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CONTENTS .

L EADERS 6-9 Historical Sketch of the Lodge St . Mungo , No . 27 , Glasgow 630 Old Freemasons 630 Bro . Hughan at Home 631 Notes on the Ceremony of Installation ... 632 Roval Masonic Institution for Girls 6 33 asonic Institution for 6

Royal M Boys 33 Provincial Grand Lodge of Leicestershire and Rutland 634 Supreme Grand Chapter 634 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Somersetshire 634 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of West Yorkshire 63 S

C 0 RRESI oNnE ! JrEWhymper's " Religion of Freemasonry " 638 Notes and Queries 6 3 8 Freemasonry and Education 6 3 8 R JPORTS or MASONIC M « STINGSCraft Masonry 6 3 8 Instruction 640 Royal Arch 641

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REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS ( Continued)—Instruction 64 ' Mark Masonry 641 Ancient and Accepted Rite 6 4 ' Rosicrucian Society of England 642 West Africa 642 New South Wales 642

New Zealand 642 Scotland 642 Dedication of Masonic Rooms at York ... 6 43 Jubilee of a Subscribing Member to the Craft 643 Investment of the Prov . Grand Secretary for Middlesex 643

Annual Banquet of the Lewises L < -dge of Instruction , No . 1200 6 43 Funeral of Dr . Rob Morris 6 44 Extraordinary Masonic Escapade 6 44 Presentation in the City 6 44 Theatres 6 44 Masonic and General Tidings 6 45 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 6 4 6

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CONSIDERING how great was the disproportion between the , , f 5 } i number of vacancies to be filled at the Girls' School Election School Election . on Saturday last , and the number of candidates who competed for them , it is not surprising that the polling should havebeen unduly heavy .

and that many of the unsuccessful candidates would have stood a good chance of being at or near the top of the poll on ordinary occasions . The highest successful candidate was one of two Warwickshire girls , who polled no less than 5308 votes , of which I 074 were broughtforward from April last ; and as the girl who stood second— D ORA SiMS , of London—obtained a total of only 4221 votes ,

made up of 1640 brought forward , and 2581 polled on the day itself , it is clear that the Warwickshire lassie would have headed the list if she had had none whatever standing to her credit from her previous attempt . The third on the list—E . A . B . POOLER , London—scored 4131 , of which 1883 were already to her credit from the April contest ; while E . W . R . MACKEY

from Malta and London , stood fourth with 4109 votes . A . C . TURTON , hailing from North and East Yorkshire , was next with 3907 votes , and F . N . WELLS , of London , sixth , with 3680 votes , of which 1474 votes were brought forward . A . W . BELTON , one of the two candidates from Northumberland , won the seventh place with 3508 votes , and

SARAH BISSETT , of London , the eighth , with 3365 votes , the number already to her credit being 394 , while MARY E . WILSON , the single West Lancashire candidate , brought up the rear with 3165 votes . Thus , London carried four of its 19 candidates , and had a share in the success of a fifth ; while the remaining four were provincial , hailing from

Warwickshire , N . and E . Yorkshire , Northumberland , and West Lancashire respectively . Of the four girls who had this one and only chance of success , only one succeeded , there being apparently no serious effort made to ensure the success of the remaining three , the girl GEACH , who brought forward 470 votes , only raising her total to 555 , while E . L . J . WELLS

scored 168 votes—of which 77 were brought forward—and A . L . SMITH 61 votes . The array of unsuccessful children was headed by a girl from the Australasian Colony of Victoria , who has 2784 votes , the Nottinghamshire candidate being well up with 2701 votes , and then HARLING , of London , with 2564 votes , LEE , Hants and Isle of Wight , with 2424 votes , and

LIVERD , of Berks and Bucks , with 2418 votes . The group following these was headed by COOK . ES , of Warwickshire , with 1846 votes , there being no less than 13 candidates who obtained between 1000 and 2000 votes , and seven who scored between 500 and 1000 votes . The aggregate of votes

brought forward was 19 , 464 , and the number issued for the Election 59 . 659 , making a grand total of 79 , 123 votes available ; but only 54 , 385 were polled and passed by the Scrutineers , the number spoiled or unused being 5274 , which is rather in excess of the number in the case of the Boys ' School .

* * THE contest at the recent Boys' School Election does not ap-Boys- School pear tohave been unduly keen . There was a heavy list of J"t , on- candidates , but there was at the same time a considerable number of vacancies to be filled , the candidates being to the vacancies in

'he proportion of about three to one . But there was some heavy polling n ot \ vithstanding , and three of the applicants , who might in reason have been expected to win places , are among the unsuccessful , and two of these three have now lost all chance of being admitted , and will have their na mes removed from the list . A provincial candidate who hailed from

Somersetshire headed the poll with 3702 votes , of which 2151 votes were brought forward from April , and as it was the boy's only remaining chance of entering the School , his friends seem to have been determined he should Wln . and obtained for him 1500 more votes than , as the result shows , were

e quired for the purpose . An applicant from London stood second . The v ° teshe brought forward would have carried him through , but his friends , v'sel y determining to leave as little as possible to chance , raised his credit 2428 votes to 2810 votes , and so obtained for him a place without unduly

