Carlisle Patriot, 01 Oct 1825 - Sights of the Week (1)

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Saturday 01 Oct 1825 (p. 3, col. 1-3)

SIGHTS OF THE WEEK.

From Tuesday to Thursday inclusive, Carlisle has been gayer and more crowded with strangers than for a great many years past. We proceed to describe the "Sights of the Week" in due order.

And first the Races. Several horses arrived so early as last Friday. On Saturday, the entry took place at the Bush Inn. On the same day one of the Messrs. GREEN arrived, and announced his arrangements for their ascent from the Castle-Green (by the kind permission of Lieut.-Colonel SKERRET) on the following Thursday. This was hailed with much satisfaction by the holiday-loving folks, for his previous non-arrival, and the silence of the Carlisle papers, led to the hasty conclusion that the promised ascension was a hoax. The reason of this oversight was, that Mr. GREEN was detained at Preston, where he ascended on the Thursday, much later than he expected, and he only ascertained the impossibility of his being here on Friday afternoon when it was too late to intimate it by post.

THE RACES.

The Races commenced on Tuesday, and were never, perhaps, so numerously attended as on Wednesday and Thursday—the weather was most delightful. The following is the result:—

[Race results not transcribed.]

On the whole, the sport was of a very inferior order. The number of horses was unusually small, and there were only two of any celebrity. Something should be done to effect an improvement—at present, large sums of money are little better than given or thrown away. Would it not be advisable to change the time? A pretty general opinion prevails, we believe, that they should be held much earlier in the season, or a week later than at present, so as to afford time for horses to arrive from Doncaster. We don't profess to understand these things: we only know that some change is requisite.

There were a great number of equipages on the ground on the last day; and a very numerous group of well-mounted horsemen. Among the company on the course we observed:—

The Earl and Countess of Lonsdale; Lord and Lady Frederick BENTINCK; Hon. Colonel and Lady Eleanor LOWTHER and family; Sir Philip MUSGRAVE, Bart. M. P. and Lady; J. C. CURWEN, Esq. M. P.; Sir J. H. MAXWELL, Bart.; Sir Sidney BECKWITH and family; J. H. LOWTHER, Esq. M. P.; Henry BROUGHAM, Esq. M. P.; General SHARP and Lady; H. HOWARD, Esq. Corby Castle, and family; Sir H. D. ROSS; Colonel DALRYMPLE, M. P.; P. H. HOWARD, Esq.; Edward HASELL, Esq. and family; Edw. Williams HASELL, Esq.; W. P. JOHNSON, Esq. and Lady; Wilfrid LAWSON, Esq.; W. WYBERGH, Esq.; James BROUGHAM, Esq.; J. D. B. DYKES, Esq. and family; Milham HARTLEY, Esq. and family; Rev. H. LOWTHER; F. F. VANE, Esq. and Lady; Beilby HODGSON, Esq.; Major HODGSON and Lady; Captain BACKHOUSE and family; Mr. SALMON; W. BROWN, Esq. Tallentire; H. T. THOMPSON, Esq.; C. PARKIN, Esq.; —— TROUTBECK, Esq.; Major HART; —— BARKER, Esq. and family, &c. besides the principal gentry of the town and immediate vicinity, and a great number of ladies and gentlemen who were strangers to us.

Stewards: J. H. LOWTHER, Esq. M. P., and W. WYBERGH, Esq.—Stewards for next year: Sir J. H. MAXWELL, Bart., and the Hon. H. HOWARD of Greystoke.