Carlisle Patriot, 18 Jun 1825 - Local News (1)

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Saturday 18 Jun 1825   (p. 3, col. 1-3 + 6)

 

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILROAD.—The Engineers that have been appointed by the company are now engaged in making their survey. When it is completed we shall be enabled to state the route to be taken. We have heard of several shares being sold at a premium of £3 per share on the original cost.—Tyne Mer.

 

Mr. JOHNSTON, surveyor-general of the Mail Coaches, from the General Post-Office, London, is expected at Glasgow in the beginning of the week, when the arrangements, will, we believe, be made for accelerating our London Mail. That gentleman attends a meeting held at Aberdeen this day, to regulate the movements of the mails in the North. The mails for that quarter will next week leave Edinburgh four hours earlier than at present, in consequence of which our Perth mail must leave this about three P. M. in order to join the mail going North at Perth. We observe that notice has been given that the London mail to Manchester, is in future to run by Buxton instead of Leek and Macclesfield. This will save about five miles, and is, we presume, a preparatory step to the acceleration of our mails from the South. If our mail from London is sent by that route and by Manchester, her course could be as follows:—London to Manchester, 181 miles, 9 miles per hour, 20 hours: stoppage for breakfast, 25 minutes: dinner, Manchester, 30m.: Manchester to Carlisle—120 miles, 9 miles per hour, 13 h. 20 m.: breakfast, Carlisle, 25 m.: Carlisle to Glasgow—95 miles, 9 miles per hour, 10 h. 30. m. Total 45 h. 10 m. which brings the mail to Manchester at 25 minutes past 4, P. M.; to Carlisle at 15 minutes past 6, A. M.; and to Glasgow at 10 minutes past 5, P. M. of the second day.—Glasgow Courier, June 16.

 

From Monday last, up to the present time (with the exception of Thursday evening during a smart north-east breeze), we have experienced the best of the torrid zone; on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at noon, the Thermometer ranged from 76° to 78° in the shade. Vegetation makes the most astonishing progress, and fruit ripens as if by magic. On the fine lands in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, the hay harvest has become pretty general; and the grain is bursting into ear in all directions.

 

The hay-harvest is begun at Cockermouth, Maryport, Workington, &c. and will become general in a few days; the crops excellent.

 

The Lord Bishop of this Diocese arrived yesterday at Rose Castle.

 

Mr. Justice BAYLEY and Mr. Baron HULLOCK have chosen the northern circuit for the ensuing summer assizes.

 

Dr. BLOMFIELD, the Bishop of Chester, will visit Whitehaven, at the latter end of August, and hold a confirmation.

 

Mr. Ex-Sheriff PARKINS arrived in this City yesterday, by the mail, from London.

 

FORCE OF CONSCIENCE.—Mr. GOODALL, the Supervisor of Excise at Penrith, received the following letter a few days ago, which is worthy of publication both as a curiosity and an example. Mr. G. will of course apply the inclosure in conformity with the directions of the Board:—

 

"To the Supervisor of Excise, Penrith.

 

"SIR,—A poor man will be much obliged to you, and find his mind relieved from a burthen which he has felt for a very long time, if, by your means, the inconsiderable sum of five shillings, inclosed in this letter, can be paid to the Excise; or, if that is inconvenient, if it can be applied to defray any of your incidental expenses, which otherwise might be charged to the Board. He has long detested smuggling in all its forms—but, once in his life, when he was only very young, and his mind not so well fixed on these subjects as at present, he assisted in privately making a few pounds of candles. Ten or twelve years have elapsed since that time, but believing it to be his duty to make restitution, he has taken the liberty of giving you this trouble. The sum, it is true, is very trifling, but the obligation the same as if it had been a thousand times more. It is probably four times as much as the duty of the candles, but he had rather err on the safe side. He can assure you he is unknown to you personally, and therefore his name is not of much importance. He is sorry to give you this trouble, but cannot at present think of a more eligible way, and he hopes you will act according to his intention.—June 8, 1825.     J. W."

 

On Sunday evening, Samuel CAVANAGH, a native of Ireland, was caught, in company with two other persons, in the act of stoning the rabbits in the warren near Workington; and being closely pursued by the occupier, CAVANAGH attempted to ford the river Derwent, when the tide was in, and was drowned. The body was found next day; and on Tuesday an inquest was held in view of it before Wm. BRAGG, Esq. coroner. After a long and patient investigation, Mr. CAPE, the occupier of the warren, was fully exonerated from all blame, and the jury (consisting of gentlemen of great respectability) returned a verdict of accidental death. Before the real facts of the case were properly known, the public mind in that quarter was highly excited.

 

We understand that the Rev. John DODD, Vicar of Wigton, has resigned his situation as sub-treasurer in the Branch Savings Bank in that town, which he has filled above seven years. The Rev. Richard MATHEWS has consented to accept the situation which Mr. DODD resigned.

 

The adjacent villages of Warwick and Wetheral have long been celebrated for producing the earliest crops of barley in this part of the country, and also for annually sending the first samples of new barley into our grain market. In the vicinity of these two villages, the grain crops are in a more advanced state at this time, generally speaking, than they have been for a number of years back. There is one fine field of Barley which had completely shot into ear before the expiration of the month of May—a circumstance which the oldest farmer living cannot remember to have previously occurred in the same month.

 

Cockermouth church rapidly advances towards completion. The roof is nearly on.

 

On the 10th inst., Mr. HUDLESTON, Capt. MOSSOP, and the Rev. Mr. BRAGG, of Gosforth, undertook an excursion to Wastwater, in order to ascertain the depth of that Lake; and found the deepest part of it to be 45 fathoms. Perhaps this is the deepest lake in England. The following are the greatest depths of the neighbouring Lakes, from which it will be seen they all fall short of Wastwater:—Derwent Lake, 13½ fathoms; Bassenthwaite, 13 fathoms; Buttermere, 15½ fathoms; Crummock, 22 fathoms, Loweswater, 10 fathoms; Windermere, 37 fathoms; Coniston, 40 fathoms; and Ullswater, 35 fathoms.—Wastwater is two miles and a half in length, and its greatest breadth is about one mile; and although very difficult of access on all sides except the west, it has of late years been much frequented by tourists, and generally accounted superior to any of the other Lakes for rugged and romantic scenery.

 

 

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