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CONTENTS .
LEADERS ,.,... 223 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 224 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 224 Consecration of the Egerton Lodge , No . 2131 , at Egremont 225 Consecration of the Constance Lodge , No . 2135 , at Consett 223
Provincial Grand Lodge of Cumberland and Westmorland 225 Provincial Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Cumberland and Westmorland 236 Provincial Grand Chapter of Warwickshire 236 Another Masonic MS 226 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 237 East Lancashire Systematic Masonic Educational and Benevolent Institution 227 Devon Masonic Educational Fund 227
Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master ! Masons of West Yorkshire 327 I Presentation to Bro . Colonel Sir Francis Burdett , Bart ., P . G . M . Middlesex 227 [ CORRESPONDENCECharity Stewards' Badges and Founders ' Jewels and Past Masters 230 Athol Grand Lodge 230
Was General Gordun a Freemason ? 230 Reviews 231 Notes and Queries 331 Isle of Wight Masonic Exhibition 33 r REPORTS or MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 232 Instruction , 234 Royal Arch—Instruction 234 Masonic and General Tidings 23 $ Lodge Meetings for Next Week 236
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As the Grand Festival approaches , there are sure to be flying : about various rumours as to the brethren upon whom the Grand Master proposes to confer the honours of the purple . Such rumours must always of course be received with caution , as it is improbable they are absolutely and entirely correct in their several announcements ; but by the exercise of a small amount
of judgment people often find themselves tolerably near the mark in their surmises as to who will be the fortunate recipients of Grand Lodge office during the coming year . Thus , without committing ourselves to the precise accuracy of what follows , we fancy we see a reasonable degree of probability in the rumour that the new Grand Wardens will be the
Right Honourable Lord HERSCHELL , Lord High Chancellor of England , and Captain Lord CHARLES BERESFORD , R . N ., M . P . Both are prominent public men , as well as sound constitutional Masons ; while if the GRAND MASTER has it in his mind to impress the outside world with the absolute freedom of the Craft as a body from anything like political
prejudice , it is impossible he could have made a better choice , Lord HERSCHELL being a member of the present Liberal administration , and Lord CHARLES BERESFORD a member of the Conservative opposition . It is said the new Grand Chaplains will be Bros , the Rev . R . MORTIMER HEATH and the Rev . — PALMER , and the new Grand Deacons Bros . SAMUEL POPE ,
Q . C ., Sir BRUCE SETON , J . E . LE FEUVRE , and RALPH GLUTTON . Bro . CAM . V , we know for certain , is the Grand Treasurer elect , and Bro . A . LUCKING , who was appointed Assistant Grand Pursuivant last year , will , if the rule heretofore observed still holds good , become , in the order of things , Grand Pursuivant , his post
as Assistant being assigned to Bro . PF . RRYMAN . On Bro . PARRATT , MUS . D ., of Windsor , it is considered the collar of Grand Organist will be conferred , while Bro . GLOVER has been indicated as likely to become Assistant G . D . C , Bro . H . TRUEMAN WOOD being assigned to one of the four offices—Deputy Director of Ceremonies , Sword Bearer , and the two
Standard Bearers—not appropriated in the foregoing list . As we have said already , we do not commit ourselves to the accuracy of these announcements , and we advise our readers to accept them with true Masonic
caution . But they have the appearance of accuracy , and whatever may be the fate of these prognostications , there can be no question whatever that the brethren they relate to are well worthy of the honours respectively assigned to them . * *
THERE will necessarily be a strong feeling of disappointment experienced by the relatives of the twelve children for whom their friends and supporters failed to secure places among the successful candidates at the Girls' School Election on Saturday last , but fortunately , the disappointment is not irreparable . The four girls whose names under any circumstances
must have been removed from the list were elected , and the twelve who were not so fortunate will all of them have one if not more opportunities of trying their luck , and will all , let us hope , find their way ultimately into the Institution at St . John's Hill . At all events , we are glad the election has terminated thus , because , as we remarked in our article of the 3 rd instant ,
it is in this way that the minimum of disappointment will be felt by the persons chiefly interested . In other respects , too , the election seems to have been attended with satisfactory results , there being fair reason to suppose that all succeeded in carrying their candidates who had a fair chance of success , and had made up their minds to win . The poll was headed by No .
