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LONDON MASONIC CHARITY ASSOCIATION . —OCTOBER ELECTIONS , 1 SS 0 . —The Committee have selected the following Candidates , and request the Votes of the London Brethren on their behalf : — BOYS . _ GIRLS . * No . 27 , Gee , A . A . No . 21 , Evans , E . * » 3 i , Frost , J . B . „ 44 , Morgan , E . G . „ S , Fellows , A . „ 46 , Delafons , E . J . * „ 17 , Hobbs , R . N . „ 39 , Smith , E . S . > „ 45 , Wilkinson , J . E . * Last Applications . „ S , Oberdoerffer , F . M . J . „ 40 , Gough , M . M . Proxies to be sent to Bro . A . TISLEY , Hon . Secretary , L . M . C . A ., No . 1 , Clifford's Inn , Fleet-street , London , E . C . I

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . OCTOBER ELECTION , 1 SS 0 . To the Governors and Subscribers . The favour of your Votes and Interest is earnestly solicited on behalf of KATE SARAH MEE , Aged Nine Years . Daughter of the late Bro . ALEXANDER GEORGE MEE , of the Wellington Lodge , No . 54 S , Deptford , who died iSth January , 1 S 72 , after a long and painful illness , with Abscess on the Liver , at the age of Forty . The Candidate is the youngest of six , and four are unprovided for . The case is strongly recommended by—Bro . P . Magee , W . M . N 0 . 54 S , 55 , Paradise-street , Rotherhithe , S . E . „ l . F . Chittenden , M . D ., P . M . No . S 4 S ; H . No . 54 S ; and J . No . 79 ; South Lodge , Lee Park , S . E . „ William Touldon , P . AI . No . 54 S , and J . No . 54 S , Acreroad , Kingston-on-Thames . » J . J . West . P ' . M . No . 54 S , Co , Loampit Vale , Lewisham , S . E . „ R . Welsford , P . M . No . 558 , 46 , Essex-street , Strand , W . C . „ W . L . Kitson , S . W . No . 54 S , 11 G , St . James' -street , London , S . W . „ S . P . Gatterson , J . W . No . 54 S , 34 , Great Dover-street , London , S . E . „ E . J . P . Bumpstead , P . M . No . 458 : M . E . 7 .. N 0 . 54 S ; and P . Z . No . 79 ; 10 , Romney-terrace , Greenwich , S . E . „ W . Russell , P . M . No . 1404 and 77 ; P . Z . No . S 29 ; and P . P . S . G . D . ; Gravesend . „ VV . Hicks , P . M . No . 4 S 3 , and P . P . S . G . D ., Parrockstreet , Gravesend . ,, C . G . Firman , No . 77 , Harmer-street , Gravesend . „ A . T . Mee , Af . M . No . 54 S , 57 , Parrock-street , Gravesend . Proxies will be received by Air . Mee , Parrock-street ; Air . Hicks , Parrock-street ; Mr . 1 ledger , Harmer House , The Grove ; and by the Widow , 10 , East-terrace , Gravesend .

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SECOND APPLICATION . ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . OCTOBER ELECTION , 1 SS 0 . The favour of your VOTES and INTEREST is earnestly solicited on behalf of STEPHEN DARCY CARF . Y , aged Nine Years , Son of the late Bro . Stephen Carey , who was initiated in the City of London Lodge , No . 901 , on the 20 th January , 1 S 6 S , and remained a full Subscribing Alember until his death , which took place on the 20 th July , 1 S 79 , after a long illness , which prevented him making any provision for his Widow and Six Children , who are left totally unprovided for . The case is strongly recommended , and Proxies will be thankfully received by the Widow , Airs . AI . A . Carey , 43 , Devonshire Road , Seven Sisters Road , Holloway , N .

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NOTICE . ST . LUKES LODGE OF INSTRUCTION , White Hart Hotel , King's Road , Chelsea , ear Sloane Square Station , S . W . The brethren will take notice that the annual meeting will take place on Friday , the 1 st of October . 1 SS 0 , for the election of Secretary , Treasurer , Auditor , and other business . BRO . J . ARDEN , P . AI ., Preceptor , W . AI .

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NOTICE . The Cosmopolitan Masonic Diary and Pocket Book for 1 S 81 is preparing for publication on the ist 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 , 198 , Fleet-street .

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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , SEPT . 25 , 18 S 0 .

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WE note that the difference between the Grand Lodge of Scotland and the Grand Lodge of Quebec stiil lingers amid " burning questions " unsettled and " unannealed . " We think this is a great pity , and hope ere long to record the

conclusion of an untoward controversy . At the same ime we cannot shut our eyes , even in our peaceable English jurisdiction , to this "beginning of strife " and this " letting out of water , " because it touches so closely , not only on the position of " neutrals , "

but by implication and b y developement even affects us in some measure . The original position of the Grand Lodge of Quebec was , that in disregard of the honourable understanding between the Grand Lodge of Scotland and the Grand Lodge

of Jingland and the Grand Lodge of Canada , the Grand Lodge of Quebec claimed absolute and sole jurisdiction over all its "limits . " We are sorry to observe that the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania "inter alios" has backed up these assumptions

and pretensions of the Grand Lodge of Quebec by statements equally , in our opinion , untenable and unknown to Masonic jurisprudence . For instance take the following-assertion of the Coin mi ttecof Correspondence of the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge :

" When three or more lodges so constituted , and " located in this territory , agree to form a Grand " Lodge , with notice to all , and such Grand Lodge " is lawfully and dul y set up , and recognized as " such Grand Lodge , she then becomes supreme

" and sovereign . To her attaches the sovereignty " which dul y warranted and lawfully constituted " and located the subordinate lodges before she was " set up . It is then the duty , the Masonic duty , " the obedience to the law of Masonry . which is its

" own law , for each of the lodges within the juns" diction of this Grand Lodge to surrender their " orig inal charters to the power which granted them ' " and accept charters from the Grand Lodge of the "jurisdiction , and become faithful , devoted

child" ren of the Masonic mother . " We would ask respectfully where this law comes from . It is , we make bold to say , unknown in England , has never been held by the Grand Lodge of Kngland , and if of any binding Masonic authority , or safe precedent ,

would severe ) } ' affect among others the whole of German Freemasonry . It is a pure American doctrine , which may be suitable for the United States , but is to a great extent consequent on the position of affairs there , and the claims of

territorial limits and sovereign States . It is impossible for the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania , or any other body in America , to expect older Grand Lodges to accept as universally Masonic law what is only locally American ; to go , in fact ,

from a " particular " j to an " universal , " and to treat as " objective" to us all as Masons what is only " subjective" to American Masons . But listen again to what follows : " If the Grand " Lodge of Scotland insists on the position she

" now holds , this Committee will be forced b y the " rigour of consistency and the devotion to the " Masonic law we have asserted to be obligatory •' on us , as it is on all the Grand Lodges of the " United States , promptly to ask the dissolution

" of all Masonic intercourse between the Grand " Lodges of Pennsylvania and Scotland . This is " not offered either as menace or compulsion , and " only to show that we have felt it our duty , in

" again making this appeal to the Grand Lodge " of Scotland , to accompany it with the assurance " that it is final on this question . " If the Grand Lodge of Scotland is thus attacked and isolated wc in England must make common cause with it ,

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as it has not exceeded its r ights , and its motto has only been " Obsta Principiis . " There is one fact we regret in all this unseemly eagerness to incriminate and condemn , that our good brethren an d cousins across the water are having recourse to

the old and exploded threats of excommunicatory intimidation , which may well become violent and unreasoning Ultramontanes , but are utterly unworthy of cultured , liberal , tolerant , and kindly Freemasons .

* * * WE said in our last that we would recur to the subject of so-called " mendicant Freemasons , " and we do so therefore to-day . Those of us who have sojourned in Lancashire and Yorkshire especially

know well the real state of the case , how hardly it presses on the "Almoners , " and how many are the idle and worthless impostors with whom Freemasonry is thus brought in contact . Now , without going further into the details and statistics of a

very unpleasant state of affairs , most annoying and disagreeable , " per sc , " we wish to point out that one great cause of it , at any rate , is undoubtedly the very low amount at which persons can be initiated into Freemasonry

in Scotland . Remembering that few lodges have any annual subscription in Scotland , though they may have , under the provisions of the Scottish Book of Conscitutions , which is , however , not so explicit on the subject as it should be , we cannot

wonder at the state of things . Often by one payment , ludicrously small and patently insufficient , the candidate is stil ! actually often made , passed , and raised in one night , and he goes forth never to see his " mother lodge " again , and , like a "

rolling stone which gathers no moss , ' henceforth lives on the contributions not of " canny Scots , " but of freehanded English brethren . Of late years a system of " surveillance" and investigation has been properly set on foot , both in Lancash ire and

Yorkshire , but wc think it is " hard lines " that the liberal impulses of our brethren should be checked , and their benevolent donations impeded , by this most un-Masonic system of trickery and fraud . Wc hope that the authorities of the Grand

Lodge of Scotland will now bestir themselves to effect this most needful of all reforms , which is at the bottom of every weakness which dominates the Scottish Masonic system , and which many excellent Scottish brethren , like ourselves , as heartily

deplore and as warmly deprecate . And we also trust that by an interchange of provincial " notes " and a system of " checks and counter-checks , " available in all provinces , wc may , in a short time ,

be able to report that this now growing evil is greatly abated , and reduced to an easil y manageable condition of affairs . That it will altogether disappear from our midst , we think it would be rash to anticipate or to prophesy .

¦ * * THE " black-balling [ case " appears to us now so clearly to approach the " ludicrous" in its discussion , in all its surroundings , and in all its bearings , that wc heartily advise our correspondents to

" leave well alone . " " The least said the soonest " mended , " is also a good old-fashioned proverb , often most applicable in the affairs of life , and we think notably to this " interesting episode . " And we say this advisedly , because we hear the matter

is still " sub judice Latomico . We have requested our correspondents not to write thereanent , but they will do so . "The cry is still they come , " and we can only shrug our shoulders , and wait patiently until their excitement or their ink is exhausted , —one and both .

* * THE controversy relative to the actual and relative rank of Grand Oillicers , or of Grand Officers and of officers of Grand Lodge—for it is said there is a difference—deserves , we venture to think , some

little serious consideration . It is not quite so easy to decide dogmatically , as mig ht at first sig ht appear , as , curiously enough , the Book of

Constitutions is somewhat hazy on the subject , at 'eas - ' as to the actual point which has been lately raised by " BAYAKD , " and is so energetically up held by others . Let us see then , first of ail , - > yhat the