Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

MAKIC . AIASONIIY . AVUILE the subject is ' on the lapis hy the introduction of the ncii-Grand Lodge of the Mark Degree , can you give any information as to its antecedents in connection AA'ith the Supreme Grand Chapter of Scotland ? — ST . ANDREAV ' S . —[ Consult the leader in thc Masonic Mirror for August , 1855 , p . 469 , and you AA'ill see the Avhole bearing of the Mark status there fairly , but tersely , stated ] .

TUB mESTOXIAX LECTUliE . Is there any means of arriving at a list of those members of the Craft Avho have held thc office of Prestonian Lecturer in bygone years , and is there to be a Prestonian lecture this year?—L . A . F . Till ' , ARTICLES OP NOAH . — Iii one of the old books of Constitutions there i-j a reference to

the articles of Noah . AVhat are they ?—G . A . GEXEliAI . COOKE AND K . L > . COOKKAVill some reader of " Notes and Queries " tell me if there is any connection between General Cooke , a former A'isitor from the United States , and tho present E . D . Cooke , of Kentucky . Is it not a Masonic speculation that brought each of them here , and Avhat Avas the fracas about thc first mentioned' ?—f —j .

THE DEVIL ' S TAA'EltN . Ou the jMth of dune , 1727 , a Grand Lodge Avas held at the Devil ' s Tavern , Temple Bar , at which AVCI ' O present thc Earl of Jnchiquin , G- . M ., his Officers , and the Masters aud AVardens of forty Lodges . So reads the old Book of Constitutions . I should like to knoAv Avhere thc Devil's Tavern stood , Avhen it changed its name , and Avhy?—EL . LE .

LAAA'S OF THE GRAND OKIIiNT OF FRANCE . When AA'ere these IUAVS made' ?—C . C . G-. —[ When the Grand Lodge of France AA'as formed in the early part of the last century . They AA'ere revised and sanctioned by Prince Lucien Mural , G . M . of France , Oct . 2 Sth , 185 L ]

DUKE OF KENT ' S INITIATION . AVe all knoAv the father of our beloved Queen ivas a Mason , but AVC do not knoAv AA'here he Avas initiated . Can any one tell in Avliat Lodge it was ?—AV . KENT . —[ On the 10 th of February , 1790 , regular intimation ivas given , to the Grand Lodge that his royal highness Prince EdAvard , Duke of Kent , Avhilc on his travels , had been regularly initiated into Masonry iu the Union

Lodge at GoucA'a , and also that his royal hi ghness Prince Augustus Frederick , Duke of Sussex , had been initiated into the Order at a Lodge in Berlin . ] ROSE CROIX . AVhat is the earliest date at which this degree is known to have been conferred?—E . T . B , — [ Records are in existence Avhich prove it was given iu 1793 , but some of the old Encampments , AVIIO claim the privilege under their charters , date , at least , above a century back . ]

THE LATE BRO . JOHN MITCHELL KE . AIBLE . When did our late Bro . John Mitchell Kemblc , of Anglo-Saxon fame die ?—E . —[ See an obituary notice , at p . -116 of the Freemasons' Magazine for May , 1857 . ] INITIATION OF THE EARL OF CARNARVON . Arc there any means of ascertaining Avhen our Bro . the Earl of Carnarvon Avas initiated ?—MARCUS . —[ His lordship ivas initiated

in thc AA cstminster and Keystone Lodge , No . 10 , on the 5 th of February , 185 fi , consequently his lordship - will be a Mason of five years' standing in February next . ] FREEMASONRY AND THE KNIGHT'S TEAII'LAR . AVhat book is it that suggests Freemasonry was introduced from thc East into thc AVcst , ; b y the Kni ghts Templar ?—PRATER . —[ Most likely our correspondent means Adlcr's Drusis Montis Lebani , fob Roma : , 1780 . ]

AIAKIXC ! MASONS IN PRISON . I once heard a brother say he kneiv a Mason that was made AA'hile he AMIS in prison . Can this he so ? If so , IIOAV could any one ansAVcr that he AV ; a free man?—II . JL- —[ AVe AA'ill reverse " II . H . "' s query . — If an answer ivas giA'cn in the affirmative , that the brother ivas a free man , it A \ 'as strictly Avithin thc letter of Masonic huv ; thc freedom inquired of is that of birth—not

incarceration . AVe knoiv a brother , at this present hour , a German hy birth , Avho AA'as made Avith several others in one of the prisons in Paris , Avhere he Avas confined as a suspected person . But such things have been done iu England , as the following will testify . In materials for a life of the notorious John AVilkes , it is

