Masonic Intelligence.

MASONIC INTELLIGENCE .

THE GIRLS' SCHOOL . THE usual quarterly court of the Governors of the Girls' School , was held on the 12 th ult ., at the Freemasons' Tavern , under the presidency of Br . Patten , P . G . S . B . There were also present Brs . Benjamin Bond Cabbell , M . P ., Barratt , Barnes , Symonds ,

Bohn , Adlard , etc ., etc ., etc . It appeared from the minutes of the several sittings of the House Committee , that the dress of the children had been hi some measure modified , by the substitution of boots for shoes ; that the directors of the Panoptican , Leicester Square , had invited the pupils to pay a visit to that scientific institution , but that they had been unable to avail themselves of the kindness ; that the sum of 1621 . 16 s . 3 d . had been set apart as the nucleus of a Sustentation Fund for keeping the building in repairs ; that one week , it was resolved to remove the badge from the sleeves of the children ' s dresses , —and that , on the next meeting , at the instance of Br . Ban-ait , seconded by Br . Barnes , it was continued . These minutes were unanimously confirmed .

It appeared from the statement of the accounts , that there was in hands a balance of 1138 / . 5 s . 6 d ., and that the quarter ' s bills amounted to 478 L 3 s . 3 d ., and the committee recommended that the treasurer should invest 300 Z . in the three per cent ., consols , thereby making the funded property of the institution amount to 4500 ? . The treasurer reported that he bad received 162 / . 16 s . 3 d ., being the aggregate of five half-years' dividends on three per cent . stock , and that he lodged it at Williams and Deacon ' s , as a building fund . This report was unanimously adopted .

The Secretary , Br . Crew , stated , that at the election , to be held in October next , there would be five vacancies , and that as there were only live candidates , the expense of sending out polling papers would be saved to the institution . Such of the children as were in waiting , were then introduced , and received from the chairman the notification , that their election would be unopposed . Br . Symonds gave notice that , at the next quarterly court , he should move , that the badge be removed from the arms of the childrenand that their dress be

-, gene rally modernised . Br . Nichols , the collector to the school , was granted two months' leave of absence to proceed to the south of Franco for the benefit of his health , and the proceedings were closed , with a vote of thanks to the Chairman .

Royal Free Hospital.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL .

AT the time of the death of our late lamented M . W . G . M . H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex , whose services to the cause of Freemasonry can never be forgotten , about £ 1400 was subscribed in order to raise a memorial of the estimation in which it washeld . This sum it was agreed to present to the Royal Free Hospital , Gray ' s Inn Lane ,, to raise a new wing , to be called the "Sussex Wing , " so soon as the friends of the Institution should make up a sufficient sum to enable them to carry out the design . This has just been accomplished , and accordingly , on Monday last , July 30 , the

foundation stone of the new wing of the Hospital was laid with Masonic honors by Br . Dobie , G . R ., who acted as 5 . M . in the absence of the Earl of Zetland , in consequence of the serious illness of the Countess . Grand Lodge was opened in the Welsh School Room , Gray ' s Inn Lane , at two o ' clock , after which a procession was formed in the following order : — Police Officers . Military Band of Music .