25 , with 3074 votes , her father , the late Bro . J AMES CUTBUSIJ , having been a member of a Hertfordshire and sundry London lodges , so that the girl received , no doubt , the full support of the former , and a large measure of assistance from the latter . Nos , 2 and 3 , both London candidates , were a
long way behind , the one securing 2154 , and the other 2045 votes ; No . 4 hailed from Suffolk and Essex , and obtained 1964 votes ; and then came three more London candidates with 1911 votes , 1837 votes , and 1821 votes respectively ; No . 8 , from Leicestershireand Rutland , obtained 1694 votes . ; No .
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9 , from Dorsetshire , 1687 votes ; No . jo , from Devonshire , 1 C 50 votes ; No . 11 , from Sussex , 1604 votes ; No . 12 , from Essex , 15 S 9 votes ; No . 13 , from Worcestershire , 1512 votes ; No . 14 , from Hong Kong , and the Province of Cumberland and Westmorland , 1509 votes ; and No . 15 , from West Yorkshire , 1508 votes . Hants and the Isle of Wight secured
the 16 th place for one of its three candidates with a poll of 1499 ; and West Yorkshire carried its second candidate with 1473 . Yet another Provincial , but with claims on Essex and Hants and the Isle of Wight , followed with 1454 votes , and then Northumberland succeeded in placing its protegee , at No . 19 , with 1409 votes . The South Western Division of
Wales obtained the 20 th place with 1340 votes ; the remaining four being a London girl ( No . 21 ) with 1120 votes , a Jersey girl with 108 S votes , another London girl with 1015 votes , and last of all , a girl hailing from London and Cornwall , who was so fortunate as to win a place with the very small number of 703 votes , or perhaps proportionately as much below the
usual average of a successful candidate as young AMY CUTEUSH , with her 3074 votes , was above it . Thus London had the good fortune to carry seven of its 13 candidates , and had a hand in carrying two others—one in conjunction with Herts , and the other with Cornwall . Hants and the Isle of Wight , which sent up three cases , only managed to place one , but it shares
with Essex the credit of having secured the 18 th place for another . West Yorkshire carried both its candidates , while Sussex placed one and failed with the other . Essex had only one candidate with exclusive claims on its support , and for that itobtained the 12 th place , but it shared with Suffolk the credit of placing the girl PRATT at No . 4 on the poll , and , with Hants
and Isle of Wight , that of winning the iSth place for VIOLET BELL . Of the twelve unsuccessful candidates , who will all be eligible to compete in October next , six hail from London , two from Hants and Isle of Wight , one from Kent , one from Antigua , West Indies , and from North and East
Yorkshire and Durham . As regards the votes , 6397 were brought forward from October last , but of the 38 , 419 votes issued , only 35 , 042 were used , the aggregate poll being 41 , 439 votes , as against a possible 44 , 816 votes , and leaving , of course , 3377 votes unaccounted for , of which some few no doubt were rejected for some informality by the Scrutineers .
* * * THE polling at the Boys' School Election on Monday appears to have been remarkably close , except as regards the highest successful candidate , who had upwards of 300 votes to the good in excess of No . 2 , and those after No . 3 6 , there being a difference of more than 500 votes between Nos . 3 6 and 37 .