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exerting their strength . The boy TROOP , of East Lancashire—and the only candidate from that extensive province—polled 2658 votes offhand , and thus secured his election at the first attempt ; while FURSEY , the solitary candidate from Sussex , increased his total from April last to 2633 , and was thus close at the heels of the East

Lancashire lad . The one Devonshire boy stood fifth with 2544 votes , of which 1976 were brought forward ; and Norths and Hunts was close up with 2535 votes , of which 1965 votes were the result of previous efforts . One of three candidates from Norfolk , who had 1177 votes already to his credit , increased his total to 2466 , and thus obtained the seventh place , a

second London candidate , who polled 2453 votes , of which 1371 votes were brought forward , being next on the roll . Essex , which had two candidates , carried the election of the boy GREEN , who had but this one chance of getting into the School , just contenting itself with adding a few votes to his credit of 2299 votes , and raising his total to 2441 ; while Cumberland and

Westmorland adopted a similar course in behalf of the lad Mossop—one of three candidates from the same district—the 2279 votes remaining from the April election being raised to 2380 votes . A London candidate stood nth with 2374 votes , made up of 1455 votes brought forward and 919 fresh votes ; while the 12 th successful boy hailed from Somersetshire ,

which , notwithstanding the votes that had been needlessly polled for GRIMSEY ( No . 1 ) , thus secured the election of both its candidates . West Yorkshire , which is skilled in the management of elections , carried all its three candidates , GEORGE RUSHWORTH being 13 th with 2245 votes , and KENDALL and PINDER 17 th and 18 th , with 2201 and 2171 votes respectively .

A London boy , with 1603 votes to his credit from three previous attempts , stood 14 th with 2230 votes , and then came one of three boys from Kent—F . D . W . MENPES—with 2221 votes , a second Kentish lad standing 20 th with 2126 votes , of which all but 15 were polled on this occasion . BAYLIS , from London , with 1641 votes to the good , was 16 th with 2217 votes , and then , after the second

and third West Yorkshire candidates , another applicant from the same centre ( FRED WILSON ) , who had 1135 votes to his credit , and polling a further 1014 votes , raised his total to 2149 . . The boy who stood 21 st ( R . E . MORGAN ) was also from London , and scored 2116 , the remaining three successful candidates being all of them from the Provinces , F . E . EVERTON ,

standing No . 22 , and polling 2076 votes , being from Worcestershire ; A . H . WINDSOR , at No . 23 , with 2066 votes , from Oxfordshire ; and F . J . HARRIS , at No . 24 , with 2032 votes , from Wiltshire . Thus London carried seven out of its 17 candidates , West Yorkshire its three candidates , Somersetshire its two candidates , and Kent two out of its three candidates , while

Norfolk and Cumberland and Westmorland carried each one out of three and Essex one of two candidates , the remaining seven being the representatives of the seven provinces already assigned to them . The two highest unsuccessful candidates , who polled 1988 votes and 1868 votes respectively , will be able to carry forward their votes to the election in April , 1889 , and

and so will the boy LAWRENCE , who polled 1677 votes ; but J OSEPH WOOD , of London , and H . GRAY , from South Africa , though they had 1049 votes and 1024 votes already to the good respectively , seem to have been unable to follow up the advantage which those votes gave them , and , polling the former a total of 1733 votes , and the latter one of 1433 votes only , will now

disappear from the list altogether , and thus for the want of a little good generalship at the critical moment , these poor boys , after standing the one seven and the other six contests , are now left out in the cold . The names of three other boys will be also removed under the operation of the same law as to age , but , though this is to be regretted , it is only in the case of

one who had been a candidate at five elections , that the failure stands out conspicuously . As to the votes brought forward and issued , of the former there were 33 , 369 , and of the latter 59 , , making a grand total of 92 , 569 , but the number of votes polled and passed by the Scrutineers was 54 , 310 , so that 4890 votes , of which a few no doubt were spoiled , were never turned to account .

ThenewLawas OUR Charitable Institutions have been so considerably en' o £ Candidates ' ' £ ' during the last few years , and the benefits they confer Boys' School . ; are so much more valuable than they used to be formerl y , that it is not surprising we should every now and then hear of additionall y stringent Rules as to the qualifications of candidates being passed . It is

generally known that the provision made by the Masons of England for their indigent brethren , and for the widows and children of deceased or indigent brethren , is on a generous scale , and , as a consequence , there has been for some time past an appreciable increase in the number of persons who apply for initiation into our Society . They hear men , whom they know

to be Freemasons , speaking in terms of praise of the Schools and Annuity Funds established by the Order ; they read glowing accounts in the daily press of our Anniversary Festivals , and the immense sums annually

subscribed for our Charities ; and they consider it will be worth their while to seek , and , if possible , obtain admission into our ranks . They are not altogether to be blamed for this view . They know nothing of the constitution of our Society or of the principles which it professes ; and they jump