Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-01-11

of ninety tons In Its train, al inc rate OF elSht
miles an hour, having been proved oy the open
ing of the Darlington and Stockton rail road, II
becomes our duty to submit more detailed
statement gifts powers and advantages, than
we believe has yet appeared in print.
The engine will travel over Is miles times
day, making us miles days work, with 90
tons, consuming tons OF small coal each day
or 40 tons per week, which, at an average cost
of Is. will be l4I. l4s. One man and boy in
constant attendance, surprising the % hours
equal to three DAYS, will be three men and three
boys each day, which at los. will add 81. ss cd.
making the total weekly expense 49, Us Cd
The engine will cost 6ooL.; 80 wagons 9ooL-
giving 1901 for the entire get out.
Now, 30 tons will load boats: each of these
boats will be day in performing 90 miles
therefore, So boats, with 50 horses, So men and
So BOYS, will be required to execute the trans
fer Of 90 tons us miles in one day: each horse
will cost weekly one guinea, each man gum
ca, and each boy lbs. forming total weekly
charge of lAot. IS. in lieu Of 49, us. and cd,
The 50 boats and horses will be worth 10000
and requiring considerably greater amount to
keep them in repair; throwing balance of full
7oo0I per anum in favor Of every locomotive
engine that may be used. How many may E.
ventually be al work, it will be difficult TO con-
lecture; but as 40 would be required to work
the London, Birmingham, and Liverpool, and
the Manchester and Stockport lines, in all prob
ability not less than 500 would be employed,
and as the saving on every five engines would
be equal to the interest of one million, the 500
would put the people in possession OF sum as
great as the interest Of one hundred mil lions
sterling, independent ofthe advantage OF speed,
and the great saving Of tonnage, the railroad
lines being one-third shorter than the canals in
use. Finally, 1000 persons may be conveyed
one mile, or one person 1000 miles, by locomo-
tive engines, at the rate OF eight miles an hour,
at a cost of something less than five pence.
Re-estabkshment Of the Grand Lodge Of Free and
accepted Masons Of England,
According to the Old Constitutions granted by
his Royal Highness Prince Edwin, at York,
Ammo Domini 926.
WHEREAS the two Great and Independent
Fraternities, formerly known under the denom-
nation Of ANCIENT and MODERN MA
SONS of ENGLAND, did associate them
selves by Treaty of Union, bearing date the st
day of December, 1918, from which period this
Grand incorporated Body was to be known and
acknowledged by the style and tile of tho u
nited Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons OF England:
Therefore be it known unto all whom il may
concern, that, that part Of the said "United |
Grand Lodge" which is usually held in London,
have gradually innovated upon the ancient land |
marks of Masonry, in contravention of the ar
tices of the aforesaid Union; and they have al !
SO composed and published new Code of Laws,
which are Gale ulated to establish dangerous
and despotic authority in the government of our
Institution.
And furthermore be it known, that they have
introduced a law for the purpose of enforcing
obedience to what is styled by them the "esta-
blished mode Of working" This new system
has been opposed and rejected because it is not
according to the genuine landmarks, laws, and
traditions Of the Craft; as guaranteed by the
third article of the aforesaid Union, but on the
it is composed partly Of ancient and
modern Masonry, blended together with new
matter and ceremonies. This strange combi-
nation has been promulgated in order to &C
and reconcile the erring interests
and contentious of those members who com.
posed the Lodge of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES intro
ducing system more 90 ectionable than that
which divided the Fraternity during the greater
part Of the last and the present centuries.
And be it known, that in consequence of the
innovations which have been thus introduced
into the government Of the said United Grand
Lodge, the fundamental principles and practi-
ces Of Masonry have been violated; singular
outrages and abuses have been committed in
different Lodges, under the pretence of COM
pelling obedience to the arbitrary and illegal
Of Provincial Grand Master
These proceedings have given rise to great an
mosities, and have created feelings of hostility
which are in diametric opposition to the mild
and benign spirit of our excellent institution ,
Under these circumstances numerous petitions {
were forwarded from various parts of the king. {
lom, praying for an investigation into the sub
Jet matters Of complaint. Instead, however,
Of an inquiry being instituted, these petitions
were treated with the utmost contempt by the
aforesaid part Of the United Grand Lodge, usu-
ally held in London, thus affording strong
presumptive proof of their determination to
and maintain a despotic authority
over all Lodges and Masons in this kingdom
The extraordinary and insufferable conduct I
caused the secession of several Lodges and a
many individual brethren, upon the incontro- a
Vertible ground that the articles of Masonic
Union having been violated, the contract was
thereby broken and the covenant thereby dis
solved hence it follows that the United Grand
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