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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 315 United Grand Lodge 316 Consecration of the Tivoli Lodge , No . 2150 316 Provincial Grand Lodge of East Lancashire 31- ;
Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Warwickshire 31 S The Larry Organisation of the "Ancient " Masons—V 319 CORRESHONnENCEPast Masters' Collars 322 Reviews 32
, - * - - " -. J-J Notes and Queries , 323 REPORTS UP MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 323 Instruction 325 Royal Arch 326
Newton University Loelge , No . Sjo 326 Annual Dinner of the Newsvendors' Institution 327 Bro . James Terry , P . P . G . J AV . Norths and Hunts , at the Covent Garden Lodge of Instruction 327 Special Convocation of the Hornsey
REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS ( Continued)—Mark Masonry 32 G Cryptic Alasonry 326 Social Evening of thc "Old Masonians" 326 Twenty-fifth Anniversarv of the Isaac
Chapter of Improvement 327 The Recent Girls" School Festival 328 Royal Masonic lienevolent Institution 328 The Levander Memorial 328 Masonic and General Tidings 329 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 330
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THE news will be received everywhere with pleasure that a Special Provincial Grand Lodge of Sussex will be held at Brighton , and most probably in the Dome of the Royal Pavilion , on Tuesday , the 22 nd June , when H . R . H . the Duke of CONNAUGHT , P . G . S . W . England , will be installed Provincial Grand Master of Sussex by H . R . H . the Prince of WALES , M . W . G . M . As the occasions on which the Prince is able to take an active part in the
proceedings of the Craft are necessarily few and far between , and as the last time his Royal Highness presided at a similar function was when he installed Lord Sun-TELD Provincial Grand Master of Norfolk , it may be assumed there will be a strong muster of our Sussex brethren and their friends at the hour appointed—12 . 30 p . m . —and that for the luncheon , which will follow at . p . m ., there will be a great demand for tickets . In these
circumstances , we advise all who are desirous of attending the latter to make early application to Bro . V . P . FREEMAN , Provincial Grand Secretary of Sussex , who , we doubt not , will exhibit his usual courtesy in meeting their wishes to the best of his ability . We congratulate our Sussex friends on the signal mark of favour shown to them b y the M . W . GRAND MASTER in thus personally undertaking the duty of installing their new Provincial Grand
Master , and we trust the conditions under which the gathering will take p lace will be as favourable as the ceremony itself will be attractive . There is , perhaps , one point as to which we shall do well to advise our readers . The meeting will not be a Grand Lodge , but a Provincial Grand Lodge j though there are precedents for supposing that the Grand Officers will be summoned to attend his Royal Highness the GRAND MASTER .
* * * THE Anniversary Festivals of two of our Institutions having been held , it becomes our duty to direct the attention of our readers to the remaining one , that of the Boys' School , which will take place at the Royal Pavilion , Brighton , on Wednesday , the 30 th June , under the presidency of R . W . Bro . Lord SUFFIELD , K . C . B ., G . M . of Norfolk . It is no doubt unfortunate that all
our Charities should have been subjected at or about the same time to demands on their resources of an exceptionally pressing nature . Those resources are derived principally from the voluntary subscriptions of the brethren and their friends , and the difficulty of providing them is serious enough , even in the most prosperous times . But when , as is the case this year , each of our Institutions is in need of more than it has previously
asked for , and there is a great depression in trade throughout the country , this difficulty is very materially enhanced , and there is the danger that the last to appeal to the benevolent instincts of the Craft may find itself in a quandary . Moreover , when a man ' s pocket has been once or twice tapped , and his supply of surplus cash reduced to somewhat less than nothing , he begins to think it is time to resist the voice of the brother who is
tpmnfinohitn to further sacrifices at the altar of Charity . This is the kind of difficulty which the Stewards for the Boys' School Festival are now experiencing . The Benevolent Festival in Febtuaiy absorbed £ 15 , , and that of the Girls' School has had a further £ 13 , 000 . The problem now before us is to raise a like sum for the Boys' School , whose necessities are as urgent as those of its sister Charities , while its permanent income is less considerable .
