Carlisle Patriot, 06 Nov 1824 - Local News (3)

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Saturday 06 Nov 1824   (p. 2, col. 3 and p. 3, col. 1-3 + 6)     [continued]

 

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.—We mentioned in our last publication that, if credit were due to rumour, this city would shortly receive the benefit of an institution of this kind. On Wednesday evening, a select meeting was held (preparatory to a general public meeting) in Mr. LAMB's long-room, in Fisher-street. Mr. LENOX, engineer, was called to the chair; and Mr. DUNBAR, sculptor, who had been very active in soliciting the support of the opulent classes of the community of this city and neighbourhood, detailed to the meeting the encouraging success he had almost everywhere met with. There were some highly respectable gentlemen, he said, who were anxious that such an institution should be established in Carlisle, and only waited its commencement, to bestow upon it liberal patronage and support. It was recommended and agreed to, that the mechanics themselves should establish and conduct the institution, which will be formed on the same principles as those of London and Glasgow. The rules and some papers from the Newcastle society were then read; but as the institution embraced natural and moral philosophy, general literature &c., it was thought too extensive in its range for what was intended to be established in Carlisle. After some other necessary business was settled, twenty-one respectable tradesmen and mechanics set down their names to become members of the institution as it should be organized. A deputation to the Mayor was next agreed on, to request his worship to convene a public meeting at an early day; and a committee was formed, (of which Mr. DUNBAR was chosen secretary,) consisting of eleven individuals then in the room, with power to add to their number, any five of whom should be competent to act. This committee will solicit information from other similar societies; draw out the rules; and arrange all preliminary business previous to the public meeting, which will be held with as little delay as possible. The meeting then thanked the chairman and adjourned. This is at least an auspicious beginning; and as politics and divinity will be entirely excluded, it is to be hoped the society will meet with encouragement from men of all principles and persuasions.

 

On Thursday evening, the Carlisle Choral Society gave a Concert of sacred and other music in the Coffee-House Assembly room to a numerous and respectable auditory: President, R. LOWRY, Esq. of Stanwix; Condutocr [sic] Mr. HILL, who presided at the Piano Forte. The selections were creditable to the taste of the managers:—

 

PART FIRST.—Chorus: "Our help standeth"—PRING. Song: "The Lord of Hosts"—HANDEL. Duet: "Fairest of ten thousand Fair." Chorus: "Is there a Man." Trio: "Welcome mighty King." Chorus: "David his ten thousand." Song: "Brave Jonathan." Chorus: "Eagles were not so swift"—Saul. Air and Chorus: "O Lord our Governor"—MARCELLO. Pastoral Symphony. Recitative: "There were Shepherds." Chorus: "Glory to God"—HANDEL.

 

PART SECOND.—Chorus: "O the Pleasures"—Acis and Galatea. Duet: "If thou canst live"—VERTUE.  Glee: "Hark the Lark"—Dr. COOKE. Duet: "Gallop on Gaily"—BRAHAM. Glee: "In Peace Love Tunes"—ATTWOOD. Chorus: "Happy Pair"—Alex. FEAST. Song: "The Spirit of the Storm"—PERRY. Glee: "Lawn as White"—Dr. COOKE. Glee: "Peace to the Souls of the Heroes"—Dr. CALLCOTT. Duet: "Could a Man." Glee: Glorious Apollo."

 

The performers acquitted themselves very ably, and afforded a real treat to the company. The admission is gratuitously by ticket. Nothing can be pleasanter or more rational than such pursuits as these. Before the company separated Mr. LOWRY stated that the Members were much gratified by the respectable attendance; and that the Society, in the course of a month, would announce a Concert for the benefit of the House of Recovery, or any other charitable purpose the inhabitants of Carlisle might desire.

 

Among the various symptoms of national prosperity, we are pleased to notice the revival and extension of the Coasting trade, and that too in quarters pretty near the centre of our own localities. To take only one example, the town of Annan, which, seven years ago, had only launched one solitary keel, can now boast of a very fair contingent of merchantmen, built, manned, and registered at home, which do not appear to be the less remunerative that they are mostly under 100 tons burthen. From its situation on the Solway, this Port, or Creek, (to speak in the peculiar language of the Customhouse,) seems excellently adapted for both the English and Irish coasting trade; and if we may judge of the future from looking to the past, it will soon rival in maritime importance more than one port of higher name and loftier pretensions. So late as last week, the Theodore of 90, and the Hoddam Castle of 80 tons, both belonging to that town, were duly registered in the Custom-house here; and three others, we understand, are already contracted for, and will very soon be in a state of forwardness.—Dumfries Cour.

 

During the last summer, flounders or flat fish in the Solway Frith were scarce, and their size very dininutive [sic], but within the last fortnight their appearance is quite changed; during that period their numbers have greatly increased, and their size is larger, several having been caught from 7 to 34 pounds weight.

 

On the 18th ult. a person named Wm. ELLIOT, servant to Mr. ELLIOT, of Ridhugh, in the parish of Castleton, was sent by his master to take some cattle into Bewcastle; but on his return, it is thought that, owing to the darkness of the night, he had lost his road and fallen over a precipice into the river which divides Scotland from England. His corpse was found two days afterwards on the Scotch side.

 

The Eden, Wm. LITTLE, arrived at Liverpool from Carlisle, on the 30th ult.

 

Spoken at Sea:—The Edgar of Workington, for St. Andrew's, on 27th of Sept. in lat. 43, long 55.

 

The Kelsick Wood, from Liverpool, has arrived in the St. Lawrence.

 

The brig Jessie, of Dumfries, from Liverpool for St. John's, Newfoundland, was spoken on the 24th ult. in lat. 50 40 N., long. 20 40 W.

 

Greenock, Nov. 2.—Arrived here this morning, the Friends, WISHART, from Richibucto; sailed thence 4th ult. The Rachel, ADAMS of Newcastle, for Leith, and Atlantic, JAMES, of Whitehaven, for Liverpool, sailed the previous tide. Left loading the Planter, POTTS, of Maryport, for Whitehaven, to sail 7th, and brigs William and Experiment, of and for Whitehaven, 11th ult. The brig Caledonia, LINDSAY, of Alloa, from hence for Richibucto, and the Sally and Lee, of Maryport, were totally lost on Richibecto [sic] Bar, 28th September; crews saved. The Ulysses, of Maryport, was driven on shore at the same place, but expected to be got off.