Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

WORCESTERSHIRE . Lodge JC s d . „ r Bro . E . J . Chambers ... 89 5 0 5 , 0 E . A . Hicks ( see also 5 " No . 601 , Shropshire ) ' ... ... 11 11 o YORKSHIRE ( WEST ) , i-ci Bro . John W . Shipman "* . A , „ * W . A . Slatter , M . D . 2 S 9 " W . H . Baxter , " , » T . VV . Embleton > 105 0 o ,, 3 C . VV . Fincken I ? o 6 g „ Robert Abbott ' 2263 » Ur * 0 '' Barber J SUMMARY OF £ s . d . Berkshire ... no lS o Bristol ... , 3 l < 5 " o Buckinghamshire 3 G 9 15 0 Cheshire 72 iS 0 Cornwall Z < 5 15 o Derbyshire 257 5 0 Devonshire 3 G 15 o Durham 220 10 o Essex ... _ 82 15 o Gloucestershire 1 G 27 10 0 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 225 15 0 Hertfordshire 107 2 o Kent 757 13 o Lancashire ( East Division ) ... 94 10 o „ ( VVest Division ) ... 105 00 Leicestershire and Rutland ... 48 6 0 Middlesex _ 46 4 0 Monmouthshire 315 o o 10 S STEWARDS—LONDON 19 S STEWARDS—PROVINCES

FOREIGN STATIONS . Unattached Bro . C . G . L . Kipling ... 11 11 o MALTA . Lodge 349 Bro . John Kenyon ... 10 10 o CYPRUS . 2277 Bro . Surgeon-Capt . VV . 1 Kiddle ... ... 3 15 o I SOUTH AFRICA . ¦ 2313 Bro . John E . Green ... 11 11 o ! WESTERN AUSTRALIA . 4 S 5 Bro . J . C . Rosselloty ... 1 to THE PROVINCES . £ s . d . North Wales 219 9 o Northants and Hunts 64 o G Northumberland 1377 8 0 Nottinghamshire 48 G o Oxfordshire 85 9 0 Shropshire 97 2 6 Somersetshire 31 10 o South Wales ( East Division ) ... 315 o 0 South Wales ( West Division ) 150 0 o Staffordshire 2 S 0 7 o Suffolk ... ... ... ... no 10 o Surrey 425 19 G Sussex ... 31 10 o Warwickshire G 3 o o Wiltshire 36 15 o Worcestershire 100 iG o Yorkshire ( West ) 105 o o Foreign Stations 71 8 o £ 3754 15 < 5 £$ 4 < xi 14 fi

GRAND TOTAL £ 12 , 224 10 o The CHAIRMAN , in responding to the toast- of his health , which was proposed by Bro . the Rev . H . A . PICKARD , P . G . C , said he had now had the honour of presiding at all three of the Institutions . On the ( irst occasion lie was nobly supported b y his Province of Gloucestershire , which was but ; i small one—about 15 lodges and 500 or 600 brethren . They enabled him to bring forward a list of more than £ 500 . On the second occasion they

increased that to £ 1000 , and that night they had raised among them ^ 1600 . Individually in Gloucestershire they were little , but they thought they were good , and he could assure the company they were very proud of themselves , that they did their best to keep up the traditions and character of Masonry , and were very careful whom they allowed to join . But they recognised above all their duty to contribute to the Masonic Charities . He had been Provincial Grand Master some years , and he did not think they wanted to

get rid of him yet . Their noble contributions that night were a great comp liment to himself , and he returned them his hearty thanks . Bro . J . G . REMINGTON ** , D . G . M . New South Wales , responded to the toast proposed in his honour by the Chairman . Bro . C . E . KEYSER , G . D ., proposed " The Sister Institutions , " and Bro . TERRY returned thanks , and said the grand total to the three Institutions to the present time was ^ 89 , 794 .

Bro . VASSAR-SMITH responded to the toast of "The Stewards , " which was proposed by Bro . Capt . HOMFRAY , and Bro . LETCHWORTH , G . S ., proposed " The Ladies . " The company then adjourned to the Temple , where a most enjoyable concert was g iven , under the direction of Bro . H . P . Delevanti , in which Miss Kate Flinn , Mrs . Albert Barker , Madame Florence VVinn , Miss Agnes Larkcom , Miss Emily Foxcroft , and Bros . Franklin Give , Reginald Groome , Signor Alsepti , Arthur Thomas , and Mr . Albert Barker took part .

Analysis Of The Returns.

ANALYSIS OF THE RETURNS .