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stated , " AVe shall be excused hy our readers for amusing them with the folloAving anecdote . All societies aud all parties Avere carried away with thc popular frenzy of ' AVilkes anil Liberty , ' and , among the rest , the quiet and peaceable Freemasons came in for their share . 'March 3 rd , 17 G 9 , the members of thc Lodge held at the Jerusalem Tavern , in Clcrkcmvcll , attended at the King's Bench Prison , and made Mr . AVilkes a Mason . ' " ]

THE ROUNDS OF THE MASONIC LADDER . How many rounds are there in the Masonic ladder , and ivhat do they mean?—J . E . —[ An improper question to be answered in print . If you Avant to knoAv , go to a Lodge of Instruction . The aim of " Masonic Notes aud Queries" is not to coach up brethren too lazy or unwilling to acquire knowledge through the only proper channels of information . ]

COLLECTIONS OF EY-JAWS . I have been making a collection of blank forms of Lodge summonses and by-hiAvs , for some period . HOAV can I increase my store ? "Will any brethren forward such to me through thc Editor ?—COLLECTANEA . —[ AA c shall be happy to do so , if any are sentas AVC knoAV thc questioner to be a hard Ai'prking and

, diligent student of Masonry , as Avell as an intelligent brother Mason . ] MASONIC LOANS . Is there any fund from Avhich a brother can borroAV money , to enable him to pursue a special object , in a similar ivay to the loans of thc great city companies ?—F . —[ No . ]

Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .

THE prize of fifty guineas offered by the Eev . Dr . Emerton for the best essay on the immense importance of a close union of England and Prance , lias been awarded by the adjudicators—Lord Brougham , the Earl of Clarendon , mid the Earl of Shaftesbury—to the Rev . A \ . Is . MolesAvortk , M . A ., perpetual curate of St . Clement ' s , Rochdale . Mr . MolesAvorth is the son of the Rev . Dr . MolesAvorth , vicar of Rochdale ; AA-as formerly of Pembroke CollegeCambridge ; prizeman , Sen . Opt .,

, and B . A ., 183 ? , and is the . author of . several publications . The French adjudicators , Messrs . Thiers , Mignet , aud Merinice—have not yet awarded the prizes of 1 , 000 francs and 250 francs , offered by Dr . Enierton for the best French essays on the same subject . Messrs . Longmans have signed and sealed with Mr . J . C . Jeaffreson for a life of the late Robert Stephenson . This biography will be official ,

Mr . Jeaffreson having the assistance of Mr , Stephenson ' s family and colleagues , and will comprise a history of railway engineering as Avell as a life of the great engineer . Early in July is to appear "No . I . of a neAV AVeekly journal , printed and published in London , in the liA'ing language of the Greeks , O lipiTraimcoc Aanip (' The British Star ) , for circulation throughout Greece , Turkey ,

the Principalities , Servia , Montenegro , Albania , Asia Minor , Egypt , Coast of Syria , Ionian Islands , aud South Russia . It is to he illustrated Avith engravings , and the political part will comprise a record of the discussions and proceedings of the Legislatures of Great Britain , America ,

Prance , £ e ., as fitted to promote the cause of constitutional liberty among the Greeks . Among its other features promised Ave note that the British , Star will contain a regular report of select judicial proceedings , AA'hich is intended to furnish illustrations of the romance of life , beside , ! presenting specimens of forensic eloquence . The great object of the British Star , the prospectus informs us , will be to promote the interchange of authentic and accurate information between the East and the

AVest ; and AVC gather from the same source the intimation that tho Greek and Oriental Steam Navigation Company guarantee the continuation of the British Star for the space of at least tivo years . Thc long talked of rival to Punch is at last announced as to appear positively on the 7 th of July . " Thc British Lion" is to be the title of our neAv " facetious contemporary . " Among the contributors will be Messrs . CI . A . Sala , Hollingshead , and James Hannay .

A contemporary remarks that the groAvth of cheap literature is not confined to England alone , but is visible quite as much in Fiance , Germany , Italy , Spain , and indeed , over the whole of Europe . In Paris , for example , there have been established within the last three years no ¦ less than seventy-five neiv periodicals , nearly all of them unpolitical , and those whicli contain neivs with tho indispensable fcuilli-ton at the bottom . Of these , seventy-five papers , forty are cheap illustrated journals , a class ivliich seems just noiv in particular favour with the French public . These cheap periodicals sell even lmvcr than what Ave aro accustomed to see here in England ; for the retail price of tAventy-