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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1889.

pany being annually saddled with-let us say $30,000, for no reasonable or useful purpose that has yet been advanced. ·

**Scrutator advocates that one or two

THI, Ocean Steamship Co's steamer Ajar, from Liverpool, left Singapore-this morning, and is due here on the 22nd inst. ̧

11,M.'s flagship Impérieuse, Capt. Wm. Ĥ. Mayı

WE are informed by the agents (Messrs.) Adam- son, Bell & Co.) that the steamship Port Jackson, from Londos, lef Singaporò this. morning for Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG LITERARY, SOCIETY.

The firei session of the resuscitated Literary Society came to a close last night, at the sixth the organisers have been disappointed. The first meeting, held in the City Hall on the ard Novem yours. He-And perhaps you're not aware,ber, was attended by a bishop, several parsons, different women before I met you. Mr. Sharlington, that I proposed, to a dozen

and despatch-boat Alacrity, Commander R. SHE-Perhaps you're not aware, Colonel Snar. meeting. Taken all-round, the justifiable hopes of

Blair Maconochie, left this afternoon for Manila lington, that I had half a dozen offers before and Singapore.

SAYS the Manila Diario of the 11th inst" By the steamship Zafro, which left this for Hang. kong the other day, a Chinaman, zo years, ol age, effected his escape, taking with him the sum of 16,600 dollars which he collected on the day of the steamer's departure, from a tobacco establishment in Anloague Street. The young

of the leading Chinese merchants be invited to join the Board, and he feels certain that this, with the added capital, would secure the shareholders from any local opposition. Nobody but an interested sharebroker, or the creature of some weak-headed would-be dictator of the share market could possibly write such nonsense. It is well known that a Chinese on attion of the inter, der tras inest an accomplished fact, and that Bun-Can, established at Binondo, The bird childish overtures, advanced apparently has already bees secured in Hongkong, bu on the ipse dixit of Mr. E. R. BELILIOS, minur the money he had with him, which has

not been traced." have come too late. Besides, the leading Chinese meant by Scrutator" have nothing whatever to do with the opposition to the Steamboat Company,

control.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

[THE Sessions will open next Tuesday.

THERE will be a game, of Polo, at Caliseway Bay, at 4. 30 pin. to-morrow.

Steg leggap SENUCH-1, J. DA SILVA, Chief Justice of Macao,

arrived here by the Kiukiang yesterday.

A DISTINGUISHED diplomatist from the United States of America, a very genial and sociable being, soon after arrival in London made the round of the sights-Madame Tussaud's among the number.

and "And what do you think of our

man in nephew of wealthy Chinaman named waxwork exhibitions?" asked a friend. "Well," and the chief trouble was to get anybody on thei

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at the grave would be sustained by law, The demised certain property to him to perform plaintiff is the nephew of a rich Chinaman who

sacrificial rites at the ancestral tomb, and the defendant is the son of the testator. The latter refused to hand over the property in question, and the principal contention was as to whether a promise to perform such rites constituted a valuable consideration, and entitled the plaintiff to the property. His Lordship'decided on the evidence that it was hot, giving judgment for the defendant.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

An Englishman whose name was Wemyss Went crazy at last, so it semyss, Hecause the people would not Understand that they ought

To call him not Weemis, bui Weems, Another whose last name was Knollys Tried vainly to vote at the pollys;

But no ballot he, cast. Because till the last

lawyers, and doctors, and a lot of other intellectual individualsa Chairman was elected, a programme roughly sketched out which would have made the body a sort of budding Royal Asiatic Society, and it half came under debate whether they should be content with the City Hall no head- quarters or build a place worthy of them. The next meeting was in a smaller room; the bishop many of the leading lights were elsewhere. the evening dress epidemic had subsided a little,

replied the General," it struck me as being very hind legs to suggest anything. There was no want like an ordinary English evening party," of suggestions-only people made them outside, l'instead of helping Dr. Cantlic, the re-organiser ofthe whole thing, and the rest of the Committee. By and bye-the next meeting or so-the head Buildings, where somebody lent a large room, quarters of the Society were moved to Bank and where a nice sociable kind of a debate could be got up without any great risk of an orator having piece of old red sandstone take him in the abdomen. Quite the reverse. Between

leather aprons, such as have come down to us, marked with the insignia of their rank.

