The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-07-24 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

FREEMASONRY IN ITALY.—On Saturday a new the Alexandra, was consecrated and constituted under the warrant of the Grand Master, at the Alexandra Palace. The ceremony was performed by Grand Secretary J. Hervey. The first 'Worshipful Master is Brother J. C. Parkinson, who was installed by Brother Stacy. After the lodge business the brethren adjourned to the banqueting-room. The usual loyal and masonic toasts 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 lodges and 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 vituperations of the Pope, Bishop Dupanloup, and other pamphleteers. Be then read a letter from the Grand Lodge of Italy, speaking of the opening of the new lodge at Rome, and hoping that, with loyalty and charity, religious toleration, and constitutional liberty, the new lodge might flourish. The reading of the letter was received with hearty cheers. The London Teleyruph Berlin correspondent says : I am informed that Viscount Gontant Biron, French Ambassador to the German Court, being offended by the repeated attacks made on him by the official press, intende to demand his recall. Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out badly in the Holderuess district of the East Riding of Yorkshire. I 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 melancholy accident had befallen the Duke of St. Albans while sailing in a yacht near the Shetland Isles. It was stated that the Duke had been drowned. The Times says :--\%'e have much pleasure in relieving the anxiety which has been very generally felt for the safety of this yacht. She left Lerwick on Sunday evening, and arrived at Bergen in safely on Monday night. At the Northumberland assizes, Amelia Tadthe so-called "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 3wnership, distrained for rent which the tenants had paid to Mr. Laycock, to whom the farm hail passed from the hands of the Admiralty. For the defence it was urged that the plaintiffs had signed the lease as tor the defendant, but it was allegad for the plaintiffs :hat that was done under duress.—Verdict for the plaintiffs. - •  St. ci nr. or a LEICESTEE Nr ricrt-nr.n.--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 recentlyi of his cashier with a large sum of money. On the Nth, he went to business at the usual hour, 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 was found locked from the inside, and on the door being burst open deceased was discovered lying with his race on the floor, and his throat cut from ear to ear, and an open razor at his side. He was quite dead. At the inquest the same evening, a verdict of suicide during temp, .rnr.y insanity was returned.