[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 10 Jun 1815 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 10 Jun 1815   (p. 3, col. 1-4)

 

On Sunday his Majesty completed his 77th year. The occasion was celebrated on Monday by the gentlemen of the corporation, and
different private parties, in the most loyal and harmonious manner. The several mail coaches, all decorated with flags, which
paraded the streets in procession, made a very handsome appearance, and reflected considerable credit upon those who had the
disposition of the arrangement. 

 

Mr. Justice BAYLEY and Mr. Baron RICHARDS come the northern circuit the ensuing season. 

 

On the evening of the 5th inst. Mr. F———, schoolmaster, of Nenthead, near Alston, eloped in a post-chaise with a young lady, the
youngest daughter of the London lead agent, of the above place, and arrived at the Howards' Arms inn, in Brampton, the following
morning: from thence the anxious pair resumed their flight on the wings of love for Gretna-green; presently two neighbouring sturdy
rustics, each upon a prancing roadster, appeared in pursuit to retake the fair fugitive, with a solemn charge to prostrate the first
person who might resist in restoring the damsel to her disconsolate parents; happily poor pedagogue and his intended rib had fled,
and the two ninnies dodged on to Gretna-green; but, previous to their arrival, the enamoured lovers were coupled at the celebrated
temple of Hymen. She is the third person of that family who have been tied with Hymen's cable at Gretna-green. 

 

Mr. John B. WILSON, formerly of Newcastle, but now of Brampton, in this county, was, in last Easter term, admitted an Attorney of
the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, and also a Solicitor of the high Court of Chancery; and on the ninth of May last was
appointed a Master Extraordinary in Chancery. 

 

An anonymous benevolent gentleman has bestowed a donation of £40 for the use of the necessitous poor of Brampton quarter, in the
parish of Lanercost, in this county; to whom they return their sincere thanks. 

 

The new system of weights and measures, now in its progress through the House of Commons, is proposed to commence on the 24th June,
1816. In our next we shall give the principle on which it acts.—All bargains, sales, and contracts, made in Great Britain, must be
effected according to the new standards, under the penalty of forfeiture, that is, of making null and void all bargains of articles
measured with a different standard. Severe penalties are also annexed to other misdemeanors relating to this new system. 

 

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—It is our lamentable duty to record another dreadful accident, and so soon, too, after the melancholy occurrence
at Heaton colliery, which, in its disastrous consequences, it nearly resembles.—On the afternoon of the 2d inst. the inflammable air
in the Success Pit, at Walbottle colliery, belonging .to Messrs. NESHAM & Co. made a sudden and tremendous explosion whilst the pit
was at work with a crew of 73 men and boys. Eleven of the sufferers were brought up alive, though much hurt: the remainder,
amounting to 24 men and 28 boys, were killed by the ungovernable element, and a number of the horses were also destroyed. 

 

We find, from three registers of the Society of Friends, that, as a consequence of their exemplary conduct, half of their born live
to be forty-seven years of age; whereas, Dr. PRICE tells of the general population of London, half the born live only 2¾ years;—and
also, that among the Friends 1 in 10 arrive at 80 years of age, but of the general population of London only 1 in 40. Never did a
more powerful argument support the practice of virtue. 

 

THE THEATRE. 

 

Our readers will observe, by the reference to the theatrical bill of fare for the ensuing week, that the season will spedily [sic]
expire.—With a very commendable generosity, Mr. M'CREADY has resolved to give the whole profits of Tuesday evening toward the
support of the Central School; and we cannot but express our opinion that on an occasion when national [sic] amusement will be
conjoined with an object so interesting to every philanthrophist [sic], that many will partake of the double luxury.—Our well-known
and approved favourite, Mr. LANCASTER, will have his benefit on Thursday next. We trust that those whom he has so often caused to
laugh will seize the opportunity of returning him the compliment, and that they will express their sense of his professional and
moral character by treating him with a bumper.—See Adv. 

 

The Europe, HUDDLESTON, of Maryport, arrived at Liverpool from Barbadoes with colonial produce. 

 

The Kelsick Wood, FISHER, of Workington, from Liverpool, has arrived at New York.

 

 

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