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SATURDAY , OCTOBER 5 , 1901 . . * .

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We are pleased to be able to announce that the vacancy caused by thc lamented death of the Right Hon . W . W . B . Beach , Provincial Grand Master of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , has been filled by the appointment to that office of Bro . Sir Augustus Webster , Bart ., P . G . D . Eng . » *

By the end of next week the anxieties of the last month as to the results of our School elections will be cet at rest , not again to be renewed in the case of those whose candidates are successful , while as regards those who fail and are still eligible to compete , their lriends and supporters will have to put forth fresh efforts for

better luck next year . For the Boys' School contest there will doubtless be a keen struggle for places as the number of candidates is more than double the number to be elected , but for the Girls' election the outlook is more promising , there being about three candidates for every two vacancies .

? ? * Thursday , the loth instant , is the day fixed for the Girls' School Election , which will take place at the Quarterly Genera ] Court of Governors and Subscribers , which will be held at the Freemasons ' Tavern at 12 noon , when , as soon as the ordinary business

has been disposed of , the poll will be opened ¦ or the election of 16 from an approved list of 25 girls . London is responsible for four of the latter , of whom one has no other chance than this of securing admission into the School , and has a Joint interest with Malta in the success of a fifth girl , who brings forward 430 votes towards the last ballot which she is

^ Iigible to take part in . The other 20 candidates are Provincial , one of the two girls from Essex having 3229 votes to the good , and the Hants and Isle of Wight girl 120 P votes . No . 9 , from West Yorkshire , > n the very unlikel y event of her failure to win a P'ace , will have her name removed from the list on the score of age .

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The Quarterly General Court of the Governors and Subscribers of the Boys' School will be held in the same place and at the same hour on Friday , the nth instant , when in due course the poll will be opened for the election of 20 from an approved list of 46

candidates—reduced from 47 by the nomination of the Hants and Isle of Wight candidate at No . 37 under the " Beach " Presentation . Here London furnishs 11 candidates , and has a joint interest with one or more Provinces in the success of four others , one of the

latter at No . 41 having only this one chance of winning admission into the School . There are thus 31 boys hailing from the Provinces and Stations Abroad , Warwickshire and West Yorkshire being accountable for three each , and Bristol , Hertfordshire , and West Lancashire for two each .

As usual , we renew our earnest appeal of three weeks since in behalf of the children on the two lists who , if they fail at this election , will have their names removed , on the ground that between now and next April they will attain the age of n years , and be no

longer eligible to compete . There are five such children , namely , Mos . 5 , 9 , and 20 on the Girls' list , and Nos . 16 and 41 on the Boys' list . We trust that all who have not promised their votes and influence to

any candidate or candidates will generously lend a helping hand to these five children , so that , having been adjudged worthy to receive the benefits dispensed by our Schools , they may not be sent empty away . X S X

On Wednesday , the 9 th instant , the Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution will hold their regular monthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall and transact the business on the paper of

Agenda . This will include the consideration of the Finance Committee's Report for the September Quarter and of such petitions from Brethren and Widows as may have been received at the offices of the Institution .

¦ IF vK W We have much pleasure in announcing that Bro . R . Loveland Loveland , K . C ., has been appointed Prov . Grand Mark Master of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , in succession to the late lamented Bro . the

Right Hon . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., who had held the office since 1889 . The new Prov . Grand Master , who will be installed in office at Portsmouth on Saturday , the 26 th instant , is a brother of the highest distinction . He is President of the Board of General Purposes of

United Grand Lodge , President of thc General Board of the Grand Mark Lodge , Great Chancellor of Great Priory and Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Temple , and Grand Chancellor in the Supreme Council . 33 ° , of the Ancient and Accepted Rite .

# # * His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught , M . W . G . Master , has been pleased to grant a warrant for the constitution of a new Royal Ark Mariners Lodge , which will be attached to the Dramatic Mark

Lodge , No . 487 . The date for the consecration of the new body has not yet been fixed , but the Principal Officers designate are Bro . Charles Cruikshanks , W . C . N ., and Bros . Harry Nicholls and the Rev . C . E . L . Wright S . and J . respectively .

