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L EADERS S 63 "Ars Qnatuor Coronatorum " —Part IV .... 566 " The Society called Freemasons" 567 provincial Grand Lodge of Warwickshire 567 Centenary Celebration of the Vigilance Chapter , No . in 567 The Anglo-American Lodge Deputation to

the United States 5 G 9 ConR £ S !' OI 1 DENCEThe Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 571 Provincial Grand Lodge of Worcestershire 572 The Anti-Masonic Movement in Germany 572 Stewards' jewels or Badges 573

The Boys' School Election 573 "An Important Point" 572 Notes and Queries 572 R BFORTS o ? MASONIC MXITINOSCraft Masonry $ 73 Instruction S 75 Royal Arch < 55

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REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS ( Continued)—Mark Masonry ili Ancient and Accepted Rite £ 75 Cryptic Masonry e . 'fi Scotland 576 Queensland 57 6 China S 76

Royal Masonic Institution for Girk ill Inter-Masonic Rifle Match 577 Remarkable Masonic Career 577 Vote of Thanks to Bro . Robert Grev , P . G . D ., Pres . B . B . ' .. J 77 Masonic Presentation to Dr . W . R .

Thomas , P . Z ., P . M ., P . P . G . D 377 New Masonic Hall at Howden 577 Bro . Sheriff A . J . Newton $ 77 Theatres 578 The Craft Abroad 578 Masonic and General Tidings 579 Lodge Meetings for Next Week < 8 o

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THE approaching School Elections will be held for the first Girls ' School time under the amended law , which places them in the latter Election . instead of the earlier half of this current month of October , that of the B u oys' School being fixed for Friday , the 26 th instant , and that of

the Girls School for the day following , In both cases the contest is likely to be a severe one , the likelihood in the case of the Girls' School being the greater , as there are only nine vacancies to be filled up , and as many as 63 approved candidates on the list for election ; while for the Boys' School , though there are 75 approved candidates , there are , at all events , 21

vacancies , so that the disproportion between the two , though sufficiently marked , is not so serious as with the senior Institution . Taking the Girls' School ' first , as being the elder of the two Charities , we find that of the 63 approved candidates , 28 have made one or more attempts to be elected , while the remaining 35 are fresh candidates , whose names have been placed on the

list some time between the January and July Quarterly Courts . Nos . I to 9 , both inclusive , were candidates in October , 1 S 87 , and April last , while Nos . 10 to 28 , also both inclusive , were applicants in April . Three of the old candidates—Nos . 3 , 4 , and 11—and one of the new—No . 52—have this one chance only of being admitted , as , if they fail on the present occasion ,

their names will be removed from the list under the law which places the maximum age of eligible candidates at 11 years . We trust , however , that their friends will be able to raise sufficient interest among the Governors and Subscribers of the Institution to prevent so undesirable a result . Other girls with plenty of interest to support them can afford to wait a further six

months , but with these it is a case of " now or never , " antl we sincerely hope they will find their names included among the successful candidates . As regards the further particulars which we are in the habit of placing prominentl y before our readers , an examination of the list will show that , as betweeen London and the Provinces , there are 19 candidates from the

former and 40 from the latter , while in the remaining four cases their claims are partly Metropolitan and partly Provincial . Of the 40 Provincial—or Colonial—candidates , five hail from Kent , namely , Nos . 13 , 20 , 39 , 45 , and 47 ; four from Devonshire , namely , Nos . 3 , 8 , 10 , and 35 ; two—Nos . 37 an ° 55—from Durham ; two—Nos . 7 and 56—from Essex j

two—N ° - 53 and 62—from Northumberland ; and two—Nos . 27 and 61—from Warwickshire ; while the following Provinces send one each , namely—Berks a "d Bucks ( No . 21 ) , Cornwall ( No . 24 ) , Cumberland and Westmorland ( No . 9 ) i Hants and Isle of Wight ( No . 19 ) , Lancashire East ( No . 59 ) , Lancashire West ( No . 36 ) , Lincolnshire ( No . 40 ) , Norfolk ( No . 3 8 ) , North Wales

