Lodge Meetings Next Week.

LODGE MEETINGS NEXT WEEK .

Monday . 1632 Stuart , Camberwell 491 Royal Sussex , Jersey 557 Loyal Victoria , Callington 1177 Tenby , Tenby 1325 Stanley , Liverpool 1752

Ogmore , Bridgend 1753 Obedience , Okehampton 1991 Agricola , York 2068 Portsmouth Temperance , L'dp ' t . 2279 Thornham , Thornham 2547 Llangattock , Cardiff 2553 Rufford , Nottingham 2582 Lewisham , Smethwick

Tuesday . 253 Tyrian , Derby 366 St . David , Milford 788 Crescent , Hampton Court 814 Parrett and Axe , Crewkern 954 St . Aubyn , Devonport 990 Nevland . Nevland

1007 Howe & Charnwood , Loughboro 1016 Elkington , Birmingham 1052 Callander , Manchester 1359 Torbay , Paignton 1390 WMtwell , Millon 1536 United Military , Plumstead

1580 Cranbourne , Hatfield 1650 Rose of Raby , Staindrop 1675 Ancient Briton , Liverpool 1779 Ivanhoe , Sheffield 1834 Duke of Connaught , Landport 1942 Minerva , Fenton 2025 St . George , Plymouth

Wednesday . 753 Prince Fred . Will ' m ., Frascati 754 High Cross , Tottenham 1360 Royal Arthur , Wimbledon 86 Loyalty , Prescot 258 Amphibious , Htokmondwike

304 Philanthropic , Leeds 320 Loyalty , Mottrara 368 Samaritan , Sandbach 380 Integrity , Morley 439 Scieutifio , Bingley 461 Fortitude , Newton

580 Harmony , Ormskirk 697 United , Colchester 910 St . Oswald , Pontefract 1119 St . Bede , Jarrow 1283 Ryburo , Sowerby Bridge

Lodge Meetings Next Week.

1343 Saint John , Grays 1576 Dee , Park-gate , Cheshire 1733 Sunbury , Sunbury 1775 Leopold , Church 1783 Albert Edward , Huddersfield 1989 Stirling , Cleator Moor 2064 Smith Child , Tunstall

2355 Chantrey , Dore Thursday . General Committee Girls School , Freemasons' Hall , at 5 . 1421 Langthome , Ilford 2319 Scots , Crane Court , Fleet Street

39 St . John Baptist , Exeter 116 Royal Lancashire , C « lne 208 Three Gd . Principles , Dewsbury 214 Hope and Unity , Brentwood 275 Harmony , Huddersfield 283 Amity , Haslingden 318 True and Faithful , Helston

33 / Candour , Uppermill 403 Hertford , Hertford 475 Bed . St . John Bap ., Luton 590 La Cesaree , Jersey 630 St . Outhberfc , Howden o 36 De Ogle , Morpeth 710 Pleiades , Totnes

772 Pilgrim , Glastonbury 807 Cabbell , Norwich 904 Phoenix , Rotherham 1032 Townley Parker , Chorley 1151 St . Andrew , Tywardreath 1164 Eliot , St . Germans 1166 Clarendon , Hyde 1235 Phoenix St . Ann , Buxton

1578 Merlin , Pontypridd 2091 Castleberg , Settle Friday . 426 Shakespeare , Spilsby 516 Phcenix . Stowmarket

566 St . Germain , Selby 712 Lindsey , Louth 810 Craven , Skipton 1224 Stour Valley , Sudbury Saturday .

149 Peace , Meltham 308 Prince George , Eastwood 336 Benevolence , Marple 444 Union , Starcross 453 Chigwell , Chingford

Great Western Railway.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY .

THE Great Western Railway Company issue ordinary as well as excursion tickets at their principal City and West-end Offices , and this arrangement is probably never so much appreciated as during the week preceding the Bank Holiday , when large numbers of people avail themselves of the opportunity thus afforded for obtaining tickets at their own time , and without the crowding and worry inseparable irom a large railway station at holiday seasons . The fares charged are the same as at Paddington . The

following are the offices at which tickets are issued , viz .: —193 and 407 Oxford Street ; 181 Tottenham Court Road , W . ; 23 New Oxford Street ; Gloucester Mansions , Cambridge Circus , Shaftesbury Avenue , W . C ; The Piazza , Covent Garden ; 269 Strand ; 26 Regent Street , S . W .: 29 Charing Cross ; 17 Brompton Road ; 4 Holborn Circus ; Nag ' s Head Yard , 137 Street

Borough High , S . E . ; 118 Minories , E . ; 5 Arthur Street East , London Bridge E . C . ; 82 Queen Victoria Street ; 67 Gresham Street ; 4 Cheapside ; and at the L . B . and S . C . Company ' s Excursion Office ( under Grand Hotel ) , Trafalgar Square . Tickets can also be obtained at Victoria ( L . C . and D . Railway ) , Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Uxbridge Road , Hammersmith , and other stations .

