Carlisle Patriot, 11 Mar 1826 - Local News (1)

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Saturday 11 Mar 1826   (p. 2, col. 4-5 and p. 3, col. 6)

 

The Bishop of Carlisle has presented the valuable living of Lazonby, in this county, to the Rev. Walter FLETCHER, Chancellor of the Diocese and Vicar of Dalston, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas MYERS.

 

The prisoners confined in Carlisle gaol, return their grateful thanks to the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, assembled at the late Assizes, for a donation of three guineas.

 

Messrs. FORSTER & Co. Bankers, Carlisle, have received a very large supply of silver, of the new coinage. The head of the King on the shilling, is good; the lion and the crown, on the reverse, are not creditable either in design or execution.

 

The failure of Messrs. FINDLAY, CONNAL, & Co., and Messrs. W. and J. SHARPE & Co., great cotton houses, at Glasgow, threw a general gloom over that city, in the beginning of the present week; but it is expected to be only of momentary continuance, as extensive purchasers of Glasgow manufacturers have already made their appearance in that market. We wish we could discover similar symptoms of reviving trade in Carlisle. The wages of the cotton-manufacturers in this City were never so low as at present, nor was work ever so scarce. Indeed, several of our smaller manufacturing houses, in the cotton line, are doing literally nothing. We are happy, however, in being able to state that not one failure has taken place here among the manufacturers; none, in fact, of any kind, arising out of the peculiar pressure of the day: and as the commerce of the country is righting itself, we trust that our little city will speedily assume her wonted appearance of industry and bustle.

 

Since writing the above paragraph, we have heard of very extensive purchases of calicoes and other goods having been made in Manchester. The low state of prices begins to tempt the monied men: we may therefore expect an advance.

 

A fine new brigantine, called "The Cumbria," 84 tons per register, and belonging to the Carlisle New Shipping Company, arrived in the Carlisle Canal, from Liverpool, on Monday; and on Wednesday entered the Basin for the first time. Several of the owners and a large party of gentlemen met her, in her progress upwards, at Burgh; many others joined the company as she approached the City; and the whole were most liberally entertained with a cold collation and an overflow of well-flavoured punch. Mr. Andrew and Mr. John WILSON alternately presided in the cabin or on deck; and mirth and pleasure were the order of the day. The vessel entered the Basin under a salute from her ordnance, which, throughout the line, had announced the passage of the locks and bridges. Among the toasts given on the occasion, (and there were many in number,) we must not forget to record those of "Success to the Cumbria," and the "health of Capt. CARLYLE, long may he sail in her." We have never seen a finer vessel of her class: she is confessedly the "grace and ornament" of the Canal trade. Messrs. HASELDEN, of Liverpool, were the builders.

 

A Correspondent wishes to call the attention of "all whom it may concern" to a certain most notorious whiskey shop in Citadel-row, which nuisance, he says, is a scene of drunkenness and uproar from one end of the week to the other. Many a poor man spends there what his family should have in bread. Why do not the excise interfere—or why do not the City Constables devise means of detection and punishment?

 

On Saturday night last, some mischievous persons entered the planted enclosure at the Court-house, and wantonly destroyed a part of the shrubs. On Monday night, the same persons, or kindred spirits, amused themselves with smashing some of the eastern Court-house windows.

 

A portion of the poultry lately stolen from Denton Mill, and other parts of that neighbourhood, was on Friday found, to the extent of a large basket-full, all ready plucked, in an old uninhabited building in Shaddongate. The purloiners probably resorted to their store as convenience or inclination dictated.

 

The weather is mild, dry, and exceedingly pleasant. As an indication of the approach of spring, a living butterfly (black and gold) was this morning brought to our office, full of strength and vigour—it had just been caught in a neighbouring dwelling-house.

 

The Whitehaven shipwrights are expected to follow the example of their brethren of Maryport, in the course of another week. Let no false shame keep them longer off their duty—it is never too late to grow wiser.

 

While the Whitehaven sailors stand out for exorbitant wages, men ship themselves at Liverpool at £2: 5s. a month—15s. less than the sum that the Cumberland seaman refuse!

 

NORTHUMBERLAND ELECTION.—This contest ended on Tuesday last, at two o'clock, in favour of Mr. BELL. State of the Poll at the close: Mr. BELL, 1186; Hon. T. LIDDELL, 1150; Majority, 36. Mr. BELL was chaired the same afternoon. The candidates parted on the most friendly terms; and Mr. LIDDELL pledged himself to come forward again "should he be called upon, or circumstances warrant the attempt."

 

Mr. Martindale SCOTT, of Appleby, has been appointed Governor of the Workhouse of Penrith, and Assistant-overseer of that place.

 

A few days ago, as a Scotsman of the name of WOOD, who says he came from Carlisle, was hawking tea through Cockermouth, in an unlucky moment he addressed himself to an Officer of Excise, whom he solicited to become a purchaser. The Officer, very readily, not only bought a pound of the tea, but kindly offered to introduce the unwary hawker to a gentleman who would purchase his whole stock. Proceeding together towards the Excise-office, they were opportunely met by the Supervisor and a constable; the former of whom became a ready customer for all the tea, and the latter for the luckless itinerant himself, who was carried before a Magistrate, and committed for three months to the house of correction.

 

 

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