[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 15 Nov 1823 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 15 Nov 1823   (p. 4, col. 3-4 and p. 3, col. 6)

 

THE CHASE.—The Carlisle Harriers cast off on Monday, the 17th inst. at Moorhouse; on Wednesday the 19th, at the Stub, Kirklinton;
and on Friday, the 21st, at Lime-kilns, Broadfield; each morning at eight o'clock. 

 

A very respectable correspondent thus writes to us —"I have lately noticed some letters in your paper relative to the growing
prosperity of the Canal; and as facts are at all times better than suppositions, it may be some gratification to the public to know
(now that coals are selling at from 5d. to 6d. per peck in Carlisle) that a Coal Company has been formed on an extended and liberal
basis, and will commence active business as soon as proper vessels can be procured." 

 

On Wednesday night, an attempt was made to rob the house of Mr. LEWTHWAITE, boot and shoemaker, Globe Lane, in this city. Mrs. L.
was awakened by a noise below, and she instantly (without rousing her husband) most courageously got out of bed and ran down stairs,
where she saw a tall stout man, with dark clothes, making his escape through the window, he having effected his entrance that way,
by forcing the bolt of the shutter, and lifting up the sash, which was not fastened. It is supposed that the thief was about to
plunder a chest of drawers in the room; but being disturbed at the commencement of operations he obtained no booty whatever. 

 

Carlisle Martinmas hiring-day, on Saturday last, was attended by an immense number of persons of both sexes, in quest of employment,
so that the street, from the Market-place to half-way up English-street, was literally impassable for an hour or two in the
forenoon. The demand was tolerably good, and able men and women both obtained advantageous wages as times go; while those of
inferior qualifications would have been glad to hire on any terms. Men, from £4 to £6, the half-year; women, £2 10s. to £4 10s.
There was again a lively sale of cattle on the Sands, at from five to fifteen per cent. higher than late prices. 

 

Egremont hiring market, on Saturday, was attended by a great number of men and women servants, many of whom could not find masters,
though the wages were low. 

 

Mr. CURWEN arrived in the Isle of Man on the 6th instant. 

 

The Archbishop of York has appointed the Rev. Archdeacon WRANGHAM, Prebendary of Ampleforth, in York Cathedral. 

 

A meeting of Westmorland magistrates was last week held at Kendal, in order to answer certain interrogatories on the subject of
prison discipline, sent down by government. There were present, Sir P. MUSGRAVE, Bart., W. W. C. WILSON, Esq., C. WILSON, Esq., E.
W. HASELL, Esq., &c. 

 

HEWITSON and WILSON, who for some time have been under sentence of transportation at Appleby, were lately sent off for embarkation. 

 

A child, whose parents reside at Asby, was lately born with six fingers on each hand. The additional member, we understand,
projected from the outer joint of the fifth finger of each hand. Amputation has been successfully performed by Mr. BRADLEY, of
Appleby, surgeon. 

 

On Sunday week, a man killed himself by drinking gin for a wager, near Burnley, Lancashire. He swallowed two quarts at two
draughts!! 

 

A paper was lately posted on a chapel door in Westmorland, stating that the advertiser was about to kill a bull that week, the
choice parts of which he would sell at 2½d., middle cuts at 2d., and rough pieces at 1½d. per lb. 

 

Mr. Robert KNEALE was unfortunately drowned at Ramsey, on Thursday week, while endeavouring to render assistance to a vessel coming
into the bay. 

 

The Gazette of Saturday contains an order from the Lords of the Treasury to the Collectors of Customs, declaring the trade between
Great Britain and Ireland to have become a coasting trade, pursuant to an Act of Parliament of last Session. 

 

A large new steam packet, to navigate between Newcastle and London with goods and passengers, is about to be built at the former
place: she will be 140 feet long, 23 feet 3 inches wide, and will contain 40 or 50 beds—expected to be ready for sea next June. 

 

The gentlemen of Dumfries have presented John KERR, Esq., late provost of that burgh, a handsome gold snuff-box, 'as a testimony of
their high estimation of him as a magistrate and a gentleman.' 

 

A forgery has been detected on the one pound note of the Paisley Bank. The paper wants the water mark and the Government Stamp, and
the names of Adam KEIR, and MACFARLANE, are engraved instead of being written. 

 

Government is about to send a number of convicts to Bermuda, to work on the docks there. 

 

The future weights to be carried for the King's Hundred, at Carlisle, are to be—four year olds, 10st. 7lb.; five, 11st. 7lb.; six,
11st. 12lb.; and aged, 12st. 

 

On the 3rd or 4th of this month, a young man, said to be of respectable connexions, came to Annan from Dumfries, and discounted a
bill for £20. Some suspicion of its validity being excited, it was immediately sent off for verification, when it turned out to be a
forgery. The person, however, was apprehended in a house about a quarter of a mile from Annan, and sent to Dumfries. 

 

Commission in the Northern Regiment of Northumberland Local Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland—Sanderson
ILDERTON, Esq., to be Major, vice HOWEY, deceased. 

 

The galliot, Duncan, W. TYSON master, fr Whitehaven for Duddon, was lost on the 31st ult. in going into Wyre, and all on board
perished. 

 

The Kelsick Wood, PORTEUS, St. George, FEARON, and Cumberland, ASHBRIDGE, have arrived at Quebeck, from Liverpool. 

 

The Jane, MOSS, one of the Ulverstone traders, which was stated to have been lost, arrived at Liverpool on Sunday. 

 

The Formosa, DAVIS, trader from London to Newcastle, put into Hull after the late storm, having lost anchors and cables, and carried
away her windlass in the Humber, where she took shelter. 

 

The sloop Stag, MARTIN master, laden with herrings and salt, and bound from Peel to Greenock, left the Isle of Man on Thursday week,
at 2, P. M.—In the course of a few hours, the breeze became a gale—the gale a hurricane; the sea ran mountains high, and the night
set in so dark and stormy, accompanied by a tide so tremendously rapid, that the unfortunate crew lost their reckoning, and
mistaking the false lights on the opposite shore for Copland and Portpatrick, ran right up the Bay of Luce, as far as the point of
Torr. Here the Stag struck on a sand bank, and such was the fearful lashing of the waves, that in a few minutes she became a total
wreck. In their efforts to escape, the master, two seamen, and a passenger from Greenock, of the name of James ADAMS, unfortunately
perished, the only survivor being Mr. M'LEAN, the owner of the vessel and cargo. Great praise is due to Mr. CUNNINGHAM of Torrs for
his humane exertions on the occasion. The bodies of the four unfortunate sufferers having been washed on shore, were interred at
Stranraer. 

 

 

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