Analysis Of The Subscription List, R.M.B.I.

No . 152 , just misses by a few shillings being a three-figure man , his total being £ 99 15 s . West Lancashire , though only one of its eighty Lodges is down for £ 35 18 s , is a liberal supporter of our Institutions , ;> s our readers are well aware . Last year its contributions to the three

Institutions were only a little short of £ 480 , tho year before it gave nearly £ 640 , and what ifc did for Lord Skelmersdale in 1876 , is still within the recollection of its friends and admirers . Leicestershire and Rutland ( 10 Lodges ) , by the hands of two Stewards , one acting for the Province , and

the other on his own account , is entered for £ 125 14 s . It gave the Girls' School last year £ 233 16 s , and , in 1877 , over £ 400 to tho Boys' School , — an excellent testimony to the worth of the Province . Lincolnshire , again , rarely misses an opportunity of lending a helping hand ,

and , though its four Stewards , representing three out of its twenty Lodges , are only entered for £ 68 14 s 6 d , it figured at all the Festivals in 1877 ; in 1876 it gavo the Girls over £ 573 , and in 1875 the Benevolent received £ 573 . Middlesex is a regular contributor . Seven of its

twenty-nine Lodges , and one of its nine Chapters , together with ono Steward acting independently , contribute amongst them £ 440 7 s . One entry in the list deserves especial notice . It is described as " The First Labour of an Entered Apprentice , " and is the contribution of Bro . Marshall , a

member of the Royal Hanover , No . 1 , 777 , of Hounslow , one of ouv youngest Lodges . This raises the amount given by this Province to over £ 4 , 581 for the thirteen Festivals , or , an average of over £ 352 per Festival . Monmouthshire , with its eight Lodges , appears for £ 136 10 s ,

contributed by the hands of Bros . W . Williams , for the Province , and W . Watkins , for No . 1429 . Its Grand Master represented it at tho Boys' Festival last year , when his list was £ 166 19 s , and in 1877 ifc gave two hundred guineas to the Benevolent . Last year Northamptonshire

and Hunts very liberally supported its G . Master , the Dnke of Manchester , who presided at the Festival of this Institution , its contribution , including His Grace ' s personal donation , reaching £ 300 . It has also contributed on other occasions , and , in this instance , the Eleanor Cross , No . 1764 ,

Northampton , consecrated only last year , and , therefore , the youngest of its Lodges , is entered for £ 50 , by the hands of Bro . Hamilton W . Parker . This augurs a busy and useful future for so young a Lodge . Norfolk ( fifteen Lodges ) with Bro . Barwell as Steward for the whole Province , and

Bro . W . A . Tyssen . H . Amhcrsfc for Lodge No . 52 , tho Union of Norwich , gives £ 306 12 s . At tho Boys' Festival last year it figured for over £ 279 , and in 1877 , when Lord Suffield , its G . M ., presided at the Girls' Festival , it supported him to the extent of £ 210 . Of Notts , with its nine . Lodges ,

we can only say that one of them , No . 402 of Nottingham , is entered , but the amount of the list has not yet been returned . However , though till lately it has laboured under the serious drawback of having no Provincial organisation , it has been represented afc one or more of the Festivals

in 1875-6-7-8 . Threo of the nine Oxfordshire Lodges—the Apollo University No . 357 , and the Churchill No . 478 , both of Oxford , with the Marlborough No . 1399 , of Woodstock , appear in last Wednesday ' s list , but one of the three has not furnished his statement . So far £ 41 18 s , is the

contribution of this Province . At the same time it lias given at the last twelve Festivals £ 1 , 186 , or an average of nearly £ 100 per Festival . We wish we conld point , as we said on one occasion , last year , to as satisfactory a result in the case of Cambridgeshire , the other University County .

With the Pro Grand Master to preside over ifc , it is to be expected that Somersetshire should take a prominent part on these occasions , and Captain Perkins , representing the Province , is entered for £ 38 17 s . At the Girls' Festival in May last , when the Earl of Carnarvon presided , it gave

