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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . ST . JOHN'S HILL , S . W . OFFICE , 5 , FREEMASONS' HALL , GT . QUEEN-ST ., W . C . Patron and President : H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES , M . W . G . M . Patroness : H . R . H . THE PRINCESS OF WALES . At a Quarterly General Court of this Institution , held at Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s Innfields , London , W . C ., on Saturday , October 9 th , 1 SS 0 , Col . J . CREATON , Treasurer and Trustee , in the chair , after the general business was disposed of , the Governors and Subscribers proceeded to the Election by Ballot of Forty-two GiHs into the Institution from a list of Fifty-four approved Candidates , when the following were declared duly Elected : No . on List . Total Polled . No . on Poll . 3 Emily Alford Cecil ... 1422 ... 1 5 Emily Beatrice King ... 140 S ... 2 15 Rose A . Bridgeman ... 1279 ... 3 41 Eleanor B . Wyatt ... 1162 ... 4 3 6 Edith M . Lewis ( last ) ... 111 7 ... 5 16 Annie A . Owens ... 99 6 ... C 7 Rose Pauline Pelham ... 9 S 0 ... 7 iS Sarah Jane Bennett ... S 60 ... £ > 19 Sarah G . K . Bartrum S 42 ... o 23 Ada Edith Watson ... S 26 ... 10 9 Clara Eliza Coales ... S 22 ... 11 4 Annie Elizabeth Hill ... Soo ... 12 11 Sophie Riley ... 800 ... 13 24 Rosina Carey ... 796 ... 14 26 Mary Ann E . Skelton 792 ... 15 21 Edith Evans ... 790 ... 16 4 8 Gertrude E . Lee ( last ) 772 ... 17 38 J ? s's Madeline Hogg 764 ... 18 40 Minnie Maude Gougn 7 6 3 ... 19 44 Elizabeth G . Morgan 753 ... 20 12 Ada Ellen Ashton ... 749 ... 21 10 A . M . M . Stewini ( last ) 712 ... 22 39 Elizabeth Sophia Smith 709 ... 23 25 Eva Gray Gibson ... 701 ... 24 13 Caroline Ada Crow ... 6 99 ... 25 32 Charlotte Harlop ... 6 99 ... 26 51 Mary Emma Spalding 6 S 2 ... 27 25 Annie Louisa Ford ... 654 ... 2 S 43 Margaret E . Heaton ... 653 ... 29 42 Nina Evelyn Prideaux 650 ... 30 30 Florence Riddell ( last ) 630 ... 31 17 Kate Sarah Mee ... 618 ... 32 34 Alice Lilian Pope ... 615 ... 33 49 G . Ashworth ( last ) ... 609 ... 34 47 Mildred Okell ( last ) 605 ... 35 29 . Florence E . Popkiss ... 601 ... 36 8 F . M . I . Oberdoerffer 594 ... 37 4 6 Ellen Jane Delafons ... 591 ... 3 S 6 Mary Cranch Drake ... 5 S 9 ... 39 45 Infra Edith Wilkinson 584 ... 40 54 Gertrude E . Bradford 5 S 2 ... 41 52 Ada Minnie Shelper ... 57 6 ... 42 The votes recorded for unsuccessful Candidates will be carried forward to their credit at the next Election if eligible . Lists showing the votes polled for successful and unsuccessful candidates may be obtained at the office . F . R . W . HEDGES , Secretary . No . 5 , Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C .

