A Visit To The Royal Freemasons' School For Female Children.

each know and experience how great is the moral support given to our endeavours by the presence and countenance of a friend . Our object is to place before our brethren such an account of a personal visit to the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children as we hope will induce many to go and see for themselves ; for however much the majority of our Craft may hear respecting this

institution in our lodges , yet nothing in the way of description can so forcibly convey to the minds of those interested the inestimable benefits diffused by such a charity , as could be gathered from an hour ' s persona ] observation . And as we know many brethren will seek a holiday to refresh themselves from their daily toil during the coming fine weather , we strongly urge upon them to devote one visit to the Girls' School , feeling certain that if they do so they will derive more inward satisfaction for having so well employed their time , than from weeks of leisure and amusement having nothing more than a

purpose-less aim to kid time aud get away from business . So , to our brethren who have not yet visited the Girls' School , wc say—bear with us while we endeavour to g ive au account of our impressions on the first visit wc made to the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children , at St . John ' s Hill , Battcrsea Rise . Though our locks are sprinkled with grey , we cannot lay claim to

be ancient in the Craft ; but having heard much of the Masonic charities , and of the Girls' School in particular , wc determined , upon our first leisure day , to go and see it for ourselves . The long expected clay haviug arrived , behold us , kind reader , at Waterloo Bridge , wending our way to the South Western railway terminus . A very short space of time having elapsedthe train began to slacken speedand on

, , emerging beneath a bridge we saw cm the left , a large red brick building having a high tower ; however , we had but little time to make any observation , for we gradually approached the Clapham station , at which we alighted , when turning to take an observation as to tho

bearings of our destination , we espied , at some two or three hundred yards , the same red brick building that we had just passed ; and that there might be no mistake as to the purpose tc which it was devoted , or rather , to what society it belonged , there were the well known emblems of two squares placed on the summit of its vane , glistening in the morning sun , and pointing to the mansions of the blest , where all who

square their actions ari ght may hope to ascend , and enjoy that peace which is to be the reward of virtue , charity , aud love , here practised below . This then was the building we were in search of , and our heart beat ; lustily in our bosom when we saw it , for wc were deeply grateful to tho G . A . O . T . U ., that He had inspired our brethren to raise such a home for the orphan , as well as the daughters of those brethren

whose circumstances had dwindled into " the sere and yellow leaf . " Before entering upon particulars , perhaps it will not be deemed out of p lace to give a short account of the formation of this charity . To our late brother the Chevalier Ruspini ( surgeon-dentist to the Prince of Wales , afterwards King George the IV ., the first Grand Patron of