[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 05 Oct 1822 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 05 Oct 1822   (p. 3, col. 2-3 and 6)

 

At a meeting of the Carlisle Gas-Company on Tuesday last, at the Town-Hall, a dividend of 5 per cent., on old and new shares, was
ordered to be paid on the 15th inst. 

 

Mr. John HUDSON, Midshipman, R. N. (son of the Rev. J. HUDSON, of Stanwix), is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to
the Bann. 

 

Are not our races held a week too soon? Why not give time for some of the beaten horses to arrive from Doncaster? It is not the
case, we understand, at present. Every body exclaims against the folly of giving away so much money for so little sport as the late
meeting produced. 

 

The two troops of the 3rd Dragoon-Guards quartered in this City, march for Newcastle on Monday morning, in order to join the
regiment, previous to its being reviewed by Lord Somerset. They will immediately return to Carlisle. 

 

The present state of the atmosphere is particularly favourable to the existence of fever. A medical man informs us, that, besides
many cases of typhus, scarlet fever is on the increase; and, he adds, unless many of the lanes and alleys in the city and its
outskirts are purified (they are at present in a most loathsome state), infection may be expected to spread with alarming rapidity. 

 

The re-construction of Botcherby-Bridge goes on with great spirit; it will be passable in a short time. 

 

Carlisle has been partially supplied with herrings during the week, from the neighbouring coast: they were very small. 

 

Several of the Cumberland and Westmorland hills have already exhibited a covering of snow. The gossips prognosticate a hard
winter—principally, we believe, because hips and haws are unusually plentiful. 

 

On Monday, we saw a pear of the kind called by the French, Good Christian, grown in Scotland, which weighed 1¾ lbs. 

 

A few days ago, Mr. Richd. BARNES, of the Close, Abbey-Holm, fired at a partridge which rose almost perpendicularly before him, and
shot it through the eye: stunned by the blow, the bird turned round, flew towards him, he caught it in his hand, and thus bagged it
without its falling to the ground. 

 

Mr. WHIDBY, the ingenious director of the Plymouth Breakwater Works, arrived at Whitehaven on Saturday, and Mr. RENNIE, was expected
to reach that place on Thursday, with the design of concerting various improvements in Whitehaven harbour. The Earl of Lonsdale has
also proceeded to Whitehaven for the promotion of the same object. 

 

Brough-Hill Fair was held on Monday and Tuesday last. The weather was very favourable, which occasioned the attendance of great
numbers of well-dressed people of both sexes. There was a good and numerous show of both cattle and horses: the former met with a
pretty brisk sale, but prices moderate. Good horses sold well: one pair of good carriage horses produced £120. A gentleman in the
neighbourhood of Kirkby-Stephen had £130 bid for a pair the day before the fair, which he refused; but on the Hill he could not get
more than £90. Dark bay and dark grey were the favourite colours of these kind of horses: there was comparatively a small number of
bad ones. Sheep went low. There were fewer depredations committed by the light-fingered tribe than we ever heard of on such an
occasion. One man was committed to Appleby house of correction on the first day, charged with an attempt to steal a young man's
watch: he was discharged on his examination the following day, there not being sufficient evidence for fully committing him. 

 

The rebuilding of the bridge at Hoff, near Appleby, is now finished: it appears to be well-constructed, and is a little wider in the
span than the old one. The abutments and a centre pillar for the wooden bridge over the Eden at Watson's Holm, have been re-erected.
As it will take timber of a considerable length, it is uncertain when the wood-work will be finished. 

 

A fine specimen of that rare bird on the British coasts, the Larus Crepidatus, or black-toed gull, was taken near St. Bees' Head, a
few days since. 

 

A widow woman, named WILSON, at the advanced age of 78 years, travelled from a village in Westmorland, on a visit to her son, who is
landlord of the King's Head public-house, in Mansfield. The distance is 180 miles, which she performed on foot in five days, making
an average of 36 miles per day; an instance of strength rarely to be met with in a person so far advanced in years. 

 

At the last Lancaster Assizes, in the case of WATKINSON v. CROCKETT and SALKELD, it was adjudged that in case of a consignee proving
insolvent, goods forwarded to him by consignee may be stopped in transitu, and that upon such order, carriers are bound to return
them to their original owner or owners. 

 

Mr. Alderman Robt. BELL was on Monday last chosen Mayor of Newcastle. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

 

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