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I shall ever remember your kindness and sincerely trust , that T . G . A . O . T . U . may h . cvc you in His keeping , and that every blessing may attend your families will ever be tlieearnest prayer of Yours sincerely antl fraternally . J . W . WlllTinilllNE , Past Deputy D . G . Master East Jamaica .

Dulwich College.

DULWICH COLLEGE .

Our readers will have more than once heard of the case of Hume v . Marshall . As is well-known , judgment has been given in Bro . Hume's favour , he has been awarded his costs , antl the Charity Commissioners have expressed their full satisfaction with the emphatic vindication of Bro . Hume ' s character by the special jure * . After all this , Mr

Marshall , the defendant , being heavily mulcted in costs , has , in vulgar parlance , " sent round the hat . " Bro . Hume ' s friends , in turn , wished to raise a fund to pay his expenses , whicii even for the winner arc always considerable in a case of such length , but their intended tribute of respect and goodwill was stopped by the following manly , and to those who know Bro . Hume , characteristic letter to

a contemporary , which had advocated a testimonial to him : — " Sir , —I cannot too much thank you for the kind feeling you express concerning a subscription to pay the costs I have incurred in publicly defeating a slander , but I cannot consent to accept any money on that score . I was forced to fight for my character , well knowing that even

as a winner it woultl cost me pounds where I could ill afford shillings . That responsibility I accepted willingly , and I accept it now . My character having been vindicated by a special jury in open court , I am content . Besides , if an adverse verdict is a ground for an appeal to the public pocket , I can plead no such claim . Mr . Marshall seeks an indemnity for having thought it his " clear duty" to collect

scandalous gossip about me , and to exaggerate it in the reporting . Neither judge nor jury would give it to him ; the Charity Commissioners would not allow it to him , and so he appeals to a confiding and charitable public at [ arge as a martyr . "I cannot find it in mc to figure as a martyr . Before appealing to a jury I knew that law was expensive , and

that I had no trustees of a wealthy charity at my back . I knew that after my victory I could not expect anything butvindictivencss fiom thc Governors of Dulwich College , whose schemes of demolition I hatl helped to upset * , but I ditl know that I coultl earn my living , anil that people woultl trust their sons with me to educate . They have done so , and I ask no more . So long as I can dig , to beg I am ashamed .

" In conclusion , allow me to add to thc long list of those to whom my best and warmest thanks are due for support and sympathy , that small band of Dulwich Governors who have all along made a bold stand on behalf of truth and justice against an autocratic and ove-ibeuring * majority , whose object has been to crush , not only me , but every one who stands in their way . " Yours , etc .,

"ANDREW WILLIAM HUME . "Allison Tower , Dulwich Common , S . E ., " March 28 , 1 S 78 . " Those who sympathise with Bro . Hume , among them many Freemasons , will learn with satisfaction that all the success which might have been anticipated from his high character as a gentleman and a scholar has attended his new start in life as a tutor for the army , civil service ,

antl other examinations . Among many others , liro , Horatio Lloyd , P . P . G . S . W . Cheshire , and Bro . Henry Parsons , P . P . G . S . W . Surrey , hive withdrawn their sons from the more pretentious Dulwich College , to place them with Bro . Hume . Bro . Hume is a P . M . 619 , Scribe E . of No . 7 Chajiter , S . W . No . 5 , Mark Lodge , P . G . S . Middlesex , Mark and Surrey , is a Life Governor and was a Steward lor R . M . I . B . last year .

