The Prov. G. Lodge Of Meath.

Lodge of Meath , and your return to sweetness , by expressing sorrow for your ill manners , must be openly made known and expressed . Don ' t ask '' Why ? " indeed ! Haven ' t yon made an assertion you are not in a position to substantiate against a brother you never saw ? It's of no use saying "You were told so . " Then tell us Who told you , that we may trace the report to its source in the same way you would the

endorsements of a note . If you endorse a report you are as liable as the propagator , and unless you tell us—and be quick about it—Who told you , we w ' . ll hold you to your liability , however painful it may be to our nostrils , you offensive little draggle-tailed Provincial Grand Lodge of Meath . What ' s that you say ? " How do we know you ' ve spread such a tale ? " Thus . AVe show it you in black and white ; naughty

little Provincial Grand Lodge of Meath . Stand quiet , will you ? If you don ' t you shall be made to eat the dirt we ' re scraping off you . Yes , "it is hard to suffer for another ' s fault , " but suffer you must . It will teach you better in future and be a lesson to every Grand , Provincial Grand , or private lodge , as to what an amount of dependence there is to be placed on interested communications in general . Well , well , don ' t cry . It is for your good

and that of all your brother Provincial Grand Lodges that THE TRUTH must come out . Now , didn't a certain busy body , here , write to some other busy body member of yours stating that Bro . John Yarker , of Manchester , is an expelled Mason ? Oh ! you admit "it did come about in that kind of way . " Well , we begin to have some hopes of you and , as an encouragement , will get some clean water and a towel , instead of this wisp of straw , if

you pay attention . Now look at this . BRO . J YARKER was initiated in No . 198 , Manchester , called the Lodge of Integrity , and perhaps there was something more in his choosing that lodge than such mean fellows as The Provincial Grand Lodge of Meath can understand . But let that pass . He went lo reside in Cheshire , and there he joined the lodge of Fidelity , No . 623 and , in 185 S , was elected and installed

its W . M . Consequently he is a Past Master of No . 623 and has never been excelled Oy Cftc G / : ; t « t ! Z-u . ^ c vj" JS / tgumd , the only Masonic power in this country that can expel a Free-Mason . Of Captain PHILIPS no one knows , and nobody cares , a rush about him in Craft Free-Masonry . Now you fussy little tittle-tattling Provincial Grand Lodge of Meath you must beg Bro . John Yarker ' s pardon just as

publicly as you attacked him or nobody will ever believe you again , and you will have to wear a fool ' s cap with " storyteller " affixed to it , for ever so many years . If it did not happen that other Prov . G . Lodges might be told the same thing and act in the same foolish way you have done nothing further need he said to you about Bro . Yarker ' s Masonic rank because you are but the Provincial Grand Lodge of Meath and , as such , have

no idea , nor are you expected to know anything , beyond Craft Fz-ee-Masonry . However to benefit those that do know more than such a class of beginners , as you are , and from whom you may learn something if you will but give up that stupid habit you have of munching so many thistles , we intend to give some few examples of the standing of the two men the one whose word you have taken and been deceived and the other whom you have

scandalised , and when you have admitted the wrong you have done and acknowledge l 3 ro . John Yarker—as you see before you —IS NOT AN EXPELLED MASON—then you may try to comprehend as much of the following matter as is above your own standing and the mental idiosyncracy of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Meath will permit . Bro . J YARKER was exalted in the Industry Chapter ,

No . 4 65 , at Flyde , in Cheshire . He served all the offices in that Chapter . He was a founder and the first M . E . Z . of the Fidelity Chapter , No . 623 and , therefore is a Past Principal of that Chapter . He has never been expelled by the Supreme Grand Chapter of England , the only Masonic power in this country that can expel a Royal-Arch Free-Mason . So far as English Free-Masonry goes it is comprised in the

Craft and Royal-Arch degrees and , although the " Orders of Chivalry "—with which the A . and A . Rite , in England , has no connection—are recognised by the G . Lodge of England in "The Articles of Union , "it amounts to a simple recognition and permission that such brethren as choose may belong to them . So that it IS PROVED here , beyond the possibility of a doubt , that THE ASSERTION OF BRO . YARKER'S BEING

AN EXPELLED MASON IS UN-TRUE . Of Captain PHILIPS no one knows anything in Royal-Arch Free-Masonry beyond the probability that he never could have been Principal of a Chapter , if such offices have the slightest influence on a man ' s conduct or actions . Bro . J YARKER was made a K . T . in the Jerusalem , at Manchester . Fie joined the Encampment at Stockport and was

its E . C . in 1 S 62 , and E . C . of the Jerusalem in 1 S 63 , when he revived its old high-grade Chapter . Bro . Y . was Prov . G . Vice-Chancellor of Cheshire in 1 S 62 . Grand' Mareschal of England , in 1865 . Is , consequently , a P . E . C . P . Prov . G . Officer ; and a P . G . Officer . He is a member of the Camp of Antiquity , at Bath , and of other Encampments . He revived the K . T . P . in 1863 ¦ the Rosa * Crucis , and Ne . Plus Ultra , iu 1 S 6 4

, and was re-obligated , re-affiliated , & c , in 1 S 65 , by the surviving members of the Old high-grade Chapter of Jerusalem . He took the degrees , or orders , of Constantine , Palestine , Babylon , Keeper of the Royal Secrets , & c , and their corresponding degrees in the Order of Mitzraim , as recognised and allowed by the Council of Rites in 1811 . He has never been expelled by the G . Conclave of ICs . T . the only pmoer in this country that could

expel him from that Order . Capt . PHILIPS is a P . G . Officer of G . Conclave , and is , at the present time , Prov . G . Com . of Suffolk . In all Charity let us hope he never hears the bright strains of " the Monitor of the Order " and that the " mementoes '' they ought to awaken may be spared him . Bro . J YARKER was made a Rose Croix—eighteenth

degree—in the Palatine Chapter , Manchester . Disliking the Rite lie did not attend for several years . From this Ancient and Accepted Rite he has been expelled , because he refused to attend an investigation where the brother who had grossly insulted him appeared in the triple character of summoner , accuser , and judge . This expulsion for contumacy towards a foreign Rite cannot , by any ingenuity , be twisted into the phrase "an expelled Mason "

and , for these reasons . I . According to the so-called Frederick Statutes no Council is valid unless it is recognised by all the other existing Councils . To go no further than Belgium , a Council exists there and i neither recognised by—nor will it recognise—the body in Golden Square . So , the English Sup . G . C . remains un-recognised and spurious under its own chosen authority and text-book .

II . The Golden Square people are but a schismatic offshoot of a schismatic body . Gourgas and the New-York Council was a schism from " The Mother Council of the World , " and has , itself , only been healed by the latter during the last seven years , so that an expulsion from an unrecognised and schismatic organisation , of double schismatic derivation , is just about worth nothing . No decree of such a body can influence any beyond

its own clique and will be most certainly disregarded by Free-Masons . Captain PHILIPS is the Deus ex Machina of this body , at the present time . How he contrived to be so is too long a tale to tell , here , but we hope to give a full , true , and particular , account of the matter—with copious extracts from letters that have been hoarded for half a generation , making most startling

revelations—but this cannot be attended to until more pressing subjects have been disposed of . Here , unpurified Provincial Grand Lodge of Meath , here is a nut for your cracking . When you wrote against the international exchange of degrees Were you aware that Bro . Vigne , the nominal head of the Golden Square community , as well as Capt . Philips , himself , were both admitted to the A . and A . Rite , as