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founded similar Charities for local purposes , and though i t occasionally happens that the Secretary of one of them sounds a note of warning . to the effect that subscrip tions do not flow iu as regularly and abundantly as is requisite , we believe that on the whole these local Charities , especially the more important we have mentioned , are

doing good solid work , and so relieving the central Charities of some at least of the heavy claims which are continually being made upon ' their resoui * ces . The other class of Charity Associations by -which men of moderate means are enabled to become Life-Subscribers or Life-Governors to our Institutions are to be found in Staffordshire , Herefordshire , —which held its Seventh Annual Aleeting on the

30 th June—Cambridgeshire , and , Ave believe , in other counties , while in London there are several of which , not a few are organized by Lodges of Instruction . All of these do good work , and ' are greatly valued by the Secretaries of our principal Charities for the liberal contributions they arc the means of obtaining for them . AVe hope their present prosperity may be continued .

BOARD OF BENISVOLENCI *; . The following is a record of the number of cases relieved , and the amount distributed amongst them month b y month , from the 1 st December , 1893 , to the 30 th November , 1894 , namely , December , 1893 , 40 cases relieved with £ 915 ; January , 1894 , 29 cases with

£ 630 ; February , 35 cases with £ 720 ; March , 33 cases , with £ 705 ; April , 33 cases relieved with £ 875 ; Alay , 36 cases relieved with £ 930 ; June , 33 cases relieved with £ 835 ; July , 24 cases with ' £ 505 ; August , 12 cases with £ 225 ; September , 14 cases with £ 255 ; October , 47 cases with £ 1430 ; November , 40 cases with

£ 1040 . Total for the 12 months , 376 cases relieved with £ 9065 . Though , as these returns are reckoned differently from those we published in our last year ' s review of " Freemasonry in 1893 , " it is impossible to institute any comparison between the two grand totals , it will nevertheless be seen that the Board has been called

npon to disburse a very large sum . Yet there is no doubt that Bro . Robert Grey , the President , his experienced Vice-Presidents , and the members constituting the Board , use their utmost efforts to keep the expenditure within moderate limits . It will be seen , however , from the figures we have given above , that no less . than £ 1430 was

distributed among i ( applicants in October , and £ 1040 among 40 applicants in the month following . AVith such heavy calls upon its income as these it is impossible to keep the outlay to one uniform level . The only thing a Board of Benevolence can do when distress of an exceptionally heavy character prevails , is to i * elieve it generously

but with circumspection ,, and with due regard to the needs and position of the several applicants ; and if ,- in so doing , it turns out that the sum distributed is larger than usual , we know the Craft well enough to he certain that the excess ! re outlay will not be severely criticised .

MASONIC LITERA . ' ITHE , We have already referred to the acceptance by Grand Lodge of . the copyright of the second edition of the ' ¦ ' Alasonic Records , " which ¦ its able compiler , Bro . John Lane , of Torquay , so generously . presented in thc summer of the present \* ear , and to the fact that

Grand Lodge has undertaken that 500 copies of this invaluable work shall be printed and sold to thc Craft at the price of one guinea each . The work is iu the printer ' s hands , and doubtless it wil ] be some time before it makes its appearance . Still , though the book will not be ready yet , no review of our literature iu 1894

would be complete without some reference to the generous offer of Bro . Lane , and what has befallen it up to the present time . So , again , it has been mentioned in the columns of this journal that Bro . R . F . Gould , P . G . D ., is engaged in preparing for the press au epitome of his magnificent " History of Freemasonry , " and that it will

be circulated amongst the public at the moderate price of half-a-guinea . This will , doubtless , be published in 1895 , yet the present year , in which the task of Bro . Gould was begun , is entitled to some share in the credit which vvill devolve upon him for the great service he will hereby have rendered when the book is ready . . Still , though these

