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Answers To Correspondents.

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Births, Marriages And Deaths.

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Charity Voting.

CHARITY VOTING .

Wc should not have returned lo this subject , as we believed , that , enough had been said about it , had it not been for the report of a meeting

which took pl .-ico at ihe WettiiiKister Palace Hotel , on the 2 nd int ., Sir R . A . Alcock , in the chair . At that meeting , it appears from the fuller report in The limes , resolutions were even-

Charity Voting.

tually agreed to , or rather perhaps a resolution , embodying the following point : — 1 . That in electing candidates to charitable institutions , it is desirable , in order to prevent trafficking in votes , that voting papers should be

forwarded to each subscriber a short time before the elections , and that all such voting papers be returned direct to the managers of the charities j a , that , as far as possible , canvassing for votes should be discouraged , but that the full descrip- '

tion of each case and the names of the subscribers nominating the case be inserted in the voting paper ; it is moreover expedient that the names of the candidates so nominated should be classified , after investigation , according to the

best judgement of the Committee on , their relative claims ; 3 , that the public polling day , involving the attendance of the candidates and their relatives and friends , should be discontinued , and that the result of each election , having been

duly arrived at by proper scrutiny , be declared by publication in one or more of the principal journals , and by special circular addressed to each candidate , or to the nearest relative of each

candidate . " During the discussion , a speech was made by Dr . Jabez Hogg , which is as follows , and which we consider deserves notice for his allusion to a Masonic Charity .

Bro . Jabez Hogg , in seconding the resolution , dwelt upon the demoralizing effect of the existing method of conducting the elections of charities . He pointed out that in the case of an institution with which he was connected , for the

relief of the widows and orphans of medical men , the most deserving cases were selected for relief without any reference to the subscribers , adding that the charity was distributed in the most satisfactory manner . He mentioned also

the case of a charity connected with the Masonic body , in which the system of open voting and that of selection of applicants by a committee prevailed , observing that the work done by the Committee was far more efficient where the sole object was to afford relief in the most deserving cases .

We should be extreml y glad to know to which Masonic Charity Dr . Jabez Hogg alludes , as the fact , if it be a fact , is entirely new to us . We do not see that much of what is new or important was brought forward b y the promoters of the meeting .

Our worthy Bro . R . J . Simpson , P . 'G ; C : ^ made , we note , a very energetic speech-, " more stio , " but , which appears to us rather an undeserved attack on the managers of our charities , and the present voting system .

Hs said that in dealing with so grave a question , involving as it did , the happiness of their fellow-creatures , it was most desirable to avoid anything like petty personalties . It was by abstaining from all irritating language that

they could best secure the co-operation of managers of the charities . A great many persons felt—and among the number was the Earl of Derby , whom he had seen onl y a few hotirs before—that it was not desirable , at all

events for the present , to do anything more than to endeavour to remove the great abuses which attached to the system of working and which prevented anything like a healthy action . As to the system itself , he did not think any manager

would contend that it was a pure and simple charity . It was , perhaps , at the same time necessary to make allowance for a system which hail grown up for many years , and not at once to produce a revolution , which would not only

unsettle the charities themselves , but which might diminish to some extent the sympathy with which they were regarded . Besides , the legal difficulties in the way of abolishing the existing system were very great , if not insuperable ^

Under those circumstances , thi obvious course for those who were in favour of a change was simply to seek to reform that which they could not destroy . IJe must at the same time point out that those were no mete theorists who maintained that charities could stand without the