[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 20 May 1815 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 20 May 1815   (p. 3, col. 2+5)

 

Experience has now convinced those who were formerly the most sceptical, that the new mode of education, now so universal in this
country, is well-worthy the patronage that has been so liberally bestowed upon it. The system of Dr. BELL has been for a
considerable time acted upon in this city, and its beneficial consequences in rapidly accelerating the scholastic knowledge of the
children, as well as imbuing their early minds with religious principles, and in improving their demeanor, are no longer matter of
dispute. We doubt not that the spirited inhabitants of this city and vicinity will continue to cherish so excellent an institution;
the benefits of which will be reflected upon themselves.—For the subscribers for the year 1815—see Adv. 

 

The Carlisle Pitt Club will hold their second anniversary at the Coffee-house on the 29th of May; on which day, we understand, five
gentlemen will be proposed to become Members of the Club.—See Adv. 

 

THEATRE.—The Theatrical performances of the week passed off with great eclat.—For the bill of fare of the ensuing week—see Adv. It
is rich, indeed; and the novelty of Sieur SANCHES's wonderful performances will doubtless attract crowded assemblages. 

 

The eldest person does not remember a time when the weather, for the season, was more genial, or progress of every species of
vegetation further advanced.—Mr. Thomas JOHNSTON, of Wigton, has beans in bloom; and at Belle-Vue, near Newtown (the property of the
proprietor of this Paper), are beans with the pods already forming, though this is the first year the ground has been reclaimed and
cultivated. 

 

The Rev. J. MERRY, rector of Newbiggin, Westmorland, whose uniform conduct in all things reflects honour upon the sacerdotal
character, has made, we understand, his tenants considerable abatements, in consequence of the times pressing severely upon them. 

 

DEPREDATIONS.—At Beaumont, near this city, on the night of yesterday week, or early on Saturday morning, a weaver's shop was broken
into, when one web of gingham and two of linen cloth were taken out of the looms.—Between Saturday night last, and the subsequent
morning, the shop of Mr. W. ROY, shoemaker in Rickergate, was feloniously entered by forcing the lock, when the villains contrived
to carry away, undiscovered, boots and shoes to the value of about £20.—And, on the morning of Tuesday last, several panes of glass,
and part of the window frame in the premises of Mr. J. DONALDSON, shoemaker in Scotch-street, were discovered to be broken,—supposed
by some marauders, who had been alarmed before the accomplishment of' their purpose. 

 

The showers that have lately fallen have swoln the Eden so much as to occasion the suspension, in a great measure, of the works
going forward at the new bridge, which is to be lamented at a season of the year so well calculated to favour dispatch.—When we are
on this subject, we would briefly hint, by the way,—that the adoption of an engine to withdraw the water from the abutments of the
intended dry arches, in place of the clumsy pump to which the strength of six or seven men were continually applied, with trifling
effect—would expedite the work, and be a material saving in point of expence. We had an opportunity of seeing a machine, some time
ago, constructed by a very ingenious mechanic of this city, and upon an entirely new and original principle, the secret of which
rests with the inventor; which, we are persuaded, would act to admiration. It is quite portable, and, we understand, could be fitted
up at a trifling expence. 

 

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS.—The Sunday School Anniversary of Manchester was held on Monday last, when 7976 boys and girls marched in
procession to the old Church. We lament to state, that divine service had scarcely commenced, when an unfounded alarm took place. It
appears that one of the windows having been accidentally broken on the exterior, a simultaneous rising of the children on a form, to
ascertain the cause, occasioned the springing up of the lightened end; which falling again instantly, the noise created such an
alarm, that a general rush to escape was the consequence. One youth perished in the confusion, and some others were severely
injured.— On Monday, a man and boy, servants at Kilburn Park, Yorkshire, were discovered lifeless near an adjoining lime-kiln,
whither they had repaired the preceding day for the purpose of boiling and eating eggs,—having been suffocated by the noxious vapour
from the kiln.—The workmen continue actively employed in working into Heaton colliery, removing the foul air as they proceed along,
by an air pump; but no hopes are entertained of finding any of the sufferers alive. 

 

The Antigua, DAWSON, from Whitehaven for Antigua, has been taken by an American privateer. 

 

 

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