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Masonic Notes .

We beg to remind our readers that the School Juarterl y Courts will be held towards the close of ne-i i week , That of the P . oyal Masonic Institution ur Hoys is fixed for Friday , the 15 th instant , at ¦ SATURDAY , APRIL 9 , 18 9 S .

'• L-cmasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street , W . C , where J 'hair will be taken at the hour of 12 noon , and w en the regular business has been disposed of a poll list 1 ° ° pcned for thl ! e ! cc t'on of 27 from ; in approved lb of 49 candidates—reduced from 50 by the with'Wa of No' 1 5 who has been nominated under a

p . Sub PetU u Presentalion ' The Court of Governors and willT S ° f tHe R ° yal Masonic Institution for Girls iGth C held at Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday , the noon ' ^ ' The ° ' " be taken P P"y at I 2 ' anQ in due course a poll will be opened for the

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election of 15 from an approved list of 26 candidates . On both days the poll will be closed at 3 p . m ., after which hour no votes will be received under any

circumstances . * # # As usual , we earnestly appeal to those of our readers who are not already committed to the support of any particular candidate , to give their votes and influence in behalf of those children who , in the event of their

failing to secure election at these Courts , will be no longer eligible for admission , and will accordingly have their names removed from the lists . We make this appeal on the usual grounds ( 1 ) that these in common with all the other candidates have had their cases sifted and approved , and their names placed on the lists by order of the presiding authorities ; ( 2 )

that the other candidates , if they fail at these elections , will still have one or more chances afforded them of being admitted , the greatest hardship that can happen to any of them being a further delay of six months before they succeed in winning places in one or other of our Schools . These latter can wait , but the children we are appealing for cannot .

There are 10 cases in all of this description on the two lists , four on that of the Girls' Election , and six on the Boys' list . The four girls are placed at Nos . 1 , 3 , , and 13 j the six boys at Nos . 1 , 13 , 14 , 16 , 31 , and 39 . We have made similar appeals at successive elections into our Schools for several years pa st and

we have reason to know that they have not been made in vain , there being many Governors who regularly hold their votes in reserve in order to help the children who are thus unfortunately circumstanced . We trust that at the elections to be held on the 15 th and 16 th instant respectively , everyone of these 10 last cases

will be found among the successful . * * fn the paper of Agenda at the Boys' School Court , on the 15 th inst ., are included two important Notices of Motion . The first has reference to the amount to be paid in future for Perpetual and Life

Presentations , and proposes that in accordance with the recommendations of the Joirj , t Committee of the three Institutions appointed to consider the question , 1550 guineas be charged for a Perpetual , and 900 guineas for a Life Presentation ; the latter not to be granted upon a Life under 21 years of age . The second notice —by Bro . Stanley J . Attcnborough , P . G . A . D . C—is to

the effect that in order to celebrate the Centenary of the Institution , an allowance , at the rate of , £ 20 per annum be granted to each of the unsuccessful Candidates at the year's elections towards their education and maintenance , and be continued until they are admitted into the School , or become ineligible by reason of age for admission .

# * » Wc have heard it suggested that Bro . Fenn ' s statement at the Centenary Festival of the United Strength Lodge , No . 22 S—that " he had been looking down the list of those lodges holding Centenary Warrants and he found that No . 228 was the last in the London

lodges holding its meeting under an Athol Warrant " —is not strictly in accordance with the facts . It is , of course , impossible for us to say what precise meaning Bro . Fenn was desirous that his words should convey . He mig ht have meant nothing more than that after No . 228 there were no more lodges of Athol origin

meeting in the Lo ndon district . This is strictly true . A reference to Grand Lodge Calendar will show that of the lodges marked with a f — to indicate that they were formerly on the roll of the "Ancient " or "Athol" Grand Lodge—which come after No .

22 S , all arc located either in the Provinces or Abroad . Thus , No . 229 meets in Calcutta ; No . 230 in Dcvonport j No . 232 in Calcutta ; No . 233 in Bermuda ; No . 234 in Calcutta ; No . 243 in Guernsey ; Nos . 244 and 245 in Jersey ; No . 246 in Cheltenham j and No . 247 in George Town , Demerara , S . America .

• * There are those , however , who appear to think that Bro . Kenn intended or desired to convey the idea that No . 228 , as there were no more originally Athol lodges fuithcr on in the list , would be the last of that creation to receive a centenary warrant . Wc do

not suppose that with the thorough knowledge of the composition of our Grand Lodge register lie had it in his mind to convey this meaning . There are several London lodges of Athol origin higher up in the list than No . 228 , which in time no doubt will be able to to prove continuity of working for 100 years and so become entitled to the honour of receiving . 1 centenary warrant . #

* * The first of these is St . George ' s and Corner Stone , No . 5 , a Red Apron Lodge , which , as regards the "St .

