[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 13 Sep 1823 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 13 Sep 1823   (p. 4, col. 4-5)

 

The Academy of Arts, in Finkle-street, Carlisle, is now nearly finished in a style which reflects no little honour on our good city,
and will be opened, we are glad to perceive, on the 24th instant, with an exhibition of painting, sculpture, &c. by native and other
artists. This is a spirited commencement; and we trust the institution will meet with that support which its usefulness so eminently
merits. Several of the neighbouring gentry intend to evince their approbation of it, we understand, by a loan of pictures; and we
dare say that others will follow their example as soon as they are aware of the claims of the establishment upon their liberality.
We shall return to this subject in our next number. 

 

For the last eight days, the weather has been all that we could have wished it: the consequence is, that the remains of the hay-crop
are placed out of harm's way, and the grain harvest is going on briskly in various directions: by the end of another week, it will
become general. Corn advanced considerably in our market on Saturday: but as prices suddenly fell in London and Liverpool on Monday
and Tuesday, we may also expect a corresponding declension this day in Carlisle. 

 

Shearers' wages at our market-cross, are from 18d. to 22d. per day, without victuals. The demand is not yet very lively. 

 

There have been two Gretna marriages this week, between persons of some note from the south, but they kept their names and
connections so secret on passing through Carlisle, that we are not able to gratify the lovers of such information with a development
of either. 

 

Lord LOWTHER left Lowther-Castle on the 5th inst. for London, but will return into the north before the commencement of Carlisle
races. Lord William BENTINCK and Sir James GRAHAM, Bart. M. P. arrived at the Castle on Saturday; Lady Eleanor LOWTHER and Family on
Monday; and on Tuesday, the Earl of Darlington arrived. 

 

The collection in behalf of the national schools in the parish of St. Mary, Carlisle, was £16 5s.; in the parish of St. Cuthbert,
£13. 

 

Mr. William MACREADY appeared on the Carlisle boards on Monday and Tuesday evenings, in the characters of Virginius and Hamlet. The
house was crowded to excess on both occasions, and the deservedly-popular actor afforded the audience a treat of the first order:
there is no performer of the present day capable of giving us any thing superior, if equal, to his Virginius.—On Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, the celebrated Miss STEPHENS and Mr. HORN made their appearance here, in Lore in a Village and Rob Roy
Macgreggor, each introducing, at proper intervals, a considerable variety of favourite songs, independent of those belonging to the
respective pieces. On the first night, Miss STEPHENS had so severe a cold as to deem an apology necessary, by the mouth of the
manager, but she sang most delightfully notwithstanding, particularly the pretty Scotch song, "Coming through the rye," which the
audience could not refrain from encoring. On Thursday night, her voice was in better order, and the numerous audience heard her with
a delight that burst forth in loud and repeated applause. Mr. HORN also gave great satisfaction; he has a fine voice, and perfect
science. Mr. CALCRAFT, of Edinburgh, is here for a short time; Mr. LANE has commenced operations; Mr. BODDIE is returned, spite of
old disagreements; and there are some new faces, of whom we shall say a word or two when we have seen more of them. The company is
now highly respectable both in talent and number; and we hope that, as Mr. ALEXANDER has made an effort to gratify the town by
arresting the flight of some of those stars of the first magnitude which the closing of the London houses caused to wander awhile
from their sphere, the town, in return, will make an effort to support him during the short time that he intends to tarry amongst
us.—Mr. W. MACREADY plays at Whitehaven, we observe, on Monday next. 

 

The office of Messrs. HODGSON & NANSON, solicitors, was broken into on the night of Monday last by some thieves at present unknown,
who plundered a desk of about forty pounds, belonging Mr. W. HODGSON, jun. They got over the outer wall, picked the lock of the
front-office door, and forced that of the desk. 

 

An elderly woman, of the name of Sarah MALCOLM, from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, (according to a written certificate in her
possession,) was found, a few days ago, upon the high road in a very distressed condition, being grievously afflicted with the
palsy: she was removed to the poor-house at Linstock, where she died. It may be consolatory to her surviving relatives, should this
meet their eye, to know that she was decently interred at Stanwix, on the 11th inst. 

 

The remains of — TEMPLETON, Esq. from near Peebles, on their way to Surrey for interment, passed through Carlisle on Thursday night;
and on the same evening those of the late W. CAMPBELL, Esq. of London, arrived, and set off yesterday morning, for burial in
Ayrshire. The hearse was drawn by six horses; a mourning coach and four followed; and six or eight men on horseback, with hatbands,
led the way. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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