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CONTENTS .
L EADERS 1 % Roval Masonic Institution for Girls 1 S 9 Roval Masonic Institution for Hoys 190 Consecration o £ the Hammersmith Loelge , No . sogo 190 The Royal Order of Scotland igi
C ORRESPONDENCEThe Ballot—ils Use and Abuse 193 The Word Hele 193 An Enquiry 193 The Principle of thc Ballot 193 The Abuse of the Ballot 194 Notes and Queries 19 +
REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 194 Instruction 19 $ Royal Arch ig $ Mark Masonry it ) g Ancient and Accepted Rite 19 $ Rosicrucian Society 196 Thc Red Cross of Rome and Constantine 196
The First Ladies' Festival of the Lodge of Perseverance , Ne . 1743 196 Centenary of the Tyrian Lodge , No . 253 ... 196 Devon Masonic Educational Fund 197 The Theatres igj Masonic and General Tidings 198 Lodge Meetings for Next Week Cover .
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VVF . have alluded to remarks about the Grand Officers which , of course , as we foresaw , could not be assumed to be perfectly correct . We think , however , that the following' list will be found if not altogether , pretty near to the truth : The two Grand Wardens , rumour again assures us , are the Marquis of H ERTFORD and the Hon . SACKVILLE WEST ; the two Grand Chaplains
are Canon PORTAL and the Rev . R . VV . SANDERSON ; the Grand Deacons are Bros . GOLDNPA ' , Dr . MEADOWS , WATSON , and R . C . DRIVER ; Deputy Grand Director of Ceremonies , Bro . PAUL ; Grand Assistant Director of Ceremonies , Bro . Major HARDING ; Grand Sword Bearer , Bro . HAMMERTON ; Grand Standard Bearers , Bros . BUTLER WILKINS and G . P . BROCKBAN'K ; and Assistant Grand Pursuivant , Bro . A . LUCKING .
* * * THE Quarterly Court and Election for the Girls' School took place on Saturday last , under the presidency of Bro . H . B . MARSHALL , Grand Treasurer and Treasurer , and the Hall was well filled during the day . The Election was very animated , and the polling was very high . There were the usual number of careless and ridiculous mistakes as regards the voting
papers , which almost sometimes seem to cast a reflection on the intelligence and good sense of the Craft . Still , a great deal of this is owing undoubtedly to the incurable apathy of our good Order . Worthy brethren who support cases think they do all that is needful and proper if they keep back their votes until the last possible moment , forgetting that in the hurry and excitement of a crowded gathering , with many applicants and countless talkers ,
" mistakes will occur in the best regulated " set of workers . When even large numbers of votes are in question , it is difficult sometimes to obtain them until the very last moment . In the Girls' School Election the highest successful candidate polled 2396 votes , and the lowest 1490 . Altogether 38 , 656 polled for the successful , and for the unsuccessful 5799 . Thus , as 48 , 6 99 votes were issued , there were 4340 votes remaining unpolled . Further comment seems needless .
* « THE Election for the Boys' School took place on Monday last , when , under the presidency of Bro . RAYNHAM STEWART , a very numerous gathering filled the hall . Bro . GODSON moved the repeal of Law 57 , which motion after some discussion was carried . Bro . CUMBERLAND moved the removal of TAITENDEN from the list , and which proposition was seconded
by Bro . MOORE . After a long discussion the motion was rejected by an overwhelming majority . Bro . F . DGAR BOWYER ' S motion for increasing the numbers from 25 to 26 to be elected , was unanimously agreed to amid cheers . The poll then opened , and the voting was animated and high , though not so hig h as had been anticipated . Indeed , the calculations of the most experienced in such matters have been rudely shaken by the results of
Saturday and Monday last . On the former day those who judged the possibility and probability of success by arithmetical figures , more or less infallible , were out 150 on their estimate—the lowest number successful being 1490 . On Monday the highest number was 2155 , the lowest 859 , a drop of 300 from the last but one , and of nearly 800 from the last but two . It is a very long time since any boy succeeded in being elected at so low a figure . Thus we have another proof , if proof were needed , of the glorious
uncertainty of calculations and elections , and a warning against those persistent efforts to affix an extravagant value on different kinds of yotes , or as between two different sets of voting of equal monetary value . There were 49 , 890 votes issued for the Boys' School Election ; 17 , 643 broug ht forward . There were 45 , 819 votes polled for the successful candidates , and 6146 for the unsuccessful , leaving 49 6 S unpolled votes . The simple fact that in our two great Educational Institutions there were really over 10 , 000 unpolled votes , is a matter deserving of serious attention .