( No . 60 ) , Nottinghamshire ( No . 23 ) , Somersetshire ( No . 1 ) , Suffolk ( No . ! 0 i Yorkshire North and East ( No . 31 ) , Victoria ( No . 2 ) , Malta ( No . 42 ) , and New Brunswick—which was formerly under the English Constitution—( No . 49 ) , N 0 _ 75 is partly of Cornish and partly of Hants and Isle of Wight origin ; Warwickshire has a ' part interest with Madras in No . 28 and part

W | th Leicestershire and Rutland in No . 29 j No . 33 is from Staffordshire a "d Cheshire ; No . 43 from Derbyshire and Lancashire East ; No . 57 from ^ sex and Kent ; and No . 63 from New Brunswick , Suffolk , and Kent . ih e four of mixed London and Provincial origin are No . 6 ( Norfolk at > d London ) , No . 30 ( Suffolk , Essex , and London ) . No . 46 ( Malta and

j ° ndon ) , and No . 54 ( London and Middlesex ) . As regards the past and Present circumstances of the girls , we note that in 28 cases the fathers had Jen subscribing members of lodges for 10 years and upwards , the father of ' ° - 56 , who is still living , and a Past Prov . G . Officer , having been a memer continuously since his initiation in December 1855 ; while in the case

, 11 of the children , they had contributed towards the maintenance of one r more of our Institutions . Five of the girls have lost both parents , and ve have both of them still living , while 52 are actually , and one virtually , nerless . All of the 28 candidates remaining on the list from the April

tion have votes to their credit , three of them bringing forward upwards : 5 oo votes—namel y , No . 18 , 1883 votes , No . 2 , 1662 votes , and No . 26 , 4 o votes . In the case of four , the votes range between 1000 to 1500 , 88 ° ' ^ ing 1474 votes , No . 23 , 1439 votes , No . 21 , 1188 votes , and No . > l 0 74 votes . Seven have votes to their credit ranging between 500 and .

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1000 , and 10 between loo and 500 votes , the remaining four having under 100 votes respectively . The majority of these girls , especially those with the heavier totals to their credit , will have a decided advantage over the new candidates , provided , of course , their friends and supporters are careful to make the most of the votes already standing to their credit . However ,

it does not come within our province to tender advice as to the manner in which the friends of the children should conduct their cases . What concerns us chiefly is to express the hope that the most deserving children—by which we mean those who stand most in need of the benefits conferred by the Institution—may be successful , and that among these we may find in . eluded the names of the four girls who have this one only chance of success .

* # * THE election of candidates into the Royal Masonic Institution The . Boys' School for Boys will take place on Friday , the 26 th instant , when 75 Election . ^ WJJJ com p f tne 2 i vacancies which were declared in

July last , the disproportion between the number of candidates and the number to be elected being serious enough , but , as we have remarked in the preceding article , not quite so serious as in the case of the Girls' School , where there will be as many as 6 3 candidates for only nine vacancies . Of these 75 Boy applicants , 17 are from London and 56 from the provinces

and colonies abroad , the remaining two being partly of London and partly of provincial origin . As regards the provincial and colonial candidates , Cumberland and Westmorland sends three , Nos . 22 , 23 , and 50 ; Durham three , Nos . 5 , 51 , and 57 ; . Kent three , Nos . 12 , 36 , and 74 ; Norfolk three , Nos . 11 , 34 , and 53 ; and Yorkshire West three , Nos . 26 , 41 , and

5 6 . Essex , Jersey , Lincolnshire , South Wales East , and Somersetshire have each of them two candidates , Nos . 4 and 8 hailing from Essex ; Nos . 28 and 30 from Jersey ; Nos . 42 and 54 from Lincolnshire ; Nos . 45 and 58 from the Eastern Division of South Wales ; and Nos . 20 and 49 from Somersetshire . The following send one each , namely , Cornwall ( No . 16 ) ,

