The Election To The Girls' School.

THE ELECTION TO THE GIRLS ' SCHOOL .

AS on previous occasions we purpose analysing the list of candidates at the approaching election to be held on Saturday next , it is almost needless to say that in the remarks we purpose making we shall observe the rule of strict impartiality . Our business is to endeavour to secure

that the worthiest candidates are elected . We note that there are thirty-six candidates , the number of vacancies being eight . In other words , the ratio of candidates to vacancies is as four and a half to one . We may fairly remark here by the way that the farther extension of the

School , already determined upon , is , under these circumstances , a matter of paramount necessity . But to return to our figures . Of the thirty-six rival applicants , nineteen have stood the ordeal of ballot on previous occasions ; seventeen now apply for the first time . Of the former two

are applicants for the fourth , two for the third , and fifteen for the second time . No . 1 on the list brings forward 330 votes to the good , No . 2 brings forward ninety-three , No . 3 179 , and No . 4 twenty-seven . The fifteen other candidates bring forward votes varying between 454 and two .

As to the locality whence they severally hail , fifteen are from London , eight for the second , seven for the first time ; Devonshire sends up two , both for the fourth time of asking ; Lincolnshire four , one for the third , two for the second , and one for the first time ; Lancashire W . sends up a single

candidate , and so do Hants and Isle of Wight , Wilts , Kent and Staffordshire , for the second ' time ; as •well as Somerset , Suffolk , Calcutta , Cawnpore , Lancashire B ., Cumberland and Westmoreland , and Berks and Bucks , for the first

time ; while West Yorkshire brings up the rear with two new candidates . Of the fathers of the candidates , he of No . 23 was P . M . of No . 376 , P . P . G . D . of Suffolk , 22 J years a subscribing member , and was a subscribing member and Steward to the Girls' Insbitution . The father of

No . 13 was P . M . of No . 185 and P . G . Steward , a subscribing member 15 years , and Steward and Life Governor to both the Girls' School and the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . No . 4 ' s father was J . D . of No . 925 , a subscribing member for " 2 | years , until

death , " and subscribed to , or was Steward for the Girls ' . No . 7 ' s father was P . M . No . 362 , and P . P . G . D . C . Lincolnshire , subscribed for eight years , and was an annual subscriber to the Girls ' . The father of No . 34 was S . W . of No . 173 , a subscribing member for "four and a half

years , until death , and Steward to the R . M . B . I . None of the fathers of the remaining candidates appear to have rendered any direct assistance to our several charities . As regards " parents living , " four have both , two neither ; twenty-nine are fatherless , and one motherless . Again ,

one candidate has a sister in the School , a second two sisters ,, a third a brother in the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , a fourth a sister in the School by purchase , and a fifth has already had two sisters in ( of whom one was by purchase ) , while there is yefc a

third at present receiving the benefits of the Institution . Our hope is , in the first place , that the most deserving candidates may find themselves at the head of the poll ; onr next , that at f nture elections so large a proportion of candidates

may not be set aside for want of room . Eleven out of fortythree were elected in the spring , and the ten next highest on the list were received into the School in July . Yefc , in spite of this , no less than twenty-eight candidates must be excluded on the present occasion . We sincerely trust

The Election To The Girls' School.

the ability of this Institution to accommodate pupils may in future be moro in accordance with the number seekin g admission .

The Election To The Boys' School.

THE ELECTION TO THE BOYS ' SCHOOL .

ON'Monday , the 16 th inst ., a Quarterly General Court of the Governors and Subscribers to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys will bo held , when the regular bnsiness of the Court having been concluded , the election of twelve out of an approved list of fifty-seven candidates will be proceeded with ; tho

ballot commencing at 1 p . m ., and closing at 3 p . m . Ifc will be seen , as in the case of the Girls' School , that the candidates and vacancies are very unequal in point of numbers , the proportion of the former to the latter being as 4 | to 1 , or rather worse than in the Girls '

case . Moreover , the names of three others have been removed in accordance with Law 52 , restricting the age of candidates to 11 years , and four others have been withdrawn , two at the request of their friends , and two as having been admitted into the School by purchase .

But for these withdrawals the list would have included sixty-four names instead of fifty-seven . Of this latter number , thirty-four have presented themselves as candidates at previous elections , one having already stood unsuccessfully five ballots , three four ballots , seven three , twelve two ,

and eleven one , the remaining twenty-three being candidates for the first time on this occasion . Five of the fifty , seven have both parents living , but the father of one is paralysed ; four have lost both , three are motherless , in one case the father being paralysed , while forty-five are

fatherless , one of these being , indeed , virtually parentless , as his mother is confined in a lunatic asylum . Several of the fathers had attained high rank in the Craft ; among others , the father of No . 21 being set down as " Secretary and Founder , Falcon Lodge : " of No . 23 , as ono of

the Founders of Lodge No . 1072 ; " of No . 24 , as " P . Prov . G . D ., P . M . and P . Z . ; " of No . 26 , as " P . M . and P . Z ., one of the Founders of Lodge 1155 , and of South Eastern Masonic Charitable Association ; " of No . 28 , as " P . P . G . Treasurer , P . M ., a Founder of 792 and

1294 ; " of No . 30 , as "I . G . 861 , P . M . 1366 , W . M . 1501 ;" of No . 37 , as "P . M ., P . G . S . of Wks . Somerset , Founder of 1197 ; " of No . 38 , as " W . M ., Founder of 1471 ; " of No . 43 , as " P . M ., Treasurer and Secretary ; " of No . 49 , as " P . M ., P . P . G . W . N . Wales ; " of No . 50 , as " P . M ., P . G . J . W . Northumberland ; " and of No . 56 , as " Sec .

P . G . D . S . Dorset . " Among those who subscribed to , or were Stewards for one or more of our Charitable Institutions , we find the father of No . 6 , who is set down , we presume , as Steward to the R . M . I . G ., and as " occasional subscriber to the R . M . I . B . and L . S . R . M . I . G . " The father

of No . 18 was a " L . S . R . M . I . B . ; " of No . 24 , " occasional subscriber to R . M . I . G . and R . M . I . B . ; " of No . 25 , "continuous subscriber to R . M . I . B . for 12 years , " out of the twenty-two and a half years he was a subscribing member .

No . 26 ' s father was "Steward R . M . B . I ., L . G ., and an annual subscriber , occasional subscriber to R . M . I . G ., and Life Gov . of R . M . I . B . " No . 29 ' s father was an " occasional subscriber to the R . M . I . B . ; " and No . 30 's was " three times Steward for the R . M . B . I . and L . G ., Steward for R . M . I . G . and L . G ., Serving Steward for R . M . I . B . at time of