I find too in the language of the books that they held sacred, as containing what was known of the great law in knowledge of and conformity with which all happiness consisted, constant use of puro masonic phraseology. As, theri, it is known among us that modern masonry is not identical in ritual or organization with the masonry as which it bases its foundation, it is sufficient to establish the identity that we should find resemblances se great as those, I have brought to public notice.

SYMBOLIC BUILDINGS OR LODGES. The chief symbolic buildings of which we have record in China are the temples Hsia, Shang, and Chou respectively, which will be found figured in pige 185_of the "Memoires sur la Chine" on the Temples of Heaves, Earth, and Man stillexisting in Peking, ground plan of which can be seen in Du Halde's work on China.

APRONS.

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Of the lambskin apron of the Entered Appren tice I find the prototype in the limbskin in- which the old Chinese Emperor, mentioned in previously divested himself of his Imperial robes, the Book of Odes, girt himself when, having

he, bareheaded and barefooted, offered himself as sacrifice for his people; and of the aproDE

THE recent vocal gymnastics of the late Opera Company at the City Hall will be followed to. morrow night by a display of acrobatics, a large company of Japanese gymnasts,-the Tamakichi Troupe, from Osaka,-having anjyed here. They number eighteen altogether, and won the reputa. tion in their own country, which they now leave twelve and fifteen conflituted the riddlings of worn by other ranks in Masonry, in the

by the

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high officers at the Imperial sacrifices. symbolically adorned aprons worn symbols on the aprons which have come down to us are different from those in use, in modern Blue Masonry, being a plant, an axe, of dispute; but the second symbol is identical and a symbol, the meaning of which is matter with one I find figured in Higgins" "Anacalypsis". du an undoubted Masonic monument, and the other two with the symbols figured on the coat which answers to our modern scarves and are upper clearly and closely connected with the symbols in use amongth e Rosicrucians, which is admitted to be a branch of our Order, clained indeed to be

higher rank of the mystic Priesthood in which the better infirmed hold Free-Masonry to have

had its foundation..

"OBSERVER" writes:-It may amuse your readers to know that some Macao Portuguese are apparently founding a colony on Kap-sui-mun; What is "Scrutator's object? Why, an island at the entrance of the Canton river rush up the shares to a fictitious value When passing the east side of the island in n and there can be no doubt that he has yacht on Sunday last I observed a number of for the first time, of being one of the best troupes the Society which promised so much at the males and females actively engaged in digging in that country of tumblers, "As an illustration beginning, and of these the Chairman, (Dr already succeeded to a very considerable foundations near the beach-possibly for the of this we may mention that one of their crdi-Chalmers, LL.D.) Dr. Cantlie (secretary) and extent. The shares, quoted yesterday at Treasury, or lunatic asylum, of the new colonyinary tricks is the balancing by one man of three about two more formed the debaters, winist the $223, are now in strong demand at $230-On inquiry we found that ten pioneers had bamboos at once, on which three tiny acrobats understand. It came hard on the hon. secretary, rest looked and listened, and mad, an effort to and solely on the strength of a report that already arrived and that "another batch was perform feats of balancing. Rope-walking, he had to be always leaping into the breach, to Mr. BELILIOS has approved of an increased expected next Saturday.

juggling, &c., form part of their repertoire, and keep things going, for despite his repeated nods PATENT DESȘICÁTING OR DRYING capital and has pledged himself to support YESTERDAY afternoon Chief Justice Russell altogether we are promised a performance such and hints to bashful beads, y law could be prevailed to "open their and these few a movement in that direction. The letter delivered judgment in the case of Tang Heng as has never been seen here before. Advertise generally got up with but a faint idea of what in the Daily Press would seem to have been Tai v. Tang Tun Shan-the case to which we ments will appear to-morrow...

they wanted to say, followed by a great wave of merely a "feeler, published for a special refered some time ago as involving the question SAVs the New York Herald: Field Marshal, hot-and-coldness at their own temeri y, which made their voices quaver, their usually purpose. As the Directors of the Steam- of whether a bequest for religious ceremonies the Count von Malke, the ruling spirit of the commonplace features assume an expression of boat Company, almost without exception,

German army, celebrates. the seventieth year of hereditary imbecility, and their heaters wish have been mere puppets in the hands of

the young soldier drew his sword, Europe was of the session. his entrance into the service. In 1818, when they would sit down. But this is by the way.

