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HERTFORDSHIRE . 403 Bro . Col . H . Daniell ... 65 iG 0 15 S 0 „ F . VV . Robinson ... 105 5 o 2054 ,, Maj . » r F . Larner ... 2100 20 SG „ R . E . F . Lander ... iC ii G 2323 „ John Laikin 40 7 o 2372 ,, Dr . VV . P . Warren ... 69 6 o 25 iS „ Charles E . Kevser

( see also Berkshire ) 131 5 0 L'na'tached Bro . VV . J . Crutch

KENT . Lodge 127 Bro . Edwin Crosoer ... 120 15 o 299 ,, W . | . Judge ... 3 < ~ > 1 ^ o 299 „ VV . J . Light 299 ,, VV . Greig ... ... 31 10 o 615 „ VV . H . Keeble ... ' 21 n o 709 » J"hn Oreary ... 2 G 5 o 1223 „ A . VV . Duret ( see

also 17 CS , London ) — Unattached Bro . F . H . Hallett iG 5 C LANCASHIRE ( EAST DIVISION ) . Lodge 34 8 Bro . J . E . Kenyon Unattached Bro . J . Heelis ro 10 o „ C . D . Cheetham ... 10 10 o

LANCASHIRE ( WEST DIVISION ) . Chapter Gi 3 Comp . C . Watson .... 10 10 o Lodge 1051 Bro . Capt . C . H . Garnett 15 15 o 2109 „ T . IhorrihillShann ... 105 o o 210 9 „ *} . H . Wells .. — 2109 „ G . Broadbent

LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND . The Province Bro . H . Howe 2 S 9 16 o

MIDDLESEX . Lodge 70 S „ R . M . Meyer ... 40 17 o 1 G 37 i > J- Bartlett 33 12 o 1897 „ Louis Mantell . ' .. 2100 2536 „ W . II . Gardner ... 73 10 o 2536 „ R . G . Ball 2536 ,, * R . Pot Warner ...

—NORTH WALES . 755 » . . !• ; vrter _ 21 o o 1309 „ David Davies ... 10 10 o 1074 „ T . Coxhead 15 15 o 1 ' nattached Bro . S . Bertsford

NORTHANTS AND HUNTS . Lodge 23 S 0 Bro . A . F . Mulliner ... 10 in o NOTTINGHAMSHIRE . Ixr / ge and Chapter 411 Bro . A . Page 107 12 G

OXFORDSHIRE . Lodge 357 Bro . Harry Collison 599 „ VV . R . (" roper ... 10 10 o 103 ( 1 „ Austin Welb ... 10 12 o

SHROPSHIRE . Bio . Sir Oflley Wakeman , Bart .. P . G . M . ... 63 n o 1621 „ W . L . Southwell ... ¦) 1021 „ Rev . II . K . S . uthwellP °

SOMERSETSHIRE . Prov . G . Lodge . VISCOUNT DUNGARVAN , P . G . M . ( Chairman ) ... 24 G 15 o lodge 41 Bro . C . VV . Rodway ... 63 o o 51 „ Basil A . Dyer ... 107 G o

' 35 „ W . 'T ; Baker ... 45 o o 2 bi „ A . Hammelt 52 10 o 28 5 „ Thomas Paiker ... 44 2 o 291 „ Alfied E . Burnett ... 6 G 3 o tag „ Benjamin Whitby ... 3 6 15 o ¦ 79 „ E . E . Phillips ... 21 4 0 437 „ Rej ! . R . Mulchings ... 42 10 G 44 ° > , E . A . Crosse 31 10 o

SUMMARY £ s . d . Bedfordshire 43 1 o Berksl ire 440 S o Hristol jo 10 o liucldnghamshire ... 52 10 o Cumberland and Westmorland 102 iS o

Derbyshire 297 5 o Dorsetshire ro . 5 o o Durham 330 15 o ft '" ••¦ 324 7 o Woucestershire 44 1 o Hampshire and Isle of Wight 142 5 C

