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Egypt Considered As The Cradle Of Masonry.
connection between the later or Greek mysteries and this god , while the connection between Osiris and Dionysius , or Bacchus , as he is commonly called , is quite clear . The
Greek legend embraces all the chief points of that of Osiris , and the wanderings of the former are so like the career of the Egyptian deity , that no one conversant with the facts can doubt that Bacchus is simply Osiris in a Greek , dress .
The mysteries of speculative Masonry are clearly traced to those of Dionysius , and holding , as we do , that these are but a comparatively modern rendering of the story of Osiris , we may justly claim tho privilege of throwing hack
the orig in of our Order to the commencement of Egyptian civilisation . The brotherhood may , indeed , fairly claim that the rites which are practised in tho modern Lodge are faint traces of the mystic ceremonials which were familiar to priests and kings on the banks of the Nile 4 , 000 years ago .
Old London Taverns Associated With Masonry.
OLD LONDON TAVERNS ASSOCIATED WITH MASONRY .
THE New England Freemason for December last contains a long account of some of the London Taverns associated with the Craft prior and subsequent to its revival in the early part of last century . Many of them are referred to by the late Dr . Oliver , in sundry of his
Masonic works , and are mentioned likewise in Mr . Walter Thornbury's Old and New London ( London : Cassell , Petter and Galpin ) . Indeed the writer in the Neiv England Freemason acknowledges he is a debtor to Entick ' s "
Constitutions , " and has not improbably looked into these or similar publications , or at all events to the sources on which they are based , for the very interesting details which he has collected and presented in so readable a form . The first to which reference is made is the old " Goose
and Gridiron " in St . Paul's Churchyard . Here , we are told in Old and New London , during the building of St . Paul ' s , Sir Christopher Wren " was the zealous Master of the St . Paul ' s Freemasons' Lodge , one of the most ancient Lodges in London , " now known as the Lodge of
Antiquity , No . 2 . It is added , " He presided regularly at its meetings for upwards of eighteen years . He presented the Lodge with three beautifully carved mahogany candlesticks , and the trowel and mallet which he used in laying the first stone of the great cathedral in 1 G 75 . In 1 G 88
Wren was elected Grand Master of the Order , and he nominated his old fellow workers at St . Paul ' s , Cibber , the Sculptor , and Strong , the Master Mason , Grand Wardens . In Queen Anne ' s reign there wero 129 Lodges ; eighty-six in London , thirty-six in provincial cities , and seven abroad . "
The origin of the sign is variously explained , but the following seems to be the most feasible account . The " Goose and Gridiron" had previously been the "Mitre , " a celebrated Music house , and the arms of the Company of Musicians , " a swan with his wings expanded within a
double trcssure , counter , flory , argent , " probably suspended at the door of the " Mitre , " may have been thus vulgarly translated when the house was converted to another use . It was at the " Appletrce Tavern , " Charles Street , Covent Garden , that in 171 G four of the leading Loudon Lodges
met for the purpose of choosing a Grand Master pro tern , those that joined the Appletree Lodge , being the lodges that met at the " Goose and Gridiron , " at the " Crown , " Parker ' s Lane , near Drury Lane , and at the " Rummer and Grapes Tavern , " Channel Row , Westminster . Thus the
revived Grand Lodge of England was organised at this tavern . It appears that the brethren who held their meetings at the " Goose and Gridiron " afterwards removed to the " Queen ' s Arms , " St . Paul's Churchyard . It was at this latter tavera that Garrick cultivated tho City men
by attending a club here . It Avas here that Dr . Johnson stai'ted a city club , the members of which were not to be patriots . They are described by Boswell as " very sensible , well-behaved men . " A sixpenny card club was also established at the " Queen ' s Arms , " among the members
being , we are told , Henry Baldwin , who , with Gamck , the elder Colman , and Bonnell Thornton , started the St . James ' s Chronicle , the most popular evening paper of the clay . In September 1721 Grand Lodge met at the "King ' s
Arms "—perhaps in Bow-street . In March 1722 it assembled at the " Fountain Tavern , " in the Strand . This tavern in 1685 was famous as the meeting-place of the ultra-loyal paity , Sir Roger Lestrange taking a leading
Old London Taverns Associated With Masonry.