SQUARE. Last night was the concluding evening

Of the symbolic square we have in the State Mr. BELILIOS for years pasi, it is only too

About twenty attended; the religion of China continual representation from throbbing after Waterloo; Napoleon was quarrel meeting place being once more changed the earliest date till now. In Du Halde, which probable that they will again ko-few to the

ing with Sir Hudson Lowe at St. Helena because this time to Dr. Canules surgery itsell! The I quote as a book all can easily have access to, Great Pajandrum and allow him to work

he could not have green cloth for his uniforms; Chairman,in compliance with the hon, secre- it will be seen among the symbolic instruments his own sweet will on a public (2) company

Canning reigned in. Parliament; John Quincy should read one on a subject he knew some of jade or resonant stone, and struck during the tary's stipulation that whoever send a paper of music, the suspended square made ordinarily over which he has effectually, but illegally,

Adams, an American Secretary of State, was thing about, and not lecture on the moon

course of the sites with a symbolic meaning, la established a complete, and effective

composing his Monroe dochine; Bismarck if he wasn grocer chose "Learning Chinese," the "Shoo-king you will find more than once was in the nursery; Byron was writing bis knowledge, having compiled a standard Chinese strike the stone, I tap the stone, and e'en the

as a problem of which he had some slight quotation of the more ancient ode, "Kuee said: "Don Juan"; Gladstone was about to enter dictionary, and knowing more Chinese than very beasts are moved in harmony:" or in Eton; Louis XVIII, the Beloved, was on the almost any other European in the Far East.plainer English-by the square are all things French throne; the illustrious Carnot was an The Secretary first read the minutes of the last brought into their proper place; it needs but fus exile in Prussian Saxony, little dreaming that meeting, which were characteristically brief, and it to be brought in force, and even brute creation his children's children would rule in the Elysée has made the society so great a power-that is

were passed with that individual energy which yields obedience to the laws it symbols. Pius VII reigned in peace after his Bonaparte to say by season of nobody valing against buffetings Blucher was dying in Silesia; Sanis their passing. Then the Essayist vacated the was in the throes of insurrection, and of all chair, and a temporary substitute had to be -problems that concerned the minds of men uone

found, Pastor Hartmann was invited, and refused for some time, but consented at last, when Dr. was so nebulous as this dream of a United Cantlic opened a case of scalpels with a Germany,

significant frown. Dr. Chalmers then read his paper, in which the difficulties of learning collo: quial Chinese were set out at length, illustrated by numerous examples relating to dialects, tones, &c. It was fairly interesting, a vein of patriotism running, through it and showing itself in occasional allusions to the superior intelligence of the Celt over the Sassenach. It concluded with a recommendation to form a Chinese class, The Ashlar is identical with the ancient and a kind offer to assist it if formed. Chinese symbol for the earth, the square stone, fell upon the room-nobody liked to speak first, earth as the circle figured Heaven, and the When the applause had subsided a painful silence which they say in their old writings figured the but at last the Chairman started thingsagain, and various altars to earth at Peking and the diffe- made a few general remarks, followed by Dr. rent Capital Cities in China-perpetuate the Cantlie, who humorously detailed his own symbol to the present time. In the Lodge of troubles in studying languages. He said he which these Temples are the oldest representa- could speak any page of "Dyer Hall off by tive the cubic black of stone has the same heart, and the odds were a coal mine to a, cinder significance the Chinese have ever given it against his understanding a single word in the reply, a statement which was met with an unsympathetic burst of laughter. A few more remarks by the Chairman, the Lecturer, birth, and thestaff oflife are carried in procession, and Dr. Chalmers practically concluded the pro wesce following the image an urchin with one loof ceedings, it being understood that arrangements shod, the other bare, and wonder whether there would be made by the Committee to organise be perchance connection between that and the class along the members, with a paid Chinese Masonic ceremony in which the candidate is led or Eurasian-teacher and honorary assistants in round the Lodge bail-shod. Both criemonics D. halmers, Pastor Harimane, Inspector are symbolical and both identical, though the Stanton, &c. Voice of thanks were then passed explanation given in our Lodges is not the same. to the Chairman and Lecturer; Dr. Cantlie's The Chinese give theirs being that the infant's efforts were ignored, and the session closed.

