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thanks of the brethren " for his very able service , and trouble he had taken , in drawing up the laws of the Masonic Brotherly Society . " Nor must we omit to record the stereotyped yet not the less hearty and unaffected vote of thanks which

annually falls to the fair ones who grace with their presence the lodge assembly . The terms in which this vote is proposed , and the enthusiasm with which it is carried , are quite in harmony with the sentiment conveyed in the couplet" No mortal can more the ladies adore Than a Free and an Accepted Mason . "

The Pope A Freemason.

THE POPE A FREEMASON .

In an article on " Freemasonry in Italy , our new contemporary , La Squadra , of Alexandria , has the following : — " Were Masonry really such as the enemies of progress chose to depict it , we ask ourselves , what

would become of Catholicism which actually has for its head Pio Nono who has been a Mason , and must consequently , as they will have it , be contaminated by the impious doctrines of that sect ? But fortunately Masonry is just the

reverse of what they chose to take it for , and from Pio Nono himself we have ample testimony to that effect . When the latter was apostolical nuncio at Filadelfia , he , upon the solemn occasion

of his initiation into the Order , expressed himself as follows : — I have received from you , men and brethren , the true light , whilst heretofore I had been in the very deepest darkness . I am now fully convinced that Freemasonry is one of those associations

the most worthy of regard and the most beneficient known to the world , and on the other hand I am greatly delighted to say that I now belong to you , ' * and upon a later occasion , when he received his promotion to a higher degree in the Order , he

uttered these words : ' I shall warmly uphold this most noble Order which has for its mission to moralise the universe , and raise and uphold abandoned mankind . '" f A notice to the same effect was published' a few months ago by the Monde Maqonnique , but we

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did not think proper to reproduce it , as no sub--stantial proof for it was given ; as , however , the " same account is repeated more circumstantially now by our Egyptian contemporary , and the i psissima verba alleged to have been uttered by

the neophyte are put forward , we have no longer any hesitation in giving publicity to this state * - ment . If the latter ( for which we leave the responsibility to La Squadra ) be correct in substance ,

there must be , at all events , at least one egregious mistake in it . An apostolic nuncio never resided in a place called " Filadelfia . " The city of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania had ceased to be the . seat of the Executive Government of the United States ' .,

before the present Pope was bom ; besides , the See of Rome never entertained official diplomatic relations 'with the transatlantic republic ; the

Archbishops of New York and New Orleans haveoccasionally volunteered to act as mouth pieces of " the Vatican , but as a rule no apostolic nuncio iskept in partibus infidelium . Moreover , it is hardly necessary to prove that Mastai Ferretti

could not have been representative of the Pope at ' Philadelphia , considering that he never crossed the-Atlantic , at least Mr . Hippolyte Castille , in his life of Pius IX , says nothing of it . On the ' other hand , if by " " Kl < x < loifia . " ^ urv , Q n town is

meant which , according to Ritter , is situate in the Abbruzzi citeriori and has at the present time a ? population of about 3 , 500 inhabitants , we do not see what an apostolic nuncio could have had to da there , and are not aware that a Masonic lodge ever existed in that place , even during the reign of Joachim Murat . At all events the notice referred ?

to has , in this particular , a very apocryphical appearance , and we shall be happy to lay a satisfactory explanation before our readers , if Ls Squadra will favour us with one ; besides this > further and more substantial evidence is

indispensable , before we can find the head of the Catholic Church guilty of that perjury and treachury with which he has been charged in consequence of his allocution of last September .

The Doctrines Of Jesuitism.

THE DOCTRINES OF JESUITISM .

After having , in two previous numbers , laid before our readers the instructions given to the members of the Society of Jesus , with reference to the way of dealing with the established authorities of a State , we now give the continuation of the Monita , shewing especially the mode in which the