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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

The following communications with others unavoidably stand over : — CRAFT LODGES—Antiquity , No . 178 ; Unanimity and Sinceiity , No . 261 ; Montefiore , No . 1017 ; Hemming , No . 15123 Sub-Urban , No . 1702 ; Urmston , No . 1730 ; Hampshire Lodge of Emulation , No . 1990 ; Prince Edward , No . 2109 ; and Hendon , No . 2206 .

ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER—Robert Burns , No . 25 . Masonic Ball at Hastings . Presentation lo Bro . H . E , Cousans , P . M ., Sheriff of Lincoln . History of the Girls' School .

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S ATURDAY , JANUARY 28 , 18 & 8 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ] ¦ FESTIVAL OF THE GIRLS' SCHOOL . To the Editor of the "Freemason , " Dear Sir and Brother . In your admirable article in vour issue of last

week you do not refer to one matter which 1 have heard warmly discussed , both in London and the provinces , viz ., Are additional votes given to brethren subscribing but not acting as Stewards , or are additional votes given only to Stewards ? To put it plainly , if a brother gives 50 guineas , and is not a Steward , dots he get more votes this year than he would get in any ordinary year ? From a perusal of the " carefully compiled table "issued , I hold he does not , but others hold the opposite opinion . — Fraternally yours , C . L . MASON , P . M ., 304 , 2069 . January 21 st .

A QUESTION OF CUSTOM . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I should be glad if you , or any of your readers who can speak with knowledge and authority on the subject , will tell me what is the general rule or custom on the following point—the laws of the Craft do not seem to touch it : —

Installation of W . M . elect . —I presume the outgoing W . M . has the right of performing the ceremonv 5 but if he declines to do so , can he , of right , nominate the Installing Master ? or is it tbe right of lhe I . P . M . or of the senior P . M . of the lodge ? or has the W . M . elect the right to chose who shall install him ? The question has lately arisen in my lodge , and has led to considerable—albeit perfectly amiable—discussion , and if some Mason of experience would favour me with his opinion I should be glad . —Yours fraternally , January 21 st . "CAP . "

THE DOMATIC LODGE . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I am not proud like the man in the story who was always boasting of his friendship with the Duke of , because the two happened one fine afternoon to walk on the same side of Piccadilly . About two years since I was commissioned to write the history of the Domatic Lodge , No . 177 . I have spoken to three of its Past Masters , and I have been inside Anderton ' s Hotel , where it meets . But as I do not consider these facts iustifv me in assuming- that

I am one of its friends or acquaintances , I trust the members will pardon me if 1 suggest that for the future it be an instruction to the Secretary that once every year , between the election and installation of a new Master , he be requested to read up so much of the history of his lodge as will enable him to ensure accuracy in the particulars recorded in inscriptions on presentation pictures , teapots , salvers , and lhe like . In your report last week of the installation meeting of the Domatic Lodge , 1 notice that in

the inscription on the " handsome massive frame ' of the "crayon portrait" of Bro . Simner , I . P . M ., which the officers presented to that worthy brother on retiring from the chair , he is spoken of as " its 101 st Master during the eventful year of her Majesty ' s Jubilee , 1887-88 . " On the surface , this appears to imply that " during the eventful

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year of Her Majesty's Jubilee , " the Domatic Lod ? e had ioi Masters , of whom Bro . Simner was the loist . But assuming that it means what it is intended to mean , namely , that Bro . Simner was Master during the whole of the " eventful year" in question , I take the liberty of pointing out ( 1 ) that as the lodge was constituted by the "Ancients" and had two . new Masters installed every

year for the first 28 years of its existence , he was its 13 ) th , not " its 101 st Master ; " and ( 2 ) that even if it had had only one Master a year from the very beginning , Bro . Simner would have been the 102 nd , not the 101 st Master . I can quite undei stand that the determination of the year in which a certain brother has presided over a lodge as its W . Master may necessitate a considerable amount of

abstruse calculation , and that in some of the more difficult cases it may be almost impossible to determine it precisely without a thorough knowledge of decimal fractions and the binomial theorem ; but the formula for determining it is simplicity itself in the case of a lodge of " Modern " origin , and only a trifle complex in the case of one constituted by the " Ancients . " As to the former ,

and assuming it to have been in continuous working from its foundation , reckon the number of years it has been in existence , and you have the number of its Masters . As to the latter , multiply the number of years it was an " Ancient" Lodge by two and you have the number of "Ancient" Masters . Then reckon the number of years it has existed under United Grand Lodge and you have

the number of its Masters under United Grand Lodge . Add the two together and you have the total number of its Masters from its constitution . Thus , as regards the Domatic Lodge , No . 177 , founded by the " Ancients " in February , 17 S 6 : — "A ., " 1786—1813 ( bothinclusive ) 28 years X 2 = 56 W . M . U . G . L . 1814—1887 „ 74 „ 74 „

