Carlisle Patriot, 27 Aug 1825 - Local News (1)

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Saturday 27 Aug 1825   (p. 2, col. 4-6 and p. 3, col. 1+6)

 

In noticing last week the visit of Prince William of Brunswick, we spoke of the "trick" which we understand to have been played off in respect to the Theatre. We are assured by the manager, that, first, he did not receive a single farthing of his Serene Highness's money; secondly, that at the time he issued the hand-bill alluded to, he had every reason to believe that the Prince designed to attend the Theatre; and thirdly, that he had his Serene Highness's permission to state to his friends (if not to print hand-bills) that such was the Prince's intention. Under these circumstances, it is due to Mr. ALEXANDER to say that our expression of trick cannot apply; at the same time we owe it to ourselves to state that our information was derived from authority so respectable that we were fully justified in relying on it.

 

MAILS.—The following copy of a notice put up at the Post-office, Carlisle, may contain useful information to some of our readers:—"On the 15th of August, the Manchester mail began to depart from Carlisle at seven o'clock in the evening, and it arrives at twenty-one minutes past six in the morning. Letters for London go by that route. All letters for this mail must be put into the office before six in the evening, as the box will then be closed. The Glasgow and Edinburgh mails are dispatched at seven in the morning. The Portpatrick and Newcastle mails depart as usual. The Wigton post also arrives and departs as usual. Letters will be taken in at the window till half-past six, on payment of a penny for each letter."

 

A part of the new iron palisading and the new gates are now put up at St. Cuthbert's church-yard, and the nature of the improvement may be judged of: it is so great a one, that the Dean and Chapter, we presume, will immediately adopt a similar plan in St. Mary's Church-yard both in Castle-street and Paternoster-Row.

 

On Sunday evening last, there was another very beautiful exhibition of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights. It was a brilliant arch of nearly continuous light, at an elevation of about 40 degrees, stretching across a large portion of the heavens. In this neighbourhood it was particularly bright about ten o'clock.

 

From last Saturday, up to the time of writing this paragraph (Friday afternoon), the weather has been most delightfully favourable for the harvest, which goes on with a rapidity almost unprecedented.

 

The wages of able-bodied shearers at our market cross, this morning, were as high as 3s. 6d. per day.

 

Miss S. BOOTH is at present in Carlisle, under an engagement to perform several of her favourite characters. She appeared for the first time on Thursday last, in "Man and Wife" and "Therese." She still retains all her wonted vivacity, though somewhat older in appearance than she was ten or fifteen years ago.

 

On Sunday the 7th inst. and Monday the 22d inst. a large quantity of tools, nails, &c. &c. were stolen from Brunstock-House, near this City, the residence of Mr. CLEMITSON, by some person or persons at present undetected. The tools were all marked "J. GRAHAM."

 

Wasps are so very numerous this year, that the bees of a great many hives have been driven from their cells by these fierce intruders, before whom the largest stores of honey speedily disappear.

 

An unknown correspondent of a London journal "regrets to state" that, having met Mr. CANNING on the banks of Windermere he observed such a paleness in the Rt. Hon. Gent.'s face, as convinced him his health is in a very precarious state. The truth is, that Mr. CANNING is perfectly recovered from his late illness, and has seldom been better than at present in health and spirits.

 

We understand that Mr. MATTHIESON, the contractor for building the New West Pier at this port, has relinquished the undertaking in consequence of the damage it received in the gale on Saturday week. The work is now proceeding under the management of Mr. FOX, the gentleman originally engaged to superintend its erection.—Cumb. Pacquet.

 

The young woman, said to have been killed at Kirkpatrick-Juxta by falling off a stack upon the shaft of a rake, is not dead.

 

It is rumoured that Mr. CARUS WILSON retires from representing the Borough of Cockermouth, and is to be succeeded by Mr. NOWELL, of Underley, on the dissolution of Parliament.

 

At a meeting of the Whitehaven steam-vessel Company, last week, it was arranged, and since carried into effect, to order a first rate steam-vessel, of between two and three hundred tons burden, (with two engines of eighty horse power,) to be ready next summer, for the conveyance of goods and passengers between that port and Liverpool, calling for passengers at the Isle of Man.

 

Mr. Stephen ROBERTS, of Egremont, who is in the 77th year of his age, walked from Carlisle to Egremont last week in 19 hours, a distance of 45 miles.

 

 

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