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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
obtain from the Lords of the Treasury such an arrangement as will place them , as regards salary and holidays , on a footing ivith gentlemen occupying places in Government offices . More monuments in Germany to the two poets towards whom their countrymen never tire of testifying their homage—viz ., Goethe ancl Schiller . Towards the erection of that to Goethe the Prince Regent
has allotted the sum of ten thousand croivns . The committee for managing the fund for the erection of a memorial to Hallam , having decided that it should be a statue , invited Messrs . Foley , Woolner , Bell , Munro , Noble , ancl Theed to send in designs in competition for the commission . Messrs . Foley and Woolner have declined to do so .
A deputation from a committee of the Institute of Architects had an interview a few days ago with Lord Palmerston , to urge the propriety of erecting a statue of the late Sir Charles Barry in some convenient part of his great work at Westminster . The site spoken of is at the top of the flight of steps at the end of Westminster Hall , under the large window put in by Barry , and where , indeed , his work , it may be said , commences .
The Belgian Art Exhibition—which is much encouraged by the Government , and open to foreigners as well as Belgians—commences , at Brussels , on the 15 th of August next . The Architectural Photographic Association is about to distribute to the subscribers the photographs which the latter selected for themselves from the collection exhibited in Conduit Street , at the beginning of the year .
The guarantee fund for the International Exhibition of 1862 subscribed now amounts to £ 335 , 300 . It is understood that the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 are willing to grant the use of a part of their estate at South Kensington for the exhibition , and that a portion of the buildings to be erected will be permanent , available for fiiture exhibitions of art and industry .
Signor Pacini has finished a new comic opera , ' The Muleteer of Toledo' —and is now occupied on yet another work , ' Berta . ' The list of this veteran ' s productions must now be enormous . An opera company bended by Madame Ruderscloi-lf has set forth to sing and play in the Channel Islands . At a musical festival at Zoffidgen ( Switzerland ) , Herr Ferdinand Killer ' s oratorio , 'Saul , ' was the principal choral performance .
The prize offered for the best operetta by tho Tonhalle at Mannheim ( a society which is always encouraging musical competition ) has fallen to Herr Kraehmer , who is also engaged on a comic opera in three acts . M . de Beriot is said to have handed over a comic opera by him , composed in Russia , to M . Gevaert to be scored ; the work is to be
performed at tbe Opera Comique of Paris this winter . The Gazette des Theatres ( Paris ) announces that a marriage is on the eve of being celebrated between Mille . Trochue , tho descendant of Racine , ancl a young captain of infantry in the French army . The subscription ivhich was opened in favour of the young orphan , ancl in which the Pope and several foreign Sovereigns took
part , will give the lady a marriage portion of 50 , 000 f . Mr . Marshall Wood ' s statue of Daphne , executed in marble for the Countess Frances Walclegrave , bas been lately set up in the socalled " chapel" at Strawberry Hill , built by the late Horace Walpole *
TUB CHASTER HOUSE . —On the foundation are forty-four scholars who are supported free of all expense , ancl there aro various exhibitions at the University for their benefit . The bulk of the scholars are boarders and day-boys—that is , those who board at the house of the masters , ancl those who only come for instruction in the clay time , and return to their own homes at night . The number of scholars at the Charter House has sadlfallen off of late
y years . Thirty years back they were 500 or 600 in number , now they count , I think less than 200 . This again is a result of keeping tbe school in town . Parents will send their children to Harrow or Rugby , instead of to a school which is in the heart of London , for all its three acres of playing-green , its garden , and its trees . —Once a Week ,
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
[ T HE EDITOE does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ] THE MARK DEGREE . TO THE EDITOR OP THE PKEE 1 IAS 0 NS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRBOB . DEAR SIB . AND BIIOTIIEK , — "Will you oblige by allowing the following to appear in your Magazine . Yours fraternally , J . G-. EIKDELLeipzig , 20 th July , 1860 .
TO THE ESTEEMED BB . OTHEB , " ANTI-SPUMOUS MARK . ' IT was very delightful for me , dear Sir and Brother , to < read your letter iu " So . 54 ( 14 th July ) of the "MAGAZINE , " and 1 squeeze your hand with all my heart for your warm defence of the pure old Craft and your exposure ofthe want , of Masonic legality of the so-called Mark-Masons . Although you cannot append to your name the
distinguished rank of a Grand or Prov . Grand Officer , you show at least ( aud that is better !) , that you conceive the true character and spirit of our fraternity , and that you stand on . the- firm ground of its history . The dear and esteemed Bro .. Kelly , although a Dep . Prov . Grand Master , seems not afc all to know , that only four Lodges ( 1717 ) founded the new Grand Lodge of England , the mother of the whole Craft , audi
the only legitimate heiress of the past . Bro . Kelly spoke of : ' seven or eight Lodges . It is a pity , if ho cannot distinguish their legal proceeding from the illegal acts of the so--called Mark-Masons , who imitiate the treachery of the York-Masons iu 1738 . Every good Mason will ivish that you may not be leftalone , hut that all English Brethren of better
Masonicunderstanding , AA'ill join you in maintaining the purity of our noble institution , aud in taking care , that the true light of Masonry , AA'hich only shines in the ( blue ) Craft-Lodges , may not be exchanged for the jack o'laiiterns of the socalled umnasonic High Grades . Ifc is a great pity , that in 1813 , the Grand Lodge of England , a little falsified the institution by recognising the Royal Arch . But instead of Avorking for the abolition of this useless ballast and the return to the unfalsified basis of
the Craft , the Brethren in England seem to give ivay more and more to the trifles of the High Grades K . T ., R . C , etc ., Avhich have no historical ri ght , are entirely extraneous to the genius of the Craft , and only cause confusion Avithin . the "Fraternity , and darken its authenticated history . Is ifc not a- scoff upon all historical truth , that the 111 . Bro ..
