Poetry.

The Autumn winds and Winter's frost AVill never chill them more : Life's " mingled yarn " is woven out For them : their toil is o ' er . Eternal Spring now blooms for them—No pain nor sorrow there

; AA e should not wish them here again , Our mortal grief to share . Old friends are fading with the leaves , And dropping one by one : When Spring puts on her robes again . AVhat loved ones will he gone 1

ELIZABETH TWEDDELI .

List Of Lodge Meetings &C., For Week Ending December 29th, 1870.

LIST OF LODGE MEETINGS & c ., FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 29 TH , 1870 .

METEOI ' OLITAJST LODGES AND CHAPTERS . Monday , December 26 th-LODGES . —Pythagorean , Ship and Turtle Tavern , Koyal Hill , Greenwich ; British Oak , Bank of Friendship Tavern , Mile End . CHAPTER . —Joppa , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate Street . Tuesday , Deceniber 17 th .

Audit Committee , Girl's School , at 2 . 30 p . m . LODGES . —Morria , London Tavern , Bishopsgate Street ; Industry , Freemasons' Hall ; Israel , Hartley ' s Hotel , Blackl ' riars . CHAPTEBS . —Eoyal York of Perseverance , Freemasons' Hall ; St . Alban ' s , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate Street . iye . lnes . Zai / , December 28 th . LODGES . —Unit op PilgrimsHorn's TavernKennington ; High

, , Cross , AA'hite Hart Hotel , Tottenham ; Temperance in the East , Private Assembly Kooins , 0 , Newby Place , Poplar . Thursday , December Wth . General Committee Girls' School , at Freemasons' Hall , about 41 .

Metropolitan Lodges And Chapters Of Instruction.

METROPOLITAN LODGES AND CHAPTERS OF INSTRUCTION .

Monday , Deceviber 26 th . LODGES . — Temple , Old George , St . alary Axe , E . G . ; Justice , Roya Albert , New Cross-i d , Deptford ; St . James ' s Union , Swan Tav . Mount-st ., Grosven . r-sq . ; Industry , Dick's Coffee House Fleet-st . ; Crystal Palace , City Arms Tav ., AA'est-sq ., South * wailc ; High Cross , AA'hite Hart Ho ., Tottenham ; Eastern Star ' Eoyal Ho ., Burdett-rd ., Mile-end-rd . ; Camden , Adelaide Tav . f

Haverstock Hill ; Tower Hamlets' Engineers , Duke os Clarence , Commercial Road , E . ; Union AA ' aterloo , King ' Arms , AVoolwich ; Old Concord , Turk's Head , Monteonibe Street , Belgrave Square ; Sincerity , Railway Tavern , Fenchurch Street . Tuesday , December 27 th . LODGES- —FaithFisher ' s RestaurantJletrop . Dist . Bail . A'ietoria

, , , Station ; Domatie , Palmerston Arms , Giosvenor-park , Camberwell j Jordan , Alwyne Castle , Canonbury ; Yarborongh , Green Dragon , Stepney ; Prince Frederick William , Knights of St . John ' s Tav ., St . John's-wood ; Dalhousie , Koyal Edward , Triangle , Hackney ; Royal Albert , AA'hite Hart , Abehurchlane ; Pythagorean , Prince ot Orange , Greenwich ; City of London , Shepherd and Flock Tav ., Bell-alley , Aloorgate-st . ; New AVandsworth , Freemasons' Ho ., New Wandsworth ;

British Oak , Silver Lion Tavern , Pemiyfiold , Poplar . CHAPTER . —Metropolitan , Price's Portugal Ho ., Fleet-st . Mount Sion , AA'hite Hart , Bishopsgate-st , ; Robert Burns Sussex Stores , Upper St . Martin's Lane .

Metropolitan Lodges And Chapters Of Instruction.

