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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . ST . JOHN'S HILL , S . W . OFFICE , 5 , FREEMASONS' HALL , GT . QUEEN-ST ., W . C . Patron and President : H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES- , K . G ., & c , M . W . G . M . Patroness-. H . R . H . THE PRINCESS OF WALES . At a meeting of the House Committee , held on the 20 th May last , it was resolved , on the motion of Bro . li . Letchworth , seconded By Bro . J . A . Rucker" That , with the view of perpetuating in years to come the memory of one \ ylio , for considerably more than half a century , has most deservedly enjoyed the esteem and respect of all connected with this Institution , the success and prosperity of which is in no small measure due to her able management , as well as her gentle and thoughtful influence and example , a subscription , limited to One Guinea , be set on footforthe purpose , with Miss Jarwood ' s permission , of having that lady ' s portrait painted by an artist of eminence , to be placed on the wails of the Institution . " The valued services of Miss Jarwood are too well known to need further notice here . Admitted' a pupil of the Institution as long ago as 1 S 19 , she has ever since remained a member of the Establishment . After having acted for nearly thirty years , as assistant to the late Matron , Mrs . F . Creole , she was unanimously elected on that lady ' s death in 185 .-, to thc post she now fills , and which it is hoped she may long continue to occupy . In the present proposal the Committee are but following a precedent established in 1 S 44 , when the very admirable portrait of the late Matron , which hangs on the wall of the Dining Hall , was painted , pursuant to a resolution of the then Committee "for the purpose of having some lasting memento of the services rendered by that lady . " Those who may desire to co-operate in raising the funds necessary to carry out the present proposal , are invited to forward their subscriptions to any one of the following bretliren constituting the Committee , against whose name an asterisk is placed . HONORARY TREASURER . ? CREATON , Lieut .-Col . J ., J . P ., Treasurer and Trustee , 7 , Sidney Place , South Kensington , S . W . IIONORARY SF . CRE TARY . * LETCHWORTH , E ., V . Pres ., SS , St . James ' s Street , S . W . Adams , H . J ., V . Pat . I Lambert , George , V . Pat . Ames , George A . I ? Levander , H . C ., V . Pres . ? Bailey , \ V . * I . ong , Peter de Lande . Barron . E . Jackson . F . S . A ., * Mather , E . C , V . Pres . V . Pres . Matthews , J . IL , V . Pros . Botton , T . Dolling , V . Pat . Middleton , / John E . Bowyer , Edgar , V . Pres . Moutrie , C . Burdett , Lieut .-Col . Sir F ., * . \' unn , Joshua , V . Pres . Bart ., J . P ., Trustee . * Paas , William . Burnell , E . II . Parkinson , J . C „ V . Pat . ? Chancellor , J . G ., V . Pres . Peacock , T . F . Clabon , J . M ., V . Pat . * Peters , Lieut .-Col . James . Glutton , " R . G ., V . Pres . Ramsay , F . W . H . * , M . D . * Cuthush , James . * Richardson , Frank , V . Pres . * Dicketts , Herbert , V . Pres . Robbins , Rev . J ., D . D . ? Dubois , II . A . * Roebuck , William . ? Faulkner , John . * Rucker , John A ., V . Pat . Fenn , Thomas , V . Pat . Smith , Griffiths , V . Pres . Florence , F . rnest B . # Smith , Henry , V . Pros . Greetbam , Thomas . Spooner , Edward . ? Hamerton , Charles . ? Tattershall , A . II . ? Hedges , F . Ii . \ V ., Sec . to ? Tomlinson , W . H . B „ J . P . the Institution . # Venn , Henry . ? Hill , Mr . Alderman Thos ., *\ Vebster , li . B „ V . Pres . J . P ., V . Pres . Wilson , Erasmus , V . Pat . Hope , William , M . D . Woodford , Rev . A . F . A ., ? Kenning , George , V . Pat . M . A . ? Kingston , Thomas . * Words \ vorth , John .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

The largely increased circulation of tlie Freemason necessitates our going * to press at an earlier hour on Thursdays . It is therefore requested that all communications

intended to appear in the current number may be sent to our offices not later than 5 p . m . on Wednesdays . Advertisements and short notices of importance received up lo 12 o ' clock noon on Thursdays .

