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Monday ' s SINCE the above was written , and almost on the eve of going Meeting in the ) 0 DreSs , ihe welcome news has reached us that the Princess of Royal Albert " _ " . _ ,,,.. , ., Hiii . WALES , Grand Patroness of the Institution , has graciously intimated her intention of being present at the distribution of prizes on Monday , and that her Royal Highness will be accompanied by the Prince of

WALES , President and Grand Patron . We understand the arrangements , as made already , will not be materially disturbed ; at the same time we feel confident the Committees , the Stewards , the staff , the children—indeed , all interested in the welfare of the Institution—will greatly appreciate the honour done to it by the visit of their Royal Highnesses , and that the Stewards in particular will regard it as a direct incentive to them to put forth still more strenuous exertions on behalf of the Festival on Thursday .

IT is as well we should remind our readers , or , at all events , Committee of the those of them who are Life Governors of the Royal Masonic Boys ' School . inst * ltut j on for Boys , that it is important they should attend the meeting of the General Committee , which will be held at Freemasons '

Hall , at 4 p . m . to-morrow ( Saturday ) . The House Committee of last year , with the addition of Bro . J W ORDSWORTH , of lhe Province of West Yorkshire , in place of the late Bro . EDGAR BowrER , has been nominated for re-election , and having regard to the events which have taken place since the month of January , it is , in our opinion , most desirable for the interests of the Schoolthat the Governors should make it manifest to the Craft

, generally that their confidence in the administrative ability of the late Committee remains unaffected by the discreditable attacks which have latterly been made upon its members , and return them to office by overwhelming majorities . Two other candidates have been nominated , in the interests of what we suppose we must describe as the opposition ; but we imagine lhat no brother in his senses would think of preferring the supposed claims of

these unknown and inexperienced candidates to those of such tried men as Bros . C . BELTON , A . F . GODSON , M . P ., H . W . HUNT , J . L . MATHER , J AMES MOON , T . HASTINGS MILLER , J . OYCE MURRAY , W . PAAS , Dr , RAMSAY , D . ROLLS , and H . VENN , the remaining members of the late Committee , or of Pro . WORDSWORTH , who , as the nominee of the Prov . Grand Master of West Yorkshire , must possess the requisite qualifications

for office , even though he may have had no experience of its duties . Again , and quite irrespective of this recognised inferiority of the two outside candidates , we hold it to be the duty of the electors to return the old members and Bro . WORDSWORTH , who are the representatives of law and order , and will be deterred by no fear of factious opposition from the resolute discharge of their duties . The old members have borne the brunt of the recent

attacks on the Institution , and will know better than any other set of men that might te brought together how to resist successfully any further onsl-iusjhts that may be directed against it . Lastly , if by any mischance either or both of these outside candidates should be elected , it is inevitable that sooner or later dissensions must break out in the House Committee ,

and the intt * re-ts of the School must suffer . For these reasons we trust the friends of the late Committee , putting aside all questions of personal convenience or inconvenience , will make a point of mustering in full force at the General Committee to-morrow ( Saturday ) , and carry their re-election with flying colours .

WHILE on the subject of these attacks on the House Commit-Caiumniator tee and Secretary of the Boys' School , it is our duty to call Abroad . attenti 0 n to a warning from Bro . BINCKES , which appears in

our advertisement columns , and in which that brother , as the official mouthpiece ol the executive authorities , cautions the friends and supporters of that Institution against attaching the slightest importance to a series of statements contained in a circular which has recently been issued anonymously , with a view to bringing as much odium as possible upon the managers of the School and their conduct of its affairs . It is enough for us to state that

a more infamous tissue of untruths , distortions and suppressions of truth , and suggestions of untruth has never emanated from office of printer , and it is in keeping with the contents of this scandalous document that , owing to the absence of any imprint , it will be extremely difficult , if not impossible , to trace the authors and publishers of these foul aspersions on the Committee and officers of the Institution . This fact of anonymous

