The Masonic Mirror.

THE MASONIC MIRROR .

MASONIC MEMS . A new lodge , the Victoria Rifles ( No . 1 , 124 ) was consecrated at the Queen ' s Arms , Kilburn Gate , on Thursday next , when the ceremony was performed by Bro . S . B . Wilson , P . G . D . Bro . W . L . Collins was installed as the first master , ancl Bro . Burton , P . M ., of No . 9 and 292 , invested as Secretary .

We hear that a warrant is about to be applied for , for a new loclge uiiider the title of the South Western to be held in the Railway Mechanics' Institution , Nine Elms . Application is also to be made for a warrant to hold a new lodge at Stony Stratford , Warwickshire . A new lodge , entitled the Ranelagh , is to he consecrated at the

Windsor Castle , Hammersmith , on the 13 th inst . Bro . Purbroke , PAL of the Crystal Palace Loclge , will be the first Master . The Freemasons' Calendar anil Directory for Ireland , for the year 1 SG 1 , is announced for publication on or before St . John ' s day . December 27 th .

Metropolitan.

METROPOLITAN .

LODGE or INDUSTRY ( No . 219 ) . —The second meeting for the season of this large ancl influential lodge was held on the 23 rd of October , at Bro . Queleh ' s ( Dick ' s Coffee House ) , Fleet-street , Temple-bar . Wo are happy to perceive that this lodge sustains the career of usefulness and prosperity which it has for some years achieved . ' There were four initiates , three passings , ancl two raisingsand we are informed that the number of candidates for

, admission is considerable . There are several members of this lodge who have attained reputation as officers of other lodges , as , for instance , the Master of Lil y Lodge of Richmond , Bro . Fairbairn , ancl the recentl y installed Master of St . Luke ' s Lodge , Chelsea , Bro . Piatt . The Worshipful Master ( Dr . Nolan ) took occasion to propose a toast to the prosperity of these lodges , as having claims upon tlie _ especial fraternity and good wishes of the " Industry . " Several visitors made the occasion

distinguished very aerreeable . The banquet was served in Bro . Queleh ' s best manner . Bro . Ford , of fche Christy's Minstrel ' s , and several other musical gentlemen of reputation , gave also peculiar interest to the evening by their harmony . As a hive is the appropriate crest of this ' industrious loclge , we may suitably express the wish that the members may continue to be " busy bees , " and that the result of their labours may prove as agreeable ancl nrofitable as heretofore .

INSTRUCTION . ROYAL JUBILEE LODGE ( NO . 85 ) . —A very numerous meeting- of tho members of this lodge , ivas held no Sunday evening at Bro . Jrelands , the Masonic Hall , Fetter-lane , for the purpose of working the fifteen sections of the lectures . Bro . Rogers ( of the Lodge of Confidence , No . 228 ) presided . The business of the evening was thus distributed : —First Lecture—First section , Bro . Gilchrest ; second , Bro . Palmer ; third , Bro . Frankling ; fourth , Bro . Swinnock ; fifth sixth

, Bvo . Moss ; , Bro . Booins ' s seventh , Bro . Sissous . Second Lecture : —First section , Bro . W . Southall ; second , Bro . fifth , Bro . Draker ; third , Bvo . Fawner ; fourth , Bro . Anslow ; and second , Bro . Ireland ; and third Bro . Moss . The lodge having resumed Drnkher . Third Lecture—First section , Bro . H . Thompson ; to tlie first degree , a cordial vote of thanks was passed , and ordered to be recorded on the minutes to Bro . Rogers , for the ability he had displayed in- discharging the ¦ duties ' or tha " chair that evening . Bro . Rogers acknowled ged the compliment , aad the lodge was closed in due form .

CONFIDENCE LODGE ( NO . 228 ) . —The usual weekly meetiiis of this lodge was held on Wednesday evening at Bro . Wadeson's , " the Bengal Arms Tavern , Birchin-lane . Bro . Bui-eh presided as W . M . The ceremony of initiation and the last four sections of the lectures were worked , after which Bro . Jackson , P . M . of the parent lodge , proposed that a second donation of ten suineas should be made from the funds of this lodge towards the ' Aged Freemasons ' Annuity Fund , to be placed in the hands of Bro . Haydon , W . M . of the DomaticLodge , for which he will act as steward at the coming festival . The motion was unanimously agreed to . This loclge is now doubl y life governors to the Aged Freemasons' V uml ° the Widows' Fund , aud the Bovs' ziv } Girls' School .

