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" - "dpHE adjourned meeting of the General Committee of this Iostitu-J- tion was held on Saturday last , at Freemasons' Hall , under the presidency of Bro . the Earl of Euston P . G . M . Norths and Hunts , Chairman of the Provisional Management Committee . Among others present were Bros . C . F . Hogard , J . L . Mather , Major A . B . Cook , F .

Mead , 0 . H . Webb , G . P . Gillard , Rev . R . Morris , M . A ., LL . D ., A . Durrant , G . Gregory , W . M . Stiles , W . W . Morgan , A . E . Gladwell , IJ . Kaufmann , John Barnett jnn ., W . Smith , Stanley Attenborongh , G . Bolton , H . Dickey , S . Leith Tomkins , Richard Eve , H . Algar , John Pollard , W . A . Scurrah , Georgo Pluoknett , W . Masters , E . G .

Harewoud , Robert W . Bourne , W . F . Smithson , C . Greenwood , W . H . Saunders , J . C . Hopwood , J . Moon , G . Cooper , Jas . Stevens , Joseph Tanner , George Miokley , M . A ., M . B ., S . Richardson , E . E . Brown Kidder , A . M . Cohen , G . Corbie , F . W . Ramsay , M . D ., J . S . Cumberland , W . H . Perryman , John Jones , H . Massey , Joseph D . Langton ,

aud Fredk . Binckes ( Secretary ) . The Earl of Euston read tho further report of tho Provisional Management Committee , as follows : — " Tho Provisional Committee report that they have conferred with Bro . Binckes on the terms of his retirement , and have arranged that he shall retire from the office of Secretary afc the end of

tbe present year ( 1889 ) npon a retiring allowance of £ 3 oO per annum for life . They recommend that this arrangement be carried out , aud the necessary notices given under the laws of the Institution for this purpose , and thafc this Committee bo empowered to take the necessary steps to carry into effect the arrangement

with Bro . Binckes . The Provisional Committee further recommend that the salary of any future Secretary shall not commence with a sum exceeding £ 300 per annum . " That , Lord Euston said , was all his Committee had to report tbat day for the Committee to como to a resolution upon . Bro . J . S .

Cumberland inquired if the Committee had considered tbe subject of the Secretary's salary , in connection with tbe granting him a pension after service . Lord Euston thought that subject was not for consideration on the present occasion . Bro . Cumberland was glad of this . Still , he thought ifc should be an instruction to the Committee to

consider whether a Secretary shonld be entitled , after having served tho Institution for years , to a pension . Bro . W . A . Scurrah suggested before proceeding the meeting ought to have the minutes read . He understood that the meeting of the 3 rd inst . was to be only a formal meeting , consequently a great many brethren stayed away . Bro . John Jones said tint Bro . Plucknett was in the chair on the

3 rd inst . ; it was a regular meeting . Tho minutes were read and confirmed , and there was a general understanding that there was nothing to be done but tho passing of the minutes , and he did not think it wa * right to roud the minutes again . Bro . Cumberland said if the minutes weie agiin read would it uot be openi . g up a p * eced nt ?

I ' , wns recog'iisol trrili th- * meeting of the 3 rd inst . would hnve to bo adjourned , » "d that only 'lit * minnt's would bo read . He vv . ii * sure that if Lord Euston thought the minntes ought to be read he would have suggested it . Some discussion now arose us to the qualification which was necessary for brethren to attend tbo meetings

of the General Committee , aud several of those present were declared ineligible to attend , and as a consequence had to leave the room . Bro . Cumberland then formally moved tho adoption of fche report from the Provisional Committee . - Ifc gave him great pleasure to make thia motion , for more than one reason . First of all , Bro . Binckes

had performed very valuable services to the Institntion . He did not care much for remarks made outside ; he looked more to the services rendered •and he hoped the time was far distant when the brethren would forget what any brother had dono to help the poor children nnd tho Schools . Bro . Binckes had been the pioneer of the Masouic

Institutions . Surely after the report they had received from tbe Investigation Committee , all the sins of omission and commission wero not to be charged upon the shoulders of Bro . Binckes . If fche Houso Committee had allowed him a little more latitude than ho ought to havo had , it was nofc so much his fault as theirs . He went

further : if Bro . Binckes had done a little bit wrong , was there any brother in the room who , during his life , had not done wrong ? He ought not fco be persecuted because , by some mischance or other , he had done something or had said something which had not met with fche approval of all the brethren . Bro . Binckes had worked verv

hard for the Institution . He had brouehfc it to a state of great prosperity , aud after so mauy years' service they ought not to U t him go without some recognition of his services . He had very grent pleasure in proposing thafc the recommendation of the Provisional Management Committee be accepted , and he sincerely trusted his

proposal would be well received . Bro . Alderman Harwood ( Bolton ) , Chairman East Lancashire Charity Committee , seconded the motion . Bro . W . A . Scurrah considered the second part of the Report unnecessary . He should move tbat that portion be expunged . Imperfectly agreed with the recommendation that the salary of the

future Secretary should not be more than £ 300 a year , but he maintained that fche power of electing fche Secretary waa not in the Provisional Committee . They might do what they liked in the wav of recommending , but the election of Secretary was iu the hands of a General Committee . All that the Provisional Management Committee

had fco do iu this respect was to report to the General Committee . Bro . Richard Eve P . G . Treasurer said that part of tho Report was drafted by himself , and it , in his opinion , met all the difficulties . Ifc was necessary that some one should take steps and pub everything in trim . When it was requisite to call the brethren together who

wore entitled to voto at the election of Secretary it was necessiry thafc advertisements and notices should be issued . All those would bo submitted to a body thafc had the power to elect , and that body was the brethren now present . But ifc was neccs-mry thafc the

