[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 27 Aug 1814 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 27 Aug 1814   (p. 3, col. 2-5)

 

The First Anniversary Meeting of the Cumberland and Carlisle Auxiliary Bible Society took place at the Court-house on Saturday (John
CHRISTIAN, of Unerigg-hall, Esq. in the Chair, whose conduct was beyond all praise); and it was with great pleasure we observed the
highly numerous and respectable audience, who, if we may judge from appearances, cordially sympathized in the benevolent work for
which the Society had been formed. The Report was exceedingly satisfactory, and made a deep impression upon all present.—As we
understand that it is in contemplation to publish in full the proceedings of this Anniversary Meeting, we decline, at present, going
further into detail.—It is expected that the Rev. Mr. TERROTT, whose narrative of his missionary proceedings in the Mediterranean
rivetted the attention, will attend the Whitehaven Anniversary Meeting on Monday next. 

 

At a public Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, on Sunday the 14th inst. the following gentlemen were ordained priests
and deacons, viz: 

 

PRIESTS.—The Rev. John JACKSON, the Rev. Henry THOMPSON, and the Rev. George SIM. 

 

DEACONS.—The Rev. James HOUGH, the Rev. Thomas THEXTON, the Rev. J. B. WARRY, the Rev. Henry BORROWDALE, the Rev. Wm. DOCKER, and
the Rev. Wm. KETTLEWELL. 

 

The prisoners in our gaol return their thanks to a gentleman who left a £1 Bank note to be distributed amongst them. 

 

The New Theatre re-opened on Saturday last with continued success. The Hamlet of Mr. William M'CREADY drew an overflowing house in
every part, on Wednesday; and his performance of that arduous character justified everything that report had previously declared in
his favour. The play, the closet, and the dying scenes, were admirably conceived, and obtained the most general applause. This
excellent performer comes forward next week in some of SHAKESPEARE's most favourite plays. The bespeak of the High Sheriff, on
Thursday, was attended by all the fashion of the town and neighbourhood, who seemed delighted with Mrs. CENTLIVRE's animated comedy
of the Wonder! a Woman keeps a Secret. 

 

The criminal proceedings at our Assizes finished on Wednesday morning: in the last page of this paper our readers may observe a
report of the trials.—At the Court of Nisi Prius there is a great deal of business, and we shall endeavour, in our next paper, to
give some of the most interesting causes. Judge BAYLEY, who presides at that Court, took occasion to remark, that he was sorry the
Assizes were only once a year. Indeed, every one who considers the subject must feel equal regret: Almost every year several causes
are obliged to be left over, to the great injury of those concerned, and to the subversion of the very principles of justice; for it
is a constitutional axiom, that justice should be administered as speedily as possible. Nor is this all:—as the criminal business is
in general dispatched at a comparatively early part of the week, part of the Nisi Prius causes are removed into the other Court.
This division certainly occasions dispatch, but it is accompanied with interminable confusion, and unavoidable want of that serious
attention to the merits of the several cases, which even the most trivial ought to receive; nor can it be otherwise, so long as
counsel, in the event of causes in which they are retained depending in both Courts at the same time (which often happens), are
obliged like Harlequins to skip from one Court to another, and thus debar themselves from proper exertion in either; or otherwise
give up part of their briefs to others, who, being taken unawares, have not time to consider the case with which they may have been
entrusted.—The remedy for this crying grievance can only exist in holding the Assizes oftener than once in the year; and we can have
no doubt that, were application made to the proper source, the request would be readily granted. 

 

On Monday last, as Mr. J. ARMSTRONG, parish clerk of St. Cuthbert's, was returning home behind the west walls (it being very dark),
he fell into a ditch of the depth of between six and seven feet in depth, which had been opened for the purpose of making a drain
behind the Deanery; though he fell quite headlong, having his hands at the time in the pockets of his small-clothes, he received no
other injury than a slight bruise on his face.—We are sorry to add, that on Tuesday night a person from the country, who experienced
the same accident, was not so fortunate,—as his shoulder was dislocated, and his arm broken. We trust that measures will be
immediately taken to prevent the recurrence of similar accidents. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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