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Great Britain , Avho cannot fail to derive material benefit from bringing the products of their factories and workshops uuder the immediate cognizance of the Irish people . The executive committee have good grounds for expectation that the industrial resources and

products of our colonies and of the European Continental States , ivith scarce au exception , will be adequately represented on that occasion . Gentlemen of great activity and intelligence have visited , on the part of the executive committee , the governmental authorities and the industrial centres

ofthe Continental States . They have been uniformly received in a most friendly spirit , and have received promises of active co-operation . In the discussion which followed the reading of the paper—Lord PoAverscourtas chairman of the Fine Art

, DejDartment of the Exhibition , said he was happy to state that the prospects of the Exhibition in that department over Avhich he presided were most encouraging , and he had no doubt that the artistic display iu Dublin , in 1865 , Avould be of a very attractive chai-acter .

Mr . Vesy Fitzgerald said , more than anything else with Avhich he was acquainted , these Industrial Exhibitions demonstrated the fact that indi-Audual effort , in the present age , attained the largest results Avhen it availed itself of the power inherent in the j . rinciple of co-operation ; for such

exhibitions depended on the co-operation of class with class , of country with country , and of man with man . He expressed his conviction that the principle inherent in these exhibitions Avas most powerful in its operation , and that the extent to which it might probably be felt was

obviouslimy possible to estimate . Mr . Hercules Macdonnell said , that as one of the executive committee , it fell to his lot to put himself in communication with foreign governments , and more particularly those of Southern

Lurojie . In France he was happy to find that so able and enlightened a government gave its assistance and co-operation to the enterprise . Prince Napoleon , Avho was uot only a prince , but a man of great talent and large experience in exhibitions , took up the matter warmly , and he ( Mr .

Macdonnell ) had reason to think the opening of the exhibition would be honoured by his presence . Backed by the example of so great a nation , he next proceeded to Belgium , AAdiere , he was happy to say , he met Avith ready and almost enthusiastic co-operation . Thence he proceeded to Holland

, where he met a very warm response , as well as at Frankfort , and in Switzerland , Italy , and Austria . He believed every country in Southern Europe would be represented in its arts and manufacturing productions . Mr . Antonio Brady said he had been deputed

to visit the north of Europe . He had taken the Scandinavian nations , and he also reported good results . The Swedish minister had especially re-

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ferred to the excessive expenditure incurred in the last Paris and London Exhibitions . He was also met in many places Avith the idea that Ireland was a sort of Poland , in a state of anarchy and revolution , ancl there Avas no security for articles exhibited ; and he was glad to find that Sir Robert

Kane had given a very different and more truthful vieAv of the general condition of the country . As regarded Denmark , the enlightened Government of that country , from the king downwards , had , after due consideration , promised hearty co-operation . The kinghimself no mean artisthad

pro-, , mised to contribute to the Exhibition . Mr . Chichester Fortescue , M . P ., said , he was not prepared to state in detail Avhat the colonies respectively were prepared to do , but in general terms he might safely state that they were ready

to respond to this invitation , and that the colonies of Great Britain would be properly represented in the capital of Ireland , as they had been in the capital of England . Mr . Henry Cole , C . B ., said , he hoped that the Managing Committee of the Exhibition would

provide for that Avhich was now attracting great attention in London , and Avhich might be made an interesting feature of the Exhibition in Dublin , viz ., an exhibition of the industry of Avorkmen of Ireland , as a separate section . Mr . William HaAves and other

gentlemenin-, cluding the chairman , Lord Dufferin , K . C . B ., also took part in the discussion , Avhich closed by Sir R . Kane thanking the meeting for the favourable Avay iu AAdiich the subject of his paper had been received .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

ORANCtE AND FREEMASONS' LODGES . In a mixed company 1 heard it asserted there was little or no difference between an Orange and a Freemasons' lodge . I did not answer , because I'm not one of the former , hut should like to know if there is any truth in the assertion . —JUVE . —[ We are not-

Orangemen , hut we know , what all the world knoAVs , that Orange lodges are religious-political bodies . You know Ereemasons are not . Because they are both secret societies , that does not prove any similarity of opinion or practice between them . The very difference we have mentioned is so great as to insure our saying , without knowing what an Orange lodge is like , there can be little or no agreement between them . ]

THE MYSTERY OE EREEMASONRY . When did it first become popular to speak of the mystery of Ereemasonry?—B . C —[ In mediaeval times . There were many more mysteries besides Ereemasonry . The " Art and Mystery of CordAvaining" was one . We should call such a one a

shoemaker . ] THE ROSE . ,"Why is a rose considered as an emblem of secresy ? —E . A . —[ A kisa is often taken , and allowed , " under the rose . " Sir Thomas Browne , in his Vulgar HHrron