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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . ST . JOHN'S HILL , BATTERSEA RISE , S . W . PATRONS : H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., & c , M . W . G . M . —PRESIDENT . H . R . H . THE PRINCESS OF WALES . At a Quarterly General Court of this Institution , held at Freemasons' Tavern , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , London , W . C , on Saturday , April ij , 1 SS 1 , Col . J . Creaton , Treasurer and Trustee , in the chair . After the general business was disposed of , the Governors and Subscribers proceeded to the Election by ballot of Fifteen Girls into the Institution , from a list of Twenty-eight Approved Candidates , when thc following were declared duly Elected : No . on List . Votes . No . on Poll . 24 . Anscombe , Louisa Mary ... 206 4 ... 1 21 . March , Eliza Josephine ... 2011 ... 2 15 . Penny , Edith Marion ... 1 S 57 ••¦ 3 11 . Townsend , Emma Mary A . 1 S 13 ... 4 13 . Tippler , Susannah Harriet M . 1 G 14 ... 5 17 . Smith , Georgiana Louisa ... 1497 ... G 20 . Corps , Alice Caroline ... 145 1 ... 7 9 . Allison , Annie Athalinda ... 1425 ... S 10 . Williamson , Lelia 1376 ... 9 27 . Batch , Gertrude Blanche ... 1 3 02 ... 10 26 . Wedgwood , Minnie ' . 126 4 ... 11 12 . Foxall , Ellen Matilda ... 1259 ... 12 25 . James , Florence 1221 ... 13 2 S . Rawle , Utinia Annie 1209 ... 14 19 . Eastwood , Harriet Edith ... 11 G 3 ... 15 The Votes recorded for Unsuccessful Candidates will be carried forward to their credit at trie next Election , iS eligible . Lists showing the ; Votes polled for Successful and Unsuccessful Candidates may be obtained at theoHice . F . R . W . HEDGES , Secretary . No . 5 , Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C .
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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . WOOD GREEN , LONDON , N . OFFICE :-6 , FREEMASONS' HALL , W . C . PATRON : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN . PRESIDENT : HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., M . W . G . M . At a Quarterly General Court of the Governors and Subscribers , held at Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queenstreet , Lincoln's Inn-fields , London , on Monday , the nth day of April , 1 SS 1 , Bro . Henry Smith , V . Patron ( P . P . G . W . and Prov . G . Sec . W . Yorkshire ) , in the Chair , a Ballot took place for the Election of Twenty Boys , from an approved list of Seventy-six Candidates , reduced by three withdrawals to Seventy-three . Thc following were declared to be No . SUCCESSFUL . Votes . 1 . Allan , Alexander 1712 2 . March , George Archibald ... ... ... 16 7 6 3 . Caiiney , Frederick Wm 1 GG 5 4 . Lucas , Win . Walter 105 G 5 . Woollons , Walter Herbert 1 G 44 G . Rocke , Ernest Charles ... ... ... 1623 7 . Wilson , Win . Leslie 1 G 12 S . Whiteley , Lewis Lawton ... ... ... 1575 9 . Bladon , Fredk . Rowley ... ... ... 1570 10 . Pink , Henry James ... ... ... ... 15 G 2 11 . Webb , Charles Edward 1530 12 . Conway , Walter ... ... ... ... 1522 13 . Tanner , Fredk . Thomas 1454 14 . William , Wm . Isaacs 1451 15 . Lucas , Edward Charles 1445 lG . Lewis , Alfred Lucas ... ... ... 1431 17 . Bloomfield , John ... ... 1423 iS . Wick , Grantlv 1 3 S 5 * ig . Estlin , Chas . ' Nathl 13 G 5 * ' 20 . Carey , Stephen Darcey ... ... ... 135 G * Subject to investigation . Lists of candidates , successful and unsucessful , with full particulars of polling , & c ., may be had on application at the Office . Votes of unsuccessful candidates will be carried to the credit of those qualified for election in October FREDERICK BINCKES , Vice-Palron , P . G . Std ., Secretary , nth April , 1 SS 1 . Thc Eighty-Third Anniversary Festival will be held on Wednesday , June 29 th , 1 SS 1 , thc Most Hon . the Marquess of Londonderry , K . P ., R . W . Provincial Grand Master of Durham , in the Chair . The services of Brethren as Representative Stewards of Provinces or Lodges arc respectfully and earnestly solicited .
