Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS 253 Consecration ot the John Carpenter I . odge , No . 1997 2 S 4 Provincial Grand Lodge of West Lancashire -Si Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , and Derbyshire 357 Freemasonry in Bath .. ' 257

CoRRESl'ONllEXCEGirls'School Festival 258 Roval "Masonic Institution for Hoys 258 Orderof Precedence 25 S Type-i-cal Vagaries 2 J 8 Hire at Freemasons' Hall . —Proposed . Masonic Temple and "Museum 2 S 0 A Begging Mason 259 Reviews 259 Notes and Queries 259

REI ' ORTR OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 259 Instruction ain Royal Arch 261 Mark Masonry 261 Consecration of the lordan Mark I . odge , No . 319 261 Complimentary Concert to a Liverpool

Brother 362 Funeral of the Late Bro . \ V . H . Lucia , Prov . G . Secretary of Suffolk 262 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 262 Obituary 26 3 The yEolnsWaterspray and General Ventilating Company ( Limited ) 26 3 The Theatres 263 Masonic and General Tidings 26 4 Lodge Meetings for Next Week iii .

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WE congratulate all concerned on the result of the Girls' School Festival , and we rejoice to note that despite sundry needless criticisms and unseasonable remarks as regards the -finances of the Girls' School , 8 cc . ; the friends of the Institution rallied round its respected Chairman , and testified openly once again their approval of the School management and their

realization of the striking efficiency and utility of this great and remarkable Instituion . London has returned ^ 5162 19 s . gd . ; the provinces , ^ 5347 * 6 d . ; in all ^ 10 , 510 os . 3 d . The metropolis with 112 Stewards , has collected £ 5162 195 . gd ., as we just said , and the leading returns are as follows : Bro . Robert Gray , a member of the House Committee and

President of the Board of Stewards , Steward for St . Andrew ' s Lodge , No . 222 , heads the metropolitan list with £ 199 ios ., and he is succeeded by Bro . M . P . F . Caulfield , Friends in Council , No . 1383 , with £ 149 2 s . ; Bro . G . P . Festa , Montague Guest , No . 1900 , very quickly follows with under the special circumstances the praiseworthy amount of ^ 147 , and is

closely pressed by Bro . J . F . Porter , M . D ., Evening Star , No . I 719 , with £ 144 iSs . Bro . J . Neilson , Creaton , No . 1791 , comes next before us with £ 130 , and Bro . P . H . Waterlow , Athenaem , No . 149 1 , appears with £ 116 us . od , ; Bro . Walter Wood , Confidence , No . ig 3 , is ' very close behind indeed with £ 115 ios ., to whom next in order comes Bro . A . C . W

Bean , Ranelagh , No . 834 , with ^ 108 us . ; Bro . . Cleghorn , Great Northern , No . 1287 , is next in sequence with ^ 106 is ., while after him Bro . S . Benton , M . D ., Aldersgate , No . 1657 , also a striking return , advances with £ 105 ; Bro . H . B . Marshall , Treasurer of the Board of Stewards , Brixton , No . ig 49 , presses on the . last mentioned also

with £ 105 , while Bros . J . Boulton No . 1056 , and R . J . Vincent , Dukeof Albany , No . 1963 , return respectively £ 101 17 s . 6 d ., and / , ' ioo . The remaining lodges , though their returns are no doubt well worthy of note do not reach these figures . We observe that the Mouse Committee , including Bros . R . Grey and E . Letchworth , by a very

noteworthy custom in the Girls' School have collected the substantial sum of £ 646 17 s ., being one-eighth of the total amount subscribed by the London brethren , of this amount Bro . Lieut .-Col . J , Peters , Grand Sword Bearer , sends £ 105 , and Bro . Peter de Lande Long , P . G . D ., ^ 84 . The Unattached Stewards , 13 jn number , send £ 373 6 s .

