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Masonic Notes And Queries.

les plus vives acclamations les sautes du Roi , de la Seine , de Monsoigneur le Dauphin , " "Ensuite cl ' un Discours du Frere [ name illegible ] , Orateur , les autres santes d ' obligation out etc portees ; la quote pour les panvres a ete faite suivant 1 ' usage ; puis le Venerable s ' ctant assure qu ' aucnn des Freres et Soeurs presents n ' avait rien a proposer pour le

bien de l'Ordre en general , et celui de la Loge en particulier , il l ' a fermee avec les Ceremonies accoutumees . "CHARLES PURTON COOPER , Chateau Frampas , Montierender , Champagne , May 22 , 1861 . HISTORY OE EREEMASONRY . I _ have unfortunately been in-evented , owing to much

business connected with the recent installation at Leeds , from attending to Bro . Findel's kind request in the M AGAZINE of the week before last . In reply to the very friendly expression of Bro . Findel , I am happy to say , that I understand and read German , and shall gladly avail myself of his most generous offer . I hope in an early number of the MAGAZINE to give hi full the extract alluded to . I have no

doubt myself that we are now in the right way to a true Masonic history , which , to the reproach of our Order , is entirely wanting- to us hi England . I must beg once more to express my fraternal regards and good wishes to Bro . Findel . —A . T . H . WOODFORD , Swillington , Leeds , May 29 , 1861 .

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

At the meeting of the British Archaiological Association , May Sth , a drawing , forwarded by the Kev . Mr . Kell , was exhibited of an incised sepulchral slab , found during the recent excavations at Netley Abbey , near Southampton . It is the only stone yet discovered on which a name has been found , and represents a monk in his habiliments , with the name of " Johannes Worde , 1515 , "

beneath which occurs "Obiit 11 die 153-1 . " At the same meeting-Mr . Fettigrew read a paper to yu-ove that Dr . Cains , the founder of Caius College , Cambridge , furnished to Grafton's Chronicle the account of the sweating sickness which visited Shrewsbury in 1551 , at which time the learned doctor was a resident practitioner at the ancient capital of Salopia .

The seventh annual exhibition of the Worcester Society of Arts is to take place in August . The Bishop of Salisbury has commenced a prosecution , in the Court of Arches , against the Rev . Rowland Williams , D . D ., for his share in Essays and Meviews . Luckily for the doctor there is no burning at the stake for heresy now-a-days .

Inhisrecent Familiar Illustrations of Scottish Characler , the Rev . Charles Rogers , LL . D ., relates the following humorous anecdote : — " Alexander M'Lachlan , beadle in the parish of Blairgowrie , had contracted a habit of tippling , which , though it did not wholly unfit him for . his duties , had become a matter of considerable scandal . The Rev . Mr . Johnstone , the incumbent , had resolved to reprove him on the first suitable opportunity . A meeting of the

kirk-session was to be held on a week-day at twelve o ' clock . The minister and the beadle were in the session-house together before any of the elders had arrived . The beadle was flushed and excited , andjthe minister deemed the occasion peculiarly fitting for the [ administration of reproof . 'I much fear , Saunders , ' began the minister , 'that the bottle has become ' 'Ay , sir , ' broke in the unperturbed official'I was just g . uin to observethat there was a smell o'drink

, , amang ' s !'— 'How is it' John , said the clergyman to his church-officer , ' that you never go a message for me anywhere in the parish but you contrive to take too much spirits ? People don't offer me spirits when I ' m making visits in tbe parish . ' < Weel sir , ' saiciTJohn , 'I eanna precisely explain it , unless on the supposition that I ' m a wee mail- popular wi' some o' the folks . '"

Mr . Robert Hunt , writing hi the Art Journal , pays the following high compliment to the city of Manchester : — " Manchester , as the seat of manufactures , is second to no town in the world . We shall be corrected , and told that for town we should have written

CITY . Manchester men , however , confess to us that city does not sit easy upon them , but they love tho 'dear old town . ' Still rejoicing in the distinction between Manchester men and Liverpool gentlemen , the native sons of the great Cottonopolis would have the men and the town , associated . But this is , after all , a question for themselves , and not for us . Manchester , as the seat of manufactures , is unrivalled . Nowhere , within the wide circle of civilisation and commerce , clo we find anything to equal Manchester .