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George's , " is "Ancient , " or " Athol , " and , as regards the " Corner Stone , " is " Modern " ; this has not yet received a centenary warrant . Then there are the Robert Burns Lodge , No . 25 , and the Egyptian , No . 27 , which are both of Athol origin , and meet—the former under a warrant of 1810 , and the latter under one of 1811 . Gihon Lodge , No . 49 , dates from

November , 1810 ; and Lodge of Prosperity , No . 65 , from June , 1 S 10 ; while Royal Jubilee Lodge , No . 75 , dates from October of the same year ; and Pythagorean Lodge , No . 79 , from March , 1813 . No . 87—the Vitruvian Lodge—dates from May , 1810 ; the Eastern Star Lodge , No . 95 , from December , 1802 ; Temple Lodge , No . 101 , from July , 1813 ; and Lodge of Justice , No . 147 , from January , 1801 .

# * * Then there is the Middlesex Lodge , No . 143 , which , though working under a warrant of loth October , 1775 , has not yet received a centenary warrant . The warrant of the Jordan Lodge , No . 201 , dates from April , 1810 ; . of the Euphrates Lodge , No . 212 , from October , 1812 ;

and of the Ionic Lodge , No . 227 , from April , [ i 8 lo . Here then are 14 lodges working in London under Athol warrants , which sooner or later we have no doubt will be able to establish to the satisfaction of Grand Lodge continuous working for 100 years and thereby obtain the privilege of receiving a centenary warrant . We will add that most of the foregoing particulars are

derived from Bro . John Lane ' s " Masonic Records 1717-1 S 94 , " while the fact of so many lodges senior to No . 22 S being without centenary warrants is to be accounted for by the practice in vogue among the " Ancients " of lodges of later creation obtaining warrants higher up on their register which had lapsed by payment of sums varying in amount to the Grand Lodge Fund of Charity .

» » + It happens far more frequently in the United States than in the United Kingdom that the members of a lodge or other Masonic body form a party for visiting lodges or bodies in other parts of the country . Occasionally such excursions are made , the interchange of

visits some time ago between members of St . Nicholas Lodge , No . 16 7 6 , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , and those of Dublin lodges being a case of the kind that occurs to us . On the 26 th ultimo a body of members of the Baldwyn Preccptory of Knights Templar , of Bristol , visited Dublin , were shown the principal sights in the

Irish capital , and feted to their hearts' content by their Irish brethren , Bro . Black , W . M . of Lodge S 3 , and the members of Preceptory No . 245 being among the foremost in showing courtesy to the visitors . Among the places of interest they had the opportunity of seeing was the Royal Hospital , Kilmainham , which they

visited by the special invitation of Bro . Field-Marshal Lord Roberts , Commanding the Forces in Ireland , and over which they were kindly conducted by his lordship in person . We publish elsewhere an account of the visit from the Dublin Daily Express of the 1 st

instant , from which it will be seen that the Bristol Templars , foremost among whom was E . Knight Picrrepont Harris , P . E . P ., P . Prov , G . Chancellor , had a high time of it during their week's sojourn in Dublin .

» » * In the review in the Voice of Masonry of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of California at its 48 th annual communication in October last are to be found mentioned sundry . curious resoluti ons which appear to have been adopted without the slightest hesitation .

Our readers are aware that many of the Grand Lodges in the United States are great sticklers for the physical ¦ qualification dogma . But wc were not prepared to find any body of men in their senses carrying out this dogma to the extent mentioned by our worthycontemporary in two cases . In one of these a resolution to

the effect that a man who had sustained the loss of one of his eyes " was not disqualified from receiving the degrees of Masonry" was not adopted , while in the other case it was decided that " a chronic asthmatic is not proper for a lodge to accept . " As our lodges mostly meet in the evening we think a " chronic

asthmatic " would , for his health ' s sake , be better away from them except during the summer months , but what there is to prevent him going through the ceremonies of Masonry and acquiring a knowledge of its pr inciplcs we fail to see . As for the disqualification of a candidate on the ground that he has lost one of his eyes , it strikes us as being especially absurd . Even

the man with two eyes can do no more than see who is in the lodge and what passes there , and the oneeyed man can see as much , though his range of sight may be more limited . After this we are not surprised to learn that some time was occupied in discussing the question whether the honours of a funeral can be paid to a brother whose body is cremated .