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DOYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION ** - ** FOR BOYS , WOOD GREEN , LONDON , N . OFFICE , C , FREEMASONS' HALL , W . C . Patron : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN . President : H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., M . W . G . M . A Quarterly General Court of the Governors and Subscribers will be held in the Large Hall of the Freemasons ' Tavern , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , London , on Monday ? the 1 ith day of October , 1 SS 0 , for the Transaction of the Ordinary Business of the Institution . To consider the following notices of motion : — By Bro F . VV . Ramsay , M . D . —Alteration of Rules XXXVI . and XLVII . —1 . " That the members of the House and Audit Committees be elected for three years , and that •one-third ofthe number retire annually , but shall be eligible for re-election . " Alteration of Bye-Law LXL : — 2 . " That every Candidate for admission to the School shall previously to nomination present a Certificate that he can read , write , and work the first four rules of arithmetic , signed by a Clergyman in orders or a Certificated Schsolmastcr . " Hy Bro . H . C . Levander : — " That for thc convenience of Brethren , especially those from the Provinces , attending the elections of Candidates for thc two Masonic Educational Institutions , the Quarterly Courts of the Royal Masonic Institution'for Boys be held on the Second Saturday in January , April , July , and October , instead of the following Monday , as at present , and that Law XXIX . be altered accordingly . " To elect Sixteen Boys from an approved list of Seventythree Candidates , as by the voting papers , reduced to Seventy-one by the withdrawal of No . 23 , Robert Legh Ibbs , and No . 34 , George Arthur Thomas . The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely . The Ballot for the election of Boys will open at one o ' clock ( or earlier , should the general business of the Court be concluded before that time ) and will close at three o ' clock . By order , FREDERICK BINCKES , V . P . ( P . G . Steward ) , Secretary , snd October , 1 SS 0 . The 83 rd Anniversary Festival will be held on the last Wednesday in June next . The names of Brethren willing to serve as Stewards will be most gratefully received .

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SECOND APPLICATION . ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . OL'TOBEI . ELECTION , 1 SS 0 . The favour of your VOTES and INTEREST is earnestly solicited on behalf of STEPHEN DARCY CAREY , aged Nine Years , Son of the fate Bro . Stephen Carey , who was initiated in the City of London Lodge , No . 901 , on the 20 th January , 186 S , and remained a full Subscribing Member until his death , whicli took place on the 2-th July , 18 79 , after a long illness , which prevented him making any provision for his Widow and Six Children , who are left totally unprovided for . Thc case is strongly recommended , and Proxies will he thankfully received by the Widow , Mrs . M . A . Carey , 43 , Devonshire Road , Seven Sisters Road , Holloway , . " ..

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TO ADVERTISERS . CUE FKKEMAKON has a large circulation tn all parts of the Globe . Tn it the official Reports of the ( . rami Lodges of England , Ire-ami , and Scotland are published with the special sanction of the respective Grand Masters , and it contains a complete record of Masonic work in this country , our Indian I '_ rn |> ire , ami the Colonies . Tlie vast accession to the ranks of the Order during the past few * years , and the increasing interest manifested in its doings , has given thc Freemason a position and influence which few journals cau lay claim to , and thc proprietor can assert with confidence that announcements appearing in its columns challenge the attention of a very large and influential body of readers . Advertisements for the current week's issue are received up to &\ x o ' clock on Wcdncsdav evening .

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NOTICE . The Cosmopolitan Masonic Diary and Pocket Book for 1 SS 1 is preparing for publication on the 1 st of November . To ensure accuracy a form for filling- up has been sent to every lodge , and those

- •secretaries who have not yet made their returns will greatly oblige the Publisher b y doing so at their earliest possible convenience . The Freemason Office , iejS , Fleet-street .

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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , OCT . 9 , 1880 .

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IT will be seen that our distinguished Bro . the LORD MAYOR intends to give a Masonic dinner on the 25 th October , which will be honoured bv

the presence of H . R . H . the GRAND M \ STER , and we shall hope to be able to give later a few more details of the gathering . It will be a notable one in the annals of Metropolitan Masonry .

* * WE congratulate all our readers ar . d the subscribers to the Charities on the increase of twenty-five girls of the number to be elected to-day ( Saturday ) into the Girls' School . It is a subject of great rejoicing

to all friends to the Girls' School to note how everything has tended to confirm the wise view of the situation taken by the House Committee nnd our distinguished Bro . thc GRAJCD TREASURER , how admirable and seasonable have been their

proposals and arrangements , and how entirely approved by thc overwhelming majority of the subscribers to the Schools . We have reason to believe that the acquisition of the property has given the Girls' School an independent position ,

and a " locale " unmatched b y any existing similar Institution , and we arc assured that all the recent alterations , so carefull y and judiciousl y made , will

tjnd in a remarkable manner to the sanitary , educational , and utilitarian developcment of our " unique " and most admirably-managed Institution .

