The Masonic Mirror.

THE MASONIC MIRROR .

EOYAL FREEMASONS' GIRLS' SCHOOL . A quarterly general court of the governors and subscribers to this Charity was held on Thursday last , Bro . UdaYl , F . P ., in the chair . The minutes of the various committees for the quarter were read and confirmed , and the treasurer authorised to sign cheques

amounting to £ 611 Us . i . Qd . for the quarter ' s expenses and salaries . The Matron ' s salary was increased to £ 80 , the Governess's to £ 100 , and the Assistant Governess ' s to £ 35 . The resignation of Bro . Giraud , as Honorary Solicitor , was received and accepted with regret . The ballot for eleven pupils out of twenty-one candidates was then proceeded with and resulted as follows : —

Pratt , Alice Fradelle 507 Morbej ' , Lydia Ann 373 Redgrave , Florence 372 Dickens , Augusta Maud 358 Gillard , Maria Grace Sarah 31 G Woolnough , Emily Sarah 315 Osborne , Ellen Catharine 312

Buck , Alice Caroline 305 Sherley , Charlotte 255 James , Annie Jean 252 Goodchild , Clara 208

Holland , Ellen 15 S Fleck , Selina Jane 147 Sehofield , Louisa Emily 147 Measor , Elizabeth Adelaide 127 Manger , Mary Anne Alice 121 . Wicks , Emma Louisa 69 Johnson , Edna Jane 60

Dyer , Ellen Ann 39 Stansfield , Clara 30 Palot , Mary Jane 25 The eleven first were elected . Votes of thanks to the Chairman and Scrutineers concluded the proceedings- .

Metropolitan.

METROPOLITAN .

" vVjjMiJTGroif LODGE ( NO . 548 ) . —fl-is lodge held , its regular meeting on Tuesday , the 11 th inst ., at the Wicl'liaui Arms Tavern " Broekley-lane , Deptford . Bro . H . Bagshaw , W . M ., assisted by Bros . F . Wakefield , S . W . ; C . J . D . Bumsfcead , J . W . and Sec .,- B , Welsford , P . M ., Treas . ; G . Gale , S . D . ; A . G . Mee , I . G . j J . Stevens , I . P . M . ; W . Simmons , P . M . ; C , Qwden , P . M . ; 1 C . Smith , \ Y . BHliugton , W . P . Howes , J . J . West , C 4 .

Bebbeck , J . Carver , and others , opened the lodge . Visitors : F . Walters , P . M . 73 , 117 , See . 871 ; J . Brinn , 15 ; J . Terdre , 185 . The first ceremony was raising Bro . W . P . Howes to the sublime degree of a Master Mason . Afterwards one gentleman was initiated into the privileges of ancient Freemasonry . The 'W . M . rendered both ceremonies in an able manner . When the lodge was closed , the brethren partook of a banquet .

Provincial.

PROVINCIAL .

GLOUCESTERSHIRE . STOW-ON-TUE-AVOKD . —Prince of Wales Lodge ( So . 951 ) . — This flourishing lodge held its regular monthly meeting on Monday last , Bro . the Rev . W . B . Hadow , W . M ., P . M . 282 , P . Prov . G . Chap . Devon , officiating , assisted by Bros . R . J . Brookes , S . W ., and II . L . Grove , J . W ., and the other officers of the lodge . The principal business was that of passing Bros . Busby , Hiatt , and Allcock to the degree of F . C ., which was done in an able and impressive manner . Bro . Brookes , S . W .,

proposed Bro . J . Chamberlayne Chamberlayne , of Mangersbm-y Manor House , as a joining member , which was unanimously assented to . The lodge was then closed according to ancient custom , and the remainder of the evening was spent in harmony and good fellowship , and thus closed one of the many happy meetings of this excellent lodge .

