The Masonic Mirror.

After some further but unimportant business AA-IIS disposed of , tho Prov . Grand Lodge AA ' IIS closed in ample form , and with solemn prayer . The brethren aftenvards adjourned to banquet , when about fifty sat down to do justice to the fare provided for them in the Corn Exchange , py the worthy host of the Black Horse , Bro . Yeates . Some of the brethren went to dine at tho Lion Hotel , which was most disrespectful to the Proi ' . Grand Alaster ; besides being very unfair to Bro . Yeates , ivho was instructed to provide for eihty gentlemen . After the dinner

g at the Corn Exchange , the usual loyal and Alasonic toasts ivere given and heartily responded to . Somo capital songs were sung , and a very p leasant evening was spent , the brethren separating about nine . DUDLEY . — Vernon Lodge ( No . 819 ) . —The installation meeting of this Lodge and festival of St . John the Baptist took place on AA'ednesday , the 21 st of September , at the Old TOAA ' U Hall , Dudley . Lodge was opened at four o ' clock , by the AA ' orshipful Alaster , the V . A \ . Bro . Hollier ( Mayor ) ,

P . AI ., No . 313 , ancl the Past Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies , assisted by his officers . The minutes of the previous Lodge having been read and confirmed , the A . AA . Bro . the Rev . E . A . Gwynne , P . AI . JS ' o . 435 , and the Provincial Grand Chaplain for Staffordshire ( Chaplain to No . 81 !)) proceeded to install Bro . B . B . Smith as the AA'orshipful Afastcr for the ensuing year ; the ceremony being very correctly and impressively performed . Tho AVorshipful Alaster then invested his officers as follows : —Bro . AA . AA'i gginton , Prov Asst . Dir . of Cers ., S . AA ' . ; 7

Thos . AVright , J . AA . ; Rev . E . A . Gwyime , M . A ., Chaplain ; Geo . Burn Lowe , Treas . ; . 1- ] . Poole , Sec . ; J . C . AA ' estley , S . D . ; H . Peart . J . D . ; G H . Deeley , P . AL Nos . S 3 S and SI 9 , and P . Prov . G . Supt . of Works , 3 I . C . ; J . Prince , I . G . ; and James Leif , Tyler . Some other business having been disposed of , Lodge was closed with solemn prayer . The brethren nftenvaixls dined at Bro . G . H . Dceley ' s , P . 31 . Nos . S 3 S and 819 , and P . Prov . G . Supt . of AVorks , where brotherly love and harmony prevailed . Among the visitors were Bros . AA . Sheppard , AA . AL , No . 313 , AV Thompson , R , Light , Dr . Davison , S . AA ., No . 730 , C . Russell , and G . H . AA ilkiuson .

Mark Masonry.

MARK MASONRY .

PROVINCIAL . HARTLEPOOL . —Eclectic Lodge of Marh Masters ( No . 39 ) . —The regular monthly meeting of this Lodge was held in the Alasonic Hall , on Friday , the 23 rd of September , Bro , Haniniarbom , AA . AL , presiding , supported by Bros . Tate and Hudson , S . and J . AA . irdens . Bro . David Cunningham ( editor ofthe Stockton and , Hartlepool Mercury ) having been balloted for and accepted , was duly advanced to this honourable degree ; another brother was also acceptedbut absence from home prevented his

, attendance . Tho next business was the election of officers for the ensuing year , when the folioAving brethren were unanimously re-elected for the year I 860 : —H . A . Haniniarbom , AV . M . ; T . P . Tate , F . S . S ., Treas ., aud J . Mow-bray , Tyler . The installation of the AV . AI . and investiture ot the ether officers will not take place before January . No other business being before the Lodge , it was closed in peace and harmony at tho usual hour .

Ireland.

IRELAND .

DUBLIN . HUSH MASONIC ! I'KMALE Olll'IIAX SCHOOL . Tin- ; pupils of this admirable institution ivere on Friday last most hospitably entertained by Bro . Henry !_> . Hallicld , one of the governors » f the school , at his country seat , near Carrickininos . The children Were met at the station , H .-ircourt-road , by Bros . II . Ii . Haliield , S . B . Oldham , J . IVhifctington , J . Hill , J . Dnimiaoiul , H . A ero AVhite , & c . On their arrival at Carrickiuines , they walked to the hospitable residence f

» Bro . Iiaflield , when , after a substantial and comfortable dinner , the Worthy host proposed " The Health of her Alajesty the Queen . " The National Anthem Avas sung in a most effective maimer by the children . Ih ' o . Whittiiigton then proposed "The health of Bro . Haliield and his unliable family , " whicli was , warmly responded to . Thanks having been returned by Bro . H . V . AVhite , and a hyniii sung by the pupils , the whole part y adjourned to enjoy the beauties of the lovely country by which they were surrounded , and , after a delightful day , returned to toivn by "le six o ' clock train , highly gratified by the delightful day they had spent . —Sally Express .

Colonial.

COLONIAL .

