Metropolitan.

Our Royal Widow bless ! ¦ God save the fatherless ! God save the Queen ! ' Shield them with loving care , Their mighty grief we share , Lord hear our fervent prayer , God save the Queen !

Oh Lord our God arise ! Bless England ' s enemies . ' On Thee we call ! Let sorrow whisper peace , Bid wrong and anger cease , . Let love and truth increase , Make evil fall !

"In this our nation ' s need , With Thee we humbly plead ! God bless our Queen ! Her life-woe sanctify , Her loss untold supply , Thyself be ever nigh To save our Queen .

-Hedge "being resumed , the ceremony of installation was eoai-Jnenced , Bro . Wilson being appointed the Installing Master , -assisted by upwards of twenty Past Masters , Bro . W . Wiggin-¦ fenv , P . Prov . G . D . C . Worcestershire , and senior Lieutenant of 1 th-3 Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers . W . M . elect was pre-. 'senfei hy Bro . Capt . Gregory , J . G . D ., who eulogised Bro . Wigginton , and stated that the lodge and the corps were greatly indebted to him

for their formation . The installation being aoschided , lodge was closed in the third and second degrees , ishe actustoined congratulations and salutations having been . -wsLBisly offered by the brethren . The W . M . then appointed 1 m officers as follows : —Bros . Grnmbridge , ( P . M . 63 ) S . W . ; " 'Compton ( Churchwarden St . George in the East ) J . W . ; Comp'ion fin absence of Treasurer ) Treas . pro tern ., Scotcher , ( P . M . S 3 ) Sec .,- A . Richardson , M . D ., S . D . ; F . Warskitt , I . G . ; and

EjKiford , Tyler . The following . gentlemen ( all of the Tower JLainlets Engineer Volunteers ) ¦ were then balloted for , elected , andiniated by the newly-installed W . M .: J . W . Tripe , M . D . ifffon . Assist . Surgeon ); Lieutenants J . W . Eraser , J . F . Brlcges , J . A . Coffey , and Quarter-Master Sergeant S . Poynter . 3 ? ive gentlemen having been proposed as candidates for initiation , and one brother as a joining member , lodge was closed , savul the brethren adjourned to banquet , it being admirably erved mtue excellent

s -up style of our Bro . Ueo . faynter . ^ 'The lodge furniture was made hy Bro . Warskitt , from the tSasigns- of the IV . M ., and elicited marked commendation ; the Jewels , & c , being supplied by Bro . Spencer . The lodge-room -presented a very gay and animated spectacle , nearly fifty . brethren , being present , and among them the handsome uniforms ¦ of Honorable Artillery Company , the sober colour of that of - . fuc Loudon . Rifle Brigadethe gay scarlet and blue of the

, ¦ Engineers , & c ., these , with the various Masonic badges , pre'S « a . teda unique and pleasing sight , and an unusual one also , this -i & eiug only the third volunteer lodge at present formed . The W . M . was supported at the banquet by Bro . Wilson , ¦ S ? . 0 " . G . D , ; Gregory , J . G . D . ; May , W . M . Fitzroy ( Hon . Ar--KlJery -Company ); Capt . Field ( ditto ) ; Barron ( London Rifle . KrigtKte ) W . M . Lodge of Antiquity ( No . 2 ); Tomkins , P . M .

3 kmie ; Thompson ( Churchwarden , St . George-in-the East ) P . M . 3 * 0 . 63 ; England , P . M . ; Bazaigette , P . M . 283 ; Shirley , P . M . XS 3- ; Psun ( Sec . Emulation ); Docelle , P . M . 63 , and many other 2 ? . M :. ' S and brethren . The " Queen , & e . ' having been drunk with Masonic honours , € ba W . M . proposed that of the " M . W . the G . M ., " eulogising Sis conduct as G . M ., and expressing a fervent hope that he •• raight retain his seat on the throne until the Prince of Wales should be elected as his successor .