But from No . 2 , who obtained a score of 174 6 , right away down past No . 30 —the last successful candidate—to No . 36 , who had 9 8 7 votes—the—to use a musical term—diminuendo was very gradual , in no case amounting to 100 votes , and in most cases being so slight as to be hardly appreciable , Of course , as regards the six highest unsuccessful boys—Nos . 31 to 36 , both
inclusive—this will make the disappointment all the greater to bear ; ' cut , at least , they have the comfort of feeling that , if the conditions of the October Election are but fairly reasonable , only a moderate amount of exertion on the part of their supporters will suffice to place them in the successful list , If we turn to the result of the voting asbetsveen London and the Provinces
we do not fancy there can have been much effort thrown away , the former having carried 10 out of its 15 candidates ; while the latter , grouping them all together , secured the election of 20 out of 33 . Both Nos . 1 and 2 , the former with 2057 votes and the latter with 1746 votes , were London applicants ; while Nos . 3 , 4 , and 5 , with 1686 votes , 1674 votes , and 1644 votes
respectively were provincial , No . 3 being from Warwickshire ; No . 4 , from West Lancashire ; and No . 5 , the solitary Herts candidate . No . 6 place fell to London with 16 39 votes ; No . 7 hailed from Norths and Hunts , and polled 1635 votes ; and No . 8 from Kent—both of whose candidates obtained places—who scored 1625 votes . Another London youngster
followed with a total of 1592 , of which S 06 were brought forward from last October ; and then a Sussex boy , with 912 votes already to the good , who made up his total to 1579 votes . WEBB , of London , with 1009 votes to his credit , polled a further 560 , and so secured the 1 ith place ; and then came one of the South Wales ( West ) boys with 1542 . Northumberland ,
which had two candidates , secured No . 13 for one of them with 1511 votes , of which a small credit was brought forward from the last election * , West Yorkshire , who succeeded in placing all its four candidates , standing No . 14 , with 150 S votes . East Lancashire carried two out of its three candidates , one of them standing No . 15 , with 1507 votes , and the other , No . 17 , with
1502 votes ; the intermediate place being occupied by a London boy with 1505 votes . The solitary Staffordshire candidate was placed No . 18 , with 1485 votes , and -then two West Yorkshiremen , with 1456 each to their credit , and two Londoners , with 1454 and 1451 votes respectively . Devonshire carried its candidate with a poll of 1430 , and so did Berks and Bucks ,
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS ,.,... 223 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 224 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 224 Consecration of the Egerton Lodge , No . 2131 , at Egremont 225 Consecration of the Constance Lodge , No . 2135 , at Consett 223
Provincial Grand Lodge of Cumberland and Westmorland 225 Provincial Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Cumberland and Westmorland 236 Provincial Grand Chapter of Warwickshire 236 Another Masonic MS 226 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 237 East Lancashire Systematic Masonic Educational and Benevolent Institution 227 Devon Masonic Educational Fund 227
Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master ! Masons of West Yorkshire 327 I Presentation to Bro . Colonel Sir Francis Burdett , Bart ., P . G . M . Middlesex 227 [ CORRESPONDENCECharity Stewards' Badges and Founders ' Jewels and Past Masters 230 Athol Grand Lodge 230
Was General Gordun a Freemason ? 230 Reviews 231 Notes and Queries 331 Isle of Wight Masonic Exhibition 33 r REPORTS or MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 232 Instruction , 234 Royal Arch—Instruction 234 Masonic and General Tidings 23 $ Lodge Meetings for Next Week 236
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As the Grand Festival approaches , there are sure to be flying : about various rumours as to the brethren upon whom the Grand Master proposes to confer the honours of the purple . Such rumours must always of course be received with caution , as it is improbable they are absolutely and entirely correct in their several announcements ; but by the exercise of a small amount
