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BRO . BINCKES PRESENTATION FUND . President—THE E ARL OF L ATHOM , D . G . M .. & Prov . G . M . VV . Lancashire . Treasurer—Bro . GEORGE PLUCKNETT , P . G . D . England , and Treasurer of the R . M . I . B . Hon . Secretary—Bro . C . F . HOGARD , P . M ., P . Z ., & c . Subscriptions to the above Fund will be received by Bro . GEO . PLUCKNETT , 46 , Connaught-sq ., W ., or by Bro . C . F . HOGARD , 45 a , Cheapside , London , E . C , by whom also all further particulars will be furnished .

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . OCTOBER ELECTION , 1886 . PRESSING APPEAL . To THE PATRONS , PRESIDENTS , LIFE-GOVERNORS , AND SUBSCRIBERS OF THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR Boys . The Friends of ARTHUR HERBERT SMITHERS entreat the Subscribers of the Royal Masonic Institution to use their influence to secure his admission to the School ; he has NO FATHER—NO MOTHER—NO MEANS , and is one of SEVEN children left totally unprovided for . ARTHUR HERBERT SMITHERS , AGED 7 YEARS , Third Son of the late Bro . SMITHERS , who was initiated 1876 , in the Faith Lodge , No . 141 , and continued a member till his death , which occurred May , 1 S 83 , leaving a Widow with Seven Children ; a posthumous child born August , 1 SS 3 , since dead ; together with illness and unsettled state of affairs through the father ' s sudden death , the Widow was left in distressing circumstances , rendering this case most deserving of the sympathy and support of the Craft . The family consisted of Louisa Smithers , the Widow ( since dead ); Walter , aged 3 ^ years ; Albert , 5 ; Arthur Herbert ( applicant ) , 7 ; Louisa ( elected Girls' School ) , 10 ; Edith , 11 ; Ernest ( an invalid ) , i 2 i ; and William , 14 . The mother has since died of congestion of the lungs , and the children are now left entirely on the world for support . For this distressing case kindly send your Proxy to E . N . LEVY , 26 , Mark-lane . Your Vote and Interest most earnestly solicited by the undermentioned Brethren : — Bro . I . W . Baldwin , P . P . G . D . Middx ., P . M . 1326 , 1423 , V . Y .. 13 , & c . I . ifc Governor of all the Charities , J , Boscombe . road , Shepherd's Bush , S . W . „ *\ V . Carter , P . M ., Treas . 141 , P . Z . 742 , L . G . of Benevolent , & c , 131 , Disraeli-road , Putney , S . W . H . J . Chapman , P . M . 61 , L . G ., Murchison House , Dulwich , S . E . „ *\ V . Clark , P . M . I 4 V 36 , Clerkenwell-road , E . C . „ * G . Coop , S . W . 141 , Sec . soai , P . S . Chapter 1604 , 4 . 1 , Great Windmill-street , Havmarket , W . „ C . Denton , P . M . 169 , L . G . of all the Charities , 16 , Oakhurstgrove , East Dulwich , S . E . „ R . 11 . Halford , P . P . G . S . D . Herts , P . M . 338 , ij 8 o , P . Z . 174 , 328 , L . G . of all the Charities , 43 , Fenchurch-st ., City , E . C . „ E . Hopwood , P . P . G . S . B . Middx ., P . M . Mr , P . Z ., & c , L . G . of all the Charities , Church-road , Teddington , S . W . „ W . T . Hunt , W . M . 79 , L . G . of all the Charities , 459 , New Cross-road , S . E . ,, II . Keeble , P . M . 73 , " 75 . P . Z . 1275 , L . G . of all the Charities , Harrietsham , Maidstone , Kent . „ 12 , N . Levy , P . M . 73 , 507 , P . Z . 73 , L . G , of all the Charities , 36 , Mark-lane , City , E . C . „ C . Millbourn , jir , Vice-Patron , Boys and Benevolent , L . G . Girls , The Laurels , Edmonton . „ [ . T . M OJS , P . P . G . R . Middx ., P . P . G . D . Middx ., P . M . 169 , 1326 , M 33 , P . P . G . S . Middx ., P . Z . 73 , 1326 , 1433 , & c „ L . G . of all the Charities , 38 , Graccchurch-st ., City , E . C . I . J . Pope , P . M . 179 , t 30 j , tee ., L . G . of all the Charities , White Hart , King ' s-road , Chelsea , S . W . „ W . Pope , P . M . 141 , L . G . Boys and Benevolent , Brighton , Sussex . „ W . Predam , P . M . 169 , L . G . of all the Charities , 26 , Lowerroad , Rotherhithc , S . E . „ * W . Stuart , P . M ., Sec . 141 , 179 , P . Z . JoJ , 742 , & c , L . G . of all the Charities , 4 , Valcntia-road , Brixton , S . W . „ T . C . Walls , P . P . G . S . B . Middx ., P . M . 141 , r 38 r , ijrJ , 174 S . P . Z ., & c , & c . L . G . of all the Charities , East Temple Chambers , Fleet-street , E . C . „ * F . Walters , P . P . G . D . Middx ., P . M . 73 , 871 , t 30 o , P . P . G . 1 st A . S . Middx ., P . Z . 73 , u » 3 , & c ., & c , Vice-President Boys , L . G . of all the Charities , 5 , Summerley-street , Lower Tooting , S . W . „ J . A . Wilson , D . C . 1326 , Sec ., & c „ L . G . of all the Charities , The Briars , St . Albans-road , Watford , Herts .

