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It is very necessary for our readers to advise ns of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them . Several P . O . O . ' s are now in hand , but having received no advice we cannot credit them .

Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

CORRESPONDENTS are respectfully requested to write their communications on one side of the piper only . " Original Research , " under Consideration . By an evident misprint in oui leader on the Girls' School last week , it was stated that there were 19 vacancies at the next election , which should have been 3 , since increased to 4 . Several important Utters and repjrts stind over .

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Births ,Marriages And Deaths.

Births , Marriages and Deaths .

BIRTHS . MAS . IN . —On the 13 th insf ., at Lower Norwood , the wife of James Catley M ison of a son . NICHOLSON . —On the 15 th inst ., at lleiiley-on-Tbames , the wife of VV . N . Nicholson , E q , if 43 , Phillimore-gardens , W ., of a daug hter .

MARHIAGr . S 11 . 1 . IFANT—PIGOT . —On the lib ins ' ., in the parish church , Frcmington , by the Ven . Archdeacon ol Barnstaple , assisted by the Rev . T . Wemyss Pigot , brother of the brie ' e , Harry BelfieM Sillilant , ol Tulo : s E > iate , Ceylon , scrondson of the late John Woolcennbe Sillifaut , ol Coombe , Devon , to Mable Grace Emily , eldest daughter of the Rev . John Tayleur Pigot , vie . ' ir < -f Frcmington .

DEATHS . DAVIES . —On the 121 I 1 iiiat ., at W . umii . s ' cr , Matthew Da vies , ag-d 88 years . TVER MAN . —On the 13 th ins-., at Hastings , Walter George , son of George Thomas ' 1 ' ierman , of No . 121 , M . iietavalr , W ., aged two months .

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The French Grand Orient.

THE FRENCH GRAND ORIENT .

The interesting and graphic report of the proceedings of the French Grand Orient , and on the correctness of which our readers may safely rely , will be read by all Anglo-Saxon Masons with the deepest regret . We feel to-day , as we peruse these sad but striking and truthful

words , how remarkably all our prognostications have been verified , how too exactly , alas ! all our forebodings have been fulfilled . The French Grand Orient has now deliberately entered upon the platform , not of reform , but revolution , and where it is to lead to , or how it is to

end , must severely tax the ablest of us all accurately to lay down or distinctly to predict . It has thrown down a gage of anger , warfare , strife , contention , resentment , and indignity to every Masonic jurisdiction in this world . It is a revolution , compounded of angry

violence , undignified petulance , irrational destructiveness , and unmasonic animosity . But as realizing the alarming seriousness of the position which the Grand Orient of France , ( by a turbulent majority ) has created for French and for Cosmopolitan Freemasonry , we shall say no

more , as we are not anxious by any words of ours to widen a chasm , wide enough already in all conscience , or to pour oi 1 on a flame which threatens to destroy all within its reach . We but record the facts , for the information of our many readers at home and abroad , though , to say the

truth , we cannot profess to be astonished at a result which previous proceedings had rendered only too certain , which forgone conclusion had already discounted . We are , we repeat , most sincerely sorry for the sake of French Freemasonry , and we most deeply grieve for the weakness

and vacillation of Bro . St . Jean . As far as we are ourselves concerned , we care little for such foolish threats as the chartering of French Lodges , etc ., knowing well that no English Mason , no Anglo-Saxon Mason , will countenance a clandestine meeting , an illegal , political , or atheistical secret society .

List Of Candidates For The Boys' School.

LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR THE BOYS' SCHOOL .

There are sixty-seven names on the list , though No . 3 , H . Newboult , is withdrawn , leaving sixty-six , and eleven vacancies to fill up . Of these sixty . six , fourteen are London , one London and Essex , and the remaining fifty-one are

provincial and colonial cases . East Lancashire has six ; Lincolnshire , four : West Yorkshire , three ; Hants , three ; Devonshire , three ; North Wales and Salop , three ; Essex and South Wales , W . D ., two ; Durham , two ; Warwickshire , two ; Bristol , two ; Suffolk , two : Derbyshire , one : Singapore ,

one ; Dorsetshire , one ; Northumberland , one ; Nova Scotia , one ; Surrey , one ; Worcestershire , one ; Northamptonshire , one ; South Wales , E . D ., one ; Cheshire , one j Bengal , one ; Somersetshire , one ; Norfolk , one ; West Indies , one ; and North and East Yorkshire , one . Of the

London cases , six have been taken in hand by the London Masonic Charity Association , namely , Green ( j ) , Balcombe ( 50 ) , Watkins ( J 8 ) , Frost ( 9 ) , Nicholls ( 21 ) , and Giles ( 15 ) , and therefore wo need say nothing of them to-day , as their claims have been carefully sifted and recognized .