Devonshire ( No . 25 ) , Gloucestershire ( No . 7 /) , Hants and Isle of Wight ( No . 47 ) , Hertfordshire ( No . 52 ) , Isle of Msta ( No . 73 ) , Lancashire East ( No . 63 ) , Leicestershire and Rutland ( No . 67 ) , Northants and Hunts ( No . 27 ) , Northumberland ( No . 55 ) , Nottinghamshire ( No . 61 ) , Oxfordshire ( No . 35 ) , Shropshire ( No . 62 ) , South Wales , West Div . ( No . 66 ) ,

Surrey ( No . 70 ) , Sussex ( No . 10 ) , Wiltshire ( No . 64 ) , Worcestershire ( No . 68 ) , Madras ( N 0 . 29 ) , South Africa , East Division ( N 0 . 2 ) , South Africa , West Division ( No . 6 ) , and New South Wales ( No . 76 ) . The following are from one or more Provinces or Districts , namely : No . 3 from Cornwall and Devonshire ; No . 15 from Devonshire and Somersetshire ; No . 32 from

Oxfordshire and Berks and Bucks ; No . 37 from Jamaica , Kent , and Herts ; No . 39 from Jersey , Cheshire , and Staffordshire ; No . 40 from Suffolk and Norfolk ; No . 44 from Jersey and Ceylon ; No . 59 from Northumberland , Kent , and Hertfordshire ; and No . 72 from Suffolk , Bombay , and Sussex ; while Nos . 19 and 77 are the former from London and Hants

and the Isle of Wight , and the latter from London and Kent . Nos . 12 and 75 , though the names are retained on the list , are marked as having ¦ been withdrawn . There are 60 out of the 75 children who are fatherless , two of them motherless , and five have lost both parents , while eight have both living . In 19 of the cases the father contributed to one or more of our

Institutions , while in 22 cases he was a subscribing member of a lodge or lodges for 10 years and upwards . The old candidates remaining from the April Election are 48 in number ; the new candidates are 27 . Of the former No . 1 has been a candidate at six previous elections , and has 1049 votes to his credit ; No . 2 has made five previous attempts , the result being that

1024 votes stand to his credit ; Nos . 3 to 6 , both inclusive , have stood four elections , No . 3 having 9 votes to the good ; No . 4 , 2299 votes ; No . 5 , 503 votes ; and No . 6 , 119 votes . Nos . 7 to 11 , both inclusive , have made three unsuccessful attempts already , No . 7 with 1603 votes ; No . 9 with 2428 votes ; and No . 10 with " 979 votes , being the only ones who have any

satisfactory result to show . Nos . 13 to 27 , both inclusive , were candidates in October , 1887 , and April , 18 S 8 ; and Nos . 28 to 49 , both inclusive , made their first attempt in April last , several of these two later batches having polled very considerably ; No . 17 having 1641 to his credit ; No . 18 , 1036 votes ; No . 20 , 2151 votes ; No . 21 , 935 votes j No . 22 , 2279 votes ; No . 24 , 1455

votes-No . 25 , 1976 votes ; No . 27 , 1965 votes ; No . 29 , 822 votes ; No . 34 , 1177 votes ; No . 38 , 1371 votes ; and No . 43 , 1135 votes . Of these 48 old candidates , there are four who have already upwards of 2000 votes to the good •four upwards of 1500 , but under 2000 votes : seven over 1000 , but under 1500 votes ; nine over 500 , but under 1000 votes ; six over 100 , but under 500

votes ; and the remaining 18 under 100 votes . Lastl y , there are as many as nine who , if they fail this time , will have their names removed from the list in accordance with law 53 , which fixes the maximum limit of age for

admission at 11 years ; and we trust no effort will be spared in order to carry them in . As we have said in respect of similar cases at the Girls ' Election , others can afford to wait a further six months , but with these it is " now or never . "