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TO OUR READERS . THE FREEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry of every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , United Kingdom . Canada , the Continent , India , China , Ceylon , the Colonies & c . Arabia , Sic . 13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post Office Orders of cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEOKDE KENNING , Chief Olfice , London , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank .

To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

BOOKS . & c , RECEIVED . "Masonic Journal , " "Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of All Scottish Freemasonry in India , " " Hull and East Yorkshire Times , " " Maitland Mercury" "Allen ' s India Mail , " "London lournal , " " Kevstone , " " The Freemason " ( Toronto . ) , " Cassell ' s National Library , " " | ewish Chronicle , " " Die Bauhiitte , " " New York Dispatch , " "Sunday Times '" ( New York ) , "Citizen , " " Freemasons' lournal , " " Sunday Times " ( London ) , " Revista Masonica , " " Court Circular , " " and " Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of South Australia . "

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

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SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 25 , 1886 .

[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of the opinionsexpressed by ourcorreepondents , but we wish in aspirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion , ] _

A STOLEN CERTIFICATE . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , The certificate of the late Bro . Thomas Davis , initiated in a French Lodge at Port Said , has been stolen . Bro . Thomas Davis was registered a member of the Peace and Harmony Lodge , No . 359 , Southampton , some years

ago . Some person under the name of Davis will probably seek to obtain assistance from Masons . If such a certificate be produced 1 shall be obli ged by the certificate being detained , and that I be communicated with at once . —I am , dear Mr and Brother , yours fraternally , Fareham , Sept . 17 th . EDGAR GOBLE , P . G . Sec . Hants and Isle of Wight .

Bros . Lord Hahbury , Lord Chancellor of England ; Lord Ashbourne , Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; Lord Randolph Churchill , Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Lord George Hamilton , First Lord of the Admiralty ; Lord Stanley , and Sir M . E . Hicus-Beach , Bart ., Chief Secretary for Ireland , attended the Cabinet Council , held at the Foreign office , on Friday , the 17 th inst . The Mark Lodge oi Tasmania , No . 270 , Hobart

Town , held its installation meeting on the 7 th July , when Bro . E . O . Gibbin was installed Worshipful Master , and the following brethren , with others , were appointed to office , namely : Bros . E . A . Mardcn , Senior Warden ; E . F . Lovett , Junior Warden ; E . R . Roe , Master Overseer ; R . L . P . Hood , Senior Overseer ; J . G . Moir , Junior Overseer ; J . Chisholm , Treasurer ; and R . S . Pink , Secretary .

Reviews

REVIEWS

THE MASONIC DIRECTORY FOR NEW ZEALAND iSSG . We have from time to time reviewed the several Masonic Directories published in England during the present year one only being unnoticed as yet , because not yet issued . As soon , however , as the one for Devon is printed , the series will be complete for this country . We have now a

candidate for our examination from New Zealand , printed and published by Messrs . Bock and Cousins , of Wellington , and we are very pleased to see that the Fraternity in that district has so excellent a pocket companion , "brimming over" with Masonic information . As there are three Grand Lodges represented in New Zealand—England , Ireland and Scotland—the particulars are of considerable

value , respecting the lodges warranted under the several jurisdictions . Auckland , omitting in each case lodges " under dispensation , " has under England , 16 , Ireland , 13 , Scotland , 13 . Total 42 lodges . Wellington has under England 16 lodges . Canterbury has 19 lodges under the same authority , and there are nine lodges hailing from Scotland . Otago and Southland has 12 lodges and 21 lodges

under the English and Scottish Constitutions respectively , and Westland has six lodges under England , there also being five lodges under the same Constitution , not included in any of the District Grand Lodges mentioned . England has thus in New Zealand , 74 , Ireland , 13 , and Scotland , 43 lodges , the total being 130 ; so that between them this handy and well compiled Directory ought to circulate very

freely and prove very useful . The Editor is Bro . George Robertson , S . W . 1521 , who has done his work well , and given all needful particulars of the Craft and other Degrees , of which many are worked , such as the Mark , Arch , Templary and Rose Croix . Other ceremonies also have a footing , and certainly , though at the Anti podes , British Freemasonry is well represented .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