Its warehouses are palaces such as Venice , once the boast of the commercial world , never built for the most magnificent of her ducal kings . It mills are hives of industry , within ^ whieh are crowded such working bees as were never found in any otber hive . From the ends of the earth she draws the material of her wealth , ancl with an ingenuity which has never been equalled , by her marvellous machinery , she takes a bale of dirty cotton into the ' mill' it is seized bthe iron-iantancl tornand [ combedand

, y g , , , twisted , and woven in its passage , until , at the extreme end of the same establishment , it is sent out a delicate fabric , upon which the elaborations of art have been expended . Such is the striking feature of Manchester . Her commerce for raw cotton is with the world , her commerce is with the world for the ' manufactured material . "

It appears from the last census , that it requires 7 u 0 paper-mills ancl 2000 steam engines to supply the publishers with paper for books and newspapers in the United States . At all events , Brother Jonathan is a reader . Dr . Jenncr has resigned the Professorship of Pathological Anatomy at "University College , London , but will retain the

Professorship of Clinical Medicine . A method of covering iron with a thin film of nickel previous to tinning it has been discovered in Erance , by which the iron will g . be more effectually protected from oxidation . Of the Japanese powers of imitation the Builder observes : —

"The astonishing aptitude ofthe Japanese for imitating everything they ses appears to be a constant source of interest and amusement to the members of the Legations ,- and some of the most impossible things to do appear to have heen given to some of the more ingenious workmen , in order to try them , rather than with any hope of success ; hut a failure is said to be very rare . Chubb ' s lock was given to a clever lacquer-ware man merely to fix on a box which

had been ordered . The box was duly produced , the lock admirably fitted , but something drew attention to the key ; when , upon minute inspection , it was found that both lock and key were imitations I Friend Sabie , tbe name of the ingenious individual , had been so struck with tbe beauty and perfection of the lock , that in an incredibly short time he had succeeded in finding a workman to

produce so exact a counterfeit , that it was hy the merest accident the trick was discovered . This is an anecdote which Mr . Chubb , ive dare say , will scarcely * take in , ' whatever others may clo . If the Chinese , at all events , have , from time immemorial , as we are told , possessed the principle of the Brahma lock , the Japanese may also be skilled in lock-making-, and may have appropriated Chubb ' s lock in the way indicated . Many of our more recent discoveries are nowit is saidfound to have been known in Japan

, , ages ago . Take lithochrome printing , for instance , by which ( only within the last twenty years ) a perfect imitation of the effects of water-colours may he obtained from a series of stones , printing in . different colours . The same thing is everywhere to be seen in Japan . The process is the same , only wooden blocks are used instead of stone . The effect is not so fine , certainly , but the principle is there , and reduced to practice . They are not artists

in tho sense in which we should use the term ; yet many of their smaller ivory carvings of groups of figures , generally grotesque , are hold to be marvels of expression ancl skill in the handling of the chisel , full of character ancl of humour . So much for the aptitude ancl capacity of the Japanese workmen ; and there seems little doubt that , if anything like a free competition for a large trade arose , they would hold their own ' against the best workmen of Europe , ancl might prove formidable rivals to Manchester and lliriamgliava . TUei . sword-blades , bwc . tlw . rtspntation of being superior to any now produced in Europe . "

The examination of the Whately Professorship of Politica ? Economy will he held in Trinity College , Dublin , on Monday , June 17 th . Candidates must be LL . B . or M . A . of one of the Universities of Dublin , Oxford , or Cambridge , or of the Queen * '" , University in Ireland .

