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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

"Masonic Presentation , " from a kind friend , next week . T . D . HARRINGTON , Ottawa . —If you will forward to the publisher a list ofthe copies that have been miscarried , duplicates shall be sent by return mail .

J . Majewski ' s communication is too decidedly political for our neutral pages . ' ERRATUM . —In the report of the meeting of The Great City Lodge , 14 th line , for "to the number of seventy , " read 141 .

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BIRTHS . Jti > i > . —On the 21 st inst ., at White Lodge , Turnham-green , the wife of G . H . Jupp , of a son PEAHSON . —On the 21 st inst ,, at 33 , Russell-square , the wife of C . Fellows Pearson , of a son . PECK . —On the 18 th inst ., at Yalding , Kent , the wife of Awdry Peck , of a son . VEAI .. —On the 18 th inst ., at 8 , Oxford . road , Gunnersbury , W ., the wife of Richard Henry Veal , of a daughter .

MARRIAGES . HENDER—WILLIS . —On the 19 th June , at St . John ' s , Adelaide , S . Australia , by Rev , F . Slaney Poole , M . A ., . Chaplain 5 83 , E . C , Bro . J . H . P . Hender , W . M . 5 83 , D . P . G . and S . N . Chapter , 5 83 . E-C , to Agatha Jotham , daughter of James Willis , Esq ., Balmattun , Victoria ,

Australia . YEOMAN—AHERY . —On the inst ., at the congregational church , Leyton , by the Rev . Dickerson Davies , Pastor , Kossuth Mazzini Yeoman , second son of Bro . T . Burdett Yeoman , West Hackney , to Hannah Ann Abery , second daughter of John Abery , Esq ., Poplar Villa ,-Leyton .

DEATHS . PECK . —On the 19 th inst ., at Yalding , Kent , Christina Louisa , the wife of Awdry Peck , Esq ., aged 23 years ; and on the 18 th , Leonard Awdry , their infant son . - SINCLAIR . —On the 20 thinst ., Bro . George Sinclair , Treas ., 813 , at his residence , 81 , City-road , and of 20 , Southgate-road , aced 51 . Deeply regretted

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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , OCTOBER 27 , 1877 .

The Increase Of Accommodation At Freemasons' Hall.

THE INCREASE OF ACCOMMODATION AT FREEMASONS' HALL .

"VVe are among those who venture co think that the attention of the Board of General Purposes may well be directed to this very important subject , and as soon as possible . Our Metropolitan Charitable Institutions require necessarily more accommodation ; it is a want

alike overpowering and imperative , to which we are of opinion , honestly , that the Executive of the Order may justly be asked to g ive friendly consideration and attentive heed . For many reasons , too many to dwell on now , it would be greatly to be deplored , if the Committees of

our Metropolitan Charities had to go elsewhere to find a "local habitation" though not a " name . " We repeat , it would , in our humble opinion , be greatly to be deprecated in the best interests of Grand Lodge and the Charities themselves if in consequence of not

being able to find sitting and standing room in Freemasons' Hall , they should be compelled to obtain a place of their own , for the joint accommodation of their officials and offices . It would be a great blunder , and worse than a blunder , as it would cause a

severance which it would take long years to heal over . We think that all will admit that Freemasons' Hall is the most convenient and central spot for the offices of our great Charities . To say nothing of the convenience of all metropolitan and provincial brethren , it would , as matters

arc , constitute a grave scandal , if the present arrangements had to be broken up , because no accommodation can be obtained at Freemasons ' Hall , if the Committees had to go out of Freemasons' Hall and seek those convenient arrangements for official work , which they have a right

to expect to have provided for them , ( on payment of rent ) , in Freemasons' Hall , the great centre of English Freemasonry . We feel certain that if such a feeling of abstention and negation is persisted in in respect of our Charities , it will

be alike very unwelcome to the Order at large , and may be productive , sooner or later , of some unpleasantness . There are those amongst us , high in influence , who have shown in times past that they object to all unwise parsimony , and needless difficulties of all kinds , and we feel

convinced that if they will only turn their minds to the subject , a plan of increased accomodation might be devised , by which this great want might be remedied and satisfied . We venture then sincerely to express our hope , that this question of increased accomodation at Freemasons' Hall

may be considered on its own merits alone , and then we are satisfied what the result must be . Even supposing that some fresh building should be required , we have plenty of money , and the convenience would be so great , " pro bono publico , " as to outweigh entirely any question of cost or