Bro . Edgar Bowyer heading the list with ^ 94 . Fro m 1700 , 14 lodges have sent up Stewards and returns , while from 1 to 1700 , 74 have have done so , in all 88 of the London lodges . There is still a needful margin for the younger lodges—may we not say for all London lodges . In the Provincial returns which amount to £ 5347 ios . 6 . The Stewards list is headed

happily and necessarily by Hampshire . There were 132 Provincial Stewards . Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have returned the goodly sum of £ 1306 12 s . The Province has done very well indeed . West Yorkshire comes next with £ 400 , and is followed , though at some little distance , by Sussex with X ' 3 6 3 ; Staffordshire appears with

£ 272 6 d . and is succeeded by West Lancashire with £ 244 13 s . ; Monmouthshire follows suit with £ 236 5 s . ; and Kent is not far off with £ 328 8 s . ; South Wales ( East Division ) and Worcestershire like the " gemini" next put in an appearance with £ 217 7 s . each , while Devonshire claims our attention with £ 203 . Berks and Bucks evince their

Masonic life by £ ig 3 us . ; Hertfordshire appears with £ 158 us . 6 d . ; Suffolk also with £ 136 ios . ; Cambridgeshire comes next with ^ 128 25 . ; Middlesex is represeuted by £ 117 13 s . ; and Surrey last but not least with / iogios . In the provinces only twelve lodges from No . 1700 are represented . We shall probably have something to say on this topic later .

* * IN view of the tempting inducements offered the Craft to divert the stream of their benevolence into another , though no less worthy channel , we venture to congratulate on the success of the Festival , not only the general body of Stewards who worked so well to achieve the result , but also the indefatigable SECRETARY of the Institution , and more particularly those members of the

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House Committee whose support , as it has been observed , was of a more substantial character than empty words .

* * WE hope that our friends the Secretaries of the Masonic Institutions will take it in good part when we repeat a request that the Provincial returns at the festivals shall all be added up . We never could understand why , as the " totals " of each province are given out in the hall , such a summing up

should not be repeated in the lists issued from the office . It is often a great trial to a weary scribe to add up a long row of figures in print , and we cannot even now realize wh y such a system should be persevered in , which is satisfactory to none , and misleading to all . Hence arise imperfect " tottling up , " angry complaints , and much annoyance .

# "« BEFORE we again greet our readers the election for the Royal Masonic Benevo-lent Institution will be past and gone for 1883 . We hear remarkable stories of exchanges , of much pressure for votes , and of probable high polling . When next the Freemason appears all these things will be matters

of history . We again press on our readers , one and all , the advisability of looking well at their fating papers before they are deposited in the "fatal urn , " as the recurrence of such childish carelessness as the Scrutineers have to notice and punish , election after election , seems to point , kind readers all , to the unenviable conclusion that in our cultivated and excellent Order some Masonic Dogberrys are to be found . "Absit Omen 1 "

* * THE opening of the Fisheries Exhibition was most admirably conceived , as it was effectively carried out . It was at once simple and elaborate , unpretending and stately , a most rare and happy conjunction , and the addresses of the Duke of RICHMOND and the reply of H . R . H . the Prince of WALES

were most appropriate and striking in themselves . Few more satisfactory and well-arranged public ceremonials have ever been planned and perfected , and we congratulate all concerned on the excellent impression made on an admiring public . We feel sure the exhibition is alike useful and needful , and will lead , we also trust , to many

beneficial results . The health and safety of our lisher population is a subject of deep interest to all who realize how greatly we are indebted to them for the luxuries , nay , the necessaries of life . Their calling is a very dangerous one necessarily , sometimes little remunerative ; and the

popularity of the Royal brothers will be sensibly increased by the evident warm-hearted and anxious interest they evince in the welfare of our hard y fisherman population . The speech of H . R . H . the Prince of WALES , though couched in official tones , was most welcome in its warm-heartedness and most effective in its delivery . It was heard by all .

* * # THE arrangement and the grouping of the departments in the Fisheries Exhibition have been much admired . Among those special points to which our daily contempories draw notice is the pavilion set apart for our Royal

Grand Master , one of the salient features of which is a grotto lighted up by electric lamps , amid ferns and flowers , & c , and which is specially commended to notice and admiration . This , we understand , has been designed and executed by our Bro . DICK RADCLYVFF .

# * No doubt many of our brethren will pay the Exhibition a visit , admire the p iscatorial industry of all nations ; take a glance , but a glance only , at the fisher maidens , and investigate the culinary mysteries of a fish dinner . * * *

THE gross insult to our ROYAL GRAND MASTER and the Princess of WALES , as recorded in the papers , will be noted with much loyal indignation by all classes as well as by our entire Order . Mr . VAUGHAN ' s last bold words will be entirely approved of by all , and the subject and the offender are really utterly beneath notice . The popular feeling was very strongly manifested on the occasion .

* * * Bro . EDWARD TERRY repeated on Tuesday before the Prince and Princess of W ALES , always sympathetic , some very effective lines in respect of poor Bro . ROYCE , a great popular favourite , We call attention to them elsewhere ,