Masonic Festivities.

MASONIC FESTIVITIES .

THE TEMPLE LODGE BALL . The annual ball in connection with the Temple Lodge , No . US , which was held in aid oi the Masonic charities , took place on Mouday evening last , the 14 th instaut , at Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blaekfriars , ancl was most numerously attended . The ball room presented , on our entrance , a most pleasing and animated scene , graced by the presence of a select and elegantly dressed assemblage of ladieswhichwith the Brethren in full Masonic Craft costumehad quite a

, , , picturesque effect . A first-rate programme , aided by Bro . Taylor ' s band , an efficient M . C ., and the untiring exertions of Bro . Beard , the Honorary Secretary , and Bro . Farthing , J . AA ., ( and Treasurer of the ball committee ) , contributed to make a most delightful evening ' s entertainment . The ball room was elegantly and artistically decorated by Bro . Tatell , a member of the Loclge .

THE WEEK . THE Queen hold a court on Thursday afternoon , at Buckingham Palace . The Sheriffs , Alderman Hale ancl Mr . Cornier , had an audience , to receive her Majesty ' s commands with respect to the reception of an address from the corporation upon the birth of her grandson . Her Majesty appointed yesterday for the reception of tho

address . Her Majesty and the Prince visited the Princess ' s Theatre on Thursday . It is Her Majesty ' s intention to hold levees at St . James ' s Palace , this clay , and on the 2 nd of March , and to hold a drawing room and another levee before Easter . The French government organ , the Monitenr , announces that the conference of Paris will reassemble . The first questions that it will discuss , are the proposed modifications in the Danubian " Act of Navigation . " The conference has also to decide on the legality of the late double election of M . Alexander Couzaas Hospodar

, of Moldavia and of AVallachia . AVhetherthe state of affairs iultaly will be another subject for consideration is at present unknown . The French government are said to be preparing a list of grievances against Austria . The minister of war continues his preparations for invasion . The agglomeration of materiel at Lyons , Marseilles , and Toulon , is immense . At Lyons , the municipal authorities complain of the enormous quantity of powder in the magazines iu and about that city . The emperor will command in person the army in Italy . A letter from Paris says : — "I learn from a private

source , iu which I place confidence , that the emperor is preparing tents , horses , arms , uniforms , & c , to take the field in person . I am as convinced as it is possible to be of any proposition not mathematically demonstrated , that his bosom burns with ambition to command an army in actual warfare . " A paper has appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes , ou naval steam warfare . It has attracted some attention , from the supposition that it was written by the Prince de Joinville . Several foreign journals were seized on Friday and Saturday , at the Paris post office , the supposed

reason being the publication of M . Delangle ' s circular to the prefects . The effects of the war movement are manifest in the depressed state of trade , the numerous failures among the commercial body , and tho agitation of the Bourse . In spite of all this , however , preparations for war are actively going on .- ¦ A Vienna correspondent writes , that Austria will send representatives to the Paris Conference , provided England and Prussia guarantee that the Italian question shall not be mooted . Count Buol has addressed a circular despatch to the German courts , with a view to sound their intentions , if not to demand their concurrence , in the event of the Italian question ending hi a conflict . It is said that Prussia has