Freemasons' Boys' School.

FREEMASONS' BOYS' SCHOOL .

To the Editor of " The Masonic Observer and Grand Lodge Chronicle . " Sir and Brother , —Will you kindly allow me through the' medium of your columns to solicit the votes of your readers at the ensuing election of the above charity in favour of J . P . HARVEY , whose father died at the Cape , leaving a widow and eight children totally unprovided for . The poor child is a candidate for the fifth time . I am , Sir and Brother , vours fraternally , G . K . FOETAL , P . M ., 10 & 4 G 0 . : 3 , Wilton Crescent , London , S . W .

Oxford Food And Oxford Flattery.

OXFORD FOOD AND OXFORD FLATTERY .

" Mulcet adulator fictia virtutibns aurem . " To be saved from one ' s friends is a wish often told , And the Grand Master must have felt so , Though our welcome was warm and our Sillery cold , . And we brought out the best of Bordeaux . And when hearts with good cheer are aglow , We know How tbe speeches of orators flow ;

But the most metaphorical orator out Never drew like our Bowyer the bow . Was it irony ? that were too sadly misplaced ; What will Canada say , when they know That we thought it consistent with truth and with taste To butter our Grand Master so ? They'll that six centuries

say ago - . - ... Or so , In the days of the bold Ivanhoe , An archer there lived , who'd have been a good match With our Bowyer to draw the long bow . Perorations on union , exordiums on peace Were surely a little de trap ; For , though now wiser measures have bid the strife cease ,

I fear it was not always so . Why Apollo and Alfred and Co . - : ~ ~ . _ y . ; - ~' ¦¦' ¦ ¦ ¦ - ' ¦ - ¦ - •" '¦ 'Well-know - - ' . ,-. That those measures came painfully slow . : ' And painfully wide of the mark fell the shaft , When our Bowyer thus drew the long bow . But the tribute that good English gentlemen earn , To England's Grand Master we owe

; And the same feeling bids us respectfully turn To you , my bold Bowyer , also . After bounds like a Briton you go , And show Good example to high and to low ; And your true love of sport perhaps led you to think , That a Bowyer should draw the long bow . Oxford , June , 1857 .

Notes And Queries.

NOTES AND QUERIES .

The air of the song known as " A free and an accepted Mason , " was evidently composed prior to the year 1730 . In one of Henry Fielding ' s dramatic pieces , all of which were composed before that year , there is a stupid song in praise of tobacco , to which the stage direction is , "Air—Freemason ' s tune . " The first verse is quite sufficient to show that the air and words of our song were familiar to the composer of tbe parody" Let the learn'd talk of books ,

The glutton of cooks , The lover of Celia ' s soft smackrO ; No mortal can boast , So noble a toast , As a pipe of accepted tobacco . " Among the readers of the Masonic Observer I should be glad to meet with one who could recover the name of the composer of an air so dear to all Masons . I have a of the words in tho Freemasons '

copy Poekel Companion , for 1736 , which are precisely the same as those now in use , and are preceded by this title— "The entered 'Prentice ' s Song—by the late Mr . Matthew Birkhoad ; to be sung when all grave business is over , and with the Master ' s leave . " In the same volume are other curious Masonic songs and pieces , as well as a list of Lodges down to the year 1734 . —PAPLUS .

ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION . —The Biennial Festival of this admirable Institution , for the support of decayed Masons and their Widows , was held at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday last the 17 th inst , when one hundred and forty-two Brethren sat down to a sumptuous banquet . The Chair was taken hy the R . W . Bro . Femvick , M . l ' ., J . G . W ., who kindly presided in the absence of the Earl of Durham , S . G . W . ; and was snpported by several past and present Grand Officers , including—Bros . Tomkins , G . T . ; Iiawson , p . G . M . for China ; Bowver , P . G . Iff . for Oxford ; H . Lloyd , P . G . D .: White , V . G . S . ; Clarke , G . S . ; Evans , P . G . S . B . ; Hervey , P . G . » . ; Beach , M . P . PGWOxfordRevGRPortalPGWOxford & c The

collec-, . . . ; . . . , . . . ; tion amounted to £ 1558 6 s . M . We cannot conclude this notice , without expressing our hope that this Festival , like the Boys' and Girls ' , may in future have au annual celebration ; and that the funds will , for the time to come , receive such support from the Craft at large , as will place it upon a more satisfactory footing , and permit of therelief of alargernumherof decayed Brethren . At present , out of fifty approved candidates , only eight can he assisted .

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