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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . —To the Vice-Patrons , Vice-Presidents , Governors , and Subscribers . Ladies and Gentlemen , I am truly thankful to say that through your instrumentality my son , CHARLES NATHANIEL ESTLIN , was elected on Monday last to the benefits of the above excellent Institution ; and I take the earliest opportunity to express to you my sincere and heartfelt thanks for placing mv boy in that extremely advantageous position , and ixniain , your grateful servant , ELIZA ESTLIN . 'Tudor Villa , Wandsworth Common , April 12 II 1 , 1 s . s i .
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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . —AI-KII . ELECTION . MRS . PENNY desires to return her grateful thanks for the support given the case of her daughter , EDITH MARION PENNY , which will entitle the child to the inestimable benfits of the Institution , she having been placed third on the poll .
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WOKING COLLEGE , WOKING , SURREY . Head Master , the Rev . C . W . ARNOLD , M . A ., Trinity College , Cambridge , late Head Master of the Royal Naval School , New Cross , and formerly Head Master of King Edward ' s School , Edinburgh . Second Master , the Rev . A . J . MINTON , M . A ., late Scholar of Syd . Coll ., Cambridge . In the Upper School boys are prepared for the Universities , Army , and Professional Examinations . There is a Special Class for boys destined for Commercial Life . In the Lower School boys arc prepared for the Navy and for the Public Schools . There are three Resident Masters •detached infirmary large playficlds- good bathing ; workshops and gardens or boys . Situation very healthy—on Bagshot Sand . Terms moderate and inclusive . Prospectus and report on application . '
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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , APRIL 16 , 1 SS 1 . +. . BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Keystone , " " Der Long Islacnder , " " New York Dispatch , " " Citizen , " " Grand Lodge Records of Connecticut , " "The Freemason" ( Toronto ) , " Orient , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " "The Broad Arrow , " "Brighton Gazette , " "Cox ' s Monthly Legal Circular , " "The West London Advertiser , " "La Acacia , " "Hu * i 1 Packet , " "Jewish Chronicle , " "Sunday Times , " " Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts , " "Masonic Advocate , " "Hebrew Leader , " "Yorkshire Gazette , " "The Freemason ' s Repository . "
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We dn not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinions expressed hy our correspondents , bnt we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ]
THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' SCHOOL ELECTIONS . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Will you allow me , through thc medium of your
paper , on behalf of Mrs . March , most sincerely to thank those subscribers to the two Masonic Institutions who so liberally supported thc claims of her two children , and thereby enabling her to secure their election . I remain , faithfully and fraternally yours , FRANK RICHARDSON .
To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — On behalf of Mrs . Allan kindly permit me to thank-, most heartily , the subscribers to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys for their generous support on Saturday last in electing her son to the benefits of the Institution . 1 am , yours faithfully , and fraternally , H . WILKINSON .
LIBRARIES OF MASONIC LITERATURE . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — I should bc greatly obliged if you would kindly furnish me with the number of any lodges which are known to possess libraries of Masonic literature . Yours faithfully and fraternally ,
R . B . WOODWARD , Secretary S 97 . [ Perliaps some of our provincial brethren will furnish the information asked for . —Eo . F . M . ]
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HISTOIRE DU TRIBUNAL REVOLUTIONNAIRE DE PARIS . Par II . WAU . O . N . Hachette et Cie ., 79 , Boulevart Saint Germain , Paris . Ihe well known and able writer , M . Wallon , "Member of thc Institute , " has published three volumes of this most sad and painful , if authentic and startling , history . He has had access to all the official
registers still preser .-ed , and has found in his careful search for evidences and facts , curious " memoranda " of eye-witnesses of the " Reign of Terror , " contemporary accounts of fearful crimes and appalling cruelties . In an earlier generation it was the fashion to decry Mr . Croker ' s account of the French Revolution as one , sided , and unfair , exaggerated , and over coloured . Mr .