The booking offices at Paddington Station will be open for the issue of tickets all day on Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , and Saturday , 27 th , 28 th , 29 th , and 30 th July , and the tickets issued ( except those for specified excursion trains ) will be available for use on any of those ' days . To meet the expected additional traffic b y the ordinary trains on Saturday , 30 th July ,, the Company will run in'duplicate the 11 . 45 a . m . and 3 . 0 , 6 . 0 , and 9 . 0 p . m . trains to the West of Encland . t . ho . 4 . 45 and fi so r , ™ to

trains to the North , and the 12 . 0 ^ noon train South Wales . The first portion of the 11 . 45 a . m ., 3 . 0 and 9 . 0 p . m . trains will leave Paddington at 11 . 38 a . m ., 2 . 55 p . m ., and 8 . 55 p . m . respectively , but the first portion of the other trams will leave at tho advertised times , and the second a few minutes afterwards , the long distance passengers being as far as possible taken in the first portion , but with a few exceptions both trains will stop at the advertised stations to take up and set down passengers .

Fast excursion trains leave Paddington every Wednesday for Swindon , Stroud , Gloucester , Cheltenham , Hereford , Weston-Super-Mare , Taunton , Minehead , Shrewsbury , Hereford , Aberystwyth , Dolgelley , Barmouth , Llandudno , & c . ; and at midnight every Wednesday for Cardiff , Swansea , Tenby , New MUford , Chester , Birkenbead , Liverpool , & c . ; every Thursday for Newbury , Marlborough , Devizes , & c . ; every Thursday , Friday night , and for Exeter

Saturday , , Dawlish , Teignmouth , Plymouth , Falmouth , Penzance , and other resorts in the West of England ; every Thursday and Saturday for Minehead , Lynton , Lynmouth , Ilfracombe , Torquay , & e . ; every Friday for Bath , Bristol , Yeovil , Weymouth , Portland , & c . ; every Friday night for Weston-Super-Mare ; every Friday midnight and Saturday , for Douglas ( Isle of Man ) . Passengers are also booked every Saturday to Guernsey and Jersey , via Weymouth and the shoit sea passage to the Islands by tbe trains leaving

Great Western Railway.

Paddington at 8 . 50 a . m . and 9 . 45 p . m . Third Class Return Tickets available for a fortnight or less , are issued at a fare of 24 / 6 . There is now a daily Daylight Service from Weymouth to Guernsey and Jersey in addition to the night boats . On Wednesday , 27 th July , an exoursion will run to Cheltenham , Worcester , Malvern , & c . ; on Thursday , 28 th July , to Cork and Killarney ; on Friday , 29 th July , to Stratford-on-Avon , Crewe , Manchester , Waterford , Killarney , Belfast , Giant ' s Causeway , & c . ; and at midnight to Cardiff ,

Swansea , Tenby , New Milfurd , Oxford , Birmingham , Wolverhampton , Hereford , Chester , Birkenhead , Liverpool , & c . ; on Sunday , 31 st July , to Gloucester , Cheltenham , Weston-Super-Mare , Exeter , Dawlish , Teignmouth , Torquay , Plymouth , & c . ; and at midnight to Oxford , Loamington , Birmingham , Wolverhampton , & c . On the Bank Holiday excursions will run to Reading , Goring , Swindon , Bath , Bristol , Gloucester , Cheltenham , & o . Excursions will be run to London from most of the principal stations , and cross country trips have also been arranged .

Cheap tickets are issued daily from London and many suburban stations to Staines , Windsor , Taplow , Maidenhead , Burnham Beeches , Henley , Goring , Wallingford , and other riverside resorts . These tickets can be obtained during the whole of the summer months . The train service to and from the rivorside stations has also been considerably improved .

MIDLAND RAILWAY . ON Bank Holiday , 1 st August , and on the previous Saturday , certaiu booked trains will be discontinued , of which due notice will be given by special bills at the Stations . For the convenience of the public the Midland Railway Company have arranged that the Booking Offices at St . Pancras and Moorgate Street Stations

shall be open for the issue of Tickets all day on Friday and Saturday , 29 th and 30 th July . Tickets to ail principal Stations on the Midland Railway will also be obtainable beforehand at their City and Suburban Offices throughout London , the tickets obtained at these Offices being available from St . Pancras Station , issued at tho same fares as charged at that Station , and dated to suit the convenience of passengers .

