Colour In Churches.

COLOUR IN CHURCHES .

At the meeting of the "Hereford Diocesan Church Building Society " a few days ago , the Rev . II . T . Hill , in the course of of an excellent speech , made the following remarks upon the introduction of colour into churches : " I cannot understand why that which abounds everywhere and adds a beauty to everything , is to be banished from our

sanctuaries . Look where you will , colour in a thousand forms meets and g laddens you . Colour is not only a result of art , it is much more , it is a law of nature . We see it in the brown and yellow of our autumn woods ; we see it in the butter cup , the pimpernal , and the blue-bell ; we see it in all the green tilings upon the earth , in every grand old ruin , iu the purpleheaded motntaiii , in the rainbow , that' Bridge of colours seven .

Builded in the heaven Opposite the sun . ' And we see it in the red ami golden glory of tbe west ; than why in our churches is is the eye only to rest on white plaster or naked stone ? The more we learn properly to distinguish between religion and superstition , between use and abuse , the more we shall adopt and approve a coloured architecture ; and thic we

shall inevitably be disposed to do as the cultivation and love of high art advances , whether we do it by means of frescoes , or more simple patterns of diaper ; or , as already in many instances , by various-coloured marbles and bricks , with the aid of the beautiful encaustic tiles which to his own great credit and the profit of the whole county of Hereford , Mr . Godwin now ' manufactures in such perfection at Lngwardine—Birmingham Daily Gazette .

List Of Lodge Meetings, &C., For Week Ending 1st October.

LIST OF LODGE MEETINGS , & c ., FOR WEEK ENDING 1 st OCTOBER .

Abbreviations . —F . M . H ., Freemasons' Hall ; M . H . Masonic Hall ; M . T ., Masonic Temple ; Tav ., Tavern ; Ho , Hotel ; Ro ., Rooms ; L ., Loclge ; St ., Street ; Sq ., Square .

METROPOLITAN LODGES AND CHAPTERS . Monday , September 26 th . Pythogorean , Ship Tav ., Royal Hill , Greenwich ; British Oak , Bank of Friendship Tav ., Bancroft Place , Milo End , E . ; Burgoyne Loclge , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street . Tuesday , September 27 tli .

Audit Com . Girls' School , at 3 . 30 . LODGES . —Faith , Anderton's Hotal , Flkct Street ; Industry , Freemason's Hall ; Southern Star , Montpeliei- Tavern , Walworth . Wednesday , September 2 Si ' h . LODGES . —United Pilgrims , Horns Tav ., Kennington Park ; Prince Frederick William , Knights of St . John ' s Hotel , St . Hih

John ' s Wood ; gCross , White Hart Hotel , Tottenham ; Temperance in the East , Private Assembl y Rooms ; Lily Chapter of Richmond , Greyhound , Richmond , Surrey . Thursday , Sepiemebr 2 § th . Gen . Com . Girls' School at Freemasons' Hall , at 4 ; Saturday , Oct . 1 st ., Gen . Com . Boys' School , at P . M . Hall , at 4 .

Metropolitan Lodges And Chapter Of Instruction.

METROPOLITAN LODGES AND CHAPTER OF INSTRUCTION .

Monday , September 2 Qth . ' emple . Old George , St . Mary Axe , E . G . ; Jus : ice , Royal Albert , New C'ro .-s-rd ., Deptford ; St . James ' s Union , Swan Tav ., Mount-st ., Grosvenor-sq . ; Industry , Dick ' s Coffee House , Fleet-st . ; Crystal Palace , City Arms Tav ., Wost-sq ., Southwark ; High Cross , White Hart Ho ., Tottenham ; Eastern Star , Royal Ho ., Burdett-rd ., Milc-cnd-rd . ; Camden , Adelaide Tav ., liaverstock Hill ; British Oak , Bank of Friendship Tav ., Mile End .

Metropolitan Lodges And Chapter Of Instruction.