1 he six cases selected by the L . M . C . A deserve the support of all our London brethren , who will do well to bear in mind that unity is strength . Of the remaining nine cases they mostly are the otphans of brethren initiated in or since 1870 , and will come up for further consideration . Of the provincial candidates , many

of ihem seem to have stiong chums on the subscribers ; such as No . 51 , Worcestershire , with 25 years' subscription , and whose father was a 1 ' G . Officer ; No . 46 , W . Yoikshire , with 17 years . ' subscription , and father in a lunatic asylum ; No . 19 , Sullolk , i"j \ years' subtcriplU . n ; No . 23 , Monmouthshire , \ G years ; No . 6 , W . Voikthite , 13 I years ; and 37 , S . Wales , E . Division ,

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. 12 J years . Nova Scotia has a case of 132 years ' subscription , but nearly ioyearsout of Masonry , Bristol has a case 10 J years , and others have 9 J , and 9 , all dying in Masonry . Of the remaining cases the years of subscription vary from 8 to i | years , and even under , and if the average of the

whole subscriptions be taken , it will turn out , w apprehend , to bea little over 6 years each . Twentyfour of the cases are of or since 1870 j seven in or since , 1868 ; 26 in or since : 86 o ; eight in or since IS JJ ; while one goes back to 1844 . Two points , further , I think , must strike us — the

comparatively early period at which the parents have died in most cases , and the large proportion of these who have died with Masonic '' harness on their back . " This is as it should be ; and though we are struck with East Lancashire having had

originally 7 candidates , though now 6 , nearly one-twelfth of the metropolitan cases , we yet are inclined to think that this list of the Boys' School proves beyond doubt the fair needs of the Craft , and the great value , and importance , and blessing of the School itself to our Order .

Scottish Masonic Affairs.

SCOTTISH MASONIC AFFAIRS .

Our readers will perceive elsewhere a report of some proceedings in Scotland , and will have perused the protest of the St . John ' s Lodge of Glasgow in our last . We can only repeat a caution and a

hope we expressed once before , that nothing will be done for the mere object of agitation , and that all will remember in all they say and do in Scotland , the Masonic graces of Unity , Good Will , and Peace .

A Caution.

A CAUTION .

We have reason to believe that one or two persons alleged to hail from America , as Masons , are going about to lodges and individuals . We recommend caution both to lodges and individuals , as from specimens of their application for

relief we would like to know a little more about them . There are many known impostors in America preying on the Craft , and it is just possible that some , finding the United States too hot for them , may have crossed the " little millpond . " and are now patronizing us .

Cleopatra's Obelisk.

CLEOPATRA'S OBELISK .

We congratulate Bro . Erasmus Wilson on the happy completion of his patriotic sacrifices , just as we felicitate Bro . Dixon on the happy termination of his arduous labours , on the skill which has directed his engineering operations , on the gratifying success which has crowned his

protracted undertaking . May Cleopatra s Needle be ling destined to grace the Thames Embankment , and may it placidly look down amid revolving years , as it toweis in its majestic simplicity and itsstriking grace over wondering strangers and apathetic Londoners .

Personal Sympathy For Others.

PERSONAL SYMPATHY FOR OTHERS .

One of the charms of our Masonic aggregation is , its personal sympathy for all its members , and through its members , for humanity . In one sense Freemasonry may not be unjustly termed " Good Samaritanism , " as it dees not waste its time in asking , "Who is my neighbour ? " neither

does it imitate the supercilious and callous conduct of the " Priest or Ltvite " in the famous parable , but it at once seeks to take pait in an active manner , to relieve calamity , to mitigate suffering . Hence its noble institutions , hence its continual acts of munificent ei arity . But yet

it may be feared whether we all of us , Masons though we be , act up to our duties and responsibilities in this respect . The world is so vast , and our claims so many , that we think we do enough in attending to this or that when , in fact , we are practically achieving but little , inasmuch 3 s we only touch the surface and fringe of

things . A great deal of misery goes on in the world , of which we know nothing , just as it is ttue , a great deal exists of which we think , as we alread y do enough , we are not bound to relieve or exptcted to deal with . Our American contempoiary , the Hebnw Leader , of New York has some very touching and appiopriate words