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£ 535 12 s ; and to the Boys' School £ 831 6 s 6 d : total up to last Wednesday £ 1 , 896 lis 6 d . A fourth home county next claims our attention , namely , Middlesex , which , as last year , has thirty-two Lodges on its roll . This time it sent up ten Stewards , and the

receipts from eight of them amount to £ 356 8 s 6 d . Last year it raised £ 1 , 212 10 s , namely , for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution £ 408 2 s , for the Girls ' School £ 408 6 s 6 d , and for the sister Institution at Wood Green £ 396 Is 6 d . In 1875-81 it subscribed £ 2 , 063 5 s to

the R . M . B . I ., £ 3 , 293 3 s 9 d to theR . M . LG ., and £ 2 , 034 8 s to the R . M . I . B . Thus the total for the lasfc eight years , namely , £ 8 , 959 15 s 9 d has now reached within £ 40 and a fraction the handsome sum of £ 9 , 000 . In these days of rapid communication the transition

from Middlesex to East Anglia is the work of a few moments only , and we find one of the sixteen Lodges located in Norfolk , the county of the bloater and the turkey , contributing towards the necessities of our aged brethren and widows a modest thirty guineas . However , in 1882 ,

it raised altogether a little over £ 201 , of which rather more than half found its way into the coffers of the Girls ' School . In 1875-81 its subscriptions amounted to £ 1 , 510 16 s , namely , £ 448 10 s to the Benevolent , £ 429 8 s to the Girls ' , and £ 632 18 s to the Boys ' . Norths and

Hunts , ten Lodges , has done capitally , the list handed in by its representative , Bro . R . H . Griffin , realising £ 221 8 s . Though nofc as often represented as some other Provinces , it does well at times , especially when it is a question of supporting the Institution of which Bro . Terry , one of its

Past Provincial Grand Officers , is the Secretary . Nottinghamshire has thirteen Lodges , and its representative , Bro . S . G . Gilbert figures for £ 190 . Like Norths and Hunts , it " comes down with the dust" whenever it sends up representatives . Oxfordshire , with four Stewards , acting for

four out of its eleven Lodges , has given on this occasion jnst a little over £ 100 . Last year ifc subscribed £ 176 18 s to the Benevolent , £ 149 2 s for the Girls ' , and £ 78 18 s 6 d for the Boys ' , or , in all , £ 404 18 s 6 d . In 1875-81 it raised £ 2 , 176 2 s 6 d , making a total to date of over £ 2 , 581 .

We submit this especially to the notice of the brethren in Cambridgeshire . The twenty-four Lodges of the Earl of Carnarvon ' s Province of Somersetshire give in this instance fifty Guineas . Last year it helped " Our Bovs " to tho extent of £ 118 13 s , but in 1875-81 the Benevolent

received from it £ 525 3 s , the Girls' School £ 1 , 041 12 s ; and the Boys' £ 1 , 033 2 s , total for the Septennial period £ 2 , 599 17 s , and to date £ 2 , 771 . Staffordshire , with twenty-six Lodges , figures for £ 57 15 s , per Bro . T . Mount Humphries , of the Walsall Lodge , No . 539 ; but in 1882 it

subscribed £ 616 17 s 6 d , of which the Schools received £ 289 16 s ( Girls' ) and £ 300 16 s 6 d ( Boys' ) , the modest balance of £ 26 s 5 s being handed over to the Benevolent . During 1875-81 , it contributed to the Benevolent £ 751 2 s ,

to the Girls' £ 1 , 346 17 s , and to the Boys' £ 985 8 s , making in all for that period £ 3 , 083 7 s , and up to Wednesday last within sixpence of £ 3 , 758 . Suffolk , with twenty-one Lodges , gives as the result of two out of its three Stewards ' lists £ 166 2 s 6 d . Its contributions in 1882 amounted to

£ 311 15 s , for 1875-81 to £ 1 , 991 9 s 6 d , making a total to date of close on £ 2 , 480 . This speaks well for the influence of its popular Prov . Grand Master Lord Waveney , and his Deputy Bro . Rev . C . J . Martyn Past Grand Chaplain . The remaining home county , Surrey , as the Chairman ' s

Province , very properly takes the lead among the Provinces , its total of £ 905 14 s representing somewhat over one-sixth of the whole contributed by the non-metropolitan section of the Craft . Including General Brownrigg and a Steward for one of its Chapters ( No . 1395 ) ,

it sent up twenty-two Stewards , so that twenty of its twent y-six Lodges were directly represented , and doubtless all lent a hand in order to swell the general total . Even the Arnold Lodge , No . 1981 , though only consecrated in December lastcontributed a modest twenty guineas . In

, 1882 it raised £ 494 15 s , of which the Girls' received not far short of one-half . If we add to these figures £ 1 , 783 2 s 6 d , the sum for 1875-81 , we arrive at a total for the last

twentyfive Festivals of close on £ 3 , 184 . Surrey has good reason to be proud of its latest achievement of Wednesday , as well as of the regularity of the support it gives to our three Charities .

