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PARIS EXHIBITION—Now Open . PARIS and BACK for 23 s . 3 d .

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S ^ OUTH - EASTERN RAILWAY . — From CHARING-CROSS and CANNON-STREET TERMINI . Cheap Fares for Parties of Artisans , & c . Full Particulars by Handbills to be had on application .

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SOUTH -EASTERN RAILWAY . — PARIS , Switzerland , Italy , & c . THE ROYAL MAIL EXPRESS ROUTE from CHARING-CROSS and CANNON-STREET . —FOUR SERVICES DAILY . Leave Charing-cross Viii CalaislVii Boulogne Via Calais Vii Calais and Cannon-street 8 . 20 a . m . * o . 4 oa . ni . it . oa . m . S . iJ p . m . Arrive Paris j ..-op . m . j 5 . 57 p . m . j . 25 p . m . 5 . 50 a . m . * The route viii Folkestone and Boulogne is 28 miles shorter than via Calais , and is the quickest route ; 20 minutes are allowed for luncheon at Boulogne . The Albert Victor , Louise Dagmar , and Mary Beatrice tun in the Special Express Services , viti Boulogne , throughout the year . Express Through Services to Switzerland , & c , vi & Calais and Rheims , or via Paris , in connection with the above trains . ALL CONTINENTAL TICKETS , single and return , { or the Short Sea and Mail Routes , vi & Dover and Calais or Dover and Ostend , whether issued at stations or at booking offices , are AVAILABLE by the South-Eastern Railway . MYLES FENTON , General Manager .

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BLACKWALL to MARGATE and BOULOGNE . SS."HERALD" Leaves BLACKWALL PIER at 10 a . m . THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS during the month , returning the following working day . RETURN TICKETS ( available for one month)—10 / - and 12 / 6 ; Margate , 4 /_ and 5 / -. ROBERT WALPOLE , 15 S , Leadenhall-st ., London , E . C .

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A NON-COM . OFFICER in a Departmental Corps , 30 years of age , desirous of leaving the Army , seeks EMPLOYMENT . — Address , J . A ., 5 , Albert-street , Brentwood .

Willing's Selected Theatrical Programme.

WILLING'S SELECTED THEATRICAL PROGRAMME .

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA . ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA SEASON commences to-night ( Saturday ) . ' ADELPHI THEATRE . Every Evening , at 8 , THE HARBOUR LIGHTS ; at 7 . 15 , Farce . GAIETY THEATRE . Every Evening , at 8 . 30 , FAUST UP TO DATE ; at 7 . 30 , FIRST MATE . VAUDEVILLE THEATRE . Every Evening , at 8 . 50 , THAT DOCTOR CUPID ; at 7 . 50 , THE POET . OPERA COM 1 QUE THEATRE . livery Afternoon , at 3 , FORGET ME NOT . Every Evening , at 9 , THE REAL LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY ; at 8 . 15 , HER OWN RIVAL . COURT THEATRE . Every Evening , at 8 . 30 , THE WEAKER SEX . COMEDY THEATRE . Every Evening , at 8 , AJ HIGHLAND LEGACY ; at 9 , TENTERHOOKS . TOOLE'S THEATRE . bvery Evening , at 8 , COMEDIETTA ; ah S . 30 , ARTFUL CARDS ; after which Ici ON PARLE FRANCAIS . SAVOY THEATRE . livery Evening , at 8 . 15 , THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD ; at 7 . 20 , MRS . TARRAMIE ' S GENIE .

PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE , kveiy Evening , at 8 . 15 , PAUL JONES , * at 7 . 30 , J SMITH . „ ' TERRY'S THEATRE . Hvery Evening , at 8 . 30 , SWEET LAVENDER . ,, LYRIC THEATRE . Hvery Evening , at 8 . 15 , DORIS ; at 7 . 40 , FUNNIBONES ' FIX . lf ROYALTY THEATRE , ¦ -very Evening , at 8 , MIGNONETTE . p OLYMPIC THEATRE , every Evening , at 8 , THE SILENT WITNESS . E GRAND THEATRE . Vet ? ¦? Yenin K > at 7-30 , LOVE AND HONOUR ; followed "y How IT HAPPENED . t > „ SURREY THEATRE . ver V Evening , at 7 . 30 , NOW-A-DAYS . 0 ROYAL AQUARIUM . Pen 12 ( noon ); close 11 . 30 . p . m . Constant Round of Amusement . Ev . „ ALHAMBRA . R n enin e > at 7-30 , Variety Entertainment . Two Grand ° *» 'lets , & c . Everu _ . . EMPIRE . fta « v'n , " S > at 7-30 . Variety Entertainment Grand Ua » et , DIANA , & c . Evcr „ ,, . LONDON PAVILION . r * x lng » Grand Var ! ety Entertainment . Evervp - RBURY THEATRE OF VARIETIES . Slfrt t 1 " 1 ^ at 7 * 3 ° * Variety Entertainment , Humorous .. Ketches , & c . O pen , P AME TUSSAUD & SONS' EXHIBITION . PrLt'JV , ' 11 I 0 P * m' Portfait Models of Past and te sent Celebrities . ° Pen . ni-i . N'AGARA IN LONDON . 10 "Il 10 . Colossal Picture of the Great Falfe ,