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p OYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION ¦ **¦ FOR BOYS , WOOD GREEN , LONDON , N . OFFICE , 6 , FREEMASONS' HALL , W . C . Patron : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN . President : H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., M . W . G . M . At a Quarterly General Court of the Governors and Subscribers 7 held at Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , Londan , on Monday , October 1 itli , 1 S 80 , a Ballot took place for the Election of Sixteen Boys from a list , as originally approved , of Seventy-three Candidates , reduced to Seventy by the withdrawal of Robert Leigh Ibbs , George Arthur Thomas , and Thomas Pembcrton Simpson . The following were successful : r . William Henry Palmer ... ... ... 1994 2 . Richard Arthur Grave ... ... ... 1941 3 . Allan Talbot Haworth ... 1 S 33 4 . Ernest lies ... ... ... 179 6 5 . Herbert Wilfred Knott ... ... ... 1779 6 . Arthur H . Collingwood ... ... ... 1750 7 . Arthur Alban Gee ... ... ... ... 1 740 8 . William James Saville ... ... ... 167 S 9 . John Wflliam lames Hurst ... ... ... 1 ( 174 10 . Sydney Carle Loveridge ... ... ... 1652 n . Sydney James Crich ... ... ... 1612 12 . Francis Arthur Unwin ... ... ... 1 G 01 13 . George Sanders Hooker ... ... ... 1592 14 . Charles Edward Myring ... ... ... 15 S 0 15 . Harvey George Darling ... ... ... 1509 16 . Sydney William Richardson ... ... , 1493 The Votes of the unsuccessful Candidates will be carried to their credit at the Election in April , 18 S 1 . List of successful and unsuccessful Candidates , with all particulars , may be obtained at the Office . FREDERICK BINCKES , V . P ., P . G . Steward and Secretary . 1 ith October , 1 SS 0 .

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . Sincere thanks are given to those friends who supported the case of STEPHEN DARCY CAREY , at the Election on Monday , nth inst ., and their continued support is earnestly solicited for the next Election , April , 1881 .

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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 in every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — , » . ? , ! ,. , United States , in ( na China , Australia United Kingdom . Canada the ConU- NJ Zc ^ & c # nent , & c . * 13 s . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , Chief Office , London , the latter crossed' London Joint Stock Bank .

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TO ADVERTISERS . THE FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe . In it the official Reports of the Grand Lodges of England , Ireland , and Scotland are published with the special sanction of the rcspective Grand Masters , and it contains a complete record of Masonic work in this country , our Indian Empire , and the Colonies . The vast accession to the ranks of the Order during the past fewyears , and the increasing interest manifested in its doings , has given Vhe Freemason a position and influence wWicU fav journals can lay claim to , and the 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 arc received up to six o ' clock on Wednesday evening .

To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

The following reports stand over : — Grand Lodge Quebec ; Temple Lodge ; Eboracum Lodge , 1611 ; St . Andrew ' s Chapter , A . andP . Rite , No . 9 ; Masonic Presentation at Lingwood ; Centenary Celebration at Doncaster ; Lodge Four Cardinal Virtues , 979 ; Duke of Connaught , Mark , 199 ; Blair Lodge , S 15 ; Metropolitan

Chapter of Improvement ; Unity Lodge , 1637 ; Eboracum Conclave , 137 , Red Cross of Constantine ; Royal Gloucester Chapter , 130 ; Southampton Masonic Benevolent Association ; ( Manchester Lodge of Affability , 317 ; Kennington Lodge , 13 S 1 ; Jordan Ixidge , 1402 ; Ancient and Primative Rite , Province of Middlesex .

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NOTICE . The Cosmopolitan Masonic Diary and Pocket Book for 1881 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 greatl y oblige the Publisher by doing so at their earliest possible convenience . The Freemason Office , 198 , Fleet-street .

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THE FREEMASON . SATURDAY , OCT . 16 , 18 S 0 .