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

I he first meeting of tne . stewards for the approaching Festival of this Institution , which will be held on the 8 th of July , under thc presidency of Bro . H . R . I 1 . the Duke of Connaught , P . G . S . W ., took place on Thursday evening , at Freemasons' HaU . Bro . S . Rosenthal was called upon to

preside . Among the brethren present were Bros . 11 . W . Wylie , Geo . Page , W . Yanlley , G . Allen , Leopold Ruf , J . G . Vohmann , F . Aclard , R . B . Webster , Charles Cobb , Henry Smith , Geo . Cooper , G . F . Wainwright , Alf . J . Bristow , Frederick Wood , W . G . Dickins , Robert W . Sprague , Thos . Cubitt , C . A . C't . tlebrutn * , H . M . Levy , Thomas

Cochrane , John Wm . G . irrod , James Winter , John A . Scott , E . C . Mather , Joyce Murray , C . Harrison , Edwin Villiers , S . B . Wilson , " , | . Laud , W . Morris , Don M . Dewar , 1 ' hos . Bull , Isiael Abrahams , W . S . Whitaker , E . Taylor , and Massey , ( Freemason ) . Lord Suffield , Prov . G . M . for Norfolk , was elected President of the Board .

Bro . Thomas Cubitt , P . G . P ., was elected Treasurer oi thc Board . Bro . Binckes was elected Honorary Secretary . It was arranged that as His Royal Highness had approved of the Alexandra Palace for thc banquet antl that ladies should sit down with the biethren , the same course should be followed this year .

Bro . Binckes said that anticipating this resolution he had seen Bros . Bertram and Roberts on Tuesday , and they hatl promised to do everything to make the festival a great success . They would place the large concert hall al the tlisposal of the Institution for the banquet , the picture gallery , and thc conservatory , and Italian garden for coffeeroom antl concert . The large concert hull was a very

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much larger apartment than the hall usetl for the last three or f ^ ur years - It was decided that gentlemen , not Masons , should not be admitted to the banquet . Thc Stewards' fee was settled at two guinea ; . Th- ' brethren ' s tickets to be one guinea ; ladies ' , 1 is .

Bros . Raphael Costa , H . M . Levy , Joyce Murray , Rosenthal , R . B . Webster , and Israel Abrahams were appointed thc Musical Committee , and other arrangements as to tickets were matle in accordance with the usual custom . Ladies' Stewards were also appointed . Thc meeting was the .-, adjourned .

Ancient And Modern Masonry.

ANCIENT AND MODERN MASONRY .

An eventful period in the nation ' s history has intervened between the meeting of Masons at the Apple Tree Tavern , Charles-street , Covciit-gartlen , a century and a half since , when one Mr . Anlhonv Sayer , carpenter , vvas elected the first Grand Master of Alasons in England , antl that other ( From the Daily Telegraph . )

meeting held a lew days ago , when his Royal Highness thc Prince of Wales attended the Grantl Lodge in the Freemasons' Hall , introducing as a '' visiting brother" the Crown Prince of Denmark , Grantl Master of Danish Free masonry , anil taking his seat on the mystic throne , with Peers of the Realm on either hand . It will suffice to give retrospect a thoughful impulse if , recurring to Masonic

annals , wc recall the fact that exactly otic hundred years ago some Englishmen established in St . Petersburg the first regular lotlge opened in Russia , and that many of Czar Peter ' s nobles joined the brotherhood . The Lodge was named " The Lodge of Perfect Unity . " At thc recent meeting , his Royal Highness , going out of his way to give the toast , called upon the brethren 1 * 0 think to the health

of lodges abroad . "Thc toast is not , " he saitl , " one usually given at these annual festivals , but it is one whicii 1 feel convinced all of you will receive meist heartily . The Foreign Grand Lodges . " Thus , while till Europe is anxiously awaiting an issue which may result i : i war , and a renewal of tho , ; terrible scenes of bloodshed ay . fl horror v . 'liie'h have been witnessed

in thc East during the past year , there is placidly flowing under the surface of events the old current of goodwill amongst men . Hatl thc Royal Grantl Master taken the opportunity to g lance historically at either the remote or the immediate past ed English Masonry , hc might easily from his own large personal knowlege eif Craft-lore and Cralt-legend

haveg iven us a sketch t > f the rise of the great Order worthy of the important festival at whicii he was presiding . The throne lie then filled hat ! never before been honoured by Royalty ; but now that Princes of the blood have in so many countries undertaken the supreme charge of Masonry it is only fitting that England , claiming to be universally supreme in " the universal Order , " should be represented