Hertfordshire 449 18 6 « nt ., 2 S 2 10 ( j Lancashire ( East Division ) ... 21 o o ,, ( West Division ) ... 131 5 0 171 STEWARDS—LONDON 152 STEWARDS—PROVINCES 323 GRAND TOTAL

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I 772 Bro . M . II . Stead 18 14 1 , j S 14 „ Arthur Hart ... 31 10 n 973 „ A . G . Hayman > ffi . „ I 973 „ A . H urkelt ... ) S ° 97 G ,, T . O . Bennett ... 11 . 5 10 0 1197 „ H . | . Van Trump ... iKiu „ William Reece ... 31 10 n

¦ 1222 ,, 1 'iancis Blackman ... 100 o 0 ' ' 75 ° „ Henry Amos G 3 o o ' ' 755 n William Rice ... 3 6 15 0 i 1 S 3 j ,, David Stallworthy ... 63 o o 1 ' 953 ,, G . Bailey Toms ... G 3 o o

i 19 G 6 ,, J . S . Haddon j 2390 ,, Walter Ludlow I Unattached Bio . R . CJi ' s ? , D . P . G . M . 138 : •o ! „ I . t .-Col . A . T . Pel kins i ' n o o

! STAFFORDSHIRE . ! Lodge I 530 Bro . Alfred Djwsbury ... Sa 5 o

SUFFOLK . 71 Bro . VV . J . Wilton ... 157 10 0 Chapter 71 Comp . Capt . H . W . Ehves 22 1 o Lodge r 14 Bro . Thomas B . Read ... 115 10 o j 305 „ T . A . Woodroffe ... Gi 5 o

37 G „ Thos . Thwaites ... 7 „ , . j 37 G „ Frank Long ... ... J" , 0 ° ! 959 i , W . B . Hansjn ... 53 10 o j Lodge and Chapter ! 100 S Bro . I . Campbell Smith ... 115 10 o I ' 45 2 »> (•W . Brooke ... 50 o «

SURREY . 416 Bro . W . Llewelyan Evans 34 2 o 777 ,, Richard Eve 10 10 o 777 ,, Cha c . Cheel 24 18 6 104 C „ Herbert Sloman ... 21 10 o

19 S 1 „ R . S . Cobden ... 10 10 o 2222 „ John Ellinger ... 40 ig o 2317 „ Chas . F . Passmore ... 25 4 o Unattached Bro . H . M . Hobbs ... 10 10 o

SUSSEX . Lodge 41 Bro . G . H . Cue 3615 o 315 „ W . E . Nash 21 00 73 } „ Joseph H . Smith- ... 63 o 9 916 „ VV . E . Morrison ... 35 13 o mo „ F . B . Sutton 10 10 o

1110 „ Fred . Dive 21 o 0 MC . S ,, John Gray Clarke ... 42 11 G 'C 36 ,, John Wood 21 o 0 1726 „ II . L . Stafforth ... 36 15 o 1 S 21 „ John Sayers 2434 » John Henry Wright 21 o o

WARWICKSHIRE . Lodge 739 Pro . Charles Lamsdale ... ,- Unattached Bro . T . R . Arter in 10 n

YORKSHIRE ( VV . 1 M ; Bro . Rt . Hon . W . L . ~ ] i Jackson , M . P .,

i P . G M . Lodge 154 ,, George II . Parke 290 „ W . Pick Raynor 30 G „ VV . Blarkburn I 810 „ Joseph Hanison j 904 Fred . Cleeves .

