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AMONG the multitude of convivial advertisements which reveal the associative tendencies of an appetite, some will be found to proceed from a body which garnishes itself with the title of The free and accepted Masons.' By these epithets they distinguish themselves from the common herd of Masons, those plain, drudging, hard-working men, who do not play at their trade with silver trowels and kid gloves. Indeed, Masons and Freemasons are very different things; there is no more connexion between the two than between mortar and turtle-soup. Of Masons this building age knows and sees enough; of Freemasons it knows and sees but little. It is neither the wiser nor the better for their existence; they are not to be seen performing any useful work; neither are they like-moles, which, though they themselves are out of sight, throw up from their hidden chambers visible tokens of their toils. The strongest microscope would fail to discover the minutest grain or particle of good which the Freemasons confer upon mankind. The body, with all its invisible action, is as utterly useless to the world at large as a clock would be to its owner which went wheeling and ticking on, with all its busy machinery, after the amputation of its hands. Were the Fraternity to dissolve itself to-morrow, and, to appease the common sense of this practical and working age, to make a hecatomb of their aprons, the world would be unconscious of the dissolution, except for the unsavoury smoke of the leathern sacrifice. Tavern-keepers alone would look blank and woe-begone; and none but lugubrious waiters, with idle napkins flapping over their arms, would shed tears over the defunct Fraternity. The energies of our countrymen are too often devoted to dinners, to make any succession of feasts, however excellent, shed fame on the festive brotherhood. It is possible that many Associations need to have their axletrees oiled with an annual feast to carry them through the wear and tear of a year's life. A dinner in this country appears to exercise a galvanic influence on the constitution of societies; but with whatever warmth of expectation it may be looked to through the vista of the working months, it is, after all, the reward, the refreshment, and not the work of societies. Every Society, except the Freemasons', has something to do; but this, entertaining the notion of freedom, which has been so strongly impressed on the popular mind in all ages, and which makes it consist in having nothing to do, shows that its members are 'free' in this sense of the word, whether they are accepted' or not. Sometimes, it must be confessed, they so far plunge into the trade with which they seem to be connected, as to undertake the arduous task of laying a stone on some public occasion. At such times the members attend in their symbolical aprons, and, after certain ceremonies, partly childish and partly profane, march off in a tawdry procession. While, with amusing audacity, they lay claim to the erection of all the cathedrals, the last great structure they have helped to rear, if we except the laying of stones', was their tavern in Great Queen-street—a true English 'terminus' of their constructive career; and all the hand they had in this undertaking was that which is connected with their pocket. It would be well for them if they had been charged with no weightier sin than that of encumbering the world with a useless and profitless body. To be a harmless nonentity, to exist without an object, to do nothing and to have nothing to do, to be catalogued as 'lumber', or to be active only in convivialities, are amongst the lightest accusations which have fallen upon their heads. Even these they have met with halting vindications, their pens spluttering through some vague verbosities, and many yards of words being used to swaddle a lean and emaciated defence. Though the best causes are sometimes persecuted and maligned, it is a bad cause which is not sometimes in honour. According to their own writers, there have been |