Contents.

CONTENTS .

L EADERS io 5 -REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS ( Co . vtinned)—Masonic Facts , not Fictions 196 Instruction 203 Installation of the Provincial Grand Master Mark Masonry ....... ' . -. 203 of Bristol 190 Ancient and Accepted Rite 203 Consecration of the Waveitree Lodge , Scotland 203 No . 2294 , at Wavertree ;¦ . •¦¦¦¦• -. ¦• ^ Third Annual Ball of the Kensington Lodge , Consecration of the St . George s Chapter , M „ , „ , „ , . No . 2099 , Heme Bay 196 . ° " " 7 """"""""" y"V \ Consecration of the Egerton of Tatton Annual Supper of the Stability Lodge .. f Instruction 203

Lodge of Mark Master Masons , No . 400 197 , No . 217 C ORRESPONDENCE— The Fourth An-. mal Ball of the Chiswick Masonic Charity Statistics 199 Lodge , No . 2012 203 The Poet Burns 199 District Grand Lodge Ethics 203 Reviews 200 Obituary 204 K BPORTS OK MASONIC MEETINGS— The Craft Abroad 204 Craft Masonry 200 Masonic Lecture 204 Instruction 232 Masonic and General Tidings 205 " Roval Arch 203 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 200

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IT is to be regretted that Bro . the Earl of LIMERICK , who has P . G . M . of presided over the Province of Bristol for nearly 23 years , Bristol . should have found it necessary to resign a post which he had filled with so much tact and ability for so long a period . But his lordship ' s

resignation having been tendered and accepted , we do not think that his Royal Highness the GRAND MASTER could have petformed a more graceful act , or one which redounds more to his credit as a man of judgment , than he has by appointing as successor to his lordship the brother who has been for so many years his lordship ' s Deputy , and who , for the last 17

years , has been at the head of Royal Arch Masonry in Bristol . Bro . W . A . POWELL ' S experience as a ruler of Masons has been acquired in many spheres of labour . Not only has he proved his ability as Bro . Lord LIMERICK ' S Deputy and as G . Superintendent of Bristol since 18 72 , but he has been during the greater part of the same period Prov . G . Mark

Master of Bristol , Prov . Prior of Bristol and Gloucestershire in the Order of the Temple , and Inspector-General , 33 ° , in the Ancient and Accepted Rite , 'in the Baldwyn Chapter of Rose Croix . Hi is also a Past S . G . Deacon of United Grand Lodge , having been appointed to that office by the late Earl of . ZETLAND at the last Grand Festival at which that noble

brother presided as M . W . G . Master , and a Past G . Asst . Sojourner of Supreme Grand Chapter ; while , as showing the esteem and respect in which Bro . POWELL is held by our Bristol brethren , it was only in the course of last year that a ninth lodge , bearing his name , was added to the roll of the Province . Thus , while we sympathise with the members

of the lodges in the great western seaport in the loss of so genial and experienced a chief as Bro . the Eail of LIMERICK , we , at the same time , congratulate them most heartily on the successor who has been appointed to preside over them , and who was formally installed in office , amid general rejoicing , on Wednesday , the 27 th ult . May the retirement of their late Prov . G . Master be all that he himself can desire , and the career of their

new one as successful as his past services justify us in anticipating ! TheAp roaci ^ votm £ papers for the election of children into the Royal ing Election— Masonic Institution for Girls at the Quarterly General Court ^ cioo . £ Qovernors on Saturday , the 27 th inst ., have been issued , and from these it appears that the number of approved candidates is

greater than it has been for a considerable time past . This is due , primarily , to the paucity of vacancies at the election in October , 1 S 88 ; when only nine girls could be admitted from a list of 63 ; but those who closely examine the

voting papers issued at the half-yearly elections have probably remarked that an augmentation in the number of girls on the establishment has no appreciable effect in reducing the number of applicants for admission . 1 here is a reduction in the latter at the three or four elections which follow

an increase of the establishment , and then the list becomes as congested as ever . Thus , at the April election in 1887—the year of the Queen ' s Jubilee —a clean sweep of the board was made , and all the candidates were admitted into the School to commemorate that auspicious event , the follow-¦ " £ October election being made from an entirely new list of applicants .

• nee then there have been only two elections , and we now find ourselves ° n the eve of a third with a residuum of 50 unsuccessful candidates from ctober last , and a new batch of 24 girls , making a total of 74 competitors or the 17 vacancies to be filled , and the increase of 20 children which , we ™ ay confidentl y anticipate , will be resolved upon by the Governors and Q , ^ J »*«» fc »^ i £ / s » i . ** j 1 Y 1 . 1 Ul . 1 1 . 3 UI VCU UUU 11 UV L 11 U VJUVLlHUia CU | U

scribers to the Institution . At some future time we may consider it our u y to inquire into the causes to which this untoward state of things must m ' rl Ki tedj kut just now we are more immediately interested in this for-• ? array of 74 applicants , and any circumstances of special moment connection with individual members of the list . We gather , in the first P'ace , that Lnnrlnn = .= : i . i- t J : J J : . 1 ¦ . 1--C ondon responsible for candidatesand is concerned in the