“The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine: 1861-06-01, Page 9” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 11 July 2025, django:8000/periodicals/mmr/issues/mmr_01061861/page/9/.
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FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE. Article 1
MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS OF NAPLES. Article 2
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LASWARRIE. Article 3
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN AND HIS TIMES. Article 5
GENERAL ARCHITECTURAL INTELLIGENCE. Article 7
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 7
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 9
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 10
IN MEMORIAM—IN FUTURO. Article 10
MASONIC MEMS. Article 11
SUPREME GRAND LODGE. Article 11
METROPOLITAN. Article 13
PROVINCIAL. Article 15
ROYAL ARCH. Article 18
MARK MASONRY. Article 18
THE WEEK. Article 19
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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Masonic Notes And Queries.

les plus vives acclamations les sautes du Roi , de la Seine , de Monsoigneur le Dauphin , " "Ensuite cl ' un Discours du Frere [ name illegible ] , Orateur , les autres santes d ' obligation out etc portees ; la quote pour les panvres a ete faite suivant 1 ' usage ; puis le Venerable s ' ctant assure qu ' aucnn des Freres et Soeurs presents n ' avait rien a proposer pour le

bien de l'Ordre en general , et celui de la Loge en particulier , il l ' a fermee avec les Ceremonies accoutumees . "CHARLES PURTON COOPER , Chateau Frampas , Montierender , Champagne , May 22 , 1861 . HISTORY OE EREEMASONRY . I _ have unfortunately been in-evented , owing to much

business connected with the recent installation at Leeds , from attending to Bro . Findel's kind request in the M AGAZINE of the week before last . In reply to the very friendly expression of Bro . Findel , I am happy to say , that I understand and read German , and shall gladly avail myself of his most generous offer . I hope in an early number of the MAGAZINE to give hi full the extract alluded to . I have no

doubt myself that we are now in the right way to a true Masonic history , which , to the reproach of our Order , is entirely wanting- to us hi England . I must beg once more to express my fraternal regards and good wishes to Bro . Findel . —A . T . H . WOODFORD , Swillington , Leeds , May 29 , 1861 .

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

At the meeting of the British Archaiological Association , May Sth , a drawing , forwarded by the Kev . Mr . Kell , was exhibited of an incised sepulchral slab , found during the recent excavations at Netley Abbey , near Southampton . It is the only stone yet discovered on which a name has been found , and represents a monk in his habiliments , with the name of " Johannes Worde , 1515 , "

beneath which occurs "Obiit 11 die 153-1 . " At the same meeting-Mr . Fettigrew read a paper to yu-ove that Dr . Cains , the founder of Caius College , Cambridge , furnished to Grafton's Chronicle the account of the sweating sickness which visited Shrewsbury in 1551 , at which time the learned doctor was a resident practitioner at the ancient capital of Salopia .

The seventh annual exhibition of the Worcester Society of Arts is to take place in August . The Bishop of Salisbury has commenced a prosecution , in the Court of Arches , against the Rev . Rowland Williams , D . D ., for his share in Essays and Meviews . Luckily for the doctor there is no burning at the stake for heresy now-a-days .

Inhisrecent Familiar Illustrations of Scottish Characler , the Rev . Charles Rogers , LL . D ., relates the following humorous anecdote : — " Alexander M'Lachlan , beadle in the parish of Blairgowrie , had contracted a habit of tippling , which , though it did not wholly unfit him for . his duties , had become a matter of considerable scandal . The Rev . Mr . Johnstone , the incumbent , had resolved to reprove him on the first suitable opportunity . A meeting of the

kirk-session was to be held on a week-day at twelve o ' clock . The minister and the beadle were in the session-house together before any of the elders had arrived . The beadle was flushed and excited , andjthe minister deemed the occasion peculiarly fitting for the [ administration of reproof . 'I much fear , Saunders , ' began the minister , 'that the bottle has become ' 'Ay , sir , ' broke in the unperturbed official'I was just g . uin to observethat there was a smell o'drink

, , amang ' s !'— 'How is it' John , said the clergyman to his church-officer , ' that you never go a message for me anywhere in the parish but you contrive to take too much spirits ? People don't offer me spirits when I ' m making visits in tbe parish . ' < Weel sir , ' saiciTJohn , 'I eanna precisely explain it , unless on the supposition that I ' m a wee mail- popular wi' some o' the folks . '"

Mr . Robert Hunt , writing hi the Art Journal , pays the following high compliment to the city of Manchester : — " Manchester , as the seat of manufactures , is second to no town in the world . We shall be corrected , and told that for town we should have written

CITY . Manchester men , however , confess to us that city does not sit easy upon them , but they love tho 'dear old town . ' Still rejoicing in the distinction between Manchester men and Liverpool gentlemen , the native sons of the great Cottonopolis would have the men and the town , associated . But this is , after all , a question for themselves , and not for us . Manchester , as the seat of manufactures , is unrivalled . Nowhere , within the wide circle of civilisation and commerce , clo we find anything to equal Manchester .