fect here represent the Yin and Yang, the bare, and shining font, which is the symbol of the FREE-MASONRY IN CHINA...

light of the sun; the covered foot, its opposite, is often figured by the Night or Moon. And as all.

any traces of Free-Masonry in China? Having the child who represents mankind with equal The question is continually asked-Are there of the foot of Man, an in this symbolic procession things on this our world must bear the imprint

subject the following notes of the result of my opposites from which they think that all things researches may be of interest to the Brebren came to be the events of the year to came, Not only there are, but I venture to think I

in China; I have found existing there a mystic' Faith on which there seems some reason to believe our Craft is founded.

THE 1.&.Q.S. N. Co.'s extra steamer Gwalior,· from Bombay, left Singapore for this port yester day at 5pm.

Pacific Steamship Line that the Silk ex-steam- We are informed by the Agents of the Canadian ship Parthis arrived in New York on the 13th

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 16,"188ŋ.

THAT sensational, because badly managed public institution, the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company, Limited, is again attracting public attention. In the Daily Press of yesterday appears ainsi, letter from a correspondent who suggests "to Mr. BELILIgs, his co-Directors, and shareholders in the above Company, the advisability of increasing the capital of the Company to $1,000,000, seeing that before the close of the present year, in all probability, the Company will be running the new steamer now, building at home,”

To avoid any misapprehension we beg to state that we have quoted Scrutator" -that is the correspondent's nom de plume verbatim; we desire to fairly criticise his proposition, but we do not wish to father his bastard English.

A SMUGGLED piùm dealer with four convictions against him two this year, was fined $50 this morning by Mr. Wodehouse for keeping an illicit opium divan.

A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge, No. 1165, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.3a for 9 o'clock

precisely. Visiung brethren are cordially invited. An electrical fire engine, which can be tapped for service whenever wanted, is the latest inven tion. The advantages claimed are that it can be started at full speed'; that it is much lighter than'a steam fire engine of equal power; that is costs one-third less that it is, noiseless in its operation; makes no smokė, sparks nor ashes; that it is safer and casier to control and is economical.

The clerk couldn't call Knölliss Notes.

And then a young butcher named Belvoir Went and murdered a man with a clevoir

Because the man couldn't, Or possibly wouldn't, Pronounce his name properly Beever,

There was an athlete name Strachan. Who had plenty of sinew and brachap,

And he'd knock a man dowD With an indignant frown If he failed to pronounce his name Strawa, -Net from the London Times.

A WRITER in Chambers' Journal gives a curious instance of what we may very appropriately term 'a time bargain. At the New York Assizes, in

March, 1812, a trial came on in which Rev. B. Gilbert was plaintiff and Sir Mark Sykes, baronct, defendant." It appeared that the baronet, at his own table during a dinner party, in the course of a conversation respecting the hazard to which the life of Bonaparte was exposed, had offered, upon the receipt, of 100 guineas, to pay one guinea, a' day as long as he (Bonaparte) should remain alive. Mr. Gilbert suddenly took up the offer, but finding that the sense of the company was against making a serious matter of a bet proposed at a moment of co- viviality, he said: "If you will submit, Sir Mark, to ask it as a favor, you may be off." This

acknowledged the receipt, and he had continued were sent by Mr. Gilbert, of which Sir Mark

