[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 06 Dec 1823 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 06 Dec 1823   (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1-2 + 6)     [continued] 

 

The Bishop of Chester consecrated the new Church at Workington, on Thursday se'nnight, under the name of St. John's Chapel. His
Lordship was received on the steps of the portico by the Rev. John CURWEN, rector of Harrington, and the Rev. A. DALZELL, perpetual
curate of Clifton, when they immediately entered the Church, and the Bishop began reading the 24th Psalm, to which the clergymen
made the responses. When they reached the altar, the Bishop entered and sat down, whilst his Secretary read the petition of
consecration and some other writings. When he had finished, the Bishop commenced with the consecration service. The usual morning
service was read by the Rev. John CURWEN; the Bishop and the Rev. Peter HOW (his Lordship's chaplain) officiated at the altar. The
sermon was also preached by the latter, who took his text from the 7th verse of the 96th Psalm. This edifice, as our readers are
aware, was built by a grant under the late act of parliament. The sides and north west end of it are of common masonry; the entrance
of polished stone, with a handsome Roman Doric portico, after Vitruvius: the steeple is of wood, and contains only one bell, 7 cwt.
The gallery is supported by cast iron pillars, and there being no pillars to support the roof, the interior is very light and airy.
The whole of the seats in the body of the Church are free, and will hold 960 persons; in the gallery are 77 pews, the annual rent of
which will be appropriated to the clergyman. The design is by Philip HARDWICK, Esq. of London, and is an exact model of St. Paul's,
Covent-Garden. Mr. P. NIXSON, of Carlisle, was the contractor, and Mr. BOSWARD, of London, superintended the work. The walls are
scarcely dry, and it is intended to be kept shut for a month or two, when it will be opened for the regular performance of divine
worship, mornings and evenings. After the consecration, the Rev. Peter HOW the rector of Workington, nominated the Rev. John CURWEN
to the perpetual curacy. On the same day, the Bishop consecrated Moresby new Church, with similar solemnities. It is dedicated to
St. Bridget. The Rev. G. WILKINSON, curate of Moresby, read prayers, and the Rev. A. HUDLESTON, rector of the parish, preached an
appropriate sermon from Psalm 96, v. 9-"O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." The service commenced about 1 o'clock. The
Church is plain but neat; and is finished in the inside with much taste. The seats are commodious, and the whole reflects great
credit on those engaged in the building. 

 

A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, enabling the Rev. Sir Richard FLEMING, Bart., clerk, A. M. chaplain to the Right Hon. the
Earl of Strathmore and rector of Grasmere, to hold the rectory of Windermere. 

 

The sloop Jane, of Annan, in entering Whitehaven harbour, on Saturday night last, ran her bowsprit against the North Wall, and the
foot rope giving way, the heel of the bowsprit entered the thigh of the master, Mr. BEATTIE, and jammed him against the mast, in
which situation he remained for some time before he could be extricated; and so great was the injury sustained that he died next
morning, leaving a wife and six children to lament his fate. 

 

The late accidents in coal-mines have aroused their proprietors, it is said, to a very active inquiry as to the best means of
preventing future calamities of the same kind: the introduction of the Davy has certainly given birth to carelessness in many of
those employed in the dangerous occupation, under the idea of security. Rumour states that a general assembly of the proprietors of
mines and coal pits is shortly to take place, and that the consideration of this important question will be submitted to the
professors of science, with the offer of a suitable reward for the discovery of such means as may prevent the recurrence of those
dreadful catastrophes. 

 

Mr. Thomas COX, brass founder, in Gateshead, has made an ingenious improvement for regulating, and, if necessary, extinguishing the
flame of the Davy-lamp: which appears entirely to prevent the intense heat contracted by the gauze in the upper part of the lamp,
when exposed to an explosive mixture, and seems likely to obviate the recurrence of such fatal accidents as that which lately
occurred at Rainton. Mr. BUDDLE has seen and highly approves of it. 

 

On Monday, a coroner's inquest was held on the body of Mr. Thomas JOHNSON, of Belfer, surgeon (late of Whitehaven), who was found
drowned, on the Sunday morning preceding, in the canal near the Long Bridge, in this place. It is understood Mr. JOHNSON came to
Derby to witness the ascent of Mr. SADLER's balloon, and having in the course of the evening visited several friends, had on his
return to his lodgings at the Royal Oak Inn, missed his way along the canal bridge, and fallen into the water. Although part of the
canal was dragged soon afterwards, the body was not found until the morning above mentioned. Verdict, found drowned.-Derby Mer. Nov.
19. 

 

The Kendal racing committee have proposed to give ten guineas towards a cup, to be added to a sweepstakes to be run for at the
ensuing Kendal races, for horses, mares, and geldings, to be regularly rode in the Westmorland and Cumberland regiments of yeomanry
cavalry, at the next meeting, which will take place in May, at Kendal; the horses to be rode by gentlemen belonging to the
regiments. 

 

Cockbridge Hunt, on the 25th ult., is thus described in a neighbouring paper: we presume the local reader will at once guess the
author:-"The  meeting was well attended; the gentlemen were well mounted; the horses were well rode; the hounds were well hunted;
the dinner was well dress'd; the dessert was well served; the chair was well filled; the toasts were well selected; the wine was
well flavoured; the punch was well made; the songs were well sung; the stories were well told; the mirth was well seasoned; the wit
was well pointed; the company were well pleased; and Mr. George SHEFFIELD was well paid.-Sir P. MUSGRAVE, Bart. was chosen Lord
Mayor for the year ensuing. 

 

The first stone of a new chapel, at Natland, near Kendal, was laid last week. The new chapel at Burnside is in a state of great
forwardness. 

 

A donation has been made to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, by Wm. DANBY, Esq. of Swinton Park, (and not by Sir James GRAHAM,
of Netherby, as stated in some of the papers) of the skull of an elephant, with the jaw-bones, teeth, &c. complete, and of immense
size, nearly twice as large as those in the menageries at the present day. 

 

 

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