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"TOBACCOBLOOM" IN PACKETS AND CIGARETTES , FINEST QUALITY AND FLAVOUR , Of Tobacconists in Town and Country . SPECIAI AGENTFRANKLIN ( late Medex ) , 155 , OXFORD STREET , W . Wholesale—RUTTER & Co ., LONDON .

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/*.COCKERELL'S \ f 13 » CORNHILL , E . O . ^¦¦¦ w y For Prices , see Daily Papers . CJj / Trucks direct from the * Colliery to every Railway Station .

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M.B.ROSENBERG, HIGH-CLASS TAILOR AND OUTFITTER , Ladies' Jacket and Ulster Maker , 16 , LIVERPOOL STREET , LONDON , E . C ,

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Asa,JOHNGOW,Limited, 17 , NEW BROAD ST ., E . G . ¦ fCT "fBi * ' ( Outside Railway Station ) . ¦ ? 0 U W 12 j HONEY LANE MARKET , CHEAPSIDE . -, 93 , THEOBALD'S RD ., HOLBORN , W . C . ¦ " 3--M" ** 125 > BROMPTON ROAD , S . W . JOHN GOW , Limited , always have on mTJ * R 9 i sale tlle Largest Stock in London of rv-tf gj . Si 5 * w' the Very Best Quality at Lowest Prices . ^ BARRELLED OYSTERS .

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The following communications unavoidably stand over : CRAFTWilton Lodge , No . 1077 . INSTRUCTIONRanelagh Lodge , No . S 34 . Chiswick Lodge , No . 2012 . A . AND A . RITEKingston Chapter , No . 86 . OBITUARY—Bro . William Wells . Presentation to Bro . G . F . Barrel ! , P . M . 469 , P . A . G D . of C . Ashmole as a Freemason .

BOOKS . & c , RECEIVED . " Report of the Punjab Masonic Institution for the Maintenance and Education of the Children of Deceased and Indigent Freemasons , 1888 , " " La Revista Masonica del Peru , " "New Zealand Masonic Journal , " " South African Freemason , " " The Freemason" ( Toronto ) , "Victorian Freemason , " and " Keystone . " iy

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i ^^^^ P ^^^^^^ S ^^^^' SATURDAY , MAY 18 , 1889 . - *¦

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . [ COPY ] " To the W . Brethren F . W . Ramsay , M . D ., Rota Chairman of the House Committee , and Chas . Fred . Hogard , Rota Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee , Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . "Lamb Building , Temple , " 13 May , 1 SS 9 .

" Sirs and Brothers , " I have to acknowledge your letter of May gth , received by me after it had appeared in the columns of the Freemason ol nth inst . " In that letter it is stated that"' Without unrestricted access to those notes ( i . e . the shorthand writer's notes of evidence before the Committee

of Inquiry ) , it is manifestly impossible to draw up an exhaustive reply ' to the report of that Committee . "You thus plainly suggest that 'unrestricted' access to these notes had not been afforded to you . " I now call your attention to the following facts : On 29 th April , the Secretary ( Bro . Binckes ) by your instructions

' applied' to me for these notes . " I replied , full access could always be had here , and , instructions , if more convenient , I offered to lend them you , to be returned to me when required"Accepting the offer I thus made , his cle . k called and took all 15 vols , of the notes , on 3 rd May , and signed the receipt foe them , which I now hold .

