[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 14 Feb 1824 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 14 Feb 1824   (p. 2, col. 6 and p. 3, col. 1-2, 5 + 6)

 

This is Valentine's Day-when the birds and the lads and lasses 'gang a wooing'- 

 

     "When maids are brisk, and at the break of day 

     Start up and turn their pillows, curious all 

     To know what happy swain the fates provide 

     A mate for life. Then follows thick discharge 

     Of true-love knots, and sonnets nicely penned, 

     But to the learned critic's eye no verse, 

     But prose distracted." 

 

Valentine was an ancient presbyter of the Church: he suffered martyrdom by the persecution under Claudius the second at Rome; being
beaten with clubs, and then beheaded in the Via Flaminia, about the year 270. 

 

REV. EDWARD IRVING.-It is reported in Fife that this Rev. Gentleman has been offered the church of Leslie, vacant by the translation
of the Rev. William GREIG to St. Ninian's. We have also heard that it is probable Mr. IRVING will accept the living, which is in the
gift of Geo. LESLIE, Esq. of Leslie, and one of the best in Fife.-Fife Her. 

 

SPRING ASSIZES.-The commission for the ensuing Spring Assizes, will be opened in Carlisle on Thursday the 4th of March next; at
Appleby, we believe, on the succeeding Saturday night; but on this point our information does not enable us to speak with certainty.
Meanwhile the Assizes in Northumberland and Durham will be holden; and both Judges then proceed to Lancaster, where they are
expected to arrive on Wednesday evening the 10th; and at York on Saturday the 20th, or Wednesday the 24th. It is not yet known
whether Mr. Justice BAYLEY or Mr. Justice HOLROYD comes into Cumberland and Westmorland;-but the latter is at present expected. 

 

Thomas Henry GRAHAM, Esq. entered upon his important duties of High Sheriff of the county on Thursday last, and yesterday the
prisoners in the gaol, 72 in number, of all descriptions, were turned over to his care. Mr. SAUL, of Carlisle, is appointed Under
Sheriff. 

 

The Carlisle harriers will cast off on Monday, at Newtown; on Wednesday at Carleton; and on Friday, at Cumrew; each morning at 8. 

 

The family and property of our worthy Chief Magistrate had a providential escape from fire on Sunday morning. About 2 o'clock, Mr.
ANDERSON, surgeon, who resides next door, entered his house, and saw no appearance of smoke or conflagration: but about twenty
minutes after two, Dr. BLAMIRE was awakened by difficulty of breathing, occasioned by smoke, which had penetrated his bed-room and
seemed to pervade the whole dwelling. He instantly called up his servants, and also roused Mr. ANDERSON by knocking against the
partition which separates the two houses. The latter gentleman hastened down, and seeing the smoke pouring out at the windows and
rising above the roof, concluded that the upper part of the building was in flames; he therefore proceeded to the Market-place, and
sounded an alarm. In the interim, one of the Doctor's servants had got down stairs, through the dense smoke, and discovered the fire
raging in the back kitchen with great violence. She instantly ran into the street to call for aid, but unfortunately shut the front
door after her; so that when several persons, who were at Mr. WHARTON's, hard by, came to render assistance, they could not get in
until they thought of the expedient of scaling the wall in Mr. THOMPSON's yard; they then at once came to the seat of danger, and,
without losing a moment, dashed into the back kitchen through one of the windows, and by their activity soon quenched the devouring
element with the water which was soon handed to them by others whom the cry of fire had now attracted to the spot. The accident
originated, it is supposed, in the snuff of a candle inadvertently dropped among some rags in the drawer of a dresser; and the fire
was greatly assisted and increased by a bottle of oil and a quantity of kitchen grease which were in a sort of cupboard beneath. The
dresser was consumed as well as other wood-work; the flames had nearly reached the door; and the heat was so intense as to break the
glass of the windows, and a mettle [sic] utensil hanging between the door and the dresser was red hot. Dr. BLAMIRE was compelled to
remain in his bed-room on account of difficulty of respiration arising from the smoke; but Mrs. BLAMIRE, with a courage not often
found in her sex, quickly followed the servant down stairs, and opened the back kitchen door, when the flames issued forth and
slightly scorched her face; in fact, she was exceedingly active during the whole scene, and displayed an energy and presence of mind
that might have been invaluable had the fire attained a greater progress. The damage was inconsiderable. But in a few minutes more
all escape by the stairs would have been cut off; and in less than an hour the greater part of the house must have been
consumed-perhaps with some of its inmates. One poor servant girl was so much alarmed that she could not be prevailed upon to go down
stairs, though assured that the way was open; but she shouted from her three-story window, and begged to have a ladder brought to
aid her escape; she had even tied together some of the bed-clothes in her fright, in order to descend! 

 

T. H. GRAHAM, Esq. the present, and Edward STANLEY, Esq. late High Sheriff, have each sent two guineas for distribution amongst the
prisoners confined in Carlisle gaol. 

 

The Corporation have nearly filled up their portion of the old branch of the river below Eden Bridge; and there will soon be plenty
of stuff for doing away with the nuisance altogether, by filling up that part which belongs to his Grace of Devonshire. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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