The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-07-23 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

FREEMASONRY IN ITALY.-011 Saturday a new lodge, the Alexandra, was consecrated and constituted under the warrant of the Grand Master, at the Alexandra Palace. The ceremony was perfortued by Grand Secretary J. Hervey. the first Worshipful Master is Brother J. C. Parkinson, who was installed by Brother Staley. After the lodge business the brethren adjourned to the banqueting-room. The usual loyal and masonic tosstu having been drunk, the Worshipful Master, in responding for his own health referred to the Pope's denunciations of Masonry, and said there were now nearly 200 Italian ledges ant about 10,000 Masons working under the Grand Orient of Italy, and the Orient included some of the most distinguished men in Italy. The Freemasonry of Italy was identical with that of England, and its recognition by the Grand Master was a complete answer to the heated vituperathins of the Pope, Bishop Dupanloup, and other pamphleteers. He then read a letter from the Grand Lodge of Italy, speaking of the opening of the now lodge at Rome, and hoping that, with loyalty and charity, religious toleration, told constitutional liberty, the new lodge might flourish. The reading of the letter was received with hearty cheers. 'The London Teltyropit Berlin correspondent says :1 ant informed that Viscount Gontant Biro°, French Ambassador to the German Court, being offended by the repeated attacks In, do on hint by the othioial press, intends to demand his recall. Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out badly in the Hotderness district of the East Riding of Yorkshire. A number of cases are reported, and the local authorites are taking energetic steps to stamp out the disease. Six cows on one farm have been ordered to be destroyed. In London, on the 15th, a rumour was circulated that a inelaneholy accident had befallen the Duke of St. Albans while sailing in a yacht near the Shetland Isles. It was stated that the Duke hail been drowned. The Mars says s- We have touch pleasure in relieving the anxiety which hsa been very generally felt for the safety of this yacht. She lef.t. Lerwick on Sunday event hog, and arrived at Bergen in safely on Monday  night. At the Northumberland assizes, Amelia Railstifle, the so-galled "Countess of Derwentwater;' was sued by Robert and Thomas Thompson, of Fairlie Farm, for unlawful distraint. It appeared that shortly after a seizure at Newlands, defendant had gone to Fairlie Farm, and having asserted her right to the ownership, distrained for rent which the tenants had paid to Mr. Layeuek, to whom the farm had pawed from the hands of the Admiralty. For the defence it was urged that the plaintiffs had signed the lease as for the defendant, but it was allegad for the plaintiff's :hat that was done under duress.--Verdict for the plaintiffs. Sr want: era LEICESTER MANtrAcrultv.R.--Mr. Samuel Turner, head of the firm of Henry Turner and Sons, elastic web manufacturers, Leicester, committed suicide last week. He had been very depressed of late, and this had been increased by the disappearance recently' of his cashier with a large sum of money. On the Pith, he went to business at the usual &our, but about half-past nine, as he was missing, and he had left the letters open in confusion in the counting house, . search was made for him. The stock room door NM \ , found locked from the inside, and on the door 1 being burst open deceased WM discovered lying with • his face on the flour, and his throat cut from ear to a ear, and an open razor at his side. He was quite dead. . At the inquest the same evening, a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity was returned.