Provisional Committor should take preliminary steps to see that a brethren in England should have an opportunity to come in and oft '» r their services , and tho Provisional Committee wanted the fullest opportunity to lot themkuow ; therefore , they asked to bo the agents a * ' the general body aud nothing , more . For himself , ho ahould be

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happy to bo divested of the power to elect from route sixty , a bundred , or perhaps , three or four hundred , candidates . He only hoped they would elect tho proper man . Bro . Scurrah urged that the Provisional Committee was given the full powers exercised by the defunct House Committee . Consequently they required no farther authority

from the present meeting . Bro . Cumberland agreed with Bro W . A . Scurrah that it was necessary for the Provisional Committ'e to ask for powers of that kind ; the Provisional Committee entirely took tho place of the Honse Committee . Bro . Jones proposed an amendment , that the retiring allowance to Bro . Binckes should be

reduced to £ 200 . Far be ifc from him to say anything against Bro . Binckes * , but , having considered thoroughly the whole position , he could not say justly , as a public official of many years' standing , that the School was what ifc should be . The parish school afc Shoreditch was better than thia School at Wood Green . Bro . Jamea

Stevens , in supporting the original proposal , thought it would be a disgrace to Freemasons to allow Brother Binckes to retire without some recognition of his services in the past . Bnt he wished to ask from what source would the proposed pension be derived ? The Earl of Euston said he believed the Committees of tbe

Insfcifcoton had the power . Bro . Dr . Mickley stated thafc pensions were given iu many Institutions and in private concerns , notwithstanding that tho servants were paid for their work . Bro . Scnrrah , as ore connected with one of the largest hospitals in London , could any that some few years ago an executive officer ab that Institution waa

growing old , and fche Committee of the time , after obtaining counsel's opinion on the subject , granted that man £ 300 a year pension for the remainder of his life . They need not go outside the Boys' School for a precedent . They had a pensioner nt the present time on the list ; there was one in the Girls' School , and one in the Benevolent

Institution . Going outside again , the Commercial Travellers School had pensioned off their Secretary . Bro . Stevens' proposition bad nothing to do with the matter . He should be bub too pleased to do all he could to support the resolution . Bro . Richard Eve said Bro . Philbriek was quite of opinion that the retiring allowance could be

granted , and charged fco the Institution . The motion waa eventually carried . Ifc was announced that Miss Hereon * e , of the Sfc . Anne ' a School , had been elected Matron , aud notice given to Mr . Hall , the Medical Officer , terminating his engagement . The petitions fur placing two boys on the list for next April were con ddered and agre » d

to , and outfits were granted fc ) four former pnpils . Tbe names of Albert Escott , Greenwich ; H . J . Nash , Richmond ; and J . Blyfch , Sfc . John ' s Wood , were added to the Committee . Shortly afterwards the meeting closed ' , after a vote of thanks to the Chairman had been unanimously passed .

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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND THE BOYS ' SCHOOL .

AT the Iasfc . examination for the Degree of Doctor of Science nt fcba University of London only one candidate passed in Mixed Mathematics , namely lt . Bryant , an old pnpil of the Royal Masonio Institution for Boys , and he is fche only man in England who has taken the D . So . in thia branch of the Doctorate . On leaving fche Institution , Mr . Bryant was placed by Dr . Morris under a " Wrangler "

for two years . At the end of this time , Mr . Bryant gained an exhibition ab Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . But the funds afc Dr . Morris's disposal were exhausted , and the youthful aspirant for mathematical honours at Cambridge had to give up the idea of a University career and take to private teaching . Mr . Bryant did uot

give np the idea of taking a Degree , and in 1881 he matriculated afc the London University , and in two or three years afterwards graduated as B . A ., B . Sc . In June 1889 , he took the Degree of D . Sc , uud sent in as his thesis a work on the " Orbit of fcho Comet Sappho . " Dr . Bryant is a fellow of fche Astronomical Society , and has reid several valuable papers at its customary meetings .

The Committee of Management of the Royal Masonio Benevolent Institution held its monthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday , Bro . C . J . Perceval , Vice-President , was in the chair , and was supported by

Bros . W . A . Scurrah , A . H . Tattershall , Hugh Cotter , C . H . Webb , S . C . Haslip , Charles Kempton , W . B . Dim ' cll , Chnrles Daniel , J . J . Berry , W . H . Halberk , S . Brook " , David D . Mercer , A . Mullord , Dr . Jabez Hogg P . G . D ., R . Berridge P . G . D C , H . Driver P . G . S . of W .,

C . H . Bevir , J . S . Cumberland , Hugh M . Hobb . " , and John Mason ( acting Secretary ) . The minutes of tho previous meeting having beeu read aud verified , the death of an accepted widow candidate was reported . A letter

was read from Bro . the Earl of Euston , in which his lordship expressed his very cordial acknowledgments for tho illuminated address of thanks presented to him in recognition of his services as Chairman at the last Anniversary

Festival . The Warden ' s Report for tho past month waa read , and a vote of thanks passed to tho Supreme Council , Ancient and Accepted Rite , for the renewal of their gifts to the inmates of the Institution at Croydon . Applications from two widows to be allowed the half ot' their

late husband ' s annuities were acceded to , and two petitions ( one male and oue widow ) were examined and accepted , and the names ordered to bo entered on the lists of candidates for the election iu May 1890 . A vote of thanks to the Chairman brought the proceedings to a close .