[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 15 Jul 1815 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 15 Jul 1815   (p. 3, col. 1-2 + 4)

 

The Right Honourable Thomas WALLACE has given a benefaction of twenty guineas to building the Central School at Carlisle.-See Adv. 

 

Thursday next will be held here the anniversary Meeting of the Diocesan Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
We anticipate a full attendance of the members of this laudable institution.-See Adv. 

 

CARLISLE BIBLE SOCIETY.-The second anniversary of this Society, which, we have every reason to believe, has been productive of much
benefit at home, independently of what may have been effected through its operation in foreign parts,-was held in the Assembly-room
on Thursday evening (J. CHRISTIAN, Esq. of Unerigg, in the Chair); and on no similar occasion do we remember to have observed a more
respectable or numerous meeting. The report, and the gratifying statements of the several gentlemen who spoke, were heard with deep
interest; and we doubt not that the majority of the audience departed with a deeper sense of the goodness of God, and with warmer
affections towards their fellow creatures.-In our next we shall endeavour to lay some interesting particulars before our readers.
Suffice it at present to say, that the Society, both here and elsewhere, appears flourishing daily, and to have already produced an
abundance of good fruit. 

 

The Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City were opened here, on Monday, before the Mayor. There was no business of any
moment.-On Tuesday, before J. C. SATTERTHWAITE, Esq. chairman, and a respectable bench of Justices, the County Sessions commenced;
when there was brought forward before the grand jury a greater quantity of business than was ever remembered-consisting chiefly of
parish matters, assaults, &c. mostly of a private complexion.-The following prisoners were tried:-William JAMESON, Christopher
TEASDALE, and John TEASDALE, for petit larceny,-to be imprisoned in the gaol at Carlisle for three months:-Isabella Fullerton, for
petit larceny, to be imprisoned for one month. 

 

Yesterday morning, a person came into Mr. LITTLE's shop in the market-place, saying that he had brought a piece of gingham from
Greenock in Scotland, and requesting Mr. L. to buy it. The latter suspected that the piece had not been honestly come by, and on
examination his suspicion was confirmed. Mr. LITTLE, without giving any alarm, immediately went out under pretence of procuring a
customer: and ascertained that the gingham had been purloined from an agent to Mr. STODART, manufacturer, of this city, at
Gatehouse-of-Fleet, Gallowayshire. On returning to the shop with this gentleman, the man had absconded, leaving the piece behind
him.-It were to be wished, that shopkeepers in general, when suspicious articles are offered to them for sale, would make proper
enquiry; as by this means, doubtless, not only would many thefts be detected, but a greater difficulty occurring of disposing of
stolen goods, the temptation to act dishonestly would be considerably diminished. 

 

On Sunday last, on occasion of the Capitulation of Paris, various demonstrations of joy were exhibited in Penrith. The Staff
Serjeants of the Royal Cumberland Militia, and Local Ditto, assembled in the market-place, and added to the buoyancy of spirits the
favourable intelligence had excited, by firing three excellent vollies. 

 

The entertainments given at the Assembly-room, on Monday week, by Messrs. ALEXANDER and SWAN, assisted by Mr. SCRAGGS, and a number
of young gentlemen of this city, gave universal satisfaction to a very crowded and respectable audience. 

 

The University of Cambridge has conferred the degree of D. D. upon the Rev. Thomas LOWRY, of High Crosby, near this city. 

 

The bridge now building near this city over the river Eden will be equal in length to any in the kingdom, taking Rickergate and
Stanwix as the two extremities of the structure. The plan of the engineer now begins to develope [sic] itself, and notwithstanding
we admire the beautiful, light, elliptical figure of the arches over the north branch of the river, yet we have an insuperable
objection to the uninterrupted and elevated parapet wall, that is to connect the two bridges. This intended dead wall will not add
to the beauty of the bridge, but when we consider the great inconvenience the public will sustain by the bridge not having one
opening to the Sands for the accommodation of cattle-dealers at our fairs, the plan is defective, and we hope that our trades-people
will make a representation to the Lord Lieutenant on the subject. Let it only be remembered that our fairs are held at that season
of the year when the river is enlarged by autumnal rains: in that case, how can droves reach the usual and appropriated cattle stand
on the Sands? but if they should swim the river, it cannot be imagined that gentlemen intending to make purchases will follow their
example. We have no intention to slur the plan of the engineer; we only wish to awaken the feelings of our fellow citizens to their
own interest. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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