Wallon ' s array of simple , if shocking , " realities , " however , not only supports the conclusions of Mr . Croker , but points out that even his impassioned language and painful illustrations of horrors pall beneath the terrible " coup d'ceil " into the very life of thc " implacable Commune , " which these three volumes give us with such extraordinary power , accuracy , and actuality . The Revolutionary Tribunal took
its rise from a hasty decree of the Chamber of the 12 th August , 1792 , ( 0 form a court martial to judge the Swiss oflicers and soldiers who defended loyally the palace on August 10 II 1 , 1702 . But on the 14 th of August , 1792 , the Assembly , many of the members objecting to a military
court , practically annulled the former decree and constituted a new tribunal , which was to be composed of fortyeight members from each section , to take the said crimes into their consideration . On thc istliAugust , 179 2 , another decree takes away any power of appeal to the " Court of Cassation " and makes the judgement of this new court final in all cases . And on the 17 th August , 1792 , a fresh
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decree , which altering all thc former decrees , orders the sections to nominate each one " elector , " the eldest being the president , who shall at once proceed to the " nomination" of the members of a "Criminal Tribunal , " with powers to take all crimes into their cognizance , to consist of eight judges , eight assistant judges , two public accusers , four registrars , eight assistant registrars , and two " national commissioners , " nominated by the executive power . This
tribunal was to be divided into two courts , to sit simultaneously , and also to elect the juries . It was before this tribunal , presided over by Osselin , Lavau , Hermann , Dumas , Coffinhal , & c ., that that " regime of blood " began , which at this distance of time it is all but impossible for " civilized humanity " to realize , and which , had it not been for the horrors committed a few years back , even in the happily short lived reign of a Parisian Commune ,
which reproduced a reign of terror , " would almost seem to be a foolish myth . For as we turn over Mr . Wallon ' s , we must say , " awful pages , " lucid and startlinc ** as they arc , at the same time , in the facts they establish , and the results they manifest , we see ho , v , like the old mythological fable , the French Republic , under the " evil spirit" of the "Commune , " "devoured its own children " in turn . We say
nothing of the martyred King and of the heroic Queen ; we say nothing o £ the gentle and angelic Princess Elizabeth , of whom Fouquier Tinville himself said to Dumaslet us hope feelingly— " it must be confessed she has made no complaint ; " we do not even allude to that long list of noble old men , stately ladies , pleasant youths , and graceful maidens , pitilessly condemned to the guillotine on "absurd pretences ; " for all this , with the latent savagery and
open recklessness of the hour , might have been expected , perhaps , in the throes and excesses of a rampant Revolution . But the " Revolution " proceeded to destroy even its own children—Hebert , Danton , Henriot , Camille Desmoulins , the Girondins , Lavoisier , Madame Roland , & c . — count ' less poor men and poor women , ol all ranks , ages , and conditions , who all professed to be Republicans , and all these , like the shifting atoms of a kaleidoscope , come and
go , inscribed in burning letters on the " red pages ' of _ the Revolutionary Tribunal . Mr . Wallon stops with the third volume just before the fall of Robespierre , who will in turn , and Fouquier Tinville with him , come before their ' own tribunal . Cruel irony of fate , stern Nemesis of injuied and offended justice ! The only feeling we have as we read these pages is absolute horror , ineffable disgust , at cruelties and cowardice , and injustice
and iniquity without a parallel , as far as we know , in the history of nations . But then , as Freemasons , we hate and detest all injustice , intolerance , oppression , and illegality when and where , by whomsoever committed . Wc always regret one fact , that many who survived the fall of Robespierre , but were equally cruel and criminal with him , were afterwards received into favour , their wickedness forgotten , the horror of their conduct annealed . Some of us may
have read in other days , " Les Mysteres de la Bastille , " by Clemence Robert , and they will be sorry to hear that poor " Latude , " who escaped , as they will bear in mind , in such thrilling adventures from the Bastille of old , was only reserved for thc revolutionary tribunal , and the guillotine . But here we lay down a weary pen , weary with recounting , however shortly , the weakness and wickedness of nations , the follies and the crimes which mark the anarchy ever of social revolutions .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
Masonic Notes and Queries .
DR . PLOT . By a tiresome typographical error , and , to say the truth , too , by a little editorial oversi g ht , Plot ' s first edition of 1667 is printed uniformly 17 G 7 . Those who have studied that question will have seen that there was an " erratum " here . M . S .
