Carlisle Patriot, 10 Dec 1825 - Local News (2)
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Saturday 10 Dec 1825 (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1) [continued]
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Our readers were apprised, by an advertisement in our last, of a public meeting at Penrith, appointed by the magistrates to be held on Wednesday last, to adopt measures for obtaining an act of Parliament for lighting, watching, and generally improving the town. The object is of the highest importance to the interest of that respectable place, and great credit is due to its promoters. We understand that the committee appointed to prepare the plans of the measure against the meeting, have received the most candid assurance of support from the most important proprietors of the town: yet, like many public improvements, this is not without its opponents, though we cannot think that the frivolous objections which can be raised against a measure of such general benefit, will ever be thrust upon the attention of a general meeting. It has excited very great interest in the town and neighbourhood.—(Correspondent.)
On Wednesday last, the Appleby troop of Yeomanry Cavalry assembled for a day's drill, in a field belonging to Thomas LOWES, Esq. of Brampton Croft-ends. The manner in which they acquitted themselves was highly creditable. The whole troop were supplied with refreshment at the house of Mr. Joseph THOMPSON, innkeeper, Battleborough.
The Alston lead mines have, for some time past been more than usually lucrative. The agent of Greenwich Hospital has, within the last few days, made no less than eighteen grants for new mines, and had applications for eight more. We believe this is unprecedented.
Mr. George PRESSA, of Surnbrick [sic], near Ulverston, during a state of temporary mental aberration, put a period to his existence on Wednesday week, by suspending himself with a small rope to the railing of the stairs in his own house. He was a respectable yeoman, advanced in years. [According to Lancashire OPC, George PRISOW of Sunbrick, aged 66, was buried on 03 Dec 1825 at Aldingham, Lancashire.]
A man named ROBSON, the keeper of the first Academy in Durham, eloped, on Sunday morning last, with one of his pupils, a young lady 20 years of age, leaving a wife and six children in great distress, and heavy demands against the furniture, &c. though he himself is supposed to have had about ?600 in his pocket. America is doubtlessly the object of the guilty pair. ROBSON's age is at least 45. He arrived in Durham about ten years ago; and soon gained the confidence of the principal citizens, with whom he lived on intimate terms.
The differences between the Fancy Manufacturers of Kendal and their standing out workmen are drawing to a close—the men begin to see the folly of their conduct. On Thursday, they held a public meeting, and therein agreed to repeal (quite legislative!) the second clause of the first article of their "Union," which clause ran thus:—"No weaver shall be admitted a member of this society, but those who have been regularly taught and accustomed to fancy-waistcoat or linsey-weaving." This is one step; the next will be, it is hoped, prudent submission, and a return to industry.
LATE FIRE AT MIRAMICHI.—Extract of a letter from a Cumberland man at Miramichi, to his brother in this County, dated Oct. 23, 1825:—"In my last letter I mentioned the fire then raging: by this you will see that my feeble effort was not adequate to describe the calamity with which it has pleased Providence to visit this colony. The country presents one entire mass of ruins: nothing is to be seen but the remains of houses, and what were lately the woods are now deserts as far as the eye can reach. From what I learn from people from other parts of the country, the case is equally bad there, if not worse. You may see groups of persons wandering up and down, with scarcely any clothes to cover their nakedness, who the day before were worth thousands. It is believed here that the elements were on fire, which appeared like the last great day of judgment, or rather night, for the fire commenced about eight at night, which was unusually dark; but at intervals you could have seen as clearly as at noon-day. Down at Chatham, where the river is almost a mile wide, the flames extended nearly across the river; the burning fragments setting fire to every thing they came in contact with; the smoke so thick that people were like to be suffocated; and the confusion was greatly increased by the darkness. Little more than half of the loss is as yet ascertained. For nearly one hundred miles up and down the river did the fiery element rage. It is dreadful to behold the remains of human bodies scattered up and down the woods; whole families perished, having been burnt to a cinder; others seem to have been suffocated; and numbers are dying daily from suffocation and other causes. But nothing seems a warning to some people; for there has been a good deal of plundering going on, (for which several have received a flogging); and the merchants are taking advantage of the necessitous, selling single rove blankets at three pounds per pair, pork at seven pound ten shillings per barrel, and other articles in proportion."—We have adhered to the writer's mode of expressing himself: his letter communicates little that is new, but gives, perhaps, a clearer idea of the situation of the survivors than any of the accounts hitherto received.
The snow lies very deep in several parts of the country. Betwixt Douglas Mill and Moffat it is particularly so, being, near Crawford, in some places, four feet deep. The road has, however, been cut, and the mail is enabled to get through, but the obstruction in those parts is so considerable that the coach has, for several days, lost about half an hour in time betwixt Beatock and Hamilton.—Glasgow Courier, Dec. 8.
It is said that Mr. Baron GRAHAM is about to retire from the Bench, and that Mr. TINDAL, of the Northern Circuit, is likely to succeed him.
The Hon. and Rev. Dr. STEWART, brother to the Earl of Galloway, is to be consecrated Bishop of Quebec next Sunday at Lambeth Palace.
The Rev. J. MERRY, B. A. has been instituted to the Perpetual Curacy of Leck, on the resignation of the Rev. S. BLYTH, and on the nomination of the Rev. William CARUS WILSON, as Vicar of Tunstall. The Rev. Edward CARUS WILSON, B. A. has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of Chester, to the Curacy of Tunstall. The Lord Bishop of Chester has been pleased to license the Rev. Thomas AIREY, of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Chapel of St. George, in Kendal, on the nomination of the Rev. John TATHAM, Vicar of Melling.
On the 27th ult. the Rev. Mr. DUNBAR preached a very animated and impressive sermon in the parish church of Applegarth, in aid of the funds of the Society for promoting education in the Highlands. Small as the parish is, the collection amounted to ?8.