[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 17 Jun 1815 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 17 Jun 1815   (p. 3, col. 2-5)

 

THE THEATRE-Has been very respectably attended this week. The benefits have commenced; and as the corps dramatique of Mr. M'CREADY
has been unusually well selected-composed of picked men, and we may say, of picked women, too,-it is not to be doubted that each
will obtain a share of public patronage proportionate to their respective merits.-For the bill of fare of the ensuing week-see adv. 

 

The next Quarter Sessions for the county will be holden on the 11th July.-See Adv. 

 

A very numerous and respectable meeting of the innkeepers of this city was held on Thursday last, for the purpose of considering the
propriety of petitioning against the exorbitant advance of the licences; when several resolutions were agreed to,-for which we refer
to the Advertisement. 

 

On Tuesday last, the Rev. Walter FLETCHER, the Chancellor of the Diocese, held his annual Visitation, when an appropriate sermon was
delivered by the Rev. Joseph HUDSON from 1 Thess. 2d chap. 4 v. After which a charge was delivered to the clergy, churchwardens, and
schoolmasters, by the Right Worshipful the Chancellor, which certainly combined those two great features of pulpit
eloquence-argument and persuasion. The clergy afterwards dined at the Chapter-house. 

 

Carlisle Assizes will commence on the 5th August. 

 

On Monday, behind a hedge in Botchergate, was discovered a leathern bag, much decayed, containing a number of notes of the
Workington Bank, which, it was afterwards ascertained, had been stolen about a year and a half ago from the office of Messrs. ELLIOT
and FOSTER, of this city; and which, doubtless, had been secreted there by the thieves through fear of detection.-It is worthy
remarking, that several stamps, which had at the same time been stolen from the Banking premises, were some months ago found buried
in an adjoining garden. 

 

On Wednesday last were fully committed for trial, Patrick DALEY and John DOCHERTY, Irishmen, for coining. The particulars which led
to their apprehension are as follow:-On Saturday, some boys searching for birds' nests, hearing the sound of hammers, in a gill upon
Davidson's Banks, near this city, were attracted to the spot, and, on approaching nearer, discovered the persons in question in the
act of making counterfeit money. With a discernment which entitles them to a considerable degree of credit, and without giving the
alarm to those engaged in this nefarious pursuit, they immediately returned to the city, and gave information to the Magistrates of
what they had discovered. Instructions were immediately given to Mr. John KIRK (a police officer of this place, to whose exertions
and abilities in the execution of his trust-worthy office the public have in former instances been much indebted), who, with the
assistance of ARMSTRONG, another constable, proceeded to the spot, and detected the prisoners in the act. On being apprehended, they
threw away various implements connected with the traffic in which they were engaged; and, on being searched, several pieces of metal
were found upon their persons, in a state of preparation for forming into sixpences.-Considerable credit is due, on this occasion,
to all parties-to the boys for the intelligence they exhibited-to the Magistrates for the promptness with which they so speedily
executed the necessary orders for the suppression of this (it is to be feared only part of an) organized gang,-and to the officers
who executed their office with as much adroitness as would have done credit even to the police-men of London themselves. 

 

According to report in the fashionable circles, the Hon. Lucy Caroline LOWTHER, youngest daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale, is about
to give her hand to the Hon. W. POULET, second son of the Earl of Darlington. 

 

On Saturday, was found floating in the tide, opposite to Beaumont, the body of a man dressed in a sailor's habit, which, from its
decayed state, appears to have remained a long time under water; as the flesh, when touched, separated from the bones.-A
considerable time ago a seaman was lost from on board a vessel navigating the Frith, and there is reason to suppose, that the body
alluded to is that of the unfortunate man. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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