Cheap excursion trains will be run from London on Friday night , 29 th inst ., to Stirling , Perth , Aberdeen , Inverness , & c , for four or ten days ; and to Edinburgh , Glasgow , Dumfries , Castle Douglas , Ayr , & c , for four or ten days ; by which trains third class return tickets will be issued at a single fare for the double journey , available for sixteen days . Cheap excursion tickets will be issued from London ( St . Pancras ) to Dublin , Belfast , Londonderry , & c .,. and excursion tour tickets to the North of Ireland on Friday , July

29 th . ( See Bills for times , fares , routes , & c ); Friday midnight , 29 th , . a cheap excursion train will be run to Birmingham , Walsall , Wolverhampton , & c , for three and seven days . ^ and on Saturday , 30 th , to Leicester , Nottingham , Melton , Burton , Derby , Manchester , Liverpool , Blackburn , Bolton , Preston , Wigan , Blackpool , Rochdale , Oldham , Bury , the Furness District , Sheffield , Leeds , Bradford , Barnsley , Keighley , York , Hull ,

Scarboro ' , Darlington , Durham , Newcastle , Carlisle , & c , & c , for three or six days . On Monday , 1 st August , day trips will be run from London ( St . Pancras ) to Southend-on-Sea , St . Albans , Harpenden , Luton , Bedford , Kettering and Leicester ; a one or four days trip to Birmingham , and a two days excursion to Manchester . Tickets for these trains for starting from St . Pancras Station can be obtained on the two days previous to the running of the Trains , at the outside Offices .

Cheap season excursion tickets are now issued each Wednesday , until 21 st Sept ., from London ( St . Pancras ) to Matlock , Buxton , Liverpool , Southport , Blackpool , Lytham , St . Anne ' s-on-Sea , Scarboro " , Bridlington , Whitby , Morecambe , Lancaster , the English Lake District , & c , available for passengers to return in either six , nine , thirteen , or sixteen days , and to the

Isle of Man on Wednesday nights and Thursday mornings for five , eight , twelve , or fifteen days . Fortnightly excursions to Northallerton , Richmond , Darlington , Durham , Newcastle , and Berwick will be run on alternate Fridays , from 29 th July to 23 rd September inclusive , leaving St . Pancras at 8 ' 30 p . m ., and affording facilities for four , ten , or sixteen day stays .

Cheap Week-End Tickets are issued every Friday and Saturday from London ( St . Pancras ) and other principal Midland Stations to the chief holiday and pleasure resorts , including the " Peak " District of Derbyshire , Yorkshire , tbe North East Coast , Morecambe , Dumfries , Ayr , Kilmarnock , ' Glasgow , Greenock , Melrose , Edinburgh , Perth , Dundee , Aberdeen , & c , & c . The tickets are available for return on the following Sunday ( where train service permits ) , Monday or Tuesday , and those issued on 29 th and 30 th July will be available for return up to Wednesday , 3 rd August .

A cheap excursion train will be run to London on Friday , 29 th , from Birmingham , Walsall , Wolverhampton , & c , for four , five or eight days ; on Saturday , 30 th , from Carlisle , Keighley , Bradford , Leeds , Barnsley , Sheffield , Liverpool , Manchester , Blackburn , Bolton , Burnley , Bury , Rochdale , Burton , Derby , Lincoln , Nottingham , Leicester , & c , for six days ; and from Liverpool , Southport , Warrington , & c , for three days . Passengers will be booked by the six days' excursion trains at cheap fares to Brighton and other South Coast

Stations , for five , eight , ten or 15 days ; and to Paris and other places on the Continent , having the privilege of returning within sixteen days . On 1 st August , cheap day excursion trains to London will be run from Derby , Nottingham , Leicester , Bedford , Luton , St . Albans , & c , a two and four days trip from Bradford , Leeds , Barnsley , Sheffield , Chesterfield , Blackburn , Bolton , Bury , Manchester , Stockport , and a one , two and five days trip from Birmingham , Walsall , Wolverhampton , & c .

Cheap daily and week-end excursion tickets are issued from St . Pancras and other Midland Stations to Southend-on-Sea , by the now and shorter route via the Tottenham and Forest Gate Line . The Midland Company ' s extended arrangements for the conveyance in advance of passengers' luggage will , no doubt , be much appreciated during the next few weeks . Holders of tourist and week-end tickets by the Midland

route may have their personal luggage collected from any given address in London , Liverpool , Manchester , Bradford , Leeds , Sheffield , Nottingham , Birmingham , Bristol , Leicester , and other towns , forwarded in advance of the owner's journey , and delivered to any residence , hotel , & c , in something over 120 places of tourist resort in England , Wales , and the Glasgow and South Western District of Scotland , a list of which will be found in the special leaflets issued by the Company .

For holiday companions , travellers cannot do better than secure copies of the new publications which have just been issued b y the Midland Railway Company , including " Choose Aye the Middle Course , " an illustrated account of the most interesting route to Scotland ; " Pocket Guide to the Midland Railway " ; " Pocket Diary and Guide to the Isle of Man and English Lake District" ; " Illustrated Guide and List of Furnished Lodgings in Farmhouses , Country Villages , & c . " ; " The Peak of Derbyshire " ; " Scotch Tourists ' Programme , " & c . The Books may be obtained at any Midland Station or Agency .