It will not be out of place if we point out that the School deserves well of the Craft . As a scholastic Institution it has attained in a very few years to a position of very great eminence . As a home for the boys of our deceased or decayed brethren , the good it has . done and is doing is almost incalculable . It has also recently enlarged the sphere of its operations . The newl y-built Preparatory School has enabled
it to take on some 25 additional children , and there is ample room for more if only the requisite funds for their maintenance and education shall be forthcoming . But herein lies the difficulty , that the ordinary and extraordinary expenditure of the Institution amounts to between £ 12 , 000 and £ 13 , 000 , to say nothing of the £ 2000 or £ 3000 which has yet to be found in order to make the account for the new buildings even and quit . The
permanent income derived from annual grants by Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter and the interest on invested moneys is considerably within £ 1000 a year , the Boys' School in this respect being far less favourably placed than either of the other two Institutions . Thus the Stewards have no light task before them . Their business is to raise , as nearly as possible , some £ 13 , or £ 14 , 000 , and till now they have had other competitors in the field , the
Benevolent Stewards and the Girls' School Stewards having been engaged successively , and for a time concurrently , in obtaining the needful moneys for the purposes of those Charities . However , the Board of brethren who have given their services in aid of the Wood Green Institution , if not as strong in respect of numbers as we should like to have seen it , has many willing workers among them . Lord SUFFIELP is no novice as a Festival Chairman ,
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and though his province , being largely agricultural , may not be able to raise so large a contribution as Derbyshire did last year , there is no reason to doubt that it will acquit itself well . VVe have had evidence before now that it will back up its chief loyally , and that evidence , we have good reason to believe , will be repeated with even greater effect at Brighton on the day appointed . Again , it is on the cards that
Warwickshire ma } ' take a more prominent part in the good work than usual . Of course , until we know more of the composition of the Board of Stewards , we can say but little or nothing as to the prospects from London and the other provinces . However , we are certain they will do their best and sanguine enough to hope that best will be worthy of themselves , the Craft generally , and the Institution whose case we are now bringing under
the notice of our readers . They know the money is sorely needed , they know , too , it will be expended beneficially , and we trust that when the time comes it will be our privilege to announce what in conventional parlance is known as a bumper Festival . There is just another little reason which confirms us in this hope and expectation , lt will be the 25 th Festival since Bro .
BINCKES was elected Secretary . To his indomitable energy we owe it that the School has attained its present magnificent proportions , and the Anniversary now so rapidly approaching will afford the brethren generally the opportunity of emphasising their appreciation of his services by subscribing more liberally even than in ordinary years to the Institution whose cause he has advocated so long , so earnestly , and so successfully .
As every one anticipated , the polling at the election on the two Funds of the Benevolent Institution was very close , and the brethren in charge of the successful candidates deserve credit for the skill with which they placed the votes at their disposal . It is a long time since we have heard of cases being unsuccessful with over 2000 votes to their credit , yet this
happened last week at the election on the Widows' Fund in as many as four instances who severally polled 2211 , 2117 , 2093 , and 2051 votes and yet had the misfortune to be left out in the cold . In the case of the Male Fund , for which 55 out of the 58 candidates went forward , the highest successful obtained 1925 votes , and the lowest ( No . 24 ) 1046 votes , the highest unsuccessful candidate ( No . 25 ) having 1006 votes cast for him ,
which he is entitled to carry forward to the election in May , 1887 . But here the struggle was of necessity less keen , as , speaking roughly , there were about five candidates for every two vacancies , while for the Widows' Fund , there were six of the former for everv one of the latter . As to the results generally , we find that for the Male Fund London , which had 16 candidates , succeeded in placing seven of them amogst the successful , namely , Nos .
