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ring the benevolent faculties of his fellow countymen . We can im < ioine the pride of this active Prov . G . Sec , as with aglow upon his face almost vieing with the rose in his button hole , he handed in the sum of £ 295 2 s to tho fund . The thirteen Lodges in the county appear to have sent their
contributions through one channel , namely , the Portland Lodge , No . 1037 , and although the amount is very short of that last sent in , is nevertheless creditable for so small a Province . Derbyshire has been on the onward march since last we alluded to it in reference to tho Boys' School ;
whereas on that occasion the contribution was only £ 5614 s , it is now swollen up to £ 227 2 s , a little over the quadruple of the sum subscribed in 1878 . Onl y three out of eighteen Lodges were represented , the great bulk of tho pi'oceods coming from the Royal Sussex Lodge 353 ( Winshill ) ,
from which Bro . G . T . Wright P . P . J . G . W . brought £ 161 12 s , and the Worshipful Master , Bro . W . J . Booth , fifty guineas . Forty and twenty guineas respectively are set down to the account of Bros . W . L . Ball , of the Repose Lodge 802 ( Derby ) , ancl Percy Wallis , St . Oswald 508 . From Staffordshire also we witness a decided mark of
progress , the total being £ 216 5 s , against £ 35 14 s last year . It is our invariable custom to report well of this Province , whose generosity is not confined merely to this or the other deserving object , and although on the present occasion only two out of its twenty-one Lodges appear on tho list , yet the
result is one upon which our brethren in the Potteries are to be complimented . Bro . W . Bayliss , as the Worshipful Master of the St . Matthew ' s Lodge 539 ( Walsall ) , who is also a Vice-President of the Institution , brought up £ 183 15 s . Some error appears to have crept into
the Steward s list as representing Lodgo 637 , which is down for £ 32 lis . * No doubt this trifling mistake , which makes no difference in the amount , will be rectified , and the Brother , who is entitled to his "just due , " will receive it in formal manner . Eighth in the order of precedence
comes Hants and the Isle of Wight , which also presents a very bulky improvement npon its last year's list . Four Stewards were sent up by the thirty Lodges , Bro . T . Benham Provincial G . Pnrst . being the bearer of fifty guineas from the Panmure
Lodge 723 at Aldershot ; Bro . J . E . Le Feuvre , Prov . G . Secretary , of £ 81 18 s from the Southampton Lodge 130 ; Bro . A . Barfield Worshipful Master of Medina Lodge 35 ( Cowes ) , fifteen guineas ; and Bro . John Harrison , Prov G . S . W ., £ 23 2 s for the Carnarvon Lod {? e 804
( Havant ) . From North Wales and Salop , with its twenty-five Lodges , were sent up five Stewards , who amongst them brought up a total of £ 150 19 s as against £ 169 ls last year ; but the Eastern Division of the Province was not represented at this Festival . The
Secretaries invaiiably look , and never in vain , to Warwickshire for a substantial modicum of aid ; and last year , we remember , that of all the twenty-six Lodges in the Province the name of only one was absent . By a singular coincidence this year only one was present , namelythe
, Temperance , 739 , from which Bro . J . C . Biermas brought £ 147 10 s . This is considerably below last year ' s contribution , but the invariable generosity of our Warwickshire brethren forbids any odious comparison .
Oxfordshire comes next , with £ 141 15 s , which is nearly double the sum we had to record in 1878 . Of its eight Lodges five put in an appearance , headed as usual by the Apollo University No . 357 , which entrusted to Bro . the Rev . H . A . Pickard , one of the newly appointed Grand Chaplains ,
£ 28 7 s . Bro . James Mace Dormer , of the Alfred Lod ^ e 340 ( Oxford ) , follows , with twenty guineas ; Bro . John Potts , of the Cherwell 599 ( Banbury ) , with eighteen guineas ; and Bro . T . B . Brown , of the Marlborough 1399 ( Woodstock ) , with ten guineas . There is another list promised , by Bro . Thos . E . Withington , of the Churchill
Lodge 478 ( Oxford ) , which will of course go to still further increase this year ' s contribution from the University county compared with that of 1878 . Somersetshire , by two out of
its nineteen Lodges , sent up £ 133 8 s , of which sum the Worshipful Master of the Agriculture Lodge 1199 , Bro . C . L . F . Edwards , furnished £ 97 13 s , and Bro . T . E . Jelley , of the Royal Clarence 976 ( Bruton ) , £ 35 15 s . This
* We havo been informed that the pnblished name of the Steward tor Lodge No . 637 is wrong . It was represented at tho Festival by Bro . J . W . Thomas P . M . P . G . S . B ., and not bv Bro . R . N . Howard ns
therein recorded . The amount of the list , according to a letter we have received from Bro . Thomas , was £ 33 lis 0 d , but as ho describes it as incomplete , we may , before the end of the year , look for an additional sum from this source .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
county has always consistently discharged its duty to tho Charities , and it is consequently needless to re Cer at greater length than we have already often done in the pnst to its various aids to the Masonic Institutions . Durham ( twentyfive Lodges ) is represented by Bro . Charles Sherriffe Lane ,
Worshipful Master of tho Hai-bour of Refuge Lodge 764 , into whoso omnium gatherum the brethren had this year placed £ 134 4 s . Sussex follows next , with £ 128 Is , an increase of something like ten pounds over last year ' s instalment , tho representative of the Province on this
occasion being Bro . Benjamin Bennett , of tho Royal Brunswick Lodge 732 ( Brighton ) . Middlesex is behindhand compared with its previous efforts , five Lodges only making up a total of £ 132 7 s , or about £ 80 less than at the Festival of 1878 ; and there is also a slight falling off
in the amount from Suffolk , which is represented this year by the Right Hon . Lord Henniker , P . G . W ., with £ 112 7 s against his name . Essex is the last Province on tho list which claims inclusion in the "hundred pound contributors , " just exceeding that qualification by £ 3 7 s Gd .
