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METROPOLITAN .

APPOIKTMEHTS . 'Wednesday April 20 / 7 i .-Loilgoa , Grand Stewards , Freemasons' Tavern ; Eoyal York ( No 7 * ditto ; United Manners ( 33 ) , White Hart , Bishopsgate Street ; St . George's ( 161 ) Trai- ^ rT-tvern Greenwich ; Sn . corily ( 203 ) , Cheshire Cheese , Crutched Friars ' ; Oak ( 325 ) HaIlo ^ s Hotel ™ lnTe t ' 7 , lKedJji 0 n , W 00 hTiCl 1 ' ^''^' Co-niittceCrand Chaple , ^ . S ^„ S

Thursday , Hst-Iodges , Glol . e ( 23 ) , Frcemafons' Tavern ; Giiion ( 5 ?) Bridge Hou « e HoV Const . ta . onal ( 63 ) Shi p and Turtle ; St . Mary ( 70 ) , Freemasons' iWem ; Temperaneo ? 19 S ' K wTS * Eclhe ? , Ulei M "J ohMte ( M ) , Anderton ' , Hotel ; AA ' esthoa . . efTos " J S House , lleatbourno Terrace . Cliaptcrs .-VitileA . Pilgrims ( 7151 , Manor House AVnl-vor I , larboroiish ( S 12 ) , George , Commercial Road Fast ; Thursday 21 st InZnZnT-Obsl'Zef thatched House . House Committee Girls School , at i . nutt .. Vmmt . UDseivanee ,

em ? ^ 'f / f ~ , ? f ' Pr 1 f t , ' ^ masons'Tavern ; Jerusalem ( 253 ) , ditto ; Fitzroy Si " . ? l & S 7 W ; IIigU 0 ™ ° ' Eaito 5 ' * A Northnmlc ? Saturday , 23 rtf . —Lodge , Unity ( 215 ) , London Tavern . Xond'iy 25 « 7 i -Lodges , Somerset House and Inverness ( 4 ) , Freemasons' Tavern- Ciifle Tn , L . »«¦ " » " )¦ 3 D . Thatched House ; Old Kind ' s Arms ( 30 ) Freen ason " ' w' Pvtbl ™ f ( S 3 ) , Globe Tavern , Greenwich ; Sali » burv ( 0311 ) , German Club DeanStreet % „ , ? n ( . 23 ) , Bridge House Hotel , ^ , Wf . lr , londay , 2 s ! l , 3 Zn ? cX ^ aipS"Se ! 0 P 1 ' 11 r , K , «;« ., 2 GWi .--I , odges , Tuscan ( 11 ) , Freemasons' Tavern ; United of Prudence ( 93 ) Album iavcrn ; Mom . ( 100 ) , London Tavern ; Faiih ( 165 ) , Anderton ' s Hotel ; Prude tBrethren ( 1 Ml reemasons' Tara-n ; Industry ( 210 ) , Dick ' s Coffee House ; Princo of > YaleffMlTh , ehc i House Tavern . f , % i < m .-Hojiil York ( 7 ) , Freemasons' Tavrn '' ¦ Ltalclurt

Wednesday , 2 , 7 th . —BRAND FESTIVAL . Thursday , 28 tt .-Lodge 8 , Neptune ( 22 ) , Iiadloy . ' s Hotel ; Grenadiers ( 70 ) , Freemasons' Tavern tSIS ^ H= , sr ^ swiaifs-SS Friday , 29 / 4 . —House Committee Boys School . [ The appointments of Lod ges of Instruction appear in the last number of each month . ] EXOCH LODGE ( SO 11 )—This Lod held its meeting at the

. ge Freemasons' Tavern on AWsoay evening tho 13 th inst ., when there ivas a good attendance ' of the mhren . Sro . James Pa , n , A \ ai ., iuitiated Mr . George Gilbert Gustavus Heard uito the mysteries of the Craft . The ceremony being concluded , Bro . Gari-ir i . G . pursuant to a notice placed upon the papers of the Lodge , moved " That the sanction of the Enoch Lodge be given to a Lod ge of Instruction , to meet at e iieAvton Hotel , ht Jlartin-sti-eet , Leicester-square . " He mentioned that the basis lould-be Jut ot the Emulationand that during- of the ceremonies

, auy part , should a newl y made brother wish for any explanation , an opportunity ivould be g ven for iu Ihe motion having been seconded , was put aud carried unanimously . Bro Gariard then moved a resolution for reducing the amount paid for the dinner In placing this matter before the AOI . and brethren , Bro . Garrard said " Tuke this opportunity oi stating that I ivish all misconceptions to he done ^ ivith as . egarcls my intention m bringing this matter before the brethren . I brin « - it forward that a saving may be effected , and that saving be devoted to the purposes of Uiariiy towards the renovation of

, or the furniture of the Lodge . I coupler tint . no charge too often made b y the outward world , that eating and driuldi ^ h Auasonry , and that that alone constitutes its essence , is , alas , too true with many Uiat the mgh and hol y , as distinguished from tho creature comforts of life is ' to a groat extent negatived and almost forgotten . I am no enemy to the social board but 1 consider that it should be subordinate and not all-iniportaut-indeed the soci-d board was often of the very greatest consequence , as it tended to make us acquainted ivitli ^ brethren ; but by reducing the expenditure , a great accession to the fuud might be obfeimed f ior the charities connected with tho Lod go itself , Avhich the case read by Bro . . ALittheivs , the Secretary , ivould aptly illustrate . It ivas evident