An Oration

Almighty Creator that our clays are numbered ; that our concern with this world has terminated ; that our ashes must be gathered to those of our forefathers , and our souls return to God who gave them . AVe have need , then , to looso no time in sotting our

house iu order . AVe have need to stand in a state of constant preparation for death . AVe have need , like sentinels , to be on our watch-tower ready at any time to meet the grim foe . AVho can tell liow soon he may require another victim from our ranks ? AVho can

tell if we will all assemble in this hall again ? Our worthy Master has this evening announced from the chair that , since Bro . Smith was laid in the grave , another of our brethren has , in very distressing circumstances , been suddenly called to his last account ,

and never will appear in this hall any more . May our affections , then , be withdrawn from the things of sense and time , and fixed more on the things of heaven , where the Almighty God reigneth for ever and ever , where there is nothing to hurt or destroy , and where sorrow ancl bereavement are unknown .

Masonic Statistics.—No. 2.

MASONIC STATISTICS . —No . 2 .

LONDON LODGES IN 1834 AND 18 C 7 . ( Continued from page 188 . ) The Temple Lodge ( No . 118 ) , which met at the Ship in Little Turnstile , has migrated at No . 101 to the Ship ancl Turtle in Leadenhall-street .

The London is permanent at the Freemasons ' . This was founded in 17 GS . AVe have , then , no London lodge until 1 SG 4 . The Caledonian ( No . 134 ) , now meeting at the Ship ancl Turtle , was formerly a city lodge

meeting at the George ancl Vulture . Tbe Good Report ( No . 136 ) , meeting at Radley ' s was a famous lodge in olden days , the Royal Theatrical Covent Garden Lodge , meeting- at Joy ' s Hotel , Covent Garden . On the decline of the

classic drama ancl of the patent theatres , its vocation was gone , ancl it lost even its good name , although it gained good report . In those days the stage was an institution , and Garrick , Kemble , and Siddons the compeers of the authors , artists , and statesmen of the time . '

Ihe year 17 G 5 was marked by a grand revival of Masonry and the foundation of several London lodges subsisting to this time . In the next year their RojM Highnesses the Dukes of York and Gloucester , brothers to the King ( George III . ) ,

were initiated . The St . George ' s has moved from Deptford to Greenwich . The Lodge of Faith from the once-celebrated Gun Tavern , Pimlico , to

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Anderton ' s ; St . Thomas ' s , from the Freemasons ' to Radley ' s ; the Middlesex ( the badge of which is Avell known ) from the Freemasons' to the Albion ; but St . Luke ' s remains at Chelsea as a Chelsea lodge , though Pimlico has lost its old ' lodge . The Lodge of Prudent Brethren has moved westward from Leadenhall-street to the

Freemasons ' , and given it some compensation for the migrated lodges . In the year referred to twolodges had been founded at Deptford , of which the Lodge of Justice remains in situ . The Bedford ( No . 157 ) reached its centenary last year , and celebrated it in the old place—the-Freemasons ' .

What was No . 188 , the Blackfriars Lodge , meeting at the Ship in Gate-street , Lincoln ' s-innfields , a Masonic tavern of standing formerly , has been named the Cadogan ( No . 1 C 2 ) , meets at the Freemasons ' , ancl is now in its hundredth year .

AVe now come to a flush Masonic epoch , reaching from 17 G 9 to 1774 , in which many Londonlode-es were formed . This was the time when

Masonry having made such progress it was determined to have a hall of our own . The Lodge of Honour ancl Generosity , a city lodge , has only shifted from the George and Vulture to the London . To the same place has gone the Union , a

Boroughlodge . The St . John ' s is a Hampstead Lodge , meeting at the Holly Bush . The Lodge of Temperance has removed from an old tavern in Aldersgate-street , and transplanted to Deptford , has compensated that district for tlie loss of a lodge ,

slightly older . The Lodge of Amity is doomedto wandering ; it met at a once chosen seat of Masonry in London-wall , and proceeded to the Loudon Coffee-house . It will now have to choose its vocation . All the above lodges reach

theircentenary this year . The Old Concord Lodge ,, one of reputation , has removed from Cavendishsquare to the Freemasons ' . The Phoenix , that in Hand-court , Holborn , also meets at the Freemasons ' . The Sincerity has moved from

Bermoudsey to the Cheshire Cheese , Crutched Friars .. The Caveac Lodge — one with a queer name —formerly at Kew or Twickenham , has since migrated further eastward from Hammersmith to Radley's . The Domatic has changed from

Claremarket to more pretentious quarters at Anderton ' s . The Manchester has got into the same house from Tooley-street , and so we chronicle the removal of three Borough lodges , and the decline of thatdistrict in residential importance , whatever it has-