[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 06 Apr 1816 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 06 Apr 1816   (p. 2, col. 5, and p. 3, col. 1+3)

 

The Committee for inspecting the accounts of the expenditure on the New Bridges, consisting of Sir F. F. VANE, Bart.; William
BROWNE, Esq. High Sheriff; the Rev. Dr. LOWRY; the Rev. R. MATTHEWS, and Thomas IRWIN, Esq. met at the Coffee House in this City, on
Monday the 25th ult. and after having most carefully examined the accounts for 1813 and 1814, pronounced them to be perfectly
correct. They also acknowledged that the explanation given by Mr. MURPHY and Mr. LUZMORE, were quite satisfactory. After passing the
close inspection of the Committee, the accounts were again examined by Mr. RICHARDSON, Sir F. F. VANE's steward, lest any error
should have escaped their scrutiny. 

 

Yesterday afternoon, the principal Bridge over the Eden, at the foot of this City, was opened to public use, and the mail coaches
for the first time, passed over it on their way to the North, which is an event of interest to Carlisle. This bridge consists of
five eliptic [sic] arches, each sixty-five feet span, and which rise about twenty-one feet above their base; the piers are nine feet
thick. Breadth of the bridge, within the parapets, thirty-three feet eight inches. The foot path on each side, when finished, will
be four feet and a half wide, leaving twenty-four feet eight inches for the carriage way.-The connecting Causeway and
Causeway-Bridge, are six feet and a half wider than the preceding, forming altogether a promenade of nearly a quarter of a mile. 

 

The Report of the Cattle Market Committee will be publicly read in the Town Hall, this day, at two o'clock. 

 

A Correspondent desires us to hint, while improvements are on the tapis, the great advantages that would accrue to the City if the
proposed plan of bringing river water into people's houses were revived and completed. This, he concludes, might be easily effected,
and would prove a convenience of no mean consideration. 

 

The Subscribers to the Lancastrian School will observe that a General Meeting is announced to take place on Tuesday next.-See advt. 

 

Preparations are making for opening our Theatre in a few days, which will be hailed with welcome, as the town at present is
extremely dull. 

 

We announce in the preceding column an interesting little poem "On the Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy," written by a LADY
of superior genius. In our next we shall enter into some remarks on this pleasing production, and in the mean time recommend it to
our readers. 

 

Grain has met with a considerable advance in our market for the last three weeks.-Bacon and Hams experienced a depression. The
latter may be bought in retail, of the finest quality, at 6d. per lb. 

 

The weather during the last twelve days, in this part of the country, has been very favourable for the business of the field; but
though fine, it has been cold. The spring is very backward, not only in the north, but also in the southern and western parts of the
kingdom. 

 

A Circus for equestrian performances is now erecting in Mr. SHEARER's yard, near the West Wall, for BANNISTER's troop. 

 

Last week, Mr. MURRAY (who recently delivered lectures in this city) descended into the William pit, at Whitehaven, the most
dangerous in the Kingdom, accompanied by Mr. PEELE, and put to the test DAVY's valuable discovery, the Safe Lamp.-The wire gauze
cylinder was, with the lamp burning brightly, introduced into one of the blowers in a dangerous recess, where, had they penetrated
with a candle, their destruction would have been inevitable: the effect was grand beyond description. At first a blue flame was seen
to cap the flame of the lamp,-then succeeded an increase of lambent flame, playing in the cylinder; and shortly after, the flame of
the fire damp expanded, so as completely to fill the wire gauze. For some time the flame of the lamp was seen through that of the
fire damp, which became ultimately extinguished without explosion. Results more satisfactory were not to be wished.-The triumphs of
humanity, so far as this extends, are unmingled. The miner who was with them gazed in astonishment, and exclaimed, "I could not have
thought it possible." 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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