* * * WHEN among the crowd assembled in our Hall for the School Elections , on Saturday and Monday last , we strongly felt not only how good and useful our Educational Institutions have become ; and what a striking commentary mey oBer on the reality and true meaning of Freemasonry . If any one asks us what is the good of Freemasonry ; and who or ' , what is a true Mason we feel inclined to reply in the Mason , language of old ROB
MORRISTo suffer long-, and yet be true and kind ; To bear the slight , and yet retain the love ; To hope whate'cr betide , and still to hope Through gloomiest days and years that life may yield ; This is the love of Masons—brotherly love—This binds the old Fraternity with brass and iron fetters ,
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Now that the Elections are over , the undivided attention of the Craft , or that active portion which devotes its energies to Masonic charity , will be concentrated on the coming Festivals . We had hoped to have recorded that Bro . HEDGES' list of Stewards was bidding fair to be an exceptionally
large and promising one , but we have reason to believe that such is not the fact , and that , therefore , a considerable accession to the list is needed to bring it within " measurable distance" oi success . In view of thc approaching Festival , the Chairman , Sir WALTER BURRELL , will , accompanied by the Sussex Stewards , visit the Schools on Tuesday , the 21 st inst .
* * * OUR readers will have heard with regret of the death of our esteemed Bro . NOTTAGE , Lord Mayor of London . Esteemed as a man , and Mason , he will be deeply regretted as a Magistrate and citizen , above all as a relative and a friend , and to his mourning family and many admirers we offer respectfully our sympathetic condolences . It is not often the Lord Mayor dies in his year of office . The last , it seems , who did so was Lord Mayor BECKIORD in 1770 ;
five predecessor Lord Mayors had also died "in harness , " it seems , in 1740 , 1741 , 1 749 , 175 1 , and 1753 . The great bell of St . Paul's announced to the citizens that their worthy and distinguished Lord Mayor had passed away , and he will receive a public funeral on Saturday and be interred in St . Paul's . He will be truly a missed man , and his death is a great loss to all , Bro . FOWLER , P . G . W ., succeeds him in thc distinguished post of Lord Mayor for the remaining portion of the year .
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
QUARTERLY COURT AND ELECTION OF CANDIDATES ' . The Quarterly Court of the Governors and Subscribers of this Institution was held last Saturday , at Freemasons' Tavern , Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall , Grand Treas ., Treasurer , in the chair . There were also present , among others : Bros . J . Stevens , G . Bolton , H . Smith , W . Marsh , Lacey , J . G . Le Feuvre , R . Wylie , C . H . Webb , F . Tyerman , H . Bartlett , F . Adlard , Storr , H . E . Dehane , J . J . Berry ,
VV . Hilton , J . Holmes , G . Ward Verry , J . Newton , I . Terry , tA . C . Spaull , G . P . Festa , F . Richardson , P . Manson , VV . Roebuck , W . Lalte , G . Singer , Piatt , 1 \ Walters , F . E . Pocock , M . D ., J . L . Mather , H . VV . Hamsworth , and Spaull . After the reading and confirmation of the minutes , another vacancy for the day ' s election was declared . Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall was again elected Treasurer of the Institution .
The CHAIRMAN , in acknowledging the compliment , said it was impossible for him from his many engagements to give that time and attention to the duties of Treasurer of this Institution that had been given by his lamented predecessor , Bro . Col . Creaton , but such time as he could spare he was willing to devote in conformity with the efforts of the managers in their labours of love , by which they had brought the School to its present state of
perfection . As a manager of more than a quarter of a century of many of our orphan establishments he could state emphatically , and without fear of contracdition , that the girls of the Masonic Girls' School at Battersea , in their general bearing , their ladylike deportment , and in their scholastic acquirements were excelled by the girls of no other similar establishment . To be a manager by virtue of the office in which they had placed him that day was indeed a great honour to him , for which he thanked the brethren .