THE discovery of champagne is said to be due to a Benedictine monk named Perignon. In the year 1668 he was made cellarer, and, in pursuing the cluties of his position, he hit upon the idea of marrying the different wines produced in the vineyards around him. One fort he had noticed imparted fragrance, another generosity, and the blackest grapes were found to produce a white wine that kept good, instead of turning yell w and degenerating, as did the wine mide from white grapes. This white or gray wine of Champagne became famous, and the wine from his district, Hautvillers, most famous of all. He was also the discoverer of the fact that the old

stopper, a piece of tax dipped in oil, could be advantageously replaced by a piece of cork. By dint of experiment after experiment, he finally evolved the effervescing wine that was far plessanter to the taste and far more exbila rating than the old-style still wine. The King gave the seal of his royal approval to the new discovery, and the courtiers were not far behind in recognizing the virtues of the new wine. The Marquis de Sillery at a souder d'Anet introduced the wine into the court circle. The flower- wreathed bottles which, at a given signal, a dozen bicoming damsels, draped in the gulae of Bacchanals, placed upon the table, were hailed

rompers of the period.”- was an indispensable adjunct to all the petits

the jewel 1 refer to is not a square but an obluse Brother Giles has objected that the square in angle, and his objection is at first sight very forcible, but the fact is that the symbolism is: the same; we from the centre of the oblong tracing- board draw four times N.S.E and W. and take two enclosing a right-angle as the symbol of the whale. The symbol of the forces of nature as opposed to the forces of the Without is repre- tented by the compasses; the old Chinese divided the oval tracing board into three parts symbo fically representing Heaven, Earth, and Man, and therefore used an obluse angle.

ASHLAR.

THE COVERED AND THE BARE FOOT,

At the Spring festival in which the earthen symbol of earth and labour by which weare brought to

Who is " Scrutator"? We don't know, but that he is playing an "inspired" part is quite certain-and on his own showing we can safely write him down an ass. How inspired? A question easily answered. On the 13th inst. a shopkeeper at Whampoa who had sold 8 bags of tea, to Hongkong Why does this gentleman speak of “Mr. BELILIOS and his co-Directors"? Mr.dealers, hit upon the expedient of entrusting the baronet refused to do. The 100 guineas with rapture, and thenceforth sparkling wine lately given some considerable attention to the pace marks out the use and need of the two RYRIE, not Mr. BALILIOS, is Chairman of the Nierstein, and so evading the lekin dues. The

it to a Chinese fireman on the steamer

Steamboat Company Board of Directors; fireman took it, and in his turn devised a scheme paying the guinea, a day for nearly three years. A STRANGE phenomenon which is observable shall be able to shew traces of Free Masonry arriving as man in his march determines.

the latter gentleman, only recently elected, is a complete cypher on the Board. If he is not--why then, he ought to be.

"Scrutator," who is evidently a very fair specimen of the ante-diluvian vermin who infest the colony, wishes to increase the capital of the Steamboat Company by the creation of ten thousand new shares of 920 each, the half of which are to be offered to the present shareholders, and the remainder are to be set aside for the public at a certain premium, which is recommended to be placed to the credit of a Reserve Fund. This latest master of finance does not say why the capital of this Company should be increased; he shows no necessity for any such increase, but thinks that the Company ought to be strengthened by the clever dodge he advocates. But would an

extra capital of $200,000 actually strengthen the position of the Company? We don't believe it. Will any business man show us by figures or in plain English in what fashion an increased capital will benefit the Steamboat Company and its shareholders? The steamer now build- Ing at home" is not in any shape or form dependent on an increase of capital; it will be running on the Canton river just As soon as it can possibly be brought out to the Far East. A glance at the latest published report of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company will show that the lastitution is in a position 'to pay for the new steamer without having recourse to any such drastic remedy as that proposed by "Scrutator," and further, there is not a single business expert in Hongkong acquainted with the Canton river traffic who could conscientiously recommend the net earnings of the Com-

for appropriating the property. He therefore told the shopkeeper, who wanted to come down by the steamer, that she would sail at two o'clock, although as a matter of fact she was to leave at noon. The shopkeeper missed her, of course, and by the time he had got down by the next steamer the tea was all disposed of. The fireman and two teadealers who had bought the

plunder were up before Mr. Wodehouse to-day, and remanded.

