Cheshire Educational Masonic Institution.

that the audience thoroughly enjoyed the evening ' s entertainment , which passed off with great e ' clafc . It appears from the last annual report of the institution that the balance in hand had been increased from £ 1 , 086 14 s , to £ 1 , 223 15 s . During the past year fifteen children had received the benefit of education

, and two had received funds for the purpose of advancement in life . The satisfactory position of the funds was mainly due to increased support afforded bj r annual subscriptions , and the interest arising from the investments , comparatively little having been derived from extraneous sources . There were still

sixteen children on the books , and the committee had received applications to place four more on the educational fund , and from the friends of one for advancement iu life . The amount expended in paying for the education of the fifteen children was £ S 5 Ss . 9 d ., and towards

the advancement in life of thetwo children £ 8 7 s . 3 d . The piaees at which the children rece i ved the education were . Liverpool College , Sandbach Grammar School , "W ycliffe Grammar School , and at private Schools at Ashton-undei ' -Lyne , Eutwistle , Warrington , Ruthin , Everton , Macclesfield , Runcorn , Chester , and Southport . Wo believe the result of the concert will be a considerable addition to the funds of the Cheshire Educational Masonic Institution .

Masonic Jottings.—No. 50.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 50 .

BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . " PHILOSOPHIE DES INDIENS . This is the title of the article in the " Dictionnaire des Science Philosophiques . " * It is by

Professor Barthelemy Saiut-Hilaire ; his last words are these " En un mot rien dans l'hisfcoire de la Philosophic n ' est anjourd'hui plus neuf ni plus important que Fetude des systernes Indiens . " The pursuit upon which you are noAV entering

will not I trust take you altogether from Masonry . Indian Philosophy once fascinated me , but I soon found that to effect anything useful , a whole life was required .

HOW HINDOOS SHOULD BE OBLIGATED . It may be inferred from the communications of the Past Provincial Grand Master for Kent to the " Freemason ' s Magazine , " that he holds the opinion that the Hindoo abandoning his Pantheism ,

should , if he has become a Christian , be obligated as other Christians are obligated ; but if , as it is not improbable will generall y be the case , lie has become a Natural Theist , then he should be obligated iu a manner analogous to that in Avhich Natural Theists are sworn as Avitnesses in the Courts of Law and Equity , at Westminster .

Masonic Jottings.—No. 50.

AMALGAMATION . A brother at Brussels inquires when and where the effective amalgamation of Operative Masonry and Speculative Masonry took place , producing Masonry of which the famous English Masonry of 1717 is an example ?

A DESIRE INFUSED AT THE CREATION . Bro ., the Masonic precept to humanise and improve our fellow-men , comes from a desire infused by the Great Architect of the Universe at the creation .

GLEAMS OF OUR FREEMASONRY . Brother , we have many gleams of our Freemasonry in the last century . At first we discern Christianity only , afterwards Ave discern Toleration .

THE METEMPSYCHOSIS . Brother , doubtless , in an ancient Masonry , there Avas often the doctrine of the metempsychosis ; but , as yon well know , an ancient Masonry Avas rarel y true Freemasonry .

THE GOOD WHICH THE TRUE FREEMASON DID . Brother , assuredly often in the Avorld the good Avhich the true Freemason did , has faded away , as in the ocean , into Avhich it flowed , the particular river-drop has disappeared .

THE VAST AND THE MINUTE . Brother . —Both in the vast and the minute are discerned . ¦ — " The unambiguous footsteps of the God , Who gives its lustre to aa insect's wing , And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds *

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

THE COMING INTO EXISTENCE OF SPECULATIVE MASONRY . It was impossible that much progress should be made in the operative branch of Masonry , the result of th constant labour of earth's wisest and best workers , without the coming into existence of speculative or iritual Masonry . Human nature forty centuries

sp ago was what human nature is now . The same causes effect like results , save as modified by circumstances , or changed by the progress of opinion . It Avas impossible for noble-minded , pure-hearted men then to study the art of Masonry , with nature and the works of the past for their models , Avitbout

discovering the beautiful symbolism of nature ' s works and the imperfectness of human imitation , Avithout discerning in the perfect outlines of the Avorld , and its complete adaptiveness to its purposes , as well as in the glory and mystery of the heavens , the work of a perfect Builder , higher than man . "—From a bundle of Masonic Excerpts . CHABLES PUETOS - CoOPEBc