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . _ C . ii'E Tows . —British Lodge ( No . 41 !)) . —On the 24 th June , the amii->' orsary of St . John the Baptist , the Lodge was opened at eleven A . M ., » I- the purpose of initiating several gentlemen ; and at high noon prep lsely , Bro . Rowe , AV . AI ., inducted Bro . 31 . T . King to the chair , and '" stalled i him in the office of AV . AI . for tho ensuing Alasonic year , Bro . Ung having been chosen by the brethren to fill that office . The new J aster then invested his officers , and afterwards proceeded in procession ound the

grounds of the Lodge . The brethren adjourned from the ed ge to the Alasonic Hotel to dinner ; the greatest harmony prevailed

Colonial.

and the brethren separated with peace , love , and harmony , at high tivelve . Tho following wero the appointments made by the AA . 3 l . : —Bros . S . Smithers , S . AV ; G . AlcClear , J . AA . ; Solomon , S . D . ; Doidge , J . D . ; Sharpe , I . G . ; Koller , Sec . ; Russell , Treas . ; Roive , P . AL ; Gungel , Tyler .

-lASOXIC BALL Ol' THE BRITISH LODGE . The recall by the Derby ministry of Governor Sir George Grey , the able and popular viceroy of this flourishing colony , has been perhaps one of the most unpopular acts which have ever emanated from DoAVningstreet . Irrespective of his public capacity ( of which , as a Alasonic organ , we are not called upon to speak ) , Sir George has AA-OU golden opinions from his brethren of the antient Craft , and the Cape Alasons have not been behindhand in testifying their esteem and regret for his loss .

On Thursday , the 21 st of July , upon the occasion of a Alasonic ball given by the British Lodge ( No . 419 ) , the governor and his lady were present , and a most agreeable evening was spent within the walls of the Commercial Exchange at Cape Town , ivhich , upon this occasion , was given up to the votaries of pleasure ; the discourse in that area usually devoted to exchange and par , hides , tallow , and Constautia , being of unwonted vanities and most mimercantile tendency—crinoline , scandal , icnics and raceswere tho topics of the eveningMercury and Plutus

p , , being fain to make way for A enus and Terpsichore . The Alasons of the British Lodge are justly proud of their hall , and the Commercial Exchange never lo Iced grander ; the splendid Alasonic emblems wero ranged round the walls with excellent taste , and conveyed a sense of mystery and beauty . Sir George Grey is ono of the brotherhood , and he was attended on this evening by all the leading officials and gentry of the toivn ancl

vicinity . The British Lodge was founded in 1811 ; it numbers one hundred , and . tAventy members ; and it . 3 operations are carried out with far greater spirit than are those of any other Alasonic Lodge in the city , or indeed in the colony . The very large amount of British shipping which IIOAV arrives iu Table Bay brings a vast number of British Alasons to the colony , and the number of members is thereby increasing very fast indeed . The jubilee of the Lodge is to be celebrated in 1861 , tivo years

from this time , Avhen , in all likelihood , it AA'ill be one of the largest Lodges in any British colony . The arrangements of the ball committee AA'cro perfect . The band of the 59 th regiment and the quadrille band were hi the orchestra , and the music was excellent . A very splendid supper was provided , and at the supper table , Captain Hill , civil commissioner , presided . Sir George Grey , ivho was suH ' ering from indisposition , was compelled to leave before his health was proposed , and thanks for his excellency were returned by the Attorney-General in tho following words : — " Bro . Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , under ordinary circumstances , I should

certainly not feel myself at liberty to respond to the call that has been so unexpectedly made upon mo . During tho twenty years I have noiv held ollice in this colony , under six successive governors , who have come and passed aivay , I have made it a rule , which admitted of no exception , that , during Avhat may be called the governor's tenure of office , his legal adviser should be silent in his praise . But there arc exceptions to every rule , and the same feeling which has induced me to lay doivn that rule , and to maintain perfect silence with respect to other governors will IIOAV

allow me to say with regard to the praise of the present governor—if I have ever expressed regret at the loss of governors who have left—I should express the same feeling ivith tenfold Intensity with regard to governors ivho arc recalled . Ladies ancl gentlemen , a meeting of this kind , assembled for a charitable purpose and the enjoyment of harmless pleasure , is no place for political discussions and the introduction of controverted topics . I advance no political opinion—I state uo topic of what

political controversy , if I say in this large and respectable meeting AA'ould be said in every meeting throughout the colony ; ancl as the old Italian poet said that it ivould be sufficient to write on his tombstone the plain and simple ivord Tasso , so I say that it is only necessary to name the name of the Governor , Sir George Grey , to elicit tho warmest regard and respect of all . It ivas the boast of Augustus that he had found Rome brick and had left it marble . That was not an unworthy to

boast of a groat man and a great statesman . AVithont venturing express the same thing in the same language , I say that Sir George Grey may say upon his retirement that he has , in a certain sense , in respect to the colony , found it brick and left it marble . Ladies and gentlemen , in everything connected with the progress ofthe colony , material , moral , or social , in every place where a good man ought to be found , in every lace where good statesman was requiredin energetic actionm

forep a , , sight and perception of consequences , there have we found our governor ; and in . all these things I think we have seen that whilst under Sir George Grev ' s administration we have been governed by a man and no slave . Ladles and gentlemen , since Sir George Grey arrived , party feeling that previously existed has been diminished , a strong feeling of unity has sprung up amongst us , and everything has tended to show that we were being moulded into a firm and compact mass by the iu whicli has reference

master hand of a Afastcr Mason . I say everything to these considerations , we are better for the Governor , Sir George Grey , bavin" been witli us ; and wc can quite account for the deep regret which ° has fallen on the entire heart of the entire colony by the unexpected and stunning news that he has been recalled . I have gone further than I wished , encouraged by your sympathy , ancl willing to give your