; , suc ' ' ^ ' 19 , Met SS r ^ . ^ k ^ ' £ re ' -eeking support from votes both in the ceas ^ S and '" G Pl ' ovinces > wn ' the remaining are children of deit will h " ^ reduced Masons in the country or abroad . As regards London , didate ^ ^ Ir ^ ^^ N ° " 3- _ one of seven girls who made their deb / it as cans > n October , 1887—has 1732 votes to her credit . Her father ' s career

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as a Mason was a short one , as he died within a year of his initiation , leaving a family of six children wholly dependent upon his widow . No . 9 has 1012 to bring forward ; No . n , 1701 votes ; No . 13 , 2564 votes ; No . 14 , 7 88 votes ; No . 18 , 114 s votes ; - No . 24 , 1134 voles ; and No . 39 , 1395 votes ; while Nos . 26 , 32 , 35 , 37 , 40 , and 45 have under 500 votes to

their respective credits ; and Nos . 53 , 57 , 60 , 63 , and 72 are new candidates . The above are wholly London candidates , and , considering that , if the proposed increase is agreed to , exactly one-half of the list will be returned as successful , there ought not to be much difficulty in securing the election of several among the girls we have specified above . The five who derive

their interest and hopes of support , partly from London and partly from the Provinces are No . 4 ( Norfolk and London ) , with 1180 votes to the good ; No . 23 ( Suffolk , Essex , and London ) , 182 votes ; No . 41 ( Middlesex and London ) , 558 votes ; and Nos . 55 ( London and Surrey ) and 59 ( Kent and London ) , who are both new candidates . Of

the 50 girls from the country and abroad , as many as five—Nos . 6 , 8 , and 27 , old , and Nos . 65 and 73 , new candidates hail from Devonshire , while the Province of Kent sends four , namely , No . 10 ; No . 16 , with 1959 votes to her credit ; No . 30 , with 1063 votes to her credit ; and No . 36 , with 77 ^ votes ; and West Yorkshire , four ,

but all of them new candidates . There are two girls from the Province of Berks and Bucks , of whom No . 17 has 2418 votes to the good , while the other stands No . 74 on the list . The two Durham applicants—Nos . 28 and 42—polled only a few votes in October last ; while of the two from Essex , No . 5 has been a candidate since October 1 S 87 , and has polled 1290

votes ; while No . 43 obtained 314 votes at her first attempt last autumn . The Metropolitan county of Middlesex sends two out of the 24 new candidates , and the important Midland Province of Warwickshire has two remaining unsuccessful from 18 S 8 , of whom No . 21 has 1846 votes to count towards the approaching contest . The remaining 27 candidates are

distributed among as many provinces or groups of provinces , the Somersetshire girl at the head of the list having 1520 votes in hand , while the girl from Victoria , who ranks as No . 2 , has 2784 votes . No . 12 , from Cornwall and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , carries forward 985 votes , while the Hants and Isle of Wight child , at No . 15 , is better circumstanced , with

2229 votes in- hand . No less than 27 or votes stand to the credit of the applicant from Nottinghamshire , at No . 19 ; and No . 34 , from Lancashire , East Division , and Derbyshire , brings 1154 votes forward , the others being either new cases , or with only a few votes in hand . In the case of 13 of the girls , their fathers are described as having contributed to one or more o

our Institutions , while the instances are still more numerous in which they won distinction in Iodge or Prov . G . Lodge ; but the point to which we attach the greatest importance , and make a point , therefore , of referring as prominently as we can , is , that seven of the children will have their names removed fiom the list if their friends and supporters are unable to secure

their election at the approaching Quarterly Court . These girls rank on the list as Nc . 1 , Nos . 13 and 14 , and Nos . 41 and 49 among the old candidates , and Nos . 58 and 67 among the new ; and though it is contrary to our practice to endeavour to enlist support in behalf of any particular candidate , we appeal to those who may have votes yet unpromised , or who may

be able to obtain assistence from others , to do what they can to prevent these children , whose cases have been fully inquired into and pronounced worth }' , from being sent empty away . Failure in the case of other children will not carry with it absolute disqualification for the future , but these seven children will be 11 years of age before another election comes round , and if they fail on this occasion , their failure will be irretrievable .

THERE are 72 candidates—or almost the same number as for ing Flection— the Girls' School—on the lists which have just been issued for the Boys' School . eiect ; on of children into the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys at the Quartetly General Court to be held in the great hall of

Freemasons' Tavern on Friday , the 26 th instant . But , unfortunately , the prospects are much less encouraging than they are for the girl candidates . There is one vacancy for every two of the latter , but the number available in the case of the Boys' School is only 17 , and the proportion , instead of being one to two , is , unfortunately , one to about 4 } . It may be that if the

efforts of the Stewards to obtain supplies are more than usually successful at the Festival in June , some endeavour will be made at a subsequent election to reduce the list of applicants , the School being large enough to accommodate a greater number of children than is at present maintained ; or the sum raised may not be more than will suffice to cover last year ' s or a

part of last year ' s deficiency , in either of which cases all idea of increasing the establishment must be postponed till a more favourable opportunity . In the meantime , however , neither an excess nor a lack of good fortune in

June can have the slightest effect in altering , for better or for worse , the conditions under which this election will be held . There are , as we have said , 72 candidates , of whom 46 remain from previous elections , and 26 are newly approved applicants . Of these 19 hail from London ; and there are