[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 12 Nov 1814 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 12 Nov 1814   (p. 3, col. 1-4)

 

Last Saturday the fourth arch of the magnificent bridge over the Eden was closed, and it is expected that the fifth and last, should
the weather permit, will be completed in a fortnight; when, we understand, a temporary wooden bridge will be erected over the near
branch of the Eden, and the materials of the old bridge over that branch of the river, and the Scotch gate, will be made use of in
forming the causeway. 

 

Mr. BORTHWICK's ball, advertised in our last, was very respectably attended on Thursday evening, when his pupils went through their
various dances in a manner that gave the greatest satisfaction to the company. Mr. B. at the request of several ladies and
gentlemen, favoured the company with a dance or two, which met with unbounded applause. It is therefore hoped, that on Mr. B.'s
return here next season, he will meet with such liberal encouragement as his attention to the [        ] and his abilities deserve. 

 

On the evening of yesterday week, a child about 8 or 9 years of age, resident in the workhouse at Dalston, was drowned in a small
stream of water near that place,---it is supposed by falling over an arched-way across the water. 

 

In our last Journal we noticed the misconduct and punishment of some of the boys belonging to the Central School, who had damaged
some fruit-trees planted by the Corporation. In our statement we were perfectly correct, but lest the most distant idea should be
entertained of the circumstance militating against the character of the school in general, we beg leave to state, that the offence
was committed out of school hours, and that neither the master, nor any person connected with the school, could have controul over
the conduct of the boys in the matter in question. We have visited this School, and have no hesitation in saying, that the conduct
of the master, and the general behaviour of the scholars, is deserving of every commendation. 

 

The inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Scotch-street were on Monday and Tuesday put into a state of considerable ferment by a
transaction, which, as originating in malice, and perverseness of disposition, we are happy to state does not frequently occur,-and
as it involves a question of public concern, we may be allowed to state the circumstances, without any imputation of egotism.-The
cellars belonging to the proprietor of this Paper having, in common with those of his neighbours, been deluged with water in
consequence of the main drain of the lane being out of repair; on the morning of the day first mentioned he proceeded to remedy the
mischief by opening the place, and clearing it out. Whilst thus occupied on his own premises, and in a measure which would be
beneficial not to himself alone, but the whole vicinity, he was rudely assaulted by a number of workmen employed by a certain
officious little gentleman, describing himself as the agent of a certain wealthy proprietor of the opposite tenements; who, after
some endeavours to fill up the earth that had been removed from the drain, retired from the field of contest. In this encounter,
which, on the part of the proprietor of this paper, merely consist in putting aside the barrows which the aggressors wheeled against
him and his work people, both he and one of his sons were rudely assailed, and even apprehended by a warrant from a Magistrate, for
the very heinous crime of warding off blows which, if inflicted, would have done them serious bodily injury. Though on this day mild
perseverance prevented the meditated malice of the man, whose conduct, as a lover of peace, and a dispenser of good-will toward men,
certainly by no means corresponded with what might have been expected from one of his garb and outward appearance; on the succeeding
day, a numerous gang of the lowest orders of the people were assembled, who, during the absence at breakfast of the workmen who were
employed in making the common shore, demolished the wall that was building for this purpose, the ruins of which completely
obliterated all traces of the ancient drain, and filled the whole up with rubbish taken from the site of the city walls, &c. in
spite of the discharge given them by the chief magistrates to the incalculable injury of the whole neighbourhood.-So wretched is the
thoroughfare in consequence become, that a carrier's cart, in attempting to pass was nearly engulphed in the swamp that had been
formed: the horse sunk up to the belly, and the cart was buried up to the nave of the wheel, and it was with the greatest exertions
of several people that they were at length extricated, after having very narrowly missed destroying the casements of the adjoining
houses.-As legal proceedings are in a state of forwardness, we shall forbear adding more, than merely saying, that if the
circumstance here related merely had reference to a personal matter, we should have been sorry to have obtruded it upon the public;
but the proprietor of this paper owes it in justification of his own character, and for the public information, to bring before them
the merits of a case, which has excited some attention.-Since writing the above, many aukward accidents, similar to the one above
related, have occurred; as the rain, having set in, has rendered the spot a perfect quicksand. 

 

 

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