London And The Recent Elections.

LONDON AND THE RECENT ELECTIONS .

THE opinion wo expressed just before the April Elections for the two Educational Institutions , that London was likely to be overmatched by the Provinces at both contests , was fully endorsed by the actual results , although not , perhaps , to the extent we anticipated as more than probable when looking at the elections as events of tho future . As we said at the time , there was a possibility of London

being BO to speak wiped out , so tar as successes were concerned , unless the most strenuous efforts were made by those working on behalf of the Metropolitan candidates . As a matter of fact London secured almost exactly one-third of the vacancies , and the Provinces two-thirds , the actual figures being twelve London and twenty-three Provincial successes ,, with one case successful in which both London and

a Province was interested . This is as fair a division of prizes as has occurred for many a year , but looked at from a strictly give and take point of view it is hardly satisfactory . If the contributions of the two great divisions were analysed we think it would be found that the money has been equally subscribed by London and Provincial brethren ; if anything the London men would show to advantage

as compared with their country mends ; but they have never had an equal share of the benefits , the proportions often being very much stronger against them than was the case at this month's election . London certainly did well—in one sense—at this month's polls , securing the first and second places on the Girls' list , with an aggregate of 7 , 902 votes ; and the first and second on tho Boys ' , with an aggregate

of 6 , 846 votes . Looking at these figures , now that wc have the full returns before us , we find that at both the Girls' and the Boys' elections one-third the votes polled for these first and second successful candidates were unnecessary , or , in other words , six London candidates might have been elected with thc same number of votes as were expended over the four , had it been possible to correctly guage the possibilities on

the two occasions . We will not go so far as to say that a London Voting Association could have accurately gnaged these possibilities , nor Avill wo commit ourselves to the opinion that London would ultimately gain from greater activity and co-operation among its voters , but we believe such would be

the case , and we venture again to press upon the notice of our Metropolitan friends the

necessity that exists for some greater attention to the system of organisation among themselves than at present rules . They need go no further than the two elections of the present month to show what is being lost by independent action , nor do we think it will be very difficult to prove , by the same returns , "what is possible by thorough organisation and unity , and we think that so long as London only secures

London And The Recent Elections.

one-third of the vacancies to be filled on any occasion there can be no harm in , trying what can be done to extend the power of the London votes , with the view of winning a larger proportion of the vacancies which have to be filled through them .

What Masons Ought To Be.

WHAT MASONS OUGHT TO BE .

An Address at a Puhlie Installation of Officers of Saint John's Lodge , No . 1 , at Portsmouth , New Hampshire , 27 th December 1837 , by Bro . John Christie , Past Master , ivho was born in said city , . 14-th August ISO // ., and who died there , 3 rd January 1890 .

aOD , ia His infinite goodnesp , has implanted in the human mind tho germs of tho most wonderful capacities and ennobling virtues ; bufc it is only in tho social state that these can vegetate and be developed . Society

alone furnishes opportunities for exhibiting all thoir beauty and loveliness , those tender affections and charities , which adorn and beautify the mind of man .

Ifc is in social lifo only thafc tho nature of man can bo displayed in its full dimensions and glory . Ifc is in this condition alone that we aro to look for tho evidences of the exalted nature of man . The progress of society has

been gradual . It commenced wifch the most interesting of all relations , thafc of husband and wife ; to these were added that of parent and child ; then followed , in regular

succession , the various relations that subsist bsfcwoen tbe individuals composing families , tribes , kingdoms and nations .

As civilisation has extended her benign and ameliorating influences over tho human race , so in tho samo ratio has knowledge progressed , and the various arts and sciences havo advanced towards perfection . As man , as emerged from

the darkness of barbarism , so has his mental nature become purified , and he has shaken off the debasing off eels of modes of living for their chief object , tho preservation and continuance of fche health and life of the earthly tabernacle , with which Infinite Wisdom has seen fit to connect fcho

human mind in the first stage of its existence . It is in civilised society only that tho powers ancl endowments of man as an intellectual and moral being can , in any good degree , bo discovered and brought into usefnl

operation ; but , for the full development of tho moral mental abilities of man , we must look onward to tbat stage of human existence when tho hright , ' pure , and life-giving beams of fcho glorious Sun of Righteousness shall irradiate

with light divine thc dark recesses of the soul , and wake into active existence all tho latent powers , capacities , affections , and graces , wifch which tho Omnipotent has enriched our moral and intellectual natures . Ifc is in that

state alone thafc the human mind will become tho " garden of the Lord ; " that the true relations which exist between man and bis Maker , between man and his fellow beings

will be fully known , appreciated , and acted upon . This knowledge and moral action , we doubfc nofc , will result 4 in the enjoyment of thafc holiness and happiness fpr . which God has designed His offspring . In the bosom of tho grand divisions of tbe human race into empires and nations , numerous associations have at