AN Irish dinner in 1747, according to a recent writer, must have been rather a good sort of thing It was generally served at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and was abundant to prolusion. The wines were excellent, being the choicest produce of French and Spanish vineyards, whose quality was remarked by almost all visitors to Ireland; and the potations were, as at the same period in England, long and deep. Costly silver, handsome glass and china, and the finest linen appeared in all the better-class houses. A chutac- teristic feature was the "potato ring." This was of silver, richly chased, and was used to support the great bowi in which potatoes were then brought to table. The sequence, of courses differed widely from that now general, Soups came in the third or fourth place; fish, flesh and sweets jostled each other; while potted meats and cold pasties were not infrequent items on the bill of fare. For more accurate knowledge of what our ancestors ate at their principal meal we are indebted to a chronicler of the time. In: 1747 she sends the following menu of a dinner to her sister-iba quaint spelling is retained: First course-Fish, beefsteaks, rabbit and onions, fillet of veal, blamange, cherries, Dutch cheese, Second course-Turkey, pout (poult), salmon, pickled salmon, grilde (grilse) and quails, little terrene peas, cream, mushrooms terrene, apple pie, crabs, leveret, cheese cakes, almond cream, currants and gooseberries, orange butter. Dessert-Raspberries * and. cream, sweetmeats and Jelly, strawberries and cream, She adds: "I give as its hot meat as possible. The invitation was 'to beefsteaks,' which we are famous for,"

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At length he declined further payment, and this action was for recovery of the sum still due upon the contract.

in the Manila newspapers, is their absolule silence with regard to the recent troubles of the 'agency of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in We hardly expect our Manila that city.

The following interesting statistics regarding Austria and Hungary were published recently contemporaries to discuss the pros and cons of a Vienna is a city of 1,300,000 people, Budapesth case which is practically rub fudice; but that has about 425,000, Prague has 162,000; Trieste, they should have refrained from even mention- 145.000; Limburg, 110,000, No other city of ing the affair, that they should have kept the Austria toucher 100,000 inhabitants. The ex- public in the dark as to the nature of the porti of 'Austria now are about $350,000,000 a transaction that took place with the firm of year. The imports are less than the imports Jurado & Co,, and the motives that led to somewhat. The principal export is grain, next a seizure of the Bank's funds, is an anomaly that lamber, next sugar. Sugar is exported to the does not certainly tend to raise the Manila Press amount of $24,000,000, and this is nearly equaled in the public estimation. Whatever may be the respectively by watches and instruments, wool influence exercised by the Board of Censure we and woollens, and living animals. Of course think the primary duty of all newspapers is to the German portion of Austria is the most publish a faithful report of the proceedings that active in business. They send to Great Britain take place in the Courts of Justice, especially about $5,500,000 worth of grain and flour per when important cases are tried, or important legal annum, including barley. The British return to measures taken with respect to local institutions. Austria cotton manufactures, iron and machinery. In the case under review we hess of a seizure of Ninety-four per cent, of the area of Austria is

a very large sum of money being effected on an productive, Austria proper has 620,000 acres of English Bank, and the rumour of a second seizure vineyard. This kingdom has nearly a million of an even larger amount, without receiving the and a half of horses and about eighty-five slightest information as to the causes that hundred thousand cattle. Hungary produces brought on this arbitrary proceeding. We tum annually. $20,000,000 worth of wine and has to our Manila files for a gleam of information nearly 2,000,000 horses and about 5,000,000 but our exchanges keep a sepulchral allence ship. They export horses, cattle and sheep over the whole affair, leaving their readers to from both the kingdoms more than they their own resources. We were under the impres import. The mines, including salt, produce for sion that the Manila press was gagged only in Hungary $17,000,000 a year, Austria has coal respect of religious matters; free-thought being which yields her $20,000,000 a year. They the terror of Monasticism and Clericalism, it is employ over 100,000 persons in their mines and quite natural that the Board of Censure abould metal works. In Austria are 8500 miles of veto all expressions of independent opinion on ralfroad; in Hungary 5800 miles. They have matters appertaining to religion; but to extend only about one-tenth the railroad owned in the these repressive powers to matters of the public United States. The navigation of the river domain such as proceedings is the Courts of Danube is controlled by the Berlin treaty of law, is undoubtedly an abuse of power. We 1878. It is considered an international highway long for the day when our colleagues of the from its mouths to the iron gates, and Austria, Press in the Philippine Islands will be in Bufjaria, Roumania and Servis, asulated by the position, to shake themselves fiès from the yoke supervising great powers, control the river. under which they labour, and when they shall Going down the river there are some 3200 of all be able to teach their oppressors that glorious kinds of vessels par konura's coming up about liberty which is the only guarantee of progress

and civilisation

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THE SQUARE AND COMPASSES.