LONG LIVERS . I fully concur in all Bro . Whytehead says so well on this book , as I have all along felt , and felt strongly , that we must in all fairness give full meaning to thewriter ' s words , and that they certainly tend in a Rosicrucian or Hermetic direction , and are not covered by Craft Masonry , or even the Royal Arch . To one passage I think it , however , well , for fear of a mistake , to draw Bro . Whytehead's attention , though it is
just possible that he does not intend to convey what his words would seem to imply . Eugenius Philalethes was not Thomas Vaughan , the Mystic , who himself had assumed the name of Philalethes , which name thc writer of Long Livers adopted . I am not aware , however , that the elder Vaughan ( Philalethes ) mentions the " Freemansons , " as he was purely an Hermetic writer . If Bro . Whytehead can give us a reference to any such passage , he will confer a great favour on all Masomc Students . M . S .
DR . DESAGULIERS . When , and where was Dr . Desaguliers made a Mason ? Oliver , in the "Revelations of a Square , " p . 5 , tells us in thc " old lodge at the Goose and Gridiron , " now called thc " Lodge of Antiquity . " Is he correct ? ANTIQUARIUS .
ORIGIN OF THE TERM WORSHIPFUL MASTER . Rebold , in his general History of Freemasonry , under the head of " Masonic Corporations in Britain , " thus accounts for the origin of the term Worshipful Master . ( He is writing of a period about the close ofthe sixth century . ) He says : " In accordance with the teachings of their founder , the Benedictine monks worked more than they prayed . Austin
himself , the apostle of England and first Archbishop of Canterbury , was no less celebrated for his knowledge of architecture than for his other powers of mind and varied attainments ,- and it was he who , at this time , began to rebuild and re-establish thc ancient Masonic corporations , now reduced , it may well be believed , to a very small numberindeed , entirely inadequate for those immense constructions
projected by the new apostles of Christianity . It was in this manner that at this time , in England as upon the continent , the lodges became attached to the convents , and were more or less governed by monks , according as the leading architects were monks or lay brethren ; and from this fact arose the condition that lodges held their meetings almost exclusively in the convents , where , if an Abbot was proposed as Master Warden of a lodge , they addressed him
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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . ST . JOHN'S HILL , BATTERSEA RISE , S . W . PATRONS : H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., & c , M . W . G . M . —PRESIDENT . H . R . H . THE PRINCESS OF WALES . At a Quarterly General Court of this Institution , held at Freemasons' Tavern , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , London , W . C , on Saturday , April ij , 1 SS 1 , Col . J . Creaton , Treasurer and Trustee , in the chair . After the general business was disposed of , the Governors and Subscribers proceeded to the Election by ballot of Fifteen Girls into the Institution , from a list of Twenty-eight Approved Candidates , when thc following were declared duly Elected : No . on List . Votes . No . on Poll . 24 . Anscombe , Louisa Mary ... 206 4 ... 1 21 . March , Eliza Josephine ... 2011 ... 2 15 . Penny , Edith Marion ... 1 S 57 ••¦ 3 11 . Townsend , Emma Mary A . 1 S 13 ... 4 13 . Tippler , Susannah Harriet M . 1 G 14 ... 5 17 . Smith , Georgiana Louisa ... 1497 ... G 20 . Corps , Alice Caroline ... 145 1 ... 7 9 . Allison , Annie Athalinda ... 1425 ... S 10 . Williamson , Lelia 1376 ... 9 27 . Batch , Gertrude Blanche ... 1 3 02 ... 10 26 . Wedgwood , Minnie ' . 126 4 ... 11 12 . Foxall , Ellen Matilda ... 1259 ... 12 25 . James , Florence 1221 ... 13 2 S . Rawle , Utinia Annie 1209 ... 14 19 . Eastwood , Harriet Edith ... 11 G 3 ... 15 The Votes recorded for Unsuccessful Candidates will be carried forward to their credit at trie next Election , iS eligible . Lists showing the ; Votes polled for Successful and Unsuccessful Candidates may be obtained at theoHice . F . R . W . HEDGES , Secretary . No . 5 , Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C .