Provincial.

PROVINCIAL .

DURHAM . GATESHEAD . —Lodge of Industry ( No . 5 G ) . —This loclge held their regular monthly meeting at the Grey Horse on Monday , Oct . 22 , there being present , Bro . C J . Banister , P . M ., as W . M ., the W . M . being unable to attend from illness ; Bro . A . Clapham , P . M . ; Bro . Bryden , S . W . ; Bro . Alexander , P . M ., as J . W . ; ancl a : full attendance of the brethren . Bro . Cowan was passed to thesecond degree bBro . A . ClaphamPMBro . W . MorrowP . M ..

y , .. , , explained the working tools , and Bro . Winter , S . W ., 793 , gave the charge . Mr . Little , who had been previously ballotted for , was presented ancl initiated into the mysteries of the Order by the acting W . M ., with his usual earnestness . The S . W . gave the charge , and explained the working tools . Before the lodge was closed the W . M . reminded the brethren that ho was a steward of the Royal Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons ancl their Widows , and distributed subscription papers amongst them , hoping ¦

to receive them back well filled . Business being over , the lodgewas closed , and the brethren adjourned to refreshment , where the regular loyal and Masonic toasts were proposed and responded to , and the brethren separated at ten o ' clock .

KENT . IP . OV . GIUND LODGE . Wc last week published the proceedings in Prov . Grand Lodge , and we now proceed to report those at THE BANQUET . Afc six o'clock the brethren re-assembled in the Assembly Rooms-,. Harmer-street , which had been beautifully decorated for the occasion , to partake of an elegant banouet . On the removal of the

cloth , The PROT . GEAND MASTER rose to propose tho toast ivhich was first honoured at every meeting of Masons—a toast which , hoth as Englishmen , proud of a Queen of whom it was their good fortune to he subjects , and as Masons , proud of the Craft to which they belonged , he called upon them to drink with all the customary honours—the old toast of " The Queen and the Craft . " ( Loud cheers . ) The union implied in this toast appeared to him most

significant . Let despotic monarchs , if they would , place 'Freemasonry under a ban in the dominions over ivhich they ruled —ifc was the boast of the Masons of England that Her Majesty had no more loyal subjects than those who ' belonged to the craft ; ancl he therefore called upon them to drink the toast with that cordiality with which it ivas always received . ( Loud cheers . ) The toast was enthusiastically drunk , the hand playing the National Anthem .

The GRAND MASTEK next called upon the brethren to do honourto a toast which he was sure ivould be most cordially received . It was the peculiar good fortune of the Masons of England to be presided over by a nobleman so distinguished as the Earl of Zetland . ( Cheers . ) Courteous to all , ever ready to receive with brotherly kindness those who approached him , whether in Grand

Lodge or in private life—a Mason well versed m the mysteries or the Craft , and assiduous in the discharge of the onerous duties of his high office—his lordship had won the respect and confidence ofthe numerous Order over whom he presided . ( Cheers . ) As Masons , therefore , as brethren to whose prayer his lordship had recently turned an attentive and compliant ear , he called upon them to drink a bumper to tlie health of "The Most "Worshipful Grancl Master of England , the Earl of Zetland . " ( Loud cheers . )

The GUAND MASTEE proposed as the next toast , " The Deputy Grand Master of England , and The Grand Officers , present and past . " In Masonic lodges , as in every other association , some must rule and govern , and some must lie ' ruled and governed ; and it argued no small skill and capacity on the part ofthe past and present Grand Officers of England that Freemanry was at this time in so flourishing a condition . ( Cheers . ) Amongst those included in the toastthere were gentlemen who would confer lustre

, upon whatever position they might be called upon to occupy , and therelore any eulogiums which lie might make- must be alike superfluous and weak . Amongst the Grand OiKcers -who bad honoured the brethren of Kent with their presence he was happy to notice the Bey . Bvo . Bowyer , the Grand Chaplain of England , who , in addition to his other claims upon their notice , had assisted in the solemn , services of the Church that day , and with whose name he ivould couple the toast . ( Cheers . )

The G . CHAPLAIN in responding , said that before he applied himself to the duty of returning thanks for the officers ofthe Grand Lodge , of which he was the senior Officer present , he must congratulate thern upon the glorious spectacle ivhich had been witnessed that day . ( Cheers . ) He never saw the duties of the lodge perforaicf ) . with more talent , tact , or good taste : and he was never present afc a larger or more respectable assembly of llas-ms than this of f-.-e-