[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 29 Jun 1816 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 29 Jun 1816   (p. 3, col. 1-3)

 

On Tuesday night in the House of Commons Lord A. HAMILTON moved the third reading of the Carlisle and Glasgow Road Bill. Some
discussion ensued, in which Sir J. STUART, Mr. FINLAY, Mr. PROTHEROE, Lord A. HAMILTON, Mr. FORBES, Mr. C. GRANT, sen. and Mr. W.
SMITH, participated, after which the Bill was read a third time and passed. 

 

On Wednesday last, the Lord Bishop of this Diocese held his triennial Visitation and Confirmation in the Cathedral of Carlisle. The
confirmation commenced about nine o'clock in the morning, and continued till eleven, the time of Divine Service, when an appropriate
sermon was preached by the Rev. R. GOODENOUGH: afterwards his Lordship delivered his charge to the Clergy, which was of great
length, and embraced several important topics. In the afternoon confirmation was resumed and brought to a close. One thousand four
hundred young persons attended the confirmation from various parts of the country. During this visitation much important business
relative to the Church was transacted. The Bishop of Chester was present in his character of Prebendary.—The Dean of Carlisle was
sufficiently well in health also to attend. 

 

W. BROWNE, Esq. the High Sheriff has presented the prisoners in the House of Correction in this city, the sum of £1, 1s., for which
they return him their best thanks. 

 

On Saturday last, between one and two in the afternoon, the Armoury of the Castle in this city was struck with lightning, during the
continuance of a thunderstorm. The fluid entered at the chimney, passed through the ceiling, knocked down and broke several drums,
ran from sword to sword melting them in different places and tearing the scabbards; from the swords it struck a pile of pikes, and
encountering a nail went through the floor into the next apartment; here it was attracted by the point of a bayonet, which it melted
blunt, and thence ran from musquet to musquet, shattering to pieces the stock of one in the bottom tier and forcing a screw out of
the under floor where there were several nails in contact with each other, and sunk into the earth. The chimney where the lightning
first struck is very much shattered and some of the bricks were thrown a considerable distance. There was only a single clap of
thunder, and at the time it burst Mr. DALRYMPLE and two men were in the garden near the armoury. The shock was tremendous; each
thought the other killed. When Mr. DALRYMPLE entered the upper room of the armoury he found it full of sulphureous smoke, and had
there not been a quantity of metal to have attracted the fluid out of the building, it is very probable it would have been set on
fire. It was providential the lightning did not strike the magazine; if it had the town would have been much shaken, as there is a
large quantity of powder in store. There is a new magazine provided with a conductor, but in consequence of the roof being in a
leaky state, the powder cannot yet be removed into it. The armoury and old magazine should both have conductors.—Two men were killed
by the lightning about the same time near Preston. 

 

On Friday night the 21st instant, the shop window of Mrs. SIMPSON, jeweller, Castle Street, was broken open and four second-hand
silver table-spoons stolen, which the villains must have observed in the window in the day time. Mrs. SIMPSON is not in the habit of
leaving valuable articles in the shop at night, but unfortunately did so in this instance. The villains to get at the spoons had to
reach their hands over a case which contained jewellery to a considerable amount, which it would appear, they were not aware of. It
is supposed the spoons were stolen for the purpose of coining, as it is suspected that a number of coiners infest Carlisle and the
neighbourhood. 

 

The annual meeting of the Carlisle Diocesan Committee in aid of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, will be holden
at the Town Hall in this city on the 5th of July—See Advt. 

 

The Swindler, DE MONTFORT, whom we mentioned in our last, has not since been heard of, and it appears by a letter from one of his
men at Newcastle, that the letter he wrote to Mr. SCOTT, was a ruse, in order to prevent any mention of him in the paper. An
intercepted letter dated from Shelsley, near Birmingham, fully developes [sic] his character. We understand he went for Leeds when
he ran away from this city. 

 

Mr. Baron WOOD, and Mr. Justice BAYLEY will preside at our ensuing Assizes. 

 

The last ten days of fine weather has made an astonishing alteration in the face of the country. The grass has grown amazingly, and
there are yet some hopes of a crop of hay. There will be a plentiful supply of fruit. 

 

MASONRY.—(From a Correspondent.)—On Monday last, the 24th of June, being the Anniversary of St. John the Baptist, the Brethren of
the St. John's Lodge, No. 614, holden at the King's Arms Inn, in Wigton, having met to hold a procession, they were attended by the
following visiting Lodges, viz.—Harmony and Union, from Carlisle; Unanimity, Penrith; Sun and Sector, Workington; Holy Temple,
Longtown; Annan St. Andrew's and Caledonian, Annan; St. Magdalen's, Lochmaben; Quyhtwhoolin, Lockerbie; and Fidelity, from Burnley,
Lancashire. The procession was formed, and at eleven o'clock it proceeded to Church; the streets were lined on all sides with an
immense concourse of spectators, and the windows adorned with all the grace and elegance of female beauty. After the Brethren were
seated in Church, prayers were read by the Rev. E. STANLEY, provincial grand Chaplain for the County of Cumberland, who afterwards
delivered a most excellent and appropriate Discourse from the Second Epistle General of Peter, 1st chap. 7th verse, in which he
recommended the Duties of Brotherly Love, Kindness, and Charity, with such forcible language that it rivetted the devout attention
of the congregation, and merited the sincere thanks of the brotherhood: the Rev. Gentleman has made an impression on their minds
that will be remembered with warm and grateful estimation.—After Divine Service, the procession was reversed, and returned to the
King's Arms, where an elegant dinner was provided by Brother IRVING, which did no small honor to the taste and judgment of the host
and hostess. Dinner concluded, many loyal, patriotic, and masonic toasts were heartily pledged, and the afternoon was spent in that
harmony, decorum, hilarity, and satisfaction, which the freedom, fervency, and zeal of this society always inspires, and which is
only experienced by the true Sons of Zion:— 

 

          "Exult in adoration's tuneful lay, 

          Join Head and Heart to hail this blessed day." 

 

A very numerous shew of cattle is expected at the opening of our first Fat Cattle Market this morning. In the afternoon, at three
o'clock, the friends of the cattle markets will dine together at the Coffee House—Tickets 2s. 6d. each to be had at the bar.—See
advt. 

 

On Wednesday last, a coroner's inquest was held at Longtown Moor, in the parish of Arthuret, upon the body of Andrew LITTLE, of
Steel, near Flosh End, Scotland, who was found dead upon the high road early the same morning.—The verdict was "Died by the
visitation of God." 

 

By the death of the Rev. Mr. PHILLIPS, the valuable living at Appleby, in the gift of the Dean & Chapter of this diocese, is become
vacant. 

 

There were, a day or two ago, several large patches of snow observable at a distance on Saddleback and Skiddaw. This is a
circumstance well worthy of observation, and that has not occurred for a great number of years. 

 

Sometime ago it was mentioned that an application was intended to be made to the post office for an acceleration of the
correspondence between the south and Newcastle. After considerable delay, an answer has been returned, in which their lordships the
postmaster-general "regret that there are not sufficient reasons to justify a compliance with the wishes of the petitioners,
attended as it would be with so heavy an expense to this department, and so great a burthen on the turnpike trusts." 

 

 

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