Last year it was a great deal more than double that sum , which is remarkable considering the impetus which tus lately been given to Masonry in that Province ; but perhaps the brethren have had other calls , to which AVO know they are not slow to respond . Coming to tho eleven Provinces
whose lists did not run into three figures , tho first to receive attention is Surrey , which , after its gallant effort for £ 205 16 s last year , has relapsed into a lower form with only £ 97 2 s Gd . This may appear slothful in comparison with previous exertions , bnt , as wc recently pointed out , thero is
no reason •to complain of what has boon done by our brethren south of the Thames . West Lancashire , represented by throe of its Lodges , comes next , with £ 79 16 s ; ancl East Lancashire ( four Lodges ) , with two subscriptions of ten guineas each , by Bros . T . Hargroaves , of the Amity
Lodge 283 ( Haslingden ) , and J . Chadwick Mather ; but thero aro lists to come in , so far as tho Eastern Division is concerned , from tho Friendship 41 , St . John ' s 221 , and Affability 317 ; and from the West we aro promised a list , per Bro . Sylvester Mattlnson , representing
the Liverpool Dramatic Lodgo 1 G 09 . Thore is no knowing what theso brethren can do if they try ; and it woro vain therefore to make any speculation on so ex parte a case .
Last year the Provinces sent up £ 315 15 s and £ 57 5 s respectively ; and when wo recollect the splendid achievements of West Lancashire in 1 S 76 and 1877 , and also that East Lancashire has an Educational Establishment of its
own , wo must not expect too great things in the present condition of trade , especially in tho groat manufacturing districts . Devonshire seldom fails to be represented , and this year its " dumpling " consists of £ G 8 5 s , entrusted to Bro . J . Edward Curteis , of tho Sincerity Lodge 189 ( East
Stonehouse ) . This is a long way astern of last year ' s contribution ; and our rosy-cheeked brethren in the South-west must be a little moi * e " dapper" in future if thoy wonld maintain their credit as tho second largest county . Lincolnshire makes a leap from sixteen guineas to £ 64 Is ,
Bro . William Pollitt , Worshipful Master of St . Albans Lodge 1294 ( Grimsby ) contributing £ 53 lis , and stalwart Bro . W . H . Roberts , who presides so genially over the Pelham Pillar 792 , in tho same noted fishing port , stands for a donation of ten guineas . Leicester ancl Rutland
follows iu order , with forty guineas , sent through the trusty hands of Bro . George Toller jun ., and this must bo considered an improvement on last year's blank return . We are glad to see Bedfordshire awaking to a sense of its duty , and we regard the : 638 17 s brought up by Bro .
