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Kent 10 399 0 fi Lancashire East 5 67 2 C West 11 311 15 0 Middlesex 4 51 0 0 Norfolk 1 26 5 0 No'tingl-mmshire 2 178 10 o

Oxfordshire 3 46 16 fi Shropshire 7 181 13 0 Somersetshire 1 358 1 o Staffordshire 4 304 10 0 Suffolk fi 258 6 0 Surrey 5 95 0 6 Sussex 4 199 10 0

Warwickshire 2 78 15 0 Wiltshire 1 42 10 0 Worcestershire 2 78 15 0 Ynrkuhiro West 4 ( 5 800 0 0 North Wains 5 109 14 g 8 outh Wales ( Western Division ) 1 136 10 0 Foreign Stations 31 \ Q Q

5752 1 6 London 75 2887 16 6 Unattached 32 497 14 0 The Chairman 52 10 0

£ 9190 2 0 The above figures—which are those given out at the Festival—show a return of sixty guineas below the iotal announced , but as there wore twenty lists

outstanding at the time the figures were given the variation is easily accounted for , while the ultimate result is likely to exceed the announcement , even if it does not run into a five figure return . The above total places the receipts of the three

Institutions for the year at upwards of - £ 33 , 000 ; of which £ 13 , 095 ls 6 d was announced at the Festival of the Benevolent Institution , in February ; - £ 11 , 010 14 s at that of the Girls School , in May ; and now - £ 9 , 253 2 s in connection with the Bovs' School .

These three amounts give a total of - £ 33 , 358 17 s 6 d , but it is not too much to expect that the ultimate result of the appeals made during 1890 will be - £ 34 , 000 , as compared with £ 48 . 443 18 s 3 d in 1889 .

and - £ 32 , 914 ls lOd in 1888 . This latter total is , perhaps , outside the limits of fair comparison , as it includes the special contributions made on the occasion of the Centenary

Festival of the Girls' School , but the total of last year is sufficient to show the terrible falling off there has been in the support accorded to the Charities . We trust the diminution is merely a temporary nintfcer : but there is no Gainsaying the fact that it is

sufficiently serious to call for the gravest consideration . Something more than an effort will be required to make up for the ground lost , and we look forword with considerable anxiety to the future . The

figures given above show the division of the Provincial contributions . As regard the Metropolis , the post of honour was secured by Bro . Warren , of the Nelson Lodge , No . 700 , who collected - £ 241 10 s . Then came

Bro . G . R . Langley , of the Unity Lodge , No . 183 , whose list amounted to £ 189 ; while he in turn was followed by Bro . Nathan Salmon , of the Domatic Lodge , No . 177 , who secured £ 132 6 s . Bro . W . Madge , well

known in connection with some of the principal newspapers of the metropolis , followed on , as representative of the Strand Lodge , No . 1987 , with a list of

£ 126 5 s , which amount will , we believe , be considerably augmented ; while Bro . H . Nelson Price , Viator Lodge , No . 2308 , and Bro . T . C . Sandeman , Friends in Council , No . 1383 , each took up a list exceeding a hundred pounds , the former ' s contribution being £ 107 5 s , and the latter ' s £ 103 19 s .

" After The Turtle."

" AFTER THE TURTLE . "

In giving the health of the Queen the Chairman said her Most Gracious Majesty had many claims on the gratitude of her subjects ; during her reign great prosperity had prevailed . In her social and private life she hud displayed those qualities on which Freemasonry was

founded . He naked the brethren to drink Her Majesty's health , as the grand and munificent Patroness of the Masonic Boys' School , in whoso welfare sho had always shown the deepest interest . The Chairman , in proposing the toast of His Royal Hi ghness the Prince of Wales M . W . G . M ., the President of the Maaonio Institution for Boys ,

" After The Turtle."

said His Royal Highness had plaoed the Brotherhood under grQ ! ^ obligations , as he had given a great impetus to Freemasonry iQ ^ United Kingdom by becoming Grand Master of the Order . AU W * had been iu any way associated with him ia tho discharge of tho duties connected with the office of Grand Master wonld say that he discharged his work in no perfunctory manner . Hia Roy il HighnR „

had presided at one of the Festivals of this Institution , and the g ata 9 might be said of his Royal brother the Duke of Connaught . On both those occasions their Royal Highnesses' advocacy was attonrlcd by very large amount of subscriptions . All the brethren of the Craffc were thoroughly satisfied with the way in which their Royal H * gnnessea performed their duties , and he was sure that they thoronghlv

appreciated the duties of the high station in which God had placed tbem . Lord George Hamilton now said that in the exercise of the discretion whioh was always vested in a Chairman he would interpolate a few words between the toasfc which he had just proposed and tho toast he had next to offer , During the last few days England and Freemasonry had both ex .