publication should alone be a sufficient caution to those who have received the circular against accepting any of its statements , or even for a moment imagining there is the smallest grain of truth in any one of them . As for one portion of them , they are conspicuously false ; as for the rest , they have been so twisted and distorted from what in the first instance were plain

unvarnished statements , as to have become more offensive than absolute misrepresentations , and therefore more dangerous to the welfare of the Institution . We shall probably have occasion to refer to this circular again ; but in the meantime we beg to add our word of caution to that of Bro . BINCKES , against accepting as worthy of a single moment ' s belief any one of the statements it contains .

Quebec V. England.

QUEBEC V . ENGLAND .

Bv BRO . J . H . GRAHAM , P . G . M . No . III . England alone of all the regular Grand Lodges of the world , now fourpresses non-concurrence in the claims of Quebec herein before set forth , and bases her objections on the ground that there exist three private lodges of

her institution in the City of Montreal , within the territorial jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Quebec ; and she claims for them , by priority of existence to our said Grand Lodge , the right of continuance at will as lodges of English obedience , and thus perpetuate a Masonic '' imperiam in imperio , " with all its actualities and possibilities .

Now , since the provisions of the Constitutions of the British Grand Lodges exclude from recognition and debar Irom all Masonic privileges every lodge ( and the individual members thereof ) within their respective territories , because not on their " Registries , "—how can England ( or Scotland ) Masonically maintain that the same Constitutional law should not

also apply to all private and Grand Lodges in the " self-governing " Colonies and national Dependencies of the Empire ? Is that which is Masonically right in England wrong in the Colonies ? Should that which does not accord with the ancient Constitutional enactments thereanent be suffered from mere repetition to become a course of procedure until some good brother may be of the opinion that it can be * ' sheltered " under the sacred

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name of "land-mark , " and hence seek to justify its continuance irrespec . tive of consequences ? Quebec , on the contrary , affirms " that it is the duty of every private lodge situated within the territorial jurisdiction of a regularly formed Grand

Lodge , but which , through any cause , was not represented at its organisation , to become at an early day thereafter of allegiance to the new Grand Body , and be enrolled on its register , or upon its refusal it may be deemed and declared ( as in Great Britain even ) to be an irregular lodge in not submitting to the lawfully constituted sovereignty of the country . "

The case of " Quebec 11 . England " appears , therefore , to be narrowed down to the foregoing , and hence , in what follows , I shall fraternally request the candid consideration by our English brethren of some of the Quebec views and contentions , in re . Quebec maintains that private lodge existence , prior to Grand Lod ge formation , does not give the right of continuance at will of original Grand Lodge obedience , but that private lodge obedience is due to the regularl y established local Grand Lodge .

In support thereof , Quebec relies not only upon ancient British Constitutional enactments , but appeals also to other historical facts , of which the following are a part , showing how " the fathers " interpreted and applied the inherent principles and ancient regulations of Freemasonry , rt * private Iodge obedience and exclusive territorial Grand Lodge jurisdiction .

In 1763 , 125 years ago , 46 years after the formation of the " first Grand Lodge" in London , 3 8 after that at York , 34 after the founding of the Grand Lodge of Ireland , 27 after tbat of Scotland , about 10 years after the formation of the Grand Lodge of the "Ancients , " and just 50 years before the establishment of the present United Grand Lodge of England , even during this period , when the doctrine of exclusive Grand Lodge

jurisdiction was , as it were " inchoate" and " uncrystallised , " and when " a struggle for supremacy in England was ( being ) waged between two antagonistic Grand Lodges" ( "Hughan's Masonic Register" ) , even then ( 176 3 ) the Grand Lodge of Scotland refused to grant a " Charter of Constitution" to certain brethren residing in London , " in regard it would interefere with the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodgeof England" ( "Moderns" ) .