by the highest in thc land . In 1737 a special lodge vvas held in the Palace of Kew for the initiation of Prince Frederick of Wales , and it was hoped that he would in time fill thc Grantl Master ' s throne , but his death in 1751 —the very year for which he had proposed to tike olliccbaulked the Craft of the intended honour . Many very distinguished names , however , appear on the roll of the Kings

of the Order , antl half the peerage has at one time or another filled the highest office of the English Lotlge . The post has always been a coveted one . Thus , in 1772 , the Duke i . f Montague being ic-ilect-. il Grantl Master , the Duke of Wharton , who hail aimed at the dignity , gathered his adherents together , nnd , convoking a meeting of Masons on his own responsibility , causetl himself to be

proclaimed Grand Mastir . This preposterous schism , so serious to Masonic interest-- , so absurd to the uninitiated worltl , was healed by the Duke of Montague-, loyal to the religion of tlie Craft , re-signing his honours in favour of his ambitious and turbulent " brother . " But the Duke of Wharton hatl seized on the crown merely for a whim , antl soon after , feeling- iu ill-he dth , renounced his

religion antl Masonry with it , and , entering a Spanish monastery , died at ihe age of thiity-tv .-o . His successor , the Duke ol Richmond , reigned long antl peacefully , and it was under him that thc Committee of Charity , so splendid in its modern development antl so Christian in its objects , was inaugurated . Another innovation—less useful perhaps , but not less important as a feature oi

modern Masonry—was introduced under the next ducal incumoent . Thc Duke of Norfolk presentetl the fraternity with the swortl of Gustavus Adolp hus and of the brave Duke Beruliaidof Weimar , and thus was laid thc foundation of what Masons call " the furniture" of their lodge . Since then the pageantry and appointments of Masonry have increased vastly in splendour

but in due propoition only as the ancient brotherhood has itself increased . To the present Grand Master , the ritual , of the Craft owes much of its stately circumstance , but to him also it owes something of its dignity and materia ! well-being . Just as in 173 1 Masonry every where icceivetl an impetus hy the initiation of Francis , Duke of Lorraine , afterwards Emperor of Germany , so in 1875 , when it was

known that thc Prince of Wales had consented to fill the throne , a very beneficial impulse was given to Masonry both at home ' snd abroad . In India , for instance , the fact occasioned much curious interest , antl nearly every lodge in the country had to answer the inquiries of our Eastern fellow-subjects as to the nature antl object of the hitherto

dreaded Order , antl their own fitness for initiation . Unfortunately for them , religion bars Masonry against the orthodox Hindu , but from the other creetls of India neophytes . ire annually enrolled . Nor , though small in its beginning , is this welding influence of Masonry to be tlespised . It is only twenty years ago that no native of

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India would cross the threshold of a lodge— " the witchcraft house , " as they call it—antl a soldier who , in the Mutiny of 18 57 , flung his spear through an open window at the portrait of thc Master as it hung upon the wall of the Masori-- buii ling at Allahabad , is still spoken of by his countrymen as a most elating man . But to-day thc natives of India are everywhere seeking- admi-sion to the Order

and when , a year or two ago , the Prince of Wales visited the great Oriental dependency , there were native signatures to the Masonic deputation which , in the name of thc Craft , welcomed the Grantl Master to tlie East . The movement will undoubtedly become before long a national one , at any rate in Bengal -, and cf its future utility , both practical and political , in bringing together in social intercourse

Europeans and native gentlemen , there can be no doubt . For the Eastern mind the mysticism antl symbolism of Masonry has a peculiar and intense fascination , and in the history of most Eastern nations secret associations have been conspicuous . Their influence has seldom operated for gootl , it is true ; but with the present Order evil cannot associate itself , foi disloyalty unknitsits bonds and irreligion

can lint ! no jilace in it . While , therefore , so harmless , with all its glamour , for thc secret-loving Oriental , thc main object of Masonry , its catholic charity , especially recommends itself to the most charitable nation in the world ; for to this title the people of India have surely a claim . Their religion and society centre in anel turn upon the great virtue of charily ; and an Anglo-Indian statesman , recently leaving India , left it on record that if thc machinery to

work a great system of public chanty could , without official interference , be organised , thc Government of the country woultl never have cause to vex itself about methods eif meeting famine deficits . Perhaps in Masonry the required machinery may before long be found ; antl , indeed , it requires nothing more than that genial interest taken by the present Grantl Master of English Masonry in the Craft abroad to bring a ! out the desired result .

