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^ HE ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS . J . EARLSWOOD , RED HILL , SURREY . FOURTH APPLICATION . Your V OTES and INTEREST are solicited on behalf of ALBERT JOHN COOTE , Aged S Years , 19 th August , 18 S 6 , Who has been an Idiot from birth . His Father , a Pilot , is t sea the greater part of his time ; his Mother being \\ licate , and having four younger children , is quite unable fn rive him the care and attention he requires . The Father is willing to contribute Thirteen Pounds < £ i \ os . od ) per annum towards his support . The case is recommended by ¦* R . E MMETT , Esq ., L . R . C . P . Lond ., Woodville , Kingston , Portsmouth . * R PV E . P . GRANT , Vicar of Portsmouth . Xior-General Sir F . W . F ITZ WYGRAM , Bart ., Leigh Park , Havant , M . P .. South Hants . Hon Sir THOMAS C . BRUCE , 42 , Hill-street , London . 5 W . FORD , Esq ., Solicitor and Clerk of the Peace , Portsmouth . A S BLAKE , Esq ., Mayor of Portsmouth . TAMES GIEVE , Esq ., J . P ., Portsmouth . fir C REWE , The Old Priory , Milton , Portsmouth . us . GREEN , Esq ., L R . C . P . Lond ., Brandon House , J' ' Landport , Portsmouth . W , \ V . B . BEACH , Esq , M . P ., Basingstoke . The Brethren Portsmouth Temperance Lodge , No . 206 S . * G EORGE KENNING , Upper Sydenham , Proxies will be thankfully received by those marked * , ' and by Bro . JAMES COOTL , 74 , St . Thomas ' s-st ., Portsmouth . Obtained at the Election on 28 th October , 1886-221 votes . The lowest successful Candidate aKthe same Election obtained 650 votes .

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TO OUR READERS . THE FREEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry of every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , United Kingdom . Canada , the Continent , India , China , Ceylon , the Colonies Sec . Arabia , & c . 13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post Office Orders of cheques are preferred , the former payable to G EORGE KENNING , Chief Office , London , the latter crossed London loint Stock Bank .

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I / O Comspotrtients , Several communications unavoidably stand over .

BOOKS . & c , RECEIVED . " El Liberal Reformista , " " Liberal Freemason , ''" Hull and East Yorkshire Times , " " Court Circular , " " Freemasons'Calendar for Somersetshire , 1887-8 , " ' * Cadiz . Masonico , " " Proceedings of the Grand Council of Rova ! and Select Masters of the State cf Minnesota , " " Humanitas , " " Illustrated Naval and Military Maga-¦

zine , ' New Zealand Masonic Journal , ' •New YorK LMspatcn , " Sunday Times " ( New York ) , ""Lancaster Daily Examiner , " " Die Bauhiitte , " " Jewish Chronicle , " •' Boletin Official del Gr . Or . de Espana , " " Masonic World , " " Sunday Times' ! ( London ) , " Piano , Organ , and M usic Trades Journal , " " The Era , " " Isle of Wight Cnunty Press , " * 'Loomis' Musical and Masonic Journal , " " Freemasons' Journal" ( New York ) , " Organists' Quarterly Journal , " and , J Catalogo Nr . 43 , Lelleratura Popolare , Milano , 1887 . " EnS ^ Ti ^ xxTTr ^^^^^^ rx ^ rTTTXTTTsi '

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SATURDAY , APRIL 9 , 1887 .

Original Correspondence.

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[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of the opinionsexpressed by ourcorrespondents , but we wish in aspirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ] ——

' THE JUBILEE—BOYS' SCHOOL . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Will your correspondent "A Vice-President , " in your issue of the 26 th ult ., and those who think with him , accept the following-as a reason why a similar course cannot be adopted in the Boys' School to that resolved on in the Girls' School ? The Girls' School possesses a funded property of £ 59 , 000 , added to year by year from the surplus of receipts over expenditure . Its permanent annual income is £ 1931 . The balance at the bank on 31 st December last was to credit £ 7407 . The Boys' School possesses a funded property of £ 17 , 000 only .

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The permanent annual income is £ 755 . The balance at the bank on 31 st December last was to debit £ 2250 . 1 he absolutely essential expenditure for the education , maintenance , and clothing of ( say ) 250 girls may be taken at little more than two-thirds of the similar expenditure for the same number of boys .

In connection with both Institutions large extensions have been carried out from time to time , the total expenditure on which will , I think , be found to be pretty equal . The Girls' School has , happily , the means to meet all such expenditure . The Boys' School is , unhappily , heavily in debt on account of such expenditure .