The following brethren were then elected on the General Committee : — Bro . HENRY SMITH , Prov . G . Sec . West Yorkshire , Vice-Patron , said it was quite unnecessary for him to say many words in bringing forward the next motion , as he felt he had ihe sympathy of the brethren in the matter , and that they would readily give their consent . The motion he had to make
was—That in pursuance of notice this Court accept thc sum of one thousand guineas from the Province of West Yorkshire for the purchase of a perpetual presentation of one girl to the School , to be called the " Sir Henry Edwards Presentation , " the right of such presentation being vested in Colonel Sir Henry Edwards , Bart ., C . B ., D . L ., & c , for his life , and in the event of his wife , Lady Edwards , surviving him , for her life , and
afterwards to revert to the Provincial Grand Master of West Yorkshire for the time being , or such other duly authorised person , in accordance with the terms of a similar Presentation , made in 1 SS 0 , and named the " Bentley Shaw Presentation . " He would add that as he had been in correspondence with Bro . Frank Richardson on the subject of this presentation , the matter and all its arrangements should be left in Bro . Richardson's hands .
Bro . SAMUEL RAWSON , Past District Grand Master of China , seconded the motion , which was put and carried . Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON , P . G . D ., in place of Bro . Robert Grey , P . G . D ., Patron ,
moved—That in recognition of the valuable services rendered to the Institution by Mrs . Howell , she be elected an Honorary Vice-Patron , with the votes attaching thereto . He said that very few of the brethren were aware of the great services Mrs . Howell , the wife of the honorary surgeon of the Institution , rendered to the School . In an Institution like that it was not customary , nor would it be
proper , that the children should bc taught singing at the expense of the subscribers . But Mrs . Howell , who was a very beautiful singer , attended constantly at the School and taught the girls singing , and it was an accomplishment in which the pupils were making excellent progress , as any one visiting the Institution would acknowledge .
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
L EADERS 1 % Roval Masonic Institution for Girls 1 S 9 Roval Masonic Institution for Hoys 190 Consecration o £ the Hammersmith Loelge , No . sogo 190 The Royal Order of Scotland igi
C ORRESPONDENCEThe Ballot—ils Use and Abuse 193 The Word Hele 193 An Enquiry 193 The Principle of thc Ballot 193 The Abuse of the Ballot 194 Notes and Queries 19 +
REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 194 Instruction 19 $ Royal Arch ig $ Mark Masonry it ) g Ancient and Accepted Rite 19 $ Rosicrucian Society 196 Thc Red Cross of Rome and Constantine 196
The First Ladies' Festival of the Lodge of Perseverance , Ne . 1743 196 Centenary of the Tyrian Lodge , No . 253 ... 196 Devon Masonic Educational Fund 197 The Theatres igj Masonic and General Tidings 198 Lodge Meetings for Next Week Cover .
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VVF . have alluded to remarks about the Grand Officers which , of course , as we foresaw , could not be assumed to be perfectly correct . We think , however , that the following' list will be found if not altogether , pretty near to the truth : The two Grand Wardens , rumour again assures us , are the Marquis of H ERTFORD and the Hon . SACKVILLE WEST ; the two Grand Chaplains
are Canon PORTAL and the Rev . R . VV . SANDERSON ; the Grand Deacons are Bros . GOLDNPA ' , Dr . MEADOWS , WATSON , and R . C . DRIVER ; Deputy Grand Director of Ceremonies , Bro . PAUL ; Grand Assistant Director of Ceremonies , Bro . Major HARDING ; Grand Sword Bearer , Bro . HAMMERTON ; Grand Standard Bearers , Bros . BUTLER WILKINS and G . P . BROCKBAN'K ; and Assistant Grand Pursuivant , Bro . A . LUCKING .