£ 318 3 s . It supported the Benevolent in 1877 to the extent of over £ 253 , while , when its Grand Master was chairman at the Boys' Festival in 1875 , it contributed over £ 540 , with one list still to be handed in . There is , in fact , bnt one occasion , as far as we can call to mind , since

tho . beginning of 1875 , when this Province with its nineteen Lodges has been unrepresented . The Province of South Wales W . Division , with nine Lodges , is entered for the handsome sum of £ 225 . Last year it figured for £ 236 5 s

at the Girls' Festival . It has likewise contributed separately or conjointly with the Eastern Division of the Count y to at least one Festival in 1877 , 1876 , and 1875 . Thus there can be no gainsaying the fact of its liber dity towards our Institutions . Three of the nineteen Suffolk Lodges No . 81 of Woodbridge , No . 114 of Ipswich , and No . 1452

of Lowestoft , together give £ 171 2 s . Considering that it has beeu absent only onco in the last thirteen Festivals this must be regarded as a most liberal Contribution . Four Surrey Lodges out of eighteen sent Stewards to Bro . Terry ' s Festival on Wednesday , and the aggregate of their

contributions amounted to £ 164 lis . If we say that it has not been absent from a single Festival since the Cnaomcin came into being , it will bo enough to prove that Surrey both knows and fulfils its duties . The Royal York , No . 315 of Brighton , by tho hands of two of its members , has

dono duty for Sussex , with its 20 Lodges , aud their lists amount together to £ 126 . Last year ifc distributed over £ 200 among our three Charities , and in 1877 over £ 662 . One Warwickshire Lodgo ont of thirty sends £ 38 17 s . Last year it gave over £ 423 between the Boys' and Girls '

Schools ; in 1877 ifc distributed among the three Institutions close on £ 600 ; while in the year previous it gave to the Boys' School £ 2 , 000 , and to the Girls £ 262 10 s . Wilts with its ten Lodges is down for £ 237 10 s , and has been represented at eleven out of the last thirteen Festivals . More *

over it has invariably done well , having given tho Girls School £ 267 5 s in May last , and the Benevolent at the last Festival £ 164 lis . In 1877 , ifc gave at tho threo Festivals £ 538 10 s , the Benevolent receiving the lion ' s share in the shape of £ 273 . Worcestershire with ten Lodges has been ,

to use a hackneyed phrase , conspicuous by its absence from all the Festivals of the last four years . On this occasion , the Kidderminster Lodge , Hope and Charity No . 377 , has assumed the role of Provincial representative , and its Steward is entered for forty guineas exactly . This is a

small , but by no means despicable beginning , and , as ifc follows close upon the installation of a new Prov . G . Master , let us hope we may regard it as an earnest of what we are to expect under the reign of Sir E . A . II . Lechmere , Bart ., M . P . Now that No . 377 has dono something to efface the

stigma which must necessarily attach to a regular and persistent neglect of certain important duties , let ns hope tho other Lodges will follow the good example that has been set them , and will occasionally send up representatives . Both Bros . Hedges and Binckes , we feel heartily assured ,

will welcome them most cordially ab then- Festivals now rapidly approaching , and Bro . Terry will , doubtless , be glad of similar assistance on future occasions . There only now remain two Provinces to notice , and ono of those , namely , West Yorkshire , may be dismissed in a very few words .

In the period wc have glanced at , it has only missed being represented once , and that was at the Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls—we were under the impression it had been represented at the twelve Festivals held in 1875-6-7-8 , but this turns out to have been erroneons .

However , in that time it contributed just over £ 6 , 712 , and the sum of £ 550 , contributed at last Wednesday ' s Festival , has raised this to £ 7 , 262 , which gives an average of over £ 605 for each of tho twelve Festivals . Of this , the Benevolent has received , omitting odd shillings , £ 2 , 495 afc

its five Festivals ; the Girls' School , £ 2 , 320 , at threo of its four Festivals ; and the Boys'School , £ 2 , 445 at ifg four Festivals . We admit that West Yorkshire , with its sixtysix Lodges , is one of our strongest Provinces ; at the same timo , an average contribution of £ 110 per Lodge , in the

period we have been considering , must be written down as in the highest degree commendable . Turn we from this agreeable picture to the state of things in the adjacent Province of North and East Yorkshire , in which lies tho ancient City of York , with all its proud traditions of Freemasonry ,

dating back to an antediluvian , if not to a pre-Adamifce period , which boasts of that important seaport—Hull , and that fashionable watering-place — Scarborough . Ifc has twenty-six Lodges , and what do our readers imagine this influential and fairly numerous Province has done for our

Charitable Institutions m the period beginning 1 st January 1875 to date ? It has given , so far as we can ascertainfor two lists were outstanding , and the amounts ai * e not

entered in some of the published lists to which they severall y belong—just a little over £ 418 , or an average of slightly over £ 16 , that is , taking the present number of Lodges—though four have been created since 1876—as the basis of

reckoning , not quite fiee-and-twenly shillings per Festival . As a matter of fact , and as far as the published lists enable us to judge , only four Lodges havo done anything at all ; and , if we excuse the third Scarborough Lodge , created only a

short time , on the score of its hardl y having had time yet to look about , we find there are no less than twenty-one Lodges in North and East Yorkshire which have rendered no pecuniary assistance whatever to ouv Schools and Bene-