change . It has indeed been said that we have no room to build on to our Board Room , & c , but why not purchase the building next to Freemasons' Hall and convert it into offices , with a large room on the ground floor and a libraiy above ? The present Secretarial offices of the

schools can easily be utilized for the G . Secretary ' s office . With regard to a hall of assembly on polling days , we thinkj as an immediate amendment of the inconvenience , the Charities had better in future obtain the great dining hall for polling days , which would add greatly to the

comfort of the brethren . If our suggestion is carried outas above , the new acommodation would g ive us a central hall , surrounded by the offices of the Institutions . Of course when we touch upon this question , we feel that we are treading

after all only on the fringe of it , so to say , and that behind it all is a far greater question , which will have some day to he taken up . Can we not utilize the tavern for ourselves and disassociate Freemasons' Hall from all connection with

a house of entertainment ? . But the moment we attempt to ask a few that subject , unutterable difficulties bristle on the surface , and we prefer to leave it to wiser heads and more accurate judgments to deal with and decide .

One Or Two Fallacies About Charity Voting.

ONE OR TWO FALLACIES ABOUT CHARITY VOTING .

We do not suppose that anything we are about to say , will have any eftect on our ardent r eformers , because like reformers in general , they do not need arguments , and they do not want logic . They have made up their mind , whether on imperfect data or not matters nothing , and

they are in this respect like the infallible Church , " Roma Iocuta est , Causa finita est . " Now we dislike infallibility and Popes of all kinds , and believe rather in right reason and common sense , and so we think it well to deal with one or two curious and striking fallacies to-day , in respect

of Charity Voting . It is said , " why should a case come up several times , and if the system be not bad , why is not the candidate elected ?" The whole system of voting being governed , so to say , by the unit of individualism , and the great "factor" being personal interest ( in the best sense ) ,

we cannot possibly lay down any canon of wh y or wherefore in that respect . Either the case is weak per se , or is weakly supported , or it fails to interest , or it appears not to be so urgent as another case to the individual mind of A . It is utterly hopeless to attempt to reason , as if B ' s

view of the most distressing case ought to be accepted hy A , or even that the view of any committee you can name is to dominate the personal appreciation of A , C , D , E , etc . We who have carefully looked into the working of our charities , feel sure of this one great fact ,

despite much " tall talk , " and unreasoning sentiment , that the strong cases on the whole get in , and the weak cases go to the wall , and that if we could only ensure individual conscientiousness on the part of the voters , we should have fewer evils to complain of , and no abuses to redress .

Whenever we see a case unsupported , we may be sure of this , that for some reason or other , the friends of the orphan have not been in earnest , or the district has not its sufficient number of votes , and is therefore practically powerless in the struggle . It is idle , and we must

add hypocritical , to attack the system when the fault is not in Charity Voting at all , but in the "laches" of individual brethren . By proper organization and needful exertion , no good case need be beaten . Let us remember this , and we say so confidently , after a close observation of

Charily Voting , for many years . So too , " it is an astounding fallacy to suppose or to assert , that there is any unfairness , because some brethren exert themselves for particular candidates alone . It is in the nature of things that it should be so , and very well it is that it is so . To

argue , as some seem to do , that the Committee is to select for you , is in our opinion an aggravation of any existing weakness in the system , and may be productive of the grossest jobbery , against which the only safeguards are public criticism and organized voting . In the last Boys '

election , the weakest case positively was one put on in express defiance of the laws of the Institution by a grave blunder of the General Committee . though it received a large amount of individual support , and a repetition of such cases , if successful . would make the Boys' School a " mockery ,

a delusion and a snare ; " in every respect a burlesque on our wise laws , and a reproach and ridicule to the subscribers and to Freemasonry . In saying this , as Masonic duty compels us , we do not wish to interfere with the sad claim of a poor orphan , for whom we feel much sympathy .

Bene Notanda.

BENE NOTANDA .

There is perhaps no Emporium of Masonic litera ture and trade better known to the Craft and t he public than No . 198 , Fleet-street . Not only is it historically famous as whilome the abode of honest Izaak Walton , but for many year s it has been identified with the familiar name and remarkable enterprize of George Kenning .

Thither , as from 1 , a , 3 , Little Britain , emerge those packages which convey his aesthetic productions and skilful handiwork to the four quarters of the globe , and brethren of all nationalities and creeds give him their friendly orders and receive from him their valued consignments . No . t 9 ° > Fleet-street , is also the headquarters of our English Masonic literature , whence the Freemason