Notices Of Meetings.

nsual toasts were given , interspersed with songs and recitations , the Tyler ' s toast bringing a most agreeable evening to a close . In addition to a strong muster of the members , there were present I among the visiters , Bro . Terry , Secretary Royal Masonic Benevolent \ Institution , Bro . Binckes , Secretary Boys' School , Bros . W . Booth , j C . A . Booth , Captain Wordsworth , Dr . lies , Duffy , Marks , T . S . Carter , Cocks , Kirby , Hickman , Laxton , J . Reynolds , Fowler , & c , Ac .

Stability Lodge , No . 217 . —This Lodge held its usual meet- i ing at Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street , on Tuesday , 2 nd iust ., at 5 p . m . Bro . Henry Marfleet W . M . presiding , supported by Past Masters j Taylor , Sillifant , Hughes and James , with a goodly array of members . J The Lodge having been opened , and the minutes of previous meet- i ing read and confirmed ; Bro . Marfleet vacated the chair in favour

of Bro . Taylor P . M . and Secretary , who proceeded to re-instal Bro . j Marfleet , who had been re-elected in December last , by unanimous ' vote of the Lodge . Bro . Taylor performed the ceremony in an j admirable manner , and Bro . Marfleet then invested his officers for 1875 as follows : —Bro . Fuchs S . W ., Theobald J . W ., j Nixon S . D ., G . T . Seaborne J . D ., R . G . Seaborn I . G ., Hodden j

D . C , Sillifant P . M . Treasurer , Taylor P . M . Secretary , Gullick T . At the subsequent banqnet Bro . Hughes ( in the unavoidable absence ! of Bro . Drnmmond I . P . M . ) responded for the Past Masters , and drew I attention to the Lodge of Instruction , held under the sanction of this ; Lodgo , at Masons' Tavern , Masons' Avenue , E . C , every Friday at 6 , between August and May , and of which the annual festival would ,

take place at the City Terminus Hotel , Cannon-street , on 30 th April , at five o ' clock . The lecture of the second degree to bo worked in sections . Brother Fuchs S . W . returned thanks for the officers . Bro . Taylor P . M . and Secretary responded to the toast of " Secretary , " and gave a very interesting , though brief account of his experience in Stability . Initiated in November 1884 , he had the honour to bo appointed to office

I . G . 1856 , J . D . 1857 , J . W . 1858 , and W . M . 1859 . The Lodge then unfortunately passed through a period of trial and tribulation , and from internal dissensions was in imminent peril of dissolution ; but he , in conjunction with Bro . Sillifant and the late lamented Bro .

Brodey , by very strenuous exertions , managed to pull it through . In tho prosecution of which he again , in 1861 , served I . G ., in 1863 S . D ., and in 1868 W . M . Since which period , as well as during the year 1867 , he had filled the office of Secretary . He had also

inaugurated some changes from the old rontine , by being the first j member of the Lodgo to serve a stewardship , and as retiring W . M . i to instal his successor , a system which was now being well carried i out . ^ After again thanking the brethren , Bro . Taylor wished health , j happiness and prosperity to Stability 217 , and resumed his seat ! amid much applause . The Tyler ' s toast brought a very pleasant j evening to a close . ]

Shrewsbury Lodge , Staffordshire . —The following are the Worshipful Master and officers of this Lodge , which was consecrated , on the 20 th ult ., by tho Right . Hon . the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot Prov . G . M . of Staffordshire . W . M . Bro . W . Jones , who chose James Taylor as his J . W ., John Lloyd Griffiths J . W ., Z . B . Smith Treasurer , Daniel Taylor Secretary , James Rowley S . D ., Benjamin Love J . D ., Tom Bayliss D . C , F . Piggott I . G ., and T . Nickols 539 Tyler .

The Drama.

THE DRAMA .

Home at the Haymarket—The Bohemian Girl—The New Eoyalty . OUR American Cousin has been withdrawn from the Haymarket bills to make room for the late Mr . Robertson ' s adaptation of M . Emile Angier ' a nowerfnl drama . L'Awnturiere . Home , as the

English play is entitled , is somewhat more than a mere translation of the original . Tho incidents aro , indeed , the same , with a few unimportant variations , but tho general tone and style of the comedy are changed . Mr . Robertson contrived , so to speak , to bring the

story more within the range of commonplace experience and sympathies . Instead of tho fifteenth , he chose the eighteenth century , and in place of Italy , as the scene of the comedy , he selected England , whilst the rhyming metro of the French version was made to give way to plain prose . But he did more than this ; he managed to instil into tho play a genial homely spirit entirely his own . Home is possibly

a loss picturesque production than LAventuriere , but to an English audience , at least , it could scarcely fail to prove a more successful one . As originally produced at the Comedie Francaise , somo quarter of a century ago , MM . Regnier , Geffrey , and Mdmes . Plossy and Favarfc sustained tho leading characters , giving to them a destinetiveness and power befitting a comedy of the very highest order . Tho character

of the adventuress herself , indeed , as interpreted by Mdme . Plessy , might bo said to havo exhibited at times much of the intensity of tragedy . For tho English version however tho colours wore softened , and the general current of the play took a milder form . Mr . Sothern played tho part of Alfred Dorrison , which , in the original was sustained by Geffroy , whilst Mr . Compton and Miss Cavendish were

allotted the parts of Captain Monntraffe , and Mrs . Pinckbeck , origi . nally sustained by Regnier and Mdme . Plessy . This was tho cast when Home was first produced , but in tho absence of Mr . Compton and Miss Cavendish from tho Haymarket Company , the last two characters are now being played by Mr . Rogers and Miss Ward . The revival has , notwithstanding , been most favourable received , and a

visit to tho theatre during the continuance of the present programme is certainly to be recommended , We may add that Miss Minnie Walton and Miss Linda Dictz , appear to charming effect in two of tho subordinate characters , and that Mr . Lytton Sothern makes a satisfactory debut in another . It is not often that London playgoers have tho opportunity offered

them of being present at a performance of English Opera . Italian Opera and French Opera Boufte they have no lack of , but English Opera is only to be witnessed on very rare occasions . One of these occasions is now being offered at tho PHILHARMONIC THEATRE , where Balfe ' s Bohemian Girl was produced on Saturday last , with every appearance of complete success . It can scarcely be doubted that

the melodies of Balfo , and other of our English composers , possess tho necessary elements of popularity if they be but adequately rendered . Our theatrical managers have been searching in every direction for musical pieces , forgetful , apparently , of the fact that a mass of most valuable material lies ready to their hands . We cannot help thinking that if the same care were bestowed upon our English

Operas as upon the Operas Bouffes imported from abroad , that they would prove at least equally successful . At the PHILHARMONIC , tho part of Thaddeus is taken by Mr . Nordblom , that of Arline by Miss Munroe , whilst Devilshoof is played by Mr . Marler , Arnheim by Mr . Rosenthal , and the Gipsy Queen by Mdlle . Manetti . The piece is fairly put upon the stage , and very creditably executed .

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