[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 05 Aug 1815 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 05 Aug 1815   (p. 3, col. 2-3 + 5)     [continued] 

 

Amongst the many patriotic and other institutions of which Carlisle can boast, is the old Craven Club, established many years ago,
and which had its annual meeting on Easter Tuesday; when it was agreed by the members to dine together whenever the Bourbons were
restored. On Thursday last, in commemoration of this event, a number of gentlemen partook of an elegant dinner at the Spread Eagle
inn (Mr. THOMPSON in the chair). Several constitutional toasts were given, and the day was concluded with that decent hilarity, and
universal harmony, which so generally characterise good institutions. 

 

The annual meeting of the Workington Agricultural Society, which took place this week, was more numerously and respectably attended
than for many years. A number of gentlemen dined with the President, after which several toasts were drank, highly expressive of the
improvements that have arisen from the superior mode of cultivation practised by that gentleman. 

 

Subscriptions have been entered into at Whitehaven for the Waterloo sufferers.-Newcastle and other places have joined in the same
charitable purpose. 

 

SILVER.-On account of the considerable reduction in the price of silver, Government, it is said, intends to issue a new coinage; in
which case those who have quantities of silver coin on hand will sustain serious loss, as the pieces will be called in at their
actual, not their nominal value.-On an average, the shilling is not worth more than 10d. and the sixpence 3d. 

 

On Wednesday last, in Kendal, a labouring man fell from some scaffolding at the Friends' new meeting-house. He was much hurt, but is
likely to recover. 

 

CAUTION.-The passers of forged Bank of England notes are now actively at work in disposing of their merchandize. 

 

COACH DRIVERS.-It were to be wished, that the Magistrates in different parts will exert themselves to the utmost in visiting with
the severest penalties of the law the negligence and mismanagement of coach-drivers, which are now so frequent as to have become
proverbial. The lives of his Majesty's subjects are not to be sported with, and it is to be hoped that some severer punishment than
the law at present imposes will be made the subject of legislative enactment.-The dreadful accident noticed in this Paper of last
week loudly proclaims the necessity of some very strict remedy. Profuse of human life as BONAPARTE was in any project which he
deemed necessary to the furtherance of his mad and ambitious projects, his police at home was peculiarly tenacious of human life;
and it certainly would be no reflexion upon this country to imitate an enemy in so far as his conduct was right.-Besides the
accident above alluded to, whereby several persons were killed,-within these few days, not less than five other stage coaches have
been overturned; viz. one at Greenwich, another at Stamford, a third at Norwood, a fourth (twice) at Northampton, and a fifth near
the Cleveland Tontine inn, between Shields and York; whereby several persons were dreadfully hurt. 

 

A few days ago, an unfortunate accident happened at Halifax. Mr. J. HODGSON, owner of the Four Mills at that place, having reason to
suspect that his premises were to be robbed, stationed men to guard the place; when a person, during the night, came to the premises
and attempted to open one of the doors, which being locked, he was going round the building to another, when he was fired at by
those inside, and wounded in the spine, the ball lodging in the chest. The person wounded turned out to be one of the persons
appointed to watch the place, who, through accident, had been too late in coming to his post. The unfortunate man, just before the
fatal occurrence, had detected an old offender in stealing lintels from a cart placed in the yard of the Four Mills.-The wounded man
is not expected to recover, and has a wife and four children entirely dependent upon him for support. 

 

The Dispatch, THOMPSON, of Workington, from Newfoundland for Miramichi, was spoken with on the 29th June; all well. 

 

The Bolton, BOWMAN, of Maryport, is arrived at Kirkcudbright from America-fir timber. 

 

The Nelson, SMITH, of Maryport, is arrived at the above place on her passage to Carse from America-fir timber. 

 

 

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