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The E . W . D . G . M . again rose , and asked the brethren to join him in drinking to the health of the Prov . Grand Masters , ancl to the Grand Officers , past and present , without whom the business of Grand Loclge could not be transacted . He felt that the Prov . Grand Masters and Officers were a most useful body , as it was to their- xeal aud -intelligence they were mainly indebted for tho high position which Freemasonry held iu England . Bro . Capt . Bowyer , Prov . G . M ., Oxon ., acknowledged the compliment , and

expressed the delight that he and tho Grand Officers by whom he was surrounded experienced at having the opportunity of being present that evening and supporting their noble chairman in his endeavours to' promote the interests of a charity in which they must all feel the deepest interest . Ho knew from his experience in Grand Loclge how anxious tho Grand Officers -were for the promotion of the interests of the Craft , ancl their attendance at the various festivals showed the interest they took in the prosperity of their charities . The'Prov . Grand Masters and the brethren generally he was sure were equally anxious to promote those interests

, and to fulfil the duties of their respective positions to the utmost of their power and ability . The report of the committee having been read , a number of the boys were introduced into the room , and ranged iij front of the dais . The E . W . D . G . M . said he now rose to propose a toast which , after the interesting spectacle thoy had just -witnessed , of tho young boys entering the room , he was sure would require very few words from him to recommend to their notice

, it being what was generally called the toast of tho evening . Ho felt sure that they were all most anxious to respond to the toast , and he should therefore detain them withbutfew observations . Oneof the peculiar objects of Preemasonry was to cultivate the practice of virtue , ancl more especially that crowning virtue , charity . There was no charity more important , than that of -. nfonimg a good ancl sound education to the children of their poorer Brethren , who , from misfortune , were themselves prevented doing so . It kid been truly said that there was no more

important legacy to tho young , and no greater blessing m then- power to bestow than that of educating the child , so that when he entered the "world ho might not only "be enabled to provide lor himself , hut , should they require it , to aid his parents in the decline of life . Formerly they only educated and clothed the sons of Masons , but within the last few years efforts had been made to obtain a school-house , in which twenty-five of the boys wero educated , and it was hoped that within a very short time the whole seventy whom they now educated might be brought under one roof . It seemed that au opinion some time since got abroad that the benefits of

tho institution extended little beyond the metropolis ; but it was not so , and it had been shown that it was open to all the Craft , aud that the children yf the brethren in the provinces were equally cared for with those of the metropolis . He was pleased also to find that the brethren of the provinces were now beginning to take a greater interest in th e prosperity of the charities than they had formerly appeared to do ; -and he was sure that with their united efforts , their institutions would be placed at the head of the various noble charities which adorned the country . It

was the more important that they should extend to the children of their brethren the advantages of a good education—because he would remind them , and now he spoke to the boys themselves—that owing to the free constitution of this country , there was no man having the talent and the determination to make his way , there was no position , however dignified , which a subject could hold , to which he might not aspire—and oven some of the children then before them might arrive some day at the distinguished position of Graud Master or Deput y Grand Master of

England . In proposing success to the Eoyal Masonic Institution for Boys , he would ask to be allowed to couple with it the name of Bro . Benjamin Bond Cabbell , their Treasurer . He was sure there was no one to be found who had devoted himself more thoroughly to the promotion of works of charity than Bro . Cabbell , and it was his earnest hope that he might long he spared to be amongst them , and add dignity to their Order , whilst , by taking care of their funds , ho greatly benefitted tho charity . _ The toast having been received with loud applause , Bro . B . B . Cabbell , Provincial Grand Master for Norfolk , aud Treasurer of . tha Boys School , thanked