part in their consultations . In George II . ' s reign it became a noted resort of the Whigs . In April 1723 Grand Lodge met at the " White Lion , " Cornhill , and in September of the same year at the " Crown , " Threadneedle-street . In the following year the meeting was held at the "Bell Tavern , "
King-street , Westminster , and in 1725 at the Devil Tavern —or , to give it its full title , " the Devil and St . Dnnstan " —Temple Bar , which stood next door to Child's Bank . Here was formed the celebrated Apollo Club , presided over by " rare Ben Jonson . " The bust of Apollo is still preserved
at Child ' s Bank , as well as " The Welcome , " which may have been written by Jonson himself . Over the clock in the kitchen was inscribed " Si nochmia tibi tioceat potatio viniJioc in mane libes iterum , etfuerit medicma , " which , in
the phraseology of to-day is equivalent to " Take a hair of the dog that bit you . " Swift dined at the Devil in 1710 with Addison and Dr . Garth . In 1746 the Royal Society held its annual dinner there , and in 1752 vocal and instrumental concerts were given . It was demolished in 1787 .
In November 1728 Grand Lodge met at the "Queen ' s Head Tavern , " in Great Queen Street , Holborn ; in 1729 at the "Three Tuns , " Swithin ' s Alley , near the Royal Exchange ; in June 1731 at the " Half Moon , " Cheapside . Grand Lodge met " in due form at the Castle in Drury Lane , on Thursday
tith June 1732 , with , the Earl of Inchiquin , and other former Grand Officers , and those of thirty-nine Lodges . " In April 1739 a meeting was held at the " Crown Tavern , " "behind the Boyal Exchange . " About sixteen sessions of Grand Lodge were held at the " Crown and Anchor " in
the Strand , tho first being on 24 th January 1760 . This was a favourite resort of Dr . Johnson . It was at this tavern that on 8 th November 1813 was held an " Especial Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of England
according to the old constitution ( Ancients ) . " In the following month the union with the Grand Lodge of the " Moderns" was accomplished , and thus was formed "The United Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of England . " It should be added that to afford the better
accommodation required for the greater numbers of brethren which met together on the occasion of the annual " Assembly and Feasts , " other places were chosen , such as Stationers' Hall , Mercers' Hall , Haberdashers' Hall , & c , & c . It was the
procession of the Grand Master elect to Haberdashers ' Hall on the occasion of the Festival held there in 1741 , and a similar one in the following year , which gave rise to the caricature and broadside referred to in our article on "Masonic Curiosities " the week before last .
Social And Sanitary Reform.
SOCIAL AND SANITARY REFORM .
THE Imperial Parliament of Great Britain has met , and her Majesty ' s most gracious speech has been read in both Houses . The measures announced to be brought forward by the Government are pre-eminently of
a social find sanitary character . The speeches delivered on Monday night , by the Home Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , demonstrate that a great portion of the time of the Session will have to be devoted in
considering the best means and the easiest methods to secure improvements in the dwelling houses of the poorer classes both in town and country . The death-rates in Liverpool , London , Manchester , Glasgow and other large towns and cities have been so great—produced from
fever and other sad and melancholy diseases—that it has become an imperative duty on the part of the executive government of the country to come forward and legislate for the people , and rescue them from those baneful and noxious influences that are decimating the whole population and spreading misery and desolation all around .
No nobler work could any government have commenced , and no true patriot or philanthropist can hesitate to give it that support and confidence that will enable it to check the devastating and desolating power of those fever alleys , polluted rivers , dark garrets and damp cellars that have
sent thousands to an early grave . The value of political institutions can only be trul y estimated by the amount of security they give to health and life . To permit property , for its own selfish ends , to
erect small cells , in which light and air are almost excluded , and then to name those houses , and call them the homes of the poor , is the climax of avarice , mockery and audacity . To remove these pestilential dens of dirt and disease
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Egypt Considered As The Cradle Of Masonry.
connection between the later or Greek mysteries and this god , while the connection between Osiris and Dionysius , or Bacchus , as he is commonly called , is quite clear . The
Greek legend embraces all the chief points of that of Osiris , and the wanderings of the former are so like the career of the Egyptian deity , that no one conversant with the facts can doubt that Bacchus is simply Osiris in a Greek , dress .