Tuesday , September 21 ih . Faith , Fisher ' s Restaurant , Metrop , Dist . Rail ,. Victoria Station ; Domatic , Palmerston Arms , Grosvcuor-park , Cambervvell ; Jordan , Alwyne Castle , Cononbury ; Yarborough , Green Dragon , Stepney ; Prince Frederick William , Kntghts of St . John ' s , Tav ., St . John ' s-wood ; Dalhousie , Royal Edward , TriangleHackney ; Royal AlbertWhite

HartAbchurch-, , , lano ; Pythagorean , Prince of Orange , Greenwich ; City of London , Shepherd and Flock Tav ., Bell-alley , Morgatestroet ; New Wandsworth , Freemasons' Hotel , New Wandsworth . CHAPTER . —Metropolitan , Price ' s Portugal Hotel , Fleet-st . ; Royal Union , Dubby ' s Hotel , Winslow-street , Oxford-street ; Robert Burns , Sussex Stores , Upper St . Martin's-lane .

Wednesday , September 28 tli . Confidence , Railway Tav ., London-street ; United Strength , Bull and Gate , Kentish Town ; Now Concord , Rosemary Branch Tav ., Hoxton ; Si . Mark ' s , Mawby Arms , Mawby-st ., S . Lambeth ; Peckham , Maismovo Arms , Park-road , Peckham Rye ; Tempcronce in the East , George tho Fourth , Catherinestreet , Poplar ; Prosperity , Gladstone Tav ., Bishopgate-st . CHAPTER OF INSTRUCTION . —St . Jamet's Union , Swan Tav ., Mount-street , Gi-osvenor-squarc .

Thursday , September 2 dth . Fidelity , Goat and Compasses , Euston-road ; Kent , Duko of York , Borough-rd ., Southwark ; United Mariners , Three Cranes , Miie-cud-rd . ; Vitruvian , White Hart , College-st ., Lambeth : St . George ' s , Globe Tav ., Royal Hill , Greenwich ; Manchester , Berkeley Arms , Johu-st ., Berkeley-square ; Tranquillity , Sugar Loaf Tav ., Groat St . Helen ' s , E . G .:

Whittington , Crown Hotel , 41 , High ; . Holborn ; Royal Oakj Royal Oak Tav ., Deptford ; Burdett Coutts , Approach Tav ., Victoria-park , at 7 . CIIAPTEK or INSTRUCTION . —Joppa , Prospect of Whitby Tav ., 57 , iVapping-wall .

. Friday September 30 th . St . Luke ' s , Pier Hotel , Cheyue-walk , Chelsea ; Temperance , Victoria Tav ., Vibtoria-road , Deptford ; Unions ( Emulation Lodge of Improvement for M . M . ) , F . M . H . ; United Pilgrims , Horns' Tav ., Kennington ; Westbonvnc , the Grapes , Dukestreet , Manchester-square ; Wellington , Lord Duncan , Tav ., Broadway , Deptford ; Florence Nightingale , Freemasons '

Tav ., Woolwich ; Ranolagh , Windsor Castle Hotel , Kingstreet , Hammersmith ; Bclgraue , Duko of Wellington , Springgavdens , Charing-cross ; St . James ' s Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-row , Bermondsey ; Doric , Three Cranes , Mile Endroad ; Victoria , Andertons' Hotel , Fleet-street ; Hervey , Britannia , Waltham-grecn ; Metropolitan , Price ' s Portugal Aotel , Flcot-streot . CHAPTEB OP INSTRUCTION ' . —Domatic , Fisher ' s Restaurant , Victoria Station . Saturday , October 1 st . CHAPTER . —Mount . Siuia , Union Tav ., Air-street , Regont-st . ; Domatic , Horns ' , Kennington .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

D . C . L . —Thank you very much . Accepted . It . —The Grand Registrar did not express any view as to the legality or otherwise of tho pioposed grant , although he was asked twice to stato his legal opinion upon tho subject , as Grand Registrar . Q , E . D ., . 1 . R ., P . M ., AN » OTHERS . — The precedent to which

you refer may . and most probably will at no distant date , be made uso of first . Second . See reply to R . As to the right of members to object to the confirmation of minutes for accuracy there can bo no doubt : but as to the attempt to revise a deliberate decision of Grand Lodge in tho manner referred to is most irregular , ancl ought not to have been permitted . A MEMBER OF THE CRAFT , DOVER . —Your letter of tho 15 th

of August did not comply with our requirements , viz ., your name ancl address . There is no doubt about the subject , and its merits , & c , and unfortunately it cannot be brought before tho committee .