The Coming Season.

of the three Central Masonic Charitable Institutions , and get the support both of their Lodges and the individual members ot those Lodges in donations to their lists , Masonic benevolence is not likely to suffer any diminution during the coming season , notwithstanding that in the past

season the Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Widows , the Girls School , and the Boys School , have , in subscriptions alone received out of the pockets of the Craft in round figures an approach of £ 60 , 000 . This particular feature—the predominant feature—of the

Masonic Brotherhood , not only has increased in prominence of late years , but it appears to be growing rapidly and to be encouraged by the new Masters , as well as by the old Past Masters of Lodges , and to be taken up and pursued with vigour by novitiates as soon as they learn what the fundamental theories of Masonry lead up to .

The propagation of the Divine theme of charity , and the carrying of it into practical effect aife not likely to be lost sight , of in the new session . The election of twentyfour out of a list of thirty-three girls on nth October , to be boarded , housed , clothed , and educated until sixteen

years of age in the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , and of twenty boys out of a list of twenty-seven , on 12 th October , for the same benefits until fifteen years old in the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , will probably stimulate the members of the Order to render further aid to the

Educational Institutions , while the appallingly long list of decayed Brethren and Widows of deceased Brethren who are seeking for the annuity of £ 40 for the men and £ 32 for the widows given by the Masonic Benevolent Institution will of itself be the mainspring for setting at work the charitable efforts of the Brethren on behalf of this

Association . Among the regular meetings at headquarters which occur in the remaining months of the last year of the nineteenth century are the monthly meetings of the Board of Benevolence on 24 th October ,. 21 st November , and 19 th

December , the Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons on 7 th November , and the Quarterly Communications of Grand Mark Lodge oh 4 th December , and ot United Grand Lodge on 5 th December , at both of which the Prince of Wales will be nominated

for election as Most Worshipful Grand Master , in the latter case for the twenty-seventh successive year , and in the former instance for the sixteenth year . In both the Grand Mark Lodge meeting and in United Grand Lodge , a Grand Treasurer will also be nominated for election in March

1901 . In United Grand Lodge there will be at least two candidates proposed for the high office now , held by Mr . Harry Manfield . The two candidates already known will be Mr . Horace Brooks Marshall , the son of the Grand Treasurer for 1884-5 , and Captain Barlow , both of whom

have attached to their Masonic services a brilliant record of work on behalf of Masonic benevolence . Sheriff Alfred H . Bevan ( Barclay , Perkins and Co . ) , who was Grand Treasurer for 1899-1900 , held the unique position in the annals of Freemasonry of Grand Treasurer of the Craft

of the Royal Arch , and of Mark Masonry in England in one and the same year . Grand Lodge will meet at six instead of seven in the evening in conformity with the motion of Mr . J . Whitaker Burgess unanimously carried on 5 th June and confirmed on the 5 th inst .

A recess of three weeks duration at the end of the

year will intervene m the meeting of Masonic bodies before the remainder of the then current season will be proceeded with , but from the resumption of Masonic work in January 1 9 , the important events of the Quarterly Courts of the Schools , the Festival of the Benevolent Institution in

February , when the Earl of Warwick will preside , the election of Grand Master of the Mark and Craft Degrees in March , the elections to the Schools in April , the annual meeting of the Benevolent Institution and election of annuitants in May , the installation of the Prince of Wales on 24 th April

in the Craft , and on 1 st May in Grand Chapter , the 113 th Festival of the Girls School , with Earl Amherst for President , the installation of the Grand Master in the Mark on 4 th June , and the 103 rd Anniversary of the Boys School on 26 th June , with Mr . W . W . B . Beach in the chair , will

take place before the new Masonic season will be brought to a close . The annual festival of the Benevolent Fund of the Mark Degree will take place in July , and will consequently be out of the season . — " Morning Advertiser , " 28 th September ,

Logic Club.

LOGIC CLUB .

rp HE winter season of this popular Club of Instruction will JL begin to-morrow ( Sunday ) , at the regular quarters , the Cavendish Rooms , Mortimer Street , W ., at 11 . 15 a . m . precisely , when the ceremony of Initiation will be rehearsed by the following Brethren and Officers of the Club : A . G .

Neville M .-E . 2739 W . M , M . Rees W . M . 1584 S . W ., J . H Barnes SW . 2127 J . W ., Robert Manuel P . M . 1196 I . P . M Preceptor , R . D . Cummings P . M . and Sec . 2 i 68 . Treas ., J Percy Fitzgerald P . M . 2168 & c . Sec , R . G . Robinson I . P . M

1531 S . D ., G . Paxton JW . 435 J . D ., Harry Nicholls P . M . and Sec . 2127 D . C ., M . Miroy S . D . 19 I . G ., D . Tovey 2771 Candidate , W . Foxton 19 Tyler . The Musical arrangements are in the hands of the Musical Committee , and a most interesting and instructive meeting is anticipated .

It is not our custom to refer to or in any way interfere in matters unconnected with Freemasonry , but we imagine an exception may be made in the case of the dispute between the Great Eastern Railway Company and their staff , which has been brought to so satisfactory a termination through

the good offices of Bro . John F . S . Gooday . The labour of adjusting so gigantic an issue must have been enormous , so as to deal with fairness to the men and justice to the shareholders , and we may sincerely congratulate Brother Gooday upon the result of his efforts , which averted a very serious inconvenience to the public .

* * * To celebrate the removal of the Burdett Coutts Lodge of Instruction , No . 1278 , to new quarters at the "Admiral Keppel , " Fligh Street , Shoreditch , Bro . Ben DaCosta has consented to work the Fifteen Sections there on Wednesday ¦

evening next , the 10 th inst ., commencing at 7 p . m . He will be supported on the occasion by Bros . D . Moss P . M . 1 349 . P . D . G . S . B . Transvaal as I . P . M ., L . A . DaCosta P . M . 1349 as S . W ., and M . DaCosta P . M . 1 349 as JW . Bro . Jas . Smith P . M . 933 is the Preceptor of the Lodge , and Bro . R . Chitson the Secretary .

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