In the language, which is even a better record of past ages than brass or stone, I find in the That Masonry exists in China atthe present day earliest works that have come down to us the in the same form that k exists in Europe may be word "Kueich," Iterally the compasses and safely answered in the negative. Secret Lodges, square used as the symbol of right conduct. The professedly founded for the cultivation of virtue man who had the compasses and square, and thousand, and in their rituals, wich we have the expression has came down to modern times) and the development of benevolems, exist by the regulated his life thereby being then on now, (for information regarding them, there are striking considered to possess the secrets and to carry resemblances to those in use among ourselves out the principles of true propriety. And here I The members are sworn to brotherhood and may remark that the square and compasses have each other by secret algas, and gain admittance to masons associate with them, and that there can mutual support; they make themselves known to a much deeper symbolic racaning than most their lodges in the same manner. The initiation be no doubt that it was in this deeper sense the of new brothers is conducted with the symbolic Chinese used the symbol. mystery which attends the entry of a mason into the Craft, and the members are bound to secrecy by penalties like those in force among us But there, so far as I have found the likeness ends. Masonic symbols, such as we employ, are not in use among them.

Again, in the same book, the Shuhing," the most ancient work in China, I find the magis trates spoken of as the "Chunjê,” literally the - Level Men, the level being the emblem of their authority and the type of the conduct looked for from them.

Further, I And in one of the most ancient of They have never heard of Solomon, or Hiram, or the Temple at Jerusalem, or any other of the the documents of which this work is a collection

Jewish Kings, and Heroes whose names are the three chief officers, of State in whose hand handed down in our modern rituals. They the supreme direction lay, spoken of as the claim no brotherhood with foreign Craftsmen, "San Chaithe three bouses or builders; in know none of our passwords, use our signs other wards, the three grand masters, to whom with the Craftsmen of other lands. differently, and agree only in chance symbols the management of the grand lodge was then

entrusted. But if we go deeper down wo and that these There is too reason for thinking that the various brotherhoods, the date of whose origin character by which the root or source of things the lodges which exist with us), one and all tell us is the most important of all our is in πιοτή cases but recent (as with is represented, "hen," that which China's asges profess but to revive an ancient Faith, the duties to attend to, is a bleroglyphic picture mysteries of which have become lost, or at the of the skillet, an emblem, held by masons in best obscured, and further, that their various high respect rituals, and signs are supposed to be in some And finally not to multiply fustances, 1 End which have been handed down from the earliest Deity is spoken of in China, is that of the First measure founded on ancient rites and symbols one of the host, ancient ames by which the

ages.

Builder, or as Masons say, the Great Architect of Going then to the records we possess of the the Universe. earliest historic times in China, I find "clear Of course, those who, like a recent writer in pressed la allegoric form and illustrated, as with the wandering guilds of masons who undertook evidence of the existence of a myille faith ex-Blackwood, trace Masonry no farther back than us, by symbols. The secrets of this faith were the building of the various Cathedrals of Europe orally transmitted, the Chiefs alone pretending in the age of the Gothic Revival, will see nothing to have full knowledge of them. 1.find, more in this, but casual resemblance; but for them the over, that in these earliert ages this faith took a first article of our profession is sufficient answer masonic form, the secrets being recorded in whether or not as, they allege, these early symbolic buildings like to the tabernacle Moses guilds are the fint lodges la regard of | put up in the desert, and the temple his muc, which" we have complete particulars and ceasor Salomon built in Jerusalem that the to which we can trace an uninterrupted connec various offers in the hierarchy of this religion tion. It is not to them that we profess to go by them during their term of office, and that, as Society of operative masons guarded by myste were distinguished by the symbolic Jewels field back, Masonry is not, as they allege, ■ Bentit

1 with us, at the sites of their religion they wore? "ries, and secret Isws. If in a beautiful system

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