Leeson in the same number , page 35 , dares to affirm the : Grade of Rose Croix to be of more ancient date than that of any other branch of Masonry ? All high Grades were- , smuggled into the Craft only during the second half of the : last century , 1750-80 , and are a spurious innOA'ation , a lamentable and dangerous fact .
. " Videant Consules , ne respublica detriment ! capiat . " Take care , dear Sir and Bro . and with you the whole fraternity , unless the seriousness of our holy cause and the dignity of the Brotherhood may suffer by such nursery tales ,, like that which a , short time since Bro . O'Connor served , up as Masonic history 1 May you be the Gate of the English , and at every occasion ;
reiieat " Cetcrum censeo , deleuda sunt all hi gh Grades 1 " I remain , dear Bro ., yours fraternally , J . G . FINDEL , Editor of the " Bauhidte . " TO THE EDITOE OT THE EKEElTASON ' s MAGAZINE AND MASONIC JIIKHOK . SIB ,- —I never AA'i-otc an anonymous letter , nor ansAver such but being asked my opinion relative to the opinion of
"Antispurious Mark , " I here give a short reply . Marks have been used ever since the Avorld began—The Lord set a mark upon Cain , the Rabbis say , JSToah ' s eldest son chose a Lion Rampant for his mark , Ishmael a A Leopard , the twelve tribes had each a mark ; tho / -, \ Avas a mark emblematic of the Deity , tho Yod in the centre thought or idea . The sceptre IIOAV adopted by royalty was also a . mark or emblem of the Deity . The eye painted thereon , was to show that God sa . w , ruled , and directed all . By
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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
obtain from the Lords of the Treasury such an arrangement as will place them , as regards salary and holidays , on a footing ivith gentlemen occupying places in Government offices . More monuments in Germany to the two poets towards whom their countrymen never tire of testifying their homage—viz ., Goethe ancl Schiller . Towards the erection of that to Goethe the Prince Regent
has allotted the sum of ten thousand croivns . The committee for managing the fund for the erection of a memorial to Hallam , having decided that it should be a statue , invited Messrs . Foley , Woolner , Bell , Munro , Noble , ancl Theed to send in designs in competition for the commission . Messrs . Foley and Woolner have declined to do so .
A deputation from a committee of the Institute of Architects had an interview a few days ago with Lord Palmerston , to urge the propriety of erecting a statue of the late Sir Charles Barry in some convenient part of his great work at Westminster . The site spoken of is at the top of the flight of steps at the end of Westminster Hall , under the large window put in by Barry , and where , indeed , his work , it may be said , commences .
The Belgian Art Exhibition—which is much encouraged by the Government , and open to foreigners as well as Belgians—commences , at Brussels , on the 15 th of August next . The Architectural Photographic Association is about to distribute to the subscribers the photographs which the latter selected for themselves from the collection exhibited in Conduit Street , at the beginning of the year .
The guarantee fund for the International Exhibition of 1862 subscribed now amounts to £ 335 , 300 . It is understood that the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 are willing to grant the use of a part of their estate at South Kensington for the exhibition , and that a portion of the buildings to be erected will be permanent , available for fiiture exhibitions of art and industry .
Signor Pacini has finished a new comic opera , ' The Muleteer of Toledo' —and is now occupied on yet another work , ' Berta . ' The list of this veteran ' s productions must now be enormous . An opera company bended by Madame Ruderscloi-lf has set forth to sing and play in the Channel Islands . At a musical festival at Zoffidgen ( Switzerland ) , Herr Ferdinand Killer ' s oratorio , 'Saul , ' was the principal choral performance .