676 J VALUABLE MS ., & c . I shall be pleased to aid the department of " Notes and Queries" from time to time , and , as a beginning , enclose one or two cuttings from the catalogue published by A , Claudin , of Rue Guenegaud 3 , Paris , for September . Others shall follow . BOOKWORM . 27350 . Franc-Maconnerie . Decisions du Supreme

Conseil des Inspecteurs generaux du 33 c et dernier degre du Rite ancien et accepte pour la France depuis l ' annee 180 4 jusques et compris l ' annee 1815 . 2 vol . — Ecrits originaux des Archives du Supreme Conseil du 33 c degre du rite ancien et accepted pour la France ou collection des pieces sur lesquelles ont < 5 te motivees ses decisions les plus importantes . 1 vol . —

Ens . 3 gros vol . in-fol ., v . rac , dent . 350 fr . Precieuse reunion de documents originaux surleSupremc Conseil du Rit Ecossais ancien et accepte , dit Rit Ecossais philosophique , apporte d'Amerique en France en 1804 par le comte de Grasse-Iilly . Ce dernier resigna ses fonctions de granmaftre en faveur de Cambaceres . Les evenements qui agiterent la France en 1815 et des scissions qui se

produisirent dans l'Ordre suspendirent les travaux du Supreme Conseil du Rit philosophique . A la fin de 181 S on se disposait a les rouvrir ; deja des circulates avaient etc envoyees , lorsque la mort vint surprendre Pyron , secretaire du Saint Empire , qui etait Tame de l'institution . " Un des membres du Conseil de France ( est-il dit , dans un avertissement manuscrit en tete de ce recueil factice )

lasupplee autant qu ' il Pa pu dans ses fonctions . II a reuni apres des demarches et des recherches sans nombre les actes originaux qu'il a rassembles dans ces volumes et qui constituent la base des Archives du Supreme Conseil . " —Ces pieces contiennent des proces-verbaux , listes des membres des deliberations , revetus des signatures autographies de grands noms de l ' epoque tels que Massena ,

Beurnonville , le marechal Kellermann , le comte Muraire , Lacepede , Robillard-Peronville , de Choiseuil-Stanville , etc . On y trouve la patente originate sur velin de grand-maitrc honoraire dela Maconnerie d'Espagne et des lndes , offerte a Cambacerees , et beaucoup d'autres pieces curieuses et importantes . Cette collection a etc formee par Thory ,

archiviste de l'Ordre , auteur des Acta Latomorum . 27251 . Mere Loge . ( Catalogue de la BibliMieque et des Archives de la ) du Rit Ecosiais philosophique . —In-fol ., dem .-rel . v . f . 3 0 fr . MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHIC de Thory . —A la fin on a relic diverscs e preuves de planches en tailledouce di plomes en blanc , empreintes de sceaux maconniques , circulaires imprimees de l'Ordre , etc .

677 ] DR . CHALMERS . An Arbroath correspondent had an opportunity recently of getting a peep into the minute book of the Masonic Lodge St . Vigeans , where , under date November 30 , 1 798 , he found recorded that Thomas Chalmers , clergyman had applied b y petition to be admitted an apprentice Mason , and no objection being offered he was duly admitted , and

thereafter adhibited his name to the roll . The above was afterwards the famous Dr . Chalmers , whose name will be handed down to latest ages for his varied accomplishments , to say nothing of his latest and crowning work in 1843 . At the above date he was tutor in Dr . Stcphensan ' s family , Arbroath . Whatever the general character of his

penmanship had been , his signature is clear and business-like . The Th and Cli are prominent , while the small letters are distinctl y continuous and run on . The most of the signatures in the same p 3 ge , as well as in some previous pages , are , caligraphically considered , far superior to an equal number of the present day . COUR 1 R LE PAYS , in Dundee Courier .

The Mayor and Corporation and Bro . Lord Brassey of Bulkeley were among the donors of prizes at the Brighton Regatta on Saturday last .