„ j 974 „ Edward Linck ' + < ' ° " j . 1102 ,, William Wilson 1231 „ Thos . G . Howell

1239 „ M . J . Dodtvorth r ' 574 » Joe Sykes 2491 „ Jos . Jackman Unattached Bro . H . G . E . Green „ W . F . Smithson j

: MALTA . I Bro . W . E . Cook 36 15 o

j SOUTH AFRICA , 1 Bro . John E . Green ... 10 10 o IF THE PROVINCES . £ s- «' Leicestershire and Rutland ... 2 S 9 16 o Middlesex iGS 19 o North Wales 47 5 o

Northants and Hunts 1010 o Nottinghamshire 107 12 6 Oxfordshire 21 2 o Shropshire 115 10 n Somersetshire 16 54 2 G Staffordshire 89 5 o

Suffolk G 54 iG o Surrey 17 S 3 G Sussex 309 4 G Warwickshire 10 10 o Yorkshire ( W . I ) . ) 441 o o Foreign Stations 47 5 o . . £ 7220 Go ... £ 6893 o o ... £ 14 , 113 C o

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Bio . RICHARD EVE , P . G . Treas ., pioposed "The Chairman . " After Ihe excellent fists which had been announced , the duty that had fallen on n | m was comjaraiively light . His duty was one of a pleasurable character " ~ l ° propce " The Health e f my Lord Viscount Dungarvan , " the President ' •' thee \ enirg . The brethren were delighted to tee his loidship there for lne first lime as the President of ene cf their great Institutions , They were at ihe fad bee at the

^ atifiid icsult which n shown . They noted once fact 'rat St inersetshire had never had a larger sum sent up for any of ihe Instilu licns ihsn lad been ptaced on the list of the Son . eisetshire men who had jome up to suppoit their Right Worshipful Grand Master . ( A pplause . ) ' -ord Dungarvan was a popular head ; he was popular and beloved in his P'ovince , and how Somersetshire Masons supported their Giand Master

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was shown by the results . The brethren congratulated his lordship upon the success of this Festival ; thev felt the thanks of the fraternity were due to him for taking the posit on of Chairman , and as this was the first opportunity he had had of presiding at one of the great Charities of Freemasonry- they trusted it m ' ght not be the l . i > 4 . Lord Dungarvan had done so well that day that they trusted he might exceed himself in all future endeavoilrs to support the great Institutions of the Masonic Order . ;

Bio . Viscount DUNGARVAN , in reply , said there were few more difficult things one had lo do lhan to return thanks when his health was drunk . But first he had to say he was extremely grateful tj the brethren of . his province who had supported him on this occasion—not only because , ' they had beaten the record in the . province to which he belonged , but by coming there in person , for he told them not long ago , nothing wo , ild be more pleasing

to him than to take the chair and to see faces well known and familar to him . He brgged to thank them one and all for the support they had given him . They had heard from Bro . Terry the instance of a Masonic family who had ably supported that Institution . He ( Lord Dungarvan ) was not himself a family man . He did not know whether in his Province such a family existed , but he should use his best endeavours to find out , snd then he shculd do

what a Provincial Grand Master hid a right to do—insist on their supporting the Masonic Institutions . ( Laughter . ) The good example wavworth something , and it in the future he should have membersof his family , he should insist on every one of them being en the list of that Institution . ( A pplause . ) Bro . EDWARD LETCHWORTH , Grand Secretary , said as a member or the Committee of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution who h * d listened

with the greatest delight to the munificent announcement made by their Secretary , Bro . Terry , it afforded him peculiar pleasure to submit to the brethren the next toast . It had been his privilege for IS years to be officially connecud with the members of tbe House Committee of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls . The Royal Masonic Institution for Boys last year did him the great honour of electing him their Treasurer . He had therefore

had peculiar opportunities of forming an opinion of the manner in which these Institutions were conducted , and it gave him the greatest pleasure to testify to the admirable way in which those Institutions were managed , and to the good work they were doing . In their support of the Ro 3 al Masonic Benevolent Institution , the Royal Masonic Insti ution for Girls , and the Rojal Masonic Institution for Boys , they were

animated by one desire—to promote as far as possible the interest of all those Charities ; they had no preference ; they had only a friendly rivalryto do the best they could for all . He could only express the hope that when the time had arrived for the Festivals of the other two Institutions , a success might be achieved equal to that which had been announced that night , and that the l . berality and generosity which had been extended to this maenificent

