M . Charles Paya , with illustrations by the well known Janet Lunge . The biography occupies little more than a hundred quarto pages , and is highly popular . The career of the famed guerilla- chief is

traced with care , and although the matter is authentic , the work reads really like a romance . Garibaldi ' s career from ( he time he entered the mercantile marine ; his engagement to command the navy of the Bey of Tunis , broken oft" by the awkward fact that the Bey had no navy to be commamied ; Ms daring exploits acjiiust the Brazilians : his bold deed

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in behalf of the Boman Republic against the French forces : the offer and rejection of his services by Charles Albert , of Sardinia ; his escape from the division of the French army , under General Morris , sent in pursuit of him and afterwards from the Austrians—his expulsion from Sardinian territories ; lus sojourn iu New York , where he got bis living by making caudles , with a noble Genoese for his next door neighbour , a vendor of cigars ; his triumphal reception afterwards at Lima ; bis

disastrous voyage to China ; his return , and his recent achievements—are detailed with warm enthusiasm , and will doubtless be devoured by thousands who hope before long to see their hero occupy a place in the world that shall be worthy of his courage , his jiatriotism , and his services in the cause of Italy , and of liberty everywhere . M . Granier de Cassagnac , the well known Imperialist writer , has published a " History of the Girondius and of the Massacres of September , " as an autidote to

( what he considers ) the historical poison of Lamartiue . The Countess de Chalot ( Talma ' s widow ) , who has just died at a very advanced age , was the last surviving actress of the old French comedy . She first married a person named Petit , aud on being left a wictow married Talma . After Ms death she became the wife of tho Count de Chalot .

At Pans , M . Eugene Maron has made a curious little contribution to the history of the great revolution—a "Literary History of the National Convention , " while M . Bmile de Girardin , having exhausted France proper , is directing his attention to its African possessions . " Civilisation de l'Algerie" is the title of a pamphlet just published by him . M . Charles de Bussy has compiled a little volume , useful and interesting at the present juncture , " The Excommunicated , from the most Remote

Times to the Present Day . " The President of the Royal Society , Sir Benjamin Brodie , gave his second soiree for the season , on Saturday night , at Burlington House , Piccadilly . All the priucipal apartments of the noble mansion were thrown open , and a great number of very interesting objects in art aud science were exhibited . Among them were magnificent specimens of gold aud silk embroidery , from Japan , exhibited by Captain Osborn ,

R . N . ; and other Japanese curiosities , contributed by Dr . MacGowau ; M'Cullum ' s linograph , for recording train signals and time ; Melloni ' s apparatus for recording experiments in tbermo-electricity , made aud exhibited by Mr . Ladd ; a new ozone box , invented and exhibited by Mr . Lowe . Two cases of magnificent birds of paradise , from New Guinea , exhibited by Mr . Gould , F . B . S . ; tents used in the sledge expedition in the Arctic regions ; Sir John Franklin ' s pocket compass ; testimonial

enclosed iu carved oak , presented by a committee of Dublin gentlemen to Lady Franklin ; a series of deposit in gold , silver , and platinum , & c , from the negative terminal of an induction coil , exhibited by Mr . Gassiott , F . K . S . ; sections of Glasgow water works , aud photographs of the principal works on the line , exhibited by Mr . Bateman ; illustrations of the photographic effect of fluorescent substances , exhibited by Dr .

Gladstone F . B . S . ; Mr . Gal ton , sun signals ; a very interesting series of obsidian implements and Mexican carvings , exhibited by Mr . Christy ; a series of Celts exhibited by Sir Charles Lyell ; a deep sea pressure gauge , invented by Mr . H . Johnson ; and Hooper ' s application of india rubber for submarine cables . The arrival iu Paris of Dr . Czermak from Pestli , whence he had been fraternally summoned by the French Academy of Medicine , is considered

an event in medical annals . Dr . Czermak is a professor of physiology , whose recent discovery of an instrument whereby tho larynx : may he sufficiently lighted for medical inspection , has obtained great applause all over the Continent . This instrument , which he calls tho larynxoscope , has been on trial in every hospital in Paris , and lias succeeded perfectly . Every disease to which the human throat is subject will henceforth be rendered clear as noon-day to the surgical operator , and the

weaknesses and failings of the human voice are alike made manifest by the flood of light which is poured into the patient ' s throat by aid of a concave mirror reflecting the rays of a strong lamp before which the patient is seated with open mouth , and the introduction into the cavity of the throat on a line with the tonsils of a small mirror attached to a long wire which the operator holds while the examination is going forward . This little mirror being held on an inclined plane forty-five degrees ,

every organ is made visible on the larger one . Even the trachea is perfectly reflected thus , as far down as its bifurcation in the bronchia The interior of the larynx , until now comp letely hidden in the livingsubject , can be examined with the greatest minuteness , and for the first time the whole mechanism of tho human voice becomes manifest to the sight . Dr . Czermak has been received with much congratulation , as being the bearer of good tidings , , of the possibility in future of master