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i^^^^p^^a . ISHSS-S ^ J-ZZCT' ^ ^ SATUBDAY , 31 ST OCTOBER 1896 .

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Some time since I noted a proposal on fche part of some of the most influential supporters of the Eoyal Masonic Institution for Boys to establish a scholarship fund for the provision of higher education for deserving boys after they had finished their school career in the Institution . The effort has met with

success , and on Friday ifc will be reported to a meeting of the subscribers to be held at Freemasons' Hall , that just over £ 1 , 600 has been raised , with which operations can be commenced . Trustees , governors , and officers of the fund will be appointed , and regulations for the scholarship drawn up at that gathering , aud it will be proposed that tbe first scholarship

shall be of the value of £ 35 , for one year , with the possibility of renewal for a second or third year ; but satisfactory evidence will have to be produced that the possession of such an exhibition is necessary to the student , and will conduce to his benefit in the career he has chosen . — " Birmingham Daily Post . "

Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents . All Letters must bear the name and address of the writer , not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

FEBBMASONEY AND THB EOMAN CHURCH .

To the Editor of the FBEEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAH SIR AND BROTHER , —The article on this subject in the November number of " The Cornhill Magazine , " by Mr . Kegan Paul , appears , I suppose , as a first instalment , in connection with the late Vatican effort to crush Freemasonry .

The writer , in opening his veiled attack upon Freemasonry , and his adoration of the Church of Rome , favours his readers with the reasons why he became a Freemason . To him they might appear very conclusive reasons , but they were not in harmony with the declaration he signed when he offered himself as a candidate for the Order .

The attack can only be regarded as a veiled one , when we find the writer studiously confessing on the one hand " that during the whole time I took any part in Oxford Freemasonry I saw and heard nothing whatever to which I should even now formally object . " While thus openly avowing that which he had seen and heard , and which he regarded , to say the least of it , as

perfectly " innocent , " he hurls a poisoned shaft at tha " Religious " and " Philanthropic" Order in which he has graduated as a Past Master , by quoting the abusive effusions of M . Leo Taxil , whom he has no diffidence in designating as " an inordinate and unscrupulous liar ! " Why did the writer of the attack on Freemasonry spice his efforts with such "inordinate " trash as M . Leo Taxil chose to publish ?

The attack is puerile and undignified , and will fail to injure the cause it was intended to crush , and with regard to the advocacy of " The Church of Rome , " under such a champion , that we need not trouble ourselves with , hut leave the matter for an enlightened British public to discount the efforts of this Vatican champion , in his first attack after the close of the late Anti-Masonic Congress .

Yours fraternally , JOHN CHAPMAN P . Prov . G-. D . Devon . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —The way in which Catholic writers single out cases for their purpose is , to use a Yankee expression , " a caution to snakes , " and well exemplified in the letter you quote from "The Tablet . " -I

remember the statement in the " Freemason , " because at bhe time accepting it cum salts myself , I thought it an exaggerated expression conveying more than was actually meant . Well , all is Masonic fish that comes to the Catholic net just now , and this little minnow has not escaped . As an editorial slip it is hardly worth notice , hut the principle deduced from , the statement , and to which Mr . L . Fouquet calls attention , is . He may calm his fears ..

I suspect that gentleman is well aware that in English courts of Justice " double doses ' cannot be dealt out in any such manner . He will pardon the suspicion when I point out the reason for it , viz .: that he himself gives the only possible way in which a second penalty is sometimes imposed , that is , for contempt of court . This of course is a separate offence , and the second penalty I should say rarely , if ever , equals the first , and even if it did , can hardly be correctly styled " a double dose . "

I believe not more than a year ago an English Judge did , in a Masonic speech , give expression to the feeling that if in his official capacity a criminal appeared before him who , in the expectation of leniency , made it known that he was a Mason , the fact would in his ( the judge ' s ) eyes aggravate rather than mitigate the original offence . It was an outspoken statement

called forth , if I recollect rightly , by the remark of a previous speaker , and as it was very properly given with an explanation , I credited th ^ at distinguished Brother with doing loyal servive to che Craffc , because there is no limit to men ' s expectations , be they Masons or Catholic priests . Both I believe are at times unreasonable , and overlook their obligations very strangely .

I could disprove the fallacy of Masonic influences held by Anti-Masons from my own personal experience , but vilifiers have little respect for facts against themselves ; besides , they can find bones to pick without my aid . Yours fraternally , . BOREAS .

English Freemasonry.

ENGLISH FREEMASONRY .

THE following letters have appeared in recent issues of the " Tablet . " SIB , —Writing on "Dr . Bataille and Freemasonry" Father Benedict Zimmerman , in his letter to last week ' s " Tablet , " says : " It has been frequently urged that English Masonry is less objectionable than Masonry in Catholic countries . While admitting this as a fact I think it worth while to point out that nowhere in the whole world does a person become a Mason save by the Baptism of Fire , the first of the Satanic sacraments . "

When at Cambridge I became a Mason . Being only nineteen my admission into the Masonic fraternity was by " dispensation " from Grand Lodge . I went into it most earnestly and thoroughly . I became a Master , and attended Lodge regularly . Assuredly I , and many more undergraduates with me , were initiated without any such ceremony as the " Baptism of Fire " or any ceremony at all like it .

The Master of the Lodge , in my time , was a High Church clergyman , brother of the Dr . Ward of Oxford , subsequently editor of "The Dublin Review . " He was an enthusiastic and most learned Mason ; he was also an excellent clergyman , and saw in his Masonic position , at all events at that time , nothing incompatible with his ecclesiastical status as an Anglican .