Carlisle Patriot, 13 May 1826 - Local News (3)

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Saturday 13 May 1826   (p. 3, col. 1-2 and p. 4, col. 1-2)     [continued]

 

An old sailor who hawks coals about Whitehaven, in a small cart, drawn by an ass, has succeeded in beating into poor cuddy the lingo of the ship. When he wishes to turn a corner, he exclaims, "starboard!" or "larboard!" as the case may be, and if Mr. Donkey does not keep a sharp look-out and mind his points, down comes the rope's end (we are sorry to say) in no very merciful degree. But he is so well skilled, that his punishment, on the whole, is not heavier than that which unhappily falls to the share of less nautical asses.

 

The little interruption which farming operations have experienced since the beginning of February have placed field-labours in a state of forwardness seldom known at this season of the year. The seed time has been every thing that could be wished, and never was greater diligence used in getting the spring crops into the ground; in fact the fineness of the weather has compelled the sluggard to keep pace with his more active neighbour, so that in out-door husbandry all are nearly upon a level. Wheat, the staple crop of this county, looks strong and promising, and the same may be said of crops generally.

 

John CLARKE, an honest but credulous farmer of Langdale Farm, near Ravenstonedale, Westmorland, was lately choused out of £40 by a party of Gipseys, who undertook to read the stars for him. Oh John! John!

 

The Kendal and Furness troops of Yeomanry Cavalry last week received an order to hold themselves in readiness for service at a moment's warning; but it is to be hoped that their assistance will not now be wanted.

 

A few days ago, John JACKSON, a hooper by trade and a native of Netherwasdale, Cumberland, aged 20, fell into the canal near Kendal, and was drowned before assistance reached him.

 

The Iron Ore and Slate trades, which were a short time ago so very brisk in the neighbourhood of Ulverston, are now in an almost unprecedented state of inactivity and depression.

 

On Friday morning week, three foxes were turned out before the Rev. H. SILL's well-known greyhound, Dart, which he disposed of in a few minutes, rendering them incapable of ever again disturbing a henroost; and, on Saturday, a fourth was let loose, having a start of 150 yards, but such is the power, and so great the speed, of this celebrated dog, that he reached his victim in a run of 240 yards from the start of the fox, and immediately dispatched him.—Kendal Gaz.

 

Hawkshead church was recently broken into, by night, by some thieves, who carried the plate chest, as they supposed, into a neighbouring field, and broke it open; but, doubtless to their mortification, they found in it nothing of value.

 

The statement in the papers that an annular eclipse of the sun would take place in May 1826, is an error. In May, 1836, there will be a striking eclipse of that luminary; and on the 9th Oct, 1847, those who are living may witness a very remarkable and beautiful annular eclipse.

 

In consequence of the great depression in the glove trade in Hexham, a number of persons are without work, and suffering severe distress. A liberal subscription has been entered into by the inhabitants for their relief, to which T. W. BEAUMONT, Esq., M. P., has added 20 guineas.

 

The major part of the wool-combers at Darlington were last week discharged; as were also the whole of the men at Bishop-Auckland, engaged in the wool trade.

 

Members of Assembly.—Presbytery of Langholm. Rev. Dr. BROWN of Eskdalemuir, and Rev. A. BARTON, of Castleton, ministers. Geo. Graham BELL, Esq. advocate, elder.—Presbytery of Lochmaben. Rev. Dr. CRIRIE, Dalton, Rev. Jacob WRIGHT, of Hutton, and Rev. Charles DICKSON of Wamphray, ministers. John James HOPE JOHNSTONE, Esq. of Annandale, elder.

 

The grass parks of Rotchell in the parish of Troqueer, were let last year at £25, and it was then considered they had let very fairly, but on bringing them again to the hammer this year, for the incoming season, they let for £44, an increase of nearly 80 per cent! Several other parks in the same neighbourhood have let 15, 20, and 30 per cent. above the rents of last year.

 

The personal estate and effects of the late Bishop of Durham are sworn under £160,000. The following are among his Lordship's bequests:—

 

"To the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, £1000. To the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, £1000. To the Clerical Orphan Society, £1000. To the British and Foreign Bible Society, £500. To the National School, Baldwin's-gardens, Grays-inn-lane, for the instruction of poor children on the Madras System, £1000. To the Missionary Society for Africa and the East, £500. To the Society for the Deaf and Dumb in London, £500. To the School for the Indigent Blind, established in London in the year 1799, and now in St. George's-fields, Surrey, £500. London Fever Institution, £500. St. George's Hospital, at Hyde Park-corner, £500. Middlesex Hospital, £500. Institution called the Stranger's Friend, £500. Refuge for the Destitute, situate at Middlesex House, Hackney-road, £500. Society for the Suppression of Vice, £500. Philanthropic Society, £500. Female Penitentiary, £500. Magdalen Hospital, £500. Mendicity Society, £500. His Lordship gives and bequeathes the sum of £3000, to be applied by his executors as they should think most advisable, for the purpose of erecting a school or schools for the instruction of poor children of the Diocese of Durham, according to the Madras System, or for promoting that benevolent purpose in any manner they should deem most proper and most likely to effect its salutary object—and to aid and assist any institution in the diocese for that object. He gives to the Royal Humane Society in London, £500. To the Asylum for the Recovery of Health, in the New Road, Pancras, in the county of Middlesex, £500. To the Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands, £1000."

 

The Bishop devises most of his real estate in Durham to Trustees for his great nephew, the Hon. W. K. BARRINGTON.

 

The Rev. W. N. DARNELL has been appointed Official to the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and a Trustee of Lord CREWE's Charity, in place of the late Rev. Archdeacon BOUYER.

 

Yesterday, being Ascension Day, the Right Worshipful Geo. FORSTER, Esq. mayor of this town, and the river jury surveyed, according to annual custom, the boundaries of the Corporation's jurisdiction on the river Tyne. On the arrival of the barges at Shields, they were received in grand style by his Majesty's cutter Swan, which on the Mayor's landing, fired a salute, the marines drawn up along the deck with presented arms, and the yards manned with the seamen dressed in full uniform. We regret to state that a melancholy accident occurred as the procession returned down the river from Hedwin Streams, in the evening. As a small boat, with 10 or 12 young people in it, was driving down with the tide, about two miles above the bridge, the Lemington steam packet came in contact with them, or according to another account, the sudden setting on of the paddles alarmed the persons in the small boat, which was upset by their starting to one side, and 3 of the party, 2 young men and 1 young woman, were unfortunately drowned. The rest were picked up.—Newcastle Courant, May 6.

 

In 1825, the mean height of the Barometer was higher than the mean of the preceding eleven years.

 

Electioneering Tactics.—In the year 1768, the non-resident freemen of Berwick living in London, were put on board of two vessels to be conveyed to vote. Mr. TAYLOR, one of the candidates in the opposite interest, bribed the masters of the smacks to carry them to Norway, which they did, and Mr. TAYLOR and Lord DELAVAL were returned without any other expense. This may serve as a hint, and induce the worthy electors to inquire whether they are to be conveyed toward the election or to the pole!