4 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 20 , 21 , and 22 . West Yorkshire carried three of its five candidates , namely , Nos . 13 , 15 , and iS , but North and East Yorkshire , which had the same number of cases , placed only one of them at No . 9 . East Lancashire , with four cases , crried three , Nos . 14 , 17 , and 19 , and Devonshire placed one of its three candidates at No . 3 , while Cheshire and Hants and the Isle of Wight , which had , each of them two , were fortunate enough
to secure the election of both , the Cheshire men being at Nos . 11 and 12 , and the Hants and Isle of Wight men at Nos . 1 and 2 . Cumberland and Westmoreland elected one ( No . 24 ) of its two candidates , while No . 7 hailed from West Lancashire , the other candidate from the same province being nowhere . Cambridgeshire , Kent , and North Wales , each carried its candidate , which were severally placed at Nos . 16 , 23 , and 10 . For the
Widows' Fund , London with 21 candidates obtained four places , Nos . 6 , 7 , 9 , and 10 ; Kent , with nine candidates , placed two of them at Nos . 2 and 5 respectively ; Devonshire carried two out of five , Nos . 3 and 11 ; West Yorkshire , which had four candidates , placed one of them at the head of the poll ; and Middlesex and Somersetshire each carried its representative , that of the former standing at No . 8 , and that of the latter at No . 4 . It
should be added that in the case of the Male Fund 1628 votes were brought forward from the last election , and 43 , 476 votes were issued , making together 45 , 104 votes , but the total polled reached 43 , 381 . so that 1722 votes were spoiled or unaccounted for . As to the Female Fund , there 12 , 599 votes brought forward , and 46 , 047 issued , making a total of 58 , 646 , but the total poll was only 53 , 774 , so that 4672 votes were spoiled or unaccounted for .
* # * THERE are one or two other points which may with advantage be noticed . On the Male Fund all but one of the 24 successful candidates were applicants for the first time , while only one of the n successful women candidates was in the same position . Thus , as regards the former , the votes to the credit of the old candidates exercised in one instance only any influence on
the result ; while , as regards the latter , there was only one case among the successful old candidates , who however secured her election independently of the small credit she brought forward from the election of 1885 , this being No . 21 , who obtained the fourth place , her credit brought forward being only 34 votes , and her votes polled on Friday last 2522 . The remaining nine old
candidates had at the lowest over 200 votes each to their credit when _ they went to the poll on Friday last . We must also mention lhat , irrespective of the candidates who may be accepted during the current year , and have their names placed on the lists for the election in May , 1887 , there remain from the election just concluded no less than 31 male and 5 8 female candidates . Comment on such a state of things is needless .
* # * WE beg to direct the attention of our readers to an interesting announcement made by the Lodge of the Quatuor Coronati in our advertisement columns , This lodge , which has been founded for the prosecution of
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 315 United Grand Lodge 316 Consecration of the Tivoli Lodge , No . 2150 316 Provincial Grand Lodge of East Lancashire 31- ;
Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Warwickshire 31 S The Larry Organisation of the "Ancient " Masons—V 319 CORRESHONnENCEPast Masters' Collars 322 Reviews 32
, - * - - " -. J-J Notes and Queries , 323 REPORTS UP MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 323 Instruction 325 Royal Arch 326
Newton University Loelge , No . Sjo 326 Annual Dinner of the Newsvendors' Institution 327 Bro . James Terry , P . P . G . J AV . Norths and Hunts , at the Covent Garden Lodge of Instruction 327 Special Convocation of the Hornsey
REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS ( Continued)—Mark Masonry 32 G Cryptic Alasonry 326 Social Evening of thc "Old Masonians" 326 Twenty-fifth Anniversarv of the Isaac
Chapter of Improvement 327 The Recent Girls" School Festival 328 Royal Masonic lienevolent Institution 328 The Levander Memorial 328 Masonic and General Tidings 329 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 330
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THE news will be received everywhere with pleasure that a Special Provincial Grand Lodge of Sussex will be held at Brighton , and most probably in the Dome of the Royal Pavilion , on Tuesday , the 22 nd June , when H . R . H . the Duke of CONNAUGHT , P . G . S . W . England , will be installed Provincial Grand Master of Sussex by H . R . H . the Prince of WALES , M . W . G . M . As the occasions on which the Prince is able to take an active part in the
proceedings of the Craft are necessarily few and far between , and as the last time his Royal Highness presided at a similar function was when he installed Lord Sun-TELD Provincial Grand Master of Norfolk , it may be assumed there will be a strong muster of our Sussex brethren and their friends at the hour appointed—12 . 30 p . m . —and that for the luncheon , which will follow at . p . m ., there will be a great demand for tickets . In these
circumstances , we advise all who are desirous of attending the latter to make early application to Bro . V . P . FREEMAN , Provincial Grand Secretary of Sussex , who , we doubt not , will exhibit his usual courtesy in meeting their wishes to the best of his ability . We congratulate our Sussex friends on the signal mark of favour shown to them b y the M . W . GRAND MASTER in thus personally undertaking the duty of installing their new Provincial Grand
Master , and we trust the conditions under which the gathering will take p lace will be as favourable as the ceremony itself will be attractive . There is , perhaps , one point as to which we shall do well to advise our readers . The meeting will not be a Grand Lodge , but a Provincial Grand Lodge j though there are precedents for supposing that the Grand Officers will be summoned to attend his Royal Highness the GRAND MASTER .
