The Recent Elections.

THE RECENT ELECTIONS .

THE Quarterly Court of tho Royal Masonic Institution for Girls was held at Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday last , when after the ordinary business of tho meeting had been transacted , the Governors and Subscribers proceeded

to the election of fifteen from an approved list of twentyeight candidates . We have already noted the distribution of these candidates as among the several sections of the Craft . Ten of them hailed from London ; Hants ancl Isle

of Wight sent up three ; Devonshire , Essex , Wilts , ancl West Yorkshire two each ; and Cambridgeshire , Northumberland , East Lancashire , Suffolk , Kent , Staffordshire , and Somersetshire one each . Of the London girls exactly

onehalf obtained vacancies , while ten of the eighteen Provincial completed the list . The first , second , and third places were secured by the former , L . M . Anscombe being first with 2064 votes , E . J . March second with 2 011 , and

E . M . Penny third -with 1857 . We mnst congratulate them on their success , for this was their first and only chance of obtaining admission into the School . No . 4 was a Suffolk girl , E . M . A . Townsend , who to a score of 305

votes from the election last October , polled 1508 additional , making a total of 1813 . No . 5 , S . H . M . Tippler , from Essex , was a first and last application , and secured 1614 votes , while No . 6 , G . L . Smith , of London , also secured

her admission at her first attempt with 1497 votes . No . 7 , A . C . Corps , Kent , was not very far behind , as she obtained 1461 votes , while A . A . Allison , Northumberland , with 364 to her credit from October last , increased her

total to 1425 . The East Lancashire candidate , L . Williamson ,-was likewise a candidate last October , when she polled 532 . The further support of her friends yielded 844 additional votes , so that tbo total of 1376 carried her

well on to the ninth place . No . 10 , G . B . Balcb , Somersetshire , ancl No . 11 , Minnie Wedgwood , of Staffordshire , polled 1302 ancl 1264 votes respectively , the next in order , E . M . Foxall , being twelfth with 1259 votes . One

of the West Yorkshire candidates , Florence James , obtained the thirteenth place with 1 , 221 votes , and the other stood fifteenth with 1163 votes , the Devon candidate , U-A . Hawle , taking the intermediate position with 1209 tes

vo . All these , from No . 10 inclusive , were first application cases . So much for the successful candidates , which , having regard to the number , were fairly well distributed between the Metropolis ancl the Provinces . Of the ""¦ successful candidatesNos . 16 ancl 17 with 1125

, , , and 1025 votes to their credit respectively , hailed tl'om London . Tho second Essex candidate , E . Deacon , who had 314 votes to the good from three

prcyyuB elections , raised her total to 819 . Unfortunately , "s was a final application , ancl her name therefore will W-, ?°Tcd from bhc list No 19 > L ' * S - Shrapnel , Wiltshire , polled 492 votes , but as she is not yet nine J ars 0 f aCj t [ ici . 0 scveKl ] chanceswhich her / J CtlU OU Ul LU l \ 1

g arc more , rj . " O ^ J UHV . V V . UVLU JLICHKJUO , HUiUU lit !! y'ovince will no doubt turn to the best account . No . 20 , £ ^ Walters , London , polled 310 votes . No . 21 , E . M . arker , of Cambridgeshire , though this was her sixth and

t *» - apphcation , scored only 176 votes , of which 92 stood tli * Crec ^ fr ' om her previous attempts . Her name , j reiore , will disappear from the list . A . G . Cleaver , ^ « on , nine years old , obtained 173 votes , ancl Edith

n , ° , ' Devonshire , 110 votes . The latter has yet one ! o chance of securing admission , as sho will not be e < Jr i years old ti ] 1 November . Of the five remaining delates , No . 24 , London , polled 79 votes , and Nos . 25 ,

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26 , and 27 , all hailing from the Province of Hants and Isle of Wight , obtained 45 , 19 , and 6 votes respectively Tho first ancl second of this trio have now made three , and the third , two attempts , to gain admission , and they are fortunately young enough to be permitted to try again .

The last on the poll , a Wiltshire girl , M . L . Gano , obtained two votes , but doubtless her friends will exert themselves to an appreciable extent at some future election , as she will be elig ible for admission till the October election 1883 . We do not know that any further xemai-ks need be added ,

beyond the expression of our regret that the two last cases should have failed . It is always regrettable when a young girl ' s hopes of admission into the School are thus destroyed . There now remain eleven from the list of last Saturday who are eligible to try in October next , and several of them will have still further chances allowed

them . The Quarterly General Court of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , was held in the Great Hall at the Freemasons' Tavern , on Monday , 11 th inst ., when ^ on the completion of the business described in our Advertisement

columns last week , twenty pupils were elected from an approved list of seventy-two candidates , the original number of seventy-six having been reduced by three withdrawals , and one removal . Of the twenty thus elected , the admission of two of them has been made conditional on

the result of the further inquiries which have been ordered . Of the seventy-two candidates nineteen belonged to London ; Hants ancl the Isle of Wight sent up five ; Durham four , East Lancashire , Kent , ancl Middlesex three each ; Cumberland and Westmoreland , Devon , Dorset ,

Essex , Lincolnshire , Norfolk , North Wales ancl Salop , S . Wales West Division , Warwickshire , and West Yorkshire two each ; Beds , Berks and Bucks , Cambridgeshire , Cheshire , Gloucestershire , Guernsey , Herts , Hong Kong , N . and E . Yorkshire , Northumberland , South Africa ,

Staffordshire , Surrey , West Coast of Africa , ancl West Lancashire one each . Eight of the successful candidates hailed from London , and the remaining twelve were Provincial ; or , having regard to the number of attempts each had made , one had been a candidate at four previous

elections , four at three , two at two , ancl four at one election , while the other nine succeeded at the very first attempt ; it being in the case of one of these nine , a first ancl last ballot , for had he not succeeded in winning a place , his namo must have been removed from the list . The two who obtained

the first and second places were London candidates , A . Allan with 910 votes to his credit from last October polled 802 more , ancl secured the hig hest position with a total of 1712 , while G . A . March at his first trial obtained 1676 , ancl the next highest place . No . 3 , one of the two

candidates from West Yorkshire , was an applicant for the first time ancl polled 1665 , W . W . Lucas , who stood fourth with 1656 votes , being one of three East Lancashire lads , and also a candidate for the first time . W . H . Woollons , from the Province of Hants and the Isle of Wight , had 803 votes

to his credit as the accumulated result of four previous ballots . On Monday he increased his score to 1644 and thus secured the fifth vacancy . No . 6 , E . C . Rocke of London , aud a candidate for the first time , scored 1623 votes ; while No . 7 , W . L . Wilson , South Africa , with a

credit of 1238 votes from three former attempts , received 374 addition ^ , making his total 1612 . Next in order is the name of L . L . Whiteley , an Essex candidate , for whom 1575 votes were cast at this his first trial ; F . R . Bladon , Berks ancl Bucks , with 742 from last October , increasing his poll to 1570 , and H . J . Tink , one of the two