NORFOLK . CONSECRATION OI ? THE SONDES LODGE AT EAST B £ EEnA :. r . On Wednesday , September 2 Sth , this lodge , which has been recently formed , was consecrated according to the ancient rites and ceremonies of the Craft . Bro . Leedes Fox , D . Prov . G . M ., oilitiafced for the Pvov . G . M ., and the ceremony was performed in the presence of from between forty and fiftbrethren from

y different parts of the province . Bro . II . Mason was installed as the first W . M . of the lodge , and the following were appointed as his officers : —Bros . E . Barwell , S . W . ; Henry Tillett , J . W . ; W . T . Gidney , S . D . ; C . H . Wisrg , J . D . ; E . Kent , I . G . In the evening , tbe brethren sat down to an excellent dinner at the King ' s Head Hotel , where the lodge is held . The W . M . presidedBro . Bar-veilS . IVofficiating in the vice-chairand

, , ,, , there were also present , amongst other brethren , Bros . Leedes Fox , D . Prov . G . M . ; A . M . F . Morgan , Prov . G . Sec . ; Barwell , Prov . G . Treas . ; Rev . J . Chohneley , Prov . G . Chap . ; P . M . Thorns , Prov . G . Dir . of Cers . ; A . Miller , Prov . G . Assist . Dir . of Cers . ; F . Colsey , P . Prov . G . Sec ; J . Taylor , Prov . G . Supt . of Works ; Wilkinson , Prov . S . G . W . ; Stevens , Kennedy , Dawbarn , P . M . 's , & c .

After the usual preliminary toasts , The W . MASTER proposed"The Health of the Provincial Grand Master , Benjamin Bond Cabbell , Esq . " It was impossible , he said , to speak too highly of the Provincial Grand Master , for if they took the great calendar of charitable institutions they would find his name amongst their first and foremost supporters . In fact , it appeared to him that that venerable gentleman walked this life for the of doing good and being

purpose kind to his fellow-men . ( Cheers . ) The toast was drunk with all the honours . Bro . MouGAjr , Prov . G . Sec , proposed " ¦ The Health of the Deputy Provincial Grand Master , Bro . Leedes Fox . " He said it had pleased the Provincial Grand Master to confer hig h , honour on Bro . Fox , in appointing him his Deputy , and never had such a reward been more deservedly given . For eight years

Bro . Fox bad laboured as Provincial Grand Secretary of that Province , and had laboured in a manner which must have elicited from every member of the Craft the greatest possible approbation , and must have produced in his own mind , which was of much greater importance , the satisfaction of having done his best in the discharge of his important duties . ( Hear , hear . ) He was sure it must have been a matter of the deepest possible and most heartfelt gratification to the Deputy Provincial Grand

Master that the first duty he had to perform was that of consecrating a new lodge , a new centre for the diffusion of those tenets and those principles which they all so dearly loved , aud which would so much enhance the happiness and welfare of everybody existing in this world , if they were still more widely spread . ( Cheers . ) In performing those duties , the Deputy ; . ' Provincial Grand Master bad bad the able support of many

Provincial Grand Officers , and Kiawy membavs of the Craft , and the Worshipful Master must himself have been surprised at such a , large and successful gathering . After some _ further complimentary remarks on the untiring and energetic services which the Deputy Provincial Grand Master had rendered to the Craft ,, the Provincial Grand Secretary concluded by proposing the

toast . ( Loud cheers . ) Bro . LEEDES FOX , in responding , referred to the high honour which the Provincial Grand Master had conferred upon him , and to the charitable and benevolent- actions which had ever characterised the venerable Provincial Grand Master . Had he ( Bro . Fox ) been appointed by Lord Zetland , as the Deputy Grand Master of England , he should not have esteemed it a greater honour than to be appointed the Deputy of so kind and

benevolent a man as their Provincial Grand Master . Eight and a half years ago , Freemasonry in Norfolk was but thinly spread . There was not a lodge which had more than twenty-five or twenty-six members . There were eight nominal lodges , bub not above four that were doing any work , but since Bro . Benjamin Bond Cabbell was installed , the lodges had been increased to eleven , all of which were in full work , and could boast of being in a decidedly good position . ( Hear , hear . ) In