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TO ADVERTISERS . THE FREEMASON has a large circulation tn all parts of the fUnbe . In it the official Reports of tlie Orand Lodges of Kngtond , Ireland , and Scotland are published with the special sanction of the re > pectivc Grand Masters , and it contains a complete record of Masouic work in this country , our Indian Kmpire , and the Colonies . The vast accession to tlie ranks of the Order during the past few years , and the increasing interest manifested iu its doing- ; , has given the Frt-cmasun a position and influence which few journals can lay claim to , and the proprietor can assert with confidence that announcements appearing in its columns challenge tlie attention of a very large and influential body of readers . Advertisements for tlie current week ' s issue are received up to six o'clock on Wednesday evening .

Books, &C, Received.

BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED .

"Masonic Token , " "The Obelisk and Freemasonry , " "Guide to England and Scotland , West Coast route , London and North Western Railway , " " Orient , " " Jewish Chronicle , " "Hull Packet , " "The Citizen , " "Sunday Times , " "Croydon Guardian , " "Broad Arrow , " "Keystone , " "Public Ledger , " " New York Dispatch , " "The Masonic Record of AVestern India , " "Die Baiihutte , "

"Moore ' s Masonic Messenger , " "Egyptian Gazette , " "Allen's Indian Mail , " "Revue de TImprimerie . " "Freemason's Monthly , " "Annals ofthe Grand Lodgeof Iowa , " "New Yorker Bundes-Prcsse , " "The Cosmopolite , " "Der Long Islaender , " "The Independent , " "Bulletin du Grand Orient de France , " "Sermon preached in St . Andrew ' s Church on thc occasion of the Dedication of Mount Olive Lodge , by the Rev . J . Richards Dickson , Chaplain , " "The ' Colonist . "

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THE FREEMASON . SATURDAY , AUG . 14 , 1 SS 0 .

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WE liasten to express a regret , which will be shared in by many of our readers , at the practice reported from South Africa of a Sunday Masonic lodge meeting , procession , & c , etc . Time was , in some of our memories , no doubt , when Royal

Arch ( Jhapters and Lodges of Instruction were not a few held of a Sunday evening . We arc not proposing lo discuss to-day thc abstract or concrete propriety of such proceedings , but simply to deal with thc " status in quo . " It lias been generally felt

for many years thai Sunday was not the day to meet for Masonic purposes . iM-ccmasonry , though excellent in itself , and always reverent and reli gious , as all our meetings begin and end in prayer , does not merely assemble for work , and as , owing to

tlie want of rooms , man } ' of our lodges and chapters meet in hotels , it has been graduall y realized lhat it was better on every ground of "ethics " and example to give up our Sunday Gatherings . If any such exist they are quite abnormal , and

opposed to the wiser views of luiglisJi Masons for some years now . For fear then of this case being brought forward as a precedent , wc are glad , as wc feel it to be our duty , to lake the earliest opportunity of recording our decided obiectiwi to wliat is now ,

happily , an innovation , and we trust will prove to be a mistake not again to be repeated . We might say much more , but , as our readers will perceive , we have simply followed out our own laws of Masonic arrangement and common sense , and kept clear of

any merel y religious controversy . Wc have a strong opinion on the subject ourselves , but we think what we have said will suflice . In this special case , though we do not doubt Bro . Major TERRY ' good intentions , we think the whole proceeding of

very doubtful propriety . It was very right and ( itting for the lodge to go to church , but not with a band or in clothing , and especially with all their paraphernalia , on a Sunday . Instead of attracting , such a procedure would repel ; instead of doing Freemasonry good , it would do it harm .

* * * THE question concerning thc relative rank of Prov . and District Grand Masters seems to interest some of our readers . We confess that we cannot ourselves profess lo understand how there can reall y be

two opinions on thc subject , but it appears there arc , and we have to deal with such a state of ( he case . It has been questioned by " Bayard " whether a Prov . or District Grand Master be a Grand Oflicer , and can take precedence of actual

Present or Past Grand Officers of Grand Lodge ; it is asserted by " Rcvivisco " that they cannot return thanks for thc Grand Lodge . Well , we do not , as we said before , see on what grounds such doubts are raised , such judgments

arc founded . I he IJook of Constitutions appears to us explicit on the subject . In the first place , b y thc Tableof Prcccde . ice , Prov . and District Grand Masters rank before Present and Past Grand Wardens . But then it is said , that is only in