In 1779 , 34 years prior to the establishment of the present Grand Lodge of England , the Grand Lodge of Virginia , U . S . A ., " ordered" all lodges within her territory holding charters from England , Scotland , and Ireland , to become enrolled on her registry .

In 1782 the Grand Lodgeof Massachusetts was formed , and the St , Andrew ' s Lodge , Scottish Constitution , Boston , not having voluntarily become of its obedience , the Grand Lodge in 1796 ( 17 years before the formation of the now Grand Lodge of England ) adopted the following " resolution , " or rather permanent " regulation * . " —

"lhe Grand Lodge" ( of Massachusetts ) " will not hold communication with , nor admit as visitors , any Masons residing in this State who hold authority under , and acknowledge the supremacy of , any foreign Grand Lodge ; or who do not by their representatives communicate with , and pay dues to , this Grand Lodge . " The Grand Lodges of Connecticut and of Pennsylvania passed identical resolutions shortly thereafter .

In 1815 the Grand Lodge of Ohio declared a certain lodge within her territory , and refusing allegiance thereto , " to have forfeited her privileges to labour , and to have become an unauthorised lodge ; and that no person thereafter initiated in said lodge under its foreign charter should ever be considered and acknowledged as a Mason in any lodge within the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Ohio , by virtue of such initiation , " and throughout the century now drawing to a close the same doctrine and practice have prevailed in the United States .

This procedure , in my opinion , vvas , and is , in strict accordance with the fundamental principles oi Freemasonry , in re , as so clearly and emphatically enunciated in the Constitutions of England , Scotland , and Ireland ; it also shows that "the fathers" of the Craft , in both hemispheres , held identical views thereanent , and it further demonstrates the perversion thereof which has been evolved in the Colonial Masonic policy of England , whose continuance some now seek to justif .

y Moreover , " the Grand Lodge of Canada , in the Province of Ontario , has , in her Constitution , adopted the Flnglish Constitutional proviso , denying recognition to any lodge in her territory , and debarring the members thereof Irom all Masonic privileges whatever , unless said lodge is of her obedienceand the Grand Lodol Quebec hasin addition to the fore-— & _ . — , —

; ge , , _ ^ ~ , , going , declared that any private lodge established by her in any unoccupied territory , and which does not take part in the regular formation of a Grand Lodge ior said territory , shall forfeit its warrant from Quebec , unless within one year after the establishment of said Grand Lodge it becomes obedience thereto

. Is the Grand Lodge of England Masonically right in re , and are al the other Grand Lodges in what are , or formally were , her Dependencies ) wrong ? Richmond , Quebec , Canada , May nth .

United Grand Lodge Of England.

UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND .

The following is the business to be transacted in Grand Lodge on 6 th inst .: . 1 . The minutes of the Quarterly Communication of the 7 th March 0 confirmation , 2 . The minutes of the Grand Festival of the 25 th April for confirmation ^ 3 . To receive a communication from the M . W . Pro G . M . relative to

present position of Masonry in New South Wales . a 4 . Appointment and investiture of President of the Board of Gen Purposes . 5 . Election of members of the Board of General Purposes . 6 . Election of members of the Colonial Board .

7 . Election of Grand Lodge Auditor . . .- ^ 8 . Election of members for the Committee of Management 0 ; " Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Wof Freemasons . " _ . . 9 . Report of the Board of Benevolence for the last quarter , in wnic recommendations for the following grants , viz .:

—The orphan daughter of a brother of the Royal ) Preston Lodge , 0 No . 33 , Preston ... ... ... ... ... hS ° ° The widow of a brother of the Paxton Lodge , No . 16 S 6 , Cam- 0 berwell ... ... 50 ° ° A brother of the Emblematic Lodge , No . 1321 , Southwark ... 5 ° 0 The widow of abrother of the Oakley Lodge , No . 694 , Basingstoke 75 Five orphan children of a brother of the Earl Spencer Lodge , 0 No , 1420 , London .,. ... ... ... O 0