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negligent of the interests of our grand Charities . Staffordshire , twenty-three Lodges , sent up two representatives whose lists together amounted to £ 178 10 s , a result we may look upon ns a favourable augury for tho P . G . Mastership of Bro . Major G . Singleton Tudor . Last year it proved

its strength by supporting the Girls' School to the extent of £ 536 lis , Major Tndor being the representative of the Province and Bro . Bayliss of the Province and Lodge No . 539—the St . Matthew , of Walsall . Bro . Pepper ' s list was not stated . After this praiseworthy effort , the support

it could give the Boys' School would naturally be limited , still it sent in £ 36 15 s . In 1879 , the Girls' School was again the most highly favoured , receiving , as it did £ 376 3 s , while the Boys' School had £ 216 6 s . These are proofs , however , of the spirit in which the country of the

Potteries does its work , while there is little doubt the late Earl of Shaftesbury and Talbot must have exercised a strong influence for good , an inflnonco which , to judge from appearances , would seem to havo survived him . Suffolk , twenty Lodges , has three representatives , the total

of its contributions being the very respectable sum of £ 136 19 s . Last year it gave the Benevolent £ 100 8 s , one list being outstanding , tho Girls' School £ 91 7 s , and the Boys' School £ 99 15 s . In 1879 , its lists at the Benevolent totalled up £ 94 2 s , at the Girls ' , by one Steward , it gave

£ 63 , and at the Boys ' , with Lord Henniker acting for it , its contribution was £ 112 7 s . These together make up £ 697 18 s , or as nearly as possible an average of £ 100 each for those seven Festivals . Well done , Suffolk , say we . Wo shall hope to see you repeat your kindly

performance at the remaining Festivals of the year . Surrey , with two of its twenty-two Lodges represented has £ 56 18 s standing to its credit , which is somewhat less than it gave this time last , year , when two of the three Stewards between them made up a total of £ 69 5 s . The Girls ' , in April last ,

were favoured only to the extent of £ 24 3 s , but tho Boys ' School experienced a better fate , the five Surrey Stewards raising among them £ 123 18 s . In February 1879 , the Benevolent received £ 164 lis , the Girls' £ 48 6 s , and the Boys' £ 97 2 s 03 , while the year antecedent the

Benevolent received £ 164 lis , the Girls' £ 48 6 s , and the Boys' £ 97 2 s Gd , while the year preceding , the Benevolent , Girls '; and Boys' received £ 66 18 s , £ 42 10 s , and £ 205 16 s respectively . Wo take the figures as evidence of the favour with which our Institutions

are looked upon in tho Province which has General Brownrigg , C . B ., for its chief . Sussex , with its twenty-four Lodges , has two represented ; the Derwent , No . 40 , of Hastings ; and the Royal Clarence , No . 271 , Brighton . The former list is £ 31 , and the latter £ 141 Is , making

together £ 175 Is , a most useful contribution , and the more creditable that last year at the Benevolent it contributed £ 600 by the hands of Bro . J . H . Scott , its D . P . G . M ., and also found support for our little damsels to the extent of £ 130 4 s , the St . Leonard ' s Lodge , No . 1842 , only founded

in 1879 , having the credit of this achievement , and our Boys' to that of £ 84 i . We will just add as further exemplifying the regularity of its contributions , that in 1879 it raised £ 126 for the Benevolent , £ 231 Is for the Girls ' , and £ 128 Is for the Boys ' , Avhilc in 1878 it found

for the Benevolent £ 84 10 s , £ 29 8 s for tho Girls ' , and £ 118 13 s for tho sister School . Sir W . Burrell , Bart ., M . P ., must be proud of the Province he rules so well . Warwickshire , with thirty Lodges , has only £ 31 12 s at present to its credit , the total of two lists , and there is a

third yet to be handed in . Last year it gave the Benevolent £ 21 , with a list to follow , the Girls' £ 129 3 s , and the Boys' £ 162 10 s . In 1879 one brother did dut y for it , and took up a list of £ 38 17 s at the Benevolent Festival ; £ 380 2 s was the sum total of the subscriptions sent

in from the eight Lodges represented by eleven Stewards at that of the Girls' School , while one representative gave in a list of £ 147 10 s at the Boys' Festival . At the Girls ' Festival in 1878 , one of its Lodges , the Athol , No . 74 , of Birmingham , contributed by tho hands of sixteen Stewards ,

the sum of £ 207 18 s , while five Stewards , acting for four Lodges , gave £ 215 15 s Gd to the Boys' School . Its great success , however , was at the Boys' Festival in 1876 , when its head , Lord Lei gh , presided ; there wen ; eighty-two Stewards , and among them they made up

the grand total of £ 2000 . Onl y two other Provinces remain , save tho one which we reserve for separate consideration as being that with which the Cliairmau of the day is connected . These arc North and East Yorkshire and Jersey . The former sends £ 52 10 s , three-