* * * THE Anniversary Festivals of two of our Institutions having been held , it becomes our duty to direct the attention of our readers to the remaining one , that of the Boys' School , which will take place at the Royal Pavilion , Brighton , on Wednesday , the 30 th June , under the presidency of R . W . Bro . Lord SUFFIELD , K . C . B ., G . M . of Norfolk . It is no doubt unfortunate that all
our Charities should have been subjected at or about the same time to demands on their resources of an exceptionally pressing nature . Those resources are derived principally from the voluntary subscriptions of the brethren and their friends , and the difficulty of providing them is serious enough , even in the most prosperous times . But when , as is the case this year , each of our Institutions is in need of more than it has previously
asked for , and there is a great depression in trade throughout the country , this difficulty is very materially enhanced , and there is the danger that the last to appeal to the benevolent instincts of the Craft may find itself in a quandary . Moreover , when a man ' s pocket has been once or twice tapped , and his supply of surplus cash reduced to somewhat less than nothing , he begins to think it is time to resist the voice of the brother who is
tpmnfinohitn to further sacrifices at the altar of Charity . This is the kind of difficulty which the Stewards for the Boys' School Festival are now experiencing . The Benevolent Festival in Febtuaiy absorbed £ 15 , , and that of the Girls' School has had a further £ 13 , 000 . The problem now before us is to raise a like sum for the Boys' School , whose necessities are as urgent as those of its sister Charities , while its permanent income is less considerable .
It will not be out of place if we point out that the School deserves well of the Craft . As a scholastic Institution it has attained in a very few years to a position of very great eminence . As a home for the boys of our deceased or decayed brethren , the good it has . done and is doing is almost incalculable . It has also recently enlarged the sphere of its operations . The newl y-built Preparatory School has enabled
it to take on some 25 additional children , and there is ample room for more if only the requisite funds for their maintenance and education shall be forthcoming . But herein lies the difficulty , that the ordinary and extraordinary expenditure of the Institution amounts to between £ 12 , 000 and £ 13 , 000 , to say nothing of the £ 2000 or £ 3000 which has yet to be found in order to make the account for the new buildings even and quit . The
permanent income derived from annual grants by Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter and the interest on invested moneys is considerably within £ 1000 a year , the Boys' School in this respect being far less favourably placed than either of the other two Institutions . Thus the Stewards have no light task before them . Their business is to raise , as nearly as possible , some £ 13 , or £ 14 , 000 , and till now they have had other competitors in the field , the
Benevolent Stewards and the Girls' School Stewards having been engaged successively , and for a time concurrently , in obtaining the needful moneys for the purposes of those Charities . However , the Board of brethren who have given their services in aid of the Wood Green Institution , if not as strong in respect of numbers as we should like to have seen it , has many willing workers among them . Lord SUFFIELP is no novice as a Festival Chairman ,
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and though his province , being largely agricultural , may not be able to raise so large a contribution as Derbyshire did last year , there is no reason to doubt that it will acquit itself well . VVe have had evidence before now that it will back up its chief loyally , and that evidence , we have good reason to believe , will be repeated with even greater effect at Brighton on the day appointed . Again , it is on the cards that
Warwickshire ma } ' take a more prominent part in the good work than usual . Of course , until we know more of the composition of the Board of Stewards , we can say but little or nothing as to the prospects from London and the other provinces . However , we are certain they will do their best and sanguine enough to hope that best will be worthy of themselves , the Craft generally , and the Institution whose case we are now bringing under
the notice of our readers . They know the money is sorely needed , they know , too , it will be expended beneficially , and we trust that when the time comes it will be our privilege to announce what in conventional parlance is known as a bumper Festival . There is just another little reason which confirms us in this hope and expectation , lt will be the 25 th Festival since Bro .
