Carlisle Patriot, 06 Aug 1825 - Local News (1)

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Saturday 06 Aug 1825 (p. 3, col. 1-3 + 6)

[A significant portion of the left side of column 1 was cut off in the filming. Gaps and information gleaned from the Cumberland Pacquet, as well as the transcriber's educated guesses, are in square brackets.]

[SUMMER ASSI]ZES.—The Judges intend to enter [Carlisle, as w]e stated in our last, about two o'clock [on Monday af]ternoon, and open the Commission; [but the busin]ess of the Courts will not commence [until Tuesday] morning. A considerable number of [ cau]ses are expected to come on, some of [which are i]nteresting to the public. The following [is a corre]ct calendar of the prisoners:—

[John WILSON], aged 40, committed March 21, 1825, [by Benjamin] JACKSON, clerk, charged upon the oath of [Isaac TOPPIN,] of Skirwith, with having stolen and taken [away from C]arleton, in the parish of Penrith, two [wether sheep,] his property.

[Richard PU]RDOM, aged 49, committed June 8, 1825, [by Thomas] BLAMIRE, Esq., charged with having uttered [five forged an]d counterfeit notes, purporting to be of the [British Linen] Company, and four other forged [and counterfeit no]tes, purporting to be of the Dundee Bank, [well knowing] the same to have been forged.

[Hannah] WELLS, aged 48, committed June 20, 1825, [by John LITTL]EDALE, Esq., charged with having feloni[ously and bur]glarously entered the dwelling-house of [Rebecca WO]ODVILE, in the parish of Moresby.

[John SHA]RPE, aged 20, committed July 13, 1825, [by John HOD]GSON, Esq. Mayor, charged upon the oath [of Joseph C]OULTARD and others, with having in the [night of th]e 12th day of July last, feloniously and [burglariously] broken and entered the dwelling-house of [Joseph Mon]khouse HEAD and George HEAD, of the [city of Carlisl]e, grocers, and stolen and carried away [therefrom a] quantity of copper coin of the value of 20s.

[Thomas] Francis CROSS, aged 22, committed July [29, 1825,] by the Rev. James LYNN, charged upon the [oath of Dani]el DOVER, of Crosthwaite, with stealing [several articl]es of household furniture from the dwelling-[house of the] late Sir John Benn WALSH, Bart.

[Mary T]REMBLE, aged 25, committed August 5, [1825, by th]e Rev. Richard MATTHEWS, charged upon [the oath of] Ennice SCOTT, wife of Robert SCOTT, with [feloniously] stealing and carrying away from off a hedge, [one shift, th]e property of the said Robert SCOTT.

[The Hi]gh Sheriff's dinner at the Bush Inn, on [Monday,] will be a splendid one. Mr. HOLMES has [procured a] very fine lively Turtle for the occasion, [weighing] eighty pounds.

[The Ea]rl of Lonsdale was accompanied to Low[ther by th]e Countess, and Miss Thompson. Lord [and Lady] Frederick BENTINCK left London on [ ] for Westmorland; and Lord LOWTHER is [also expe]cted at the Castle.

[Sir J. R]. G. GRAHAM, Bart., Lady GRAHAM, and [family, ar]rived at Netherby, from the South, on [Saturday] last. We are happy to hear that Lady [GRAHAM's] health is perfectly restored.

[The ne]xt Carlisle Exhibition of Painting and [Sculpture] will certainly do great honour to this [City, and] will doubtless be the best ever seen out [of Londo]n or Edinburgh. Several of the first [artists int]end to contribute. Two landscapes by [GLOVER, a]nd two fine pictures by FRADELLE, have [already a]rrived. NORTHCOTE has, we believe, for[warded t]wo. COOPER lends his aid, &c.

[We ha]ve no longer to complain of drought or of [ ] heat. On Monday the Thermometer [was rath]er more than 78º in the.shade; but on [Tuesday] a change took place, and since that time, [until th]e present (Friday evening), we have had [a continu]al succession of as fine rain as ever fell, to [the incal]culable benefit of the country.

[The] machinery destined to supply the Carlisle [Canal] with water, has been in full and constant [operatio]n since last Monday morning. The supply [of water is] equal to the average loss and evaporation [in the] hot weather—consequently, in ordinary [ ] by an early commencement, the pump [and the] reservoir will in future ensure the requisite [amount o]f water, provided no further impediment [ ] of the construction of the engine.

The King's Arms Inn, Carlisle, (kept by Mr. DONALD) was robbed on Saturday last of £14 or £15, in bank notes, by some person who has hitherto eluded detection. On account of a more than usual influx of company occasioned by the Lammas hiring-day, strangers were shewn into a room upstairs, next to which is Mr. DONALD's bed-room. The money was deposited in a locked desk in the latter; the thief dextrously picked the lock; and it is clear that he did the deed in a great hurry, for he left untouched a much larger sum of money in a small drawer, as well as some silver spoons and Mr. DONALD's watch, which lay before him near the pocket-book. A particular person is suspected, a stranger, but his name is unknown.

Extract of a letter from Workington:—"An explosion took place in a coal-pit in the neighbourhood of this town on Wednesday, and the mine is now on fire. Two dead bodies have been got out; but I know not how many more persons have perished."

On Monday last, an inquest was held at Melmerby by Richard LOWRY, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Geo. CARRUTHERS, aged 20 years, who was drowned on the preceding day while bathing in the river Eden, near Little Salkeld.—Verdict, accidental death.

A correspondent informs us, that in consequence of a paragraph which recently appeared in our paper respecting the dilapidated state of the monument on Burgh Marsh, he was induced to visit it last week, and found it exactly in the state described. One of the steps leading up to it is thrown down, and many of the stones chipped at the corners and otherwise disfigured: one half of the plate which bears the inscription has also been forced from the stone work, with considerable labour and violence. Few will envy the feelings or taste of persons who could thus deface a public monument merely for the purpose of obtaining a paltry relic, as the plate in question could certainly have no other value in the eyes of any one. To prevent such acts of Vandalism for the future, as the monument stands in a lonely situation, our correspondent thinks, that inclosing it with an iron paling would be the most effectual way. On the spot where Edward I. died while on his march to invade Scatland, and where part of his remains, it is said, was interred, a monument was erected, which fell, some years ago, by the hand of time: and near the old scite, the present monumental pillar was erected in the year 1803, through the liberality of the Earl of Lonsdale. Until lately, it has always kept in a good state of preservation; and it ought not to be suffered to go into decay for the sake of a little expense; for as a monument, it is alike worthy of the Noble Earl's munificence, and of the event which it records.