The centenary celebration of the Girls School next year will be an event unprecedented in association with a Masonic Charitable Institution , and will most assuredly be attended with a result also unprecedented , in association with which it is not altogether improbable that the decision of the Special Court in the present instance may be rerepeated , and all candidates offering themselves be again

admitted without election . There can be no hope—no possibility—of this course being imitated in this Institution until a very considerable improvement be effected as regards its resources . The centenary will not be celebrated until the year 1 S 9 S . Whether I may be spared to assist in such celebration is a matter of uncertainty : but it is certain that between " now

and then" we have still work before us . Notably is the want of a swimming bath , without which our accommodation , excellent as it may be pronounced to be , must be regarded as deficient . A friend , over the signature " O . " in your number of the 2 nd instant has done us good service , and is deserving of Dur best thanks . In addition to the facts he has there

stated , permit me to direct attention prominently to the fact , that our cost per boy during the past year shows a reduction of nearly £ 6 as compared with the previous year , and of £ 4 43 . 2 d . when compared with the average of the ten previous years . And that the cost per boy has never been within £ 15 of the amount which those unfavourably disposed have industriously

circulated as fact . In one sense only can I sympathise in the " pity" expressed by your earlier correspondent , "that the Boys' should lag behind the Girls ' . " It is a " pity "—true ' tis pity , pity ' lis , 'tis true" that in pecuniary resources we do " lag . " I fervently trust that in this year of Jubilee the genuine cases of Masonic distress thus exhibited may not pass unrelieved , and that the Festival

in June next , closely approximating the date of the Jubilee Celebration , may , by the assistance of brethren whose services as Stewards are urgently needed , anJ anxiously awaited , be attended with so large a success as to render the future one of pleasurable contemplation . There are localities to which coals . may be sent as readily as to Newcastle , and where they are more needed . —Faithfully and fraternally yours , FREDERICK BINCKES Secretary , R . M . I . Boys , 6 , Freemasons' Hall , W . C , 4 th April .

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Dr . FRANKLIN'S NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS OF FREEMASONRY , 1730-1750 . Edited by CLIFFORD P . MACCALLA . Philadelp hia : Masonic Publishing Company , 1886 . We need not devote much space to a consideration of these newspaper extracts relating to early Philadelphia Masonry . They have been reproduced in the columns of

the Keystone of that city , with Bro . MacCalla's notes and running comments explanatpry of the persons and places and circumstances referred to in the different paragraphs . It is well , however , that they should have : been reproduced as a separate publication . In the first place , they are interesting of themselves , and especially as throwing light upon . '

the early doings of the brethren in the capital of Pennsylvania . In the next place , Bro . MacCalla has done his - duty " as annotator and commentator extremely well , the result being , so far as the extracts will permit , a very clear , if not continuous , story . We recommend the pamphlet to : the attention of our readers .

NEW ZEALAND MASONIC JOURNAL , No . 1 , February , 1 S 87 . Offices—69 , Princes-street , Dunedin . We have much pleasure in welcoming this little stranger , which made its first appearance in the world of Masonic journalism in the far oft city of Dunedin some two months since , and whose healthy tone and character would seem to

presage || a long life and a useful one . Its original matter is good , its news columns full and interesting , and its extracts from other journals , judiciously selected and loyally acknowledged . Its device— " Stare super vias antiquas ''—is well chosen , and will no doubt be faithfully obeyed . The editorial department seems to be in charge of Bro . D . Harris Hastings , while the proprietors are the New Zealand

Masonic Journal Company . To the first number is added as a supplement a " Dunedin and Port Chalmers Masonic Almanac for 18 S 7 , " compiled by Bro . D . Harris Hastings , which is certain to be useful to the brethren , and the publication of which should enlist both sympathy and support in behalf of the journal . We shall be pleased to receive the numbers as they appear .

Comp . J . H . Sillitoe , P . G . H . East Lancashire , installed Comps . W . Horrocks , Z . j J . Collinge , H . ; and W . Vere Stallon , J . ; and invested the other officers , of the Chapter of Wisdom , 283 , Haslingden , on Friday , the 25 th ult . Bro . A . E . Bartle , who concluded his engagement as musical director of the Winter Gardens , Southport ,

on the 30 th ult ., has been appointed director of music at the forthcoming Liverpool Exhibition , with a band of 50 performers under his control . FURNISH ON NORMAN AND STACEV ' S SYSTEM . —This simple , economical system commends itself . Admitted to be the most satist ' actoy method . No deposit ; 1 , 3 , or 3 years' credit . —Particulars on application , 70 , Queen Victoria-street . Branches—121 , Pall Mall : 9 , Liverpool-street , E , C .