Grand Lodge ar on occasions of ceremony . Wait a lillie ! There is an enactment of Grand Lodge which has been strangely overlooked , by which , in thc absence of the G . M ., ( and , of course , his Pro

and D . G . M . ) , the senior J \ ist or Present Grand Olliccr lakes the chair . In this sense all Prov . and District Grand Masters , who precede even Grand Wardens , have an acknowledged status and duty , as official members of Grand Lodge , and we fail

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to see how , when a Prov . or District Grand Master is present , assuming him to be of senior appointment to the Present or I ^ ast Grand Officer present , he can be passed over in returning thanks for Grand I ^ odge . Indeed , according to the Table of

Precedence , all Prov . and District Grand Masters take absolute precedence of all Present and Past Grand Wardens . Yet , remembering thc qualification inserted , as regards taking the chair , we are inclined to think that a fair question mi ght

arise , as regards seniority of standing . It is but fair , however , to observe , that for some years , we believe , the practice has been to recognize the actual rank of I ^ rov . and Dislrict Grand Masters , " virtute officii , " over all the actual officers of

Grand Lodge , as mentioned 111 the Book of Constitutions , and thus it is that Prov . and District Grand Masters return thanks for Grand Lodge at Masonic meetings . Three curious points arising out of this controversy deserve

consideration . The one is , that though there is a provision for thc Senior Grand Warden " summoning" a Grand Lodge , in the " absence" ofthe Grand Master , there is no provision for liis " ruling Grand Lodge , " as there is in the laws relating to private

lodges . Secondly , the argument about Masters and Wardens bc ' . ng on the same grounds " officers " of Grand Lodge is absolutely untenable and incorrect , in that ihcy could in no case preside over Grand Lodge . And , thirdly , though all these laws

refer to Grand Lodge and Masonic public and private ceremonial , can they be enforced , ( except b y courtesy ) , in thc social circle ? The Book of Constitutions takes no cognizance of " refreshment hours , " in that thc meeting of the brethren becomes

then a private club . Still , undoubtedly , a law of comity and customary observance prevails even there , and wc see no reason to doubt the propriety

of what is now the normal usage of Lnglish lodges in this respect , and we , therefore , deprecate , in the interest of all , both "doubtful difficulties " and a " new order of things . "

* * IT seems that a certain person of the name of EDMUND ROXAYKE is now professing to expose Freemasonry in Boston , U . S ., under the auspices of thc Rev . H . T . CHEBVER and the " National

Christian Association . " Cannot Mr . CHEEVER and the " National Christian Association " find something better to do ? Is there no work for Gon or man to be done in the world , no other witness for relig ion or for truth to be borne ? He asserts ,

we understand , that lie is both a Freemason and has been a W . M . This , however , is denied , and , probably , to him the old adage forcibl y applies , " falsusin uno , falsus in omnibus . " All such attacks do Freemasonry really more good than harm ; all

such assailants generally come lo grief . If he be whal he says he is , he cannot expect any one to credit his statements on his own self-assumed

position ; if he is onl y another itinerant assailant of Freemasonry , trading on thc credulity of his hearers , he is positively harmless . So we leave him in his glory , and he has our most heartfelt pity .

* * A SORT of " canard" seems going the round of the papers , that PRIXI . E BISMARCK has said something against the Freemasons . Wc doubt it very much indeed . PRINCE BISMARCK is a very

farseeing man , and a very foreseeing statesman , and lie is not likely lo forget that the EMPEROR is the Patron , thc IMPERIAL C ROWS PRIXCE thc Grand Master , of German Freemasons . Some of the German Freemasons arc not so prudent in their

utterances as we could wish them to be , and seem sometimes lo forget that Freemasonry has nothing to do with politics . So we recommend our friends in England not to lend credit to such statements , as just now " canards " are many , and " gobemouches " are more .

* * WE call attention elsewhere to a portion of Bro . J * PEREZ ' letter , as translated from the Spanish , and thc explanations ihcrcanent , from our

able correspondent the writer of " Freemasonry in Spain . " We regret that , for the reasons there stated , wc cannot consent to print Bro . PEREZ ' letter " in extenso . "