Records and the Epitome belong properly to the near future and only in a minor degree to the present , the year 1894 has not passed without two most creditable additions to the limited store pf Masonic literature . These are both lodge histories , the earliest to appear , that of " The Lion and Lamb Lodge , No . 192 , " having been written

by Bro . W . J . Hughan , and published , with many excellent portraits of notable members , by Bro . George Kenning . The other is the " History of the Phcenix Lodge , No . 257 , 1786 to 1893 ; Chapter of Friendship , No . 257 ( originally No . 3 ) , 1769 to 1893 ; and Royal Naval Preceptory of Knights Templar , No . 2 , 1791 to 1893 . " This

valuable work has been compiled from the books in possession of the Lodge and from other sources by Bro . Alexander Howell , P . M ., and vvas published by him at Portsmouth in the earlier half of 1894 . It is embellished with portraits of Dunckerley and other Provincial Alasonic celebrities , is finely printed , and handsomel y bound , and is

worthy to be compared with the best lodge histories that have heicloforc been published . Let us add that the Transactions of thc Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 , mid sundry of its valuable reprints have been published under thc able supervision of Bro . G . AV . Speth . its energetic Secretary .

OlUlTAKY . Though it is a satisfaction to find that thc roll of our losses by death is by no means as formidable as we have known it in some previous years , still it is long enough , and includes the names of not a few brethren who won hitrh distinction in our ranks . The most

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prominent of those we have lost is Bro . William Kelly , who was for 56 years a member of our Society , had assisted in founding nearly nll the Lodges in Leicestershire and Rutland , and who , after serving for many years as Deputy to the late Earl Howe—who was Prov . G . Master of Leicestershire from 1856 , and for Leicestershire and Rutland combined , from 1869 till shortly before bis death—was

appointed to succeed his lordship in 1870 , and remained in office till 1873 . He was also G . Superintendent of Royal Arch Masons in the same Province , from 1870 till his death , and G . Alark Alaster for 36 years , from 1858 till death—of the Province which included within its limits the Counties of Leicestershire , Derbyshire . Northamptonshire , and Rutland . He was a Chief

Intendant-General for some half dozen counties in the Order of Rome and the Red Cross of Constantine , and had taken the 30 ° in the Ancient and Accepted Rite System . He had been , indeed , during the greater part of his long and active career , the very heart and soul of Masonry in his Province , had taken a leading part in the erection of the Alasonic Hall in Leicester , and had compiled a brief but

valuable history of the Craft in Leicestershire . His death occurred in August , and at the annual meeting of the Prov . G . Lodge not long afterwards , touching reference was made to his loss , and a just tribute paid to the memory of his services . In Alay , Bro . Charles H . Dallas , who was initiated in the Royal Sussex Lodge , No . 501 , Shanghai , iu 1862 , and served as Dist . G . AIaster of Japan from 1873 to 1886 , died somewhat unexpectedly , and in September , Bro .

Admiral Sir E . A . Inglefield , K . C . B ., a P . AI . of the Drury Lane Lodge , No . 2127 , and J . G . AVarden in 1891 . On the 10 th January , at a ripe old age , there passed away one of the most popular brethren of the day , Bro . Brackstone Baker , who was appointed J . G . Deacon and Assist . G . Sojourner of Supreme Grand Chapter in 1869 , and who , at the time of his death , was the representative at our Grand Lodge of the Grand Lodges of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in British North America , and of those

of Alabama , District of Columbia , 1 * londa , Georgia , Indiana , Iowa , Maryland , Michigan , Missouri , Nebraska , New York , New Jersey , Ohio , Oregon , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Carolina , Tennessee , and Texas in the United States . He was also principal founder and first Alaster of the famous Anglo-American Lodge , No . 2191 , which has done so much towards strengthening the bonds of