Chanty might not be withheld from them . Bo . F . R . W . HEDGES , P . G . S . B ., Secretary Royal Masonic Institution for Girts , replied . He said , in rising to acknowledge the kindness with wh ' ch the toast had been received , he trusted he might be first allowed , on behalf of the Bojs' and the Girls' School- ; , to tender to the Benevolent Institution his most sincere and hearty

congratulations on the very splendid amount which had been announced , and which must have relieved that Institution of any anxiety from a financial point of view for the coming 12 months ; and ihe Board of Stewards were mot-t heartily to be congratulated on that highly successful termination to their vt ry arduous labours . He thanked the brethren for the way in which they had that night pledged themselves to the success of the other Masonic

Institutions . He was not for one minute going to ask the brethren to believe tlat either of those Institutions was doing a greater work or a work more deserving of their assistance and sympathy than the Benevolent Institution ; but he did most sincerely say he claimed that they were doing a woik equally good , and equally deserving of the brethren's kind help and support ; and he could only echo the wishes that the prop > ser of that toast

had given utterance to—that when the Festivals of those two Institutions took place they might prove to be in no way behind the glorious result wiich had bet n achieved that evening . They had heard that the Festival of the Boys' School would take place in July , when the Provincial Grand Master for Cheshire would take the chair . He was quite sure that had not Bro . McLeod , the Secretary of the Boys' School , been engaged in attending and

waitii g upon the ladies as Ladiei' Steward in the outer room , he would have leen in the hall to plead on behalf of his Institution . With reference to the GiiU ' , the only priority he ( Bro . Hedges ) was going lo ask was that , as the Festival of that Institution would be first in order of time , they would kindly give that Institution their first consideration and then extend it in equal proportion to theo ; her Institution . The Festival of the Girls' School

would take place on May Sth . when the Deputy Grand Master , the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , Prov . Grand Master for Cornwall , would preside , and he sincerely trusted that having now done the best they could for the Benevolent Institution , they would look towards ihe Girls' and render them an equal support . There was only one other point he felt it his duty to occupy lime upon for a moment , and that was to say that his anxiety had

been somewhat great at present for the success of that festival , and at the present monr . er . t the B . iard of Stewards , or ratlvr the brethren who had enrolled their names as Stewards , were considerably behind the number cf the two preceding years at the same date ; but he was happy to say there was time before them , and he trusted he was not making this appeal in vain , but that the brethren would enable him to enroll such a Board of Stewards as should bring forth such a successful result as they had heard that night .

Bro . J . MoRRiso . v MCLF . OII , Secretary of Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , in answer to loud calls for him , explained that as a Ladies' Steward he should be unable to be in the hall during the evening . As a Steward , he could heartily congratulate the Benevolent Institution on its success . He could only hope it was an augury of good work in the future , and that the Boys and Girls would have equal support .

Bin . A . C . Si'AUi . i ., P . G . S . B ., in a few words proposed " The Stewards , " , 523 of whom were on the list , and who could not have achieved the success they had had that night without very great labour . Bro . R . C . EI . SE , Deputy Prov . G . M . for Somersetshire , President of the Board of Stewards , replied , and said every lodge and chapter in his province was represented .

Bro . Col . ALFRED THRAI . E PERKINS , P . G . D ., proposed "The Ladies-, " and Bro . PARK , replied . The brethren then joined the ladies in the Temple , where a concert was given , under the direction of Bro . Charles E . Tinney , P . M . 1319 , Organist 173 and 1196 . The performers were Madame Claia Leignton , soptano ; Miss Minnie Chamberlain , mez . soprano ; Miss Lena Seymour , contralto ; Bro . William Davies , tenor ; Mr , Fred . Frampton , humorous ;