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down to banquet at the conclusion of Masonic business , presided over by Comp . J . Smith , M . E . Z ., under whose genial sway everything passed off most agreeably . The visitors were Comps . Buss , Z ., No . 206 ; T . A . Adams , P . Z ., No . 206 ; W . Watson , P . Z . No . 25 ; Queely , No . 91 ; Odell , No . 206 ; G . ¦ W . Bichards , & c . & c .

Moira Chaptee ( No . 109 ) . —At the Convocation held at the London Tavern , on Friday , the 18 th of April , Comps . Palmer , M . E . Z . ; Law , H . ; and Gole , J . ; Bros . William Anderson Bose ( alderman and sheriff ) , David Henry Stone ( undersheriff ) , James Lucas Allen , and Bichard Nathaniel Philipps , were exalted into this Sublime Degree . The Companions then proceeded to the election of Principals , and the choice fell on Comps . Law , for Z . ; Gole , H . ; and Ledger ( W . M . of Lodge No . 109 ) , J . ; G . W . K . Potter , re-elected Scribe E . The Companions then adjourned to banquet .

Domatic Chapter ( No . 206 ) . —This Chapter met at the Falcon Tavern , Fetterlane , Thursday , March 27 th . Comp . Buss was installed as Z ., and T . A . Adams as H ., who , in a most able manner , installed his successor , Comp . Thompson , as J . The following Officers were also inducted , Comps . Smith , Treas , ; Childe , E . ; Shury , N . ; Odell , PS . : who appointed Comps . Bohn , 1 st Assist . ; Suter , 2 nd Assist . Bro . Wadeson , of the Wellington Lodge , was then exalted to the Sublime Degree of a Boyai Arch Mason . The Companions then proceeded to an excellent

banquet , and after the usual loyal and Masonic toasts , the M . E . Z . proposed the health of the newly-exalted Companion , and congratulated him on his admission to Royal Arch Masonry , and also on the great pleasure be appeared to derive from the beautiful ceremony . Comp . Smith , P . Z ., next proposed the health of the M . E . Z ., and congratulated the Chapter on having selected so excellent a presiding Officer , whose previous conduct and attention was sufficient earnest of his future zeal . The M . E . Z . thanked the Companions for the high honour conferred

on him in being placed in the dignified situation , and expressed his determination to exert himself to the utmost to deserve the distinction . He then proposed the healths of the visitors , Comps . Watson and Crawley , Past Principals of No . 25 , thanking them for the great assistance they had rendered the Chapter in installing the Principals , and for their readiness at all times to render it when called upon , whether in open Chapter or private instruction . Comp . Watson thanked the Chapter for their kind and unanimous acknowledgment of his services ; and Comp . Crawley , with whom he had worked in Masonry for a number of years , and who ,

he believed , was animated with the same desire as himself to carry out the principles of the Order to the best of his ability . Comp . Crawley , in thanking the Companions ., assured them that it would ever be his greatest pleasure to render his assistance , and he thought that the manner in which one of the ceremonies had been performed was sufficient proof that his labours had not been in vain . The M . E . Z . then proposed the health of Comp . Adams , 2 nd Prin ., who had been obliged to leave in consequence of a professional engagement , and Comp . Thompson , 3 rd Prin . Other toasts were drunk , the company passing a very pleasant

evening . The same Chapter met on the 24 th April , when Bro . Green , W . M . of the Universal Lodge , was exalted to the Sublime Degree . The Companions then proceeded to an excellent banquet . After the loyal and Masonic toasts , the M . E . Z . proposed the health of the newly-exalted Companion , and thanked him for having selected the Domatic Chapter , the working of which he felt assured would be such as to meet the ideas of a member of the Craft so distinguished for his knowledge

of Masonry . Comp . Green , in returning thanks , expressed his great satisfaction at the step he had taken , and the delight he had experienced in listening to the ceremony , the beauties of which far exceeded any ideas he had previously formed . With regard to his progress in Craft Masonry , ho had the honour of being selected to preside over a Lodge which was distinguished for its reward of merit , and assured the Companions that so great was the impression made by the truly beautiful ceremony , that he could not fail to exert himself to the utmost to support the interests of the Order .