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'' - ' " ' " - ' APPOINTMENTS . ' IVcdnesdmi , Fchnmn 23 r < 7 .-Lodges , Antiquity ( 2 ) , Freemasons' Tavern ; Mount Moriah ( -10 ) , ditto ; l'rosp ' erily 78 ) , AVhite Hart , Bishopsgate Street ; United Pilgrims ( 7-15 ) , Manor House , Walworth ; Princo Roderick William ( 1055 ) , Knight of St . John , St . John ' s AVooil . Chapter . — Union ol Waterloo ( W ) , Woolwich . Tlmrsdau , 21 M .-Lodgcs , Neptune ( 22 ) , Eadley ' s Hotel ; Grenadiers ( 79 ) , Freemasons ' Girls Schoolat 12

Tavern ; Shakspeare ( ll ( i ) , Albion Tavern . General Committee of , . Friday , 25 tt . —Lodges , Universal ( 212 ) , Freemasons' Tavern ; Joppa ( 233 ) , Albion Tnvorn ; Fitzroy ( 830 ) , Head Quarters Eoyal Artillery Company ; High Cross ( 105 G ) , Railway Hotel . Northumberland Pav !; , Tottenham ; Eoyal Alfred ( 10 S 2 ) , Rising Sun , Stamford Bridge , Fulham . Chapter . —Friendship ( 0 ) , Thatched House Tavern . House Committee lioys School , at 3 . Saturday , 2 Stli . —Lodge , Unity ( 215 ) , London Tavern . Monday , SSii . —Lodges , Somerset House and Inverness ( Fo . 4 ) . Freem « sons' Tavern ; Castle Lodof ( 27 ) Thatched HouseOld King ' s Arms ( 30 ) Freemasons'

TavernPythage Harmony , ; , ; gorean ( 93 ) , Globe Tavern , Greenwich ; Salisbury ( C 30 ) , German Club , Dean Street , Soho . Chapter . —Joppa ( 223 ) , Bridge House Hotel . Tuesday , March 1 st . —Lodges , Albion ( 9 ) , Freemasons' Tavern ; Old Dundee ( 18 ) , London Tavern ; Temple ( 118 ) , Ship and Turtle ; Old Concord ( 201 ) , Freemasons' Tavern ; Euphrates ( 257 ) , White Hart , Bishopsgate Street ; Stability ( 26-1 ) , Green Dragon , ditto ; La Tolerance ( 784 ) , Freemasons' Tavern . Chapter . —St John ' s ( 190 ) , Eadley ' s Hotel .

Wednesday , 2 nd—Graud Lode , e , at 7 , lor S . Lodge , Westminster and Keystone ( 10 ) , Freemasons' Tavern ; Florence Nightingale ( 1008 ) , Freemasons' Tavern , AVoolwich . Tlmrsdau , 3 rd . —Lodges , Egyptian ( 29 ) , George and Blue Boar ; Strong Man ( 53 ) , Falcon Tavern : Good Report ( 15 S ) , Eadley's Hotel ; Lion and Lamb ( 227 ) , Bridge House Hotel ; St . Andrew ' s ( 281 ) , Freemasons' Tavern ; Yarborough ( 812 ) , George , Commercial Eoad East ; Crystal Palace ( 1014 ) , Crystal Palace . Chapter . —St . James ( No . 2 ) , Freemasons' Tavern . Fiiday , ilh , —Chapters , Fidelity ( 3 ) , London Tavern ; British ( 8 ) , Freemasons' Tavern . Saturday , 6 ( 7 ; . —Lodge , London ( 125 ) , Freemasons' Tavern . Committee Boys School , at 4 .

[ The appointments of Lodges of Instruction will appear in the last number of each month . ] ST . ALBAM ' ( No . 82 ) . —On Monday , tho 14 th , the monthly meeting was held at the London Coffee-house , Bro . S . E . Nutt , P . M ., officiating as AV . M ., Bro . Spencer Herapath as S . AV ., and Bro . Hyde Clarke , P . M ., as J . AV . Two Brothers were raised . The propositions of the Board of General Purposes were brought forward , and their further consideration will be resumed at the next meeting . Bro . J . AV . Cole , a P . M ., was invested as Director of the Ceremonies , a Brother of great zeal

and attainments , and well known in Masonic literature . At the banquet , Bro . Boards , AV . M ., iu the chair , thanks were returned for tho Grancl Officers by Bro . the Eev . J . E . Cox , P . G . Chaplain , who complimented this ancient Lodgo on the admirable and impressive working he had witnessed .

GALEDOMAN LODGE ( NO . 156 ) . —The installation meeting of this Loclge was held on Friday , Feb . 11 th , at Bro . Painter ' s , Ship and Turtle , Leadenhall Street , Bro . P . M . Downes presiding , in consequence of the lamented death of the late excellent master , Bro . Kennett . The Lodge was opened at a quarter to five , when Bro . P . M . and Sec . Downe presented Bro . John Grant , AV . M . elect , for installation , the ceremony being impressively and ably performed by the presiding AV . M ., in the presence of several P . Ms , of the Loclge , and Bros . P . M . Biggs , Prov . G . D . C , Ayilts ; Liddellof Doncaster ; Terry , of Sincerity ; Hughesof Liverpool & e .

, , , The Master appointed and invested as his officers , the following Brethren : —Bros . Collinge , S . AV . ; James Taylor , J . AA . ; AV . II . Holsey , S . D . ; AV . Hutchinson , J . D . ; Burnham , I . G . ; Pereira , Dir . of Cers . ; Downo , Sec . Bro . Taylor was also invested as Treasurer , aud Bro . Dawes , as Tyler . A beau tiful gold P . M . jewel ( subscribed for by the Brethren ) was then presented to Bro . Pereira , P . M ., by Bro . Downe , in a remarkably neat and appropriate speech , as a token of their fraternal affection and appreciation of