Freemasonry between England and the United States . He had beeji , indeed , one of the most active members of the Craft down even to the close of his long career , and it will be some time ' ere the gap created by his death will be tilled . Among other leading Masons who have passed away must be mentioned Bro . A . H .-Moyes , P . G . Std . Bearer , D . P . G . AI . Cambridgeshire , who died a few days

before Bro . Baker ; Bro . Col . Addison Potter , C . B ., who was J . G . Deacon of England in 1889 , G . Superintendent of Northumberland from 1881 till his death , and G . Master Overseer of the Alark in 1886 ; Bro . Capt . Homfray , P . A . G . D . C , P . G . Std . Bearer of Supreme G . Chapter , D . P . G . AI . of Monmouthshire from 1880 to 1885 , D . G . Master , and subsequently G . Alaster , in the Mark Degree , of the same

Province ; Bro . Ex-Sheriff George Burt , J . P ., P . A . G . D . C . ; Bro . Butler Wilkins , P . G . Std . Br ., D . P . G . M . Northants and Hunts ; Bro . Col . Charles Harding , P . A . G . D . C , and P . G . Std . Br ., Supreme G . Chapter ; and Bro . John E . Dawson , P . G . S . B ., P . G . Std . Br . ( Royal Arch ) , and P . D . P . G . M . Hertfordshire ; Bro . Sir P . Cunliffe Owen , K . C . B ., P . G . D . ; and Robert AVilloughby , P . G . Std . Br . Among leading

Provincial brethren whom we have lost will be found Bro . Peter de E . Collin , P . P . S . G . W ., Prov . G . Treasurer , Cumberland and AVestmoreland ; Bro . E . Haggis , P . P . J . G . W . Cambridgeshire ; Bro . Thomas Lamb Smith , Past Prov . G . W . Worcestershire ; Bro . E . Worrall , P . Prov . J . G . AV . Warwickshire ; Bro . Edmund Yates , P . Prov . S . G . AV . Aliddlesex ; Bro . Horace E . Stewart ,

P . Prov . G . W . Aliddlesex ; Bro . Thomas Chirgwin , Prov . G . Secretary , Cornwall ; Bros . S . Tryon , P . P . G . S . of AV ., and Henry Wigan , Prov . G . Registrar , Hertfordshire ; and Bro . J . U , Alartin , Prov . G . Organist , Norfolk ; while of other worthy brethren who did good service to the Craft in their time we note Bro . Bateman S . Liddell , P . AL , Treasurer No . 45 ; Bro . the Rev . Richard Alorris , AI . A ., LL . D .,

who for some thirteen years was Head Master of our Boys School ; Bro . T . Eccleston Gibb , ex-Al . P ., the first W . AI . of the Hampden Lodge , No . 2427 ; Bro . John Burgess , C . E ., P . AL ; Bro . Alajor W . E . AVilliams , P . AL , P . Z . ; Bro . E . Morland , P . AL , Alayor of Abingdon ; Bro . Alfred AVilliams , P . AL , P . Z ., an active member of the General Board of Alark Grand Lodge ; Bro . F . H . Doggett ; Bvo .

F . E . AVilkinson , AI . D ., P . AL ; Bro . Charles J . Perceval , who was well known for the interest he took in our Charitable Institutions ; Bro . Alajor fairtlough , R . A ., Governor of the Gambia ; and Bro . George E . Baker , No . 192 , who for 30 years and upwards had been a prominent figure in the establishment of Bro . George Kenning .

S COTLAND . A g lance at our ollicial Calendar will serve to show that Freemasonry in this part of the United Kingdom hits greatly increased the number of its lodges , while the items of news which vve have published from time to time in these columns are additional evidence of its activity and prosperity . Warrants for 14 new lodges have

been granted dining thc year , all of which with the solitary exception of the Balfour Melville , No . 809 , which meets at Alethil in Fifeshire , arc located abroad . No less than eight have been added to the roll of thc Dist . G . Lodge of Queensland , namely , the Sir Joshua Peter Bell . No . 798 , the Taringa , No . 801 , thc Valley Ionic , No . 802 , the Norman , No . 803 , the St . 'Mungo , No . S 05 , the Nundah ,