Its warehouses are palaces such as Venice , once the boast of the commercial world , never built for the most magnificent of her ducal kings . It mills are hives of industry , within ^ whieh are crowded such working bees as were never found in any otber hive . From the ends of the earth she draws the material of her wealth , ancl with an ingenuity which has never been equalled , by her marvellous machinery , she takes a bale of dirty cotton into the ' mill' it is seized bthe iron-iantancl tornand [ combedand

, y g , , , twisted , and woven in its passage , until , at the extreme end of the same establishment , it is sent out a delicate fabric , upon which the elaborations of art have been expended . Such is the striking feature of Manchester . Her commerce for raw cotton is with the world , her commerce is with the world for the ' manufactured material . "

It appears from the last census , that it requires 7 u 0 paper-mills ancl 2000 steam engines to supply the publishers with paper for books and newspapers in the United States . At all events , Brother Jonathan is a reader . Dr . Jenncr has resigned the Professorship of Pathological Anatomy at "University College , London , but will retain the

Professorship of Clinical Medicine . A method of covering iron with a thin film of nickel previous to tinning it has been discovered in Erance , by which the iron will g . be more effectually protected from oxidation . Of the Japanese powers of imitation the Builder observes : —

"The astonishing aptitude ofthe Japanese for imitating everything they ses appears to be a constant source of interest and amusement to the members of the Legations ,- and some of the most impossible things to do appear to have heen given to some of the more ingenious workmen , in order to try them , rather than with any hope of success ; hut a failure is said to be very rare . Chubb ' s lock was given to a clever lacquer-ware man merely to fix on a box which

had been ordered . The box was duly produced , the lock admirably fitted , but something drew attention to the key ; when , upon minute inspection , it was found that both lock and key were imitations I Friend Sabie , tbe name of the ingenious individual , had been so struck with tbe beauty and perfection of the lock , that in an incredibly short time he had succeeded in finding a workman to

produce so exact a counterfeit , that it was hy the merest accident the trick was discovered . This is an anecdote which Mr . Chubb , ive dare say , will scarcely * take in , ' whatever others may clo . If the Chinese , at all events , have , from time immemorial , as we are told , possessed the principle of the Brahma lock , the Japanese may also be skilled in lock-making-, and may have appropriated Chubb ' s lock in the way indicated . Many of our more recent discoveries are nowit is saidfound to have been known in Japan

, , ages ago . Take lithochrome printing , for instance , by which ( only within the last twenty years ) a perfect imitation of the effects of water-colours may he obtained from a series of stones , printing in . different colours . The same thing is everywhere to be seen in Japan . The process is the same , only wooden blocks are used instead of stone . The effect is not so fine , certainly , but the principle is there , and reduced to practice . They are not artists

in tho sense in which we should use the term ; yet many of their smaller ivory carvings of groups of figures , generally grotesque , are hold to be marvels of expression ancl skill in the handling of the chisel , full of character ancl of humour . So much for the aptitude ancl capacity of the Japanese workmen ; and there seems little doubt that , if anything like a free competition for a large trade arose , they would hold their own ' against the best workmen of Europe , ancl might prove formidable rivals to Manchester and lliriamgliava . TUei . sword-blades , bwc . tlw . rtspntation of being superior to any now produced in Europe . "

The examination of the Whately Professorship of Politica ? Economy will he held in Trinity College , Dublin , on Monday , June 17 th . Candidates must be LL . B . or M . A . of one of the Universities of Dublin , Oxford , or Cambridge , or of the Queen * '" , University in Ireland .

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