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being educated , and accomplished , and at the same time active , useful , and happy . Some of these girls , were their history known , might furnish many an interesting episode in real life , Ifc is not many years since a trader , who had by his own exertions managed to support his family in a position of respectability , died , leaving his widow , with nine chiklien , utterly bereft of support . Through

the intervention of some friends , a situation was obtained for the mother , and she proceeded with her family to Dublin in order to enter on her post . But the cup of her misfortune was not yet full , and a still sorer calamity was about to fall upon the unhappy children . The very clay of their arrival in Dublin , as the mother was descending a flight of stone steps , her fqgt slipped and she sustained injuries which , after some days' sufferingterminated in her death . Of the bodily ancl mental

, anguish which this poor woman endured , racked by a painful disease , and with mind torturing itself by the variety of its sad foribodings as fco the fate of her orphan children , few can form any idea . Bufc on looking over the deceased's papers , the the Masonic certificate of the father of the children was found . This discovery led to their being assisted by some members of the masonic body . Two of fche girls were eventually taken into the schoolancl provision was made for the others . The two girls

, were inmates of the school have since been both respectably married . Among the girls ivho from time to time have been trained up in this estimable institution , a considerable proportion are daughters of men who once filled respectable positions in society , some were even in affluent circumstances and highly connected . Some years ago a gentleman , the proprietor of one of the most extensive estates in Irelandlost it through railway

specula-, tions , and died , leaving a daughter in the deepest poverty . He had forfcuately been a Mason for several years previous to his death , and through the assistance of some Masonic friends the girl was received into the school . A bandmaster in the army , a member of a highly respectable family , died , leaving a widow and two girls penniless . The mother emigrated to a distant colony , where she obtained a situation and sent a remittance to her children to enable them to join her . The passage-mouey

had been paid , and the girls were in readiness to start on their long voyage when a letter came , announcing the death of their mother . They were left thus completely destitute , but their father having been one of the Masonic body , the girls Avere received into the establishment , and they are now both married to men in comfortable circumstances . It not unfrequently happens that those who have been inmates of the school testify in after life their Jgrateful sense of their obligations to the

institution by becoming subscribers . A girl was nofc long since sent to a situation in Australia , ancl , she last year sent as a mark of her gratitude a liberal subscription to the school , with the intimation that it ivould be continued annually . Free admission is given in the Institution to the orphans of soldiers ivho have been Masons . It is a singular fact , that though several institutions exist , and in particular one noble establishment— -the Pvoyal Hibernian Military School—for the

support and education of sons of soldiers , nofc one institution in Ireland opens its doors to the orphan daushter of the military man . To ladies this school appeals with peculiar force . It may not be generally known that in many cases institutions which have been founded for the support ancl training of girls have not answered the expectations of the founders , the girls not turning out as well as was hoped and anticipated . Thafc this failure has in every instance arisen from some defect in the

management , is shown by the perfect success of the Masonic Female Orphan School . The female orphan has , indeed , claims of peculiar force on the charity and kindness of all who can assist her , for , in addition to all the distresses to which boys are subject , she has to withstand temptations to which they are exposed ; and who are so qualified to sympathize with and extend their assistance to their poorer ' sisters , as that better portion of mankind without which it has been said " the commencement oflife would be without succour , the middle without pleasure , and the end without consolation ?"

Royal Arch.

ROYAL ARCH .

GRAND CHAPTER , The Quarterly Convocation was held in the Temple , on AVednesday last , Comps . T . H . Hall , acting as Z . ; Patteson , as H . ; Evans , as J . ; Clarke , E . ; Perkins , as N . ; Potter , as P . Soj . ;

Mclntyre and Le A eau , Asst . Sojs . There were also present : Comps . the Rev . J . Huyshe , Proi * . G . Sup . Devon ; Roxburgh , G . Reg . ; Pullen , G . D . C . ; and the following P . Grand Officers Spiers , Gole , AVheeler , Smith , Udall , Scott , Pullen , Bridges , Bradford , and Slight , and about twenty-five other Companions .

The Grand Cliapter having beer , opened , a letter was read from the Bight Hon . Earlde Grey and Ripon , G . H ., apologising for being unable to attend . The minutes of the last meeting have been read and confirmed , the following report was taken as read , and ordered to be entered on the minutes : —

The Committee of General Purposes beg to report that they have examined the accounts from the 16 fch October , 1861 to the 15 th January , 1862 , which they find to be as follows — Balance , 16 fch October , 1861 . . £ 205 12 2 Subsequent Receipts .... 123 12 8

£ 329 4 10 Disbursements 158 7 2 Leaving a balance of . £ 110 11 8 which balance is in the hands of Messrs . AVillis , Percival and

Co ., Bankers of the Grand Treasurer . The Committee have also to report that they have received the following Petitions , viz .: — lsfc . From Companions Thomas Henry Hall as Z , John Deighton as H , the Duke of St . Alban's as J , and eight others , for a Chapter to be attached to the Isaac Neivton University Loclge ( No . 1161 ) , Cambridge , to be called the " Euclid Chapter , "

and to meet at the Red Lion Hotel , Cambridge , on the last Tuesday in February , May , aud November in each year . 2 ndly . From Companions Herbert Aylivin , as Z , Benjamin James Price as H , Robert George Thomas as J , and seven others , for a Chapter to be attached to the South Australian Lodge of Friendship ( No . 613 ) , Adelaide , to be called the "South Australian Chapter of Friendship , " to meet at the Supreme Court Hotel , Adelaide , South Australia , on the AVednesday immediately after the full moon of every month . Srdly . From Companions AVilliain Harry Jenkins as Z .

Edward Trewbody Carlyon as H , John Moyle as J , and eight others , for a Chapter to be attached to the Phcenix Lodge of Honour and Prudenceto ( No . 415 ) , Truro , to be called the "Royal Cornubian Chapter , " and to meet at their private Lodge Rooms , High Cross , Truro , on the first Monday in the months of January , April , July , and October in each year . These Petitions being iu all respects regular , the Committee reccommend that the prayers thereof be respectivelgranted

y . The committeee have likewise received a Petition from Companions AVilliam W . B . Beach as Z , Wyndham Spencer Portal as H , Ralph Augustus Benson as J , and eight others , for a Chapter to be attached fco the AVesfcminster and Key-Sfcone Lodge ( No . 10 ) , London , to be called the " AVestminster and Key-Stone Chapter , " and to meet at the Freemason ' s Tavern , Great Queen Street . Londonon the third AA ednesday in the

, months of January , March , June , and September in each year . This petition is in all respects regular , but inasmuch as the Committee have on former occasions expressed their opinion that the number of Chapters in London is sufficient to serve the interests of fche Order , and their opinion continuing the same : It ivas resolved , at their meeting held this day , to submit this Petition to Grand Chapter without further observation .

The Petitions for the various Chapters were then read , and after some discussion as to the necesity of a Chapter at Cambridge , and fche propriety of giving a Charter to No . 10 , in the course of which it was stated that it had 120 members , 50 of whom were Royal Arch Masons , the whole of the Charters were granted , thafc for No . 10 , being subject to confirmation , as is the case with all Charities nofc recommended by the Committee . The Chapter was closed in solemn form with prayer .