It does not frequently occur that the Returns from the two great sections into which the Board of Stewards naturally divides itself differ from each other so materially in amount as they did on Wednesday . The Board mustered in all 306 brethren , of whom 108 did duty for London and 198 for the Provinces , the total icceived from the former body , including the donation of £ 105 by Bro . Sir VV . J . Clarke , Bart ., M . W . G . M . of the United Grand Lodge of Victoria , amounting to

43752 15 s . 6 d ., while the 198 Provincial Stewards obtained £ 846 9 14 s . 6 d ., the whole Board of 30 G brethren raising the very line total of £ 12 , 222 ios . If we consider that the total subscription at the Jubilee Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution was in round figures , £ 67 , 500 , and that in May a further £ 10 , 000 was contributed to the funds of the Royal Masonic Institution lor Girls , we shall have every reason to beleive that the brethren who gave such an excellent account of their Stewardship for the Boys' School must , in the first place , have had unprecedented difficulties to contend against in their canvass , and ,

ni the next place , must have confronted those difficulties with more than ordinary courage and success . More has been raised for the Festivals of the Benevolent •ind Girls' Institutions this year than was subscribed to all three Charities in the year of the Girls' Centenary , and yet the labours of the Boys' School Stewards were carried out so successfully that the total obtained for the three Charities in 1 ^ 92 will fall very little , if at all , short of £ 90 , 000 . Undoubtedly this current year ° ' grace and light will be a memorable one in the annals of English Freemasonry . We have said that

LONDON nirnished 108 Stewards , who amongst them compiled a total of £ 3647 15 s . Gd ., to which has been added the handsome donation of £ 105 by Bro . Sir VV . J . Clarke , " ¦ lit ., making in all £ 3752 15 s . < 5 d . Of the Stewards there were 71 who represented lodges , lodges of instruction , Royal Arch chapters , and the Committee , ' nnei * Club , while the remaining 37—of whom two were ladies—were Unattached . he princi pal lists were those of Bro . Alfred Moore , ofthe Plnenix Lodge , No . 73 , who secured for himself the place of honour with the very acceptable sum of

•* - ' 73 5 S . | the representative of the Anglo-American Lodge , No . 2191 , coining in ** cond with £ 161 3 s . 6 d . Temperance-in-the-East Lodge , No . 898 , per Bro . J . C . L " nstron g , stands third with £ 141 15 s ., Bros . S . G . Bonner , of the Corinthian Lod ' l 3 & 2 r and the redoubtable Bro . James Willing , jun ., of the Cricklewood age , No . 2361 , being bracketed fourth with £ 126 . Bro . Edwin George , of the rem- ' " ° Ripon Lod £ * No * ' 4 89 , stood sixth with £ 118 2 s . ( 3 d ., while the to ainin g three-figure lists were those of Bro . W . Bellingham , who represented of g ? Purpose the Clerkenwell Lodge , No . 1964 , and compiled the capital sum iGos ' ) ! i ° S' * and Bro- G * V * Wood , who , as Steward for the Kilburn Lodge , No . the w L the P , easure of compiling £ 113 Ss . Bro . Major-General E . C . Sim , win , ° . y representative of the Friends in Council , No . 1383 , was next in order ' n * * total of £ 80 17 s .

Analysis Of The Returns.

Turning now to THE PROVINCES , there can be no question they have done the lion ' s share of the work on this occasion . Representatives to the number of 19 S are entered from 35 out of the 4 ( 5 Provinces holding under the Grand Lodge of England , and the sum total raised by these brethren reaches £ 8469 14 s . ( 5 d . The following were the absentees , namely , BEDFORDSHIRE ( 6 lodges ) , which raised £ " 138 12 s . for this Institution last year , £ 126 for the Jubilee of the Old People in February last , and £ 26 5 s . for

the Girls' School in May ; CAMBRIDGESHIRE ( 6 lodges ') , which contributed £ S $ 16 s . to the Girls' School in May , 1 S 91 , £ 141 4 s . to the Boys' School the month following , and . £ 302 iSs . to the Benevolent jubilee in February ; and CUMDERLAND and WESTMORLAND ( 20 lodges ) , which was represented at the Benevolent Festivals in iSpi and February last , and to the extent of £ 265 13 s . to this Institution in June , 1 S 91 . DORSETSHIRE ( 13 lodges ) did excellent service for the Benevolent Jubilee in February by raising £ 467 53 ., while one of its lodges figured for a

small amount at the last Girls Festival . HEREFORDSHIRE ( 5 lodges ) sent up a solitary Steward for the Old People in February , but was seen to better advantage at last year's Festival of this Institution , while the absence of LINCOLN - SHIRE ( 24 lodges ) may justly be excused on the ground that the Province raised £ 418 for the Boys' School last year , and £ 660 for the Benevolent Jubilee . NORFOLK ( 17 lodges ) raised £ 225 for "Our Boys" in June , 1891 , and £ 516 for the Old People in February , and NORTH AND EAST YORKSHIRE subscribed £ 832 in 1888 , of which . £ 763 was raised at the Girls' Centenary ; £ 274 4 s . for the Old

People , and £ 18 9 for this Institution in 1891 , and not far short of . £ 700 for the Benevolent Jubilee and a small amount to the Girls' School during the current year . The remaining absentees were the CHANNEL ISLANDS ( 5 lodges ) and J ERSEY ( 7 lodges ) , which were both included in the Benevolent Returns in February last , and the ISLE OF MAN ( 8 lodges ) , which gave £ 100 ios . to this Institution in June , 'Spi , . £ 52 ios . to the Old People ' s Jubilee in February , and £ 46 2 s . to the Girls ' proceedings were 11 in number , and comprised in all 141 lodges . School a few weeks' since . Thus the Provinces which had no . part in Wednesday ' s Of the represented Provinces , the first in alphabetical order is

BERKSHIRE , which with its compact roll of 13 lodges , has been greatly distinguishing itself during the present year of grace . In February it raised by the medium of 22 Stewards no less than £ 645 14 s . 6 d ., and in May , with seven Stewards , it contributed £ 172 4 s . to the Girls' School . On Wednesday its Stewards were five in number , of whom four represented by as many lodges , and the sum of their lists was £ 110 iSs . This gives a total for the year of £ 928 16 s . 6 d ., which , it is needless to say , compares most favourably with the £ 385 is . which was distributed among our three Charities in 1 S 91 .