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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . WOOD GREEN , LONDON , N . OFFICE :-6 , FREEMASONS' HALL , W . C . PATRON : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN . PRESIDENT : HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., M . W . G . M . At a Quarterly General Court of the Governors and Subscribers , held at Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queenstreet , Lincoln's Inn-fields , London , on Monday , the nth day of April , 1 SS 1 , Bro . Henry Smith , V . Patron ( P . P . G . W . and Prov . G . Sec . W . Yorkshire ) , in the Chair , a Ballot took place for the Election of Twenty Boys , from an approved list of Seventy-six Candidates , reduced by three withdrawals to Seventy-three . Thc following were declared to be No . SUCCESSFUL . Votes . 1 . Allan , Alexander 1712 2 . March , George Archibald ... ... ... 16 7 6 3 . Caiiney , Frederick Wm 1 GG 5 4 . Lucas , Win . Walter 105 G 5 . Woollons , Walter Herbert 1 G 44 G . Rocke , Ernest Charles ... ... ... 1623 7 . Wilson , Win . Leslie 1 G 12 S . Whiteley , Lewis Lawton ... ... ... 1575 9 . Bladon , Fredk . Rowley ... ... ... 1570 10 . Pink , Henry James ... ... ... ... 15 G 2 11 . Webb , Charles Edward 1530 12 . Conway , Walter ... ... ... ... 1522 13 . Tanner , Fredk . Thomas 1454 14 . William , Wm . Isaacs 1451 15 . Lucas , Edward Charles 1445 lG . Lewis , Alfred Lucas ... ... ... 1431 17 . Bloomfield , John ... ... 1423 iS . Wick , Grantlv 1 3 S 5 * ig . Estlin , Chas . ' Nathl 13 G 5 * ' 20 . Carey , Stephen Darcey ... ... ... 135 G * Subject to investigation . Lists of candidates , successful and unsucessful , with full particulars of polling , & c ., may be had on application at the Office . Votes of unsuccessful candidates will be carried to the credit of those qualified for election in October FREDERICK BINCKES , Vice-Palron , P . G . Std ., Secretary , nth April , 1 SS 1 . Thc Eighty-Third Anniversary Festival will be held on Wednesday , June 29 th , 1 SS 1 , thc Most Hon . the Marquess of Londonderry , K . P ., R . W . Provincial Grand Master of Durham , in the Chair . The services of Brethren as Representative Stewards of Provinces or Lodges arc respectfully and earnestly solicited .
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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . —To the Vice-Patrons , Vice-Presidents , Governors , and Subscribers . Ladies and Gentlemen , I am truly thankful to say that through your instrumentality my son , CHARLES NATHANIEL ESTLIN , was elected on Monday last to the benefits of the above excellent Institution ; and I take the earliest opportunity to express to you my sincere and heartfelt thanks for placing mv boy in that extremely advantageous position , and ixniain , your grateful servant , ELIZA ESTLIN . 'Tudor Villa , Wandsworth Common , April 12 II 1 , 1 s . s i .
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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . —AI-KII . ELECTION . MRS . PENNY desires to return her grateful thanks for the support given the case of her daughter , EDITH MARION PENNY , which will entitle the child to the inestimable benfits of the Institution , she having been placed third on the poll .
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WOKING COLLEGE , WOKING , SURREY . Head Master , the Rev . C . W . ARNOLD , M . A ., Trinity College , Cambridge , late Head Master of the Royal Naval School , New Cross , and formerly Head Master of King Edward ' s School , Edinburgh . Second Master , the Rev . A . J . MINTON , M . A ., late Scholar of Syd . Coll ., Cambridge . In the Upper School boys are prepared for the Universities , Army , and Professional Examinations . There is a Special Class for boys destined for Commercial Life . In the Lower School boys arc prepared for the Navy and for the Public Schools . There are three Resident Masters •detached infirmary large playficlds- good bathing ; workshops and gardens or boys . Situation very healthy—on Bagshot Sand . Terms moderate and inclusive . Prospectus and report on application . '
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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , APRIL 16 , 1 SS 1 . +. . BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Keystone , " " Der Long Islacnder , " " New York Dispatch , " " Citizen , " " Grand Lodge Records of Connecticut , " "The Freemason" ( Toronto ) , " Orient , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " "The Broad Arrow , " "Brighton Gazette , " "Cox ' s Monthly Legal Circular , " "The West London Advertiser , " "La Acacia , " "Hu * i 1 Packet , " "Jewish Chronicle , " "Sunday Times , " " Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts , " "Masonic Advocate , " "Hebrew Leader , " "Yorkshire Gazette , " "The Freemason ' s Repository . "
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We dn not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinions expressed hy our correspondents , bnt we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ]
THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' SCHOOL ELECTIONS . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Will you allow me , through thc medium of your
paper , on behalf of Mrs . March , most sincerely to thank those subscribers to the two Masonic Institutions who so liberally supported thc claims of her two children , and thereby enabling her to secure their election . I remain , faithfully and fraternally yours , FRANK RICHARDSON .
