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CONTENTS .

LEADERS 529 Lodge True Friendship , No . 218 , Calcutta 530 Opening of the Masonic Exhibition at Shanklin , Isle ot Wight $ 31 CORRESPONDENCEThe Treasurership of the Bovs' School ... S 33

Notes and Queries $ 33 REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry $ 34 Instruction 534 Royal Arch 535 Instruction 53 S Scotland 535 Egypt S 3 $

Presentation to thc Unanimity and Sincerity Lodge , No . 261 " S 35 Freemasonry in Devon and Cornwall 533 The Late Miss Jarwood 536 Royal Masonic lienevolent Institution 336 American Masonic Courtesies __( s

The "Light" of Freemasonry 53 6 Masonic Charity in West Lancashire 53 *) A Masonic Anecdote 336 Freemasons and Emigration .... 53-7 Thc Craft Abroad 537 Theatres 537 Masonic and General Tidings < - * 3 S Lodge Meetings for Next Week " iii .

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THE proceedings at the meeting of United Grand Lodge on the ist inst . were protracted beyond expectation by the discussion which arose on certain proposed alterations in Nos . 2 and 14 of the Regulations of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . As our readers are aware , the annual report of this Charity is presented to Grand Lodge , after having been

submitted to the annual general meeting in May of the Governors and Subscribers . No . 47 of the Regulations renders this presentation obligator }' , and , though it does not appear to have been so understood by all the brethren present in Grand Lodge on this occasion , Regulation No . S 3 , and last , provides that "No Rule or Regulation of this Institution , nor any

alteration therein , shall come into operation until the same shall have been approved of by Grand Lodge . " The particular alteration which formed the subject of the discussion that took place was the change proposed to be made in relation to the Treasurership of the Institution , which has heretofore been filled , by virtue of his office , by the Grand Treasurer of United

Grand Lodge , under Regulation No . 2 , which lays it down that " the Grand Treasurer for the time being " shall be " the Treasurer of the Institution . " But since the brethren have adopted the practice of electing a new Grand Treasurer every year , the Committee of Management appear to have found it inconvenient , and the cause of much delay , that , as a result , the

Institution should have a new Treasurer annual ! }' , the inconvenience being all the greater , as the Grand Treasurer has always been one of the Trustees of the Male and Female Funds of the Charity . We offer no opinion upon the desirability of the proposed change , which Grand Lodge , moreover , by its vote of last week , has accepted and approved . But , in our

judgment , there does not appear to thc slightest doubt that the present Grand Treasurer of United Grand Lodge , namely , Bro . D . P . CAMA , is , by Nos . 2 and 53 of the Regulations of the Institution , likewise the present Treasurer of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and a Trustee of the different funds mentioned in Regulation No . 14 . Our

reasons for holding this opinion are ( 1 ) that by Rule No . 53 no alteration in any Rule or Regulation can come into operation " until the same shall have been approved of by Grand Lodge " and that , therefore , Bro . D . P . CAMA , as " the Grand Treasurer for the time being " on the ist September , was the then Treasurer of the Institution and will remain such till the

proceedings of that day have been confirmed by Grand Lodge at its Quarterly Communication in December next ; ( 2 ) that whether or not any such confirmation of last week ' s proceedings in Grand Lodge is necessary—and there are those who think it is not—the new law provides that "The Treasurer of the Institution shall be elected

annually on the third Friday in May . Consequently , as there is no provision for giving a retroactive effect to a prospective change which has at length received the approval of Grand Lodge , no election under the new law can take place until " the third Friday in May " 18 S 7 ; and hence " the Grand Treasurer for the time being " is and will remain " Treasurer of the

Institution " until such day , to wit , "the third Friday in May" of next year , as the new law comes legally into operation . Anything that may have been done towards providing a Treasurer for the Institution under

any law which has not hitherto been approved of by Grand Lodge is illegal , and anything done on any other than thc day appointed under the new law , that is , on any other day than the " third Friday in May , '' must be illegal likewise .