R . B . Smith , on behalf of the Stuart Lodge 540 , as an earnest of better things to come . Monmouth , through Bro . William Watkins , Treasurer of the Albert Edward P ^ . ico of Wales Lodge 1429 , contributes £ 37 16 s , sh-vfc of a quarter of its last year ' s quota ; whilst " little Herts , "
of whose liberality none can find fault , sends £ 25 , through Bro . Stephen Austin , Worshipful Master of tho Hertford Lodge 403 . Last , and least , comes Cheshire , with a ten guinea donation , presumably from Bro . John J . Cunnah , of the Independence Lodge 721 ; but it must be recollected that here also there is a Provincial Educational Institution
to looked after ; so that the smallncss of this year ' s subscription must not bo regarded as an index of the charitable sentiments of the brethren of the thirty-six
Lodges of which this Province is composed . Having so recently given a copious analysis of what has been done by tho various Lodges in London and tho country for tho Masonic Institutions , wo doom it
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Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
ring the benevolent faculties of his fellow countymen . We can im < ioine the pride of this active Prov . G . Sec , as with aglow upon his face almost vieing with the rose in his button hole , he handed in the sum of £ 295 2 s to tho fund . The thirteen Lodges in the county appear to have sent their
contributions through one channel , namely , the Portland Lodge , No . 1037 , and although the amount is very short of that last sent in , is nevertheless creditable for so small a Province . Derbyshire has been on the onward march since last we alluded to it in reference to tho Boys' School ;
whereas on that occasion the contribution was only £ 5614 s , it is now swollen up to £ 227 2 s , a little over the quadruple of the sum subscribed in 1878 . Onl y three out of eighteen Lodges were represented , the great bulk of tho pi'oceods coming from the Royal Sussex Lodge 353 ( Winshill ) ,
from which Bro . G . T . Wright P . P . J . G . W . brought £ 161 12 s , and the Worshipful Master , Bro . W . J . Booth , fifty guineas . Forty and twenty guineas respectively are set down to the account of Bros . W . L . Ball , of the Repose Lodge 802 ( Derby ) , ancl Percy Wallis , St . Oswald 508 . From Staffordshire also we witness a decided mark of
progress , the total being £ 216 5 s , against £ 35 14 s last year . It is our invariable custom to report well of this Province , whose generosity is not confined merely to this or the other deserving object , and although on the present occasion only two out of its twenty-one Lodges appear on tho list , yet the
result is one upon which our brethren in the Potteries are to be complimented . Bro . W . Bayliss , as the Worshipful Master of the St . Matthew ' s Lodge 539 ( Walsall ) , who is also a Vice-President of the Institution , brought up £ 183 15 s . Some error appears to have crept into
the Steward s list as representing Lodgo 637 , which is down for £ 32 lis . * No doubt this trifling mistake , which makes no difference in the amount , will be rectified , and the Brother , who is entitled to his "just due , " will receive it in formal manner . Eighth in the order of precedence
comes Hants and the Isle of Wight , which also presents a very bulky improvement npon its last year's list . Four Stewards were sent up by the thirty Lodges , Bro . T . Benham Provincial G . Pnrst . being the bearer of fifty guineas from the Panmure
Lodge 723 at Aldershot ; Bro . J . E . Le Feuvre , Prov . G . Secretary , of £ 81 18 s from the Southampton Lodge 130 ; Bro . A . Barfield Worshipful Master of Medina Lodge 35 ( Cowes ) , fifteen guineas ; and Bro . John Harrison , Prov G . S . W ., £ 23 2 s for the Carnarvon Lod {? e 804
( Havant ) . From North Wales and Salop , with its twenty-five Lodges , were sent up five Stewards , who amongst them brought up a total of £ 150 19 s as against £ 169 ls last year ; but the Eastern Division of the Province was not represented at this Festival . The
Secretaries invaiiably look , and never in vain , to Warwickshire for a substantial modicum of aid ; and last year , we remember , that of all the twenty-six Lodges in the Province the name of only one was absent . By a singular coincidence this year only one was present , namelythe
, Temperance , 739 , from which Bro . J . C . Biermas brought £ 147 10 s . This is considerably below last year ' s contribution , but the invariable generosity of our Warwickshire brethren forbids any odious comparison .
Oxfordshire comes next , with £ 141 15 s , which is nearly double the sum we had to record in 1878 . Of its eight Lodges five put in an appearance , headed as usual by the Apollo University No . 357 , which entrusted to Bro . the Rev . H . A . Pickard , one of the newly appointed Grand Chaplains ,
£ 28 7 s . Bro . James Mace Dormer , of the Alfred Lod ^ e 340 ( Oxford ) , follows , with twenty guineas ; Bro . John Potts , of the Cherwell 599 ( Banbury ) , with eighteen guineas ; and Bro . T . B . Brown , of the Marlborough 1399 ( Woodstock ) , with ten guineas . There is another list promised , by Bro . Thos . E . Withington , of the Churchill
Lodge 478 ( Oxford ) , which will of course go to still further increase this year ' s contribution from the University county compared with that of 1878 . Somersetshire , by two out of
its nineteen Lodges , sent up £ 133 8 s , of which sum the Worshipful Master of the Agriculture Lodge 1199 , Bro . C . L . F . Edwards , furnished £ 97 13 s , and Bro . T . E . Jelley , of the Royal Clarence 976 ( Bruton ) , £ 35 15 s . This
* We havo been informed that the pnblished name of the Steward tor Lodge No . 637 is wrong . It was represented at tho Festival by Bro . J . W . Thomas P . M . P . G . S . B ., and not bv Bro . R . N . Howard ns
therein recorded . The amount of the list , according to a letter we have received from Bro . Thomas , was £ 33 lis 0 d , but as ho describes it as incomplete , we may , before the end of the year , look for an additional sum from this source .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
county has always consistently discharged its duty to tho Charities , and it is consequently needless to re Cer at greater length than we have already often done in the pnst to its various aids to the Masonic Institutions . Durham ( twentyfive Lodges ) is represented by Bro . Charles Sherriffe Lane ,
Worshipful Master of tho Hai-bour of Refuge Lodge 764 , into whoso omnium gatherum the brethren had this year placed £ 134 4 s . Sussex follows next , with £ 128 Is , an increase of something like ten pounds over last year ' s instalment , tho representative of the Province on this
occasion being Bro . Benjamin Bennett , of tho Royal Brunswick Lodge 732 ( Brighton ) . Middlesex is behindhand compared with its previous efforts , five Lodges only making up a total of £ 132 7 s , or about £ 80 less than at the Festival of 1878 ; and there is also a slight falling off
in the amount from Suffolk , which is represented this year by the Right Hon . Lord Henniker , P . G . W ., with £ 112 7 s against his name . Essex is the last Province on tho list which claims inclusion in the "hundred pound contributors , " just exceeding that qualification by £ 3 7 s Gd .
