[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 20 Mar 1824 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 20 Mar 1824   (p. 3, col. 4-6)

 

The petitions from this City to both Houses of Parliament, praying for the mitigation and gradual abolition of negro slavery in the
British colonies, signed by 1081 persons, were forwarded to London on Saturday last. One from Whitehaven, very numerously signed,
was sent off on Tuesday; and we understand that similar petitions are about to be forwarded from Penrith, Alston, Brampton,
Longtown, Workington, and several other places in this county. 

 

On Wednesday night, as John IVISON, a well known character in this city, was sitting in a public-house near Caldew Bridges, he
dropped from his seat and expired. A coroner's inquest was held on the body, before R. LOWRY, Esq. and the Jury returned a verdict
of-Died by the visitation of God. 

 

It will be seen by our Parliamentary report, that Mr. JAMES has presented two petitions, from Carlisle and Whitehaven, praying for
the repeal of the combination laws. 

 

The Royal assent has been given to the Penrith and Cockermouth Road Bills. The Apppleby [sic] and Kirkby Kendal, and Ambleside and
Kirkby Kendal road bills, have passed the Commons. 

 

About one o'clock on Thursday morning last, the house of Mr. Geo. ARMSTRONG, publican, situate on Caldew-bridge, in the suburbs of
this city, was attacked by three men in a very singular manner. At that hour, they broke open the kitchen window, and one of them
entered, but was unexpectedly interrupted by Mr. ARMSTRONG's sister, his servant girl, Margaret PEAL, and Hugh M'CUTCHEON, a young
man, who had been sitting in the bar. But, nothing daunted, the intruder blew out the candle, snatched a stick from Miss ARMSTRONG's
hand, and was proceeding to further violence, (one on the outside observing, that if there were only women in the way, they might
soon be done for), when the females screamed most lustily, the noise of which aroused the master of the house, and James ROUTLEDGE,
who slept with him, and both ran into the kitchen, where they arrived in time to see one of the fellows making good his retreat
through the window by which he had entered. As soon as this person had reached the outside, a large paving stone was flung in at the
window, with an intention, of course, of striking some one within, but it was stopped by the settle, and failed in its object.
ARMSTRONG and ROUTLEDGE then opened the front door, and seeing three men run away from the house up Irish-gate Brow, they promptly
pursued them up Annetwell-street, down Finkle-street, and up Fisher-street, when one of them ran into Brown's Lane, and was there
taken; the other two fled up Fisher-street and were lost sight of: but as the captors were conveying their prisoner towards the
goal, with an intention of depositing him there, they were met in the street by his companions, who rescued him, and the whole for
that night got off. In the course of the morning, however, while a great many persons were assembled round the house, discussing the
transactions of the night, the offenders had the impudence to make their appearance on the wooden bridge right opposite; and being
recognized, an active pursuit was immediately commenced. The fugitives ran up Denton-holme, crossed the Caldew at Corporation Bay,
sped towards the Gas-house, crossed the head of Botchergate into the Horse-market, bent their course over the Sands, Eden Bridges,
and were ultimately taken at Houghton-townhead, about four miles from the city:-in the afternoon, they were examined before the
Mayor, and committed to gaol: their names are William THOMPSON (the rescued person), John THOMPSON (his brother), and James
DAVIDSON: the latter is a weaver, and is well-known; what the two former are, we have not heard. It appears that the same trio,
between twelve and one the same night, assailed the house of Jane MYERS, widow, near the Damside, broke down the window-shutter,
forced the front door, and compelled the affrighted woman to admit them into her room. On entering, they blew out the candle.
DAVIDSON said he was a constable, and pretended that MYERS had a cousin of his in her house, whom she intended to rob. She denied
the imputation, and said they might search the house if they would permit her to light the candle; but this they refused. After some
altercation, a woman who lives overhead, named SEWELL, gave Mrs. MYERS a light, which was taken from her by William THOMPSON, and
she then ran into the next entry and shouted murder, leaving the three prisoners in her house, but they left it in a few minutes. On
returning to her dwelling, she found the clothes off the bed, and her pocket, which she left under the bolster, was lying on the
floor, having been plundered of silver and copper to the amount of 3s. 8d. A young woman who lodges with MYERS escaped into SEWELL's
room; not, however, before she had been pulled about by one of them. They all appeared the worse for liquor. 

 

Mr. John BURN, of Manchester (a native of Cumberland), has obtained a patent for a dressing apparatus, which destroys all the
extraneous particles of cotton or of wool, which prevents goods made of those materials from assuming the wiry and polished
appearance of silk; and even coloured goods of both kinds come from the process with a strong and manifest improvement in hue as
well as fibre. This mode of dressing creates so little soil, that many of the articles submitted to it require no washing; and the
same apparatus is so contrived that it will dress goods of all fabrics, from the finest muslin to the coarsest carpet! and is so
complete in all its operations that it will dress yarn, thread, tapes, &c., as well as every other description of goods whatsoever. 

 

The Rev. John PANNELL, A. M. has been instituted to the Rectory of Ludgershall, Wilts, on the presentation of Sir James GRAHAM,
Bart. 

 

NEW CATHOLIC CHAPEL.-On Wednesday last, St. Patrick's Day, the foundation, or rather first corner stone, of the intended new Roman
Catholic Chapel, in Spring Gardens, near the east walls of the City, was laid in the presence of a great many spectators, chiefly
males; but so little order was observed, that only a few, by dint of pushing and riding on each other's backs, saw and heard what
took place. We believe there was little of ceremony; but whatever there might have been, we saw none of it. We heard, however, part
of the address of the Rev. Mr. MARSHALL, the resident Catholic pastor. He congratulated his fellow Catholics on the event. Their
holy religion, he said, was the most ancient and only true one; it was founded by Jesus, taught and propagated by his apostles,
thence handed down in due succession to the Catholics of the present day; and no power on earth, said the Rev. Gentleman, can change
it one tittle. All writers agreed that Christianity was brought into England by St. Augustine from Rome, as it had been introduced
into Ireland about two centuries before by St. Patrick, who explained to the barbarian inhabitants the doctrine of the Trinity by
the trefoil or shamrock, yet worn by the Irish as the national symbol of their faith and of their attachment to the memory of the
saint who gave them at one and the same time religion and civilization. To those of his own congregation present who had lent him
their assistance in the important undertaking then so happily commenced, he returned his most heartfelt thanks; and exhorted them to
be instant in good works, exhibiting the liveliness of their faith in the Gospel by the morality of their lives. Mr. MARSHALL
concluded with a short prayer for a blessing on the edifice about to spring up for God's holy worship. The stone was then laid; and
the Rev. Mr. RIDING, of Warwick, ascended it, and shortly addressed the spectators. He, too, congratulated his hearers, and
complimented the zeal and spirit of Mr. MARSHALL, by whose almost unaided efforts this great work had been begun, and by him would
it be chiefly accomplished. The chapel, he said, would be under the patronage of St. Patrick, the tutelary saint of Ireland, the
natal land of a considerable portion of the Catholics who now surrounded him. He urged them to piety, order, peace, and good-will;
to attend to the doctrines and precepts of their holy religion; and be careful to let its influence be visible in their conduct,
especially on this day, perhaps to some a day of relaxation. He begged them to be careful in the discharge of all their duties as
men and Christians; to be good members of the community of which they formed a part; and at all times to exert themselves in behalf
of the flourishing and respectable city in which they resided.-The Rev. Mr. HOLDING, Catholic priest at Workington, was also
present; but, we believe, did not speak on the occasion. We have already described the dimensions and character of this new addition
to our public buildings. 

 

 

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