# # BEFORE the end of the present month another province—that of the Isle of Man—will be added to the roll , and there will then only remain the group of lodges meeting in the Channel Islands ( Guernsey and Alderney ) which will have no organisation as a Provincial Grand Lodge . The new province

will consist of the five lodges now held in the Island , namely , the Athole , No . 1014 ; the Tynwald , No . 1242 ; the Elian Vannin , No . 2049 ; and the St . Trinian's , No . 2050 , all meeting in Douglas ; and the St . Maughold , No . 1075 , Ramsey , with a sixth lodge—St . German's , No . 2164--to meet at Peel , which will be consecrated on the 28 th inst ., the day preceding the constitution of the Provincial Grand Lodge and the installation

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of Bro . Major GOLDEE-TAUBMAN , Speaker of the House of Keys , as Provincial Grand Master . Thus the new Provincial Grand Lodge will at the outset be able to make a very respectable show , numerically , and we doubt not that under the wise rule of the able and influential brother on whom . his Royal Highness the GRAND MASTER has

bestowed the patent of Prov . Grand Master , the Provincial Grand Lodge of the Isle of Man will speedily make its mark among the Provincial Grand Lodges holding under the Grand Lodge of England . The ceremonies of consecrating the new lodge of St . German ' s on the 28 th and installing Bro .

Major GOLDEE-TAUBMAN , as Prov . G . M ., on the 29 th inst ., will be performed by Bro . Col . CLERKE , G . Sec , who , accompanied by several Grand Oflicers , will visit the Isle of Man for the purpose . We trust everything will pass off in a manner worthy of so auspicious an occasion .

# * # IT has seldom been our privilege to attend so solemn a gathering as that which took place at the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , Battersea Rise , on Thursday , the 2 nd inst ,, when the mortal remains of Miss J ARWOOD , for so many years the respected Matron of the School , were

interred in Battersea Cemetery , amid the poignant regrets of the children she had tended so kindly , and the representatives of the different Cornmittees , as well as of the Governors and Subscribers generally , with and for whom she had worked so harmoniously and successfully . A full account of the ceremony will be found in another part of our columns , but we cannot

forbear expressing our satisfaction at the excellence of the arrangements that were made . Everything was carried out strictly according to the plan provided . There was no hitch or break in the proceedings , and the whole scene was as beautifully yet mournfully impressive as any the imagination

could picture . It was evident the grief exhibited was as deep as it was general , and that those present were actuated by a sense of thc reality of the loss which they and the Institution had sustained through the death of its beloved and respected Matron .

st # SOME few weeks since , when we announced that a Bro . BINCKES Testimonial Fund was to be raised wilh a view to recognising in some tangible form the great services rendered during the last 25 years to the Craft generally , but especially to thc Boys' School , by that worthy brother , we promised to

refer to the subject more fully in some future article . We hasten to redeem that promise , but as his career has been so fully described in the " History of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , " originally published in our columns , we need not dwell very minutely on the details . Briefly , Bro . BINCKES has been one of us for some five-and-tliirty years , having been

initiated in the Enoch Lodge in thc month of December , 1 S 51 . Within ten years from his initiation he was elected Secretary of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , and appointed Grand Secretary of the Mark Grand Lodge . He was chosen to the former office at a time when it was felt that an infusion of " new blood" into thc executive was absolutely necessary

if the Institution in its new career of a Boarding School was to be carried on in a manner worthy of our Society . He entered on the latter office when there were rival authorities over the Mark Degree and much of the work of organisation had yet to be done . The appointment of Bro . BINCKES to two offices of high trust and heavy responsibility , in the course of one year ,

sufficiently indicate the confidence felt in his ability to achieve great things , and the work of the twenty and five years that have elapsed since then bears ample testimony to the justice of that confidence . As regards the Boys ' School and his labours on ils behalf , on which the Committee of the pro . posed Fund have principally based their address to the brethren , we shall

best promote the object in view by contrasting the present position of thc Institution with what it was in 1 S 61 , when he entered upon his duties as Secretary . Then there wcre 70 boys , all told , on the establishment ; there are now 223 , exclusive of those admitted on perpetual and life presentations . Then the School buildings were only a private

mansion converted into a school ; now they are a handsome and massive pile as regards the principal structure , containing spacious schoolrooms and dormitories , bath-rooms and offices , a dining hall , and ample accommodation for the resident staff of masters , matron , and servants , with other buildings adjoining , to wit , thc head master's residence , the large

Assembly Hall , the infirmary , the Preparatory School , and the gymnasium , the whole being situated in extensive grounds , part of which are laid out ornamentally , while other parts are used for playing grounds and the growth of vegetable and dairy produce . In 1861 the income from all

sources was about £ 2000 j now it is about seven times as great . The Festival immediately preceding Bro . BINCKES ' S appointment yielded under £ 1600 ; that held at Brighton on the 30 th June last produced close on £ 12 , 700 , and there are some years in which even that amount has been exceeded ,