Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS ' . 331 United Grand Lodge of England 333 Consecration of the W ' alsingham Lodge , No . 214 S 332 Consecration of the Martyn Chapter , No . 1224 , Sudbury 334 Grand Mark Lodge 334

CORRESPONDENCEI The Freemasons' Calendar for Durham 339 ] Caution 339 Past Masters'Collars 340 I Levander Memorial 340 Reviews 340 REPORTS OP MASONIC

MEETINGSProvincial Grand Mark Lodge of Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , and Derbyshire 336 Italian Masonry 337 Masonic Presentation at Jarrow 337 Opening of a Masonic Hall at Sudbury ... 337 Cheshire Masonic Educational Institution 337 Field Lane Refuges and Ragged Schools 337 The Craft Abroad 337

Craft Masonry 340 Instruction 343 Royal Arch 343 Mark Masonry 344 Red Cross of Constantine 344 Rosicrucian Society 344 Gibraltar , 344 Masonic and General Tidings 345 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 34 6

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THE proceedings of the Quarterly Communication of United Grand Lodge on Wednesday were , as will be seen from our report elsewhere , little more than formal . The Earl of CARNARVON , Pro Grand Master , met with a most cordial reception , his lordship having been absent from England for the better part of the last 12 months . The reports of the Boards of

Benevolence and General Purposes were submitted and adopted , and there were the usual elections of brethren to serve on the Colonial Board , Board of General Purposes , and Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic

Benevolent Institutions . But there , as we have said , were merely formal matters , and when they had been disposed of Grand Lodge was closed , and the brethren separated till the first Wednesday in September . ? a *

WE announced last week that the R . W . Bro . the Duke of CONNAUGHT , P . G . S . W ., would be installed Provincial Grand Master of Sussex by his Royal Highness the M . W . GRAND MASTER in the Dome of the Royal Pavilion , Brighton , on Tuesday , the 22 nd inst . We supplement this announcement bv stating now that the summons to be present has been issued

to the Provincial Grand Officers and Masters of the Sussex lodges by Bro . V . P . FREEMAN , Provincial Grand Secretary , and that , having regard to the very numerous attendance which may be expected on the occasion , the brethren to whom this invitation has been addressed are desired to return an answer not later than Saturday , the 12 th inst ., so that the necessary

tickets of admission may be forwarded to them . Attention to this request is most important —( 1 ) because the railway company ( L . B . and S . C . ) has very considerately undertaken to convey brethren from a distance to and

from Brighton at a cost of a single fare ; and ( 2 ) because it is necessary the caterers should know as early as possible the number for which it will be necessary they should make provision at the lunch which will follow the ceremony of installation .

* # * THE Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales held its summer Half-yearly Communication at the Holborn Restaurant on Tuesday , the 1 st inst . The attendance was considerable , but the business was shorn of most of its usual attractions by the postponement of the Prince of

WALES ' S installation as Grand Master until Thursday , the 1 st July , when His Royal Highness will be present , and will be solemnly inducted into the chair of A ., in accordance with the rites and ceremonies of Mark Masonry . The appointment and investiture of the Grand Officers for the ensuing year

will follow , and then the business which is ordinarily transacted at the Communication held on Tuesday will have been completed , and we doubt not the Degree will find its already prosperous condition , if possible , more assured than ever .

* * * COMPARISONS are not generally held to be in very good form , but they are useful at times , especially if any one desires to know more explicitly than usual the amazing advances that have been made by our charitable Institutions within the last thirty or forty years . The very rare circumstance that ,

when the current month is ended , two Festivals , which are •separated from each other by an interval of 35 years , will have been presided over by two distinguished brethren belonging to the same family , and bearing the same title , and , Masonically , initiated in the same lodge and ruling over the same province , affords us an excellent opportunity for contrasting the

present position of the Boys' School with what it was when the earlier of the two anniversaries was celebrated . On the 13 th March , 1850 , the then R . W . Bro . Lord SUFFIELD , P . G . W . of England , and Prov . Grand Master of Norfolk , presided at the 52 nd Festival of what was then known as the Royal Masonic Institution for Clothing and Educating the Sons of Deceased and

Indigent Freemasons . The scene of the gathering was Freemasons ' Tavern . The Board of Stewards may have numbered some 12 or 14 brethren , with Bro . ALSTON as President , and the guests were under a hundred . In the course of the after-dinner proceedings , when the principal toast of the evening—that of " Prosperity to the Institution" —had been