of judgment people often find themselves tolerably near the mark in their surmises as to who will be the fortunate recipients of Grand Lodge office during the coming year . Thus , without committing ourselves to the precise accuracy of what follows , we fancy we see a reasonable degree of probability in the rumour that the new Grand Wardens will be the
Right Honourable Lord HERSCHELL , Lord High Chancellor of England , and Captain Lord CHARLES BERESFORD , R . N ., M . P . Both are prominent public men , as well as sound constitutional Masons ; while if the GRAND MASTER has it in his mind to impress the outside world with the absolute freedom of the Craft as a body from anything like political
prejudice , it is impossible he could have made a better choice , Lord HERSCHELL being a member of the present Liberal administration , and Lord CHARLES BERESFORD a member of the Conservative opposition . It is said the new Grand Chaplains will be Bros , the Rev . R . MORTIMER HEATH and the Rev . — PALMER , and the new Grand Deacons Bros . SAMUEL POPE ,
Q . C ., Sir BRUCE SETON , J . E . LE FEUVRE , and RALPH GLUTTON . Bro . CAM . V , we know for certain , is the Grand Treasurer elect , and Bro . A . LUCKING , who was appointed Assistant Grand Pursuivant last year , will , if the rule heretofore observed still holds good , become , in the order of things , Grand Pursuivant , his post
as Assistant being assigned to Bro . PF . RRYMAN . On Bro . PARRATT , MUS . D ., of Windsor , it is considered the collar of Grand Organist will be conferred , while Bro . GLOVER has been indicated as likely to become Assistant G . D . C , Bro . H . TRUEMAN WOOD being assigned to one of the four offices—Deputy Director of Ceremonies , Sword Bearer , and the two
Standard Bearers—not appropriated in the foregoing list . As we have said already , we do not commit ourselves to the accuracy of these announcements , and we advise our readers to accept them with true Masonic
caution . But they have the appearance of accuracy , and whatever may be the fate of these prognostications , there can be no question whatever that the brethren they relate to are well worthy of the honours respectively assigned to them . * *
THERE will necessarily be a strong feeling of disappointment experienced by the relatives of the twelve children for whom their friends and supporters failed to secure places among the successful candidates at the Girls' School Election on Saturday last , but fortunately , the disappointment is not irreparable . The four girls whose names under any circumstances
must have been removed from the list were elected , and the twelve who were not so fortunate will all of them have one if not more opportunities of trying their luck , and will all , let us hope , find their way ultimately into the Institution at St . John's Hill . At all events , we are glad the election has terminated thus , because , as we remarked in our article of the 3 rd instant ,
it is in this way that the minimum of disappointment will be felt by the persons chiefly interested . In other respects , too , the election seems to have been attended with satisfactory results , there being fair reason to suppose that all succeeded in carrying their candidates who had a fair chance of success , and had made up their minds to win . The poll was headed by No .
25 , with 3074 votes , her father , the late Bro . J AMES CUTBUSIJ , having been a member of a Hertfordshire and sundry London lodges , so that the girl received , no doubt , the full support of the former , and a large measure of assistance from the latter . Nos , 2 and 3 , both London candidates , were a
long way behind , the one securing 2154 , and the other 2045 votes ; No . 4 hailed from Suffolk and Essex , and obtained 1964 votes ; and then came three more London candidates with 1911 votes , 1837 votes , and 1821 votes respectively ; No . 8 , from Leicestershireand Rutland , obtained 1694 votes . ; No .