* * It is to be regretted that the Pope of Rome and his priesthood cannot be brought to see the absurdity of the course they pursue in denouncing Freemasonry and all its works . No one claims that all Masons are

without blemish , but the Romish priest , when he declares that the Freemasons are Anarchists , i ' rrelig ' ous libertines , and everything else that is bad morally , socially , and otherwise , knows perfectly well that his declarations are false . Moreover , they have

been made sj often , and to so little purpose , that it is only the most ignorant among the ignorant classes of the community who are gulled by these statements , just as they would be gulled by any other lalse statements that might be made by responsible persons in

whom they had implicit confidence . We , as Masons , are in the same position a-s the big navvy who , according to the fine old chestnut , let his little wife beat him on the ground that it amused her and did not hurt him . Now and then , perhaps , we wax a little impatient

when they are uttered frequently , but , as a rule , we laugh at them as thc silly vapourings of a body of men who seldom , if cvi . 'r , forgive those outside the pale of the Romish Church who are continually becoming more and more prosperous and influential .

However , it is satisfactory to know that , though we may not concern ourselves greatly about these Romish attacks on Freemasonry , there arc those who arc

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willing to take up the cudgels in our behalf , and call attention to the indecency and absurdity of such denunciations . Last week we reproduced some remarks by the Western Morning News which are very much to the point . Some time since , it seems , a Romish canon , of small calibre , when preaching in the Roman

Cathedral , Plymouth , denounced ' Anarchists , Socialists , Freemasons , and all such , under whatever guise they conceal their real aims , ' which he claimed to be subverting obedience , respect , and loyalty due to the authority appointed by God . " Apropos of this our worthy contemporary points out that " there is nobody ,

not even the Roman Church itself , in which loyalty to God and to lawfully constituted authority , is more strongly inculcated than in the Masonic body , and to class them with Anarchists and subverters of social order is simply absurd to any one who has any knowledge on the subject at a )) . "

* * We are greatly obliged to our worthy contemporary for its voluntary defence of our Society . We are afraid , however , that it will not carry much weight with the Plymouth popgun . The late Queen Victoria was the Patroness of our Charitable

Institutions ; the present King was our Grand Master , and is now our Protector ; the Bible may have the place of honour in our lodges , and the brethren may attend Divine Service in Anglican and other Christian Churches . We may even point out that it was an Anarchist who foully murdered Bro . William

McKinley , President of the United States . None of these things are allowed to have any weight in our favour with either the major or the minor Canons of the Romish Church , who throw aside all regard for decency , as they have long since subverted the truth , when it is a question of reviling our Order .

# * There are few of the class lodges located in London whose addition to our Grand Lodge Register is more cordially welcomed than those which are formed for the convenience of brethren hailing from different counties , whom business or pleasure frequently calls to

the Metropolis , or who find it necessary to reside there for a considerable part of the year . We do not know who originated the idea , but we are inclined to think that it must have been conceived by those brethren of the Apollo University Lodge , No . 357 , Oxford—of whom the late Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., was

onewho , about the year 1855 , finding the memorable Westminster and Keystone Lodge , No . 10 , in a moribund state , with only about four or five members on its roll , set themselves to the task of reviving its fortunes by making it principally , though not entirely , a kind of

London Masonic home for Oxford University brethren . The scheme was so successful that , in a few years , No . 10 , which had with difficulty maintained a precarious existence , became , and has ever since remained , one of the strongest and most influential lodges in the Metropolitan district .

* # * Some 10 years later—in 1866—was founded the Oxford and Cambridge University Lodge , No . n 18 , for the convenience of our two great Universities—the Isaac Newton University Lodge , No . 859 , Cambridge , having been successfully launched into being under the late Duke of St . Albans as its fust W . Master , in

1 S 61 . Other lodges of a somewhat similar character will be found in the United Service Lodge , No . 1361 , dating from the year 1871 j the Northern Bar Lodge , No . 1610 , tor the convenience of barristers going the Northern Circuit , warranted in 1876 " ; and the Kaiser-i-Hind Lodge , No . 1724 , for the convenience of Anglo-Indian brethren , in 18 77 . * *

Then , as London Associations formed of men connected with dift'erent counties begin to be established in the Metropolis , it was quite in the order of things that lodges hailing from particular counties should be formed . Hence the United Northern Counties Lodge , No . 2128 , constituted in 1885 ; the

Cornish Lodge , No . 2369 , of the year 1890 ; the Lancastrian , No . 2528 , of 1894 ; and , still more recently , the Devonian , No . 2834 , and thc Norfolk , No . 2852 , which was consecrated not very long since , with Bro . Hamon le Strange , Prov . G . Master of Norfolk , as its first W . Master . The most recent addition is the Welsh Lodge , No . 28 C 7 , which was

consecrated by the Grand Secretary on Monday , the 30 th ult ., and has started on its career under the auspices of Bro . Sir J . H . Puleston as the W . Master . A full report of the proceedings will be found in another column , and in common with all who were present at the ceremony on the day mentioned , we cordially wish thc new lodge a long and prosperous career .