* * A GOOD deal has becn said about the " London " Charity Masonic Association , " which , we think , deserves a passing notice in our hebdomadal pages . It has been termed a " clique" and a

"cabal , a " secret Committee , and an " irrc" sponsible caucus ; " it has been accused in tlie same breath of partiality , favouritism , weakness , and uselessness all at once and all combined . And yet , wc venture to think ,

no more useful , needed , or practical Association ever was contemplated or founded in our good metropolis . When it iirst sprung into existence , owing to thc admirable organization and sensible proceedings of the Provincial

Charity Committees , and the great scattering of metropolitan votes , many of thc " London cases , " however good , or pressing , or distressing , were clearl y and evidently " going to the wall , " were from thc very nature of things "left out in the cold . " It could

not be helped ; so it was , and so it would have continued to be , had not thc London Charity Masonic Association " come to thc rescue " and put forward two sensible and straightforward and thoroughly Masonic " Canons " of action , and work ,

and duly : 1 . London votes , " ceteris paribus , " should go to good London cases . 2 . It is the work of this Association to help those who cannot help themselves , to take up thoroughly good London cases , and to assist those who have thc lowest

chance of success , and are almost , humanly speaking , without friends to aid them in the hard struggle—a struggle becoming harder , be it noted carefully , at each succeeding election . It used to make many of our hearts grieve to read of cases

coming up four , live , or six tunes , and polling at thc close sixty or seventy votes . The effect of thc work of tlie London Masonic Charity Association has already been most marked . It has concentrated London votes on London cases , partly

through itself , and partl y through others acting independently , and at the last election nearly seven-ninths of thc London votes were given to London cases , ihe provinces obtaining the rest . To use the words of a successful "mother" at a

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recent election , ' •" Had it not been for this Society my boy would never have had a chance . " It is a great mistake to suppose that any " Committee , " or " cabal , "or " clique , " or " caucus" controls the selection of candidates . Every member of the

Association by the laws has a vote and voice at the meetings for selection of candidates , and indeed , thc whole Association is the Committee , and there is no secret or separate Committee , except the Sub-Committee appointed by all the

members , year by year , to conduct the elections . To many of our readers who are members of the Association it is needless to point out the care and scrutiny which are given to all cases , and how it is always sought to g ive the preference to the most

friendless and help less . We have no doubt from what we hear , that at the next elections the operations of the Society will be as successful as on the last occasion , and we make bold to say , that if any of our good brethren

or kind readers have no case of their own which can commend itself to their own strong feelings of interest or duty , they cannot do better than send their votes to Bro . TISLEY , the Secretary , No . 1 ., Clifford's Inn , Fleet-street , K . C .

* * WHAT an immense store of Masonic archeology yet awaits overhauling by the Masonic student . To use the words of one of not the least distinguished of modern students , " We are just at the

portals of Masonic history after all . " And so it is ; despite all that has been done and written of late years , not only are we still on the " threshold of enquiry , " but we may have to modify many of our views , and not a few of our conclusions .

The Guild theory has a great influence on present writers , but the Guild theory has always had its weak point , which its warmest supporters in this country have never ignored . O LIVER ' old theory of " Prim .-eval Religion " is now again to the fore

with many , especially what may be termed the " Pyramidical School , " and the connection of Freemasonry with thc ancient "Mysteries" has yet to be again carefully worked over . What Hermeticism has had to do with Freemasonry , or

Freemasonry with Henncticism , is a subject of no little importance and great breadth , which cannot any longer be safely ignored or " pooh-poohed , " and , therefore , in the best interests of Masonic criticism and investigation to-day , we are quite open to

conviction on this or lhat point , and shall not be astonished if in the onward flow of years we have to modify essentially many dogmatic declarations , countless hasty assumptions . Still we can argue in good faith and genial temperament , and avoid

what , alas , is a sort of Masonic weakness in us all alike , a tendency at once to leave thc calmer pathway of peace , passionless arch . xology for the more vehement sympathies of preconceived views nnd cherished vanities .

* * As if to show how much yet remains to be done in considering the past history of Freemasonry , and educing from conilicting statements and dubious traditions the real and veritable history of

Freemasonry , we may note , that in the "Antiquary " for October , in an article on " Stonehcngc , " signed " BRINSLEY N ICHOLSON , M . D ., " we find these words - . "I would suggest that even thc " Druids divided into grades ; their places ,

speak" ing in Masonic fashion , might be lodges , Avebury " of a lower and more general grade , Stonchenge " of the more select and hig her , if not the highest . " Y \ e presume from these words that Mr . i \ t CHO _ so * . is a member of our Order .

* * YVr . c . 11 attention elsewhere to that " rat * ,, avis , " an Irish report , for the purpose of expressing our regret at the continued indifference—even hostility —which some good folks in Ireland display to tha

Masonic press . Thc consequence is that unauthorized reports "find themselves" " more Hibcrnico , " in the columns of non-Masonic , Roman Catholic ,

Ultramontane , nay , and Fenian newspapers . Surely it would be belter , for every reason and on every ground , if correct reports of things Masonic appeared in Masonic journals .