Poetry.

Poetry .

THE BOND OP MASONRY . It is not in the goblet swelling high , AVhich wealth not worth , can still command , Nor in the giddy time of joy , Do Masons give their strongest hand . But in the social , generous band ,

AVhose only " tie " the link makes " free , " AVhen heart meets heart , and hand meets hand , There holds the hand of Masonry . To sooth the orphan ' s mournful cry , A brother help , where e ' er ho be ; To love all men beneath the sky , That is the work of Masonrg . New York Dispatch .

List Of Lodge Meetings &C., For Week Ending December 17th , 1870.

LIST OF LODGE MEETINGS & c ., FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 17 TH , 1870 .

METEOPOLITAN' LODGES AND CHAPTEES . Monday , Deceniber 12 th-LODGES . —St . Georges and Corner Stone , Freemasons' Hall ; St . Alban's , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate Street ; Royal Naval , Freemasons' Hall ; Confidence , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street ; St . Andrews' , London Tavern , Bishopsgate Street , E . C . ; Peckham , Maisuiore Arms Tavern , Park Road , Peckham ; Leigh , Freemasons' Hall .

Tuesday , DeceniberlWi . LODGES . —Burlington , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate Street ; Union , London Tavern , Bishopsgate Street ; St . James' Union , Freemasons' Hall ; Percy , Ship and Turtle , Leadenhall Street ; St . Michael's , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate Street ; United Strength , Old Jerusalem Tavern , St . John ' s Gate , Clerkenwell ; Nine Muses , Clarendon Hotel , Bond Street ;

Wellington , AVhite Swan Tavern , Deptford : Ranclagh , Royul Sussex Hotel , Hammersmith ; Doric , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street . 'C HAPTEB—Tranquility , Radley's Hotel , Blackfriars .

Wednesday , December 14 th . Committee Royal Masonic Boy ' s Institute , at 3 . LODGES . —Fidelity , Freemasons' Hall ; Enoch , Freemasons ' Hall ; Union VI aterloo . Masons'Hall , AVilliam Street , AVool-• wicn ; Kent , Guildhall Coffee House , Gresham Street ; Vitruvian , White Hurt , College Street , Lambeth ; Justice , White SwanDeptford ; EuphratesGeorge

HotelAlder-, , , manbury ,- Pilgrim , Ship and Turtle Hotel , Leadenhall Street ; Merchant Navy , Silver Tavern , Bnrdett Road , Limehouse ,- Monteliore , Freemasons' Hull ; Beacontree , Private Rooms , Leytonstone ; Hervey , George Hotel , AV allium . Green . ___ ¦——CHAPTEE — Beadon , Greyhound Hotel , Dnlwich .

Thursday , December 15 th . LODGES . —Globe , Freemasons' Hall ; Gihon , Guildhall Coffee House , Gresham Street ; Temperance , AA hite Swan , High Street , Deptford ; Manchester , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street ; Victoria , Goorge Hotel , Aldermanbury .

Friday , December 16 th . LODGES . —Friendship , Willis's Rooms , King Street , St . James ; Jordan , Freemasons'Hall ; New Concord , Rosemary Branch Tavern , Hoxton . CHAPTEB . —Cuveac , Radley ' s Hotel , Blackfriars .

Metropolitan Lodges And Chapters Of Instruction.

METROPOLITAN LODGES AND CHAPTERS OF INSTRUCTION .

Monday , December 12 th . LODGES . — temple , Old George , St . Mary Axe . E . C ; Justice , Royal Albert , New Cross-id , Deptford ; St . James's Union , Swan Tav . Mount-st ., Grosvemr-sq . ; Industry , Dick's Coffee House , Fleet-st . ; Crystal Palace , City Arms Tav ., West-sq ., Southwark ; High Cross , AVhite Hart Ho ., Tottenham ; Eastern Star , Royal Ho . Burdett-rd . Mile-end-rd . ; CamdenAdelaide Tav .

, , , , Haverstock Hill ; Tower Hamlets' Engineers , Duke of Clarence , Commercial Road , E . ; Union AVaterloo , King ' s Arms , AVoolwich ; Old Concord , Turk's Head , Montcombe Street , Belgrave Square ; Sincerity , Railway Tavern , Fenchurch Street .

