Masonic Mems.

MASONIC MEMS .

THEMASONICMIRROR. # * AU communications fco be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C .

GASGOW . —THE PUXEEAI . OB BEO . SnERiEE STRATIIERN . — In the list given in our last issue of the deputations from daughter lodges of the Glasgow province present at the funeral ¦ of Bro . Strathern , we accidentally omitted the deputation from the Thistle Lodge ( No . 87 ) , the members of which turned out in very respectable numbers .

OXFORDSHIRE . —The annual Provincial Grand Lodge " and festival is appointed by Bro . Colonel Bowyer , Prov . G . Master , to be held on Monday , May the 25 th , afc Chipping Norton , under the charge of the Bowyer Lodge ( No . 1 , 030 ) .-THE annual festival of the Cceur de Lion Encampment of Knights Templar will be helel afc the Masonic Hall , Oxford , on

May tbe 18 th . The E . G . is the Kev . AT . P . Short , G . Provost ; and the E . C . elect , the Bev . C . W . Spencer Stanhope , of Merton College . KENDAI . CASTLE CHAPTER ( NO . 129 ) . —The annual convocation of this chapter will be held on Priday , tbe 27 th day of March , at four o'clock in the afternoon , prompt time .

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

In consequence of the great pressure on our space last week , and the length to which the report of the festival for the Eoyal Masonic Institution for Boys extended , we were compelled to omit a portion of the report , which will be found below . Bro . BlHCKES , Secretary , said that they had then arrived afc

that portion of the evening when it became his pleasant duty , on behalf of fche committee of the Institution , to present three boys who had won certain prizes during the year . He did nofc mean to say that they comprised all the prizes which were to be given , bufc these three prizes were awarded and were appointed to be presented at that meeting . The educational

ability displayed by the successful candidate they first considered , and he then had tbe honour to present Harry William Wildman , who obtained the highest middle-class honour at tbe Oxford middle-class examination in June last . His age was thirteen years and a half , aud he obtained the

forty-fifth position out of six hundred candidates then presented . In point of age he was fourth on the list , and be was therefore entitled to the reward of five guineas , the gift of Bro . Winn , P . M . of the Canonbury Lodge , to the boy who should stand highest for the honours at the Oxford middle-class examination . THE CHAIE- ( addressing Master Wildman ) said : In

presenting you with this prize I wish to say that this is but a small souvenir as to your merit , and you are not to look upon ifc as merely representing its value in specie , but I trust that you will look at ifc as yonr first step in a prosperous career . You have done credit , not only to yourself , bufc to tbe Institution , and credit to tbe Order to which your father belonged

, and I trust , by God's blessing , tbafc you will be an bonour to jour country and those to whom you are indebted for your education . I wish you God speed in your future career , and I trust ifc may be as prosperous as ifc promises to be . Bro . BINCKES said the next boy entitled to a reward , and whom Tie then presented , was Prank Herbert Read , who had attained

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that age afc which , under ordinary circumstances , he would have left the Institution , but by a decision of the committee , his period had been extended and his services secured . He was entitled to the silver medal for good conduct , and was awarded to the boy who , in the opinion of the master and the schoolfellows , bad earned it .

THE CHAIRMAN - ( to Master Bead ) said : In presenting you with this medal , which you have earned by your good conduct , may I be allowed to say , without impugning anything that bas been said of the young gentleman before me , that although a man may not be born a gentleman , yet all may become good citizens of tbe world merely by tbe force of good conduct . Ifc requires great talent to conduct yourselves properly , and it is

not so easily acquired as some may suppose . I horio that you will continue your career as you have begun , anel that you will be an honour to yourself , and fco the Institution that educated

you . Bro . BHTCKES saiel , that having disposed of those who bad shown great educational ability and good conduct , although all could not be entitled to those prizes , there were other things which might render them popular with all with whom they might come in contact . He therefore presented Henry Charles Chase , who was entitled to receive tbe Canonbury gold medal , the gift of Bro . Edward Cox , P . M . of the Canonbury Lodge , who had been elected to receive it by the unbiassed vote of bis schoolfellows .

THE CHAIRMAN -. Master Chase , I can scarcely consider your position as inferior to that of tbe two young gentlemen who have preceded you . It has been said that , " the child is father to the man , " and , believe me , this is no slight testimony to tbe general good conduct and ability of the boy when be is selected by the unbiassed votes of his schoolfellows , to stand in the position in which jiyou stand here to-day . That you have

attained great popularity amongst them is evident , and you are a great favourite amongst them . In placing this medal round neck , I trust that your future career will prove as prosperous as tho present . THE CHAIEHAS said -. Ifc now becomes my duty to propose to you the toast of the evening ; I do so with great diffidence

in one respect , because I greatly regret it has not been entrusted to abler hands than mine ; while , on tho other hand , I have great confidence in the subject on which I shall address you , and on which I rest the toast , because to us , as Masons , it commends itself to us , when I begin to explain it . The toast I have to propose is ' * ' Success to the Eoyal Masonic

Institution for Boys . " You have seen before you just now , throe young gentlemen who have been brought from the School to receive rewards from the brethren , and I hope at some future time they may become members of the Craft . In former years it was customary to bring the whole school before the meeting here , iu a kind of . parade , which has been omitted on this occasion , and as far my own feelings are concerned I think ifc

has rightly been omitted . Charity amongst Masons is a very different thing than when the word is used in the ordinary acceptance of the term . We are all Masons here in the room , with the bright exception I see up there ( looking at the ladies in the gallery ) , and all of us who are in this sublunary sphere must recollect the obligation of our initiation , which was to

promote charity and help a brother when he is in distress . If that obligation applied to a brother it also applied to bis children , and while I hold we ought to relieve a brother when be is in distress , 1 think we are equally bound to relieve his children if we are able to do so . I think , however , that it was derogatory to us , as Masons , aud derogatory to the boys themselves , for them to be brought there for exhibition , and I am