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proposed by the noble Chairman , the pupils , clad in their new suits , were introduced into the hall by the Stewards , and by them marched round in solemn procession . Arrived opposite the dais , the prize boy of the year —FREDERICK WILLIAM MACKAY—who is described in the report in the " Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine " as having been a very small child , was

mounted on a table and decorated with the silver medal of the Institution , awarded him for proficiency in arithmetic and good conduct . In bestowing on the little fellow this reward of merit his lordship addressed to him a few kindly words of advice and encouragement as to his future career , ' and the boys' generally , having been urged ta

show diligence in their studies and comport themselves properly , retired from the presence laden with the remnants of the dessert . The toast was acknowledged by R . W . Bio . B . B . CABBELL , M . P ., P . G . W ., and the Secretary having announced a total of subscriptions amounting to close on £ 360 , the meeting shortly afterwards broke up , and the brethren dispersed

highly pleased with the result of the Anniversary . We are now on the eve of celebrating the SSth Festival of the same Institution , under the auspices of the present Lord SUFFIELD , who is also P . G . M . of Norfolk . The scene of the gathering will be the Royal Pavilion , Brighton . There will be a muster of several hundreds of ladies and brethren to do honour tothe occasion , and

his lordship will have the services of a Board of Stewards some twenty times as numerous as that of his predecessor of the year 1850 ; while , as regards the proceeds of the celebration , we will venture to assert that the Craft generally will be beyond measure disappointed if they are not considerably more than thirty times the X 360 which was then contributed . Of

course , the change that has taken place in the interval between 1850 and 1886 in the character and extent of the Institution will account for the changed conditions and results of the respective Anniversaries . What was then a Charity for the clothing and educating of some 70 children has since developed into a School , which clothes , educates , and maintains 240 , with

the requisite educational and domestic staffs , and what was then regarded as a liberal contribution by the whole of the Craft , will in all probability be exceeded by several of our smaller provinces , and even perhaps by sundry of our individual lodges . It is no mere figure of speech to suggest that a progress such as we have indicated in this comparatively brief period of 36 years is amazing—in fact , is well nigh incredible .

••* THE effect produced by the simple process of multiplication in converting small figures into big ones is known to most of us from practical experience , but the instances are few and far between in which the proceeds of a benevolent festival have been multiplied more than thirtyfold in the course

of but little more than 30 years . However , those of our readers who may wish to note more particularly the successive stages of this amazing progress will find them all carefully reported in the "Table of Festivals" appended to the ' * History of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , " which originally appeared in these columns , and has since been published in book

form by the Executive of the School . If they would carry their inquiries still further , and discover if possible , how , in matters of this kind , the oracle is worked , we must refer them to the Secretary , Bro . F . BINCKES , who has been the chief executive officer of the Institution for the last quarter of a century , and in that capacity has had the chief hand in raising , at the 24 Festivals at

which he has assisted , the splendid aggregate of ^ 222 , 657 , or an average of £ 9277 per Festival , while the 11 Festivals which preceded his appointment to office—that is , from 1851 to 1861 , both inclusive—yielded a total of £ 12 , 947 , or £ 1177 per Festival . However , the main fact to which we are desirous of drawing attention is , that the 1850 total of £ 360 was magnified into one of over / , ' , ooo last year .

» * * WE have been favoured with a long and elaborate statement of the case of the Scottish Templar Encampments in New Brunswick against the action of the National Great Priory of Canada . We have no intention of laying this statement before our readers , who have probably heard enough of these

apparently interminable disputes about jurisdiction , which are regarded with so much earnestness and argued in the majority of cases with so much bitterness of spirit in American Masonic circles . Happily for us in the United Kingdom , the limits of the authority exercised by our several Grand Lodges are so clearly defined that the chance of any conflict arising between

any two of them is out of the question . But our Colonies are occasionally treated to an outbreak of this class of disturbance , and in some cases it has happened that one or other of our home Grand Lodges , with every desire

to be at peace with the rest of the Masonic world , lias been dragged into the unpleasant dispute . This Templar conflict in Canada does not directly concern us , but the principle at issue between the Great Priory of Canada and the Scottish Templars in New Brunswick is almost , if not precisely , the