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fifths of tho sum being on tho list of the Very Rev . Purey . Cast , Dean of York and Grand Chaplain of England . But at the Benevolent Festival last year , when its honoured Prov . Grand Master took the chair , it came forward and loyallv supported him to the extent of £ 855 4 s , which

must bo taken as an eminently satisfactory contribution from a Province with twenty-seven Lodges . Tho Earl of Zetland headed the array with £ 105 , and his Deputy Bro . J . P . Bell , M . D ., took up a list of £ 325 13 s . It Found also a useful £ 70 7 s for the Girls' School , and a Fifty Guinea

contribution to the Boys ' . We take all the greater pleasure in noting this because two or three years ago we considered we should be doing the Province a service if we pointed out that its support of its Institutions should be somewhat commensurate with its reputation . It is

gratifying to learn that such advice has since been acted upon . As regards Jersey , its contribution of £ 214 10 s , all of which , with the exception of £ 21 standing to the credit of Mnjor du Jardin of Yarborough Lodge , No . 244 , Jersey ,

has been raised in the Province by Bro . John Le Cronier , is most useful , and all the more gratifying because we do not look , as a rule , for support from a Province which is so remote from the centre of English Freemasonry .

It only remains for us to offer a few words of congratulation to West Yorkshire on the loyalty with which it supported Sir Henry Edwards . The last Grand Lodge Calendar assigns to this Province sixty-six Lodges , so that in respect of mere numerical strength it stands third on the list of

Provinces , East Lancashire , with ninety-one Lodges , and West Lancashire , with eighty-one Lodges , being first and second respectively . Its Grand Master , Sir Henry Edwards , has once already occupied the chair at a similar Festivalnamely , at that of the Girls' School—when thirty-six

brethren supported him , and the total of their joint labours was £ 707 16 s . On the present occasion its contingent of representatives has been variously stated as 165 and 176 , but whichever it may have been , it is by far the largest body of Stewards that has ever represented either the Metropolis or

a Province . The total of the contributions is £ 3560 , the personal donation of the Chairman being fifty guineas . There is no need for us to say aught by way of praise of

West Yorkshire . It has done its duty nobly . We may , however , give the following table of its contributions to our several Charities since the 1 st January 1875—that is , since the date when the FPEEMASON ' CHRONICLE was established . This table is as follows : —

R . M . B . I . E . M . I . G . R . M . I . B . No . of Amount . No . o £ Amount . No . of Amount . Year Stewards £ s tl Stewards JE s cl Stewards £ s d 11875 16 242 10 0 * 580 17 0 29 815 1 0 1876 26 550 0 0 37 707 16 0 12 339 3 0 1877 30 550 0 0 46 840 0 0 11 766 10 0 1878 39 603 5 0 24 900 0 0 22 525 0 0 1879 18 550 0 0 22 420 0 0 22 400 0 0 1880 18 371 0 0 45 800 0 0 28 450 0 0 1881 657 3560 0 0

£ 6426 15 0 £ 4248 13 0 £ 3295 14 0 Grand Total £ 13 , 971 2 O

This gives the magnificent average per Festival of , in round figures , £ 735 . Wo have now completed our task , and we shall content ourselves with repeating the expression of our hope that tho Festivals of the two Schools will be as successful as has been that of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution .

Wo have l <> . hank Bro . II . T . Lamb , tho well-known Masonic Jeweller , of 5 St . John ' s-sqnare , Clerkenwell , E . G ., for kindly forwarding to us a copy of his price list for the current year . We have move than once had occasion to speak in terms of well-merited eulogy of tho excellence , both as regards quality of material and artistic design , of the jewellery which finds its way into onr Lodges from the

establishment of Bro . Lamb . This price list , besides being qnite a work of art in itself , is a complete summary of the class of work , & c , & c , which ho is prepared to supply , and ia illustrated to the extent of considerably over a hundred different engravings of tho jewels he lifts , in the course of upwards of thirty years , supplied to meet the

ordinary and special requirements of Lodges and brethren . As to the wellvonclied for testimonials to the merit of Bro . Lamb ' s jewellery , which are scattered broadcast throughout the pages of the list , their number is legion . We strongly advise those of our friends who may be on the point of purchasing Masonic regalia or Lodgo furniture to visit this well-known eatablishment in St . John ' s-Bquare .