[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 08 Feb 1823 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 08 Feb 1823   (p. 2, col. 5 and p. 3, col. 2-3 + 5)

 

Sheriffs appointed by his Majesty in Council for 1823:-Cumberland, Edward STANLEY, of Ponsonby-Hall, Esq.; Northumberland, Prideaux
John SELBY, of Twizel-House, Esq.; Yorkshire, Walter FAWKES, of Farnley-Hall, Esq.; Cheshire, John WHITE, of Sale, Esq. 

 

Mr. Justice BAYLEY and Mr. Justice HOLROYD will come on the ensuing Northern Circuit. The time of opening the Court in Carlisle and
Appleby is not yet announced; nor is it known which of the learned judges will preside in Cumberland and Westmorland. 

 

We last week spoke of a mild temperature. Scarcely had our paragraph gone forth to the public, when the weather changed. Snow fell
during the greater part of Sunday and Monday, and at intervals since that time, up to last night. On Wednesday, morning, the
Thermometer (Mr. PITT's) was at 17 deg.; at noon 28; at night 12; on Thursday morning 27 deg. The fall of snow both to the South and
North of Carlisle has been immense. Travelling is almost at stand. The London mails of Sunday and Monday did not arrive here till
Thursday afternoon; the mail of Tuesday came in the course of the same night; Wednesday's mail, which should have reached us
yesterday morning at half past nine, is not yet arrived; and several other mails were due when we went to press. The road between
this City and Edinburgh, is impassable by coaches, we are told, for an extent of nearly fifty miles; consequently, those bags which
have arrived, were brought on horseback. 

 

The Ball and Supper at the Coffee-House, on Thursday night, were attended by a brilliant company, upwards of one hundred in number.
Dancing commenced at nine. At twelve, supper was announced; an elegant display of every delicacy, highly creditable to Mr. and Mrs.
KING, served in 254 dishes. Dancing was resumed with great spirit, and kept up by a part of the company till near six in the
morning. 

 

The warehouse Messrs. STOCKBRIDGE & Co's cotton manufactory, at Long Island, near this city, was much damaged on Thursday by
conflagration. It appears that a fire was left burning the night previous, in order to dry some calicoes; and a spark is supposed to
have fallen among these goods. Between seven and eight in the morning, the work-people first discovered the fire within, which was
then slowly burning; but on breaking open the doors and windows, the flames burst forth with great violence. Every possible exertion
was made by those present; but before the destructive element could be got under, the roof of the building fell in, and many pieces
of the goods were either wholly or partially burnt. The damage is said to amount to several hundred pounds. 

 

GAVIN and GRAHAM were brought up at the Public-Office, on Wednesday, when the former was fully committed for trial at the ensuing
Assizes, and the latter held to bail also to appear on that occasion. On both Saturday and Wednesday, a number disorderly boys were
compelled to attend at the office, charged with sabbath-breaking; but on further inquiry it turned out that they league for all
kinds of wickedness, and corrupt each other. One of them had stolen several knives; another had somewhere obtained no less than four
dozen of pen-knives, which, it appeared, he had sold for a penny each, &c. They promised amendment, and were finally dismissed,
their friends having been made acquainted with their conduct. 

 

George PENNINGTON, of Cockermouth, lately lodged in Carlisle gaol, on a charge of forgery, was yesterday morning sent off for
Gloucester, where he will be tried. 

 

The Ranters, of whose operations in the neighbouring counties of Northumberland, Durham, and York we have heard so much, are
extending themselves into Cumberland. A journeyman hatter of Carlisle, named JOHNSON, holds forth almost every other night at
various places in and about this City, whither a considerable number of persons flock to hear him. We are afraid they are more
likely to delude themselves by false confidence, than to amend either their hearts or their lives. 

 

During the present inclement weather, a gentleman shot a wild goose, in the neighbourhood of Bolton, near Appleby, which weighed
12lb. 

 

A few days ago, three wild ducks were seen in a runlet near the shop of John WILSON, nailor, Appleby: and a woodcock was sprung in
the garden of H. CAMPBELL, Scattergate; a proof of the severity of the cold in that quarter. The oldest person living, cannot
recollect the snow having been so deep upon Stainmoor, and the neighbourhood of Brough, as at the present period. 

 

In consequence of the severity of the weather, a great many of the feathered race have perished, and hundreds are domesticated in
the country houses. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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