Carlisle Patriot, 11 Feb 1826 - Local News (1)

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Saturday 11 Feb 1826   (p. 2, col. 4-6 and p. 3, col. 1 + 6)

 

Last Sunday night, in this district, was an exceedingly wet and stormy one. At present, the weather is mild, and beautifully pleasant for the season. In some places, the bees are at work, as though they felt the influence of spring.

 

Our readers will find, in another column, a report of the proceedings of an Anti-slavery Meeting, held at our Town-Hall on Thursday. There was some good speaking; and we regret that we had neither time nor room to enter into it more fully. Mr. FERGUSON expressed a hope that the meeting, before it separated, would take into consideration the distressed state of many of our operative manufacturers. This was omitted, not, we are sure we may say, because the gentlemen present felt any disinclination to aid their fellow-townsmen; but because that benevolent object can be more effectively promoted by a distinct proceeding, which we trust to see resorted to without delay, for great numbers of poor persons, out of employment, are at this moment suffering severe privations, without any reasonable hope that their condition will be very speedily ameliorated, except by the hand of charity.

 

The high-sheriff of this county, Humphrey SENHOUSE, Esq. of Nether-Hall, has appointed Mr. Geo. SAUL, of Carlisle, solicitor, his under-sheriff. The prisoners in the gaol were turned over this morning; on which occasion, the late and present  sheriff each presented them a donation of two guineas. Mr. SENHOUSE arrived at Nether-Hall a few days ago.

 

Sir P. MUSGRAVE, Bart. M. P. left Edenhall, on Monday last.

 

On Tuesday night, the Robert Burns Coach, which runs between Carlisle and Glasgow, was seized by the Revenue Officers, on Eden Bridge, on account of a female outside passenger having been on it with contraband whiskey in her possession. Sureties were given to a large amount, on the part of the proprietors, to abide the result of whatever proceedings the Board of Excise may deem requisite, under the circumstances. The case is certainly a hard one.

 

On Wednesday afternoon, a fire broke out in a thatched house adjoining Caldew-bridge, occupied by one BELL, a yeast-brewer. The fire-bell rang, and the engine was presently on the spot; but, in consequence of a number of people having assembled, and a plentiful supply of water being near at hand, the fire was prevented from making any considerable progress, and was extinguished, or nearly so, when the engine arrived. Little damage was done to the building; but a few moments' delay would have burned it to the ground;—and the furniture, having been quickly removed into the house of a neighbour, also sustained but little injury.

 

The Carlisle hariers will meet on Monday the 13th instant, at Rose Gate; on Wednesday, at Harraby; and on Friday, at Mr. GIBSON's cover—each day at nine.

 

A correspondent cautions the public to be wary as to what coin they take, as counterfeit silver and gold are very plentiful. He also cautions shopkeepers and others to secure their property at night, because many known bad characters are at present prowling the country, ready to seize upon every stray article, and even to do deeds of greater daring whenever opportunity serves.

 

The Rev. James LYNN, Rector of Caldbeck, and Vicar of Crosthwaite, in Cumberland, has been presented by the Bishop of Carlisle to the Vicarage of Newcastle, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. SMITH, A. M.

 

An inquest was held on Monday last, at Penrith, before Richard LOWRY, Esq. coroner, on the body of Mary JOHNSTON, aged 48 years, who was found dead in her own bed on Sunday morning, without any marks of violence on her body. Verdict, natural death.

 

The keel of an intended new vessel was on Monday laid at the Canal Basin, in the slip from whence the ill-fated "City" was launched.

 

We are glad to hear that Dalston Low Mill, lately occupied by DUGDALE and Co., has been let to a Cockermouth firm as a flax-manufactory, and, of course, will be the means of giving employment to a considerable number of hands.

 

The following report of what took place in the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, appears in the Courier of Wednesday:

 

THE KING v. SHAW.

 

Mr. ALDERSON moved for a Rule, calling upon the defendant, who is a printer at Penrith, to shew cause why a Criminal Information should not be filed against him, for having published in a Carlisle Newspaper, a libel upon the character of Mr. JAMESON, an attorney, in Penrith. It appeared that Mr. JAMESON had brought an action of nuisance against the defendant and three other persons, and the cause was to be tried at the next Assizes for Carlisle; that a paragraph had appeared in the Westmorland Gazette, stating that fact, and the alleged libel was a paragraph in the Carlisle Paper, stating, "that the other paragraph (of which Mr. JAMESON swore he was not the author) was false; that Mr. JAMESON had an office in the parish, but not a shilling of property; that he never had been assessed to the poor rates; that this was a question between this needy person and the parish, and that if an intelligent jury should try it there could be no doubt of the result." Mr. JAMESON, in his affidavit, swore, that the Paper in question was circulated generally among the persons who were summoned upon Juries, and that he had no doubt such a paragraph, if taken notice of, would create a prejudice against him in the minds of those persons.

 

The Lord Chief justice—Take the Rule. It is highly improper to publish in a Newspaper paragraphs respecting a question submitted to a judicial investigation.

 

 

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