Tuesday , December 13 th . LODGES- —Faith , Fisher ' s Restaurant , Metrop . Dist . Rail ., Victoria Station ; Domatic , Palmerston Arms , Grosvenor-park , Camberwell ; Jordan , Alwyne Castle , Canonbury ; Yarborough , Green Dragon , Stepney ; Prince Frederick William , Knights of St . John's Tav ., St . John ' s-wood ; Dalhousie , Royal Edward , TriangleHackney ; Royal AlbertWhite

HartAbchurch-, , , lane ; Pythagorean , Prince ot Orange , Greenwich ; City ot London , Shepherd and Flock Tav ., Boll-alley , Moorgate-st . ; New Wandsworth , Freemasons' Ho ., New AVandsworth ; British Onk , Silver Lion Tavern , Pennyfield , Poplar . CHAPTER . —Metropolitan , Price ' s Portugal Ho ., Fleet-st . ; Mount Sion , AAliite Hart , Bishopsgate-st , ; Robert Burns Sussex Stores , Upper St . Martin ' s Laue .

Wednesday , December 14 th . LODGES . —Confidence , RailwayTav ., London-st ; United Strength Bull and Gate , Kentish Town ; New Concord , Rosemary Brunch Tav ., Hoxton ; St . Mark's , Mawby Arms , Mawby-st ., S . Lambeth ; Peckham , Maismore Arms , Park-road , Peckham-Rye , Temperance in the East , George tbe Fourth , Catherine-st ., Poplar ; Prosperity , Gladstone Tav ., Bishopsgate-street ; Royal Union , Bro . Duddy ' s , AVinsiey-st ., Oxford-street . CHAPTER . —St . James ' s Union , Swan Tav ., Mount-street , Grosvenor-square ; Prudent Brethren , Freemasons' Hall .

Thursday , December 15 th . LODGES . —Fidelity , Goat and Compasses , Euston-road ; Kent , Duke of York , Borough-rd ., Southwark ; United Mariners , Three Cranes , Mile-end-rd . ; Vitruvian , AVhite Hart , College-st ., Lambeth ; St . George's , Globe Tav ., Royal Hill , Greenwich ; Manchester , Berkeley Arms , John-st ., Berkeley-square ; TranquillitySugarLoaf Tav . Great St . Helen'sE . C . ; AVhittington

, , , , Crown Hotel , 41 , High Holborn ; Royal Oak , Royal Oak Tavern , Deptford ; Burdett Coutts , Approach Tav ., Victoria-N park , at 7 ; City of London , Shephard and Flock Tav ., Bell Alley ; St . John ' s , Hollybush Tav ., Iiampstead ; Merchant Navy , Jamaica Tav ., AV . India Dock Road . Poplar . CHAPTEE . —Joppa , Prospect of AA hitby Tav ., 57 , AVappingwall .

Friday , December 16 th . LODGES—St . Luke ' s , Pier Hotel , Cheyne-walk , Chelsea Temperance , Victoria Tavern , A ictoria-road , Deptford , Unions ( Emulation Lodge of Improvement for M . M . }; F . M . H . ; United Pilgrims , Horns' Tavern , Kennington ; AA ^ estbourne , the Grapes , Duke-st ., Manchestersquare ; AA'ellington , Lord Duncan Tavern , Broadway ,

Deptford ; Florence Nightingale , Freemasons' Tav ., AVoolwich , Ranelngb , Royal Sussex Hotel , Broadway , Hammersmith ; Belgrave , Duke of AA'ellington , Spring-gardens , Charing-cross '; St . James ' s , Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-row , Bermondsey ; Doric , Three Cranes , Mile End-rd . ; AlHoria , Andertons' Ho ., Fleet-st .: Hervey , Britannia , AA allnm .-green ; Metropolitan , Price's Portugal Ho ., Fleet-st . ; Charter House , Hat and Feathers Tavern , 27 , Goswell-rd . ; Robert Burns , Union Tav . ;

Air-street , Regent-st . ; Hose of Denmark , AVhite Hart , Barnes ; Lily , Greyhound , Ho ., Richmond ; Stability , Guildhall Tav ., 33 , Gresham Street . CHAPTERS . —Domatic , Fisher's Restaurant , Victoria Station . Saturday , December 11 th . CHAPTEES . —Mount Sinai , Union Tavern , Air-street , Regentstreet ; Domatic Horns , Kennington .