BRISTOL , both last year and this , has devoted its attention wholly to this Institution , and there can be no gainsaying the fact that it has rendered it substantial service . In 18 91 its contributions amounted to £ 595 7 s ., and on Wednesday to £ 316 us ., so that during these two years this Province , which has but nine lodges on its roll , has raised upwards of £ 910 for this School , or more than £ 100 per lodge . This is indeed a result for which Bristol deserves our warmest congratulations . As for

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE , like its near neighbour and old associate—Berkshire—it has been working hard for all three Institutions ever since it has enjoyed a separate organisation under Bro . Lord Carrington , and with a success of which it has good reason to be proud . Last year it commenced operations by contributing £ 36 15 s . to the Old People . In May , when its Provincial Grand Master occupied the chair at the Girls' School Festival , it loyally supported him to the extent of £ 300 and in June it raised

, £ 174 6 s . for this Institution , making the excellent total for the year of £ 511 is . This year it has acquitted itself still better , though this perhaps is to be accounted for by the increase in the number of its lodges from 12 to 14 . In February the Benevolent received support to the extent of £ 230 8 s ., while in May two Stewards raised £ 36 15 s . for the Girls' School . On Wednesday there were in all nine Stewards , one of them doing duty for the Province as a whole , while the rest

were the representatives of five lodges , of which two were the newly-warranted Ferdinand de Rothschild , No . 2420 , and the Carrington , No . 2421 . The total amounted to £ 369 15 s ., Bros . James Stephens and G . A . Sims , for No . 2420 , making up a joint list of £ 105 , while Bios . Price and Ferguson for No . 2421 together sent in £ 106 is ., Bro . Fendick , of the George Gardner Lodge , No . 2309 , returning £ 60 . This gives a grand total for 1892 amounting to £ 6 3 6 18 s .

After its great performances last June and at the Benevolent Jubilee in February ,

CHESHIRE , though it has upwards of 40 lodges on its roll , could hardly be expected to do anything great for cither ofthe Schools . In June , 1891 , it raised £ 1050 for this Institution , and in February , £ 1978 for thc Old People , or , together , upwards of . £ . 3000 . Yet in spite of these serious strains on its resources , it was able to find £ 105 12 s . for the Girls' Institution in May , and £ 72 18 s . for " Our Boys " on Wednesday , the total for 1892 being thus increased to £ 2156 10 s . This comes of taking the excellent advice of its Prov . Grand Master , and we trust that faith in such wise and beneficial counsels will be again and again exhibited at future anniversaries .

CORNWALL ( 30 lodges ) figures for a modest but useful contribution of £ 36 15 s ., and , as in support of Bro . the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , as Chairman at the Benevolent Jubilee , it raised £ 776 13 s ., the total for the current year amounts to £ 813 8 s ., which is a great advance on last year ' s figure of £ 289 15 s ., distributed between the Old Folks and this Institution . It has also done exceedingly well in previous years , thanks to the energy and determination exhibited by such zealous supporters of our Charities as Bros . G . B . Pearce , Major Ross , & c . Last year the Province of

DERBYSHIRE was among the principal supporters at the highly successful Festival held in behalf of this Institution in the month of June , the total compiled by its 26 Stewards being £ 8 43 17 s ., which , added to the £ 136 ios . raised this year for the sister School at Battersea Rise , gave a sum of £ 980 7 s . for the whole year . At the Benevolent Jubilee in February its 50 representatives returned amongst them £ 1220 16 s ., while the Girls' School had the satisfaction of receiving

£ 131 5 s . by the hands of four Stewards in May . On Wednesday five out of its 24 lodges , one Royal Arch chapter , and a Rose Croix chapter were represented , the number of Stewards , including Bro . Hugh E . Diamond , Unattached , being nine , and the sum of their lists £ 257 5 s ., the principal item being the list of £ 105 complied by Bro . Edgar Home , of the Fairfield Lodge , No . 2224 , Long Eaton . In 1885 when its Provincial Grand Master presided at the Festival of this Charity , it supported him by raising £ 1526 17 s . There were two representatives from

DEVONSHIRE , one of them—Bro . F . B . Westlake—being Unattached , and the other—Bro . John Lane—representing the Jordan Lodge , No . 1402 , Torquay . The list of the latter amounted to £ 36 15 s ., which , with the £ 40 ios . raised for the Girls' School in May , and thc , £ 713 8 s . 6 d . for thc Benevolent Jubilee in February , gives a