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THE Quarterly Courts of our great Educational Institutions have taken place , and at the Girls ' School meeting on Saturday all the proposed alterations in the rules were negatived . We regret that the increase of £ 20 to £ 40 , as suggested by

the Committee to be granted in exceptional cases only , was rejected , the more so as wc have reason to believe that the decision of the meeting was based on a misunderstanding of the real point in debate , and an erroneous realization of the facts

of the case . At some future period we have no doubt but that the reasonable proposal of the House Committee will be carried . Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON put the matter Very clearly in a few words , when lie said , " what £ 20 would obtain

" for the outgoing pupil when the rules were framed " would probably require something more now to " effect . " The idea that all outgoing pupils receive £ 20 is a complete mistake ; that amount , as under the present rule , is still the exception . And the same

law was to apply to the increase to £ 40 . The grant was not intended to be normal , but only exceptional . After the meeting the ' poll | was opened and 42 candidates were elected out of 54 . At the Quarterl y Court of the Boys' School on Monday last Bro . LKVANDER ' motion dropped by common

consent , and Bro . Dr . RAMSAY withdrew his motion . Bro . BINCKES having referred to COLLINGWOOD ' case , it was , by a most decisive majority , referred to the House Committee to report . The candidate was elected subsequently , conditionally on the report being in his favour .

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WE wish to remind our readers that the last election of the Girls' School was purely an exceptional one , and as such not likely to occur again for some time . It appears to us that we cannot too much commend the Managers of the Institution , and ,

above all , the Building Committee and its gallant Chairman , for this happy consummation of affairs , by which the position of the School is greatly

improved per se , and the inestimable blessings of its excellent course of education , and the protection of a happy and comfortable home , secured to so many poor and often all but friendless orphans .

# # THE efforts of the London Masonic Charity Association at the recent elections have , as we ventured to predict , been successful . At the Girls' School election the Association carried in by

its own exertions , and those of many kind friends , all its seven candidates . At the Boys' School election on Monday it only succeeded , however , in placing on the list of the etected one of its four candidates . This last election for the Boys '

School has been one of the most difficult on record , and the number of votes polled has been abnormally large , and votes were greatly in demand and difficult to obtain . Unfortunately , in the case of the London Masonic Charity Association two of

their candidates were last cases , F ROST and H OBBS , and perhaps the most saddening point connected with these elections is the necessarily large number of disappointed candidates . Unless something is done the number to be elected in April is very

small , and we think that the Boys School , therefore , deserves a special effort being made for it in 1881 . We are informed that in April next the Association will have again several very distressing cases ,

both in the Boys' and Girls Schools elections , and we feel perfectly warranted in saying the Association is doing a good , a needed , and a legitimate work in our midst , and deserves both the sympathy and support of our metropolitan brethren .

* * WE understand that our good brethren in Lancashire are somewhat exercised just now by a pseudo Mason going about giving so called " Masonic lectures . " As we hear this from various quarters ,

we think it right to add , for the comfort and information of many excellent friends and readers in Lancashire , that all such " Lectures " are reall y worthless , and harmless , and sapless , and need

only to be treated with sovereign contempt . Freemasonry is too strong in its numbers , its reality , and its good cause to heed either the flippant criticism of the ignorant , or the fictitious explanations of angry and disappointed mendicants .

* * * EXAGGERATION is always regrettable and reprehensible , whether used in the affairs of life or the statements of controversy . But perhaps it is often unavoidable and excusable , when we remember

how very few persons are gifted , after all , with that coolness and calmness , that judicial frame of mind , which arc required from ' thosc who seek to form a clear , a sound , an unimpassioned judgivcr . t . whether as regards countless " vexatas quaestioncs "

of the hour , or pressing and debateable points of discipline , polemics , or practice . We all of us are rather apt to " lose our temper " on any provocation , or no provocation at all , both when we have to deal with the "little miseries of human life "

and the " thousand and one " petty trifles which confront us in our path , or harass our progress here . It is given to very few of us all to exhibit the animus and attitude of the judge , as we are naturally all more or less partisans , and it is almost idle for us ,

" excited and excitable" as we often become for " little or nothing , " to affect to do so with a chance of success , or the appearance of possibility . We greatly have to deprecate often that morbid and unhealthy state of mind which creeps over some of

us almost unconsciously , and which renders us unfair to others , and even to ourselves , and which often prompts us and induces us to adopt a hasty , a distorted , or an unreasonable view of things and persons , passing events and prevailing episodes A little calm , " judgmatical " common sense would