ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1503, 4 December 1874, Page 2

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

(From our London Correspondent.)

London, October 2.

THE MA.3ONIC GRAND MASTERSHIP,

The Prince of Wales has accepted the office of Grand Master of English Freemasons, and has thus not only paid a high compliment to the order and afforded the brethren his utmost countenance, but has made a political move of considerable importance in these days of hard fighting on religious questions. The Komanists may have gained a life of interest in £50,000 a year, but they have brought themselves into sad ridicule by this last coup. It is a singular thing that nothing seems to do Romanism so much harm as touching it up with the light of knowledge and common sense, and the very dogma of infallibility which they, its adherents, urgently insist on maintaining puts them in such a stupidly false position that it is really surprising how they can have the hardihood to stick to it. Columns of the Times have, during the past week, been taken up with letters on Romanism, Science, and Freemasonry, and the result is that Monsignor Gapel and other Ecclesiatical swells declare that Romanism is a friend to science, and yet stick to their point that, the Church is and always has been infallible. The dilemma on the horns of which they thus place themselves, you canuot fail to see, but for the benefit of any of your readers who may not remambei much of the history of the Papal Church, I will just explain the great point now under , discussion. Prefixed to tne third book of ] Newton's Principia, in the edition and j commentary published at Rome in 1742 by the Jesuit Father is a declaration in latin, which I may be thus translated : —" Newton in this i third book assumes the hypothesis of the i motion of the earth. The author's proposiI tions could not be explained otherwise than Iby making the same li3'pothesis. Hence we I have been compelled to appear in a fictitious j character. However, we deolare that we I yield assent to the decrees passed by the j Sovereign Pontiffs which deny the motion of I the earth." Now here are clearly proved two things :—first, that successive Popes 1 have by their infallible authority contradie- : ted the fact of the earth's motion ; and I second, that all true Roman Catholics are j bound to accept this contradiction as an { article of faiih. Here then is the dilemma : j —If the Popes are infallible, the earth | neither turns on its axis nor moves round j the sun. On the other hand if the earth does so move, the Popes are not infallible. J No person can now be a true Catholic who ! does not believe in the Pope's infallibility, and ! the Pope says that the decrees of the Pontiffs :do not fetter the progress of science. How | are these things so be reconciled ? The | Rooiau Catholics have founded a grand ; college at Kensington. Will the professors teach the students that the earth is a plane surface, and tnat the sun and planets revolve round it. If they don't, they will practically deny the infallibility of the Pope. You must ■ excuse my saying so much on a subject which ' may seem invidious, but the matter is in | everybody's mouth in England, and in this j dull season it is a triumph to get hold of any- : thing to write about. It is my conviction I that it is reserved for Continental FreeI masonry to strike the death-blow of the j Papacy.

OPINIONS OF THE BBECHER-TILTON SCANDAL

Probably your intelligence from America may be later than ours, and you may there- ! fore know more than we do about the Beecher-Tilton scandal. Here we all are convinced of Beecher's guilt, and the only wonder is that the Americans can be perBuaded to put up with him. It is quite obvious that he has been acquitted by the Board ©f Enquiry, because the other preachers are afraid that if Beecher's reputation were destroyed, people would exclaim, "if these things are done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry," and their influence would entirely desert them. GREAT WANT OF BUTTER. Don't you think it would pay some of your Waikato farmers to pack their butter in tins and send it to England ? Here we are at two shillings a pound, with a prospect of a rise. Surely there is margin of profit enough here, even when all expenses are paid. A great deal of the butter here, too, is villainously bad. It is generally the ease when things are dear that the manufacturers take less pains wirh them than when they arecheap. They know that the demand keeps ahead of the supply, and they have no fear of any lack of a market. Some of that delicious Waikato butter would be most toothsome just now, and there can be no reason why it should not keep perfectly well if properly packed. The farmers ought to form a company for the purpose of packing and exporting butter and cheese. lam certain they would very soon find a ready market. New Zealand has good friends at home who would push her interests. PRIZE-FIGHTING Was once the sport of noblemen, and was conducted in a comparatively decent manner, but it gradually got into the hands of the brutal mob, and fell into utter disrepute. The turf was once the sport of gentlemen, but it is now rapidly following the lead of prize - fighting. Once upon a time a provincial race meeting meant a muster of all the noblemen and gentlemen of the country side with their carriages and families. 'J here were the farmers, too, with j their blooming wives and daughters, the ' tradespeople of the town, and the dashing young yeomen of the district, with a sprinkling of London swells. Now, a provincial meeting means nothing more than a huge tryst of all the ruffians and blackguards in the kingdom who can purchase a railway ticket. The nobleman and country gentleman are conspicuous only by their absence, and the farmer declines to bring his family to behold such beastly saturnalia. Even those of the upper classes who bet, many of hem, do not care to be seen at meetings, and do all their book-making at Tattersal's or n the club-room. There is a certain class of jnen of late, become so amneroue as to form an impsttant iatfgral part o£ the feiitish sain- *

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