It is but a single step from Surrey into the neighbouring bount y of Sussex , and there we find the honour of the Province well sustained ; the Derwent Lodge , No . 40 , Hastings , per Brother Charles A . Duke , and the Royal

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York , No . 315 , Brighton , per Brother W . H . Gibson , each contributing a hundred guineas , or together £ 210 . In 1882 ifc contributed £ 162 9 s to the R . M . B . I ., £ 577 10 s to the R . M . I . G ., ancl £ 179 lis to the R . M . I . B ., or together £ 919 10 s . In 1881 it raised for the three Festivals in the

order of their occurrence , £ 175 Is , £ 105 , and £ 771 15 s , the last being in honour of the Boys' School , held in the Pavilion , Brighton , the result for tho year being £ 1 , 051 16 s . It has only missed two of the last twentyfive Festivals , namely , the Benevolent in 1875 , and that of

the Girls' School in 1876 , while its total contributions since 1875 inclusive , to date , amount to £ 4 , 878 16 s . Warwickshire has thirty Lodges , of which two , both hailing from Birmingham , have given between them £ 57 15 s . Last year it raised for " Our Girls " £ 810 10 s , and for " Our

Boys" £ 187 19 s , or together £ 998 9 s . For 1875-81 it raised £ 4 , 965 15 s , of which £ 3 , 215 12 s 6 d was for the Boys' School ; total to date , in round figures , £ 6 , 022 . Wiltshire , though it has but ten Lodges , is a very active Province , and contributes , per Brother Surgeon-General T .

Ringer £ 50 Is . In 1881 it raised £ 307 2 s , and in 1875-81 £ 2 , 001 2 s , or altogether £ 2 , 358 5 s , giving an average of close on £ 236 per Lodge . Worcestershire , with eleven Lodges , or but one in excess of the preceding Province , sends up £ 218 13 s , the senior Kidderminster and junior

Worcester Lodges , with the Lodge at Stourbridge , dividing the credit among them . In 1882 it figured for £ 387 9 s , the chief recipient being the Benevolent and the Boys ' School . In 1875-81 it raised £ 1 , 254 15 s , making a grand total to date of £ 1 , 860 17 s , all of which has been subscribed since January 1879 .

There remain only North Wales and Salop and the two Yorkshire Provinces in order to render our survey complete . For fche first named a Chapter does duty , and the amount of its list is £ 52 6 s , but last year its twenty-seven Lodges gave £ 537 0 s 6 d , of whioh the Girls' School , in May ,

received £ 352 10 s . These , with the £ 1 , 587 Is 6 d raised in 1875-81 , make a total of some shillings in excess of £ 2 , 076 . North and East Yorkshire , with twenty-seven Lodges , gives £ 29 13 s . Last year it subscribed £ 645 2 s , and in 1875-81 £ 1 , 713 4 s , making to date within a shilling of

£ 2 , 388 . Its great achievement was in 1880 , when itsupported Right Worshipful Bro . the Earl of Zetland , its Prov . Grand Master , with the very handsome total of £ 855 4 s . West Yorkshire , sixty-six Lodges , has added to its former lists of subscriptions and donations the sum

of £ 450 , the Stewards acting on its behalf being fifteen in number . In 1875-81 , ifc subscribed to the Benevolent £ 6 , 426 15 s , to " Our Girls , " £ 4 , 748 13 s , and to " Our Boys " £ 3 , 461 9 s , or together £ 14 , 636 17 s . In 1882 ifc

added to this total £ 1 , 635 5 s , making in all , for the eight years , £ 16 , 272 2 s . Its present contribution of £ 450 raises this still hi gher , to £ 16 , 722 2 s , making an average per Festival of little short of £ 670 . We will not mar the

effect of these splendid figures by offering any comment whatever . They serve to emphasise our sketch of the work done more pointedly than any remarks of ours could possibly do .

Sociality And Benevolence.

SOCIALITY AND BENEVOLENCE .

rriHE great truths promulgated by our Ancient and ¦* - Honourable Institution are those which give the mosfc unstrained liberty , without licence , the greatest freedom for the exercise of thought and action , in the grand effort to render ourselves " more extensively useful to our

fellow creatures . " No other society on the face of the earth practises to so eminent a degree the attributes of peace and goodwill , or exemplifies with such fidelity the splendid precepts of human kindness and beneficence . The

man whose aspirations to enrol himself under the banner of our Order are rig htly founded is impelled to them by a purity of motives which is nearly allied to the holy and divine . He seeks to make no capital by the enterprise ,

either personal or pecuniary , but is actuated simply and solely by impulses of a social and benevolent character . Upon the first branch of the subject , then , let a word be spoken upon the effective means which Freemasonry

supplies of bringing into social contact men of various grades , and in many walks of life , who , but for its influence and tbe kindling of sentiments of amenity and good fellowship , would have remained altogether and for ever unknown to each other . A man when he enters Freemasonry places