The mysteries of speculative Masonry are clearly traced to those of Dionysius , and holding , as we do , that these are but a comparatively modern rendering of the story of Osiris , we may justly claim tho privilege of throwing hack
the orig in of our Order to the commencement of Egyptian civilisation . The brotherhood may , indeed , fairly claim that the rites which are practised in tho modern Lodge are faint traces of the mystic ceremonials which were familiar to priests and kings on the banks of the Nile 4 , 000 years ago .
Old London Taverns Associated With Masonry.
OLD LONDON TAVERNS ASSOCIATED WITH MASONRY .
THE New England Freemason for December last contains a long account of some of the London Taverns associated with the Craft prior and subsequent to its revival in the early part of last century . Many of them are referred to by the late Dr . Oliver , in sundry of his
Masonic works , and are mentioned likewise in Mr . Walter Thornbury's Old and New London ( London : Cassell , Petter and Galpin ) . Indeed the writer in the Neiv England Freemason acknowledges he is a debtor to Entick ' s "
Constitutions , " and has not improbably looked into these or similar publications , or at all events to the sources on which they are based , for the very interesting details which he has collected and presented in so readable a form . The first to which reference is made is the old " Goose
and Gridiron " in St . Paul's Churchyard . Here , we are told in Old and New London , during the building of St . Paul ' s , Sir Christopher Wren " was the zealous Master of the St . Paul ' s Freemasons' Lodge , one of the most ancient Lodges in London , " now known as the Lodge of
Antiquity , No . 2 . It is added , " He presided regularly at its meetings for upwards of eighteen years . He presented the Lodge with three beautifully carved mahogany candlesticks , and the trowel and mallet which he used in laying the first stone of the great cathedral in 1 G 75 . In 1 G 88
Wren was elected Grand Master of the Order , and he nominated his old fellow workers at St . Paul ' s , Cibber , the Sculptor , and Strong , the Master Mason , Grand Wardens . In Queen Anne ' s reign there wero 129 Lodges ; eighty-six in London , thirty-six in provincial cities , and seven abroad . "
The origin of the sign is variously explained , but the following seems to be the most feasible account . The " Goose and Gridiron" had previously been the "Mitre , " a celebrated Music house , and the arms of the Company of Musicians , " a swan with his wings expanded within a
double trcssure , counter , flory , argent , " probably suspended at the door of the " Mitre , " may have been thus vulgarly translated when the house was converted to another use . It was at the " Appletrce Tavern , " Charles Street , Covent Garden , that in 171 G four of the leading Loudon Lodges
met for the purpose of choosing a Grand Master pro tern , those that joined the Appletree Lodge , being the lodges that met at the " Goose and Gridiron , " at the " Crown , " Parker ' s Lane , near Drury Lane , and at the " Rummer and Grapes Tavern , " Channel Row , Westminster . Thus the
revived Grand Lodge of England was organised at this tavern . It appears that the brethren who held their meetings at the " Goose and Gridiron " afterwards removed to the " Queen ' s Arms , " St . Paul's Churchyard . It was at this latter tavera that Garrick cultivated tho City men
by attending a club here . It Avas here that Dr . Johnson stai'ted a city club , the members of which were not to be patriots . They are described by Boswell as " very sensible , well-behaved men . " A sixpenny card club was also established at the " Queen ' s Arms , " among the members
being , we are told , Henry Baldwin , who , with Gamck , the elder Colman , and Bonnell Thornton , started the St . James ' s Chronicle , the most popular evening paper of the clay . In September 1721 Grand Lodge met at the "King ' s
Arms "—perhaps in Bow-street . In March 1722 it assembled at the " Fountain Tavern , " in the Strand . This tavern in 1685 was famous as the meeting-place of the ultra-loyal paity , Sir Roger Lestrange taking a leading
Old London Taverns Associated With Masonry.