Last year it was a great deal more than double that sum , which is remarkable considering the impetus which tus lately been given to Masonry in that Province ; but perhaps the brethren have had other calls , to which AVO know they are not slow to respond . Coming to tho eleven Provinces
whose lists did not run into three figures , tho first to receive attention is Surrey , which , after its gallant effort for £ 205 16 s last year , has relapsed into a lower form with only £ 97 2 s Gd . This may appear slothful in comparison with previous exertions , bnt , as wc recently pointed out , thero is
no reason •to complain of what has boon done by our brethren south of the Thames . West Lancashire , represented by throe of its Lodges , comes next , with £ 79 16 s ; ancl East Lancashire ( four Lodges ) , with two subscriptions of ten guineas each , by Bros . T . Hargroaves , of the Amity
Lodge 283 ( Haslingden ) , and J . Chadwick Mather ; but thero aro lists to come in , so far as tho Eastern Division is concerned , from tho Friendship 41 , St . John ' s 221 , and Affability 317 ; and from the West we aro promised a list , per Bro . Sylvester Mattlnson , representing
the Liverpool Dramatic Lodgo 1 G 09 . Thore is no knowing what theso brethren can do if they try ; and it woro vain therefore to make any speculation on so ex parte a case .
Last year the Provinces sent up £ 315 15 s and £ 57 5 s respectively ; and when wo recollect the splendid achievements of West Lancashire in 1 S 76 and 1877 , and also that East Lancashire has an Educational Establishment of its
own , wo must not expect too great things in the present condition of trade , especially in tho groat manufacturing districts . Devonshire seldom fails to be represented , and this year its " dumpling " consists of £ G 8 5 s , entrusted to Bro . J . Edward Curteis , of tho Sincerity Lodge 189 ( East
Stonehouse ) . This is a long way astern of last year ' s contribution ; and our rosy-cheeked brethren in the South-west must be a little moi * e " dapper" in future if thoy wonld maintain their credit as tho second largest county . Lincolnshire makes a leap from sixteen guineas to £ 64 Is ,
Bro . William Pollitt , Worshipful Master of St . Albans Lodge 1294 ( Grimsby ) contributing £ 53 lis , and stalwart Bro . W . H . Roberts , who presides so genially over the Pelham Pillar 792 , in tho same noted fishing port , stands for a donation of ten guineas . Leicester ancl Rutland
follows iu order , with forty guineas , sent through the trusty hands of Bro . George Toller jun ., and this must bo considered an improvement on last year's blank return . We are glad to see Bedfordshire awaking to a sense of its duty , and we regard the : 638 17 s brought up by Bro .
R . B . Smith , on behalf of the Stuart Lodge 540 , as an earnest of better things to come . Monmouth , through Bro . William Watkins , Treasurer of the Albert Edward P ^ . ico of Wales Lodge 1429 , contributes £ 37 16 s , sh-vfc of a quarter of its last year ' s quota ; whilst " little Herts , "
of whose liberality none can find fault , sends £ 25 , through Bro . Stephen Austin , Worshipful Master of tho Hertford Lodge 403 . Last , and least , comes Cheshire , with a ten guinea donation , presumably from Bro . John J . Cunnah , of the Independence Lodge 721 ; but it must be recollected that here also there is a Provincial Educational Institution
to looked after ; so that the smallncss of this year ' s subscription must not bo regarded as an index of the charitable sentiments of the brethren of the thirty-six
Lodges of which this Province is composed . Having so recently given a copious analysis of what has been done by tho various Lodges in London and tho country for tho Masonic Institutions , wo doom it