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SATURDAY , OCTOBER 6 , i 8 S 8 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , It is satisfactory to know that the Philbrick Committee of Inquiry into the management , discipline , and expenditure of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys is composed of men of large and varied experience , sound

judgment , and commanding influence , who do not need to curry favour with the multitude , who , while treating with respect every one entitled to give evidence or submit an opinion , will listen unmoved to the clamours of the busybody and the partisan , and in whose report , of what nature soever it may happen to be , the Craft , as a body , will , as you have justly said , have the roost implicit confidence .

From all I hear , there is a mob of unreasoning brethren , who are prepared to follow the lead of those turbulent spirits who are chiefly responsible ior the present uproar , and a less weighty and influential Committee than Bro . Philbrick has succeeded in bringing together might find it difficult , if not impossible , to stem the tide of popular disfavour which the originators of this commotion have

apparently been able to excite against the executive authorities of the Boys' School . I trust Bros . TunniclifF and Greatbatch will do me the kindness to believe that I do not include them among the said turbulent spirits referred to above , who are a distinct species of Masons , and to whom it is impossible that my worthy Staffordshire brothers can have any affinity . But

it does not need the wisdom of King Solomon to detect in the letter , with their signatures at foot , which appeared in your columns last week , a most decided feeling of hostility towards the House Committee and salaried officials , into whose management of the Boys' School it is the appointed duty of the Philbrick Committee to enquire . In that letter they invite brethren and others in the provinces and

elsewhere to unite with them in compiling a chapter of complaints—the longer and more formidable it is , the better satisfied , perhaps , they will be with it—against the School authorities . They say " there has for some years past been much complaining in at least some of the provinces as to the management ot the Institution , " and they suggest that , "as a channel has now been opened for submitting

these complaints to a competent and impartial tribunal , " those who have—or , which is probably the same thing , imagine they have—complaints to make of the School mauagemtnt and expenditure , should combine together to make the indictment against the Executive as tremendous as they can , so that the House Committee , the Secretary , the Head Master , and the rest of them may be crushed out

of existence altogether . 1 say that the letter of Bros . Tunnicliff and Gteatbatch , after a carelul study of its several paragraphs , justifies this interpretation of the spirit by which they are actuated towards the Executive , and in which they propose to submit their grievances to the fortunately "competent and impartial tribunal , " which has been appoimed to inquire into them . It certainly

harmonises welt with the spirit of lhat injunction I have occasionally heard of , to" hit him haid , he has no iriends " —or apparently he has none—but it is not in accordance with the teachings of Freemasomy . Nevertheless , though 1 object to the spirit in which their invitation was issued , 1 shad not refuse to accept and act upon it in my own fashion , and before concluding this

letttr , 1 purpose stating openly the complaint I have to make against the School authorities . But let me fi . st of all remind Bros . Tumiicliff and Greaibatch , ana others whom it may concern , that the House Committee and executive orhceis of the Boys' School are not a body of men who are on their lual for high ciimes and misdemeanours against the Institution . The House Committee

is a body ot gentlcmtn and Masons who give their services voluntarily , without hope or expectation of anything in the shape ot fee or reward , and prompted by no other desire in placing those services at the disposal of the Institution than to promote its welfare to the utmost of their ability . 'I hey have mostly , if not in every case , attained to positions of eminence in the ranks of Freemasonry ; they

enjoy the respect and confidence of a majority of the brethren on the General Committee ; they are elected annually ; and il , on trial , they prove to be wanting in those attributes which are necessary to constitute an efficient governing body , it is in the power—indeed it would become the duty—of the members of the General Committee to elect others in their stead . 1 would also

remind them , as regards Bro . Frederick Binckes , the Secretary , that he is a Past G . Steward and Past G . Sword Bearer of the United Grand Lodge of England , and G . Secretary since ifc > 6 i and Past J . G . W . of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons ot England ; that he has bien associated with our Institution lor Boys , firstly , as a member ol the House Committee , and .-ince June , 1 B 61 , as

Secretary , ever since it was tstabhshed as a boaiding School at Wood Gieen ; and that the success whiih the Institution has achieved as a Si . huol during iis brief caieer of 31 years is in greatest measure and by the almost univeisal consent of the English Craft attiiuuted to his gieat ability , and the amazing zeal and energy with which he has discharged his duties as Secretary . Lastly , let me

remind Bros . 1 unnicliffe and Greatbatch , and those who act or purpose acting with them , as regards Bro . the Rev . Richard Morris , ivl . A ., LL . D ., the Head Master , lhat he is a clergyman of the Anglican Church and a gtnileman , a Mason ol conhiderable distinction , a man ol gieat scholarly attainments—especially in the h ' elil ot English literature—which are known and appreciated in cncies

outside that to which during the last 13 years he has chufly confined his attention ; and that his fitness for the posuu . n he occupies at Wood Green has been exemplified by the success of his pupils at various public examinations and the healthy and gentlemanly tone which has characteiised the boys generally since his appointment to office in 1875 . It was my intention to have apologised to