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Masonic Mems.

MASONIC MEMS .

The Eoyal Standard Lodge of Instruction ( So . 1298 , ) meets every Friday evening at 8 pm ., at the Marquess Tavern , Canon-• hury . Bro . AVigginton , P . M ., 902 , W . M . 1298 , President ; Bro . B . Lee , Preceptor . The first annual ball of the Constitutional Lodge , No . 55 , -will be held on Tuesday , 31 st inst ., at the City Terminus Hotel ,

-Cannon-street , City . Gentlemen's tickets , 12 s . 6 d . ; Ladies' , 10 s . 6 d ., including supper and refreshment during the eveui g ( wines excepted ) . Tickets can bo obtained of Bro . 11 . B . Atkins , W . M ., 55 , P . M ., S 29 , and 1107 , P . Prov . G ., Reg . ( Kent ) , at 10 , St . Mary Axe . The Annual Festival of the Eoyal Masonic Institution for

Aged Freemasons and their Widows is now fixed for Friday , 3 rd February next , at the Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen Street .

Craft Masonry.

Craft Masonry .

ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . METROPOLITAN .

GEAND MASTEB ' LODGE ( NO . 1 ) . —The January meeting of this Lodge was held on tbe 16 th inst ., at the F . M . H . The AV . M ., E . K . Bayley , installed Br . AV . S . Cover as his successor in the chair . Bro . AV . Tvego was appointed aud invested S . AV .. Br . W . H . Wilkin , J . W . ; Bros . AV . A . Collis , S . D . ; G . Payne , J . D . ; G . N . Johnson , I . C . ; Eichard Herve Giraud , Treasurer ; and E . H . Patten , Secretary . The candidates for initiation and raising were not present . A handsome silver tea service , ofthe value of twenty-five guineas , was presented at this meeting by tbe brethren to Bro . E . H . Patten ( Secretary of the Girls

School ) , for his valuable exertions as Secretary to this Lodge during the last ten years . The following gratifying sentence was inscribed on the testimonial : —" Grand Master ' s Lodge ( No . 1 ) . —Presented to Bro . Edward Henry Patten , P . G . S . B ., in recognition of his valuable services as Acting Secretary in the Lodge during the past ten years , and for the courteous and kindly feelings which have endeared him to every member . 16 th January , 1871 . " Tho meeting was well attended , there being some fifty brethren present , among whom were Bros . John Hervey , G . S . ; John Savage , P . G . D . ; Joseph Smith , P . G . P . ; and Colonel Hogg , Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works .

UNITED MAEINEES LODGE ( NO . 30 ) . —The installation meeting of this lodge was held on Tuesday , the 17 th inst ., at the Guildhall Coffee-house . In the unavoidable absence of Bro . Harling , Bro . Driseoll , P . M ., took the chair , and after the transection of the routine business initiated into the mysteries and privileges of the Order Mr . Thompson , Bro . Gladwell was then passed to the second degree . The next business was tho election of a AV . M . for the ensuing year , and the choice of the brethren

having by unanimous vote fallen upon Bro . Robert Sbackell , S . W ., and P . Prov . G . Officer of Hampshire , he was presented , and received at the hands of Bro . Driseoll the benefits and privileges attaching to tbe chair of K . S . The after addresses he delivered with great precision , and at the conclusion was greeted with much applause . The newly-installed W . M . then , invested his officers as follows : —Bros . G . J . Smith , S . W . ; W . F . OsborneJ . W . ; Jesse TurnerP . M . Treas . ; E . E . BarnesP . M .

, , , , , Hon . Sec . ; VV . Ansell , S . D . ; H . Bethell , J . D . ; Rifeaux , Org . ; E . J . Brown , D . C ; Deeley , I . G . ; W . J . Casely , Assist . Dir . of Cers . ; J . Driseoll , P . M ., Steward ; Thomas Smith , Assistant Steward ; W . Grant , Tyler . It was stated that by vote of the lodge tho sum of five guineas had been paid to Bro . Binckes , the Secretary of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , in the name ot Bro . Harling for a life subscription , in lieu of a jewel . The W . M . stated that this vote had been come to as a mark of

respect to Bro . Harling for the way in which he had passed through his year of office . After the claims of a worthy old Mason attached to this lodge had been spoken of , the lodge was closed , and the brethren adjourned to an excellent dinner , superintended by Bvo . Crawford , the manager , and which gave the most unqualified satisfaction .

ST . GEOEGE ' S LODGE ( NO . 140 . )—The installation meeting of this Lodge was held on AVednesday , tbe 18 th inst ., at the Trafalgar Hotel , Greenwich , Bros . C . Hudson , W . M ., in the chair , and present E . Johnson , S . W . ; Webster , J . W . ; Laurence , S . D . ; Turner , S . D .-, E . Shalles , I . G . ; W . Moak , P . M . Treas . ; A . S . Tattershall , P . M . Sec . Bros . Eddington , P . M . ; Huhbuck , P . M . ; Pook , P . M ., and many other brethren ; The visitors were Bro . C . K . Killick , P . M ., 781 ; E . T . Read , P . M ., 781 ;

Boncey , P . M ., 79 ; and Griffin , I . AV ., 933 . The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed , a ballot was aken for and proved unanimous in favour of Bro . Stuart of Lodge Gibraltar , ( under the Irish constitution ) , as a joining member . The Lodge was tbe nopened in the 2 nd degree , and Bro . Blacl-intu- being a candidate for the third was entrusted and withdrew . Tbe Lodge being opened in the third degree , Bro . Blackmur was raised to the sublime degree of Master

Mason . The ceremony being rendered very creditably by the W . M . Bro . Hudson . The lodge was then resumed to the second degree , and Bro . Hubbuck , P . M . assumed the chair . Bro . Noak , P . M ., presented Bro . Johnson , S . W . and AV . M . elect , to receive at his hands the benefit of installation , he having given his assent to the ancient charges and obligations the brethren retired , aud a Board of Installed

Masters was formed , and Bro . Johnson duly installed in the chair of K . S . The hrethren were re-admitted and salutnd the W . M . in due form and according to ancient custom . He then appointed and invested his officers as follows : Bros . C . Hudson , I . P . M . ; R . Webster , S . AV . ; T . Turner , J . W . ; E . Shallers , S . D . ; E . Jardine , J . D . ; Allwright , I . G . ; E . AV . Pook , P . M ., Dir . of Cers . ; Tattershall , P . M ., Sec ; Noak , P . M ., Treas . ; and Riley , Tler . Bro . HubbuckP . M . the Installing Masterthen gave the

y , , , usual charges in a very impressive manner , which elicited from the brethren present the warmest enconiums . Bro . C . W . Pook , P . M . then rose in pursuance of a motion of return , to propose that a jewel be presented to Bro . Hudson , P . M ., of the value of £ 5 5 which was seconded by Bro . Hubbock , P . M ., who took occasion to say that Bro . Hudson was in every way worthy of their