To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — On behalf of Mrs . Allan kindly permit me to thank-, most heartily , the subscribers to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys for their generous support on Saturday last in electing her son to the benefits of the Institution . 1 am , yours faithfully , and fraternally , H . WILKINSON .
LIBRARIES OF MASONIC LITERATURE . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — I should bc greatly obliged if you would kindly furnish me with the number of any lodges which are known to possess libraries of Masonic literature . Yours faithfully and fraternally ,
R . B . WOODWARD , Secretary S 97 . [ Perliaps some of our provincial brethren will furnish the information asked for . —Eo . F . M . ]
Reviews.
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HISTOIRE DU TRIBUNAL REVOLUTIONNAIRE DE PARIS . Par II . WAU . O . N . Hachette et Cie ., 79 , Boulevart Saint Germain , Paris . Ihe well known and able writer , M . Wallon , "Member of thc Institute , " has published three volumes of this most sad and painful , if authentic and startling , history . He has had access to all the official
registers still preser .-ed , and has found in his careful search for evidences and facts , curious " memoranda " of eye-witnesses of the " Reign of Terror , " contemporary accounts of fearful crimes and appalling cruelties . In an earlier generation it was the fashion to decry Mr . Croker ' s account of the French Revolution as one , sided , and unfair , exaggerated , and over coloured . Mr .
Wallon ' s array of simple , if shocking , " realities , " however , not only supports the conclusions of Mr . Croker , but points out that even his impassioned language and painful illustrations of horrors pall beneath the terrible " coup d'ceil " into the very life of thc " implacable Commune , " which these three volumes give us with such extraordinary power , accuracy , and actuality . The Revolutionary Tribunal took
its rise from a hasty decree of the Chamber of the 12 th August , 1792 , ( 0 form a court martial to judge the Swiss oflicers and soldiers who defended loyally the palace on August 10 II 1 , 1702 . But on the 14 th of August , 1792 , the Assembly , many of the members objecting to a military
court , practically annulled the former decree and constituted a new tribunal , which was to be composed of fortyeight members from each section , to take the said crimes into their consideration . On thc istliAugust , 179 2 , another decree takes away any power of appeal to the " Court of Cassation " and makes the judgement of this new court final in all cases . And on the 17 th August , 1792 , a fresh
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decree , which altering all thc former decrees , orders the sections to nominate each one " elector , " the eldest being the president , who shall at once proceed to the " nomination" of the members of a "Criminal Tribunal , " with powers to take all crimes into their cognizance , to consist of eight judges , eight assistant judges , two public accusers , four registrars , eight assistant registrars , and two " national commissioners , " nominated by the executive power . This
tribunal was to be divided into two courts , to sit simultaneously , and also to elect the juries . It was before this tribunal , presided over by Osselin , Lavau , Hermann , Dumas , Coffinhal , & c ., that that " regime of blood " began , which at this distance of time it is all but impossible for " civilized humanity " to realize , and which , had it not been for the horrors committed a few years back , even in the happily short lived reign of a Parisian Commune ,
which reproduced a reign of terror , " would almost seem to be a foolish myth . For as we turn over Mr . Wallon ' s , we must say , " awful pages , " lucid and startlinc ** as they arc , at the same time , in the facts they establish , and the results they manifest , we see ho , v , like the old mythological fable , the French Republic , under the " evil spirit" of the "Commune , " "devoured its own children " in turn . We say
nothing of the martyred King and of the heroic Queen ; we say nothing o £ the gentle and angelic Princess Elizabeth , of whom Fouquier Tinville himself said to Dumaslet us hope feelingly— " it must be confessed she has made no complaint ; " we do not even allude to that long list of noble old men , stately ladies , pleasant youths , and graceful maidens , pitilessly condemned to the guillotine on "absurd pretences ; " for all this , with the latent savagery and
