55° 
nants and conimoners of the adjoining manor 
of Wetherall, who were prefent. The whole 
company were regaled with cold beef, bread 
and cheefe, and three barrels of ale. 
The growth of onions laft year, at leaft in 
fome parts of the adjacent county, exceeded 
any thing ever known. A_ gentleman at 
Broughton, in Furnefs, had one taken up in 
his garden, which weighed feventeen ounces 
and a half; anda ftring of onions promiicu- 
oufly taken by his fervant, twenty-five in 
number, was found to weigh fourteen pounds 
and a half! 
equal to the Spanifh onion. 
Among other annual improvements pro- 
jected by Mr. Harker, of Skinburnefs, the fi- 
tuation of which has been long admired, his 
recent addition of warm-baths, for the pure 
pofe of fea-bathing, willbe found very conves 
nient and falutary to numbers who vifit the 
coaft. Mr. Harker has contrived to lift the 
fea-water even at the loweft tides, and convey 
it into capacious and well adapted baths, 
within the piazza. ‘Fhe baths have: feparate 
rooms appropriated to them; and by commu- 
nicating with a large boiler in an intermediate. 
one, the water may be heated to any requi- 
fite degree, at the fame time that the air of 
the bathing-rooms is kept at a grateful tem- 
perature, by ftove-pipes pailing through them. 
A gentleman of Grayftoke, in Cumberland, 
has lately invented a churn upon an entirely 
new. conftru€tion, which is ftated to be 
wrought with fo much pale, that a boy of 
twelve years of age can churn half a firkin of 
butter with it, fooner than the ftrongeft man 
can do the fame quantity with any other hi- 
therto offered to the public.. 
The depth of rain, which fell in Carlifle 
laft month, was 19.31 inches. The greatett 
height of 8 barometer was 3.0213 leaf 
ditto 29.57. The greateft height of the 
thermometer was 68°; leaft ditto 36°. 
It is in agitation to apply to Parliament for 
a bill to inclofe Abbey Mafk Common, near 
Appleby. It has been lately furveyed for the 
purpofe, by Mr. Wiltiamfon, civil engineer, 
and found to contain 1280 acres of as good 
ground as any in the neighbourhood. 
It appears from the regifters of the White- 
haven Difpenfary, lately publifhed in the 
‘Cumberland Pacquet, that in the laft year, 
ending June the gth, there had been patients 
recommended and regiftered 7493, of whom 
611 had been attended at their own habita- 
tions ; midwifery cafes 1073 trivial incidents 
3148; children prepared for the fmall-pox 
1263 children inoculated. for do. go—Total 
4964. Patients remzining upon the books 
#36. The total number of patients; who 
have been admitted to the benefits of this 
charity fince its firft inftitution, June 30, 
1733, are as follow :—Regiftered patients 
31,4933 midwifery objets 215563 trivial: 
tafes 29,215. Medical charities, confidered 
in a political point of view, are productive of 
the moi important advantages to fociety, by 
Cumberland and W eftmoreland. 
In flavour they were nearly: 
[July Ty 
the feafonable relief they adminifter, and by 
their extenfive ufe in dete ting latént conta- 
gion; for, in arrefting its progrefs, they pre- 
ferve and reftore many lives which would 
otherwife be loft. 
The Ac of Parliament veconbly paffed for 
the better maintenance cf the parochial poor 
(fee Cumberland and Weftmoreland news, in 
the MonthlyMagazine for May laft),is a mea- 
fure which reflects the higheft credit on the 
humanity: of Sir E, Law, the attorney- gene- . 
ral, and has given univerfal fatisfa@tion, and 
partieularly to the inhabitants of Whitehaven, 
Population of Kefwick.——-Houfes 290 ; fami~ 
Hes 2263; males 6293; females 721—Total 
1350. Of thefe 51 are employed in agricul~ 
ture, and 318 in trade. There are eight un- 
inhabited houfes. 
The fubfcription for the long-withed for 
NEw cuT to confine the river Caldew in its 
courfe through Dalfton Green (which we no 
ticed fome months ago in this Magazine) has’ 
lately commenced, and appears to be goingon 
with great fpirit. . This undertaking, which 
is expected to be accomplifhed in the courfe of 
the fummer, will add confiderably to the con- 
venience of thofe who have occafion to pafs 
that way, as it will prevent the inter~ 
ruption occafioned by the frequent and fudden 
fwells to which the river is liable. The 
ground is already ftaked out, and fome allot- 
ments for cutting are contraéted for. 
Married.| Mr. J. Atkinfon, mafter of the 
brig Robinfon, of Harrington, to Mife 
Thompfon, grocer and tea-dealer, of Work- 
ington.—Mr. T. Jackfon, of Low Hall, near 
Whitehaven, to Mifs Lit, of Bowthorn. 
At Lorton, Mr. Woodhoufe, iron-merchant, 
of London, formerly of Neweaftle, to Mifs 
Fletcher.—Mr.J. Fawcett, timber-merchant, — 
to Mrs. Miller, both of Mary Port.—R. Ad- 
difon, efy. fon of the Rev. W. T. Addifon, 
of Workington, to Mifs Wilton, of Stock- 
well, in Surry. 
At Blacknefs Caftle, Mr, P: Potter, gur- 
nez there, aged 87, who had the misfortune 
to lofe his former wife about a fortnight be- 
fore, to Mrs, R. Halwell, widow, aged $3 ; 
the reverend couple appeared i in high fpirits, 
and youthful gaiety, 
Mr. G. Wilkinfon, merchant, of Ulvere. 
ftone, to Mifs Yowart, of Whitehaven.—W. 
Calvert, efg. of Kefwick, to Mifs Mitchin- 
ion, fecond daughter of J. Mitchinfon, efgq. 
of Carlifle. 
At Wigton, Mr. J. Lightfoot, actonaes to~ 
Mails Tiffin. 
At Workington, Mr. Dalfton, mate of the. 
brig Acorn, to Mifs }. Hewitt, of Camerton, 
—Alfo, Mr. J. Brown, mate of the brig Elea- 
ner, to Mifs M. Moore,—Mr. J. Bayles, 
mafter of the brig Induftry, to Mifs Har- 
grave.—Captain R. Lewis, of the fhip John, 
to Mifs Smith, daughter of the late Mr. 
Smith, pier-mafter of the port. 
At Caldbeck, Mr. M. Bell, to Mifs M. 
Wilfon, both of Parkhead, in Sebergham. 
At. 