* * * THE Quarterly Court and Election for the Girls' School took place on Saturday last , under the presidency of Bro . H . B . MARSHALL , Grand Treasurer and Treasurer , and the Hall was well filled during the day . The Election was very animated , and the polling was very high . There were the usual number of careless and ridiculous mistakes as regards the voting
papers , which almost sometimes seem to cast a reflection on the intelligence and good sense of the Craft . Still , a great deal of this is owing undoubtedly to the incurable apathy of our good Order . Worthy brethren who support cases think they do all that is needful and proper if they keep back their votes until the last possible moment , forgetting that in the hurry and excitement of a crowded gathering , with many applicants and countless talkers ,
" mistakes will occur in the best regulated " set of workers . When even large numbers of votes are in question , it is difficult sometimes to obtain them until the very last moment . In the Girls' School Election the highest successful candidate polled 2396 votes , and the lowest 1490 . Altogether 38 , 656 polled for the successful , and for the unsuccessful 5799 . Thus , as 48 , 6 99 votes were issued , there were 4340 votes remaining unpolled . Further comment seems needless .
* « THE Election for the Boys' School took place on Monday last , when , under the presidency of Bro . RAYNHAM STEWART , a very numerous gathering filled the hall . Bro . GODSON moved the repeal of Law 57 , which motion after some discussion was carried . Bro . CUMBERLAND moved the removal of TAITENDEN from the list , and which proposition was seconded
by Bro . MOORE . After a long discussion the motion was rejected by an overwhelming majority . Bro . F . DGAR BOWYER ' S motion for increasing the numbers from 25 to 26 to be elected , was unanimously agreed to amid cheers . The poll then opened , and the voting was animated and high , though not so hig h as had been anticipated . Indeed , the calculations of the most experienced in such matters have been rudely shaken by the results of
Saturday and Monday last . On the former day those who judged the possibility and probability of success by arithmetical figures , more or less infallible , were out 150 on their estimate—the lowest number successful being 1490 . On Monday the highest number was 2155 , the lowest 859 , a drop of 300 from the last but one , and of nearly 800 from the last but two . It is a very long time since any boy succeeded in being elected at so low a figure . Thus we have another proof , if proof were needed , of the glorious
uncertainty of calculations and elections , and a warning against those persistent efforts to affix an extravagant value on different kinds of yotes , or as between two different sets of voting of equal monetary value . There were 49 , 890 votes issued for the Boys' School Election ; 17 , 643 broug ht forward . There were 45 , 819 votes polled for the successful candidates , and 6146 for the unsuccessful , leaving 49 6 S unpolled votes . The simple fact that in our two great Educational Institutions there were really over 10 , 000 unpolled votes , is a matter deserving of serious attention .
* * * WHEN among the crowd assembled in our Hall for the School Elections , on Saturday and Monday last , we strongly felt not only how good and useful our Educational Institutions have become ; and what a striking commentary mey oBer on the reality and true meaning of Freemasonry . If any one asks us what is the good of Freemasonry ; and who or ' , what is a true Mason we feel inclined to reply in the Mason , language of old ROB
MORRISTo suffer long-, and yet be true and kind ; To bear the slight , and yet retain the love ; To hope whate'cr betide , and still to hope Through gloomiest days and years that life may yield ; This is the love of Masons—brotherly love—This binds the old Fraternity with brass and iron fetters ,
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Now that the Elections are over , the undivided attention of the Craft , or that active portion which devotes its energies to Masonic charity , will be concentrated on the coming Festivals . We had hoped to have recorded that Bro . HEDGES' list of Stewards was bidding fair to be an exceptionally
large and promising one , but we have reason to believe that such is not the fact , and that , therefore , a considerable accession to the list is needed to bring it within " measurable distance" oi success . In view of thc approaching Festival , the Chairman , Sir WALTER BURRELL , will , accompanied by the Sussex Stewards , visit the Schools on Tuesday , the 21 st inst .