I hus the great stream of Masonic brotherhood continues in its beneficent course . Thc terrible schism that has so , recently rent the great fraternity , ant ! has lot its cause of disagi cement no less a point than the absolute f" -- ; edom of thc conscience , bids fair , if not to heal , at any rate to contract to far smaller proportions than hael at first been feared . The vast majority of loelges have leagued together

in defence cf the ancient watchwords of their Order , and before long thc latest " schism " will have dwindletl into the insignificance of those that have preceded it . On this point the history of the Craft affortls another coincidence , lending itself opportunely to our purpose by providing a happy parallel . About a hundred years ago , English Masonry was threatened by a serious , perhaps fatal , scces

sion on points of the ancient constitution ; but the Grand-Master of that time , by his energy antl thc judicious exercise of his large powers , prevented the disruption from attaining the dimensions originally portended , and the schism of thc " ancients " is now hardly known even by name outside the small circle of scholars in Masonic lore . Thc Grand Master then was Lord Carnarvon . It is the same peerage that now gives English Masonry its practical ,

working-day chief , for it is Lord Carnarvon who represents thc Prince of Wales during his Royal Highness's absence from thc lotlge . With him , therefore , lies , in a large degree , the responsibility of checking the rupture which is now threatened , and making again universal among the " guild of Masons" that loyalty to their traditions which , no less than charity toothers , has distinguished the Craft from all times .

H . R . H . the Prince of Wales has promised to preside at the anniversary festival of thc Infant Orphan Asylum , to be held at thc Asylum , Wanstead , on June 281 I 1 . H . R . H . the Princess of Wales has graciously consented to distribute tlie prizes to the children . The quarterl y meeting of the Chapter of Harmony took place at F .-ircham on Thursday week . A report is in type ami will appear in our next .

liro . Alfred Durrant , P . M . 118- 5 , and M « EZ . elect , 1185 , is gazetted Captain in the Honourable Artillery Company of London . The Malay Peninsula , from Wellesley Province by Singapore , contains , according toaSlra ' us paper , millions of acres of low , undulating , thickly-wooded hills , which are well suited for the growth of tea , as the soil of whicii

they are composed is similar to the best soi ' s of India . The variety to be planted must , however , it woultl seem , be that indigenous in Assam . The land referred to is , indeed , only suited to the cultivation of tea or coffee , and with cheap land , plentiful labour , regular seasons , and easy transport , the Malay Peninsula would certainly appear to possess : unequalled advantages for the production of tea .

1 he soil of Smgap ire has been , until recently , much underrated , but it has been shown conclusively that pepper , tapioca , and su :- ; ir can be successfully grown up .-n it , and it is probable that the tea-shrub , whicii is a hardy plant , can be grown on the island as o-. i the peninsuU . —Nature . The tax imposed upon the managers of the Paris opera-houses and theatres , by which they are

compelled to pay 10 per cent , of their gross receipts for thc benefit of the poor , has always been a grievance with managers , for it has frequently happened that the poor-tax has to be paitl although the house had been kept open at a Ios-. ' . It is no v , however , proposed to tax the net instead of the gross receipts . The plan to be adoptetl is a simple one . The places of amusement are divided into five classes ,

and from £ 20 to X ' 100 per night , according to the class of the house , is allowed for expenses . This sum will be deducted from the gross receipts , and on the balance 12 per cent , is t > be paid . The proposal has , however , not been received with unmixed satisfaction by ihe Paris managers , who declare that the sum to be allowed for expenses is insufficient . — Theatre .