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"They have since remained in your possession . It is difficult to conceive how you could have allowed yourselves to sign a letter , thus directly suggesting an infeience lhe reverse of the truth , had the Secretary informed you of these facts . " I observe , however , that the letter of May 9 th , down to the actual signatures , is entirely in the Secretary's

handwriting . _ " Brother Binckes well knew when he penned that letter that he then held these notes on your behalf , and that he had so held them for six days , at the moment he put that letter before you to affix your signatures thereto . " I forbear comment on that which speaks for itself . " Nor shall 1 enter into correspondence on the report

which my colleagues and myself have presented to the Quarterly Court . " If that body thinks right to publish these notes , the Committee of Inquiry cannot entertain the slightest objection—at least , so far as I am concerned , or may speak beforehand for the other members . "Only the evidence must , in that case , appear in its

entirety as given , and no part be suppressed , lt will then be seen that it fully justifies every conclusion to which the Committee of Inquiry came . "As , desiring ' to avoid any want of courtesy ' to any member of the Committee or to myself , you sent your letter to the Freemason for publication before I received it , you will not complain that 1 am sending a copy of this letter for insertion in that newspaper . —Yours faithfully ,

"FREDERICK A . PHILBRICK , "Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry . " To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Kindly give Insertion to the accompanying letter . —¦ Yours fraternally , JOYCE MURRAY . CHAS . FREDK . HOGARD .

V . W . Bro . F . A . Philbrick , Q . C , Grand Registrar , Chairman Committee of Inquiry . V . W . Sir and Brother , Your letter of the 13 th has been considered by a Special Meeting of the Committees of this Institution held this day . We regret tbat our expression ' * unrestricted access" to the shorthand writer's notes of evidence was

misapprehended by you . We—the House and Audit Committees—were given the fullest access to them for our own information , but as they were to remain for the present with the papers of the Committee of Inquiry ( see your letter ot 30 th April , 18 S 9 ) , and as the inquiry was private and confidential , we tele that we cuuld not , without the sanction of your Committee , have " unrestricted access " to them for publication . From your letter of 13 th May ,

1 SS 9 , we gather that we must wait authority Irom the Special or Quarterly Court before we can have what we intended to convey by the term " unrestricted access " to the notes . The letter sent to you in the handwriting of the Secretary of the Institution was draited at a Special joint meeting of the Committees by members of those Committees on behalf of the whole . —We are , V . W . Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , JOYCE MURRAY , On behalf of the House Committee . CHAS . FREDK . HOGARD , On behalf of the Audit Committee . i 6 tb May , 1 SS 9 .

To the Editor ofthe " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In the Report presented by the Committee of Investigation , I regret to observe that there are some surprising assertions which I have no hesitation in saying are unjustifiable and misleading . If the Committee of Investigation had been perfectly cognisant with the working of thc

Institution and not dependent upon hearsay evidence , they would not have propounded opinions so fallacious . I am at a loss to devise upon what basis such resolutions rest , but of this I am certain , that they do not represent a true state of things relating to the Boys' School , lt is not , however , my present purpose to discuss the general tendency of the Report , but 1 do desire , in the interest ancl welfare of the

School , to draw attention to two matters . One being the opinions expressed in the Report that the boys are low in physique j the other , that Mr . Jabez Hogg , the eminent honorary Surgeon Oculist to the Institution , is made to say in his very interesting description of the boys , " that double the ordinary percentage of defective sight occurs amongst the pupils . " He did not say this ; what he said was , " that

the injury to the sight was not a bigger percentage than we get in such like schools ; and in Germany it is double what we get in England . " As applicable to the physique of the boys , Mr . Hogg stated " they were quite up to the average and very well nourished indeed . " 1 select these subjects from many more which struck me in reading the Report , because of the vital importance which they bear on thc

character of the School , and to prevent a wrong impression being formed if they are left uncontradicted . _ it is not for me to dwell upon the style which characterises the composition of the Report ; but having been Treasurer of the Institution for upwards of 16 years , and on the House Committee previously ; and knowing by experience the

invaluable services of brethren who have given their time on the Committees with the sole object of making the Institution as perfect as possible , and to correspond with Uic wishes and intentions of the Subscribers , my mind is impressed by the omission of any mention in the Report of the good which they have so successfully accomplished . —Yours fraternally , PLUCKNETT . '

To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , The letter of remonstrance addressed to Bro-Philbrick , Chairman of Committee of Inquiry , by Bros * Ramsay and Hogard on behalf of the House and Audit Committees of the above Institution , which appears in

your columns of to-day , is in many respects a remarkable document , and it suggests at least the two following points which seem to me to demand immediate attention and explanation . 1 . Had not Bros . Ramsay and Hogard , with each and all thc members of their respective Committees , ample