perienoed a great loss by the death of that distinguished Statesman and Freemason the Earl of Carnarvon . As this was the last occasion on whioh any body of Freema « ons were able to mako any testimonial of respect to that distinguished man , who to-morrow morning would be laid in his last resting place , he would ask the brethren to drink to hia memory in solemn silence . The Earl of Carnarvon was a

singularly gifted man . His enthusiastic nature , his humanitarian impulses , his life in the past , his great antiquarian lore , the und ying belief which he had in the necessity of every individual ' s contribu . ting to the best of his ability towards alleviating the distress and sorrows that mankind must ever be subject to , made him in every sense the beau ideal of a Freemason . In every capacity he was of the greatest service to the Craft , and when he was appointed Pro

Grand Master by H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , ho brought his great knowledge of affairs and his diplomatic skill in play by bringing to a successful issue negotiations with regard to controversies which were in existence between the Lodges in the Colonies under the Grand Lodge of England aud other Masonio bodies in thoso Colonies . The Earl of Carnarvon ' s career was one of which every man might ha

proud , and every one who followed him to his grave would feel that there might fitly be placed over him the memorial Hequiescat in Honore . He therefore felt he might safely interrupt tho flow of the brethren ' s festivity by asking them to show the last mark of respect which was possible in tho great Masonio body to one whom whilst he was alive they honoured by their confidence , and whom

• now they revered by their respect . The toast was drunk in silence . The Chairman had now to ask the brethren to drink the Health of the Earl of Lathom Depnty Grand Master , the Prov . Grand Masters , and the Present and Past Grand Oflicers . It was a characteristic of a great corporation or Institution that it never died , hut lived on for ever , and if they were lamenting a few minutes ago the departure of

a distinguished Freemason who had done good work , they were able to rejoice afc having associated with them another admirable Freemason who had likewise done excellent work . Tho 3 e annual gather , ings brought home to them this fact , that so far as Freemasonry was concerned , the work went on though the workers changed . In tha Earl of Lathom they had one who was an admirable example of a

worker in the ceremonial and formalities connected with the Craffc , and of one who , by his exhibition of dignity and composure , ex . pressed tho true position of a ruler in the Order . There waa no living Freemason who could conduct himself with greater dignity or propriety during all the ceremonials than tho Earl of Lathom , who set an example and standard which they would all do well to strife to imitate . He associate ! with the toast the name of Bro . Horace

Brooks Marshall P . G . Treasnrer . After a reply from Bro . Brooks Marshall , Bro . F . A . Philbriek G . Registrar proposed the health of the Chairman ; a high honour had fallen to him to propose the health of their brother in the chair . It had been said that the accident of birth was not always happy , but to be born to a name , not merely noble by the rank whioh distinguished it , but ennobled by the

qualities of those who had borne the name in preceding generations , was not always an advantage to him who came in the preseut . The test of being worthy of distinguished ancestry and of shedding lustre on the historic namo was oue which had been amply fulfilled by their distinguished Chairman tbat evening , witb whom tbey knew the hononr of tho country was secure . Notwithstanding the cares of

office , he was able to come down and testify his warm interest in this great Institntion , his participation and active concurrence in those feelings towards it which animated the great Masonio craft . It w » s a great honour to the Institution , and peculiarly honourable to the Chairman . In the County of Middlesex the seed had been sown ; tbo Chairman was a Past Master of a Lodge in that county . The seed

had borne good fruit ; aud they had reason fco be proud of Lord George Hamilton , Past Senior Grand Warden . The Chairman thanked the brethren for the honour they had been good enoug h to pay him , and for the more than kind manner in which Bro . Philbriek was pleased to speak about him and his family . It was quite true that he came , in a sense , from a t * ood Masonio family , for his father of

had the honour for many years of bis life of being Grand Master the Craft in Ireland , and when he died tbe brethren were kind enough unanimously to elect hia brother as his father ' s successor . Qo believed suoh hereditary succession was somewhat rare in the annaw of Freemasonry . He ( the Chairman ) had been unduly promoted ia fche ranks of Freemasonry . He spoke in the presence of many who had done much more than he had done . He was in one sense a

Freemason of ft good many years' standing , for it was many years ag that he was initiated , in a Lodge in Ireland , and ho there took at * * other degrees in a small , humble and poor Lodge , in the north of Ireland ; but during the last two years , surrounded by all tho paraphernalia and splendour of the English Grand Lodge—the great centra administrative body of the United Kingdom—his thoughts h : td often gone back to the humble Lodge and the home in whic h he ktt ""! what little he knew of Freemasonry . He was happy to say tj ge Ireland Freemasonry was carried on in a most fraternal spirit-