part in their consultations . In George II . ' s reign it became a noted resort of the Whigs . In April 1723 Grand Lodge met at the " White Lion , " Cornhill , and in September of the same year at the " Crown , " Threadneedle-street . In the following year the meeting was held at the "Bell Tavern , "
King-street , Westminster , and in 1725 at the Devil Tavern —or , to give it its full title , " the Devil and St . Dnnstan " —Temple Bar , which stood next door to Child's Bank . Here was formed the celebrated Apollo Club , presided over by " rare Ben Jonson . " The bust of Apollo is still preserved
at Child ' s Bank , as well as " The Welcome , " which may have been written by Jonson himself . Over the clock in the kitchen was inscribed " Si nochmia tibi tioceat potatio viniJioc in mane libes iterum , etfuerit medicma , " which , in
the phraseology of to-day is equivalent to " Take a hair of the dog that bit you . " Swift dined at the Devil in 1710 with Addison and Dr . Garth . In 1746 the Royal Society held its annual dinner there , and in 1752 vocal and instrumental concerts were given . It was demolished in 1787 .
In November 1728 Grand Lodge met at the "Queen ' s Head Tavern , " in Great Queen Street , Holborn ; in 1729 at the "Three Tuns , " Swithin ' s Alley , near the Royal Exchange ; in June 1731 at the " Half Moon , " Cheapside . Grand Lodge met " in due form at the Castle in Drury Lane , on Thursday
tith June 1732 , with , the Earl of Inchiquin , and other former Grand Officers , and those of thirty-nine Lodges . " In April 1739 a meeting was held at the " Crown Tavern , " "behind the Boyal Exchange . " About sixteen sessions of Grand Lodge were held at the " Crown and Anchor " in
the Strand , tho first being on 24 th January 1760 . This was a favourite resort of Dr . Johnson . It was at this tavern that on 8 th November 1813 was held an " Especial Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of England
according to the old constitution ( Ancients ) . " In the following month the union with the Grand Lodge of the " Moderns" was accomplished , and thus was formed "The United Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of England . " It should be added that to afford the better
accommodation required for the greater numbers of brethren which met together on the occasion of the annual " Assembly and Feasts , " other places were chosen , such as Stationers' Hall , Mercers' Hall , Haberdashers' Hall , & c , & c . It was the
procession of the Grand Master elect to Haberdashers ' Hall on the occasion of the Festival held there in 1741 , and a similar one in the following year , which gave rise to the caricature and broadside referred to in our article on "Masonic Curiosities " the week before last .
Social And Sanitary Reform.
SOCIAL AND SANITARY REFORM .
THE Imperial Parliament of Great Britain has met , and her Majesty ' s most gracious speech has been read in both Houses . The measures announced to be brought forward by the Government are pre-eminently of
a social find sanitary character . The speeches delivered on Monday night , by the Home Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , demonstrate that a great portion of the time of the Session will have to be devoted in
considering the best means and the easiest methods to secure improvements in the dwelling houses of the poorer classes both in town and country . The death-rates in Liverpool , London , Manchester , Glasgow and other large towns and cities have been so great—produced from
fever and other sad and melancholy diseases—that it has become an imperative duty on the part of the executive government of the country to come forward and legislate for the people , and rescue them from those baneful and noxious influences that are decimating the whole population and spreading misery and desolation all around .
No nobler work could any government have commenced , and no true patriot or philanthropist can hesitate to give it that support and confidence that will enable it to check the devastating and desolating power of those fever alleys , polluted rivers , dark garrets and damp cellars that have
sent thousands to an early grave . The value of political institutions can only be trul y estimated by the amount of security they give to health and life . To permit property , for its own selfish ends , to
erect small cells , in which light and air are almost excluded , and then to name those houses , and call them the homes of the poor , is the climax of avarice , mockery and audacity . To remove these pestilential dens of dirt and disease