BINCKES was elected Secretary . To his indomitable energy we owe it that the School has attained its present magnificent proportions , and the Anniversary now so rapidly approaching will afford the brethren generally the opportunity of emphasising their appreciation of his services by subscribing more liberally even than in ordinary years to the Institution whose cause he has advocated so long , so earnestly , and so successfully .
As every one anticipated , the polling at the election on the two Funds of the Benevolent Institution was very close , and the brethren in charge of the successful candidates deserve credit for the skill with which they placed the votes at their disposal . It is a long time since we have heard of cases being unsuccessful with over 2000 votes to their credit , yet this
happened last week at the election on the Widows' Fund in as many as four instances who severally polled 2211 , 2117 , 2093 , and 2051 votes and yet had the misfortune to be left out in the cold . In the case of the Male Fund , for which 55 out of the 58 candidates went forward , the highest successful obtained 1925 votes , and the lowest ( No . 24 ) 1046 votes , the highest unsuccessful candidate ( No . 25 ) having 1006 votes cast for him ,
which he is entitled to carry forward to the election in May , 1887 . But here the struggle was of necessity less keen , as , speaking roughly , there were about five candidates for every two vacancies , while for the Widows' Fund , there were six of the former for everv one of the latter . As to the results generally , we find that for the Male Fund London , which had 16 candidates , succeeded in placing seven of them amogst the successful , namely , Nos .
4 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 20 , 21 , and 22 . West Yorkshire carried three of its five candidates , namely , Nos . 13 , 15 , and iS , but North and East Yorkshire , which had the same number of cases , placed only one of them at No . 9 . East Lancashire , with four cases , crried three , Nos . 14 , 17 , and 19 , and Devonshire placed one of its three candidates at No . 3 , while Cheshire and Hants and the Isle of Wight , which had , each of them two , were fortunate enough
to secure the election of both , the Cheshire men being at Nos . 11 and 12 , and the Hants and Isle of Wight men at Nos . 1 and 2 . Cumberland and Westmoreland elected one ( No . 24 ) of its two candidates , while No . 7 hailed from West Lancashire , the other candidate from the same province being nowhere . Cambridgeshire , Kent , and North Wales , each carried its candidate , which were severally placed at Nos . 16 , 23 , and 10 . For the
Widows' Fund , London with 21 candidates obtained four places , Nos . 6 , 7 , 9 , and 10 ; Kent , with nine candidates , placed two of them at Nos . 2 and 5 respectively ; Devonshire carried two out of five , Nos . 3 and 11 ; West Yorkshire , which had four candidates , placed one of them at the head of the poll ; and Middlesex and Somersetshire each carried its representative , that of the former standing at No . 8 , and that of the latter at No . 4 . It
should be added that in the case of the Male Fund 1628 votes were brought forward from the last election , and 43 , 476 votes were issued , making together 45 , 104 votes , but the total polled reached 43 , 381 . so that 1722 votes were spoiled or unaccounted for . As to the Female Fund , there 12 , 599 votes brought forward , and 46 , 047 issued , making a total of 58 , 646 , but the total poll was only 53 , 774 , so that 4672 votes were spoiled or unaccounted for .
* # * THERE are one or two other points which may with advantage be noticed . On the Male Fund all but one of the 24 successful candidates were applicants for the first time , while only one of the n successful women candidates was in the same position . Thus , as regards the former , the votes to the credit of the old candidates exercised in one instance only any influence on
the result ; while , as regards the latter , there was only one case among the successful old candidates , who however secured her election independently of the small credit she brought forward from the election of 1885 , this being No . 21 , who obtained the fourth place , her credit brought forward being only 34 votes , and her votes polled on Friday last 2522 . The remaining nine old
candidates had at the lowest over 200 votes each to their credit when _ they went to the poll on Friday last . We must also mention lhat , irrespective of the candidates who may be accepted during the current year , and have their names placed on the lists for the election in May , 1887 , there remain from the election just concluded no less than 31 male and 5 8 female candidates . Comment on such a state of things is needless .
* # * WE beg to direct the attention of our readers to an interesting announcement made by the Lodge of the Quatuor Coronati in our advertisement columns , This lodge , which has been founded for the prosecution of