and the nunferoas workmen of the extensive 
iron manufactory, which had for its origin his 
personal exertions: —John Lowes, esq. of Rid- 
ley .Hall, 20. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND 
‘ The Workington Agricultural Meeting was 
numerously attended from all parts of the 
kingdom,.on the 26th and 27th of October. 
~- Amongst the experiments at the Schoose that 
attracted attention was the substitution of 
earth taken from the quarries of the most in- 
ferior kind, impregnated with lime: this was 
applied for raising potatoes. 
found to be two thirds of what was obtained 
from upwards of seventy single horse carts of 
dunge= 
drainage from horses and cattle, a great source 
cf manure may be obtained. The manure 
collected and made at the Schoose amounts 
to upwards of 13,000 single carts, supposing 
three to a ton, or 4,550 tons; in the carrying 
of it out, the horses are estimated to travel 
full 28,600 miles. Of the~ experimental 
wheats sent by order of Bonaparte to the Board 
of Agriculture, anddistributed by them, none 
~ ef those tried at the Schoose are likely to 
answer ; they are all spring wheats, supposed 
to have been brought from Egypt; the ex- 
tensive trials made of spring wheat at the 
Schuose have mot succeeded. Friday morning 
was spent in adjusting the premiums for stock, 
The milch cows, which had been constantly 
soiled for twelve’months, were in a condition 
beyond any thing that could have been sup- 
po:ed, The mode of supplying milk for the 
poor, was reported to have been adopted in 
various parts, in consequence of what had 
been cone at the Schoose 3 and the result has 
been every where the same, producing the 
greatest benefit and comfort to the public. 
November 23d, about one in the merning, 
a dreadful fire was discovered at the eatton 
mill of Messrs: Robson and Arthur Graham, 
in Carlisle. It raged with such violence, 
that, although every exertion was made to 
subdue the flames, the building was soon 
reduced to ashes. Such was the celerity of 
the flames in reeching every part of the mill, 
chat no part of the machinery, or stock of cot- 
ton in the warehouse could be saved. 
Two merchildren were lately discovered by 
three respectable tradesmen’ of Douglas, Isle 
of Man, during an excursion on the Calf of 
Man, in quest of sea-fowl. Attracted by a 
tound. somewhat resembling the cries of a 
‘young kitten, they found, on’ searching 
‘amongst the rocks, two small marine animals, 
exactly resembling in their form that species 
of creature so often described and known by 
the name of the merman. One of them was 
dead, and much ulcerated by the violence 
with which it bad been driven on shore, du- 
ring a violent gale of wind on the preceding 
night; the other was however conveyed to 
Douglas, where it still remains, and seems 
likely tedo well. Te 1s one foot eleven inches 
and three quarters in length, from the crown 
a Cumberland and Westmoreland. 
The produce was 
By proper attention ‘in securing the. 
[Jan. 7, 
of its head to the extremity of its tail; five 
inches across the shoulders; its skin is of a 
vety pale brown colour, and the scales on its 
tail are tinged with violet ; the hair, ifit may 
be so called, on its head, is of a light green 
cast, it is attached to the crown of the head, 
only hanging loose about the face, about four 
inches in length, very gelatinous to the touch, 
and somewhat vesembling the green seasweed 
commonly growing on rocks; its mouth is 
smail, and has no appearance of teeth. It 
delizhts much in swimming about in a large 
tub of sea-water, and feeds chiefly on muscles 
and other shell-fish, which it devours with 
avidity : it also now and then:swallews sma!l 
portions of milk and .water, when given to it" 
in a quill. ; 4 
Marvried.| At Carlisle, Mr. Robert Park, 
to Miss Jane Robley, daughter of Mr. joseph ~ 
i. of Cumwhinton. Goan 
At Skelton, Mr. Thomas Davison, of Rain- 
house, second son vf the late Captain D. ta 
Miss Mary Queen, of Ellonby.- 
At Kendal, Mr. Thomas Atkinson, to Mrs. 
Ann Clarke, of the Pump Inn.—Mr. Thomas 
Dalrymple, to Miss Speight.~Aged 72, Mr. 
Samuel Bolton, to Miss Atkinson, aged 20. 
At Kirky Lonsdale, Mr. Arthur Foster, 
bookseller, to Mrs. S. Willoughby. wee 
At Whitehaven, Mr. John Brocklebank, to 
Miss Watts. —Captain Potts, of the brig Eleaj. 
nor, to Miss Edwards.—Captain William Fa- 
rish, of the Mona, to Miss Crosby. 
At Old Hutton, near Kendal, ‘Mr. George 
Theobalds, to Miss Susannah Nebson. - ; 
"Died.} At Flimby, Mrs. Falcon, 71. : 
At Ribten Hall, Mr. Jonathan Fawcett, 
65. 7 ‘ “ 
At Whitrig Lees, Mrs. Bridget Sheppard, 
94, . i ‘ : 
At Anthorne, parish of Bowness, Mr. John 
Pape, 64. Air, Bini 
At Appieby, Mary, wife of ‘Mr. Matthew’ 
Todd, 27. ttiaie ee ae 
At Newton, near Penrith, Me. John Red- 
head, 77. 
At Harrithwaite, Mrs. Nicholson. 
At Egremont, Mrs. Elizabeth Bragge, 82. ~ 
“At Stocklewath, Mr. Robert Lamonby, 70, 
At Nook in Nicholforest, Mr. Wm. Gja- 
ham, 91. ; ie 
At Kirkbeck's-town, Bewcastle, Richard, 
son of Mr. John Armstrong, 21. 
At St. Bees, in his 45th year, the Rev. 
John Barnes, near twenty years master of the 
free grammar school at that place, and curate 
of Loweswater.—Mrs. Gilmore 64. on 
At Matterdale, Mrs. Martin, mother of the 
Rev. Timothy M. 94, eed yi ‘ 
. At-Kendal, Mr. Edmund Harker.—Mr, 
James Wilson, 63.—-Mr. Thomas Simpson, 
Many yeats in the service of Messrs. Wilson, 
Cartmeli, and Co. in which he had by cave 
and frugality saved a considerable sum of 
money,75. _ ibrar 
At Cargo: Hill, near Carlisle, Miss Jane 
Richardsoia. } 
At 