The prize offered for the best operetta by tho Tonhalle at Mannheim ( a society which is always encouraging musical competition ) has fallen to Herr Kraehmer , who is also engaged on a comic opera in three acts . M . de Beriot is said to have handed over a comic opera by him , composed in Russia , to M . Gevaert to be scored ; the work is to be
performed at tbe Opera Comique of Paris this winter . The Gazette des Theatres ( Paris ) announces that a marriage is on the eve of being celebrated between Mille . Trochue , tho descendant of Racine , ancl a young captain of infantry in the French army . The subscription ivhich was opened in favour of the young orphan , ancl in which the Pope and several foreign Sovereigns took
part , will give the lady a marriage portion of 50 , 000 f . Mr . Marshall Wood ' s statue of Daphne , executed in marble for the Countess Frances Walclegrave , bas been lately set up in the socalled " chapel" at Strawberry Hill , built by the late Horace Walpole *
TUB CHASTER HOUSE . —On the foundation are forty-four scholars who are supported free of all expense , ancl there aro various exhibitions at the University for their benefit . The bulk of the scholars are boarders and day-boys—that is , those who board at the house of the masters , ancl those who only come for instruction in the clay time , and return to their own homes at night . The number of scholars at the Charter House has sadlfallen off of late
y years . Thirty years back they were 500 or 600 in number , now they count , I think less than 200 . This again is a result of keeping tbe school in town . Parents will send their children to Harrow or Rugby , instead of to a school which is in the heart of London , for all its three acres of playing-green , its garden , and its trees . —Once a Week ,
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
[ T HE EDITOE does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ] THE MARK DEGREE . TO THE EDITOR OP THE PKEE 1 IAS 0 NS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRBOB . DEAR SIB . AND BIIOTIIEK , — "Will you oblige by allowing the following to appear in your Magazine . Yours fraternally , J . G-. EIKDELLeipzig , 20 th July , 1860 .
TO THE ESTEEMED BB . OTHEB , " ANTI-SPUMOUS MARK . ' IT was very delightful for me , dear Sir and Brother , to < read your letter iu " So . 54 ( 14 th July ) of the "MAGAZINE , " and 1 squeeze your hand with all my heart for your warm defence of the pure old Craft and your exposure ofthe want , of Masonic legality of the so-called Mark-Masons . Although you cannot append to your name the
distinguished rank of a Grand or Prov . Grand Officer , you show at least ( aud that is better !) , that you conceive the true character and spirit of our fraternity , and that you stand on . the- firm ground of its history . The dear and esteemed Bro .. Kelly , although a Dep . Prov . Grand Master , seems not afc all to know , that only four Lodges ( 1717 ) founded the new Grand Lodge of England , the mother of the whole Craft , audi
the only legitimate heiress of the past . Bro . Kelly spoke of : ' seven or eight Lodges . It is a pity , if ho cannot distinguish their legal proceeding from the illegal acts of the so--called Mark-Masons , who imitiate the treachery of the York-Masons iu 1738 . Every good Mason will ivish that you may not be leftalone , hut that all English Brethren of better
Masonicunderstanding , AA'ill join you in maintaining the purity of our noble institution , aud in taking care , that the true light of Masonry , AA'hich only shines in the ( blue ) Craft-Lodges , may not be exchanged for the jack o'laiiterns of the socalled umnasonic High Grades . Ifc is a great pity , that in 1813 , the Grand Lodge of England , a little falsified the institution by recognising the Royal Arch . But instead of Avorking for the abolition of this useless ballast and the return to the unfalsified basis of
the Craft , the Brethren in England seem to give ivay more and more to the trifles of the High Grades K . T ., R . C , etc ., Avhich have no historical ri ght , are entirely extraneous to the genius of the Craft , and only cause confusion Avithin . the "Fraternity , and darken its authenticated history . Is ifc not a- scoff upon all historical truth , that the 111 . Bro ..
Leeson in the same number , page 35 , dares to affirm the : Grade of Rose Croix to be of more ancient date than that of any other branch of Masonry ? All high Grades were- , smuggled into the Craft only during the second half of the : last century , 1750-80 , and are a spurious innOA'ation , a lamentable and dangerous fact .
. " Videant Consules , ne respublica detriment ! capiat . " Take care , dear Sir and Bro . and with you the whole fraternity , unless the seriousness of our holy cause and the dignity of the Brotherhood may suffer by such nursery tales ,, like that which a , short time since Bro . O'Connor served , up as Masonic history 1 May you be the Gate of the English , and at every occasion ;
reiieat " Cetcrum censeo , deleuda sunt all hi gh Grades 1 " I remain , dear Bro ., yours fraternally , J . G . FINDEL , Editor of the " Bauhidte . " TO THE EDITOE OT THE EKEElTASON ' s MAGAZINE AND MASONIC JIIKHOK . SIB ,- —I never AA'i-otc an anonymous letter , nor ansAver such but being asked my opinion relative to the opinion of
"Antispurious Mark , " I here give a short reply . Marks have been used ever since the Avorld began—The Lord set a mark upon Cain , the Rabbis say , JSToah ' s eldest son chose a Lion Rampant for his mark , Ishmael a A Leopard , the twelve tribes had each a mark ; tho / -, \ Avas a mark emblematic of the Deity , tho Yod in the centre thought or idea . The sceptre IIOAV adopted by royalty was also a . mark or emblem of the Deity . The eye painted thereon , was to show that God sa . w , ruled , and directed all . By