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9 , from Dorsetshire , 1687 votes ; No . jo , from Devonshire , 1 C 50 votes ; No . 11 , from Sussex , 1604 votes ; No . 12 , from Essex , 15 S 9 votes ; No . 13 , from Worcestershire , 1512 votes ; No . 14 , from Hong Kong , and the Province of Cumberland and Westmorland , 1509 votes ; and No . 15 , from West Yorkshire , 1508 votes . Hants and the Isle of Wight secured
the 16 th place for one of its three candidates with a poll of 1499 ; and West Yorkshire carried its second candidate with 1473 . Yet another Provincial , but with claims on Essex and Hants and the Isle of Wight , followed with 1454 votes , and then Northumberland succeeded in placing its protegee , at No . 19 , with 1409 votes . The South Western Division of
Wales obtained the 20 th place with 1340 votes ; the remaining four being a London girl ( No . 21 ) with 1120 votes , a Jersey girl with 108 S votes , another London girl with 1015 votes , and last of all , a girl hailing from London and Cornwall , who was so fortunate as to win a place with the very small number of 703 votes , or perhaps proportionately as much below the
usual average of a successful candidate as young AMY CUTEUSH , with her 3074 votes , was above it . Thus London had the good fortune to carry seven of its 13 candidates , and had a hand in carrying two others—one in conjunction with Herts , and the other with Cornwall . Hants and the Isle of Wight , which sent up three cases , only managed to place one , but it shares
with Essex the credit of having secured the 18 th place for another . West Yorkshire carried both its candidates , while Sussex placed one and failed with the other . Essex had only one candidate with exclusive claims on its support , and for that itobtained the 12 th place , but it shared with Suffolk the credit of placing the girl PRATT at No . 4 on the poll , and , with Hants
and Isle of Wight , that of winning the iSth place for VIOLET BELL . Of the twelve unsuccessful candidates , who will all be eligible to compete in October next , six hail from London , two from Hants and Isle of Wight , one from Kent , one from Antigua , West Indies , and from North and East
Yorkshire and Durham . As regards the votes , 6397 were brought forward from October last , but of the 38 , 419 votes issued , only 35 , 042 were used , the aggregate poll being 41 , 439 votes , as against a possible 44 , 816 votes , and leaving , of course , 3377 votes unaccounted for , of which some few no doubt were rejected for some informality by the Scrutineers .
* * * THE polling at the Boys' School Election on Monday appears to have been remarkably close , except as regards the highest successful candidate , who had upwards of 300 votes to the good in excess of No . 2 , and those after No . 3 6 , there being a difference of more than 500 votes between Nos . 3 6 and 37 .
But from No . 2 , who obtained a score of 174 6 , right away down past No . 30 —the last successful candidate—to No . 36 , who had 9 8 7 votes—the—to use a musical term—diminuendo was very gradual , in no case amounting to 100 votes , and in most cases being so slight as to be hardly appreciable , Of course , as regards the six highest unsuccessful boys—Nos . 31 to 36 , both
inclusive—this will make the disappointment all the greater to bear ; ' cut , at least , they have the comfort of feeling that , if the conditions of the October Election are but fairly reasonable , only a moderate amount of exertion on the part of their supporters will suffice to place them in the successful list , If we turn to the result of the voting asbetsveen London and the Provinces
we do not fancy there can have been much effort thrown away , the former having carried 10 out of its 15 candidates ; while the latter , grouping them all together , secured the election of 20 out of 33 . Both Nos . 1 and 2 , the former with 2057 votes and the latter with 1746 votes , were London applicants ; while Nos . 3 , 4 , and 5 , with 1686 votes , 1674 votes , and 1644 votes
respectively were provincial , No . 3 being from Warwickshire ; No . 4 , from West Lancashire ; and No . 5 , the solitary Herts candidate . No . 6 place fell to London with 16 39 votes ; No . 7 hailed from Norths and Hunts , and polled 1635 votes ; and No . 8 from Kent—both of whose candidates obtained places—who scored 1625 votes . Another London youngster
followed with a total of 1592 , of which S 06 were brought forward from last October ; and then a Sussex boy , with 912 votes already to the good , who made up his total to 1579 votes . WEBB , of London , with 1009 votes to his credit , polled a further 560 , and so secured the 1 ith place ; and then came one of the South Wales ( West ) boys with 1542 . Northumberland ,
which had two candidates , secured No . 13 for one of them with 1511 votes , of which a small credit was brought forward from the last election * , West Yorkshire , who succeeded in placing all its four candidates , standing No . 14 , with 150 S votes . East Lancashire carried two out of its three candidates , one of them standing No . 15 , with 1507 votes , and the other , No . 17 , with
1502 votes ; the intermediate place being occupied by a London boy with 1505 votes . The solitary Staffordshire candidate was placed No . 18 , with 1485 votes , and -then two West Yorkshiremen , with 1456 each to their credit , and two Londoners , with 1454 and 1451 votes respectively . Devonshire carried its candidate with a poll of 1430 , and so did Berks and Bucks ,