* * * OUR readers will have heard with regret of the death of our esteemed Bro . NOTTAGE , Lord Mayor of London . Esteemed as a man , and Mason , he will be deeply regretted as a Magistrate and citizen , above all as a relative and a friend , and to his mourning family and many admirers we offer respectfully our sympathetic condolences . It is not often the Lord Mayor dies in his year of office . The last , it seems , who did so was Lord Mayor BECKIORD in 1770 ;
five predecessor Lord Mayors had also died "in harness , " it seems , in 1740 , 1741 , 1 749 , 175 1 , and 1753 . The great bell of St . Paul's announced to the citizens that their worthy and distinguished Lord Mayor had passed away , and he will receive a public funeral on Saturday and be interred in St . Paul's . He will be truly a missed man , and his death is a great loss to all , Bro . FOWLER , P . G . W ., succeeds him in thc distinguished post of Lord Mayor for the remaining portion of the year .
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
QUARTERLY COURT AND ELECTION OF CANDIDATES ' . The Quarterly Court of the Governors and Subscribers of this Institution was held last Saturday , at Freemasons' Tavern , Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall , Grand Treas ., Treasurer , in the chair . There were also present , among others : Bros . J . Stevens , G . Bolton , H . Smith , W . Marsh , Lacey , J . G . Le Feuvre , R . Wylie , C . H . Webb , F . Tyerman , H . Bartlett , F . Adlard , Storr , H . E . Dehane , J . J . Berry ,
VV . Hilton , J . Holmes , G . Ward Verry , J . Newton , I . Terry , tA . C . Spaull , G . P . Festa , F . Richardson , P . Manson , VV . Roebuck , W . Lalte , G . Singer , Piatt , 1 \ Walters , F . E . Pocock , M . D ., J . L . Mather , H . VV . Hamsworth , and Spaull . After the reading and confirmation of the minutes , another vacancy for the day ' s election was declared . Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall was again elected Treasurer of the Institution .
The CHAIRMAN , in acknowledging the compliment , said it was impossible for him from his many engagements to give that time and attention to the duties of Treasurer of this Institution that had been given by his lamented predecessor , Bro . Col . Creaton , but such time as he could spare he was willing to devote in conformity with the efforts of the managers in their labours of love , by which they had brought the School to its present state of
perfection . As a manager of more than a quarter of a century of many of our orphan establishments he could state emphatically , and without fear of contracdition , that the girls of the Masonic Girls' School at Battersea , in their general bearing , their ladylike deportment , and in their scholastic acquirements were excelled by the girls of no other similar establishment . To be a manager by virtue of the office in which they had placed him that day was indeed a great honour to him , for which he thanked the brethren .
The following brethren were then elected on the General Committee : — Bro . HENRY SMITH , Prov . G . Sec . West Yorkshire , Vice-Patron , said it was quite unnecessary for him to say many words in bringing forward the next motion , as he felt he had ihe sympathy of the brethren in the matter , and that they would readily give their consent . The motion he had to make
was—That in pursuance of notice this Court accept thc sum of one thousand guineas from the Province of West Yorkshire for the purchase of a perpetual presentation of one girl to the School , to be called the " Sir Henry Edwards Presentation , " the right of such presentation being vested in Colonel Sir Henry Edwards , Bart ., C . B ., D . L ., & c , for his life , and in the event of his wife , Lady Edwards , surviving him , for her life , and
afterwards to revert to the Provincial Grand Master of West Yorkshire for the time being , or such other duly authorised person , in accordance with the terms of a similar Presentation , made in 1 SS 0 , and named the " Bentley Shaw Presentation . " He would add that as he had been in correspondence with Bro . Frank Richardson on the subject of this presentation , the matter and all its arrangements should be left in Bro . Richardson's hands .
Bro . SAMUEL RAWSON , Past District Grand Master of China , seconded the motion , which was put and carried . Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON , P . G . D ., in place of Bro . Robert Grey , P . G . D ., Patron ,
moved—That in recognition of the valuable services rendered to the Institution by Mrs . Howell , she be elected an Honorary Vice-Patron , with the votes attaching thereto . He said that very few of the brethren were aware of the great services Mrs . Howell , the wife of the honorary surgeon of the Institution , rendered to the School . In an Institution like that it was not customary , nor would it be
proper , that the children should bc taught singing at the expense of the subscribers . But Mrs . Howell , who was a very beautiful singer , attended constantly at the School and taught the girls singing , and it was an accomplishment in which the pupils were making excellent progress , as any one visiting the Institution would acknowledge .