Total , 17 S 6—1887 „ 102 „ 130 „ In conclusion , let me congratulate Bro . Simner—though I know him not personally—not only on the honours which he has secured , and which I feci sure he has well deserved , but also on his being the most splendid specimen extant of an anachronism and an anomaly combined . He is the I . P . M . of the lodge and as "its 101 st Master" must have

presided over its fortunes in 1858 . Consequently , either fiis year of office must have passed 30 years ago , or it must have lasted for 30 ordinary years , and all that we have heard and read about the annual installation of the W . M . of No . 177 , since 1858 must be mere moonshine . — Fraternally yours , London , 23 rd January . G . B . ABBOTT .

Masonic Notes And Queries':

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES' :

- — vc — 759 ! ENGRAVED LIST OF LODGES . In the British Museum there is only one copy of an engraved List of Lodges , minus the " Dedication , " and is apparently of the year 1762 . I merely mention it now to give the note , in MS ., on the back of folios 4 and 5 , viz . _ " We shall be excused by our Readers for amusing them with the following anecdote . All Societies & all Parties were carried away with ye popular frenzy of ' Wilkes & Liberty' & among ye rest , the quiet & peaceable Freemasons came in for their share . "

"March 3 . 1769 . Ye members of ye Lodge held at Ye Jerusalem Tavern in Clerkenwell attended at the King ' s Bench Prison & made Mr . Wilkes a Mason . " Dr . Oliver alludes to this matter , in part , in Preston ' s " Illustrations , " but ful / er particulars will be found in Bro . Gould ' s grand history ( volume 2 ) , Lodge 371 being erased

February nth , 1784 , for holding a meeting in the priton aforesaid , and the late Prov . Grand Master of Kent ( Capt-Smith ) was "expelled the Society " for another reason , but possibly through this meeting being held on February 2 nd , 1785 . It is clear therefore that active Freemasonry of a legal character cannot exist "in any prison or place of confinement , " as the Grand Lodge decided . H .

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Craft Masonry .

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GLOBE LODGE ( No . 23 ) . —The installation meeting of this ancient and distinguished Ked Apron lodge , whose working is traceable to the year 1723 , was held at the Freemasons' Hall , on Thursday , the 19 th inst ., when a goodly number of brethren and visitors were present , among whom were Bros . Nixey , P . G . S ., W . M .: Clowser , G . S ., S . W . j G . Simonds , S . D . ; P . Pinches , l . D . ; R .

Willoughby . I . G . ; C . Martin , P . A . G . D . C , Sec ; Venn , Leuty , Palmer , Stedwell , J . Brandon , J . Boyd , Massey-Mainwaring , Money , Hunter , Ward , T . M . Brandon , K . Biandon , Beit , and others . The visitors were Bros . Binckes , P . G . S . B . ; W . Ganz , P . G . O . ; 0 "ens , P . P . J . G . D . Surrey ; Alfred Farquhar , 1629 ; James Moon , 49 j Capt . Ward , St . Patrick ' s Lodge , f . Whiting , P . M .

r 772 ; and J . H . C . Leuty , 511 . Lodge was opened and the minutes of the previous meeting read and confirmed , and the Auditors' report received and adopted . Bro . Nixey , W . M ., then vacated the chair in lavourof Bro . Charles Martin , P . M ., P . A . G . D . C , who most impressively initiated Bro . John B . Verity into Freemasonry . On the VV . M . resuming the chair , lodge was

opened in the Second Degree , and Bros . Capt . Ward and E . M . Brandon were passed to the degree of Fellow Craft , i he chair was then taken by Bro . T . W . Chard Leuty , P . M ., P . G . S ., who for the third year in succession most ably worked the installation ceremony , duly installing according to ancient custom , the W . M . elect , Bro . Clowser ,

the accompanying music for all ceremonies being most beautifully rendered by Bro . Ganz , P . G . O . Lodge was ihen closed and the brethren adjourned to the Freemasons'Tavern , where a most recherche banquet was provided by Bro . Madell , the manager . The usual Masonic toasts were duly honoured ; that of the " Grand Officers ''