Wednesday , December 2847 t . LODGES . —Confidence , Railway Tav ., London-st ; United Strength Bull and Gate , Kentish Town ; New Concord , Rosemary Branch Tav ., Hoxton ; St . Mark ' s , Mawby Arms , Mawby-st ., S . Lambeth ; Peckham , Maismore Arms , Park-road , Peckham-Rye , Temperance in the East , George the Fourth , Catherine-st ., Poplar ; Prosperity , Gladstone Tav ., Bishapsgate-street ; Royal Union , Bro . Daddy's , AA'insiey-st ., Oxford-street . CHAPTEE . —St . James ' s Union , Swan Tav ., Mount-street , Grosvenor-square ; Prudent Brethren , Freemasons' Hall .

Thursday , December __ Wh . LODGES . —Fidelity , Goat and Compasses , Euston-rond ; Kent , Dnkeol York , Borotigh-rd ., Southwark ; United Mariners , Three Cranes , Mile-end-rd . ; Vitruvian , AA'hite Hart , College-st ., Lambeth ; St . George's , Globe Tav ., Royal Hill , Greenwich ; Manchester , Berkeley Arms , John-st ., Berkeley-square ; TranquillitySngarLoaf Tav . Great St . Helen ' sE . G . ; AVhittington

, , , , Crown Hotel , 41 , High Holborn ; Royal Oak , Royal Oak Tavern , Deptford ; Burdett Coutts , Approach Tav ., Victoriapark , at 7 ; City of London , Shephard and Flock Tav ., Bell Alley ; St . John's , llollybush Tav ., Hampstead ; Merchant Navy , Jamaica Tav ., AV . India Dock Road , Poplar . CHAPTEB . —Joppa , Prospect of Whitby Tav ., 57 , Wappingwall .

Friday , December 30 th-LODGES—St . Luke ' s , Pier Hotel , Cheyne-walk , Chelsea Temperance , A'ietoria Tavern , Victoria-road , Deptford , Unions ( Emulation Lodge of Improvement for M . M . A , F . M . H . : United Pilgrims , Horns' Tavern , Kennington ; AVestbouvue , the Grapes , Duke-st ., Manchester - square ; AA'ellington , Lord Duncan Tavern , Broadway ,

Deptford ; Florence Nightingale , Freemasons' Tav ., AVoolwich ; Ranclugh , Royal Sussex Hotel , Broadway , Hammersmith ; Belgrave , Duke of Wellington , Spring-gardens , Cliaring-cross ; St . James ' s , Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-row , Bermondsey ; Doric , Three Cranes , Mile End-rd . ; Al' -toria , Andertons' Ho ., Fleet-st . ; Hervey , Britannia , AA'alhaiii-green ; Metropolitan , Price ' s Portugal Ho ., Fleet-st . ; Charter House , Hat and Feathers Tavern , 27 , Goswell-rd . ; Robert Burns , Union Tay . ;

Air-street , Regent-st . . Rose of Denmark , AVhite Hart , "Barnes ; Lily , Greyhound , Ho ., Richmond ; Stability , Guildhall Tav ., 33 , Grcsham Street . CHAPTEHS . —Diiinatic , Fisher ' s Restaurant , A'ietoria Station .

Saturday , December 31 st . CHAPTERS . —Mount Sinai , Union Tavern , Air-street , Regentstreet ; Domatie , Horns , Kennington .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

* , f > All Communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisburystreet , Strand , AV . C . AVE shall he glad to receive from brethren any proceedings of Masonic meetings , which shall he duly inserted . Communications should be forwarded so as to reach ns as early in the

week us convenient—not later than AVednesday if possible . A \' e have to request our correspondents to he particular in writing names distinctly . J . AV . ( Cardiff . )—We agree with you that the summons sent you by Circular Post is equally objectionable with those sen out printed on Post-Cards , tho use of the latter being

interdicted by Grand Lodge . The summons must he left open for inspection to come within the Post , Office regulations , and thus is as equally public as the Post-Card .