The next toast was the "D . Prov . G . M . and the other present vaa . d . 'gast Grand Officers , " the W . M . speaking more particularly « . e £ she consecrating officer , Bro . S . Barton Wilson . This was SBlspsiided to b y Bro . S . B . WIESOK , P . J . G . D ., . the Deputy pro . ¦ fe rn ., in . a very able manner . Bro . Wilson observed that he Sisrl for very many years of a long life been connected with the ( Craft , and it was with feelings of considerable gratification that ¦ Sis had accepted at tbe hands of the M . W . the G . M . the duty . .. of consecrating that lodge . It was much regretted by the H £ . W . bhe D . G . M . that he was prevented from performing this

ceremony himself . It , however , would afford him much pleasure to learn how successfully and brilliantly the ceremony had gone off , and the happy auspices under which this lodge had been consecrated , and he concluded by congratulating the lod" -e on the accomplished Mason they had chosen for their W . jVL , for whom , from his manner of performing his onerous duties that clay , he predicted a highly successful year of office . The health of the Initiates was responded to hy the Senior

Initiate , and Assist . Surgeon of the Corps , Dr . TEIPE . He assured the company that he had been highly impressed with his share of the ceremony of that day . He had already seen sufficient of Masonry to be convinced that to be a good Mason was to be a good Christian , and that the better the Mason the better the man . He hoped himself and his brother initiates would prove their sense of the kind reception they had that day met with , by endeavouring to perfect themselves in the Craft , and

by ever seeking , by their lives and actions , to adorn the title conferred on them . : The W . M ., in proposing " The Health of the Visitors , " expressed the deep gratification he felt at being honoured with the attendance of so many Past Masters and brethren skilled in the Craft , this feeling being shared in by the members of the lodge . He saw ' arouud him many brethren from that Volunteer army in which he was proud to hold a commissionand among

, them he could not forget specially to mention the W . M . of the Lodge of Antiquity ( No . 2)—Antiquity's pride he had os his side , to advance tho reputation of the Tower Hamlets Engineers ' Lodge—and the W . M . of the Fitzroy Lodge , Bro . May , of the Hon . Artillery Company , with Captain Field , and his brethren , in arms in that corps , had also come forward in a truly fraternal spirit to assist in that evening ' s interesting ceremony . He also saw on his left two excellent and well-known engineers as well

as Ma-soas—Bro . England and Bro . Bazalgette—while before him were Bro . Shirley , the father of No . 63 , and several of his sons , excellent Past Masters of that lodge . He called upon the brethren to welcome the visitors with that warmth which was peculiar to Masons alone . Bros . MA . T , W . M . No . 830 ; BABEO ^ , W . M . No . 2 ; ExG-lAjro , P . M . ; and Captain FIELD severally responded , and alluded to the very gratifying manner in which the W . M . had discharged

the duties of his office that evening , especially in the working of the first degree , wherein he had admitted five brethren to a participation of Masonic privileges . Bro . Captain GKEOOKY , J . G . D ., Captain-Commandant of the Corps , then proposed " The Health of the W . M . " He remarked that he was now an old Mason , and had seen most of the ceremonies of the Craft performed , and performed very inrpressively , but he never remembered seeing a ceremony solemnized with

the earnest display of talent afforded by his brother the W . M . He was sure the W . M . must have worked hard to make himself the accomplished Mason he had that day proved himself . It was a proud moment for him ( Captain Gregory ) to see his brother Wigginton in that chair , and it was a proud thought that the Corps with which he was more intimately connected should have inaugurated a lodge which should have received as its first initiates four of the Officers and the Senior Non-commissioned

Officer . He hoped those initiates would prove as worthy Masons as the "W . M ., and study to adorn the Craft by their talents , as he had done that day . In other respects—in social relationships —he was sure their initiation as Masons could only result in increasing and intensifying their virtues , moral , social , and domestic . He did not mean to say but what a man might not be a Mason , and yet feel sensitively his obligations , social and kindred ; but he did say that Masonry intensified these obligations of

relationship , and that a Mason , from the mere fact of his Craft , must prove a better son , a better father , a better brother , a better husband , and a better man . Ho then gave " The W . M . " The W . M . in responding said that he could but very inadequately thank his veteran brother , the Captain Commandant of his Corps , for bis great kindness to him that evening , the more especially for his brotherly feeling in foregoing the proud position of Master of No . 1204 , in order that he might fill it .

It was so long since he had worked an office in lodge—not since he left the . province of Worcester , iu the Prov . Grand Lodge of which he was proud to have held office—that he was afraid he was very rusty , notwithstanding the generous assistance afforded him by the WM ., Past Masters , and brethren of the Constitutional ( No . 63 ) , a lodge to which he should be ever indebted . He trusted , however , that by hard labour he would be enabled to do the work satisfactorily , it would he his aim to accomplish that . In pronosing " The Health of the Officers of the Lodge "