[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 31 Jan 1824 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 31 Jan 1824   (p. 2, col. 6 and p. 3, col. 1, 3 + 6)     [continued] 

 

We hear that all the lots of pleasant building-ground behind the East Walls of this city are now disposed of, and that the
purchasers, (Mr. GATE, Mr. DENTON, &c.) will almost immediately commence the erection of genteel rows of houses, which will at once
conduce to ornament and comfort. A new street from English-street to the East Walls, on the scite of Bonnell's Lane, is perhaps not
very far distant; and in contemplation of so desirable and important an improvement, Lord Lonsdale has reserved a given space, in
order that so fine an opening may be continued onwards to the East. There is little doubt but Carlisle will, at no very remote day,
be considerably extended in the direction spoken of. Never was there a finer situation for a town. 

 

The Comet is now to be seen in a clear evening in the N. N. W. a little to the westward of the tail of Ursa Major. It appears to the
naked eye like a star almost lost in space, now and then disappearing. In the morning, it shines like a star of the first magnitude;
no tail visible. The old women, as well as the Courier, confidently predict war in some shape or other. What! say they, did ever a
comet 'shake its horrid hair' in our faces, and not bring troubles and bloodshed? Depend upon it, we must have war! 

 

On Monday morning, about seven o'clock, the office of Messrs. JACKSON, corn and flour merchants, Whitehaven, was entered during the
momentary absence of the warehouseman in one of the upper stories, and robbed of cash to the amount of £5 2s. The thief must have
been well acquainted with the premises. 

 

A little boy, of Cleator, was last week lacerated in the face and arms, by a mad-dog. A surgeon immediately cut out the wounded
parts, and hopes are entertained that the virus has not penetrated to the blood. 

 

To increase the tonnage on the Carlisle canal, we would suggest to the Canal Committee to import limestone from Harrington, and to
burn it with culm from any of the ports in the west of Cumberland, where it can be purchased at the cheapest rate. We are persuaded
that a profitable trade might be carried on, to the great advantage of an extensive surrounding agricultural district.—Whitehaven
Gaz. 

 

On the 14th inst. George HOLMES, innkeeper, Cockermouth, was convicted, before Humphrey SENHOUSE, Esq., and the Rev. E. STANLEY, in
the mitigated penalty of fifty shillings, for keeping a disorderly house, and suffering people to tipple therein during divine
service on Sunday. 

 

The anxiety and fear occasioned by accounts of the resurrection-men, received in the neighbourhood of Keswick, have not yet
subsided: Crossthwaite church-yard is carefully watched. 

 

The following inquests have lately been taken before R. S. STEPHENSON, Esq., Coroner:—On view of the body of Robert LAMLEY, of Water
Houses, near Pooley, who was found drowned in the Lake of Ullswater, near to his own dwelling. On the body of Ann MOUNSEY, daughter
of Thos. MOUNSEY, of Askham, innkeeper. The deceased had complained of being rather unwell in her breast, and had gone to bed,
thinking to obtain a little ease. About two or three hours afterwards she was found dead. 

 

We understand that from the delays which have obtained in the proceedings for effectuating a commutation of the Tithes of this
Island, the measure is likely to miscarry. A future period may possibly arrive when the sense of the country will be better matured,
in which case the people en masse will have to apply; but when they do, it is probable that the terms will not prove so
eligible.—Isle of Man Adv. 

 

The quantities of smuggled whiskey imported from the Borders of Scotland since last autumn, when the high duties ceased, are beyond
calculation. Scarcely a town in Northumberland or Cumberland that is not inundated with it from which flows its consequences,
drunkenness and vice.—Newcastle Cour. 

 

The fossil remains of the head of an elephant, the bones of which prove it to have belonged to an animal nearly double the size of
the present species, were lately dug up from Solway Moss, and have been presented to the Philosophical Society of Leeds.—Country
paper. 

 

FAUX, in his Memorable Days in America, says he met with the once celebrated Joseph LANCASTER, at Baltimore, sinking fast into
poverty and contempt, and 'teaching a few small children.' 

 

Some miscreants have killed a number of sheep, perhaps to the number of thirty, near Stranraer, belonging to different individuals.
Their object appears to be merely to secure the tallow, for the sheep are found with their throats cut, and nothing but the tallow
taken away. Now the advantage to be derived from the tallow must be very trifling. It is computed, on an average, that each sheep,
at this season of the year, will not produce more than 4lbs. of tallow, which cannot be sold at more than 4d. per lb. 

 

On Wednesday week, according to a previous arrangement, certain ministers and elders, delegated by congregations in connection with
the Church of Scotland, situate in the North West of England, met at Maryport. After verifying each others powers, receiving the
submissions of their respective congregations, and settling the articles of their future association, the delegates present, formed
themselves into a Presbytery, denominated the Presbytery of the North West of England. The Rev. Walter FARLIE, minister of the
Scotch Church, Whitehaven, was chosen moderator for the ensuing half year. At the same time, the Rev. David THOM, of the Scotch
Church, Rodney-street, Liverpool, was appointed Presbytery clerk.—There was considerable business before the Presbytery. A letter
from the Rev. John SELKIRK, minister of the Scotch Church, Workington, approving of the object of the meeting, excusing his
attendance on the ground of ill health, and promising to join the Presbytery at a future period, was read, and a respectful letter
in reply, appointed to be written by the clerk. References from the Kirk Sessions of Liverpool and Maryport were laid upon the
table, and formed the subject of long and mature deliberation. Committees, to correspond with other Presbyteries were appointed, and
a proposal for their union, in a synod, directed to be made. The Presbytery ordered a pastoral letter, addressed to the different
congregations under their charge, to be read from their pulpits, printed, and circulated among their flocks. Petitions to both
Houses of Parliament, for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, and the extension of the right of performing the ceremony of
marriage, to non-conformist ministers, were directed to be drawn, engrossed, signed, and transmitted to the Marquis of Lansdowne,
and Lord Viscount Glenorchy, for the purpose of being laid by them upon the tables of the House of Lords and Commons. The registers
of the different Kirk Sessions were brought forward, examined, and ordered to be attested. The Presbytery sat on Wednesday and
Thursday, and after appointing their next meeting to take place at Liverpool, in the course of the ensuing autumn, their proceedings
were closed with an appropriate address from the Moderator, prayer, &c. Mr. THOM preached an eloquent discourse, on Wednesday
evening, in the Scotch Church, to a crowded auditory. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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