open recklessness of the hour , might have been expected , perhaps , in the throes and excesses of a rampant Revolution . But the " Revolution " proceeded to destroy even its own children—Hebert , Danton , Henriot , Camille Desmoulins , the Girondins , Lavoisier , Madame Roland , & c . — count ' less poor men and poor women , ol all ranks , ages , and conditions , who all professed to be Republicans , and all these , like the shifting atoms of a kaleidoscope , come and
go , inscribed in burning letters on the " red pages ' of _ the Revolutionary Tribunal . Mr . Wallon stops with the third volume just before the fall of Robespierre , who will in turn , and Fouquier Tinville with him , come before their ' own tribunal . Cruel irony of fate , stern Nemesis of injuied and offended justice ! The only feeling we have as we read these pages is absolute horror , ineffable disgust , at cruelties and cowardice , and injustice
and iniquity without a parallel , as far as we know , in the history of nations . But then , as Freemasons , we hate and detest all injustice , intolerance , oppression , and illegality when and where , by whomsoever committed . Wc always regret one fact , that many who survived the fall of Robespierre , but were equally cruel and criminal with him , were afterwards received into favour , their wickedness forgotten , the horror of their conduct annealed . Some of us may
have read in other days , " Les Mysteres de la Bastille , " by Clemence Robert , and they will be sorry to hear that poor " Latude , " who escaped , as they will bear in mind , in such thrilling adventures from the Bastille of old , was only reserved for thc revolutionary tribunal , and the guillotine . But here we lay down a weary pen , weary with recounting , however shortly , the weakness and wickedness of nations , the follies and the crimes which mark the anarchy ever of social revolutions .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
Masonic Notes and Queries .
DR . PLOT . By a tiresome typographical error , and , to say the truth , too , by a little editorial oversi g ht , Plot ' s first edition of 1667 is printed uniformly 17 G 7 . Those who have studied that question will have seen that there was an " erratum " here . M . S .
LONG LIVERS . I fully concur in all Bro . Whytehead says so well on this book , as I have all along felt , and felt strongly , that we must in all fairness give full meaning to thewriter ' s words , and that they certainly tend in a Rosicrucian or Hermetic direction , and are not covered by Craft Masonry , or even the Royal Arch . To one passage I think it , however , well , for fear of a mistake , to draw Bro . Whytehead's attention , though it is
just possible that he does not intend to convey what his words would seem to imply . Eugenius Philalethes was not Thomas Vaughan , the Mystic , who himself had assumed the name of Philalethes , which name thc writer of Long Livers adopted . I am not aware , however , that the elder Vaughan ( Philalethes ) mentions the " Freemansons , " as he was purely an Hermetic writer . If Bro . Whytehead can give us a reference to any such passage , he will confer a great favour on all Masomc Students . M . S .
DR . DESAGULIERS . When , and where was Dr . Desaguliers made a Mason ? Oliver , in the "Revelations of a Square , " p . 5 , tells us in thc " old lodge at the Goose and Gridiron , " now called thc " Lodge of Antiquity . " Is he correct ? ANTIQUARIUS .
ORIGIN OF THE TERM WORSHIPFUL MASTER . Rebold , in his general History of Freemasonry , under the head of " Masonic Corporations in Britain , " thus accounts for the origin of the term Worshipful Master . ( He is writing of a period about the close ofthe sixth century . ) He says : " In accordance with the teachings of their founder , the Benedictine monks worked more than they prayed . Austin
himself , the apostle of England and first Archbishop of Canterbury , was no less celebrated for his knowledge of architecture than for his other powers of mind and varied attainments ,- and it was he who , at this time , began to rebuild and re-establish thc ancient Masonic corporations , now reduced , it may well be believed , to a very small numberindeed , entirely inadequate for those immense constructions
projected by the new apostles of Christianity . It was in this manner that at this time , in England as upon the continent , the lodges became attached to the convents , and were more or less governed by monks , according as the leading architects were monks or lay brethren ; and from this fact arose the condition that lodges held their meetings almost exclusively in the convents , where , if an Abbot was proposed as Master Warden of a lodge , they addressed him